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rJay Evening, February 23, 1925 THE EDOENfi UOAKD Page Soven .-.tin fawns 1(1 RE SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT OF STATE . km proved auceessful to "ion nd on to. expert V'" Corv.llia. The Port i OU "or"" of PortlBU,( k Wtfthe seed that will r'i sa" l,, county. K ""' ,n,r. ot flar In Oregon i 11ie rt farmers, although the that it erown 'afT, early as 18. There t" " tinrt tvpes of flax the - 13 th. -eea flax. The fW ft f- ually tall, with few fkt! . ....,.nnentlr only a which produce seed. The Lviug numerous branches Isrxe uses luetic limited ft k.irht. ' . . lsrite numoer o. is W"' ' most of its energy Auction of seed. The f.be. &,WPuTed in seed production. i a long straw which con k,t dnelorj a lois ueBirabie, '(nrt to get seed of the best of the type that you , to plant and grow. ,ipe ' n d Cr0D -lt sefd flax is a K crop for l ' stated by the experi- U" n" 1 .,hrities. The best ',Ve the medium to slightly 13 tnai 'D l" - UUllUlll "'' .nod. heavy SUr.-d.Srad.(re 30,000 4 DAY, AND EVERY ONE AN EGG Corliss Ranch, at Petaluma, California, Boasts That Record; Fifty Thousand Chickens are at the Ranch , eO$ E?fs 0 Si ij;s hve lesi rulls tha whtre th com , won potatoes are utd (ur teel. Certified potatoes muit be of uni form vtti'ie and siftt, thowiiig the TMrietal characteriatice, and compara tively free from disease. But do not think that because they are free from disease, you will get disease-free po tatoes that season. Potatoes become infected from diseased soil or con tainers before planting. Always treat the potato seed before plautiiuj. it serves as a disinfectant for the seed and kills the disease organisms that may bare reached the surface of the seed from the containers, t.'se cor rosive sublimate lor treating thein before the seed is cut for planting. OF FUEL IS BELIEF der ordinary driving conditions there et distinct loss which impairs en gine performs me. Then (he owner aya for considerable repair work which would have been unnecessary had he renewed bis ipark plugs at the proper time." Farm Reminders And every cackle means an eng. That'a the reoord of the Corliss Ranch, at Petaluma,-Calif., said to bo the world'a largest egg producing farm. Part of the farm Is shown above. Upper right Inset Is Frank W. Corliss, tho owner. Lower Inset shows the typo of hen Corliss gets for his business. 'Getting chickens is just like trad-1 busy gathering eggs in 200-egg buck- STwrkcd early, reasonably free " ePds aud ot gooa lenmu .r C btst The seed bed must be fics j firm The' usual preparation J or grain with a little additional k &ary for flax Just be " ,diag it is a good plan to go tie land with a roller or har bat preferably the roller to Jnthe weeds which have started The seed should bo thoroughly tlened in the fanning mill to remove weed Mb and broken, Ugh : flax !! 1'lant plump heavy seed. Treat he 8ecd before planting with forma t, u there are a few diseases in Orecon and it will safe-guard against Mre letting started, tse 1 pint of Imntlin to 40 gallons of water. This Biterial should be sprayed on the ited t high pressure from a com t,ned air sprayer, usually operated , hand and the seed raked over vig iwunl? while th liquid is being n-ayed on. It should then be cov ,rfd 2 to 3 hours with a canvas or , doth to hold the vapor on tne seed. Tien rake it over and spread out to irv. After an hour or two rake it irain, th"n at intervals of 3 to 4 hours until it is dried out. This rnk int over is to prevent the sticking totether of the flax seed. ' Sow Flax Early Smr flu is early as possible an the plants are resistant .to light frosts. Plant the flat when tho tround works well and the weather "irm i-noueh for prompt germ- mtinn wHch tisuallv is from the riJriu nf March to the middle Arril Flni on soil that has been plowed early and kept well worked ud free from weeds has been suc rHtiul when seeded even as late as Jane. Earlv seeding is preterani for sood yields. The flax should be nlenied fter a cultivated crop. ihere will usually he fewer weeds am! m further attention is necessary Mil harvesting if the land has been properly