THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY. JULY 28, 1919. EFFICIENT MARKETING EDITED BY J. F. LANjBNKH BETTER FARMING j GROWERS' UNION GETS INDORSEMENT OF STATE E Senator McNary Accepts Place r on . Board of Directors; Con ' siderable Acreage Signed Up. CONTRACTS CAUSE OF LOSS i- On Other Hand, Cooperative Plan , Assures Grower Receiving Best Market Price at Time of Sale. t By J. F. Languor - Marked progress ' has been made during the past week in the organi zation of the Oregon Growers' Co- operative association. Perhaps the ' moat important item, and one of interest-to every farmer in the state, is the - unqualified indorsement of the association by the Oregon State Grange. The complete resolution of ' the joint executive and cooperative committee, headed by CV E. Spence, master of the state grange, is printed in another column. Mr, Spence ex pressed himself very strongly in favor of a farm marketing organiza tion at.tjie recent annual meeting. f It was the opinion expressed at the joint meeting of the executive and co operative committee of the , grange that . fruit growers should very carefully scan term contracts at fixed prices for any lengthy period. - History repeats .itself in many cases where a term contract at a fixed price is made between a ; pro d noer and buyer: namely.-that the pro d'ucerloBsntneToTgHrun' TAKIMA CASE' CITED - The deplorable condition In . which pear growers in the Yakima valley find them selves In being compelled this year to sell, their pears at from $22.50 to $35 -per ton, when the market demanded that they-receive from $75 to' $85 per ton, is a result of long term contracts at fixed prices. ' 5 Another feature brought out at the grange meeting was the fact that fruit growers are frequently Induced o sign these - contracts - with verbal promises which are not carried o,ut and which often result in law Suits, which, of courne, the grower loses. On the other hand the contract with the hew state wide association calls for a scale at the best open market price and "the grower and no one else must always receive the fullest benefit of the market. MTf ART BECOMES DIRECTOR " Another Important development dur , ing the week., has been the acceptance ' by U. S. Senator; McNary. of a seat on the board of directors. Mr McNary has long, advocated a state-wide, association of growers. ,- s'-?'i., In the Umptiua valley district a con siderable acreage has already been signed in the association and it is an ticipated within the next two or three weeks that a sufficient quantity will be represented in Douglas county to war rant the erection of a packing house by the association. Polk county also has now a large acreage represented in the association, while a Yamhill, Forest Grove and Sheridan considerably more than 60 per cent of the present bear ing acreage of prunes is now represented in the new state-wide association. INDORSEMENT FROM AIX SIDES - From all sides unqualified indorsement of a centralised selling organisation is continuing to. be received at the new office of the organization tin Salem. There are few growers who do not real ise that individuals and even individual associations cannot stand against the in roads of the speculative buyer. Even the Salem . Fruit union and the Eugene Fruit "' Growers' association, the two largest growers .organisations in the state, have realised, that they cannot compete with each other, except to the I detriment of the grower members. w The Seattle Produce News and the California Fruit News,- which Is pub lished in the interests of the California i packing interests, in discussing the price received by the California Prune and Apricot association, admit that the un . organised or small association is un able to secure for its growers the gen- GRANG The Hplstein Sale of the Maplewoqd Herd Monday July 2S, 1919 ' " -. , . t . Bring your catalogues with you,' as they are scarce. You cannot afford to miss this sale. .S., P. & S. train for Scappoose leaves North Bank Depot 7:05 A. M. Bus leaves St. Charles Hotel: 10 A. IY1 and 4 P. M. . C.D. MINT0N andE. A. RHbTEN SALES MANAGERS : GEO. A.GUE and AUCTIONEERS SIGN OF 4 t- j cv. wii -. t-- ft - ' 1 ' - 0. 