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PAGE TWELVE - j ' The OREGON STATESMAN. Salef. OrcgonY Sunday Morning, Angus! 30, 1931 1 Edited by gkxevievb' MORGAN - This pare Is regular Sunday fea ture of The Statesman. Farm news, farm Information, the story of the accesses of Tarious farm operators published herein. ; News of the Prosperous Willamette Valley Q . -1 r I and of the Varied Agricultural Pursuits of O : i interest to its Diversified Farmers. aim. Fainnaejrg. !' ' ' ' '. . . . .- 4 - II OF FAIR DICED Livestock all to be in Place On Opening day, Sat : -: urday, Sept 26 - The official " program - of the . 70th Oregon state fair as announ red here' this week by Max Cehl har, director of the department of agriculture, is: September 19, Saturday -Lire- stock and-exhibits all in place. Opening parade In downtown Sa lem In forenoon. Special free pro- gram en grounds. "Boys and Girl Free Day." Three-day t rodeo buckeroo opens In afternoon. Free fireworks. Horseshoe tournament beglas. - September 27, 'Sunday 4-H boys' and girls official program opens at afternoon rally. Free program on grounds. " v September. 28; Monday -Final "rodeo-bucksroo. and awarding the . prises to riders. Night horse show opens C-day program.' Band, con test begins. September 29. Tuesday Har ness and running 'horse-racing program opens. -September 30, Wednesday Sa lem day. October "1, Thursday Portland day. GoTernor'a day. October 1, Friday Farmer's day. Pig-calling contest. Wild cow milking contest.' ..: October 3, Saturday Editors' day. Finals state band contest. Finals northwest and state horse shoe pitching tournaments. October 4. Sunday Closing day of 70th Oregon state fair. TO ASSIST JOBLESS COUER d'ALEXE, Idaho. Aug. 29 (AP) Jobless men of the pacific northwest are being or ganized Into salrage units- to .gather and preserve surplus fruits and grain to feed hungry families of the unemployed this winter. Pe.ter Green, one-time million aire "who lost his fortune in the stock market crash, conceived the Idea when he say thousands of bushels of apples and other fruits going to wastevln the orchards of central Washington. . Unemployed men. from here picked several truck loads of ap ples and apricots in Washington and brought them here for can ning. Tracks and lumber for the boxes were donated and orcbard lsts permitted the "stripping" of trees after the picking season. None of the men gathering the food received wages, but their ef forts insured food tor hundreds of children who otherwise might be . under-nourished orr even .hungry during the winter.- Visitors Attend Grange Meeting At Scotts Mills SCOTTS MILLS. Aug. 29 The Scotts Mills grange held Its sec ond 'meeting in the I. O. O.. F. hall Thursday evening.. A large delegation from the Monitor, and Silverton Hills grange attended, also four from the Stayton grange. One new member. Warren Kll born. was initiated. After the meeting a social time was en Joyed and lunch served In the din ing room. Cow, Sow, Hens Harvest Wheat ; On Texas Farm ..DIMMITT, Tex. (AP) The cow, sow and hen'- program Is 'still good enough for Kester Dur an. vocational agriculture student In the DImmitt school. Kester proved during the past year that one good cow, a sow and 45 hens were worth more than 100 acres of wheat at - present prices. He made a clear profit of $217.41 from his projects over a perlea of eight months. Harvest of 1,000 Pounds of Beans Made by Witzell TURNER. Aug. 28 R, O. Wit tell has harvested and threshed 1000 pounds of beans of the gold en wax, dwarf horticultural and navy bean varieties, grown on contract for a Portland seed firm. The seed is in fine condition as .there has been no rain during the rinenlnr season. Mr. Witxell has raised bean seed for several years. He will harvest a iaier variety in a few' weeks. V! T n I & a ice DUVu Alone in Territory; Has Much Fruit Now GERVA1S, Aug. 20 Mrs. Adaat Schell has a Tig tree growing la ber yard, which it is believed is the only fig tree ia this section. . Mrs. Schell brought the tree from Portland five years ago when it was a small plant. It has froze, down twice. It now meas ures five feet two Inches In height and Is a healthy tree. It has several pounds of fruit on it as the present -time. SAVE CROP S IHOGS LOW? 3 h r .. Here's a sample of TJuroc Jerseys will be exhibiting at the Oregon ; . 1 1 a-,, .; ! 26.. Doerfler is regular exhibitor at the fair and annually car ries off a good share of the ribbons. ... 