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NEWS ABOUT AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK
Up to Date Information to Help Develop Progressive Farming.
f00l f,B5wf,ER8 NEWS LETTER
I 'iJ-' i.ttpr in order to fill its most
f This letter, m o deoart-
bwful r Mnitatioji. The most
""".,! thing about livestock san-
rhelesru., that we fre-
""."LmoMd and the-least about the
W iXest at hand. For instance.
fer"s t. bl.to .ocate a river
Liil reasonable accural m . u..-
f ,i that we may h never "eea
Knot locate a single nerve or vem
Four dumb beast's body.
r XI veterinary profession Is the guar-
V ,f- the livestock industry. Un tu.
IS-hY-M practitioner's profession de
iererroarv p . livestock sanita
iL America without the veterinary
Session would be in danger. During
.last year, 102 human patients
in a BusJan hospital at Beff from
Sin 'the press that. Russian school
Sen were shot, by thai Soviet sam
y officials in an effort tp control this
StkiD. The lack of :i an adequate
Urinary profession in BusBia prevents
his disease from being controlled as it
i in America. ' ' " ,. ' ' ,
Today foot-and-mouth .r disease is
weening Europe and it ekists in Asia
It north as Honduras. It has on sev
rJt occasions, been .introduced in the
tailed States, always to be eradicated
ot without mueh- work and frequently
i treat cost, the last outbreak totaling
jMthing more than 5.000,000. At the
resent time every -effort ;is being er
rted.to cause's proper disposal of all
jreiw packing-materials, such as hay
traw, etc., used in packing crockery
nd other imported breakables, that
lirht in -any-manner eon vey the virus
r infection material, of foot-and-mouth
jsease to our irrestoefc - '
Sheep are a highly, speculative depart
lent of our livestock industry and wool
isms-to be- the dominating influence
rer the rise and. fall in the price of
ip rather, than the offspring, wbieh
Use form of butcher lamb or wetlicr
r breeding ewe ought to be the con
oiling factor in the price of the com
lodity., . This is probably due to the
A method of reasoning; . that if the
ool will run the sheep, the lamb crop
the gain in weight, will be 'the profit,
he i-ool crop is generally sold or har
wted first and while a loss of three or
iuf cents. A pound in wool would only
npunt to twenty-five cents a head,, a
yiof .at cent a pound on. lambs or mut
n will amount to easily a half dollar
t animal. Those who have watched
livestock industry closely say that
ere has yet to coin -the time when one
partment, has .carried " the other
roujh' a term of foree years. Sheep
ire carried the cattle end for two
mi It remains to . bo seen if cattle
to stay down this year and the fi
mill traditions of the Tange livestock
Jmtry are to be broken.
UKises -of man and animals art he
ir exploited more 'than ever. The na
m's drug bill for both human and ani
il ills, is in round mimbors $500,000
0, of which amount $300,000,000 is
lent for Bo-callcd patent medicines,
oek foods, medicated salM, etc. Today
ore than 40,000 separate drug item.
l remedies are on the market. Thirty
at ago less than 8,000 were In use.
frailties, "susceptibilities naa Mit
ring of animal life are ' either being
wlity exploited or' else modern live
ock sanitation has failed of its mis
''.. ' ' ' '-.
Oregon experienced ' last year along
Ito the rest of the states of the Union,
t increase in the spread and preva
nce of hog cholera. It was erroneotiB
tbonght by s)me that cholera did not
would not exist in Oregon. This was
te to our comparative freedom in the
1st from the disease. Our limited nuro
t of hogs and our cereal feeds prob
ny greatly, lessened the susceptibility
id spread. But cholera when intro
iced, will kill hogs in Oregon just sb
tiekly and Birrely as elsewhere. The
festock show - circuits no doubt con
ibuted to the spread. Most states rc
lire immunization to qualify animals
t exhibition purposes. With our large
lows at Salem and Portland vaccina
a will now be necessary in Oregon,
he Purity Serum Go. will furnish 7,500
I' of serum free to be used on the hogs
t pigs exhibited' by the Boys Pig Clubs
' Oregon... A 'number of. local practi
fnera located throughout! the state
ive signified their willingnVss to assist
i the vaccination, of these Boys Kg
m holdings either free of cost or at
very nominal fee. Pig Club members
wuld communicate with either L. J.
lies. Oregon Agricultural College, As
stant State Club Leader, or W. H. Ly
f, State Veterinarian, Salem, and ar
mre for fhis work.
inog cholera has been introduced on
May OCCasinnn thrnh thft irnrhnirA
fng of hots. OWHHinnflllv whpn hoirs
f' shipped irom the Bast they are ex
" to hog pholera enroute and are
the Incubatlnn atitrA nf fllArn whan
"fhtered; i Their carcasses show no
idence. of the disease at this stage,
"ugh when1 eaten by hogs in a raw
'Me-, if may. be the means of carrying
infection to theow Humans are not
ISWntlble.tO Chnlvm and nn rinniraru
p at hand from his source, all car
lasses showing any lesions of cholera
E'ndemned when inspection is made.
r vuoiera nas been introduced
BrougQ imnorted bnRfnpti- Knmn inH
f i'j G,arhage feeders or hog raisers
wild always toil or cook 'any feed or
mage, that might -contain uncooke.i
JLPrwucts from unknown sources.
