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WILLIAM FAfJNUM IN THE WONDERFUL ADVENTUflE AT PAGE
PROFITABLEONEFOR
REFORM PLAYTHING
SOUTHERN OREGON! FOR THE IDLE RICH
Ilrrc, 01) Hip Wrt fiiisf, l'i, lutii-
ne- of jn iHlnciinr iiiiil tr tin
i.mrkct linn boon cnorlnnkod. Few in
iluatrieo in the entern nnd nutliorn
Mates liHvo iuhiIc micli rapid growth
during Iho Inst five years lin (he
Miwli iiiiliiHlry.
Thcro nrc fourteen different puli
liontiunn devoid o.xoluhely to tin
liiftpon in oireiilution Ihroutuout' the
1'iiitcil Rtnte. Pigeon iiuIm nnl
siiuib iwiiH'ialions are sjniuulng up
evor.t whore.
Pigeon nro poultry niul it is full
timo that wo poultry jiion lot' the
Itogue Ilorcr vnlloy reuliri'd tlio op
portunities for ha in thin lirttni'h of
tlio poultry buiini'D. In tin cu.it the
deinnnd for dieted miiiiiIw nlwnys
exceeds the supply. As for the wewt,
Seattle is prying for Mpintis. Tlio
Mpmb-eiitint public of Portland nnd
Ttiooinii pny iw hifjh ii fO nnd $7 per
dozen during tlio winter month. The
hotels ficnttorcd through Idaho niul
Montiinu pay .f."i,and ill for cold-storage
Mpinlm shipped from the Cent ml
State-. TIipip are a few large, plants
in California, hut even in California
the market is never shifted.
The business of producing mnikot
(nulls in not only fiiiiintiug, but
when proppily handled, with miII'ip
ienl attention to details, is the most
prolitfiblc branch of the poultry in
dustry. Approximately fix months is re
quired to deo!op a laying hen. Pig
cons are often mated and hard at
work at four month. A hen's period
of usefulncMs is seldom more than two
year, Pigeons are in their primo at
two years and have been known to
pay dividends when twenty yearn old.
I might offer apologies to the hen, but
that is not noce-Miry, for the two
work together. Kery Hpmh plant
Miiiiiild no equipped with a meat
grinder and enough hens to use to
advantage the refiiso from the
Hlaughler pen.
This valley and nil of southern Or
egon is ideal ns a location for the
Mpiali business. The pigeons nro
hnrdy and cheerfully adjust thtfn
selves to extreme climatic conditions.
They prefer n moderate aliunde, with
lots of sunshine and. verve in the air.
lluilding materials are compara
tively cheap here, and, since wo arc
not compelled to combat low tempor
aries, n satisfactory building enn bo
constructed at tlio reasonable cost of
..'l per miming foot. Our e.perionec
teiifhe that each running foot will
accommodate three pairs of breeders.
Another great athnntagc of this lo
cality is that we can mtpply the
working buds with pino noodle in
aininilunee. The hiid use these
needles in building their nests and
seem to prefer them to anything clue.
The needles Imvo a iph'iioui odor
which acts as a repellant to vermin.
Pigeon aio strictly vegetarian.
Tlgrontor the variety of grains and
the more often the change of mixture
the more acceptable it is to the birds.
Wheat, Mint lower, corn, kwffir, mil
let, pea, beans and numerous other
pigeon grain can be grown in this
pnrt of the Mate iieeefully.
The prospective squab grower
should uducnte himself leading
loud value or different grain. The
department of agriculture at Wn.h
mgrnii, I). C, will bund you for the
oking data giving relative food val
ues pigeon grains. Pigeon need
giiiins rich iii protein and rich in oil.
Sunt lower are rich in oil and eoudi
tion in this valley are iwenliarlv
adapted to their ciilttuQ
Analyses of some or the prineipiil
pigeon grains and eU, taken from
'm.Hs of Ike United State depart
iiient of agriculture:
Caibohydrates
li-.i..: ,.
