Jl Feb?- IRROR VOLUME IV BOARDMAN, MORROW COUNTY, OREPON, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1924. NUMBER 18 THE CALL OF THE HOME By Miles Cannon Director of Farm Economics Bureau of Reclamation. NICK SlilOTT MAKES APPEAL FOR RECLAMA1 ION RELIEF BILL ,u. t p , t:Q,i ' Wa are miblishine: this week the The chairman of iu a iui hi c i a i Lit i l w c mcii i -c -l " - the poultry industry and dLcussecl , remarks of Congressman Slnnott on read what Dr. Mw.d had the fact that the consuming publi was willing and anxious to purchas spring frys every day in the year, even at prices, served on the table, ranging from seventy-five cents to a dollar and a half per half-chicken and, it would seem, the higher the price the smaller the chicken. It has been suggested heretofore that eggs should be fresh and stan dardized and in this connection we here reproduce the observations of Mr. R. E. Shephard, of Jerome, Ida., the very efficient general manager of the North Side Twin P"aT.3 project: "Having found that the egg crop of Idaho for 1922 exceeded in market value the wheat crop of the same year, even at the then prevailing prices for eggs, I began to studv somewhat into the poultry situatin. It seems no trick at all to stir up the animals and elect people to Con grats over wheat, but I never hear:! anybody getting very exicited over hen's eggs, and yet when it conn ' to dollars and cents they are of more importance. "On a given day, several weelts back, eggs were selling in Jerome for 13c a dozen. That is what the farmer got for good fresh egps. On the same day they were selPr:; at wholesale at Eos Angeles at sou thing over 30 cents, depending upon the quality. This seemed like a very wide spread. I got our cream ery here to buy 20 cases of eggs that day from the farmers, and pay them 17 cents a dozen, and they were shipped to Eos Angeles alorg with a carload of butter. The eggs were indifferently packed, but at that they sold on the Los Angeles market making a net return to the creamery of 25 cents a dozen "A study of the game revealed the fact that had we been in the business a little stronger and known how to classify eggs and had pack d them according to market requii -ments, we could undoubtedly have received a net return of about 2Sc. This set me going, and I found that it would be no trick at all to increa ;e the farmers' income from his poul try by from 25 per cent to 100 per cent. " "Take this poultry game and put It in. another way. I found you could ship a dollar's worth of eggs to Los Angeles for about 3 1-2 cents, a dollar's worth of wheat to the same point at about 60 cents, and a dollar's worth of butter at about 8 cents.' In view of the fact that New York City alone, will take in a week all the eggs that any western state is at this time shipping in a year, the idea that Mr. Shephard presents is very interesting. If we are unable to beat freight rates on commodities, the thing to do is to find a way to aviod this extraordinary feature in our development by system of con densation, standardization, and dis tribution. With the lead Mr. Shep hard has given ua we will go into this question more in detail in our next article. the Deficiency Bill, carrying special appropriations and also the Reclama tion relief provisions in which the settlers on this project are particu larly interested. Mr. Sinnott says in his letter to us "we finally won and the committee to say, and here is the substance or ur. Mead's advise to him:; That he would not justify those appropria tions unless they were tied up with certain provisos. Mr. HOWARD of Nebraska. Will got a part of the appropriations, and the gentleman yield? Mr. SINNOTT. Excuse me; I can both Houses agreed on the relief provisions, but the filibuster in the Senate temporarily killed the bill, but both houses have agreed on the relief provisions and that feature will become a law when Congress re-con venes. As the session was drawing to a close time was very limited and in contiol of the opposition, so Mr. Sin nott was allowed but ten minutes, but that was more than any other member had. Mr. SINNOTT. Mr. Speaker, 10 minutes to represent the hopes, the aspirations, and the longings of peo ple who have been waiting many years for appropriations for these projects, and a!so for the relief leg islation expressed in amendment 5S, seems to me like a travesty, like a burlesque on representative, delib erative government. I have heard comments upon this bill which made me think of iast not yield now. When Mr. Mead was before the chairman of the committee on ap propriations he was talking about appropriations under the old recla mation law. If you ado(pt amend ment 58 in this