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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
GOOD TlLLAGE IN ORCHARDS
II VIII Maintain Sufficient supply Of
Moisture and viii Make Plant
Food Available.
By, C. L LEWIS. Oregon Experiment
Station.)

CBy, c. L LEWIS. Oregon Experiment
Station)
Some OF the reasons for ullage In
an orchard are: To maintain a suffi-
Client supply Of moisture and to make
available the plant food there is in
the soil, 30 that trees can obtain this
food; by pulverizing the soil a much
greater feeding area is presented for
the rootlets of the trees; by pulveriz-
ing this soil deeply In the spring Of
the year we also get additional root
holding arec for the plants. Tillage
also has considerable to do with the
moisture content Of the orchard soils.
By the spring blowing and narrowing
of the ground we are apt to have less
extremes Of temperature, the ground
Is apt to become warmer, and Is placed
In such condition that the roots can
begin their activity and top growth
begin early. For this reason at times
one should not practise too early TIL
lage with fruits that are apt to be
caught by frosts. The stone fruits
especially should not be given too
carly lillaBc.
Tillage in the spring OF the year In
creases the water-holding capacity OF
the soil. II places the soil in such
condition that 1t can catch the spring
rains and hold them for tree growth.
Later on in the summer the frequent
shallow civilizations will check the
rapid evaporation of moisture from the
soil.
Tillage promotes nitrification; It
places the available element In such
condition that the trees can use It 1t
aids In Fastening decomposition Of all
humus and organic matter there is in
the soil and tends to set plant foods
Of all kinds free 80 that they will dis
solve and in that form or solution can
enter the roots OF the trees.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Queen Poor conyerss,IOnsII...

Queen Mary is poor conversation
alist. On some one being brought up
to her u is said she will begin to talk
with remarkable felicity. setting the
other at ease and delighting him.
Then, all OF sudden, she suddenly
ceases. an acute silence supervenes
and the other does not know whether
to break the pause or slip away. The
fact Is the queen talks well by dint OF
concentration; this does not always
last until the end of the conversation,
and once the thread Is broken sho
grows abstracted. thinking OF some
thing else.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

curl back with a stout sharp knife.
The soaking over night is valuable
labor saver especially when large or
ders must be delivered for the early
morning trade.
Our onions are sent to market in
lots OF dozen punches each, wrapped
In plain wrapping paper and tied
loosely with stout cord. to prevent
dust from settling on them In transit.
The yellow Danvers variety is our
favorite for green onions because OF
their quick and uniform growth, fresh
white color and mild flavor
Sprouts OF red onions are tougher
and streaked with purplish color
which dealers do not like. invariably
prefering a pure white onion for
bunch onions.
Unquestionably II pays to be partic-
ular when preparing vegetables for
market for those of the freshest ard
neatest appearance are always sought
for while the careless peddler who
brings in half cleaned. uneven punches
sometimes none too fresh and covered
with dust. has some TO take back.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
RAISE BEANS ON DRY. FARM
Thousands Of Acres Of Land In Semi
Arid Southwest Adapted &c Crop
Its Food Value.

1t is the year 1917. A lady is shop
ping in a large city grocery store.
Have you any canned baked beans?"
she asks the salesman The best
made. and two cents cheaper. too"
he replies, producing can. The
striking label on the can catches the
lady's eye Immediately and she takes
It for q closer examination. Arizona
baked beans," she reads over a pic
turesque lithograph Of an Indian
dressed In full regalia- Grown By
the Papago Indians in Arizona for
hundreds OF years--s real American
product" This isn't the old Boston
brand that / have been buying. but
I will try IT," she says. Two days
later she orders a dozen cans.
This scene multiplied several thou
sand fold will take place in many
parts OF the United States in 1917. II
the predictions OF Prof c. T Free
man. plant breeder Of the Arizona
Agricultural Experiment Station. are
realized. Thousands OF acres OF dry
farming land are adapted to the profit
able production OF this native bean
which promises to become one OF the
staple crops OF Arizona. The farmers
OF the semi-arid Southwest will not
realize the full worth OF the Tepary
bean until its excellent food value Is
more widely known. Being dry-land
bean II naturally is somewhat harder,
heavier and requires a little longer to
cook than the ordinary pink bean.
On the other hand. in cooking, II
swells more so that in the end It Is
just as light and mealy as the navy.
A given weigh: OF teparies will pro
duce 40 per cent more cooked beans
than the same weight OF either Michi-
gan or New York grown product.
Two pounds OF teparies will there
fore go about as far as three pounds
Of other sorts In filling cans or hun
cry mouths. This more than Offsets
the slightly greater length OF time re-
Quired to soak them.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Slzlna un Loula

