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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1916)
THE COQUILLE HERALD. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916. PA G E TEN : their entire herd o f 18 cows. Krantz, of Arago, reported over $12 per head from hie herd of over 20 i cows for June and July, without a bit 1 of feed except the pasture grasses. Mike Weiland, of Norway, is another tcpnotcher with more than 30 cows. 1 Hull Brothers, of Riverton, have made live dairymen, who are interested j splendid records and we might go on inough to want to know what cows ] indefinitely. Mr Rice, of Myrtle creek, informed art pay in « and what cows are not. There are about 9,000 cows in this us that the coet of putting his first i nty; nearly one-third of this num- crop o f clover into the silo was about Lvr are on test in the testing associa 75 cents per ton and that the second crop would make over two tons of tion. Average Yearly Production per C o ». hay per acre. He feeds clover si I he following table gives a year ly lage in summer and refills the silo with , ummary of the records of all the corn in the fall. c iv s in all the testing associations in But dairying in Coos county is in the county: itf infancy. Within sight of the coun The average production per cow per ty seat, just across the river, lie hun ytar, 240.5 lbs. butter fat. dreds of acres of fertile bottom land The average cost of feed per cow still unclaimed from the primal wild. per year, $32.33. Thousands of acres are yet to be The average protit per cow per cleared and drained— and every acre year, $60.80. is capable o f sustaining a cow. Thou tValue o f calf, skim milk and ma sands of acres of hill land, now being nure not included.) denuded of its forests, will be cleared The average cost of producing a and seeded to grass. A ll will add to pound of butter fat, $0.13. the productive capacity of Coos. More Corn, More Silos, More Silos, With the coining of the railroad; .More Cows, More Cows, More Cash. with the building o f public highways; Coos county dairymen are growing with the disappearance of the forests, more corn and building more silos will come an era of agricultural prog- taeft year. tess such as was never excelled by In all of our com growing contests any country. And, keeping pace with lust year throughout the county, the the rush of events, through it all will average yield of corn silage per acre stand the mild-eyed “ Bossy,” the un was 32 tons. The highest yield was crowned queen of the realm; the <iU tons per acre. We have a good “ Foster Mother” of the race. corn crop this year and many silos are being built. There are now nearly 250 silos in the county, most of them having been built within the last three years. There a re splendid opportunities lo r making money in the dairy busi ness here; all we need is more good cows and some real dairymen who know how to grow the right kind of feeds, to feed them the right way to the right kind o f cows, and most of Road Master Murdock Ex all, we need dairymen who will pro plains System Which Will duce dean milk and cream so that it will be possible for the creameryman Put Coos in Front Rank to make the very best cheese and but ler which will sell for the top price. l By R. B. Murdock, County Roadmas- J. L SMITH, ter.) County Agriculturist. “M S AND CORN MAKE THE COIN’’ IS SLUliAN OF COOS “ Cows and Corn make the Coin;” that's our slogan for Coos county. This combination is the surest mon ey maker for the dairy farmer in inis county. The farmer is greatly favored here also by many natural advantages which help to make dairying a profit able business. For what county has a better climate or more green grass and fresh water than Coos? Coos County Cows live long and enjoy life; they never get too hot nor too cold, And they can help themselves to plen ty of green grass and fresh water most of the year. The winter months are not cold, and the dairy cows do not have much else to do, but to stand in the barn and eat lots of good corn silage, clover, oats, vetch and barley hay and ail kinds of loot crops. What more does a cow need? Such feeds all grown and fed right on the farm, produce milk at the cheapest co&t to the farmer. Better Bulls. Better Cows. £oos county farmers are beginning to realize the need of better cows, and they are learning that the cheapest way to get good cows is to raise them. That is where the value of a good bull shows up; there is nothing so impor tant in the dairy business as pure bred bulls in the work of herd im provement. No man can claim to be a dairyman who keeps a scrub bull. The number of pure bred bulls is in creasing very rapidly. The last bull census o f the county showed over 200 pure bred bulls. (The scrubs were not counted.) t ow Testing Associations. Another method of grading up the dairy herd towards increased produc tion and profit is through the work of the cow testing association. Coos wounty has five cow testing associa tions, which in more than any other county west of New York. The cow testing association is a I usiness system employed by all real Motorist* Map of Coos Countg