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Dr O. C. Stlne (inset), federal economist, belleres the Increasing demand for scientific market
Ittterpretations heralds Vigorous application of business analysis to farm operations. .The chart : is
called a typical illustration of the department's accuracy in forecasting wheat prices. - , , . i'.
. By FRANK I. WEXLER
(Associated Press Farm Editor)
WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP)
A new era in farm management,
one in which the' trained Vusinesa
analyst is as important as fertili
ser or proper cultivation, la pre
dicted by agricultural economists
as a result of increased demands
for market Interpretations. ' " '
' Dr. O. C. Stlne, chief of the divi
sion of statistical and historical)
research in the federal bureau of
agricultural economics.' says the
last year has brought a constantly
increasing number of requests
from farmers for production and
markets forecasts and for price
predictions on agricultural -products.
- They' use- the. data. Dr.
Stlne explains, to adjust produc
tion to market demands .and to
sell their crops advantageously.
Further, revealing the new turn
la farm ' practice and manage
ment, the outlook conference of
agriculture has completed a sur
vey which shows 18 state agri
cultural colleges, in addition' to
the federal government,- now Is
suing frequently publications
which make economic information
available to farmers in more or
less popular form. Several addi-
THE ILLINOIS STATE FA1B TO HAVE!
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Nearly 900 prise does and bucks of leading milk goat breeds
will comnetA for national chamnloashiDS at the Illinois state fair In
August. Above s the Interior of a
genburg doe (center) and the
01 me aiguy aeveiopea oreeas to
SPRINGFIELD. ni.,Jujy 21
( AP) Milk goau of record, all as
finely bred as the best'.'oL,dalry
cattle, will compete for national
championship honors and ' cash
prizes at the Illinois state f air
August 18 to 25. . r ; .r-.;.
Hardy Toggeabnrga, white Saan
en. Anglo-Nubians aad tall aad
rangy French-Alpines win strive,
each on the peculiar merits of Its
breed, for the coveted ribbons and
premiums. The show, has Vbeea
designated as the official exposi
tion .of the American Milk: Goat
Record assoclatioa the national
organisation of purebred milk goat
owners. Between 150 aad tit ln
didual animals, bemedaled bucks
and does from all sections of the
country, will compete for recognl
tloa as American champions. Many
of them are valued at dose to
1.000.
in a special pea D. Imported
coiiciDEFKOfimKis;
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tional states, the conference nays,
contemplate the Issuance of simi
lar publications, aimed to present
the basic factors whlCjhjf make up
the current picture of produc
tion; movement, consumption and
price of farm products.
The alacrity with which these
data are employed by farmers to
adjust their business to changing
economic conditions in domcatic
anQ world markets is considered
iaa:wTe . i . iiufuii,-,
ace (ii ia i iu bu.u. s
In the matter of 'price fore
casts the. government Eliminates
cottop. Orders excluding this
product were Issued byl Secretary
of. Agriculture JardineJ following
protests against the price state
ment of September 15 past year,
which was blamed byj southern
members of congress fori the sharp
market decline at that ! time. It
was contended that price fore
casts by the government tended
to fix prices and to cause them to
be what fhey are forecasted to
become.
Maintaining the attitude he held
before the , congressional investi
gating committee, Dr. J Stlne de
clared that the opinion of no man
or group of men, even with the
Pennsylranla goat dairyl The Tog-
Saanen doe (below) represent two
oe ewuium.
Vanlta, reputed to be the highest
tin
priced milk, coat la America, will
head the Toggenburr entries." SheJ
Is owned by WM I. iTelalt.. pub
lisher of The Goat World. Breed
ers familiar with, her show ring
triumphs pay this venerable ma
tron the same degree-4f homage
that Man O'War recetref from lor
ers of tins horses. : f
Like : cattle, oach .m(lk'.goat
breed," developed' for ylrs along
very , definite lines , has Its own
foUowinar. The Togrenburgs are
native to ' Swltserland, are Teryj
hardy and thrive la any climate.
A doe of that variety holds a rec
ord, of 4450 pounds of?mUk and
1IS.5C pounds of buturfat as ens
rear's" production. They are brown
with white stripes down! each side
of the face, and with whits mark
ings on the legs. J ."'"h
The Saanen 1 the largest of the
Swiss-bred goats, and it white In
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backing of the 'government,' can
change the real value of a crop.
