Tim OREGOV STATESMAN i TlTESDAVy JANUARY 1. 10t
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Farming Districts jSnrfonnding Salem. Can and Should Be Very Productive Along TEis Line of Agriculture Natural Conditions Pig Help
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A peakcr t one of the recent
, agricultural j conventions In - Salem
was very emphatic In his statement
that Oregon will some time become
the greatest dairy state in he United
States. - He declared ' that " no other
section of like area had such natural
conditions- for maintaining milch,
cows and carrying on thei daliy in-
The 1 creamery managers Are call
ing for' butterfatj in vast quantities.
The residents of! the cities want
greater amounts of milk.
There Isf a veryv noticeable short
age in these two leading products of
the dairy farms. That such a con
dition should exist In this Willamettg
valley seems perfectly ridiculous. ,
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which in many leases has gone Into
the garbage cans and sewers from
the creameries. ! '
Cows and hogs are a mighty prof
itable combination, especially if the
latter are choice brood sows that
can be made to, produce two Htter3
of pigs a year each litter to be not
less , than seven healthy pigs that
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dustry; and he traveled extensively
and made careful observations along
this line. " I. :...
The very ."cream" of coontry in
this respect ts the western half of
Oregon of which the country sur
rounding Salem is the central part.
Here dairy farming can be engaged
In- with -very satisfactory I financial
. profits, , if it ' is done on a strictly
business system. - Like any otaer
business, dairying can not be ' made
a success if conducted along the same
lines as were followed in' the. Wil
lamette" valley for several decades;
that is, just simply keep a few cows,
feed them sparingly, milk , them at
Irregular hours, compel them to seek
shelter alongside a rail fence during,
the stormy seasons, and expose them
to all sorts of suffering during the
hot dry spell s and when , flies and
other winged Insects are at their
best. .This sort of dairying - won't
go nowadays, when there is so great
a -demand for cream and butterfat
and milk. .- " - .
Big money"! makers In theee cows.
Every farm should have a ten or I
fifteen-cow j herd and they should
be the verjy best "milkers;'-, cows
that will yield large enough at the
milk pail aid cream can to net $100
apiece eachV year ' The" hundred-dollar-a-year
cow should be. th
standard; yes. more than. that. There
are numerous farmers! in, the Pacifio
Northwest whoso cows ; excel that
amount of a balance on the right
side of thle ledger every twelve
months; and some of them are to. be
found here in the central Willamette
valley in the great productive coun
try around Salemj j
And along with the cows ;the-e
should be a sufficient number v of
purebred: swine 'not the , old-fashioned
raxorkacks,' but the kind , that
have made Oregon ktfown all over
the nation as "the best place on earth
for raising hogs."' .' Here Is where th
hog will help to make the keeping
of cows more profitable he can help
dispose of the skim milk, that lacteal
liquid that; has In times past been
considered a. by-product of; little
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will grow into 200-pound j animals
ready for the block in the shortest
time or for future breeders and for
which big prices will be readily of
fered as is the case during the pres
ent and will be for many s-ears to
come.
dairying.
There is tlll another industry that
could be profitably added to klairying
in the Willamette valley the poul
try. Laying hens need a
amount of .kini milk in their daily
they
200-egis-every-
It is no more
hens
he same
rations, especially if
heavy-laying strain-twelve-months
kind,
care or trouble to keep such
than it would be to perform t
work for hens that average lies than
seven dozen eggs during such a per
iod of time: Elsewhere in ttls issue
of The Statesman is a poultrkr article
which should be read by eviery per
son who gets the paper, and he ought
to be an enthusiastic believeir in tbje
poultry Industry after he has
its paragraphs and absorbed
.meaning of tbe facts set forth there
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" Dairy cows, hogs, and chickens on
every farm In. Marion countjj should
be a reality from now on. They would
mean more butter, more pojrk, anl
more eggs and white meat fill very
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necessary to help the conservation
of-food movement of the present and
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Ahole columns of figures and sta
tistlcs could be produced to. provo
that these classes of' livestock will
make the central Willamette valley
of Oregon Justly great agiicultural
ly; but what's the use of printing
them now. i We all know that we
have the climate and natural condi
tions for raising cows, bogs,' and
chickens successfully and profitably;
therefore, let the coming year see a
big increase in their numbers-and
the financial returns from them.
