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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1927)
n THE DAILY STATESMAN dedicates two or more pages each Week in the interests of i one of the fifty-two to a hundred basic industries pf the Salem District. Letters and articles from people with vision are solicited. 1 his is your page. Help mane oaiem grow. s Are Yours ; AlcJ In Making Them Helpful to Your Wonderful City and The Slogan Page aaaawaaaaaaaawam mi , EIGHTH CONSECUTIVE YEAi:r" SOUfJD ADVICE OF FRED W. STEUSLOFF v ; BH flMPLf SUPPLY PF high qualhy beef When We Get Sugar Factories, the Question Will Be Settled . In the Mean Time, a Large Proportion of Our Best A Cuts Must, Come from Beeves Shipped in From Southern and Eastern Oregon and Idaho and Montana 'J (Oo "Wednesday. August 18th of last year, Fred W. Steusloff was Interviewed by a Statesman re presentative at the Salem Rotary club meeting, which he attended. The same afternoon he played a game of goir on the Illihee club course. ,The next forenoon, by the time the ink printing the article on the Slogan pages of The States man was fairly dry, the spirit of Fred vV. Steusloff had taken its flight. to the fields of asphodel be yond the stars. He had gone to bis work at the packing plant as usual on Thursday morning, and Lad ' been suddenly stricken wun the fatal affection of the heart which cut off his useful career in the .prime of life. So the mes sage) below, the result of the inter view of the day before, may be ap propriately called Fred W. Steus ' loft's 'last message on a subject that vitally affects the Salem dis trict and the. whole of the Will amette valley. He was a compet ent judge. . He knew from large experience whereof he spoke. The following is the Interview of a year ago: ) F.;W. Steusloff, who with his brother, W. H. Steusloff. and Curtis B. Cross, is in direct charge of the business of the Valley Pack ing ; company Salem's packing house, told a Statesman reporter yesterday that the Salem district must, do one of two things, in trder to produce an ample supply of : beeves of the highest quality. MULES INCREASING IN OREGON, BUT , HORSES AND CATTLE AHE DECREASING The-Salem District Farmers Can Afford to Gamble on the ; Prospect of a Better Demand for Good Horses Before ' Long, by Producing More Good Colts- There are Too 7 " Many Poor Ones Now The Salem - district ought to raise more horses; good horses. The prices of horses are low now, but they are bound to be higher for good horses; especially good draft horses. The ' Yearbook of the United States-department of agriculture, just issued, shows that Oregon had 225,000' horses on her farms in .1925',; and 214.000 in 1926, and has only 201,000 in 1927. The same j authority shows 18,000 mules in Oregon in 1925. 19,000 In 1926, and 20,000 this year. This authority shows for 1910, ; on the farms of the United States 19,883,000 horses and mules, 15, 840,000 In 1926, and 15,279,000 In 1927. The average value of these animals in 1910 was 1120.20, In 1926 it was 981.46, and this year it is given at $73.32. The value went up to $148.86 in 1920. ' "'Uses for Horses Z There will continue to be uses ' for horses on the .farms of the United States, and those of Ore-J : gon, toO. The horseless age is' . far Ijr the .future. If It ever comes. ' The best judges say the raising of good colts, in the Salem dis trict. Is' a good bet right now. More, farmers ought to be taking advantage of the opportunity to cash in 'on the better prices that are coming, due to the general decrease : In interest in breeding them. J:'" . r. . In the big cities of the. country, some of , the large concerns doing both heavy and light hauling are . returning to the use , of horses. In preference , to employing auto truck. An observing. Salem man making a trip throughout the east recently was. struck by the num ber, of horses, being: used in the big cities for hauling heavy and light loads, , both short and long distances. "The proportion seems to be much larger In some of the great cities than in SalenV and Portland. . (Tho reader will note that the decrease in number of horses and mules on" the farms pf this coun try for, this year, compared. with last year. Is small). v f v. In California the decrease in number has- been much faster than in Oregon." . . .. E. L. Potter, professor of an Raise more alfalfa for feeding them, or establish beet sugar factories, in order to have the beet pulp in helping to finish off the beeves; these two things, and the producing of pure bred beef cattle of the approved breeds and strains. Mr. Steusloff said the markets of this section are now largely supplied with local lambs and mutton, veal, and second class beef, and a few beeves of the higher class But most of the high class beeves come from southern Ore gon, where alfalfa is raised on a considerable scale, especially in Josephine and Jackson counties, and from eastern