IAS Federal VftVAnmnnf ha. Inlnp.
Ptd-itself ia hlin u . i
PS atllity Tiorse; practically speaking,
animaj that riu .jM:M.t.i :u ,t
'iuirements of the Western cowmen,
norout-hhr aaii;n- ..cM
P 'Oregon to cross onto our native liffltt
PJf. ' At present stallions are being
C"lBed at Pendleton and Uniji.
POth of tln. :. i .
IrL5r d up in the purple and have
portable track recofrs and their prog
CI."? ' t0 s'Te communities a
Ffjcn better tj-ped animal, combining
substance, ndurance and speed. A
fee of fifteen, dollars is fixed by
F toyernment.'- j i t, .
iri.-lution t0 th 'Oregon Mttleman's
present n . t ; , . . ,,. .
E7tt i w,u to'ureian. increase in the
t the nr.g-nf .
r ,1... nn an increasu in qitan-
rjj T"nit the steer end to be
tf ' " Bna at two instead
h," V0 h"t fours. An Siic.-r-r
iai tJ, TI nt bulls u"ed from one to
IuIl ""ve cows to a one to fifteen
here -L-,., ange to Psture breeding
Su,hir ;iW.' is recommended; and the
lie aT th '"ne tnff will increase
I"'r raif o-An n . . . .
-w vu. vriivBrnrnDnr BTriAan m anri
t ewes nhow-ea
IT r Mill in 1 . 1 I i A I II.. fMllo end r-.-Tf Ka fc ... . , , ... - - - - . V - ,i 9
rflrSl "."J,1" n.I . l-tlei M. .... ..destroyer. AKm conci.iana bnv.' ffi .1 'H JT Jy . Ik, I it .
V. , . . t.v-V r.-v.'-; ":, ;.w v . U
a -rapid gain Just before breeding. Na
ture seems to shape the increase some
wiisi to the nv.u.able food supply in
aighc and animals on good pasture al
ways show a larger calf crop or off
spring increase over those not so fed.
Baby beef shows an increased profit
over older cattle, because yearlings can
make twenty-five to forty per cent more
gain than mature cattle on the same
eid. They are much the same as the
milk fat lamb. The herd costs are
smaller because the site is cut dosm
because of early marketiug. Open heif-
win Ben bb well as steers and un
dcnirable females may be then markets!
A (teeter- marketing opportunity is af
forded as the finish and bloom may be
held longer. The cuts are more desir
aole fecnuse they are smaller and meet
thi smaller modern family requirements.
Ihere is a preavum for the product be
i."au.sc cf its scarcity. Baby beef may be
rofitably raised only in smooth, well
bred tp herds that have used pure blood
ed hull's for at least two or three crosses.
Gra-.n and concentrated feed? are neces
sary end calves suitable for baby bf
feeding muBt be uniform, biocky and
have quality and finish.
BOOKLET FOR OREGONIANS
A new booklet which treats specific
ally of the land clearing and drainage
problems in the northwestern state of
Idaho, Oregon and Washington, has just
been published -by E. I. du Pont de
Nemours & Company. It has long been
recognised that the stumps of the great
forest trees of that region are so large
and heavy and strongly rooted that head-'
way in. removing them has only been
made possible in most cases by the con
centrated energy by explosives.' There
are thirteen and one-hnlf million acres
of unimproved lurid, in these states, in
cluding rough or atony land, swamp land,
brush land and logged-off land, but not
including standing forests. Most of this
idle land is ferule and suitablo for til
lage after it is cleared of stumps, bould
ers, or is properly drained-
The booklet which can be obtained it
the offices of the Company in Beattl),
Portland, or Spokane, culls attention to
the fact that the du Pont Company has
recmtly produced a new land clearing
explosive, which is non-freezing and non
headache producing and which makes it
easire to carry on blasting at all seasons
of the year, while at the same time,
greatly reducing the cost. The booklet
discusses in detail tne new type of
stumping powder, how to clear lands of
stumps and the various steps necessary
in 'the cleuring of laud and in drainage
and boulder clearing. The publication
also tukea up various other problems
such ob the splitting of stumps and logs,
the blasting of choker holes under logs,
seam blastin'g, vertical drainage and tree
planting and tree rejuvenation.
