SUPPLEMENT TO
ESTACADA
PROGRESS
THURSDAY, JULY 22, l^lS
Published weekly by the extension
division of the Oregon Agricultural
College. R. D. Hetzel, director.
Exchange copies and communica­
tions should be addressed to Editor of
Press Bulletins, 116 Agricultural Hall,
O. A. C., Corvallis. Ore.
The Press Bulletin aims to keep
the state press informed in all mat­
ters of interest and value related
to the work of the Oregon Agricul­
tural College. Editors are respect­
fully requested to publish for the
benefit of their readers such items as
they think seasonable and suited to
local use.
E X T E N S IO N
CANNING WORK POPULAR
Reports of attendance at the
canning demonstrations conducted by
the Oregon Agricultural College on
special cars provided by the Southern
Pacific Railway company, show that
the people are very much interested
in practical phases of this subject. At­
tendance during the first day of the
demonstration reached considerably
more than five hundred, all of whom
were directly interested in up-to-date
canning methods. The second demon­
stration was given at Monmouth,
where students and faculty o f the
Summer School turned out in full
force.
Attendance at Albany, Jefferson,
Gervaisi Turner and Salem, on Tues­
day and Wednesday o f last week, was
also quite satisfactory.
At Salem
there were 125 persons present in the
afternoon and many more at the
evening demonstrations held in the
Commercial Club rooms.
Canning equipment and materials
are carried in one car. The other car
is used as a lecture room in inclement
weather. The baggage car ¡3 also
provided with 200 chairs for the ■ ac-
'¡¡oirimodatlon of these “ sho^t course”
students. This service will be con­
tinued during the remainder of the
present week.
BULLETIN ON COUNTY
AND COMMUNITY FAIRS
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, July 19.— County and Commu­
nity Fairs is the title of a new bulletin
just issued by the Extension division
o f the Oregon Agricultural College.
The authors of the bulletin are W. S.
I itown, E. B. Fitts and C. C. Lamb,
who state that its four-fold purpose
is as follows:
To give methods of arrangement
and management that will avoid lack
o f uniformity in best arrangement of
exhibits.
To give information to producers
and exhibitors that will aid them in
selecting and preparing exhibits.
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To aid fair officers in compiling
premium lists.
To secure the adoption of a uni­
form system o f classification, thereby
enhancing the educational value of
competitive exhibits.
It is thought that this information
when acted upon will be an incentive
to farmers to grow and exhibit more
and better products. The bulletin will
be sent free to all citizens o f Oregon
who request it.
FARM
D E M O N S T R A T IO N S
FENCING AND POISONS
CONTROL JACK RABBITS
Oregon Agrwjitumi College, Cor­
vallis, Ore., July 19.— While poisoning
both with poisoned grains and poison­
ed salt may result in the destruction
of countless numbers of jack rabbits
in those sections of Eastern and Cen­
tral Oregon where these pests are nu­
merous, it is only by cooperative
work and the use of fencing that suc­
cessful control can be established.
This is the view of County Agricul­
turist A. E. Lovett o f Crook County,
Oregon. Continuing the discussion of
eradicating these pests, Mr. Lovett
says:
“ All those who have fenced against
the rabbits have succeeded in stopping
the damage done by this pest. In prac­
tically every case where inquiry was
made the man who fenced his farm
said that he had saved the cost of
that fence with his crops the first
year. With the farms left unfenced
so that rabbits may obtain an abun­
dance o f food, we shall probably never
be able to destroy the pest by poison­
ing, although we kill thousands each
month. The only effective thing for
the farmers o f infested regions to do
is to fence against the rabbits, and
to continue poisoning them. In this
way the rabbits, as a pest, may be de­
stroyed if all the farmers work to­
gether for their destruction.”
Mr. Lovett further states that the
farmers o f Crook County have tried
the different poisons recommended for
the extermination of the rabbits and
that many met with success, by using
some of each kind. Some farmers ob­
tain no success with poisoned salt and
at the same time succeed in killing
hundreds of rabbits with poisoned
grain, and other experiments will be
just the reverse o f this. But all who
work diligently with the poison that
they have found most successful for
their individual use usually succeed
to a remarkable degree in ridding their
fields of rabbits.
ENTOM OLOGY
POWDERED ARSENATE FOR
THE CORN-EAR WORM
A. E. Lovett, Assistant Entomologist,
O. A. C.
From valuable plots of sweet corn,
pop corn or of field corn desired for
seed, where only perfect ears are
readily salable, one many get from
70 to 95 per cent of clean ears, free
from worms by the use o f powdered
arsenate of lead.
Obtain the powdered acid arsenate
o f lead. Use 60 parts o f the arsenate
and 30 parts of sulfur, mix thorough­
ly. As soon as the silks shoot well
dust the silk and tfie tip of the ear
lightly with the mixture. Repeat the
treatment weekly until the silk dries
down. A convenient way to apply the
dust is through a cheese cloth bag
or a can with a perforated cover such
as a gold dust washing powder can.
The adult of the corn-ear worm is
n moth. The female moth deposits
her eggs on the silk of the ear of
corn. The young worm on hatching
works directly into the tip of the
oar for its first meal. If there is a
little poison lodged here the worm's
first meal is usually its last.
APHIS CONTROL
Black Leak 40, or other 40 per cent
nicotine solution, used at the rate of
one teaspoonful to one gallon of wa­
ter and sprayed onto the black aphis
now infesting Eastern Oregon or­
chards, will destroy the insects. Where
the leaves are already badly curled
the spray must be applied with con­
siderable force against the leaves in
order to penetrate to the lice between
the folds. A little soap, whale oil
soap is good and cheap, dissolved in
the water will make the spray adhere
closer and be more effective, according
to Professor H. F. Wilson, of the A g ­
ricultural College. For small orchards
where the labor factor is not consid­
ered the spray can be applied with
cheap hand sprayer by going over the
infested trees two or more times. The
spray will kill every insect it covers,
but every insect has got to be hit by
the spray, a difficult thing with small
sprayers. The cost of the spray is
hardly one cent per gallon.
