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Saturday Evening, April 11, fage Eight THE EUGENE GUABD DECLARE EXPERTS Lane county can (row good corn profitably nay the experiment ata lion at . 'orvallia. Mm-h rorn ia ship jed into Ortgou frou- the central titata and Argentina. La at year. 2hi para were shipped into the north west for fttock feed, yet the yield of cirn ia dragon for an acre in greater than the bent yields of winter and Kpring grain grown. The corn crop fitrnifdien a culti vated crop in the cropping ayalem of the farm. A cultivated crop w one eetiential for profitable utiliza tion of land, labor, and plant foods Dot used by grain crop, ('ultira t ion dcrreanea the weeda and dia- eaxea common to Oregon aoila. It i alifo improves the structure and area- j tiop at Hoila, eonnervea moisture, and i makes it poHsibie for more plant food : to become available. For best reatiitM, corn is i dun ted 1 when the koi) in dry and warm enough for prompt germination, usually from the middle of April to the middle of May. Kight to ll! pounds of teed are used to the acre. Corn requires a long growing Keanon in Oregon. In 102-1, a large amount of very good seed corn wan harvested in eastern and western Oregon. SOIL STIMULATED. fBy KA Rervice) BOSTON', .Mhhh., April iL The high-freiu,ncy radio enerjty that is being broadcast constantly over the 1'nited States may prove a boon to farmers in improvement of their crops. Such Is the belief of a Host on elec, tricul engineer who has been ohncrv ing the effects of electrical energy dinsipHted by wires over and under ground, on the growth and yield of plants. "In the not far dint ant future," he says, "radio may prove to be of more practical benefit to ngrimlture through stimulating the yield of fruits, vegetables and other farm products." The engineer makes this deduction from observation of experiments in the stimulation of plant growth by electricity. Cost Is High "For ninny yearn," he says, "ex periments have been carried on both in this country and Knglnnd with various methods for aiding crop growing by electricity. In Kngland it appears to be Vhiefly along the linen of overhead wiring. "The chief deterrent to adoption of this method on u commercial scale, lias been the com!;. The advantages in stimulating growth nnd increased yield were not miffieii-M to offset the cost." Another method of plant stimula tion is to put wires into the ground, coat the seed, with a finely divided iio-dctcrioting metal and drive a high frequency current through the wires. More Nitrogen "There is 11 general belief that the principal effect of electricity in the soil is the addition of nitrogen to the soil," the engineer ex plaint. "As we go nearer the tropics the precipita tion of nitrogen to the earth by the ttntm-nt electrical disturbances lu the atmosphere ' becomes increasingly heavy and vegetation becomes more abundant. "It is therefore a natural assump tion that artificial discharges of elec tricity, cither through the nir or through the soil, wili react in the name manner." r'rmn this he concludes the high power, high-frequency currents trans mitted through radio aerials might help plant growth in the vicinity of tlietve Aerials. "We may look forward to the in in. creased yield of plants nreas," lie so. s, "hs well tuieh I more quickly completed cycle and slHitt stimulation of the plant result-J hig in a hcnlih.v condition, permitting a stronger rMstanre to the encroach- j con nients of fungi him Plans Arc Laid to Observe Birthday of English Bible j WASHINGTON, April H.ttpu - ' The Hihl ' Mll complfti'ly overtop ! all rtthor 'bft seller','' fr. Samuel1 MtVrra lert, geneml sreretarv .f the Federal t'oun. tl ,.f Cfciiri-he. t.ii.l todiir iu a Mrttfm-nt rnthni altrnt to the itt'th anniversary f the fjri; tranilsti" of the new leHtament from tireek hit Knii-h. t b oherv d tht e.u. Only our if-i-y of (he Kndi-li HiM-. printed by William TymUk, im trans lator, i eitl, the statement aid. and it i at Hritd. Lngland. Tyn- dute life tnd nnri. will receive pe- iii attention during tbf obtervsne. 