TILLAMOOK ASSOCIATION
DISPOSES OF MANY CALVES
Going to points as far north as Mon
tana and as far south as California. 400
calves have been marketed by the Tilla
mook County Cow Testing association.
Mnese calves are from dams which
have produced 300 nounds of btitterfat
or more in a year und are ..sired by a
purebred bull. When it is realized that
the average for the Tillamook associa
tion last year for 2314 cows was 331.74
pounds of butterfat. ' approximately
double the production for the average
cow in tne iNoruiwest. one can readily
see - why these -calves -are in such- de
mand. Orders were first refused two
months ago and according to W. D. Pine,
county agtnt, .who handles these calves,
there are lots of remaining orders which
cannot be. filled. This association is the
oldeBt testing association in the North
west, having finished 11 consecutive
years of testing. Lruring the last two
years the association has increased from
1100 cows to approximately 3000 cows
for this year. . Four testers are em
ployed in this work and are under the
direct supervision of Pa'ul Fitzpatrick,
a Guernsey breeder who is elected each
year as secretary of the association.
These calves sell for $12 f. o. b. Tilla
mook at one week of age. Each calf
is ruiscd on its own mother's milk until
that uge, which is one of the first essen
tials in good calf raising. From the 400
calves shipped from the association only
seven ot these were lost. Ibis is diw to
the splendid co-operation of the Ameri
can Knilwuy Express company, by feed
ing calves warm fresh milk whilet en
route. .
To show the extent and growth of
this nsBociation, in the ycar .ltfJ2, only
250 head of calves were shipped during
the entire season. This year, there were
1704 inquiries and letters at the county
agent's office for these calves. It is easy
to sec why the dairymen of the coast
are looking for better stock and why the
calves . coming from cows with records
are much more in demand than those
which have no record. ,
At least three associations in Wash
ington have duplicated the Tillamook
plan of selling calves. It is believed
the time is not far distant when those
calves whose dams hold no records will
pot be in the market.
WONDERFUL WHEAT CROP
FOLLOWS SEED TREATMENT
"A wondcrfiul crop, without doubt 100
per ctnt gerininnted of the seed and
came up good and strong, a good even
stand all over," says D. II. Stegman of
Centcrville. Wash., discussing his wheat
which he planted after taeating the seed
with the new copper carbonnte dry treat
ment on the advice of the State College
of Washington experiment station.
He secured the bulletin explaining how
(National Crop Improvement Servleo.)
THE European corn borer, that
unwelcome visitor from over
teas, i tlU with us, and though
certain areas are badly infested, it
Is spreading very slowly, principal
ly In the New Engjand region and
ft ! - IP'"
lit i&IPj
to make the seed wheat treatment ma
chine to apply copper carbonate dry, and,
as be says, 'do away with the strong
and very dangerous treatment with blue
Vilrul."
"Wle made a machine last summer,
and seeded our summer fallow, a little
over 300 acres." says Mr.! Stegman.
"At first I had much trouble to get this
carbonate but finally got some 40 lbs,,
two ozs. to the bushel. I started with
one bushel of seed to the acre, but I
thought too much wheat ran out of the
drill, so set it for 8 pecks, and that is
the amount We seeded. '
"Four of us, looking very carefully
over a rod square. 10 feet eacti way,
found only two beads of smut. That is
not bad, Wc never had very much smut,
but we killed our seed with the strong
medicine we used.'
Speaking of crops In the neighborhood,
he says that where the seed was treated
as his was, the yield is equally good,
while the vitrol was used only about 60
per cent germinated, and wheat looked
"funny and weak," and took much longer
to come through the ground. There will
be, be thinks, only about half a crop in
that case.
"That much shows you, and ub all,
what your discovery has done for all of
us farmers," concludes MV. Stegman de
lightedly . "I know-1' aui helping to pay
expenses toward our State College with
my part of taxes, which are high, but
every dollar naid toward our collece is
a blessing in disguise." :
It is estimated that the farmers ot
this state will be benefitted to the extent
of over $200,000 this season, due to our
discovery that the dry "treatment was
adaptable to our conditions in this state,"
said Dr. H. O. Holland in reply. "If I
am not mistaken, George Ij. Zundel, -extension
specialist in plant pathology, and
Dr. F. D. Hcnld, head of the department
of plant pathology, deserve especial
credit.
