t9n E S 11 Feb 2 AN MIRROR VOLUME IV BOARDMAN, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 13. NUMBER 17 STATE MARKET AGENT DEPARTMENT C. E. Spence, Market Agent, 723 Court House, Portland. The New Hampshire Division of markets is showing its section of -the country what really is the mat ter of agriculture, or at least one of the things. It takes for illustration the potato crop of Minnesota, and shows that the growers portion of the retail price is 2 0 per cent, the country buyers' part 15 per cent, freight 13 1-2 per cent, city dis tribution 50 per cent and retail price 100 per cent. Commenting on this condition Commissioner Felker says: "Can a fair minded person consider our distribution sys tem efficient or just when the farmer who furnishes land, seed fertilizer, labor and other neces sary overhead, receives but one fifth of the price paid by the con sumer for his commodity." FEDERATION WHEAT BEST IN MALHEUR UUIIOATION Out Yields Other Varieties in Farm Tests; Production Leaps From Small Beginnings. Co-operation in the east and mid dle west is taking big strides. A federation of all the dairy interests of the New England states is under way with consumer ownership of the factories for the manufacture, of butter, cheese and by-products-Minnesota and Wisconsin are feder ating their creameries and cheese factories and propose to bottle and sell their milk, sell their cream, butter and cottage cheese. "The farmer who sees his market broken year after year by promis cuous crop dumping and specula tive marketing, and who sees the middle men receive approximately four times as much per capita as the producer, is fast coming to learn that the principles of co-operative marketing must be substituted for unrestrained competition if the farm er is to exist In this day of organ ization." Washington State Grange News. How fast the farmers are learning is illustrated by a report from the Department of Agriculture of Was-h ington, D. C, which states that up to April 1, of this year that 10,160 co-operative associations had made reports to the department. Out of this vast movement results are coming. Co-operators are learn ing. They are federating and tak ing over the field where others have profited from reselling their pro ducts, and when they learn to carry their products from the fields to the retailer, then will they be running their own business as the manufac turing industries run theirs. Federation wheat under irrigation in 12 plantings by Malheur farmers cooperating with L. R. Breithaupt, county agent, averaged 56 bushels a:n acre against 4 1 bushel average of other varieties including Jenkins club, Dicklow and early Baart.. The plantings covered the entire wheat area of the county, and the high yield led to use of Federation for more than half the county acre age this year. It was introduced by Mr. Breithaupt on recommenda tion of the state experiment station j n 1922, when 960 pounds was dis-1 Mibuted to seven farmers. "The differences in the yield in 1923 in favor of Federation are not 1 entirely due to the real yielding ability of the varieties reported, be- j cause there is a tendency for grow-! ers to give a new variety somewhat ; better treatment than a variety com- I nionly grown.," says Mr. Breithaupt. "Federation has several character titles , however, that make It peculi arly suited to Malheur county irri gated lands." Chief among these is the stiff, up right straw which prevents it from lodging on rich, well watered land. Varieties such as Dicklow and Jen kins lodge badly under these condi tions, with a consequent lower yield. Federation also has the 'advantage of being as early as any variety and it produces as high quality of grain as any unless it be Early Baart. OREGON STATE NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST NOTICE The annual school meeting of Dis trict No. 25, Morrow County, Ore gon, will be hi'ld at the school house in Boardman, Oregon, June 16, 1924, at 2:30 p.m. MBS. GLADYS GIBBONS, 15-3t Clerk In a lengthy review of the potato season of the Pacific coast states, R, L. Ringer of the federal service, of Portland, gives many interesting facts. He states that Oregon is con siderably behind Idaho, Washing ton and California in production per acre. During the past three years Idaho has averaged 182 bushels to the acre; Washington 145; Cali fornia 140 and Oregon 97. Irriga tion has much, to do with the dif ference in yields, and Oregon's late crop matures later. Mr. Ringer states that Oregon has a distinct place In the potato industry, but that growers must get a higher price for the products to offset lower pro duction per acre, and that this be done by certified seed, better pro duct and high grade standards. The review states that State Mark et Agent Spence solved a large part of the difficulties by securing