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THE ; OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,. PORTLAND." SATURDAY. MAY 17. 1910. Better Farming-'AGRICULTURAL EDITED dV F. LAXUNE1! 10 FARMERS FAIL TO APPRECIATE VALUE OF COOPERATION 'Many Fruitgrowers of Willam- ; - ette Yal ley Now Regret Fail ure to Join Associations. - LOWER PRICES PAID THEM tvlJ-f.:v'. Menace to. Oregon Prune Seen r- In Advertising Campaign Un ; dertaken by California People. ' ' m Y -c V k m w ? YTundraria of fruit r rowers of the Willamette valley are today regretting that they were not members of a co operative association of farmers during the recent fr on a led prune activity, j The farm editor of The Journal has teen invited to attend , many farmers' meetings in the state of Oregon to ad dress them on the subject of cooperative marketing. Despite the fact that prac tically every farmer In the state is con vinced j' of the value of cooperation: despite, the fact that the cooperating farmers In the state of Oregon are re ceiving on the average a higher price for . their prunes than those who per sisted in remaining outside the great pools; in spite of the fact that hundreds mt- prune growers sold their prunes at epenlng prices, at prices less than the top,-while the .members of the Salem Fruit union sre to receive the highest price for" .2.000,000 pounds of prunes, there are still a large numebr of farmers who have not yet conceived the idea of cooperative marketing. cooperation is defixed '-Cooperation means working together for a common good, such as obtaining a higher price for a product. Once more We reiterate that It is believed by those farmers who are cooperating that they are as much entitled to have a voice in fixing, the prices at which they shall sell their product, as is any other pro ducer. . Farming is more of a business than it ver -was. Competition is perhaps greater in the disposal of farm products, particularly in the fruit business, than la any other, and the life of the, future horticultural Industries of the state of Oregon depends absolutely on the will ingness' to get together, the foresighted fcesa of the farmers in creating and as suring markets for future surplus. CALIFORNIA GROWERS ADVERTISE The announcement of the California f rune Growers' association that it will spend $210,000 advertising California prunes this year should awaken every prune grower in the state of Oregon to the realisation of what this means. It means that whenever you pick up a :J"RKazine you will see an advertisment ef tne caurorma prune; it means mat 100.000,000 Americans are to be urged to give their- preference to the California prune ; It means that every Jobber and retailer, every wholesaler and grocer and very kind of distributor will "push" the California prune In preference to the Oregon prune; It means that as the prune crop In Oregon gets greater, as it . will each succeeding year we will have more and more difficulty in sell ing: -it means that once more the great consuming public of this nation will be misled into, the belief that prunes do not grow in Oregon to any extent and that the . California prune is better. DA5GER TO OREGON SEEK " Unquestionably capital will be made of the fact that the California prune is a sweeter prune and requires less sugar than the Oregon prune; unquestionably the public sentiment is already attracted towards California fruit products. - And the way will be made easy for the California prune grower and compar atively harder for the Oregon prune grower. - It is useless because we happen to havev had a high price this year to delude ourselves with the belief that we are - always going to get high prices. . The greatest ruthorittes agree that it we have anywhere near a normal crop in , Oregon and California this year that prices of prunes next year will probably be lower. It will be foolish of us to sit till and let California take the cream ef the market because they have in that state a strong association of 7000 prune growers banded together to sell two pounds of prunes where they could only sell one pound of prunes before. : Keep in mind that California will have 'a .. 250,000,000 pound prune crop next. year ana mat it wm nave a guu.oou.quu pound crop in the next five years. CAMFOHIA5S SHOW SENSE Formerly the prune consumption in the United States was only 100,000,000 pounds per year. The California associa tion was organised at the time when prunes were Felling comparatively high. because' the growers down there had the foresight to realize that bigger crops meant less money without organization The Journal is deeply interested in the . future of the prune errowers of Oregon and believes that a strong co operative association of Oregon prune gj-owera snould be organised to compete ': with the already strongly entrenched California prune growers : The Journal believes that the Oregon prune growers face a period of ruinous prices, with a JERSEY COWS ARE MAKING OREGON. INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS , 4 '' ' '4 1 ill ! 