La Grande evening observer., December 13, 1915, Image 3

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HORS
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' Grande Ronde valley is not only the
home of prize-winning horses, but
is rapidly becoming a center of trac
tor farming, . paradoxical as the
statement may seem. Trade paper3
are giving a whole lot of attention to
tractor farming these days, and
."Tractor Farming" a journal of this
sort, contains pertinent argument in
this : espect in its current issue claim
ing too the horse will remain always.
Jt says:
The great economic law, which
-makes a man's rarm profitable, is
not the amount he produces per acre
. not the price ha sells it for, but ra
' ther the difference between the
.amount it costs him to raise his crops
nce is what we call "net" profit.
This little word "n-e-t" is really
the most important word in any busi
' ness man'B vocabulary. "Net" means
how much you have left after paying
to raise corps. If you take in three
tihousqfhd dollars and pay lout thq
same amount, you have no "net". It
is better to take in one dollar and
have ten cents left than-it is to take
in a hundred dollars' and have only
five cents left.
question, not from personal observa
tions, which are open to question, but
from tests which expert investigators
of the Dopartment of Agriculture con
ducted for a number of years. Thoso
investigators , discovered one - very
important truth, i. c, thaf the farm
horse works on an average only thren
hours per day, or less than one thou
sand hours per year.' That sums up
the whole trouble with horse power.
- Being nn animal, the horae must
oat regularly in order to sustain life.
There really isn't very much differ
ence in the amount he eats whether
he works or not. He also requires
a certain amount, of personal atten
tion in the way of feeding and care.
Whether he works or not he n-ust
have shelter, and as he gets older he
depreciates in value. Whether he
works or not there are certain defin
ite charges by way of interest against
the amount invested for him.., The
total amount of all these charges for
the year is about. $125. .
The cost of horse labor per- hour
is determined by dividing the cost of
maintenance for a year by the number
of hours the horse works, it ne
and the selling price. This differ- works 1,000 hours a year at a cost
of $125, it costs 12 1-2 cents for
every hour that he works.
There are two seasons on every
farm the active and the inactive
seasons. During the inactive sea
son the horse seldom averages more
than one hour of work a day. Dur
ing the active season, the crop-growing
period, the work averages from
three hours a day on some farms to
as high as eight or ten on others.
dorses suitable lor tarm worn can-
According to Extension Bulletin I not be picked up at a moment's no
No. 15. issued bv the Minnesota Far
mers' Library, almost half of the
gross cost of operating an ordinary
diversified farm must bo laid to
liorse .labor. As long as this is true,
just so long will it be difficult to
tower producing costs; just so long,
whether the farmer owns a hundred
or ten thousand acres, will he . find
tice. Knowing (this, the forehanded
farmer always has a barn full of
horses for emergency work. Govern
ment experts -say there are from one
to three of these costly extras . on
every farm. . .
Five Acres to Feed a Horse
Have you ever stopped to realize
how many acres in a farm are given
the horse delivers about one-tenth of
his weight at the drawbar.' A 1,500
pound horse would have a pull, at 2,
miles an hour, about 150 pounds.
If this horse were traveling at two
and a half miles per hour, pulling
150 pounds, he would be developing
an actual horse power, which is the
power necessary to ' raise ' 88,000
pounds one foot in one minute. This
is the standard horse power measure.
It is apparent, then that the efficency
of a great many horses is consider
ably less thun nn actual horse power
in continuous work, especially when
the horse weighs less than 1,500
pounds or travels at a speed of less
than two and ri half miles per hour.,
Horse is a Small-rower Unit
The second handicap of the horse
is the fact that he is comparatively
a small-power unit - The horse at
best cannot work with more than two
or three other horses, so that really
a farmer never has more than three
or four horse power of energy to put
on any job. If the field to be-piowea
is large enough, there is no reason
why a farmer should not . put
twenty horse power at work at one
time and plow the ground more quick
ly. With . horses, however, to apply
twenty horse power to the job would
mean five or six teams, a man with
each team. Many farmers could not
possibly afford td keep this number
of horses, nor could they find the
necessary hired help simply to do a
plowing job. ' -
Hore Will Always Be Used
However far horse power seems to
fall short of being the ideal farm
power, we do not say that he is going.
