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About Hillsboro independent. (Hillsboro, Washington County, Or.) 189?-1932 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1906)
. . ,. . -r r 1 1 , .... u u -ntrntTT rrrT-iiBii r 7 -I THE INDEPENDENT, HILLSBORO Official Paper of Washington County. Entered at the Postofflre at Hills boro, Oregon, for transmission through the malls as second-class mall matter. Cna Dollar a Year In Advance. IllLLSUOkO'4 Blti L0XDE.V4EB. The machinery is xapidly being installed which will give, facilities for turning out more cans of evap orated cream to meet the large and growing demand, for, theOregorj Grape brand, which the old plant could not supply. The head of the manufacturing concern, Mr, Rogers, who has had many years of exper ience in bis . line, is superintending the work and soon will have every " thing readyT" Of the'plantf its field and the prospect for dairying here, he speaks in the 'following inter view, besides giving some valuable hints: . . . - ,i . 'There are not nearly enough cows in Washington County to keep the plant supplied," said Mr. Rogers, "but experience in other sections has proved that the de mand will create the supply. One cow supplies about ao pounds of milk a day for about 270 days in the year. This means that th e factory will absorb the product of 6000 cows. 1 How surely the exis tence of a steady demand stimulates the supply is shown by the exper ience of the factory which I built at Lansing, Mich., ao years ago, At that time it could not get 1800 pounds a day, but for the last doz en years it has been able to get 200, 000, and now it can get a quarter of a million pounds a day. The country around Hillsboro will sup port plenty of cows to supply the factory if the farmers will only get educated up to it. "The condensed milk factories in the Middle West pay about 40 ' per cent more for their milk than the creameries pay. In Illinois and Wisconsin they are now pay ing $1.75 per 10b pounds and the average the year around is $1.49, while the creameries average About 83 cents. Yet the factories pay this high price for milk, manufac- tjre it, pay the freight on it to Oregon and ship it to be consumed here. Certainly the factory at Hillsboro ought to pay, and, if the industry gets started right, there ought soon to be a lot of factories within so miles of Portland. "This factory will employ from 65 to 70 people when running to its full capacity. About 10 per cent of them will be skilled at the start, but in course of time all will liecome skilled. It is necessary to have reliable people in a place of the kinJ. for there is a certain quantity of milk coming in every (V1 XXX1' H1LLSBOEO, ORJEGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 104. N.fi day to be cared tor and yon cannot bate 10 or is people lying off when they wast to take a holiday; 70a nut be able to depend on them from day to day. They must also be scrupulously clean. I have seen girls solder cans all day with white aprons on and sever get a spot on them." "Oregon is a good dairy state, but its resources in that direction are not fully developed, owing to the ignor ance of the farmers. I was raised on a dairy farm and can go almost to any farm in the Willamette Val ley and make it raise 3J3 times as much as its owner does." . . 1 , I would prepare for dairying by building a hrst-class residence, arns and -fences. I would have plenty of 'light and ventilation in the .barns and .keep them .' clean under all circumstances Cleanli ness is the first consideration on a dairy farm. I would thoroughly drain it by tile, drainage if Neces sary; t would have a supply of fresh- pure water under all circum stances. Abdtit 87 per cent of pure c.is wJer, andif you give your; to water from a stagnant pool that is covered with - green slime and receives all the surface drainage of the field,, what sort, of milk can you expect? . I would not feed silo to the cows. A woman who is nursing a baby does not eat pickles, because it sours her milk. yet a farmer feeds bis cows mIo which may be sour and may have the same effect on their milk. Then I would find the properties of different kinds of feed grown in this state and decide which were the best to raise. I do not know enough of Oregon to say just what they would be but the feed of cows should always be something not deleterious to their milk in taste or odor. "Oregon may well profit by the experience oi the Elgin district of Illinois in dairying. When I first came to the Coast in 1856 some people at Elgin conceived the idea of making a milk biscuit to supply the pioneers wno were coming across the plains with a condensed food. But they did not take into account a little worm which began to eat around the ede of the biscuit and then went through it, so that ,1.a ii .uir 11 ( i,,.l limn i.mn