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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1919)
DISTRESS AMONG THE POOR CLASSES OF SALONIKI B ""™ — “1 STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR PREVENTING ER0SK>N OF MUCH VALUABLE FARM LAND Wheeler.— Frank Gustls and J. E. Parsons have purchased 1,000,000 feet of cedar timber at Haddon, near here, and will begin the construction of a shingle m ill there at once. Salem.— Plans for securing a new agricultural and horticultural exhibit In the Oregon building are maturing rapidly under the direction o f Mrs. Winnie Braden, state exhibit agent, who passed a day in Salem recently, conferring with A. H. Lea, secretary o f the fair board, and other officials. Among the poorer classes o f Salonika and the rest o f the Balkan towns typhus found easy victims. These people, ns our photograph shows, negligent as to personal cleanliness, unable to get even changes of clothing due to great tex tile shortage, were practically nt the mercy o f the disease. “ BIG FOUR’’ ROOSTERS AID GOOD ROADS CAUSE The celebrnted “ big four” roosters, purchased In France and presented to Alabama by President Wilson, Clemen- cenu, Lloyd George and Orlando In aid o f good roads in the United States. These aristocratic birds were auctioned off ns an aid to the raising o f a sum of $250,000 for this purpose. There Is also in the photograph nn American bird that Mr. Wilson purchased for $10 and “ threw In” the contribution. LIFEBOAT SAVER ADOPTED BY THE NAVY RESCUING T H E DROWNING Medford.— Without warning, a sugar embargo was placed on Medford last Wednesday, local grocers allowing only 50 cent purchases per customer. This Gullying Which Causes a Loss of Land and a Lowering of the Water Table« action was necessitated by wholesale (Prepared by the United States Depart the adoption o f effective measures for ment o f Agriculture.) dealers curbing their sales because of a stopping erosion. Soli erosion, o r the washing away notice from coast sugar refiners that Methods of Preventing Erosion. o f earth by water, costs the farmers they had withdrawn from the market Since erosion Is due largely to the o f the United States $1,000,000 every until January 14. year. Soil losses from this cause oc rapid movement o f the rain water over L a Grande.— One of the biggest land cur In every state o f the Union and the surface of the ground, methods of preventing erosion must cause the wa deals o f the county this year has been In almost every county o f every state. Nine years ago the National Conserva ter either to sink Into the soil or flow consummated with the sale o f the tion congress reported that 4,000,000 away slowly over the surface to u Charles Playle wheat ranch o f nearly acres o f farm land had been practi drainage channel. I f the rain water 700 acres, near Alicel, for $115,000, to cally ruined by soli erosion. So seri were absorbed by the soli ns fast as Grover Grlmmitt. Mr. Grimmitt, who ous is the condition that Dr. N. S. it falls, there would be very little is 26, already owns enough wheat land Shaler, form erly dean o f the Law erosion. In order to drink up surface water to make him one of the biggest wheat rence Scientific school, was once moved to remark that " I f mankind rapidly a soli must be very permeable, producers of Union county. cannot devise and enforce ways of which means that It must contain fair Tuesday, September 23, w ill be dairy dealing with the earth which will pre ly large open spaces through which the day at the state fair at Salem this year serve this source of life, we must look rain water can pass easily, or where and the Oregon Dairy council has been forward to the time— remote it muy It can be stored temporarily. Some inVited to arrange the program for the be, yet clearly discernible— when our soils are naturally very permeable. A day. In addition to the speed events kind, having w aited its greatest in number o f ways o f increasing tho permeability o f a soil are deep plow there w ill be speakers and music. heritance, w ill fade from the earth because o f the ruin It hns accom ing, plowing under organic matter Madame Cow w ill be especially honor such as manure, stubble, stalks and plished.” ed that day. A. H. Lea, secretary- cover crops; the practice o f tile drain Ruins Fertile Land. manager of the fair, hopes to make the age, and, in certain soils, the use of Erosion injures or practically ruins explosives. day a big success. fertile lands In a number o f ways. Protection of Vegetation. Eugene.