"We are delighted that the' farmers
of this state are coining to appreciate
that the State College, through its ser
vice, is nctimlly paying alt of its own
expenses, including the training of be
tween 2500 and 3000 young men and
women each year. Tills is one of only
a few institutions in America that can
make such a claim."
( FRESH AIR IN BARNS
-'"Some means should be provided to
give' the animals in a barn continuous
supply of - fresh air without excessive
drafts," says Prof. U J. Smith of the
division of agricultural -engineering at
the State College of Washington, in his
new bulletin on "Plans for Small Barns."
"Windows hinged st the bottom, the
use of muslin instead of glass, openings
between pnirs of loft floor Joists, stand
ard out-take flues up to cupolas, and
halved doors are common methods. An!
rnnls must have plenty of fresh air if
tney are to be kept healthy.'
ROTATION OF CROPS
New crops to replace some of the old
that have failed to make good on Oregon
farms, and new varieties of the old
Btandbys were inspected hv farmers
from Itainer to Roseburg on the annual
field r days at the experiment station,
Corvallis. Better treatment of soils to
get more profitable yields and still keep
up fertility, and new facts on feeding
and handling farm livestock,' cows and
poultry, were other things nicked up.
Getting bigger yields by changing the
cropB in regular cycles, was ona thing.
The-farmers saw fields that had grown
be.ns every year for 14 years and the
aycrage was low, only about U bushels
an acre. Alongside other fields were
seen growing beans every third year
with barley and clover between -times,
and the average yield for the 14 years
was 18 bushels of beans. TheT profit
was moro than twice ns great in - the
rotation, and the soil is still good, while
the all-bean fields are so run down
as to produce five or six bushels in. the
later years.
How to increase cherry yields 3000 to
10,000 pounds an acre wbb seen in the
orchard work. The big sweet' cherries
best of their kind in the United States
are shy bearers and late, unless pollen
ized by a suitable variety. - Trees plant
ed before this fact was- found out :by
the station mn'y be top-worked with vari
eties named to the farmer and thus get
the big crops. ' J ' -
If you want 15 bushels more potatoes
an acre, everything else the same, cut
and plant only the blossom ends for
seed, was one lesson. . Prune your trees
right and helo them grow, bear or hoth.
was ancther. Throw away or sell 51
of the 63 kinds of wheat grown in the
state and grow the one or two of the
other 11 best suited to your lands for
Digger profits, was still a third.
MOSAIC DECREASE STUDIED .
Oregon Agricultural Colleae. Corval
lis, July 14. First-hand study of the
mosaic disease of brambles, now threat
ening the cane fruit industry of Oregon.
will be made by the American plant
pathologists in their summer conference
at Geneva, N. Y., July 9 to.13, at which
Dr. 8. M. Zeller of the Oregon experi
ment station will represent this state.
Low prices of the loganberry are not
the only or chief danger growers have to
face they are losing their plants in
-many places by mosaic disease and have
no way to stop- the. loss. The disease
first appears in the leaves, which are
mottled or marbled in appearance, but
is systematic in its nature, of affecting
every vegetative part of tho plant, in
cluding the rooted tin used in rironaza-
tion. It is through diseased tips that the
disease is mainly spread which accounts
for the fact that it is often worae in new
vr tne
in
Pennsylvania, northern Ohio n4
southeast Michigan."
"Since the beginning of 1921,"
says J. 8. Wade, of the United
States Department- of Agriculture,
"there has been very little change
In the corn borer sltnatioq to the
United States."
However, It may show op moat
sny place this year and if any new
borers are noted working la the
corn, or other plants, better play
safe and send specimen! to yesr
state agricultural college it once.
United States Department et
Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin Mo.
1294 coveV the corn borer sitae
tion fully and should be carefully.
I 1 MMMSW
planting! (thanin old, iphera.ijiread Is
probably, through sucking inBects.
Impaired ' nutrition devitaliiba the
discaafU plants' and three on (our at
tacks on logan and black berries rtnde.t
the , plant incapable of producing new
canes to replace the old ones that die
down after hearing. . Red raapberrief
last a little longer but black raspberries,
least resistant of all, quit producing nw
canes after two or three years of dis
ease. No cure is known, but protection
is recommended by the purchase of in
spected, mosaic-free stock only.
Opportunity for first hand- study of
the disease will be had nt Geneva, as the
western New York and Niagara peninsu
la of.Ontario haw been nearly dovastat
ed of brambles by mosaic. It U there
that the only real atmly of the disease
has been made, except for n prelimin iry
survey m Oregon made in' the' last three
months' by Dr. Zeller. , ,, j ;
" "POULTRY NOTES ;
During the Pst few years' the iubiect
nt milling lias been a very popular one.
