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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1928)
This Is the Outstanding Country in the Wide World for Breeding Great Cows HAS PRODUCED AN'D MADE AN IDEAL HOME FOR MORE rows I.N " pro ik) a- mm Mag ecitioini WAY BETTER THAN LAST YEAR TO HER co w - POPULA TION THAN ANT OTHER i-rrATS crs rxUNTRT rv THF. WBOU) SEVENTY-SEVENTH. YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS FARMERS DEMAND A PARCEL POST HEAD What One Man Did, With Baby Chicks and Other Farm Products WASHINGTON. D. C. March 17. Farm organizations, notably the American Farm Bureau Fed eration, are making a drive for the creation of a director of par cel post. This moTeraent was started two years ago. bnt it is only recently that tne matter is being siren serfone attention in congress, j An effort is being made to at tach this provision to the pending postal rate bill, but it may be de cided to be better strategy In the house to introduce the measure as a ceparate bill. Representa tive C. W. Ramseyer of Iowa is sponsoring the plan, although sev eral other members of the postof fices and post road committee of the house have expressed their in tention to support the idea. Officials of the postoffice de partment, instead of "taking a non committal attitude as heretofore, recently expressed the belief that a director of parcel post along the lines advocated by farm forces might be very useful. Needs Directing Head What farm heads are demand ing is some one In charge of the parcel post corresponding roughly to a freight traffic manager in the railroad world. The railway traf fic manager i ever on the alert for new business and is always ready to lend his assistance in planning adjustment of local service, loading schedules, rapid and positive delivery.' and special services at the delivery end, wherever the business appears to Justify it. Nothing of this kind is provid ed for parcel post. In fact there is no head for this 1140.000,000 transportation business. No one makes any effort to get new busi ness, and when prospective ship pers apply to the department for adjustments in the service to meet their special needs, it is next to impossible to get any help. Us ually nothing less than a special order from the postmaster gen eral'U suffice, and naturally the division heads with their easy-going civil service ways dislike to undertake all the worry and effort necessary to get a special dispen sation. What One Man Did A few years ago the postoffice department had an employee who took a special interest in parcel post, and through his efforts a large volume of business was ad ded. The postoffice regulations theretofore forbade the shipment of baby chicks and motion picture A FEW OF OREGON'S GREAT COWS AS SEEN AND REMEMBERED BY THE F STATE DAIRY AND MM The Pioneers With the Jerseys and Those Who Have Put This State Ahead of the World in All Jerseydom The First Cows of the Entire Breeding Universe in the Holstein Breed The Guernseys Coming to the Front, and the Brown Swiss and the Ayrshires Hare Very Important Places to Fill in This Section 'oBtisn4 n pf 3) Editor Statesman: Tour slogan "Great Cows" is especially well adapted to Oregon. for she has produced and provided an ideal home for more great cows in proportion to her cow popula tion than any other state or coun try in the wide world. Do you say, "That is a pretty strong claim?" It does sound rather loud, but facta sustain tne assertion. When some three years ago it was announced that Oregon held seven of the eight Jersey world's records in the production of but terfat and hardly a year passes but one or more of her cows joins this high honor class, certainly our claim cannot be gainsaid. Oregon's Great Cows Tour request for an article "telling all about our great cows" does not place any limit on terri tory, but I am taking it for grant ed that you mean Oregon's great cows, for that in itself is a big field bigger than can more than be merely touched upon In one brief article. I take it. too. that you are asking several persons to write on this Slogan and that they will cover some of the herds and cows that I do not. With the data I have at hand and in the short time I have to dig into records, I know there are many great cows in the different breeds that I cannot mention. Necessarily an article on "Ore gon's Great Cows" will have a strong Jersey flavor, for it was the little Jersey that many years ago got in on the ground floor of pioneering the improvement of the dairy stock of the state, and her descendants constitute a very large percentage of the present dairy population. The Ptonem Oregon is greatly Indebted to several enterprising, far-seeing, stock men who. in the early