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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1925)
tiie opxgo: stati::an, -galem, ohego:? THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST C.VIC. ii: ' ' ' i , DM.6 ' " w - h - - QUAE! 1 ,JkiM LiX iL VLJ iiOJ '! i-FRO I - l.'i- i r'-t 3 : -li ii t -This cat la Ttsed by courtesy of tha f Associated Industries of Oregon. f Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesrtiah'f (la Twlce-a-Week Statesman Following "Daj (With a few possible changes) Logrnberriea, October 2 . Prai.es, October 9 Dairying. October IS T?x, October 23 ' Filberts. October SO , .Walnute. NoTember strawberries. November is Apples, November 20 RaspW-rles, November. 27 Mint, December 4 ' .Great Cows. Etc.; 'December 11 Blackberries. December: a 8; 'w Cherries, December 25 ' Pears. January 1, 2925 - ;;f Gooseberries; January 8 , ? 1 Corn, Januatr 16 , Celery.' January 22 ' ' Spinach, Etc.. JtnuaiT 2 -Onions, Etc. February 3 Potatoes. Etc., February 12 Bees, Febmary,19 ui i Poultry and Pet.Stock.Teb. 26 City Beautiful, etq.,.Ma.ch 5. Beans. Etc.. March 12 ' - v ' Paved Highways. Mrrh if '; Head T.ettuciV arc"n 28 Silos, Kte.. April 2; K-if C ' Ledum, April Asparagus, Etc, April IS Grapes,: Etc. April , 23 Drug Oar.lt n, April 30 Sugar Beets, Sorhumi Rtc," - May 7 H-..--' !.,. . " Water rowersMay 14 .' " ' Irrigation! Uy 21 -.i,:,:,.-; Mining. May-2 8 t ,--Land. Irrigation. "Ete.tJuffe"4 ' Floriculture June 11, lo llops, Cabbafe, R.',li'jTk; : Wholesaling! "and trtVl'o k, June 25; ,A'- ' -A Cucumbr$," Etc.; J1yj2 " Hogs, July 9 . ... j. t Goats, July 16. f. , i -r ' . Schools. Etc.. July 23i' '' :. . ' Sheep, July $0 ' ,';-.-; ) -1-? National Advertising. August 6 Seeds. Etc.- ugurt J3 . ;, -Livestoclc.r Atj gust 2 4 . Grain anil Urain Proilucts, Au- g6t 27; . Manufacturing. Sepletnbr 3f. ' ; Automotive Industries: Septem ber 10 I',:--;,-!'.-? i.'.;' WcodworHlngr Etc...SfPt. 17 ; Papw,;Milb,?tit Spj ?5!:5; . . ,: :! i. ' ,' n . ' '' ( Bark ccp' of t he ,Thu rsday .viitkttift of "The Daily Oregon .Statesman ar i-v hand. They Larw for sa'e Jti Ifccn'i each. ma.iie.rX auy address.;; Current 4 copies Sc.) i! - i .. "OREGON QUALITY" products are establishing themselves in world markets; they make our pay rolls they build our cities; they attract, new capital 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. . . jmmmwm&m r HELPED BY GROWERS OF SUGAR BEET! The Increase of the Meat Supply to Keep Pace With the - Growth of Our Population Must Come From the Farms 7:' ol the Country,1 Rather Than the Ranges The Days - of the Old Fashioned Cow Boys. Are About Over "The rharg In th? complexion each ac'rej the 'in fear cpateht per rf "en t tie nr sheep rallnE.'' said j Townsend ?.Trnll. of the .Western ,Slop Brt, f-"ver as.soHation of .Colorado ami ITtah, rocontly, . "adds to tl"? Kraylty of flic prob JlenM facl?s',.thi.rwrs cf. ujrar j beets. We have to raise sugar beets p .our irrigated land every . four years to free It of weeds and suit it for grains und nMirr rrcp, Furihrrinore." thfi' nation's mrat rupply i liom-.iz more aid mdro"ln)crlocl.cd .with" tho sugar 1 beet problem., ... t,i ., Jtho'fact' that we cow' produce oniy, ono-iourth e.nougn susar to supply our cloimetie needs and are' dependent on foreign sources for the other seVenty-five per cent "and it-becomes easy, to see the "importance 'of preserving; the budding dome:tlc industry.' ' Mr. Moncll'a association gives the cost of raising beets per acre , as follows: plowing $3.95; Ievel- '. ing $1.70; necd-3.02; planning ,94; culllvat;ng" $3.31; irriat- 'ing i3.C7; handwork 122.00; fpioylng out $3.r3; hauling 511- ..08: rental of land and water $15,000; depreciation of stocl;! and ;uipmrnt $2.00; intcrost on utock and c;iilrmtnt investment $5.00; taxes on equipment-$1.00; fertilisation 510.00. -Thcso'Costs total c!jhiy-six dol lars' an aci d. Tho.surar.bWt grow er is pal i "In diiect'pioiortion to tha prif! of sncar. -' Xot Ifl'lMT Here 5 The cost of . , growing svgr.r Reals ousht to camevrhat lower 1 in the ; Willamette valley, espa , vii'-Hy in season and on -lands te- H'iring no irrigation.; The profits , depend, on several thiugj, tnclud- '. iug the nmuber of tons grov,n oa ton,: the price of tag-rr rd .the uses tnsdo of the pulp from the Krindin ,of; th. bet-.. . tlm- tops., an 4 t h ft m dlsisxpf ; 1 1;? tby-pV'od acts. The Wi0atneit;vaw is in. p-. silion to rtake good njse.of-the by products.' ni the live istoik indus try; in-increasing beef and mut ton nnd inilk- products and "poul try products. j There Ms no other one thing that will do so much to conserve and build up the fertility of our soil, fleets maVe a rotation crop. They do not rob the land. They pet tlu'ir snstvnmcc from the rain and the wind. They are a Uultivated crop, - and leave the land ilcan from wced-3.: . The bcrt industry vill. in build- JIhk up th" live stock-industry. rucre'than rill ihebrcach that is nipde'by the use of, tractors ln 'glea& of-horse's 'in 'farm work-r-in leturning fertility to the soil. ' 1 The reader will notice, .that Mr. Jlonell slid we produce "only a fourth of our sugar supply. We produce only a fifth of it- 't Last year we produced, a, JUte over .a million itous 6f beet eugar in. this country,, and wo consumed over five millions of tons of sugar. . x What Woik Sahl j Dr. Hubert Work, secretary of the ir.terioip.' who' recently made & trip throughout5';' the west, in cluding western Oregon, when he airived at Cheyenne, Wyoming.! discussed the plight of the sugar beet. farmer, whose task of build- i I ing up a domestic supply of sugar j has been jeopardiied by market prices that are virtually at pre war level. ' .- - The United States is the only great nation except England de- pendent on outside sourcw for four-fifths of its , sugar - supply. England, norrnaUy a free trade country, has put a bound of,1.24 cent3 on all home produce! sugar, in-the hope of. developing the domestic industry. . ' Even our present tariff, giving the farmer less than one-half thei protection afforded the : Kagllsh sugar, beet grower,, has, cot kept (the price" at a point where the farmer can hope to domoro than i it mvhfi hv vat trill nusnrlal tcnt of ,beet . growers., ,, ; . ' ., '.. "I find that the entire reclama tion area lips been stimulated and helped by President Coolidge's de cision to. retain the sugar tariff' Secretary Work said at Cheyenne. "The growing of sugar beets. Is one of the most natural and na tlonally profitable. ues to which our reclaimed land can .be put. Thousand? of American citizens have invested years of careful work and all the money they have in developing small sugar beet farms. : To them the president's action means that they can con tinue , without going bankrupt or living like peons on a Cuban plan tation. To the country at large the - decision means preservation and increase of a domestic supply of a vitally basic commodity. With the tariff lowered we would soon have no domestic sugar crop and then closely organized interest;. operating outside the. jurisdiction of four, anti-trust -laws, could change us what they pleased for sugar., " ' " BEEF MARKET DEHI III REGULATE ; THE PRDDUCTlDfJ OF CATTLE FOR BEEF Vhat the Consumer Wants, What He Can Pay for, What , r the Producer Can Produce, and What It Costs to Pro- ;:i " duce, Determining Factors Beef in the; Markets Ought to Be Standardized ; . r ; -This cut is ud by courtesy of th , Associated lndustiits, of Oregon. r The type of beef animal on our markets Ib determined, like any other commodity, by what the consumer , wants, what the con sumer can pay for, what the pro ducer can produce, and what it costs to produce. The final prod uct will always be something of a sell for enough more to justify the expense. Therefore, we have com ing from the dairy industry mill ions of pounds of beef, which is of distinctly Inferior quality but which must be ' either eaten or thrown'away. ' ' The remainder . of our beef su- ft " -1 . . ' ....... i ' ';x V;'.: X ;:.V--'y ::'.-. ' " ,-';y::-m 1 v -.- .:".',:... .. , ..'' . i i . - - - . i'. ' r -'-,' - . : . . -v . . . - - - - - .... '.., I THIS WEEIC'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That Salem has become an Important live stock center, through the bunding1 and operation and growth of the Valley Packing Company, a concern owned by local capital; that this stabilizes and guarantees the best prices in the United States for all kinds of market able lire stock; that the farmers of the Salem district ought'to raise more and more cattle and horses and hogs and sheep and poultry, for the profits they can make directly, and for the benefits that will come to them in directly in the better fanning methods that will thus be encouraged; and that this is the very best farming and fruit growing and mixed farming section In the whole United States, and, for the matter of that, in the entire world; and that there is room here, and there are incom parable opportunities for thousands of new men on our farms and ranches and ranges? :.