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i. THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON HOTEL BLIGH 100 room of Solid Comfort A Home Away From i ; Home We wm Beet Efforts Derated to Showing Salem District pie thej AdvsiMtages - -knd Opportunities of li Eeir ' At all times to assist In any possible -way .the devel opment of the. frnit and berry industries In this val ley. . ' . . try 8 SELLING SALEM DISTRICT Peo Own Goiim W At Oat After Two MJUont W ar bow paying over three quarters of a million dollar a year to tb dairymen of thig section for milk, . , "Marion Butter" ,' . Is the Best Butter More Cows and Better Cows Is the crying need MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. , Phone 2188 Its Cities and :Tbwns ! ' i The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Industries Is. to Support Those You Have on and Oreg tat Week's Slogan SUBJECT IS I GUI ID 6111 PRODUCTS '-Nut Bread t. The Richer, Finer Loaf CHERRY CITY BAKERY Our Ideal: Our Method: The Beat Only" Cooperation Capital Cly Co-cpsrdive Creaaery A aon-profit otmixatioa owned ntirelr by th. dairjmen. GT na trial. ' JXaauactnwr of Botterrnp Batter . "A.t jou Crocer'r .- Phon 299 ; v 137 S. Com'l St blDEOrJSTOlIZCO! 't Manafactnrers of Dependable Brand Lime-Sulphur Solution The brand you can depend , -on for purity and test Prices upon application Factory near corner of Summer and " Mill St. - v': Salem, Oregon Nelson Bros. "Warm Air Furnaces, plumbing, heating and sheet metal -work tin and gravel roofing, general jobbing in tin and galvanized iron work. , 353 Chemeketa St. r Phone 198 DIXIE HEALTH OREAD Ask Your Grocer Ml YEARS MB YEARS The Statesman has been supplying the wants of the critical job printing trade- Proof positive " we are printers of worth and merit. s ' Modern equipment and ideas are the ones that get Statesman ublioliinff - "S3 JButtei Selling Salem District is a Continuation of the Salem Slogan and CATTLE WlftKE WEALTH GOUitfTIES OF THE Twenty Yeajs' Shows Unparalelled Growth in Marion and Polk Counties Favorable I Comparison With Wau kesha County, Wisconsin In Pure Bred Stock Salem District Leads An illuminating poster on the walls of The Statesman, issued by the state experiment station of Iowa, expresses itself so eloquent ly in favor of purebred milk cows rather than. scrubs that- the pity is the picture is not available for every household in the Willamette valley. The first shows the milk cans filled by scrub production. The average production of 16 lac tations, of three' scrub eovsis 3688 pounds of milk and. 475.3 pounds butterfat, equal 'to pounds butter. The next picture represents the actual ; production of their daughters when the bull is purebred. The milk increase ' is 83 per cent the fat increase 58 per cent. ; The actual production of 15 lactations of three daugh ters, first cross purebred bulls was 6747 pounds milk and 276.7 pounds butterfat,; equal to 345.8 pounds butter. '.The third picture shows an Imposing array of milk cans filled with the milk of act ual production of, granddaughters of the cows, likewise from pure bred .bulls. The milk increase is 188 pe cent and the fat increase 128 per cent. The average pro duction of 16 lactations of six granddaughters, second cross with a purebred bull was 10,375 pounds milk, and 399.4 pounds butterfat, equal to 499-3 pounds butter,-Such an illustration as this should make it apparent to the farmer that any thing short of a, purebred 13 waste. Even a half purebred, improved as It is over the scrub, shows a waste of nearly 100 per cent. Three ant Six Times - The United States dairy division says if the production of a cow is doubled, profits f Increase three times; if production is trebled, profits increase . six times.- "That sentence ia "worth reading over again In order to get. it firmly filed in the mind of the breeders. Large breeders, have . learned this and that is why we have great dairies, but the email breeders are apt. to continue' ' with . their scrub stock, thinking it not worth while to breed up with one to half a dozen cows. The breeding up, however, represents the difference between failure and success. I It is always worth while, 'r Marion county has some great cows; some wdrld record cows, and these are immensely profit able. ' There : is ; hardly ; a neigh borhood " In the county that" can not show cows of proved merit. . The : cattle business has in creased amazingly in the last 20 years. In the, reports of 1890, Marion county shows 1338 cattle all told, and Polk county 673. However.5 in 1920. Marion county shows 21,376 and Polk . 10,687 cattle. These two counties have made marked progress.: In 1920 Marion county had 932 and Polk county 485' in dairy rattle. - In 1920 the number had grown to 3 VT DAIRY Perfectly Pasteurized Milk and Cream A ! Phone 723 This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business menmen whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized! prosperity and, who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. 