prepared before seeding. Seed tlax is drilled in with a double- disk drill that can be regulated to im shallow. The best results will be obtained from using 40 to 4, pounds of seed an acre. The high' ttt yields produced at the Btation at Urrallis have been secured witn Krdinz 40 to f0 pounds an acre. The Willamette valley is capaDie ft producing some very good seed flix and yields have been secured at the experiment station, varying from 10 to 23 bushels an acre in the sma'l trials, with some of the common va rieties nroduciug about 15 to 10 bushels an nrre. Self Binder Used Harvesting is sometimes done with I self-binder with a flax bunching itrachment whirh drops the flnx off in tend sized bundles. . It is also (re'i!i"ntlr cut with a self rake reap' et and in some instances, with ninB machine. Seed flnx is cured r drying in good siicd shocks, then lulled to the threshing machine and tkreihed. The flnx must be quite ry onore it will thresh well. Be We marketing the flax, it should w put throuch a cleaner and the Wriest and nlnmnent kornelii nnved 'w seed, the medium sized sold for il. and the unfilled seed and weeds mum he kept for feed on the farm 'tie Portland Linseed Oil works l"!le have recently written to the UtKiTi to the effect, that, they Vill 5 very glad to hnve the flax grown ""in this vicinity as their annual i"irements for the mill are now 'inning between 850,000 and 500, " bn.hels of flax, most of which obtained from Montana, South ""nra ana the Orient The Tort- '"in rntimnnw l.nB . .1 J , '"in auum ki"u nvcu Wn Montana that they will sell to " "men who deside to buy flax p.uung. Good Price Given are ui m tn ' k're the advantage of the price mL.""1'1 hr,v,! Pay elsewhere. " , " nd $".50 per hundred ' and get it de ii . . ""'and. That means .. Me larmer. By PHILIP J. SIXNOTT (NEA Service Writer) pETALTJ.MA, CaL, Feb. 28. Fifty bousand chickens An'I you never hear a rooster crow on the place! Never soe a mother hen digging up worms for baby chicks. It s a hennery pure and simple. is the Corliss ranch here. It is said to be the grestest egg producing farm in the world. At least 30,000 cackles are heard day and ' each cackle means an egg. X'acked ou dozen in a case, n truck is reuulred to. move TU or more cases a day to the poultry exchange for shipment. Just a Trader VrOTJ'D expect the head of this farm to be a past master at "chicken ology," specialist in poultry diseases, poultry breeding,, cross-breeding, his toric strains, trap nests and the rest of the things that bother the Degtn nor in chicken raising. Rut Frank W. Corliss, the pro prietor, assures you that he doesn't reteno to Know wiiai it m uuu. growlnsr flex In th n" :srn t . . . Pfie emial to the f. o. b nmi prjrp from ... Mont(iri. fr ii. 1rpnrtrfl flax frra Argentina Mm. t flax seed ' tonld Rend, for fhpir MaMi.l f"vorul weather comes for "'S 11. ine horses with me," he eays. "Every spring, I'm in the market to sell about 8000 hens and to buy 10,000 pullets. I scout around to find where I can sell my hens for the highest price and then I haggle around until I get my pullets at the lowest price. "We're too busy feeding chickens and gathering and packing eggs to bother about trying to run setting hens or incubators. So it's easier to buy tban worry. $70,000 Feed Bill ' "I was a machinist before 1 thought I could get rich in the poul try game, and it's bad enough to worry about the $70,000 feed bill I must dig uo every year, without worrying about little chickens. I'd rather count mine after someone else hatches 'em. "Advice to other poultrymen? Say, advice durn near mined me. Some figures then? Gotcha pencil and paper ready?" Here they are: ' Four men and two women kept ets and packing them for market. Forty-six acres in hens approxi mately 1000 hens to an acre. White Leghorn strain used entire ly, llftus are kept three years, then sold. Koch lot shows a loss of 20 per cent during the three years due to pleurisy and loss of vitality due to tho breeding to produce hens lay ing 200 eggs a year. Big Eaters Truck load of kale bought every day, and ton of alfalfa and kale eat en daily. Twenty sacks of wet mash fed daily maize, shredded wheat tiiis and rolled oats, mixed by elec tric machinery. Ten sacks of onions daily fed oc casionally as tonic. Many tons of barley and wheat fed weekly. Over 330 chicken houses. 