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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-02
For Chief Of Police.

I hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the Office of chief of police OF
Corvallis at the election to be held May
18th, 1908.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-02

I hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the office of chief of police of
Corvallis at the election to be held May
18th, 1908.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-02
M. Gleason,
For Treasurer.

Corvallis, April s. 1908.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-02
For Chief Of Police.

Corvallis, April I, 1903.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-02
For Chief of Police.

Corvallis, April 10, 1908.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17

will have as long a period of cool
weather in which to make its growth
as possible, for when the great heat
of the late June comes here, they
will ripen and stop growing, hence
they must be made before that time.
The Same clean culture and the same
pulling away of the earth as the
bulbs form, as advised for the trans
planted crop, must be used. It will
be far better if the large amount of
fertilizer used be applied several
weeks before planting. I. have ad-
vised dried blood as a source of am
monia, because if cottonseed meal
be used, the amount must be in
creased to get the large percentage
of ammonia needed and the cotton
seed meal has a dangerous fashion of
causing a mould growth that destroys
seeds and plants in contact with it.
l once lost nearly my entire crop
of frame lettuce from using cotton
seed meal heavily. It made a fungus
that caused the plants to rot off at
the surface. Dried blood is better
and has a higher percentage of am
monia. During the growth of the
crop, an application of nitrate of
soda alongside the rows will help
greatly, for the manurial needs of the
onion crop are mainly for nitrogen
and potash.
Now a word as to curing and keep
ing onions. Pull them when the tops
turn yellow and let them lie a day
or so in the sun, but not in any
rain, put into the warmest place at
hand. Upon the roof of a barn is
a good place to cure them. Keep
the tops on and never remove them
till you are going to sell or use them,
as they keep better with the tops IN.
When perfectly dry remove them to
a cool place and spread them out.
A little freezing in winter will do
less harm than a warm place to keep
them after curing. I have kept them
on a barn floor all winter. For a yell
low onion, use the New Opal, which
is of the best keepers. For a red
onion, the Wethersfeld red is as
good as any.
W. F. MASSEY.
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17
Wake Co., N. c..
W. F. MASSEY.

Nj. B. S. Montford, of New Han
over County, has been spending some
time in Monroe with his sister, Mrs.
Antoinette Beasely. Mr. Montford is
a truck farmer, located five miles
from Wilmington. 81 had a lettuce
bed in the early spring" said he,
Comprising less than one-eighth of
an acre. l sold the lettuce from it
for 1925, shipping it to Philadelphia.
On less than two acres, embracing
this bit, I then planted Irish pota-
toes, selling my crop for $12O, most
of which was also shipped to Phila-
delphia. On the same ground I hen
planted corn" That is the way the
truck growers of the East farm, and
that section is destined to become
very rich.-Monroe Journal.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17

"What we require" said the man
aging editor, "is the services of a
man capable of taking full charge of
our Query Box Are you capable
of answering all kinds of questions %
Well, I rather guess So" replied the
applicant. "Tm the father of eleven
children."-Chicago News.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17

UOA 10 VI d SANDY loan character. In
February it is replowed and put in
line order. If the crop is grown on
a large scale the rows should be wide
enough for horse culture, say two
and a half feet. Run out burrows
and apply in them 1000 pounds per
acre of the same fertilizer mixture
advised for the lettuce. Turn two
burrows over the first one, making
a ridge. Roll this down nearly level
and set the plants three inches apart
in the row, only fairly covering the
roots and bulk, so that the onion;
when formed, will be on the general
surface of the soil. In this way the
Prizetaker onion a be grown as
large as the imported ones found in
crates in the stores. Of course the
cleanest of culture must be adopted
and the earth pulled away from the
bulbs as they ENLARGE so that the bulb
forms on top of the ground. An
onion entirely in the ground will not
attain the size of one sitting on the
surface.
As I have said, this crop needs to
be disposed of early, as this variety
will not keep well. But coming into
market at a time when ripe onions
are scarce, they usually bring a fancy
price. In fact, the imported Span
ish-grown mes retail at the stores
for five cents each, and fully as large
ones can be grown here in a suitable
soil and with culture. :
For an onion crop to cure and
keep, we must adopt a different
method. I would promise that the
onion is different from many other
crops in the fact that it likes to be
kept on the same land year after
year, and no matter how well the
soil is prepared or how highly fer
tilted, the first crop grown on it
will not be as large as subsequent
crops on the same land if the fertli-
cation is kept up annually, and a
crop of cow-peas is grown on the land
after the onions are off and turned
under in the late fall. By following
This plan, and with liberal use of
fertilizers, the onion crop will in
crease in amount year after year.
THE IMPORTANT POINTS.
The important points to be OBJ
served are early sowing and the use
of the right varieties. Onions like
a light sandy soil, and such a soil
in the South can be worked at any
time in winter. In the first place
see to the seed. Get seed from a reli-
able dealer and be sure that it is fresh,
for onion seed lose their vitality very
rapidly after they are a year old.
Prepare the land as advised for the
transplanted onions and make the
rows in the same way and use the
same amount of fertilizer. The seed
can be sown on the fattened ridges
with garden seed drill. The best of
all onions for this crop we have
found, by careful experiment with a
100 of voria+ioc 10 the SOuthDOrt
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17
Buying Cheap Seeds is "Penny Wise,
Pound Foolish"