1 i FOR ALL THE, WILLAMETTE VALLEY 18.427 Polk. in Marion and . 9295 in A Comparison - if ' i In this connection, : the "writer wants to point out a county that has been revolutionized by the dairy business. The example is no less forceful because it comes from another state. The statis tics for Waukesha county. Wis., show that in 1900 the county had 395 head of cattle and in 1920 57,909. This Increase was prac tically all in dairy cows. " In 1900 this Wisconsin county had' 342 dairy cows.' out of a total number of 395 head of cattle. In 1920 it had 56.962 out of a total of 57, 909. In 1920 Waukesha county farmers were struggling to wrest a bare living out of the soil of Wisconsin. In 1920 the county Is one of the richest in the United States: the farmers are prosperous and dairy cows have been the ma gic that made the' transformation. To carry the statistics a little further, in 1899 the value of all dairy products in Marion county was $227,050: in 1919 the value was $1,014,501. Polk county, in 1899 showed a value of $75,971 and in 1919, $540,737; Take note of the tremendous progress made by Waukesha county, Wisconsin, in the same period. The value of all dairy products in 1899 was $919,478; in 1919. $5,680,440. in other . words. while Marion gained $800,000 in 20 years, Waukesha county gained $4,500. 000. Put that amount of wealth in Marion county today and there would be no talk of hard times. To illustrate this. , the value of dairy cattle in Marion county in 1919 was $1,139,309. The value in Polk county was $608,920? while Waukesha county, Wiscon sin, showed a value of $5,994, 800. There is nothing to discourage the cattle men in the Willamette valley. Interviews with prominent agriculturists connected with the agricultural college at Corvallis will hearten the raisers of cattle in Marion and Polk counties. These two counties have not rival ed Wisconsin, but they have led in the state of Oregon. Some of our farmers are just learning the value of purebred stock and when they all do and put this Informa tion into practice, it will mean that the Willamette valley, favor ed in a hundred other ways, will be found favored in the matter of conditions under which livestock are jproperly raised. t College Authority : In an interview E. L. Potter; head of the animal husbandry de partment, O. A. C. said: "More fine stock is found In these two counties than in any other section of Its size IN THE WEST. I believe this might 4 be easily attributed to the proximity of the state fair in Salem, to which are brought the best speci mens of all type3 of livestock In the west and middle west. "Polk county leads all counties in the state in the breeding of Angora goats and purebred sheep. The predominating breeds I of sheep are Lincoms. Cotswolds Oxfords and the medium wooled breeds. ' , 1 ' "Marion is the greatest hog county in the state. "Marlon, county hog breeders are encouraged by the fine local market found in Salem. They have a packing-bouse there which con Pep and Progress Campaign appears much enlarged and Improved now, with its capacity, doubled, and: with many Im provements made, bringing It right down to the minute. The capacity of this great home plant la iow lOOO hogs a week, besides 230 to 300 cattle, sheep and veal. sumes practically all of the local produce, r i '' And Another i N. C. Jamison, O AC extension dairyman. Is also strong, xor aiarf. ion county. He says: , . i "Considering the number fit dairy cattle, Marion county ranks third in 1 the state?? in values of dairy products she stands fourth. ! "The interest in purebred Jer seys started in Polk county, and it was there that the first Amer- ican Jersey Cattle Club in the state was organized. " 1 "Mount Angel has made more marked progress in the dairy in dustry than any other one sec tion in either Marlon or Polk counties.! This fact is due largely to the spirit of" cooperation which OREGON PUMICES LIVE STOCK OF, OUTSTflllfffi OJllTTi IT PATS, TOO There Is No Other Way to Keep Up the Fertility of the Soil, ' at Least as Economically The Fact That We Lead the World Does Not "Just Happen" ' Editor Statesman: I : Everyj few days, some report is carried in the colmns othe paper showing! the superior achievement of aomeOregon livestock. It may be the winning of the champion ship at some sheep or hog show by Oregon j animals, ; some ; Oregon horse may have out weighed or out jumped any other, or some Oregon bred cow has produced a greater quantity of, milk and but ter than any other cow. , In fact, the , Jersey Bulletin of August 13 carried information that Oregon Jersey; cows hold six out of a possible eight claSs rec ords' that are classified according to ages, including : the "world's champion producer;; -- ' f Do Not Just Happen ij ' These things do ; not all just happen.! We are willing to admit that Oregon has the very best live stock, but if we did! not have cli mate and natural