Horses will always have to be kept.
close the correspondence that passed
between him and the German military
attaches. '
A
Once Banker, Is Now a Day Laborer.
liimself face to face with this power-up to growing horse feed? It's
problem at sunrise every day. strange how many times this is over-
This Droblem is chronic, we might : looked. We had one farmer down in
say. It exists on every larm wnere,
liorses are relied upon to furnish the
power for field work. The number
of horses in nowise affects it. The
man who keeps a large number of
horses to have plenty of power avail
able at all times is increasing the
cost per hour by decreasing the num
ber of hours each horse works. The
man who keeps a minimum number
of horses finds himself handicapped
in the amount of work he can do. ,
Conditions are Changing
The desire to apply factory princi
ples of effiency to farm mothods in
order to increase profits has brought
farmers to the point where they are
analyzing their producing costs in an
attempt to find the leaks. IWheh the
government experts told us that half
' the gross operating expense of an
ordinary farm was horse power, they
forced us to make a cold-blooded ana
lysis of this form of power, becaus
here of all places is where a saving
, might be effected. u W-
This analysis has not Jjeen an al
together pleasant task. We havo be
come so used to seeing horses, read
ing of lliem, and thinking of them
as a motive power for farm work,
that we immediately, question and
perhaps even resent the -statement
that they can be dispensed with to
great advantage. Sentiment is res
ponsible. The horse is an intelligent
animial. We have been in constant
contact with him for years, and we
have learned to love him.
What's the Matter With Horse Power
Fortunately, we can answer this
Kentucky tell us that it didn't cost
him anything to feed his horse, be
cause he had the feed anywlay. This
man overlooked the fact that for
every horse or mule he had on his
farm, he was growing five acres of
feed. Government experts tell us
that the horse eats, annually, three
tons of hay and about 5,000 pounds of
grain. It would take jus$ about five
average acres to grow this amount
of hay and grain.
On this basis the 160-acre farmer
who has eight horses in his barn, is
cultivating forty acres for horse feed,
or one-fourth of his total farm. Think
of itl One acre out of every four
under cultivation being farmed for the
benefit of horses that give only three
hours work a day!
Horse is a Low-Efficiency Tractor
We mieht forgive the horse for re-
ouirinsr so much of our perfectly good
farm land for feed if he did more for
us." But he can't.
, Jn .the. first place. ,.. he .is . tfery-
low-efficiencv motor. Seventy per
cent of what he eats is lost some
where in his mouth, stomach and in
testines. - This delivers 30 per cent to
hih muscles, which sjunds promis.ng
imtl we learn that tho greater part
of his must be reserved for his own
rue body mantenance, carrying his
weight, and propelling himself about
the field. He has left after he hBS
taken care of himself, not over 7
per cent efficiency for drawbar work.
Edison says his efficiency is only 2
per cent. - . '
The Power of a Horse
Measured in actual pounds of work,
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Flowers
For
Christmas
Blooming Plants
These always make acceptable gifts. We
will begin showing in our windows about
the 15th a beautiful assortment. Be sure
and see them. Make your selection and
we will deliver anytime.
Cut Flowers
Orders are now coming in. Let us have
your order early. Remember as usual, orders
are filled in the order received first come
first served.
Holly Wreaths
Green and Berried Holly.
Red jluscus
La Grande Seed &
Floral Co..
X . $ fc jfc
' Coffee : ' - ,
We pack in a way to re
spect the coffee, and keep
it f resh for you ; it is the
way to keep coffee, . -
We srind it evenly so.
that you will have more
cups of fine clear, coffee.
We take-out the object
ionable chaff because it
is objectionable. ::V
We moneyback it to
make you sure and us
alert.
The airtight tins make
such fine codec prac-
ticahic; and economical.
