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17 Marion Is the Leading Hog County of Western Oregon, and Salem Is Fast Becoming a Big Swine Breeding and Pork racking tenter - . - ' . - '""f',r" ' " ' - ; ; ; ; - ...... .... . . , w ffiST i, BY THE A Front View of the Valley Packing Company Plant, from a Cut Made from a Recent Photograph IE I SPECIALISTS IN IE llfllOT THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY, 15, 192 PASTURES FOR HUES PfiEMEffiflSlimfl INTKE H08 INDUSTRY IS DISCUSSED 1 . i . S jr ' 5f t 1 1 1 Si n Alfalfa Comes First, and the Acreage in This Is Being In creased in Willamette Valley Counties Different Opin ions on Grain Feeding to Pasturing Hogs Mineral Mix ture and Shade and Water (By H. A. Lingren, extension specialist In animal husbandry at the Oregon .Agricultural college.) In discussing pastures fbV hogs. I find, on consulting seTerar pub lications, that the management of pastures is pretty much the same all oyer the country, so that in- 1 formation coming from other f sources will also apply here in Oregon. I Pastures for hogs are valuable. l w and should be utilized to as great use of pastures, however, does not mean that hogs fatten or make satisfactory growth on pasture alone. Pasture of any kind, re gardless of quality, must be sup plemented with grain If the most satisfactory results are to be ob talhed. The hog grower should never attempt to supply only just enough pasture. Pastures will not pro duce best result if they are grazed too closely. Only as many hogs as can be proVlded with an abund jpfife of fed, should be placed in any lot or pasture. It is impossi ble to say how many animals may be grazed on an .acre, since so much depends upon the crop used, the quality of the. soil, and cli- matic conditions! etc. Ordinarly an acre will furnish' pasture for from 5 to 15 pigs, averaging 100 pounds. It is a good plan to have to pastures foreach lot of hogs. By alternating them from one pas ture to another, it may be grazed fairly close and still provide suc culent feed. Pasture crops that are allowed to mature do not furnish good feed for hogs. The fertilizer value of the manure which is left en the land is an indirect and gen erally unnoticed value that should be taken into acccount when hog pastures are being considered. Hogs on pasture range all over the enclosure. Consequently, the dis tribution of manure is quite uni form. Futhermore, very little of it is lost. The value to be derived from hog pasture does not apply to any particular locality or section of the country. The only differ ence in different sections is owing to the pasture season. The value of good pasture to breeding animals cannot be over estimated. To give a maximum of efficiency, the breeding sow and boar must have exercise and a variety of feeds. There Is. no other way by which exercise and varie- - 'wwo v. u vuuyu m wail as by giving the animals free range on good pasture. The foregoing taken from Far mers' Bulletin on Swine Produc tion, gives one a fairly good gen eral idea of' the Importance of pasture on farms. Alfalfa Cornea First Under Oregon conditions we have a good many pastures that ere suitable. When we think of hK pastures we of course think or alfalfa first, as that is the most important one that we have. As alfalfa is not applicable for every region of the state, we have to look for other crops that .n. fill the bill. Most any green feed has Its value for pasture with hogs. In the Willamette valley a good many of our farmers are using rape. Kape is considered almost as val uable as alfalfa. Other feeds such as clover, or a mixture of clover al some of the grasses, is llke jr wise very satisfactory. Under cer? I tain conditions I have seen oats and wheat sown in the fall and J- .. 1 . . uovu " TTnjr apnea pasture who very good results. It all helps In furnishing succulents and cutting down on the amount of grain used. Pasture crops are capable of sav ing from one-third to one-fourth of the grain that would otherwise be necessary in putting on 100 pounds of pork. In regard to the toticij 01 pasture crop to use would say this, that It Is dargely up to the individual farmer him self as to what crop he can grow to the best advantage under his particular conditions. Our experience here at the col lege with pasture crops is that we! get the beat results when, we give the hog about all the grain that they will clean up in connection with the pasture. In other words. we find that it takes so much gram on pasture to put on 100 DOUnda of