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We Will Give Qur Best Bay the1 D "V Oregon NG AL jnaae Furnaces i GT EM W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17 th & Oak Sts., Salem, Or. Phone 886 W Ar Ont After Two MUUons We ire onw paying over threa jarter of a million dollar yrar to ttit dairyintu .of : this section tot milk, i ., - "Marion Butter" . Is th Best Battel . Mors Cows and Btter Cows U . tb crying seed . , I MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 2188 DEHYDRATED FRUITS' AND Oregon. King's Food Products Company -. 1 SlAlem Portland iTh Dalles! Oregon Gideon Stolz Co. - 1 i Manufactnreta of - 'Dependable Brand Xlme-SnlphW Solution ; The! brand ydV can depend on for purity and test Prices upon application . Factory , near corner of ', Summer" and Mill1 St. Salem, j Oregon yaiametteYaDeyPnine Assccnboa The: oldest Association in the Northwest. ' W.T. JENKS V ' Secretary and Manager 'Trade Hteh Sta. '" " tValeeia, Oregon NELSON BROS. Warm Air Ponuirea, plambiag' j. krtia( sad shaet metal work, tia ad fratel -roof Ibjc Knral job f Masj ' im tia aa4 galvaaisad lroa - '-... . . 6tf'CkktS It. FUons 190S PIXIE BREAD - . . Pixie Health Bread ' c Ask your Grocer ,RIDE THE-: . TROLLEY . vtm . J , ,i SAFETY i j : i , CfFOHT -" 1 J , COXVEX1KXCE , AND ECONOMY I .'j Tickets save your time. ' . IJuy them In strips S for i SO rests. - : SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES FORYEARS AMD YEARS i ; ; ;.-, . r . v' .' t f ' T fatxania kaa ba awpply f In tli wdtita of taa critical Job lariatiog trad i ' .-1 - :- -t- - - Trnt (MMitWa w ara priatara r of wortk aad merit. !5Jifcrm Jcstiit and ldaa rs its.ra tbai get by. STATESMAN PUBUSHING ; COMPANY The Way to Build Up Your Home Is to Patronize and CANNED VEGETABLES Products U QurcD cat nniiT ion niiTnc nun IILLI Lnl nUUU I LU UU I Ul UUII TURNING There Is More Than a Double Return for Sheep Each Year; The Wool, the Lambs and the Fertilizing of the Soil The Average Valley Farm Would Profit From Sheep if v They Did Not Retum a Pound of Wool or Mutton Editor Statesman: That the Willamette Talley Is an ideal place to raise' sheep is a proven Iact. Sbeep from this val ley have gone into the strongest competition and more than held their own. It is a splendid cli mate, the diseases and the things which go to make .the growing of cheep hazardous are not so num- ehous as in many places, and their helpfulness- in adding to their owner s ; income ana , restoring plant food to the farm is above that of any other farm animal.- . - -. : i - - -' Double Return and Slore .4 -Our climate is similar to that of England, where the sheep in dustry in an iptensified wajr has perhaps been developed as in , no other . country I and on ground where the yearly rental is equal to the selling price of a good deal of land . in this valley.-, The dou ble return of both wool and. lambs with . the least outlay in care and fepd other than that garnered by themselves leaves them the most profitable of all. farm animals. For the average farm it is not a question as to . whether the land is too valuable ! to run sheep on It or not but, whether the farm can be successfully run without them or not. 1 Those. who are acquainted with the farming operations of this valley for the past 50 years do know that some' way of restoring plant food to the soil 'must be found. They Eat 120 Weeds Of something like 140- differ ent weeds sheep eat something like 120. In this way they are turning Into money food? that ia both detrimental to crops and an improvisher" of the soil. lOn the average farm ' they would be a SCREEN DOORS' Wire Screen, Screen Hard ware, Screen 'Enamel and paints will brighten np and preserve your old screens. Falls City-Salem Lumber Co. 349 So. 12th St. - Phone 813 A. B. Kelsay, Mgr. . SALEM IRON WORKS v Established 1860 H i y !-: Founders, Machinists and Blacksmiths i - - Corner Front utl &tt SU,..: - f , i - ..! .. . Manfrtiirer of . th Shind P'injp for irrigatioa -mud thpr mr yn.rt. Corrpsponitnrs . inlicttctl. ' Irrigntion information supplied. Makers of Pklem lrou Work IrJ Sw.. . : .. HOTEL BLIGH 100 rooms of Solid Comfort A Home Away From A, "Year --fel Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its Cities and Towns. i Your Home People Selling Salem This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men -men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prospez ity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. f ! 