Tillamook headlight., December 26, 1907, Image 2

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 26, 1907
fields which are intended for growing
the legumtous plants in a simple and in­
expensive way of inoculating the soil
L egal ADVKkTi8MKNT« :
First Insertion, perline ................ $ 10
germs.
Poultry
A knowledge of bacteria in their rela­ with the desired
5
Each subsequent insertion, line....
droppings are very valuable a* a fertili­
tion
to
man
hga
been
confined
largely
Business and professional cards,
1 month ............... ................... I 00 to scientists and to the medical profes zer and as a mean* ot carrying nitrifying
Homestead Notices........................ & 00 sion, who have dealt with the pathegenic germ* to the soil. The manure heap is
Timber Claims................................ 1 10 00 or disease producing varieties, and the the farmer's chemical and bacteriological
s public is ever ready to accord them the laboratory, from which he can obtain
Deals, per line each insertion ...
Display advertisement, an inch,
50 highest tributes of praise for what has tbe most valuable chemicals and organ
1 month ..................................
All Resolutions of Condolence and been and is now being done to alleviate ism* to assist plant growth.
Lodge Notices. 5c. per line.
Manure has au alkaline reaction
the suffering of both man and beast, by
Cards of Tbanks, 5c. per line.
which favor* tbe growth of the nutrify­
Notices, Lost, Strayed or Stolen, etc., controlling the organisms which are the
ing bacilli. As considerable of our »oil
minimum rate, 25c. not exceedirg five specific cause of disease.
lines.
The modern agriculturist should pos is acid, the application of manure not
sees a better understanding of bacteria only inoculates the soil with nitrifying
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
and tbeir actions than the physician, geins, but neutralizes it to a certain .ex­
.STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.)
tiecause not only does he have to deal tent at the same time
1.50
One year............
Sowing clover, or inoculating the soil
with those which pioduce disease ami ng
75
Six months......
50 his herds and flocks, but with all those with nitrifying gems when the soil is
Three months..
nun-disea«e producing varieties which acid is useless, a* neither clover nor the
are the foundation of agriculture. Their bacilli will grow in the presence of acid
presence in the soil is absolutely esseu We must then resort to neutralizing the
tial in the production of plant food by soil so that both plants may grow.
Fred C. Baker. Publisher.
decomposing all organic matter and re. This may be accomplished bv applying
ducing it to more simple elements that it to the field dry slaked lime either befoie
HIGH PRICES FOR TANBARK may be absorbed by plants of a higher or at the time of sowing the seed. To
those who desire to prepare their own
Oregon Usee Vast Quantity and order for their uouiisliment.
It is an established fact that bacteria, cultures of nitrifying germs for clover,
Pays More for It Than Any
which aie eometiu.es called germs, mi­ take,
Other State.
In 1906 Oregon used 17,000 cords of crobes, micro organisms, etc., belong to Water............................................... lliter
of Potash . ........... 1 gram
oak tan bark, valued at $437,000 or the plant kingdom and are the lowest Biphosphate
Magnesium sulphate............. 1.10 grain
form
of
plants,
being
unicellular
and
ot
$27.83 a cord. It used 1.200 cords of
Glucose (powdered).... ........ 15 grains
hemloc'- bark, valued at $12,900 or microscopic dimensions, their size av. Iron sulphate.................... 5 milligrams
$10.50 a cord, The total was 18,300 eraging about three twen y-five thou­ Manganese sulphate.... 5 milligrams
cords, valued at $488,500 or $26.66 a sandths of an inch. Each plant under Sodium Chloride............... 1 centigram
Place these in a la rge bottle, or flask,
cord. California used nearly twice as favorable conditious multiplies by divtd
much, the .per cord value being $20,48. ing two every hour; they also produce using a wad of cotton batting instead of
Tau bark brought the lowest price spores or seeds which are very resistant a cork, then place the container in a
in New Hampshire, and the highest to the elements, and not unlike plants of steam cooker, or deep tea kettle and
in Oregon, with an average of $9.30 a higher order, they require food and boil one hour for three successive days.