A large crop cannot be sold at
the price of a small crop. Urging
the importance of economic" anal
ysia for the farmer. Dr. Stine ex
plains:
"If market prices at the begin-
Ing of the season are too low, In
view of supply and demand condi
tions, the farmers who know this
can withhold from the market and
wait with niirflnj0 nf 'MvTisr
prices. lu on th-other hand
market prices at the' ne'glnnlng of
the season are higher. than supply
and 'demand conditions will sup
port for the season,, he can take
advantage of this temporary sit
uation and sell as long as prices
are equal to or above the real
value of the product for the
season. In many years fanners
undoubtedly could, add millionn
of dollars to their income by
planning marketing with a knowl
edge of the real value of the pro
ducts. "
In three years of price fore
casting. Dr. Stine says, the gov
ernment has based Its predictions
on its research as to what makes
prices, and .resultant statements
have been about 90 percent cor
rect. . -
eolor. One doe of that breed holds
a 24-hour milk production record
of 20 pounds and 11 ounces, and a
record of 4,005.4 pounds of milk
in ten months and two days,
They do well on the range' and
also are adapted to stall feeding,
from which the best milk pro
duction results. 1
The Anglo-Nubian, - a cross be
tween an English doe aad an Afri
can buck,' is called the Jersey of
the milk goat family. Its mUk
makes up in richness what it lacks
in quantity of production. Anglo
Nubians are tall and rangy with
ears that droop, and are of va
rious colors. rii-
The French-Afplnes, recom
mended as uniform nd persistent
milkers, are bred for productivity
rather than for color or markings.
They, too, are tall and rangy.
Although there are commercial
goat dartes in various parts of the
United. States, the tadustry has
net developed to any , important
extent.
Edward L. Shaw, formerly sen
ior animal husbandman of the de
partment of agriculture, says that
during the last several years con
siderable interest has been mani
fested, in -the milk goat, due to
the fact that It will supply suffi
cient milk for the average family
and can be kept where it would
be impossible to keep a cow, es
pecially by people living in small
town ' and the suburbs; of " the
larare cities. The milk goat is
adapted I to ViMa country, fie- ex-
nlains. and should become of
greater importance every year.
Scarcity of good stock. for foun
dation herds baa handicapped the
milk goat in America, where the
goat has been an animal of more
or less ridicule an "alley acro
bat" suspected of prodigious di
gestive accomplishments and sen
sational equilibrium. People have
not learned to differentiate,' Shaw
says, between the porch climbers
and those highly developed breeds
so much needed to America as
an adjunct to' the dairy Industry
OREBflTI AT TOP Ifl
10INDS
Records of Cow Testing As
sociations Put This State
: in Front Place -
Oregon cows have again . won
national distinction for the stats,
announcement from" Washington
D. C.. being that the herds la cow
testing associations in this state
contain the largest percentage of
300 pounds or betfer bnttetfat
herd 'averages of all those In the
hnsroTement associations cover
Ing SI states. .
Oregon tops the list wtlh- CO
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p1er""eenibf her It J 1 nerds'Tn the
association above the' 00 pound
mark according to the official re
port just received by K."- C Jami
son, extension specialist la dairy'
ing at the Oregon Agricultural col
lege. Mr. Jamison Is.head of the
Improvement- work in this state,
working with the various coanty
agents aad testers.
" Idaho is second in the list fol
lowed' by Michigan. Ohio, West
Ylrginiandiana and Nebraska.
Michigan exceeds other states in
the number of herds on test, Ore
gon being In fourteenth place in
this classification.
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LONDON, July 21 (AP) The
ehampion cheese-maker of the
United States has come to England
to see how the big cheese of Brit
ain get along.
P. H. Kasper of Bear Creek,
Wis., who bears the title of cham
pion cheese-maker, is a specialist
in one kind of cheese only; but
ho ia perfectly willing to see how
British cheese-makers manufac
ture the score or more of other
T
f. m. KASPE:
Varieties. He is one of the 91 del-
ee-ates representing the United
States government at the World's
Dairy Congress here.
Kasper has won enough gold
medals to decorate a whole ward
robe of coats; enough diplomas to
start a manuscript library; enough
gold watches to outfit his own
famllr all the war down to his
grandchildren. The gold watches
alone number 13, the diplomas
150. And nil won with cheese!
Kasper began winning medals in
1S93. He started with the World's
Fair In Chicago, jumped to Paris.
back again to St. Louis, then to
the Pan-American Exposition. Jn
New York, across the continent to
San Francisco. At, StLouis he
was the only man who drew a
medal for- cheese. He won five
gold medals from the National
Dairy Association. He has won
the first award at the Cheese-
makers convention "off and on.1
aa he calls It. for the last 30
years.
Kaiser learned his art of
cheese-making in Wisconsin in
1834. He Is particularly eager to
seg the English dairies because his
first lessons In his profession were
based on English methods .
The .Wisconsin dairyman early
gave up the idea of making a
variety of cheese and developed
an individually American type of
Cheddar cheese known as Amer
ican Cheddar. He has an output
of 250,000 pounds a year.
-Kasper plans to visit Scotland
and Ireland to see the dairies
there..
"It's never too late to learn
something new," this grandfather
declares.
