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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1914-03-06
RATE OF &c WILL BE PUT ON APRIL I

Fieht Has Been on for Long Time and WI Be Hailed
With Delight b. the Travelling Public
An agreement signed Wednesday between the LOUIS
vile & Nashville railroad and the Nashville, Chattan-
nooga and St. Louis railway and the Tennessee railroad
commission provides for the Inauguration OF the two and
half cent inrasate passenger rate in Tennessee on
April l. Under the agreement the fare for children be-
tween the ages of five and twelve years will be IL
cents per mile.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
TEACHERS CONDUCT SURVEY.

~ URAL teachers can best shape
IN their work after making a pre-
liminary survey of the school and
school conditions" said v, P. Harring-
ton, state organizer of girls and boys
industrial clubs in Oregon, addressing
the summer school students at the Ag-
ricultural College Buildings, repairs
and equipments are inventoried in these
surveys, and further needs noted. But
moro important than all these, the
product of the school-the number and
character of its pupils and kind of
work accomplished by them-should be
noted and listed for future reference.
With a distinctive knowledge of what
the school has done and what it has
failed to 40, and of what it can and
should be made to do, the competent
teacher is able to shape his work to the
needs of the district. The teacher should
then adopt definite and continuous
policy whose aim should be the best
school possible and the best education
possible for its girls and boys. 1ndi
cations of the success with which this
is done are the asking of questions and
advice by the pupils, their hearty co
operation in school work and other re
lated work, and the interest Of parents
and school boards.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
LINING CERTAIN SOILS IN
CREASES THE BACTERIA.

THAT lining acid soils will greatly
Increase the number of soil bacteria
that they contain has been defi-
nitely shown in a series of experiments
reported in Experiment Station bulle-
tin No. 11S, just issued by the Agri-
cultural College. The experiments were
conducted by 7. D. Beckwith, baeteriol
ogist, and show the effect of lime on
six widely different types of Oregon
soils.
In general it was found that in acid
soils with high content of hrmus and
other organic matter the number of
bacteria was greatly increased by linn
ing at the rate of two tons of lime per
aere-foot- In soils carrying an excess of
lime and deficiency of organic matter
the number of bacteria was decreased
by lining. Soils that were neutral were
not affected by lining.
1t was also found that the amount of
plant food prepared by the action of
the bacteria increased with the increase
in the number of the bacteria. This,
of course, is the important point, since
the amount of available nitrogenous
plant food in the soils is the main fac
tor in the soil fertility problem.
Lining the acid soils has been shown
by the Department of Chemistry to
sweeten them and release unavailable
plant food 1t has been shown by the
Agronomy Department that lining the
compacted soils flocculates the finer
portions, makes the soil granular and
porous, and renders cultivation easier.
And now comes the Department Of
Baeteriology showing that lining these
acid soils increases the number Of bac-
terra, thus releasing the nitrogen con
tent of the soils and making the supply
Immediately available for plant food
In the meantime, the Extension
workers have secured bountiful sup
ply of lime, which will be delivered Al
any station in the Willamette Valley
at SO per ton.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
PANAMA POULTRY SHOW BY
O. A. G. DEPARTMENT.

THE educational poultry exhibit of
L the United States Government at
the Panama-Pacific Exposition
will be furnished by the Poultry De-
partment of the Oregon Agricultural
College. "The striking results obtained
at your station indicates yo"r ability
to put on an excellent exhibit writes
DR.. A. G. True, who is directing the Gov
ernment' s agricultural display at the
Exposition. The invitation to provide
and arrange the material for this ex-
bibit has been accepted by Professor
Dryden, but definite plans for the dis
play have not yet been decided upon.
In outlining the general character Of
the exhibit Director True suggested that
| it should include research, teaching and
extension features of poultry husbandry
This plan will be followed by the loca
poultry department in selecting and ar
ranging the display, although the limit
ed space available makes necessary ;
close concentration of exhibit mate
rial.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
NEW PLANT PATHOLOGIST FOR
MEDFORD DISTR. IT.

