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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
PROMISING NEW FRUITS.

THE problem of a varietal selec-
ton Of plants is one of unceas-
ing Importance, and new sorts
are being introduced each year. AS
the Improvement of fruits continues,
it is necessary for the progressive
grower to follow the advances made
along the particular line in which he
is interested. During the past year
no new varieties of apples or pears
have appeared which are worth con-
sideration.
However, the Greensboro peach
assumed Importance in many Sec
tons during 1914. The variety or-
iginated with W. G.. Balsley, of
Greensboro, N. c., about 1898, from
a seed Of Connects Southern Early.
The fruit is large, attractive, white
fleshed and ripens from August / to
Is. The variety deserves extensive
trial in good peach-growing sections
Of Northern states, where early
peaches are in demand.
The Late Muscatelle plum, which
was obtained by the Government
from Germany in 1900, proved dur
ing the year to be one of the best
late plums tried out by the Geneva
IN. W station. The fruit is Of good
size, roundish, but inclined to be
truncate in shape, and is Of an at
tractive purple brown color slightly
splashed and notified with russell.
The tough skin is a valuable asset
for shipping. 1t is one of the latest
to ripen, but it's season is short and
it is inclined to shrivel in storage.
For local market trade, Late Mus
catelle should prove a valuable va
riety.
A single variety Of black rasp-
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
HIGH PRICES IN MEXICO.

(From the Mexican Herald.)
INCE the shortage of flour has
~ been so acute in the city there
~ has been a run on every kind OF
crackers, both of local and imported
brands. Soda crackers are to De
found in very few stores today, and
sell at $40 for a square tin box, even
for the local product. The 1O-cent
boxes of sea foam or saltines, Tor
which the housekeepers formerly
paid 60 cents, and felt very much
abused, now are held at $3.50 IN a
few stores where they still have a
few boxes in stock. English sweet
and fancy crackers and biscuit sell
for from $40 to $40 a box.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06

a prosperous man as well. The mar
row, self-centered money-maker is a
pitiful spectacle on a farm, because
there is so much that he is missing
and so little that he is really getting
out of it. Let us all make money,
but we cannot afford to become
money-blind.
Let us instill into our work a lit
of the farming for EARNINGS sake
idea and train ourselves to look for
the happy sides of our work.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
THE FARMER CAN DO 1T.

editorial in Albany Deplocrat.)
ITO WHAT an extent business is
dependent upon the farmer
may be we'll Illustrated by the
statement Of the fact that three
fourths of the deposits in the AL
bany banks, and probably in the
banks in the other Valley cities
of approximately the size of, this
city or even larger, are in the
names of farmers. They have the
money. They have made money
and have it in the banks, where they
are keeping it, waiting for things
to loosen up and confidence be fully
restored, when it will come out and
in different ways 60 into circulation.
That will mean a good deal for the
country. Whenever a farmer makes
up his mind that there is something
special that he wants he has the
money to buy it with. The sooner
he sets things to going the better it
will be for this Valley. He can do
it. Will he start something?
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
TO READERS

Readers are requested to send letters
and articles for publication to The Edi-
tor, Home and Farm Magazine Section,
Oregonian Building, Portland, Oregon.
Discussions on questions and prob
lens that bear directly on the agricul-
tural, livestock and poultry interests Of
the Northwest and on the uplift and
comfort of the farm home always are
welcomed. No letters treating of re-
ligion, politics or the European war are
solicited. We proclaim neutrality on
these matters.
Comparatively brief contributions
are preferred to long ones. Send MS
also photographs of your livestock and
farm scenes that you think would be
Of general interest. W. wish to make
this magazine of value to you. Help
us to do it.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
SMALL FARMS.