4-H-EHS TO BALLY At EfllR SEPT. 27 H. C. Seymour, state club lead er, and the club leaders of the state decided to open the 4-H pro gram at the state lair one day earlier than usual with a rally on Sunday afternoon. September 27. . The 4-H boys ,and girls' pro gram, exhibits in their special building. Judging contests, and competitive showing of livestock, continue t rough the week. The boys and girls who come to the fair for the week are those who have succeeded best In' their var ious county fair competitions. "The quality of 4-H livestock which will come to the state fair this year is better than it has ever been, ! and there will be as many, if not more, entries than before," Allen said. There will be many special poultry entries. Polk county will have livestock. and other exhibits, according to J. R. Beck, county agent.. Linn county and Marion county hare. extensive plans, not yet an nounced. Benton couty will ex hibit. ! WACONDA. Aug. 29 H o p growers of this community are busy at present making prepara tions for hop picking. Work will begin in the Gary Smith yard some time this week. Several fam ilies have ml ready made camp and are waiting for the beginning of activities. I Those employed to work In the Smith yard will pick Al Nusom's hops Monday. It is anticipated that 60 pickers will make short work of this 12 acre field of hops. The fourth or fifth Is the date set for work to start In the T. B. Jones yard. A. W. Nusom expects to begin picking abou Friday. The roof on the hop house is being repaired and all preparations being made for a busy season. Fryslie Begins Big Harvest of ' Early Cabbage . RICKET, Aug. 29 J. Fryslie is harvesing his .early cabbage. Not only does. Mr. Fryslie sell to the Salem; and other nearby mar kets, but I has customers as far away as the coast country. J. Fryslie and his fathefN. Fryslie. farm about 300 acres. Not only do they raise hay and grain but also loganberries, the largest acreage of potatoes in the community, sweet corn and cab bage. The FryslJes do the greater pat of their farming with a tractor, j Turpin and Kirby Have New Wells i MILL CITY, Aug. 29 New wells located by Art Flatman this past week were for Dick Turpin and F. L. Klrby. Both wells have proved to be a source of plenty of water. ! By deepening the well previously dug on the place of Dewey Flatman, a plentiful sup ply of water was found. Plans were being made to abandon the well when Mr. Feldman made the statement i that if they would dig a few. feet deeper an abundant suppiy or waier wouia oe securea. Steerl Calves Grow On Added Mineral AMES. I la.. A nr. 29 (AT Experiments conducted by Iowa State college-experts Indicate that sieer caives red with minerals in addition to their basic ration made a better gain per day than those which got the same ration without minerals. The feed cost for each 100 pounds gain over a six weeks' period was $7.47 for those get ting the! minerals to $7.C9 for those not gettllg them. The paper shell pecan, develop ed largely f rom trees growing wild in GMrrlx (vamna m vt- yearly to farmers of the state "1I7 (,VVV,VUV. . Total production of rice in Lou lasana this year is estimated at more than K.000,000 bushels. IP PICKING OPENS MOAT, WACOM - l f . NOT THESE! ; . whicii A. N. Doerfler, SUverton, state fair which starts September In the Country Hereabouts ' ' HUBBARD The ' biggest yield of clover in' this vicinity was hull ed on the farm of Lester Will. He got fire and a third bushels to the acre. MILL CITY A peculiar Inci dent was noted on the B. L. Allen farm this week, when a plum tree which was heavily laden was vir tually stripped by squirrels, the little animals cutting the frtlt In half near the stem and taking the pits from the fruit, - SCIO L. C. Quick, who purch ased the Dort place near Sclo two years ago. has disposed of the property and acquired the Jesse Davenport farm near Lyons. He will move October 1. : GERVAIS Thieves entered the chicken house at the Sam H. Brown place and took 45 young Oregon Plymouth Rocks. Mrs. Brown had 13 capons in a coop near the house, and five of these were taken. No clue has been found. WOODBURN O. B. Hanson, who farms near MonlSsr. appar ently has the season's record for tall corn stalks. Height: 13 feet, seven Inches. Variety: Pride of the North. LABISH CENTER The first carload of onions harvested this year moved from the Hayes I - blsh ranch this week. The con tract price is $1.25. Onion Harvesting Going Full Swing On Hayes? Farms LAKE LABISH, Aug. SO The Hayes Co. now has 5 onion pull ers at work, the harvest being in full swing on this extensive farm. Few of the other raisers, growing on a small scale, have pulled any as yet. Most of them will begin next week. . ! There is plenty of transient la bor to handle all present activity; more than enough. In fact. Many Itinerants are turned off dally. They are returning from the ber ry fields and fruit harvests to try the onion work, which this year is paid for at the flat rate of 30 cents per hour. Child Recovering From Bad Burns; Berrys in Idaho LYONS, Aug. 29.' The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs; Everett Crabtree who was qutte badly burned while at the swimming pool near Floyd Boyington's at Mehama last week Is reported Im proving satisfactorily. She fell into the campflre while playing with 'the other children but es caped being seriously burned. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Berry, and family left by auto early this morning for Weiser, Idaho, to spend a few days visiting with Mrs. Berry's relatives. They hoped to drive to Baker today and visit with a sister and family on their way. ' Mrs. Frank Domlson and son left for Portland the first of the week to Join her son, 'Richard Landls and family on a two-weeks' tour through California and southern Oregon. Anti-Planting Bill Approved BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 29. (AP) (Saturday) The sen ate of the Louisiana legislature's special session today passed the cotton prohibition bill ' of Gov. Huey P. Long, enacting It into law with the signature of the gov ernor. . . . Missionary Is Said Kidnaped WEST SALEM, Aug. 29. The (Saturday) (AP) Delayed re ports received here today said that a roving band of commun ists entered the town of Tlenmen, 100 miles west of Hankow, cn August If, and carried off Father Hugh Sands, a British Catholic missionary., ? :: -rr- Mach poisoned with white ar senle has been, used by farmers In South Dakota to combat grass hoppers. : t ' ' Mere than 300 varieties of gla diolus are grown In the Iowa state college trial gardens, - . : f HTOfl CLAIMS no onoDocn State Turkey Growers' Chief : "Talks Things of In ' ; terest Here : - Because turkeys " are . being raised in this section on a larger scale, a talk - delivered - before . a. group 'In Roseburg this week by McKinley Huntington, president of the Oregon"1 Turkey Growers' association. Is of Interest - here. The state association, now in Its fourth year, was fostered in ijjouglas county. - mere ia no . immediate aanger of over-production, the president said. . ' . - - Huntington declared the lack of. adequate - distribution hamp ered the turkey Industry In the past, and said growers were then at mercy of large buyers who were not Interested in fostering the business or even In seeing turkey raising survive. He pointed out further: Since the forming of the mar keting association federal aid has been obtained and - In - addition government graders 'have made It possible to ship a standardised product. Prior to the formation of the federation of all of the north west associations, a -number" of small associations were fighting among themselves and. competing with one another on price bids. The federation not only makes a more efficient selling setup but has actually succeeded in : ao stabilising th price that turkey growers are reporting profUs that are reasonably satisfactory. COWY GRABS TO PICNIC TODAY Grangers from all parts of Marlon county will gather in the city park at Silverton today for the annual picnic of the Pomona grange. Two state officers will be in attendance: Charles C. Hulet. state master, of Albany, and the Rev. J. D. Chltwood. state chap lain. ; The program will be opened af 10 o'clock when the Rev. Chit- wood Is scheduled to read several scriptural passages. Mayor L. C. Eastman of Silverton is next on the program with an address of welcome. Pomona Grange Master L. S. Lambert of Stayton will re spond. Then will follow the ad dress of the day by the grange leader, Charles C. Hulet. A picnic-dinner at noon will round out the morning program. The afternoon promises to be interesting with a talk by Ray Gill, Multnomah, county repre sentative and member of the grange state executive committee. The Portlander is known as a constructive talker. Musical num bers and a sports program are also Included in the afternoon's activities. Community singing will also be featured throughout the day, according to Frank Bow ers, Pomona grange lecturer. Who says nobody loves a farm? In the past few weeks one firm alone has handled five transac tions Involving farms near Wood burn. The firm Is the World's Berry Center land company. Deals Include: Sale of the A. E. Janz 40-acre Improved farm near Monitor to William Nelson, Wood bum; ex change of J. Pelmulder's tract on the Pacific highway to A. E. Hud son for his Improved 47-acre farm in Lewis county. Wash. Lease of the C. C. Gulliford 25- acro improved farm east to A. A. Weller of Oklahoma; lease of the Anna Kauffman tract west of Woodburn to M. M. Miles