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4 THE OREGON STATESMAN; SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1924 11 - rrv- (tains- I ets, " itat of S, I t ' OWPCO Broom handles, mop han dles, paper plugs, tent tog gles, all kinds of hardwood bandies, manufactured by the Oregon Wood Products Co. West Salem BUY AN OVERLAND And Realize the Mick Bros. QUALITY CARS HIGH ST. AT TRADE VALLEY "11V MK EiEMISli BHDOR MIES A LIB U FOUR LOTS" He Does It by Keeping White Leghorn Chickens and Giving Them the Attention They , Must Have to Make His Modest Business a Success (Did you read the above head ing? Well, it applies to a man In Santa Cruz. .Cal., but it would, apply in greater-degree and better measure to a man of like circum stances in Salem, Oregon, or to a man in any other part of the Sa lem district using the same intelli gence and industry, and methods. The following is by "J. M. M.,' in the current number of the "Farm and "tractor" section - of ; the Los Angelas Sunday Times:) In the town of Santa Crux, CaL, jny neighbor makes a living from chickens on four city lots. Of course, he had some capital to start with to buy the land and the material for his chicken houses and also his first chickens and feed. He did . not go into debt, which la important. But he did his own building, even to the con crete floors in his chicken houses and to the faying of "water pipes, and he does all his' own work, de voting his entire time to the care of his flock. His wife helps him, sorting and .. packing the eggs, often gathering them. My neighbor started by buying 200 baby chicks, and each year has Increased his flock and his. hous ing facilities, till now he has about 1000 pullets and year old hens and tareei large chicken houses, be sides a modern brooder house equipped-with, a first class oil brooder. . . , .Each March he buys baby chicks of the white Leghorn breedi When thfy are beyond the heat requiring age, he separates the roosters, and when these are broiler size, weigh ing about one pound at two months old. they are sold off. The hens, finishing their second year and preparing to molt are sold off; the year old hens are moved Into the vacant quarters, which have first been given a rousing cleaning, and: after the pullet house has also been thoroughly dlMnfected,. the young pullets, nv!ng been carefully culled, are transferred into it. x This shift ing takes place annually, especial ly In winter when prices are hlgh r. Some of the pullets tbegin to lav at four months old; most of t&em at sir. . SELLING Dates of Slogans (In Twice-a-Week Statesman Following Day) Loganberries October 4. "Prunes, Octobef 11. Dairying, October 13. Flax, October 25. Filberts, November 1. Walnuts, November 3. V Strawberries, November 15. Apples, November 22. Raspberries November 29. Mint, December 6. Great cows,! etc., December 13, Blackberries, December 20. Cherries. December 27. Pears, January! 3, 1924. Gooseberries, January 10. Corn, January) 17. Celery, January 24. . . Spinach, etc., January 31. Onions, etc.r February 7. Potatoes,' etc.. j February 14. Bees, February 21. Poultry and pet stock Feb.. 2 uoats, March 6.- : Beans, eic.l March 13, Paved highways, March 20 Broccoli, etc., March 27, Silos, etc., April 3. Legumes, April 10. Asparagus, etc., April 17. Grapes, etc., April 24. , PACKING CO. Two of the houses are known as the "university type," with saed roofs, open fronts curtained Jn stormy weather, mash troughs and nest , boxes under the open front and' roosts at the low back. One is known as the "Smith type." and is, built like a long gable roofed double ' house with a three foot gangway down thes middle, the pens on - each side having their roosts, feed troughs nest boxes and water faucets, all toward the middle of the house. This facili tates work through the center, but takes up much valuable hous ng space. . j 1 The feed room contains rat proof bins lined with tin, and here the owner mixes scientifically the different erains and mashes. The houses are supplied with; small yards for each pen, but there is enough ground left to raise the year round, all the green feed the flock requires. This consists of young rye and oats in winter, kale. stock beets, and clover, lettuce. cabbage and chard in season. Feed is bought In large quanti ties, and low prices are taken ad vantage of as much as possible. A dry mash is fed in long stationary troughs In the houses. , The troughs are so arranged that the hens cannot waste anything. Green feed, except stock beets, which are fed whole and left for ' the chickens to peck at, is run through a feed cutter, so as to avoid waste, and Is fed outdoors in dry weather. and in the mash troughs on rainy or muddy days. Scrupulous 1 cleanliness prevails by daily cleaning of ; the screened dropping boards and frequent changes of the littery-Sand strewn on the dropping boards after each cleaning facilitates the work. Run ning water Is in each pen. In winter an automatic clock turns on