per cord. More than i < b»rk tlie price moisture to induce theii growth. Each This will sterilize the material which will
to extract varied widely according to variety of these plants prefer and grow then be ready for planting the germ* ;
the u aterial from which it was manu­ best in certain materials and in con­ then secure some nodules from ’.he roots
factured. The extract of quebrucbo, a suming tili« as food, they extcrete or ofclover plants, clean thoroughly be­
tree of Mexico, Central America, South convert it into chemical substances fore remuving them from the roots, dip
America, and the West Indies, from peculiar to their kind, called ptomaines, them into a weak solution of bichloride
which seven-eights of all imported tan­ which are usually in the form of more of mercury (one part to 1000 of water)
ning materials are secured, had an simple elements than before they began for five minutes, rinse well in clean water
(preferable boiled water), |then by the
average price of $18 per barrel; and their activities.
hemlock brought $12.0U per barrel;uak
After some varieties of bacteria have aid of small tweezers remove the nodules
$9.90 per barrel, and chestnut $9 12 per consumed a part of, or all the material from the roots, and then after crushing,
barrel.
which favors tbeir growth, other vari. place them in tbe bottle of culture me
No other nation produces half as eties begin their activities by using as dium ; after a day or so tbe liquid
much tanned, curied, and finished food the ptomaines of the varieties will become turbid by the growth
leather as the United States, whichjyields which preceded them. As an illustra­ of tbe germs, (Allow thia growth to
over one-fourth of the world's supply. tion, fresh cider contains a certain continue for a couple of days longer, and
Six hundred and seventeen tanneries amount of saccharine matter, the yeast there will be billions ot gerins which
contribute to this output. The raw ma­ plants finding this to be their natural may be transferred to the clover seed bv
terial includee 108,000.000 hides and food soon convert it into alcohol by sprinkling the liquid on a pile of seed
skins, including a large number from splitting up the sugar and liberating and stirring at the same time, .insuring
Argeutina. To tan this immense quan­ carbonic acid gas. As soon as some the wetting of each seed.
After the seed has dried it may be sow n
tity of leather, valued at over $250,- alcohol is formed, another variety of
000,000 last year, required over 1,250,- germs, the acetic acid ferments, use as* in the usual manner. In ¡this way each
000 cords of tanbark, wdrth neatly food the alcohol thus provided for them seed carries many germs to the soil ir.
$13,000,000 and more than 650,000,000 by the yeasts, then their products, in the the . immediate vitiuity of the young
barrels of tanning extract, worth $8,- presence of air, are converted into acetic plant.
Tbe glucose in the medium will not
700,000
acid, or vinegar. Thus it is with all
Over two-thirds of the tanbark con­ organic matter; there is a constant all be consumed by the germs in the bot­
sumed comes from hemlock, and over transformation* going on through the tle, in that length of time, and what re.
one-fourth from oak; chestnut aftd other powerful activities of bacteria which are mains will cause thegerms to adhere to
woods contribute
the
remainder. the prime factors in reducing it. No the smooth surface ol the clover seed.
The manipulation of this is very simple
More extract is secured from chestuut, organic matter possesses the power of
and quite within the reach of any of the
however, than from all other domestic self decomposition.
woods combined. A small quantity of
An agriculturist should not fail to modern agriculturists.
Caring for bacteria in the soil means
extract of a little over 1,000 barrels give g'K>d share of his attention to the
comes from the roots of palmetto.
growth and care of many vaiieties of to provide such conditons that those
Although the tanning industry is bacteria which are his beet friends, as which are desirable may be so stimulat­
widely distributed over the United agriculture without them would bean ed as to perform their highest functions
States, the greater part of it is carried impossibility. Deprive the soil of its and bold in check the growth of those
on in the states of Pennsylvania. New bacterial flora, and it soon becomes non­ varieties that are detrimental to plant
York, Michigan anil Wisconsin, which productive and sterile, no matter how growth.
The grater number of bacteria are
use more than two-thirds of the tan. much organic matter may be present. On
ning materials oousumed. Pennsylvania other band, if the soil is w ell supplied found in the upper layers of the soil be­
alone oonsume* over 900,000,000 pounds with vegetable matter, it will be found cause the majority are aerobic, or re­
of bark and extract worth $8,000,000, or to contain millions of bacteria per grain. quire air for their growth and there is
37 per cent of the total value.
