TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MAY 19. 1910
T. BO1T3
a steer until it is three years old to
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
sell for little more than the cost of
STBICTLV IN ADVAXCK.)
1.50
its keep when the same amount or
One year........
75
Six months ...
outlay with a good cow yields him
50
Three month*
from $00 to $100 a year.
And the creameries are cutting
Sometime ago "The American into the pork supply, too, to no
¡(I h Tillamook Ijraiiligbt,
Weekly” editorially suggested that small extent by using the skim
the raising of calves to maturity milk to the manufacture of casein.
Our old Aa it is estimated that it takes 100
Mr. Taft is to be boycotted be be made compulsory.
cause he will not boycott. Appar friend J. W. McKenzie of Beatrice, pounds of skim milk to produce a
ently, this is the strongest issue he replied to the article in the follow poundof pork and as the creameries
has yet been able to raise with ing letter, a copy of which was pay from 10to 12cents per 10J pounds
furnished the Beacon, the afore for all the skiiii milk offered it
anybody.
said weekly also publishing it. is obvious that the dairymen can
The Agricultural Department has
The letter follows:
not profitably handle, hogs, other
issued a pamplet on the economical
Sir: —In the American Weekly of than for their own use.
use of meat. No plan more econom March 9th I noted with interest an
That the question of how to fill
ical than doing without is indicated
editorial which suggested that the our “tutmnye” with good, whole
in the work.
rearing of calves till maturity be some food three times per diem
Although the Ballinger Pinchot made compulsory, thus, it is hoped, and at a reasonable price has
investigation has been under way obliterating the one and deminish- reached the point of seriousness
I
about two months, nobody, not ing the other of two very obvious is
evidenced by the interest
even the investigators,
knows evils viz. : the eating of veal and aroused in every section of the
who’s who yet, or what’s what.
the scarcity of good beef. The ar United States, not excepting Cali
The aeroplane may be, as liaa ticle states that ninety out of every fornia, tlie most favored of them
been said, a big kite with an i en one hundred calves born are slain all, and this interest is not centered
gine, but has made good to i unci! in their infancy, and, while that to the meat trust alone, but applies
an extent that it is entitled to be figure is perhaps» little too high, it to all the articles that go to make up
called the first successful airship.
is near enough to the mark to a meal.
Appropriations for the Panama cause people to sit up and ask:
On every hand one hears the com
Canal are aoout $35,000,000 a year. “Why such a shameful waste cf plaint
“Tilings are so high!
Probably $150,000,000 more will com good material, the saving of which Things are so high!”
And hand
plete the work, which is well within would mean sustenance to thous in hand with this plaint stalks the
ands who today are craving for i lquiry, Why?”
the engineers' recent estimates.
that which is beyond their means
Ninety millions of people in this,
A Populist orator declare that al)
—to buy good meat and plenty of the resourful country par excellence
the theories of his party have l>een
of all the lands beneath the sun. are
appropriated by the Republican it?”
Now I agree with the writer in asking "Why?” Is Mother Earth
and Democratic parties.
What
more could be asked, unless merely that veal ia—er—mighty slim food, becoming niggardly of her gifts to
to say the least—especially the kind man?
the offices?
that are from five to ten days old
Are the tillers of the soil slothful
M. Paulhan's aeroplane behaved
when killed, and I have often and so failing to produce enough for
so well between laindon and Man
lamented this butchery of young all?
chester that the 180-mile flight will
stock, but, notwithstanding my
If these questions where put to me
not hold the record long. This
sentiments with regard to this seem I should answer most emphatically
promises to be a great year for the
ingly wasteful slaughter, I kill sev "No!”
aeroplane crop.
eral calves each year. Of eleven
For the first, an up-to-date farmer
Col. Roosevelt was delighted with calves which my cows have dropped
can
produce more to the acre than
a French Army review at Vincen this season, six of them (males)
nes, and he would not hesitate to were killed shortly afterbirth. The the old timers could.