1 which will bring f.rtb exhibits of rar ; r'rom a mission ef following te b'bhcrtt edni"ti by university and r-t ' warning craft of tbe'r puMie lihr-irif. whereabout, the duties of the ice "Tviidale's wrk h.ined tre whole, patrol hare grown to include atudr 'jne of su.ed'Tg tr-inslntieus, fnnii llie fan 'I t'overtlitle lltble to th KiH Jme version in Itll 1," the '..iteinttt eu(iiioe... Tatter and Smut.? school w rker tire tvinf t.re-J by te cimneil . it reus the im. .rtnc f tii' rmrer.ir,y thro-ub-fi icir. '!" tran;.itiun uf the !VW fr...i the or-ginil tvngue. Tvu iti r i her.'i.u and martyrdom ami tti. lower f ti. printing pr are sub jevr f'ir dcuim." The .rtrnt;o.l Cuncil of lie I'gioua rdmtun. t'bioago. i jirvaioi ig mteret ia the nh'vement. a are the A m rVj U'te s'i'tt. the Amr-tc-m L-tar aocaiia. and the N. ti.nil Asiviati..ii cf Ito-'k rbEtitef. SaaltatUa lprtanl bick )ic can be cbex-kej con derablj by kee;ng tt jwu!try ia saa:tary urnuntlu g, Sam: a! ton prevents dieae. EAR OF CORN D:AWS $1000 AWARD Huge Prize Goes to a Woman; Thl Time It'a An Illinois Woman Who Take the Laurel! and the Cath Mrs. Elsie M. Pulaska and (Br NKA Service ) CHK'AtJO, April 11. Another tri umph for the wmen "f America! This time it is Mrs. Klnie M. TulftS ka of Waverly, ill., wbo cops the. laurels. She has just been awarded a $1000 prize for producing a champion ear of corn. The ear was declared to be 100 per cent perfect by judges at the National Seed Com honr here. Mrs. Pulasku's corn was selected a the best ear from a field of .'10,000 entries in the contest. Korty-six In one county alone in New York stute. farmers made an estimated saving of $'J5.000 on their buy crop in us a result uf a special har vest weather forecast service main tained by the Weather Bureau of the 1'nited States Department of Agricul ture, in co-operution with the New York State College of Agriculture and the New York County Farm and Home Bureaus. Uuriug the harvest operation a series of forecasts were scut out daily by telegraph and by telephone. tin this way the farmers were giv en advance information about the weather. These forecasts covered a longer period than do the regular forecasts published in the newspa pers, us I hey were given from one to four days in advance. They were made available to farmers having tel ephones with.n two hours after they left the hands of the forecaster. Thus the wise farmer was able to be prompt in cutting bis oats, or lit hold ing oif from cutting his i lover in rut rain ms prophesit d, or l e could lias- Hen harvesting if good weather wus expected. The service is available to farm ers h.tvinj telephone connection. Dur ing July and August the harvest wea ther forecusts are dispatched to the county agencies in some thirty-five counties of Newt York state. In one county, by the u,se of party lines, prac tically every farmer having a tele phone receives the service. The prac t .ce hega n when, a f e w y eu r g ago, 1'iof. ti. l- Warren, head (if the Le partment of Agricultural Keonomic and Farm Management of the New "rk State College of Agriculture, started calling the weather bureau office daily by telephone to see whe ther the weather conditions were fa vorable for cutting hay. At the end of last season a vote w.i taken bv telephone Which was unanimous for the continuation of the r,, p NI,,t ,r extension in ao far P"tl'le. 0 TpD FTP fl f" iPf". S f I , K T IS Mr II r ULUIIL I U Ul lUL WASlUNtrrnV Anril II Ihe r rti guard i tanning to tra , come of H offiVen m speeinlists in lr latrn work. Lieutenant Com- ma rider r.dwsrd H. Smith, who ha hren serving a oeeaoof raphie offieer "f ri- tsking advintag' ' P'1'"" fellowship offered him by ln Atneriean-SndinaTitn founds 1 u11, "n tnp ri-citinieinlation of llar- nri jt.