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Y THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1925 'JPIfETATESMAN, SALEM.OREGON REGON LITY PROD f PRODUCTS r I . . ' , - J . . - - INDUSTRIAL O v ...... : i UGES'DUA I ! 1 ! I if This cat Is used by courtesy of th Associated Industries, of Oregon. Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman (In Twlce-a-Week Statesman Folio wins Day) (With a few possible changes) Loganberries,- October 2 . Prunes, October Dairying. October tf Tiz, October 23 Filberts. October 30 Walnuts, November - Strawberries, November 13 Apples. November 20 - " Raspberries, November . 27 Mint; -December 4 j Great Cows, Etc., December 11 Blackberries, December ,ig " Cherries, December 25 1 : Pears, Janunry 1, 1925 Gooseberries, January 8 Corn, lanuat 15 r j Celery; January 22 r Spinach, Etc., January 21 Onions, Etc., February 5 Potatoes, Etc., Feb-uary 12 , Bees. February is Poultry: and Pet Stock, Feb. 28 City Beautiful, etc?., Ma.-cb 5. Beans. Etcil March: 12 Pared High ways, Mrcb 19 Head Lettuce. March 28 Silos. Etc.. April 2 ' .Legume. April 9 t Asparagus, Etc., April 18 Grapes. Etc., April 23 Drug Garden, April 30- , Sugar Beets, Sorghum.-Etc.. V May 7 Water Powers, May 14 Irrigation. May 21 Mining, May 28 . - . -Land, Irrigation. Etc.. June 4 Floriculture, June 11 . Hops,' Cabbage, Eco. June J8 Wholesaling' and j dbblag, June 25 ' Cucumbers Etc., July 2 Hogs, July 9 Goats, July -16. Schools, Etc., July 23 e Sheep. July 30 National Advertising, August 6' Seeds, Etc., August 13 Livestock, jAu gust 20 . Grain and Grain Products. Au .. . gnat" 27 -. -' ' , Manufacturing, September-3. Automotive Industries, Septem ber 10 : -; j Woodworking Etc.Septl? Paper Mills, Etc.. Sept. 24- (Back Ct-piaj of the Thursday' editions of The Dally. Oregon8 Statesman are .n hand. They are for sale at. lo cent each; mailed l" any address. Current copies 5c) "OREGON QUALITY" products are establishing themselves in world markets; they make our pay rolls they build our cities; they attract new tapital and new people; they provide a market for the products of our farms. Oregon farms produce a wider variety of profitable crops of "Oregon Quality' food than any other spot on earth. : ' SALEM IS THE BESTHQB MARKET IN THE.UISITEO STATES. AND RUS BEEIi S KCE VALLEY PACK NS GO. STARTED The Local Packinq Company Has Doubled Its Capacity Recently, and Made Many Improvements, Bringing Its Equipment and Facilities Right Down to the Minute-7 Has; Capacity to Handle 1000 Hogs a Week, Besides Cattle and Sheep Owned by Local Capital, Managed ' and Operated by Enterprising Salem Men .- .' ; rf ,.- .- - JJete ate'some of tjie new things roas always claimed". Read It J 1 sin E T I FEED BID A M PRICED PRQClit II IT and , h:ah lights concerning Sal em's packing house, of which every bna in this community ought to be proud: , ltas increased ihe size of its building during the past ttfo years $0 per cent; and more than doub led its capacity. . Has put in. a new curing room, new hog coolers and new hog killing floor, and a new. pork cut ting room., Alsir large new stor age roonjs. Hak provided a com modious Inew office. : . Has put in a most modern and up to date lam and compound refining plant. Some of the ma ? isever unui.just ueiuie hj of July of last year had the lldcal plant pver shipped any hogs tb the Portland. market. They were.over stocked, and some of their people were on -vacations, 4 etc., so they sent a car. of hogs to Portland. They lost $50 on the car. They had to pay freight, yardage, feed. Insurance, fees, and. commissions six items, which no shipper could avoid. It would be the same with the farmer. He would lose money. . , . ' Matters of Pride Salem people aTe proud of their APiG TO A COW. TO 5 ACRES OF , I FOR GABBAGE, THEY 61 ABE PROFITABLE TO MARKET Br PRODUCTS Quotations From the Latest Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station on the Cost of Producing Pork Here Who Should Raise Our Pigs Conclusions Reached After a Great Deal of Study. : j fSfntinn Plrcnlar BC. issued in about the same feed' as for the m . At A . hv tho Oreeon PrnR iarrowing; mai is, aa but J I . v .1 age oi auuni pouuus.a.uuy iui I local packing house, owned and must be added 35 to 40 per cent May of last yfear Agricultural . College experiment station, on "Cost - of Producing Pork," is by E. I Potter, animal husbandman, and" II.' A. TJndgren and A..W. Oliver. The following are some brief