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AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK NEWS
Up-to-date Inf ormation to Help Develop Progressive Farming
CLASSIFIED ADS
BETTER COWS HELP PROFITS
High-Producing Dairy Animals Make i
Best Market for Different
Howie-Grown Feeds.
Hundreds of millions of flollarsF
worth of feed is consumed annually
by our dairy cows. The net income
is large or small, according to the way
that feed is used. When production
is increased through feeding and
breeding the income rapidly expands,
yet a few real scrubs on any dairy
farm will deflate the net income.
Farmers of the United States fur
nished feed and care for 23,000,000
dairy cows. Because of low produc
ing cows a large part of that feed is
wasted. Weighing out expensive
feeds to a low-producing cow is like
shoveling costly coal into the fire box
of a leaky boiler and the farmer who
keeps such cows seldom has to pay
any income tax.
Like a factory, the dairy cow trans
duct, milk. In this way she furnish
es a market for the feeds. Whether
that market will be good or bad de
pends in part upon the way the cow
is fed, and in part upon the cow
itself. There is no better way to
market the feeds grown on-the farm
than to feed them to a herd of high
producing cows. The cow takes corn
and silage, grain and hay and converts
them into a product for which there is
always a ready sale.
It is much easier to send the milk
or cream to the creamery than to haul
the hay to town. In the long run,
it is generally much more profitable,
because it keeps the soil fertility at
home.
In selling feeds to dairy cows the
farmer has a wide choice of mar
kets bad, good and very good. Few
men discriminate closely enough be
tween these markets. If a wheat
buyer offers 1 or 2 cents a bushel
more than other buyers he gets the
what; if a wood buyer offers a half
cent a pound he gets the wool. But
if one cow returns J3 from a dollar's
worth of feed and another $2, it is
scarcely noticed. There i3 a differ
ence of a dollar in the income every
time each of these two cows eats a
dollar's worth of feed.
According to estimates of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
the average dairy cow in the United
States produces annually about 4000
pounds of milk and 160 pounds of
butter fat. According to 40,000
yearly individual cow records recent
ly tabulated by the department, the
average cow produces 5980 pounds of
milk and 246 pounds of butter fat a
year. The world's records are 37,381.4
-JEOHMSQf-jniLk and 1,205.09 pounds
of butter fat in a year.' Tiieis is
plenty of room for improvement, it
ould seem in the average production.
Worms in Swine.
Due largely to the manner in which
swine feed and unsanitary surround
ings in which they are often kept
they are very susecptible to internal
parasites or worms. While swine
that are infested with worms in large
numbers do suffer from them, yet
the fact that nearly all swine are in
fested with a small number of the
common round worm, would indicate
that they are not noticeable harmful
in small numbers. The presence of
worms in swine have made it possible
for commercial concerns , who are
manufacturing a worm expeller to
attribute many other conditions to
the injury of worm infestation. This
fact has been greatly overworked in
the great swine producing states with
little or no benefit to the producer.
The best methods of handling these
conditions are to be found in preven
tion through good sanitary conditions
of the feed lots and sleeping quar
ters; the eradication of the worms
after the animal is infested offers a
more or less difficult problem.
Which Breed Is Best?
(By T. M. Sharp.)
Many people when selecting a
breed or variety of poultry either as
a sideline or as a business have quite
a battle in making their decision as
to which would be the best breed
for their particular needs.
We cannot wonder at this When
we realize that there are 15 classes
60 breeds and about 150 varieties
of standard bred fowls and also a num
ber of non-standard breeds and vari
eties, some of which will likely be
admitted to the standard in the near
future.
Each one of the 60 breeds is bet
ter than the other 59, according to
the information that we get when
talking to an enthusiastic breeder of
the different breeds and varieties and
they all have their points of merit,
some have the ability to shell out
eggs in large numbers while others
produce a good number of eggs and
meat, some excell for meat in the
way of fries, broilers and for capons,
yet others are kept solely for orna
mental purposes.
All the different breeds and varie
ties are bred for exhibition purposes.
There i3 no one best breed of poul
try that is best for all purposes.
After we have made our decision as
to breed, which should be done with
care, we should stay with that breed
until we are sure that there has been
a mistake made in the selection as
there is seldom anything made by the
changing of breeds every year or two.
How To Grow Vegetables and Young
Plants.