Oregon alfalfa districts, and from Idaho, where both beet pulp and alfalfa have been available, and from the alfal fa districts of Montana. He said no doubt that the spreading of the Grimm alfalfa will help,' but the, development of a beet sugar industry here will help more in giving us a large sup ply 6f beeves that are necessary to supply the best cuts that are de manded by the high class trade, that demands the choicest meats. Until that time comes, most of the first class beef stock, which a packing house with a reputation to maintain mustenpply, will have to be brought in from the points named, obtained largely from the stock yards in Portland and ship ped to Salem in car lots. imal husbandry of the Oregon Ag ricultural college, is good author ity. He told a Statesman repre sentative in a former Interview that the drawback with horse breeding in the United States is that there have been too many small horses and horses of poor type. These horses have been used. where good draft horses should have been used. Farmers and horsemen have used them because they were cheap and answered the purpose of real horses. Prof. Potter Says: "A great many horses at the present time are old and figures show that fewer colts were raised within the last year than In prev ious years. The stallion registra tion board figures for the United States also show that there has been about ten per cent decrease in the number of stallions stood for public service. This decrease is particularly marked In the State of Oregon, where there has been a decrease in the number of stallions stood for public service within the last few years. Since a large proportion of the draft horses are quite old at the present time, and there are prob ably enough colts to replace the old horses, the gradual Increase in price that will take place must take place because of a better quality of horses and because there Is a decrease in the number of horses raised. Horse breeders must follow the practice of eliminating the com mon types of horses and breed only the best mares to the best stallions. 1 Cattle Figures Down The number , of cattle In the United States ,1s decreasing, as well as the number of horses and mules. The Yearbook quoted above gives the number for 1925 at 61.996,000, for 1926 at 59,148, 000,' and forj the present year at 57,521,000. " - For Oregon the same authority gives the number " of cattle : for 1925 at 796.000, for 1926 at 716. .000, and for this year, at 687,000. A bis decrease, due In large part to the decrease In number of beef cattle on the ranges.. There is certainly no good excuse for any decrease In number of dairy cattle, V - I . Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman (Also In Weekly Statesman) (With a few possible changes) Drug Garden, May 6. Loganberries, October 7, 1926 Sugar Industry, May 12. Prunes, October 14 Dairying, October 21 Flax, October 28 Filberts, November 4 Walnuts. November 11 Strawberries. November 18 Apples, November 25 Raspberries. December s Mint, December 9 Beans, Etc., December 16 Blackberries, December 23 Cherries. December 30 Pears. January 6, 1927 Gooseberries. January 13 Corn, January 20 Celery, January 27 , Spinach, Etc., February 3 Onions, Etc., February 10 Potatoes, Etc., February 17 Bees. February 24 Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 3 City Beautiful, Etc.. March 10 Great Cows. March 17" Paved Highways, March 24 Head Lettuce, March 31 Silos, Etc.. April 7 Legumes, April 14 Asparagus, Etc., April 21 Grapes, Etc., April 28 THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That Salem has become an important live stock center, through the building 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 live stock; that the farmers of the Salem district ought to raise more and mroe 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 farming methods that will thus be encouraged; and that this is the very best farming and fruit growing and mixed farming section in the whole 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? especially in the Salem district. In fact, the number ought to be in creased ten fold. SEP TALK EOR 60,000 READERS Farmers of the Salem Dist rict Should Keep More and More Sheep This Issue of The Statesman goes to about 60.000 readers; with a circulation of over 12,000, mostly in the trading district of Salem. The annual Sheep Slog an number was August 4th, con taining many excellent articles In favor of sheep breeding In this trict. This issue will be read by thousands who did not read that number. So, for the benefit of the thousands of new readers, a representative article in that Is sue is reprinted below; and it will do a lot of the old readers good to reread the article:) Hawkins & Roberts, leading Salem brokers and builders and owners- of down town property. do not confine their operations to the city itself. They believe a prosperous country is neces sary to maintain a