That this mass of living plants are in­ more organic matter there for them to
Since 19o0 the quantity of tanbark strumental in bringing about phvsiologi feed upon than there is.in the deeper
used has fallen of! 15 per cent, cal and chemical transformations is with­ layers.
When a soil is loosened by a growing
although its value lias increased. Dol­ out doubt; the more material they have
ing thia perioil the consumption of ex- to work upon the more plant food they crop and frequent cultivation, more air
is allowed to circulate through the soil
traot increased tioui $67.0O0 to 660,000 return to the soil.
barrels a year, of which nearly 90,000
It has already beeu stated that some and stimulatesthe growth of organisms,
barrels were imported.
Relatively organisms require the action of another thus returning to the soil a larger
small quantities of hemlock bark were species upon organic matter, before th> y amount of plant food at the time when
imported from Canada, and of man­ can begin their activities. Thus it may the plants most need it.
grove bark from the West Indies and be explained that some soil contains an
Soil that is properly drained is aerated
Africa. In weight, four times as much abunbance of plant food which is not in to a greater depth, stimulating a more
quebracho was imported in bark as in available form until the introduction of thorough decomposition of plant roots,
extract form, but the value of the two some other variety of micro-organisms and a retention of moisture for the
forms was about the same.
that unlock it through the action of organisms to carry on their work, there­
fore condition* of the soil which are con­
their chemical products.
A Home Made Happy by Cham­
ductive to tbe development of bacteria
Barnyard
manure
is
usually
looked
berlain’s Cough Remedy.
will insure plant growth of a higher or.
Upon
as
a
nuisance,
yet
it
eontaius
a
About two months ago our baby girl
der.
had measles which nettled on her lungs , high percentage of available plant fo< d
One of the gratest abuses of the soil is
and at lam resulted in a severe attack of and is a mass of bacteria of different
bronchitis. We had two doctors but no varieties. Any soil receiving a coat of to destroy its bacterial content bv sum­
relief was obtained. Eveiybody thought
mer fallowing as practiced in some Io.
she would die. 1 went to eight different manure is not only benefltted.by the calities where the land is plowed and al­
store* to find a certain remedy which plant food which the manure contains,
had been recommended to me end failed but it become inocculated with greet lowed to bleach all summer in the
to get it, when one of the atorekeepeis masses of bacteria which are very im­ scorching rays of the burning sun. Noth,
insisted that I try Ctiamtarlain'e Cough
ing in nature kills more bacteria than
Remedy. I did so and our baby is alive portant in assisting the decomposition sunshine and fo( that reason no soil
and well tedav.—G eo . W. S i ' rnck ot organic matter in the soil.
should ever be left unprotected. If |the
HoHy
N C Chamberlain s
Since it has been known that nitrogen
Cough Remedy a I wav 9 cure« and is
organisms are destroyed, decomposition
is
one
of
the
essential
plant
foods,
and
pleasant and safe to taka. For sale by
of organic matter ceases, which is a
Clough's Drug Store.
<he moat expensive, when applied in ti e
detriment to the soil.
form
of a commercial fertilizer,
Instead of destroying bacteria oi the
How Diphtheria is Contracted. I efforts have been made to find some
Oua often hears the expression, " Mv i ineeits of accumulating it from the soil, they should be fed, cultivated and
child caught a severe cold which | , atmosphere, winch contains a large stimulated with plant root* and vege­
developed into diphtheria. ' when the
table matter to the fullest possible ex­
truth was that the oold had simply-left amount, through organisms that grow tent for bacterial growth comes first
the little one particularly .’susceptible to i upon the roots of leguminous plants as
the wandering diphtheria germ. When parasites. These efforts have been so and crops are dependent upon their
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given it I successful that now pure cultures of activities.
E. E. P ernot ,
quickly cure* th» cold and lessen* the]
<1 sugar of diphtheria or any other germ the nitrifying germs are artificiallr
Professor of Bacteriology,
disease being contracted. tor
*
tale by grown and told for the purpose of in
Oregon Agricultural College.
Clough's Drug Store.
oculating the sojl.
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Another means of accomplishing the
An official of the Indian Department j
Badly Mixed Up.
states that th.