(By Prof. Bouquet O. A. C.)
There are two classes of vegetables
the plants of which have to be start
ed under glass in the spring.
The first class consists of tomatoes,
peppers, eggplants and early celery,
which it is necessary to start dur
ing the earlier days of spring so that
these vegetables will mature or be
ready for market at the proper time.
In the case of this first class the plant
growing work is a necessity for the
crops .could not be properly sown
from seed grown directly in the gar
den. -
The second class includes vegetables
the plants of which are started early
primarily to get an early start and
not because it would not be possible
to get a crop from seed sown later
in the field. This second group in
cludes therefore lettuce, cabbage, on
ions and cauliflower.
In each case the gardener must
observe the following points: .
1. The seed of each vegetable must
be sown at its own proper season,
for instance it may yet be too early
to seed .tomatoes, but not any too
early for onions, cabbage and lettuce.
2. All plants should be transplant
ed or "pricked out" when at the right
age, otherwise they are not so easy
to handle and more liable to be dis
turbed. 3. Hardening of all plants before
field setting is essential. A non-
concentrates into the finished pro
forms raw materials silage, hay and
hardened plant will often entirely col
lapse under outside conditions while
a properly hardened plant will with
stand these and make a good growth.
4. Plants should be set out in the
garden at the best season the spring
April for the hardy vegetables and
May and June for the tender plants.
5. All of the young plants should
be closely watched for insect attacks
after being set out otherwise the care
expended on the other four points
will be of little avail.
Farm Reminders.
Pomeranian white globe turnips
stayed palatable longer than the cow
horn turnips in tests at the Astoria
branch station. They also yielded
four tons more roots to the acre. O.
A. C. Experiment station.
Flax to be a success for fiber or
seed must be planted early in April.
The seed should always be given the
formaldehyde .treatment Shallow,
even planting is essential. O. A. C.
Experiment station.
Get Prolific Queen Bees
Beekeepers should see to it that
every hive is headed by a young, pro
lific Italian queen. The hives should
be left packed as late in the spring
as possible to avoid chilling the brood
on cold nights. O. A. C. Experiment
station.
Buckwheat Good Crop.
Buckwheat makes a good honey
crop and gives good yields of seed in
Oregon. Buckwheat grain is good
for "stock- and. poultry when used with
other feed. The Japanese variety isH
a good yielder but silver hull is a lit
tle plumper. Sow at the rate of 45
pounds per acre after the danger of
frost is over.
Lime-Sulfur Gets Twig Miner.
It is the exceptional orchard of
prunes, peaches or apricots in which
the twig miner is not sufficiently in
jurious to warrant the application of
lime-sulfur 1 to 8 jln February or
March for its control. The symmet
ry of young trees is often seriously af
fected by this twig miner aside from
injury to twigs and fruit of bearing
trees. Where dorman application is
carefully made, 95 to 98 per cent ef
ficiency may be expected. Summer'
applications are practically worthless.
O. A. C. Experiment station.
Pumpkin Pie.
Two cups of pumpkin very dry; one
cup of rich milk or cream; half tea
sponful of salt; one tablespoonful of
butter, melted; one teaspoonful of
cinnamon; one teaspoonful of ginger;
two eggs, well beaten. Bake until
a light brown. Good for one pie only,
and the grouch.
Oyster Soup.
One pint oysters; one quart table
cream;- one-half cup finely chopped
celery; two tabpespoonfuls cracker
nvest
and
esc .-.j
You Will Be Happy
If you want your dollar to work for you, earning
a large rate of interest, buy in West Linn.
These people have bought in the past week.
M. H. Martin
Melvin Young
Edward McLean
S. O. Dillman
7th St. Foot of Elevator
Phone 427
dust. .
Heat cream in a double boiler, stir
in cracker dust, chopped celery, salt
and pepper. When hot add the oys
ters, drained of their liquor and as
soon as their edges begin to curl-the
soup is ready to serv. This is a
Kentucky receipe and is very deli
cious. Stewed Pears.
Eight large pears; five ounces of
sugar, six cloves; six whole all-spice;
one-half pint water, one fourth pint
vinegar.
Halve the pears, leaving on stems,
but removing the cores. Put in gra
nite saucepan and let simmer gently
from three to four hours. Lift out on
glass dish very carefully. Boil syrup
two or three minutes. Cool a little
and pour over pears. ' ' -Mince
Meat.