excerpts from this bulletin:) ! , ' Summary A!lowing the market price for everything, the cost of 100 pounds of- pork live weight will be the price ot G16 pounds of grain. It will actually take but 450 pounds of grain to produce 100 pounds of pork, but to the cost of the grain f This cut Is nsd by courtesy of the Associated 1 Industries, ot Oregon. THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN . DID YOU KNOW That the Salem district is growing to be a great swine breeding center; that Salem is now an important pork packing center, and it will grow in this respeel constantly; that swine breeding here goes ad mirably with dairying, and there should be twenty cows wherejone is milked in this district now, and tens of thousands- more hogs on the dairy farms; that every farm of" every kind should have a few hogs, at least; that this is a good hog country some good judges say it is the best hog country in the world; and that there ' is room for thousands of men who know the best meth ods of swine breeding and other thousands who are will ing to learn? And did you know that this is the best hog market in the United States? PUU f W j"'' - 7P-CI- i Ins hogs and selling for around Of five or six cents per pound! couree the ready "come back? to that is that there is" a difference in the price of feed,' and we will admit that. 1 Feed barley Is today quoted in ton lots at retail at ap proximately $57 per ton. Of course there are many other varieties of hog feed that cny be purchased 'on the market, but they will not yarv a great deal In proportionate value at the prlve when comparei with. barley at the above mention. ed price, so barley is quoted for a, I A- ..V..1. ' ' uahis iu (ajiuiiiia num. . Authorities state that it win re- ! quire from four, and half to five ; pounds 'of barley to produce a pound of gain on a live hog. So calculated from that standpoint, about the only, advantage iu hav ing hogs to feed your marketable r liarieyl. to would be that Jt furn l8hed libnie market at top pcice j for your barley. If one in raising all of his on' feed and assuming that an acre or ground would pro duce approximately ihty .same ton nage of feed that it would before war tInivWh"n hogs were selling at perhaps five cents a pound th J difference would be that instead, oi u former $5 income the income today would be $14. But to re turn to the advantage of racing iiugs. ! ah siaiea peiore, mere it- not a great deal of margin if the hog was Ted only on high pricec commercial feesds. But here i where jhe advantage comes in from the farmer's standpoint. Im mense quantities of many, other feeds can be grown that are much cheaper In cost but have no ready cash nalue unless placed on the market ' in some (finished product such as the hog. This refers" tc pasturages, theuwfeste from the fruit orchards; the skim milk from the dairy, gleanings from the stub ble fields, etc; i j It certainly Is an advantage II this can all be cashed in on a basis with a high, priced ready market able feed, and it can be done by the use of hogs. There are those ; who, put out a series of crops that are grown quite cheaply and get thetf hogs ready lor market with buMhe use of very little feed that haalthe full cash market valued if U Is not the purpose of this ar- ; tide to especially comment on the. different feeds, but It was, former ly believed that alfalfa could only , be' grown on the sandy river bot tom soils. Today there is quite n big acreage, especially Id Washing ton county, of Grimm alfalfa that .is hieing grown successfully on open'prairie land and has appar- . ently passed the experimental tage Alfalfa makes the very test of hog pasture and will con tinue green for; many months. ai - Tb ; Number of Hogs - It la my opinion that the num ber of hogs, grown on any one farm tsbould be limited - only by the The Question of a Market Is Thoroughly Settled for the . Salem District Number t)f Hogs on Each Farm Should i Be Limited Only to Low Priced Feed Available Editor Statesman: f ' i amount of cheap feed for growing Hog i' are today quoted at north- Purposes, that can be produced, vi i i i . -i Anv farm where there is an oppor- westrmarket eenters at very c ose . , nr whorft trnm around $14 per hundred pounds, j t - or tnree or- more cows are This Is apparently a tremendous j kept will find it to be of advant- j priqe, wheir we look back andisee j age to keep at least one brood the farmers who formerly did ell j sow, and .from that