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C-O? -J THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922. AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK NEWS Up-to-date Information to Help Develop Progressive Farming THE PEOPLE'S SAY BUTTER AND CHEESE MEN IN NEED OF TRAINED HELPERS Oregon dairy manufacturers have found that quality of produce, as well as economy of operation depends large ly on the quality of their butter, cheese and ice-cream makers, and are inter ested in the manufacture courses at the college. Only experienced men have been admitted until recently when the ban against inexperience was lifted and untrained men may have the benefit of special courses beginning January 2. Skilled help is scarce, and factory man agers may aid their own business by finding suitable raw material for training to do the skilled work. Farm Reminders. One egg now is worth two in the spring. It is important that the binds go to roost with a good full crop during eold weather. A little extra grain in a trough an hour after the regular grain feeding at night will help ta obtain this condition. It takes more fuel for the hen's furnace during cold weather and heavy production than when the birds are molting and resting. O. A. C. Exp. station. worth here the "year thru from $1.00 to J1.50 more per hundred than in Chi cago. Great advantage to Oregon Swine breeders is here evident. It is apparent that hogs are the most profitable farm crop today. They are and alwys will be the "mortgage rais ers." There will be an increasing de mand for breeding hogs because of the high price of pork and the low price offered. No thinking farmer will sell wheat at $1.00 a bushel when he can feed it to hogs worth 10 to 12 cents a pound. The wise ones will right now increase their herds of swine and do it with the best blood obtainable for the best pay the largest profit. Breed ers of experience with purebreds will keep only purebreds whether they are breeding for meat or for stock. Wasco county peach growers Spray ed practically 100 per cent last winter for peach curl, for the first time. One half the peaches in that section are Elberta, the most susceptible variety to this disease. The result was that where previously heavy losses had been experienced there were none this year. O. A.C. Experiment station. Bees. Bees need be kept quiet for the next two or three months. Avoid disturbing them for any reason, if possible. . If late feeding is necessary it should be done as quickly as possible by using warm syrup. O. A. C. Experiment Sta tion. .- Ordering queen bees for early deliv ery is advisable at this time, as the queen supply is limited. More Mortgage Lifters Needed. (By George DeBok) Where are the hogs? Only 42691 breeding hogs are on Oregon's 50206 farms and this includes scrubs as well as purebreds. What a sermon for our farmers! No wonder times are hard. We must have more hogs and we are going to have them. Oregon and the northwest are the swinebreeders' paradise. There the hog grows to the greatest perfection. A pound of pork can be produced cheaper here than in any other part of the nation. Live hogs are are worth $9.50 to $10.00 per hundred weight on the Portland market. And they are Hides Not All Alike. "Packer hides" are those removed in the larger packing houses where the method of taking off and curing is uni form, and are closely sorted as to grade. "Country hides" are those tak en off on farms or in small slaughter houses. They vary in method of cut ting, are seldom properly cured, are gashed more than packer hides, and are not sorted to uniform grades. Packer hides are classified into steers, bulls and cows, in each of which the subclasses are "natives" and "branded" and into calf hides subdi vided into "kips," "packer calves" and "slunks." Native steers are graded as "spready" when at least six and one ed flat. "Heavy" native' steers weigh 60tpounds at least in the cured state, "lights" from 50 to 60 pounds, while "extreme lights" run down to 25 pounds. ' Branded steers are graded as "butts" when the brand is on the rump, as "Col orados" when branded along the side, and as "heavy," "light" and 'extreme light Texas," also side branded, some times with several brands due to changing ownership. Calf hides weigh under 25 pounds. "Kips" weigh from 15 to 25 pounds, and "packer calves" less than 15 pounds. "Slunks" are skins of un born calves. Spready steers are used for furni ture and automobile leather for the most part, heavy and light natives for harnesses and bating leather and ex treme light natives for upper leather. Branded steers are used for sole leath er. Country hides are classified as "heavies," weighing 60 pounds up; "buffs," weighing 45 to 60 pounds, "ex tremes," weighing 25 to 45 pounds; with "kips" and "calfskins" as in pack er hides. "Deacons" are calf hides weighing-less than 7 pounds. "Fallen hides" are those removed from dead animals, and "glues" are unfit to cure. From late fall or early winter to June 1 hide buyers always examine each hide for holes made by the grubs of the warble fly. "Grubby" hides are those