THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION
Get Ready for National Egg Week the First Week in May; Boost the Poultry Industry
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(The National Garden Bureou.
130 North Wells street. Chicago,
broadcasts the following in its
current bulletin:)
The annual spring moving of
plants from quarters in the hot
bed, cold frame or seed boxes or
from seedbeds in the open is the
most important phase of the gar
den after digging. The success of
the garden will depend upon how
successful a job of transplanting
has been done. Cabbages, celery,
tomatoes, peppers, eggplants on
ions for big Spanish exhibition
types, cauliflowers, and a few
other Tegetables that need an
early start for an early crop must
be transferred.
If possible, select a cloudy day
for transplanting and one in
which there is a threat of show
ers. The weather forecast now
offers-a good guide in this re
spect. Get as much of the root
system of the baby plant as possi
ble and as much dirt as can be
made to cling to it in moving.
Often It will not be possible to
take any soil with the root, but
watering it in thoroughly will
make up In part for this distur
bance. Set the seedlings fairly deep,
making a hole ample to permit
the spreading out of the roots in a
natural manner and no wadding
them up. Firm the boII around
'them gently until the plant is In
place and then apply more pres
sure to firm it into position and
water it thoroughly so that the
moisture will soak down about the
roots and settle the soil in close
contact with them. Establishing
contact between soil and roots is
the main factor of transplanting
successfully. .
Make arrangements to shade
OREGON GROWING
SWEET POTATOES
One hundred and eighty-six
carloads of sweet potatoes were
unloaded at Portland in 1926 and
210 In 1927. according to official
reports. This large tonnage came
in mostly from California, with a
few cars from Texas, Oklahoma.
Arkansas, and Louisiana. A few
farmers are growing sweet pota
toes successfully in the vicinity of
Hermiston. Irrigated soils of that
section which are warm and mel
low produce excellent yield of
these roots. Cooperative experi
ments carried out In Josephine
and Malheur counties by the Ore
gon Agricultural college experi
ment station show that some of
the warm irrigated soils in that
region are well suited to sweet po
tato production. Leading vari
eties include the Yellow Strass
burg. Triumph, and Porto Rico.
freshly transplanted plants if the
work has to be done on a sunny
day. A light board supported on
flower pots or boxes over the row
of transplanted seedlings is one
of the most convenient and effl
cient means. Strawberry boxes
or flower pots or pieces of news
paper or building paper held in
place by a handful of earth will
serve. Shade for two or three
days until the plants resume a
fresh and sturdy look. If well
firmed in and watered some of
them will not wilt, but the ma
jority of them are likely-to droop
a bit for a day or two.
A shower is the best stimulant
for transplanted plants and if
they can be put in in time to get
the benefit of a rain there will not
be much need to worry about
them.
Plants should have the leaf
growth snipped back about half
when transplanted.
THE
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SOFT SHELLED EGG
Says a bulletin of the Oregon
Agricultural college:
An' occasional soft shelled egg
may mean little or nothing about
the flock, but if the condition be
comes general a lack of calcium
in the diet is Indicated. Most suc
cessful poultrymen keep oyster
shell before the chickens at all
times. Mineral may also be add
ed to the mash by mixing together
5 pounds bone meal, 2 pounds
oyster shell flour or ground lime
stone, and.l pound of table salt.
Two or three pounds of this are
added to each 100 pounds of
mash, says the experiment station.
Getting Ready for National
Egg Week, Which Be
gins With May First -
(The following press notice on
National Egg Week, which will be
the first week of May. ha been
furnished by one of the leading
men of the Salem district engaged
in the poultry industry:)
Egg The Keystone of Cookery
Did you ever stop to think what
a real balanced food the omelet
was?
Did you ever stop to think that
an omelet was a full meal in one?
Did you ever stop to think how
quickly the omelet can be prepared
how satisfying it is and what
an economical meal you can serve
by the use of the omelet?
Europe, with her intensive popu
lation, her limited land areas and
her ever growing need for human
food in concentrated and efficient
form, long age came to appreciate
the Important place which eggs
must occupy in her scheme of hu
man nutrition. It is especially fit
ting that we in America should
look to Europe's, experiences and
profit by her example. It Is the
history of all civiliied countries
that as the population becomes
massed together in large urban
centers, as the proportion of farm
ers and producers of food stuffs
decrease, as the land area avail
able for live stock production di
minishes, a Nation must look more
and more to the small animal unit
as a source of their food supply.