the electric lights at four in the morning and the hens get busy scratching In! the litter in which the grain was scattered the night before. My aieighbor's chickens are healthy and happy, judging by their red combs, their loud sing Ing. and their egg yield. They seem to love their keeper as much as he loves them, for they allow GIVE US A List of Tour Lumber Requirements. Build Now Oar Prices are Right C0BBS & MITCH EL COMPANY 840 So. 12th Near S.P. Depot ; A. B. Kclsay, Mgr. 1 in Daily Statesman Drug garden. May 1. Sugar beets, sorzhum. etc.. May 8. Water powers May 15, Irrigation, May 22, - - ; Mining, May 29. Land, irrigation, etc., June 5. Dehydration, June 12. Hops, cabbage, etc., June 19. Wholesaling and tobblnr. June 26. Cucumbers, etc., July 3, Hogs, July 10. City beautiful, etc., July 17. Schools, etc., July 24. Sheep July 31. National advertising, Aug. 7. Seeds, etc., August 14. Livestock, August 21. Automotive industry, Aug. 28. Grain and grain products, Sep tember 4. Manufacturing, September 11. Woodworking, etc., Sept. 18. f Paper mills, etc., Sept. 25. i (Back copies of the Thursday editions of the Daily Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address. Current copies, 5c.) U. S. Inspected him to pick them up in his arms, and they appear to listen when-he talks to them. Poultry dealers buy most of the ' broilers, culled out . pullets and hens, and a telephone call brings the dealers to the door. The eggs are gathered twice a week by egg shippers who furnish the crates without cost and pay the market quotations, but the eggs must be cleaned and sorted according to the standard weight for "extras," pullets" and "small pullets," or pewees. There is no time lost de livering anything. Even the neigh bors for blocks around come to buy eggs and occasionally chick ens, " because they can get them just a little below store price and a little above the quoted price to producers. Yet in a year's time this "splitting the difference" amounts to quite a' little profit oter the quoted prices. The eggs tng sold at home need not be warned, (a saving in time) ana cracked "extras" can be sold for Last year for the month of De cember, the record stood; eggs, $200; leed. 0; clear. $140. For January, it was: (Price had drop ped.) eggs. $171; feed bought ahead. $99: clear. $72. i Said th wife: "If only the darn chickens cidn't eat!" You see the feed for the baby chicks for at least six months brings the rec ord down, but the sale of broilers and hens overbalances that again. So far all the droppings have gone" to fertilize the garden,' out the time Is close at hand when there will be a surplus of fertilizer to sell. 1 Keeping chickens in this way is no lazy man's job. i Many have tried It and failed because they did not give It the required atten tion In details, especially cleaning. feeding and watering. It is a bus iness like any other; it must be attended to properly, indattxlo'j- ly, and punctually if there is to be any success. One cannot throw any kind of feed down to the chick ens, leave them in filthy, vermin infested quarters and then expect them to ; pay handsomely. But they respond to intelligent care as does any other business. The re turns are not as great as in some other lines, but for a man like my neighbor, who grew tired of work Ing for the o her fellow, and who was gradually being pushed aside for the younger chap, it, Is a way to modest independence. 100 PER CEHT FREE Tuberculosis Has Been Al most Stamped Out of the Dairy Herds There Tuberculosis has been ; almost eradicated from Benton county dairy herds by three years of sys tematic testing and culling out the infected animals. Only 21 of the 4609 reacted in recent tests. I When testing began under su pervision of the county farm bur- ,oau, federal bureau of , animal industry, and the college exten sion service, almost 2 per cent re acted. The latest test showed less than half of one per cent. In dicating the county herds are vir tually tubercular free . according to the federal standards. J Complete testing was the object of the first work and mord than 600 cows were tested about 210 reacting. That condition has been era on hine-tcaths cured. , : Ij-, SA LE ?.x OREGON THE LEADING HOP. STATE Oregon is still the leading hop state in the Union. She was second, with California in the lead, for a couple of years . But Oregon is again in the lead, and will likely stay in first place Partly because the quality here is high, and a certain Oregon tonnage is needed in foreign trade; partly because the growing of hops here is largely in strong hands. So California and Washington acreage may dwindle, and leave the big field to the, Salem district For some hops will always be grown, for yeast, near beer, and the drug trade. The best equipped hop yards in the world are in the Salem district. CASCADE BRAND HAMS, The Home Garden Home-Grown Hallowe'en has placed a prem ium on pumpkins for decoration and Jack-o-lanterns for the young sters as well as for