SATURDAY, MAY 7. 1921.
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PESSIMISM AMONG
OWN RANKS WORST
ENEMY OF LEAGUE
'By K. C. Stewart
" Cooperative marketing of farm
'commodities haa many enemies. This
t-i a natural condition to be expected
whenever profits of large speculative
firms are threatened. ?
The propaganda and underhand meth
fwls osed by some of these speculative
firms may' be. f sally met and fought in
.'inost -all Instances, but the enemy of
v cvopsruira manteiing i - ones i roe
7 moct harm and who is the hardest to
I n erabat ' i ths pessimistic- not always
; tionest member' of the association, i By
irreat good fortune such members -; are
few and far between and it is only now
and then that a member is. encountered
who will make dishonest or half truth
ful utterances about his association and
how "often he receives his payments.
ISSTASCE IS CITED '
Some cases have come to lifsht in the
Oregon Dairymen's league where i ru
mors oh non-payment of returns were
started 'py a few members . when they
told their storekeeper or other cred
itors that, they 'had not received their
pay from the Dairymen's league, telling:
this in'rder to explain why they, had
hot .paid their bills. The truth of the
natter was that they had received par
tial payment for the month on or be
fore the twenty-fifth of that month, tho
partial payment .amounting, as a rule,
to 70 per . cent of the entire amount.
Vinal payments can sot be made until
the pool into which the produce goes is
finally closed and the money for this
pool paid into the association.
X The producer has In fact become not
only a manufacturer of his products,, but
.also his own. sales agent, la doing: so,
making it possible to receive the profits
heretofore taken out by operators who
handled the produce after it left the pro
ducer's hands. As a manufacturer he
can hot expect to receive these extra
profits until the prod ace is finally sold
and the returns in. Partial payment in
almost all cases amounts to as much as
he would have received had he been an
Individual producer, and the final pay
ment which is made after the pool is
entirely closed is almost all clear profit
to . him; ;
CEI.IEV IS Af FOUTIFTI " ..
1 In the Dairymen's league it has taken
sometimes as long as two or three
' months to close the pools and make final
payments. Where members have been
pressed for money, arrangements have
4een made to advance money to them
through trade acceptances which are
I honored by their local bank. This has
la every case made it possible for the
i league members to tide themselves over
-v.. for short periods and there Is therefore !
i Tie- excuse for the statement to he made ;
I fthat Ho money has been received for
I one, two or three months, as some such :
I I half truthful statements have been made
' f 5 by a very few members, . '
I 5 A half truth in this case is as bad as
J the , worst, lie, for immediately it starts
' Ja rumor which is quickly used as propa
I Uganda against the man's own marketing
I: )' association. , Sometime these half
! 1' "truthful statements are made- by mem
bers whO'do not understand exactly
V-v-hat they are talking about and it must
I h Certainly be a fact that they do not un-
! aivtng out detrimental statements.
I jJOHTBACTS BBOKE1T
1 1 1 There are always a few members who
(may be Induced to overlook or break
I t Stheir marketing contracts when they are
iierea a iraciion i a cent more oy
competitive firm. Such- advances
n prices are always made in order to
aduce .the producer to desert his mar-
sting association, and as soon as enough
avs deserted the association the dif
ference in prices will be reversed.
There are many successful coopers -
ive associations in the Northwest. Thov
3 have had a. hard fight and are still
3 tucking up against propaganda and op
S position of every sort. The Dairymen's
v league Is very sucoesaful, considering
i 'he ameunt- of opposition it has had.