n SPECIALIST in plant pathology,
~ DR.. M. P. Henderson, University of
Wisconsin, has been appointed by
the Oregon Agricultural College as
pathologist and assistant county ad-
wiser of Jackson county, with headquar-
ters at Medford. Under the provisions
of the county farm adviser law Jackson
county maintains a county adviser CO.
operatively with the Extension division
of the college. This office is filled by
Professor F. G.. Reimer, superintendent
of the Southern Oregon Experiment
Station at Talent.
The new arrangement was secured
through cooperation between the Ex-
pertinent Station, the branch Station
and the Extension division on the one
hand and the county court of jackson
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
FEEDING FOR EGGS.

THE FOURTH edition of Professor
James Dryden's bulletin, Feeding
for Eggs, has just been issued by the
Extension division and may be had
upon request. Each Of the three for
mer editions was exhausted, showing
the sustained demand for reliable data
on the subject Of feeding poultry TO Sc
cure a good egg supply. The material
of this bulletin was secured by the au-
thor in experiments covering many
years and has been revised TO date.
From the table on composition of foods
the poultryman can readily determine
which food stuffs can be bought most
profitably in the different sections OF
Il state. Feeding is regarded by Pro-
fessor Dryden as one of the four prin-
clpal factors in filling the egg basket.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06

a better pedigree than any other known
flock of pullets. Their sires were half
brothers to the world champion hen that
laid 500 eggs in one year. Their moth
ers are half sisters to the earlier cham
pion that laid 29l eggs in year.
Another ancestor Of these pullets
made record of 257, another of 2lS and
another of 204 eggs per year. Their
grandmothers and great at-grandmothers
each laid more than 200 eggs per year.
Their fathers, grandfathers and great
grandfathers were from hens that were
more than 200egg layers. If blood tells,
these you. G hens ought to fill the egg
basket
"They should average 400 eggs each
in the next two years, said Professor
Dryden, whose breeding methods pro
duced the world $ best layers. "'They
were hatched little early for securing
high egg records, about the middle of
March, but with good care on a two
year basis they will no doubt average
400 eggs EACH"
The flock will be kept in separate
yard and their individual records will
be secured by trap-nesting. They will
be managed by C. M. Wilcox, an 0. A.
c. graduate of this years class, who is
manager of the poultry work at the
asylum.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
SMALL LAWNS FOR FARMS AND
FEW ANNUAL PLANTS.
rMALL lawns with but few ANIMALS

~MALL lawns with but few annuals
Dis the recommendation for farms
made by Professor w. s. Brown,
extension horticulturist at the Oregon
Agricultural College, in addressing the
Monmouth grange recently. His subject
was farm buildings and grounds, and
the recommendation is a part Of the
general plan of simplicity and taste ad-
vocated.
"One reason for few ANIMALS is the
fact that farmers often have no time to
bother with them in the spring, when
they must have attention if they are
made attractive" said he. "But they
do not fit in so well with the general
plan as do the perennials and shrub
berry, which soon come to have a def
mite and characteristic effect in giving
each farm LONE its distinctive features
"Clipped lawns should be small since
small lawns require less time for then
care and are almost sure to be better
cared for than the large ones. Also
they release more land for other pur
poses, and if it is thought best to have
a larger tract of meadow land it shoult
be located outside of the yard fences
where it may be moved by horse powel
IS often as necessary.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06

horticultural expert in the Hood River
district during the summer to inspect
the orchards and observe methods Of
handling fruit. The purpose of the visit
is announced by the University of Wis
consin Press Bulletin as follows:
"To learn what orchard methods are
followed by western orchardists which
might be adapted by Wisconsin fruit
men, r. F. Howard, agricultural expert
ment station, University Of Wisconsin,
will this summer visit many of the fruit
farms in the Hood River Valley Gore
gon). Many of the young men attend
ing the college of agriculture are inter-
ested in orcharding and desire informa-
ton on the western plan of handling
and marketing of fruit. ="
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
GRASsHoPPER SPRAYS.

