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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-22
ToNsoRIAL.

Evans Barber Shop.-The only first.
class barber shop on State street;
{, everything new and up to- date.
Finest porcelain boths In the city.
Shaving 15c, haircutting a5c.
baths 25c. Two first-class boot
blacks, G. w. Evans, prop. SO
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-22
WATER COMPANY.
SASH AND DOOR YAofoRfns.

Ffsnk n Bfowh.@M MsSSfsssSrsS 81
sash, doors. mouldings. All kinds Of
house hnish sAd hard wood work.
Proat street. bet. State and Court.
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FOR SALE.

For Sale.--A small horse, broke to
ride and to work. Inquire at
Red Front feed barn, Chemeketa
street Phone 10. 10-19-3t$
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= CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENTS
WANTED.

Wanted. - Energetic, trustworthy
man or woman to work in Oregon,
representing large manufacturing
company. Salary $50 to 500 per
month, paid weekly. Expenses
advanced. j. II. Moore. Salem.
Oregon. 10-20-St$
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-22

Couldn't make an announcement
that would please the public better
than when we tell them that their
laundry work will be done to perfee
tion and the Salem Steam Laundry
can't be competed with anywhere la
the country for the perfection OF its
work on linen, silks or woolsns We
defy competition In this line, because II
theFe were any better methods We
would have them q. once. Try the
Salem Steam Laundry. Prices right.
sAIlsM STEAM IAuHpRY.
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osTEoPATHs.

br. 8. n wfss.@6rSaSSts cf Rifis
vile, Mo-, under founder Of osteS
patty. Room 2i Breyman bldg.
Commercial street. Phone 81. Resi-
denee 500 State. cor. Church. Phone
lilo. Treats acute and chronic die
eases. Examinations free.
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Colonel. J. olmstead. Prop.
PHONE 20. ls6-iee q. Liberty Ht
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
zebruias and the Mule.

. q 3
The government has been expert
menting In a very small way with
crossing the zebra with the horse.
Some gebras will be seen at the Inter-
national Stock Show this year.
When 1t comes down to speed and
endurance the American mule Is
hard to beat and 1t Is not believed that
the new cross will amount to much.
Farmers should wait till the govern
ment tells them It is all right.
The hybrid between the horse and
the zebra is a stripped animal with
great speed and endurance. Germany
has been experimenting with this
cross for several years and has tested
its value In war with results that
were very encouraging. 1t Is said of
the zebrula that it Is as gentle as a
horse, in this respect differing very
much from the zebra. 1t is stronger
than mule and entirely immune
from certain diseases which are pretty
certain to attack horses and frequent
ly with fatal results when imported
into certain parts of Africa.
AS soon as the German government
was satisfied with the success of this
line of crossing, it at once established
a breeding station in its African pos
sessions At this station much atten-
ton is being given to the breeding Of
zebrulas and these are now regularly
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material, thus giving better balanced
ration and producing larger profits.
The feed used in these experiments
were snap corn. prairie hay, alfalfa
nay, corn slower, corn and cob meal,
with oil meal and cotton seed meal.
The results are interesting and may be
summed up briefly. IL
When corn and prairie hay were
fed. the amount Of grain required for
each pound of gain was less than five
per cent by adding oil meal.
The oil meal produced a better
finish, which caused the cattle to sell
for 10 cents more per hundred,
making profit where loss was sus-
tanned by feeding without the meal.
Alfalfa, naturally, is much superior
to prairie hay.
Alfalfa proved to be a cheaper
source of protein than oil meal.
For feeding purposes with corn,
alfalfa is worth s11.14 per ton, as
against $500 for prairie hay.
Bright, well cured corn slower, fed
with an equal weight Of alfalfa, corn
being the only grain, gave slightly
larger gains than corn and alfalfa,
Professor Smith concludes that this
fact is an additional proof of the cor
rectness of the, American idea that
the old and accepted German
standards call for more protein than
is needed for the best gain.
While the profit in these expert
ments was small, the steers returned
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Building a Water Gate.