— The Eugene Chamber of The upper and most fertile parts of Vegetation covering the surface of Commerce has indorsed the plan that the soil are washed away until the has been set forth by different organ land becomes barren and unproduc the ground protects the soil from the izations in the state to make of the tive. Deep gullies are formed which direct action o f the rain and checks Pacific highway from one end of the result in an actual loss o f land for tho flow o f the water over the surface, cultivation, a lowering o f the water givin g the soil a better opportunity to state to the other, by the planting of table and a deficient supply o f mois absorb the water. It Is therefore Im shrubs and trees on each side its entire ture. Drainage ditches are often filled portant that some kind o f cover crop, length, a memorial to the soldiers of up with sund, which frequently re such as vetch, clover, oats, wheat or Oregon who gave up their lives dur sults In the flooding o f the adjoining rye, be grown on the land during the ing the great war. bottom land and the destruction of winter or at any time that the land crops. Rich bottom lands are often Is not used fo r other crops. Salem.— Papers in connection with covered with deposits of sand washed Contour plowing, which consists of the case brought by S. H. Rockhill of from the hill lands. Hence the direct breaking the ground along level lines Riddle, Douglas county, to enjoin mem losses o f the upland farmer are the across the slopes, reduces the flow of bers of the state highway commission, land occupied by gullies, smaller crop water directly down the slope. Also Governor Olcott and State Treasurer yields each year, and a continued de in planting and cultivating the crops H o ff and others, from changing the crease In the value o f the land. Some the same level lines are followed so present route of the Pacific highway o f the losses o f the bottom farm er are that n shallow trough Is tnade above between M yrtle creek and Canyonville, the land covered to a great depth with each row. Most o f the rain water is sand, crops damaged by overflows or caught and held In this trough until were served on the respective state of deposits o f sand, a continued decrense It either evaporates or Is absorbed by ficials here recently. in the value o f the land, and the the soil. Contour plowing should In- Salem.— H. S. Bosshard, employed in money invested in the construction of vnriably be practiced on all hill' lands. The beginning o f a great many gullies the state printing office here since drainage ditches that have been filled or partly filled with sand. Thus It Is Is due to the practice o f plowing and 1914, was Thursday appointed state apparent that both the bottom and the cultivating directly up and down tho printer to succeed Arthur W. Law upland farm er should be concerned In elopes. rence, who w ill leave soon for Cor vallis, where he has purchased a print ing establishment. Before coming to Oregon Mr. Bosshard was for 15 years employed in Milwaukee, Wls., and other eastern cities. Medford— W ith firewood selling at from $9 to $10 a cord, two coal mines have been opened in the Roxy Anne district and are now selling coal to Medford householders for $10 per ton. A thousand tons have been sold and contracted for during the year, and practically all the large office build ings, hotels and postoffice use the the local coal exclusively. Bend.— As the result of correspond View Showing Erosion Between Cotton Rows Where Rows Arc Run Direct ence carried on by the roads commit ly Up and Down the 8lope, a Practice Which la Responsible for a Large tee o f the Bend Commercial club, the Percentage of Badly Eroded Lands, committee has received an offer from the state highway commission to lay a macadam surfacing at a cost of B O L L W E E V IL LO S ES GROUND B E E F C A T T LE IM PROVEM ENT approximately $175,000, on that portion of The Dallcs-California highway lying 8econd Y ear In History of Insect That Take Care to Develop to Greatest Ex tent Those Portions From Which There Has Been Reduction In between Bend and Redmond, providing Cuts Are Taken. Infested Territory. the county w ill first prepare the grade. Capt. Frederick C. Mills, field agent, life-saving section, Atlantic division of the American Red Cross, and naval aviators at various points have been giving demonstrations on the swim ming beaches to spread the knowledge of Red Cross methods o f resuscitating persons almost drowned. The photo graph shows the "lock hold,” applied to a person rescued from the water. To Recover Sunken Logs. To recover from the bottom o f Cana dian streams the sunken logs that are lost while on the way from the log ging camps to the mills a newly or ganized corporation w ill employ ma chinery specially adapted to the pur pose Instead o f the ordinary devices used fo r moving timber, It was an nounced In Popular Mechanics Mag azine. Compressed air and high pressure water streams w ill be used to loosen the logs. As 10 per cent o f the logs cut sink and remain embedded for various periods without losing their value by deterioration, the business of raising them should prove to be one o f great commercial Importance to lumbermen. W ith the adoption o f the Hyland lifeboat saver by the United States navy and passenger vessels, 95 per cent o f the lives now lost through the inability to lower lifeboats promptly and where a ship Is badly listed will be overcome. The device prevents the lifeboat from being smashed against the side o f the vessel and at the same time enables heavier loads to be lowered with great ease and speed. STORM RUINS PLANES AT MINEOLA Quite 8o. “ Now this sleeping beauty slept for twenty years." " I f there’s anything In the beauty | nap theory, that long a sleep ought to make anybody beautiful."