prosperous and growing city. So they ex tend their operations to the own ership and development of farms in the Salem district. The fol lowing is the result of a talk of a Statesman reporter with Harry H. Hawkins yesterday, on the matter of the importance of sheep for this section, in which Mr. Hawkins is very enthusiastic. LB. DUjrSMOO. Salem Wicker Furnltar Maauf actarlng Co. Wa Bell Diraca . G0uin Battaa &d Quality . . ' Fura4 tor , ; Btlrlng, BafiniBhing, UpboIttrlnjc iX Stat SU, Saiain. OrB Hunt's Quality Fruits v Hunt Brothers Packing : , .; Company v Canned Fruits and' . Vegetables ... . i , Mala Office: . f 2 Pine : Street. San - Francisco California , .. ...4 i r Canneries v " ; ' California Hayward, Can Jose, Loi Gatoa, Exeter ' Oregon Salem, McMInnville, ..Albany : :.. t r ' Washington Jfayallup, Sumner Water Powers, May 19. Irrigation. May 26. Mining. June 2. Land, Irrigation, etc., June 9. Floriculture, June 16. flops. Cabbage, etc., June 23. Wholesaling, Jobbing. June 30. Cucumbers, etc-, July 7. Hogs, July 14. Goats, July 21. Schools, July 28. Sheep, August 4. Seeds, August 11. National Advertising. Aug. 18. Livestock, August 25. Grain & Grain Products, Sept. 1 Manufacturing, Sept- 8. Automotive Industries, Sept. 15 Woodworking, etc.. Sept. 22. Paper Mills. Sept. 29. (Back copies of the Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore gon Statesman are -on hand. They are for sale at 10 cents ach, mailed to any address. Current copies 5 cents. and in which field he. is doing a vast amount of good; leading a movement that means millions an nually to this valley: The average grain farmer should raise clever for many rea sons. It is one of the best means of maintaining the fertility of the soli and is a splendid legume to use in crop rotation. A small floc.k of sheep on every farm Is a great advantage to the clover rais er. The presence of the sheep In sures additional fertilizer on the land. Clover is generally raised as a seed crop, except in the case of the dairy farmer who raises it for hay. The sheep keep the- first growth clover clipped and permit the second growth to seed. Rape and Clover A great many farmers are now planting English rape with tho clover and sheeping the crop, heav ily during the summer months. The sheep's feet keep the soil from crusting and insures the good mulch necessary to hold moisture in dry hot weather. This results In a much better stand of seed-elover, and the sheep aid in fertilizing the soil. Four to five sheep may be run to the acre for about four months. There is no better way to fatten lambs for market. Sheep Over Clover The man who attempts to raise sheep with only dry land pasture has difficulty in putting his lambs In a fat marketable condition. Sheep should be raised over clover. Clover should be raised under sheep, a very profitable ex ample of successful "two story" farming. Clover alone, however, would hot supply sufficient feed the first year to support the sheep, and without the sheep to break up tbe crust and keep the soil mulch ed, the crop of clover would like ly be killed out during the warm dry weather. The addition Of the English rape supplies the feed for the sheep, and the sheep do the rest in insuring a good crop of seod 4 . Oak la n d Pon tia c Sales and Service VICK.BROS. High Street at Trade SEND; A'' COPY EAST , a! . clover and the lambs are fatten-. ed in the process. On Extensive Sale Hawkins & Roberts, Salem, among the pioneers in this meth od of. handling sheep, and clover, now have eight hundred acres in clover. They have shipped in 1800 thin lambs from the Rose berg country to fatten on their rape and clover ground. After three or four months they are ' fat and ready for top prices on the market. The Williamette valley has a great advantage in having so much land adapted to clover cul ture. Sheep raisers in other less fortunate sections of the country having only dry hill "pasture are unable to get their lambs fat for market, and buyers of such sheep are forced to put, the'm in fatten ing pens for one or two months before they are in suitable con dition for slaughter. Other successful farmers using the clover-rape-sheep combination with profitable results are Mc Crow Brothers of McCoy, Frank Farmer and Seth Falk of Ricker eall, and many others in Marion, Polk, Linn and nearby counties. POGH GRADER SENT Push Factory Getting Ahead; Doing Constantly Increasing Business The factory of C. J. Pugh & Co., Salem, recently shipped a fruit grader to Chives & Laws, Ltd., Histon, Cambridge, England. The grader was to be worked on strawberries and prunes in one of the canning concerns of that great firm, with headquarters in the vi cinity of Cambridge university. The factory of C. J. Pugh & Co., at 550 South 21st street, has been growing during the present year. as it has been doing ever since it was started, about three years ago. There are orders ahead or to be had that would