~ NE Of the leading New York
bankers, in fact one of the
~ leading bankers of the world,
in passing through Portland recent
ly, gave out an interview in which
he predicted that Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho would lead all other
states in the Union in financial and
commercial progress during the
next ten years.
The prediction was made by one
who is perhaps as able to fathom
future financial conditions as any
man in the world today.
One Of the things he mentioned in
particular was the cutting up of
large tracts of land into small farms,
and thereby making a hundred
farms where one now exists.
So much has been written regard
ing large farms that the people of
the East are prone to consider the
Pacific Northwest only in the light
Of large farms. The great financial
and commercial success that is GER
tain to come to the Pacific North
west will come only in proportion to
the number of large farms that are
made into small ones.
Highly cultivated small farms
means a hundred people on the same
number of acres where now one or
two exist.
Many a farmer has failed to sue
coed because the profits from his
crop went to pay hired help, who,
having no greater interest in their
work than their monthly wage, were
in no way fit to serve their employer
properly. Hired help on an acre farm
is not to be thought of, for one
moment.
The head and the hands of the
owner combined are the forces that
will wiring from that acre of soil it's
greatest abundance. The ultimate
financial outcome Of commercial
success of the Pacific Northwest
hinges largely upon concentrated
farming, which can only be done by
cutting the large farms into small
ones and placing thereon a satisfied
owner.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
Editorial Page Home and Farm Magazine Section

have what are declared to be the
largest individual holdings of box
apples left this season, amounting
to lao cars of high-grade stock. The
total holdings we're cut nearly in
half during the month of March, and
the movement has been decidedly
bullish. According to Mr.. Gibson,
the holdings east of the Mississippi
River this year are now the lightest
that they have been in five years,
and he predicts that there will be a
strong feeling in the market the bal
ance Of the season.
These stateemnts are borne out
by reports from other a~pple-distrib-
uting centers and, coming at the end
of a big crop year, are decidedly en-
couraging. 1t is naturally expected
that there will be no such bumper
production this season, and conse-
quently the prospects at this time
are bright.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
PLEASURE IN

TT OW many people are farming
for EARNINGS sake, to appro-
pirate the words Of the artist,
or how many would joyfully sell out
tomorrow without the least regrets,
if some other opening promised
greater financial returns? We nat
urally farm for the money there is
in it, but the question is, is that all
there is in it for us and is that all we
are getting out Of it? How many
farmers are really enjoying their
business and how many find a keen
pleasure in their work from day to
day on the farm?
We must Of necessity keep an eye
on the financial side of our opera
tons, for this is essential to success;
we admit that. But too many of us
60 about the farm in a blind, me-
chanical sort of way, dragging from
one task to another without getting
an iota of enjoyment FROM the work;
one day follows another Just as one
round follows another with the team
and pillow, each merely contributing
it's part to the financial success of
the seasons work.
The man who has never gotten be-
yond that conception has got much
coming to him yet. The world Of life
and happiness swings on, mnoticed
by him, except when he is attracted
from himself by such creatures as
crows, English sparrows, moies and
snakes.
What's the trouble? Why carry a
long-faced crouch around all the
time, when everything about us is
working together for our pleasure?
We are out Of tune, that's about
Of love with our work; we need a
shaking up--to be brought back into
line.
The man who finds pleasure in his
daily work on the farm, who has a
habit of looking for it in whatever
he undertakes, is not only a happy
man, but the chances are that he is
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
THE APPLE MARKET.

Editorial in Hood River News.)
N URlNG the past two or three
weeks according to a dispatch
from Chicago, the Gibson
Fruit Company, of that city, has UNI
dertaken to secure what amounts to
a corner on the apple market. They
started picking up holdings here and
there about a month ago, and now
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
TO ADVERTISERS

Advertisers in this locality who wish
fully to cover all sections Of Oregon
and Washington and a portion Of Idaho
will apply to local publishers for rates.
General advertisers may address c. L.
Burton, Advertising Manager Home
and Farm Magazine Section, O~regOnian
Building, Portland, Oregon, for rates
and information.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06

The investigation into the alleged
wheat corner, which President VII
son ordered the Department Of Jus.
tice to make, has resulted in the dis
covery Of no evidence. What is the
use Of trying to find corners in a
circle?
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06

