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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
Oregon Agricultural College is the Friend of the Farmer
A Page of Bulletins and News Notes Concerning the Staff at Corvallis.
A GOOD POULTRY RATION.
and apple leaf hopper. Professor Safro
PERFECT ration for laying hens will carry on this work during the sum­
contains the required food elements mer and remain in charge of the local
in a p p ro x im a te ly th e r ig h t p p ro p o rtio n , department until next fall.
been used to good adva-ntage in many Judge John F. Hall and addresses were
parts of California for several years, made by Professor G. E. Skelton, of
and no doubt tho benefit of the ex­ the highway engineering department at
perience gained in conducting it could the Oregon Agricultural College. The
be had by writing to any of the libra­ dates for the good roads meetings in
a n d in th e fo rm s m o st e co n o m ica l in th e
lo c a lity w h e re th e fe e d in g is done. P ro- STUDYING PEACH TWIG MINER. rians in charge. Also much useful help Coos county were: Myrtle Point, May
may be had by writing to Miss Marvin 11; Coquille, May 12; Bandon, May 13;
fe a s o r J a m e s D rv d e n , h e a d o f th e poul-
XPERTMENTAL work is being done of Salem, who is in charge of the state Marshfield, May 16.
t r y d e p a r tm e n t, O re g o n A g ric u lt u ra l Col-
in the Hermiston district by the library.“
Profesesor Skelton has recently re­
le g e , h a s p re p a re d a lis t o f fiv e m ore or
Agricultural College entomological
turned from a good roads tour of the
le ss e x a c t r a tio n s f o r o n e lav in g hen
department with the peach-twig miner.
PROFITABLE POTATO CROP.
middle and eastern parts of the United
f o r one y e a r. T h e fo llo w in g is r a tio n
Professor Wilson, entomologist of the i * jy * ' ARMER8
k
in different parts of States which was made primarily to in­
N o. 4, c o n sid e re d to be one o f th e b e st
college, spent last week in that terri­
Oregon who are making a spe vestigate the most approved methods of
f o r m o st p la c e s iu O re g o n :
tory looking after the work.
cialty of potato growing, get al highway construction in other states. He
C ost
M a te r ia l
N o. o f P o u n d s
most uniformly profitable results, net comes prepared to consult with farmers
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W h e a t ................. ...... 30
ting from $40 to $50 per acre,“ says and officers of the Oregon counties in
SUMMER SCHOOL COURSE.
O a ts ..................... ...... 10
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NNOUNCEMENTS of the summer Professor Scudder in liis Agricultural regard to the construction of highway»
B ra n ..................... ....... 10
school at the Oregon Agricultural College Bulletin on growing potatoes. throughout the state. Professor Skel­
C o rn ..................... ....... 5
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s
College have been made by Profes­ “ It is for-this reason that in all diversi­ ton advocates primarily the use of local
B e e f s c ra p .......
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C o rn m eal ......... ____ 5
.10 sor E. D. Ressler. June 15 and July 24 fied farming in this state the potato material for the construction of Oregon
might profitably be given more atten­ highways.
L in se e d m eal ...
.D ii are named as the dates of beginning
During his work in Coos county Prof­
Middlings ......... ....... 5
.07! and ending the summer sessions. Special tion. The use of a little extra care in
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.03 railway rates cf one and a third fares growing potatoes added to the natural essor Skelton desires to meet road su­
C h a rc o a l ............ ....... 2
.05 have been granted by all railroads op­ advantages of soil and climate would in­ pervisors and with them take up the
.05 erating in Oregon, good between the sure steady maximum yields and profit. problem of highway construction and
G re e n fo o d .......
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dates of June 5 and July 28, The two The market for Oregon potatoes is us­ maintenance.
ually excellent.
GUMM0SI3 CANKERS.
1.48$ college dormitories. Waldo for women
T o t a l ...............
“ Potatoes are an intensive crop—
While the cost of the above ration will and < V.rthora for men, will be opened that is, they will give an increasingly « i •J*HE cherry gummosis t ight is now
| on,“ says Professor ll. P. Bars»,
vary in different seasons and at differ­ to the students and will accommodate higher yield per acre with every bit
of the Oregon Agricultural Col­
ent places, it is thought to be very close more than 200 students with board and of extra care addded. At this time
to the average cost. Most of the mate lodging. The use of the rooms with much of the crop is grown by the gen lege department of plant pathology,
rial, such as wheat, oats and corn, can beds, mattre-sses. tables and chairs, will eral farmer, for whom the potato crop “ and many new infections can be pre­
be produced more cheaply on the farm, be free to those who make their homes often gives an excellent cash return vented by cutting out the old cankers.
