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Newspaper Page TextSTSv J,;0' ill K61C Ktaj;!r.T. 53 - m v so T ,?0' r. o smr' mm inn I vi fV :n -. ri M'.-ri ri ri It v n 1 1 ft mm .XrVAxr. I "v. il l ' 1. AGOJVK. GOT. POWK CO. ORPGOK V anL 1,1 I urn ii Ti 4 11 II' 1 I I I III III v 1 -' r w v . ll .- -i ff 4y - lv - - .i if a - fefi'v.i W '. bsSjkNv-' v, c!' sheep. a mrycptilD BSiSWIS ORB COWWDLD county: FRt Chicago V VROKni560WI i . I ill Hlllll IMI II IIMIIillMIHI ' IMMTIWri m5 .'5.Hi'.-':7,i"-. .jk.J!" ... 'ft H - ? i v- K !. u.' k-. j ,, , Y 1.1 - t , tit K tut- "MAmwjK i v 1 . mHAT OREGON hag enormous -d-; I . vantage over any utatt of th . ' I east or tnlddl west in th dairy A m and livestock Induatrlea thr la plenty of absolute proof. The man who I willing to ' be . convinced by honest evidence-may ftnd any amount of it he wants. The nan who don't want to know the facta was teg the time of. hlmaelf and other Is making com parison or pursuing Investigation. 1 Not only 1 Oregon the ideal itate of the Union for livestock ralslnf, but It Is developing the beet market in Am erica for all livestock producta. The ereat meat packer of the east, after txamlning conditions tliroushout the Pacific coaat states, have with delibera tion and faith settled upon Portland as the packing center and their big plants are being located hero. To the modern livestock producer this means much. The dairying business, also In Its in fancy, is making equally rapid strides ' Lwtr' dvlopment along broad lines. The dairying products of Oregon, but a rew years ago approximately nothing, 'r last year valued at $17,000,000. . This Immense growth could not have been accomplished in a state leas fa vored by natural conditions. Oregon is to the dairyman a comparatively "'easy" : proposition. AH he has to do is to ap fly ordinary Intelligence and industry . to the work. The now anH tho iiudv demand for their products do the ret- Zmmease Demand and Oreat riaio. . The state of Oregon a few year ao var,e2 according o the J Imported a great deal of butter from ure" during the year 1907: Today the de. 1 1 T vf' -in W 'J , 31 I 4i 't i t'l MtKliaaaajitjMMwajtytt ja J ?4 - 7 I'tiiiiiimii1 JF1R6T PRIZE (SOm GCXFOKEcST ,GKOVE. ange T7 rattening R eep Raised on .IS rr nf ln.i that hil been cultivated for over 50 year, 1,05 mishel whoat. Cleve Prather, BUena Vista. I have 80 acres of alfalfa, which yielded, without Irrigation. . three to five tons. 1 cut it three times. Fred Achilles, R. F. D. 8, Salem. From one 60-cent pig, I sold, in 30 month. $294 worth of pork, besides sup plying two families, and have six brood sows nnd 34 shoats on hand. C. J. Km use. Jefferson. There are five million acres of land In the Willamette valley, "every acre of which is capable of producing $50 per year, or a total of $250,000,000 per year. Pr. James WUhycombe, director of Oregon experiment station, Corvalli. Fruit in Roue River Joaquin Miller ha aptly called the Rogue river valjey of aouthern Oregon, "America' Italy." ' The Medf ord Com merclal club has Issued a booklet that carries out this idea, with -a realism lot of lambs received twice weeklv 1U. which cannot 'fail to convince the av- pounds of a mixture made up of four fage homeseeker. ,The average mean ur. Lnir- ."""poi-inure suown oy me recoras 01. toe iff OJEXGOff cJBKc5EYg5 FEAR pound, practically a quarter of a pound. It took 4.77 pounds corn and 4.5 pound clover to make a pound of gain. Each . ' . . ' .. 4 . . . .. . . . , . ' . 