4i 3fT IS'! V y -.4 ", vi t.?::-'-' 1 Your Right to Safety Leave your stockyard check .with us for deposit to your home bank account. - LIVE STOCK STATE BANK "Loeated at Ualoa stoek Yards . Xortk Portlaad, Oregoa . "Served by- five transcontinental railways and deep water ; ' . - to the sea. - I ; ' ft x w( a 4e x ml . 1 1 1 1 Mfmuv I ii-irfftwias 111 . " " J , I . .. It'll.' '."I'llll 'r rr'TT ti ini.iiri-r-r Top, let to right Golden Cieero, owned by A. J. Johnson, Willamettedal e farm, Corvallis; Financial Sensalion, who held many world's records entering Waldorf hotel, New Yprk, where she attended a dinner. Hot lorn Old Man's Darling 2d, junior 1 year old world's champion, and Vive, La France, world's champion Jersey eow. Vive la France holds both junior 3 year old and senior 4 year old world's records. Both Vive la France and Old Man's Darling 2d are owned and bred by Ovid Pickard of Marion, Marion county, Oregon. To right f Vive la France is La Creole's Amys Queen, owned 'by V. O. Morrow, the well known Jersey breeder "of Independence. Bottom, left Walter K. Taylor of Coryallis, president Oregon Jersey Cattle clubvj president state LivestocK sanitary uoaru ana airecior oi uregon uairy council. i i t j i i Cow Teitlsg Warm All It Coits "I would not take four times what my testing work - has cost me . for what it has been worth to me," is- the way a Tennessee dairyman expresses his appreciation of the benefits he gained as a member of a cow-testing association which was organised by the United States department of ag riculture in his community. "The cow which has proved to.be the best one In my hero", was. the one that I considered poorest before the tests were made. I. priced one of my cows at 1125 before she was tested, but now I price her at $350." t The test showed that the 19-year-old cow which this dairyman had used for the foundation cow of his herd made 68 pounds of butter fat in November. The average production for the herd during this month was over 40 pounds of butter fat.- DEPARTMEN surveys t SHOW BIG INCREASE IN WHEAT PRODUCTION Commercial Stocks Nearly Four Times Previous Year's Figures. DAIRY EQUIPMENT MUST BE CLEANED Abundance of Hot Water at All Times Is Great and Necessary Convenience. rVESTOCK consequent lowering in land values and a prospective consequent disintegration which would result from a profitless farming community. In the interest d'f the Oregon prune industry every prime grower who is not affiliated with one or another of the prune associations of the state should communicate with the manager of the nearest local association for fur ther information on furture prospects of the prune industry in this state ; or, if they prefer, with the farm editor of T.he Journal. OHEGOJT PKUNE BEST GHOW.V The Journal believes that the Oregon prune is the finest in the world, and that it is entitled always to command the top prices, and it believes that with a strong association of prune growers, this desirable end will be accomplished. It will do its Bhare towards seeing that prune growers always get tho best prices to which they are justly entitled. Recent market values for meat ani mals have caused a renewal of interest in the raising of livestock on farms of all sizes. The study of raising and dis posing of crops to the beet advantage also suggests the more general and more careful production of livestock. Losses of livestock from diseases, ac cident and other causes, probably three fourths of which are preventable by proper preventive measures and modern veterinary practice, amount to enormous sums each year in 1815 they were esti mated as reaching $212,000,000. This sum, say specialists of the United States department of agriculture, would supply the entire American expeditionary forces of 2,000.000 men with meat for nearly a year. To these losaes may be added others which, though indirect, are never theless as important. The discourage ment of stock raising is one indirct loss, and this in turn retards the develop ment of diversified agriculture. During the 12 months ending June SO, 1917, the exports of pork and pork prod ucts from the United States to the allies, neutrals, Belgian relief, and American expeditionary forces amount to 1,498, 312,713 pounds. ' For the following year they amounted to 1.719,701,176 pounds. The requirements for shipment abroad in 1919 necessarily must be somewhat greater than the amount sent in 1918, according to the United States depart ment of agriculture, and to meet this demand and to feed the population at home without decreasing this country's ability to maintain a high rate of pro duction Is the opportunity and obliga tion of American swine raisers. At the farmer's breakfast table in 191J he drank coffee that cost him 16 per cent more than in 1914. and he had sugar that cost 59 per cent more, bread made from flour that cost 92 per cent more, and, whatever use waa made