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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
Novel Highway Proposed.

A novel proposition has been made
for the Identification of the highway
between Thermal and Coachella, in
California, distance of three miles.
The waste waters from the Coachella
ice plant are diverted along this high
way and extend almost to Thermal be-
fore they are absorbed by the soil,
SAYS the Los Angeles Times. The
proposition is now made that fig trees
be set along the highway, on the water
ditch, where they would be kept grow
ing by the waste water. Within a
year these trees come Snto bearing, and
the three mile highWay. lined with
bearing ng trees. would not only be a
most attractive drive, but might be
made to yield a proft. for road I'M
provement
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25

uniform production makes her re-
liable supply, and the richness of her
milk in total solids places it above
suspicion from city milk inspectors.
Her milk is particularly adapted to
transportation. as it does not churn
or sour easily. and when poured back
and forth a few times will readily mix
the cream back into the milk, which
will not again readily separate. giving
1t uniform quality until the last Is
sold or used. 1t has good body. Is
rich looking and never looks blue.
The milk itself. being evenly balanced
with casein and butter fat. is COM
plete food. easily digested. nutritious
and is particularly adapted to chill
dren and invalids. Stomachs that are
weak and unable to digest other milk
find no trouble with Ayrshire cows
milk"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
A BERKsHIRE BOAR.

farmers business hog. And when
say the business hog l don't mean a
hog for show. as, l don't believe in
show animals for the average business
farmer If by chance he should pro-
duce a show animal my advice would
be to sell it for show animal to
show animal man and invest 1t In an
animal for profit.
First, activity. combined with strong
digestive and assimilating powers, re-
turning a maximum quantity of flesh
for food consumed.
Second, their pigs are strong. active
and vigorous at birth.
Third, their desh Is Of the highest
quality of pork. and their loins are
much sought by. butchers as being Of
finer quality than any other breed.
Fourth, they can be fattened at an
early age on less feed than any other
known breed.
The brood SOW SHOULD be long and
deep bodied. with ribs well sprung,
jowls full and heavy. running well
back on neck; shoulders smooth and
even on top and in line with side;
ham deep and thick; legs and feet
short, straight and strong. set wide
apart with hoofs nearly erect, and.
above all alse. she should have at least
twelve well developed teats.
Treat her kindly and give her plenty
of nourishing food, but not fattening.
during farrowing season, and she will
present you with a fine sample Of her
progeny, and at killing time you will
never be sorry you selected the Berk-
shire for profit.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25

What a proud pedigreed prince! Then
think of the big brown eggs from his
harem and the fluffy, bright eyed
chicks. instructed. in wormology and
scratching stunts by his snow white
cackling queens! Then smack your lips
as you smell the savory odor of bast-
ed Wyandotte! Round, yellow, velvety,
smooth as silk, it is the unsurpass-
ed epicurean bird. In dining on Dottes
hold yourself in check at least till th.,
blessing is asked. In breeding avoid
single combs, or hybrids, by using
broad combed males.
For brassiness and cream in White
Wyandottes use no-corn cream cure.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
Glover For Winter Feeding.

The question is asked if clover can
be- ensiled for feed next winter instead
Of corn silage. Glover may be ensiled
and will make a good feed If it Is cor
rectly handled, but it requires more
care in the handling than does corn. 1t
should be cut when in full bloom. If
allowed to get old and woody it is apt
to overhead and mold or fire fang and
have little feeding value. If ensiled
with too much moisture on, as after a
shower or heavy dew, it is apt to be-
come more acid than Is desirable. The
material must be we'll distributed in
the pit and should be thoroughly
tramped and covered to exclude the
air. Glover silage is apt to slime II
not well packed when put into the silo.
Il. W. Lightly.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
SPLIT LOG DRAG effective.
Heavy Rains Give Implement a Fine
Chance to Prove Itself.