1 ' . . carta salt and one nonml sulnh uiamewe vaney is in tne necp mutton u is up.io tnem 10 resume Dreeu- fn( th, txperiment the lambs wera el- weather bureau, located at the upper end business in the same Way a New York ,n- . dom out of pens, which alolwed them of the valley, has been for the last IS and other eastern states A few sheep Jn the Yellowstone valley, Montand.only a trifle over 7 square feet per years, M degrees, During the coldest wt ,, r..t art considerable numbers of sheep are fed. lamb, and they seemed to suffer no in- weather It seldom get lower than 20 are epi on eacn zarm. -venira ao xitnltu'ln plentiful and cheap there, and convenience from the clos confinement, degree above aero. On, the warmest eastern Oregon is in the business like a good deal ot feeding is done on al-ff Th proposition of feeding the range afternoons of August and July thp tem Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah -'fJfa alone One man at Billing usual- lambs at home is worthy of aerlous oon-v perature ranges from 80 to 100 degrees, ara in If the sheen are kent In lara'' ly ftX 6.000' thMD. vW wintrv4Md r14entttoii.rT)i paoking-houBea : 1hVu( .droog to Wpt,n at sundown, and are in t. tne sneep are Kept m large in th? way he j-ealied $10 a ton for rot to get quality a well a quantity, the hights are always delightfully cool, band and feed on the public range, his alfalfa at home, which means a and the farmer of Oregon and Idaho At Its lowest point the valley Is 1,000 Where there is open range, or nominally hig profit on hi alfalfa. At the Mon- ran produoe the quality Just as .well as feet above sea level. The area at pres so, the sheep business is a specialised 1a experiment station, lambs - fed on the farmer of eastern state, . The ent under cultivation, mostly In fruit, one and sheep are kept In great num- a ration of clover and mixed grain, eastern farmer can't begin to compete ranges upward to 1,800 feet. The fruit Ders at inning expense. ine sneep t "w, "'widJ' wun ne western mrranr in jaueninr prmiui:um rruvnu 01 ine vauey are a ' 'v . - k.M at tflfllnir Avnnnao Tha, AVtAAn 4 wlim. OaiH - lull DILrieyj. , will thrive where cultivation and the of one fourth pound a day each. . A iambs, if the same study and Inteltfi marvel to the easterner. Bogus river Retail prices for the best butter and visited the state and county centers growing crops is Impossible, and the carload fed by the station returned a gence are put Into .the business In the pears have repeatedly broken the world's for butter, fat on the Portland market last summer, at which time he said that canyons and mountain sides are the pe- profit of l per head, above cost of west. .record for high price and the Newtown varied according to the following flg- u( : Butter, But. Fat. : th mAA. ....... . . t velopment of the .creamery business fcw-ftj!H2-Lt?Jl,.l,' ' i i " '! S?, . 24 has risen nearly to a point equal to the 11?,. Kt?L. Jl1.; JI'4 aemana, out the canacltv nf ii vlJ i mmiu men iconstantU; sUainV to' meeI a.h J J APl !! J Dnt)llltinn ,nJ A lo April 10 . ,..5i popuiauon and con- i.rii it t ,u ?t7 not mi v tnr -.:; " . .S'TS- whA Pr ?! to April . . . sumption. - , The need 834 3S .-. ii 28 "this state would in time lead all oth era In dairy products.1 The yield of milk and cream per cow ranges iugi,-om"Oairymen - reporu as much. 