containing five or more grub holes and sell at 1 cent a pound under the rest. ' . RECIPES Contributions to this column are invited. Apple Whip. Grate one large or two small apples, beat the white of an egg till it stands, then beat into that one cup of sugar and to this add the grated apple and beat it all' for 15 minutes, till it looks and tastes like whipped cream. This makes a fine filling for a cake or a dressing over anything where you would use whipped cream. Try it. A. W. B. Pineapple Cake. 3 eggs, y2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, & cup sweet milk,- teaspoon va nilla, 1 1-2 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder. Bake in layers. Filling 1-2 grated pineapple, 1 grat ed lemon, 3-4 cup milk, 1 teaspoon cornstarch. Cook in double boiler. Johnny Cake. One cup flour, one-half cup good yel low cornmeal, one-fourth cup sugar or a tablespoon of honey, one-half teas pon cream of tartar, one-half teaspoon soda crushed fine before measuring, one cup sweet milk, one egg, one table spoon shortening. 'Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly, add . the milk, into which the egg has been added, well beaten, and the shortening, melted the last thing. MISS A. B. Bran Cookies. One-half cup of sugar, one-fourth cup of butter os butter substitute, one egg, one cup of bran, one-half teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of vanilla, two tablespoonfuls of milk, flour to make stiff enough to handle (about three-fourths of a cup). Cream butter; add sugar gradually; then egg well beaten; stir in bran and all milk and flour; roll, shape and bake for fifteen minutes in moderate oven. .Make same size as ginger-snaps. Influence of Breed The breed of a dairy cow has a distinct influence on the water content of her milk. For ex--ample, Jersey milk as an aver age contains 14.7 per cent total solids, of which 5.35 per cent is fat, while Holstein milk con tains, on the average, 11.85 per cent total solids, of which 3.42 per cent Is butterfat. In other words every 100 pounds of Jer sey milk contains 85 pounds of water, while every 100 pounds of Holstein milk contains 88 pounds of water. The differ ence in feeding value amounts to 2.61 pounds of milk solids per 100 pounds of milk in favor of Jersey milk. There's Money in Milking. The greatness of the dairy industry Is more appreciated now than1 for sev eral years past. Dairying actually shows a gain during the past year of several hundred million dollars, while most of the other farm branches show losses Info the billions. Dairy Improvement. Replacing the low producing cows with better ones and later with pure breds Is only one of the ways in which dairy improvement association helps a community. ALFALFA CROP OF MANY USES Leads ai Forage; Unsurpassed as Hay; Has High Carrying Capacity as Pasture. No forage crop cultivated in the United States is used successfully in so many ways as alfalfa. It is more nearly a perfect forage than any other crop grown in this country. It is un surpassed as. hay for general feeding and has a high carrying capacity as pasture. With proper handling good results can be obtained with it as a soiling crop. It makes excellent silage and when ground into meal is a good and easily handled feed. Al falfa is so highly regarded as forage that some persons have attempted to create a demand for it as human food. Enthusiasts have tried to show that it has medicinal value. However, it cannot compete as food with other staple crops and, so far as known, it has no special medicinal properties. Alfalfa is not only valuable as a forage crop, but also as a soil im prover. It is not well adapted to short rotations, but the cropping plan on most farms can be arranged so as to handle the crop conveniently. Calves Need Much Water. Calves should have all the water they want to drink. They will not drink very much at a time but If it is before them all the time they will drink considerable in a day. FEED DRY COW ON ROUGHAGE Daily Allowance of Bran or Oats Is Favored Cabbage and Pumpkins Are Very Good. ; During the eight or ten weeks that cows go dry, their food should be chiefly roughage. A dally allowance of two pounds of bran or oats, or a mixture of two parts each of bran and oats and one part of linseed meal or corn-oil meal makes a proper feed for a cow hear calving. Some roots, cabbage, pumpkins, or squashes are also very good. Highly carbonaceous roughage, such as straw and corn stalks, Is not good at this particular time. Such feeds, with cold water, cold drafts, or lying out at night on damp or frozen ground, are the chief causes of caked udder or garget. HOW TO BUY FIRE INSURANCE KM' 17 "UJ&i ST- " 01 n Wf f It II OB 3 F53Tfi si " is ft-Tawirn n ii st a at ii rr m ii a iM To the Editor: ' The question of education is now be fore the people of Oregon in such a de veloping form that unless the people are watchful the incoming legislature, as well as other future ones, will make our' public school system a machine that will blight 'what is left '. of our original American spirit. Indeed, I be lieve this is the motive of our "educa