If yon are dairying' east of the
Rocky mountains, quit it and come
to rthe Willamette valley, where you
can make about 7 cents more a pound
on your -butterfat, and where you
can live in comfort, winter and sum
mer, in I our mild, climate, with no
extremes of heat or cold. .
v Oregon is the state of tbree-story
prosperity, -i Her forests and hr
fruits are in the top story; her rich
farming lands . provide for the. sec
ond, and her mines underneath the
surface, so far largely undeveloped.
provide for the basement Story.
We-have no blizzards in Oregon.
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Was our greatest year,
more and better goods
year in our history
We sold
than anv
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WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE FOR 1918, and
wishing one and all a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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Jiii OU) TKiI LETTER FR0L1 AN
OLD TRI RESIDENT OF SALE,!
(A Salem friend has handed to The
Statesman a letter from J". W. Red
ln gton, -dated at jtleuo,' Nevada,. July
12r 1911. which 4ias never been pub
lished, and which; this friend thinks
would interest a Urge number of old
timers who1 knew Mr. Redlngton
when he lived in iSalem andiwoiked
on The Statesman, and afterwards
" published ' newspapers at Heppner,
Oregon, and Pujallup, Wash., and
elsewhere. Followlns Is the letterj)
- s Keno, Nevada, July 12f 1911.
Dear Old Friend Al:: ? i
Either you or fame one els has
, Just sent me a.' pretty." postal card
about the SalenxJCberry Fair, which
reminds' me tha it is about time 1
-' answered the very interesting letter
you sent me some 75 or "30 days or
weeks ago, and which was. one of the
best letters I ever received, for it was
written in the cheerful frame of mind
with which yon were always blessed.
Some of us who happened to be born
on Friday, the 13thi, or on April F.
day, or the 23d Skiddoo, are apt to
. get the blues , or the s hiccoughs, but
you were "always cheerful and ready
to laugh on sufficient provocation.
. It is good news to-learn that there
are still enough' cherries in .Marion
county to get up afjair. One time
when John and Wlnlock Stelwer, Bob
Harrison and a lot of us were out on
a trip through the Jefferson' country.
' we consumed what fl thought were
all the cherries in j Oregon, T and 1
thought' that there would be none
left, It always struck, me that It
.was too bad o see Marion Square
covered with: fir trees which stood
' Idly around with their hands in their
pockets; yielding nothing but shad
In summer and chunks of Intensified
gloom, in winter. I suggested to Mr.
O. Dickinson, the nice old gentleman
who used to be In the seed and trc
business,: that he make a contract
with the city government, when John
Wright was mayor,- Sto viaft cherry
branches onto the fir: trees In Marion
Square, so as to evenitually have free
.cherries for the children, but he did
' not seemyto see the joke, and! thought
that Salem people were too honest to
tolerate any kind of grafting In con
nection with city, property; So I sup
, - pose that there is still nothing but
shade raised on Marion Square. ;
I am glad to learn that Salem,
and Oregon, where the best people on
earth live, are as prosperous as you
write they are, and It 1 good news
1 to near .mat property values are
holding their own, and increasing. In
many other parts . of the i country
people seem to still have cold feet as
a result of, the, last panic, and con
tinue to be afraid to buy property or
invest,' and this feeling ' seems to
;' i reatly depreciate valuea. - Ve ai
t-ping that this condition will end
if pr awhile, for it has already, lasted
; tc ,lons. . I met Mr. Craig, of, Salem,
, v. 1 n he waa here about 4 month ago,
.id. he told me of the wonderful do
vclr -ment" thatr had taken place
aro. id the Salem country, of which 1
vras very glad i to hear. ; Oregon is
cerU ily a productive igion-r a laad
of ri resources. But I was corry
to lei i from Mr. Crats'jiat a groat
many' f its old pioneer pathfinders