laboratory at Washington conducted
by the Government is a busy insti-
tuition this season. DR.. Frederick ".
Coville says that the use of poor seed
causes a loss of many millions of
dollars annually to American farm
ers. The Government is making ex-
tensive tests of seeds so that agricul-
turists may buy to advantage and
plant with foreknowledge. Those
who have no facilities at home for de-
termining the value of seeds may
send samples to Washington, where
they will be tested in the laboratory
and reports forwarded to the farmer.
The price of seed by the pound or
bushel is by no means a criterion of
value, for, aside from the introduce
ton of noxious weeds from impure
consignments, the loss in time, labor
and crop returns by planting infer
tile seeds is sometimes very great.
In one instance a farmer paid $3.50
for a bushel of clover seed, weighing
sixty pounds; he thought he was get
ting it cheap. Laboratory tests show
ed that he had only twenty-seven and
three-quarter pounds of good seed;
the rest would not terminate and was
of course a dead loss. The farmer,
therefore, paid at the rate of 1851
a bushel for his clover seed. Not
only was he paying an exorbitant
price, but he would have wasted his
time and his land in sowing seed the
greater part of which would not have
sprouted.
The seed industry in the United
States has grown to enormous pro-
portions. Hundreds of thousands of
acres are devoted to seed raising.
Some of the warehouses cover an
area of from five to ten acres. Mil
lions of packets of seed are sent out
annually. Some firms receive about
10000 orders a day. That the Gov
eminent stands ready promptly to
test seeds for American farmers, so
far as its laboratory facilities will
permit, is, therefore, a matter of
great public interest.
Many millions of dollars are IN
volved annually in the seed trades of
America.
Among other things the Govern
ment is interested in keeping the
seeds of the dodder from getting root
in American soil. The danger of the
spread of this pest is great. A single
dodder will attack and destroy one
clover plant after another, until it
has established its malign dominion
over an area of several square feet.
The Department seeks to impress up
farmers the false economy In saw
ing a few cents per acre on seed
and as a result stocking the land
with destructive weeds. In a num-
Der of samples of red clover seed
tested in the laboratory, over 10000
seeds of weeds found to the pound,
and one lot the number of weed seeds
to the pound was 27,7OO, mostly green
foxtail and p~lantain.
The ~beet-sugar industry has grown
to such proportions and the value of
securing good seed is so urgent that
the Bureau of Plant Industry has
made special arrangements to make
tests on an extensive scale of sugar
beet seed for purity and termination.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-11-17
Growing Onions in the South.
Tor of The Progressive Farmer :