On good days during the winter is
th5 time to build the water gate for
next spring freshlets.
An Indiana farmer describes a
practical and effective gate as follows:
Set a post at each side of the stream
in line with the fence. Set we'll in
the ground. Post need not be over
six to ten inches in diameter.
Dig the hole some two feet in diam
eter and fill in we'll around post with
concrete. Take the lark off of the
post, so concrete will adhere to it.
Now get two eyes for each post.
The eyes may be made Of rod iron,
bending one end to make an eye that
will take an inch rod, and cutting a
screw for tap on the other end.
Bore through your post near the top
and bottom, and put them in and
screw them up. Then get an inch rod
with loop to the upper end.
If your posts are 20 feet apart, take
IL foot studding, rails or poles, and
bore an inch hole near one end.
Insert your rod in the upper eye,
then through the holes in the stud
ding, placing washers made Of short
pieces of the studding next to each
studding, to hold them the proper dis
lance apart.
Then slip your rod into lower eve.
The eyes should stand out far enough
from the post SO that the studding
may be turned without the ends hit
ting the post.
Fix the other side of the stream
the same way. When your bolts are
both in, lay up the loose ends as you
would rail fence. This should be
down stream.
When the flood comes, your gate
will open and give free passage to
water, drift and whatever else comes,
and when the flood is over, put on
your rubber boots and close the gap.
There is nothing about this gap
that the water can damage to much
extent.
Stats and swinging gates are usually
cleaned out with first high water.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

in some parts of the country, in mod
ern husbandry rallied to the extent Of
many thousands of acres, and those
who had the foresight to not only con-
tinue their previous area but to add to
it and resume it's cultivation after a
long discontinuance, were remarkably
well rewarded.
The great value Of heavy crop Of
straw, which such weight of grain nee
essarily implies for providing litter for
the animals, feeding in the stalls and
the quantity of manure made, puts the
cultivation of wheat beyond all guess
ton as profitable crop on all land
suitable for it.
To all farmers, therefore, but more
Especially to those whose holdings are
of a handy size, the question of work.
ing the land on a fixed rotation has
become most important and interest,"
ing subject BY thus sticking to a
judicious rotation, the farmer plows
as early as possible the land he has
available for the summer months and
the probable amount of roots and dry
fodder needed for the winter and
spring, and can regulate the number
of stock for each season accordingly.
Having the proportion of grain
and roots grown and the number Of
dairy cows and young stock bred and
fed equal, he has something - t,,rn
into. money at all seasons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
ROTATE CROPS OR GO BACK. !,
Farmers Must Study This Business to
Make Money and Get Ahead.
By A. V. Mesrsch.


The farmer who does not keep up
with the times will fail In the business
because with the advance of the
season 1t has become increasingly evi-
dent that even on the best of pastures
there remains but very little profit
after ell expenses are paid, and on
nliddling land there is no profit at all,
half finished beef being drug on the
market.
Under such conditions tho want Of
q field of green crop to keep the ani-
mails improving is severely felt, as
where 1t was absent, II Is impossible
to expect that the grass avail on the
pastures during the winter, even with
plenty of hay, will enable the animals
to retain their present condit;S::.
In the face of intense foreign COM
petition, which exists. and in which
there is no prospect of diminution,
farmers have poor chance Of their
position being improved while they
keep such an overwhelming propor-
ton of their farm in grass. Taking
advantage Of the early maturing prop
critics inherent in tho best breeds Of
stock, feeding we'll and selling at an
early age, saving from IL to Is months
keep, seems one of the most reason
able methods of solving the great
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