Chance to Prove Itself.
The heavy fall of rain that the Red
river valley and northern Minnesota
experienced recently proves beyond
doubt the extreme efficacy of the split
log drag as a good roadmaker. The
streets of Thief River Falls and many
Of the rural highways leading into the
city have been consistently worked by
these drags for two years. The re-
suits were most apparent and strik-
ing the other week, just following the
heavy rains.
In spite of the amount Of traffic
that the streets of Thief River Falls
carry daily, they are in excellent con-
dition, nicely graded and as hard as
paved street. The country roads that
have been dragged for two years are
as passable as during the driest sea-
son in summer, while the roads that
have not been worked by the drags
are almost impossible.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
QUALITIES OF
THE AYRSHIRE.

c. NJ. Winslow. secretary Of the
Ayrshire association. says: While an
AYRSHIRE COW should he shapely and
handsome to look at as she stands
or walks, she should when handled
revea, much looseness of yertebra.
datness of rib and width between the
ribs, indicating large dairy capacity.
The Ayrshire is tough, hardy cow.
with a vigorous appetite. and not too
particular what she eats. She is al
ways hungry, eats greedily and chews
her cud rapidly. You can rarely see
an Ayrshire COW when not taking in
food or chewing what she has already
gathered. While at pasture she does
not wander around looking for sweet
patches of grass. but goes to work
rapidly gathering what Is most con-
yenient, either of grass or browse.
and when full lies down to chew her
cud, with no time wasted, and when
going to and from pasture will chew
her cud while walking and often con-
tinue to chew when started into run
"The general appearance of an Ayr
shire as you look at her is striking
She Is alert and full Of life and re-
served energy. She is healthy COW.
rarely having ailments Of body or I'D
der, and you seldom see an Ayrshire
COW that does not have four healthy
quarters in her udder, yielding a uni
form quantity Of milk from each.
She is a very persistent mixer, giving
a uniform quantity we'll up toward
ealving, and many of them are dried
OF with difficulty.
"She is very intelligent. quick to
learn and Of a retentive memory.
easily taught to take the same place
In the stable and. If required to
change, will In few days readily
take the new place. She is quiet and
pleasant to milk. not easily disturbed
and will. as rule. yield her milk as
readily to one mixer as another and
does not seem disturbed by any
amount of noise in the stable.
"As a dairy cow she is particularly
adapted to the production Of milk for
the milkman and for table use, as her
medium size. vigorous appetite and
easy keeping qualities make her an
economical producer, while her even.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25

n. Lipeurus variabilis. 2. Goniodes eyns-
fordii. 8. Goniodes dissimilis 4. Conf
cotes hologaster. s. Gonicotes gigas. 6.
Menopen pallidum.1
The four genera are represented in the
cut.
No. 1, Lipeurus varia bills, you find
in wings, primary and secondary feath-
ers OF chicks.
No. 2, Goniodes eynsfordii. is the
head and neck louise.
Nos. 3, 4, 5 and are tramp lice, hen
hoboes.
No. 6, Menopen palHdum, the pale
louise, is most common. The simple
mention of a louise running around
your neck, down your spine and up
again across your bald head makes
you scratch.
TO DESTROY LICE.
Clean up. If house is tight, burn two
pounds sulphur to every hundred
square feet of floor space or spray
house and fixtures thoroughly with
mixture of six ounces crude carbolic
acid to gallon hot water. Allow
fumes to escape before fowls return.
der three times in three weeks or dip
them into solution of teacup full
of chloronaphtholeum to four gallons
of water. Pure lard in moderation for
head lice on chicks and clucks.
Sulphur ointment, tablespoonful sui
pbur to two ounces lard. Apply on
head, under wings, around vent of
fowls not with chicks and not in wet
weather. Louise paint. two pounds
napthalene fakes dissolved in two gal
Ions kerosene.
Louise powder, five pounds tobacco
dust, one pound air slaked lime, one
pound naphthalene fakes. Mix and
apply for lice on poultry, plants. cat
tie, for sheep ticks, ants, moths. etc.
These are sure good stuff. but don't
forget the dust bath, and remember
that as men have more faults than fair
| women 20 Growers have mCCs crawl
ers than cacklers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
OIL IN ROAD BUILDING
How Petroleum Is Used on Top
of a Macadam Bed.
4 FINE SURFACE OBTAINED.
Better Than Asphalt, Does Not Crack
and Lump-Rollins Must Not Be
Done In Wet Weather or When
Ground Is Soft.