justify doubling the floor space and the equip ment, though the floor space has already been doubled a couple of times since the beginning. It is now 45 by 100 feet, with a foun dry in addition- occupying 30 by 50 feet. Much New Equipment During the present year, the equipment has been increased by about a third,' including a spoke vice for manufacturing wheel barrow wheels, a rim bender, sheet metal shears,' crimping ma chine, cut-off saw, iron lathe, and other miscellaneous equipment. Mr.' Pugh has been turning out large orders- of cider mills of var ious sizes, wheelbarrows, prune trayers, fruit trucks, and various other things, mostly after his own patents, but some of them on or ders from large, concerns doing business all over the country. He Is preparing to turn out automo bile delivery bodies. If Mr. Pugh keeps on growing, even at the rate of the past three years,; he will be working ISO men in his factory before it is 10 years oia. mat is wnat ne is working for: not so mueh to make money for himself as to give em ployment to others and serve the public with needed articles. . Keep i Yonr Honey m Omrob Bay MosunMnta Mad at , Saiam. Oragoa. CAPITAL MOHXTMENTAl. WOltXS Jj C. Jonea k Co., Proprietors j -ail Kind of Monumental Work Factory and Offlcot 2210 S. Com'l. Oppostto I. O. O. T. i - . Oomatary, Box 81 Plana 689. 8AXEM. OEBOOK DIXIE HEALTH BREAD i Ask Your Grocer SALEM TO HUD COST OF PRODUCING A AS SHOWN BY EXPERIMENTS AT COLLEGE The Number in the Litter Is a. Big Factor Comparisons Made With Experiments in Other StatesThe Cost of the Pig Weaned ' (By H. A. Lindgren, Extension Livestock Fieldman, Oregon Agri cultural College. J What does it cost to produce a litter of pigs? Every hog pro ducer has probably thought about this, but may not have had a chance to figure it out in a sys tematic way. The animal husban dry department of the Oregon ag ricultural college has worked on this subject and has published in bulletin form the results of the study. I know of no better way than to quote the exact wording of the bulletin. I consider it prac tical information. "The basis of all pig feeding is grain; that is, corn, ground wheat, pr barley, supplemented with a small percentage of some protein feed such as tankage, fish meal, 6kim milk, etc. Other feeds may be' substituted for the above, but the substitutes must furnish es sentially., the same nutrients. In this discussion the term "grain" will be used to indicate any good, well balanceij feed or combina tion of feeds. In this we figure whole corn, ground wheat or ground barley as having equal value when properly supplement ed. Xumber in litter Factor All investigations show that the big factor in the cost of produc ing weanling pigs is . the number of pigs raised In each litter. The feed necessary to produce a lit ter is about -the same whether It is a' large litter pr a small one, and there seems to be no good evidence that the weanling pigs from the large litters are par ticularly Inferior or less thrifty than the pigs from small litters. To avoid confusion, we shall therefore first consider the cost of producing one litter. From that the cost of the individual pig may be easily calculated. , Three Utters in Two Years It is the general practice among bog producers in Oregon to raise two litters a year as far as may be practicable. Fall pigs farrowed by September 15. usually make thrifty pigs that will make normal growth. Late fall pigs, however, are seldom thrifty and the cost is prohibitive. We firfl it; therefore the moat desirable practice to breed all of the sows for spring farrowing, than to breed for fall farrowing only thorie sows which may be bred prior to May 25 and which will there for farrow before September 15. This makes it possible both to avoid late fall litters and to give the sows which have for any reas on farrowed late In the spring a chance to catch up with their schedule. If practically all the sows- farrow In the spring, one half to two-thirds of them will produce fall litters at the proper GIDEON STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of . Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 26 Ore. W. W. R OSERltA UGH Y COMPANY? f Manufacturers of Warm. Air Furnaces. Fruit Drying Stoves, Smoke Stacks. Tanks. Steel and Foundry Work. Welding a Specialty. 