ein whaf-.a.r mn foA1 rJHt ia full rations or in limited ra tions. Different Opinions Many of our successful hoc growers prefer to put a aeil-feeder right Into the pasture lot. allowing the pigs to have all the grain they want to eat, together wRh the pasture. Some hog men argue that their pigs do not eat enough pas ture when they have grain in self GAL TWO POSTURES FOR Hw- . . feeder to run to. However, under each conditions, we nearly always flfrf that if the pigs are weighed I la and out of the teed lot. where I a pasture crop is used. It has usual ly savea a lot of grain. This is especially true of legume pastures. like aiiaira and clover. Mineral Mixtures Needed While on pasture a mineral mixture Is very Important In fact. It always pay to have a good min eral mixture in the hog lot. wheta er the hogs are on pasture or not. f The ' department ot 4 agriculture. 'r 'Washington, D. C4' recommends- pounds; ground limaaeone or air slacked Urns, 15 pounds; II jpsr Are Essentials . I cent phosphate, 25 pound of com mon salt. Very often wood ashes are available, which may be In corporated In the mineral mixture to advantage. The mineral mix ture should be supplied the hogs in boxes or self-feeders, where it will be dry and available at all times. Charcoal is often used In mixtures, and is superior to soft coal. Neither charcoal nor eoal have much food .value, but both appear to be highly palatable to pigs. These minerals help keep them in good condition, aid them in warding off diseases, and In other words, put " pep" into your d1ss- Shade and Water It would not be wise to leave this dlscuSsIo nof pastures with out saying something about the importance of shade and plenty of water while the pigs are on pas ture. If your hog lot Is not sup plied with a shade, a very inexpen sive one can be made by setting up a framework and making the roof out of straw or fir boughs. In certain localities the farmer may have some difficulty in find ing a crop that he can grow for early spring pasture. Rye seems to have quite a wide application 1 1 the state, and where it will grow it makes a very satisfactory pas ture crop. If it is pastured lightly in the spring, an dthe pigs are not allowed to remain on it too late, it will also yield a normal harvest In grain. There are many sections in eastern Oregon, and also in cer tain parts of western Oregon, where quite a little rye I grown in small patches as a pasture crop. Alfalfa In Valle, Farmers in Washington county have been growing a great deal of alfalfa during the last few years. They are becoming interested at this time in using alfalfa as a pasture crop. Laat summer I spent me little time with County Agent McWhorter. in visiting some of these men who are using this crop for pig pasture. All that we talked with were getting to be very en thusiastic over the prospects for hog production under such condi tions. There are other counties in tvestern Oregon that are also start ing" to grow some alfalfa on their farms. As stated before, where it will grow. It Is the most satisfac tory pasture crop that we know of for hogs. POTATO DISEASE With virus diseases of potatoes oh the increase In spite of the work of certification of seed, plant disease specialists of the en tire northwest are watching with interest the cooperative work be ing done by the Montana. Utah and Oregon experiment stations. t aided by the federal bureau of plant industry. Examination, of the central trail plots at the Ore gon station made this last week end show conclusively the advant age of tuber-unit roguing as op posed to mass roguing. Some fields have been a total loss just from mosaic diseases. Though the advance of certifl cation has checked the spread of mosaic diseases and is far super ior to simple selection, the serious ness of the disease situation ir forcing -attention to even more positive methods of control of which the tuber-unit plan Is the most promising for seed plots. Under this method of roguing the potatoes are planted with all prices from a single tuber placed consecutively In the row, with a 1 porceD 1 ,b,e "Pce eft between the grounds. A machine has been de veloped now which cuts the pofe toes and plants them in this man ner at one operation When the plants come np. any doubtful casea are more easily de tected where all the plants from one tuber are together, find the scientists, and are thus eliminated earlier. Furthermore where one plant shows disease earlier than others, all of that group are rogued out at once, thus elimin ating future