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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY, 15, 1928 j The Slogan Pages Are Yours; Aid in Making Them Helpful to Your Wonderful City and Section n wire 16 E D I T O R..I A L SALEM DISTRie T INDUSTRIES THE STATESMAN dedicates several pages each week in the interest 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 section. Help make Salem grow. H SHEWiT II i ONCE IN GDATilD CHAMPIDN SOW MONEY Bis Herd of Chester Whites Brought Home 120 Bine Ribbons From the Big Fairs Last Season; Going Oat After More Of Them in Coming Season-The Nichols Operations, Just Six Miles East of State Street, Salem, Are Worthy of Mak- Ing Their Farm a Show Place as a Sample Exhibit of What May Be Done in Industries on Land in This Section One of the most interesting and successful f arming operations In Marlon county is that of Cass A. Nichols and J. M. Nichols and son. the son being Cass Nichols. The jr. breed good hogs, milk good cows, and Mrs. J. M. Nichols keeps good poultry. The Nichols farm is Just six miles from Commercial street in In the shows this fall and winter, he will sell foar or f It" of the boars. He will show at some of the Oregon county fairs, the state rair. and at the five big Califor nia fairs, at Stockton, Sacramento, Ventura. Rlrerside and Pomona, senting third and fourth prise the purples for grand champion awards, and the blues and red: ternatlonal, " and at the Ogden show in January, on Poland. The Nichols family came to Salem and their present location in IS OS. from Texas. There la another son, a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural college, now a gorernment Inspector In con struction work In Honolulu. There Is a daughter, Mrs John" A.' Hain, living on the asylum road. The Hains are to join tn rest of the family In th Nichols farming op erations within a few ' weeks. There are two youngsters In the Cass Nichols family, girls. A Creditable Industry -' As stated in the second para graph above, Mrs. J. M. Nichols has her part In the operations, with a flock of White Leghorns. She added 500 chicks to the flock last spring. This industry on the land is a creditable one to the NichoU household. Everything Is In or JT STATE COLLEGE LIGHTS IN THE OREGOrJ HDG SIWH1 MOW me Advice Is To Stay With the Game Oregon Swine Breeders Increase Their Turnover to 128 Per Cent, Which is a uooa snowing We Sell 350,000 Hogs Annaauy It is Logical for Every Oregon Fanner to Hare a Few Hogs on mis rann Balem, straight out State street for first and second money. They der; everything In ship shape 1; : ' - This is Brookside Goldie, first prize aged sow in the California and other fairs a 1925, 1926 and 1927. She belongs to the Cass Nichols herd. The niirs shown wer far rowed at the Pomona, Cat, fair, where she was on exhibition at the time and was first prize winner, as stated. There were 13 in th e litter The photographer evidently missed two or mem. Then at the Salt Lake fair, and the Pacific International at Port land, and likely wind up with the Ogden live stock show In January. Lowell Stockard is employed by Mr. Nichols, and he will part of the time be with one herd, while Cass Nichols will be with another, at the fairs. They Always Wla The Nichols Chester Whites al ways win. They averaged about IS blue ribbons at the fairs last season; about 120 blues In all. Their winnings are confined to purples, blues and reds almost exclusively, with a very small smattering of the color repre and the paved penitentary road, on the left side of the road where It turns; a mile this side of Geer station. You know the place by the two houses and the fine barn and the general air of order and thrift. They have 160 acres of their own and rent SO acres more. They farm 200 acres, and they buy a lot of feed besides, from their neighbors and others. Started Small Cass Nichols started in 1918 as a pig club member, choosing Ches ter Whites; started with a sow and a boar. He has now 220 spring pigs and about 20 sows. In cluding fall gilts, and eight boars. never lost a grand championship on sow but once at the Pacific International two years ago, when it went .to a Michigan sow. They Cull Closely They sell the culls, and cull closely. They condition them for the packing bouse, mostly. About 0 bead are on their way now. They are crowded and sold at 8 months of age, and they make 200 pounas ana oetter. Tney are started at weaning time; on mid dlings. Then on No. 1 gray oats. ground; then oil meal and tankage mixed, and skim milk. At around 100 pounds they are fed wheat and corn or corn and barley, ow ing to the prices of the different grains. They raise some of their