problem of trying to avoid loss and
obtain a certain amount of profit, that
can be attempted.
Keeping cattle out both night and
day in winter does not conduct to
in the summer and fall being largely
lost during the winter and spring.
Evidently, then, the full advantage
Nof the early maturing characteristics
of the Shorthorn, Polled Angus and
Herford breeds cannot be advantage
ously ayailed of unless crops are grown
which will not only supplement the
grass during the summer, but will
keep up continual supply during
every day in the year.
To stain such desirable consum-
'naation, working the whole of the
farm on a fixed rotation of cropping,
becomes absolutely essential.
No one, practically acquainted with
the position of agriculture at the pres
ent day, would think for a moment of
advocating a return 30 an extensive
system of village farming, the leading
object being the cultivation of the
different grain crops. But even as
times go, when judiciously combined
with the growing of green crops, pay
be raised when the land is generously
treated with farmyard manure, aided
by artificial fertilizer.
To go further back than the cur
rent year, wheat, which for some years
has been thought SO little of as to be
thrown nearly out of the list of crops
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Horse News and Notes.

Lon Mcdonald believes Miss
Adbell 2:os34, winner Of the three
year-old Futurity in 1905, will be the
Sweet Marie of 1907. He has had the
young mare all year in his training
barn, and as a four-year-old she has
shown him miles this season around
2:06H and 2:07. Early in the spring
he thought he might give her a race
or two this fall, but finally concluded
to wait on her till next year and let
her become an aged trotter before ask
ing her to do any campaigning.
Winning Futurities is difficult task
in the East. Ed. Custer was first in
the American Horse Breeder, Cochato
in the Hartford, The Able in the Ken
lucky Stock Farm Purse, Governor
Francis in the Horse Review and Sill
ko in the Kentucky.
The American horses are MAX
ing magnificent shows, and also DEM
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Get Next to the Boys.

Were you ever az growing boz.
Most of us have been, but we don't
all remember that tired feeling that
used to come over us those days.
Seemed as If we were empty
clear to the bottoms Of our feet.
And how we did eat 1t was hard
work then to stick to it all day long
by the side of father in the field.
Think about this and don't crowd the
boys too hard these days. Let them
sit down now and then. Sit down
with. them. This world is a good
place to be in. Nobody that is in his
right mind wants to get out Of it
till he is compelled to. Talk with
the boys. Tell them the things they
want to know. Get all the good you
can out of life. You will live longer
yourself and they will love the farm
far better than they would If you
kept hurrying them up all the time
to do little more,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Dairy Notes.

In California, law specifies that all
butter shall be OF uniform size. One
pound bricks shall be one and one
half inches thick, three inches wide
and long enough to contain one
pound Of butter. Dairymen find the
law to work to their advantage.
A cream separator will make fat
calves. With its use the milk can be
separated from the cream and the
skim milk warm and in the best pos
sible condition fed to the calf.
A calf that is fed good. sweet milk
one day and sour milk the next, stuffed
for week and half starved the next
will not thrive. This would seem a
proposition easily proved, but many
pretty good farmers have not yet
learned 1t.
1t is important to feed cows to pro-
duce the largest amount Of milk. The
butter fat will generally take care of
itself.
A good many farmers make the
mistake of feeding dairy calves the
same rations they would feed to calves
for baby beef. The dairy calf should
always be fed with view of making
steady growth, rather than laying on
fat. The feed should be nutritious,
but not too concentrated.
Experiments show that the average
dairy COW uses about 60 per cent Of
all her feed in maintaining and re-
placing the exhaustion upon her sys-
tenn. This being fact, how can a
half-starved cow keep in good condi-
ton and at the same time produce a
good flow of milk?
Some Of the large creameries are
making fight against milk from sill
age fed cows. In contest in YER
mont last year, the highest scoring
butter was made from silage fed cows.
1t is claimed that silage gives a
distinct and unpleasant flavor to milk,
but we have seen and tasted a great
deal of milk from silage fed cows
without the suggestion of anything
but the most delightful flavor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

One of the greatest farmers in Cali
fornia is a woman. Twenty years ago,
as Miss Minnie Eshleman, she went
to Fresno and bought big ranch. and
although without previous experience,
she made success Of farming from
the very first year. She Is now the
wife of a physician, DR.. Sherman, and
manages every detail Of her great
business. She has large herd of
Holstein COWS, many of which have
made the best records in the state.
Last year the herd made a net profit
Of $500 a month. She has $50 acres
in grapes and Is large wine maker.
Her profit from this branch of the
ranch last year was $4,000.
Mrs. Sherman employs 15 to 20
hands all the year round. and during
the busy season her force Is often as
high as so men.
Mrs. Sherman Is devoted to her
husband Ind family, Is forceful
writer and great worker in all mat
ters of charity and is greatly beloved
by the people all over the state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Stuff the Hogs at the Finish.