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llv OH.SOX OAHPXER.
WANIIIXOTON, Jan. 21. The Na
tional Civic Federation has been
holding it annual meeting in Wash
ington. This i the organisation
which has made reform a respectable
and nfe avocation for the idle rich.
Seth Low is its president and Ralph
Knsely its f.peretary. Twenty year
ago the idea of making refonn re
spectable and safe had it birth in
Chicago in tlio office of Lyman J.
flage, president of the First National
bnnk of that city, and subsequently,
fieerotnry of the treasury under the
McKiuloy administration. Tito id on
was communicated to a young news
paperman, llalph M. Kuscly, who bo
en mo the orgiinir.ntion' first secre
tary, and who later nationalized tho
movement. .Air. Gage was it first
president.
Xo Heal Itcfonns
The civic federation is character
ized chiefly by what it does not re
form. U does not refonn the tax
'.system because many of it members
and Impost contributors are those
who benefit by the uiifninicss in the
present system; it does not rofoim
laud ownership because many of them
arc the greatest landowner; it doc
HO refonn tnits, because institu
tions like the shoe machinery trust
find representation among it offi
cers; it docs not refonn nuomploy-
iiiuni and poverty necaiise many ol its
largest linancial backers and con
(roller are tliPniQlvos large employ
ers of labor and heneficiuric or the
present industrial sy-tem which
makes poverty and uuoinplo.i input in
evitable. At its meeting here the association
went on record at once in favor of
big prepa redness of the Xavy league
brand, with fat contract in tho
background, and failed to mention
government manufacture of muni
tions. Xlrc Ivwiys Head
Nice e-ay were lead, one on pro-paredue-s
by Seth Low, one on "our
nag" by Maude Wetmore, daughter
of Ilhoilc Island's sometime reaction
ary nml very wealthy sonator; a nice
piece by William 0. Mather was lead
about how kind employer make their
workmen contented by so-called
"welfare work," which consist in
supplying drinking water, toilet and
ganlens, and encouraging tho plant
ing of pausics on the window sill of
the lowly; another piece was contrib
uted on "why poor people nic aick."
by tho facile and popular Dr. Wood
Hutchinson. Tuosubjeet of immigra
tion, which mipplios a fresh volume of
labor to employer annually, was
lightly touched upon by Joremiah
Jcnks.
The National Civic Federation h
given a complexion or radicalism by
including among its membership Ham
Hid nonipor, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, and John
Mitchell, who for a number of year
found more congenial occupation a
a paid loettner for this aasociatinn
than in stirring up strikes among the
Pennsylvania miners.
Mr. Kasely i a genius at securing
harmless publicity for ucll-to-do pen
pie who otherwise would not figuie
in mo iiows)Hii.
SOIL YIELDS LESS
THAN
II LAND
i
the poultry industry generally
Hie date of the first how will be
I'cbruary 0-1:1, inclusive.
Now, pigeon people, let u show our
enthusiasm wnd promote the induti
by putting the hct of ur birds on
exhibition.
Let's make our di-phtv so hirce
ami nttrai-tne tbut it will be the m.iiu
leatiin- ol the lmw
. CAUOLL F. CAKPIATFIt.
Hioc, hulled
Kaftir
Millet
1'eai
Soy beaiife . .
There are a few
scatteied over Mtutheru Oreaon. but
wo.( or these are aimply raiding bird,
for home eonaumptiou or pleasure, or
n combination of the two. I will not
ay that every can make u mic
cess of commercial tquab nd.ing, hut
I do say that thoro is a good ehanee
for a large number of pooplo to do a
profitable bueiueM along this lino.
no ici take the hint and rauo morfW
hijk aim UHUor UHl. And lot's
Ii together, for by working indiiid
itally then u too mneh dudieatiou
l waed cneiy. Hy working lo
ether wje can get cheaper supplic
wl we ch handle the distribution
jH-ohleia Uttr.
The psychological wowcHt ha
Me. The market it ieeeptie and
y to pay well for our product.