The ben. in view of her adaption
to intensive European conditions,
has. won a most prominent place
in European agriculture, and the
egg has come to be one of the
most important parts of the daily
diet of the European. His per cap
ita consumption of eggs is far
ahead of that in the United States
and it is .constantly on the in
crease. What Great Chef Raid
Let us see what an eminent
French chef noted for sagacity
and wonderful mastery of French
cookery has to say about the hum
ble egg:
"All cookery rests on an egg.
The egg is the Atlas that supports
the world of gastronomy, the chef
A new sandwich filling is made
by creaming one teaspoonful of
butter, adding one small cream
cheese, mixing thoroughly. Stir in
two tablespoonfuls of strained
honey. Pare and cut one large
apple, slice in thin slices and put
into the mixture. Spread on light
or dark sandwich bread. White
bread may be toasted.
Get a few cucumber vines go
ing in pots. They will be a foot
or so long by the time the weather
is right to put them into the open.
They will give early cucumbers.
Six Leading Varieties
PricM
SALEM CHICK AXES
Phont 400 Salem, Or.
64 V. CotUff StTM
is the slave of the egg. What is !
the masterpiece of French cookery. ,
the dish that outlives all other!
dishes, the thing that is found on
His Majesty's table no. less than
upon the table of the bourgeoiae
the thing that is as French as a
Frenchman, and which expresses
the spirit of our people as on other
food could express it? the ome
lette. Could you make an omelette
without breaking eggs? Then cast j
your mind's eye over this extra
ordinary Monsieur Egg and all his
(antics and evolutions. Now he
; permits himself to be boiled plain,
and even like that, without frill,
1 naked and in a state of nature, he'
I is excellent. Now he consents to
appear in all ways from poaehed
to perdu, now he is the soul of a
vol-au-vent, now of a sauce; not
a piecrust fit to eat but stands by
virtue of my lord the egg. and !
j should all the hens in the world
'commit suicide tomorrow every
chef in France worthy of the name
would fall on his spit, for fish is
but a course in a dinner, whereas
the egg is the cement that holds
all the castles of cookery to
gether." From all the great variety of
products from which the busy
housewife can choose the evening
meal or quickly prepare the early
morning breakfast, nothing has
greater possibilities from the
standpoint of easy preparation, ec
onomic efficiency and nutritive
value than eggs.
Just think! You can eat'em
raw, boiled, fried or scrambled
poached, steamed, shirred or scal
loped! Let us egg ourselves on by eat
ing more eggs for our health's
sake during national egg week
May 1st to 7th. lilt.
BABY CHICKS AND
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LEE'S HATCHERY
Fheae 13373
It is a poor policy to put wean
ling calves on pasture without a
grain supplement. The little anl
mais do not have the stomach ca
pacity to eat such a quantity of
the watery , grass as is necessary
to their nourishment.
MORLEY'S
Boys and Girls' .Shop
Infante' and Children's
Ready-to-Wear
227 North High
THE BEST
BROODER
FUEL
is
Gasco Briquets
Priced
$17.50
Per Ton
FOB Our Bunkers
No Ashes Clean Burning
They're All Heat
HILLMAN FUEL
COMPANY
Phone 1855
Yard Office 1405 Broadway
Farmers frequently waste ferti
lizer by failing to combine with it
other needed soil treatment. . Lime
will correct the acidity of most
soils, and until it fs corrected it
usually is impossible to get full
value from plant foods.
Watafltts
Are the best Investments for
shade and profit.
We carry hardy trees that will
grow here In the Willamette
valley.
Also full line of fruit tree.
PEACHES
PEARS
APPLES
APRICOTS
FRUITLAND NURSERY
A. J. MA THIS, Nurseryman
174 So, Liberty Phone 877
follow the
"Caterpillar"
"Caterpillars" replace all other power for orchard and
vineyard . . slicing off big chunks of former costs that
make its purchase price seem small.
. .Minimum upkeep, .reduced manpower, .no barns or
pastures needed or chores to take up time. .MOUNT
YOUR "CATERPILLAR" and be at work, .riding steep
est side bills surely . . or mushy lowlands firmly . . reach
across ditches, gullies, furrows on "Caterpillar's" long,
gripping tracks . . "whirl on your heel" In narrow head
lands . . go close to trees and under branches . . whip dry
seasons with sub-soilers or chisels, .turn a cover crop
with ease, .pull trees or level land, .dig- ditches or bould
ers . . haul primings or fruit on soft ground,
Work when work is needed, sure of footing rairi or
shine . . yet time for custom work for neighbors, county
or state . . while fruit grows sweeter on the trees from
proper, timely cultivation.
THE
2 Ton
Caterpillar
$1800
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Salem
Loggers & Contractors
Machinery Company
PORTLAND
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