A new police regulation in Phila-
delphia requires all children under
Is to be out Of the streets after II
o'clock at night. Is this 11-o'clock
curfew business designed as a re-
form? It would be interesting to
know at what hour the Philadelphia
kids have been in the habit Of get
ting in. In the good old times it was
8 o'clock or a spanking.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06
5,O59,O00 MEN GONE.
A NEWSPAPER in Rome, after
n a careful comparison Of Off

n a careful comparison Of Off
cial statements, estimates that
$3.50, 900 men have been lost by the
belligerent nations during the first
eight months of the war.
This is more than the entire pop
ulation of Ohio-men, women and
babies. It is more than the popula-
ton of any state of the Union ex-
cepting only New York and Penn-
sylvania. 1t is more than the entire
population of Serbia, one OF the con-
t~estants more than the entire popu-
lation of Bulgaria, which may be-
come a belligerent. Eight cities as
large as Cleveland would not repre-
sent the loss. 1t would require
eighty or more cities of Clevelands
population to supply a military pop
ulation to equal the total OF men
here reported already lost in a war
which is not even yet near a con-
elusive issue.
Such comparisons are appalling,
but they may be of service if there
are any Americans yet unconvinced
of the folly and horror Of war.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-06

Edison is now engaged in manu-
featuring dyes, our supply OF which
has been cut off by the war. II am
not making very much money in this
line" says the wizard, "but !
thought l would at least make the
start, and / hope some Of these timid
Americans who lack backbone to
father a movement worth while will
now come along and follow suit"
The country owes a tremendous debt
to Edison; it ought not to expect
him to supply it with backbone.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-29
HOUSE CHAIRMAN IS
FOR DEFENSE POLICY
Announces Ne viii Support Pro-
gram Of President.

Washington, Oct. 26.-Mobilization
of the full strength Of administrators
forces in support of the national de-
tense program apparently was assur.
ed when Representative Hay of Viz
ginia, chairman of the house military
affairs committee, after conference
with President Wilson, announced
himself in favor of the army increase
plans.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of
the senate military committee, already
has approved the proposal to build up
a regular and continental army of
more than a million men in six years.
Formal publication Of the plans in
detail will follow Senator Chamber
lain's conference with the president
next week. The navy $500,0OO,O0O
five-year building program already has
been approved by both house and
senate leaders.
The importance attached to Repre-
sentative Hays announcement was IN
dicated by the fact that soon after
It was made Secretary Garrison broke
the silence he has maintained as to
army plans ever since he received
President Wilson's letter directing
him to have prepared comprehen-
sive review of the nations military
needs and recommendations for
STRENGTHENING the national defense.
Mr.. Garrison issued this statement:
81 am, OF course, delighted. This
will insure the best possible results.
With the aid of Mr.. Hays experience
and skill In formulating the measures
and his powerful advocacy in support
Thereof. success in the house is as.
sured."
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-29
PORTER CHARLTON GUILTY
Escapes With Light Sentence Under
Italian Law

Como, Italy, Oct. 2S.-Porter Charl-
ton, the American who has been on
trial here charged with numbering his
wife in 1910, was condemned to six
years and. eight months Imprisonment.
The jury found Charlton only par
TALLY responsible and that there were
extenuating circumstances.
Owing to amnesty Charlton will
serve only twenty -nine days in prison.
Charlton, under the verdict. benefits
by the time lie has been under re-
straint and in addition year Is taken
off the sentence under the amnesty
for all offenses committed before Italy
entered the war.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-29
STEEL CASE APPEAL SOON

Government Probably Will Make FL
ing This Week.
Washington, Oct. 26.-The govern
ment's appeal to the supreme court h
its suit to dissolve the United States
Steel corporation probably will b
filed this week.
The appeal will comprise statement
of errors which the government holds
the lower courts made In the decision
against the government
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-29
SER6lANS MAY HOLD
OUT UNTIL relieved.