and is marketed more economically when j j the halls. Two dollars will be charged with very little eare. Rather tlia/i giv­ The canker disease that causes most of
converted into poultry products. Other for light, heat and use of laundry. Table ing the potato crop the additional care the gummosis west of the Cascades, is
material such as green food, charcoal, board will be $3.50 per week at Waldo. required to get the best results in un­ due to an organism that lives over win­
ter in the edges of the old cankers, es­
“ The college realizes its responsibility
grit and shell or their substitutes, can
favorable seasons, the farmer depends pecially in the larger ones that were
be furnished from natural sources with in fitting the teachers fur teaching ele­ upon other crops for his cash income.
formed the previous season. From these
but little cost. Often milk and other mentary agriculture, manual training,
‘/T h e potato permits the farming of
farm products can be substituted for domestic science and art, and other high priced lands close to shipping points hold-over cankers the disease begins to
some of the materials that otherwise brandies of industrial learning in the and is of great value in a well-planned,' spread in late winter, enlarging the old
would have to be bought. By a careful schools of Oregon,“ declares the an­ intensive crop-rotation system, helping injuries and infecting many trees grow­
study of the given rations the poultry nouncement. Experienced teachers who to maintain fertility because of the ex­ ing near b y.“
These old cankers should be cleaned
men wil$ be able to supply the necessary devote their whole time to training for cellent condition of tilth and the de­
food elements by substituting a more these duties will be able to secure suf­ struction of weeds that its cultivation up at once and new infections should
economical material. Of course the ficient training to introduce some brings about. This improvement is be watched for and treated upon their
amounts should vary slightly with the branch of industrial work in their needed in many parts of Oregon where first appearance. With a draw knife
difference in egg production and in size schools. Definite courses will be pro­ poor fanning methods have left the land <»r similar tool cut away all bark that
vided, lesson plans worked out, and de­
is affected, being careful to remove all
of fowls.
fould with weeds and in poor tilth, so
If the disease
If it is to be conceded that the cost tailed instruction given. These teachers that each succeeding crop becomes ■discolored tissue.
shows signs of spreading up or down
of maintaining a hen for one vear is will be further helped by correspondence poorer. ’ 1
the tree, the bark should be cut away
$1 .50, the necessity of securing better courses throughout the entire year and
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considerably beyond the discolored
than the average six dozen egg hen j s by personal visitation and supervision.”
RAISING SPRING LAMBS.
Prospective students and all teachers
area.
All infected substance should
at once apparent. The yearly product
of such a hen has an average value of who are interested in the L>. A. C. sum ffcA 1SINO spring lambs is well adapted be removed. The wound should then
to the climatic conditions of West­ be washed with a 1 to 100 solution of
about $1.50. The yearly production of mer school wid receive a copy of the
ern Oregon and does not require corrosive sublimate, which can be
a good layer is worth twice that amount; ButJetia upon request mailed to H. M.
and most of the increase represents a Tennant, Registrar O. A. C., Corvallis, great capital or special skill, according bought from the druggist, who will
to Professor E. D Potter, head of the give directions for preparing and us­
Oregon.
clear profit.
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Oregon Agricultural College animal hus­ ing the wash. It is a deadly poison,
8TUDENT APPOINTED.
bandry department. The industry so and should be labeled Poison, and kept
WEED PESTS OF OEEGON.
RANK M. Harrington, of Cresswell, fits in with approved crop rotations in glass, not metal, containers.
I * c . KEEP sofiel is spreading rapidly
After washing out the wound, which
Oregon, who was graduated from and is valuable in building up depleted
O over large areas and because of
the horticultural department o f O soils. Neither is it in immediate dan­ is absolutely essential to success, it
the large number of seeds formed
ger of being overdone.
should be allowed to dry, and then
on each plant bids fair to become a seri A. C. last, year and has since filled a
The industry may be made profit­ covered with a good tree or pruning
ous weed pest in Oregon,” writes E. P. position in the Iowa experiment station able on farms whore grainf hay, clover,
paint to protect it fr'-ai fungi and
Walls, of the Agricultural College at A roes, ha 9 b«“en appointed an assist­ vetch and rape are grown. Much the
botany and plant pathology department, ant horticulturist n the United Staten same conditions are required for this heart rot».
Do net depend upon. exuding gum to
Mr. Har­
in the Pacific Homestead.
“ Weeds department of agriculture.
industry as for dairying, except that it
may bo objectionable because of their rington ' b appointment is based on a com­ need not have the same accessibility to indicate cankers. Bad one» sometimes
poisonous qualities and on account of petitive Txamioation which he wrote up market and that some range land may form with very little external gum.
Watch should be kept all spring for
their crowding out more valuable plants. while at '»Tiding O. A. C. and is to be be usod. Tt is just as profitable as or­
the faintest signs of canker and for
Sorrell seed is said by some writers to made effective at once, provided it is dinary dairying, although it may not
blighted fruit spurs and bud«.
