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SELLING SALfcM DISTRICT. Eat Plate Day Weatlierly; Ice Cream OWPCO ' . ;i ' Broom handles, mop ban i dies, paper plugs, tent tog gles, all kinds of hardwood, handles, manufactured by the . r Oregon Wood Products Co. i West Salem Oar Id1: Oar Method: . "Th B Onlj" " Cooperation Capital City Co-cpcratfye Creamery A aoa-preflt rgaaiiatloa WBd atirl7 by ta dairymta. Qiv trial. . , . Maaafactarera of BntUreop BatUr "At 7r Orocar" Phona 209 1ST 8. Com' I St. VALLEY PACKING PREMIER GREY OUT OF THE WEST IS GROWI IN UILl COUNTRY HEREABOUTS This Is the Verdict of the Oregon Cooperative Grain Growers Good Wheat Raised in the Salem District, and Better Methods Are Being Adopted toJmprove the Quality Some Barley From Here 1 Editor Statesman: '. The farming: sections surround in': Salem hare for the last half century been constant producers of grain. While it is true that in recent years the raising of hops, poultry ' fruit, and other . crops have decreased the production of grain there yet continues to be a considerable amount of wheat fr6m the Waldo hills, the Howell prairie country. Mission bottom, and the Polk county hills finding . Its way onto the world markets. - - The Willamette , valley is . pri marily a soft wheat territory, and the quality of this grain produced in Marion and Polk counties com pares ; extremely wf 11 with the general quality of wheat raised in the Willamette valley. ' IWMer Methods and Culture ' ( The tendency of the farmer of today is for better methods of culture, a careful selection of seed wheat, and for the . development . of their own marketing system. Due to the favorable soil and cli matic, conditions In the Willam ette valley, weeds are very pre valent and It is a matter of con v slant effort in western Oregon to - produce wheat which is free from ! a large percentage of weed seed or other dockage. .Vetch, a plant which is extremely useful In its own sphere, is considerable of a detriment when the seed la " threshed with winter (wheat. Good Work of College, The Oregon Agricultural college fa as done some splendid work in the matter of seeding recom men- dations for the Willamette val ley, and the program which they are at this time advocating for a standardization of Willamette val ley wheat to some , six or seven -varieties would be very advanta- geous to the grower. The sugges tion of The Statesman toward . raising better grain is a valuable one, audi of course, the use of standard varieties would be a bis . step in that direction. j There are still lands in the Sa lem district that are - untduched - by the plow. Present low prices do not stimulate the breaking of new ground, but without doubt if carefully selected seed could be planted in new ground 1 would 'be a foundation for more pure ; seed distribution which would ul- ' J 1 J TDRAlr TILE, iiiiWMHIit 'Salem Brick x M&X"'W r : and Tile Co. Nr'V ( ? g Salem, Oregon fVitz J Dates of Slogans (In Twice-a-Week Statesman Following Day). Loganberries. Oet. I. 4 Prunes, Oct. IS. ' Dairying.' Oct. If. Flax, Oct. Filberts, Not. . Walnuts, Not. t, 'Strawberries. Nor. It. Apples, Not. J. Raspberries, Not. St, Mint, Dteembtr 7. Great cows. ete.. Dee lla Blackberries, Dee. IS. Cherries, Dee. St. Pears, Jan. 4. ltll. Gooseberries, Jan. 11. Corn, Jan. 18. , Celery. Jan. 2S. . Spinach, ete.. Feb. 1. x Onions, etc. Feb. 8, Potatoes, etc, Feb. IS. - Bees, Feb. 21. Poultry and pet stock. Mar. 1. Goats. March 8. Beans, etc, March II, Pared highways, March 11. Broccoli, etc, March S 9. Silos, etc April S. Legumes, April 13 Asparagus, etc., April It. Grapes, etc April 26. timately tend to better qualities of, wheat. ! The " prairie districts now pro duce oats of feed quality. Wild oats and weed seeds appear in the samples of these (grains whfch are coming into the market at this time, but eastward in the Waldo hills we find the peer of the fam ily, the grey oat. . A horse doesn't know about the 'grey oats because it is generally. reserved for mill ing purposes. The cereal millers of Oregon have a great preference for these grey winter oats, as the are heavy, thin hulled and perfect ly' adapted as a raw material for rolled oats, oatmeal, etc. While the grey winter oat does well in other places ! cheat is apt to ap pear in the field and as It Is a most difficult weed seed to clean from the oats, the hill country Is looked to lor the millers' supply. In this connection, It is worthy ot note that the Waldo hills and the "Skagit river flats In Wasn- inston are the premier territories of the west for the production of the grey oat.' Some barley appears on the markets from the Salem terri tory. It is a valuable feed grain and might well receive more at tention from the farmers of west ern Oregon, j . .. Very truly yours, OREGON CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN GROWERS. A. II. LEA, General