SUPPLEMENT TO
ESTACADA
PROGRESS
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1915
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,
0. 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.
POULTRY
OREGON HENS NOW I.EA1)
IN ALL HONOR CLASSES
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, July 26.— The July report of
the International Egg-Laying contest
at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
shows that the Oregon Agricultural
College hens are leading in each of the
three honor classes— pen record for
term to July 1, pen record for month
of June, and individual record for
term to July 1. Each of the three
pens entered by the College Poultry
department is represented in each of
the honor lists. Also each of the
three flocks, White Leghorns, cross
bred, and Barred Rock, leads all the
flocks of its class in the United States.
The preceeding report showed that
the Leghorns had reached first place.
This report shows that the 0 . A. C.
crosses have passed the former lead
ers, the Canada pen, and are now in
second place. The Barred Rocks have
passed their nearest competitor, Fitz
gerald’s Leghorns, and are in fourth
place. The report gives the highest
ten in each class, the first five of
winch are as follows:
Pen records to July 1—
O. A. C. White Leghorns, 1078 eggs.
O. A. C. Crosses,................. 977 eggs.
Adams, Canada, Wyandottes 958 eggs.
O. A. C. Barred Rocks....... 934 eggs.
California White Leghorns 886 eggs.
Pen records for June—
O. A. C. Leghorns...................196 eggs.
Idaho Wyandottes ............. .... 176 eggs.
O. A. C. crosses.......................171 eggs.
Lebanon, Or., B. Rocks........ .160 eggs.
O. A. C. Barred Rocks...........157 eggs.
Records of the ten highest individ
uals for the term to July 1 show that
an O. A. C. cross bred is first with 136
eggs, another of the same pen second
with 135 eggs, the College White Leg
horns are fourth with 133 eggs, fifth
with 132 eggs, and eighth with 123
eggs, while a College Barred Rock
was tenth with 119 eggs.
O. A. C. POULTRYMAN, FARMER
J. L. Russell, for several years an
assistant on the O. A. C. poultry farm,
has gone to Spokane where he is su
perintendent of the poultry division
of the famous Waikiki farm. He will
introduce some of the College laying
strains in developing his flocks.
GOOD BROOD COOP AND
HOW IT IS CONSTRUCTED
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, July 26.— A brood coop for hen
ami chicks should be rat and rain
proof. It should be so constructed
that it can easily be kept light, airy
and dry; easily cleaned, and of such
shape and arrangement that the hens
or chicks may be easily caught, and
also afford plenty of room for the
comfort of the hen.
The successful brooding o f chicks
depends in quite a measure upon the
comfort and contentment o f the con
fined mother hen.
The sides and floor may be made of
shiplap and the roof of flooring. One-
inch mesh wire netting is put over the
front. The sliding door may be fas
tened with a wooden pin to allow the
chicks to come out while the hen is
confined. The bottom is separate to
afford easy cleaning, and may be dis
pensed with if ground is not too wet
and there is no danger from rats. The
roof is separate to make it more con
venient to handle the birds. To afford
protection against rain or hot sun
getting into the coop, a shelter door
is provided.
If possible, locate the brood coops
on a reasonably dry grass plot, having
coops spaced about twenty-five feet
apart or more. Cover the floor with
sharp dry sand; put a small fountain
of water in one corner o f the coop
and it is ready to receive the brood.
The shelter lid will be found a con
venient means of darkening the coop
to insure the hens keeping quiet and
hovering the chicks well the first day.
-C. C. Lamb, Extension poultryman,
O. A. C.
E X T E N SIO N
THOUSANDS STUDY CANNING
More than 1500 persons attended
the canning demonstrations conducted
by the Extension division of the Ore
gon Agricultural College in cars pro
vided and operated by the Southern
Pacific Railway company during the
first week. In addition to this number
there were several hundreds more
in attendance at demonstrations con
ducted by Miss Helen Cowgill, assist
ant state leader of industrial clubs,
and Miss Anna Terley, extension do
mestic science specialist. The work
will be continued this week—ending
July 24— in connection with the
special cars, and also by the field
specialists, so that doubtless double
the number of persons will have been
given an opportunity to learn first
hand the most approved methods of
preserving fruits,
vegetables and
meats, by canning! Since most of
these students of canning are leaders
in their communities, the work is
bound to receive a tremendous im
petus, resulting in much practical
benefit in the way of saving surplus
products and providing a wholesome
and varied dietary throughout most
of the year.
A D M IN IS T R A T IO N
PRESIDENT VISITS STATIONS
President W. J. Kerr, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, has completed
a tour of inspection of the Eastern and
Central Oregon branch stations at
Moro, Hermiston, Union and Bums.
Each o f these branch stations is en
gaged in solving local agricultural
problems of greatest interest and
value to farmers and other citizens.
All are operated in close relation to
the work of the central station at Cor
vallis, and while reports show the
character and progress of the various
enterprises it is only by personal
visits and close inspection that the
real inwardness of the work can be
definitely ascertained. It required al
most two weeks to complete the tour,
during which a number o f leading cit
ies and community centers were visit
ed by the president and his party.
FARM
D E M O N S T R A T IO N S
ONLY POISON AND TRAPS
CONTROL THE SAGE RAT
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, July 26.— Since sage rats can
not be fenced against the only methods
known to farmers at the present time
are the use of poisoned grains, poison
ed salt and traps. “ We hope that we
may discover a method of poisoning
or destroying them by use of gas,”
says A. E. Lovett, agricultural agent
of Crook county, Oregon. “ The ex
termination of these pests requires or
ganized effort in every community and
also of all the communities working
together. Although this is the busiest
season of the year for most farmers
anu also probably the hardest time of
the year to fight these pests, so much
damage is being done by them that
every reasonable effort to get rid of
them is justified.
