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i - ' t ' - : ft ; - ! ' - I : 1 " I- ' ' ' ' -;' ' ' SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR h THE DAILY STATESMAN dedicates two or more! pages each week in the interests of one of the fifty-two to a hundred basic industries of the Salem district Letters and articles from people with vision are solicited. This is your page. Help make Salem grow. ? 11 V ml 'if IS' P r ; fi i if 11 I-! i ! Hi! if EH GOOD WORDS FLD'r'D FOX GIVES rt F One of Our Most Successful Sheep Breeders and. Exhibit ors at the Coast Fairs, Tells Our Farmers to Keep Sheep, They Will Utilize the Waste Of fers Slogan, "A Few Sheep on Every Farm." Editor Statesman : twill make a farmer more money - In reply to your request for an than anything on the farm, for the article on sheep for your annual j money Invested. After one has purchased his farm flock, ho should beware of scrub sires and purchase a good sire to head his flock, for a good sire is the cheapest in price in the long run. -, The Willamette, valley is well adapted for sheep raising, produc ing a great quality of mutton, and a good quality of light shrinking wool. Slogan, will eay that I cahnot re ply very strong, on account of the very busy show season on hand. All Indications show that the sheep business will be better this year foTnfftrreeoing ewe 'and TStittoa Ilfnb nd than last year. I Was talking with an eastern Ore goa ateeftin Air- this . morning. He toli idfc tbitere was a big ewe 8hdcag.ai;i6jtlLatihey wer going" . ft' 9A V 4 r fleece a pound or two, and at the qume time not detract from the iuaiuy ot the wool. I am pot ppcaking of purebred sheep, but more especially of the common kind. By selection of rams ! I don't mean that we should jail raise iino wooiea or all coarse wooled sheep, but blend the tjwo logetner, depending upon what wc have to start with, and DioiViJes pecially do away with rams that lo not produce, wool. This class or rams will always be numerous v.iitil farmers cease to be afraid to castrate spring lambs. There is no sense in spending good money for rams and .then permit a lot of cull lambs to sire the next year's crop. Too many sheep men wait for a favorable moon, or. until the crops arc in, or uutll the lambing season is over. By this time the lambs arc perhaps too big; and they decide to let them go. My ex pertence has been .that the best nme is wnen me lamp is from one day to one week old and todajr is always H?ter than tomorrow 'The Statesman's efforts more and better sheep should be appreciated, and in this connec tion something might also be said for fewer and better dogs. Last spring I know of two very ordi nary dog& now deceased that In 24 hours killed outright not less than 5500 worth of sheep jand goats. The damage to the bal ance of the flocks in cripples,! or pban lambs and loss of morale would probably exceed twice that amount. for Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman j (In Weekly Statesman) (With a few possible changes) Loganberries, Ortobcr 1, I "rune. October: 8 Iairyinie. October 15 Max, October 22 j Filberts, October 29 I Walnuts, November 3 Strawberries; November VZ Apples, November ll Raspberries, November 26 Mint, December 3 j Beans, Ktc., December io Blackberries, December 17 Cherries, December 24 Pears, December 31 j Gooseberries, January 7, 1026 Corn,-January 14 Celery, January! 21 Spinach, Etc., January 28 Onions, Ktc, February 4 Potatoes, Etc., Febrnarj 11 Bees, February 1 18 Poultry and Pet Stock. Feb. 25 City Beautiful, jEtc.i March 4 Great Cows, March 1 it Paved Highways, March 18 Head Lettuce, March 25 Silo. Ftc. April 1 l."ituiii', April (i j Asparagus, Ktc. April 15 Grapes, Ktc, Afril 2?3 Drug Garden, April 29 3 Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Ktc, May 0, 1920 Water Powers, May 18 Irrigation, May 20 Mining, May 27 Land, Irrigation, Etc., June Floriculture, June 10 Hop, Cabbage, Ktc, June 17 Wholesaling and Jobbing June 24 Cucumbers, Ktc., July 1 Hogs, July 8 Goats. July 15 Schools, Ktc. July 22 Sheep, July 20 National Advertising, August 5 Seeds. Ktc, August 12 Livestock. Aumut ( ) Grain and Grain Products, Aug USt 2G Manufacturing, September 2 Automotive Industries, Sept. 0 Woodworking, Etc, Sept. Xt Paper Mills, Sept. 23, 1926 (Back copies of the Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore t;oii Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address. Current copies 5 cents.) 