up the num- and paid Off the mortgage py rais- i ber should be increasea as conair tions on that particular farm per mit. I believe that-the number of, hogs in the Salem, district could easily be doubled without' any special" burden in -preparing feed. rhis number could be mater'-ally increased fif special attention was 5iven to sowing special crops to be used In pasturage and other wise planted, .' " The question of marketing has passed the point - where It needs er'ous consideration. . There is not a point in the Willamette val- ey where a ready cash market can .iot be reached inside of a very fw iiiles at a price corresponding very ciosely ' to the top market rice jot tne mid-west centers. Here In Salem all that is neces- mfy is to bring in a well finished log and get the cash any business lay of the year,.,' The very worst that could be ex- lected would be to about trade loilars If all. high priced feeds were used. On the other hand.. .he hog offers an opportunity to j:onverl a lot of cheap food into a ugh priced, product. E. A. RHOTKN fJalem, Oregon. luly 7. 1925. , ." ; ,. (Mr. Rhoten is live stpek editor f the I'acif.c Homestead, the leading farm . paper of this sec uon, pubiisiied Itrom the States man building.Ed.) v - IHTnii nun mw nun STATE FEEDCIU.IFOI III We Are Sending the People uown I here butter, Eggs, ' Chickens and Cheese . Oregon shipped 442,278 jpounds of cheese to- San Francisco and 404,346 pounds to Los Angeles during the month ot June. Just closed, according )o figures issued by the United States department of agriculture. v : J fi ;; r ' Shipments of other commodities to those two cities from this state during the same month were re ported as followsr . ! ;; To San Francisco Butter, 236. 89 - pounds: eggs, 3.915cases; dressed poultry 67,775 pounds, i f To Los Angeles Butter, 423. 4& pounds; eggs,' 4.823 peases; and dressed poultry, 8,767 pounds, i Oregonian. .... .'"..! . " ' 1 Ull 1 l I'm'- - - D . j 1 "" 11 ' 111 i nmammmmmmmm ". 'rZm : . I .. ' - , :"; ' - .A view of the Valley racking company plant, first unit, taken several years ago. It appears much enlarged and improved now, and a new pliotograph will be taken noon, and a new cut made, when some- finishing touches are : put upon the main building and grounds. his is chinery In this is the first to be brought to this coast. Gives open kettle rendering. Takes the mois- Lre out; makes a better product: lias put In a new by-products plant, and some of the machinery operated by the Valley Packing company, with its plant and olTtes on the Portland road at the north ern edge of the city fronting on the Pacific, high way. j . There are a number of things In this, too, is the first to .be-ilnr this connection of which they brqoght to this coast., "The planUar proudahd four things espec- any. lueee are m iuui. is Tight Up to date. wln, ofMnsive odo It does away odors.. It renderitjl .'First It is a very eomplete.and Fairmont . Times (adv.) No tice: My husband, Mr. Edd Smith, having left my bed and board; 1 would be thankful if someone would pick hlnvun'atid lend him back home longflough for me. to change his clothes and make him look respectable agairiC"Mrs. Edd Smith, r the product sweet and clean. In stead of tankage, meat meal Is made. It Is a good hog and chic ken feed. No fertilizer is made. excepting a blood meal, which Is used for this purpose. A new 16-ton ammonia com pressor has been added. - The capital stock has been in creased from $200,000 to $500, 000. ' The capacity of the plant is now 1000 hogs a week, besides cattle and sheep. That means 52.000 hogs a year, and that many. will Derore long be furnished, right here in the Salem district, which "will mean that the swine raising Industry will have Increased here to about 10 times the size it was when this plant be gan operation. Some growth! Best. Hog Market in the World -'The Slogan man has been say ing for some years, and proving it, that Salem is the best hog market In the United 'states.Vor vln the world. The local plant aTww pays 50 cents a ' hundred pounds under the Portland price. For In stance. Portland has been paying around $14.25 a hundred pounds for hogs of the best packing weight and kind. The local pack ing plant has been paying around $13.75 a hundred. But the price in Chicago, Kansas City, etc., has been around $13 to $13.50 a hun dred pounds. . v, A Positive Proof Here is a positive proof that a half a -cent a pound. in 6a Iem un der the Portland