-.': . . ; DEBIIiB IiBEB OF COLTS III iiiirhnnrriMPnriPir Gil untuU LL YU 1 MO - i : G PICES - Moderrbt hhEmals'arenot what they used to be " , v ;..f-.v-f :-l f...i-"-':-"'-;:.:; :yp. ' N- :J- V'. '' ;..if! - ''"'1' : y.ml.' - I:; ? I ' t . v f - - ' - I . - ! ; " i ' ; i Fill I ' i t : 1 1 1 y K- n. v '. ' i- jT . ' 7 v : - , i -: . W A'ueerxT j -J1 k - " .U-UN , - -A J I T F LBV Railroad People Assist in Taking the1 Guess Out of Farming in This State compromise between these various' factors and in no ' case is there. moro compromising than In the beef market. ' t What the consumer would like to have is easily aiMwered: he wants first class, grain fed steer beef. What he can pay is, how ever, another matter and there is nniv & r. anw. v . m . 1 1 Mrfiflniflf.i of the people of the United State, K?rV Pcmu prob- f . ait A 9 ablr IS per cent come to market ,vU TL. J thrt hve been well fattened on iui9 c i Bua vk wcci. a uc K va v iu- i . . . . . wit n.t- mnt.nt h.m-o- train. A very mucb . higher per - ply comes from the. herds bred for beef production only. Necessari ly, the product Is infinitely ' su perior to that." coming from the dairy herds. Of the beef coming worn the' beef herd, approximate ly 5 5 per cent of the total num ber'are steers. The percentage by. weight . would be somewhat higher than this. Of the beef E. L, .Potter, professor of ani mal naabandry of the Oregon Ag ricultural college, says that, with in. the past year, there has been some llttle renewed interest in the horse breeding-industry In the state of Oregon, and : in other parts of the, .United States. This Interest -has been due partly to enthusiasm, Vnd partly to the fact that there is said to be a decrease in the number of horses. . At the D'feJenO lime there: 1 ' Is1 little in creaseMnrlhe price" of : horses in the state, and no marked rednc tlorf lb. th'e"Bumbr,'f liorses in the United States. Sr:' j Tho; census Usurps- and also the Unite! SfatT'nepirtiheht of agri culture Mtimatet show that the dVcYCHyVfrtird -the list year has been less than three percent It Is estimated that there were sev- able to use In riding schools an4 for people in the city. This mar ket has been rather particular, and there have not been a. great many horses marketed In this manner. In fact, it is a special ized market and ' although large sums have been paid for individ ual horses, there has not been a great number" used for this pur pose, especially here in the west. Good Homes to Go Jibber There may be some Increase I n the price of horses within the Beit few years, but.it Is rather doubt ful If this Increase will be very rapid.. Since all draft horses are quite old at the present time, and" there- are probably not c-nough colts to replace the old hore. the gradual increoae ra price that will take place must,-take place because ef a better ' Quality of ' . ! in. v V : r .... .. rf ' : V .7 - 'f When the two reel of boys'' and girls club Work , at the county fairs of Lane, Tillamook . and Clackamas, and at the state fair, are filmed and added to the four already finished and turned over to the Oregon Agricultural col lege, the set will be the most complete ever taken of club work anywhere. This enterprise is carried on by the Southern Pa cific.as its contribution to the yel fare of the state in general and to promote club work fa particu" lar. .'