sources of Infection. By using this plan any grower of certified seed may maintain a farm seed plot In which he can effectively reduce disease from year- to- year instead ot merely Checking; its spread. Consequently the specialists while here ex pressed the belief that such a seed plot should be mad a prerequisite to entering the fileds for certifi cation. M. B. McKay, plant pathologist of the Oregon station la la charge of the central station work while Dr. B. L. Richards of Utah and Dr. P. A. Tonne uni H. K. Mor ris of Montana are handling the work at those stations. Much ben efit from the cooperative- work is apparent, they say. If artificial lighting of fowls is to bo used most profitably It Is accompanied by Intelligent selec tion, handling . and feeding of flocks, says a new bulletin from the Oregon experiment station on this, subject. Tbe greatest profit coma- from Hghttar tbe highest producing fowls. SPREAD HUNK v . - iwi'nn-- - i 11 nwm iw. , ., l(ll 'mMmm'mmmmmmfyti " n-VTrrm.) ,., -- i-rfh- 1 1 q . . . . . . . : SALEM DISTEIICT HAS GAtlGHT UP WITH I IE SUPPLY OF HOGS FOB THE VALLEY. PAGK1IBG COMFAHr. AFTER EIBKT YEARS Salem Is the Best Hog Market in the United States, and Has Been Since the Valley Packing Company Started Operat ing One of the Most Complete Plants in the Country Buys Hogs from the Local Territory las Offered the Year Through and Turns Out Products Competing With Those Of the Large Packing Concerns in the Big Cities Owned and Operated by Local People. v The operations of the Valley Packing company have made and. ore making a large contribution to the growth and prosperity of the whole Salem district and of this city. When this institution open ed for business, the Salem section could supply only about a third of the hogs needed for the local pack; the balance of the supply coming, from east of the Cascades, in some cases aa far away as, Ne braska. Now' all the hogs come from the trade territory of Salem, and there la a large contribution left for packing houses In cities j at a distance. Salem is the best hoe market in the United States, or in the world, and has been since the Val ley Packing company commenced operations here January 1, 1920. The plant of this company is thoroughly up to date; Is equip ped to handle 1,009 hogs a week, besides 100 to 200 cattle, and as many or more sheep. The fact is. it Is very much ahead of present average reiqulre ments. and its managers plan to keep it that way, as they have done since opening business. The plant was three years ago provided with a new curing room new hog coolers and new hog kill ing, floor, and a new pork cutting room.. Also large new storage rooms Hoc a commodious new to date lard and compound refln- In ttlt.t Com f . marhiti..eaV " J ery in this is the first to d' brought to this coast. Gives open kettle rendering. Takes the mois ture out; makes a better product. Has a new by-product plant.l and some of the machinery In this. too. was the first to be brought to . this coast. The plant does away with offensive odors. It renders the product sweet and clean. Instead of tankage, meat meal Is made. It is a good hog and chicken feed. No fertiliser is made, excepting a blood meal, which is used for this purpose. j A new, l-ton ammonia compressor was recently added. The capital stock was ia 1924 increased from $200,000 to $500.- 000. The capacity of 1.000 hogs week, means 52,009 bogs a year, and that, many will indue time be needed, and will be furnished right here In the Salem district which will mean that the swine raising industry will hare increas ed here to more than 10 times the size It was when this plant be gan operations. Best Hog Market in World The annual hog Slogan number of the Statesman has been saying for some years, and proving It, that Salem Is the best hog market in the United States, or In the world. The local plant always pays 60 cents a hundred pounds under the Portland price. For Instance, Portland' has been pay Ing around a $11.75 to 1 a hun dred pounds for hogs of the best packing weight and kind. Tbe lo cal packing plant has been paying 50c a hundred pounds less.. Bnt the price In Omaha. Chicago, etc. nan been considerably lower. The Omaha price was ea Tuesday 1 1 15 to $10.75. The Portland price was $12.15. A Positive Proof Here Is a positive proof that a hajf a cent a pound in Salem on der the Portland price is at least a quarter of a- cent a pound better than , the Portland price for ' oar swine preeders. as the Statesman has claimed: Just before the 4tb of