-ienti. and i 'tndying the o.uetin of ireberf nnd their con tributing rinse., am) lu at Bergen, Norway. Commander Smith has been a pion eer in ice pntrol work, serving n const guard vee in the iceberg lanes and during the winter month working up osta at c-ast guard XV nnirter- nd ci.mluetiue reiea Harvard tint. erity. f IJie oceen, includirg the currents An Expert at Eugene Foundry and yiis mm. her champion ear of corn. states were represented. The winner was presented with n ?1000 check at a "corn banquet" here bby Julius Hosenwuld. A bit of rural romance was re vealed with the announcement of Mrs. Pulasku's good fortune. She was no tified that she had won the contest on the fifth anniversary of ber mar riage. When she and her husband married and started farming in Morgan county, III., five yara ago, there was only f'J5 in the family treasury. - Now they have a 160-acre farm. that carry the bergs, the places where they form, and other scientific data bearing on them. This service dates from 1014, fol lowing the signing by VI powers in terested in transatlantic navigation of a convention, which provided for "au international derelict-destruction, ice-observation and ice-put rol ser vice." The sinking of the Titanic by an iceberg in 1012 really initiated the movement and coast guard offi cers point with pride to the fact that since the ice patrol wos established, no lives have been lost because of icebergs in the oceau lanes of the North Atlantic. Short Cuts TAKB a box-type loop with four 1 celluloid or wood coat hangers and two strips of wood each 24 inches long. A coat hanger is screwed at the middle to the ends of the wood strips. The two strips are notched in the middle and mortised so each strip will be at right angles to the other. I'se 100 feet of single lamp cord for the inductance. Make your set tune, to the longer wavelengths by hooking a coil of 20 turns of No. 20 wire in series with the aerial or by connecting a .0001 Mfd. fixed condenser across the var- iable condenser and across the aerial and ground binding posts. If the socket binding post is not long enough to hold several loops of bus wire, remove the binding post screw and replace it with a longer one. I'se small test clips In making tem porary connections while experiment ing with a hookup. They can be snapped on and off in an instant. Tighten a loosened binding post on the panel by putting a lock wnsher under the nut at the rear of the panel before the nut is screwed down. Starting of Train Service Celebrated OM.VIKW. Wash., April 11. Towns or Southwestern Washington I and northern Oregon joined with Lonjiview recently, celebrating tht storting of train wervice between lmgview and Iliderwood, Wash., over the Fmnjrview. Portland snd Nor- : thern railway. Itiderwood Is had piartep ,.f the lugging operations whi.-h ttuppk the null of the Long Hell rotnpany in I,ongview. U. a. Long, head f the lumber company, and other officer were here to take part in the celebration. Hall's Catarrh Medicine rid your system of Catarrh or Deal, acts caused by Catarrh. ?. J. CHENEY & CO-Toledo. Ohio CHICHESTER SPILLS ( klka Irr DlaBn7HfuiA flll.li n,4 .j VmZZZiS. W. af1M, V 50L0 Bt DRLCGISTS mRKC Each Machine In our shop that's hy )rou are taking no chance hco jroo jive ycur ma china ahop work to as. No matter what the char acter of the Job, do mat ter how complicated, we will make good. Oct cor future talk it oier ltb. OS Machine Company IN WEST EXPECTED PORTLAND, Ore.. April 11. OP) The intention! of Oregon farmer, as well as the farmers of Washington and tho other nine western states, indicate an increased acreage. of all of the major crops this spring, with the exception of tame hay. The in crease is particularly noticeable in the case of spring wheat. The large increasa in this crop ia probably due to the severe winter killing in the Pacific northwest, particularly in eastern Oregon. These intentions are shown in re ports gathered by t. J. Kent, agri cultural statistician of the depart ment of agriculture. Heports in de tail from the state indicate: '"Winter wheat" Winterkill, east ern Oregon, 480.000 acres; western Oregon 57.000 acres: total, 537.000 acres. Nearly