WHAT RAINDROPS
MEANTOFARMER
! on the work of expert wool graders iu
demonstrating to producers aud oth
K
th* ,WW •» “ **“ * th*
bulletin states that the line-house op-
(“ration of the farmers’ elevators would
seetn to offer the greatest advantage
In those states where crops are some
what uncertain or where the crop year
Is of short duration, and under which
conditions It may be necessary to close
the elevators for certain periods each
year
It is possible under the Hue-
house method of operating elevators
to economize In accounting and to
standardize In construction and In the
machinery used.
Favoring single-unit elevators Is a
degree of community pride Which usu
ally centers around these organiza
tions quite Independent of the serv
ices rendered. In many sections there
is a prejudice against centralized au
thority which Is not easily overcome.
Elevators In the Middle West section
of the United States were established '
primarily to solve marketing prob
lems of local character.
f «><•«•
In making linens
Tills sup
ply was cut off, while the demuud for
I linens continues as strong as ever
In the United States the normal
' consumption of flax fiber by tbs spin
ning mills, before the war, was about
10,000 tons a year, most of which was
Imported. To produce this amount of
fiber about 60,000 acres Is required.
To help In meeting the situation the
United States Department of Agricul
ture. through the oftlce of fiber Inves
tigations, Is encouraging the produc
tion of flax fiber by experimenting
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H A l SUV h N .i.R l'R IS t í
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ers tne value of grading the wool clip.
The Country Newspaper
The subdivisions within the grades es
(P o rtla n d J o u rn a l)
tablished enable the producers of long-
¡ staple wool to obtain full value for
The town paper w ill vary largely
their clip on the basis of grade. In
be what the town w ills it to be
Crop Reports Indicate Difference addition to the regular grades, provi
Generally speaking, the editor is
sion
also
is
made
for
the
various
kinds
Few Showers Make in Human-
Miss Edith Forrest, executive
of defective wool'which constitutes
the hardest working man in the (ecretary of the Linn county Red
ity’s Scheme of Things.
rejects. The wool growers are reel
community.
He is invariably do Cross, makes the following sum
ing the value of grading and the ne
ing
his
part
to
make bia paper bar mary report of activities in Ootober:
cessity for the elimination of rejects
Total number of cases under care
from their wool In order to obtain the
ometer the town as th rifty, wide
of home servioe section, 179.
maximum return for their product.
1 awake and on the map.
I f the
Cases under care during Ootober.
One large wool pool In the Middle
townspeople do a fraction o f what 96.
Takaa About 2,260 Tona of W a ter to the West, which assembled ami graded
hey should in the way of support,
340,000 pounds of wool In 1920. reports
Kx-service men and their fa m i
Acre to Grow a Food Crop— Procasa
ue w ill make his paper an in te lli lies, 73.
that
400,(XX)
pounds
have
been
received
of Evaporation Yields Chemicals
gent and highly respectable repre
to date this year One of the largest
C ivilian families, 23,
Valuable as Fertilizer.
sentative of the community.
If
co-operative wool growers' associa
Expended for reliet uf ex-service
tions In the Northwest has increased
• bey do ouly a little of their part, ciien and their families, $90 36.
Washington, D. C.— “Rain might be
Its membership from 1,600 to 1,700 In
the paper w ill do more than any
For civilian families, $li9.30.
looked up<>n as the oil which lubricates
the last 30 days, and reports that
>ther one thing to give the town
the world s economic machinery," says
Visits to families and reference
more than 1,500,000 pounds of wool
(landing at home and abroad,
97.
a bulletin issued from the Washing has been received at lta concentration
Aa every newspaper tnau knows,
ton, D. C., headquarters of the Na point.
Office interviews, 98.
i DECREASE IN POTATO YIELD
one of the first things done by those
tional Geographic society In connec
Visits to county branches, 7.
tion with recent reports of world-wide
n distant states who are looking
W eather So Unfavorable T hat Kati-
New cases, 19.
RUNTS ARE NOT PROFITABLE
drought damage to crops.
for a new location is to send for the
mate on Auguat 1 Showed Drop of
Closed cases, 18.
“With the smallest estimated cotton
61,079,000 Bushels,
own paper.