30 writh electric lights to make working diy longer. Over 4S different poultry yards. Three power pumps, connect ed to three wells, needed to supply water. Twenty storage houses for cliickei-feed. BILL IS SOUGHT TO By CHARLES P. STEWART (NEA Service Writer) WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. "The farming industry cannot survive on one-third ot tne consumer Tk. .me.mi.nt is B. h. loaKum s. demanding agricultural relief by the nrpnt congress, or an extra session to put it through as speedily nossible after March 4. 'The United states, enuuiim Yoakum, veteran railroad organizer and executive and chairman of the Farmer-to-Consumer league, movin.; power behind the Curtis-Aswell bill, "never has been faced by a more menacing economic condition than ag riculture presents today. "Unless the right solution is found business, industry and labor of the cities in the end will suffer more than The fountain from wnicn me cii- ies buck ineir busiu-iiou'- "o dried up. Many uiva up The best estimates obtainable show that -about 1,200,000 farmers have been driven out of business. Some of therm continue on the farms as tenants or economic slaves.' "This does not come from alarm ists. It comes from the United States envemment. "Not long ago I visited the great agricultural belt of tha northwestern states. I was told mere inai iruui the courthouse steps of one county ..nt nlnne there had been 250 farm foreclosure sales. I was told that n many cases the farmers lost not only their farms and homes, but, under ,nrtel mortantes their nousenoiu effects as welL Even their children lost their toys. "In 1022 aai-icultural products ag grrgating farm value, as given by the agricultural department, oi i x- Mil lion dollars, exclusive of livestock, cotton and tobacco, were sold to the consumer for 22 1-2 billions. "In other words, this foodstuff was sold to consumers for three times as much as the farmers wero pain Intont of Bill "Tr, i-nrtie-Aswcll bill provides an onnnrtimltV for ttlB eCOnOiniC Slid commercial organization of the farm ing industry under a fcderul charter. it u .linnle aud easily understood. te rall for no appropriation. It does not seek to tax the general public, l, ..In the government for a well- ln.n nf lO.(KI0.CKjO at 4 1-2 nam Mltlf. IIRT able hi or before lit H ' ' It places the control and manage ment of the organization in ic ! eri' hands. "That is where It belongs. ''Too long hnve ambitious amateur" and plausible theorists been permitted to override the farmer in the man agement and control of his own busl- It is tuis wnicn ass I CERTIFICATE, OF POTATOES IS BEST Farm Facts Agricultural corporations arc toxed more than other enter prises, reports tho U. S. de partment of agriculture. Eighty-six per cent of their profits was paid out for local, state and federal taxes, the depart ment estimates. Local and state taxes take 65 per cent of the profits. Government experimenters have been able to affirm the belief of sheepmen that pasture rotation reduces the ravages of parasites among ' sheep nnd lambs. Tests were conducted at the government farm at Beltsvillc, Md. The department of agricul ture has issued bulletin 128$, on the control of tomato leaf spot, which is considered of special benefit to tomato grow ers in the middle Atlantic and middle western states. The disease, which causes an an nual loss of 250,000 tons of to matoes in the United States alone, fn widely distributed east of the Rockies. Irrigation farmers of Oregon will do well to look over their distribution boxes and buitd weirs at this time of year. Much contention enn be avoided by measuring the water used. lHrec tions for building weirs may be ob tained by asking for Oregnn-Cor-vallis-station circular 1R2, on "Mater ials and Structures for Farm 1 ist rlb- utaries,' by W. L. Towers, professor of soils. A ood colony of bees at the nf' ginning of the main honey flow should consist of one selected uucen and 75.000 to 100.000 workers. There