Tlie poultry men of the ally hae
already toru4 what will be know,,
the SwiUwm OregoH Poultry a.
owtiou for the puc,M of huldin an
uuaiuil poult ri hoM and improuiiff
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The Blood Reaches Every Part
of the Body Every Twelve
Seconds.
l W . WATSON.
A fanner vbn )s lieeti mteii.ch
cultivating a small acreage which he
ean irrigate the greater pait of the
growing season, since a creek courses .
through it ah long aa the moisture in j
the hills will feed it, hna observed j
au interesting condition arising from
the fact that ho can irrigate hnlf of
if mimli winn nAtufwiali Iknn i)tl rfl-
mnining half. Jin find that the three
acre he litis been, keeping saturated
all of the timo becnuso it is conveni
ent to do so, generally prudtioos less
than the other half, which receive
loss water. Without desiring to be
named and quoted, ho risks why this
result is obtained.
1 am pleased to answer his ques
tion, because it prosonts one of the
most imuoitnnt phases of artificial
irrigation of crops.
This fanner uses too much water
on the fiixt hair of his acreage. lie
may Imvo reached that conclusion,
based on his nbservntions, but ho
doesn't know why it is so. q
Soil Nutrients Xccjlcd
drawing plnnts immediately draw
upon the water added to the soil by
irrigation or rain. That i tho rea
son for their reviving so quickly nrter
water has been applied when the soil
has become too dry. Hut, if the outer
has not remained in the soil long
enough to permit it to absorb soil nu
trient, the soil moisture films cnunot
distribute the plant food. The chem
ical combinations are formed quickly,
but the uinistuic films about the soil
grain arc heavy because of tho ex
cessive saturation. That fact ex
plains why the percentage of plant
food is mil sufficient to give the
growing plant peimanent vitality, al
though it may cunsc it to show ab
normal top growth. The soil nutri
ent have not had time to bo distrib
uted freely in the solution; bonce, it is
a very dilute fonu of plant food.
Tho optimum point of saturation is
that at which tho soil is just wet
enough to be cultivated easily; just
wet enough to saturate the soil grains
sufficiently to dissolve the nutrients
on which the plant feeds, Unix filling
tho moisturo films full of plant food
and enabling tho plants to obtain a
strong, vitalizing diet.
Continuous Saturation
Tho inqiMier in tin cr.so evidently
kept hi soil on the one side of tho
stream saturated beyond the opti
mum point, thus feeding his garden
plants on that tract a weak diet. Hx-
ooio degree of saturation also car
ries a large iwrcentagc of the soil
nutrient down into tho soil so far
that they are out of reach of the
plant roots. The reason for an un
satisfactory product from soil main
tained throughout the noattt in such
a wet condition are apparent. Tho
growth of riMit crow, including po
tatoes, carrot and beat, is ruined by
that proeo. Potatoes and carrot
will be small and fluvorjos. Heel
may grow to a largo aiie, hut they
will contain only a small content of
sneoharino substance, rendering them
practically valueless commercially.
Tho other half of tho tract in
question was fortunate to escape the
abuse of prixilcge by the iirigator. It
was kept practically at the optimum
point of saturation, in which condi
tion it was easy to Keep n m proper
tilth. In that condition, a No, the re
leased plant food was im-iiK dMnb-
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"CASCARETS" BEST IF
HEADACHY, BILLS,
W.VSlUNOTON. Jan. 2 1. Fourteen
bills seeking to reverse the eonscr-
at ton policy and to grant tree tu
Heat for l.lver nml HoncN, Had
llrcnth, Itiitl Cold i, Sour Stonmeli
: -tntcs land now la federal ownership lo"KU0' 'nU fnd noso cloci
ihave already been introduacd in tho w '- nys trace this to
In this, ono of the moat startling , In "The Wonderful Adventuro" at
and Intense William fox photoplays 'tho Page th9atro Monday, Mr. Far-
num Is one ot MetUryd's favorite
screen ai lists and Is at hrs JjpEt In
I this excellent pliotoplay.
soil from which the eroiw draw their
vitality when tho muisturo pi educe
the necessary combiuations to make
moisture is upward when tho top soil
i dry. It is always busy in ostnh
lisliing it proper equilibrium. Hut,
supreme ever roloased, William Far-
num, America's grontost actor, ap
pears In n dual role.
utcd through the soil affected and
hold for uo it the growing eop
needed it.