For thesecond, It seems possible
de sc ri lx* liis pleasure if he should five heifers I am raising, but when
ma ke a speech at The Hague. The the remainder of my heard freshen to get anything you want—If you
colonel's view of a present millen their offspring, cowlets or bullocks, have the price. Therefore it is not
a question of “how much I can
nium is preparedness.
must go to the happy grazing produce,” hut ruther, “how much
When invited to join the Demc- ground, because I cannot possibly
can you buy?”
crutic party Senator Dolliver says feed any more stock.
It pays me well to raise beef for
he has no confidence in it. Ever
How, then, would compulsory
my own consumption. It will not
since 1894 the people of the United methods make for a larger beef
pay me to raise beef for your use.
States have held the same opinion, supply? By abolishing the trade
The same thing happens to pork,
and emphasised it by a million ma in veal, the article says more calves
and to other things.
jority no longer than 1908.
would be reared to maturity.
It would seem strange, then, if
The worst cavilers of Mr. Rocke
Why, it is only a small percent you in San Francisco should send
feller*» lienevolence will not deny age of the calves born that go to
me word: “Raise a good fat beef
that if it can be used to bring all make veal, and with the remainder for me I’ve got the shekels,” and
the
scoundrels engaged in the legislation is hardly needed to com
still I would refuse to raise it.
white slave traffic to justice, it will pel their owners to give them to
Would it not?
partly atone for the organization someone who will raise them. I
My dear sir, I couldn't sell that
of even such a monster as the have known of 1,000 calves being
beef to you.
You can and will
Standard (Ml trust.
slaughtered within ten days’ time pay a good round price for the
Artic Explorer Amundsen, who at a “skinning station” to which meat, all right, but it will be paid
took a ship through the Northwest they were brought, for 50 cents to the several men who pass the
Passage, has planned a seven-year each. At that price anyone, even beef along from tne to you.
drift in the region of the North Pole, tho his means tie limited, can em
Because a lot of those millionaires
which he expects to reach with his bark in the cattle business.
who own suburban properties where
Blit unfortunately, calves cannot they can "raise h—1 and a few
$100,000 cruiser. The world hopes
that he may finally return with a be mined in six or eight back yards, green onions” and who register as
like Belgian hares, which, no doubt,
full carge of proofs.
farmers to escape taxation, ride
is one reason why so little of our
Though Edward VII. was on the
around their plantations in auto
throne but nine years, he was a fig beef supply comes from the cities. mobiles, the public is beginning to
ure of international interest nearly Old Dame Nature insists upon look upon the farmers aa being
their having milk, pasturage and
us far back as the beginning of
wealthy autocrats who don’t care
Victoria’s reign. The shock felt fodder to assist them along to ma a hang whether anybody in town
turity,
and
he
who
has
plenty
of
over the sudden dose of this long
is hungry or not.
leaf of fumilar history is not con these foods need not lack for stock
But my city friend, don't believe
to eat them.
fined to England alone.
all you read in the papers. There
The meat question is getting to
Rev. Mr. Jeffries, father of the l»e n serious one with the American are a lot of farmers who don’t own
autos—in fact, lean give you the
prise fighter, says, in answer to
people. It strikes us harder than
tlie preachers who are trying to
names of a dozen such in thia neigh-
it wqnld those of other lands for
atop the Frisco fight. Hist his son is
borhood. And you may bet your
the reasons that we are heavy con
working for money, just as the
old suspender» that when Okl
sumers of meat, and until n recent
preachers are, and that, if their
Reuben does get a buzz wagon, it
period, America has been “skimpy”
money should l>e stopped, for any
is not for the pnr|x>se of giving
in its use.
And it is the poor
reason, their work would stop with
"joy rides" but rather liecause he
people God help them who must
it. The entire clergy can not l>e
is wearied of picking up milk cans,
gnaw the lean Ixines.
