Estacada progress., October 21, 1915, Image 11

SUPPLEMENT TO
ESTACADA PROGRESS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1915
Published weekly by the extension
division ol' the Oregon Agricultural
College, R. D. Hetzel, director.
Exchange copies and communica­
tions should be addressed to Editor oi
Press bulletins, lib 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 Agricultural
College. Editors are respectfully re­
quested to publish for the benelit of
their readers such items as tney think
seasonable and suited to local use.
H O M E ECO NO M ICS
TEMPTIN'Cl APPLE DISHES
POtC A PPL E HA \ MENUS
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, Oct. To.—Oregon housewives
aim professional caterers will tind the
two iollowing apple uishes, one strict­
ly new anu tne otner quite respectable
with trauition of our grandmothers,
both enticing enough to tempt tne
appetite of me most phlemalic to eat
or tne fruit and ask for more:
blushing Apples.
2 tablespoonfuls orange juice
0 red apples
b tablespoonfuls sugar
3 cups water
Wash and core the apples. Place
in kettle, aud sugar and water and
boil until tender, turning as often as
necessary. When done, remove from
water and carefully remove the skins.
Scrape red portion of pulp from skins
and spread over apples. Keduce (boil)
water in which apples were cooked to
a syrup, remove from lire, add orange
juice, and pour over apples. Serve
cold, with whipped cream.
Apple Dumplings.
9 cups sifted flour
1 tablespoonful salt
3 tablespoonfuls baking powder
1V 2 cups lard
% cup butter
l'/i cups milk
1V4 cups sugar
Pare the apples. Remove cores but
do not make hole entirely through
the apples. Rub to a paste b table­
spoonfuls butter and the sugar, and
put into the apples. Sift flour, salt
and baking powder together, and put
in the shortening. Add the milk. Roll
and cut. Wet the edge of the dough
and fit around the apples. Place in
pan with smooth side up. Bake 45
minutes. Enough for 12 dumplings.—
Recipes by Miss Ava B. Milam, pro­
fessor of Domestic Science at O. A. C.
EXTENSIO N
TEACHERS AND PARENTS
CONFER AT CORVALLIS
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, Oct. 18.—Oregon parents and
educational authorities will hold a
conference at Corvallis during the
last four days of this week, during
which time they will consider plans
of vivifying and improving the work
of the schools. The conference will
be held under the auspices of the
state Congress of Mothers and Parent-
Teachers Circle, and prominent edu­
cators of Oregon and other posts of
the United States will be in attend­
ance and deliver addresses. Of the
College speakers President W. J.
Kerr, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Mary E. Faw­
cett, -Mrs. E. B. Fitts, and Miss Lillian
Francis will take leading parts. M s.
Anna Strong will represent the United
States Bureau of Education, and Su­
perintendent J. A. Churchill will pre­
sent the views of the public educa­
tion department.
About four hundred official dele­
gates are entitled to representation
and many of them will be present. In
addition to this number other delega­
tions for local circles not having of­
ficial connection with the state asso­
ciation will attend. Hospitality will
be extended by citizens of Corvallis
and the Sxute College will be host at
some of the public functions.
While this association is young it
has already accomplished a big work
by doing much to bridge the gap be­
tween the home and the school. It
has found out much about the school
work that was profitable as well as
a good deal that needed improvement.
But most valued of all its activities
has been its willingness to share in
the responsibility for the work and
condition of the schools. It has learned
where parents may assist and relieve
overworked teachers in caring for
school property, improving and beau­
tifying it, and in measures necessary
to the health, morals and learning of
their children, and then set about se­
curing the assistance. More profitable
forms of school activities have also
been assented to, and indeed initiated
by local circles. School gardens, in­
dustrial clubs and standardization,
have been objects of esnecial care,
’i he conference is designed to
strengthen this work.