1 7th and Oak St, Haletn, Orb ' F. C. LUTZ NURSERY We plan and plant (freo of charge), for homes, large or small, all kinds of ornamental brubs, perennials and rockery plants. Landscape work. 1809 Market St. rbone 1008-R At Your Grocer's BUTTERCUP BUTTER f Capital City Cooperative 1 I Creamery v LITTER OF PIGS time; and, of course, some -sows will fail to breed even in the spring. As a practical working DroDositlon. through a series of years, we may reasonably expect a sow to produce an average of about"J three litters every- two years. Feed Requirement and Costs The feed requirements for the average sow will' be as follows: From November 1 to March 1 she will require about 4 pounds of grain or its equivalent, per day From March 1 to May 1, assum ing March 1 to be the date of farrowing, she will require 10 pounds per day after she gets well started on feed, making an aver age for the entire time from March 1 to May 1 of 9 pounHs. Assuming May 1 as the normal date for weaning, the dry sows may be run from May 1 to Sep tember 1 on clover, rape, or al falfa pasture without grain. One fourth to one-half acre of such pasture will be required for each sow. . Without pasture about J pounds of grain a day will be re quired. ' The sows which farrow Septem ber 1 or thereabouts will require about the same feed as for the spring farrowing; that is, an aver age of about 9 pounds a day for 60 days.. The sows which do not farrow in the fall will ordinarily need grain during September and October at the rate of about 3 pounds per day, but after breeds Ing this should be increased to 4 pounds as indicated in the previous paragraph. "Grain," as already stated. Is usl to include not only the actual cereal but possible sub stitutes therefor. It is usually possible to handle sows on a good deal less actual grain than out lined above, but the other feeds substituted must provide nutrients equivalent to the grain ration in dictated. 1 In Other States. Without putting dowjj here all of the arithmetical, calculations involved, it will be sufficient to state that if a bunch of sows are fed as outlined above and If they produce an average of three lit ters every two years, each litter will cost at weaning time 885 pounds of grain or its equivalent and one-fourth to one-half acre of pasture. Without good pasture about 1125 pounds of grain will be required. Surveys by the United States department of agriculture In Iowa and Illinois Indicate that the average litter requires approx imately 1100 pounda of grain to Whe- Ta-Lon .. A Superior Breakfast Food A trial Will Convince You Whe-Ta-Lon Cereal Co. M. A. BUTLER, Manager Telephone 1000-W OIL p-MATIC What I It? ' SEE . THEO.M.BARR Phone 192 Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. ' Manufacturers of JJOND LEDGEH GLASSING GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products Specif jr "Salcxa UadtP Paper for Your Office Gtatlonerj; produce to weaning time, but,th amount of pasture uaed was very" small. An extensive investigation into the cost of production car ried on In North Carolina showed an average of 935 pounds of grain required for each litter brought to weaning age. The amount of pasture-required was jnot very care fully checked, but seems to have . . . ' . A, tk been about me same as ai m Oregon Agricultural college. It seems very safe, therefore, to fig ure that with three litters every two years there will be requiredl for each Jitter about 1125 poundr. of grain W its equivalent without pasture,- but that one-fourth to one-half acre of good pasture will reduce this amount by 200 to 2 SO pounds. ' Labor Ibpqulrementrf n! Cost The next Item to consider Is tho matter of labor, which of courso depends much upon the conven iences at hand. The investiga tions of the department of agricnl- m w 1 J SI ture in lowa ana Illinois lnaitnif two-thirds hours for each litter. This figure, however. Is based up on estimates of the farmers, and, our experience in checking such estimates indicates that they aro teo low. The low-pig crop, more over, indicates that the pigs did rot receive proper attention.), Ths North Carolina experiments Indi cate a laDor requirement oi oyer 1-6 hours per litter. This is about right where the sows are run in. pasture lots with olony housed so that there Is little or no clean ing to do. Where the sows aru . ... . . . . .!! .1 H nanaieu in a large ccuii".u r house, however, so that the pens have to be cleaned and bedded, tho labor is at once doubled. We believe it safe to figure that 15 hours per litter Is about tho smallest amount of labor with which the pigs can be given proper care, and, this only where a com paratively ,few sows range over a large area -of clean well-drained Ing and sanitation is taken care of without labor. On the other hand. with a large number of hogs iu one place requiring much, atten tion to cleaning, beddings and san itation, tbe labor requirements will be at least 30 hours per lit ter. The average is probably (Continued on page 14.) C. J. PUGH & CO. N Manufacturers of Canning Machinery; Graders, Tracks, Etc 650 8. 21st St4 Salem, Oregon Air Painting DONE WITH A GUN M. B. Sanderson 1144 North Cottage THE DANGER SIGNAL Pain is a danger signal and is an effect. The cause ia undoubtedly Nerve Pres sure nd this can be quick ly eliminated by Chiro practic Adjustments given according to a Neurocalom eter reading. Rememebr the Neurocalometer locates nerve pressure. Nurocal ometer ? readings by ap pointment only. DR.0!LSC0n,D.C 256 North High' Htrect Phone 87 or 1471-11