Arsenical sprays are beneficial in tho
control of grasshoppers on trees, fruit
bushes and shrubby plants, according
to A. L. Lovett, assistant entomologist
at the Oregon Agricultural College. A
spray made of one and one-half to five
pounds Of lead arsenate in fifty gallons
of water may be used, depending upon
the nature of the foliage to be sprayed.
The solution should be as strong as can
be used without injury to the plant,
since it acts rather slowly at times. The
hopper dozer and the poison bran mash
are standard treatments when suited to
conditions. The ideal time for fight
ing this pest is early spring and in the
fall.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
POISONED BRAN MASH STOPS
GRASSHoPPERS.

n OISONED bran mash is the most
I satisfactory remedy under Central
Oregon conditions, for grasshop-
pers, according to Professor H. F. Will
son, who has just returned from a sue
cessful campaign against grasshoppers
in Klamath county. Its materials are
cheap, easily put together, easily ap-
piled and the poison is quite effective.
The only exceptions to the success of
the treatment is with the hoppers that
are in the moulting stage and refuse to
eat much of anything.
As most successfully used in the re-
cent raid, the mash was prepared as
follows: Bran, so POUNDS; paris green
or white arsenic, pounds; salt,
pound; syrup, l quart; lemon extract,
ounce; water to make thoroughly
soaked mixture.
! The mixture is best applied by broad
casting, walking in the center of q
or 30-foot strip and sowing both to thu
right and to the left. This should b.
done early in the morning, since th'
bran retains the moisture longer thel
and the young hoppers on beginning t.
feed eat the poisoned bait greedily
After the bran loses its moisture ant
after the young insects have eaten wei
of the plant food, the bran has less at
traction for the insects. 1t takes sev
eral hours for the poison to complete 1T
work, but within a .ay or two after
has been eaten the grasshoppers ar
dead. Only flake or so is REQUIRED
kill the young hopper when hungry.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
HUNTING LIME SUPPLY.

4 IME, so much needed in many Sec
- tions of the Willamette Valley to
sweeten sour soils, is the object Of
special search by two county agricul-
t'.rists, Floyd W. RAIDER, of Lane
county, and Luther J. Chaplin, of Ma.
rion. A suitable source of lime is be-
lieved to be found in quarries near Med
ford of good quality and large extent.
Grinding is necessary t, make it fit to
apply to the field, and the two special
lists hope 20 lear the exact details Of
operation and cost of product, and to ar
range for the installation of necessary
machinery Its great value to the farm
has been worked out by l rofessor H. D.
Scudder, agronomist at the Agricultural
Cnlleup
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
TOM LAWSON, FARMER.

NCIENTIFIC farming methods appeal
- to Hon. Tom Lawson, the noted
M economist and journalist. MI.
Lawson, who made the Wall street mag
mates hunt tall timber, is visiting at
the farm of his son.in-law, Henry Me-
oall, of Crook county, Oregon. On this
farm a speciality is made Of high class
pure bred cattle and swine. Holsteins
and Jerseys and many breeds of swine,
are carried as part of the farm stock.
The owner is cooperating with the Ag-
ricultural College in many lines, and
finds that the scientific methods pay
best. Bacterial cultures for the legumes
has been found to be especially profit
ahla
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
DRAINAGE OF CAMPUS.

RRAINAGE results have proved to be
II very satisfactory on the Oregon
Agricultural College campus. Not
only were the drained areas entirely
free from surfacec water during the wet
season, but they are less affected by
the severe drought of the present sum-
mer. By lowering the water table in
the wet season drainage permitted bet
ter aeration and less compaction, so
that capilarity is much more perfectly
performed during the summer. A wide
use of tiling draining systems is thus
i dicated for farm lawns and stock
grounds. --
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06

county on the other. 1t goes far to as
sure close cooperation in carrying on
the work.
The newly appointed pathologist is a
graduate of the Utah University and
took his doctors degree in plant path
ology at the University of Wisconsin
last June. He is native of Idaho and
has had extended experience in orchard
work under western conditions.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
TEN O. o. A. G. PUILETS SENT TO
STATE HOSPITAL.

n FLOCK Of 100 pullets of the most
famous laying strain in the world
has been sent ~ the Agricultural
College Poultry Department to the
State Insane Asylum, to be used partly
for demonstration purposes. These pull
lets have been bred from many gen
srations of extra good layers and have
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
HOWARD WILL INSPECt NORTH
WESTERN ORCHARDS.