'as $11$ in an average of cows in tne herd. cial domain of the sheep king. feed, tha lamb being purchased at-;, Th 'second point Is that the wheat' Pippin and Spitzenberg Oregon is one or ine Dig sneep states n" tm k" "nui, ana a nana rarms ox eastern uregon in inis lavorea region pring laDulous of the country, it naa more sneep than l '" 7 t, -....... .... una tne vauey rarms or tne wuiamette prices to tnoir growers. , . , n K7 lien A. Jfc. ..nu.uono, HMI. ,19 VHV-ltl,U,lll, -w,iuil liaa Vl,lll KWll .j.v..v J ....,., ..h-.vbu uv , PV"I M VI. jn ant a Inorft KAnsftM. C!nl f f rtpn In.. Vln ..mwa rfiHaMnt votlnnn ni f a ttcvnivi a-1- In ar i4nn''at home woutn firlve thnm. If wnrlrl 1m - hftld hv IT. .If. lMnrim fit Januar: the Tiatiirn lnmbs from Wvnmlnir. a .bunch of sheeD be fed onr the farm ford, who obtained At aiintlnn In Now neighbor that were fed 108 days on corn and clo- every winter, the farm will very' soon York city, in 1807, $4,(22.80 gross for s v ft carioaa oi nis uomice Dears, withtn the last few year one firm of sturdy lads have applied their: surplus Marn ier lit otter parts Of the northwV.V au 1 10 JulJr in CalifornIa",.:.il.IF?tl.n. July 23 to Ausrust E tie Imports a arload of butter everv August 6 to August II. .824 In the year from th, middle wtV Auu"1 11 to August 20.85 Ihrs butter is not the equll In nualltl tn August ,11 to Sept .2 , .87 Oregon butter, and It costs a i it September 8 to Oct-M..85 money tojiaul It from Nebrasks i5 November 1 to Dec' 1 . .32 Iowa to Paget Jsound. The f rht tlt December 2 to Dec. 12... 85 is paid out could just as well ,o Intn December 18 to Deo. 31 .87 the pocket of Oregon dairymen if therU . ' were more of them to nronn L.?5 - Average , 32.23 I31, A5?L.J to be . These figures Incontestably show two lem t d7ir n... conven- lacia, nameiy: rnat tne Oregon dairy inn. hbutt.VJ?,-8 U ther were man 5M trong demand for th prod rciHfornla Fsmn The ,tti uct of ws cows; and that he 1. gettinii VL vrnia IS importlnflr hnt,a. . s. anilftr Has 1 frnm tVi m. r'rt.mrnm.w. i8 83 86 81 11 ry l, laoa, tnere were in this lamb ...... .. . . . ... otatn 2 fi4 tiha sneeD. uur nenrnnnr that v ,i.ni ,'! -Hv. . .hi f..ttm "tate, Washington, had on same date, ver, made an average dally gain of ,844 double up on Its yields, usually have great value, tha testimony S49 i8 ,heep, Idaho had 2,878,068. . -1 Y Vk..Yi it: ul ...iTiJii The census snows very cieany mat vital contribution to tha subject western Oregon is not in it with east- Kow MicktU Became a Ualryman. em Oregon when It comes to sheep. J. W. Mlckell of Washington county. Multnomah county, for Instance, had was for many years la the employ of a only. 1,280 ewes, while asco had 84, rallway company at a salary of $80 per. 718. . Clackamas had 9,210, while Mor month. H held -that poltion until hi row had 158,596. UM county had 18, health failed him and he had nearly lost 885, whil Crook had 184, 97. CUtsop his eyeslgnt, ana was, in snort, a pnysic- naa omy on u uiui w ia,iei. - : . .: . ,. , ..... OaleS Creek - : v cnanius nuy uuyeiupea a .peaen ana al wreck. Not knowing what els to do, Wab.IngWn county had 6,865. while lrr any branch of the livestock industry "ey8 heck for butter fat for Novem- tPric.ot orchard connection with a Wa.glr.gton cnty. gotto- oun y had t$a must llv in a tate that produce, feed. from seven cow., was $59.10. i&?Ii2& n0W SwTi. awS5 lilfier1 month. "gSr anSrilnSe thT detefmination na. een ?t can b eonclu.iviy proved, witnou r. & uu,wiu Feed a;nd Profit The man who woulT? enrich himself test, ! per From 14 cows receWed 'r.om.KR?e J2 ;?'2R," 1N?W JL''0 ?tc,fl' JSfi the pleasure 'of refusing to consider an e?07 fnr CSSf "e' f 2S 000 fr "m Within thV 1907 Cows fed on 45t5h' Pa,t Vrl They k"ow tha wlU bring Jln-C-n5 eHi.