feed; buy most of it. They grow on their farm mostly hay, com ensil age, and gray oats. They milk about 60 cows; most ly Jerseys. Bell the whole milk to the Sanitary Milk company, Salem, and buy toack the skim milk for the pigs. Some Poland, Too J. M. Nichols L Son have some Poland Chinas, too. Pure breds. of course, as all the Chester Whites of Cass Nichols are. They drew down junior grand champion awards last year at the Pacific In- THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN DID YOU KNOW That the Salem district is .Trowing to be a great swine breeding center; that Salem is now an important pork packing center, and it will grow in this respect constantly; that Marion has become the lead ing hog county of western Oregon; that swine breed ing here goes admirably with dairying, and there should be twenty cows where one is milked in this district now, and tens of thousands more hogs on the dairy farms; that every farm of very kind should have a few hogs, at least; that this is a good hog country some good judges say it is the best hog country in the world; and that there is room for thousands of men who know the best mehods of swine breeding and other thousands who are willing to learn? And did you know that this is the best hog market in the United States? There Is constant work, of course With that many cows and hogs and chickens to look after, con stant and painstaking labor Is nee essary. every day In the year There are two extra helpers em Ployed the year through, and more laborers are added In tbe harvest and other busy seasons. There are noJdlers. But Cass Nichols takes time to read and study and to keep up with the times. He is largely self trained. His educa tion has been largely In the school of hard knocks. He has learned by doing. He has not attended college. Are the operations profitable? Cass Nichols makes no boasts, but appearances Indicate thrift and prosperity. He says It Is largely a matter of costs of feed and prices of products. Feed has been high, and prices of products have been down. But there Is an up ward trend In prices now. Hogs are selling at $1 and more a hun dred pounds higher at tbe pack Ing bouses than they brought i year ago, and still higher prices are apparently in the offing per haps extreme high prices again next year. eucn a place as the Nichols farm is good to look at. It Is worthy to be pointed out to visit ors as a show place; as an exhibit of what may be done by hard hand wjrk and head work in the indus tries on tbe land in this section. What one man has done another can do. What one family has done another family can do. Our coun- II try has a right to be judged by Its successes rather than by Its fail ures; rather by its conspicuous examples of success than by its ex amples of indifferent success. SUGAR BEET PULP FATTEKS ANIMALS Dates of Slogans In Oregon Statesman (With a few possible changes) 'Loganberries, October 6, 192? Prunes. October IS Dairying, October 20 Flax, October 27 Filberts, November 3 Walnuts. November 10 Strawberries, November 1? Apples, Figs, Etc.. Nov. 24 Raspberries. December 1 Mint, De er 8 Beans, fcu . cember 15 Black ben it , Uecem ber 22 Cherries. December 29 Pears, January 5. 1928 Gooseberries, January 12 Corn, January 19 Celery, January 28 Spinach, Etc., February s 'Onions, Etc., February IS Potatoes, Etc., February lt Bees. February 26 Poultry and Pet Stock, Mar. 4 City Beautiful. Etc., March 11 Great Cows. March 18 Paved Highways. March 25 Head Lettuce. April 1 -Eiloa. Etc., April 8 ' ' Legumes, April IS Asparagus. Ete. April 21 Grapes. Etc., April 29 Drug Garden, May 8 Sugar Industry, May 13 Water Powers, May 20 Irrigation, May 27 Mining, June 3 Laud, Irrigation. Etc., June 10 Floriculture, June 17 Hops. Cabbage, Etc. June 24 Wholesaling, Jobbing, July 1 Cucumbers. Etc., July 8 Hogs July 15 . Coats, July 22 Schools. July 29 Sheep, August 5 Seeds, August 12 National Advertising. Aug. 19 Livestock. August 26 Grain A Grain Products. Sept. 1 Manufacturing, ScpL 9 -Woodworking. Etc., Sept. If Automotive Industries, Sept 23 Papef Mills. Sept. 30 t ( Back copies of tbe Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore gon Statesman are oa hand. -They are for aale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address, : Current topics 5 cents. CHICAGO. July 14. (AP) Thrown away as useless a few years ago, the by-products of Am erican beet sugar factories- now fed to livestock contribute 240. 