DUrlnff the " past year they have in
' Teased Hieir membership until it now
' stands at 2935 and includes the follow
ing districts : Zona No. 1 includes Mult
; tiomah, Clackamas, Washington, Yam-
hill , and Columbia counties in Oregon
- and-- Clarke county in Washington. Zose
No. 2 Includes Coos and Curry counties
in Southern Oregon. Zone No. J Includes
.Clatsop connty rn Oregon and parta of
wTacifUJ and- Wahkiakum counties in
southwestera .Washington. ; "
' to'CtTT OtEKHEAD V I
..-j,. Afany other sections of the North west
states have shown a desire to. become
-;-part of the Dairymen's league, but the
- directors and officials ef- the league
Mo not dee t re to take In too much terrl-
J tory - until - their marketing machinery
is running a little more smoothly. On
account of the large amount, of organi
tsatioa work they have had to do, their
.overhead has been rather heavy up to
.'date, out .they are now findlne it dob
isiMe to cut down their overhead in many
ways. - Some of this overhead has been
7. .caused by the extra help they -have had
t retain In 'order to combat the oppo
nents of cooperative marketing. Such
opposition will subside after a time and
, JthXa extra, expense will .be no longer
neeeasaxy. ;. , -. . . ., .-
. . It is. safe to say that the Dairymen's
' league is over its most critical period
of organization and is in a position to
do its members a large amount of good
irora now on. , . -
;Big New Potatoes
; , . Grow on Sprouts
, . JL A. Pllteneer of .1095 Marvland a-r
. enue planted some, seed potatoes Febru-
ary : 22 covering up the sprouts, which
- were about a foot long. Saturday morn
. Ing he was hoeing the potatoes and was
much surprised t find that there were
several good sized new; potatoes which
ama grown on ue ena or tne sprouts. Pit
tenger says that he believes that if the
Sprouts of seed potatoes " were always
planted instead of being thrown away
as is sometimes the ease, there would be
much .earlier crop of potatoes.
J Farmers Publish
i . .- County Directory
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. ' Centralis. Wash May 7. A Lewis
eeunty farmers . directory has just
been published by the farmers' Direc-
tory corpora tien of Spokane. The book
" includes a legal department compiled by
i 3. M. Jahnke, deputy prosecuting attor
1 ey of Iewis county ; a department on
I ths dairy Industry by County .Agent fl.
i tl. Fowler, and a poultry department by
i tor company of Fords Prairie.
HOLD SPRAYER DEMONSTRATION
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Orehardists will read with Interest
track power sprayer which the Portland bureau of parks haa just
purchased to combat the elm lea f beetle and other tree troubles. .:
SPRAYER MEANS
DEATH TO PESTS
Orchardists will j be interested " in
learning: something: of the methods
used by the bureau of parks of Port
land in spraying: large tall trees. Big
improvements have been made in
power sprayers during- the last two
years and the latter types of spray
ers are driven by the same power
that propels the sprayers through
the orchard. I ;
The pew power sprayer will wage war
on the elm leaf beetle and every elm
tree in the city will be visited by the
new apparatus. Following a trip to Spo
kane by O. P. Keyser, superintendent of
parks, in which he investigated the
power ' sprayers of that city, a Hardy
spray pump was purchased and installed
on a two-ton Pierce -Arrow truck. .
The apparatus is an Innovation In its
type for Portland, but has been found
highly successful by the Spokane park
department. The power for the pump is
received from the truck motor. The
Spray tank has a capacity of 500 gal
lons and will be a great Improvement
over the old equipment which was lim
ited to 200 gallons. The 200-gallon tank
will be used for auxiliary work.
A special nozzle, was designed for the
machine in order that the highest elms
may ; be reached. - - The old eaulpment
has not capacity or power to reach the
tops of the trees and so the elm. leaf
beetle has enjoyed an uninterrupted feast
in tne tree tops. - I ;
Arsenate of lead, a . stomach poison
spray, has been found to be the best
weapon to use In the fight on the beetle.
spraying may be done as the weather
permits and will be directed by Walter
h. oeme, city arboxlculfcurlist. He will
put a crew of four men on the truck to
Operate the sprayer during the, season.
Josephine's War on
Diggers Saves Much
Oranta Pass. Or.. Mar 7. .The results
of the gray digger drive as announced
by the county, agent indicate that there
will be a considerable shortacre in the
crop of diggers this summer. The re
port as just announced shows that 12.56 5
acres of non-resident and 9211 acres of
government land were actually covered
for poisoning. . Figuring only one gray
digger to the acre, says the county acent.
and that each one does U worth of dam.
age to crops during- the season, it is
aoown mat Josephine county farmers
have saved S21.77S as a result of the two
Big Help to Farmers
iL""? Plneat Co.. 14 N. Bseoed
r.. V!- r ' . t benefit to tk
'rJ1,1 o 2w in aecunne foe them Mason
i w 22? PltT hia tabor.
nd. h' otn mo fr 21 ye.m. They
mMm no charts to the Mnployer. tha eraslora
. lor tha aervice. They at
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the account of ia demonstration of a
CATTLEMEN CALL
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Baker, May T. An official " call
has been issued for the eighth an
nual convention of the Cattle and
Horse Raisers' association of Oregon
to be held at Canyon City, in Grant
county, Oregon, May 24 and 23.
