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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1926)
t ' s THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON i , THURSDAY MQRNING JULY 29, 1926 11 ) 'IT One drop of water does not make a waterfall'" One man 8 effort will not build a vi AND TRIE mmunity How great this community may grow, how prosperous and complete it may fXKlT? (m AIT on1 All fnJ OWF become, depends upon us our willingness and our'desire to work together viNLi lll J-i clllll x-ULili lylj OMMUM f. STORES Jr A Jl KOil J1ZMG of I TP AKES PAYROLLS WCO lb ii - - WOULD KEEP SHEEP IF HE HAD A FARM i Kay Did Have a Farm, id He Did Keep Sheep, arid at a Profit Oil Hon. T. H. Kay, Oregon's treas urer, hotter known In every nook ; nd orner of this commonwealth a: Tom Kay, has many interests, ln-riles being the keeper of the state's strong box, with fiscal transactions of many millions an nually. He is the president of the Oregon Linen Mills, Inc.. building Salem's second linen luill. He is a leading Salem prop erty holder, and Interested in many large and small enterprises here. He is manager of the Sa lem Woolen Mills, and has been for many years, being also its ma jority stockholder. This is the seventh Slogan year in which, in the annual edition devoted to the heep industry, Mr. Kay has been interviewed and has repeated hi3 advice that the thing for the Wil lamette valley farmers to do is to raise medium wooled sheep, like the Shropshire; Oxfords, Hamp rhircs, etc., or crosses of Merinos with Cotwolds or Lincolns And raise more of them. For every farmer to keep some sheep. That they, are the best paying thing on the farm in this valley. Before the war wool was 15 to 10 cents a pound. The prices were up around 50 cents during the war. But they never went back, after the war, to the prices rr near the price3 that prevailed in 1914 and the years before that. The prices for valley wools have this year been as high as 35 tents a pound, running from 30 to 35 cents The eastern prices this year have ranged from 8 to U cents a pound less than for last year. Last year at this time the prices were from 30 to 40 cents a jflftihd, and at this time, for each 4f the two previous years they were around 35 cents. The wool prices persist.. They will persist. And th mutton prices stay up, and sheep are selling now from ?!) to $12 a head, and lambs are s to 10 cents a pound or higher. Tl.ere is good money in sheep breeding, and this will be true year after year. An Illustration Mr. Kay does not own a farm now. If he owned one he would keep sheep, and when .he did own a farm he kept sheep, and kept them at a profit. He was inter ested in a 400 acre farm in the .alem district. They kept 100 sheep to start with. They were Shropshire ewes. They got 150 lambs a year, and sold them at $1350 annually for the original Dock, and sold the wool at $350 OREGON IS MAKING A G000 GROWTH EACH YEAR IN HER NUMBER OF SHEEP ! This State Has Passed the Two Million Mark, But She Will Not Have Enough Sheep Till She Passes All the Rest, including Texas The United States Produces Only About Half the Wool She Consumes The number of sheep in the i 1 nited States is about half what it should be. to supply the wool needed for the factories of the country. There is a slight natur al growth in number, but it is not as rapid as it ought to be; not more rapid, perhaps, than suffici ent to keep pace with the increased demand for woolens due to in crease in population. There cannot be an ideal condi tion in this respect till the number increases so largely, together with the increase in average weight of fleece, that our people shall pro duce all the wools our mills need -till the United States becomes kdt sufficient in wools. The official estimate cf the number of sheep in the United Vtatcs on January 1st, 1925. Match seems to be the latest of ficial figure, published in the ear Book of the "United States department of Agriculture, Is as Jti'Iiows: 37.223.000 for 1923: f:ih, 300,000 for 1.124; 39.134,000 for 1925. Oregon Shows Up Wqll ' ; For Oregon the official esti mate was 1.880,000 for 1923; !, vi 6.000 for 1924. and 2.012.000 for 1923. There arc only a few uatea in the 2.000,000 class with regon. They are California with -.R21.000. and Ohio, Montana. Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and Idaho, with over 2.000,000 each, Texas is the only state in the 3, 000.000 class, having 3,246,000 Sht-Pp. 7 .The Increase .. (a uxmtyt. - of to $400 a year. They made more clear money on their sheep than they did on all the rest of the farm. Their returns for lambs and wool were dearly' all profit, for they needed very little atten tion and they improved the poten tial value of the land for other products. The lambs came twins in sufficient number to keep Op the proportion of 150 Iambs to 100 ewes. The Wool Is "Velvet" Mr. Kay has always insisted and he insists now that the sheep breeding industry would be a pay ing agricultural line if they did rot produce any wool at all that the wool of the sheep is "velvet" to the breeders of sheep That they would pay fc better than hogs if they had - no f wooj ; because sheep fatten themselves, and keep the. land free from weeds and also, help in- keeping up the fertility of the soil. He thinks every fartner in the Salem district should keep some sheep and that they should get into the meHldm -woolen' Brt-c'dtf; and tlat there is no other one tl ing that will do more towards rjaking this district solid and prosperous. Some Satisfaction There is some satisfaction in seeing your advice taken and to witness those taking it profiting by it. This is a satisfaction that ers of the Willamette valley who now comes' to Mr. Kay. The farm are getting them. There is a 1 ave not heretofore kept sheep substantial boom in sheep. It is a healthy boom. It will not be overdone as long as there is room for another sheep given the range and feed and attention that sheep deserve. Sheep fatten themselves, if giv- sheep in those three years was above the average for Oregon. Production of Wool The estimated production of wool in the United States in 19 24 was 238,530,000 j pounds of floece and 43,800,000 pounds of pulled v,ool. The lattei- is mostly from animals slaughtered. The wocl imported into the United States for the fiscal year which ended June 30th, 1925. was worth ap proximately $130,000,000. The United States and Canada stands at the head of the wool consuni- which bees manufacture honey, 's ing countries of the world. inisecreted y nearJy every species 1924 we. consumed 538,000,000 pounds. France comes next to the United States, Great Britain third, and Germany fourth in the matter q wool consumption. The uuraber of sheep In this country exceeds that of any other country except China ami Australia. In 1S24 Argentina; produced 280, 000,000 poumlsl .New Zealand 180,000.000, British South Africa 19J, 000,000 Australia which holds first place has to its credit b50.000.000 pounds The wool im ported into the United States comes largely from Kuropc, Argentjie and Australia. Argentine supplied 32,000,000 pounds In 1924, Australia 35,000, 000 and Great Britain 69,000,000 pounds. The wool crop of the world has quintupled in the last one hun dred years while the cotton crop is twenty times century, sq, , greater than a Snapebot of Salem Woolen Mills en half a chance. With hogs, the farmer must Spend nearly as much in fattening as he gets for the increase in weight drie to fat tening. It is largely so with cat tle. Mr. Kay has nothing agaiiiBt hogs. The boom in hogs here te a healthy one, and it should be en couraged, also the production of more fat cattle, along with dairy ing, etc. But no farmer should be without sheep, for they occupy a special place of their own, and their wool and mutton returns are practically all profit. There is a fact that ought to be mentioned in connection wita the management of the Salem Woolen Mills by Tom Kay; he keeps them running. Some read ers do not realize that at times tl.ey must run at a loss not so very long since there was :a straight period of six months in HENRY FORD'S NEWSPAPER TELLS DF THE VIRTUES OF THE HOHEY BEE A Wasted Sugar Supply That Might Be Conserved With Benefits to the Men Engaged Directly in the Industry and to the Fruit Growing and Other Lines of Endeavor on the Land Bees Board Themselves and Work for Their Keepers at the Same Time J (The current issue of Henry Ford's newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, dated July 31, con tains an article, headed "A Wast ed Sugar Supply," by C. W. Scott, that is a well written description of the life and labors of the hoi ey bee, and well worth reading, especially in the Salem district, which, among many things in this land of diversity is a fruit dis trict and will become increasingly outstanding as such. The follow ing is the full test of the article:!) The honeybee produces in ah entire lifetime