.opd in the South in one season, as
they are grown in the North, and
Il was the general practice to depend
on sets purchased from the North
for growing the crop. It is now
known that fully as good crops of
onions may be grown in one season
in the South as in the North, and
that the use of sets is only necessary
for fall planting to grow early grown
onions for punching.
The difficulty formerly encounter
ed in the growing of onions in the
South came from too close following
of the directions of Northern writ
ers on gardening and ignoring the
fact that the onion needs cool wealth
er for its DEVELOPMENT. Seed sown
in the South at the time recommend
ed by the Northern writer's will make
sets, but not good onions, since the
plants r overtaken by the hot
weather and ripen up before fully
grown.
VARIETIES OF ONIONS.
In the growing of onions we must
also understand the differences be-
tween the various classes of onions
grown. The Spanish and italian
varieties have been developed in
warm climates and will grow to a
larger size in the South than others
developed in colder climates. The
only difficulty with these is that they
must be disposed of early in the sum-
mer, as they are all poor keepers. A
difference, too, should be made in
the manner of growing them. Some
years ago a Northern garden writer
advocated what he called the new
onion culture. This is simply the
sowing of the seed in winter under
glass and transplanting early in the
spring in the permanent location.
Experiments have shown that while
this method is well suited to the
Spanish and Italian varieties, it
makes little difference with the
American sorts that are grown so
largely for market. The Prize-taker
a large yellow Spanish onion, sue
ceeds best by the transplanting
method. Here we SOW the seed in a
cold frame protected by glass sashes
IN early January. By carefully
hardening off the plants and gradual
~ exposing them to the air, they
can be set in the open ground the
latter part of February. The bed
IS carefully prepared in the fall and
well MANFRED with stable manure, to
winch IS added at rate of a ton per
acre, a mixture of 900 pounds of acid
phosphate, 700 pounds of dried blood
ana 4OO pounds of muriate of pot
aSh' This is well mixed with the soil
early IN September, and the first of
october the bed is planted to lettuce.
II IS necessary to apply the fertili-
Ier with so large a percentage of
potash IN it nearly a month before
painting, so that the caustic nature
" the potash may not injure the
1OOTC nf A. - IN
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02

The company which has been here
to present THE Middlemann left
this morning for Irwin, Pa. 1t is
possible that it will return later in
the season with another play. Any
time that it comes back it may be
sure that it will have a big house.
AS the news of the Raleigh county
horror comes to light it begins to
look very bad for the members of
thaG posse of marshals who shot
down men who had hardly gotten
out of their beds. There NAV be
some reason for strict judicial in
vestigation
In Shore Acres = it has been dem
onstrated that play almost plotless
and depending entirely upon por-
trayal of that which is real without
dramatic effects, as in the ordinary
plays, can be written with success. In
total ignoring of the traditional,
and unreal in stagecraft, and getting
far away from artificial devices, and
supplanting in its stead ait--true art
the effect has been a revelation
Shore Acres is a dramatic sermon
without word of religion in it, The
story is that Of the lowly, the every
day life of poor farmers and fisher
men. 1t is psychic study for the
thinker, lesson for the thoughtless.
A complete scenic production at
Swesher's Theatre, Tuesday, March g.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02

SUNDAY was very rough and
mean day. Monday was very nice.
The month of March seems determin-
ed to give US all sorts Of weather in
order to keep its old established repu-
tation for changes.
The best Of oil hot drinks is BOT
Matted milk at Ream's soda FOun tain
10ets. 1t is meat and drink.
You can save money on shoes at
Posten's as he is closing out his
stock.
Hon water bottles WIN Ream' S
name on are the best to keep the
feet warm.
THERE will be lot of tribulation
in the schools in a few days when
the vaccination begins to take good.
Phere will be sore arms among the
boys and the girls will be vaccinatek
too.
ONE hundred engraved .cards and
plate 81 so at The Acme. If you al
ready have plate yon can get one hun
dred cards for 81.
Room rugs in all sizes in Ingram,
Brussels, Velvet, Moquette, Kash-
mire, and Body Brussels at Hirsch
mans.
MANY of the new things in spring
( STYLES in shirts and neckwear Yah
! be seen at Hirschmans.
If You are going to buy carpet
or room rug see Posten's lin"
G. E. NEIL will be here Friday
night to present "The Rivals. Many
of our people know him as he was co.
gagged as one of the faculty during one
of the summer quarters recently. He
is one of the best readers 10 the coun-
try and should have good audience.
The reading is one of the regular
numbers on the University course.
MY MOTTO; the best is the cheap
est. Ream's Drug Store.
MEMS half hose in all the new
spring and summer shades, ready
| for your inspection at Hirschmans
ONCE you try 1t you'll always buy
it. The Model Bakery's malt bread
LOOK for Ream's aid about ches
protectors.
GET your meat at Hetzel's new
market, Peasants street, next to M.
e. church.
MANNINGToN people threaten tc
carry their lunch with them when
they 90 to Fairmant to court. They
have boycotted the river town and
dealers at Warrington who handle
Fairmont products are being boycott
ed by their customers. Even Wheel
ing beer made by Schmulbach is being
turned down at Warrington This
shows the depth to which their yea
] has driven them.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02