Culling, .'rfr' the accuracy of . cnitin?, is
based) entirely upon the accuracy ot good
management the fowls have received. .
The science of culling means removing
the hens ithat-show evidences or rever
sion, i It ineans to remove the hens that
have-not mid nor will not- lay-enough
eggs to pay the owner for , caring for
them.
There are many factors which enter
into culling' work. Too many flocks
receive no culling at .ill. A big Injwtiie
is done by the person who tlii -k- there
is nothing to culling except to sell the
hens as they start to molt. Many times
a flock is forced into n molt by poor
care and then called culls. It is not good
judgment -to call a hen a cull simply be
cause at -time nf examination her pin
bones are rather ebrfo. Any hen closes
when she stops laying, whether it bo
her. fault or the owner's. Yellow color,
is an intelligent guide to past production,
when all factors in her care are known,
but on the other hand, would be foolish
to sell all hens with yellow in the var
lobes in July. without considering many
other factors. Efficiency in culling de
pends upon a carefully weigned Judgment
when all the points nre considered in
their relation to the care the fowls have
received. Culling a neglected flock, a
grain-fed flock, a lousy flock, or a mis
managed flock will result in many errors,
because under such conditions the hens
have not been given a chance to do their
best. Culling is based upon the oppor
tunity given the hen. vv
Ao nroduction starts downward at this
time of the year, look over ths birds
carefully. Thirj are some hens in every
f ock today that should he sold, it costs
money to feed cull Lena. O. A. C, Ex
tension. . , . . .
RAT POISON UNRELIABLE
Sneclal investigations Tegiirding the
effectiveness of tin vnrious rat viruses
on tne market wye recently matie uy
the biologlcnl v survey of the United
Elates department of agriculture In co
operation with the experiment . station
.f tho -rlh Dakota Agricultural u!
.cgc and the bureau of nniiil industry
ol the department. All the results ob
tained in connection' with thes? invest!
rations and a large percentage of reports
from users of these products through'
out the country indicate that such vir
uses are generally unreliable, .and at
their best -the cost is out of atl propor
tion to the-destruction of rats that may
be accomplished by-thMu use. '
' MILKING AT RANDOM
It has long been a rule on well -man
aged dairy farms to milk aiid feed the
cows at tie same hours every day, llegr
ulnrity was ' always. ..thought to have, a
beneficial effect on . nroduction. How
ever, experiments, carried on by the
United States department of- agriculture
on the governments farm at dullsville,
Md. have Bhown that, cows of average
production milked at the saino hours
evtfry day ; .psjoduccd , but slightly more
milk; and. slightly jess- butterfat than
those milked at random, provided the
feeding was done at regular times. When
the feeding, as well as the milking, was
done at random hours, bhe cows pro.
duced about 5 per cent less of both milk
and fat... ,- -.... ... . . . .. ... ......
CUTTING TIMOTHY HAY
Don't-let timothvhav stand im long
before cutting, advises the United Statos
department of agriculture. Only a small
percentage of timothy hay marketed
each year grades Nov 1, statistics ahow,
but the department's hay grading spe
cialists have found that a large part of
the timothy hay which has been grading
No. 2 and No. 3 timothy would hav,o been
No. 1 had it been cut at an earlier stace
of maturity, provided tho metUod of
curing and weather conditions were fav
o'rnble for producing a good quality of
nay.' :'
GUERNSEYS SELL HIGH
In 21 nublic sales of 820 Guernseys
last year, 80 cowb with testing records
sold for an average price of $1200.70
.per head; 170 without records, but whose
dams had records, sold for an average of
faiMt.OU a bead; ou wttnout records, and
with . no ' record backing them on the
dam's side, sold for - $.(00.40 a head.
Does it pay to find out the real value
ol your prtaucing cows
KILL THE CROW
- Convincing evidence of the destructive
and rapacious habits of the. common
crow as. an enemy of game and song
birds has been collected -by Dr. B. H
Wlarren, the noted ornithologist of l'enn
svlvania. who during the last three
weeks bus been investigating . wild life
in duck breeding grounds on the. Vir
ginia coast. Dr. Varren spent two days
in looking for crow victims on the is
lands in that region and found no less
than t!75 eggs of rait birds, green herons,
kiildcer, meadow larks, domestic chick
ens and wild black ducks and also eggs
of .some other small song brrdB on the
ground under trees in which were crow's
nests.
"Under and- near one pine tree,", said
Dr. Warren, "where a puir of crows hail
four young, nearly able to fly. we picked
up 352 egg. shells mostly dappertrails.
Under another nesting . tree, where a
crow's nest had 4 eggs pearly ready to
batch, 67 empty shells', of birds' eggs
and few chicken eggs were, gathered.