fed eral co-operation, and that because of grading, standardization and com pulsory inspection Oregon's well graded stock soon advanced from the bottom to the top of the markets in California; that dealers early found little difficulty in enforcing ac ceptance of cars bearing a Federal State certificate, while many cars rolling in from Clarke county, Wash, without such certificates were a loss to the owners when the market broke. POTA TO HI GS The Colorado Potato Beetle, or common potato bug, is starling its work on potato plants in this sea son of the year. The easiest time to control it is to get it early. The in sect passes the winter in the soil as the adult striped beetle. They ap pear in the Spring just as the pota toes are coming up and feed on the tender leaves of the plants, and aft r a few days begin depositing egg3. The eggs are laid in masses under the surface of the leaves. The lar vae are slug-like, deep reddish in color and feed upon the leaves of the plant. These bugs are easy to control and Immediate steps should, he taken by all farmers to eradicate! thCB). Spray made by mixing four pOttndl of powdered calcium or lead arsenate to one hundred gallons of water, will kill them. Paris green, mixed at the rate of three pounds to one hundred gallons of water, will also control them, but is liable; to damage or burn the plant. An other method is to mix one part of powdered calcium or lead arsenate by weight, to nine parts of air-1 slacked lime and apply as a dust. This can be done by putting the mixture in a sack and shaking it over the plant. The Southern Pacific company has secured an option on 39 acres of Klamath FalU property which will be utilized for switching, shops and roundhouse facilities for the new Eu-geue-Klamath Falls line. Organization has been perfected i' Portland of a daylight lodge of Masons, whose membership is compos ed of members who are employed at night and who therefore can attend only sessions held by day. After receiving no fish since the opening of the 3oason on Rogue river, the Macleay Estate company at Wed deburn has reached an agreement wit! the union fishermen, who will be pais 8Vi cents for their catches. Ten thousand pounds of chittlni bark from trees in the Siuslaw na tioual forest have just been sold b the foreot service to William Wilbur of Deadwood creek, according to Ralp S. Shelley, supervisor of this forest. Governor Walter M. Pierce was th principal speaker at the communit picnic held ut the Beaver Creek schoi grounds Thursday, June 12, unde auspices of the Beaver Creek grant?' and the Beaver Creek Co-operative company. Chester Wheatfill and Harold Stu man, Eugene youths found guilty i! circuit court on the charge of assaul End robbery while armed with a dan gerous weapon, were sentenced t serve seven years each in the state penitentiary. Kir that started in the dry kilns ol the (ield Medal shingle mill, In the; Nehalem. near Birkenfeld, destroyed 39 trucks of shingles that were ii the kilns and about 1,500.000 shingles on the outside, entailing a propertf loss estimated at $10,000. A. V. Stone, who en June 1 terminat ed his connection with the Hood Rivet Apple Growers' association, imrae diately began the task of converting the Mosler Fruit Growers' association into an organization characterized by strictly co-operative lines. As soon as arrangements can bi completed, an airplane forest fire pa trol will be established at Eugene, Senator McNary was told by Secre tary of War Weeks and Colonel Wil liam C. Greeley, chief of the forest service. Three planes are to be pro vided for the use of the patrol. Several hundred residents of the country lying north of Salem, staged a demonstration in Salem with the presentation to the county court o' a petition asking for a paved roadway connecting Brooks and Mount Ange! and piercinir part of the Lake Labish district. The petition contained 51 names. Carl D. Shoemaker has tendered his resignation as master fish ward en, to become effective July 1, after which he will be known as office manager of the state fish commission I until the new master fish warden be comes familiar with the work of the j department. Mr. Shoemaker has ao plans for the future. Opposition to his policy in ha.idling the horse show in the state fair caus ed Dr. J. W. Morrow, democratic na tional committeeman, to aend his resignation from the state fair board to Governor Pierce. Horace Addis oi' Portland, field editor of the Oregon Farber, was appointed as a member of the state fair board to succeed Dr J. W. Morrow. Dallas was selected as the site for the 1925 convention of the Oregon state grange, in final sessions of the 51st annual meeting of that order. The Convention held at The Dalles was attended by more than 850 grangers from over the state. George A. Pal miteer of Hood River will serve as