4 IB benefit if they did not return a pound of wool or mutton. ? All the mutton breeds do well; they need no expensive buildings, and they do not require more care than any other farm animal. -More and Better Sheep Sheep ' are not nearly so hard on our pastures as horses or cat tle and half the money will build and maintain the fences for sheep that 13 required ' for horses and cattle. ' ' ! I you haven't a few sheep get them. Start with a few, learn the business as well as the joys, give them reasonable care, and the profits will "be sure. . yours for more ; and better sheep, ' " : ' G. G. BELTS'. -HarrisburK. Oregon, ; . I July 30. 1923. ? 1 TUEWOOL OF SHEEP IS "VELVET," SUHE Hon, T, B, Kay Says They Would Pay Better Than - Hogs, Without Wool j t " Hon. T. B. Kay, manager of the Salem Woolen Mills, has been telling the Salem Slogan editor for four years that the thing for Willamette valley farmers to do is to raise medium wooled sheep, like the Shropshires, Oxfords. Hampshire3, etc., or crosses of Merinos or Cotswolds and L.in colns ti . . i ; ' And to raise more of them. He thinks the present M condi tions as tfi demand will persist that the demand will be indefi nitely for the finer cloths, made from the finer and medium fiber ed wools. - I' ' The quotation on medium wools at the Kay mills yesterday was 35 cents a pound. ; : j - At this time two years ago these mills were paving 16 cents a pound for medium wools. But Mr. Kay predicted then ; that wool would bring gradually high er prices in this country that the sheep breeding industry r of the United States would "come back" with , the, rising tide of general i prosperity, and on account of the protective tariff on foreign wools. At the opening of the season this year wool prideg were higher than now. c Some clips sold around 45 cents a pound, and a few. of the large pools of finest quality as high as f0 to 52 cents. But there has been a recession i in prices, duo to many things; partly to the effort all over the country to bring down the general aver ago of prices. i ; ; : T But Mr. Kay has always insisted that the sheep breeding industry would be a paying agricultural Salem Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rug Works . , Rag ' and fluff ; rugs wovon any sizes without seams. New mattresses made to order. Old mattresses remade. Feathers renovated. I buy all kinds of old carpets for fluff rugs. Olto F. Zwicker, Prop. ' Phone 11& 4 i : 13 and Wilbur Streets A TO MONEY Town District Pep line if they did not produce any wool at &- that the wool of the sheep is velvet" to the breeders oi sheep . j . ' - That sheep would pay betteT than hogs if they had no wool; be cause ' sheep ' fatten '.".themselves, and. help keep the land free from weeds and also help in keeping up the fertility of the soiL, . He points to the fact that lambs are now bringing $7 to $8 a head. Ha thinks every farmer In the Salem district should keep some sheep, and that they should get into the medium wooled breeds, and that there; is no other . one thing that will! do more towards making this district solid and prosperous. j GREEN FEED IS The Reasons Given - Why This Is an Absolute Essen tial to Best Results Jho importance of green feeds to poultry does not rest so much on their nutritive values (though alfalfa and: clover have a high feeding content) as It doeson their chemical and physical ac tion on th system. If fed in the fresh stage, green footstuffs as suage thirst, while their lime and mineral salts ; maintain health and-- a robust physical condition. Experienced breeders appreciate these factors, hence, maintain a bounteous feeding of green stuffs in variety. Much has been said and written on this phase of poul try . feeding, to which we have contributed our mite; but rarely nave we seen it stated more clearly than in the following par agraph from the New Zealand Poultry Journal:: ."The digestion of protein and carbohydrate yields matter of an acid nature, which if allowed to remain in that condition would injure the individual cells of the tissue, and hence the body as a whole. Sufficient, min eral matter must always be avail able to maintain the body fluids in a state of j neutrality. When there is a deficiency of calcium (or lime) in ;the diet, the body will actually tear down its own structure in order to obtain the calcium necessary to maintain the neutrality of its internaL,fluids; then the only source of supply the bones) become actually ab sorbed, and death rapidly inter venes. All seeds are deficient in mineral salts,-and it has been pro ven by actual experiments that it Is Impossible to induce growth in young birds on a diet of wheat