AREGON methods Of orchard prac-
" tice have attracted the attention
of midwest fruit growers, and
the University of Wisconsin will have
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23

public oficiadom is It with much
II immoral eSproblem
themselves almost into hys
tecs another kind of play
Thief the orpheum is
light far from making
applaud
distinctions
morals there who find
quite public would gsate the police
interfere with such play as stop Thief
THE public usually everybody fairly
fragrant discrimination?
In fact police the public has
question at all as to the o
of Thief"
The public seriously
will anything except the
"Hudibras
inclined TO-
danning they have mind to-
conducive pleasure han play
that makes until trcke down our cheeks!
TT would seem foregoing something entirely
relatve and ignore when an
Well The truth is that although cavaly
and Is
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agreeable matter how greatly
of the odu into which the
nevertheless remains But
not deliberate violation of brings more
of feel instnetVey
morality point In this physical world and
the reoua for a beyond the physical ken
VIZ do stand? Is stop Thief an immoral
w play max laugh at theft!
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23
Week in Opera

MONDAYS p. m, Metropolitan Opera
House, 'Manon" (Massenet), Cast !:
Farrar, Caruso, Gilly, Rothier, De Seq
nrola. Conductor, Toscanini. D. m,
Century Opera House, 1.-The Tales of
Hoffman,"
TUESDAYS D. M, Century Opera
House. LA Boheme."
WEDNESDAY, p. M, Century Opera
House, LA Boheme." s:15 p. m,
Century Opera House, La Boheme.'
S:15 p. m, Metropolitan Opera House,
Didur, Ferrara Fontana, Amato. Bada.
Conductor, Toscanini.
THURsDAY-2 p. m, Metropolitan OPP
era House, Madame Butterfly" Cast (:
Farrar Fornia, Martin, Scorti Con-
ductor, Polacco. 1880 p. m, Metro
politan Opera House, Tristan and
Isolde" Cast; Fremstad, ODER. Ur-
lus, Well Griswold. Murphy, Schlegel.
Conductor, Toscanini. s p. m., Cen
fury Opera House. LA Boheme."
FRIDAYS p. m, Metropolitan Opera
Hempel, ober, Case, Goritz, Well,
Schlegel. Conductor, Hertz. s p. m,
Century Opera House, LA Boheme"
SATURDAY. p. m., Metropolitan OPP
era House, Victor Herberts "Made-
leine" (premier) and "Pagliacci."
Cast 1 Aida, Sparkes, Althouse, De
Segurola, Pini-Corsi. Cast 2: Bori,
Caruso,. Amato, Reschiglian, Bada.
Conductor, Polacco. p. NJ, Century
Metropolitan Opera House, ''Tan-
haeuser" popular pricesl. Cast: Des-
tim, Fremstad Urlus, Well, Griswold,
Reiss, Schlegel, Bayer. Conductor,
Hertz. 8 p. m, Century Opera House,
LA Boheme."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23
Central High to Produce
a Unique and Original Play