There recently came TO a fashion.
able shoe shop in Chicago a daughter
OF a man whose wealth has been ac.
quired within very recent years. The
young woman was disposed to patron
iEe the clerk. and rejected a number
OF classy" slippers he produced for
her approval Finally she said.
i think. perhaps. shall take these
two pairs. But Louis XIV heels are
too high for me. Give me a size lower
or. stay-perhaps Louis XIII will be
high enough. ."-Harpers.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
fBy c. s. MGLLERl


Every year thousands Of colts are
lost through the bad handling OF brood
mares. As general rule II is safe to
say that farmers do not appreciate
how easily mare with foal can be In.
Jured.
II does a brood mare no harm TO be
worked gently up TO within ten dsys
or two weeks OF foaling. but II she is
subjected TO sudden strain by being
forced to pull big load out OF tight
place or is driven through heavy mud
or deep snow drifts, trouble is almost
sure TO follow.
One OF the most common causes OF
injury to mares In foal Is slipping on
the ice In the early spring. II the
mare must be driven she should be
shod with light. sharp shoes. but she
should never be used on the road
when II is avoidable.
Swinging doors OF box stalls are
also prolific sources OF danger as a
mare may be caught in a half closed
door. A blow on the body with a
heavy halter in the hands OF hot
tempered man may cause the loss of
a foal. Mares with foal should never
be driven. but always led.
Mares with foal. particularly when
close to the foaling period. are apt to
be quaTrelsome, and II two OF more
are permitted 10 run together. there is
always danger that they may be In
jured in a fight. kick in the abdo-
men has caused the loss OF thousanes
OF foals.
The mare with foal should have
light exercise. but II is always safer
to work her gently than to allow her
to run In the pasture with other
horses. particularly II they have free
access to the open door OF the barn
Mares are frequently injured by be-
ing crowded against the door jamb by
other horses when entering or leaving
the barn.
II the mare is with foal In the stable
keep the premises perfectly clean at
all times, with plenty OF clean, soft
bedding. AS soon as the .oal arrives.
all the bedding should be at once re-
moved and burned, and the floor
should be thoroughly cleaned and
sprinkled with dislnfectant.
The colt should have constant care
for several days Immediately after
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
GETTING SPRING
ONIONS TO FRONT
Fresh Vegetables Put Up in Neat
Packages Are Always in De-
mand in All Big Cities.

CBy LAvILLA WRIGHT MACoMBER)
Having discovered. after several
seasons OF experience, that large size
sets yield better than the small ones
and occupy no more space, we sort
out our small. even sized sets In early
spring and sell to the stores. retaining
all the medium or large left over
onions to set for marketing.
Often grocers who have large
amount OF grown onions left over in
their cellars are glad TO get rid OF
them for little or nothing and they
make the best OF sets even when the
sprouts are spindled for they soon
straighten out OF doors and have near
ly a week tho start OF those not al
ready sprouted.
We set our onions just as soon as
the ground can be plowed and roughly
leveled, leaving enough space between
the closely set rows to cultivate with
n wheel hoe. A cold snap or light
snow does not hurt them except TO
retard growth and we find that the
sets must be placed In the ground and
pushed along for market at the earli-
est possible date TO meet the first de-
mands, which. before town gardens
begin 10 bear. are brisk.
Our onions are placed on the mar
ket as soon as the bulbs begin to
show slightly rounded bottoms and
our customers prefer them at that
stage rather than when the bottoms
are nicely rounded and the onion
flavor more pronounced. The extreme
tips OF the bunch only are clipped
to give neater appearance and they
are tied well down onto the tops that
the string may not cut into the tender
white part.
AS our orders are usually sent In
the day before. the onions are pulled
In the evening and left standing, bot
toms down. In tubs OF water over
night. The water loosens she rotten
outside skins which may be easily
slipped down and tho roots clipped
tnot too closely or the cut ends Will
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Advantage Of Pit slIo,