Manager. Portland, Oregon, Sept. 1, 1923J FARM REMINDERS FROM THE COLLEGE Useful Hints Broadcasted By the 0. A. C. for Benefit of ' Men on the Land (following are Items from a current bulletin of the depart ment nt industrial Journalism of the Oregon Agricultural college:) - Oregon growers of brambles are fconfronted with a group of diseas- in Dafly Statesman Drug garden. Kay S. Sugar beets, sorghum, May 10. Water powers. May IT. Irrigation, May 14. Mining. May 11. Land. Irrigation, etc. J una T, Dehydration. June 14. Bops, cabbage, etc. June SI. Wholesaling and Jobbing June SS. . Cucumbers, etc, July I. Hogs, July IS. City beautiful, ete.. July It. Schools, etc.. July St. . ; "' Sheep. Aug. S. J National adrertlslng, Aug, t. Seeds, etc., Aug, II. : Livestock, Aug. 11. Automqtlre Industry. Aug. SO. Grain- Sand grain products, Sept. 6. . ; . . j .' Manufacturing, Sept. IS. Woodworking, etc. Sept. St, " Paper mills, etc, Sept. 27. (Back copies of the Thursday editions of the Dally Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 cents each, mailed, to any address. Current cop ies, 6c.) ;co. x . S. Inspected es for which no fungous or Dac- terial organisms have been found, although - diligently sought on other places tor many years. They are known as systemic, s infec tion diseases, as ! they devitalize the entire plant system and are also transmitted i from diseased plants to sound ones. Prevention is the "cure." Diseased plants are destroyed and new" plants got from sound stock. Bees are tempted to more fre quent swarming when located near tall trees, which;, also make the recovery of the bees more diffi cult and uncertain. Ioganberry shoets are vigorous growers frequently running 18 to 20 feet. -If allowed to take their natural ways they incline to spread out on the ground where they are in the way of pickers and are often damaged. It is best to train them along the rows during the growing season. " Short: sticks or. wire hooks, three or four to a plant, wilt keep them in place. Copper carbonate dost treat ment of seed wheat for smut caus es no injuifr to seed or seedling. It can i be t applied to the seed months, ahead of planting time with no effect on the vitality of the grain during; storage. Hence the treatment . favors perfect stands of promptly germinated and vigorous" plants. , DAIRY BREEDERS OBSERVE THE LAW Registration Act Brought Up to Date Is Generally Ac cepted in Oregon; The dairy bull registration law has been very well observed by Oregon dairy breeders as a whole during the life of the law,- reports H. X. Colman of the Ore gon Agricultural college t dairy staff, secretary of the registration board. Certain violations I could not be prosecuted because of flaws in the original act which have now been amended and set right. : . 4 1 " 'l The measure provides that no person or firm in Oregon may sell, give away, or offer for public use, or buy or accept for use any dairy bull that is not registered, pure bred, and licensed to be sold. Pub lic service is defined as breeding any cow in herds of five or more cows not owned J by owner of bull. - - The dairy department at the college constitutes the dairy reg istration board. : '' ' Responsibility and penalty for violation of the act was placed by the last legislature on the receiv er as well as the purveyor of ani mals sold or used illegally.? Per mission tvbbtain a temporary li cense to 'sell animals meeting the registration requirements but not yet licensed," may be granted by the 1 board, . made up of P. M. Brandt, head of dairying at the college, and members of his staff. Interpretations! by ithe attor ney general's office, permit much of the "red. tape" to be cut-and the law more readily and effec tively administered. The board depends j upon breed ers, count agents," farm bureaus and -others Interested in raising the standard of dairy livestock, for information on violations or attempted violations of tho law. Specific information as to cases, names, dates and other ! legal points is etsentiaL RAISE MORE GRAIN; FEED MORE TO HENS AND HOGS The Salem district will never raise too much grain if the growers will feed a large enough proportion of theywheat to the hens and hogs ' - 1 And they will always have a good sale for their milling oats; for they can raise the best grown in the world. j 1 They cannot raise too much corn, either, for silage,' and for the hens and hogs. ; They should raise better wheat and bet ter oats, on the average, in which case they will grow more to the acre, and get higher prices, thus making the growing more profitable. j ; This is a good grain country, and it will always grow some grain; especially in rota tion schemes carried on intelligently. . CASCADE BRAND HAMS, OUR FAMOUS GREY NEEDED IN MUCH LARGER SUPPLY Certified Seed Ought to Be Used, and Buck Cheat Should Be Killed Out, for the Good of the Reputation and Value of This Famous Product of the