I.
------- , same end is by taking the superficial
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The Best Hotel
Every Agriculturist a Bacterio
logia t.
•°11 from
THE ALLEN HOUSE,
Complete set of
j. p. AUUBN, Proprietor.
«n office.
Headquarters for Travelling Men.
Residents.
Special Attention paid to Tourists.
A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation.
Office opjiosite pW(
Butl1
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PROP« LET UK
; Tillamook Iron Works
A t * o < ney . w . i
T illamook ,
4 Generili .Machinists & Blacksmiths,
Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging.
Fine Machine Work a Specialty.
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OREGON.
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attorney . ài .U ï
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S’entacher
Office across the starts
th« Postor
$ I have just opened up the most com-
© plete line of
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GROCERIES
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g in Tillamook, all new and Fresh. The g
$ prices are no higher than others.
We most cordially invite you to g
§ come and look at what we have and
get our prices, whether you buy or
§ not.
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H. GOYNE,
A ttorney - at .L j ,
Office : Opposite Court
T illamook ,
Dm
W. SEVE]
A ttorney - at - l «
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T illamook
T. BOALS, MJ
PHYSICIAN
& SURI
T illamook ,
Office: Olson Building.
Residence: Mrs. Walkeri
Rates, $1 Per day
Centrally üoeated
LARSEN HOUSE,
M. H. üARSEfl, Proprietor.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON
The Best Hotel in the city.
No Chinese Employed.
HARNESS, COLLARS, etc.
You Use Them.
We Sell Them.
W. A. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Next Door to Tillamook County Bank.
yy. o. hawk ,
PHYSICIAN &
bay city , o :
HOMAS W. R(
PHYSICIAN 4 SC
Office : Opposite Post
Residence : Allen Houle, Till
p'
R. BEALS,
REAL ESTATE,
F inancial A s
The Oregon Cheese Co.,Incorported,
is prepared to buy all the first class
cheese that conies along. Spot cash
and highest price. Factory men will
do well to see R. Robinson, the mana­
ger, before selling. He will be in
Tillamooka good part of the time dur­
ing the season, Only the best stock
wanted.
THE OREGON CHEESE COMPANY,
126 Fifth Street, Portland.
Reference, Tillamook County Bank
Tillamook, Orep»
R. P. J. SHARP,
RESIDENT DENT!
Office across the street it
Court House.
Dr. Wiki's offa
^1^ SARCHET,
J- . The Fashionable
Cleaning, Pressing and
ing a Specialty.
Store in Heins Ph
Gallery.
OBERT
NOTICE
PEOPLE Of' TILLAMOOK CITY
AND COUNTY.
A.
A ttorney - at -U*-
Land Titles, Land Ofi«1
ness and Mining L*f
PORTLAND,
Room, 306 Com®«“*1
SHOE STORE
u^,n wh,ch ,h’ '«xunit *
Abraham Brown, of Winterton. N
ing and ar« thus "taken out of th« cate- |
• have been grown, scattering it upon th 1. had a very remarkable experience,
gory of curios " Is the white men pre-[ fields supposed to be devoid of nitrify­ he says "Doctors got badly mixed up
pared to prove that a person who won't ing germa, thus inoculating them with over me; one said heart disease . two
celled it kidney trouble, the fourth
work is a curio ?
the deaired varieties.
blood poison, and the fifth stomach and
The United States will be represented
While thia last method may be good, liver trouble; but none of them helped
in the Tokio world's fair n few year»
there is an element of uncertainty me, so my wife advised trying Electric
Bitters, which are restoring me to per
hence, but not by American Stewarts in about it
feet health. One bottle did me more
the restaurant». But then the show
The agilculturiM should bear in mind | - «*«* J than nil tKe five d<<‘tors pre-
will have an Honorable Court of Cherry
that well rotted manure contains thee, scribed. Guaranteed for blood poison.
XT.?*
O,“Ptte’ W,rp“h orid-~bl’ ’«totte. of" g«m.'7n“\b<ru' **»*ntw and all atomach. liver and
T. BOTTS,
WILL SELL ALL STOCK ON
HAND AT COST.
Strictly for Cash Until Further
Notice.
Sum -er Shoes that
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