SYSTEMATIL 1 ROAD BUILDING l .mook, or in the world for that mat ter; it has a system of soilage and silage, using the best and most suc culent feeds and getting the maxi mum returns; it has the most ideal climate for dairying for there is no spot on earth where the grass grows greener or where there is less ex- teemes of heat and cold, of snow and A Rambler Tells of His Ob drought. \V hen God made the world he map servations Among Farmers ped out a spot on the shores of the of Both Sections | boundless Pacific and said, “ This shall ! be the cows earthly paradise for I ; have reserved no place for her in Hea (B y a Rambler.) Having traveled extensively in this ven.” And man called the place Coos county and being fam iliar with condi county. Here the grasses grow eter tions over a large part of Western nal and the dark green of the myrtle Oregon and Washington, the writer ar.d cedar are interspersed by the will presume that his observations lighter green of the fields. No kings reign there and no queens, but peace may be of interest to others. We have been invited by the editors and contentment and prosperity, and to write something for the Special and (he cow. She is the queen of the bi casting about for a theme find realm, mild-eyed and satisfied she nothing more suggestive as appropri basks in the eternal spring, knowing ate than the homely old cow. Long nothing of the rigors of climate in may she live to cast her shadow o'er It-s favored spots. I have nindefinite figures at hand tlie land and to succor her foster chil dren, for without her generous dower ! but, conservatively estimated, I would of lacteal fluid we would soon be fac place the number of dairymen owning ing a crisis among thu infants of the herds of 20 or more cows at 200. lend cpmpared to which infantile pa- Some own more than iphundred cows. . .lysis would be Insignificant indeed. Sehroeder Brothers of Arugo are By some incomprehensible trick . mong the largest dairymen of the Tillamook county has established n ccunty with about 100 head. Herds I polar idea that she ranks first in of from 20 to 40 are common. No where is the silo so much in i dry products. It needs but a glance over the field and the facts in the case evidence as here. Scarcely a dairy to demonstrate the easy lead of Coos. farm but has one or more. No where 1 have travelled over most of Tilla t mi a better quality or wider range of Clover, vetch and mook county, and am acquainted with feed be grown. a number o f its leading dairymen, ci i n grow with equal luxuriance and rut since earning here have seen yield beyond belief. Grain feeds are t rough to convince me that in number Mldoni used for they can be supplant of cows, number o f silos, milking ma ed by feeds of less cost o f production. chines and all that goes to make up Mr. Van Leuven, of Bear Creek, re r duiry community this county leads. ports 80 pounds of butterfat from one 1' has in its live testing associations of bis Jerseys, according to official over 2500 cows; it has upwards of t. t for the month of July, and this 250 silos and more being built every without a pound of grain feed. Bart- week; it has pasture lands (hat can 1 left and Son, o f Catching creek, aver not be surpassed by anything in Til- age nearly 50 pounds per cow from COOS HAS LEAD OVER TILLAMOOK Ths Center of Coos Coquil e is Invalid jur* me nn 1 one-ha f miles from the goo- graphi* <1 center o f Cons County, and is the natural road anil Active interest in better roads and the handling of highway matters in a modern and systematic manner is such recent development in Coos county that, to those unfamiliar with what has already been done, it may seem that we have accomplished little. But a study of our 635 miles of highway will show that during the last five years about 75 per cent have been re located with maximum grades o f 5 per cent and for several years pro jects have been under way in various parts of the county to rebuild our roads to these new lines and grades, roads of the county and it is proposed as rapidly as funds have permitted. A long step was taken la3t year to apply a surface as rapidly as possi toward making the maintenance work ble from district and special funds, more uniform and systematic when although there is little doubt, that, the 33 road districts were reduced to with the efficient expenditure of this six large districts exclusive of the in issue, the people will urge, and the in corporations, and it has been for the creased valuation will make possible, sake of further efficiency and economy a further loan o f this nature for sur that road patrolmen have been em ployed this year, wherever conditions would permit, whose only occupation is maintaining of certain sections of road. facing. W e are starting on a program of improvement which, in a very few j ears, will place Coos among the fore most ranks of the good roads coun ties o f the Northwest. A bond issue of $362,000 is to grade the trunk line districts has made it possible to adopt a program for the intelligent improve ment of these feeders by successive projects radiating from the traffic centers or from such points as cream