Salem District Interesting Theory Exploded .fr Editor Statesman: Grey winter oat is the premier oat for milling purposes. It ias a thin hull and a large, plump, sweet kernel, which gives a high j per centage of the manufactured pro duct and which has an exceptional - -i , flavor and quality. i Oregon grey wfnter oatsj as milled at a number of Oregon mills cannot be excelled anywhere in the UniteoV States. The oats have a distinctive flavor and are good with sugar and cream j just as they come from the package or sack, or after cooking in the usual way. Xowuere is . There Hotter The oatmeal and other Datapro ducts from the grey winter oats in addition to exceptional fjavorj hold their, texture well ana pre sent an unusually fine appearance because of the large size of the oatmeal flakes. Nowhere is there a better milling oat than the grey winter oat and nowhere has the wyiter seen oatmeal or rolled; oats equal to that manufactured by the oat millers of Oregon. j Back Whmt Not Good j When you have your 'morning rolled oats, whether you eat them fresh or cooked, have you noticed occasionally a small, black kernel with an ofr flavor? You thought it was a black oat, but it -wasn't. It was a buck cheat seed. This weed has become mixed with some lota of grey oats. Thisvis a mem ber of the rye -grass family but has a large seed that looks like! a small barley seed. It thrives un der wet, cold soil conditions and in many cases has volunteered an'd become mixed into the seed of grey oats. - The very best price for oats In western Oregon is always paid for good Krey oats of milling quality. However, literally hundreds of lots of the "grey oats especially from the low lands are unfit for mill ing purposes because of the pres ence of large or small quantities of this buck cheat. Denvtnd is Increasing : ) The demand for milling oats is increasing steadily and the oat millers are becoming concerned over a supply of grey oats good enough to maintain the remarka ble quality of the northwestern product. The Oregon Agricultur al college through its seed certif ication program is attempting to pick out fields of the grey : oati that may be certified for seed, but as so few fields have been reached that are good enough to certify it is important that other lots of seed be examined previous; to seeding this fall. College Will Help Any farmer' having grey oats that he expects so sow may take a fair sample from the seed that he expects to use and send" It in to the Experiment Station at I Cor vallis. and a careful analysis of the seed will be made to deter mine the quantity of buck cheat present. This will enablo a good many folks ,to choose the best seed and to reject the seed j that Is unfit for milling because of buck cheat. A Theory Exploded 'There is an interesting sort of theory that has been advanced by quite "a number of people; name BACON AND LARD SALEM, OREGON WINTEB DAT IS ly, that the grey oat under certain unfavorable conditions changes to to buck cheat. This is absolutely impossible. , Buck cheat is an en tirely different plant with differ ent habits of growth and it is producedJrom its own seed. It is no more possible for an oat plant to change to a buck cheat plant than' It is for a Jersey heifer to give birth to a Poland China steer.,-. ' '' The 'reason why a good many people believe that the oat changes to. buck cheat is that in some places or in some seasons the land Is too cold and too wet f,or (the oats and theV 'Jtill out and the many 'buck cheat seeds that 'were in the field or that were sowed with the seed will continue to grow. Buck cheat will grow und er water ! conditions and s.Vijnd somewhat more cold than the grey winter oat, which is pnly semi hardy, usually hardy enough for all ordinary western Oregon con ditions but npt .as hardy, as the buck cheat.' The only way to get rid of buck. Cheat is to plant seed that is carefully cleaned and free from buck cheat; plant it on land that has' not hadi any buck cheat eo to seed on it the preceding year. Seed samples may-be sent to th seed laooraiory ax me iiperuucui Station fer, analysis. The Exper iment Station is" ready to help with just as! many analysis as ne cessary to get good seed planted this fall so we may maintain tn quality and - get the better price for our famous grey winter mill ing pat. ' '. -rG. tt. HYSLOP. Corvallis. Oregon, 1 Sept. 4, 1323'. t .1 Hr ITvRlnn. the writer Of f the above, ,(is the farm crop special ist of ' the Oregon Agrtfctiltaral college Experimen-t Station, and he is, recognized as a nign auin ority in his field. Edf) , 1. The .Santiam Project of tlie Uregon ueveiopmeni kjo. Is Being Pushed ; ; "Construction ,of irrigation ditches on the Stayton, West Stay ton and Mehama irrigation pro ject of , the Western Oregon De velopment company . on the north fork of the Santiam river, in Mar ion county, has been , begun and, according to John It. Britz of the company, is progressing favora bly. .. r ft".' ".