4Rf d Cross j of Hst Chehalem,n a n Ayreshire bull calf , 6h ned ' by. J. - 0. Boaer of Amity. The calf was bred by J. (J. Smith of Newbero and born July, 1918, at lime of JJed Cross 'activities. Nole the appropri ate birthmark. .,..' t , ; . . State Grange Approves Growers' : V Association - , "We, the members of the executive and cooperative commit tee of. the Oregon State Grange, heartily indorse the. aims and purposes of the Oregon .Growers' Cooperative association-and' urge every member of the Oregon State Grange to give the Oregon Growers' Cooperative association his or her 'support. : r . (Signed) " m ' : -: , k C. E. SPENCE . M. MBURTNER B. G. LEEDV C.H.BAILEY , . C. L. SHAW - JOHN D. COLLIER: ; .Executive Committee .- Cooperative Committee - erar high price which a state-wide as sociation can secure. ' AVERAGE PRICES HIGHER The Seattle .. paper ; points out that California prune growers, selling through t the association. , received, an average price ;of $284 per ton, which is a wonderful record, and for a tremend ous crop, and'lt says that In some cases this figure is: as high as $100 per ton more than the average price which , the unorganised growers in California.: re ceived. ' " ' - ' :' -. ' $ It would seem that : every argument offered by the packer against organi zation Is discounted ' by the fact that every cooperative , association in Cali fornia is getting stronger' and stronger day by day, and there is no reason why. if state-wide , cooperative market asso ciations have been good for California, they should not be equally as good for Oregon and the Oregon growers. How to Find Age Of Dressed Fowl . A good method, of determining, the aga of dressed-fowls, according to spe cialists of the . United - States depart ment of -agriculture, is to grasp the end of ' the breast bone farthest from . the head between the thumb and finger -afid attempt to bend it to one side. In a very young bird, such as a brofler chicken or a green. goose, it. will. bend easily like the cartllege of the human ear. In a bird a year or so old, it will be brittle and, - in an old bird, tough and hard to bend or break. Unscru pulous dealers sometimes break one end of the breast bone before shewing the bird on the market, in order that : the buyer . will believe the , bird, to be a young one. Up-to-Date Styles In Hen Houses Told The curtain-front or - partial open front house is conceded to' be the best type for most sections. ,The colony plan of housing poultry may be adopted to advantage' on many farms. This sys tem does away with the danger' of tainted soil. The roosts should be built on the same level, S feet from the floor, with a ' dropping board ' about' $ inches below them, v Good roosts may be made of 2 by 2 inch material with the upper edges rounded. The - nests may be placed on the side walls or under the dropping boards. It is best to have them darkened, as the bens prefer a secluded place in which to lay. .' 1 i t J. W.HUGHES -a THE TIMES" y S3 i . i lit f. m 1 "H i 1 'SA Japanese" Do Well With Strawberries In Vicinity of Dee Dee, July 26; The Dee Flat is a sec tion of country comprising; about? 4000 acres that 45 , years . ago was 'a dense forest of fir timber. Today Tone , half the land is: in - orchard, v. berries i and meadow, fit lies between; the east and west forks of the Hood driver, and. Is irrigated i with water taken from those streams.v" .: .4 V;- ) i. : Those who set out fruit trees planted strawberry vines between the ; rows of trees, removing each year the row of plants next to the trees, until the trees took up the entire space with, their limbs. The land was thus made, to produce a crop; each year until 'the trees came Into profitable bearing. : The painstaking Japanese have' made more money pro portionately in the strawberry culture than has his White neighbor,' ,With the price f land ' and farm implements the same, wtth 'the cost of labor and . all inmgs entering . into the growing of strawberries the same, he has distanced the-white man. When strawberry grow ing proved unprofitable, the white grow ers to some extent went out of that business, just as hundreds of white hop growers did. The - Japanese increased their acreage and this year averaged $4 per crate of 24 pints for his guess on the future of the strawberry. " .: ' Pullet Beats . Record Albany, July -26. The Cottage Grove pullet which laid an egg in 3 months and 27 days from the date of hatching is not in the same class with a pullet belonging to Alex Ross of this city. The Ross pullet was 3 months and 19 days old when she laid her first-egg. She was hatched on April 1 from a set ting of the P.