bill, the new reclam ation relief bill, then every one of these appropriations will be safe guarded and not a cent can be ex ponded upon any one of these pro jects until the secretary of the inter ior and his engineers find, in oon- foiHuity with subsection make a finding in writing that it is. feasible. Not until then can the money be expended. The gentleman from Ohio BEGG) speaks as though this mor.iy were coming out of the treasury. It does not come out of the treasury. It conies out of the reclamation fund, a special fund set apart for irriga tion purposes in the, west, a fund that is designed in some way to over there and superintend their ir rigation propositions, and yet the irrigationist from Ohio (Mr. BEGG). with that air of finality in his voice that almost makiM assurance doubly sure, tells us that this bill is poorly drafted; that we are going to reach Into the treasury of the United States and deplete the treasury; and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. BEAN TON), whose state was wise enough to keep its own public lands, ridi cules the bill. Would the people of the North west Territory, when they came jnto the Union, when they wrung from England at the Champoeg meeting in Oregon in 1852, the tates of Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming and Montana would that they hud the sagacity of the pioneers of Texas and retained their public lards. Then we would not be here (b), and i asking you for the proceeds from this land to develop the land that those proceed! were intended by the God of Nature to be expended upon. I wish I could take you out Into my country and show you that the j Almighty Himself meant the snows I upon the mountain:' shoulc' he wed ded to those broad areas of fertile ' volcanic dust. I wish you could see1 TAX REDUCTION By Frederick Strieker, M.D. Collaborating Epidemiologist of the Oregon Stale Board of Health in i C-Operation with the U. S. Public Health Service. The investment of adequate ap propriating for effective disease pre vention in the state will save at least one-tenth of the cost of disease and depend i icy. Thii would mijau a saving 01 at lea t $4,000,000 an nually. Whore can ou find a bet ter investment, All Public health effort must be paid by taxation. Taxation is a compulsory contribution levied upon persons, property, and business tof the support of the government. The seven rules of taxation are equal ity, certainly, convenience, econ omy, productiv.ty, elasticity, and sta bility. A tax for disease pievention Is EQUALLY beneficial, it helps ovt ry Individual in the community. It Is CERTAIN because it insures the health of the citizens, making (hem able to contribute their por tion of the support of the govern ment . It is CONVENIENT because there is a diminished oh: noe of accruing losses on account of disease. It is ECONOMICAL because it is much cheaper to prevent disease than to have it. It Is PRODUCTIVE because it en FARM POINTERS From Department of Industrial Jour nalism, Oregon Agricultural Collage Red spiders, which are likely to strike at almost any plant in gen from low-growing annuals .o tail trees, develop most rapidly and bo come most harmful in dry weather. The best protection so far reported by the Oregon expet intent station la dusting with sulfur. Most sulfur containing Insecticides are effective If applied thoroughly, and some grow ers use liquid sulfur solutions. Growers of newly planted orchards may save themselves mum iua r troublt trout the Hat head uuii.o by shading the trunk of lae newly set tr,.e, since the female ,uvciJ in sunshine and seeks the direct light for Uepo.iting her egg, boara Bet up on the south side oi the tr,;0 to as to lean against It Offer goo-i and adequate shade, the exp riuion; I station reports. If the boards are not handy a very good substitute us recommended by the station is newspaper vviapped about the trunk to shade the Hoe. Tuesday, when this House rebuffed recompense the west for the enorr.i the petition of the dry farmer from oils areas of land that you have with the west and the middle west in be half of the McNary-Haugen bill, and now we are asked to rebuff and deny the appeal of tlie wet farmer; at least that would seem to be the held from taxation states. IS. 000. 000 to 17.000.000 acres lofty, eternally snow-capped peaks, situation judging from the comments of fore8t land. This little dole we ' once blazing beacons, nw only re Which have been made by several Kot out of these appropriations will j fleeting above the dusfrof the valleys in some part recompense us for the the soft glow of the setting sun as withholding of that land from tax-j the day drops into the western wat-1 lllV(IHlM1 at(on. i ers oi me i acme. i uhh uwioipi I ntomnl nra nlir reservoirs the Al- this today? ... migniy inviios us 10 wt-u un uuv how amphitheaterlike the hi!'" rlae I aides more people to pay taxes. I and radiate from the Colorado ftldj n s ELASTIC becau.