all eastern Oregon winterkilled "area replaced with spring wheat. I'art of western Ore gon area will be planted to oars, bar ley, corn, etc. More mixed wheat than Isst year and probably lens smutty wheat. Decrease in hard red winter and white club wheat. Oats Spring oat acreage larger than usual due to poor fall for seeding and winterkilled fall oats. Probably no overproduction of crop. Barley Acreage increased in all parts of the state. Increased acre age limited by seed supply. Probably no overproduction. Potatoes Increased acreage In Union, Umatilla, Deschutes, Croot and Klamath counties'. Decreased acreage in western Oregon. N?w potato law will probably improve local market for home grown stock. (Pig increase in acreage reported from Yakima district). .Tame hay Greatly reduced acre, nge in clover, due to. failure of 192 1 sowings. Also great decrease in vetch due to poor fall seeding, and serious winterkilling in Washington, Yam hill, Polk, Penton and Clackamas counties. Alfalfa reduced in state to some extent, account some winter killing, ' and weakening due to dry season of 1024. Considerable new planting and prospect for plenty of; water. Grain hay Large increase in west- ern Oregon. j Flax Probable increase in f ibT ! flax acreage. Seed flax acreage will increase substantially. Corn acreage will increase. Wire Pictures on Commercial Basis Coast-to-coast service on a com mercial basis of the new method of transmittipg pictures over telephone wires, devised by engineers of the American Telephone and Telegraph company nnd the Western Electric company, has now been established. Thus another age-old dream is real ized. The new service involves two-way transmission from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean and joins up New York, Chicago and San I'runcisco. It take. oniy aDout tnree-nunureutus ot a sec ond for the electrical waves to reach San Francisco after they are applied to the circuit at New Y'ork. There fore, the time required for transmis sion of complete picture is that re quired by the sending and receiving machines to trace over the picture point by point about seven minutes. The time consumed in the photograph ic process at each eud is approxi mately three-quarters of an hour. Thus, a photograph, drawing, hand writing exhibit, finger print or other graphical record for transmittal to 1 San Francisco could be filed in New j York at 8 a. m. ami an hour later, I or at tt a. m., Pacific Coast time, be ! available for use iu the San Francibco newspapers. - I MAY NOT USE SARDINES FOR FERTILIZER, RULING (Commercial Bulletin) j The California supreme court h.is just rendered a unanimous decision 1 Can You Qualify"? The completing of one of our regular courses will qualify you for a good position. And good positions ore open for those who have the necessary business training to qualify. Our school will continue in session during the sum mer months so that those who enroll now nro en abled to "carry on" without a break. Ask for full information Eugene Business College A. E. ROBERTS, Tresident Phone C66 902 Willamette St. Eugene, Ore. Ask for' WLLAMETTE GOLD BUTTER Always Pure-Sweet-Fresh At Your Grocers TAtg. by Reid'a Dairy 642 Tearl St. upholding the mate Uv prohibilinl to. manufacture of fertiliser from fre ah aardinea. The law providea that caonera may only use offal from air dinea actually packed jn the manufac ture of fertiliier and oil. Pendins the decision of the court the California packer, hare aent laree quantitife of ardinea to the reduction planta and the production of fertiliier and oil ha, been exceptionally heavy thia aeaaon. t'annera Bay that oral aardinea were aold thia y?ar at a loaa of 5 cenli and SO centa a cae but the large pro fita realized from the sale of fertil izer and oil more than offset losses on the pack. With the large profita from fertilizer and oil sales eliminated cannera will be forced to raise prices of ovals pa"ked in the future, it ia claimed. The fi-h and game commission has not yet officially advised the packers of the court decision and operation of the reduction plants is continuing ' n the same basis as in the past. The California pack of oval aar d'nes this season was more than a million and a half cases. - '.