Such applications
Reopened cases, 7.
crop since 1893,” continues the bulle If stunted Animals Could Be Elim-
•ome in numbers the years through
Threshing Flax at the Northern Great
Analysis of prtblem s—c iv ilia n —
Inated Farmers’ Incomes Would
tin, "with spring wheat in poor con
(P rep a red by (h e U n ited S ta te s D ep a rtm ea t
o every town newspaper. The ap Unemployment, 0; menial prob
Plaine Station, Mandan, N. D.
o f S e r ic u ltu r e )
Be Greatly Increased.
dition at home as well as in many of
pearance
of the paper, its signs of lems, 2; transportation, 1; run
Although
the
potato
acreage
Is
esti
the other wheat countries of the world,
with It In new localities, Investigating
« U nited S la te s D ep artm eat
h rift or poverty, largely determine away boy, 1; g jrl problem, 1; de-
mated by the bureau of markets and
with other important crops below their (P rep arvd by lb
new methods and machines, and de
of A frlcu ltu r « )
crop estimates. United States Depart
average, und with drought cast as the
veloping Improved strains of the fiber whether the applicant w ill ever see eortion, 1; tiuanoial relief of fam
A questionnaire survey conducted
No agency does so ilies, 6,
villain, or at least as an accomplice, among 1,000 leading farmers and ment of Agriculture, to be 3,972,000 flax which are taller, yield more and vour town.
nuch for the community and gets
In each case, the difference that a few breeders by the United States Depart or 1.6 per cent greater than last year, better fiber, and some of which are
Health problems—Tuberculosis.
to little back as a well-conducted I,' confinement, 1; asthma, 2; crip
showers make In humanity’s scheme ment of Agriculture Indicates that
resistant to disease and lodging.
of Orings is strongly emphasized.
It has been shown that better flax town newspaper. Much is asked of ples, 2; throat troubles, 8; pneu
about 7 per cent of the annual pro
Depends on Rainfall.
1« produced from seed of selected 't, aud little bestowed.
The man monia, 1.
duction of farm live stock In the
“While everybody realizes In a gen
strains than from Imported seed, such who wants free publicity and gives I
Ex-service—Unemployment, 1;
as has been used In the past. Efforts
eral way that the world depends on
nothing bacK in advertising be-I mental problems, 3; transportation
are being made, too, to Increase the
rainfall and fertility for food, there
leges all newspapers,-especially 3; federal training. 8; search for
are very few, perhaps, who even ap
seed of these selections for distribu
the
home paper..
lost ex-service men, 2; loans, 3;
tion
generally.
proximately appreciate how compara
1 he mail overwhelms the town inform ation, 20; g o v e r n m e n t
A special survey Is being made this
tively little the farmer actually does
season to determine the extent of dis paper w ith all kinds of copy with claims, travel pay, bonus, lost el.
In the great process of crop-growing.
he request that it be inserted free | fects, etc., 24.
ease Injury to which flax Is subject,
To plow millions of acres furrow by
8tock
and to procure definite Information ind marked copies sent.
furrow, to spend millions of dollars
Government claims for compen
needful In devising methods for com (hows, horse shows, county fairs, sation for disability, 86; tuheicu-
on fertilizers, and to reap and gather
bating
such
diseases.
,
and thresh, -is no mean task. And yet
hurob fairs, school fair«, world losis, 23; Jose of arm, 1; arth ritis,
About 6,000 acres of fiber flax was lairs, June festivals, health com-
compared with the part that nature
grown In the United States In 1920, uittees, development committees, 2; trench mouth, 1; stomach trou
plays In the process, man's work
ble, 1; loss of eve, 1; loss of hearing,
but the relatively low price for fiber
seems a very slight labor. For In
iromotion com mittens, publicity 1; arm paralyzed, 1; heart trouble,
has resulted In a greatly reduced acre
stance, It takes about 20 Inches of
ommiltees, general welfare com 1; dental work 3.
age In 1921, estimated at 3,000 acres.
rainfall to grow a food crop under our
mittees
and every other kind of
Appropriations totaling $19,161,.
general farming methods, which means
sliow, exposition and cotnrnit- 657 are contained in the budget
about 2,260 tons of water to the acre.
PICK FEATHERS FROM GEESE tair
ee, shower the editor with requests for tha curreut fiscal year, it was
That seems a preposterous figure, but
the doubter can easily demonstrate
Many Breeders Follow Practice Some for free space, for editorials, al announced at national headquar
ways holding out aa remuneration ters.