ART AND
A R C H IT E C T U R E
BETTER FARM BUILDINGS
AIM Ul NEW COURSE
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, July 19.— "Modern farmers, or-
chardists and dairymen are beginning
to demand scientific and economical
buildings, says L. E. Robinson, in­
structor in architecture at the Ore­
gon Agricultural College. “ Students
at this institution are to be given the
opportunity to specialize in rural ar­
chitecture. Although this is a depar­
ture from the regular order of college
work, the demand for better buildings
is becoming so positive that it will be
necessary to train men for this special
branch o f service.
Moreover the
women o f the farm are demanding
convenient and sanitary homes at the
same time the men are calling for
modern out-buildings.
Thus it is
necessary to train
both men and
Women students in this line o f Work
in order to supply the demand for
improved conditions.”
Bulletins, in which farm buildings
lire discussed and furnished with plans
conforming to modern conditions, will
be issued by the Extension division.
In these bulletins all solutions of the
farm house problems are to be based
on the strictest economy, since the
average man engaged in agriculture
has but a limited amount o f money to
spend on house improvements. Con­
venient kitchens, sanitary fixtures,
tlrainage, economical arrangements
and better surroundings, will be the
main points discussed and illustrated
in the bulletins.
FORESTRY
AVOID FOREST FIRES
Three fires recently in the vicinity
o f Corvallis emphasized the value of
the recent notices sent out by the
Portland Chamber of Commerce. A l­
though these fires were not destructive
and were subdued within a few days,
conditions later in the season would
probably have prolonged them until
they did extensive damage. One of
these fires was started by a spark
from a donkey engine engaged in
logging operations. As pointed out by
the Chamber o f Commerce notices for­
est fires do damage both by the de­
struction o f property and by filling
the air with smoke, which latter is
particularly unfortunate in this year
of immense tourist travel through
Oregon. The College Press Bulletin
is glad to cooperate in an effort to
suppress the forest fire nuisance. This
requires effective, good natured and
vigilant “ cooperation on the part of
every rancher, fisherman, hunter, au-
tomobilist, logger, and in fact anyone
going into the timber land or brush
covered areas.”
H O R T IC U L T U R E
ADVERTISING WILL FIND
MARKET FOR LOGANBERRIES
(From Eugene Register.)
What is to be done with the logan­
berry industry? is the querv that is
beinsr made rather frequently these
days. The answer is obvious. It is
this: Find a market for the berries.
This, of course, at once calls forth
the question, how shall we proceed o
find a market? The answer is equl-
ly obvious and equally simple. Fol­
low the example of other business men
who have a product of high quality to
sell and who seek a national market
—advertise.
ihe proposition is easily stated. In
the loganberry the Willamette valley
nas a commodity that all the rest of
the country wants—whether the rest
of the country is aware of the fact
or not. it is peculiarly appetizing, for
it has a piquant flavor that is dis­
tinctive and unusual. As a drink its
juice is unexcelled. The dried berry,
when nroperly prepared, comes back
more nearly to tne original flavor
than any other fruit.
Loganberry
pies, mane of either the dried or can­
ned fruit, are delicious enough to set
before the most critical of epicures.
This berry is produced in complete
"ertection only in the Willamette val­
ley, so that it has all the rest of the
world for a market. It is a special
crop that is practically without com­
petition, so growers do not need to
fear the effects of heavy production
in other sections. Every section of
country outside of the Willamette val­
ley is a potential selling field. But,
in order tq sell goods in these fields,
it is necessary to convince buyers of
the attractiveness of the goods to be
sold.
Advertising is the’ way to do it, for
advertising is the great link between
the seller and the buyer. The logan­
berry growers need to take a leaf from
the lumbermen’s book. 'Ihey need to
form a valley-wide selling organiza­
tion and to levy an assessment for ad­
vertising purposes. They need to
raisfe a fund that will be sufficient to
tell the merits of the loganberry in
every corner o f the Uniter States. An
assessment levied on every acre set to
loganberries ought to make this nos-
sible at no great expense to each
grower.
There can be little doubt that if lo ­
ganberry juice were advertised as
widely as grape juice is advertised
a demand would soon be built up that
would absorb every loganberry that
could be produced in the entire Wil­
lamette valley.
EN G IN EER IN G
EXTENSION ( OURSES IN
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, July 19.— Although certain
phases of agriculture and home mak­
ing have been taken to the people
o f Oregon for several years, the pres­
ent year is the first time that exten­
sion work in engineering has been at­
tempted. A three-months’ course on
combustion control in heating plants
and on refrigeration has just been
successfully completed with students
o f the Portland Branch of the Inter­
national Union of Steam Engineers.
Demonstrations at the various city
plants were given in connection with
the instruction, and several interest­
ing experiments were conducted by
members of the classes.
The practical and useful character
o f the investigations and instruction
is shown in gains realized for them.
In one case a saving of 8 per cent
in the cost of fuel in one of he largest
plants of Portland was effected. More
efficient use o f fuels, longer life of
machine parts, and greater interest
and pride in the work of the machines
as a whole are further results of the
course. And the line of work is be­
coming more closely related to gen­
eral farm work, since much of the
useful labor o f the farm is now per­
formed by gas and steam engines and
by electric motors.
About 175 students attended the
extension courses, and the success
of the undertaking leads to the ex­
pectation that it will be renewed the
coming year on a larger scale.