Schilling's
Best
Winslow, 111., Dec. 6. From a well
dressed banker to a day laborer in
overalls is the transition of J4 Bradley
Fuller, who, with his sisters owned
and operated the private bank of Ful
ler & Soil at . Winslow. - Necessity
forced the former banker to obtain
means of support. ' ' i '
The only occupation available was
that of helping manufacture concrete
blocks. He is paid $2 a day for ten
hours, and is docked for every hour
in which he is not occupied. v-.-.i
. Upon the recent return of Fuller
from the East, his departure taking
place just one week prior to the fail
ure of the bank, he was on the verge
of nervous prostration. The sympathy
of hiB friends assisted in restoring 'his
he announced his willingness to take
nerves to their normal condition and
any kind of work which afforded him
self and his family a living.
After seeking in vain for some oc
cupation more remunerative and with
less physical labor involved, he went
to work with the concrete firm and
expects to remain there until some
thing more inviting develops. '' His
family take (their reduced piroum
stances philosophically, all sedkbig
employment in order to contribute to
the common fund. ,
The report of the Auditing Board,
of which D. F. Graham, President of
the First National Bank of Freeport is
Chairman, shows that the liabilities of
the Winslow bank are $108,647, while
the assets are $120,935. On this basis
depositors will receive about 70 cents
on tho dollar. The auditor assumed
that the assets credited to the Invinc
ible Furniture Company of Manitowoc,
Wis., amounting to $20,000, would not
depreciate. ;
Tuesday Special
Sweaters at One
Half Price
. Our entire line of sweaters white, rod,, navy,
and brown, all sizes values to $7.00 at half
price. , , ' -.JL'1!!
125 Wool tarns Tuesday special 69c, x ' '
E. E.KIRTLEY
Ladies' Ready-to-Wear
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TWENTY NEW' MEMBERS.
Interesting
With
Service in Connection
Baptismal Rites.
Baker, Dec. 10. Twenty new mem
bers joined the ' Haines Baptist
church in this city last evening at
special services at Calvary Baptist
church, which were attended by a
large congregation of Baker people
and 50 from Haines. The 20 who
were baptised and made members of
the Haines church were among tho
converts made at the recent revival
services by Rev. A. M. Williams, who
performed the baptismal rites. The
trip to Baker was made for the rea
son that as yet there is no baptistry
in the Haines church, although one is
to be installed in the near future.'.
" The service in which 20 new mem
bers were added to the Haines
church was very interesting. Short
sermons by iRev. Williams and Rev.
A. R. Willet, pastor of Calvary Bap
tist church, were followed by special
music by the choir and a solo by Mrs.
Cecil Stuller.
D. R. FONG MEDICINE CO.
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Treatment. Free Consultation if- f,i
La Grande
Phone 762
1412 Adams Ave.
especially on corn belt farms. There
will always be room for more good
horses. .Whon steam power replaced
the horses used to drive the old-time
threshers, many felt that the horse
industry was going to be hurt badly.
It was not. When the automobile
came along many of us saw visions
of the horse in museums of antiquity.
He is still with us, and strange to
say, he has increased in value more
than 185 per cent in tho last twenty
years. '
The trouble with many of the
horses on the farm is that they fill
no market demand. They are the
result of indiscriminate crossing, a
tyne that nobodv really wants. Far
mers realize this. Keports snow tnat
hundreds of farmers who have been
supplanting expensivo horse power by
oil power for heavy field work have
sold enoueh of the poorer horses to
pay the orginal cost of the tractor.
The average price they recoived for
even these poor horses was $lou a
head.
The safe rule for the farmer, who
wishes to cut his producing cost, is
this substitute oil power for animal
power where the time saved and the
increased amount of work done will
result in a profit. Sell ell but enough
horses to do the light work. Keep
preferably brood mares that will help
pay for their keep by the colts they
produce.
War Spy Activities in Northwest.
Logger Falls 35 Feet.
? Cottage Grove, Or., Dec. 9. Oscar
McCallister while employed at U. S.
