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THE HERMISTON APOLOGIES TO BR’ER RABBIT RDLTRY MAKE PROFITABLE SIDE LINE (Prepared by the United Statee Depart ment of Agriculture.) HERMISTON, OREGON. LODGE DIRECTORY Seized Liner Now In Passenger Service An official of the state fish and game commission Informs us that we are un just to the rabbit In ascribing to him all the girdling of fruit trees which has been going on in these parts lately. Our informant says, observes a writer In the Ohio State Journal, that the field mouse la responsible for more than 50 per cent of this damage and we hasten to tender our sincere apologies to the rabbit, whose feelings we would not hurt for the world, and are quick to give the guilty field mouse tils just share of censure. Field mice, It seems have the inde- fensible habit of burrowing among the roots of small fruit trees In the fall, hollowing out a warm place, as field mice estimate warmth, and spending the winter there. When they get hun gry and nothing else Is available, they shin up u little way und eat the bark of the tree cunningly making tooth marks almost exactly like rabbits’ and thus throwing editors and other ex- perts off the scent. The rabbits are not wholly without sin, but a 49 per cent sinner averages up fairly well with the rest of us. Moreover, the rubbit may easily be foiled in his lapses from grace by placing a piece of tur paper about two feet In height, or a piece of wire netting around the base of each young fruit tree. Perhaps this expedient, like other prohibitory meas ures, does not build character In the rabbit, but it does In the orchardist. Nothing, we understand, can be done about the field mice unless one stays at the foot of the tree and catches them. They are lost in sin. Many people can keep pigeons suc cessfully as a side issue, although this requires constant oversight and care ful attention to details. The greatest difficulties confronting the successful raiser of pigeons seem to be In securing good breeding stock, and finding a mar ket for the produce of a small flock. Pigeons are a profitable source of in come on generai farms where they may secure much of their feed from the fields, provided they are not a nuisance and the loss by shooting and by hawks, owls and cats is not large. They can also be raised successfully on farms where they are closely confined, pro vided the squabs can be marketed to good advantage. Of the squab-raising varieties the Homer Is considered the most popular variety. The habit of this bird of re turning home If allowed freedom makes It necessary to confine pigeons purchas ed from other lofts. The Carneaux DIED TO ESCAPE SUFFERING pigeon has recently become popular as a squab producer. This variety is some what larger than the Homer and it is Crew of Crippled Hun Submarine Took the Easiest Way Out of a Hope- stated is about as prolific. Several less Situation. other varieties of pigeons larger than the Homer are used on a small scale Admiral Sims In the World's Work In squab raising, especially in crossing tells of the efficiency of the subchaser with the Homer and Carneaux, to in listening devices. Once when a subma crease the size of squabs. The Runt , rine liad been injured and was lying on the bottom In shallow water a grew- some thing was heard. They listened for hours, without bearing a sound; but about 5 o'clock In the afternoon a sharp piercing noise came ringing over the wires. It was a sound that made the listeners’ blood run cold. Only one thing in the world could make a sound like that. It was the crack of a revolver. The first report had hardly stilled when another shot was heard ; and then there were more In rapid succession. The listeners on two different chasers heard these pis tol cracks and counted them ; the re ports which these men independently made agreed tn every detail. In all 25 shots came from the bottom of the sea. As there were from 25 to 30 men In the submarine crew the meaning Homer Pigeon Is Moat Popular. was all too evident. The larger part Is one of the largest, bnt Is not as pro of the officers and men, finding them lific or as good a breeder or feeder as selves shut tightly in their coffin of the Homer. steel, had resorted to that escape Some of the other varieties reported which was not uncommonly availed of used as squab breeders are the Dra by German submarine crews In this goon. White Maltese, or hen pigeon, hideous war. Nearly all of them had the White King, and the common pig committed suicide. eon. Gen. Benjamin Butler's Wit. General Butler was the leader of BIG RETURNS FROM POULTRY | the house In 1875 and Samuel J. Ran- Arizona Farmer Made Profit of Nearly dall lender of the Democratic side. As the Forty-thire < as whont $300 From Small Flock In Short to close I was with Randall when Space of Time. Butler came up and Randall asked «(Prepared by the United States Depart him to hold a Sunday session: Butler ment of Agriculture.) said no, he would not consent to It; A net return of nearly $300 in two he never would do anv work on Sun- and one-half months from a side line lay that was not i y on the farm la the record made by a Randall turned and chafingly said : Glendale, Aria., farmer who is carry "Oh. that Is your New England Puri- ing on his operations under the direc tanism, 1 suppose. That serves you to tion of n poultry extension expert of good purpose, and I expect to, meet the United States department of agri- you some day. Butler In another and culture. In connection with his gen- better world,” era! farm work he kept a flock of 210 Butler replied In a flash : “Ob. no hens, which produced an average of Sam ; you will be there, as you are ten dozen eggs during the four winter here, a member of the lower house.” months. During February the eggs —Melville E. Stone. In Collier's brought an average of 55 cents a Weekly. dozen, or