July .1114 the local plant was overstocked,' and some, of their people were on vacations, etc., so they sent a car of hogs to Port land. They lost $50 on the car They had to pay freight, yardage ieea. insurance, iees, and com missions six items, which no shipper could avoid. It would be the same with the farmer. He would lose money. That was the only shipment of hogs ever made by the Valley Packing company.! They have always shipped in, of bought locally; never shipped out excepting in the ease of this one car of hogs. Oar People Pro3 . Salem people are proud of their local packing house, owned andl operated by the Valley Packing company, with' its plant and of fices on the Portland road at the northern edge of the city front ing the Pacific highway. There are a number of things in this connection of which they are proud and four things es pec ally. These are the four: First It is a very complete and thoroughly equipped plant, and it is owned entirely by local people; so owned and managed. Second- Its Cascade brand of hams, bacons and lard are as good in quality as the best put up In the United States. Third This plant enables us to truthfully and pridefully say that Salem is the best hog market in the United States. The prices nere are au w Fourth It is a growing busi ness; kseps ahead of the local sup ply. Big and Growing Fast The Valley Packing company uses on an average each weex about: 500 hogs. 200 sheep. 100 cattle. The number of sheep used each week has about doubled In. a year. The quality of the mutton turned out is high. We have a great sheep country. The Valley Packing company people now get all of their hogs locally, and their sheep, too. They have helped to make Salem a swine breeding center, and they will make it decidedly more so. when their enlarged plant is work ed up to capacity. They are get ting part of their beef supply through the Portland stock yards. from eastern Oregon points. There are 60 acres in the hold ings. The managers keep adding on yard room as needed. The yards are all paved and connected with the sewer and are flushed down often, to keep them sanitary and free from files. There Is am ple cold storage, and the plant and all Its appliances are modern and first class in every way. The Markets Fresh meat has been for some time going from this plant .as far south as Ashland and Klamath Falls, and to Portland on the north, and lately they have been going into Washington and Calif- oral. The company deliver meat In its. own trucks, all over tbe local territory, and to Port land The company employs in and about the plant about 50 people. and the weekly payroll is above $1600. The Cascade brand of hams, ba tmrp tmmr VaM? la OraCM Bar M muMats Ha4 I(Ib. Or cafitaz. nrosmsonrTAi woaxj J. O. Jmtm O. PniiMm AU mt MamwvBUtl Werfc Factory aa4 Otflta: mo a. cw'i ons lie 1. a a r. Ceury. mi si nM sis . con and lard, put out by the Val-j ley Packing company is sold in the markets everywhere right along with the leading brands produced by the large packing housed throughout the country. The lo cal concern takes no back Beat on quality. Guaranteed by Government The Valley Packing company is government inspected. It Is op erated under the supervision of the bureau of industries of the United States department of agri culture. There has all along been maintained at the plant a veterin ary inspector who has been pro vided with an office there and who inspects all animals as they come in and all meats as they go out. and also supervises the whole plant as to sanitation, etc. So the whole output is guaranteed as to quality by the United States gov ernment. Lately a second govern ment inspector has ben added. The two inspectors now are Dr. J. H. Jullen and O. A. Welch. On tlie Ninth Year The Valley Packing company commenced operations on January 1. 1920. It has been going and growing for over eight and a half years. The president is Curtis B Cross; vice president W. H. Steus loff; secretary. E. M. McKee; treasurer, Wm. Walton. The Valley Packing company will never stop growing and build ing. It is a growing field. Highest Price for Hoga There is a cost connected with the delivery of hogs to the Port land market from Willamette val ley points of about 75 cents a hun dred pounds, as stated above. So the Salem price is really al ways above the Portland price; and the Portland price is nearly always the highest in the United States. The Salem price, as was stated, is always within 50 cents a hundred pounds of the Portland price. So the reader may see