-e llie more Columbia to the cardinal per its raoaey lor health taxation How HUH pile on lulls. How tnej n o ,i. mor healthy citizens He re will the western in the purple haze ot twtitgnt use 0e to pay the tax. b'.llows suddenly stilled on the crest- t K STABLE because Darley waist high in good stand wr.g earners. and good condition Is no. growing It is true that public expenditures QU ht. experimWjl station grounds Anthracnose disease of gOOaSbt r rlei is indicated by the proteuoo of many small dark spots on the iiuves that often cause the leaves to divp, Bordeaux applied in 4-4-so etrt&c&h thoroughly to both surfaces of the leaves is the remedy found eKK.t.VO by the Oregon experiment staJou. Directions for niaklng-and UllUg tue spray may he had on application to agricultural college a Oor- vallis. f u 1H nijin,r, uecause u guai.ui In my own state you have set aside, how the rim of the amphitheater tin-' tee the health and Income of lh as a wood lot for the nation from , the horizon is pillared with a dozen gentlemen, especially tne communis made by the great irrigationist from Ohio (Mr. BEGG,) who only demon strate the Tact that A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep or taste not the irriga tion spring. (Applause.) He ridicules these six projects and says they have not been investigated, while the fact is, Why do we want "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." My state has put $12,000. 000 in the reclamation fund Which conies from the sale of lands in my state, and we have only received 1 from that fund between $5,000,000 gentlemen of the House, that every and $6,000,000, and yet the pco;l" one of these six projects has been in my state look across state linos thoroughly investigated for 10 or and we look into another slate that 20 years. The two projects in my j has put but $5,000,000 into the r e state, the Owyhee and Wrarni Springs lamation fund and we see that State projects, have been investigated, and carrying $25,000,000, and we believe $100,000 has been expended in inves- we are entitled to this fund now. tigating those projects. Those pro-j The expenditure is well pro jects have been approved conditional- tected if you adopt amendment 58, ly by the secretary of the interior and the relief bill. The gentleman from by his engineer. They were sent Ohio (Mr. BEOG) ridicules tint down to the Budget Bureau and bill, and yet that bill has been the there held up. It is also true that subject of the thought and the ci re every one of these six projects has and the counsel of the fact-finding heen annroved bv the secretary of commission silting upon It for Six i ------ .... . OREGON WALNUTS WIN NOTICE the interior, subject to further in vestigation, but they have all been held up by General Lord of the Bureau Budget. They have been investigated for years. months, the secretary of the inler'or and Dr. Elwood Mead, the most noted irrigationist in the world who was paid nearly $50,000 a year by the government o' Australia to go on those mountains with our vast areas of fertile, volcanic dust, and this bill, if it is passed, will allow us to do that in R very small measure without taking a dollar from the treasury of the United States, and I hope the members of this House will not today rebuke the wet farmer of the west as you rebuked the dry farmer last Tuesday. (Applause.) Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker. T move the previous question on the motion. The previous question was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question Is on the motion of the gen tleman from Oregon (Mr. SINNOTT) to recede and concur. The question was taken; and on a division (demanded by Mr SIN NOTT) there were ayes 70, noes 80. are Increasing more rapidly than the population, But expenditures that dlrctlj benefit the people are really rts and not expenses. Sickness causes a tremendous ex pense, which can be prevented to a certain ex'ent. It Is crazy extrav agance to propagate criminals, the1 insane, epileptics, paupers, and d. TILLAMOOK COWS LEADERS linqucntl ns we are now doing. Hy-j I.N OREGON AND ALL WEST giene cm cut the numbers of these classes. Is It our high intelligence Almost O In 10 Made More TIhmi W at Corvallls. Many of the crops at the station were never, better, even though the season has been trving by unusual drouth. The main fac tors in the station crop condition are rotation and thorough prepara tion of seed bed. Boardman will celebrate the 4th or Delaying Work "That Washington county walnuts are gaining a wide reputation is in dicated by numerous inquiries being received, some being personal from California growers who are inter ested in locations and price of suit able land. A gentleman from that state who was in town last week in quired the way to the Groner place and another who made many in quiries said he believed land and climate conditions suitable for ch -.