tors." They prate about the grandeur of our public schools, but we can't help but feel uneasy. We have reasons to doubt their sincerity in spots. These "educators," ' headed by the state superintendent, play on our af fections with beautiful phrases, but at the same time they quietly and slowly, yet systematically, get one law after another through the legislatures that will make a Prussianized school when they finally get through. Just sleep on a little longer, fellow citizens. Any class, except the farmer and the working man, can get anything they want from our legislatures. The edu cational system, , in conjunction with our medical system, can already poison our children's systems with rotten cow- pus or debar them from school when ever they get the notion. They have also succeeded in getting a law passed that gives the state, superintendent the power to take away from any teacher their life diploma, granted -to them by the educational board of this state, un less you read annually some book des ignated by a certain class. And a county superintendent can likewise prevent you teaching. Thus, they have the teachers already corralled and to their disgrace, be it said, most of the teachers are already tamed. Can you look far enough into the future to see the effect of such "train ed' teachers on your children and mine? Like dumb animals who per form as their master directs? Fed on the kind of feed (books) an upper (?) class will order eventually? Yes, friends, this is the situation now, but more to follow. The County Unit Sys tem, they call it, is the next step. By this plan the right to hire their own teaohers will be taken away from the various districts. The county .superin tendent will have the greatest say as to who shall teach our children. Then to make it still more solid, the super intendent will no longer be elected by the people! And this is going to be put over while you sleep! If educators of this state are per mitted to: finish what they have begun, you will have, in the near future, a system of education in this state where, in order to obtain position, money and "beauty" will talk, and where a : : favorite of the court" and a county nurse will "play ball" with your children and mine. Fellow citizens, this is the game. Where do you stand? Are you still a devoted friend of genuine American ism in all its simplicity, or do you favor the slow but steady growth of absolutism on American soil? If, pur chance, there are some amongst us who favor absolutism, may future gen erations forget you were our cuntry men. . " ROBERT GINTHER. io UDtain ureaier Production Fowls Should Be Young and of Good -Laying Breed. For the largest profit a good pro portion of the eggs should be laid during the winter. If two extra eggs a week can be obtained from each hen, a good profit will be made, and if the product Is increased by only one egg a week In winter this one egg will pay for all the feed the hen eats. To obtain this greater production not only should the fowls be young and of a good laying breed but the feeder should have a full knowledge of the proper feed and Its preparation. TRAINING LITTLE CITIZENS 7- . : ; These Articles published weekly in these columns are v Issued by the National Kindergarten Associ- - at ion. New Ynrk Citv '. 'By Sophie Kitchener "What adult deed is there that chil dren will not at once imitate? There fore be careful, you grown-up people, what you do in the presence of these little ones." Froebel. The family is at breakfast, Mother, Daddy, and baby ' Betty, aged two. Everything is very cheerful and hap py until fcaby decides she must have the inside part of a rolL Now Mother doesn't think the-soft hot bread is good for baby's youthful stomach and so she says, "No." n Betty becomes dis gruntled and turns to her usual court of appeal--Daddy. It happens, how ever, that Daddy knowing that Mother is right is in a quandary.- So for the time being Betty , wails in disappoint ment. But Mother has to see about something in the kitchen. As soon as she is well out of the room Daddy leans over to Betty, stuffs the roll in her mouth, and says, "Here hurry and take it before your mother comes back." This illustration speaks for itself. What kind of -a standard is Daddy set ting before his Betty who is in truth the pride of his heart? Children learn by imitation, and if tne examples set them are not worthy, they can't be expected to invent worthy ones all by themselves. 