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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1907)
Dairymen everywhere are awakening to the fact that cleanliness in the, sta ble means better milk and consequent ly better prices, and any arrangement that will help keep the milk giver out of the dirt should be of interest. The illustration shows a stall that a writer in the Prairie Farmer claims will keep a cow perfectly clean. It is construct ed as follows: Use a 2 by 4 for bottom of feed rack. Dace this three feet from floor to stall. Use 1 by 4 strips placed about sis Inches apart, forming the rack. The strips should slope back STALL FOB KEEPING COWS CLEAN. about sixty degrees. Place a 2 by 4 on edge from seven to eight feet from front of stall on the floor, depending on size of cow. Fasten the 2 by 4 down to floor, if set in dirt, with a good sized stake. If floor is made of plank, nail a block to floor, then spike the 2 by 4 to blocks. The cow when eating will stand with her hind feet just behind the 2 by 4, leaving the droppings behind it. When she lies down she will be compelled to lie in front of the 2 by 4, with her head under the feed rack. It is not neces sary to have a gutter In a stall of this kind. There should be short partitions, however, to keep the cows from turn ing Ground. , Testing the Dairy Herd. Records of the performances of dairy cows form the only accurate and safe basis for judging their value. It is the constant aim of progressive dairy men to improve their herds, nnd such improvement must depend largely upon culling the herd and getting rid of the unprofit able animals. From the breed ers' standpoint records are espe cially valuable in assisting in finding custom ers for their stock. Many buyers Insist on seeing records of dairy per formance before purchasing. A record is al so of great help to the feeder. If ho knows exact ly what a cow Is doing he can prepare the ra tion accordingly and often feed SCALE FOR TESTING. more economic ally. Again, a daily milk record en ables a dairyman to detect the ap proach of sickness in a cow and thus to take steps to ward it off. Great In spiration is obtained from keeping a record, and nothing gives a dairyman more satisfaction than watching the improved returns from his herd. The scales, shown In the Illustration is Our Job Department tbo UlCfeSI tiring iiiflue- iur lemuic pur Doses. It has two pointers. Itcfore milking you hang the empty pail on the hook and set the colored pointer at 0. Then when you come to weigh the milk you read the weight as mark ed by this hand. A spring Jmlanre that can be bought for 25 or 3." cents will answer the purpose, but will not be as convenient. A shell' on which the bottles are kept, a record sheet and a lead pencil complete the stitble equip ment for testing your herd. It Is but a moment's work to hang the milk pail on the scales, rend the dial and record the weight. Mixing the milk and tak ing the sample will occupy a few mo ments more, says Kimball's Dairy Farmer, but all represent a very little time and a great deal of gain. DAIRY POINTERS. The cows should bo wel bedded both for comfort nnd cleanliness.. A bran mash now and then a short time before calving is most beneficial. If the udder is excessively caked and hard, it is well to draw a little milk from it. This will help to ward oil Inflammation and garget. x It's poor policy to use anything but the best bull. A grade has no place at the bend of your herd. Do not move cows faster than a comfortable walk while on the way to place of milking or feeding. The breeder who has n definite idea in view can improve his animals. Tlu one who goes at it blindly never can. Too many dairymen do not know whether their cows are paying or not. They do not know which are the good and which the poor ones. Make n study of the herd of cows. select the best ones, sell the poor ones and make the cows keep you lustead of you keeping the cows. Iu r'l we!! r?',?.tof! !n"?.r!cs tloro are signs posted In conspicuous places bearing the one word "Silence." Sim ilar signs should be posted In every milking shed. If yon want a ventilator to draw well, says an Ohio dairyman, run it straight up and do not put any curves) or dips in it, and let no man tell you that the middle of the barn is the proper place to have the ventilator. I would rather have four ventilators than one. Sunlight is the great natural disin fectant. Sunlight and pure air are two great essentials ts the health of man and beast. Dark, poorly venti lated and filthy stables are disease breeding grounds. Keep the stable: clean and let. the sunlig'it and fan air penetrate every no U and cornel therein. Provide plenty of window. In the Ktables and fix the::! so they en; De opened ana close. I with ease atn facility HAC-AZIHE READERS SUNSET LflGAZINE beautifully illustrated, good stories and articles about California and all the Far West. CAMERA CRAFT devoted each month to the ar tistic reproduction of the best work of amateur and professional photographers. l.50 year S1.00 a year ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS a book of 75 pages, containing 120 colored photographs ot Q75 uiliui cmjuc luvu ill aiuuiuia and Oregon. Total $3.25 $i.5tf All for . . . . Address all orders to SUNSET MAGAZI1TE Flood Building San Francisco is always busy. By special arrangement we are able to offer the following clubbing rates In connection with The Wheatfield: Weekly Oregonian - $2 00 Semi Weekly Journal I 75 McCall Magazine 1 25 (The Queen of Fashions) The right Is reserved by the publish ers of the above papers to cancell these prices at any time. In ord;r to secure these reductions subscriptions should be sent in at once. ESTRAY NOTIOE Came to my enclosure, one half mile south of South Springs, about July 10th, one bay rriare, branded M. C. onjright shoulder; right front foot clubed, age about 9 years, weight about 1 400 pounds. Owner can have same by paying charges. , R. B. Rice. The Wheatfield has just completed arrangements with the Oregon Journal whereby'we are able to furnish the Oregon Daily Journal, Including the Sunday issue, and The Wheatfield, one year 57. The Daily Journal and Wheatfield one year $5. The Semi- Weekly Journal and The Wheatfield one year $1.75. LEXINGTON An incorporated tcv.T. with a popula tion of 350, is located on the Heppner Dranch of the C. R. &. N., thirty-five miles from the main line, on the most beautiful spot in the fertile valley of Willow Creek. Lexington has an excellent graded school, two churches, a splendid water system, electric lights, creamery, flouring mill, good hotel, two general merchandise stores, drug store, two saloons, two blacksmith and repair shops, lumber and wood yard, ' large jrain warehouses, barber shep, bank, iivery stables, meat market, news paper, numerous secret societies and a number of good substantial business blocks and beautiful residences. Lex ington is the natural marketing point for a large portion of Morrow County's wheat crops, and the surrounding country is rapidly gaining prestige as a dairying community. Lexington's greatest need Is: ' "MORE PEOPLE" For further information relative to lands, climate, etc., address The Wheatfield, 1 Lexingtan, Oregon. Pineules are. for the Kidneys and Bladder. They bring quick relief to backache, rheumatism, lumbago, tired worn ot feeling. They produce natural action of the kidneys in filtering waste matter out of the blood. 30 days treat ment $1.00. Money refunded if Pine ules are not satisfactory. Sold by W, P. McMillan. . The Bishop of never mind where says an exchange being somewhat troubled with a neglected diocese, thought to inspire his clergy to take services during the week by periodica lly visiting and taking one himself. On one of these occasions, having been YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anvone sending a sltetrh rh1 dpscrlptlnn mny quickly ascertain our opinion free trimmer an liivoiillon la probably pnlanlnMn. Conminnlcix. tloinRtrlotlyconildentliil. HANDBOOK onl'ntents ent froe. Oldost agency for sonirlnir patontn. I'aioiits taken tnroutrh lluim & Co. receive rpecial notice, without ehnrna, In the Scientific American. A handsomely lllnstrstixl weekly. I,nriret dr. dilation of onv snloiiUUn Journal. Tonus, li a years four monlUs,,!. Sold liyall newsdealers. MUNN ft C0JVSTlrt.Welir Iff Branch omce, J6 F 8t Waahlrjiiton, D. C JVL vf S f-lHTK KM 1 I 5 " IOE SIWIND RIVER W E?.TV71 DEALERS IN Lumber, Sash, Doors, Windows, Lime, Cement, Coal and Wood C. O. BURROWS, Manager LEXINGTON, IOE moved to much elotuence In his ser mon. he felt a not unnatural desire to know if he had made any Impression on the congregation. So he question ed the clerk in the vestry. "Well, 1 hope they've been pleased, said the clerk," and I an sure we, takes it wery kind 0' yer (worship to preach to us; but a worsser one -would have done for the likes of us, if so te" ha added one could be found." HIS GREAT SERVICE. In Illnstrntlori ut tie Gcneronltr the KIiIkt Uiiiii:ih. Dumas pore U:n maiuiser of (he 'I'h'",t'o ! f '.'ttr v.t.t C3"t!muilly studying tho Influence of the tempera aire un the sale of tk'UoU at lo:i.;l, he seemed