— Lofilsvllle Courier-Journal. Tillam ook.— Persons from all parts of Tillam ook county attended the open ing o f the sixth annual Tillam ook coun ty fa ir Thursday night. The county school superintendent’s office worked hard to make the school exhibit one of the best attractions o f the fair. The display o f pure-bred dairy stock was large. The sports and amusement com mittee, with A. C. Everson as chair man, furnished much entertainment. Salem.— Complete census of all Irri gation j Their Supply. “ I suppose the men who were fight ing In Champagne never ran the risk of rupnln« out o f ammunition." “W hy shoujd t h e y r “ t fa t a 't there plenty o f grapeshot there f — f— Banks.— Threshing is over around the Banks grain belt. Wheat, though averaging 35 bushels to the acre, in some cases ran quite high. In one In stance the record was 5 2 bushels. Oats were well topped and heavy, av eraging 65 bushels. Of enormous yields the community boasts o f a record so far not known to be excelled here o f ; 114 bushels to the acre, machine meas ure, 38 pounds to the bushel. projects in Oregon, together with data regarding the amount of water power In the state and Its avail ability for electrifying rail lines. Is sought In letters received by Percy Cupper, state engineer, from R. P. Teel o f the federal department o f agricul ture, and the United States railroad F ive airplanes on the Mlneola flejd. Including three o f the largest In the administration. The data are now be uited States, one o f whljh was the Martin bomber which was to make a one- ing assembled and w ill be sent to the op flight from New York tg San Francisco, werS wrecked by a terrific wind respective government departments and thunder s to r m .____ ... _ _____ ,____ _ __ ,___ _ within the next few days, S (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Due to the hard winter o f 1917-18, the boll weevil lost ground In his con quest o f the cotton belt last yenr. This Is exceptional In the history o f the weevil, In that It Is the second yenr since the establishment o f this Insect In the United 8tates that there has been a net reduction In territory In fested by this pest. This does not mean that the move ment o f the boll weevil has been per manently stopped. In fact, the net loss o f territory fo r the year was bul a fraction o f the loss at the begin ning o f 1918. Much of the lost ter ritory was regained by the weevil later In the year. The losses In territory occurred In Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Ala bama. The weevil gained territory In Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and New Mexico. This Is the first report o f the boll weevil on cotton In New Mexico, where It was found In the Pecos valley. The weevil has reached the southern most limits o f cotton production In Florida. It is steadily gaining new ter ritory In South Carolina. Almost the entire sea-island cotton belt Is now In fested. Altogether the weevil Invaded only 10.100 square miles o f new territory during 1918. It lost 40.600 square miles o f form erly Infested territory, making a net loss o f 30.500 square miles. About 150,000 square miles of cotton territory still remain unln- Tested (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) In the Improvement o f beef cattle care has been taken to develop to the greatest extent those portions o f the body from which are secured the high- priced cuts o f beef. These points should be kept In rulnd when select ing breeding animals. SYSTEM O F S H E E P FARMING Farmer Cannot Be Successful and Ig nore Wool and Mutton — Both Worthy of Consideration. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) A system o f sheep farming that Is to be contlnaously successful cannot ignore either wool or mutton. In many cases the two products w ill be worthy o f equal consideration. In others either one may be emphasized accord ing to the peculiarities o f conditions, management and marketing. PRODUCE LA R G E M ILK Y IELD S Animal Is Necessarily of Different Type for Production of Beef— Breed Not Found. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment o f Agriculture.) As the type o f animal necessary for the production o f large yields o f milk Is entirely different from that o f the beef animals. It has been impossible to produce a breed which would com bine these functions and be of supe rior merit for both nurnoaea.