FALL WORK ON GARDEN
A liberal dressing of manure and
thorough plowing before January, is
urged upon all teachers and pupils
expecting to do school garden work
next spring, by M'. O. Evans, assist­
ant state leader in College extension
work. This recommendation applies
to home as well as to school gardens,
"it is not likely that there is a town
in this state where a few loads of
good manure cannot be had,’ says Mr.
Evans, "and this should be applied
and the ground plowed before Jan­
uary 1. If you intend to have a gar­
den next spring, get busy at once.”
EXPERIM ENT
ST A TIO N
HOGGING OFF FIELD PEAS
While field peas make an excellent
feed for fattening hogs they are not
popular in Eastern Oregon, largely
because the yield is less and the ex­
pense of harvesting more than with
other crops. But the peas are said
by the Eastern Oregon Branch Ex­
periment Station to be among the
most promising of leguminous crops
for rotation systems, so that the plan
of hogging off the crop to save the
expense of harvesting is being tried
out. In this way the hogs do their
own harvesting.
OREGON FIGS
Although not many varieties of figs
have been found to succeed well in
Oregon, the Experiment Station of­
ficers report that one variety is val­
uable in Southern Oregon. Several
varieties have already been tried by
the branch station at Talent, and the
most promising of the newer varieties
are now being introduced.
CO M M ERCE
DELINQUENT TAX SALES
Since taxes must be paid to main­
tain the county it is evidently neces­
sary to enforce payment when land
owners will not pay voluntarily,
writes Hon. E. E. Wilson, former
member of the Oregon Agricultural
College Board of Regents, in the Col­
lege Bulletin, “Business Side of Farm­
ing,” No. 3. The method is as follows:
The sheriff must make out and is­
sue a certificate of delinquency
against the property to any person
asking for it, who pays the tax, at
any time after the taxes have been
ueimquent one month. This certificate
has something the effect of a mort­
gage, which the holder may foreclose
at any time after three years and be­
fore six years after the date of the
first delinquency. The owner or any
other person interested may redeem
the property at any time prior to the
issuance of the tax deed. If it is not
redeemed the holder of the certificate
files an application for a decree of
foreclosure in the circuit court, which,
when granted, authorizes the sheriff
to advertise the property for sale for
ten days in three public places in the
county, and sell at public sale. The
purchaser receives a deed to the pro­
perty.
In case no person demands the de­
linquency certificate prior to four
months after the date of delinquency
the sheriff issues certificates of delin­
quency in favor of the county, and at
tne end of three years forecloses as
in the case of an individual. At the
foreclosure sale the county may be­
come the purchaser.
1 he College Bulletin, Oregon Laws
on Real Property, consists of 41 pages.
Copies may Oe had free by writing to
tne College for them.
TO ENCOURAGE THRIFT
Should children in the homes and
the school be taught to earn and to
save and in general to practice thrift?
A Chicago banker, S. W. Strauss,
thinks so, and has financed an organ­
ization known as the National Thrift
Association, whose sole purpose is to
inelucate ideas and practices of thrift
in the business and home life of the
people. The association is divided in­
to seven sections, one of which is de­
signed to propagate thrift doctrine in
the schools and colleges of the land.
And an Oregon man, Dean J. A. Bex-
ell, of the Agricultural College School
of Commerce, has been appointed head
of this section. The appointment
came as a result of Dean Bexell’s fa­
miliarity with national educational
ideals and methods. It calls for ex­
tensive investigations and reports of
present thrift teaching, accompanied
by suggestions as to how to improve
it. Among other things essay con­
tests will b4 provided for with liberal
cash prizes to winners, which will be
paid for by Mr. Strauss as a part of
the campaign fund for American
thrift.