- ;". -. '.'" "J,' .E. -Kelly, . manager of the development work of-, the., com pany, after a study of club. work in the west and southwest, decid ed that this rather expensive bit of promotion work would be the best thing the company could do ta boost the club work. To "take the guess out of farming and help make farm life in Oregon prosperous and attractive was the aim of the director, and the col lege club men say the set ' doca that very thing to a nicety. "Oregon Junior Goes to Col lege," is -the main . title. This young chap meets with' an . acci dent on a badly rundown -farm and in the ensuing vision sees hit Ideal farm achieved by good man agcmenL He is awakened and shown how to start by informing himself of approved methods, and soon finds' himself on the cauipue with. 500 other youngsters from all parts of the 6tate. Stock, seed, poultry, and bread judging, managing animals " and birds, planting potatoes learn ing of their diseases, are some ot the boys activities. Thgirlj team sewing and cooking, and laundering and home-making. AH play and drill, eM nd laush, and have good times as v.cll at profit able work. The pictures will be fhown h; all parts of Oregon '-. during" the year, -and it "is the-expectation and hope of the railway men that the number. of, club. mtiabcrs will double next year. J, T'i!.Fcott, C. M. Andrews, II. :i.. ?!t f;tt, J. The cattln and s-Lce;) country of cowboy flctinn has ... . .. t. .... , .. t. .. t . . ran Tin ?:": r, i r roif jioa yiti tuuuui iuiti it factories, co rts lii-cly of EUgar beet tops alid- palii itost as?rd j away, ana tne modern stockman ."which, in the districts where there are t u . n r Te pictures above show a herd of cattle fce.I- inf oa tcrt r ''' tD tbo nilll f r a r of sheep waiting for a meal cf the same fcy-rro ' :- ::r. and cstract!2 tte's'-zar. - ' . i :ct, an i a farner haulis I' Caile, Lindsay CampLcll, and 1U. s. King atteadoj the first shoe ing ot the four ret 23. -J.-JVCai-tou of the fctato department of tduc content themselves with a lower grade. It is quite probable that while practically everyone would like to have the very best, that the rank and file of 'American consumers would be quite well content with a medium grade of beef such as would come from a good beef bred cow or steer," well fattened on grass or Lay -beef, for example, of god color and quality, and fat enough to dross out 56 to' 58 ou stock yard : weights. Such beef can be produced at a considerably , len figure than a fine - grade. beef product, especially in the region west of the corn belt. ; It can also be produced in very much larger quantities. On the other hand. beef from old, thin cows and es pecially cowa of dairy breeding, is not really, wanted anywhere. Mil lions of pounds of such beef, how ever,, are consumed every year be cause the purchasers are . unable to get anything better t a price which they can afford to pay.. It is very probable, however, that the 'possibilities ot the pro ducer have more to do with the class of beef coming onto our mar kets than the demands of the consumer;-; la the first place, prob ably 25, or 20 ot our total sup ply of-beef, excluding veal, comes from the dairy herds and Is, ot course, practically all cow stuff. Of necessity, tho .bulk of these cows are old. In many cases, they lack fat and are not good enough to Justify fattening. A few young fat heifers will be included, but not. very many. In all cases, the stock will be of Inferior breeding and confirmation. Judged from the beef standpoint, since nearly ail dairy breeders are breeding their cattle a far away from the beef type as they possibly can. The. questioa comes. "Can this dniry beef bo improved." " The fanswer is 'No, not to any ap preciable extent." Its breeding mnnot be clians-d without detri ment to dairy production, which on most any dairy farm Is more important than the beef value of tho discarded cow: it i3 trUex' that many of the dairy cows con Is? to market could bo improved by a three to four months graia feeding, but they would still be inferior beef and on the basi3 of prtvj'jut demand, the li dairy caw that would receive three cr four centage probably 65 or 70 per cent, come to market In a medium condition, having been fairly well finiihed on hay or grass. A small minority come to market in in terior condition. Of the cows coming from the beet herds, the proportion that have been grain fed is negligible.; -On the other h. nd. the great majority .are In lair condition after they come oft of grass or hay. In view of the f? ; that a mature row that Is fat '.n tonally worth, as much for beef a3 a two-year-old ,,neiier. It ls a general cusioni among beef rain to sell, each.ypar Jhe, larger por tion -dt their coni' that tall to rrodncej enlvea. snbuy 3 their place wo-y ear-old -liters.