should bu os few dron? as possible. advises tho state college experiment station. Ordinary straw contaius as much plant food material as does hamyard manure, but this material is not as readily available to the plants as is manure. One ton of Btraw contains nearly 10 pounds of nitrogen, pounds of phosphoric cid. and 10 to 12 pounds of putRKh, says the state college experiment station. Heavy pruning of winter injured fruit trees should be delayed until tho extent of the damage has been deter mined, says the experiment station. Promiscuous pruning or cutting back uow may remove some of the best wood in the tree, which cannot be told from the damaged wood until Inter in the season. Getting spray outfits in shape- be fore the season starts is advised by the state college experiment station. Some orchardista will have to in crease their spray outfits due to the growth of the orchard to prevent ser ious trouble. If they cannot get over the orchard in time, the insects may get a start on them. u ood nshes contain about Ii per cent potash and 30 per cent nme The potash supplies the plant food element potassium, aim the lime can be used to neutralize acidity in our soils. Wood ashes that have been exposed to the rains are leached and are not as valuable as unleached ashcR, advises the station experiment station. HARTFOnn, Conn.. Feb. 28. Rumblings from tho Fnited States over the fear of an oil famine in the near future, get only a casual smirk from fuel engineers In this country. For, wherever oil is spoken of here, no end to its abundance can be seen. The main reason Is that the engin eers look not only to petroleum for the supply of motor fuel oil, but to such native substances as oil shales, lignites, peat and ordinary cool. According to A. W. Nosh of the oil mining department of the Univer sity of Hirmingtmm, even all the free oil fields of the world have not been completely explored. Many are still undiseovcred and untouched, even in the United States. " The present carefree method ' of working the oil fields may leave more fuel in the ground than is obteined fr distribution, Nosh believes. Bet ter prodm-cion methods could keep theKe fields up for many yeara to come. Oil shale fields are plentiful in practically al! sections of the world The iVUHMUtoO tons of small coal that constitute waste or ore left un derground, could also yield millions of tons of oil annually by the Hor gius hydrogenation process which has been undergoing experimentation at Birmingham university. In Sweden charcoal has been un dergoing tests for the fuelisation of motor ears and oil-burning locomo tives. I'se of oil from charcoal, it is believed, would reduce expenses 50 por cent, it is estimated. Totato growers in the northwest are obtaining better yields by using certified seed. The merit of certification is slowly Let Makers Buy Up Used Cars Is Plan itmvmr flUiliUAIUL DEADLIEST OF GASES Carbon monoxide is coloiifis, odor less und deadly. I Carbon monoxide may be formed by burning almost any kind of fin 1 ! without enough oxygen. A very ' sncill ier.'emuce in the air v.-ill I I'Htiitr k)i(li((lirv then inn un(iniiinn.s tiif ii death. The bloud has a gn'nt affinity for carbon monoxide and sliHorb it from the limi- in hum d of the oxygen which is needed to sun tan, life. An automobile engine running in an ordinary sunill frarugc with doors ii nd wiiniowit closed will prohic enough carbon nnnunide in a f -v minutes to cuifie death. Jf a pers a (Rv NKA Service) SAT.T I-AKK CITY. Feb. 2S. Another solution to th iiKd ear problem is offered by Fred A. Alklre of this city. He suggests that manufacturers buy back cars unfit for further line at the maximum rate of $l'Ht n ear. The manufacturers might limit their used cur purchases to 20 per cent of their productiou for any one year, ami they could make up the dil- fereuoo by tacking about S'.'O to the price of each new car sold. This is suggested on tho experience ! is alone in such a garuge he is gm of tho typewriter, scale und sewing eraiiy overcome without warning, mnchino manufacturers. New Parking Device An unmnul parking device has been invented for automobiles. An extra wheel is