For Cultural Operation
Kvery fanner should (and most
fanners do) underalnnd from direct
examination just whmi hi soil is i'o
proper condition to plow or cultivuto
otherwise, llolow the depth of tho
cultivation tho por cent of moisture
i much greater. It should be, when
irrigation i properly applied. Stor
age of muisturo in the soil is n very
imHirtaut feature of irrigation. It i
one of tho chief value of the use
of water in that manner. The causo
of the heavy losses by drouth laat
year in this alloy is found in tho
fact that thoie wns no moisture stor
ed away in the ground. The growing
crops liml nothing to draw on, after
the top soil became dry. Not cnoiejh
moisture fell in the annua! precipi
tation to saturate the lower strata of inoiie, without irrigation.
senate. Ihey would nllennto from
public ownership thirty million acres
of public lands. One alono (intro
duced by Senator Key Pittmnn of
Xenda) contemplate tho frco gift
to Xcxndii of seven million acre of
public lands for tho benefit of pnbllo
schools. Ncvndn has already receiv
ed 2,72:1,017 acres of public lands for
sustaining its schools nml other pub
lic institutions. In addition, tho fed-
Gel a 10-tent box.
Sick headncho, biliousness, coated
up
tor
pid llvor; delayed, fermenting food
In tho bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
1'olsonouH matter clogged In the In
testines, Instead of being cast out of
tho system Is re-absorbed Into the
blood. When this poison reaches tho
delicate brain tissue it causes con
gestion and that dull, throbbing,
sickening headache
discards Immediately cleanso the
stomach, rcmovo tho sour, undigest
ed food and foul gases, take the ex-
l.itnl i..wt'limiMtf fti1li.AiivinlA f.n Oltll
... '.' .' . .V . COSH lllto from Ihn tlvnr nml enrrv mil
n year tor the agncultural colleges in .. ,. , ' --
each stale. Senator Smoot wants
one million acres for Utnli; Senator
Warren of Wyoming wants n million
acres each for Arizona, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Xo
plant food. The tendency of solljvndu, Utah and Wyoming; Senator
Pittmnn wnnta another two million
neres for Nevada; Senator Shufroth
wants nnothor million for Colorado
if thoro bo no moisturo thoro, thoro i from "any Innds thnt belong to tho
is no stored plant food for tho crops
to draw from. When the condition is
reversed, the top soil being an (united
all or the time, there is no tendency
of moisture upward; honco, tho soil
nutrients in tho top soil boing con
sumed, tho supply is exhausted, so
far ns tho growing crop is concerned.
It must exist, thoicforc, on a "milk-and-water
diet."
Let mo again remind the farmers
of this valley that there is no stor
age of moisture in the lower soil
United Stntos within such state,
whether such Innds bo within or with
out tho forest reserves," and Sonator
Smith wants to grant to A?izona n
modest fivo million acres for build
ing roads, highways and bridges. The
Pittmnn bill Riving awny seven million
noros, is now in debate in tho senate.
Should it pnss it would sorvo ns n
precedent for tho pasnago of others.
all tho constipated waste matter and
poisons In tho bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep a 10-cent bos
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet, breath right,
complexion rosy and your liver and
bowols regular for months. Ady.
Sir: My wife told n frlond (?) thn
other night that when shu (wife)
strata of their fields this year and blW t H '"" "My ur,"
the lirosnect is that thoro wil bo Ba,u lH0 ,rionu. ou rw
stuff cotton In your cant!"
should
rvlllo.