Logging company's camp near here
a few days ago had a narrow escape
from death, when his foothold gave
way while he was fixing a block in
a tree about 35 feet above tho ground
and he fell. There 'Were no bones
broken and he is improving rapidly.
Notice ' i '
I will not be responsible for any
debts incurred by Mrs. A. 3T Fiek
after December 9, 1915 Adv 12-9-5t.'
A. J. FIEK.
Notice to Stock Holders.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the United States Nation
al Bank of La Grande will te held at
their banking rooms on Tuesday Jan
uary 11th, at the hour of 2 o'clock p.
m. for the purpose of electing a board
of directors for the ensuing year.
T. J. SCROGGIN, Cashier.
Adv-Dec.. 8. Jan. 10.
Announcement
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. standard line of gasoline and oil
enpim-s. pumps, windmills and electric motors.
2,hors power gasoline engine .... ..., .. ............ $50.00..
4 horse power gasoline engine - $99.00
6 horse power gasoline engine $149.00
Other sizes in proportion f. o. b, Beloit, Wis.' Ask our
nearest agent about it.
I J. J. QUINLAND CO. Inc.
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V J.LWf i Island City, Oregon.
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Ajax tires, Oakland automobiles, garage in connection. .
Annual Meeting of Stockholders
Notice is horeby given that the
annual meeting of the stockholders
of La Grande National Bank will be
held at their Banking House in La
.Grande, Oregon, on Tuesday, Janu
ary 11th., 1916, at the hour of two
o'clock P. M. At this meeting a Board
of Directors will be elected to serve
for the year 1916 and until thoir suc
cessors are elected and qualify, and
such other business will be trans
acted as may properly offer.
F. L. MEYERS,
ONE SPOONFUL GIVES
ASTONISHING RESULTS
La Grande residents are astonish
ed at the QUICK results from the
simple mixture of buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc., known as Adler-l-ko,
ITiis remedy acts on BOTH upper and
o-wm bowel and is so THOROUGH a
bowel cleanser that it is used success
fully in appendicitis. ONE SPOON
FUL of Adler-i-ka relieves almost
ANY CASE of constipation, sour or
gassy stomach. ONE MINUTE after
you take it, the gasses rumble and
pass out. C. D. Putman. Ad.-
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 9. (Special)
More amazing details of the activi
ties of war spies in Tacoma came to
light today when M. J. Malloy, a resi
dent of Puyallup, Wash., told British
consular officials in Tacoma that he
had been in direct communication with
Count von Bernstorff, Captain Boy-ed,
military attache, Von Papen, Lieuten
ant Robert Fay, also known as Scholtz,
and "Captain" Charles C. Crowley.
Conferences between Mr. Malloy
and "Lieutenant" .1 mith, "Captain
Crowley and Lieutenant Fay were
held in Puyallup early in May, Mr.
Malloy told the British officers. At
that time, Mr. Mal'.oy declares, Smith,
Fay and Crowley represented them
selves as British army officers, seek
ing to purchase from him a self
propelled missile that he had invented
to be used expressly to -destroy com
merce. As a result of the conferences and
written communications with German
military attaches, Mr. Malloy declares
he has received annoymous letters in
structing him to "leave the country
immediately."
Mr. Malloy declares if called upon
by United States officials, he will dis-
I FARM LOANS 1
LONG TIME- ANNUAL INTERESTNEVER OUT OF FUNDS
Liberal Options Including Debt Reducing Plan
We loan money on improved farms in this section of Oregon.
If you need money to renew your old loan which may soon fall . due, or to pay off
your present loan and get more money; or to buy more land; or to purchase stock or for
any purpose, I can make you a loan on your farm on easy and attractive terms. I make
f arm loans on terms which will help you to get out of debt.
The people I represent are never out of funds, and the rates of interest are fair. If
you have the security, I will get you the money. '
WRITE OR CALL
If you want a loan on your farm, call and see me or write, and you will receive
prompt attention. Come in and let me explain the merits of the farm loan I have to
offer you. '
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