-t-nut culture in which he was en gaged in California. Of this nut he said the supply has never equalled the demand and prices run as high as 60 cents a pound." Hlllsboro Independent. Material Increase can be tirought about in consumption of nuts with out exceeding actual diet require ments." reported the Agricultural Economic conference at the college this year. The area of commercial production in the United States is strictly limited, but western Oregon is within that zone. Boardman will celebrate the 4th. U n terl which keeps us from employing hy giene? Disease Is an enemy, and although It may be largely prevented, we do not strive for the ounce of pi even tlon which is greater than the pound of cure. If you wish to Incneasp the taxes neglect, the publlo health. Lower taxes by preventing disease. Con serve the public health and conser vation of natural resources will fol low. RaiBO the health of the wage earner and he will do the rest. Every citizen owes It to himself and to his community to take an in terest In the health of the place in which he lives. l'Yr(il EggN i .in-, l..,ss in FiirmcrH Every Summer Pounds or Knt Each, Wlmil K Way to Honor Itollsa Tillamook cows in the cow testing association No. 1 not only led Oregon but also the entire west in high uv erage production In April. Of the lu81 cowh tested 9 Hi won their way Into the honor column In (producliig more than 40 pounds of fat each. No other association In the 11 wes tern states had so high an artrag i by five pounds of fat per cow. Oregon cows tested numbered 844S; 1000 more than were testing associations for the month last year. They produced an average of 988 pounds of milk carrying 40.42 pounds of fat, 5 pounds more than all Oregon cows In association tests averaged one ear ago last April. The winning association is the oldest in Oregon and Its members have become adepts ill picking out cows that pay and throwing out all the others. It Is gratifying to the advocates of association work that long continuous culling brings re milts in comparative production studies Compared with the average yield of milk in Oregon the associ ation results are outstanding and Impressive. A large part of the loss caused by eggs spoiling in warm weather can be prevented by producing only In fertile eggs during the hue spring j and summer. This loss, which is I eonsei vatlvely estimated at nun u than $15,000,000 a year, falls al inosi entirely on the producer. Not only does he lose I ho value of the eggs which spoil, but the producer suffers a further material loss In the reduction of the number of eggs con sumed caused by people getting bad1 eggs among those they purchase. This loss can be entirely prevent-! ed by producing only Infertile oggH during the warm weather. This Is accomplished by taking all male birds out of the flock after the breeding season Is over. The rooster has no Influence on the number of eggs produced. and should either be marketed or killed the meat can be canned or should be kept penned up. The United State Department of Agriculture has just published a large poster Knowing the difference In the keeping qualities of Infertile and fertile eg.H during warm weath er. TH poster aiso gives simple ml. - for producing good quality ANV HIRE In trouble may com.ininl- Ground hogs in the state of Wash ington have not boon popular, even when they did not see their own shadows on the 2d of February. In five counties, Okanogan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, and YaUitua, definite campaigns were carrh d on last year to get rid of ground hogs entirely, with a result that an estimated sav ing of crops amounting to more than $10,000 was made on 9,474 acres in thehri counties. In Okanogan county a district of 10 square miles was entirely cleared by the destrueo tlon of about 15,000 ground hogs. The work was carried on under the direction of Biological Survey of the United Stales Department of Agriculture. eggs on farms during the latter part of the spring, throughout the sum mer, and Into the early fall months. THE QUELLE A good place to eat in Pendleton. cata with Ensign Lee of the Kal vatlon Army at toe White Shield Home, 665 Mayfalr Ave.. Portland. Boardman will celebrate the 4th.