j conditions con ducive j to great achievements, these things wouldn't happen. I do not believe that the best dollar per acre returns can be had directly through livestock. This would come through some special ty crop ,.;fi ;. ; But the entire country cannot raise this special crop. Some form of fruit has perhaps prodnced the greatest returns, but our fruit raisers are alive to the fact that the greatest return, can he had when livestock of some . Irr? E B' - if 1 " " r -psr.?! 1 ! i M ' t predominates throughout the community. Their new coopera tive creamery "put out over a half million pounds of butter last year! ' ; : ' ' l T)ie Jersey is the favored breed of dairy animal in both counties, but there are a number of Hol stelnj herds and a few Guern seys, ;;. :. i ' - ."Turner , boasts of the only cream shippers' association in the state. .By shipping .their: sweet cream to Portland : in large amounts the dairymen get better prices for their product. j ... "Until the establishment of the new milk plant in Salem two years ago, (Salem was without a pas tuerizlng plant." ' kind! is kept in connection, on ac count of maintaining the fertility of the soil., Marketing Through Stock - : Then on the other hand, we have an immense acreage that is not primarily adapted to growing special high priced crops, that can profitably.be put to growing live stock.; This; would include the thousands of acres that are bet ter Adapted to growing some ior age crops, such as clover, vetch, cortt, etc. And by marketing this through the stock, very ; satisfy ing -returns can be made, and at the same time the fertility of the noil is not only indefinitely main tained, but is sure to be constant ly improved. ; In conversation 1 re cently with a friend, he remarked something . like this, in speaking of. another man and his farm: "That .man -can raise over 100 bushels of corn or oats per acre on his farm, but then that is noth ing J he has been keeping livestock on that farm, and selling nothing butistock and produce." i This gave him a greater return than he would have had if he had sold his crops directly on the open market. ' . .' Building the Soil On the other hand, he was year by year tuiilding his soil into a higher stage of fertility. The growing of clover and clov er seed has become an Important factor in agricultural crops. Sheep growing goes nicely with this work. The best crops of clover seed are produced where the fields are pastured until about the mid dle of May, then as a rule by about the first of September the fields are cleared again ready, for the sheep. Western Oregon can grow . tremendous crops of vetch and clover hay, and also alfalfa on , the sandy river bottom soil. No better feed for the dairy cow can be found.' Our crops of grain, such as wheat, barley, and corn, as a rule can be more profitably marketed through hogs or other stock than it ean oh the open market.- All this permits the fertil ity of the soil to" be j maintained, and it is very doubtful if it can be maintained any other way; at least profitably. i' So the conclusion must be thai. Oregon not only can raise live stock of outstanding quality, but that it can be raised at a profit, and that its use "is indispensable to continued success-, with agri culture. E. A. Rnoten. Salem, Or., Aug. 20, 1924. (Mr. Rhoten speaks as one hav ing authority. He is the livestock editor of the Pacific Homestead, leading paper of its class in this section, .issued from The States man building. There is something in the breed; there is a good deal in the breeder. But there is more in the sunshine and showeTs and soil that go to make up, the best dairying and livestock country in the world. Ed.) L !t Is Growing Fast Here; Some of the Essentials for Its Sure Success It Is probably afe to say that the personnel of the poultry in dustry changes every five to seven years; in other words, of . the total number of people following poul try farming in 1924, but a com paratively few will be . "among those present" in 1929-30. Some of these changes or desertions are legitimate, while, others simply represent misfits. People .who succeed usually pay the price, but the failures are only those who are not willing to keep on keeping on, until success crowns their efforts. -. No one is apt to succeed In any business for which there is no lik ing. It is difficult enough to suc POULTRY INDUSTRY NS EM SECTI1 Why offer with . Stomacx - ceed with love, ' enthusiasm 7 and ambition , in an activity that appeals- Ignorance of essentials is another stumbling block;what many fail to overcome. Allowing for these things, It may be-stated that, fundamentally,' the first re quisite to success in poultry farm ing is a liking for the birds and a satisfaction in catering to their physical, comfort, and productive prosperity. . . . .,. .. , : V The novice in. any line -of busi ness usually ?'fails to see," and, Of course, failure to. do follows. Trouble often appears in the flock, but the owner