WASHINGTON July 21 (AP)
Invited to assist German and
American marketing experts and
economists In a three-month study
of agricultural marketing condl-j
tions in Germany, J. Clyde Mar
quis of the federal bureau of agri
cultural economics has been grant
ed leave by Secretary Jar dine.
Marquis' invitation to partlcl
pate in the survey came from Dr.
O. F, Warren of Cornell Universi
ty, chairman of the American com
mission. He explained that the
work, to start daring the latter
part of July, will be concerned
particularly with dairy products
and meata. .
In addition to Dr. Warren aad
Marquis, the American members
of the commission include C. .
GIDEON STOLZ CO. 4
Man factai e s of
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There arc 315,000 Acres of Land Suitable for Goat Production
in That Coanty, Capable of Carrying- Three Goats to the
Acre, and ft Return of $5a Year May Be Had From Good
Angoras The Angora Is the Aristocrat of the Lire Stock
Family
Editor Statesman:
One of the things that Is a pus-
lie to me is the fact that no more
interest ia. shown In expanding
the flocks of Angora goats here
la Polk" county. With prices for
mohair running around 60 to 70
cents per pound, depending upon
the grade, there la as much money
to be made on your investment
in' goats as there is in sheep, yet
the sheep population in Polk
county has about doubled In the
past two or three years, while that
of the Angora goat has perhaps re
mained about stationary.
This condition is certainly not
due to the fact that there is no
land upon which to handle this
animal, for the livestock commit
tee of the Polk county economic
conference estimated that there
was 315,000 acres in Polk county
not now adequately- utilised that
A couple of Polk county
breeders of that county
Gray, president of the Golden
State Milk Products Co., San Fran
cisco; Dr. N. W. Hepburn, man
ager .of the Peoria Creamery Co.,
Peoria, 111.; Dr. F. B. Morrison,
director of the New York state
agricultural experiment station,
Geneva, N.. Y.; Dean H. W. Mum-
ford, college of agriculture. Uni
versity of Illinois; Dr. F. A. Pear-
v3."-
son, professor of prices and sta
tistics, Cornell University: Dr. H.
A. Ross, professor of marketing.
Cornell; Dr. Otto Rahn, professor
of dairy bacteriology. Cornell: and
L C. Weld, production manager of
the Chestnut Farms Dairy. Wash
ington. John S. Harris, One of First
Importers, Came to
Salem, Oregon
- The first mention of goats in
the Oregon country . seems to be
"inventory-of sundries delivered
to the . Northwest company. As
toria, Colnmbla rfver; lgl3" by
the Pacific Fur company. These
Keep- Towr Voner is Orca Bay
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BRING IN -YOUR
NEW WHEAT 1
And exchange It tor hard wheat
patent flour, or any of onr long
list of milling specialties. - We
do custom grinding. We sup
ply what yon need for what
yon lar9.:Tr.''X'X j '
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could be devoted to running flocks
of Angora goats on.
Room for Half Million
This same committee estimated
that on the average this land
would handle from one to three
head per acre, which would mean
approximately a half million
goats.
For years Polk county has been
the breeding center for the finest
high grade registered Angoras for
the entire Pacific coast. In no
'other locality in this district are
such flocks to be found as those
of.Wm. Riddell and Sons, Jno B.
Stump, R. W. Hogg and Sons. U.
S. Grant, W. D. Gilliam. McCaleb
Bros, and Guthrie Bros. Right
here at home in Polk county the
number of Angora goats has de
creased over a period of a few
years.
Angora an Aristocrat
My only conception of why this
beauties: pure bred producers of mohair; -Angora goats, in the
take leading roles, compared with any section or country.
were, of course, of the com mot 1
variety.
The Angora goat came original
ly from Angora, Asia Minor. The
first brought to this country were
presented by the sultan of Tur
key to Dr. James B. Davis, who
had gone to Constantinople at the
request of the sultan In 1849 for
some one who understood the cul
ture of cotton. Ultimately some
from this flock reached California,
the earliest coming In 1861. Some
were Imported directly from Asia
Minor. John Sherrae Harris, who
ultimately settled at Salem, went
to Tibet and spent a year there.
Finally, with a great deal of dif
ficulty, he brought out two bucks
and ten does. Cecil Rhodes suc
ceeded in obtaining some of the
goats from Turkey and taking
them to South Africa. From these
flocks came some of the earjly im
portations to California and from
there to Oregon. There has been
.difficulty In obtaining them both
from Asia and from southern Af
rica because of embargoes and
prohibitive duties.
According to Mr. George Houck,
the first Angora goats in Oregon
"came from California about
1887. The band, consisting of one
hundred and fifty-two animals,
was from the flock of Thomas
Butterfield, a former associate of
William M. Landrum. the pioneer
breeder, who first introduced An
gora goats in California.