attached to the riar of the automobile and may be lowered to the pavement. This makes it psnlMe to wheel the car sideways and back It into the sweet in plnces where there would not be room enough for backing out or turning around in the usual way. Ready For Raoos Entry blanks for the coming Mem orial Pay races at the Indianapolis speedway have already been mailed. This will be the last year for 122 cub ic inch engines. The 102fl rnce is limited to IH 1-2 inch engines. PLUGS ESSENTIAL Heavy Fleece is Held Important With Oregon wool at a good price it Is important to get as heavy a fleece ns possible from tho flock. The becoming understood by the general buck will be one means of increasing class of farmers. A large number of, the fleece weight. In selecting a buck inquiries have been received this year from farmers, by the experiment sta tion at CorvaHis. While planting cer tified seed will not always result in a crop that will pass certification re quirements', it usually menns a con siderably better yield of potatoes. The potatoes will be more uniform nnd to hood the flock, tho mutton con formation should be the first consid eration. Next oomos tho wool. A dense fleece with a good length of staple covering the entire body evenly should he selected. Care is taken not to get a ram with black fibers in the wool, advises the experiment station Automobile owners many times go to the expense of having their en gines overhauled when a new set of spark plugs would have corrected the trouble, points out R. A. Strauahan. president of the Champion Spark Ting company.' "Itegardless of the kind of spark plugs you use," he says, "they should be replaced at least once ft year. "That applies to all products. No spark plug can be made that will not lose efficiency in from 8,000 to 10, 000 miles of service. "It is only within the last two years that this has-been definitely established as an engineering fact. For more than a decade all efforts were centered on making a spark plug that would continue to fire for a long period. In this some have been sing ularly successful. It can honestly be said that today many spark plugs would last as long as the engine In which they wero Installed. "But that would be unfair to the owner. Thousands of tests, not only by our own engineers but by those of the various enr manufacturers, hove proved conclusively that the stress to which Bpark plugs are sub jected in engine operation decreases their efficiency. This occurs so grad ually that the average motorist fails to realise it. Rut it is exactly the same as though the spark lever were retarded a minute fraction of nn iuch each day. "In less than n year's running nn- tndustry Saturated The saturation point of tha auto mobile industry Is here now, says O. J. Kettering, famous automotive engineer. "It's here, he says, "and It remains for the Industry to do business on that basis." The only safeguard is never to rim your en nine union the gurage door is opra, or at least two window's. If your engine is running snd you ftl any hendoche or fa mine even if you think the ventilation is til right, go at once into the open air: there may be a pocket of gas in some cor ner of the garage. If you find anyone unconscious In a garage, drag him at once to tha open air, tf possible. If you cannot do this, opan the doors and windows wids. If the victim is breafhir.s, next send for help. Jf the victim hit stopped breathing, tart artificial res piration by the prons pressure meth od. Send somsoue else to call the police, gas company or elect Ho com pany, as they usually have equipment for resuscitation, in eluding oxygen or carbon dioxide-oxygen inhaltora. If you do not know how to it art artificial respiration, learnt Get this Information from your local safety council, Red Cross, police depart- ' ment, electric or gas company, or write rhe National Safety Council, Chicago. mr '"a 7 ' V... "S5"B Grow Greater Gardens Sir Walter Scott's Garments Exhibited SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 28. (P A hand-tailored broadcloth cost and vest worn 140 years ago by Sir Wal ter Scott, olmoHt identical in line with those worn today on formal