- Cows that fail to produce calves njually fut ten easily even on feed that would be none too satisfactory for a cow suckling a calf. In the beef herds, therefore, very few of the cows are kept" to extreme age or to an are at wblch thev fail to faen when dry. However, whilaj the great majority of the beef cows come to market in fair con dition, there are alway so mo thin ones. In fact, the best breeding cows will often continue to pro dace, calves until they reach an age when they will no longer fat ten readily. - . . - FTonr the standpoint of produc tion, it should be recognired that practically allt of the grain pro duced in the United States Is con sumed. That which is not used for milling or manufacturing pur poses is use for stock feed. We cmnot Increase the percentage of &-rln f'-'J beet wlthnnt either In creasing cur grain production or taking grain away from some oth er industry, neither of which pro cess tec wis feahible to any marked extent. On the other hand, there are very considerable possibilities of Improving-tho quality of our beef that comes off of our ranges and pastures. . Tne general tend ency of our beef producers has' tecu to stock their range- and pastures too heavily with the re bult that they arc producing bce or lower quality than they sLould ar.1 in many cases rc actually re ducing instead of lurrcasins the curaber ot ioundi ov'bccf pro duced. It is a well known fact .that tfce only feed wfckh prcJuc-i acy aia ii that in excess of uiia- -i v i Good type of draft horse C.3 I' es and nearly five and one-half million mules irx the United "States on January "1, 1925. ' compared with eighteen mii!!on horses and: fiver and one-half million mules for January 11521. . ' The drawback with horse breed ing in tire United States is that there hive been too many small borses and horses ot poor type. These horses' 1 have' been used where good drrt horses should have .been used. Farmers and horsemen have used them because they were cheap and answered the purpose of real horses. . Lany Horae Are. OKI A, great many . hordes kt the present time are old and figures show that fewer. colts were raised within the last year than in prev lous years. The. stallion registra tion board figures for the United States also chow that there has been about a ten per cent decrease In the number of; stallions stood for public service. This decrease Is particularly marked in th state of Oregon, where there has been a decrease la the number ol stallions stood for public service within the last few year. ' Mx Horwet to l'rra The census figures . for 1320 show that Oregon has 271. 599 horses and 14.375 mules, or a to tal of nearly. rsS.0t0 horses and mules. Oregon has approximate ly 60,000 farms. We therefore have an average ol pearly eix horse per fam. With many of the farms of iry small acreage, it is ea.y to --re that there are rlcaty of bur to take care of the farm work ia Orejon at the I f at titao. . Ti.crc Las vn some interest f.i fjJJIe typ's cf horn. rr--t'.'-2!y Lima th" t wou!J be &u:t- But the increase Is Ulhjtf Be Gradual, and Not Sudden j The Number of Colts Not Large Enough to Replace niri Horses Onlv Good Colts Should Be Raised f i entren and cneihalf . million 'bora- .horses, -and Wcause there Is a de- ' r . . . . crease in me numocr oi orni ralsed,' ' Ji Horse breeders mast Follow the practice of eliminating the com mon type of horses and breed only the best mares to the beat ftallions. The horse market. like any' other: market, depends upon the demand and the supply oi horses to meet . this demand. If prices in horses rise, it would mean that this advance In price would be gradual. We cannot expect that there will be aa abrupt change in prices. fflElWiiL C11FS THE Pl'MF Communicates This Disease to Losanherries; Only Way to Get Rid of It' That tho dica.e of loganber ries and phenomenal blackberries known as dwarf is scattered throughout the Willamette valley is shown by tpecimens sent into the Oregon Agricultural college experiment station, according' to Dr. S. M. Zcller, plant pathoIoglaU Thi $ disease can be eradicated only by roguiag and plaatlag dis ease Tree tips. ' - Lcpanberry canes affected by this d.-"ao have a stcut acd etlff appearance instead cf tie usual vinicg ten-cncy. The canes are thorter and as the U'.. tar.ee be tween the b-J is. shorter there are tftt-a s i.-. a s y l.aci oa a c a twj 1 3 t " r i 1 I i jZ? b s on r s