of Cal ifornia who moves on Tuesday; lease to Roy "X. Wilkinson farm of the Trudgen 10-acre tract west of Broadacres. - Halter-Led Turkeys Prospect Here, Says Fair Superintendent Train Oregon turkeys to be baiter led I. This is the suggestion of Edward Shearer, snperin teadent of the poultry de partment at the Oregon state fair for 14 years.. As the facts show. Superintend eat Shearer Is more than half-serf o-s. Ia a letter to the' depart ment of agriculture he aaid, Tvkeys today La Oregon are being bred larger aad larger each year with finer plumage than ever ' before. If they; coutlaue to grow each year as they have. In past years some new way of handling' them must be de vised. - It may be aecesMry to have them halter-broke aad lead them around to their stalls like cattle. Many of the . turkey toms weigh -SO pounds.- . - . To handle a 50-pound torn without breaking a feather while Judging him, and posing him for a pic ture several times a day after the awards are up, is not a job for a weakling su perintendent,' Shearer declares. EARNS 1 DEMAND; AROUND WOODBURN Believe it or Not! Winesap Grows like Prune in 40 Years SILYERTOX, Aug. 27 Mrs. Alice Small of Silverton was exhibiting one of her prised possessions this week --a winesap apple which she has had for 0 years. The apple has shrunk: consider ably from its 'original size, but. never decayed. It now has the stse aad appearance of a dried Italian prune. ... . The apple was -picked from the family orchard in Clackamas" county In 1801, the year Mr. and Mrs. Small sold their, farm. and moved to Silverton. The - Smalls were married In 18S6, aad bought . their , first- farm 'known as the Mold . Boh. Ross' place one-half mile from Marquam. . Mrs. Small has lived here or near here since 1883.. when she came with her par-' ents. m" TS TO EASTERN MART Pacific Northwest nut ship-' ments to the east this year will approximate SO carloads, 20 more than the highest previous year's record. This is the word given yesterday, by CW. H.' Bentley of Dundee, manager of the nut grow ers association. M. P. Adams of Salem It a member of the associa tion board. The Salem packing house, as well as the trio at Dundee, Amity and Lebanon, will be In operation on filberts October 1 and on wal nuts October 10, it Is now - pre dicted. The bulk, or three-fourths, of the tonnage handled Is expect ed to be shipped east. Bentley says the walnut crop will be between 1.500 and 2.000 tons, the largest per acre yield recorded. The filbert harvest, es timated at between 250 and 300' tons, will not be so large per acre, but la greater than last year due to . new orchards bearing. These new filbert orchards are responsible for Increased mem bership in the association, the manager said. Prices on both varieties will be under last year, when filberts opened at 15 to 14 cents on Barcelojas and 20 to 15 cents on DuChllles. It; is expected wal nuts will open several cents under also. I I IN BENTON COUNTY CORVALLIS. Aug. 29 Ben ton's threshing and harvest Is about over andl except for work in the orchards farmers are mark ing time until the first fall rains come down. Thesoll is entirely too hard to work now. Grains and hay were an average crop, except some alfalfa will not be cut now on account of shortage of mois ture. r Tomatoes, corn and cabbage are all looking fine and maturing fast. , Fresh prunes ar being ship ped now. Bartlett pears are being picked and the late peaches . are coming on. Lack of green feed and water shortage are pulling down range stock to slight degree, while domestic stock is on feed. King of Galons Wilt Be Hanged With 18 Aides THARRAWADDY, Burma. Aug. 99 rPl Sava San. "Klnr of thA Ralons". who led a recent re volt against the British, has met M Wtprloo at last, but it was In a tiny, dark courtroom here. not on the; field of battle. . The doughty king, who has cose Great Britain dearly in money and MnnH wa sentenced to death Fri day for treason against a higher king, George v or cngiana. Eighteen of his lieutenants also were sentenced to death. 18 oth ers were given life terms and eight were acquitted. Saya San will be hanged almost immediately unless a stay of execution is granted. Sent Money to V Poor Relation Who Dies Rich M OAKLAND, Aug. 25 (AP) Mrs. Harriett lresser, 45, sent what money she could spare to her "penniless" sister In Chicago for 0 year. Friday, Mrs. Preeser. wife of Thomas W. Preeser. night watch man, learned the "penniless". sis ter, - Mary Elixa SchofJeld, who died last October, left an estate of $11,000. The first Intimation Mrs. Pres-fiaA'th-t her sister wai not poverty-stricken was Friday when sne received worn ox xne estate. Bubonic Plagvfe Noted In Spain 4. MADRID. Aug. 284-fAP)- The government announced to night i that bubonic piaxue had broken out in Barcelona. It was asserted those Buffering trom the disease 'had been Isolated .and sanitary precautions had been taken. MORE no 6 HARVEST FINISHED Farm Wife Deserts Cows To Watch Big Air Battle Farm life has Its oddities, to which no one will attest more quickly than Mrs. L M. Hammer of, West Stayton. --.