-A. C prize laying strain. PUT YOUR SILAGE IN THE SILO " WHEN IT IS RIGHT . Corn is JUST RIGHT: only at one. time for silage. A delay of a few days loses much of the substance of the silage. WITH YOUR , OWN CUTTER YOU CAN PUT IT IN THE SILO AT the PROPER TIME. Some of the most important features of an Acme cutter are economy of power and labor requirements, the quality of the work ,,It will do, and an absence of danger from accidents.: - . . IF YOU CONSIDER THESE THINGS YOU , WILL BUY AN ACME CALL OR WRITE Columbia Da EVERYTHING. FOR THE DAIRY" 92-94 Front Street WALNUT ORCHARDS ' WILL BE VISITED Annual Tour of Association Be , gins . at McMinnville at 1 P.M., Tuesday, Aug. 5. 1 The "Western Walnut association announces the second annual tour; of the leading walnut orchards of Ore gon and Washington. The tour will start at McMinnville August 5, at I p.;m.. The first point visited will be Sberldao, where the famous walnut orchards of Professor, I;: Lewis of the Oregon Agricultural college -will be visited. Knight fearcy. secretary- treasurer, says tnat tnepuonc is in vited to make this- tour. , The itiner ary Is as follows: " Wednesday. August Leave McMinn ville at 7 a. in, V Curf man orchard, wal nuts, Carlton ; Wlthycombe and Malpas orchards, walnuts, Oaston Forbis and Schoolcraft orchards,' walnuts and fil berts, Dllley-; Oregon Nursery company, orchards, walnuts. Tigard (time permitting) ; dinner either at- Portland or at Orenco. Afternoon Columbia river bridge at ) o'clock; afternoon and evening., If neeessary, at Vancouver, orchards of : Quamberg, Shaw. KoreUus. Root, Sturgess. Spdr geon, Brookers and Sluman. . Thursday. August 7 Leave Imperial hotel. Portland, :39 a. m. ; Franquette Nursery company, Canby,,nut nursery; Walgamot 1 orchards, ' Canby ; Aurora plantings; Kibler orchard, filberts, Woodburnprovided highway is open). a .....-H7tiiirntHll nlsntinas .of Dr. miviuvvii - Jobse. H. A. Kruse, J- R. DeNeui and Mr. Stein. . Annual report. 133 Eoad Projects Approved for Help ' In Month of June During the month of June the secre tary of agriculture approved project statements for 133 federal-aid. projects, involving the improvement of 1.390.29 miles of road, at a total estimated cost of $24,220,303.90. and On which federal aid in the amount of $11,034,289.12 was requested.-; This ' represents the largest number -of project statements approved, the largest estimate " of cost, and the largest amount of federal aid requested during any month since the . passage of the federal aid road act. During the montn there were executed by the secretary and the state highway departments .60 project agreements, in volving the improvement of 507.37. miles of road, at a total estimated cost ' of $7,566,089.32. and on which $3,404,269.1$ federal aid was requested and set aside in the treasury. In addition, 40 project agreements previously executed, were amended during the months"' . ": Ud to and including June SO. 1919, project statements for a total of 1319 projects had been approved. The 1319 projects involve 12.790.37' miles of road, a total esUmated cost of $133,833,300.67, and a total of $54,763,957.81 federal aid. On the same date a total of 677 project agreements had been . executed, involv ing 5,776.39 miles, of road, a total est! mated cost of $56,367,334.94. and a total of $23,892,740.97 federal aid. . Farmers: Buying Tractors. Lewisville, July 26. Many Washing ton county farmers have tractors, some having two. W. J. Gregg has his order in for -one capable of pulling three plows, while William Bagley has one to do the "work on his 800 acre ranch. The Milne? Brothers have' two. for their 640 acre farm.,,. FOR BOOKLET THE TUNG-LOK SILO IS THE S TRO NGEST SILO MADE Every oaft locks into th ad joining parts, r making a : silo . ; which can not fall down, won't ' blow down and does not have to ; be tightened in dry weather or loosened ixi wet, yet keeps silage perfectly." - Simplest to ; construct no costly scaffolding needed any-, one can put it up. - ' Call : or write for Tung-Lok " booklet.