On ground under -third Crow's nest we
found 153 egg . shells. The balance of
egg shells were found on meadows and
under trees about the Island .where the
crows had eaten contents before their
young were , hatched. Wo., also, found
under, these crows nests, young rails j
wings and other remains of several kinds-
of birds, adult and young." ' .
The crow, is generally regarded- by
naturalists and sportsmen as one of the
I most destructive robber of birds in the
country and his depredations occur chief
ly during the nesting season when the
young are helpless. As a result of the
enormous damage caused by crows In
the destruction f game and useful birds,
movement" have been started in several;
parts of the country to conduct a vigor
ous warfare against ' them. In some
states there are already bounties on
crows. Anti-Crow1 Clubs ifre being now
formed in localities everywhere through
out the country where the crow has be
come a peat. Dr. Warren who bfn made b
extensive studies In bird llfer believes
,1 a - ,lm M,,-jr im n,1, nf , I, a wn-a,A nil
him to denounce this predatory Bpecica
tu severe terms. :
Game wardens in many sections of the
country have elready tukfti the lead iu
urging the sportsmens' association and
individual sportsmen of their common
wealths to join iu shotting vrows as a
'nethod of protecting gauio and useful
birds,
Columbia Producers
Taken In By Portland
Olyinpia, Whsh., July 21. A monster
.petition, represeimug the territory south
of tho Snake river in Southeastern
Washington und Northeastern Oregou,
was received by the department of pub
lic works Thursday, asking that the dif
ferential of 10 per cent in favor of Port
land over Puget Sound ports on wheat
.rates be wiped out and an equality of
rates between the Columbia basin terri
tory and Porlland and the Puget Sound
ports be restored.
Xfie petition is directed to tne lajer-
state coiumerco commission and the
A ashuigton department of public works.
the original copy being sent to the inter-
state commerce comuussion and a certi
fied copy to tho department of nublic
works.
Buyers Make Profit.
But. as the uetitiou noints out. instead
of Hie wheat grower getting tho benefit
of this differential, the Puget sound
buyerB were practically driven out of the
territory and the Portland 'buyers siuiply
kept the price down aad pocketed tho 2
cents per bushel differential.
xne territory otfected embraces tho
Wbshington counties of 'Walla Walla.
Garfield, Columbia and Asotin and tlie
Oregon counties of Umatilla and Wallo
wa. This is one of the greatest wheat-
producing districts on the Pacific coast.
with normal yield of 25,000,000 bushels
or more. As shown from past experi
ence, equality of rates will bring a large
portion of this crop to tho Puget sound
porta for export.
WALTERVILLE.
Wtaltervillc. July 20. Tho Rcbeknb.
lodge held their regular session anil aft
erwards the" hirthday supper In honor of
T. H. -Wlllian whose birthday comes in
tins montu. Airs. u. I bcott and daugh
ter Icila, of Bend, Ore., Violet and 1.0
roy Inman and M. J. Weariu were the
guests of the order for supper.
airs. Elsie irvln la on the sick list.
Arthur Irvin came home Wednesday
to cure for the family,
Mrs. C. li. Scott and Leila expect to
visit Mrs. W. B, Scott of Fall Creek
over Sunday.
The high school board held their reg
ular meeting Thursday night.
AUircelius' ltioinns and boys were in
Walterville Wednesday and Thursday on
their way to the springs.
J. J. ilandsnker, state representative
for Nenr East relief, will speak at tho
vtlaltcrvillo cniircn Sunday evening,
the "Near East" conditions.
.Mrs. George Williau who has been
sick since Tuesday is recovering.
J. AV. Fountain Is alilo to be about
without his crutches after havini his
anaie spraineu. , ,
Y Bt 0. A, ADMIRAL'
PLAYED LEADING PART
(Continued from page ono)
awny from Smyrna.'
"We were all pretty much discour
aged." Jennings said, "when wo left the
conference None of us could see-where
we could get a rowboat, let alone a
steamship.
"That afternoon an Italian ship came
into tho harbor and I went out to her
ns Boon as she dropped anchor. .1 found
that she could take aomo irefugeesi' but
her captain feared that he would not be
able to land them at Mitylene, whither
he was bound..
."There was little time for argument.
I told him ho just had to tako the refu
gees and that I would guarantee -that
the authorities at Mityleno would let
thein land. He asked mo who would
pay for their passage and I said that I
would. lie finally agreed to take, as
many as be could. Wo embarked two
thousand on this, ship, and the captain
insisted that I go with them to make
good on my landing guarantee.