Boil until tender, a beef tongue,
which has been well salted; when cold
chop fine and add: Two pounds of
suet, chopped fine; two pounds rai
sins, stoned; two pounds of currants,
washed and dried; 12 large apples,
chopped; the grated rind of one, and
juice and pulp of two oranges;, a
quart of strawberry or raspberry jam;
one quart of peaches with juice put
through colander; three-fourths pound
of citron, shaved; two tablespoonfuls
of ground cinnamon; one tablesspoon
ful grated nutmeg; one tablespoonful
ground allspice; one tablespoonful of
ground cloves.
Moisten well with sherry wine and
brandy and add juice and grated rind
of four lemons. Add as many nuts
as desired.
BANNER THOUGHTS
IN POETRY
Worth While. -
There's no such satisfaction
As the satisfaction true
-Which comes from helping others
In the work they have to do.
And there's 'no such thrill of glad
ness Like that sweet and happy thrill
Which is born of helping others
Who are trudging up the hill.
If you want to know contentment,
And be truly satisfied,
Just go and help your brother
When his soul is being tried.
Edgar A. Guest.
Where Trouble Goes.
A crowd of troubles passed him by
As he with courage waited.
He said: "Where do you troubles
fly
When you are thus belated."
"We go," they said, "to those who
mope, x
Who look on lifaeiected.
- Who eakiy-SSy goodbye to hope;
--'We-' go where we're expected."
Life.
Albert
Grocers
Recommend
Albers
Quality
Flapjacks
the
hotcakes
of the
West
Mrs. Etta Pitts
Fred W. Mowrey
Union High
West Linn near Bridge
Phone 386
DXlW H Carefully '
iVi f ' seaIed
i V Q cylindrical .
ii sanitation.
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TRAINING LITTLE CITIZENS
These Articles published weekly in these columns are
Issued by the National Kindergarten Associ
ation, New York City
Parents As Educators
Who Is Jane's Teacher?
(By Anne Goodwin Williams, Nation
al Kindergarten and Elementary Col
lege.) "Who is Jane's Teacher?" we asked
of the 'mother of a charming little
eight year old girl. The mother men
tioned the name of Jane's teacher in
the public school and then together
we performed some arithmetical pro
blems to prove that "Miss Bennett"
was only one of Jane's many teachers
and that her teaching hours were less
than those of some of the ' others.
Suppose, we said, that Jane sleeps
from (seven o'clock until seven then
in a year she has 4380 waking hours
and only 1000 of them are spent in
school during the year What of the
3380 hours remaining? Who is teach
ing Jane, then? She is certainly
learning. Sometimes her playmates
are her teachers, with lessons some
times helpful, sometimes harmful. The i
father's teaching hours are limited to
Sundays and holidays with an occa
sional evening hour; the Sunday
school teacher may get twenty-five
hours a year, but of course, the real
teacher is the mother. Every day
of the year, she teaches her littl dau
ghter, even during the child's sickness
lessons continue, lessons of patience,
gentleness and self control.
If anyone were to ask of the school
teacher that she teach music, art,
literature, domestic science and manu
al training, she would know it was
ispossible. And yet, that js just
what is demanded of the mother as an
educator.
Music! Yes, she is teaching music
when she sings at her work or helps
Jane select good music for the Vic
trola instead of Jazz. And she ar
ranges her homes tastefully, with
appropriate pictures, with which she is
often unconsciously forming the child
taste in art.
"What stories shall I read to the
children?" we Kindergartners are of
ten asked again and again by eager
mothers who feel that ordinary
"trashy" stories are not good enough
for the children who are so 'greatly
influenced by the stories they, hear
and read.
The mother knows this wise moth
er-educator who is asked to teach do
mestic sicence, how necessary it is for
her little daughter to learn helpful
ness in household duties. "I can't
iron big things yet but I can iron
all the handkerchiefs, daddy's land
mother's and John's and mine," said
little Jane with pride. " ""
Actions- are judged right or wrong
according to mother's -appiwal or dig-
approval. She is, indeed, thegreat
teacher- of morals. "Slip - in behind
those people so the conductor won't
see you," I heard a woman say to a
little boy one day as I was boarding
a crowded street car. He succeeded
in "fooling the conductor" and in get
ting a definite lession in cheating
and in dishonor.
