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OCTOBER 18, 1917 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PAGES OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readen. Making the Utile Farm Pay By C. C. BOWSPIELD Many farmer near Sllvertnn are building llo thl fell. Lumber shipment from llcnd In the punt tlx month have averaged 26 car day, Ilcau hi (lie Willamette valley near Bulfin are allowing about 300 pound to tlm acre. , A few riir of typhoid fever have developed In K lu uia I li Fall In the pant lit) day, Tim 2Klh fall meeting of tlm pre Lytiiry of southern Oregon met at (.Mitral t'olnl. Mr.'. John Cavlne, 38, committed suicide lit bir home In tinker by about tun liiranlf with revolver. ' On and arter October 15, hunting of durka and geeae in eastern Oregon will only be permitted after tunrlie and before xunaot. KxerclaOa at the unveiling of the monument marking the end of the old Oregon trail In Oregon City were held Saturday afternoon, More than 160 tone of chlttlin bark ha been ml to dealer In Lincoln comity1 thl year at an average price of eight cent a pound. There I a greater aupply of money on depoilt In the bunk of Malheur county than ha ever been recorded In the hlatory of the county. The Linn county chapter of the Red Croa ha earned $21 G 1 .95 In aervlng meal to drafted men en route from California to American I-ake. i The Tualatin Valley Electric com pany we (ranted approximately a 10 per cent Increaae In It electric rate by the public service eoinmlaalon. Mra. Erneatlne Gelaler, 80 year old, a resident of Umatilla county alnce Pendleton wa a hamlet, died at her home In Pendleton of pneumonia, Property owner on the bottom land wet of Rainier have formed a drainage dlatrlct and will .reclaim about 1S00 acre that are flooded every tummer. Hood River county ha juat com pleted two new bridge over Hood river, one at Trout creek and the other at Hee, at a coat of approxi mately 110.000, A meeting of representative of all the farmer' unlo.i of I'olk county will be held. In Dalla October 17 for the purpoae of dlacualng the question of a county agent. Senator Chamberlain I advlaed by the director of the geological urvey that a geologist ha been Instructed to vlalt l'olk county and Inspect re ported oil and gas indication. At a meeting held at Toledo the proposition to bond the port to build a team schooner for the lumber and freight-carrying buslne of Yaquina bay was voted down by a vote of 7 to 25. The annual state convention of the Oregon Congress of Mother- and Pa rentTeacher associations of Oregon will be hold at Eugene this week, bo ginning! Wednesday and closing Sat urday. Representative Willis C. Ilawley has announced a competitive examination to estulilish a register for eligible young men for appointment to the United States military and naval academies. Miss Elisabeth Fox, dean of women at the university of Oregon, has been named as the Oregon executive in the war work campaign being carried on by the North American student movement An Inspection of 30,000 acres of land between Hermlston and Umatilla as a possible site for one of the additional army training camps has been ordered by the commanding officers of the western division. An eight-hour day and an Increase In wages of 20 cents a day has been (ranted to the platform, shop and barn men In Portland of the Portland Railway, Light A Power company by the boon! of arbitration. With a bullet hole through the head the bodv of Dr. William R. Scott, for a number of years a practicing physl clan of Athena, was found in the bath room at the Claude Reedor farm home four miles east of Helix. Although the normal forest fire sea son ended In central Oregon Bevernl weeks ago, fires continue to be re ported, the unusual warm weather and the continued lack of ruin creating con dltlons favorable for them. The law exempting miners from as aessment work on tholr claims for the years 1917 and 1918 is now In effect. The law was enacted in order that claimants could enter the Government ervice or devote their time to war- lustalnlng vocations. N. P. Clerk' Strike Averted. St. Paul, Minn. A strike of railway clerks and station employes of the Northern Pacific railway, called foi Monday, and which threatened to tie up the entire freight system of the road, was averted here when an agreement was signed granting the employes most ot their demands. Owners of little fur ma succeed most surely when they aim to have acreage production, the quality of supplies and the price obtiilned considerably above the average. Thl principle 1 applica ble to all fanner, and owner of small pluce uiUHt adopt It before they can attain a fair suocea. I'erlmp all reader know of In stance where some dairy owner has gullied a reputation for producing uillk under the uuntt sanitary condi tion posalblo