n.i.i.t meat instead of biscuit. The fac tory was then changed into a con densed milk fa tory and started the farmers in the dairy business. Old Dr. Churchill told them he could pay a good price for good milk be cause he could get a good price for it, but he could not pay anythfng for poor milk because he could get nothing tor it. Dairy farming grad ually extended all around the city and more factories were established for 15 miles around. The supply of cream grew beyond the capacity of the factories to condense it. and they began to make the surplus in to butter. In course of time Elgin became the great butter-making center of the country and establish ed a Board of Trade which carefully eraded the butter. By that time the farmers acquiied what I call thorough milk education, so. that they produced the highest quality of milk and the lugin creameries could make the best butter of it The standard mi rigidly anaintaia ed, ao that Elgin standards have become the standard for the whole country and Elgin holds its position as the batter market of the country. Chicago and New" York , have at tempted to establish grades, but the people have insisted on the Elgin grades, because they knew those grades were right. The creamery business has grown until two-thirds of the Elgin butter is made in Iowa and Elgin has be come mainly a grading station, but it is all measured by 'the Elgin standards. .1 "If the farmers of Oregon will make good nvJJ;, its products will be graded with the 'best grades of Elgin butter, but in" order to do this' they' will have to improve their methods. If you turn out your cows on a piece of half-cleared land covered with brush ancT slashings, they wili eat that Jrush' because tfoey can't get anything, else, but they ; will 1 not, give gopd milk, j 1 saw that done at a fafrm between Portland -. and IlillkboroJ .There was a stack of clover 'hay across a fence from a herd of i j1 cows, . just out bf their reach, and those cows were making milk out Of brush simply because that farmer was too lazy to throw down the hay in their reach so that they, might . make good clover , milk. A man will send out his dog to .'drive in the cows; the dog barks at them and makes tbem ran, t so that , they get heated, and then he wonders what is the matter with the milk. "All animals will keep clean if you give them a chance, even hogs. was once driving with a man on his farm when we crossed a stream where the banks had been made muddy by the cattle and hogs go ing down to drink. I asked him why he didn t pave one side of the crossing with stone, so that the animals would keep clean. He said they would go on the muddy side anyway, for hogs revel in dirt. I offered to bet that if he paved the road at one side of the stream, both hogs and cattle would go there to drink, and he took me up. The next time I went there one side had been paved and all the animals went there, and would not go on the other side at all. My friend paid the let and then started a re volution on his farm. He kept everything as clean as a pin and never called a hog dirty again. "That is what Oregon farmers need to learn about caring for cows. Keep the bams clean, so that the cows do not get covered with manure, for some of it will get in to the milk and spoil it. L,ay stones around their drinking places, so that they will cot wallow in mud, and gravel the road. It will all tell in the quality of the milk and pay well in the end." Blaeksadth 8hf at Vales Creek Having opened a blacksmith shop at Gales Creek I am pleased to an nounce to tbe public that I am now ready to do all kinds of blacksmith Ing In a good workmanlike manner. I dettlre those needing work In my line to call. My charges will be reasonable and work guaranteed to Le first clasM. Irvm DuiTtty, Gaits Cretk, Ore. Ur. George HoWchet and Mia Baas U Boewe uUed la the bonds of wedlock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jf . B. B. Haycock, Jan. 24, Justice Q. O. Filch officiating. Mr. and Mn. Henderson and Mrs. Fiscb wei ptagent aad witnessed she cere mony. The bride and groom arc well known and respected resident of our city, and their many friends wish them much joy io their new relation. It U generally report! tht nevera! younir people In our community ti-ive b"C'Viio tir'l of wrk:u In slriifle hirnn-n, and that u;on-wed ding tlh milt oraiigr b'o-woujs.'