- New Peach Varieties ' Eight new varieties of peachee have been developed by ecientista at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at New Brunswick. These are the results of crossbreeding thousands of peach seedlings over a period of ten years. Herd Honor Roll Farmers in 28 states, to the num ber of 2378,. have landed in the Na tional 300-pound Herd Honor Boll. Each of these has had a yearly pro rincHnn record of no less than 300 pounds of buttcrfat. ' s Flrat In Bulterfat 0. F. Bicrsdorf of Cornelius. Ore., has won first honors in the national testa of Jersey fat production for yearlings and senior two-year-olds, ilis yearling heifer produced !M pounds of fat in December and hiu two-year-old yielded 77 pouuds. 1 Half Pound a Day Lambs under test at the University of Illinois gained half a pound a day, when fed in creeps and given a ra tion of corn, oats, and alfalfa hay. They were marketed after 13 weeks' feeding. What Helps Soil Proper tillage, addition of organic matter and limestone, nnd drainage are what keeps soils in good condi tion, saya M. B. Harland of the ag- Knnnmv r1or.iiri-n.enr. college of fltlri- culturc, University of Illinois. Huge Acreage Harvested crops are grown on attu.UUO.UOO acres of land in the 1'nited States. More than a fourth of this is devoted to corn and a fifth to hay. , For Leg Weakness ! Provide nbundunco of sunlight to taby chicks, to prevent leg weakness. Where this i not present, a 3 per cent solution of cod liver oil will be found effective. Cut Brush Hedges f A brush hedge on un east-west , boundary wilt keep the sunlight from a strip of land at least five feet I wide. Brush cutting increases pro duct ion. ; Big Corn Aoreage i Wisconsin grows about 2,500,000 f acres of corn annually, about half of which is used for silage. It takes: .'175,000 bushels of seed to plant this acreage. j PANTS Cut and made specially for you any style or grade In our own shop. Guaranteed to fit LISTON MFG. CO. 718 Olive Elks Bldg. SHORT ACREAGE OF CLOVER INDICATED A short acreage of clover for lfttf is indicated by the rather slow de mand for clover seed report el by dea -s and the few inquiries received at the Corvallis experiment station. Last season the clover crop was short and the clorer crop for 1123 ia going to be short because of the dry. sum mer of 1124 which killed nut most of the clover seeding. Yet it it cheaper for the farmer to grow his own hay than to buy it and a S eg time bay is better than a grain or grass and weed hay. (ood quality bay in cheaper to feed than poor quality hay which takes more for a feeding Red or alsike clover planted a'one is a successful method for estab lishing a good stand says the experi ment station. Their practice is to plow the land early and then culti vate until planting to kill out the weeds and maintain a good mulch. The late workings of the land are shal low to avoid bringing up more weed seeds. Twelve pounds of red clover or 8 pound of alsike t Joe acre are used, being planted from the middle of April to the middle of May. It is either drilled with machinery which seeds about 1 inch in depth or broadcast by hand and the seed covered by harrowing lightly or using the corrugated roller if the surface is dry. ES fBy NEA Service.) ITHACA, X. Y.. April 11. Young ajiple orchards have been pruned, too much up to the time they are from 10 to 12 years old, saya G.'W. Peck of the New York State College of Agriculture at Corneas university. Much of the breakage in trees reaching maturity could be avoided by proper pruning at planting time and during the year or two follow ing, he adds. When four or five main limbs are allowed to start from tho trunk within a space of eight to twelve inches, the tree is almost sure to be crowded and weakened as it