master of the Oregon state grange for another two years. His election to that office, through a referendum of the various grange lodges in the state, was confirmed by the eonventi.Ta. The extent of motor travel from other states into Oregon during the current year may bo forecast from the fact that during the month ot May 7081 motor vehicles licensed under he laws of other states, were register (1 under the Oregon non-resldSUt lav according to figures made public b Sam Kozer, secretary of state. Q this number the gr. atest registration was of California cars, of which ther were 3921. Next in number is 179 cir3 from the state of Washing! or and third, 538 cars from the stale o Idaho. With the arrest of Cyril Goff, a amploye of the Irwln-Hodson corapan; of Portland, on charges of larceny police officials declared they !;ad mad the first step in uncovering a ring men who have been defrauding tl' state out of thousands of dollar through the counterfeiting of auti mobile license plates. Goff, accordiir to the police, helped furnish a pa of counterfeit tags found on the mi chine of P. J. Pierre, ex-motorcyil policeman, when he was arrested McMinnville on a minor traffic chargi The lrwin-Hodson company has th contract with the state to furnis license plates. Dishonest workmen the police said, have stolen or mad duplicate sets of tags in the company workroom and are thought to hav done a profitable business In setlin these at reduced rates to friends. The Rev. iiobert A. Buchanan ol Sitka, Alaska, has accepted the pas torate of Grace I'r sbyterian church at Albany, succeeding the Rev. A. 1). Thompson, who resigned after serving several years. At the Quartz crossing about five miles east of Baker, a west bounu freight train ran into a herd of cattle belonging to Palmer & Dunham and killed twenty-two ami seriously Injur ed a number more. A convention of music teachers and professional musicians of Oregon was held at the University of Oregon Fri day and Saturday of last week. Sev eral hundred .ersons from all parts ot the state attended. Ether Waves The Co-operative Associated Grange Warehouse Co. of Seattle is the wholesaler for 65 retail stores of the I Btate. The movement Is fast going ahead in our sister state, because the producers do less talking and more organizing than in Oregon. Sixty-five retail stores in a state, 1 controlled by co-operatives, are bound to help both producers and consum ers by market regulation. m 1 - . i nSS'J Kef m.. Atml - H 1 (Ait Al2F i i K.TPNINA lO tP H CrrttM, W. M. U.T PPrOfVoAM BROAP" station H-O-M-6 COST OP DISEASE It is desirable to recognize that from the President of the United States to the laborer in the factory or on the farm, all citizens not phy- sically incapactlated, are, or should be, workers. The fundamental needs are responsibilities of nil citir.er.s, aii as to the maintenance of health are similar, and we cannot solve the problems of the laborer unless we consider him oue of the great art of galnly employed In the state of Oregon. Sickness is a hazard to which all are subjected and to which many fall victims. Those who are disabled by sickness suffer losses of time, cost of care, which varies from slighi hardships easily borne, to those which absolutely ruin. There are today over 9,000 wage earners in Oregon confined to their homes on account of sickness. The workers lose on the average of sovt n days annual' on account of sickness, 400,00.0 wage earners lose 2,800, 000 days annually on account of Sickness every year. At a dally minimum wage of $;i this means a loss of $8,400,000, $3,300,000 is pent annually for doctors. An equal amount is spH-nt for nursing and hospital care, $4,000,000 is spent tor drugs, mostly self-prescribed. Forty per cent of the deaths are preventable or at least postponable. The intimated value of the average life Is $2500. In a state of this size with an annual death rate Of 9,000 3,600 of these deaths are from pre ventable causes. At an averag value of $2500 this would mean a loss of $22,5O0,000.The total annual ioss from preventable disease Is: Wages lost $ 8.4 00,000 Services of physicians 3,300,000 Hospitals and nursing.. 