Its correctness. Suppose the Ameri Farmers Say It Does Not
Tim e Prior to M olting When
Raise Runts.
can farmer had to haul the water his
be assurance that it is for the good
Quills Are Dry.
Grading and Hacking Potatoes for
Reflective of the determination
ground must have to give him a good
United States consists of runts and
>f tiie community, never realizing Of the Red Cross to continue its
M arkst.
crop, and that the distance and freight
undersized specimens of the various
Many breeders of geese In the South, 'hat white paper baa to be paid for service of disabled world war vat-
rate were the same as the average breeds and classes. Farmers report the weather during July was so un- and some In the Middle West and the
n money, that printers must be raus u n til the last of these men
railroad haul and rate In the United
avorable that the estimated yield on North pluck the feathers from the live paid ao(| that newspapers cannot
that their annual Incomes from live
is restored to normal civilian life,
States. Gn that basis It would cost Stock would be Increased an average August 1 showed a drop of 61,079,000 geese at some time prior to molting.
subsist on hot air.
and outstanding among the items
him more than $4,000 an acre to wa
of 13 per cent if runts could be elim bushels from the indicated yield on Home pick every six weeks during the
In no other activity in the world of the domestic budget, is the ap
ter his place.
inated. Better methods of feeding and July 1. The figures for yield were summer, and early In the fall, while
“But not only would his water bill breeding, breeding better stock, the use placed at 815.918.000 bushels, as com- others pick only once or twice a year, 14 there so muoh endeavor to get propriation of $3,669,256 for tha
be nearly half a million dollars on a of purebred registered sires, good care ■ared with 428,868,000 for 1920 and a either In the spring, or In both spring something for nothing as is carried Red Cruse service iu behalf of the
No ac disabled ex-servico mau and bia
100 acre farm, but his fertilizer bill, and systematic attention, better hous Ive-year average of 371,283,000. Prices and fall. Feathers are considered ripe on with the newspapers.
also, would amount to a neat little
eflected the change In condition. On for picking when the quills are dry tiv ity in the world gives so much fam ily. This appropriation repre
ing and sanitation, proper care of the
sum. It Is estimated that in the proc dam before the birth of young, prac luly 16 the average of ten leading and do not contain blood. Both young io the public gratia and geta few sents the amount allotted to this
ess of normal evaporation, soil wa tical control of such objectable para- markets was $3 to $4.fB per barrel and old geese are plucked. The aver (hanks back. The thing has gone ___ ____ ________ ____
vork from national headquarters
ter presents the rootlets of Its neigh sites as worms and lice, the control of I for Virginia Eastern Shore Cpbblers age yearly production of feuthers Is no far that much of the public hold« I on|y and does not take into con-
borhood with about fourteen pounds disease, and the culling from the farm j un<* $1-25 to $2.16 per 100 pounds for about 1.1 pounds to the goose.
it to lie the duty of a newspaper to sideration the m illions being spent
of ammonia a year to the acre. Al of all stunted stock which Indicates Kunsas Early Ohloa.
By August 12
The practice of plucking live geese, support every and any public p ro p -1
•y - Red Cross chapters for the re
so, it gives them some 57 pounds of no possibilities of successful reforma Virginia Eastern Shore Cobblers had however, Is considered by many breed
osition that seems in some remote lief of the disabled veterans.
potash. With sulphate of ammonia tion and rehabilitation are the control idvanced frrn $4.75 to $5.50, while ers to be cruel and Injurious. Oeese
Every month during the last year
costing only 2 cents a pound (It cost methods recommended by these ex vansas Early Ohlos were soiling at should not be plucked during the way to promise some public benefit,
5% during the war) aud a hundred perienced farmers. About three-qunr- -2.40 to $3.25; Idaho Buraia were mov breeding season. A stocking usually carrying their view almost to a sort ihe Red Cross has been in touch
pounds of the sulphate required to ters of them say that It does not pay ing at $3.50 to $3.60 per 100 pounds.