reaches the full bearing nge. The top main nmn or modified central leader will often bo seriously dwarfed, for, as the lower branches increase in sine, they are apt to cut off its sap flow. The two-year-old tree coming di rectly from tho nursery will usually require considerable pruning. It wiil STOP Children's Cough with . FOLEY'S MILIAR bdObAfi lift ' No f4tit lngTfltsnti pet n txj an Um wrapper. CSIMrn Ilk It. Lrrat Mlllnff couf h nwdictiM In th world. SOLD EVERYWHERE Starting Monday, April 1 3th, for one week only we will have on sale the well known brand of Clauss scissors, one pair at regular price or two pair for an addi tional 1 cent only two pair to a customer we have scissors of all sizes and for most any purpose. See our window. Also for this week we will sell a guaranteed outsidt white paint for $2.75 per gallon. All above subject to stock on 5.0.5.' Phone 1840 be necessary to cut away entire limbs to avoid crowding later. Bad crotch conditions should hare careful attention. It will often be de sirable to cut one limb away entirely.. In selecting limbs for the frame work, it is desirable that they be spaced as far apart on the trunk as is possible. Main limbs on the young tree spaced eight or ten inches apart is none too far; a greater distance is preferable. Branches starting opposite, or nearly opposite each other, on the main trunk may be left. They are not apt to make bad crotches or to crowd each other as the tree matures. Allow Room If, however, one limb is allowed to grow directly above another, or near ly so, or to start at any point for a quarter of the distance from i around the trunk, a vertical space of at least eight inches, ami preferahly more. is necessary to insure against weakness when the tree reaches ma turity. Limbs which are left to form the main branches of the tree need little if any heading back, if their late growth in the ends has been well matured in the nursery. When the framework of the young tree has been well established, there is need for only light corrective prun ing until it reaches the age of 10 or 12 years. The roots of the young tree need practically no pruning be foer it is set. There is no objection to shorten- SPECSA For April 11 to 18 Included 100 lb. sk. of Bran. ... .$1.90 80 lb. sk. of Millrun. .$1.65 1 100 lb. sk. of Cr. Com. $2.85 1 00 lb. sk. Fishers' Chick Feed ........... $4.10 100 lb. sk. FishersMOO lb. sk. Granulated Milk Chick Start- ins: CI IA Mash .....VV. 100 lb. sk. Fishers' Producer.. !?0M.V 100 lb. sk Fishers' Dev. Mash. $3.85 100 lb. Oyster Shell... Come and Get PacificFeedSupplyCo East 5th St.; O. E. Freight Bldg. Eugene. Ore. SCISSORS Cent SALE Scissors 73 ing unduly long roots or cuttU: away dead or seriously broken tar T!-..., kn-a. el, . .srjVjU .a...-, uu..v.ri, .ur more rtHMv there are left on the young tMt Warning h Issued On Imported Seed (By XEA Service.! WASHINGTON. April ll.-Tt Department of Agriculture ,t tfr.. out a warning against the pureliiJ, of certain foreign seed, especially ttt mimi caneu iirnumi cjovt-r seed.. Italian clover seed, which the J. pnmueoi mm iintTicr iii HoaiKu seed, is being shipped to (lenntoi repacked and shipped to America un der the guise of t.ermau clover the department reports. There is small chance that thit b German need, the warning adds, be. caiffce tJenue ,v does not even produo enough seed lor her own use. Alfalfa seed from Argentine i, equally misleading, because uipst 0, it comes from tlie semi-tropirsl tot and is unfit for planting in the tem perate roue uete. Avoid Drafts For best chicks from incubation, the room must hove an even temptr at lire of from 0 to 70 degree Fah renheit, should be properly ventilate but must be free from drafts. Iq. direct ventilation is best. ' Bone for 3.25 Poultry. 50 lb. sk. Charcoal, Coarse, Medium 0 OCT Fine 4xucj 100 lb. sk. Berry and Potato CO fill Fertilizer sk. Eastern $1.40 Acquainted with Us hand CO. West 9th Ave. The Radio baaebjll fin ve tat bit ptt. to MS Eat Sth Avenue I 'hone lOo-l