'A parent's indulgence of his child should not make him willing to sacrifice the Child's future stand ards to his present pleasure. With parents it is often a case of its being harder to discipline themselves than to discipline their children. Because they want the full wealth of their child's love they buy it with weakness. As a result receive a great deal of affec tion, provided the child always gets what it wants, and have a great deal of trouble when it doesn't. True this little Betty loves her Daddy and in any pre dicament or childish unhappiness calls always for him, but should he be proud to be called by the baby whose love he has brought with pampering? What is more, such examples will increasingly lower the baby's stamina and will warp her viewpoint beyond repair. For since children do develope through imitation, Betty will probably be the sort of little girl who must have what she wants regardless of every thing else;' all because her father taught her how. Therefore it is well for parents to watch first their own weakness bo there won't be so many for their chil dren to imitate. SKUNKS WILL DESTROY BEES Visit Hives at Night and Scratch on Outside Until Honey Gath ers Come Out.. A report from Ohio received by the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture says that skunks are giving a great deal of trouble to bee-keepers In that region. The skunks visit the hives at night and scratch on the outside till the bees come out As soon as they ap pear the skunks eat them. The bio logical survey recommends that under such conditions the hives be fenced in with chicken wire at least three feet high. December 1 Crop Report. A condition below the ten year aver age over an acreage somewhat less than last year is the Oregon winter wheat situation as outlined in the lat est report of F. L. Kent, Stetistician; U. S.' Dept., of Agriculture,. .' satis; countieis, age has seeding has V . . ager A report in part, "Very o fered with fall seeW plowing and damageo. sown. Fall wheat acre of last year." Bakery'W! Jefferson also' report acreage and con dition much below normal. Umatilla, Sherman, Wasco, .Morrow and Gilliam counties, with about 72 per cent of the - total state acreage of winter wheat report about the same acreage as last year, but with a somewhat lower con dition. ' In the western -part of the state fall seeding conditions were' nearly ideal and most growers had ample op portunity to' seed all the winter wheat acreage they cared to with the result , that the western Oregon acreage ap pears to be considerably in excess of that of last year. But only ten to fif teen -per cent of the state's winter wheat crop is grown in this- western ' district. The total Oregon acreage seeded this fall is estimated at 852,00 acres which compares with an estimate, of 861,000 acres seeded a year ago. Con dition reports indicated 91 per cent of normal on December 1, which com-, pares with 92 per cent last year, 97 per cent in 920,. and 92 per cent for the ten years average. .- The total U. S. acreage seeded this fall is estimated at 46,069,000 which is 3.2 per cent less than the revised es timate of 47,611,000 acres seeded last fall. ; Condition of the U. S. crop is reported as 79.5 per cent. December 1; condition last year was 76.0 per cent; 1920 was 87.9 per cent and the 10 year average 87.9 per cent. Go Home for Yuletide Holidays , Why not surprise the folks at home with a visit at Yuletide? It .will make them happy and you, too. Plan now to take advantage of 25 Reduction in Round Trip Fares Between all stations where one-way fare is $30.00 oi less. ! i. ! Sale dates: December 22,23,24,25,29,30 31, January 1st. Final return limit January 3rd. ' Frequent and Convenient Service will make your journey a trip of pleasure. For further particulars ask agents or write V JOHN M. 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It may be marriage to the girl, or maybe you are married already and the thing you are hoping to- do is to build a cozy little . home of your own. PERHAPS it is an education for your children or merely something big for yourself. Whatever it is, the thing you are hoping to do can't . just happen. It must be worked for and fought for and the surest way to bring it about is a cash reserve, for without money your ambition will always remain a remote hope. - START saving now. Be sure you are ready when opportunity comes. Bank of Oregon City Oldest Bank in Clackamas County Organized Forty-one Years Ago. , ft REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Phone 377 620 Main S -Oregon City, Oregon More and Better Fruit A NEW DISCOVERY. Nature's Way of Production Greatly Improved., F you wqnt what you want when you want it in the printing line WE HAVE IT! The fruit buds mature and produce much larger ' and more wholesome fruit. Extremely large cherries and they do not fall. Bear in mind that fully fifty per cent of our cherries fall before maturity." This may all be sav ed, except for weather conditions, the first year by the application of "More house's Orchard tnvigorant," applied bv expert horticulturists. All fruit made to bring forth an abundance, as the "Invigorant" feeds the fruit bear ing buds. ; The serious bleeding, as well as Bacterial Gummosis, in the lherrie, . soon overcome, through the perfect circulation of the sap. Roses and all "the flower kingdom made to respond with brighter tints; all cerials, vegetables, forced into heavy produc tion. Practical pruning, spraying, bud ding and grafting done in proper sea son. All .sprays have the invigorant added free. "The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." Write or call for further information. Morehouse Orcharding Co., Woodstock, Store Now Opens at 9 A. M. 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