price is at'Ieast a quarter of a cent a pound better than the Portland price for our swine breeders, aa the Slogan man 60 days. It seems safe to figure that with three litters every two years there will be required for each litter about 1125 pounds o grain or its equivalent without Dasture. but that one-fourth to one-half acre of good pasture will reduce this amount by 200 to 250 pounds. ' Iab6r Requirements and Cost The next item to consider is the matter of labor, which of course: depends much upon the conven-j lences at hand. Convenient equip ment is also assumed. Expensive or elaborate equipment is not nec essary; in fact, it is our observa tion that elaborate equipment adds more labor -for. its own upkeep than it Kaves In the handling of pigs. I Overhead Costs i In addition to the above there are the overhead costs for Inter est. losses, housing, and boar charges. Use of Waste Reduces Cost The real 1 method of reducing cost is by the use of waste prod ucts of the farm which have no other value. Skim milk front the dairy, for example, may be substi tuted for a considerable proportion of the grain, with the saving of about one pound of grain for every four pounds of milk used. Where the milk has little or no commer cial value, this may effect a very considerable- saving. Likewise on the grain farms, the young shoats may be used to clean up the stub ble fields and thus make several pounds of growth at little or no cost. Garbage where available may also be substituted for much of the other feed at a considerable saving. . Legume hay, especially alfalfa, has been suggested as a partial substitute for grain. A very Bmall amount of hay along with a little milk or tankage as a supplement to the grain is very valuable, but to attempt to use even the best quality of legume bay as a substitute for a consid erable portion of the grain doe3 not lower'the cost of the pork pro duced. Good Management Reduces) Costs Good management is always an FALLS CITY NEV OF THE WEEK BY Jl BEPOBTER WHO" GETS IT ALL The City Owned Electric Light. Plant Transferred to the . Mountain ) States Power Company Personal and ! General News of the Live Town on the West Side of f Old Polk Chimney Fire Exciting About two o'clock on the after noon of July fourth the fire bell rang, for the first time in many months, bringing out . a large crowd of men, women and child ren. The fire was in the roof of a bungalow belonging to the Cobbs & Mitchell Company in the south side of town. Considerable smoke, much water, very little blaze re sulted in a hole in the root, a good soaking of the Interior of th house, and a practice run for all the able bodied men left in town. for labor. Interest, housing, and the overhead expenses. ! At least 30 per cent of the cost of raising a 200-pound market pig comes before weaning time, and weanling pigs should be priced accordingly. A thrifty weanling . " , - tore bring about ""7 "l . cost oi porn; using oniy wen oai anced rations, keeping the pigs Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mott are re joicing, over the arrival of a son born July fourth. He has been named Charles Everett. Mr. and Mrs. Lot Gardner, who now live in Valsets. are receiving congratulations upon the birth of son July fourth. He has been named Robert. - Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Frisk enter tained a family party July fourth, at which all of their children and number of grand children were present. Loring Frink, a son. with his wife and .seven children were up from Corvallis; a son, En- nis, and daughter. Bertha, Mrs. W. A. Graham, were present from Xewberg; Leonard F., another, son frpm Portland; ,Cora McCoy, a daughter and four children. 'of Falls City; Willis Frink, a son and his wife. Falls City; Mrs. Elsie Leavitt, a daughter, whose home Is n Montana, though most ot the year is spent in Washington, D. C. with Mr. Leavitt, who Is a repre sentative in Congress from Mon tana. There were twenty-three pres ent for the family dinner,-and 32 enjoyed the afternoon on the beau tiful lawn of the Frink home. iraa TtrOTtjughly" equipped plant, and it is owned entirely by local people; so owned and managed. : (' Second its Cascade brand - of hams, bacon and lard are as good in quality as the best put up in the United States. 