3,300000 Drugs of all kinds, pat ent, etc 4,000,00fi Loss by death 22,500,000 $41,500,000 Disease costs the state of Oregon over forty millions annually. As these expenditures do not consider many of the other expenses incident to illness, the expenses in reality are much greater. Sickness undoubtedly causes a tremendous loss, and to a Certain extent is preventable. It certainly costs less to prevent the disease Public health is purchas able and within natural limits, a com munity may determine its own death rate. Take health work from un certainty and place it on sure ground Make It a potent factor and it will pay. Surely if we are rich enough to pend $18 per capita for tobacco. $8 for candy atnd confections, $6 for patent medicine, tonics and drugs of questionable value, $1 fori Cosmetics and 75c for gum we should be willing to spend more than 10c perl capita for the most essential part of life health. Every com munity must estimate Its own re (lulrements and appropriate accord ingly. THE ( ALL OF THE HOME I By Miles Cannon, Director of Farm Economics, U. S. Bureau of Recla mation. In our last article we referred to the demand for spring lambs and it is now our purpose to offer a coa crets example of what can be Uo.e en a small unit. Soon Brothers! whose postofflce address Is Delta, Colorado, occupy a unit of the Uncoiupahgre valley pro ject. They bought two carj of lambs during the fall of 1923, and ran them on sugar-beet-top pasturo as the principal feed, although there was. In addition, some corn fodder and alfalfa pasture available. The extent of the grazing ground was regulated each day so as not to permit any of the best tops to be wasted. Toward the end of the feed ing period the lambs were topped off with a little alfulfa hay and some corn. The average gain was 21 Bounds and the following financial Statement teUS the story; Gross return, 48,000 lbs. at 10.15 $7,200.00 Cost, 35,400 lbs. at $0.11- $4,159.50 Freight, pasture bills, labor and all other expenses 1,445.00 5,fi:.4.50 While other regions suffer from lack of water, the Warm Springs lrri gutlon project enjoys the distinction of buing the only project in the west with a surplus for 1924. Charles H. Carey, delegate at large from Oregon to the republican na UonaJ convention was selected to make a speech seconding the nomina tion of President COOitdgS The slate tax on sales of gasoline and distillate In nn-gon during the month of April aggn gati d $214,497.06, .' 'Tiling to a Statement prepared by . Sum a. Kozer, secretary of state. A seawall of more than a half mile in lengtll is one of Hie ambitious pro jects of Newport. The wall bus hem started and about 800 feel is under . construction by the port commission F. K. Mallory was wouuded In the I face, chest and abdomen In exchang lug shots with five men whom he observed prowling around the mer chandise store ot 11. N. Heck in Hub bard. Henry Tuckman of Portland, died at a Salem hospital as the result of In Juries Buffered when a truck In which he wuh riding plunged down a hill on the highway between Hallas and In depei.delil Closer organization of the live stock i Industry of the stale and the Pacific northwest was emphasized at the lit!, annual convention of the Cattle am' Horse Raisers' association of Oregon held in Maker. Net profit $1,595.5 ) Studying this exhibit u little furth er, w would estimate thui this crop would Indicate not to exceed 4(H) ewes and If, instead of buying the (wo cai-8 of lambs at a cost of $4,159 B0, the farmer could arrange to own these ewes himself he m giit augment this profit by the sale of 4,000 pounds extra cost of keeping the liock. He would also be able to contribute to his table a bounteous supply of most delloiOUUI meat and, In addition, he would have an asset of possibly tlOO in fertilizing his land. The most unusual arguments that a farmer could not take u "summer trip to the coast" or a trip to the mountains" or, again, that no time could be spent joy riding with a bunch of pesky sheep to take care of, are, probably, uusurmountable. These features, perhaps, constitute the greatest barrier to success la our day Another person would de mur on account of the capital re tiuircd. This objection, however, may be overcome. If a man is In clined to heed the call of the home, to build himself a reputation and take his place In the affairs of thti eOmmtmlty, surely It would be a short sighted banker who would re fuse to flnnnt him in the laudable enterprise of adding at least one car of sheep to his annual income. There Is yet another angle to the Feature of spring lamb production. Many of the government projects are surrounded by a splendid summer range and several neighbors joined together can send their flocks to the prairies or to the mountains, as the case may be, and at a very reason able cost and have them returned to the farm unit In the fall in splen did condition The only disadvantage we see to this line of activity is that, united with the other features of the farm unit, the water user would be com pelled to concentrate to the fullest extent on his buelness. This rule, howe ver, applies to the banker, the merchant, the professional man, or to any other line of human OOCU patlon. It is only a question of the call of the home Chintzes, wiien of good quality, color, and design are good In any room. Silks and velours are more often usc-d In formal rooms, how ever. Chintz Is associated with the country home. Dr. W. W. 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