“ This is the season when pests of
this kind do the most damage. These
suggestions are given out at this time
because farmers generally give more
consideration to such material while
the damage is being done than during
the season o f the year when the pests
are not active.
“ I would recommend a careful con
sideration of the destruction of these
pests at this time, ” concludes Mr.
Lovett. “ Let the farmers of each com
munity get together early in the fall
and lay plans for organizing effective
destruction work in eradicating this
pest, beginning about January first
and continuing until the rats refuse to
eat poison in the spring.”
H O R T IC U L T U R E
PRUNING BULLETIN ISSUED
Plant physiology as related to prun
ing, study o f the fruit bud, pruning
young trees, pruning the apple and
pear tree and pruning the prune tree,
are the five sections of the new bulle
tin on pruning issued by the Horti
cultural division of the Oregon Agri
cultural College. Each section was
written by a specialist in his partic
ular line, that on pruning the young
tree being by Professor C. I. Lewis,
chief of the division. The last two
sections were written by Professor V.
R. Gardener, while the first and second
were prepared by W. M. Atwood and
E. J. Krause, respectively. This is an
Experiment Station bulletin based on
information obtained under Oregon
conditions, and copies will be sent to
residents of the state desiring them.
D A IR Y
MORE CHEESE PRODUCTION
WOULD AID DAIRY MARKET
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, July 26 .—“ It would perhaps
be advantageous to many creameries
to turn to the manufacture o f cheese
when so located that this is possible,”
says Professor R. R. Graves, of the
O. A. C. Dairy department. “ It is
possible that the Panama Canal may
allow the Pacific Coast states to com
pete successfully with the dairy
business of the Middle West for the
Atlantic Coast trade. Should this
be true there would be no limit to the
market for dairy products produced
on the Pacific Coast. In the middle
Atlantic and north Atlantic states we
have the greatest proportion of our
population and consequently the great
est consumption of dairy products.
New York state alone had a greater
population in 1910 than the entire
Pacific Coast. The states of New York
and Pennsylvania were formerly great
producers of butter and cheese, but
the production of these products is
being greatly lessened each year by
the increasing demand for market
milk for the great cities. Here is
the great market for Pacific Coast
dairy products after supplying cur
own demands and those of the moun
tain division states, if we can success
fully compete with such states as
Wisconsin and Minnesota in trans
portation rates.
“ The making of good Cheddar
cheese requires a good quality of milk,
better than is required for making
good butter, and this means that
enough milk must be purchased with
in easy calling distance of the factory.
“ The best cheese market is usually
produced where the nights are cool.
The coast counties of Oregon have an
ideal climate for the manufacture of
high class cheese. The Willamette
Valley also has a favorable climate
but in most sections there is not a
large enough quantity o f milk pro
duced within easy hauling distance of
the factories.
“ The entire dairy industry of the
Pacific Coast would be benefitted by
diverting some o f the milk now made
into butter into the manufacture of
cheese.”
IN D U S T R IA L A R T S
COLLEGE SHOP STUDENTS
DO MUCH USEFUL WORK
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis, July 2 b.— During the year just
past the Industrial Arts department
of the Oregon Agricultural College
has designed and completed drawings
of the following machines which have
been built or are being built in the
College shops, most of which will be
completed during the coming school
year:
1. Speed lathe, (five partly finished
in Machine shop.)
2. Emery grinder, (one finished for
Blacksmith shop and one partly fin
ished for Foundry).
3. 4 H. P., 2-cycle engine, (one
completed and tested).
4. Hollow chisel mortiser, (pat
terns almost made).
5. Planer vise, (one being finished
in Machine shop).
6 . Planer center, (one being finish
ed in Machine shop).
7. Surface gages, (two finished in
Machine shop).
8 . Oil testing machines, (one finish
ed for Experimental Eng.).
9. Foundry bar tester, (patterns
partly finished).
10 . Vertical milling attachments,
(patterns partly finished).
11. Hand rolling mill, Art Dept.
(Castings made.)
12. 4 H. P., 4-cycle gas engines,
(cylinder fly wheels and crank made).
For the following articles the stu
dents have paid for material used and
will take the finished piece.
25 Book racks at 40c ...............$ 10.00
20 Book racks at $1.00 ............. 20.00
20 Taborets et $1.50 ............... 30.00
8 Library tables at $10.00 ..
80.00
8 Small boxes at $ t. *0 ........... 24 00
1 Student desk at $20.00 ....... 20.00
1 Rocking chair .............. .. . 10.00
$194.00
The following articles have been
made for the College:
4 Large drawing boards at
$4.50 .................................$ 18.00
l Stools at 75c ......................
3.00
1 Pair drawing trestles ....
2.00
1 Screw c a s e ............................
5.00
1 Typewriter desk ................ 25.00
1 Bookcase table ...............
20.00
1 Filing case for drawings .... 10.00
Seats for Blacksmith shop
12.00
3 Brackets for line shafting,
Blacksmith shop .............
4.00
11 Lathe tool cases, Machine
shop ................
6.00
$105.00
Castings were sold as follows:
Department of Horticulture
$ 2.00
Department o f M'ines ............. 11.00
Department o f Electrical En
gineering .......................
16.75
Department o f Printing .........
1.65
Department o f Heating __
64.20
Denartment o f Extension................75
College Y. M. C. A .................... 24.24
Department of Plumbing
.... 17.76
Work for students all of which
was cash business __
229.08
$367.43