The rich
conveited to approval of prize
spuds, etc. that have fallen by the
man still has his choice cut, a ml
fighting, however, until
every
wayside when the old mare shied.
will have while gruss grows and
preacher has u son of champion
And if now the old man can yank
water runs.
form.
a load of truck into town at a speed
It is within the tnemery of many
President Brown, of the New York of us when the buffalo roamed the that will insure delivery of hia eggs
before all of the chickens are
Central Railroad, in con fere tue
prairies of the west in herds so vast
hatched, the net results are a few
with several other prominent cap-
that nothing could stay their march
more hours in which to crawl
tains of industry connected with when on their semi-annual
croaa-
around on hie hands and knees in
the New York l’rodlics Exchange country trip from
the Texas Pan
the turnip patch, time to fix the
have started a new movement for handle to the
northern bonier,
the reoccopatiou of abandoned farms and back. There was meat, loads back pasture fence, »nd, maby, to
in New York State and for the more
of it, to be had for the taking fini»h milking ere "curfew tolls
intensive cultivation of all farms, tough chewing the most of it, but the knell of parting day.” Then,
in the Itelief that thia ia the only
still meat, and infinately more after he has eaten supper and has
¡lermaneut solution of the problem
done up the chorea, he can find
healthful tliun veal, but the poor buf
of high prices and increasing
the
falo were forced to go to make room opportunity while winding
jioverty. "So many farmers' sons
clock
and
unlacing
hia
shoes
to
for the "long horn” steer. Here
have deserted their homes up New
again was meat aplenty, tho no glance thru “Farm Notes” and
York State to make their fortunes
longer free. And today the genu- absorb a few pointers on how to
in the city, that 3Hk) acres of the
ine. Simon-pure "long horn” is raise geese without water and why
beat farm lands in the country lias
nearly as scarce aa the buffalo, and the pump loses its “suck.”
been allowed to go virtually to
And now in conclusion, I trust
on plain and upland and by many
waste; snd it has come to the
that "The American Weekly" may
a
purling
stream
where
twenty
point where the only way we see
cow. give thia food question its further
to reclaim it is to bring in immi- ' years ago tlie hilarious
consideration.
The subject ia a
puncher
sang
to
hie
restless
henls.
grant farmers from Europa to buy 1
vital one, especially to the poor.
small
gazelle-eyed
Jerseys
munch
and work the land.” He admitted
But fa my humble opinion, this
frankly that he was interested in their alfalfa and clover, each and problem can never lie solved until
every
one
of
them
bringing
her
the question of land reoccupation .
»«■»me genius shall come forth and
because it would mean more work , owner as much returns in one year construct a wide and everlasting
aa
the
long
horn
did
during
the
for his freight cat a. Secretary of
bridge across the yawning chasm
Agriculture Wilson addrvsned th« term of his natural life.
which separates the producer and
Irrigation
has
made
it
possible
Produce Exchange Tuesday, mij
the consumer, to the detriment of
tin his advice that body passed | and profitable to farm lands hitherto
both. And I pray that to each
resolutions to take some definent adaptable to grazing only. Conse
and all of the inhabitants of thin
qctiou toward bringing the people quently the big ranges are doomed dear old California shall come to
back to the land and toward as to go the way of the buffalo and the no lean year. And in Humboldt
sisting the farmer to beat methods long horn, figuratively speaking, alone, thia spring, between fi.000
and H.
8,11)0 calves will go down
oi soil conservation To thia end a and in their stead come the farms to
doom.
i otnmittee of fourteen was resolved of 100 acres or ao.
Very truly.
I With the farms thus formed.
J. W M c K knux .
I whenever the condition* are favor
For • bum or scald ai ipply Cham
~
able
for
dairying.
come
lierlain’« Salve It wii.
___
_
the
Foley Kidney Pilla contain in
n allay the
iiain alm.iat instantly and quickly creameries. Thia, of course, cut« concentrateli form ingrediente of
lie«l the injured parts. For sale at down the beef supply, fur it ia safe established therapeutic vaine for
Lamar's drug store
to «ay that no sane man will keep the relief ami cure of all kidney
and bladder ailment«. C. L Clough.