.m'ill t the order uf the lny: V v ' " '-- : - "- )i 1 A LAWYER'S" lt IIO.HEY ' V v The Forbls farm uar Dilliy wilf soon be cleared, after Dearly a yvarV work which has beeo carried 00 under direction 'of Mr: Mink-by targe force. "Now only a faw,are'em ployed, several Caucasians with half a doxen Japanese, a' iiumtxr' of .the tittle 'brown men . who were hlmi there having returned to their native l.ind at the threatening of war In the eHst, In answer to 'a summons from their ' govern m tut It Is anil. Th? property is 320 acre and about a year ago cost $12,000 but now represent an investment of about tsd.OOO. The land ha bern cleared, several thous and frnit trees t out, alt the. .old fencing replaced with -nest' Paee woven, wire faneev and 'a 112,000 renldence built. : Mr. John ' Forbla I a prominent mining aftorney of Uutf, who 'thinks1 the Webfoof ciimate preferable to Montana' harsh weather and so his wife and two children will reside in their beautiful country home while be In tends to spend his summer there with what other vacations he can pare from his busy practice which is raid to be lucrative enough 'o make ail bis expenditures here lew than two years' Income. The work, it Is expected, will all be complete by June 1st. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. S Landucci to M B Hoard 7 a in Wm Lockermun claim $2000 II Borchera to I V Pick tract in 20 and 21 1 2a rl w 60 J II Sewell to J M KefFt-r 2!) a in ( I7tlnr2w 14 V) L F Cnrtens et al to J A Imbrie lot- I'iiii Mock 2 Highland P r.1 II 4i)0 J A Imlirio to J II S-well and T It Iml rie ! itne un above 4'tO Mi-Comu-lhtllall to KG ll.tgey U 2 in k I Sherwood F IHfLnnt-y to McConnell & Hall fame ax alxve Wm Langworthy to B E Carrier ltiOainal t 2 a r w A Zimmerman to MfiA Anderson lft a in Fir Ok tub 30 30 fiOO 600 TEA1HEKM XiXl.U1I3 Notice Is hereby given that tbe county superintendent of Washing too County will bold tbe regular ex amination of applicants for state and county papers at tbe Court House at Hillsboro, Oregon as follows: For Bute Papers Com mencinf Wednesday, Feb. 10, at nine o'clock a. no., and contlnoinguntil Saturday, Feb. 13, four o'clock p. m. Wednesday Penmanship, history spelling, algebra, reading, school-law. Tboraday Written arithmetic, theory of teaching, grammar, book keeping, physic, civil government. Friday Physiology, geography, mental arithmetic, composition, phy sical geography. Saturday Botany, plane georne- tT, feoeeai elatarjr, ttnfUafc Ills. te, psyeholegy. For Oeoal Paasra.Qasnmencim Wednesday , Feb IS, M Ue et'eioek ., aadeofiSianooaiaaiU Friday. Feb. IX, at foer o'clock p. m. First, Beooad aad Third grade Certificates. Wfcdoeeday Penmanoblp, hUtorg, orthography, reading. Thumday Written arithmetic. theory of teacLIng, 'grammar, physi ology. Friday Geography, mental arith metic, schuoljlitw,. civil government. Primary Oitifh'Htes. YV diiefdny i't'tunaneiMp, orthijj- rapliy, n-tidintf, uriihinellc. 'J huietLj An f qu'Hionuijf, inj ury of lettctucg, method, pliyaiolotry. -, II. A. Hali. .: County Superintendent. o :) . i 1 v :".) i) I. UIU TRANlIM Of TIXBEK LA "1 11 'i G. J. ' BbHlgetl," one of the largest lumbermen in Michigan, has turnee! his attention to Oregon since re . timber supply In his own state Is gwtttdg sborj and la taking Jo alUba timber land here be can. 8o ar be has about 16000 acres: 4000 In Waxh- iogton county, artouch in Onlnmbi and the rest in Tillamook. - Eventu ally it Is said he hopea to get lOOtMM acres la Oregon, of which 4000 more will C6me from this county. The record of the transfer of tbe 4000 acres was made Jan. 30, aid sli iws'puly a consideration of u dollar which for 25 quarter section is rather cheap where each should be worth $25U0, or $62,600 all tu.d, though the avemge sale has been only '$1000 ' A trt.orfer o h!ip at that figure, Id S wwt, waa received Thursday. A ureal many pooplaTia Oregon who do not appreoiate how scarce timber U getting have been giving away their Umber rights te Easterners, who And here an invest ment as safe, fire excepted and pre cautious can be taken against thst, as any government bond and In twenty yean paying a dozen times wkateae be realised I com any other secure investment. Mr. Blodgett is a I am her man adf his purchases mean more mills te turn the timber into lumber as quick ly as can be done to advantage. this way employment will be furn ished to many, and the land quickly cleared, soou becoming dairy futtm and making homes for more ojde. KlHJflL KKPORT. K port of Uillslioro Tublic School form ii ti ending Jauunry, ll04: No. of pupils enrolled. 3." No. nun residents In No. tardy 2- No. alwelitesa 1X7 No. neither absent nor tardy 27 Amount received from tuition pujiW $8S.60 Names of pupil neither alot nor tardy. Roll of Honor. Hih (iHtde Liola Ilooae, Martha BaUhelder, Roy Kice. . 7th Orad Ivan Simon, Roy Simoau 6th Gra-lo Flora HotchkiM, WaliW maa Prahl. 5th Grade Edith Ohenn, Lora Taaa Um, Lula Douioi, MarguareU Prahl. 4th Grade Alvan Uoftmaa, Baeafat Coaaall, Don Long, Iola BUaar, CU4 llaoar, Oda bchulaierich. 3rd Grada Floyd Culver, Daisy Bva laon, Louiae Kennly, Lois Humphrey. 2nd Grade Beulah MaaingeT, Ralph Prahl. lit Grails Earl Zimmerman, Haruld Lake, Hoy Poole. B. W. Bahkm, Prim-ipaL Feel ground every Saturday at Ilartranpf's feed store. FjjrtK Grove. V V