no more than ia spoonful of honey. Think, ?then, of the countless billions of these little workers who annually spend their lives in producing over 250, 000,000 pounds of nature's most delicious sweet. This may seem like a tremendous amount, but it is safe to say that it is Utile more than a tenth of the amount which could be produced. Wlien we consider that it s by no means unusual for an apiary of one hundred colonies or hives of bees to produce mote than 20 tons of honey, gathered within a radius of a few miles, and that vast areas of country con tain no bees whatever, we begin to realize that tons upon tons pf sugar are being lost annually for the lack of the agency to gather it. ' i Nectar, the material from of flower in larger or smaller quantities. Flavor and color afe determined by the particular! plant on which the bees work, for bees will seldom work on more than one kind of flower at the same time. Unfortunately, the nectar soon disappears and is lost, the honeyoce alone being capable of collecting this sugar supply for the use of man. It is estimated that the amount annually secret ed this way exceeds many times Che amount of cane sugar con sumed. 1 Honey is the oldest oL ill known sweets, and until a few hundred years ago was the most common Sweet substance avail able for human food. In early times men found that honey de posited by bees in hollow logs was a delicious food. Eventually they began to hunt for these bee trees and appropriate their con- tent8,.aoa BtUI ltet they found which there was a constant loss in operating, owing to tlie low prices of the manufactured arti cles. But the Salem Woolen Mills kept right on running.; Our Sheep Population There are about a million and three-quarters sheep in the state of Oregon, and there should be three millions and more, j Thesan nual wool production of i western Oregon is about 2,000,000 pounds, and of eastern Oregon about 12,000,000. The (Merinos are- generally kept in eastern Ore gon, but -the medium ; wooled sheep are better for western Ore gon, making a better mutton and beting larger and better adapted to our climatic conditions here. Our increase in the Salem district is mostly on the farmi, and that is where it should continue to be foand. it possible to maintain permanent abodes for the bees, so that their precious honey might be more readily available. The i ancient Greeks were well acquainted with honey and its use holds a promi nent place in their writings. The honey of Hymettus is I World fa mous and still much sought after. But it remained for! the bee keepers of the past century. to de velop apiculture to a ! science whereby production on a large scale was possible. Today bee keeping is a highly developed pro fession, taught in the leading ag-i ricultural colleges. It produces for its followers incomes equal to those of other lines of agriculture, liecause of its requirement that large amount of time! be spent ir. the open air and the absence of any strenuous labor, the' keeping of bees has been adopted by many disabled World war veterans, and in fact has brought health and provided a means of livelihood for D:any forced by failing' health to seek a new line of endeavor. Few locations in the United states are unfavorable to; the pro duction of honey on a more or less largo scale, although the clover regions of the north central states are usually considered the best. Surprising as it may seem, many bees are kept in cities and villages, on roofs of buildings and Kefp Tour Momt ia Oregon Buy Monument Made at Salem Oregon CAPITAX MONUMENT AI. WOEKS J. O. Jonee A Co., Proprietors All Kinds of Monumental Work Factory and Office: i 2210 8. Com'l.. Opposite I. 0. O. F. Cemetery, Box 21 Phone 689. 8ALEM; OREGON Oakland Pohti a c i i Sales and Service VICK BROS. High Street at Trade SEND M COPY EAST in back yards. They produce fair returns in honoy in addition to providing their owners an inter esting hobby. Among the bee men it is a common expression that the bees board themselves and work for us at the same time. The pollination of fruit trees, clovers and other plant life is an other very important duty which bees perform. Th yellow dust which we see on a bee's legs is not honey, as some suppose, but polen which is fed to the young bees. In passing from flower to flower, much of this pollen is distributed by the hairlike cover ing of the boe' body, in this way pollinating or fertilizing the flow ers. Were it not for their un