alone, but if a suitable .mineral mixture is added, slow growth will be obtained. Indeed, miner al deficiency .is the first limiting, factor in the use of seeds from a dietary standpoint. . . . Ail birds probably eat a considerable amount of mineral substance in the form of particles, which they deliberately swallow, and - they secure in their natural state more or less of all the essential ele ments in their drinking water which has permeated the ground. These supplementary sources of food substances, which one is first inclined to overlook or if consid ered, to regard as of an accessory nature, are in reality of such im portance that I it is not too much to say that the preservation of the species might j turn upon the op portunity or the lack! of opportun ity to secure these substances." ? This would : seem to emphasize the Importance of vitamines in the ration, and also that the func tions of green feeding are of wid er significance than many of us supposed. To remove a livincr organism from its natural (wild) conditions involves: factors about whichnone of us can know too much. n in The Surest Way to Get Industries Is to Support is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and and Progress Campaign ' 300.000 SHEEM GOATS IN THE Room for Standardization on One or: Two Breeds Accord ing to a Man Who Knows the Industry From the Ground Up--Conditions Favorable for Producing a Natural Fibre of High Value ; (By R. A. WARI, General Mana. gcr Pacific Cioperatlvo Wpol y ' Growers) Western Oregon, should grow more sheep The Willamette and Umpqua River valleys of western Oregon, together ' with , the foot hills of the Cascades and the Coast Range, now furnish feed for more than 300,000 sheep and goats. The climate vof portions of this terrl tdry Is not unlike that of Eng land. ,and. on account of the ex cessive moisture, the oarse wool predominates, i j The flocks range in size from 50 to around .'300 head., ' The i sheep.. and goats are run on rape and ; meadow pasture or i turned Into the oak brush- on the' low hills. In many localities,! winter feeding is not ; practiced . and the animals .remain In the Jill's throughout the' winter. However, winter feeding . should ; be more generally done. Herding Is gen erally not practiced, and the sheep and goats range at will within the large fenced ' pastures. The. ma jority ot farmtflock masters .own a small band ot sheep and goats on account of the usefulness of the goats in cleaning tup brush. It Is customary to run goats the first year or two on the rough land to clean up brush and; browse after which sheep are turned In. Lambing takes place early and by . the end of April, the spring lambs commence to arrive on the mar ket.! Cotswolds, Llncolns.i Hamp-' shires, and Shropshires predomin ate, though there Is a goodly sprinkling of Delaines and some Romneys and Corrledales! Room for Standardization ,' , While there: are some) very ex cellent breeders in the valley, there is great room fr standard ization on one or two breeds. The benefits from such products would be large; both in the way ot RAISE MORE SHEEP TO ID Notes on Sheep and Wool Prepared By an Expert for ,. the Country's Benefit , (Under the heading, "Raise More Sheep Produce Mote Wool and Mutton," the LAmerican Econ onomist in its issue of July 20, print' an important article; (though the1 Slogan editor does not admit that It! is. Necessary to produce less wheat In this' coun try. He believes that we will have no surplus of wheat. If thelfarm-t ers and manufacturers of this country will see to It that ''we supply our needs id this country from the home production ' and manufacture of. flax; and j linen', sugar, wool Jand , mutton, and many other things which we Im port from' other countries)! The editor' of the American Etonono raist Is Wilburj F.j Wakeman, and ho. is the secretary of the Ameri can Tariff League and one of the best posted men in bis lines in the United ' States. Following is the article mentioned:) i 1SE W It Is evident that the farmers of the United States must diver-'and permitting the selling of bucks in large lots, for range purposes, and the production of uniform wools. At the present time valley wools are inclined to be quite ir regular, many grades being pres ent. . There is a real need for pay ing more attention to the wool production end. The mild, moist climate, with the abundance of brbwse and the great amount of scrub oak hill land, suitable only for grazing, makes possible the production of excellent sheep and wool. Conditions are favorable for producing a fine, natural