In ordinary funning. In every such cae the farmer I Immedi ately able to add 50 or 1X per cent to the price of bis milk. He doubles his Income or nearly so without material ly adding to his expense. It coats little extra to handle milk and butter In a ulce way. Love for the work, careful methods and worthy ambition will give the desired results. If tho osuul profit lu flock of ben la $2 each above the coat of food the aim should le to Increase egg produc tion and t lie sale of broilers or other kinds of fancy poultry so that there will le a proilt of :i or 14 for each lieu kept This Is to bo accomplished by selecting pullet from the beat lay ing mothers and by breeding up with full blooded males. If the cow lu a dairy herd are pay ing an average of $KK) a year make SUBMARINE CRISIS IS BELIEVED PAST Washington. Detailed Information reaching the government has con firmed the opinion In official circle that the submarine trials Is past. Germany, building more U boat than ever before, 1 obtaining less re ults than at any time since, and even before, Its proclamation of unrestrict ed undersea wsrfare. This Information Includes figures as to the number of submarines captured and the number believed to have been sunk. Officials declare that the total would give a thrill or astonishment and satisfaction to the allied peoples should the figures be made public. While It Is admitted that Germany probably Is Increasing Its fleet of U boats, the destruction being less than the reported output, the new U-boats show the depreciation of Germany's resources. They are merely shells with engines in them, compared with the powerful suhnisrlnes she had In the early months of her campaign. Many are little better than death traps. It is declared, and the opinion Is expressed that many German sub marines are lost through the risks of the sea which, If added to the allies' toll, would throw the balance the other way. The situation Is still serious and there Is no attempt to underestimate It, but the belief here Is that the Ger man tide It receding on sea as well an on land and that while sinkings will continue and aerlously handicap the nations fighting Germany, the danger point haa been left to the rear. THE STOCK MAT UB 0 SAD I) ALLY rSOVED. IM an effort to raise it to f'Jiw. remap the qulckeat way .to gain this end I by discarding all animals that fall to give Are gallon of milk per day for the greater part of the year. The stock may be gradually Improved by selec tion and breeding. It may be possible alao to sell the milk or cream to par tlcnlar customer wbo will pay double the usual rate. When a runner is located near a good market the thing for him to do I to sell to a select trade. He can sup ply hotels and restaurants as well as private residences. When iwodueers are too far from a good market totlrlve In regularly they should adopt a ays- tern of co-operative selling and haul ing. A number working together can ship regularly a given quantity of prod uce to city consumers, and the latter can best handle the business by mean of an organization of some sort. A few wise farmers In a certitlu dis trict of the corn belt receive $2.00 to $5 a bushel for all the corn they raise. They understand the selling end of farming as well as the producing end. and their grain Is sold for seed. Itulxe a first class article, whether grain, vegetables, chickens or pigs, and there will be no difficulty in finding people who want your product If you will let them know what you have and what you sell It for. I have ofteu seen nieu going from store to store with a tin bucket and an old rag sticking out under the cover asking the merchants If they wanted butter, and at every place they would be told thut It wus not wuuted, wheu lu fact those very merchants were getting print butter from other Btates. They knew the character of the but ter In the tin buckets and did not want that sort As with butter, so It is with all products of the furm. It la quality that makes tho articles sell. Conditions ore right for money mak ing by the agricultural class. It sim ply remains for the formers themselves to develop methods of selling by which they can take advantage of the im proved markets. The rapid growth of cities and the sharp demand for all kinds of produce are substuntlul evi dence of this Improvement Contention of the indtmtrlal accident commission of Oregon made through out a controversy which waged nearly all summer to the effect that mr, working on hulls of vessels during construction after they have been launched, or longshoremen or steve dores working on vessels in an harbor, may come under the terms of the work men's compensation act, Is upheld by the Johnson law passed by the last congress. In this act, while the com mon law remedy Is still allowed to j ply. and a right of action lies