The Twin Cities Commercial club of
Canyon City and John Day and the
stockmen of Grant county have charge
of the arrangements for the convention
and entertainment of those who attend.
A large fund has been provided for en
tertainment- .
The Northwest Hereford Cattle Breed
era association will hold . a : registered
bull sale at Prairie City May 26.
The executive committee ef the asso
ciation is urging members to attend the
convention when subjects of Interest to
livestock producers will be discussed and
all present will have opportunity to ex
press themselves on matters pertaining
to the industry. .
Grant county, which, for many years
was the home of Joaquin Miller, the fa
mous poet of the sierras, has ever been
noted for its hospitality. It earnestly
invites stockmen to be present and as
sures ample Accommodations for alt who
attend. Reservations for rooms can be
made by communicating with Otis Pat
terson, Canyon City.. Or. .
wuuam TOiman ana k. u. carrou ox
Baker are president and secretary, re
spectively, of the association. i
TVM FIR HERD
REGISTERED
H0LSTEINS
' OlTliT BTTIAS FRO TBAHIT
t BECOAO DAMS FOB BALE.
' SEAL BESS BKADEKS :
Prices Reasonable
Frank W; Connell
B. 1, HIXLSBORO, OKEGOJT.
Field and Orchard
SPRAYERS
At Pre-War Prices
All kinds of Barrel Sprayers and
Pumps. Good Fruit, Brings Good
. . Price Xt Pays to Spray.
EAST sipE CENTRAL GARA6E
H. W. Cer. East Sth aid East Taylor
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DOUGLAS V
DOLMEN
JOIN ASSOCIATION
.! At a series of meetings being held
In Douglas county the marketing
plans of the Oregon Wool and Mo
hair association are being; explained
and members secured. i
The meetings which are being held at
Yoiscalla, Elkton, Oakland, Riddle, Day's
Creek and Camas Valley i are being ad
dressed by County Agent Leader C J.
Hurd, R. A- Ward, organization man
ager, and Fred W. Herrln of (Ashland,
prominent wool grower and president of
the organization committee.
i Sheep men generally, realise the great
benefits to be gained through co
operatively marketing their wool and
mohair by the association where it can
be concentrated, graded and j sold in
large lots In a strictly merchantable
condition. j '
' - Before leaving for Douglas county.
Ward held a conference with Boston wool
and - mohair buyers relative t mohair
srllitig on the Atlantic coast
The association now has more than 300
members and more than 50,000 fleeces
signed up.. The Ohio Sheep and Wool
Growers' association, a similar organiza
tion, is the first selling ; agency which
has just ompleted selling all of its 1920
pools, which is at present quite a feat in
the Iwooi trade. The prices received
averaged higher than those received by
any i other selling agency. This is con
sidered a remarkable achievement, in
view of the fact that low wools are now
drug on the . market, j Last year it
handled the larger portion of Ohio wools.
Because of its succes3 it has been
asked to handle the clips of a number
of other fleece wool states. Itexpect
to handle 10,000,000 pounds this 'year.
The Oregon association will commence
receiving wool and mohair at the new
western wool warehouse this month.
0. A. 0. Ships Eggs
To Many Countries;
Good Stock Praised
Eggs are being shipped to Denmark.
England, Canada, ' Argentina and, Switz
erland by the department of poultry
husbandry at the Oregon Agricultural
college. The ; last of der from a foreign
country came from Switzerland for
White Leghorn hatching eggs. The
poultryman who sent the order said he
had read in the Swiss paper about the
good stock from the Oregon Agricultural
college.
A shipment of eggs was made to Den
mark a few days ago and - orders have
come from various other countries. The
poultry department, however, does not
encourage shipment of eggs at such a
distance, as the probability is that they
will not hatch after being shipped across
the continent and overseas.
Most of. the eggs shipped to foreign
countries were shipped as experiments.