fibre of high value, and,with a little more attention to the wool end this will be done. The bulk of the western Oregon wools are handled ' through the Pacific CooDerative Wool Grow ers. This association now has over 2500 wool growers as mem bers and has in the past three years marketed about 4,000,000 pounds of wool at prices netting growers from 3 to 7 cents per pound more than was obtainable at country points at shearing timenPn, and now do, yield a much About 300.000 sheep and gbatSTprorit 'per head in the farming are represented in the membe ship., - Wool growers generally regard the marketing of wools in1 a grad ed and merchantable condition, through the 'Association, as far superior to the old system of selling., to local country buyers, based on the value of tha poorest fleeces which the sacks contained. The Association's warehouse, is on deep water docks., which enables it to ship by rail or'water, which ever is the most economical and satisfactory. v . (The office ot the Pacific Coop erative Wool Growers ,, is in the Fitzpatrick building, Portland. Oregon. "Wear VTrgln Wool" is the slogan of the association. Ed.) ' sify their production if they are to 'experience the measure of prosperity which is their right. It would he a monstrous blunder to fix the prices of farm products, or any other products, by law. That was virtually tried out during the late war, with the result that the evils growing out of the experi ment have far outweighed the good that temporarily resulted. When the government guaran teed at least $2.40 a bushel for wheat it virtually fixed? the- price of wheat in. this country at that amount and it was of Immediate benefit to the farmers who sub sequently increased their plant ings by 14.000,000 acres. While the proximate benefit to the farm ers was very evident, the effect on the consuming public was to arbitrarily increase the cost of living:' , But the benefit to the farmers did not continue. When the period of the guaranty expir ed the price ot wheat came tumb ling down, until now It has fallen to less than a dollar "a bushel, while the prices of most other commodities have remained com paratively higher. . With 14,000, 000 acres more sown to wheal than had formerly" been sown, the market naturally became glutted, especially in view of the fact that we formerly, raised more wheat that we could .consume In this country. in addition to this, there has also been an increase in the production of wheat in oth- jer wheat growing countries. In j accordance with the law of supply demand, the price of wheat More and Larger Those You Have Why suffer with Stomach W :' has been, inevitably lowered. The farmers must turn to the raising of other commodities and there is nothing which holds out a fairer promise than the raising of sheep, not- only for the wool but for the mutton. Roughly speaking, we raise only about 40 per cent of the wool which we annually consume. If our; farmers would raise the number of sheep necessary to accomplish , this re suit it would clarify the situation to a large extent. Raising more sheep they .would raise less wheat and the. price ot the latter would soon become more remunerative. Also we think that the farmers would find sheep raising more profitable than wheat raising. We have sought authoriatlve in formation on the sheep raising Industry, especially with a view to the possibilities and profits thereof and we are able to give our readers the result of our in vestigations in the following "Notes on Sheep and Wool" which were prepared by an expert who is In a position to know the facts. The information Is authoriatlve and wholly reliable. Notes on Sheep and Wool ; The commercial life of a breed ing ewe is from 6 to 8 years, de pending on type of sheepr and, of range or feed, care, etc. The first lamb Is dropped when the ewe is about 2 years of age. Four to six more are gotten before the animal Is discarded. Sheep are kept with success. In every state- in this count-y. and, owing to changes in the fit west timing the past 20 years, shsen states as in the range states, r The first fleece is shorn at one year of age, except in parts of Texas and California, where two shearings jc& taken each year and lambs are first shorn at the age of six months Instead of 12 months. A full clip is secured each year thereafter until the an imal dies or is discarded. Sheep may be fattened for market after their breeding life is completed, or In the case of wethers, at any time in the ani mal's life. Most fattening done is with lambs, a large percentage of which do not reach the