falls to learn of it until the complaint becomes seri out, if not fatal. A person of fine discernment and keen observation soon "catches on" and detects evi dence I of colds, lice and mites, producers and idlers, -disease and unsanitary conditions, costs and profits, and so avoid trouble. lie will know' instantly If there is an ailing bird in the breeding pen and he will, proceed to feed' accord ing to requirements for which he is aiming; he will know whether his houses are draught1 proof, pro perly ventilated,-and wnether the requirements for ' prosperous fowl life are' in evidence, and he will instinctively appreciate any de ficiencies and wrong . conditions and at .once Alter them for .the better. - Being observing,- the., be ginner soon learns . that poultry farming runs to specializing, and that success 1s more liable to fol low, if one' limit3 his operations to a single line' rather than sev eral, i The .one .big. specialty in Oregon .is .egg . production . but In addition, there are .those .who -center on the production of founda tion and breeding stock; the fan cier who caters to the demand for exhibition stock! : the fellow who raises pullets for delivery at six or eight weeks under , contract td egg farmers; the . ; day-old chick man, who. has developed an enor mous industry in this country', and raisers of table fowl and capons. It Is well :to select - one of these lines of activity and develop it to its limits. lien fruit and poultry meat are the two elemental things in poultry culture, hence they rep resent the greatest investment and largest annual turnover.. - - j A Huge Industry V An 'industry, that nationally, re presents an annual gross turn over of oyer $i,d00,000,00Q. can hardly be . considered . hbbby, much less a fa'd. . ' . . . . Cooperative marketing has sta bilized th poultry business; -ord HERE, MR. HOMEBUILDER Is the BEST. SAFEST. STRONGEST, and. in the long run, the CHKAPKST Material out of which to build your home. It Is BURNED -CIAY' HOLLOW BUILD INO TILK it Insures Fire Safety Health and Comfort.' . ' ' Ask for Catalog and : Booklet SAtEM; BRICK & TItE CO. Salem, Oregon . . . ; Phone Mfra. of Burned Clay Hollow Building Tile, Brick,' ' . and Drain Tile . Co. Trouble when CbJopractlo wCI . Remove the Causa . Your Health - Begins When You Phone 87 :-". '- For An Appointment ' DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C. Chiropractor , ... Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 U. S. National s Bank Building. Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. er has been evolveout of cnaos, an,d poultry products haye become standardized. These lt"re .giant i strides In thejright dir I ct? ,i but much must eVer"te Stne:athe producing end. J)yth.e noaltxyman , himself. Here,. there 4m rmomi oe- . study a, Iinprovej r? M '?t j On SIetnodi4lxlnes f ": - 1 - In a recent" address before an English audience of poultry breed ers, Mr. J. Stephen Hicks said that any poultry farm,- to be .success ful, must be run on methodical lines. A tidy man always inocu lates those working under him with tidy habits, and, the owner of a farm or business should set an example and insist on it being followed. Method also must be applied to .... correspondence, es pecially where, one has things to sell to the general1 public. En- quiries should be answered promptly and courteously. It al so pays to try and, help a man, and if possible one should never have a dissatisfied t-. customer. There axe minor qualities which a poultry farmer must observe. He' should be an early riser and open for- suggestion from anyone con cerning the bettering of his busln ness. ' . .. ;-, " . - ' ; . Success In poultry farming Is nO more difficult than in any other line of rural activity,. while the re-, turns are equally as alluring, and. in some Instances, more so. But. to attain them calls for a con tinuity of purposes ' and certain qualifications ' which are not al-' ways sufficiently pronounced in those who "take the plunge." No one will command the full mea suce of success in poultry culture unless they (1) possess an Intense love tor animal . and bird life on the farm and an aptitude for its duties and responsibilities; (2) an analytical mind and keen powers of observation to insure the health and ' prosperity of his flocks; (3) industry that knows no "let up," rn II,. v. n . n n 1. 1 A must always be attended, and (4) sound business methods and a high regard for-debts'and'Credits. " The successful operator of poul-' try farm ' pays' ontr" leas thair he" takes in :the, 'SnHfl f tje-pytpo. nlhor thlnpa hel n innlsnl " ger will be the pttofil-l The poultry Industry in the Sal-. em district is maklns a very rap-:t id growth, and thjsjl3 promise of stability one of the .many pro- . mises for our section. . One may find a rapidly increas ing number of successful poultry (Continued on page 9) GIVE US A List of Your Lumber Requirements. 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