Religious training, as well as mor
al is part of the great task and the
joyous task of the teacher-mother
and is it not a glad sign for future
America that so many mothers of our
great country are, in their hearts
The Time to Buy
Is when others are not buying
when money is rather close
and prices are low.
When spring opens there Is
always a buyers' rush, and
prices always follow demand.
If you want a city home, a
farm or any property, look them
over now and save mone.y.
Come in and see what I have.
Insurance that
Insures
Seven strong companies, fire,
accident, burglary, forgery,
causality, auto.
E.E.TEEPLE
"19 Main, Oregon Or.
Weldon's Watch Shop
REPAIRS BOTH AMERICAN & SWISS ACE
LET & WRIST WATCHES; ALSO EXPERT ON
ALL WATCHES & CLOCKS. "
WE KNOW HOW TO REPAIR THEM TO YOUR
SATISFACTION.
FRANK NELDON
EXPERT WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER
425 Main at 5th Street
F- Scripture
GENERAL BLACKSMITHTNG
All kinds of repairing, plow grinding
Automobile and Truck Springs Repaired
HORSESHOEING r . a
Phone. 276-W 108 Fifth St Between Main and Water Sts.
uniting in the prayer of: 'Motherhood"
so beautifully given by. Eleanor Rob
bins Wilson in a recent number of
Good Housekeeping? r -
"So short a time at my command
These children that I hold tonight,
God give me grace to understand,
Wisdom to ; guide their steps aright,
That I may be throughout the land,
A lamp - unto their feet for light
"So short a time do small hands sling,
With confidence of babyhood,
Let me not idly dream the thing,
But live the noble part I should,
That henceforth from much mother
ing They shall instinctively seek good.
"So short a time for my embrace,
For love, cheer, comfort, lullabies,
God help me hallow the brief space
That turns to gold each sacrifice
Build her soul's mansion in the skies."
PRODUCERS OF FOOD
That the condition of farmers in
several states is much worse than the
public suspects is disclosed by an
announcement from the American
Red Cross that between $75,000 and
$100,000 of its funds have been ex
pended in relieving distress in cer
tain parts of Montana and North Da
kota. In a letter to the Farmers' Coun
cil headqaurters, Y. C. Mansfield of
Sunnyside, Wash., depicts the terrible
conditions existing in that state and
in Montana and Southern Idaho.
Thousands of farmers, Mr. Mans
field records, are unable to send their
children to school because of inabil
ity to supply foook;s and clothes.
Many of them are living mostly on
bread and milk.
"Many farmers," the letter contin
ues, "are compelled to go to their
bankers and beg for money to buy a
sack of flour. Their crops were all
mortgaged and taken from them.
There are a great many who were
unable last fall to seed their summer-
fallowed ground and there is no hope
of their being able to do so in the
spring."
mmimii
lllill
See George For
GROCERIES AND MEAT
Georges Cash Store
CARVER
$5 PORTRAIT FREE
In order to be doing something dur-
ng these dull times, we will make you
a 14x20 oval convex $5.00 portrait
FREE. We want you to show it to
your friends and advertise our work,
All we ask of you send us 95c to pay
we ask of you send us 95c to pay
for postage and boxing and we will
Bend the portrait prepaid, free. Mail
your photos, with 95c. Give us a trial
No frame catch buy your frame
where you please. We copy anything
and everything. Money back if not
pleased.
PALM ART CO.,
Hastings, Neb.
U BUST UM
WE FIXUM
Umbrellas repaired,
saws filed and set,
soldering.
OXY-WELDING
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
FIXUM SHOP
Opposite Library on 7th St.
Whatever you have to buy, sell, rent or exchange,
whether, you want employment or employees;
BANNER-COURIER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS
For Sale Live Stock
NOTICE
I will sell at' public auction at my
residence in Elwood, Clackamas Coun
ty, Oregon, March 3rd, 1922, at 2 P.
M., to highest bidder, for cash, the
following described estray steers:
, 1 black mulley; 1 red mulley; 1
black ; with . white spot in forehead,
thick horns, each haivng' the follow
ing ear mark under bit in right ear,
and upper slope-in left ear. Louis
Vallen, Colton, Ore., Rt.- No. 1.