-0nwVC' an Income of $5,000 a year within Vant -Iwniiam fi wiinn two years mores Anotner firm tf rr cent. William . wllaon, . chanfcfJ have developed a peach a me nd aeli half their holding for $7,000. i r- 80.78 more than the railroad paid him. . mad known to make A'prtiana a pack- mviaiou comparisons, mai vregon sou mta siwbb wow. A 1 1 1 T '0 1' viTilama m.TA via l (tows. " ing-nouso ""Jf " j-wow . -aawwm ana Climaio. win proouce me greaiesc m iw naa- mro auruo cows ana Xi.SniaHQ AllVirCS )jeZZlCT WUllain ana m ww. . Oregon and Idaho undoubtedly can pro- variety and . most prodigous amount, monthly cream statement of $4.05. Have " . 6 W"K" .f?lrin8ltJ months from Oetobe 1, duce sheep In great quantities, but the of livestock food products, and do it now 18 cows, registered sire that took Ashland, one of the original fruit ! SKS.StliL L VI Pnh?! f" every year. There 1. no such thing a. first premium at tate fal, in 1907. ' r ter. on' the PaVfte coast cuttlnir . . . V ,T. , 3 " ;,, " li' v. ? I gusiiuir, ' n. "iy..Bu, v.uun is, crop iauur in western urasjun. uia a mouern miry uatii.treum genmor - , . - j. . -- Boiuosj sold 97.635 Dounda of milk from hi. hard lm tha oualltv to come from. .otA,,. tnm that riaatt-nv iivtnnir mn hv vaaniina ana-ina. a atin an la Invltlntr settlers h coma and develnn tVaf ft ,M miS2, For SSS days 107 Ch7oMi?Ml'fam-' &AKtt&Jlill: fi!J .hn -.-V "T.lf on the range of soma sufc. art un-'cow. W the billaj Monthly cream .ome'of It. va.tacreage of 'cheap Unda , - . Dutter markat er recetvea si cents or over for his hut- - m nw . . mown ur. , intmiinui iui h. j, nnw s that each cow cost him lit i.h ranldlv and economically. The nnntaia n fnii whn .nn,..j' 7 . ' .a - v ---;--- . , - j, -".-o - TneTr unuuiu mcunia irom rear-1 iui . atou Mm miLun m.h tia mn qdhiu u ctuiwu vk ikl laiiKB in rna manv tnn varian iinaa tr rn., . . . , . . ,, .. v uniu b.iiliis. of each cow and her Jba at the International Livestock action related to tha livestock Industry, throughout the i Willamette - valla ii beefl producing apme of the banner fruit .TS- 15i "n8f9u; show at Chicago, last .year, were raised for food and climatic conditions are fbout $20 each.--Hawley & Sob i of JLh," wor d' i. iu ' . J the cost -was $840 and Idaho and fattened In jlllnol. They closely related to that business. Here cv- T rxawiey eon, mo Thtf ,BCt(oni .ms to be the genu Ina tonths I handled 175 sheep: XXZ SZZ: e'V.f 'p"l. f " I Dndon which netted tha per box. The freight that remain uncultivated because of tha slow growth i of population on the Pa- xnia region nas cor years . r r-'" v-wuuiuuns, wim nrun. szssri ittHmaii. , k , . ,.t aairvmei) lUDDirini nn v .:""" .. .. .. -. , in laano vni ;uii.,' uvj cioseiy reiaiea 10 iiwt uusiness. Hart rnv the current irlces tor iV,.. . 1 "'e. i nese nrures tei ne story of tha interest on, tne investment bo, thus were Southdown lamoa ana averaged in are some statements made by farmers f- Mentha t hania 7it habitat or tne ortfend martet exceed hl Vh W-fn' "ai. prosperity. leaving him a profit of J57.4$ on tha W,f2ht when put in the feeding lots, this yea", to the .ocretary of the SaleS mJ$ wool nd tilH II 100 ha'a ft ftn1 " the Elgin product liTchicaS Prii or eY oi br& tot tt ytr. 79 po"ndB- nd af.t."r Jeedlng, 108 Board of. Trade: . left Zth 1320 Gali ''l70-W 8 been sold In L.5ri nriu nt t h hT-.ISf The av- the great dairying authorities who hv) ; ? . r . irnmauw. w.