had c- -ed the divide. It seems like
Tt&itiu r iicEX rriz cracking Jokcsv
with Salem men who I am now told
have, been dead for several years. I
hope that the present and coming
generations jwill enjoy the results oi
the great development work the way
for which. was corduroyed, and paved
by the pioneers. . : . , ; 6 . v i ; ;
l Is no surprise to me, Al, to hear
that you and Mollie continue to be
such good chums, and get along so
well together. , She was always a
good, sensible, level-headed, industri
ous girl, and yon were always cheer
ful and good-natured, and such a
combination; ought to work well to
gether. But it seems sad to thin
of your little children growing up
and leaving you. It shows how time
files, and I suppose that there is no
stopping its' flight. ,So Jet it go xat
that... If it keeps on going as It haa
been doing, we may be all dead be
fore 1999 rolls round. :
Your mention of being employed at
the penitentiary makes me wonder it
they; haVe any pet bears out there
now. There vised to be one there tha
belonged to I Jay. Cooper and I. ye
swapped a year's subscription to the
Weekly Statesman to Mr. Wolf or d at
Silverton for the bear, and had an ex
citing. time ttying to lead .lt over the
muddy roads 1 4 miles to Salem. We'
stopped over! night with Tom Shaw,
who was sheriff, at his farm, and he
told us some; fine bear stories dating
back to when he crossed the pi a ma,
35 years before. Uncle Davy. New-
some stopped at rom'8 s tne same
night, and told us all about his native
Greenbriar county. West Virginia,
and, although Jay end I had never
even seen, a map of Jthat region, we
proved to Uncle Davy that we used
to know all his 'old schoolmates there.
Tom Shaw was a mighty good man,
and I was very sorry when I heard
that be had left us. Jay finally had
that bear sent out to the penitentiary
as a. pet for the prisoners, and I think
that he escaped and went to hunting
hogs around Lute , Savage's, and
.finally got scalped for It. But before'
he went, whije we were boarding him
around , town, he pulled down the
woodshed back, of Pete Emerson's
restaurant,' and broke bp a lot of fix
tures around the kitchen or Wesley
Graves Commercial Hotel.
I had to laugh recently in reading
a mazagine article about tbe adven
tures of a party that went exploring;
up the North Fork of the San tiara I
and naming! the lakes 'and peak
around ' Mt. j Jefferson. It read as
though they; were the first people
who ever penetrated that wild region
end that made me 'laugh when I re
membered; that- Pror: r-vvwell aud
Frank Cooper and Bill Delaney and
myself and ai fett others explored up
there for a -month 25 years betore
that,' and Uncle John Mlnto had bea
up there two years before us, and the
old Hudson Bay trappers had a trail
through, that! pass SO years ago. So
we .-were ''most all" tenderfeet. There
was ,a pioneer reunion ; here on the
4th, and when I came to figure up.
found that! I was eligible to bera
with the pioneers of . 1870.' a J was
Mouting with the army in the north
ern part of Nevada during the Snake
Indian war in 1878. I remember
what a great-event the pioneers' re
union used to be In Oregon, and if
you can rut out of some newspaper
an account of their reunion this year.
and of the reunion of the Indian war
veterans, and send the clipping to
me. please do so. W
I have heard that the Chemeketa
Hotel has changed its ? name again,
and that the old If Ire bell that used
to be in front of Sol. Dur bin's stable
has been, chopped, down. - That bell
used to help us very much when Wll-
lard Herren and Bob Harrison and
Tom Jennings used to want to find
ont'where John Minto. city marsbali.
was at night. After the first tap or
the bell we could hear' John hitting
up the plank sidewalk twoj blocks
away, and the boys disappeared
around the cornet. Of course I was
not in the" crowd, but .was keeping
dark in the doorway of Al Croaa
man's store across Che wayv
Kindly give my regards -- to the
neighbors; Al, and please leraember
tbat I shall always be glad to hear
from you or any of the old-time boysi
or girls. . I . . .