- : " .' - ' iry Supply Co. Portland, Oregon . DealersDecrease T Their Wool Stocks; : Manufacturer Busy Wool in the, hands' of- dealers If arch 31. 1819. shows quite a decrease since December 31, ISIS, according" to the Quarterly wool stock report issued by the: department of -agriculture through Its bureau of markets. They held S J, 000,000 pounds less grease wool, 5.000.- 000 pounds less scoured, 1,000,000 pounds less pulled than on December ; 31. 1911. The holdings, tops, and noils remained about the same.:;-': i-..- vvr-r ,:--Kr Manufacturers, however, show an In crease In stocks held. This ; Indicates that manufacturers are taking- on the larger percentage of the wool offered at the government auctions and apparently hold an optimistic view toward future conditions. . - , , . Wool -held by the army 'and navy on March 31, 1919, including wool afloat to this country, was as follows: Grease, 23S.911.00O ; - scoured. 35.457,000 ; pulled. 13.104.000 ; tops, 2,321.000. Fish Heads Provide Good Food for Hens 1 A. "simple and inexpensive substitute for meat scraps which often are hard to obtain at the average butcher shop, Is to utilize fish heads in the poultry ration. Arrangements usually, can be made with local ; fish dealers 'to save these heads, particularly If the poultry man will furnish bdekets in which the refuse may be kept until he calls for them. As they come from the dealer's shop, the fish heads are tough and cov ered i with heavy scales and gristle. However underneath is fine tender meat which the hens relish keenly. The poultryman can soften the coarse outer shell by boiling the fish heads in water for 6 or 10 minutes and then pouting Off, the- ;Wa.fjl- a ryrl thnnrtii. , i.w . wv liHl heads in among the chickens. In many instances the dealers are glad to get rid of the fish heads, and on the basis of actual food -value the poultry keeper can afford to pay 4 or 6 cents for a quart of fish heads which provide a satisfactory protein-containing food for his flock. , Milk Department at ' " - i -! -" ; 1 1 : i- "T - -A Oregon Agricultural College, Corval lis, July 26. Machinery and equipment for taking care of milk, are being in stalled in the dairy department; at the college. Milk bottlers, coolers and ster ilizing apparatus are part of the new machinery. After August 1, milk will be sold in the i dairy building instead of the dairy barn. R. V. Stephens, re turned' soldier being .'educated by the government, will have charge of the milk department. J , Farmers Buy Threshing Machines Lewisville, July 28. Jacob Schnieder and Ed Vandervan of Cornelius have purchased a threshinar vnain n.M. of handling more than 1500 bushels of wheat per day besides being able to bull Cljr seed. -y i-,:,-.,,,---, Seyaiesr Joses, - arer, saiem. or. -B, w. Johasoa. .Monroe. K. Im Klemmer, Alvadore -- J. O. Holt, Kugene - ' O. S. Zlanaernaa, Tamhlll , r R. A. Baseabark. Roseburg S. 8. Johss, Myrtle, Creek Any Fruit ; HEADS ORGANIZATION : OF' FRUiT. GROWERS Professor . C L Lewis, chief of the division ;. of horlleullure, Oregon Agricultural rollege, who ; is in charge of organization of new Or- egon Growers' association. " Schools of .Oregon ; Lead in Agriculture Oregon Agricultural College, Corval lls, July, 2S. Departments of vocational agriculture at Hood Klver and Oresham are among the five best in: the district including Oregon, -Washington, Idaho, Utah, California. Nevada and Arizona, in the opinion of W. S. Taylor, regional agent for the- federal bureau of voca tional education, -who-has been ' Visiting classes in , vocational and agricultural education at the college. Both of . these departments are in charge of graduates of O. A. C ' R. V. Wright Is it Hood River, and C. P. Moffitt at Oresham. ' Pig Clubs Active H. C. ' Seymour, state club leader, -and I J. Allen, state pig club " leader,' at tended a meeting of local club leaders in Eugene last Saturday. Themeeting was called by Miss Alice V Joyce, as sistant ,ctate club leader, and BY D, Senter, 'county supervisor of schools. - The meeting was well ' attended, all local leaders ' being present. 