ION Trial for Life" is the name Of
a clever and witty original mock trial
written especially for the Central
High School class-night program.
The entire graduating class will take
part in the piece when produced next
Monday at the school auditorium.
According to custom at the Central
High School, Each "A class arranges
it's own class-night program, which
must be original and unique through
out. The class of January IA left the
arrangement of the evenings enter
tainment to the following committee;
Israel Greenberg, chairman; the
Misses Re Lesser and Tessie May
baum, Jonas Lewis, Aaron LASER and
Samuel Karrakis,, The mock trial is
the result of the committees efforts.
Those selected for the speaking parts
are: Judge, Jonas Lewis; prosecutor,
Israel Greenberg; counsel for the de-
Tense, Aaron LASER; court crier, Nor
ris Harris Weinberg; sergeant-at
arms, William j. Brogan; Interpreters,
of German, Miss Pauline Glassman;
of French, Miss Pauline Connell of
Latin and Italian, Anton Siegel; de-
tective, Henry Voelker; constable,
Louis Cohen; prisoners, William j.
BfOnu1, j., ana Odiuuel AOnMlSSi
witnesses, Harry Dvorkin and
Charles Vail; doctors, David Levine
and Edward Spector; juror, Samuel
Lones; court clerk, Robert Mills
paugh; italian fiddler, Abe Berger;
policeman, Rudolph Kruger; pick
pocket, John Cullen; messenger, Jack
Hellthal; Broadway prima donna,
Miss Frederick McH. Sims; repor-
tiers, Samuel Karrakis. David Nelo-
WITT, Milton Tompkins, William
Barth and Charles Moosbrugger; jury
Dorothy Gardner, forman; Ethe
Krimke, Edith Hood, Helene Falter
Marjory Gardner, Minnie, Abram-
son, Evelyn Rumsey, Charlotte
Apperson, Florence Loifer, Beatrice
| Cobb, Irene Waller and Ida Richards
The Misses Re Lesser, Tessie May
baum and Edna Smith, during the de
liberation of the jury, will give ou'
the class gifts. Music for the evening
will be furnished by the. Central Higi
School orchestra, with r. S. Laslet
Smith as leader.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23

-Four headliners of unusual merit
are on the boards at Keeney's Theatre
for the last three days of the week
The big laugh is Harry Bulger, the
eccentric Broadway musical comedy
star, who has line of nifty songs
and up-to-date jokes. He makes big
hit and keeps the audience in a
CHEEKY mood all the time he's on.
The Five Hayward Sisters scored
in the musical line. The five girls
demonstrated that they could play to
good advantage almost every kind of
musical instruments ever invented,
and they dance and sing excellently,
too. Theirs is one of the best acts of
the kind that has appeared here yet
this season.
The Dancing Kennedys were a
source of attraction for all those who
are tango mad. They executed the
steps with grace and ease seldom wit
messed, and introduced many new and
novel steps.
The Lewis monkeys and dogs per-
formed so many monkeyshines that
tn audience was conVulSed with
lau alter nearly all the time. One of
the best features of this remarkable
act consisted of an impromptu wrest-
ling match between a well-dressed
monkey and a well-fed dog. The bout
was called tie.
The other acts on the bill also are
better than usual and received an
ample share of applause. They con-
sisted of Laurie and Allen, in nov
city act; Rogers and Spencer, in songs
and dances; Holmes and Riley, in a
novel skillet, and Whalen and Rose,
in up-to- the minute songs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23
HobOken Recorder viii Carry
Smoke Crusade to New York
Especial to the Newark start


HOBOKEN, Jan. 23.-Recorder John
J. McGovern, of this city, who recently
instituted a novel crusade against
cigarette smoking, Is planning to
invade New York and continue his
efforts there. The recorder will at
tempt to enlist the cooperation of
Mayor Mitchell and start a movement
in the big city to stop young boys
from smoking.
In his courtroom in the City Hall
here the recorder has established an
nti-cigarette smoking school for both
young and old. II never knew a bad
boy who did not smoke cigarettes, &"
he said yesterday in explaining his
plans. 1.-THE other day l went to
School No. s, in this city, and asked
the boys in a certain class to tell me
which of them smoked. Fifty-two
boys stood aside, and, on examina-
tlon, 1 found their fingers stained
with nicotine"
Last Wednesday Recorder Meow
ern administered the anti-smoking
treatment to 200 boys. This treat
ment consisted in swabbing their
threats with a solution of nitrate of
silver and distributing free prescrip-
lions to be filled at the home drug
stores. Storekeepers of this city have
been warned to refrain from selling
cigarettes to boys under eighteen
years of age.