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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Editorial Page Home and Farm Magazine Section
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tural, livestock and poultry Interests or
the Northwest and on the uplift and
comfort of the farm home always arc
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ligion, politics or the European war arc
solicited. Wc proclaim neutrality on
these matters.
Comparatively brief contributions
are preferred to long ones. Send us
also photographs of your livestock nnd
farm scenes that you think would b
of general interest. Wc wish to make
this magazine of value to you. Help
us to do It.
SMALL FARMS.
ONE of the leading New York
bankers, in fact one of the
leading bankers of the world,
in passing through Portland recent
ly, gave out an interview in which
he predicted that Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho would lead all other
states in the Union in financial and
commercial progress during the
next ten years.
The prediction was made by one
who is perhaps as .able to fathom
future financial conditions as any
man in the world today.
One of the things he mentioned in
particular was the cutting up of
large tracts of land into small farms,
and thereby making a hundred
farms where one now exists.
So much hns been written regard
ing large farms that the people of
the East are prone to consider the
Pacific Northwest only in the light
of large farms. The great financial
and commercial success that is cer
tain to come to the Pacific North
west will come only in proportion to
the number of large farms that arc
made into small ones.
Highly cultivated small farms
means a hundred people on the same
number of acres where now one or
two exist.
Many a farmer has failed to suc
ceed because the profits from his
crop went to pay hired help, who,
having no greater interest in their
work than their monthly wage, were
in no way fit to serve their employer
properly. Hired help on an acre farm
is not to be thought of, for one
moment.
The head and the hands of tho
owner combined are the forces that
will wring from that acre of soil its
greatest abundance. The ultimate
financial outcome of commercial
success of the Pacific Northwest
hinges largely upon concentrated
fanning, which can only be done by
cutting the large farms into small
ones and placing thereon a satisfied
owner.
j THE APPLE MARKET.
(IMItoilnl In Hood Iilver .W-w.)
DURING the past two or three
weeks, according to n dispatch
from Chicago, tho Gibson
Fruit Company, of that city, has un
dertaken to secure what amounts to
n corner on the apple market. They
started picking up holdings here and
there about a month ago, and now
have what are declared to be tho
largest "individual holdings of box
apples left this season, amounting
to 140 cars of high-grade stock. The
total holdings were cut nearly in
half during the month of March, and
the movement hns been decidedly
bullish. According to Mr. Gibson,
the holdings cast of the Mississippi
River this year are now the lightest
that they have been in five years,
and he predicts that there will be n
strong feeling in the market the bal
ance of the season.
These stateemnts arc borne out
by reports from other apple-distributing
centers and, coming at the end
of a big crop year, are decidedly en
couraging. It is naturally expected
that there will be no such bumper
production this season, and conse
quently the prospects at this time
are bright
THE FARMER CAN DO IT.
(IMltorlnl In Albany Democrat.)
TO WHAT an extent business is
dependent upon the farmer
may be well illustrated by tho
statement of the fact that three
fourths of the deposits in the Al
bany banks, and probably in the
banks in the other Valley cities
of approximately the size of this
city or even larger, arc in the
names of farmers. They have the
money. They have made money
and have it in the banks, where they
are keeping it, waiting for things
to loosen up and confidence be fully
restored, when it will come out and
in different ways go into circulation.
That will mean a good deal for the
country. Whenever a farmer makes
up his mind that there is something
special that he wants he has tho
money to buy it with. The sooner
he sets things to going the better it
will be 'for this Valley. He can do
it. Will he start something?
PROMISING NEW FRUITS.
THE problem of a varietal selec
tion of plants is one of unceas
ing importance, and new sorts
are being introduced each year. As
the improvement of fruits continues,
it is necessary for the progressive
grower to follow the advances made
along the particular line in which he
is interested. During the past year
no new varieties of apples or pears
have apixsared which are worth con
sideration. However, the Greensboro peach
assumed importance in many sec
tions during 1914. The variety or
iginated with W. G. Balsley, of
Greensboro, N. C, about 1893, from
a seed of Connett's Southern Early.
The fruit is large, attractive, white
fleshed and ripens from August 1 to
15. The variety deserves extensive
trial in good peach-growing sections
of Northern states, where early
peaches are in demand.