that the producers of hogs In the Salem district are favored in price far above the swine breeders of the Mississippi valley states the so called great corn states. It should be remarked in pass ing that the Salem district is be coming a great com district. Ma rion has taken her place as the leading corn country in the Pacific Northwest, and Polk county Is not far behind; neither Is Yamhill Linn or Claekamas. Our growing swine Industry is helping to boost corn growing here. And Hols helping the dairying and poultry industries, too, and directly and indirectly aiding in the growth and business prosperi ty of the city and country in many ways. , Our people can show their ap preciation of this great sad grow ing plant jy always boosting the Cascade brand and by helping in putting over the slogan. "Patron ire home industry Still Better Showing The difference in favor of the prices paid by the Valley Packing company over Omaha prices is greater now than at this time in 1926 or last year. It was about 50 cents a hundred pounds in fa vor of Salem in 1926; it was $1.10 to $1.45 a hundred pounds In fav or of Salem last year, and It Is $1 to $2.40 a hundred pounds In favor of Salem now. That Is cer tainly something worth thinking about. It should create here SALEM NAVIGATION ; COMPANY Water Transportation Portland alem Telephone 007, DIXIE HEALTH BREAD AsSc Yaur Grocer OB boom in the swine industry. It will, without question. In the course of time. ALL COTS OF BEEF "Our task is to produce by wise selection, proper feeding, and in telligent management a beef ani mal every cut of which will yield a tended. Juicy dish." said E. W. Sheets, chief of the animal hus bandry division, bureau of animal industry. United States depart ment of agriculture, in an address June 23 before a meeting of live stock specialists at Grain Valley. Mo. In his opinion this goal can be attained. Tbe occasion was a discussion of the 30-year Sni-a-Bar Farm beef-cattle-breeding demon stration now in progress near Grain Valley under the terms ot a bequest by Col. W. R. Nelson of Kansas City, who inaugurated the work. In discussing tbe results of skillful cattle breeding. Mr. Sheets said; "We have animals today wnose cnuck cuts will produce a more toothsome steak or roast than a loin or rib cut from cattle leas prideful of ancestry and ts favored in the feed lot." Using "The Beefsteak Sire" as the topic for his address, Mr. Sheets explained the difficulty growers have In determining the value of bulls of the beef breeds. and especially In knowing what characteristics a beef sire will transmit to his offspring. The present public demand for beef, he explained, is principally for a few choice cuts representing about 18 per cent of the entire carcass. "The best results for the least expenditure of monye In the im provement of beef cattle," he said, are obtained by tbe use of care fully selected, purebred bulls. The problem, moreover, is not so much that of obtaining animals superior to any which we have today as of learning to appraise sccurately tbe most valuable among those we al ready have. "To learn how to produce and recognize beef sires whose off spring will yield uniformly high quality steaks and roasts Is a task lor tbe Government, cooperating with States experiment stations and forward-looking institutions like Snl-a-Bar Farms." Mr. Sheets' address was suple meated by a new motion picture film. "The Beefsteak Bequest." made by the United States depart ment of Agriculture, which shows some of the principal results of the Snl-a-Bar Farms demonstra tion. D. A. WHITE & SONS Carry DR. KORINEK'S Veterinary Remedies and Minerals Air Painting DONE WITH A GUN M. B. Sanderson 1144 North Cottage Otto T. Zwfckar. Frap. - Pkaaa USA. SALEM FLUFF RUG & MATTRESS FACTORY Kew buttresses Made to Ordet Old. Mattress steaming and re- Carpet rl tug, flu ting, sewing and etztng. nor ass r au sm ee er aa kmSs af etc carpets V Boat tk a4 Wither Sts. TO BE MADE TENDER Hog Prices Should Improve Through the Later Part of the Year, if Indications of Redaction of Breeding stock in Europe Are at All Reliable Marion the Heaviest Hog Producing County of Western Oregon, and Marion, Linn . and Polk Produce Over a Third of All the Hogs Produced in Seventeen Western Oregon Counties (By Robert E. Shtnn, agricul turist for the United States Na tional bank, of Salem. Oregon.) . It has been often times pointed ly stated that hogs are a means by which certain agricultural crops may be harvested and mar keted to a better advantage from