Is placed over the head of the goose, of public ownership of the policy with an average of 129,216 ex-
contribute 17 pounds of ammonia. It to raise runts, while the Italance main
and part of the soft feathers on the and plant of the paper.
service men and their families.
will be seen that the process of evap tain that the Tom Thumbs of the live
For all the boosting of the com
breast, back and aides and abdomen
I) is providing a service for vet
oration gives the rootlets $1.65 worth stock world can be raised successfully GIVE HENS VARIETY OF FEED are pulled. Enough soft feathers ta m unity, for all the constructiva agi erans and their families costing
of ammonia to the acre.
only when well bred and when plenty
support the wings always should be tation, for all the struggle for
a 110,000,000 a year.
of cheap feed la available and de When W eather le Cold and Fowle Are left. Geese feathers are now bringing form, for all the appeals in bel alf
Automatic Fertilization.
For relief in 70 disasters in the
Juet
Beginning
to
Lay,
Feed
“When the World war cut off Ger pendable markets are readily access
about 75 cents a pound for pure white; of public movements, for all the
United States in Ihe year $1,600,-
Them Liberally.
man supplies of potash and it soared ible.
66 cents for average white; and 55
free notices, free insertions and 900 was expended.
to $400 a ton. geologists scoured the
cents for gray. These prices are for
free exploitation, many in the
Do not fall to feed your hens a good good, dry feathers.
The American Red Cross is char
Lnlted States for the priceless fertll
town expect in return to ¡ay a few tered by act of congress.
■arlety of feed and In liberal quan-
lzer with little success. Yet the proc
flowers on the defunct editor’s
Itles when the weather la cold and
ess of evaporation generously hands
In Oregon during the year 1,645
COWS FRESHENING IN FALL grave
bey are Just commencing to prodoce
and let it go at that.
out more than half a hundredweight
women have received courses of
ggs. Heavy egg production requires
to the acre, In war and peace. This
instruction in home hygiene aud
It Maana M axIm uA Production Whan
correspondingly heavy feeding.
automatic fertilization Is worth an
Prices fo r D airy Products Are
have been giveu certificates.
additional $2.50 an acre to the farmer Type of Elevator Should Fit Lo
a t High Level.
at present prices, and would have coat
BARBERRY
CUTS
WHEAT
YIEÙJ
The McKeon Verdict
cal Conditions.
him $lo an acre at war prices.
G L A S S E S F IT T E D
Milk cows bred to freshen In the
(Junction City Times.)
“From this It will be seen that the
BY
fii
1
1
mean
maximum
production
when
Scientific Investigation Has Proven
$12 to $25 nn acre that It costs the
H. M. McKeen of Alvadore was
butter, butterrat and milk prices are
G
R
A
D
U
A
T
E
T
h
a
t
Ruet
Gets
Ita
Start
In
average farmer to grow wheat Is a Excellent System fer One Section W ill
better than they are In the summer It
ibsolved of blame in connection
Barberry Buahaa.
O P T O M E T R IS T
small figure Indeed, compared to what
Not Alwzye W ork Out Succesefully
elao transfers the big Job of milking,
with the k illin g of James Otis P it
he saves by having nature as his wa e
in Another — Comparative
P R IV A T E O F F IC E
ney nn a deer hunt in the Coast
Tonr barberry huah may he redne handling the milk, and caring for the
ter wagon and fertilizer source."
Study of Plana.
F O R E X A M IN A T IO N S
Ing your wheat yield or Increasing the calves to a time when the farmer le
Range mountains on August 21,
cost of a loaf of bread. Wheat rust least busy. Help Is easier to obtain
when the ju ry in the case Monday
P
R
IC
E
S
R
E
A
S
O
N
A
B
L
E
(P rep are d b y the L'nltnd States Depart-
In some year« causea a loss of 200.- during the fall and winter and more
if ter noon brought in a verdict of
m ent o f A g ric u ltu re .)
000,000 bushels of wheat and scientific time is available to devote to cowa.
F M . F r e n c h a. S o n s
‘not g u ilty ” after three hours' de
In co-operative grain marketing it Is
Cows
freshening
In
the
fall
can
be
fed
Investigation has proved that tbv fun
ALBANY
OREO,
liberation,
McKeen heard the
more essential that the system be
grain
and
made
to
produce
better
than
gus which Is responsible for thia die
verdict
w
ith
no
show of emotion.
suited to conditions and practical need
ease gets Its start In the spring from they do In summer.
than It Is that the system itself has
There is general dissatisfaction
the common barberry plant
More
successfully applied In other
with the verdict of ‘ ‘ not g u ilty ” in
than 4.600,000 barberry hushes have
Product in Much Better Condition been
fields. This has been brought out in
lie McKeen case, not liecause aoy-
been located hy federal workers end
an Investigation coidueted by special 3.560.000 plants destroyed. One bnsh
Than Last Year.
mdy wishes to see Mr. McKeen
ists of the bureau of markets. United
may Infect acres of wheat and It will
punished unnecessarily, but be.