0 MORE US M GIRLS UIIB CLUBS FOB THE SEEM DISTRICT The Club Members of the Salem District Have Some Ad vantages That Are Pointed Out by a Man Who Was a Boy Club Member Some Marion Countx Boys Who Have Done Well With Sheep ARE VOU B00O r EARS BEHIND TH E TIMES? THIS; WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That the Salem district is one of the best countries in the world for the raising of medium wool sheep; that every farm in this section ought to have some sheep; that they provide two crops a year the wool and the lambs; that besides this the sheep pay for their keep in rendering the lands free from weeds and in fertilizing it; that sheep breeding is carried on here with the minimum of cost and care, with green grass the year through; that the young man here who will get some; land and some sheep will always have a bank account, and that the Willamette valley ought to become known as the home of pure bred sheep, as it is now famed the wide world over for its pure bred cattle? (The Salem district should have more hoys' and girls clubs carry ing lamb and sheep projects; niany more; scores and hundreds of them. Homer C. Bray, a stu cpt of the Oregon Agricultural col lege, and a former club member, last year pointed out the advan tages of lamb and sheep projects for club members in the Salem district. His article ts reprinted below. But since that time there have been large additions to the prize money offered by the Ore gon state fair board to club mem bers. Doth Eldon Fox and Lyle Rains, whom he mentioned, made ber3 arc scarce. :; -tiood Prize Money The state fair board has. appro priated 53,300 to be offered s prizes to livestock club members. tVith the advantages at band and competition in the sheep classes a little slack, the opportunities for rljeep club members in JVlarion and Polk counties are great! However, only purebred stock of the highest quality will stand a chance to win as the older club members have the best sheep available. A pro ject should never be undertaken with a scrub purebred or grade. r rom personal experience as a Salem is the center of the greatest corn district In the Pa cific northwest. ' Salem is tho center of the let honey district in the United States Salem is the center of a great apple growing district, which ex cels in several commercial varie ties of apples. Salem is the center of tho best black j: raspberry district In" this country. Red .raspberries also do as well here as elsewhere in this country, or any other. . fair. Following is the Bray ar ticle:) , Twin ewe Bhrop&hire lambs, undefeatefl in the 1022 fair circuit. Exhibited by Floyd T. Fox, Silver ton, Oregjon. to keep their ewe lambs. They we're bid as-high as 912 per head for fall 'delivered ewe lambs, and he said that breeding ewes will be higher, according to his view point. , It is needless to go back over the same lines of past years in de scribing why every farm should have a farm flock, to those read ers who have sheep, but there are bo many who should be interested who have had no experience with sheep, and to those some benefit may accrue. Sheep ,l1illic Waste Every .farmer should, have a farm' flock of sheep. The great thing is that they will utilize the waste. Without doubt, every farm should have at least a few shetp, to utilize the waste, and with a little extra care his sheep Let this be our slogan: sheep on every farm. A few ; FLOYD' T.t FOX. Silvertbn, Or., July 2&', 1926. You Are More Than That Far - Behind if You Do Not Keep Some Sheep j Editor Statesman: j ine avocation of sheen him- uauury is as oia as time itself.! It was more than nineteen hundred ean good winnings again at the 1925 club member the writer would like to encourage club members to take a number of projects. Sheep club members should extend to other projects, so that their knowledge of farm animals will not be limited. Club members who ave never raised sheep should give them a trial, as tho sheep project is ono of the most inter esting and educational club proj-i ccts. HOMER C. BRAY. Corvallis, Or. July 28, 1925. . BUT I SEP WILL DOUBLE FIRST YEAR. AND KEEP ON DOUBLING (Mr. Fox, though a yiung man. I vMr. ha .v . . is a very successful sbeefp breeder, shepherds saw the Star of Beth- . - ' . a leuem mat neraided the first glad 1400 head; though tha number tidings of a Savior's birth and in breeding stack. He ;has some I Galilee toot tho - L rralo wo ' I . ' . - " WW " vvia.