In most cases they arrived In fair con
dition and the Oregon strain of poultry
is now advertised in several of the for
eign countries. " j
Fund for Jackson
County Fair to Be
! Raised by Ballot
Medford, Or.. May 7. Through the
action taken by its executive committee.
the Jackson - County Farm bureau has
assumed charge of the . new county fair
grounds project, the committee having
approved the building program- and
plans already under way by the Jack
son County Fair association and' the
Medford Chamber of Commerce.
It will cost $30,000 to carry out the
project as contemplated and a commit
tee has been appointed to have this
money raised by taatlon through
measure to be placed on a ballot to
be voted at a special election, providing
a half mill tax for two years. The judges
and tellers of the various election boards
will be asked to serve on election day
free in order to save much of the ex
pense of the special election. If the
measure passes, the buildings and
grounds will be ready In time for the
county fair next fall.
Livestock advertising in Oregon Coun
try Life pays. Write j . for livestock
rates. Adv.
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Weed-lark Bids. .
Portland
SEED OATS!
: j Certified Shadeland "Varieties for May
seeding, wiu harvest in August,
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: Kye Grass, home grown, cieaa seea.
Samples and prices, write
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HIDES WOOL CASGARA BARK
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GROWER'S
SSOOATIOM
The ' following average prices were
realised by the Oregon Growers' Co
operative i association during : the past
season t Gooseberries, 7.8 cents ; rasp
berries, 20 cents ; strawberries, 16.9
cents; currants, 10 cents; evergreen
blackberries. 7 cents, and green prunes,
4.4 cents a pound.
. A total of 1, 072,95s pounds of logan
berries were sold by the Oregon Grow
ers Cooperative association : this past
season. The average : price was 12.7
cents. Of cherries, the association sold
1.014,955 pounds and the average price
was also 12.7 cents a pound. i. .
Eighty-two per cent of the Bartlett
pears sold by. the Oregon Growers' Co
operative ; association this past season
were grown in the. Rogue River valley
of : Southern Oregon. The association
handled 5,555.953 pounds of Bartlett a, of
which 4, 76,987 pounds were shipped
from Medford and Grants Pass, the two
great pear districts of the Rogue River
valley.-- ' , . . , ,
The sales department of the Oregon
Growers Cooperative association re
ported at! the annual meeting, April 26.
sales of 8,296,007 pounds of prunes.
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Jersey Club to Have
Stock Sale, on May 24
Centralis. May 7. A Jersey stock sale
will be held at the southwest: Washing
ton fair grounds, half-way between Cen
tralia and. Chehallsr on May 24, accord
ing to an announcement made by George
R Walker." secretary of the fair. .Be
tween, 35 and 40 head of purebred, will
be on the grounds. The sale is being
held under the auspices of the Lewis
County Jersey club. A. Campbell of
Hillsboro," Ore.; will be1 the heaviest
stock contributor to the sale.
; lairy Survey Made1
Cove, May 7. County Agent Harry M.
Avery and Ray Duncan are making a
dairy survey of Cove. They are trying
to obtain a complete census of dairy
stock, according to number and breeds,
and also the number and kind of range
stock. A tuberculin test for the county
will begin about July X.
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In answering advertisements., mention
Oregon Country Life. Adv.
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American Warehouse
& Sales Company
NEW and USED CARS TRUCKS
415 East Ash St., Portland,- Or.
1 00 Cars to Select From
Both New and Used
Our Used Cars have been thoroughly
gone over and are in first-class condition.
. We will gladly take in your car as part
payment and give you "YOUR OWN
TERMS IN REASON."
There are from. $200 to $1000 DIS
COUNTS FROM REGULAR PRICES.
We also have quite a number of NEW
and USED TRUCKS all sizes.
We will give all our mail inquiries per
sonal attention.
American Warehouse & Sales Co.
415 East Ash.St., Corner East Sixth St.
Phones: East 6752, Bdwy. 4320
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Tractors and Threshers
We are now getting in our supply of
TRACTORS AND THRESHERS
for spring delivery.
Call at our warehouse and allow us to explain why the
Russell Thrcc-Speed" Transmission Tractor,
is proving so successful; also our up-to-date
Threshers, Hullers and Sawmills
TheA.H.AveriII
Llachinery Co.