5 Third This plant enables us to truthfully and pridefully say .that Salem is the best hog market in the United States. The .prices paid here are all the time the highest in this country. - j Fourth It is a growing busi. nessv It keeps several -jump3 ahead of the local supply. This shows a progressive management.) Big, and Growing Fat ' . The Valley Packing company is Just now killing each week about: 450 hogs. T 100 sheep. ' I 75 cattle. The market Qf this district '-. is not a good onej for .mutton- though we produce a finequaiity. - The Valley Packing, company people get practically all of their hogs locally, and their other stock, too. The number of hogs fat tened in the Salem district is at least five time:; what it was when the 'local packing ' house began operations. They at first had to get a lot of hogs from as far away as Nebraska. They get a few "now in southern Oregon, as far south as Roseburg but most of them they get right here in the Salem district. They have, made Salem a Bwlne breeding center, and they will make it more so, when their enlarged plant is worked up! to capacity, as it will be, be r ore long. There are 60 acres in the hold- - 57 (Continue on fig IOJm. v pig should therefore bring about the same price as 375 pounds of grain.- It wUV actually require but halt as much feed to produce him, but the labor,' housingr'interest. losses, and other, overhead ex penses will amount to as much as the feed. The basis of all pig feeding Is grain; that is corn, ground wheat, or barley, supplemented with a small percentage of some protein feed such as tankage, fish meal, skimjmilk, etc. Other feeds may be substituted tor the above, but the substitutes must furnish es sentially the same j nutrient. In thU discussion the term "grain' will be used to indicate any good, well balanced feed or combination fo feeds. In this we figure whole healthy, and saviag'.Iarge litters. The figures quoted are-based upon good management of the kind any reasonably intelligent farmer might be expected to exercise. The exceptional man can do better. The careless man will do a lot worse Who Should Raise Pigs Through the last ten years the farmer who has fed his own bar ley to pigs has received the mar ket price) for his grain, labor, and overhead expenses, but no profit above that. The California barley and eastern corn have mostly been fed at a loss, except when used as a supplement to waste products that would otherwise have had no value. This condition has led O corn, ground wheat or ground bar-1 A.C to formulate a very definite ley as having equal value when I policy with regard to hog produc- properly supplemented. 1 I tion 1n Oregon. This policy was Number of Pigs per Litter la lrt published some seven or eight Biz Factor i years ago, but it is still our policy ; All investigations show that thend wI11 continue to be until con- big factor In the cost of producing anions arise which JustUy weanling plgsIsthe number of change. It is as follows: pigs raised in each litter: The A c Recommendations as to feed necessary to produce a 'litter I Iig Raising is about the same whether (lt Is a ' I- That the dairy farms that large litter or a small' onfe. and do nt aell whole milk should there seems to be no good evi- raise not over one-half of their dence that the weanling pigs from calves and that they should raise the large litters are particularly one p,g 'r each cow milked Inferior or less thrifty than the Handled in this -manner 100 pigs from small litters. pounds of skim milk should net Sows Average About Three Litters ro one-fourth to one-fifth the In Two Years . I farm price ot 100 pounds of grain It is the geseral practice among providing the business is eco no m bog producers in Oregon to raise Ically managed and that the grain two litters a year as far as may used is charged at farm prices and be practicable. .As a -practical I nt Ie t feed dealers' prices. working - proposition, ! through a H Tnt the grain farms try peries of years, we may reasonably I to raise about one. pig for each expect a sow to- produce an aver- I,Te lo twenty acres of grain. age of about three litters every dI hould niake 50 to 75 pounds two years. of gain on stubble but this is not The sows which farrow Sentetn-I11 net Profit because the remain bex, t or thereabout, will require) cintiMTWn 10) at the electric light plant, but a re-adjustment of apportionment was made, so his services will be available for; full time work as formerly. ! The street committee was au thorized to have work done on the road to the .baseball and Epworth League park. W. H. Beard and Mr. Foster, field representative for the West? ern