approximately $150, while the feed bill, Including the feed for Forest Airmen’s Records. the young chicks, amounted to $50. I Forest fire patrol performed by the The following month the flock showed air service of the war department ■ profit of a little over $100. During with Its personnel and equipment, and the flrat half of April the gross re nt the exrense of that organization In ceipts were $97.50. In April the ex ■ ■ erruptel service tension specialist conducted a sulling ring 92,605 miles. demonstration on this farm and weed- says the American Forestry Magazine ed 56 hens from the flock. The culled of Washington. Many fires were dis hens were kept In a separate pen for covered. located, and reported. Six a week following the demonstration, patrol routes, covering national for- and made practically no returns In egg est areas of high value were followed, yields. This Indicates, the specialist and twice each day six airplanes cov says, that the remaining 154 hens ered the better part of 9,000,000 acres probably inaile the record with which of rough, mountainous, heavily tim the entire 210 had been credited. bered country. The average nonstop run was 100 miles; the average round GET RID OF DISEASE GERMS trip, 820 miles. . .. ueen ESTHER CHAPTER No. 101, o. e s meets second Tuesday evening of each month at 8:00 sharp in Mack’s hall. Visiting members welcome. Emma a. Johnson, w. M. Q Field Mouse, Not Bunny, Is Anathema tised Girdler of Trees, According to Eastern Expert q Success May Be Attained With Pig- eons by Careful Attention to Many Little Detalla. HERALD, Kathryn L. Garner. Sec. LI ERM ISTON LODGE NO. 138 A. F. & A. M. 11 meets in Masonic Hall on First Tuesday evening of each month. Visiting brethren wel- come. C. W. Kellogg. Secy. A. W. Prann. W. M VINEYARD LODGE NO. 206, L O. O. F. V meets each Monday evening in Odd Fellows hall. Visiting members cordially Invitad. W. R. Longhorn. Sec. W. 3. Casady. N. G. 3 % 817.9 JImgu PROFESSIONAL CARDS D r . C.O. WAINSCOTT .s Office over First National Bank F OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m.; 2 to 5 p. m., and by appointment J. A. PEED SURGEON VETERINARY House Phone 283 Hermiston. Ore. DR. R. G. GALE Physician and Surgeon Office in Hotel Oregon The 8. 8. Murtha Washington, for merly an Austro-Hungarian liner, sail ed from New York for South America recently, flying the American flag She Is the first of the seized vessels to be placed In the passenger service by the United States shipping board. The illustration shows also Capt. Francis Cross, commander of the ship. Office Hours: Phone 551 10 t 12; 2 to 4; 7 to 8. DR. FRANCIS P. ADAMS Physician and Surgeon OFFICE PHONE. 92 RESIDENCE PHONE, 595 Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 to 5:30 p. m. Day or night calls answered promptly DR. W. W. ILLSLEY Osteopathy Medicine Surgery PHONE 711 Office at Residence all Hours D r . F. V. PRIME DENTISTRY Hermiston. Oregon Office. Bank Bldg. Office Phone, 93 Office Hours: Residence Phone 22 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Dr. A. M. SIMMONS EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Pendleton, Oregon Penland eereilil ns Building Over Tallman Drug Store GLASSES GROUND TO FIT YOUR EYES LENSES DUPLICATED on S hort NOTICE AMERICAN NATL.BANK BUILDING, i ITT 7 : 1 . il K ! Phone 609 PENDLETON Chiropractic Relieves Where Other Methods Fai I use the Latest Painless Methods Dr. LORETTA H. STARBA CHIROPRACTOR Not Drugs. Not Surgery. Not Osteopathy House Address 703 E. Webb St. Office 103 W. Webb St. Phone 583 Pendleton. Ore. Illlllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll J.L.VAUGHAN. EELECTRIC FIXTURES = = AND APPLIANCES = Phone IS» = = 203 E. Court 8t. = Pendleton, ores ÏÏlIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllüllllllfiÎ T. L. 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Former President Taft owns a walk ing stick that la 250,000 years old. I When Prof. W. 8. Footer of Spokane To rid the house of disease germs and vermin drive cut the fowls, close the house tightly and burn sulphur In It until the entire house Is full of blue fumes. Let it remain closed an hour and then air it thoroughly be fore the fowls return. I SMALL BACK YARD FOR HENS Whether They Can Be Kept at Ad vantage Depends on Whether They Get Proper Cara. The smallest back yard affords an opportunity to keep a few hens. Whether the occupant of the premises can keep those few hens to advantage depends upon whether he or she ran aud will give them the necessary care. The City Transfer W.B. BEASLEY was investigating the geological his tory of southern Alberta a few years " he dise ered a stump In a peat d mid glacial drift In the valley of Old Man river. The age of the stump was estimated by geologists at a quar- ter of a million years. Professor Foster took the stump home to Seattle with other souvenirs of the glacial epoch and when the Snokane people on one of Mr. Taft's sits wanted to give him a unique present they had a cane fashioned from the wood. Naturally. "I suppose accidents vary much on s ley hill, do they not?” "Ves, there la no fixed number. They are on a sliding scale.” Executor's Notice to Creditori KEEP YOUR DATES OPEN for the Four Days’ Chautauqua :: Stanfield Music Mirth Melody In the County Court of the Stato of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the matter of the Estate of Horace G. Neweport, deceased. Notice is hereby given that I have been appointed executor of the last i Will of Horace G. Newport, deceased, and have duly qualified; all persona 1 having claims against the estate of | the deceased are hereby notified to present the same to me at the office of Carter * Smythe, attorneys, in the American National Bank Build ing, Pendleton, Oregon, within six months from this date. Dated May 29th. 1920. Harry R. Newport, Executor, etc. 37-41-5te.