material for the Thanksgiving pie. They have be come rather hard to get in recent years as farmers do not grow them as frequently as formerly and they bring good prices along in Octo ber, where formerly they had no market value and their chief use was for fodder for the cows. The corn patch Is an excellent place to raise your own pie stock and jack o lanters. Plant pump kin seed in June after the corn has grown to such size that hoe ing is no longer necessary. Sow the seed between the rows and the pumpkins will take care of them selves until the cornstalks can be cut down. The pumpkin is not as subject to the flight of bugs that attack other members of its family such as the cucumbers and melons. The Small Sugar and Sugar Pie are sweet pumpkins of fine quality for pies. The Large Field or Bib Tom is the old-fashioned big yel low pumpkin dear to the hearts of children for jack o lanterns for Hallowe'en and also excellent pie material and the standard of our grandmothers when it came to the manufacture of the Thanksgiving pastry. Mammoth.' Prize! i3 the giant of the lot, but it requires a late season to mature. Another member of the squash family that may be sown now for the benefit of the children is the gourd. The gourd comes in a great variety of forms from the giant dish cloth and dipper gourds to the tiny yellow and green-striped varieties which are ornamental. , Op tirds require much the same treatment" 'other members of the family and alwQrequire hot The Brussels Sprouts If there is one vegetable that j should be raised ia the home gar-! den it is brussels sprouts. It is one of the most expensiye vege tables to buy and., when sent to market, the quality both as to sub stance and attached Inject life leaves much to be desired. In the home garden they may be easily grovn clean and only those sprouts of s'ze convenient to handle may be picked. It is at its best after a few frosts when the vegetable garden has nothing left tq yield for the table. Brussels sprouts seed may be sown now. Earlier planted crops often fail because they are too far advanced when dry, hot weather hits them. They . need precisely the same treatment as late cabbage. Sown now and transplanted into perm anent quarters the last of June or early in July half a dozen to a dozen plants may be .cared for very easily and will return a fine reward this fall. Possibly sprouts are so seldom grown because the high price in the market leads to a belief that they are difficult subjects. They grow quite as easily as cabbages, to which they are closely related. The sprouts being merely a deli cately flavored miniature, cabbage which Is produced along the stalk in the axils of the leaves which fall as the plant grows in height, leaving only a crown of leaves at the summit. . Give them the richest soil in the garden. In full sunlight, . and be prepared to see that they are giv en copious watering in dry wea ther. Keep (hem hoed la the same manner as cabbage or cauli flower and. give an occasional light sprinkling of nitrate of soda M BACON AND LARD SALEM, OREGON Jack - o - Lanterns weather to grow. They are best grown as vines, however, instead of allowing them to creep over the ground. The dipper and dish- VI . ORJUMENTAL GOURJDSJUUE Nywuvjwwr! rGJJV punrKiNs; HALLOVB EM cloth guords will make enormous growth and are excellent to start up a dead tree. The calabash or pipe guord, from the necks of which pipes are manufactured, is another member of the tribe. A mixed packet of guord seed will offer a variety of Interest and the vines may be trained over a back fence and allowed to pro duce their unusual fruits in late summer, j . . arte', a rain when the soil Is moist or aftera soaking with the hose, to keep them gross-fug. Set them two feet apart and glve'.them in- NUBSELS SPROUTS. secticides for cabbage' worms which attack them and also bor deaux ; mixture for: some - of the blights that affect the cabbage tribe. !. ' ; If plant lice appear, the worst pest for this, vegetablo .from a culinary standpoint, spray with Black Leaf 40 or other tobacco in secticide and the lice may be put to flight before the tiny heads start' forming and they may be picked clean. Paris Market and Danish are excellent varieties."ImJ proved Dwarf Is said to be less lia ble to attack of plant lice than the others but these posts may be readily controlled by spraying. . MM mir mm I jrt - x x fafV a V- , VJl All '' DISTRICT mley Motor b 260 North High Street. Boost This Community by Advertising: on the Slogan Pages 4 i AA DID YOU KNOW That for many years Salem has been the greatest hop buying center from first hands in the world; that Oregon is the greatest hop growing state in the Union; that the industry will likely persist in the Willamette val ley, owing to the fact that there is grown here a superior hop, for which there is a demand from foreign buyers; that at the prices that generally prevail few things that can be grown on the land are as profitable, and that the acreage