-. ; Mr. Knowlln. who bred these :.. ." ; i?11. wo.ln.it", ' 0U'V' . (rower 33.00 at retell In Portland ha avaJV'" H-""" ,."rec"n Trm ana Hnma-trown feed should h. th. ..t.h lamb in -IdaJlO. :naa yum to say: ,, - - -- ' . "mv -.iVlmnnthsIoM Cotswold lamh- marges to, wnaraimm, tnis valley hnttrni4Zr. Jri!'. Elgin- that make this iMrlty 4)eon he. : :,JI7S.. Farhapa. .-;' that rthawet will not a day. tip to January 12. 1907. it sheared, nine pound. J07 tha Portland prlcV nZrllZ?-. &J!LE! W' ,f'. W"S ?hat of W. hTi Wilson "rSY SKIJ? long continue, to furnish the east i nvMi, .uuri insirucint or -. . . . . : w - .a ti i i m xeea lots, wun i.na tn"ii u.r v. on iww as inr- " - " - --- Wore all made In London. Peara anH pples are as well adapted - to tbe red oi tne iooinuis at peacnes or apri- . There ara thousands of acres of land between Ashland and JnrhHntw lie and beyond, much of it uncleared. hich are conceded to ha, admlpahi nuni'iru iiir Btainrm. , v arieiies oesc suit- ' ror champagne grow "to perfection f each In August- Pftint. . nine-sera orchard -nf N.w- R Wf"a netow . degrees 14 T. .nrinsT -t. N. Wllliamann "wn. above Ashland for four con- and six tenths ranta v. -. v. T .. --.---"-';. -vi . insirucior ot ...i . n .'. " -..farlal to nil lis ieea lots, wun IM ""ir "" " " . xner-- r ' t sncutive years, were io.6iU. 'l'na sales !;;! pri.-e. ' n'goeat in Agrlcutural college, of Ames. lows, ffff-ii'Ssffuryr- the west and en- ?ome t -rour 'feet from ground. Jame. AJoany. . . i.o. Fere la, a comparUon, taken from tu. -W i? VJ..; ITaWDlaXantow teSslon.of the irrigated area, devoted w.w"hiowTiO. mVT r.-reh fnr 1?I lW."5o. iKraW meabKtwd'ttb? co l-tewd hog."and $34 for fe'ed, in"eUe"S butter" wa.u $9.19 er month ioi butter.inid at PsmAif'nl'-0! ro,,UPd J .SP: as In OwIWi.V.5h,tfc S.IS o ? 8S Tground. owing to lona $! l 18 months AL Godfrey, Rt. 8. oow.-Jame. Bykes. R. tf. D. 2, Salem. .(,," clc and Elgin; ..5.""- rarr.nKtoa, dairy in- ir.-iir"Jian;a,5,'-i" VkIV Saul, and expensiva frelghta The grain Salem. Oregon. , . . . -,om Oood Two-T.ar-Old . Vi Vi.zz,T ,r7 acnooi at Madison. J".awl T .5 ... arower in tha West, will need l pasture iram .160 to zoo head of -n wr .ma m n Ornaa .t" w 1903 1904 190$ I.e 1Mr aCJ: ""i.Tt"'." ,Hr1.ni 21 VJ?W?1 cow.: brlngii T exllent Mtu.. 7 a ery.heep nd Jamb available, .a. a hof r?-or eight to HeVefo?d ateeri' cTn." under twS; the J.- ?: . . - - - - hleh time" h." Judged dairy eVb - 1 ' . 'or-?-:Sr?.,KW rPJl.lBh 2 Salem - - " her past two yeara,weight, dressedT . , ,..., .ji,a st.B z. a ina tirernn itat. f. t Bi F. extia 'ii.v ....27.1-73.1 J4.I 85.T tl.t Portland '- .r- t.. .iiuy.rM J7.J $17 7.T $:. feapiy could milk be produced 26.3 that we enulrl flrwri th w.n... ' 4irote"f C, Larsen. dalry'lnstructor : Tiiai Amon. the cereal productions, Ore- commodity. u -?.ubiS i" ?rSdit?'i wUh;l8,600.000 bushels Ohio, and with it" of wheat for 1907, valued at $15,365,000. depend on inia is twnv Mir-hivan wv.a .i.imii,.'i..- ,. l-.i. r fT? tate. cannot ' I have '100 Angora goats which avV, From 12 cow. forbear 1907, old A. yet but little attention-ha. "been , lhA Watstf 1 .frtr iintIir tf sa niitha .u.i. . . if ;,... . t...u.. a tn 1 1 i. m i n a ... a a . .... . . ... . " ai i-r-g rjin. dairy Inwtrnpfrir - rn ion? th B.rfloV VT i' T T wl ,V r sLBcu .. r r r u ipimr eacn in i.tut.vt. wuiir w riiin, b)5.b'j paia 10 pouiiry raisin fr in Oregon. How a.a at . tutiry ac V r T 1 r , , r T