-1 ol nis people, the lamb as ! the i.uua 01 c it ix an resi&ierea onrop- child he had lovpd smre, uxioras ana Loirset sheep, 1 eleven hundred ana ne exntbTts at all the fairs in both the northwest and California fair circuits. !On Tuefeday he sent a car load of sjheep to be exhibited at Vancouver, B. C. He has nevei exhibited at affair at which he did not carry away some ribbons. At some fairs he carries away a good share of the ribbons, .in his class es. Ed.) Going back years we find David, the sweet singer of Israel. a keeper of his father's sheen, of wnom tnis testimonial was given: c 1a tuuaiug in DiayinfirJ a mighty valiant man and a man of war; prudent in matters and a comely person; and the Lord is with him." Still further back, six centuries, and we find another framer: of Henry Porter of Aumsville, Pioneer and one of the Success ful Breeders of Sheep in Tms Sectioon, Advises That Every Farm Shoud Have Some Sheep Give Your Boy or Girl a Sheerj or Two An Example of Profits H. C. Porter of j Aumsville, pio-, the next spring you will have a neer and successful sheep breeder in the Salem district, j known f a- r iliarly as Henry Porter, and looked up to by all bis neighbors. in a former article in the Slogan paes of The Statesman, gave the following example: 'Suppose two neighbors with farms of eual size have each laid up a little money after harvesting their crops in the fall. A loans a KARbSTEIWER FOR MORE AND BETTER : SHEEP AWD FOR FEWER AND BETTER 00G - i One of Our Most Successful Breeders and Dealers Believes history, who won a youthful rep- frifnd so at 8 Pr cent- At thc utation as an honest, truthful and e .f 12 montns ne 1fas a Drofit careful shepherd ot his father's Sheep. Sold Into slavery by! his brothers. feo later becamo i the foremost man in the Egyptian empire and saved his people; in on his investment of S6.40. B takes 80 and buys 10 ewes at $7 per head and a buck for $10. Thc l-fxt spring those will have 10 !a:nbs and if Shropshires. which field of clover on which to pas ture the flock during lambing time. Thc sheep should be tak en off the field early in April to irsure a good crop of hay. Feed them all the clover hay they need during the winter months, but would not advise the feeding of cheat, oat. wheat or other coarse hay as those varieties might cause thc sheep to have tho staggers. people out or bondage and ! be came the great law giver pon whose writings the law of everv Their Flocks and Especially, for an Increase in the ,12 anT? r!! . fv 13 the time of famine. Tho .hmi. a" &ooa breeders; they are more of the priest of Mldian led I hisj,lkely to have 15 or more Iambs Our Farmers Should Also Work for the Improvement of ThAir Fifties anH PcnoriullO fni on I "'viujjv i ibbvb me wsoi wi inc tnc uaiiiu OIIUUIU I Pretty love story, yon wish, read Be Saved , Karl Steiwer, of Jefferson, Ore- m .I . 1 r 1 I tUU, WIS Ul lOU U1U31 succetKiui of the sheep breeders and dealers f the Salem district paid In the Slogan itiiue of 1924 that the .heep industry In the Willamette alley is more stable and, more prof itable f than it is in eastern Oregon (and he has had sheep in eastern Oregon); that a man' with heep can rent stubble fields in the Willamette valley and other ccod sheep pasture, too, for eround 15 cents a sheep a month 4 aad that this is cheaper than' -Jcgeplng. eastern Oregon sheep il'rders with all their expenses at! S0 a month salary for each herd-; I Last year, Mr. Steiwer wrote jte following for the annual sheep Slogan number: L ' MWHh woor.from 40 to 50 cents 1 per poand and iambs from 10 to t-fctsVpr-pound' the past year Inaa.beenery grayfying to most isheep owners in the valley Like r previous i years since 1921, sheep ; have been the oer crop. In apite l.oC the high regard farmers have f, "or sheep, there is great danger :of - a material' decrease in flocks i ; unless a larger percentage of this ; pears and next rear's ewe lamb i f crop. J ..saved' lor breeding nnr. I .poses, oi itacnaei as she came with her father's sheep. If it is ! an example of steadfast character you seek, read the story of Job, me snepnera or 13,000 sheep. So on back through all i h. A Bud Practice Lam .year many sneep own ers kept some ewe lambs till spring, then the best ones found I cycle of human history until in their way to market. This partly ot Gene four thousand ing last spring and partly due to first parents we are told oil his me suortage or tunas to carry on-Bon mat wniie Cain was a tiller other farm enterprises. The re-f the soil Abel was a keeper of sun nas oeen mat tne sheep, I sneep wumc not young iasi year, are just 1 mention oat a few of ' the a year older and no yearlings are Prominent characters of the 'past available to take the places of who have been associated with the inevitable loss. our favorite industry. To dwell "Kastern and southern Oregon upon all as found In sacred his- naye aiso Deen neavy iamb sell- ry alone would fill a volume, ers, so there is no outside source but. what I havo mentioned