Bond & Mortgage company were present to suggest a bondirg investment for the' city of funds - ust received from the sale of the light plant. No action was taken on the proposition presented, ow ing to the absence of the .city" treasurer and lack of information regarding present holders ot the light bonds. ' A committee was appointed to have the. water -wheel vbeIongin to the city placed in repair -for use by the Grlswold-Grier Lumber company, and make other neces sary arrangements to continue leasing the property to them which they now: use for a planer site. 1 ;i The city marshal was instructed to make a survey, and get bid-i fof lumber for the construction of new steps up the hill leading to grade school. Mountain States Power Company Takes Possess ion of Electric Light Plant '" On Monday evening, June 30, the city council met in special ses sion to pass the necessary ordi nances authorizing the transfer of the municipally owned electric light plant to the Mountain States Power company, in compliance with the result of the special elec tion held June 23, when - there 67 ballots cost for the sale, 26 against, and ten defective. The city granted to the Moun tain States Power company a 25 year franchise, entered into a five year contract for street lighting and the necessary papers were exe cuted' making the transfer effect ive June 30 at midnight. Mr. A. G. Montgomery who has been sn perintendent of the plant since the city became owner, resigned, and immediately entered the employ of the .corporation purchasing the plant, so that the present service Is continued just as formerly, and will be given until the new line is built and Juice brought In togive the twenty-four hour service planned for. This will require few weeks, but no interruption ot service will be necessary. ; Personals Regular council Meeting Held July 6 At the regular council meeting held July 6, with Mayor Roy Mc Donald presiding, routine business was transacted Two councilmen were elected to fill vacancies caused by removal. Frank Mack was elected to succeed A. F. Courter who has gone to Eugene to reside, and J. V. Dennis was elected to succeed Albert Teal, who is now. in the country at Ha zel Dell Ranch engaged In the manufacture of Roquefort cheese. The salary of the city marshal was not changed with the cessa Mr. and Mrs. H. MatherWSmit) are spending a week, at Nedonnt Beach (Manhattan) where they have a cottage, this being Mr. Smith's .annual vacation. Durina his absence Mr. R. G. White, cash- ier of the Bank ot Falls City is carrying on, with the assistance of Mns. R. G. White. Mrs. J. M. Cleveland, is having extensive repairs made upon her property on Bridge street. Includ ing new foundations for her bun galow, a new roof, new paint out side and within, new papering, im l a general rejuvenating. She will also have the large red barn cn the property 'removed to 'malte room for a bed of strawberries. Let the good .work go on. Every house painted and every old build ing removed helps to make oar town worth living in. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Dorman. for merly of Salem, have leased the R. O. Brown house, adjoining the Everlay Poultry farm, and Mr. Dor man will assist his father in the extensive improvements being made on the Everlay ranch, and in the care of the large flock of young pullets being raised for the( ranch. The manv .friends of K don : R. Frink will be grieved learn of his serious illness. He is at the country home of his parent. Mr. and. Mrs. Warren Frink.isur fernlg from a severe attack of pneumona. A trained nurse Is ia attendance. Mrs. Jennie M. Cobb entertain ed the following relatives and friends as house guests recently: Mr. and Mrs. Delmar BillsborouRa of Santa Barbara. Cal., Mrs. Ed. Thomas and two -children of Aber deen Wash her- niece; sister-in-law, Mrs. George Broughtoa'from Bearer, Ore.; and Mrs. John Asch Im, a niece from Tillamook, Ore. Miss Lillian Hatch Is enjoying a vacation with her uut. Mr. J. C. Moyer, of Independence Their plans Include a visit to sev eral Tillamook county beaches. Several members of the local Christian Endeavor were in atten dance at th mpptlnt- lust dosed In Tnrnr Amnnv them wef V - - - . - - o Errol B. Sloan, pastor of the Chnrch of Christ. Mrs. R. TauU Miss Pauline Jobes, Mr. nd Mrs. R. Titus. Miss Gladys Taul. Mrs. Jobes. daughter Henrietta. They had the pleasure of hearing Jobs It r tion oj .bis jdu.Uea.as: night relief (Conttsa4 a pzt 10)