and Lump-Rolling Must Not Be
Done In Wet Weather or When
Ground Is Soft.
The old system of "oiling roads and
streets" is clearly a fiat failure except
for moderate improvement of some
of the worst thoroughfages. The new
system of making roads with oir' Is
proving success whenever proper
methods are pursued.
The oil and natural soil no longer
go where real results are wanted.
The use of the heavy ten to eleven
gravity petroleum has become quite
general. Its superiority has been well
demonstrated. but there is wide diff
ference between different oils of this
gravity and with the same amount OF
asphaltum. Some Of that sold Is we'll
nigh useless, although 1t Is unQues-
tionably of the specified gravity and
contains the required percentage of as
phalt. The oil must possess the adj
hesive quality and be able to bind the
rock and asphaltum together-in other
words, the necessary petroline.
The best roads are undoubtedly the
macadamized highways found in older
sections. The building of such thor
oughfares with the use Of oil on the
surface to form a top dressing and
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
The RoeuEs, GALLERY.

Strange that the $25O.OOO Hall of
Fame at New York university thus
far contains only thirty-seven famous
names and down on Mulberry street
at the rogues' gallery there are $4,000
pictures of famous people. 1t gives
one a cold chill to look into the eyes
of all those cutthroats and thieves. but
you feel Gravity all over when you
get into the poultryman's rogues' gal
lery. The skunks, foxes, weasels,
minks, rats. hawks, owls. mites. pigeon
ticks and sand jiggers occupy muir
derers' row.
Louise crooks. alias mallopha. are
everywhere. One declares there are
fifty varieties, another counts thou
sand, while the man who escapes
from a crawling coop swears in all
languages that there are 100000.
Scientists class lice in four genera
lipeurus, goniodes. gonicotes and memo
pen. When these marry and inter
marry, from the lipeuruses down the
line to the menopens, there's some
thing doing for the stork, for in twelve
weeks a single louise can become great
grandpapa to 125,OOO lousy little folks.
Thus ten of these multiplex multipliers
hatch out 1.250,OOO creepers in three
months-all crooks for chicken cash.
They vary in size from one-thou-
sandth to one-sixth of an inch. and
few suck blood Some live on scales.
crusts. dead cells, quills and feathers
others bite and gnaw. and all crawl
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25

ROAD READY FOR OILING.
present a surface like asphalt pave
ment is just in its infancy in southern
California, says the Los Angeles
Times. In Pasadena there are num-
ber of streets of this kind. notably
Madison avenue, prepared at cost OF
II cents per square foot and with q
depth of seven inches of foundation.
tinguishable from asphalt paving.
There are others similar, but some are
not equal to this. At the same time
they are superior to those prepared In
the old way.
The new method of macadamiZing
and oiling as laid down In set Of
specifications used for number OF
streets may be outlined substantially
as follows: For the foundation grading
is done by the removal of all earth,
stone, loose rock, cement, shale, hard
pan, etc., to a depth Of seven inches
below the intended finished surface
and to farther depth of two feet be-
low the subgrade whenever mud, sand
or other soil material is encountered,
the space to be refilled with good
earth or gravel. The whole is rolled
with a roller Of not less than twelve
tons in weight until the surface is un-
yielding, all depressions made by the
roller being filed up and rolled again.
All portions that cannot be reached by
the roller must be tamped solid, and
the rolling must not be done in wet
weather or when the ground is soft
,;c r1l1Cf DGk
checked by the street superintendent
before proceeding with work.
On this grade bottom course OF
macadam is laid consisting of stone
not exceeding three inches in diameter
and not less than one and half inch
es. This layer will be five inches III
thickness and is rolled with a twelve
ton steam roller until the stone ceases
to sink under the roller or to creep In
front of 1t.
A top course of stone between three
fourths of an inch and an inch and
half in diameter will cover this to a
depth of two inches and will be rolled
as before after Il first coating of oil
(one-half a gallon to the square yarO
is applied evenly SO as to saturate the
entire top layer. Then all voids are
filled in with rock screenings of the
came material as the macadam not ex-
ceeding three-quarters of an inch In
diameter. with a top dressing of the
same materia! laid to the depth of half
an inch, after which there is given a
second coating of oil to the same
amount as before and the whole rolled
and tamped until no evidence of the oil
remains on the surface except as
shown in the color of the screenings.
Sharp sand is to be sprinkled wherever
any oil remains to absorb it. These
specifications provide that oil shall be
of 10 to II gravity. with 80 per cent
asphaltum at 80 penetration and with
not more than per cent water.
The Pacific Electric and Los Angeles
Interurban railways are using this
method on their rights Of way in Pasa-
dena, Long Beach and one or two
other points 1t is said to be better
than the use of asphalt, as it gives
with the pressure of the rails under
weight of cars and can be taken up
and replaced without difficulty. 1t does
not crack and lump. as does the as
phalt. 1t is hard to tell it from the
latter, sometimes impossible, for tie
average person. In Long Beach the
result has been very good.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25