- "About days will be requir ed for the completion of the con struction work, it Is-, estimated, after which platting of the 4000 acres involved in thej project will be begun.? ! ; i "Permission to Issue fr.00.000 of bonds' for 'the j project was granted several weeks ago by tho state corporation ' commissioner.!" The above three paragraph appeared- in a news item in the Port 4000 ACRES UiER ' IRRIGITIONSOOII 260 North High Street, Boost This Community by Advertising on the Slogan Pases DID YOU KNOW That the Willamette valley produces the best oats in the world, for milling purposes, and the heaviest oats in the world to the bushel or sack measure; that the great breakfast food manufacturers of the east know this, and would pay still better prices to bur farmers if they would organize and improve the quality still more; that this section ought to raise more wheat, too, and more barley and rye, always in rotation with clover and corn and other crops; that there ought to be more general selection of seed, and more drainage j practiced, and more tiling; that Salem is now a good grain market, and ought to be a much better and bigger grain market? , V land Journal of a few days Ago. ; Wallace Huntington of Kelso, Wash., is President of the devel oping company; L.'E. Benhairi of Portland is vice president, j and her of nrominent people Jn Portland, Sajem and the Stayton district are interested. ,, Will Hcli Salem District Garfield B.i Datson, an engin eer, who has! offices in Stayton and will shortly open offices in Salem, who is connected withj this development project, was in Sa lem yesterday. He was formerly in government work, with j tne Alaska bureau of nublic roads. He Is now connected with the A. L. M. Engineering, Service, survey ors and dealers In bonds, real estate, etc. , . Mr. Datson expects to see this Santiam irrigation development project go ahead vigorously under its new reorganization. He says half of the bond issue has already been sold, and that there will oe a campaign carried on persistent ly for the sale of the balance, oi Putting the water on 4000 ac res of land of the Santiam dis trict will be a great thing for Sa lem. It will be likeadding such a tract as the Labish Meadows to the productive area of this dis trict. ; It will mean aaea tonnage B AKE-RITE BAKERY Two Stores Main Rlnrf and Ilakerv Opposite Oregon Theatre on bate ot. Branch Store No. 2 Salem Public Market There are no substitutes in our products.': We use home grown grains, - fruits and nuts. j. -A J OUR diplomatic, po lite services meet with public approval. The beautiful dignity that characterizes . tho accomplishment of this organization Is a symbol of respectful regard. ' Webb & dough Co. FUNERAL DUtECTORS 499 Court St Salmn. Fkona 1320 BUY AN OVERLAND ' AND v Realize the i Difference; VICK BROS. QUAUTYCARS j HIGH ST. AT TRADE i Phone 1995 of, products from highly developed a? res ; to the manufacturing and marketing totals of Salem will mean ' many thousands of added tons annually of the fruits of diversified and intensified agri culture. CHERRY CITY MILLING CO. Manufacture FLOUR CEREALS MILL FEEDS POULTRY and STOCK FEEDS Carried by 1 Most Dealers Auto Electric Work B. D. B ASTON 171 8. Commercial St. Next Week's Slogan SUBJECT IS M l CT 1G A Licensed Lady Embalmer r to care for women and children is necessity In all funeral homes. We are the only ones furnishing such senrlce. Terwilliger Funeral Home 77 Cheosketa-fit, rhone 724 Salem, Oregoa Salem will always be a good grain market because it is a good grain district. THE BOY SCOUTS deserre the support ot everyone who wishes to Inculcate high prin ciples of manhood Into the youth of our land. This space paid for by -Thlrlsen A Italia SOLD EVERYWHERE ' Buttercup Ice Cream Co. P; M. GREGORY, Mgr. 240 - South Commercial St. SALEM Dodge Brothers Sedan Bcnesteel Meter Co. 184 8. Ooml St. Fhone 422 OUR TREES Carefully Grown Carefully Selected Carefully Packed Will Give Satisfaction to the Planter SALEM NURSERY s COMPANY . 428 Oregon Bulldlni; " PHOXE 1763 " '-' Additional Salesmen Wanted Willamette Grocery Coi WHOLESALE .Groceries, Fruits, Candies, Cigars and Tobaccos Phone 424, P. O. Dox 379 ; Cor. Trade and High i SALEM, OREGON HOTEL MARION SALEM, OREGON The Largest and Most Complete Hostelry in Oregon Out of Portland DRA6ER FRUIT COLIPATIY Dried Fruit Packers 221 S. nigh St., Salem, Or. Always in the market for dried fruita of all kind NOW IS THE TIME! I To look after your heat ing plants and see that It is in good order, or It you are going to need a new one. This is the time to buy It! appropriate THEO M. BARR 164 S. Com'l St, OUR TREES" t Carefully Giws j i Carefully Selected i Carefully Tarked WIU Glre Sattafactloa to the Planter SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Building , Fhone 178 i Additional Salesmen Want3 is.