occa sions, wns exhibited in a tailors show here recently. A daimhter of Hir Walter gave the coat to an English friend nf his and it came down from neneration to gen eration. Kverr stitch in the garment . rtn. hv hand. The brosd lapels are properly notched, and cut square : in front. Claw-hammer tails reached to the bend In the knee. The wsistcoat was of brocaded purple with small, round, colorful buttons. neita. gered and befuddled him.' KeePinff Qualities Apples Studied ii, L V I'l l' in Western Oregon nj,:. ''iil at the experiment Mr k ,-" Oregon this va-Tk,-., , I,rov"i "n of the best ,! lvnm , Kind wt ontinl. "r, h."'a '"Ul"l dl to the u" II i, Lack of Minerals Leads to Ailments In Raising of Hogs Manr of the ailments in log raising are due to the lack of minerals in the food. Minerals should be kept before the hogs at all times. Plenty of exercise is also necesssry. The following miners! mixture fs recom mended br the O. A. C. experiment station, fed either by putting one nth nound ner day tn in HAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE "Make hav while the sun shines." urges the old proverb. Hut what shall the unlucky farmer do if the capricious snn rcfusei to lend its assistance during the haying seanon? Thousands of acres of crops are lost every year on account of rainy weather at the critical period. Says a contributor to The Topular Hclence .Monthly (New York, February!: "tn England, where damp and fog gy waather. common during certain seasons, makes a good hay crop rare, a new device recently haa been pat ented by Captain B. J. Owen, which dries hay by means of artificial heat, the liny is stacked while it is green and then it is dried in twenty-five-ton stacks. The photograph ahows the system of piling and drying. Heat is conduct'' through a larg, pipe to the Ulterior of the stack.'1 THE Six Plant Grafted F'ranquette WalnuU Thejr are tacney maker One of the bet blocka of grafted Vrooman Franijuotte In the Htate. hn. alWell Orown. selected type. dool nXllZr , n, plum, .pr.ro,. .mall .alt 8 pound.; ground bone, (fine., ! fruits, etc. .tight .lock nt right J pound' ground ...Iphnr. 1 pound -prices. Fabmll air slaked lime, 2 pound.; (iln.ihcr . ask for price.. H5 yean m but). salt. - pounns: poinim ic -. .1 If .l.t. coal is not avail- . "'irn part of the state, -era well, the fruit does '!. eastern product. ' tree, are still young, 'n'Mn hm... !.. .i ...k''r ,ru' U develop' , hie. wood a.hes or charcoal may be C'arllon Nursery Co. Carlton. Oregnn. eveian and Its Exclusive One Shot Lubricating System Simplicity of lubrication is one of the reasons why aJl America is acclaiming the Cleveland Six. Step on the plunger winter or summer and a measured dose of oil is flushed into every chassis part under one ton pressure, Four fillings of the reservoir with crank case oil suffice for a whole year's driving. Thousands of Cleveland Six owners hail "One-Shot" as the biggest improvement put into motor cars since the self starter. It is on all Cleveland Six models on the dashing touring car on the spacious, popular Coach Premier on the sumptuous de luxe models. You owe it to yourself and to your purse to see this "One Shot" Lubrication System and you will be quickly convinced of its value and the many miles added to the life of the car. Take a few minutes of your time and stop in at our salesroom for a demon stration without any obligation on your part. Get the details on this revolutionary exclusive feature. See it at our sales room and get the booklet, "What they all say about 'One-Shot'." We will take your car in trade and give liberal terms. (The "One-Shot" Lubrication System I. licensed under Bowen Product. Co. patent.) TOURING CAR $1345 SPORT TOURING $1545 COACH PREMIER $1595 ' BRUUGHAM $1875 8E0AN DE LUXE $2035 pHce. f. e. b. Eugene. Eugene Garage Phone 51. Eugene, Ore Order Garden Seeds Direct From Gill Brot. Semd Co. Pedifrree, acclimation, hardlnea., truenes. to name I These qualitie will insure you a greater garden. ' "Seod. which are grown In the Northwest." ay. Prof. A. G. B. Bouquet, department vegetable gardening, O. A. 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