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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1915)
SUPPLEMENT TO ESTACADA PROGRESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 19IS 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 o f 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 O. A. C. H E N S S T IL L LE A D O. A. C. White Leghorns first, Ore gons second and 0 . A. C. Barred Rocks fourth, is the report of the Panama- Pacific Exposition egg-laying contest for August 1. This is the same rank that the three College pens held at the time of the July report, but the lead ers have increased their lead from 120 to 173, while the Rocks have cut down the lead o f their nearest com petitors from 36 to 9. These are the ranks o f the three College pens among all breeds fo r the entire term of con test to date. Speaking o f this phe- nominal record the official report of the contest says: “ “ The pen o f White Leghorns from the Oregon College of Agriculture, also a pen of Barred Rocks and one produced by a cross be tween Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks, are three o f the highest pens in the E gg Laying Contest. They have all been bred according to the methods used by Prof. James Dryden at the Oregon Agricultural College. He has learned a great deal about breeding for egg production as the result of his many years o f experimental work at the Oregon Agricultural College, and is to deliver an illustrated address during the week o f the Panama-Pa cific Poultry Show on the selection of layers and the result o f his experi ments at the Oregon Station.” The crossbred hens still lead in individual term contest, and the first six places are all held by hens from Oregon, a Barred Rock o f F. M. Sherman, o f Lebanon, being tied fo r third place with a record o f 163 eggs, the two leaders, O. A . C. crosses, having a record o f 156 each. E X T E N S IO N L O G A N B E R R Y O UTLO O K H IG H L Y E N C O U R AG ING (Capital Journal.) One year ago, but fe w cases of loganberry juice were shipped to the eastern markets during the month o f August. Yesterday, a local firm shipped a solid carload o f loganberry juice to New York City. One year ago, the loganberry juice was prac tically unknown in the east. Now, thanks to the advertising given it by William Jennings Bryan and the pub licity through loganberry day at the Oregon building, the larger daily pa pers in the east are freely discussing it. The New York Tribune gives con siderable space to Bryan’s taste for the juice, and the N ew York Evening Telegram sings its praises. And all this has happened within one year. This sudden change in the fortunes o f the loganberry should be taken into consideration by the growers who have become discouraged. V IL L A G E B E A U T IF U L SUCCEEDS “ This is the second year o f village beautifying at McCormack, Washing ton,” said M. O. Evans, Jr., o f the O. A. C. Extension staff upon his return from there the second week in August, "and wonderful improvement has been made. McCormack is chiefly a lumber town and you know that many o f them are very unattractive. So was Mc Cormack two years ago, but President Wheeler, o f the lumber company, has a wife who set her heart on brighten ing things up. She offered prizes for the best kept property and gave in structions on how to beautify. This year prizes were again awarded, pre vious winners being barred. I was sent fo r to judge the contest and was surprised to see what had been accom plished. Even those who did not ex pect to try fo r prizes were led to im prove their grounds by the success of their neighbors. N ext year prizes will be given in two classes, class A being prize-winners and class B all others. cow a bucketfull o f grain whether she is givin g ten or fo rty pounds o f milk, writes R. R. Graves, head o f the O. A . C. Dairy department. In this way the high producer is likely to suffer while the low producer gets more than she needs, using the surplus to store fat on the body. Every animals should be fed according to what she produces. As general rule, i f the cow fattens during the first two-thirds o f her lac tation period she is getting too much feed. I f she produces heavily and falls off in flesh she is probably getting too little. Cows using the average amount o f feed require from 50 to 60 per cent o f their feed for body maintenance, the remainder going to make milk. P R E P A R IN G PR E M IU M L IS T FOR T H E C O U N T Y F A IR CO LLEGE NEW S Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, Aug. 16.— Premium lists should be attractive, complete, concise and clear, reports the committee o f Oregon Agricultural College specialists on community and county fairs. A con venient size is four inches wide by eight or nine inches long. The covers should be neat and attractive but not flashy, bearing the name, place, and date of the fair, and may have a good illustration o f local scene or some noted cow or other animal. On the first page should appear the names and addresses of the fa ir o f ficers and directors, which should be as widely representative as possible so that exhibitors may consult them on difficult points. The next page may contain announcement o f the purpose of the fair, special features, names of judges, and other necessary details. Following this may be information on admission, concessions, transportation, picnic facilities, and other useful points. Then .should come the general rules, which will be treated in a later issue o f the News Bulletin. W H Y C O U N T R Y D W E LLE R S D R IF T E D IN T O C IT IE S E X P E R IM E N T S T A T IO N C L IM A T E OF U M A T IL L A PROJECT “ Climatic conditions o f this dis trict are very congenial fo r crop growth,” writes Ralph W. Allen, su perintendent o f the Umatilla project to the Director o f the Experiment Station at the Oregon Agricultural College. “ They are a rare combination o f dry atmospheres and mild winters resulting from interior location and low altitude. The effect is a compari- tively long growing season and mild open winters. While the country is quite flat in general it is frequently broken by minor irregularities result ing occasionlly in late spring and early fall frosts. While these frosts do not appear to be sufficiently severe to injure the field crops, they render orchard heating necessary to insure against loss from unexpected late frosts in the spring.” D A IR Y BEST P L A C E FO R SILO Silos should be located close to the animals to be fed from them, accord ing to the Oregon Agricultural Col lege plans. They should not be in side the barn since they take up a good deal of room and may give off offensive odors that will taint the milk. They would also be inconven ient to fill, and silos should be where they may most readily be filled. It requires about a quarter o f a ton of ensilage daily to feed twelve cows each forty pounds a day, so that the silage should not have to be moved any further than is necessary. HOW TO FEED D A IR Y COWS Many dairymen that wish to feed lib erally go down the line and g ive each Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, Aug. 16.