to do sx In fact, tills seeiniuy Interest-In the Khawiujr. of tins ther mometer was, like f?o many other net? of his. nothing but mi expression of the pnverbial kindness of his heart. One day Dunins happened to meet mi old frlenj whom he had not seen or thirty years. "Where nre you polng to dine. lonilitV" he asked tho friend. "Tonight I ahuM dine nowhere," was the answer. N "Ohuo," said Dumas; "you are nils taken. Yon will Cine with me." lie led the friend Into his house and gave him the upper place at his table. The poor man had not hid such a dinner for a Ions time, an J Pumas when rr tiling into his writing' room alter the coffee sail!. "It is a matter of course that I expect you tomorrow at the same time." The friend came the next day, nnd the day alter this, and so on for ten years up to his death. One day, how ever, ho told Dumas that as he was eating bread he did not earn this ar rangement could not continue, "If I am not able honestly to. earn my meal I shall not come again. Tell me Id what way I can be of service to you." Dumas thought a moment; then ha said: "V011 can do me a great favor. Jou may go to tho new bridge every day and take the temperature by Cho valier's thermometer. The tempera ture, you must know. Is of great mo ment in the matte'r of the sale of tick ets. Could you do this 7" The poor fellow answered affirma tively nnd from that time on reported to Dumas every day. "At noon the thermometer showed so and so- manj degrees in the shade." And Dumas, who of course did not care in the least about the temperature, replied with the same regularity: "I am rery. much obliged. If you only knew what a service you are doing me!" Harper's Weekly. , . . 1 SUMMONS In the Circuit Cour of the State of Oregon For the County of Morrow. Peter M. Christenson, Plaintiff, Mittie Chrlstensoif, Defendant. To Mittie Christenson, the above named defendant: In the name of the State of Oregon: You are herehv summnnp.H nnrl rmiiriH in on, tj j r pear and answer the complaint of plaintiff in ths above entitled suit now on file In the office of the Clerk of the above court with in six weeks from the date of first publica tion of this summons. You will take notice that if you fail to ap pear and answer as herein required, plain tiff will apply to the Court for the relief de manded In his complaint, as follows: That the bonds of matrimony now and heretofore existing between yourself and plaintiff be forever dissolved and held for naught, and that plaintiff have an absolute divorce from you, said defendant, and for such other relief as may be meet and equit able. This summons is published by order of Hon. T. W. Ayers, County Judge of Mor row County, Oregon, made July 9, 1907, directing same to be published once a week for six successive weeks in the Jexington Wheatfield, a weekly newspaper published at Lexington, Morrow County, Oregon, and the date of first publication of same is July 11, 1907. C. E. Woodson, 7-11-8-15 Attorney for Plaintiff. . IC LUMBER CO. OREGON -301 UNITED ARTFSANS Lexington Assembly No. 88, Meets every Saturday u.gh in Artisan hall. Ethel Wilcox, C. W. Chrlstenrton, Sec. m. A. flEBEKAH--Holly lodge No Lexington. Meets the first and 139 third Tufsday of each month at 7:30. Mrs. Mary Thomas Mrs. E. J. McAllster Sec, N. C THEM. W. OFA .Excelsior Camp. No. 9873, meet in Artisan Hall every 4th Tuesday night of the month. E. E. Thomas. F. F. Klitz, Clerk. v. Ci M. E, Church South Preaching every second and fourth Sundays, both morning and evening. Sunday school every Sunday at 1 0 a. m. Epworth League at 6:30 every Sunday evening. Every one cordially invited to attend these services. Rev T. P. Graham, Pastor. C. C. CHICK, M. D. PHYSIC1N AND SURGEON Diseases of Women and Children a spec ialty. Calls answered promptly Day or Night. IONE, ORECON F. H. ROBINSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW NOTARY PIBLIC Practice In all Courts. Legal business given prompt and careful attention. Land Contests, Probate Work and Conveyanc ing a specialty. IONE. - OREGON OREGON SllOHTLlNE and iMON PACIFIC -TO Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, New York. , : Tlokta to nik! from nil poliilN of (lie Cnlt eil SIhIom mill Kiiro. Trains Leave Lexington, Daily, ex cept Sunday, - , 1 1:05 A. M. Trains Arrive at Lexington, Daily, ex cept Sunday 5:10 P. M. Sunday Mail departs 1 1 :50 A. M. Sunday Mail arrives 4:05 P. U. Trains Connect at Heppner Junction , with Main Line trains for all points East and West. Wm McMurray, G. P. A,' Get Your Name on The Wheatfield List' Advertise In The Wheatfield, IOE n (CBCBSCW.