While most hog raisers will not
believe that corn can be beaten for
fattening, still experiments continue
to add to the evidence that silaga,
wheat and alfalfa often produce re-
suits almost if not quite equal to that
of corn. At the Oregon farm it %
quired 5.5S pounds of corn to produce
one pound of gain for period OF
twenty-nine days, while only $40
pounds of wheat were required to
produce one pound of gain in the
same time.
In six feeding experiments with
hogs of mixed breeding and different
ages it was found that it required "a
per cent more wheat to produce one
pound of gain in the last half of the
feeding than in the first half
1t was also shown very plain that
the heavily larded hog fed over a
long period is much more costly than
to produce good meat on the block
hog Of the strictly bacon type. A
bushel Of wheat fed to reasonably
well bred hogs produced about
thirteen and one-half pounds of pork
of very high quality.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
How to Get Winter Eggs.
NJ. K. Boyer.

M. Il. Boyer.
Early-hatched pullets.
Strong, healthy yearling hens.
Roomy, comfortable, well-yentilated
houses.
Regular feeding of food rich In
heterogeneous qualities,
Scratching sheds and the fowls
made to hunt for the grain along
litter.
Each year breeding from the strong
est and best layers and never inbred
Ing.
Using trap nests by which the
drones can be detected, SO as to give
the room and feed to the workers.
room and feed to workers.
Never overlooking, but given Just
as much as they will readily eat UP
clean ind not waste or allow to sour.
Never exciting the hens, but rather
keeping them tame, SO that they have
confidence in the feeder and not be-
come scarey.
Keeping the houses perfectly clean
and CHEEKY, SO that good health may
be maintained, and that lice may be
discouraged In making their headquar-
ters about the premises.
Never exposing the fowls to blustry,
snowy weather, remembering that a
cold, uncomfortable hen cannot be exc
pected to be profitable. Therefore,
the houses must be Of generous size.
Never over-crowding the flocks, as
small families will do more work. It
is better to keep fifteen hens in a
house built for twenty-five. than to
crowd twenty-five In space only large
enough for fifteen.
If these warnings are carefully heed
ed, there will be no, difficulty to Sc
cure winter eggs. Hens have no par
ticular laying season; they usually lay
best in warm weather, because condi-
lions are better-it is up to the poultry
man to supply these.
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Keeping Hogs in Health.
A. D. Burhans.

ANY hog, to have a clean system
must have the correct kind OF feed
Ing, Naturally, the hog eats much
grass and forage. When he cannot
get 1t, he Is unable to do what nature
tells him to in keeping his system In
exact tone. Pigs grown OH forage
and carried into tho breeding period
and then through the winter on
rightly cured hay and soft Stops made
of clean feed, are always ready to
Withstand exposure. A clean digestive
apparatus and liver can throw of
many impurities of q hogs body.
Alfalfa pasturage Is found to make
the best bone and muscle on pigs OF
any known forage. Glover Is good,
but cannot equal the unkillable al
falfa plant.
Alfalfa or clover pasturage keeps
the pigs blood cool and the bowels In
excellent condition. It also grows an
earlier maturing animal. For winter
use, this plant should be cured as
green as possible. Cock 1t after cut
ting and do not allow the sun to
bleach 1t until all the color is gone.
Not long since I saw farmer, who
was feeding alfalfa hay. cured green
and very toothsonie, on feeding
floor. This was late In the fall.
Between the three trough feeds
daily. an abundance Of this fine hay
was tossed upon the floor, where the
pigs devoured 1t greedily. The
trough feed was Of cracked corn and
more cut alfalfa to balance it.
Dairymen declare alfalfa to pro-
duce as much milk as bran and If
this is SO. why would 1t not balance
corn we'll in hog feeding? The cut
alfalfa and corn are steamed before
feeding. I have never seen hogs
thrive better on any fare than did the
ones refer to above.
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Can Control Nodule Disease.
CDR. w. H. DalrympIe, Louisiana