Finally Landed the 2,900
- "At Mitylene I found everything In
turmoil. There were thousands of Greek
soldiers on the island, and about twenty
ships in -the harbor. The Governor
General in the beginning refused to let
tlie refugees Innd, saying that Uic island
was overcrowded and that there waa
no way to feed them.
"I overcame bis objections, and after
wq got the poor crcatuiys disembarked
I asked the Governor Generai for the
ships.
" 'Impossible,' he said 'the Turks
would capture them as fast as they camo
to Smyrna. They'd put guns on them
and come up here and capture Mitylene,
and we'd be just as bad off as you are
in Smyrna
"We argued back and forth, and final
ly he agreed to let me have six of tho
smallest vessels if I could bring him a
guarantee from the Turks that they
would not capture these ships."
An American destroyer that was in
the harbor took Jennings and this mes
sage back to Smyrna. The Turks gave
tho desired permission, orally. Then the
Y. M. O. A. man, together with Major
C. O. Davis of thn Red Cross, and H.
C. Jaquith of the Near East Relief, and
others, set about drawing up a legal
looking document embodying the guaran
tee. They signpd it and scaled it with
the seal of the lied Cross. An hour or
so Inter Mr. Jennings was on bourd the
destroyer racing for Mitylene,
"You ought to have seen us plough
ing through those waves," he said with
a reminiscent thriii over that trip.
"Bvery one of those steel plates qniiv
ered with the throb of tho engines. Wo
made thirty-five knots and reached Mi
tylene about 6 o'clock in the evening.
"I hud picked up a Greek ex-army
lofficer. a Venizelise, and a former Brit-
iIkIi captain who had served In the World
Wlar. The three of us went up to see
tho Governor General with our 'guarnn
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KIDDIES' SCHOOL
SAVINGS GROW
Deposits Over Four Million
Dollars in Few Months;.
Boys and Girls Own Bal
ances of $14,000,000
Savings ot pupils through school
savings bonking systems in the
United States during the first part,
ending January SI, ot the present
school year, totaled lt.426.000, ac-
i cording to reports compiled by the
Savings Bank Division ot the
American Bankers Association.
The total for the school yoar will
be oyer $7,000,000 if the deposits
continue at this rate, as compared
with five and a halt million dollars
for the previous school yoar.
) The number ot pupils reported
'as participating in the school sav
Jings systems on January 31 waa
,1.534,148, as compared with 1,271.
000 last year, 800,000 the previous
year and 463,000 In the school year
ending in 1920. In schools which
have savings banking systems the
proportion ot enrollment which
participates Is tending to Increase.
Teachers and bankers who interest
tec. Ho refused to give us even tho
six ships he- hud promised."
Scrapped with Governor General
This time there was nulto an argu
ment, according to Jennings, who told
the Governor General that it was cow
ardly and worse than cowardly to leavo
those hclpl-OHS people stranded In Smyr
na. Ivinlly, tho Governor General
agreed to comimmicato with Athens, mid
tho "sub-committee of the Auicricuu Re
lief Committee" with drew.
Tlie Hreek officer knew the Governor
Geuernl," continued Jennings, "and dur
ing most of the interview ho hnd been
pulling at my coat-tails to keep mo from
making -that official mud. As soon ns
wc were outside ho told mo that I would
never get tho ships, that tho Governor
general was simply stalling, and did hot
intend to conimuuicnto with Athons.
'Wto wore pretty gloomy as wo looked
out over tho harbor that night and saw
the ships that might imeitn safety to
those ' women and children in Smyrna.
There was a Greek battleship there, tho
Ki kls. Kho had once been -tho U. o.
Mississippi and had 'been purchased by
the Greek ISuvy. wo decided to go
aboard her. Her captain, we found, whb
in entire sympathy with our proposals.
' Of course, ho cotildn t do anything
by himself, but ho agreed to let us use
the wireless to nuiko our appeal direct
to tho Prime Minister of Greece'. Ac
cordingly wo drafted a message contain
ing the guarantco that Major Davis had
sealed, signed It 'Jennings,' and shot it
over to Athens. This wus around mid'
niaht. and it wasn't long before wo got
a. reply that our message would be de
livered to its addressee, tuo I'rimo '.u&n
iBter in tho mornins."
Mr. Jennings radioed Tight back that
ho cotildn t wait until morning. Ho fl
nnllv succeeded in getting the message
through to tho Prime Minister about
daybreak. Tho next thing he hoard was
that there had been a Cabinet meeting
ordered. Then cumo the query: "Who
is Jennings V"
Had Turkish Guarantee.
The Y. M. O. A. mnn replied that ho
represented the American ibeiief Com
mittee, humanity in general, , and the
Smyrna TcftigccB in particular, Ho also
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Nftttenat Crop Imvrovemrat Sarvtea.