markets fat enough from grass, and have to be grain finished to make desirable-slaughter animals. They go on feed at about. six to seven months of age and are sent back to market, fat, in from two to about five 'months, depending on conditions, f Few other than range (far western) -.lambs enter the feed lots. ' The commercial life of a sheep for wool production corresponds to their breeding -life, 1. e., about six to-eight years of age. One or more additional fleeces !. . often couij be secured,' but It does not pay to hold on to a ewe after she gets too old. In a few areas wu ther are kept to an advanced age, butXhis is rarely done in the Uni ted States. A sheep or lamb carcass has value only once as such, and that Is" when sold for slaughter. Speak Ing generally, a" ewe. when bred for her "first lamb, ts at the most valuable period of her life,.Jf the Rheep and lamb market does not fluctuate. If worth $10 then, she is worth, on the average, only about $4 when discarded after having produced ! say five lambs. During her useful life of seven years she produces seven fleeces of about eight pounds each and 'BUILD YOUR HOMES For .Permanence, Comfort and Fire-Safety "Just because Elijah went to heaven In a chariot of lire 13 .no reason why you should build your house of match-wood for your wire and children to sleep not to mention yourself. Use tested fire-safe materials. We have an excellent line of samples of mantle brick, and ; mantle tile which we would be pleased to show you. SALEM BRICK & TILE COMPANY Maaufarturers of Brick nod Burned Clay Hollow Building Tile. SaJni, Oregon. - (Near Fair Grounds.) Phone 017. At an times to assist la any poslbla way the devel opment of the fruit and berry Industries In this val - " . Oregon Packing Trouble when' Cbiropractlo wEl : Remove the Cause - Your Health Begins Whsa Yea Piione87 for an appointment 's ' Dr. SCQTT & SCOFIELD T. d, 0. Cbiropracton : Bay Laboratory 414 to 410 U. 8. Natl ES. (Bid. I r Hour 10 to 12 sum. and 2 to 0 pan. worth 45c per pound at present prices. She therefore grows wool to the value of $25.20. On ths average she will raise about four lambs during her five breeding years, and one of these will be tetained to replace; the dam, tares being , sold, for slaughter or fat tening at $7 each; or.$21 for U Iamb3. The ewe. will sell f about $4, making $25 receivi from1 animal! sales and $25.1 from wool . sales, or a total t $50.20. Mutftm and lamb are conJpet live with all other 'meats to a con siderable extent, though about S' per cent 'of the mutton, and lam' is said to be consumed in, Chicag: and the cities east of the Alleg henies and north of the Potoma: river. A marked Increase in mut ton and lamb, therefore, woul ; tend to displace an equal amount of other meats. . It should b noted, however, that per capita Consumption of mutton and lamb is only about six pound:; while per capita consumption o? beef, and of pork (including lard) each are about 10 tiniAs as large. : Butchers in country towns un questionably, could butcher . a sheep or lamb when the slaughter and local sale of beef would seem uncertain of profit. It, la .large." their own fault fhat more shecj are not so slaughtered. . Twenty Places Were VisIteJ and Inspected on a Trip Lasting Two Days OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Ore., Aug. 1. Oregon Shropshire breeders ha vje completed a two day tour on which . 20 breeders in Denton, Linn and Marion counties were visited. . F. A. Doerfler of Silver ton, president of the association, conducted the tour. ,The mtlz object was to establish better ac quaintance among the breeders and study the different types of sheep kept by the farmers visited. O. kelson, professor ot animal husbandry at O. A. C, accom panied the group and conducte judglng demonstrations. This is the first trip by the Shropshire as sociation, and it proved such success socially as well as educa tionally, say the officers, that it is quite sure to be made an an nual event. . Singing Frogs Again on -Sale in Stores of Tc! TOKIO. Aug. l.The shops ' Japan are this month offering f sate the Kajlka, or "singing fro: the harbinger, of the rainy se son., The animals are selling rea Hy. although the prices ran: from: one to 10. yen whereas few Tears ago they could ( 1 bought for a few sen.! Hut everything else it' is a ques'uc of supply and demand, and v'a!'. the gatherers find the frogs bird er; to get, the number of purca ers has Increased. ' The frog will sing for hours at a time and a couple of flies a dy is all he wants In the way nourishment. OB EEDEnS I -