000.000 pounds of meat annually to the nation's food supply, Ste phen H. Love, president of the United States Beet Sugar associa tion, declared in an address here. "Beet pulp, which is the residue left after the sugar has. been re moved. Is fed wet to cattle and sheep In the vicinity of sugar fac tories, Love said, "or it is dried and shipped to other livestock raising areas. Molasses from the beet sugar factories Is mixed with alfalfa meal for cattle feed. The beet tope cut in harvesting the crop are fed to the stock In the fields. "It is estimated that the byprod ucts from an acre of beets proper ly handled' will 'produec 200 potnda of mutton or beef. Figur ing that there are about 800,000 acres planted to sugar beets by farmers In the United States every year, the Immense contribution of the industry's byproducts alone to America's food supply can be (Through the courtesy of John C. Buftner of the department of industrial Journalism of the Ore gon Agricultural college, the fol lowing by H. A. Lindgren, exten sion specialist in animal hus bandry, was written for this an nual Slogan number of The States man:) "What la in store for me in the ruture in the hog business?" Is the question that a good many of tbe farmers are asking them selves at this time. With the pres ent prices for bogs many of the farmers are very much discour aged. However, when we think back over the situation we can remember that we enjoyed a few years of high prices during which time many of our farmers were tempted to buy more sows, and consequently wex increased the number of hogs all over the coun try to such an extent that now we are facing a reaction. I suppose that as long as we stay with the farming game, we will always live through periods of that kind When considering any branch of the livestock industry, we should not attempt to analyze it. how ever, irom me results of one year's work. It takes time to build up a herd of any type of livestock. Consequently we can not afford to go In one year and out the next. To be on the safe side stay with the game year In and year out. We will usually find that, over a period of ten wears, we have made a profit out of the business The present outlook for hogs Is not as encouraging as we would like to see; that la, with an1 in crease of six to eight per cent in pigs raised in 1927 over those raised in 1928. No reduction in seasonal hog supplies for slaugh ter is indicated until next fall and winter. Stay With Game It does not seem wise at this time for farmers to sell off all their sows and go out of the busi ness entirely. It probably will be done, however, by a good many, and then, when hog prices are high, they will attempt to buy sows and go back into the game again, only to go through the same cycle. If we are going to reap any benefit In good prices we ahould stay through 'the low price per lods, raise our hogs Just as cheap ly as we can, then be In position to take advantage of the higher prices that are sure to follow li quidation of breeding stock. Farmers have long ago learned that Oregon is not a hog produc ing state, i.e., we do not consider it wise to raise hogs as a major enterprise on any of the farms. Production costs are a little too high. Any farmer who does not raise grain on his own farm should not attempt to raise hogs. There Is one thing that looks favorable ahls time for the hog men, and that is the price of beef. Whenever beef is high we usually find that the consumption of pork Is higher. The present indications are that beef prices will remain high for at least three or four years. Increasing Oar Turnover Many of you have beard It said before that the most advisable plan for production In Oregon is to base the number entirely on the proper utilization or tbe waste products on tbe farm, like skim- milk, cull vegetables and off qual ity grain. It might be possible In addition to this with certain pas ture crops to produce hogs profit ably where it is not necessary to , uy the grain. Another Interesting phase of the hog business at this time is; the fact that we are increasing our turnover. A few years ago records show that we sold about 100 per cent of the hogs that we had on the farms, I.e., counting all ages. At the present time records show that we are selling 128 per cent. l.e., for every hundred hogs kept on the farm, 128 head are sold annually. This would indicate that our farmers are more careful in their management practice and are saving larger litters. This, of course, cuts down the cost of pro duction. Records taken at Oregon Ag ricultural college would indicate that it costs around 831 to raise a litter of Dies at weanlns time Consequently, the more pigs we save, the less cost per pig up to that time. This, in fact, is where profit can he made in the business. We, Sell 830,000 Annually The present figures for Oregon indicate that we have 270.000 hogs in the state. If our 128 per cent