((CHALL we raise It or send the
" cult to market?" is the Ques
tion being argued out by the mem
bers of the boys and girls' calf club
with their fathers. -
"Purebred stock usunlly gives
very much higher returns," is the
statement of Dr. G. F. Warren, of
the New York College ofAgrlcul
ture. In his treatise on farm management-One
ot the Important Hems In
securing these higher returns is
the sale of the calves and young
stock from worthwhile parent stock.
Whether to turn the calves Into
vent or to save them for the herd,
Is the first consideration.
Even In purcbreds, there are
culls and they certainly should be
sent to the block. Of the remainder,
some are Just good enough to be
saved If there Is plenty ot cheap
feed to fill them out, and every
owner will have to decide for him
self if the animal is apt to repay
the labor, feed and shelter neces
sary to bring It into maturity.
"A heifer from exceptionally fine,
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therm selves In the movement
every effort to obtain a place fori
their systems on the honor roQ1
published semi-annually by that
American Bankers Association
through Its Sayings Bank Divivtoa,
Savings Balances Double
The reported bank balances) I
owned by the pupils have more tbasti
doubled already In the current
school year, January 31 snowing i
$14,000,000 as compared with
16,382,000 on June 30, 1923, and
(4.434,000 on June 30, 192L . While
the Increased balances reflect Im
provement in industrial conditions,
it Is probable that part ot the In
crease Is statistical, due to lnei
proved accounting methods. ;' . .
An important feature ot school
savings banking, on which so sta
tistics can be obtained, is the ex
tent to which the teachers are In
culcating thrift in money matters
and the advantage ot saving sys
tematically a part ot all Income.
This is the basio purpose ot scboot
savings banking, the collection ot
deposits being deemed as only an
item In the broad program of thrift
education In the schools. The Mar
tkmal Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations la on
record as giving "unqualified as
sistance to the eatabttshmesit of
thrift Instruction as a regular part
of the curriculum ot the. schools of
our country."
mentioned something about the Unified ;
States Navy. ' II
"Replying to this message," Mr. Jen-
nlgH weut on, "Athens inquired what waa :i
to prevent the Turks from taking tho I
ships. I repeuted tho 'guarantee' that .-;
had already been sent, and- added that I
pledged that the Turks would not harm
Binglo Greek vessel. . , '
"By this tinio it was noon, 'and then
for sewrtU hours wc heard nothing fur- :
ther from Athens. It looked as though
wo hud failed, but I determined to make 1
one lust effort. Wo had been using code ;
through the courtesy of the captain of i
tho Kilkis, and I wirelessed to the Greek i
Government that if it didn't give-us its I
ships within two hours 1 would publicly
broadcast the fact that Greece was 1
afraid to help her people in Smyrna." i
mo reply to tins was a notification ;
that the Governor-General had been in- i
strutted to give Jennings-the ships, and !
further, that Greek vessels in the Firs-
ens had been ordered to report to Jen- t
nings for relief work. '--' j
Mr. Jeuulngs described how that- Very !
night lw persuaded the captains of ten j
ships in tho harbor to sail with him for i
Smyrna at once. They arrived off the j
BtTicken city tho next day, and. unmo- i
tested by the Turks, begun : taking off
the refugees.
"in one day," said Jennings, . speaking
nf the magnitude of the relief work,
"we shipped 4S.000 men,' women and
children, by navy count. - " A -
After the work. was begun, the-Turks,
far from hindering, -gave every assist
ance. ,
"Tb'i y were ns anxious to get rid of
tho refugees as we .were to help the
poor people," said tho Y. M. O. A. -man.
Mr. Jennlng's wife and children re
turned to this country several -months
go. He himself stayed in the Near East
to holp In getting prisoners ot war of
both countries exchanged. Ho js now
on his way home to Cleveland, N. Y for
a "rest." . , .
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stock is usunlly worth the trouble
of raising," says Dennis A.i Merrl- .;
man, of the American Steel and ;
Wire company, "because as so coo- '
clsely stated by Professor 0. A.
Plumb, of the Ohio Agriculture coV'""
lege, 'If there Is anything In the
laws of breeding that has beets
helpful In the past, It ISN the
knowledge that like produces -like.' ,
Class will tell. . - 4j i - vwv
"The calf with several fenera
tions ot high-producing ancestors
on both sides of the pedigree b) jV
truly the golden calf, yielding the
largest measure of sailgfacttoa sod ' "
profit to Its owner. ? v . .,:.;
"One of the really One thing
about It Is that the work of the
boys and girls' clubs Is giving lite
right answer on this question to .
Dad through practical example ' 1
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