ply of crushed stone Is applied it may
be forced down into the old bed by
running an ordinary steam roller over
1t. The spikes are removable. SO that
the wheel may be used also for pack.
ing stint.
Scores Of persons gather around the
big sharp toothed crusher and ask all
kinds Of questions. When the punchel
has been rolled along the road until the
rows Of holes reach the width of the
driveway it presents the appearance
of sheet of perforated postage
stamps, and the whole operation has
to be explained for the benefit of the
onlookers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
FEATHERS AND EGGsHELLS.


Cleanliness is the keyhole to success
in the poultry business. but some
chicken raisers, like the man late home
from lodge, can't find it.
Money makes the mare CO." but it
doesn't always make the hen lay. The
millionaires going into the business
don't always strike Standard oil.
If you knew it all. you would be
drinking government cream on an ex-
pertinent station, while your typewriter
would be working overtime on chicken
reports from the cyclopedia.
Continual feeding of one kind of
grain often brings indigestion, loss of
appetite and bowel troubles. If this is
your feeding method and you are max
ing profit you deserve monument
The farmers are buying bone cutters,
and the butchers have such rush for
bones that they are always engaged.
Once more the American hen registers
by knocking out Mr.. Rags Bones and
Gum Boots.
Have you reached the broiler stage?
Don't jump from the frying pan into
the broiler. Raising cockerels in zero
weather to sell at Alaska prices isn't
what it's cooked up to be. Beware of
broiler explosion!
Now that the Matching season is here
get out your signs Of the zodiac so you
get your hen set in the right sign. Bet
ter look for signs of lice and set your
hens right and give them better atten-
zion You'Il pet more chicks
It has often been asked why the New
York poultrymen keep mostly White
Leghorns. Simply because the New
York epicures demand large white
eggs Bostonians possess predilec-
ton for brown eggs. Why? oh,
Browning, of course!
AS the chicks dry off under the hen re-
move them in a soft lined basket to a
chair beside the kitchen stove. Have a
soft woolen cloth hanging down in the
basket to warm their backs. but ar
cloth, as they may smother each other.
BY this plan the old hen cannot tram
pie them in the nest.
When spring is In full bloom you may
expect to hear that the American hen
has invaded Panama We are told
that the chickens on the isthmus are a
sorry set. When newly welded cou-
pie, bound for the big ditch, found
eggs were 10 cents apiece they sim
ply sent an order north for an incu-
| bator and 100 Rock eggs. Good luck!
The number of poultry books adver-
tised is sign of the interest manifest
| in the business. You can get full
fedged library for $3.50. They will
help you, but don't forget what expert
ence teaches you. It doesn't deal In
theory.
Qo.Mo.YauxvNkk.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
ROLLER ARMED WIN SPIKES

Machine That Rips Up aRead For Re-
pair Work.
A big machine has been at work OF
the roadway at the north end OF Lin
coin park, In Chicago. 1t Is monster
steam roller. with double row OF
spikes In one of the wheels. and the
function of the contriyance Is to loosen
I'D the old material in the roadway.
preparatory to covering 1t with q
fresh coating of crushed stone. AS the
wide tired wheel rolls on the roadway
the spikes sink in the old stone ma.
terial that has hardened from many
years wear. This serves to loosen the
material. so that when the fresh sup
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
THE SIMPLE LIFE

Inc 8lihpIe AI6 love 20 6ln&
Because It's musical
With bleating lambs and moolng ceWa
And barnyard ting-a-ling.
We wear bright red sunbcnnet
And loosely fitting prints:
We never dress for minuets
Nor put on beauty tints.
We have our cow and chickens. too.
A hog. a mule. a churn:
We never could return to you
In city heat to burn.
We've done for aye with city strife.
Give Us our hogs and chickens.
We're badly stuck on simple life:
For fun it beats the dickens.
q M r
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
Variety Is spie. For Stock.