conscious accomplishments in this way the fruit crop of the country would only be a small fraction of what it is; in fact, horticulturists are so well aware of this fact that the owners of large orchards em ploy beekeepers to take their bees among the fruit trees while they are in bloom, thereby increasing the yield and quality of the fruit. Contrary to current opinion, bees have no desire to cause trouble andvthey seldom sting un less molested. Were this not true, professional beekeepers would Ue unable to work with them for hours unprotected by prloves and often without even a veil for the face. Among the uninitiated it is commonly thought that bees know their, keeper. This is not true. They do recognize fear and ner vousness, however, and this ac counts for a sting for a blow struck at them, while if apparent ly unnoticed they will cease their investigations and fly away about their business. They are busy l'ttje creatures and would much rather be at work, though if need arise they are ready to sacrifice their lives for the defense of the colony. Unlike most insect life, exist ence of the honeybee as an indi vidual is impossible. The colony hA necessary for the perpetuation of the race. Tho honey which a bee stores is consumed by gene rations yet unbonu for the normal fe of a honeybee in the busy seifHOTft'feeldbm exceeds six weeks. The queen, who is the mother Jf the colony, lays the eggs which Wait) tain the large force of work ers; as many as four thousand a day being not unusual at times. This is her life work. Seldom does she leave the hive, food be ing carried to her and fed her by the workers. The workers, who are really un developed females, do all the work. They build the comb, gath- H. F. Woodry & Son Auctioneer Sales handled to complete satisfac tion of owner. Years of exper . ience. Store 271 N. Commercial Office Telephone 75 Electric Supplies FIXTURE INSTALLING WIRING VTBBERT & TODD Ferry & High Sts. RADIO LIGHTING MOTOR SERVICE GIDEON-STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of VTNEGAR SODA WATER Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 20 Ore. DUNSMOOR BROTHERS 2218 State. Telephone 2230 Painters and Decorators Interior or Exterior Work We spociaUza on Interior work. Let na anew yon some work we hare done.' D(XIE HEALTH BREAD Ask Yeuf Grocer er the stores, keep the hive clean and feed the young. Untiring in their ceaseless labor, they ac tually work themselves to death. Worn out. with their wings fray ed and' toru. they die usually in a vain attempt to return to the hive with their last load of nectar. During the summer a number of drones, or male bees, are also present in the hive. Iiig, lazy, harmless fellows, their pi-s'nce i tolerated rather than welcomed, for the queen mates but once in a lifetime. With the advent of cold weather these useless mem bers of the colony arc driven out aisd allowed to starve, or lss fre quently are killed outright. There are still some people who are skeptical as to the purity of honey. As a matter of fact, man has- never been able to manufac ture or imitate so much as an ounce of comb honey. Even were this possible, the laws pertaining to adulterations are such that the little difference between the cost of cheap svrups or sugar and that of the genuine product would easily discourage any such prac tice. ... Honey as a food might, wU be more generally used. Its cost has never been prohibitive and it is the purest of all sweets, retaining enough of the perfume of the flowers from which it comes to have a distinctive flavor unlike that of any other article of diet, making it a food to be prized. Doctors are fast coming to real ize its value and advise people to use it in place of the cheaper and less wholesome sweets of which some are so fond. Sufferers from c-'abetes or serious digestive dis turbances often can eat honey when they are unable to touch any other form of sugar. Being in reality a predigested food, hon ey is readily assimilated by the system. Children; who naturally crave sweets, can eat all the honey they want with no harmful re sults. In fact, modern doctors recommend it as an ideal child ien'8 food. In Europe the use of honey in cooking is much better known tl.an in America, although at present hundreds of carloads are used in our larger bakeries and progressive housewives have found that some of the finest cakes and cookies are greatly im proved by its use. It combines well with almost any receipt and imparts a