States Department of Agriculture, a
be worth while to look around your
muse this verdict v irtu a lly sets
Much Credit Due Department of Ag report of which has Just been pub
farm and adjoining country and see
aside the law making it an offense
lished
In
department
bulletin
937,
“Co
riculture for Demonstrations Show
that they do not harbor any of these
to k ill another by mistaking him
operative Grain Marketing.” One can
wheat thieves.
ing Proper Handling and Pre
for a deer.
not carry his Investigations of coop
paring.
erative grain marketing far. says the
From now on a man takes his
bulletin, without realizing that what
ife in his hands when he goes into
(P rep a red by t h . V a lte d B 'i t H D ep artm eat
of S e r ic u ltu r e J
may be an excellent method for one
he woods where wild game is even
Wool received at concentration section and for a particular condition
(uapected to be.
In fact, when
points for pooling Is In much better will not always work qut tuocessfully
the
hunting
season
first opens and
condition than that handled last year, In other sections or when applied to
he k illin g spirit is on, it w ill
act ordlng to officials In charge of wool other conditions. The bulletin makes
inaafs for a farmer to hunt his
Supply From Russia Has Been
pools, who state that the Improvement a comparative study of methods in the
•ows in the brush.
<* due largely to the demonstration« United Stales and Canada.
Grçatly Curtailed.
In the United States the most com- |
There is but one remedy, and
conducted last season by the United
State« Department of Agriculture, mon type of farmers' grain elevators
hat remedy is to repeal the game
showing the proper manner of han la owned and controlled by a body of Demand for M aterial fa r M anufacture
laws aud allow the game to he
dling and preparing wool for market. stockholders In the Immediate aur ,
wiped out.
That is what should
of Linens Continua« aa Strang aa
The owners of wool clips who were rounding community, and the elevator
>e done.
The protection of game
Ever— Naw Methode and Ma.
penalised In 1920 on account of sisal Is operated as a separate unit Inde
< class legislation and hence un-
chinaa Investigated.
twtua, burrs or seed have taken pre pendently of any similar elevator.
Vmerican.
I t compels the land
cautions this season to see that their
In Canada the line-house type of
>wner to feed the game at bis own
Prepared by tha United States Depart
product is free from objectionable for farmers' elevator prevails and la highly
ment af Agriculture.
xpense and then the fellow who
The line-house type coo- |
eign matter and In excellent condition successful
The upside-down condition of things
■ontributes a small sum for the
» lien received at the concentration slats of a number of elevators con In Russia has produced many un
.»rivilsge goes out and blows the
Point. The percentage of untied fleeces trolled by on« central office In a large looked-for results, but none more un
layligbts out of the game which
Is much smaller than In 1920, with a marketing center. Two such com expected to the casual mind than Its
lie has nn moral right to or just
c n-ddarable number of fleeces box- panies la Canada own and operate effect upon the supply of flax fiber.
Highest prices paid for Beef, Pork, Veal an 1 Mutton. Pee Ue claim upon.
tbd
over BOO country elevator« In the three Before the World war Russia pro-
BIG PART PLATED BT NATURE
RED CKOS# WORK
October Activities in Linn
County
CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN
MARKETING METHODS
IMPROVEMENT NOTED
IN WOOL MARKETING
SECOND H AN D
MORE AMERICAN FLAX
IS URGENTLY NEEDED
2 good sets Heavy Work Harness for salo
1 set heavy Hack Harness
1 set single buggy Harness
1 Clipper Fanning Mill, in first-class shape, for
sale. Have you a good inilch Cow to trade
for new m achinery?
See me for new farm implements.
G. W. Mornhinweg Implement Store
MAYBERRY &
M c K inney
L IV E S T O C K B UYER S
ts p c c u l empha»,,
b a,
been Pn ~ . i
» h re tg rp w ln g province..
_ _
duced about 80 per cant of the flag
before you sell.
Halsey phone 179.
Brownsville phone 37c51,
Repeal the game law and insure
safety to our hunters,
»