Animals relish variety of feed and
viii give better results when they have
II. A feed Of corn stover now and
then and a barrel Of salt lying in the
yard, with four or 1--WE staves cut out
between the hoops 80 that they can al
&sys help themselves. b .. Epod thing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
THE BERKsHIREs.

A Farmer Tells Why He Prefers Them
10 Other Breeds
Writing of Berkshires in Rural New
Yorker. r. D. Squires says: After try
Ing nearly all of the various breeds
am thoroughly convinced from a busi-
ness standpoint. in dollars and cents.
that the Berkshires are the most
profitable animals l ever tried There
are Just four reasons why ! should
choose the Berkshires for the business
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-08-25
New Road Machine,

C. A. Baldwin of Pasadena, CAL. iS
experimenting with a new machine,
built on the principle Of disk plow.
for the purpose OF keeping oiled roads
In condidan.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-03
ACCOMPLISHING WELL AND HONESTLY

If could bring themselves to the belief that
is not dependent upon how much but upon chow
well and honestly they accomplish there would be less
disappointment less fruitess strife and opportunity
for the nober side of human nature to assert itself
After all, what do gain when we have striven dis
honestly?
A CLEAN of gold which is only as long as we can
hold from others who striving and schemng to have
it from u.s.
And what do we lose?
glow of purer gold which should illumine not only
lives but the lives of those around and shine
long after gone.
There is of practical fact in this than always
realize.
Name, if you can, half dozen rich in all the
turtles preceding the nineteenth whom the world has cared
to remember
rich man mighty big to in day. but in
the long this world goes, he is very small po
tatoes.
But you have trouble recalling Columbus, Newton,
Raphael, Milton Shakespeare.
These wrouhgt little for themselves, but accomplished
well and honestly for humanity.
And will continue through the centuries to
The monaires and magnaes of today will give place in
the lasting record of this age to perhaps unknown
now, to minds occupied with higher things than money
and its making.
They have their time and pace-these princes of the
pocketbook. They must put of what they have
cumuated to high because the worlds standard Of
right living is the doing of good SO, in spite Of their
wealth, they slaves to the mind of the mass!
AS certain proportion of any development depends
the many, of these great fortunes employed in
uplifting and upbuding the arts and the sciences and in
promoting industry that is honest and life giving This is
their chief good.
Opposed to it is their chief harm-the breeding of a
desire for wealth and luxury which cannot be satisfied In
this human marsh flourish the red weed of anarchy and the
callow bloom of discomfort
Up the hllsides where the air is clear and pure and
the sky unclouded the trim little farms and homes of
the satsfed-those content in accomplishing we'll and
honestly. There dwell the men and women who have
learned the great and sublime lesson of simplicity of sim
pie desires and simple measures Of fuhllment
1t is from the windows of these houses that good
shine seadfastly by night Therein the fixed stars Of
this small universe within the greater.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-08-03
ORIENTAL SEER

In the very heart of the city, tbs
Sprague av., the Baldwin House,
Kiron Is the man of today. He is
world-famous cor the many predic-
tons he has made and have come
to pass. He tells your name, tells
when and whom you will marry.
He seems to reach the secrets Of
ones very soul. Truthful are the
words that come from his lips.
Would you like to know as to
changes. travel. love, marriage,
law, old estates, wills. deeds, lost
friends, mines, real estate, patents.
investments. divorces, sickness; as
to whether you will receive let
ter; II your husband, wife or sweet
heart Is true? We will say, see
Kiron. He hastens marriages, set
ties lovers quarrels, unites those
who are separated, develops per-
sonal magnetism. teaches the East
Indian method OF fascination. Low
fee soc. Cut this out and bring 1t
with you. Remember the name.
KIRON THE GREAT, tbs Sprague
av. Hours 10 a. m. to p. m.