In the ad miralty courts for the cases In ques tion, the law saves to claimant "the rights and remedies under the work men's compensation law of any state." &&f ' iiii ECONOMIC AND MILITARY PREPAREDNESS THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON to MMItlaa ta cmp4ta cmtrsa lit f "'I m4 aclaatJfla aaucatia. affara full aaaartualtla at' MILITARY DRILL, DOMESTIC SCIENCE ARTS AND COMMERCE PIm far aHacthra future service. Yew country' K. aao' far free HIiMtrataa1 atilts,"Trafci Mm Braia far Peace ar War" and "The Warnaa aatf tha University." AMrtu Raglatrar, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Ore.M Classified Ads save steps and worry. BRIEF WAR NEWS Along the Aisne a lively artillery duel continues between the French and Germans. On the Austro-Italian front, espe cially In the Isonzo region, the reelp rocal bombardments continue heavy. A new national flag Is shortly to be unfolded on the French front that ol Poland. An autonomous Polish army Is already In course of organization on French soil. The British remain in disputed pos session of the ground gained on the west Flanders front. The fact that the Germans withheld attempts to shake the British from their newly- won grounds except for what must have been a very weak effort around Paaschendaele, indicates strict ob servance of the new Hindenburg rules of economy of Germany' man power, How to Control Seal Insect. Spraying fruit trees with lime-sulphur wash and with soluble oils con trolled San Jose scale when properly applied, while powdered sulphur com pounds gave promising results In ex perimental tests conducted by entomol ogists of the Ohio experiment station. Cure-alls were unsuccessful. Little difference In effectiveness was noted between homo boiled lime-sulphur and the commercial form mixed with seven parts of water and applied In early spring. Soluble oils mixed with fifteen parts of water are also recommended. Powder sprays, as soluble sulphur compound and barium sulphur, gave variable results In killing the scale In sects. The station experts do not dis criminate against such materials, but say they should be used only lu an ex perimental way. The farmers of Junction City have organized a cow-testing association. Portland has a population of 286 753, according to Polk'a city directory. The first annual automobile show of Baker will open Thursday even ing, April 5. Albany may have a policewoman to give special attention to children on the streets at night Condon will bold its fourth annual race meet, beginning Monday, June 5, and continuing tor five days. Lin Sing, believed to be a member of the Hip Sing tong, was shot In hla room in Astoria's Chinatown. Twenty-five cases of chickenpox and mumps have been reported in Amity and vicinity In the last month. Thousands ot tons of baled alfalfa hay are being shipped from Echo to various points in eastern Oregon and Idaho. The fourth annual convention of the Oregon Cattle & Horse Breeders' Association, will be held at La Grande April 24 25. The Girl's National honor guard of Oregon will start at once to make comfort bags for members of the Ore gon National guard. The Southern Oregon District Fed eration of Women's Clubs will con vene In Grants Pass for a three-day session, beginning April 12. W. T. Carroll, who came to Oregon In 1864 and was deputy Sheriff in Union county In early days, died in Eugene at the age of 72 years. Astoria will be headquarters Tor the new revenue cutter just completed at Baltimore, which Is to replace the Manning on the Pacific coast. Many requests being received by the Btate highway department for bridge designs indicate there will be much bridge construction this season. The Coos county court has turned over to the state highway department the supervision of the expenditure of the $362,000 county bond issue. Women students of the Oregon Ag ricultural college who are registered In agriculture have organized the Women's Agricultural association. Major Carl Abrams has been pro moted to be lieutenant-colonel of the Third Oregon. He will be succeeded as major by Captain Daughtery, of Portland. Canyon City, Grant county, looks like old times, as the result of a jump In price of chrome Iron ore from $7 to $22 a ton at Prairie City, the ship ping point. Officials of the Southern Pacific are considering plans to distribute all the fuel oil UBed by their locomotives in Oregon from a depot to be established on Coos bay. 1D AITfc ilia Call and See Us for Staple and Fancy Fall and Winter Apples, Tropical Fruits, Vegetables and Poultry Supplies. Small orders from the city trade will be given prompt attention. Likewise larger ones from the country we Heaters, Steel Sanges, Plows, Harrows and Grain Drills. Prices on application O. C. CLAYP00L & CO. 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