delicate flavor of dis tinctive quality. Its use in this respect can be much increased. CAPITAL CITY CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY BUTTER-CUP BUTTER "Known for its QUALITY" Buyers of Best Grade Cream Our Method: Co-operation Our Ideal: The Best Only 137 South Commercial Street Phone 299 Is Your Well Properly Lined?. Use our sanitary well pipe, that keeps out surface water, and lets only deep ground water in. Made of strong materials and reasonable in "price. OREGON ' GRAVEL COMPANY Hood at Front Street Salem SHIP BY SALEM NAVIGATION COi . STEAMER "NORTHWESTERN" f OPERATING ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE Handling Merchandise and Carload Shipments - Between SALEM and PORTLAND and Way Landings SCHEDULE r . t ' j r ln PORTLAND 6:00 A, M. Sunday, Tuesdays and Thurndayn r Leate SALEM 0:00 A. M.- Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - , Care SUPPLIES DOCK ' PORTIiAKD Phone EAST 3871 Various candies, in wliich hon ey is combined with nut and fruit, have' recently appeared on the market. These have mel with the approval of all who have tried t'lem, and this superiority over thfT cheaper glucose combinations cannot bo questioned. With the preseut trend toward the elimination of waste and the conservation of our natural re sources, Americans might well look, toward honey, as one of the great natural food "supplies and one which is being utilized to only a small fraction of "its possibili ties. Here nature has provided a potential source of great quanti ties of sugar which may be had Tor the taking. All that man must do is to supply the medium whereby it can he collected. The busy little bee is in all the world the only agency which can fulfill this mission. (There is an assertion In the above article that perhaps ought to be explained. It is like this: "Few locations in the United States are unfavorable to the pro duction of honey on a more or less large scale, although the clov er regions of the north central states are generally considered the best." No doubt the writer, C. V. Scott, knows this statement is not correctly applied to the red clov er districts. The honeybee can DEMAND "Marion Butter" The Best Moro Cows and Better Cows Is the Crying Need Marion Creamery; & Produce Co. Salem, Oregon Phone 2422, V VtfELDING Ki.ECTRIO ACKTVI-ENK TRACTOR SPROCKETS Tracks etc., built np good as new for less than half price. General welding of all kinds Steel, cast, iron, aluminum etc. An Oppen Weld " Has Always Held REMEMBER THE PLACE 095 MULL. ST. a D. OPPEN T.A.Livesle&;G(j Largest Growers, Shippers and ExpjrlcViof u PACIFIC COAST HOPS 5' UJVJjJ- Offices: Salem, Oregon and San Francisco, California Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. 7- Manufacturers of - - - j BOND LEDGER GLASSINE v "-T Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made" Paper for Your Office Sattionery . t WATER and SAVE THE DIFFERENCE ROUTE YOUR SHIPMENTS ' " s iSHIP, BYTVATER aiid SAVE JHe DIFFERENCES not work in" red clover', excepting in yeafs when aphis cats away part of the clover blossoms. Thi3 Is. because of the fact that the honeybee cannot reach the nectar. But fhd' honeybee can reach Iho nectar of sweet clover bloom; all varieties, -and that carried by nearly every other legume, in cluding the. alfalfa and the vetch es. That is the reason why tho Slogan editor" of The" Statesman constantly boosts for Grimm-alfalfa, Hungarian vetch, Huham clover, and the other sweet clov-er-? These will supply an abund anc of late bee pasture here, and render the Salem district the best bee, country In the' world.- Ed.) Salem is the prune center of tho Pacific northwest, and will stead ily grow to be more so. .: Salem celery takes all the first prizes at national shows, .lieins of higher quality than even the fam ous Kalamazoo celery.; . . Consider what is . claimed for Chiropractic methods and you will-easily realize -what a common sense sci- -ence it is. . It aims,? by re- j moving causes, to elimi nate disease,' and' does bo ' ? successfully. t I Phono for an Appointment - Dr. O. L. Scott, D. C. 256 Nor4th .: H;gh Street Phone 87 or 828-R OIL-0-MATIC What Is It?, 4l see . r THEO. M, BARR Phone 192 I.. B. DTTNSMOOK . - Salem Wicker Furniture ( Man u fact nr ing Co. J I W Sell Strtct Ge&aina Battan Keed Quality Furnitara Sepairinf, Refinighlny, trpholtUrtng " 2218 SUt St., Salem, Oregon 'ST- UcaltU SALEM DOCK and WAREHOUSE 1 FOOT OP COURT STREET : - ; Phone P07 i i r