The Late Muscalelle plum, which
was obtained by the Government
from Germany in 1900, proved dur
ing the year to be one of the best
late plums tried out by the Geneva
(N. Y.) station. The fruit is of good
size, roundish, but inclined to be
truncate in shape, and is of an at
tractive purple brown color slightly
splashed and mottled with russet.
The tough skin is a valuable asset
for shipping. It is one of the latest
to ripen, but its season is short and
it is inclined to shrivel in storage.
For local market trade, Late Mus
cntelle should prove a valuable va
riety. A single variety of black rasp
berry, known as Black Pearl, has at
tracted attention. It combines size,
color nnd firmness with excellent
quality and flavor. From tho single
year's trial it promises to bo valu
able and a variety worthy of com
mercial recommendation if future
tests show it equal to its past
standard.
Tho Industry gooseberry, "which
was originated by Robert Wyndham
in Northern England early in the
nineteenth century, is one of the
most productivo European varieties.
The bushes are strong, vigorous
growers. Where shoots grow long,
they fruit to the very tips. This is
a good variety to grow for market,
either green or ripe, and is equally
worthy of n place in the home gar
den. While more apt to be affected
by mildew and possibly less hardy
than most American sorts, Industry
is among tho healthiest and hardiest
of all English gooseberries.
Another fruit of late promineilce is
the Indiana strawberry. It origi
nated with II. J. Schild, of Ionia,
Mich., in 1005. The color is some
what variable at first, but later be
comes a uniformly dark, glossy scar
let. The variety appear.! to be one
of the best shippers, having firm,
meaty flesh. Tho Barrymore is a
berry resulting from a cross made
by II. L. Crane, of Westwood, Mass.,
in 1901. Tho variety is slightly sus
ceptible of leaf -spot and in the later
pickings the color has sometimes
been variable. Notwithstanding
these defects, however, the Barry
more is almost an ideal variety for
early midscason.
PLEASURE IN FARMING.
HOW many people are farming
for farming's sake, to appro
priate the words of the artist,
or how many would joyfully sell out
tomorrow without the least regrets,
if some other opening promised
greater financial returns? We nat
urally farm for the money there is
in it, but the question is, is that all
there is in it for us and is that all we
are getting out of it? How many
farmers arc really enjoying their
business and how many find a keen
pleasure in their work from day to
day on the farm?
Wc must of necessity keep an eye
on the financial side of our opera
tions, for this is essential to success ;
we admit that. But too many of us
go about the farm in n blind, me
chanical sort of way, dragging from
one task to another without getting
an iota of enjoyment from the work;
one day follows another just as one
round follows another with tho team
and plow, each merely contributing
its part to the financial success of
the season's work.
Tho man who has never gotten be
yond tljat conception has got much
coming to him yet. The world of life
and happiness swings on, unnoticed
by him, except when ho is attracted
from himself by such creatures as
crows, English sparrows, moles and
snakes.
What's the trouble ? Why carry n
long-faced grouch around all tho
time, when everything about us is
working together for our pleasure?
We are out of tune, that's all out
of love with our work; wc need a
shaking up to bo brought back into
line.
The man who finds pleasure in his
daily work on tho farm, who has a
habit of looking for it in whatever
he undertakes, is not only a happy
man, but the chances are that he is
a prosperous nmn noJluZ J
row self-centered money.Xr
pit.fuUpectncle on a farm, bSJJ
there is so much that he i Sn
andsoliltletluitheisrcaSygS
put of it. Let us nil make Zy
but we cannot afford to becon
money-blind.
Let us instill into our work a lit
of the "farming for familng's sake"
idea and train ourselves to look for
the happy sides of our work.
HIGH PRICES IN MEXICO.
(li om tin' Mexican Herald.)
SINCE the shortage of flour h
been so acute in tho city there
has been a run on every kind of
crackers, both of local and imported
brands. Soda crackers are to te
found in very few stores today, d
sell at S10 for a square tin box, eta
for the -local product. The l(kat
boxes of sea foam or saltines, k
which the housekeepers former?
paid GO cents, and felt very m
abused, now arc held at $2.50 in
few stores where they still bint
few boxes in stock. English srt
and fancy crackers and biscuit 3
for from ?10 to $20 a box.
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A NEWSPAPER in Rome, tb
a careful comparison of o5
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start, and lnopobv.-.
Americans who lack b
father a movent" "--now
come along and ft
The country owes -
to Edison; it oughU;
him to supjT
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