Do NOT forget the Acme's birthday
party March Q, This will be the
sixth anniversary OF the firms BUSH
ness. You are cordially invited TO be
present.
DoN'T wear clothes with dirty
looking spots on them when Weible
will make them look as well as rev
or tribe. Send them to 424 Front
street.
THE slides have all been cleaned of
and trains are running as they did be-
fore the recent rains. The river is
falling and will soon be back at the
normal stage. 1t was rather high on
Sunday.
Ii you should want some toys for
the children The Acme will be pleas
ed TO supply you with everything you
may need,
A COMPANY of Uniontown and
Pittsburg people have bought out the
independent telephone company in
that section of the state. They will
make lot Of improvements and
will extent the lines TO many towns
not yet reached by them.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02

DOWN river points, especially those
on the Ohio, are having hard time
of it with floods. The recent rains
brought the streams up great deal.
You will find the best brussels car
pet in town for soy per yard. The
priettiest and cheapest line of rugs,
mattings, linoleums, oil cloth, &c at
Werner Fortnev q Co.
THE Sunnyside bridge is about half
done. A great many people visited
the structure on Sunday aud took
notes on the progress which is being
made
SATISFACTORY laundry work done
at l3l Walnut street. Lee Fink pro-
prietor
THE basement of the Carlow build
ing is being cemented and plastered
and will be heated and lighted at an
early date. This basement will be
fitted up as the athletic goods depart
ment OF The Acme.
The largest line of ladies stylish
wraps and the lowest prices at Wern-
err Fortney d Co.'S.
SCOTT SwIsHER and Frank Ewers
are busy at the Acme today arranging
to move the big soda fountain to the
opposite side of the store. The task
will require several days but when
completed will enable the Acme to
offer better service than ever before
IN ha Of 6a nj fnik
FRIENDS of the University are re-
joicing over the liberal appropriation
secured from the Legislature. None
of the new buildingsdesired were land
ed aside from the new central heating
plant, but the next time better luck
will probably be encountered in this
direction
V. A. Gloss Of Frostburg, Nd,
is here and Is located IN Morgan
town. He has rented one of the va
cant store rooms on Peasants street
and will manufacture all kinds of
home made candies Pastries will
also engage attention as well as
home made bread. He comes highly
recommended from Frostburg and
should do we'll here.
Shore Acres" has been played
upwards of twenty-five hundred
times in this country, and is univer-
sally recognized as the greatest pas
toral play ever written tor the Eng
fish speaking stage. 1t is strange
but true, that this interesting COM
edy drama was offered to every we'll
known theatrical manager in Amer
lea, and, while number of them
thought Shore Acres a fairly good
play. they did not care to, risk any
money in its production All this
happened over ten years ago, and
since then these astute purveyors of
the drama annually count up the
fortunes they might have earned
with tins charming idly OF American
home life In Speaking of ashore
Acres the Rev. Lyman Abbott
said some time ago: Ii there were
more such wholesome plays as
Shore Acres the wholesale de
nuncia'ion OF the stage hv the pull
pit could not long survive"
OPENING choice selection Of Beef,
Veal, Pork, Lamb, Mutton; also eggs
and all kinds of game later. Hetzel's
new market, next to M. E. church.
OLIVES Olives Olives |! Bish-
op sells more Olives than any grocer
in Morgantown.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02