. 2-16-2t
REGISTERED BREEDING STOCK
Big -xype Poland and Duroc Jersey
Swine.
Young stock for sale. ' -
DIMICK STOCK FARM.
For Sale Poultry
FOR SALE Thoroughbred R. I. Red
roosters, $3.50 each. ' Mrs. Lucy
Martin, Glen Park street, Willam
ette Valley Southern. : P. O. Rt
320, Oregon City. ' 2tp
FOR SALE Pure bred barred rock
roosters, O. A. S. stock, $3.00 each.
Loganberry and blackcap tips, -$20
per thousand. Victor Lalone, Rt. 2,
Box 89, Oregon City. (2-16-ltp.
FOR SALE 130 egg Mandy Lee In
cubator. Peter Huber, Hoff , Ore.
Rt 1. 2-9-3t.pd.
BABY CHICKS For Sale S. C. White
Leghorns from heavy laying strain.
$15.00 per hundred. H. Cunning
ham, Holmes Ave., : Oregon City,
phone 15F12. tf.
FOR SALE Eggs for hatching, Rhode
Island Reds, $1.25 per . 15. G. F.
Anderson. 414 Main Street., Oregon
City of Gladstone 2-16-8t.
For Sale Miscellaneous
IS YOUR SIGN in keeping with your
Business? Robertson Sign Co., Ore
gon City.
CEDAR POSTS FOR SALE W. W.
Harris, Phone Beaver Creek 1-4.
. ... . 2-2-9t
SECOND HAND GOODS Bought and
sold, Stoves and Ranges, Buffet and
a Thousand and one other articles
in daily use we have on hand.' We
Buy Everything and . Pay Cash fox1
ame. J. H. Mattley, 914 - 7th St.
...... . .. tf.
Insure with your Home Companies
PACIFIC STATES
for business risks'
McMINNVILLE or FARMERS MUTUAL
for residence and country properties
E. H. COOPER & SON
Bank of Oregon City Bldg.,
HORSESHOEING
PRICES DOWN
MAY & WASHBURN AND S. F. SCRIPTURE
Announce that the price of horseshoeing is reduced
to $3.00 for new shoes and $2.00 for resetting. Also
substantial reduction on all other work.
Dependable Poultry Feeds
Are a large factor in successful poultry farming.
We carry a large and complete stock of poultry sup
plies and grain at prices which compare very favor
ably with pre-war times.
Larson & Company
10th and Main
- Rhode Island Red Eggs
We have one of the finest flocks of
Rhode Island Red Fowls in the state
and will be able to supply hatching
eggs from fine well matured hens at
any time hereafter. Eggs $1.50 per
setting, delivered in Oregon City.
J : - ; ' CLIFFORD GUYNUP,
- ,s Oregon City, Oregon.
R. F. D.. Phone 29F3. 2-16-22tf.
CONCRETE WORK All kinds includ
ing sidewalks and basements. Chim
neys repaired. M. Long, Telephone
-264-R 4-28 tf
FOR SALE 1000 , Frlit Trees and
Rose Bushes, apples, pears, prunes
plums, and peaches, one and two
year olds, 25 cents each, H. J. Big
ger, Oregon City Greenhouse.
.-.-'. Nov. 17-tr.
For Sale Real Estate
rFOR SALE Six-room bungalow, ev-
very modern convenience, on river
front . Any pne wanting a nice
home, furnished or unfurnished,
Phone 188-J. 2-t-p.
Wanted Real Estate
WANTED To hear from owner of
good ranch for sale. State cash
price, full particulars . D. F. Bush,
Minneapolis, Minn. l-5-13t.
LOST A leather wallet, tan color.
Five dollars reward for return to
Huntley-Draper store. Earl Tiede
man. ' , 2-23-ltp.
LOST Gray Blanket on Falls View
on Sunday P. M. Return to Banner
Courier office and receive reward.
Difficult to Comprehend.
Father was trying to explain "Stan
dard Time" to little Harry, but Harry
was not sure that he understood.
"After all, it is no great matter."
said father.
"You are now only in the fourth
grade. When you have gone to school
longer, you will learn all about it."
("Maybe so," said Harry with a re
assuring smile. "The teacher says
that even lots of eighth grade boys
and girls don't understand longitude
and gratitude." Wayside Tales.
Phone 366
Oregon City
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