-."-- She chanced one day. this week to approach the draw -back of their farm home. Out from' the willow bush at the foot she saw come two miniature hordes, one of hornets and the other, yellow Jackets. Their nests," believe it or not, were' scarcely, two feet apart. Quickly the hornsts and yellow Jackets merged into a mass, fly ing madly around together lor eight or ten minutes; then they separated, only to fly around by each other ln'a circle. .And then a split and a rush. Good Crop Nuts ) But Growers Are , Silent on Price ' AURORA. Aug." 2 8 There are few walnut orchards In this sec tion. J. p. Freeman in the Donald country has nine acres' of good looking walnuts. His 12-year-old orchard has a heavy cronand a younger orchard Just coming Into bearing Is doing well. Freeman is satisfied with the crop but will not venture a guess as to price. ' In the meantime he will pick his eight acres of what he consid ers pretty, fair hops. Ci?fflmIS) Buying the For Your Buying the best for your car in tires, batteries, lubricants, motor fuel and brake lining may cost a trifle more now, but it puts the TOMORROW when your car will need repairs so much further away. The experienced motor car owner knows the secret of buying: the best. His serv ice trips are less frequent, and he spends less in the long run than the man who is forever hunting bargains. WE SEljECT NOTHING BUT QUALITY MERCHANDISE FOR OUR CUSTOMERS WE HAVE THE FINEST EQUIPMENT OBTAIN ABLE IN EACH DEPARTMENT - WOneim 'Eton srnong FOLLOW THE LEAD OF CAR : :t M mm-mm m rteaa-7 mn : v builders have Joined! THE. BIG SWDNG TO 01. S. TARES S OUR SERVICE CAR GOES ANY PLACE, ANY TI1VJE! ITU High and Chemeketa ' Park Your Car at Our Annex 240 They were at each other' throats, deadly enemies. "X never saw anything like the way' they fought, round and round for ful ly half an hour, says Mrs. .Ham mer, who Judges the yellow Jack ets outnumbered the - heavier; opponents six to one. ..T'he overwhelming . numbers brought victory to the weaker bee species.' and it was ready to quit the air, with f every hornet downed. , ; .But, Instead of marching off Immediately like victors, the Y. Js scurried about the- 'ground, killing Its own wounded and. the crippled hornets. ' "Oh, yes, and I got a few stings for my curiosity ,'r Mrs. Hammer admitted, adding: ' "Yon should have, seen it. Why onr army men. even General Pershing himself, surely could have learned things from the war the. battle was conducted; and that treatment of the injured. It was a great air battle." Purdue, university dairy men have found soybean oil meat to bo the equal of linseed or cottonseed 611 meal In dairy rations. - The average annual living ex penditure of '147 farm families picked at random In Iowa was $1, 24.85. The average size of the families was 4.7 persons. Best Car vi Vv UU! D - A CAR IS NO BETTER THAN ITS TIRES that's why so many car 7S) TN57S Day and Night Service mm TO FLOCKS With quality lambs almost a by-word today, with .low prices prevailing on sheep and with the time virtually at hand for breed ing the trio presents reasons suf ficient to buy rams now, and to select good ramsT That Is the word from H. A. Llndgren, ex tension animal husbandman. The extension. man says: -Marketing lambs hinges on quality, no other class . of farm animals depending ' more this point No matter how much or how good the feed, good lambs can not be made without breed ing animals of the best typo. The grower can help his condition materially by selecting rams at the present low prices. When they are at the bottom is a good time to get started with the right kind of stuff. : The ram to "select for good quality . lambs should bo smooth, but rugged enough to be durable. He should carry a straight, strong back, bo wide and deep of body and have plenty of style. Such rams will improve the flock, and never was there a better time to buy them than now. Indiana and Illinois together produce more than half of the na tion's crop, of soy beans. . ooo BUILD Selling the Best For Your Car Selling the best stands behind the growth of Day and Niles during the past few years' as the Outstanding fea ture of our service. U. S. Royal and- Peerless tires from the U. S. 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