1 The clubs of the county are ' working well and the local leaders are ' anxious - to have a county leader. A committee was ap pointed to select one. A petition ; addressed to " the - county fair board s asks that the premium list for club members be retained this year. Oregon Growers Co-operative Association ' Organized, controlled and managed ; V , by bona fide fruit growers of Oregon. The Association, in the first few weeks of organization, already controls the largest 'bearing apple, prune and other acreage of any organization in the state. . , The principal' purposes '-for -.which the Association has been or ganized are: . ' , ; - rl.-. -To, standardize Oregon fruit proiJucU. - - 2.. . To stabilize. prices. ;".:..,--. .r - - I To eliminate unnecessary expense in distribution, :4 "which expense, U always charged to the grower. 4. ; To buy or build and "operate Association; ware houses arid packing houses in such districts as same are required. t 5 .'To eliminate speculation in Oregon fruits. 6. -To create consumer demand for Oregon grown r and packed products in every market in the country, la-) v beled as ii Packed and, Grown in OregonM The Oregon Growers' Cooperative Association is indorsed by the Oregon State Grange. It will be the strongest (factor in the Northwest for marketing Ore-gpn-grown products under ah Oregon brand. , - j '. ' - i- - , . , ' , . " 1 1 w . ''''''-',,"'"-''' . i ' '' '' " '' ' t ." ' ' .--" , v;:. Board of Directors .j . '. l'-Isae S. Hat,"PretIdeat Vice-President Ladd & Til ton Bank. Portland. Or. : . -Prof. C,t lwli, First Vies Preetseat, Chief of Dlv. of Horticulture, O. A. C, Corvallln. Ori ' W. E. St. Joha, -8eees4 Vies Pretldest, Douglas County Commissioner,, Butherlin. Or. ' Re'eretary.Treas- Grower Who: HasNot Already Received General Information Is In- tvited to Communicate With - . PROF. C. I. LEWIS, 1st Vice Pres., in Charge of Organization Oregon .Growers9 Cooperative . Association Tel. Salem 106 ' ; Masonic Bldg., iSalem, Or. V CALIFORNIA PROVES COOPERATIVE VALUE -IN MARKETING FRUIT Paul Finley Tells of Increased Returns to Growers and How Advertising Helped. Paul Finley, retail merchandiser of the California iFruit Growers' exchange, the famous : Southern California coop erative association which packs and dis tributes "Sun Klst" orangrs and lemons, was a visitor' in Oregon this week. Mr. Finley was very," interested to hear of the new Oregon Growers' Cooperative association, 's.-.t '-" ' ' -: m -j In 1S93." said Mr. .Khiley. "when Hhe California Fruit Growers' exchange was organized as a matter of dire necessity to the growers, the state was producing between ?4000 and 5000' carloads of jCit rus fruits annually,, and whenever 'the production ' ..considerably exceeded , 4000 carloads, the market was glutted. . To day, : as a result of cooperative trade promotion ' and advertising - of the ex change, California produces upward of 40.000 carloads -of citrus fruits and the market is never fully supplied.' ; BEKEFlf S OF COOPEHATIOX - Mr. Finley has been ' closely con nected with--cooperative marketing 'of fruit" for several years. ; He says : ". "The benefits which California citrus fruit producers have derived from coop erative effort are incalculable. Just be fore the formation of the organisation, red ink returns were common. Oranges were retailed as far east as Wisconsin at $3.26 a box,, and the reductions of various charges back to the farmer re sulted in his getting, about 20c a box for 1 his- fruit, out of ';whlch' he had to pay for cultivation, production and the packages. -. . , ,'- ; ' ' '.