a dollars and cents standpoint than any other way. This statement is undoubtedly true provided the ratio between i the cost of feed and the price of I pork is probably balehTJAgfnowh! pork Is properly balanced. In sections of the country where corn is produced to the best ad vantage from the standpoint of cost and pleld, we find' hogs brought to the market most profit ably. These sections He in the great corn producing states of the mid dle west, and there we find much attention being paid to the so called "corn-hog ratio." By that is meant the yield and price of corn on the open market as com pared with the market price of pork. Under the present transporta tion rates between Nebraska points and Portland, the Willam ette valley producer canot hope to benefit by a greater differential over and above the Omaha market than one dollar and a half per hundred weight. This being a fact. It is impera tive that the Willamette valley hog producer become a close stu dent of the middle western "corn- hog ratio" and the hog cycle. The corn-hog ratio measures the number ot bushels of corn a. hun dredweight of live hogs will buy. The feeding ratio is favorable to producers when hogs will pur chase a maximum of corn. Dur ing all of 1926 and the first four months of 1927 the ratio was fav orable, hut It dropped rapidly dur ing the spring and early summer in line with the apparent prospect for a short corn crop. The rise in the ratio during the last five months of 1927 was, of course seasonal, but the degree of rise was greater than normal, due to the final maturinr ot the corn crop. The last bog cycle ran from a peak in 1922 to another In 1926 wit ha decline following In 1927 and the first half of 192$. The indications now point to a slow rise to another peak in late 1929 os in 1930. According to past ex perlence. the size ot the 1928 corn crop will be a vital fsctor in tim ing- the arrival of the peak, but for the coming cycle the European situation will prove more than or dinarily influential. During the past two years the hog cycles of both England and Germany have closely paralleled ouf own. Both of these countrVJ had an over supply of hogs and blgh priced feed, which resulted In an abnormally large slaughter in those countries. This condition resulted In the forcing of normal GIDEON STOLZ CO. Manufacturers of Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 96 Ore. DEPENDABLE WELDING Electric and Acetylene C. D. OPPEN Phones: 872; Res. 208O-J 695 MiU St. Salem. Ore. Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. -Manufacturers of-- : ' . BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made- Paper for-Your Office Stationery Capitol Bargain and Junk House 105-145 Center Tel. 398 AD Kinds of Junk Bought and Sold Anything from a Needle to a Steam Engine - . . CASH PAID FOR RAGS, BOTTLES, BARRELS OLD PAPER, CARPETS, IRON, WOOL, PELTS, GRAPE -ROOT, CIIITTAU BARK, PEPPERMINT OIL, ETC. pork products Into the domestic trade. For the first half of 1927 the volume of our pork products exported was twelve per cent low er than in 1926, while the. value of hog meats exported was about 25 per cent less. In brief, a de cline of $50,000,000 in value oc curred during the first 11 months of 1927 In the export trade In meat products. During the same period Den mark exported a third greater tonnage of bacon to England than she did In 1926. Other nations such as Czechoslovakia. Poland. " tbe Baltic states. Sweden. Hun gary, and Holland have been on a high producing basis. These countries have been liquidating their over-supply, and the outlook for the next two years points to more normal supplies from those countries. According to the United States Government Pig Survey, issued during the early part if this year, the prospective pig crop for this season is much more favorable tor lighter supply of hogs during thti later part of 1928. Furthermore, hog prices should Improve through the later part of the year, espe cialy If the Indications of liquida tion of breeding stock in Europe are at all reliable. The study of these conditions and trends is of special import ance to Marlon and surrounding counties. The 1925 agricultural census. issued by the departments of com merce and agriculture, show Mar lon to be the heaviest hog produc ing county of the 17 western Ore gon countries, and the combined agricultural areas confined in the counties of Marion. Linn and Polk produce over onethird of all the hogs raised in western Oregon. 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