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THE SOLID CITY
OF GERMS
One of the oldest cities In one of
the longest settled sections of Ore
gon and Marlon county is Ccrvals,
twelve miles north of Salem, on the
Spothern Pacific main linrv
! Oervais is surrounded by a good
farming community, and from, this
city are shipped large quantities of
the standard products of the Wil
lametto valley. I,1
i; The Gcr.vais.Star. a good weekly
newspaper published by H. D. Mars,
keeps up with the local field. Gervals
has a bank and is well supplied with
general stores and the usual lines of
business going . with a thrifty city
ana community, j
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One of the old landmarks In Ger-
vais Is the old livery barn, but thU,
IlKe many other buiiaifies. has ont
lived" its usefulness for which it was
originally used. One time there was
a good demand for the horse livery,
but this js rapidly passing and- In
its I place ; is coming a more rapid
means i of, travel, ,the automobUe;
and it is for this' purpose that the
old livery barn, of Gervals Is now
used. Instead ofj the old sign ' one
now sees the sign "GARAGE" on
the front of the building. This is
new owned by the Johnson Bros.,
who also own the blacksmith shop
directly across the street. The two
brothers own both places in partner-
snip, cut James A. manages the
blacksmith shop and Edward MJ th
garage. They have cars for hire and
are ready any time, day or niffiit,
to make a trip any place. They are
agents for the Overland car and a
number of the leading makes of
tires, including Goodrich, Firestone,
and Fisk.
y. They sell gasoline and oils and
some auto accessories. In the black
smith shop thy arc equipped to do
any kind of general repairing and
are doing a good business at both
ptacesr. It is -planned at some fu
ture time to replace the present
structure ' with - anW; and modern
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HERD OF HORSES SUPPLANTED
BY THE GASOLINE ENGINE
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If yoni wsnt to Iraise hog, this ?s
the place to raise them.. Few of
the hog disease.-! arc found here, and
feed can be raised cheaply and In
abundance.
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(By WJ CCowgill)
That tbe war demands made, on
the farmer of Marion county; Oregon,
are revolutionizing' his methods and
habits of work is daily befnjjr exem
plified almost within; a stone's throw
of the county court house, inf Salem.
One gas tractor is now doing the
work on one 320-aere farm that last
year . required, twelve horsesj, ,thrcs
hired men and throe ?anjs plows to
accomplish In longer hours, ahi with
less satisfactory results.
The government has called on the
farmers not only to send their scn3
In the army, or navy, but to produi.e
twice as much grain, fruit anp vege
tables as they ever did beforej "
While prices of , farm products In
this .territory have risen more than
100 per cent In value, and with gov
ernment guarantee for the future, yet
the farmer has to pay almost twice
as much aa he ever -did before for his
supplies not produced ,on the farm.
Itself, and replace Is sons by ort
times incompetent help, liable) at any
time to be drafted' away from him
into the ever-increasing demand for
men, men of brawn, men of courage,
to take the place of the "minute
men' during the original war for in
dependence waged by Georce Wash
ington and his scantily-fed anc cloth
ed patriots.
The gas tractor fthen never 1 ream
ed of by the wildest prophet of the
age) has solved the problem of our
modern "men with the hoe."
"Sticks to Ills It.
"No, I am not in the marktet just
now, to sell my farm." said f'Tom
Walker, when interviewed wjiile he
was hard at work planting vetjrh and
hay seed; for early pasture and cut
ting In 1J1S. !
"I am getting along pretty jwell In
years, but farming In the only game
I ,can . play. I could lease, or ! sell,
and go into the city with, my wiffl
and live on my rents, or Income, but
I would never be satisfied.- i
"Yes, I expect to die on.a f!arm
it's all mine and produces ill we
want to live on, except our rlothes
and sugar, eC;
A Question of Traitor, or Jnit
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"You see when jny boy haq to go
to the war, I was at a loss td know
just what to dn. f had to hire a man
to start wjth. of course, and he can
run my new tractor all rights,; And
if he was suddenly drafted, to go to
the war, as he is liable to be jalmosi
any time, on a pinch I. could run the
machine myself. " S" I . was compelled
in self defense to Invest in a traction
engine, and gang; plows, the i whole
outfit costing me about $1600.