Experiment Station.)
AT this station certain ewes were
secured which were known to be
affected with the trouble. They were
housed and the lambs which they pro-
duced were kept apart from them
except when they were sucking.
In small pasture at hand sheep
were grazed that were also known to
be affected with nodular disease.
The grazing continued for some time.
Some of the lambs referred to when
weaned were put upon the pasture re-
ferred to and grazed on 1t.
After q time these lambs died and
a post mortem revealed in one case at
least the presence of nodules on the
intestines, also of tapeworms and
stomach worms. The other was
similarly affected, except that search
was not made for stomach worms, as
the post mortetn examination was
conducted In the absence of doctor.
Two of the lambs were fed in their
apartments until several months old.
They were not allowed on the pasture
at all. When slaughtered no trace of
nodule disease was found. In fact,
the lambs were quite healthy.
The small pasture on which the
diseased sheep and lambs has been
grazing was plowed up, care being
taken to overturn all the surface, and
around the fences the ground was
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Notes on Hog Care.

For fall filters of pigs good hous-
ing is required. They must have dry,
warm. well ventilated quarters.
To keep the fall pigs steadily adj
vancing, a bit more care is necessary
than Is generally essential to the good
growth of spring narrowed animals.
Letting fall pigs crowd is serious
thing, and always results In loss.
Warmth may be had without crowd
ing
Feeding pigs at this season is no
serious task. Remember that large
and small should not be fed at the
same trough.
A good, thick slop of ship-stuff
some soaked. cracked corn and oats
and we'll cured alfalfa or clover hay
we'll cut and steamed will keep them
thriving. Every farmer does not have
that, but he should plan to get IT.
Last fall one Of the heartiest punches
Of pigs you ever saw were fed on cut
alfalfa (that had been cured green)
and some corn and oat chop. These
three are a fine combination.
A good many western hog growers
do not cut, soak or steam the alfalfa
hay they feed to the pigs. They have
feeding floors or dry pens to toss the
hay into, and the pigs eat it up quite
closely.
Half the ills that fall to the lot OF
hog growers have been traced to 6
continuous diet of corn-and greer
corn Is worst of all.
Only soaked, old corn is At grain
ration for hogs that need corn In
their bill Of fare.
Once I met an old hog grower who
said that he averted hog cholera By
avoiding green corn and keeping the
pigs in the pasture.
Brood sows must not become fat
during fall and winter. Be watchfu
Of them. Keep their bowels open
and in good condition. A condiment
in their feed now and then will not
be out of order
Green corn makes poor feed fol
pigs in the fall.
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turned over with spade.
The object, of course, was to destroy
any germs that might infest the pas
ture. Bermuda grass came up in the
plot in the spring. Ewes were
secured known to be affected with
the disease.
The lambs were reared for time
on the principles of those first men
toned. When weaned they were
grazed on this pasture for several
months and when slaughtered were
found to be perfectly healthy. DR..
Dalrymple draws the following con-
illusions from the experiment:
That sheep suffering from nodule
disease of the intestines when placed
upon hitherto clean pasture would
get Infection through extrusion az sss
nodule worm from their bowels, prob
ably with their droppings.
That when sound lambs are per-
mitted to occupy a pasture so infect
ed they will contract nodule disease.
That when the surface Of an In
fected pasture is turned over by plow-
ing and the land cropped for even a
single season the infection may be
destroyed.
That when sound lambs are allowed
to occupy and Craze upon a pasture
adversely affected after being culti-
waited and cropped as above mentioned
they will remain free from nodule
disease.
That lambs, the progeny of ewes
affected with nodule disease of the
intestines, can be raised free from this