of hops in the Salem district is again increasing, and the tonnage growing? WE GROW A HOP OF QUALITY HERE This Is Proven by Scientific tural College Tests Show That Hops Should be Ripe , When Picked Barn Yard Manure Best for Fertilizing Yards . Criticism of the domestic hop, particularly the Pacific coast ar ticle, is not justified by results of investigations conducted by the Oregon experiment station In 1913. The work done in investi gation of Oregon and foreign hops indicates that the Oregon grown hop has as great a content of soft bitter resin,, the bitter principle in the hop cone, as hops grown in any part of the world. The major part of the actual value of hops in industrial use is in the content of soft bitter resins, and on this basis the relative val ue and merits of hops are deter mined. This is affected by sev eral things among which are the stage of maturity at which they are gathered and the methods of drying. ( . The soft bitter resins are thus of first importance in growing the hop for commercial uses. The value of the hop is due mainly to content and quality of these res ins, and some international auth orities claim these are the sole factors affecting quality. : Because of the great importance of the soft bitter resins, an effort has been made by the Oregon sta tion to determine the best method of learning their quality. Much of the literature is conflicting on this point, and led the station here to suspect that some of the analyt ical methods used are tnaccurate, and as a result -erroneous conclu sions have been formed. A meth od was worked out in the labor atories here and comparative re sults reported. " Good results were achieved in using this method, which, while not original in its basic principles, overcame a num ber of objections in other methods,-! and is known as the Oregon sta tion method. The low content for soft resins obtained by different methods were attributed to the lack of com pleteness in extraction of soft res ins. . In three different methods on five samples the Oregon station results showed up second, being better than one other well known method. As an example, in sam ple No. 1 the Briant & Meacham method showed 9 per cent bitter resin, Siller method 20 per cent, and the Station .method nearly 17 per cent. This result was charac PIPfe, ' '" t Road, well, sewer, and drain pipe in stock at all times. Get your pipe where you can . see how good it is made, MILESTONE r Concrete Products Oregon Gravel Company An Independent Organization HO. North Front, Kalem Phone 1995 THE IN T Tests of the Oregon Agricul teristic of the other four samples. Temperature 1n Drying ' The proper temperature used in kiln-drying, was a matter of dis pute; recommended temperatures in the different parts of the world ranging from 70 degrees to 150 degrees. Some authorities held that in kiln drying, at the higher temperatures part of the soft bit ter resins, which give to the ho? the major part of its commercial value, are changed to a hard worthless resin, causing deterior ation of quality. "If is generally conceded that the so called soft resin, of the hop alone is valuable," says Stockberg- er, in Farmers Bulletin No. 304, U. S. department of agriculture "The best temperature is yet to be determined, but every consider ation Indicates that it should be much lower than that commonly employed probably between 100 and 140 degrees Farenheit." To determine whether this is true, the station gathered a nam ber of samples from different parts of the valley and made a series of tests on the temperature in drying. The drying was con tinued in every case until the stems or cores of the cones were well shriveled but still -soft and pliable. ' The temperature used with each sample ranged from 120 degrees A Licensed Lady Embalmer to care for women and children is a necessity in all funeral homes. We are' the only ones furnishing such service. Terwilliger Funeral Home :. ' 770 Chemeketa St. Phono 721 - . Salem, Oregon Manuals, 5JooI Hcjn; t'UVS I'limii" iyen cf-nuon HIGHEST MM SI ! .. ; J ' I - ) v . - 3 " t The J. . Kraps Cc any Kentf j. Mgr. Salem, f H . t-- ' I Oregon j Eat a Plate a Day WEATDERLY ice: cpiMi Sold Everywhere Buttercup Ice Cream Co. P. M. GREGORY, Mgr. 240 South. Commercial St. SALEM tODGE Duos. Sedan Bonesteel Motor Co. 184 S. Ooni'l St. rhone423 to 145 degrees Fehrenheit. The drying was begun at the lower temperature and gradually raised f Continued on page 9) Auto Electric Work It. . BC BARTON 171 8. Commercial St. Hotel Marion SALEM, OREGON The Largest and Most Complete Hostelry ; in . Oregon Out of Portland DRAGER FRUIT C0LIPAI1Y Dried "Fruit Packers 221 South High St. . . Salem, Oregon Always in the market for dried fruits of all kinds Now Is the Time ! ! To look after your heat ing plant and see that it is in good orcer, or If you are going to need a new one. This is the appropriate time to buy It ! Theo M. Barr 104 S. Com'l St. Our Tree: '-ireSaMlfttoa(o - ' iTanter - T I I ? m , XL i