. "It was either, that or bi mo e
Lhorses at $450 a span, wbicn. with
six sets of, harness at S7 a set. and
six bushels of oats a day, to say noth
ing of hay, .bedding and- wear and
tear on the harncps, woud cst me
nearly $4000 at the beginning.
. Horses Cot 5Imer to Kcrp.
"Now; 4 horses have to be fel.
whether they are i working in the
fields, or standing idle in the barn.
It's different- witn a tractor; when
it 13 idle the expense stops.'
20 Rods in SO MinutesL
It inj the regular course of a day's
work. I got on behind tbo driver and
rode around tbe field, while he turn
ed the earth with the" three, plows of
tbe gang, and we made once around.
260 rods, cutting 3 feet in just" 20
minutes by my watch.
Can yon beat It?
Then and Vow.
" On returning from fciy . first ex
perience In riding a real live gas
engine, I asked Mr. Walker how the
Niew. machine worked, as compared
with the old method of plowing with
horses, and he told me that last year -about
this time in the fall, he had
ground prepared for sowing ? that
measured a little less than 25 acres,
and he and, his man had to work,
day and ; night almost, with every
available animal on the farm in har
ness, -i"':;' '
"Iast week aWhe, for instance,"
he said, my man plowed with thH
same tractor outfit 50 acres, and to
day we had. a little more than 1 02
acres ready for planting. r The trac-
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tor can be utilized in almost any
kind of weather, and when the
ground Is hard sledding for ordinary
plowing, , the man with a gas tractor
can get his ground turned up before
the rains come an immense advant
age, as every practical man knows."
. ' A 3Ih1cI Farm.'
: InterestcVlin the,. 4 0x4 0 new barn
o: the "Mddle Grove" farm, with
its bins' and cribs literally overflow'
mg. wiin last years crops, still '-un
sold, I found the new pumping plant
nearby, which throws water from a
tank all over the house lot. Into the
house, where there is every modern
convenience, hot and cold water,'bath
rooms, etc., which have . Just been
added in the remodeled dwelling,
flanked by a garage containing , a
motor car for running about the
country In, or visiting the city, it
occurred to me that the tractor and
gasoline have entered into the everyT
day economies of the farmer to stay.
Horses can not be had, except at high
prices, and the government has al
ready pretty well cleaned out the
surplus horses in most sections of
Oregon,? while the practical uses of
a tractor are almost, unlimited.
Mr; -Walker, as well as a few of
his neighbors, who have tractors,
uses it when he wants to draw a
string of wagons to market, run .tbo
feed cutter, or saw cordwood, and
when he runs the machine icto tl.a
barn, the expense ceases. .
Fertilizer Keep the fand Bfc Iloir.
Proper rotation of crops; with Cu
use of fertilizers, keeps these 32 0
acres of lanti in condition th? year
round. Crop failures, under, such
methods of farming .are almost un
known on "Middle Grove" farm, and
when inthe spring Mr. Walker com
pletes the installation of his own
electric light plant, he will not oni
light his houses, barns, and gran
aries, with electricity, but, if need,?
be In the rush season, can plow hU
fields' at night. 1
A good home orchard and garden
flanked by a poultry yard, suprb
this arm with everything cood t
eat, as well as clear a -small "prof. t
yearly. - . . . !
Horn In Illinois, MrJ Walker canrr
west many years Kot but brought
with him eastern idea on farming,
which, he has never let rust, and hai
followed these with every improved
method worthy of adoption.
It Is this aggregation of dip-to-date
farmers that have madr? the WHIam
ettte valley famous in ronr-ral farm
ing, dairying, aad fruit raising:.
f Just to see what a tractor
,tual working order could do, and d
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