The round pit silo has many advan-
tages for the dry-land farmer. Every
one can afford It 1t costs, with ce-
mented walls. about one-tenth as much
as silo of the same capacity built
above ground. Built without cement,
1t costs labor only. 1t does not blow
down. The silage never freezes and 1t
comes warm from the silo. A cutter
costs less because no blower Is need
ed. and 1t takes less power to run a
cutter for pit silo because the green
material falls down instead Of having
TO be elevated.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Homes, Days Work on Roads.

Don't. in working out the labor tax
on the roads, try to make a holiday of
Il; but give an honest days work on
the road. Let us eliminate what is
often seen In those sections where the
roads are maintained by the labor tax
10 or ~ men and an overseer, a lit
tie gray mule. small plow, six dogs,
three or four guns, and few tools
which often are not considered worth
using at home. This road force rs not
only hard on the rabbits. but also hard
on the roads.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
CANADA'S PLACE
AS 4 PRODUCER
Canada Is Getting Great Many
Americans.

Three young provinces, Manitoba
Saskatchewan, and Alberta" says
New York financial journal, have al
ready made Winnipeg one OF the great
est primary wheat markets OF tne
world. In 1904 they raised bS,eOO,Ooo
bushels OF wheat. Five years later
they produced 1bO, 900, 900 bushels. In
1913 the crop approximated 2OO.ooo..
900 bushels. At the present rate OF
progress Canada must soon pass
France and India, and stand third In
the line OF wheat producers. Ulti-
mately II will dispute with Russia ana
the United States for the FIRST position
Wheat has been the pioneer OF our
development. Undoubtedly It VIII
prove the same with Canada. In the
last calendar year our trade with Can
ada amounted to 497 million dollars.
Only with two countries-the United
Kingdom and Germany-is our trade
greater. No vivid imagination Is
needed to see what the future devei-
opment OF Canada means to the
people OF the United States.
The influx OF American settlers TO
the Canadian prairies is now in fuli
swing. Within the past few days
over so OF those arrived at Bassano
carrying with them effects and capital
to the value Of 100000. Fifty settlers
from Oregon arrived in Alberta few
days ago; while Is families OF settlers
from the state OF Colorado arrived at
Calgary on their journey northwards.
The goods and personal effects of this
party flied 20 box cars. OF live stock
alone they had It's horses, Is cows
and 1000 head Of poultry. Another
class OF settler has arrived at Peers,
ll0 miles west OF Edmonton, where no
fewer than 200 German farmers have
taken up land. These are from good
farming families and brought with
them large amount OF capital
Then in South Western Saskatche
wan, there are large numbers settling.
these from the United States predomi-
mating, while in the northern and GEN.
trail portions OF all these provinces.
the settlement OF new people is going
on steadily. Early In April, Peter
Goertz arrived In Cardiff after a six
day journey from Mcpherson, Kansas.
Mr.. Goertz who had purchased land
here was In charge OF party Of 3s
people from the same part OF Kansas
and they came through with a special
train which included all their stock
and implements. The equipment was
all Rock Island cars. and was the first
full Immigrant train ever sent out by
that railroad. The farms purchased
by the members OF the party are
amongst the best in the district.
When the Panama exposition opens
next year any OF the three transcon-
tinental lines In Canada will make
convenient means OF transport for
those going to visit, and in doing
SO agricultural districts OF Western
Canada can be seen. and ocular DEM
onstration given these who have heard
but not before seen, OF that which has
attracted SO many hundreds OF thou
sands Of American settlers.-Adver-
| tisement
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Stand for Sick Bed.