"These were brought here by
Mr. A. Cantral, and he was one
of the first, if not the rfirst, to
Introduce them into the Willam
ette valley."
The Pacific northwest seems
particularly suited to the industry,
as the manufacture needs a moist
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Blasmfartorers of
Warm Air Furnaces, Fruit Dry
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Tanks, Steel 'and Foundry
Work. Welding a Specialty.
17 th aft Oak Sta. Salem. Ore.
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condition ""exists " Is" that possibly
the many, jokes and stories that
hare been told on goats have cre
ated ,in the minds of many; the
feeling. that a raiser of Angora
goats was more or leas of a Joke,
and men searching for new oppor
tunities to make'their. farms prof
itable have passed it by. At aay
rate, the Angora goat Is not a fit
subject tor the Jokes that-hare
been cracked at his expense, any
more than are the Scotchmen. In
fact, since the utilization of mo
hair la the upholstering of our
fine Inclosed cars, he ia in reality
the aristocrat, -for the fabrics
made from the product of the An
gora goat command the' highest
prices.
Great Opportunities
For longer than a quarter of a
century many of Polk county's
leading farmers have been hand
ling Angora goats with a. profit,
aad there are great opportunities
for othera to do likewise. I wish
to quote in full the report of the
livestock committee referred to
above, printed in the report of the
Polk county agricultural econom
ic conference held In Dallas in
February of this year. This re
port, which follows, Is signed by
Ronald Hogg, W. F. Lee, D. R.
Riddell.' Rob't Pence. Joe Staats,
Harrison Brandt. W. D. Gilliam
and Jess Walling.
"We do not feel that there Is
any Immediate danger of ; over-
ajt
'limate. It Is necessary also that
-he water of the district should
not contain alkali.
"The first machinery for work
ing wool was a carding mill
brought to Oregon across the
plains by Joseph Watt along with
his sheep in 1848. The first wool
en mill was, erected at Salem In
1857."
THE USE OF GREEN
IN ANCIENT TIMES
WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP)
Use of green manure to maintain
or increase productivity of the soil
is one of the oldest methods
known to agriculture.
The ancient Romans used lu
pines, which were sown In Sept
ember and turned under In May
for the benefit of the following
crop. By the middle of the nine
teenth century Germany began to!
do the same thing.
In England both legumes and
various crucifers are commonly
used, and in China green plant
material, although generally, com
posted, is sometimes turned under.
Farmers In India and Japan gath
er green plants of many kinds.
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CASH PAID FOR RAGS BOTTLE3, BARRELS. OLD ;
PAPER, CARPETS, IRON, WOOL, PELTS, GRAPH j
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production of mohair, in view ort;
the fact that ita use for .manu j,
facfarlnjg purposes is expanding, f
4"W strongly recommend goatr ?
as a means of economical Jand
clearing but urge that the great - f.
est success so tax as profits art T
concerned la had when the goats
are tamed onto stamp land and t
allowed I to .remain until - sprout J
are eaten down close. -After that i
they should be taken off , and U
tamed Into good pasture. Ai
sprouts grow turn In on them
again until eaten down. H
There; are SI 5,000 acres of;'
lands suitable for goat production'
In Polk county, capabje of carrel
ing three goats per acre. The ay
erage mohair clip isHilightry trmft
four pounds per head and this
Lean be materially Increased .by
the use of good sires. ; ".-.,
"A return of $5 per head per
year can be expected under intel
ligent care. We recommend some;
goats on erery farm haying some
brush land as a means of utilising
waste areas suitable for that pur
pose. The use of goata will Im
prove pasture conditions for p.11
classes of farm livestock." '
J. R. BECK.
Dallas, Or., July 17. lilt.
(Mr. Bck Is county agent for(
Polk county, and ia active and ef-4;
flclent in helping the agricultural
industries of that progressive sex'
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production of which
often cutting twigs from trees, to
fertilise their rice fields. In the
United. States green manure crops'
are more generally used in the,
south than In the north. They are
not used much in the seml-afid,
regions that practice dry-farming' ;
but under Irrigation green nia-
nures have an Important place la
orchard culture In some western
states. ,.fv
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Succession of crops In the gar-a
den may easily be arranged whejrj
moisture is not a umitea lactqr,.
Successions suggested In a
new s
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College on the farm vegetable gar-. (
den are early radish and lettuce,
followed by late carrots and beeU;
early spinach followed by celery .t:
early peas followed by broccoli and
fall cauliflower: early cabbe fo1-
lowed by fall lettuce and spinach"?'?
early beets and carrots followed.
DT
brussels sprouts and curly
kale; early onion sets and turnips f
followed by late cabbage.
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Old Mattress steaming and re
makiag. Carpet cleaning, fit
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