--' - 'vv- . i ."For some years the farmers efforts were directed simply -to shipping and distribution, but .nine years ago adver tising was undertaken. This .was done In opposition to the sentiments of a great many of the producers, who said that everybody knew what an orange or a lemon was. , ; ABVEKTI8IKG GETS BUSINESS "But the results have mote than justi fied the expenditure, because "returns of $1.30 and upward for the fruit in a box of oranges or lemons have been common, last year the returns running to about 1 1.71, and this year they wll average upward of 12.25. - Thus! t farmer is today getting- well reuaid for. his work. ; - i,r j-y. "Tne ta.iirornia Tuit exenajttge. ap propriates ' 2Vie a box on ontfiKes' and 4c a box on lemons for advertising pur poses." ,y , v. . r , Mr. . Finley expressedlhe hope J that the new Oregon Growers' Cooperative association ', would be 'a : success, and stated that he saw no reason " why it should not -be- equally as successful as any. of the great. California organiza tions.. 1 ? V,,". '."'J. . Read the advertisements on the farm pages.- They contain many helpful hints on better farming. In answering adver tisements always mention The . Journal. K. M. Harlow. Kugene Pre Greaer, Hillsboro' ' V''.w'vi&M rSii.. A. E. Reattr, Forest Orove EwiKk Counts U,,Sherl11NSr ' I . Allaa Belliager. Scotts Mills . B- C F"'" General Manager W- I.. Staler, Salem , Salem Fruit Union Fraak OJbftoa, Salem J. O. Holt, General Manager . W Mstlaews, Amity ' .... Eugene Fruit Growers -Assn.- Farmers Unions to Join in Quarterly Session and Picnic Brownsville. July 2s.-rThe Linn coun-. ty Farmers' union and the Lake Creek Farmers union have decided to have a Joint meeting and a picnic at this city upon the date . of their next quarterly session. .At this meeting speakers of ability will address the farmers. The farmers of these two progressive unions are engaged In' the practical ' work of the elimination from Linn county farms of the rapidly increasing Canada thistle, and reports as to- progress made will be awaited -with Interest. The .picnic and quarterly meeting - will ooour on October 11. Head of Hood River .Schools at 0. A, G. Oregon Agricultural College, Corval- -Ha, July 26. To get in closer touch with home economics and agricultural work, to strengthen the departments at Hood River, K. T. Robinson, superintendent college. lie will go to Eugene witn n. P. Barrows, professor of agriculturttl education of the college, to confer with the superintendent concerning vocational education. ' ,'.-',.- ' 1 r - What a Silo Should Be , Sclentiflo ' study of the ''silo problem" reveals sev eral fundamental require ments which must be met, if a stlo is tqbe a complete Success : : ..; . f - 1 The silo tn operation must be -practically water tight and air-tight. 2 The In t e r I o r walls must not only be smooth op to bottom as the bore of a gun, s9 that the material packed inside may' settle without the least dis turbance of Ihe contents from the least JiMirii1nrUi. Inf tha idcwilll. ' - 9. Tn viiiHT A illA Mnniul 1-MtllpitlTIAnt. the 'construction should be such that ex pansion arid contraction, - swelling and shrinking J-an take place without mate rially changing the-diameter and cir cumference of the silo. v ; 4 It snould be so constructed that It would take care of Itself '-would re quire Jno attention in the tvay of fre quent adjustment of hoops, bolts etc. - . --.:: ' - H - -: ' I ' -In order to make It a practical part farm equipment for lands worked u ti er lease, it should be so constructed that it could be easily taken down and moved, if desired, at the expiration of a lease. , -v ; A Tt should be no constructed that Jt could be put up easily and correctly with out skilled labor and without the ex-rx-nae . of extra and purely temporary construction, such aa elaborate scaffold ing. , ''. , - - : : - 7 It should not cost any more than other silos and should be sold for less lf-4X8Slble. . . . ' " ".- . - - Read over the above requirements care- . fully' then study carefully the construc tion of the Monro Perfect Stlo.. Ask for booklet telling about its construction and its ease of building. Stay Round 81)9 Co.. 601 Dekum bldg Portland, Or. W. H. Monroe, manager. Adv. . Mi 3 a 3 a m m s 9 m - X i 1 F I- I U 1 tttttn