Take three grocery boxes, about 80
inches long and 6 or 7 inches deep.
stand on end, back to back, and tack
them together, take third one and
nail to the side OF these two, put two
little shelves in each one, and you will
have very handy little cabinet for
the bedside or In any bedroom. Tack
linoleum on top and put curtains
around three sides. Can lay a pretty
cover over linoleum. VIII hold many
things-books. medicines, small dishes.
old cloth and things needed while
sick. etc.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
The Button Doetor

During the short seven years Of her
life, little Florence Louise had be-
come duly impressed with the preya-
iencs oi specialists in the medical pro-
fession.
One day, after returning from a visit
to small playmate, she calmly an
nounced:
"Rena swallowed button"
Are you worried about herr" she
was asked.
"Oh, she will get along all right
Florence Louise complacently replied.
They sent for a regular button doc
tor."-Judge.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Failures In Poultry.

Failures In poultry! or course there
are. and also in every other line OF
business. In poultry failures. how
ever. the blame is laid on the Ameri-
can hen. In other lines It is laid on
the men who failed to make good. The
same holds good in all poultry opera
tions. II is the man behind the gun
who either makes a success or a fail.
ure,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
keeplna Live Stock.

A beginner on western prairie should
be careful to keep the kind of stock
that will make the best use OF the wild
feed and easiest grown folders. Sheep
and cattle will beat hogs at this, and
generally sheep will beat cattle, as
they make better use OF weeds and
grasses found growing than any other
animal.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Tralnino the He,fer.

II the heifer intended for the dairy
herd is trained to come right into the
stable and is battered, handled and
fed as the cows are, you will expert
ence much less difficulty with her at
her FIRST calying period. Her milk
producing capacity also will be great.
er than that OF the wild. neglected. un-
ruly heifer.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

Are you policeman" asked one
paying guest of another at charity
picnic dinner.
No" said the other why do you
ask?"
Merely, that l soticed." said the
nrst speaker, glancing at the section
OF fried chicken in the others fn-
gers, that you are pulling a tough
Joint"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Value In the Soil.

Farmers do not realize the immense
value there Is In the soil. This is part
ly due TO their ignorance OF the fer
tlity and the permanent possibilities
Conditions win not materially change
until farms are cut into smaller tracts
and more diversified farming is pro
duced-
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
PROVING the Punch

Skids-You think mis- story has n
real punch to IT.
skittles-Sure thing! You ought To
have seen the way It put me to sleep-
Puck.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Wants to See Thlnoa-

Poor old Jagbsby is of the water
wagon again"
Il can't help admiring his frankness.
though"
He doesn't try to excuse himself,'-
mo. He merely says he prefers q
scenic route. te."-Baltimore Sun.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
,doek Baked Apple.

One pint of stoned and chopped
prunes. beaten whites Of three eggs,
one-half cupful OF -four. Bake In but
tered pudding dish rs minutes. Serve
with sugar and cream.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Stick to Your Intentions.

Don't put on getting Hanfords Bal.
sam OF Hyrrh until something hap
pens. Get II now and be prepared for
accidents. You will find frequent use
for It in your home and in your stable
for cuts, burns. bruises and any sore,
any lameness Adv.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Ilmlted IntentInn.