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be poisonous when eatin in large quan­ accepted. Whether the position will be pay so large a profit as dairying con
other successful treatment for this
tities* by horses, but the plant can hardly accepted or not has not been decide*! by ducted in the most approved manner.
disease ha» come to the attention of
Mr. Harrington. His position at Ames
be called poisonous.**
No expensive equipment is needed in the experiment station here. But if
“ In addition to spreading by seed the is exceptionally good, and he is receiving the way of buildings. The sheds neces­
extreme watchfulness is maintained
plant has large rootstocks that live in rapid promotion. Hence, he may decide sary to shelter the flock may be con
and the above treatment thoroughly ap­
the ground from year to year, which to remain with tho state work, accord­ atrnetad at a very small cost.. A shed
plied, the damage done annually by
the
•end up shoots every few inches. The ing to Professor C. T. Lewis, head
18 feet wide and 60 feet long was re­ the disease will he materially reduced.
feavea are stalked, have ear lire ap * ! horticultural department.
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cently constructed at the college at a
pondages at the bane, and are »hoped
total cost of $25.
It accommodates HARMFUL EXTERNAL PARASITES.
somewhat like an Indian arr^w head.
SECURING GOOD LIBRARIES.
about 50 sheep bnt does not provide
XTERNAL
parasites
frequently
Flowers are of two kinds, pollen bear f l^ E C t 'R I N G gorvi libraries for storage room for hay.
1 ran»* heavy poultry losses. anil
ing and seed bearing, and seed* Terr T •
town« toe “tuall to purchase and
The most profitable time for growing
poultry men ahould quarantine their
•moll
They are found in elover and j
manage a publie library and too a good. Cheap lamb in Western Oregon floeks against them. Special method»
Biany kinds of graib seed, which they . iargP to depend upon the small traveling is March. April, May and June. The are required for the control of the vari­
resemble so elosely that their presence | llbra, , „ ig on( 0f the greatest .library best results are generally obtained by ous kinds of pests, but certain general
*» hard to discover until after seeding, problems the people have to solTe," said pasturing the lambs on sown pasturage. measures are often advisable.
The ehiof injury of the plant is
Mrs. Ida A. Kidder, librarian of the It is necessary to have several fields in
One of the best general methods is
crowding out crop plants.
Agricultural College. The need of good order that each kind may be utilized in fumigation. While» not very effeetivc
“ Clean cultivation and liming the books and the influence of good litera its proper season. It is also necessary
against any of the external parasites,
■oil will eradirate the plant. The cul­ turc are quite generally admitted, while to have a special pasture to be used for it should be employed for its great saai-
tivation should include plowing the stub­ the dieartron» result! of aeneational finishing.
tary value. It is conveniently applied
ble to throw the root stocks to the sur­ reading are quite as well understood.
Ordinarily no grain need be used b u t by slipping a tent that has been treated
face, keeping the surface free from the The great question in the small town is it may occasionally be fed w ith profit with linseed oil or earbolineum over the
pest during the summer, and growing n to supply the right kind of reading in when it is vctt cheap or when mutton
colony ehickea bouse and weighting
cultivated crop the next year. Liming attractive form.
is high. Tho grain shonbl be fed in a down the sides with a little dirt. The
the soil will stimulate the crop plants
“ Perhaps one of the best way* to se­ creep so that the lambs may get the fumes arc then applied, after whieh the
«nuking them outgrow the sour sorrel, cure the atfvngtage of a good library is grain while the ewes are kept from it. tent is removed to the next house, and
■nd thus curtail the number of weed by co operation between a number of
The gain should' be about one half SO O B .
need matured. ”
small towns of the sam# eounty.
A a pound a day which by extra feeding
An aceount of the special method«
gi><«i general library can be pwrehaoed and care may be increased to nearly foe mo«t of the common poultry para­
DETAILED TO FIELD WORK.
by all the towns cooperating and )o- one pound.
sites is given in College Bulletin “ Some
IITLE acting as the local rapresen ated in the tt “ ae.-, -«--ibi.-» p la c e . In
External Parasites of Poultry.” written
tative of the Agricultural College [this way all the patrons of the library
GOOD ROADS MEETING
by Dr. IT. E. E v ni, research assistant
department of entomology at Hood [who contribute to its support may have
SERIES of good road meetings at the Oregon Agricultural Toilegm
taut t the advantages of a good librar} ! _ l were held at various points in Coos i Free copies may be had by «• nding foe
Hiver, Professor Y. I. Safro,
tntcmologist, will conduct some ex p en -! without and ie cost to any one.
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eonr.ty during May 11-16. Thc«c them to R. D. Hetxel, Extension d.rente»
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id ea has % i;*et...gs wore presided o v e r b y C o t a t y vorTaJi», Oregon.