sim- from, which t.o increase our breed- Ply shows the sheep industry to ing ewes. Since It follows ' that be the most ancient and time- we musi raise our own ewes. It nonorea or all, and if you have vould. seem to be a good, business not yet become a keeper of sheep, to, try to improve them in some1 you are at the least calculation parueuiar.j we nave in the past I i'uu years behind the times given considerable attention to I A SHEEP BREEDER. mo uiuuon uuiB, oecause tnatioaiem, ore., Jaly 28, 19Z9 was waere, me prom lay. Increase the Fleece : "Inasmuch as the next, two or three years will ?see a large rfer centage , of our flocks replaced with something younger, why aot replace with a better wooled sheep? With nlore care in the fceiectloa ot rams aad the proper culling , out of the of fspringT It should be, easy o increase fte Salem is the fine flax and linen center of - the North American continent. ' i I " Salem is the filbert center of the United States. It is the! cen ter of the. only district iai this country where the filbert las a commercial proposition made success. can be Many of my ewes raised twins this season, and one raised three big nice lambs. At shearing time those 11 head of sheep will each shear from eight to 10 pounds of wool or more. Eiht founds each at 35 cents per pound this year's market price would bring 330.80. In the fall the lambs should weigh 75 pounds each aud if sold to the butcher at 8 cents per pound would bring for the 10 head 60. This added to thje 130.80, the prie obtained for the wool, would make a total of $90.80 for the or iginal $80 invested by(B. An5 the fertility of his jioil j has. been strengthened instead of diminish ed, "had he sold a crop raised from the land." j Expert Testimony "Agreeable to request I again offered my testimony favoring the falsing of more sheep ! by tho far mers of the Willamette valley. It Is unnecessary for me iat this time t. try and prove t$ the readers of The Statesman that sicep arc by far the most profltablo livestock that can be kept.ojn the farm, for this fact has bepn thoroughly demonstrated tim4 and again. I nonld therefore uirge farmers to keep , more sheep. Keep sheep if you can keep only Are head, but keep as many as you can well care for. A field jof summer fal- uw sown io winter J wheat will pake excellent pasture for sheep time. March this wfeat durina lamhinr I February I or early field should bA sown to clover, sowing the clover uiututisi runt n lka rn,. mm woeaf without V A lamentable Fact "It is a lamentable fact that owing to tnc high price of lambs in the Portland market, many of our sheep raisers sell off their ewe lambs along with the others as soon as they are large enough for the market, therefore making it difficult for one desiring to get a start of sheep on the farm to find young ewes for sale. But do not let this discourage you. Buy i . . . u icw oia ewes, wmcn you can find for sale at a reasonable price in most any flock, and you will be surprised to see how a small band of old ewes will thrive on good pasture and how soon you will have a nice start of good young sneep. For the Boy or Girl "Buy your small boy or girl a sheep or two and let them see Dow the investment will double and keep on doubling, and there by instill into the lives of tho boys ana gins a love for farm life T.- i ""f oueey yes. Keep more sneep. Salem Is thc loganberry center of the world. The loganberry in- ausiry in a commercial way had its birth here. Salem is the greatest gooseber ry country known. Oregon cans more gooseberries than any other state in the Uniori, mostly grown in this district. Salem Is the Oregon walnut cen ter. Our walnuts' are of better quality and command hleher prices than the famous California product. Salem is the center of the great' est strawberry district In this Country. ' Oregon leads all the States in tnmiam ti , J I .3 w. VMBWUV1I1QB fcarrowin;n3 canned and put Jntfi barrels. Fditor Statesman: The ease with which sheep are produced and thc comparatively small cost of production make them a most convenient and prof itabel project for club members. There is room on nearly every farm for at least a few sheep, and they are easily carecf for. Club members 'or. prospective club members will do well to carry a sheep project. Boys and girls in Marion and Polk counties have a decided ad vantage over other club members in thc state because they have easy access to state fairs. This is a double advantage for livestock club members, especially those owning sheep, because less hand ling is required, and tho animals are in better condition when they reach the fairgrounds. Club members