324 Celmont St.
Portland, Oregon
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Bent on . an Investigation tour of bis farm to - determine the reason for
the chronic milk shortage, Edward Sclwli of Zionsvlllc, Pa, came
, across tills unusual sight In bis cow pasture. lie not only discovered
. tho reason for the milk shortage, but also the reason for the unusu
ally rapid growth of the farm's' latest litter of piglets.
Polk County Dairy
C attle M eni Work
For Better Breeding
Dallas, Or., May 7. Better breeding of
dairy cattle is attracting considerable at
tention in Polk county, j Ivan Loughary
of the firm of Frank Loughary A Son,
leading Jersey breeders, has been promi
nent in putting rorward the gospel of
better herd sires. r
The livestock committee of the farm
bureau is making arrangements to .se
cure the donation of a limited number
of bull calves from some of the widely
known herds Of the county for placing
in bull clubs. The breeders of pure
stock are hacking the proposition to a
man, according to Loughary, who feels
that a number of associations' of this
kind will raise materially the average
quality and production of Polk county
dairy cattle.
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Washington State
Fair Promises Aid
By Director French
Yakima, Wash., May 7. Declaring that
the Washington state fair was a fixed In
stitutlon and Yakima was in no danger
of losing It. Director E. L. French of .
the department of agriculture said it
was his purpose to make it a srowlnr
institution during his terfi and make
future appropriations certain. In com
pany with Supervisor P. H. Gleyd and
Secretary H. P. VermUye he made an
Inspection of the improvements to
grounds and buildings recently ordered
and expressed his satisfaction of the
progress made. His chief aim will be
to make the fair of state-wide Import
ance and he pledges full support of all
his department heads to this end.
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Farm Chunko, Logging and
Exprebo HoroeG
We have a con$imment of three carloads 'of the best farm chunks,
logs'mz a"d express horses that have been shipped to this market in
many a day. ' Come and jive tis the once over. We have the goods.
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or cattle. Liberty bonds accepted. ' .
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Phil Suetter, Pres.
285 Front Street
DAMAGE TO FRUIT
IN EAST SERIOUS
Fruits in the East have been more
seriously damaged than for any time
during tha present generation, ac
cording to private advices received
by the Oregon Growers' Cooperative
association. "
One authority writing from Missouri
says : -Everything we have been able
to , learn regarding the fruit " situation
between the Kooky mountains and the
Atlantic coast Indicates the lightest
crop for a generation. "'. Since I la-st
wrote , you there has been considerable
damage-to our crop prospects. Straw
berries will be half a crop, blackberries
a full crop and apples probably a quar
ter of last year's production."
From Southern Idaho the association
has received word of serious damage to
the cherry and peach crop In the lower
Yakima valley frosts have injured
cherries. - peaches and aprifots.
The apple crop is almost a total Iops
in Missouri and the great apple section
of Northwestern Arkansas. Some-orchards
are being abandoned tor the
year. y
From New Kngland reports to the
association are of great damage to the
commercial crop of apples and cherries.
The apple crop will hardly average fin
per cent according to ' present esti
mates. In New York state-: and Michi
gan come reports of very serious dam
age to apples.
JThe New Jersey cherry crop, com
mercially, is almost a total loss and all
through the New . Kngland states th
crop will hardly average 60 per cent of
a normal crop, such was the, damage
done by the cold spell during April.
The Missouri peach crop will he si- .
most a total failure, according to re
ports to the association. Along the At
lantic seaboard there hasbeen serious
damage, and in Michigan reports aro
that the' loss is fully 75 per cent.
In Missouri the pear crop also haa
been damaged. In New Jereey one re
port estimated a loss of pears of fully
80 per cent, with a 25 per cent loss in
Michigan and great damage in all tha
central states. There was eleet and a
coat of Ice on many orchards of Kast
era Colorado during blossoming time.
B05E HEAL
Finely ' ground. It is one of the
best fertilizers. Reduced by
improved machinery to an even
fineness nothing Is added.
Very enriching and one of the
most economical.
WE offer as aaosnallr fine
sMortaieBt ef
ANNUAL BEDDING
PLANTS
Inexpensive and extremely
satisfactory, they should be
planted extensively for cut
flowers in the home as well
as for garden effects.
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