How do you propose to support
my daughter, sirf'
Il didn't propose to her to support
her at all. ! only proposed to her 10
marry me."-Rehoboth Sunday Her
aid.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

Was the go TO church movement q
success In your neighborhoodf"
Yes, indeed. Our church was m
full as II Ia when they are serving
something to sat--Detroit Free
Press
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Disasters.

my badness dates trom that ter
rible year"
"oh, yes! 1870"
What do you mean by 1s7of 7
speak OF the year was married. La
Rire (Paris).
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

so Julia came up TO the scratch
without a whimper. She's a duck OF
girl"
Yes, shes game"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

What | am. I owe to my wife,
We'll, take my advice and don't pay
the debt She made a mess OF the
lob"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25

DR.. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy 10 take As candy. regulate and invig
orate stomach, liver and bowels and curs
constiration. Adv.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Small Measure.

she-rm afraid young Jones 10 go
Ing to hide his light under a bushel
He-Under a gill. you mean
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
New York's taxable property, city
and state, is valued at i11,393, ,72O.514

Keep Hanford's Bslsam in your sta
BILE. Adv.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
Plant Eeterlta.

Plant feterits, at least little. for
early feed. II is adapted to poor soils.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-06-25
tic Natural Suggestions

Here's a good work on chiropody.-
'T notice It has a good many foot
notes"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-21

W WWoUyf
9Tt'"~'
new york-my erasmus, but can't
feller's wife be aggravating sum-
times
beleave me, from what hear from
fellers that has got wives, they GER
tenly can
like a teller i know that's took a
little cottidge over in jersey for the
summer
after him and his wife had lived
there a week or so, burglars got busy
in the naberhood, and 4 or 5 houses
was burgled
so this guy he thought he would
save his silverware and joolery, and
he bought dorg and took him home
zone mite
it was a kind of funny looking
dorg, but the dorg man said he was
siberian wolf hound, and burgler-
eating was his middel name
when the teller got his dOrg home,
the wife looked at the dorg pritty
hard, and she says, what might that
be, oliver
my dear, says oliver, that is siber-
ian wolf hound, and have got him to
protect our home from midnite prowl-
ers
well, says she, he looks to me more
like a stuffed doormat, but ime willing
to hope for the best
that mite about 2 a. m. she stuck
her elbow in divers Eibbs, and she
says, wake up, ollie, there's a burgler
downstairs
how do you know, says ollie, did
you hear a noise
no, she ansers, dident hear no
noise, but that siberian wolf hound
of yours just came up and craWled
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-07-02
TAKING MOVIES AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE SEA.

Down at the bottom OF Nassau Har-
Dor, in the Bahams, the camera mar
for one OF the big film-producing com
panies is phutographing scenes that
none but a few divers has ever seen,
but which will soon be familiar to
movie audiences all over the world
The wonderful coral reefs and lhKurant
vegetation OF the semitropical "sea
gardens" may furnish the background
for submarine "thrillers." beside which
the popular cowboy dramas will seem
tame and uninteresting. Even with
out a specially prepared and staged
photoplay, these bottom-of-the-sea
films are Of absorbing interest. Curl
Gus tropical fishes, swimming freely
and without restraint Bahama "black
boys" diving for pennies sunken relics
Of sea tragedies of long ago-these are
among the scenes that have already
been "flmed." Some of these first
movies ever made on the floor OF the sea
together with the apparatus used in
making them, are shown in a number
of remarkable illustrations appearing
in the July Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
The harbor of Nassau, New Provi-
dence Island, was selected for the first
underwater motion-picture work large
ly because of the remarkably clarity
Of the water. The bottom, of coral
sand, is never muddy, but instead re.
fleets the brilliant sunlight, producing
conditions under which photographs
car be made with exposures almost as
brief as in the open air-a highly i'm
portant requirement for the movies.
Photographs made at 35-ft. depth, of
divers plunging swiftly through the
water, require IN exposure of only
LOO Of a second on a bright day. Nor
is 1t necessary to bring the Gamers up
close to the object photographed, even
at such a depth, One of the interest
ing objects found by the anne when
the first pictures we're made was the
wreck of a ship that had been sunk so
years before.
This latest development in photo
graph is further discussed by IL. II.
Windor in an editorial, in which ha
suggests the important and startling
usages which may result.