London, Oct. 26.-The allies
have asked the southern head
quarters to resist the Teutons
and Bulgarians for only five
days more, by which time eff
fective aid from the allies will
forthcoming. says the Daily
Telegraph's Nish correspond
ent under date of Sunday.
The correspondent adds that,
Judging by the fine spirit the
Serbian troops are displaying.
they can hold out double that
time.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
ONE MAN FIRE BRIGADE.
New Fire Fighting Apparatus For Use
on Shipboard.

New Fire Fighting Apparatus For Use
on Shipboard.
A new kind of fire fighting apparatus
for ships, which enables one man sta.
toned in an out of the way compart-
ment to detect and e%xtinguish a fire in
any part Of the vessel, has been in
stalled on one Of the new ocean liners.
The business end of the apparatus is
a tall cabinet looking much like a small
church organ, which stands among the
compasses, switchboards, etc., in a lit
tie room on the third deck. Standing
open in this cabinet are the ends Of
t~wenty-eight pipes which lead to the
bunkers, boiler rooms and every other
compartment in the ship.
If a fire starts in any part of the YES
sci a curl Of smoke OF gas comes up
the pipe and is detected by a man on
watch. He Immediately signals to find
whether every one has left the burning
compartment, and when it is empty he
claps the nozzle Of a large steampipe
in the end Of the pipe from which the
smoke is coming. Instantly the burn
ing compartment is flooded with steam
in such quantities that it forms a heavy
moist blanket sufficient to smother any
fire. One man is thus able to do the
work of a whole fire brigade.-Popular
Mechanics.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY.
Possibilities Of q Process For Filterine
the Blood.


tho Blood.
Among the many remarkable ad-
dresses and demonstrations given at
the recent international medical con
gress in London, there was nothing
more promising Of future results Of
great value to human kind than Pro
fessor Abel's account Of his artificial
kidney.
He opens one Of the large blood YES
sells Of an anaesthetized animal, inserts
a glass tube and conveys the blood to
a series Of small tubes made Of eel.
loidin. From these the blood passes
through another glass tube back into
the animal and %re-enters the latter's
circulation. The celloidin tubes are
porous to all diffusible substances in
the blood and, being placed in a saline
solution, act as a sort of filter. AS the
blood passes through this little set of
artificial capillaries it is, so to speak.
washed or filtered, and a portion of the
difusible substances remain in the sa-
line solution in which the celloidin
tubes lie.
One is perhaps hardly justified In
concluding frim these experiments that
we can switch a sick mans blood out
Of his body through a celloidin filter
and then hand it back to him freed OF
all impurities, but this is the possibility
suggested by Professor Abers address.
The immense value Of such a method
in many diseases is so obvious as to
require no insistence.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
Cost Of Lighting Motorcars.

In order to determine just how much
power is used by electric lighting sys-
tens of automobiles, tests were recent
ly conducted at the Indianapolis motor
speedway. Standard cars were used
in the test, and they were run as far as
possible on a single gallon Of gasoline
with the electric generating apparatus
disconnected. The same al was then
run as far as it would 60 on a gallon
Of gasoline with the generating appa-
ratus connected, and the difference in
distance Travelled showed what proper.
ton Of the fuel was consumed In driv-
ing the generator. 1t was found that
for higher power al the fuel con
sumption for the electric system
amounted to 7.3 per cent and for the
lower power cars 1O.77 per cent.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
Conservation Of Coal.

At one Of the sessions held in con
nection with the recent meeting Of the
British Association For the Advance.
ment Of Science most of the discussion
was devoted to the extremely impor-
tant matter Of the utilization Of coal,
and there was general concurrence in
the opinion that the present condition
was one of gross misuse. One of the
speakers showed that in England there
is an annual loss of more than 100000
tons Of liquid fuel carried away as
SCOT, enough to supply the whole fuel
oil demand Of the British navy. The
fuel oil recOvera BILE from house GOALS
by low temperature coking would
amount to some 100000 tons a year.
The whole discussion left a powerful
impression OF the awakening to the
possibilities Of the coal supply.-Elec-
trical World.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
BEATING THE TEREDO.
Concrete Substituted For Woodwork
In Auckland Harbor.

