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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1919)
I PAG* FOUR TM* COQUUL* VALLRY UNTUOSI* COQOUILLK, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAT % Ml» The Sentinel Absolutely Pure is greatly in need of encouragement. Ovid Pickard furnishes a lesson which is all the more impressive for his being a farmer of the type described. We should, of course, hail the production of 14,925 pounds of 6.91 per cent milk as a glorious achievement if it had been made in the dairy barn of a retired millionaire, or an agricultural college possessing unlimited means; but the eviry-day farmer will be just a little more inspired by the thought that a new champion has been given to the country by a breeder in his own circumstances,, whose accomplishment is possible of duplication by any man possessing the requisite qualities of good judgn ent and pluck and willingness to stay with the job. ! There is an element of romance ii 1 the story of Ovid Pickard, an Oregoi i ................ - SECRETARY GLASS' APPEAL ' farmer of French descent of Marion. Secretary of the Treasury Glass, Marion county, and hie faith in hie abi when informed of the record Oregon lity to br>*ed a great cow. The tale, has made in the Victory loan, said; A BAD MIX-UP which ia told in the Salem Stateeoian, it “I am highly grateful to learn that There is no question about it. One i the tale of a “renter," whose chief Oregon is the third state to go over of Oregon’s most urgent needs at thia i assets are his industry, his appieciatior time is a new penitentiary. The pres of the value of good stock and bis am the top in the Victory loan campaign, ent one is utterly unsanitary, inade bition to excel in his chosen vocation. and remembering the splendid rec quate and a promoter of immorality. In the race for distinction he seems to ord of Oregon in previous campaigns, In fact it is a standing disgrace to the have won against the hundreds of mer citizens of that state have reason for state. We have never forgiven our in the industry possessing greater particular pride. "I extend congratulations on this selves for voting against a new one capital and animals of seemingly better achievement and sincerely hope that when we had an opportunity to ex breediug. Now the record of one of Ovid Pick the good work will continue, with a press ourselves on the proposition a couplé of years ago. ard's cows, which is vouched for by the view to the greatest possible oversub And now we feel that the legisla American Jersey Cattle club, speaks scriptions.” There is a possibility that Oregon tors at Salem ought never to forgive for itself. Between March 25, 1918, anb themselves for tying up this improve March 24, 1919, this excellent animal real’y is entitled to first place in the Victory loan campaign. Reports have Probably the total ment in a »5,000,000 project which a yielded 14,927.7 pounds of milk, contain reached us that Iowa and Michigan ing 1031 64 pounds of butter fat, which great many voters are bound to op g county bonds, came first only because they reported sn 50 millions, sev- pose. Now we can only vote for a according to the official statement, es their quotas underwritten by barms tablished a new record for Jerseys new penitentiary by voting also for hich would be pro- without waiting for actual returns of si government And half a million worth of new buildings That it is an amazing record, indeed, Fhcts in the case at the university, half a million at O. will be apparent to the student of dairy the subscription. A. C. and as much more for new build statistics. In a test conducted by the are not known. ings at state institutions at Portland, Illinois Agricultural collage a few yean Monmouth and Pendleton, besides two ago, for example, 176 cows produced an ■i, In the* United States about one out and a half million more for reclama average of 4721 pounda of milk and 173 of five, or 20 per cent of the popula tion work in sections requiring irriga pounds of butter fat. The best cow in tion, subscribed for the Fourth Liberty tion and drainage. It was certr.inly bad that herd gave 8949 pounds of milk and Loan. Counting 3,500 people in the policy putting all these eggs in one 472 pounds of butter fat The poorest* .Coquille district, we did better than basket, pn the chance of getting all was represented by 1482 pounda of milk the average. We two less than 900 the money that ought to be spent on and 68 pounds of butter fat. The poor subscribers our ratio was one in four, these additions in the next ten years, est cow of that herd was obviously a or 25 per cent. , at once and in a bunch. The result “boarder," and ultimately was weeded we think we can forsee. We believe we out. But the record of the best cow in Don't forget the Great Nazimova in know how the people of Oregon will the herd was only 45 per cent of that “Toys of Fate,” vital, compelling, big, decide on an amendment to permit the attained by the Marion county cow thrilling and gripping. May 15th and Plainly, Marion County has been put state to bond itself for »5,000,000 for , 16th at Liberty Theatre. on the dairy map by this latest achieve all these purposes at once and a com ment, and the state as well as the panion bill to appropriate the money ( THE PROPER COURSE county has reason to pe proud. for these enterprises. The moral of thia story seems to be that the breeding of high-class dr.iry DEADLY GAS SUNK AT SEA cattle is not exclusively an Occupation From the minute when the Germans for professional breeders of the de luxe | began lawlessly to use poison gas it was class. It is proved thereby that a I certain that retaliation in kind was " working farmer ” can achieve great < inevitable. Americans chemists at once things if be trios hard enough. The ' set to work to make that retaliation so high-salaried farm manager is not dis ( powerful that Germany should bitterly credited by thia performance, but be at 1 regret her violation of what had been least is shown not u> be indispensable I supposed to be the recognised laws of to success. It is interesting to note ! warfare. American scientific intelli that Mr. Pickard gave bis personal | gence proved Itself superior to the boast attention to his herd and particularly ( ed German efficiency,in this field. It to his prise. For a year be milked a has been known ever since the armistice Vive ia France ( for this is the name of ’ was signed that remarkable results had the star performer in question ) every , been obtained in the manufacture of six boors. Surressful dairying it would c poison gas in thia country. But the de seem is still not for those who seek a v tails have not been made- public until ife of ease. t quite recently. The performance of Vive la France. ’ An exceedingly interesting account and other similar achievements, possess a, of the manufacture of “ methyl ’’ has a value far beyond indicated returns in , just been published in the New York milk or butter fat. They serve greatly “Times." It appears that Major-Gen to stimulate development of an industry ■ eral Sibert, who had command of our for which Oregon is peculiarly adapted £ chemical warfare service, planned to Up in the collector'a office at Port land they have never learned, as the editor always does, how to condense. 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