AWFUL SLAUGHTER OF BABY
BEEF.
Beatrice Man Tells Why Calves
Are Sacrificed to the Bu.cher
and the Tannery.
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TIÜUAJVIOOK ICE and
COLD STORAGE CO. s
A ttorn EY-AT<tt
•
Complete set of Abstract L
in office.
Taxes paid fw
Residents.
,
Office opposite Post Ofi».
Both phones.
make a speeialty
MANUFACTURING
ICE
haberlach ,
C arl
and
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Storing all kinds of Perish
JJexitarhrr
able Articles.
Office aero«* the street and
the Post Ofixx.
UJe also make
*
Q-EORGE WILLETT,
JVIokatil Pure pood lee Cream
A ttornky - at -L aw .
It’s all Cream, Cold and Suieet.
Next to Tillamook Co
Bank,
T illamook -
Qm
Plant : Corner 1st and 3rd Avenue,
TIÜÜAM00K. OREGON.
'Jp
H. GOYNE,
A ttorney - at L aw .
HARNESS, COLLARS, etc.
You Use Them.
T. BO ALS,
We Sell Them. PHYSICIAN
& SURGE«
Office : Opposite Court
T illamook , O regoì J
A?
W. A. WILLIAMS & CO.,
TILLAMOOK.
Office* Olson Building.
Residence: Mrs. Weiss’ house,
Mrs. Walker’s.
Next Door to Tillamook Comity Bank.
KER RON, I
M.
The Best Hotel.
THE ALLEN HOUSE,
PHYSICIAN &
J. P. AL i L i EN i Proprietor.
SURGE®
C oncrete B uildim )
Headquarters for Travelling Men.
Tillamcok,
Special Atteution paid to Tourists.
A First Class Table.
Comfortable Beds and Accommodation
R. I. M. SMITH,
PHYSICIAN & SURG
EYES AND TEETH.
You spend frotn $5.(10 to $20.00 per year on
and think nothing of it.
Which would you prefer to loose :
your teeth
&
Office over J. A. Todd 4
Tillamook, Ore.
c - hawk ,
YOUR EYES or YOUR TEETH ?
Your eyes can be looked after from $1.00 to about $8.00,
and this will be the total expense for about 3 to
5 years, and often a great deal longer.
Remember vou can get NEW TEETH, but not NEW
EYES- What VALUE do you place on YOUR
EYES ? What per cent of insurance would you
pay to keep them as good as at present ?
Make yourself a 'Xmas, present of a pair of glasses?
All work guaranteed to be satisfactory in every respect.
bay city , 0
Dr. Henry E. Morris.
KBAL ESTATE,
F inancial A g
Tillamook, Oreg»
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RESIDENT DENTE
c. S. Atkinson
Office in Sturgeon'* Buiii
All Work Guaranteed.
TILLAMOOK.
MOLINE PLOWS,
-j-y. P. J. SHARP,
Osborne Harrows,
RESIDENT
DENT
Office across the street
Court House.
Dr. Wise’s offi»
STUDEBAKER,
WAGGONS AND BUGGIES,
GRAIN
WHITE RIVER FLOUR
SARCHET,
. The Fashionable
Cleaning, Pressing and
ing a Specialty.
Store in Heins Phot
Gallery.
Tha Bast Bread Makar on tha Market.
L ax » Osrtca B vmxbss
A SVBClALTT.
/LOWING
&
C, S. ATKINSON,
LAWYERS-
R oom 33A W obcbstxs Bens*
T hiso ako O ab BTiirw- _ _
Room Next to the US. L»*«1 <**
Both Phones,
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< Tillamook iron Works
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a
w«» a
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wear won
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General Machinists & Blacksmiths.
Beiler Werk, Locrer» Werk aad Henry Fergieg.
Flae lackiae Werk * Speeialty.
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