turnover is correct, we sell close to 350,000 hogs for the farms of the state. This Is almost as many as many as we need for local con sumption. For the present popula tlon we need approximately 390, 000 hogs to take care of the an nual consumption. During the last several years Oregon hog producers have been enjoying a spread in price, between here and Chicago, Le., we have been getting the Chicago price plus the freight out here. This has been a great advantage. However, uunng iu last iew months we have not enjoyed that differential in price. No doubt, when we re duce tbe number of hogs below the number we have at this time tbe differential will be re-estab lished. At any rate we hoDe so. We are still on the grain 1m porting basis, I.e., we do not pro duce enough feed grain at this time to take care of the livestock needs in the state. The experience of the hog men in Oregon would indicate that it does not pay to attempt to raise hogs on the -grain alone basis, neither does ljt pay to try to raise hogs on farm waste alone. In or der to make the greatest profit out of the business it Is necessary to have a combination of the two. for example when sklmmilk Is the waste produce used, the best re sults are to be bad when the sklm milk Is fed at tbe rate of one pound of grain to every three or four pounds of milk. If cull fruits and vegetables are to be used, it Is necessary to feed a still higher proportion of grain, as these feeds are more watery and do not con tain the feed nutrients that are contained In skimmilk. I hope that the ldeaa given have not, been too pessimistic. I do not feel that way about the business. It Is logical for every farmer to have a few hogs on his farm. And they will .usually turn waste pro ducts Into profit. Oregon Is the Only State in The Northwest to Have This Privilege Will grasses and legumes from Africa hold any possibilities of profit for Oregon farmers? This question will be answered In the course of future years through operation of a new test nursery now being started at the Oregon experiment station at Cor vallis in which will be planted a large collection gathered by L. W. Kepbart of the federal service on a recent expedition to Africa. This will be the only "African plant" nursery in the northwest, and Is quite likely to develop some valu able plants, say crop specialists. Introduction, testing and dia trlbution of new and Improved varieties are included in the reg ular work of. the experiment sta A YEAR AGO AKDOW To have sweet cream to ship. says an O. A. C. suggestion, atten tion Is given to the f olio win r Washing the separator twice i day; cooling the cream by plac ing tbe can in cold water immedi ately after separating; cooling the fresh cream before adding to the coia cream, and delivering to creamery at least three times a week in summer and twice a week In winter. Under the heading, "Needed) a Wild Hog Boom," the ar nual Slogan number on swine breeding o The Statesman, o July 14, 1927, said: ifV vl'1 There has been for several years i'swinC breeding boom i the Salem district; but it is not half wilcf enough yet; not hal as wild as the conditions justify ........ And it is a boom that cannot be overdone. Salem has become a swine breeding center; has done thi -in the padt seven years ; the Salem district has increased it. swine breeding industry in this time to five to six times it size at the beginning of the period And this growth is going on. The Valley Packing company four and five years ago wa going east of the Cascades and the Rockies for about a thin: of the hogs it was annually using, and outside the Saler. trading district for part of the two-thirds." This company has steadily increased its packing opera tions, and is now able to get practically all its hogs locally. What is more, this plant was last year and the year before more than doubled in capacity, and brought right down U date; to the last minute; and it will before very long be us tion. work in this field hss been ing. 52,000 hogs a year, and getting them all from the Salem extensive in tne past, resulting Jn the introduction of erone that have vw proved of national importance lnis growth or swine oreeaing is bringing about an in- even aside from those outstand- crease in the number of dairy cows ; helping to develop a largt testing at branch stations poultry industry ; has made Marion the leading corn county ol a. . ... I fVio Tnifi rnrthwpot oome evu strains ana varieties! of vetches have been tested in the have proved' commercially valu- district in many ways; aided the legume industry; put mon able, of these Common and Hairy silos on the farms, more paint on the barns and dwelling? vetcn am veil known whiia t r I i n i i i ii " i i r i f i in mHnu rii i cr .'ava np nun in rna rnriTT qtih nrnona.ifi auiiia. nuoiy poaaea, rurpie ana , , , . ... , , . , , Pearl and Hunearianaii valu- and general well being of the people on the land here ii able in certain areas are not so Salem's patronizing territory. 