eries or cheese factories in which the This expenditure upon our main roads in 1917 will leave a relatively large sum to be expended upon the feeders, or roads o f lesser importance, Much has been accomplished in the and several projects of this nature standardizing of plans and specifica are being prepared for contract and tions, and in the accounting and cost will be under construction early next records in the details of which the year. general public is not interested. The division o f the county into large 50 cents 25 cents Aug. 23 there will he Good Racing. Come out and see the Racers the first time they come together. Coquilie river towns passes through this place. Cequille is a beautiful place for ttye motorists to stop. I f he wishes to camp there are many spots in and nevr town that make ideal c raping grounds. Coquille has two good hotels for the tourist who does not care to rough it, and two up-to date garages to furnish service for the automobile. farmer is chiefly interested. The pol icy will be to surface such roads with giavel or crushed rock macadam as soon as the settlement of the grades will permit. manent grade has iccently been com pleted between Noi th Bend and Em pire and a temporal y surface of plank has made it passab e at all times un til the settlement makes a more per manent surface practicable. Four miles o f grading w th a planked sur face has recently been completed on the Lee-Lawhorne road, and two miles in addition are in progress. Similar ly, three miles have recently been graded on the East Fork road from Myrtle Point and two miles in addi tion are under contract. Expensive lock work is in progress on what is known as the Brewster grade of the Few of the people in the county— even those who normally take an in terest in highway affairs— are fam il iar with what is being done and has recently been done to permanently im prove our roads. The work on the raw grade over the divide between Haynes Slough and Ten Mile, which will eventually be a link in an impor tant rocid, is known to few, as is the work that is being done on the Alle- gany-Drain road. A permanent grade Old Coos Bay Wagon Road. has been completed on the Daniel’s Two miles of new grade and gravel Creek road and before winter a sur surface is in progress on the Myrtle face of gravel will make it an all year i Point-Powers road and a mile of highway. Work is now in progress heavy construction along the river on the Bandon-Curry county road and l luff near Powers was completed last a portion of the bond issue is to com month. A contract is now being ad- plete the grading. A new and per vertised for the improvement of a por CARS tion of two secondary roads leading irto Bridge. When the present contracts are completed on the Coquille-Marshfield load, but four and one-half miles will remain unimproved. Parties are now in the field prepar ing for contract the balance o f this load as well as the roads between Co quille and Myrtle Point, Bandon and Curry county, Bandon and Coquille, and the new roads which are to link North and Haynes Inlets with a ferry to North Bend at Glasgow. A party is also preparing for contract a new road leading from Sumner to Coos City. Numerous small projects for the elimination of dangerous curves and steep grades are always in progress. No one can doubt that Coos is now thoroughly awake to the benefits that ' are to be derived from improved high ways. like people, should be examined by an expert occasionally and given the nec comes chronic, for this may happen far from any garage where the necessary tools for the needed repairs z C « O U *-< may be obtained. Avoid such a mishap by letting us keep your car in perfect condition. We have one o f the most complete ma chine shops and some of the most competent mechanics in Coos "5 county. e £ 8 (/Î First Street ■ s 8 I S fr O ¥ .2 S m p C ^ O c X Fuhrman’ s Phramacy I I ' w *L m c «G s g s .s * 3 S en £ a c « ► 1 ■ o S' • ft General Admission Children Under 12 Hire, loo, the new railroad touches tinewater on the Coquille for th' first time, and all traffic between Hundon and the other causing endless delay and worry. Don’ t wait until the trouble of your car be ay Co me. out and see your favorite win. Harness, run ning and auto racing. Horses from Salem, Indepen dence, Medford, Grants Pass, Eureka and Coos county, all participate in these races. man. essary treatment to prevent the small, minute troubles which are constantly arising, from becoming serious, and In Purses Aug. 26 August 23 and 26 Ail o f the travelled roads renter h vre fro n i l parts of tbe county as can he seen by tbe aceompanying Second Street T o Marshfield $1000 The Coos Bay Fair Association, F. P. Norton, Sec., will give races at the Marshfield track tra isp ii 'ati in center. CO u _0 "S. * H M action's Billiard Parlor and Keep It W ell Notice Our Location on the Map Sehroeder Bros- Confec tionery Farmers A Merchants Bank Front Sheet To Bandon Let Us Examine Your Car I B 'S cu V t >i S « a. X O * M o 3 § Ü. c in ■£ S “ 3 w 3 -O ÏS u 5 « s ■a H W e Carry a Full Line o f Accessories and Oils £ » GARDNER & LARSEN Garage and Machine Shop