of lard. It cost him 133 per cent more than in 1914. Economical Harvesting 5 fc , -'f- f '? U;Z.U , taaxS 1 Quesnell One Man Harvester When one man and six horses with a "One Man Harvester" can cut and thresh from 12 to 15 acres of frain a day, Why use more? Machine is pushed ahead of horses, cutting an eight foot swath, accum ulating grain in a tank having capacity of 20 to 25 bushels. Straw dump- furnished as an extra when it is desired to save straw. wun tnree years- neia experience, we are in a -position -to put "One Man Harvesters" in the field with assurance that they will meet the requirements in a Deuer manner tnan any other method now in use. uarge rancnes,can use this machine as well as small ones by adding 11 J ACUilICO, - Less investment in money, man and horsa power , with maximum I returns.' We have a limited number of machines for sale for the coming harvest Multnomah I ron Works r? PORTLAND, OREGON GRAZING LAW IS UNDER DISCUSSION Cattlemen Meet' in Ashland ancj Demand Enforcement &f Re cent Act Protecting Food. Ashland. May 10. Priority cattle graz ing rights, cooperation la 'protecting them and the united force of a big body of cattlemen to demand the enforce ment of the law recently passed by the legislature which forbids the ; encroach ing of sheep and goats on cattle ter ritory were discussed by representatives of the Keene Creek Cattle &fiA Horse association, the Skookum Gulch Cattle association and local sheepmen at a largely attended meeting Tuesday after noon, j The Keene creek territory lies east of Ashland to Jenny creek and north to the Dead Indian country cooperate with the government and use lands in the Crater national forest. The Skookum territory is in the Kla math country on private leases. Sheepmen from the outside are- ship ping in great droves of sheep and it is to protect themselves from the encroach ing of these that the cattlemen and local sheepmen are so closely cooperating. These outsiders have encroached on Jen ny creek and. east into Klamath country. It is stated that the Western Sheep company has unloaded a double-deck car trainload at Ager and will have 40,000 sheep ranging on recently acquired hold ings along the Klamath river range this summer. Representatives of these organizations will attend the next meeting of the Jackson County Stock association and try to get action through them. F. C. Homes, secretary of the Keene Creek Cattle and Horse association, pre sided In the absence of the president. George W. Dunn. George Grieves is secretary for the Skookum Gulch Cat tle association. Last year nearly 600 business and professional men and clerks and city employes of Portland volunteered for farm work during their vacation time. About 200 of these were placed and but for the short crbn in the Willamette val- The-ranchers ley all would have been sent out. The milk flow is the best indication ot the health condition of a cow. II the yield ifl below normal it f s almost always a sign of approaching sickness. Co aotwshfocactaal Aaoroera federals! roe cca easily pet the cow back eoto feet sad ward : eS aeiioas UseU by tke preen see ef Kew ' Kore. the greet cew aieflclse, V la cases ef Afeerttoa. Bernese, Ratafee! Afterbirth, Scoarioi. Lest Appetite. etc.. this staadord reewdy 1 a reliable treetaMaC It ecu at once ee the dKaadve aae gaeiial erieae. where eearly all eew diaeaaea erijiaate. The,eccaleei aae ef Kew-Kere, aa directed. 3, y '.::rrrz7 Amu Hj . I eaaily pet the cow back eo her leetaad ward I Jf C I eS aerloas aUaMaU by the preen aae ef Kew- Iff 1 j Kara, the great cew aei3clae, , - fff itm4e "5 I : la cases ef Aherdoa. Berreeaes. Ratalaed fJ C&ftl t " . I i Afterbirth. Scoaria. Lest Appetite. Beeches. r ( IB ,e- tk' standard reaiedy 1 a reliable treetaMat. A PJ. "a Ml -: ' I ' It ecu at once ea the dUesthre aad daeiial eriaa. :. r 1J1 T"Sp ' lTr J whareeearh'aUeewdiseaaeeerieieete. sjr Z2q " .' ; tfW The.oecealeeel aae ef HewKere, dlrecW. lftf mmaTammmm' i4 J:&?W reve ea effacllve ereveatlve ef eew distasaa Lnfj p!TjfHf , T VQa-I ead dlsae erevcaHQe pay bl to dairy ereats-o j.W !) ,f Mil JCeer-JCera 0. eaaT '.f.jt- $19 aeeaegaa. Lmt urn ' 'tr p w 'yftztr 'T4?& iftsz'--ruttt'7 mm Farm Bureaus Are Arousing Interest Of Agriculturists "The newly organized farm bureaus in the county agent counties are getting into the game better than waa hoped for," says J. W. Brewer, farm help apeclalist. "An Interest Is being 'mani fested and many a farmer who ' never before gave thought to the .agricultural development and good of his county be yond his own farm is now wide awake and devoting part of his- time to! those things which make for better things on the farm. Organization counts . and through It practical results can be ob tained that would never be accomplished otherwise." i Rye is receiving more attention! in the United States now than ever Ibefore. More acres and more bushels of rye were harvested in 1918 than fn any j ci in me ntstory of the CCnrotry. I Commercial