1S7A?1 IrnstTOwt I I rTTl i e i me peopxe oi oaiem ana 01 tne wnoie Salem district owt a great deal to the home men with enterprise and vision win put up the capital for the Valley Packing company, and hav. managed it and kept it growing and prosperous. All this means more hogs, more corn, more cows, more poul try and more progress and prosperity generally. There can be no over advertising of the iuti that the Salei. district is a good swine breeding country. Tbe facts should b. spread far and wide. The growing of a continually increasing promising of the grasses studied acreage of Grimm alfalfa and Hungarian vetch and the swi-e. are fcngusb an dltalian rye grass; clovers here is helninir. Th hniWino- nf a ht o,, Tall Oat. Orchard and Harding . .... . " ." 77 , louu'' grasses. Meadow foxtail and Mea- nere whicn w coming, will wonderfully help the swine breed dow fescue. Various bent grasses "ig industry. It will give a perennial boom: alone with rlflirv. fnee varuesutrainfl the PmItry and kping industries, and many others Numerous other plants now un-l owine breeding is one of the basic industries on thp lam' aer onearvation Inrlndo KnA,n I in fhio cutin . r u- .... . Sanfoin R.rrd.ii. t 7,;7. IZ'l w xne. most prosperou; t u aasa. ssv ad And it has added to the productivity of the soil in thi? Development of Austrian win ter peas resulted from extensive tests of field peas. Seed of this variety produced, in Oregon is in demand In the south and east In troduction of soy beans as a sum mer legume crop In western Ore gon followed extensive trials. Hundreds of strains of grasses have been, tested, showing that ccnuiu sections or ine state are suited to seed production. Most V r . . aMi u, igiui, perennial peas ano vetches. Zig-Zag. Subterraian, snearman and Strawberry clovers and various minor grasses. nn POTATOES country in the wide world. PUNTED IN SOUTH GRAND FORKS, N. D.. July 14. (AP) Growing potatoes in the north for use as seed in the south has become an established Indus- There is this much to add to what is reprinted above: The supply of local hogs has entirely caught ud with the de mands of the local packing company, and passed it, Marion county has become the chief hog producing count of the valley, and Marion, Polk and Linn produce more than i third of all the hogs in western Oregon And our leading pure bred breeders are outstanding the high class men in that line in all the west. We are on our way to the high places visioned in the shnv. lines written a year ago. Demonstra te, a survey conducted through considered a determining factor In ,uulutIU ""'as oy a group of production of a profitable crop northern growers has shown. n.-. v v... Ways and mean, of meeUns thi. ,.7" . v lndustry in satisfactory manner I , . J . has h.n t.V.n , . reported, under eles. inHdin. fhVfirn 'rr conditIo that prevail in the ' - v b vx u I AOIlth 11 It TCI 1 tflAW4MMAM I eountr arent. in Knrth It is by performance In the Held Minnesota and Montana nonnern grown certified seed eral of th mr. rAn,i..,t wn recognition. - jr vku uvu t, UCfIB' papers. Plans call for a campaign for certified seed with which to meet southern demands. Experience is declared to have demonstrated that It pays the southern farmer to plant northern grown certified seed. Climatic land other conditions are such in tbe far south that native seed does not possess the vitality that makes a dependable yield possible. Certified seed, as distinguished from seed grown under ordfnary field conditions, has come to be recognized among planters of the south as worth the additional cost because of increased yields. Vitality in the seed is generally tions under practical tests In man- field, an in different states ar. reported to show Increased vUih of from 40 to 76 per cent and in some cases of 100 per cent fron. certified seed over yields from 1" S. No. 1 .eed. To southern grow era the added cost of state certl fled seed over common stock oi U. S. No. l i. described ss a croi insurance. OIL-0-MATIC WHAT IS IT? SEE THEO. M. BARR Phone 192 O a It 1 an d Pontine Sales and Service VICK BROS. High Street at Trade n. (SimaipasQsr We handle Castle, Gate, Kin?, Rock Spring Coal and Gasco and Diamond Briquets Also coal specially designed for chicken brooder use. TELEPHONE 930 0 HAM, BACON- U. S. Inspected YourProtecti on A 3 SALEM Mdustry : elo'T 0 realised. OREGON