H O R TIC U LTU R E
SAGE AND GARLIC IN
DEMAND AT GOOD PRICES
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis, Oct. 18.—“Just now there is a
demand for sage at unusually good
prices,” said Professor A. G. Bouquet,
of the Oregon Agricultural College
Horticultural department. “Due to
lack of importations from Austria and
other countries at war there is an
unusual scarcity, and growers having
a surplus of the dried product can
readily dispose of it to the Portland
tea, coffee and spice dealers, such as
Closset and Devers firm. One Port­
land dealer told me that he was pay­
ing fifteen cents a pound, which is
considerably better than the average
price. Growers with sage to market
can learn further particulars by ad­
dressing any of the Portland spice
dealers.
“A somewhat similar situation ex­
ists with garlic, and I am informed
that one or two carloads have been
sent from Oregon to New York. In
normal times Oregon growers cannot
compete in Eastern markets with Eu­
ropean exporters of sage and garlic,
but during the progress of the war
garlic can probably be sold in eastern
markets at a fair profit. The advisa­
bility of going more extensively into
growing these products cannot be ac­
curately foretold for if the war con­
tinues a year or two yet it is likely
that both crops could be marketed
at fair prices. The present situation,
however, must be looked upon as ab­
normal and no one can tell how long
it will continue.”
POINTS ON FALL CARE
OF LOGANBERRY VINES
Oregon A gricultural College, Cor­
vallis, Oct. is .— 11 all old canes have
not alreauy been removed irom tne
loganberry vuies this snould be done
as soon as the grow er can get around
to it, says rro ie sso r V. R. G ardner,
pom ologist of m e A gricultural co l­
lege xioriicullurul departm ent. “The
old stucK silouid be gutlieied up as
completely as possinie and burned,
in e oid canes are ox no value to tne
new vines but are a source ol posstoie
direction and inxesiation ol utseases
anu insects us long us tney are text
standing.
r a n spraying w ith Bordeau, 6-6-
60, is also a good practice, it is not
certain tn at m is treatm en t win entire­
ly prevent antnrocnose but il certain­
ly snuuiu leuuce tile dam age ill cases
ol attack.
"T here is also a question as to the
desirability ol Tall training ot the new
vines. When lips are to be luken
fo r propagation next spring of course
m e vines snould be left on tne ground.
Also in severe w inter clim ates tm s
practice gives belter protection from
extrem e cold and leaves tne vines ill
better condition lo r early spring
grow th, in m ost places of W estern
Oregon the danger ol w inter injury
is very slight so th at no g reat chance
is run in training up the vines in the
fall.”
E N TO M O L O G Y
STOP SLUGS NOW
With the beginning of the full rains
it is to be expected that slugs will
again become active in infested ter­
ritory, and a good time to stop them
is belore they get fairly started. Af­
ter once finding a lodgement in such
crops as head lettuce, they are slow
to let go and it is often impossible to
dislodge them until the lettuce is
pulled for the table or market. At
these times the presence of the slug
greatly detracts from the appearance
and attractiveness of the vegetable,
and often dulls the appetite. Among
the measures recommended by Pro­
fessor A. L. Lovett, of O. A. (J., are:
clean up all crop remnants and weeds;
trap the slugs with boards or gunny
sacks, and kill them early in the morn­
ing; arsenical dust sprays on cabbage
and other growthy plants; and the
poison bran mash or poisoned greens.
The arsenical dust is made by using
one part of the powdered arsenate of
lead to eight parts of sifted wood ash­
es, or sulfur. The bran mash is made
by mixing 16 pounds of bran with
paris green V6 pound, salt Vi pound
and cheap syrup 1 quart. Warm water
to make a crumbly mash. Finely
chopped leaves may be used for the
bran. Scatter along borders of field
and near plants attacked.
ST U D E N T A FFA IR S
CLUB MEN GOOD STUDENTS
Official reports of scholarship stand­
ings at O. A. C. show that the fra­
ternity and club men maintain ex­
cellent standings. Averages of the
six fraternities run from 82.33 up to
85.91 made by the Kappa Sigma Nu.
Those of the ten clubs, from 80.2 to
87.33 made by the Umatilla Club, one
of the largest on the campus.