days. Imported the very best blood ob tainable of whatever breed or breeds of stock they were interest ed in. W. S. Lad d was outstand ing in this class. Being a man of means and a great lover of fine stock, be imported, for use and breeding purposes on his various farms in western Oregon, the best blood obtainable of three of the leading dairy breeds, as well as Shorthorns, horses, sheep and hogs. The W. S. Ladd estate pur chased seven of the Jersey cows in the St. Ixuis dairy demonstration, including the champion Loretta ! D., winner of both test A and test B and the next four cows below her. Back in 1905 they had 51 cows with records ranging rrom 14 lbs. 2 ox., in seven days to 22 lbs. 14 oxs., made according to the rules of the A. J. C. C. The five mak ing over 25 lbs. 14 ozs. were Belle Jefferson, 21 lbs. 7 ozs.; Loretta D.. 20 lbs. 13 oxs.; Sandgate. 20 lbs. 10 or.; L.ucy Prince. 20 lbs. 3 ozs.; Olga Ann, 20 lbs. 3 ozs. When 11 beautiful, breedy Jer sey matrons were led into the ring at the Lew id and Clark Exposi tion, jt was looiea upon as a won derful aggregation of Jersey aris tocracy, and it was. But in num bers that show has been greatly exceeded in later years at our state fair and at the Pacific Internat ional. It is a question, too, if the winners in that class might not have to contest with positions well down the line in some of our pre sent day shows. Ladd Estate had 7th and 2nd in that great contest; Gertie Alexan dria being rather outstanding was made senior and grand champion, followed by Eurybia that lacked only one ounce of being in their, class of 20 lbs. 7 day producers. Trabina 2d was placed 3rd, Pride's Prue, 4th and Harry West's great cow and heavy milker. Empress of Sunny Bank, had to be content in 5th place. (Only fiye moneys were given.) In passing it is pertinent to re- FARM HOMES E M E M T NT "iOntian4 on p& 5.) NEW YORK BUSINESS MAN SETS PACE FOR THE COUNTRY'S JERSEY BREEDERS e jar THANBATTLESHIPS Urges Immediate Action On Farm Problems Above Big Navy Demands - - - .. i r 1 Opsiuls six hours a dag in his office in a few York slnjccrepper rroud of his success oF Parming ami stock.-raising Edward J. Cornish, New York businessman, is setting a pace for breeders of Jersey cattle throughout the country. On his farm at Cold Springs, N. Y., 53 miles from the metropolis, his Fon Owlet, shown above, two-year-old purebred Jersey, has hung up a world's record. In a 305-day test she produced 656.08 pounds of butterfat and 12.874 pounds of milk. J "It is rec4dedly more important that we sustain our farm homes with contented families and pro ducing service to the rest -of hu manity than it is for us to create great em battlements with gold braid and tinsel for the few who intermittently excite themselves and strive to terrorize ns with the great danger of war," warns Hon. Gerald P. Nye. United States Sen ator from North Dakota, in pro testing against the "big nary" pro gram. The nation always has anl al ways will give" whatever of re source necessary for adequate pro tection, advises the senator, but warns those who wooM expend vast sums for navol extent! on that "they must, for the time being, stand back from the public till and give the American people a chance to catch their breath..... let the farmers and their related interests have a chance to get on their feet and on to a plane of measurable equality with Industry in generaJL e, Senator Nye gives the further warning that unless the farm problem is properly met and there is a "balance of the scales of eco nomic Justice giving a fair dist ribution of the blessings of nation al prosperity, the coantry facet graver dangers from within than "all possible dangers which might come from without." Urging immediate action on this farm problem as paramount above the military establishment, sen ator Nye's statement in full fo!r lows: "Restore a prosperous and con tented rural life in America and such ft condition of national pros perity will follow as will quickly relieve our growing problem of unemployment and change the dis mal record of business disaster and bank failures to a recording on the profit side of the ledger. It will promote the growth of ed ucational advancement and cause better thinking and better , living throughout our entire land. So great is the agricultural problem that it is going to require careful thought, sound action, and a great deal of help to bring the farm in dustry out of its present difficult ies. A real national problem is af forded and should invite the sym pathy and support of all classes and all callings among our pop ulation. "To whatever program Is adop ted, our national government must f Continued on pf . OUR DISTRICT IS POTENTIALLY THE BEST DAIRY COUNTRY