THE various manufacturing plants
OF town should cause their employees
to be vaccinated. There is much
good which may result from this pre-.
caution and no harm can come OF 1t.
The only place you can buy gro
ceries cheap 10 at Posters.
WONDER what has become Of the
minutes Of the last meeting Of the
State Editorial Association. The
secretary who is Editor Hess of Man
nington seems to have been too busy
to attend TO his duties.
The mud on same of the street
crossings is about TIE worst that 1T
has ever been.
THE road. are seas If mud They
Will get worse during his month and
next but when May comes and they
dry up every 0ne will fureeI be past
aud the agitation for good loads Wall
once more die without having been ac-
complished,
JEWEL d WALLACE, railors. make
speciality OF cleaning and pressing
clothes. Donlev Building. Peasants
street.
TOMORROW night ashore Acres"
will be presented at the Opera House
This will be its first appearance in
Morgantown although 1T is one of the
oldest plays on the road. The play
is a fine one and the company which
presents it is good one. The play
will be treat.
DoN'T forget that H. L. Smith has
opened new meat market on the
corner of Front and Peasants street
near the bridge He has a fine place
and would like to have you call and
Inspect it, y eat will be delivered
to all parts of tho city, Gail on
either phone.
YOUR favorite authors books may
he had at The Acme.
SUNDAY afternoon large crowd OF
Italians arrived aud will GO to work
on some Of the Improvements being
made around here. They have women
and children with them and many of
them had all their household goous
right with them. They presented a
rather curious appearance as they
moved up street.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02
TO CHANGE ARMS.
West Virginia Guard to get New Gov
eminent Guns-Ammunition to be
EXCHANGED.

A good many inquiries are being
received from the national guards
men Of West Virginia as to how soon
the secretary of war will act under
the bill recently approved providing
for the reorganization of the nation
al guard.
1t is announced at the department
that the distribution of caliber 80
magazine arms will be made as soon
as it is determined how many each
state is entitled to under the law.
The arms and equipment will be
sent in advance of the turning in of
the old, but the old caliber 40 am
munition must be turned in before
the issue of new ammunition and an
inventory taken to ascertain how
much the states will be entitled to
in exchange.
The states however, will not be
deprived of ammunition entirely, as
the change of ammunition will be
made gradually.
1t is expected that the arms,
equipments and ammunition to
which West Virginia is entitled will
be determined at an early date.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02
GREENE UOUNTIASS WILL
J0LLIFY OYER WABASH.

Win Hold a Celebration when the
First Spadefal of Earth is Thrown
up-Plans for the Line Are Now
Practically Completed-inspection
by Ramsey.
Greene County Pa. people are tax
ing the greatest interest in the
coming of the Wabash. and it is
even proposed by the Waynesburg
papers that celebration be held
when the first spadeful of earth is
thrown up. The Waynesburg indie
pendent says:
Work is moving slowly ON the
Greene county railroad or Wabash.
Uhe engineers are expected to com
plete their work from the river and
on the ~" to this place today. The
work is very accurate and complete
and every detail is made so that bid
ders can know just what is to be
done. The profiles show where the
cuts and fills are to be made, the
magnitude of each, where the dirt
from the cuts is to be placed and
how far hauled; abe sort of culvert,
whether of stone, iron or brick, and
how large. Thus the work is put
down to the very smallest detail.
The work is expected to be complet-
ed to Waynesburg by the engineers
and llraftmen, and inspected By
President Ramsey, who is in Pitts
burg. While this road is to be built
by independent parties, yet all de-
tails are submitted to Wabash Off
cials, as the road will be operated in
conjunction with that great system,
and doubtless become part of it in
the future It's confidently expect
ed that the bidders will be here next
week, and the contracts for building
the road from here to the river let
at very early date. The statement
has been made that in the next few
weeks the work of construction will
be going on when the work is com
menced in Greene county it should
be made notable dav, and attended
with rejoicing and ceremony.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-02
The Worlds Work for March.

In the Worlds work for March
half dozen articles of unusual and
timely Importance stand out from a
wei varied list of contents. Law
renee Perry descfi es his own per
sonal experience in the Marroni
station at Cape Cod when Marconi
was sending messages to England.
and shows clearly what commercial
wireless telegraphy will mean
Charles M. Harvey has written a
stirring article about Ohio after 100
years, instinct with the spirit of
American progress; Frederic c.
Howe has characterized Chicago as
a municipal and social organization
Teaching as a profession,a by Will
liam McAndrew, gives a really
national view of the attitude of
teachers toward their life work.