— “ The history o f ag riculture in America during the period under consideration leaves no doubt as to the cause of the migration in this country from the farm to the city,” says President W . J. Kerr o f the Oregon Agricultural College, speaking o f the rise of agricultural education. “ Through the wasteful, unscientific methods of agriculture, and the con sequent impoverishment o f soil fe r tility, there was a continual deteriora tion in farm crops and depreciation in the value o f farm products. With rare exceptions, farm properties were heavily mortgaged, while in some sec tions many farms were actually aban doned because o f the inability o f the owners to support their families and meet the burden o f taxes and inter est. Farm hours were long and hard, not only for the farmers themselves and their wives, but also fo r the children who were old enough to per form the simplest kinds o f labor. The schools were small, ungraded, and poor, illl-adapted to the needs o f the people. Even the rural churches, where there were any, were uninspira- tional, and offered little relief from the monotony o f country life. In a word, the lifel o f the farmer was characterized by constant, extreme physical drudgery, and by isolation and monotony. “ Is it any wonder, then, that the farmers themselves did not desire that their children should follow in the footsteps o f their parents, but rather that they should engage in any kind o f activity that m ight take them away from the farm, with its narrow, uninviting, unprogressive prospects; that their ambition was to have their sons and daughters follow vocations in which there would be a broader out look, fairer prospects, greater happi ness? The fact is that during the period mentioned, the greater oppor tunities for advancement found in city life, whether in the professions, in business, in the trades, or even in com mon labor, were the magnetic forces which irresistibly drew the farm youth cityward. “ O f course, the statements just made are not applicable alike to all parts o f the country, or to all people engaged in agricultural pursuits in any part o f the country, but unques tionably such conditions did prevail generally, and constituted the main reason fo r the tendency to leave the country fo r city occupations.” ENTOM OLOGY ROTATO B E E TLE R E A P P E A R S That the Colorado Potato Beetle has succeeded in getting established in Oregon, is the essence o f reports on the situation made by Agricultural College Extension officers to the de partment o f Entomology. “ The pest was first recorded in Oregon last year,” said Professor Wilson, head of the department, “ when it was ob served in fields of Eastern Oregon. An attempt was made to stamp it out before it could establish itself but its reappearance this year shows that the efforts did not entirely succeed. The beetle is readily controlled by stand ard arsenical sprays and if growers will cooperate with their agricultural agents or other officials its field can be limited and the pest itself eradi cated. Uncontrolled it is an exceed ingly destructive pest.” COMMERCE DOWER AND C U R TE S Y RIGHTS Dower and curtesy are not an in terest in real estate but only a right with reference to it, writes Hon. E. E. Wilson, former member o f the O. A. C. Board o f Regents in Business Side of Farming. This right is inchoate during life and springs into existence on the death of one spouse, enduring only for the life o f the surviving spouse. Either husband or w ife may convey separate property without the other joining in the deed, but while this would entitle the purchaser to the property during the life o f the grantor if the spouse survives the grantor, either husband or wife, this spouse would be entitled to one-half o f the land during life. Upon death o f surviving husband or w ife the land is absolutely freed from the dower or curtesy right. A N IM A L HUSBANDRY BACON BREED OF YO R K S H IR E S Large Yorkshires are an English bacon breed, white in color, and having concave faces with snouts turned out at nearly right angles, says R. E. Reynolds, of the O. A . C. Extension staff in speaking o f the breeds of swine The body of the Yorkshire is straighter on top than the Berkshire and it is slightly less meaty, although it has greater length and depth. It is true generally to the bacon type but from the American standpoint it is neither wide nor blocky enough. The breed is high in fertility, is o f the largest size, and carries a large pro portion of lean meat. Hums, back and lard, are deficient, and until the consuming public is educated to fancy bacon the breed will hardly become popular. O N E E X TE N S IO N M A N ’S WORK In one year the distance traveled in College Extension work by E. B. Fitts, dairy specialist, was by train 12,424 miles, by stage 318 miles and by auto 1467 miles, total o f 14,209 miles. During this time he held or assisted in holding 196 meetings in which the attendance totaled 13,131. He also visited 127 farms, inspected 25 creameries, and judged live-stock at eight fairs. A ll this was in Oregon during the period July 1, 1914, to July 1, 1915. OREGON BOY M AK E S GOOD Having passed the inter-state com merce commission examination in the list o f ten highest C. M. Hartsock, a 1913 graduate o f O. A. C., has been appointed to a position as surveyor and estimator o f values o f railroads in the Western United States. Pres ent headquarters for his company are Fargo, but during the winter the special car provided fo r their home and office will be operated over South ern California lines. A fte r graduation from the civil engineering department o f the College Mr. Hartsock was em ployed as instrument man on the Co lumbia River Highway. In his pres ent work he will have associated with him F. W. Smith, another graduate of the same department.