Concrete Substituted For Woodwork
In Auckland Harbor.
What may be termed the policy OF
the engineers in the new harbor work
at Auckland. New Zealand. can he
summed up in two words-ferro-con.
crete and electricity. The former is
used exclusively for wharf and quay
construction and the latter for light
ing. lifting. hauling. conveying and
other power purposes. About nine
years ago. when the present engineer,
ing staff took up its duties, a wooden
wharfing scheme was in existence.
Various timbers had been used in its
construction. such as totara and vari-
u kinds of eucalyptus. but every
available wood was destroyed by a
most energetic species Of the teredo. a
little shellish which can literally hon
eycomb the hardest timbers in a very
small number Of years, often as few as
three. Even wood that is nearly i'm
pervious in Australian waters is at
tackled here, and the chief engineer at
once perceived that the only satisfac-
tory solution to the problem was the
complete adoption of f~erro-concrete for
all future work.
After about seven years trial this
has proved an entire success. for while
the prevailing mudstone on the shores
Of the harbor is riddled with molluscs
the concrete Is quite proof against at
tack. An entirely new scheme was de-
cided on. which would eventually re-
place all the existing woodwork. OF
this scheme a part has been carried
out. and it is being completed at a rate
which keeps the accommodation of the
port well in advance of the require
notwithstanding Magazine.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
FEEDING YOUNG TURKEYS.
Wet Washes Often Responsible For
Bowel Trouble.

WEI Washes OFTEN Responsible For
Bowel Trouble.
The first consideration in the sue
cessful raising Of turkeys is to select
good, strong, vigorous stock for par
ents, writes a correspondent Of the
Iowa Homestead. The earlier the
stock the better. My choice at this
time Is the White Holland. l set one
turkey hen on t~wenty-one eggs, and If
there happen to be more eggs l set
them under chicken hens at the same
time. When they all hatch the poults
are given to the mother turks.
l put them in a large, dry coop, in
which there is dry chaf scattered from
the horse managers. After keeping
them confined a short time l turn them
out on the range. This is, Of course, in
the country.
The poults are not fed until they are
twenty-four hours old. Then l parch
the shells from which they were hatch
ed and feed them with rolled oats three
times a day until they are about two
weeks old Feed dry mashes. Wei
mashes are often responsible for the
bowel trouble that causes such heavy
losses. Crushed shells and grit are be-
fore both turkeys and chickens all the
time.
About the lice. l powder the hen
when she is taken from the nest with
her brood and continue to powder all
Of the flock once a week until they are
about half grown. Choose some good
louise powder. There are many of
them.
The young toms average from twen-
ty-four to twenty-seven pounds and
the hens from twelve to fourteen
pounds.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
Hat Industry In the Philippines.


One Of the ambitions Of the e%nterpris-
ing Philippine bureau of agriculture is
to introduce the Panama hat industry
into the Philippines. The plant from
which these hats are made, Carludo-
vica palmata. is now cultivated in
Java. where hats are being woven from
its leaves by Javanese women and
children, and the product is said to
compare favorably with the common
grades turned out in South America.
The method Of preparing the leaves is
very similar to that used in the Philip
pines in preparing sabutan leaves for
weaving sabutan hats. The F1lipinos
are skillful hatmakers, and in certain
parts Of the islands hat weaving is the
chief household industry. Experiments
in cultivating Carludovica palmata are
now under way at the Lamao and La
Carlota experiment stations in the
Philippines.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-06-25
A Wind Defector For AeropIanes.

NJ. Constantin, a well known design
er abroad, has applied the principle Of
the "saute VENT or wind defector to
the wings of an aeroplane, and it is
said that surprising results have been
obtained. The def1ector comprises
plates placed forward Of the wing and
curving upward toward the rear in
such a manner that the wind is defect
ed up and away from the wing. Thus
the wings of the %aeroplane are protect
ed from the direct force Of the wind on
their upper surfaces. The object of
the device is to increase the ~rarefac-
ton Of air above the wing. thereby in
creasing the lift.