A Food Fact
to Remember
Sovonlocii yoift's ago n fond wns originated that combined the entire nour
ishment of the field grains wheat and barley with ease of digestion, delic
ious' taste and other qualities of worth designed to fill a widespread human
need.
Today (hat food
o
Medford House Movers
XHW FIItM
Houses, Machinery, Hollers, Moved
Any 1)1? tan co
Also Houso Itepalring
Phono 488 M
012 So. Xavrtovm 737 W. 1 Ith St.
Bargains in
ROSES
rape-Nuts
has no near competitor among cereal foods in form or nutritive value, nor lias
it had from tho start.
Gmne-Xute on the Urcalcfasl Menu builds njid maintains bod', brain and
norvos as no other food does. .Ready to cat, economical, appetizing.
"There's a Reuoa"
JOIN TOE THINKERS' CLU&
(JiiHirs eve t.v where soil (irape-Xuts,
200 Tnroo-ycar-old
Caroline Testout
Roses for salo at a bargain
Tho finest rosos In Medford
from tho best roso hodgo In tho city.
The Carollno Testout Is a perpet
ual bloomer, laggo pink rosea and
tho best bodgo or street roso for this
climate.
Pierce, the Florist
FOR SALE
CHEAP
One 6-Room
HOUSE
o
on No. Riverside, close
in to be moved off lot
Call900-Lor217So.R
INSIST ON HOME PRODUCTS
THESE GOODS Altfi MADE IN THE ROGUE RIVE VALUE fc2P H W0tfY At HOWS
KJiBMI3
Til T
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by mVY. uf Itttl vuliaU. The ea
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HaU m uinellin Hllvd llli pulauna
mid thn nklu rl wnU blUH-m. -li
rril HHd rurv, itHd bvcvuie Ilk o nuuli
llnaue tirr.
Muln do not rucli thr nourcv ( the
trouble Tu iimkr th blood ui Ix tlu
only Kclcnlini' inrlheit of irllir
o. . S. I the Krtttttem Mood uilfl-r
bwuiide It to a natural una Tlini' ta
no mlnaral of any avrt In II. Ii i p " -ly
vKrUbli -
So rrrt la the fame of 8 Mi..t
many aubatllutas trail aln.: I" ai n
ctlona uf Ih country. Th all -"''
er or later, die a natural ttraili "' H
bulltt up wrak and acid l-lo... ki
liroinpl rwlltf to a 1 moat ,-wr rt- of
eciema. wintrr tatter and uitu i mi.
nutlaUifia. Voil OW ourlr in. .1 i
ut lrlnt( a bottle o H Take nu
aubatllute. Writ foi out fife "
on akin dlaeaaea t'onHdeiitlal l.ti-ix
repllail lo our Ivdlval rx.u ttii't
Swift Hpelflc t'o, tiepjitiuriii -i Ai
tanta. Qa
William Farnum
pAGE TODAY
to vol it iii:iru
I (Up iihp of a flour tliot lontalui
the maximum ol nutriment Hut is
juire and tleau O
Rogue Spray Flour0
U the arms of our milling per
fection, a milled from wheat that
ussuriug purity xml cleanliness,
Is put through our special processes
result, a vitalizing, body-bulldlnt,
nutritious flour.
riiv Koeri: simi.w n.oin,
MEDFORD ROLLER MILLS
II. 0. Nordwick, Prop. Phone 507
d
We Want to
Show You
'T JUL HLr K
USE THE PRODUCTS OP
Rtofiae Mm Vsisj;
The Byst Oatle
Help rfdme Industry.
Try Loganberry Juice and Sherbets j
at the fountains and Ice ere par
lors.
Tom OU&
w
tv I it a brosjj field our mill work eov-c-
Come and the raady la um
1 'lar, plUstera, moldings, bnlusters,
r.liHK, and a hundred other things
a seli built houiti should have. A
sit here Hill surely show you how
to liuU' a more at'rnctive home at tu
haiiie cost )ou ex.'iet'ttMl to pay for a
plain how.
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