stocks of wheat reported In a survey made by the department of agriculture for April 1, 1919, amounted to 155.9S4.62S bushels, These holdings, reported by 10.264 flrme-elevators, warehouses, grain mills and wholesale dealers were nearly four times as large as the stocks held by the same firms a year earlier, the actual per centage being S84.9 per cent of the 1918 stocks. The figures refer to stocks ac tually reported, and do not represent the total commercial stocks of the country, nor do they Include stocks on farms. Tltlbl S apply Flgares Compared The commercial visible supply figures, as published by the Chicago Board of Trade for March 29 (the date nearest to April 1), 1919, show 92.546,000 bush els of wheat, as against 6,38 L, 000 bush els a year earlier. The corresponding Bradstreet figures show 100.505,000 bushels, as against 10,1(6,000 bushels for 1919. As compared with the same date last year, these figures, aa well as those obtained by the more extensive survey, show a very great relative in crease in commercial stocks of. wheat oT April 1. 1919. ; Other Cereals, Floar aad Cora Meal The commercial stocks of other cere als reported for April 1, 1919. accord ing to the department's statement, were as follows: Corn, 17,174,997 bushels; oats, 56,953.891 bushels; barley, 11.941 421 bushels ; rye. 23.235.766 bushels. These stocks represent the following percentages of the corresponding stocks on April 1. 1911: Corn. 35.1 per cent; oats, B9.K per cent; barley, lis. 3 per cent; rye. 7 per cent. The commercial stocks of flour and corn meal, as reported for the survey, were : Wheat flour, white, f.199.256 barrels; whole wheat and graham flour, 73.S82 barrels ; barley flour. 43. 033 barrets ; rye flour, 210,559 barrels ; corn flour, 14,130.740 pounds; corn meal. 51.118.695 pounds; buckwheat flour, 21, 349,628 pounds ; mixed flour. 47,002.755 pounds. These stocks represent the fol lowing percentages or the stocks on hand a year ago: Wheat flour, white. 17.9 per cent ; wnoie wheat and gra- Iham flour, 54.4 per cent ; rye flour, 74.6 One. of the greatest conveniences on the farm where cows are kept is some means for , heating an abundance -ot water for washing the milk vessels. Where a considerable number of cows are kept, heating water by means of steam . -from a small low-pressure : up right boiler Is desirable, but on the small farm a stove with a basin fitted Into the top (or It may be separate from the top) can be purchased cheaply- and will : serve the t purpose, provided the water ia properly heated. Water can be pumped, from the well directly into the basin. In order to avoid heating the milk room and to do away with smoke and ashes, the water heater should be placed Immediately outside the milk room, and If elevated the water from It can be run into the washing vat. - Some equipment Is necessary In which to wash utensils -used In handling milk. A vat is very convenient. One end of the vat can be used for washing and the other for rinsing and scalding. Fiber brushes for washing milk uten sils should replace the common dish rag, as they, do better work and are more easily kept clean. On every farm where aa many as four or five cows are kept a cream separator is advisable, aa It wilt reduce the labor required In handling the milk from cows more than any other one thing.. . - A refrigerator or Ice box Is desirable upon every farm where either a few or many cows are kept if It Is practicable to secure Ice for use in summer, ( per cent ; corn flour, 99.4 per cent ; corn meal. 56.9' per cent: buckwheat flour, 351.6 per cent; mixed flour, 189.4 per cent. --'':. Stocks of Selected Commodities L Elevators, warehouses and wholesale dealers reported stocks of dry edible beans amounting to 7.636.539 bushels, while wholesale grocers and warehouses reported the following commodities In 135,167.31 pounds; rolled oats, 65,705,166 pounds; .canned salmon, 127,695,230 pounds; canned tomatoes, 253,340.12a pounds: canned corn, 118,628.621 pounds ; sugar, 205,446,536 pounds. These stocks represent the following percentages of the corresponding stocks on hand April 1. 1918: Beans, 152.5 per cent; rice, 155.2 per cent: rolled 'oats. 115.2 per cent; canned salmon. 115.2 per cent; canned tomatoes, 185.4 per cent; canned com,- 170.1 per cent ; sugar, 118.2 per cent. - Stocks of condensed and evaporad milk were reported by condenariea. coid storages, warehouses and whoieeal gro cers as follows: Condensed milk. 39.711.- 763 pounds ; evaporated irnin. pounds. The holdings of condensed m!'k reported for April i. in, representee 122.6 per cent of the stocks held by the same firms a year earlier, while the holdings of evaporated milk represented 103.7 per cent ot the April 1. 1918. stock. ; Dehorn cattle aa soon as tne weame. warms up a biL It will prevent goring and restlessness in the feed .lot next winter. It adds uniformity to the cattle and thereby enhances their value. 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