in Marion and Polk counties have excellent op portunities to procure choice sheep particularly of the medium wool breeds, as some of the foremost flocks on the coast are held in these, two counties. Flock Built Up Quickly The possibilities of sheep as a means of profit are becoming bet ter and more widely understood by club members. It is chiefly tho ambition of ownership that fills a boy wjth the desire to raise an animal, and ownership can well be realized by the boy owning sheep, as a flock is quickly built up. Marion county has some ex cellent examples of how club mem bers have established flocks in a short time. Eldon Fox of Silver ton entered club work four years ago with two ewes. He now has a flock of 20 ' registered Shrop shires worth, approximately 1, 000. Lyle I tains of Salem is another cub member who has made an ex cellent record with sheep. Lyle bought three Shropshire ewes early in 1924. They produced him foar lambs. At the state fair he won enough prizes to buy two more pure bred ewes. He now has a nice flock of 14 pure bred Shrop shires. Other examples of success ful prize winners and flock own ers might be cited. Unsuccessful sheep club mem- Salem, is the mint, center of North America, producing .the best peppermint, oil in the world outside of parts of England and. Syria,, and the most to the acre. The Salem district has produced nearly all the world record, Jersey cows of all time. This is, a great dairying country. , ,-, ; . , .. : . , , 'Salem Is the center and start ing point of the evergreen black berry industry. This i3 the great pie berry of commerce. All the great sweet cherries of commerce were originated in tho Salem district, excepting the Napo leon or Royal, Ann. , Salem is great pear center. Pears are more . nearly Immune from pests here than elsewhere in all the worhl. A FEW SHEEP ON EVERY FARM HERF ARE BETTER THAIV 10fl PER CEfD TPROF0 One Reason Is That They Thrive on What Would Largcli Be Wasted Without ThemThe Hot Days That Cul Down i Our Wheat Yield This Season Did No Harm to the Sheep Industry Registered Shropshires Consider ed Best for Our Section "i ' Editor Statesman: ing. I see no reason why the sheep naise more sneep and cut down ? business should ever bo overdone We have tried several breeds of overhead. Our sheep are our hired help, but we don't pay them they pay us. The many showers we had this spring and early sum mer made the grain look as if fall wheat would go 4 0 to 50 bushels per acre, but in the late summer came a tew hot days which caused the heads to not fill. J Tb8 farm ers are now reporting that they are getting but from 14 to 20 bushels per acre on most of the farms. As many summer fallow ed the year before, one will have to divide the bushels for thc two years. This leaves not even cnougn to pay tne expenses to say nothing about two. years tax es and interest.. The sheepmen suffered no loss on account ot our late warm weather, as by the time the grass began to dry up most all the mut ton Iamb3 were sold and the breeding ewes do well on the dryer grass. Most of those who keep over lambs prepare by sow ing rape, alfalfa, sweet clover or even green corn has been one of our best summer greea feeds. As our population Is gradually increasing and the ranges deplet sheep. We like -the registered Shropshires the best by far. F. A. DOERFLER, ' ' , Farm Advisor, First National Bank, Salem. Mr. Doerfler finds an annual in above, is the club leader for the First National Bank sheep club. This la the largest sheep club in the state. There are a number of other sheep and lamb clubs in tho Salem district. "-but -there are not nearly ,enough of them. They should bo organized In every farm district in the Willamette viw Mr. Doerfler contends, correctly, thatfa1 few1 sheep ion etery farm are a 100 per cent profit nroposi- tion.. for they thrive almost en tirely upon tho things on the farm that would otherwise go1 ttfSvaste. Mr. Doerfler ; ' finds H annual In crease in the number of; sheep on the farms of ,the Salem trade dis trict.. But he is firmly convinced that the increase ought to be -much faster; that, in fact, the In dustry can scarcely be overdone here; at least to the limit of pro Tiding for the consumption of all wasie on our farms. Ed.V " vy.fc-! nnaio uq oar larms. Ed.) j I I ' . I i! ill I - , a-',.;;-'. I i ' .-"-V - I - i! Blanks : that : are SSTI -wk overL115 legal blanks suited to most any business transactions.' We may have just the form you are looking for i I saving as compared to made to order forms? "S for al biS Some of the forms: Contract of Sale. 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