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U A U f i V E N T E R PU I SH
PER. 2l. 1924
HAL81Y ENTERPRISE
ment
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T h a ra 4 a g
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chicken yarn.
fo r
reproducing
the “ he she
FARM
CO-OPERATIVE
SELLING „
William H. Wheeler, editor of the
Halsey Enterprise, is also the pro­
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(.rlfitloaa. f l . l t a y * a r la ad ranca prietor, devil and all, and prints it,
Advertisiog 20c an inch ; no ditcoun two pages at a time, on a Diamond
By GLENN G. HAYES
Io r tim e or apace ; do cbsrge for com
jress by hand power. Except for
position or cbauget.
/hat straight* composition is ready to
(©. 1»I4. W nttru Newapaper Unloa.)
l a T a l d tu r P aracrap b a," fe a lla a
o away to a linotype 3 hours before
■ a ad v a rtla ln g dlsgulaad aa n e w a
he press starts, he does all the office Women A re Organizing in
/ork, canvassing, collecting, and what
Offiee hours, 9 to 12 and 2 to 6 excep
the Egg Business.
□b printing is afforded by the little
Mondays and Friday forenoons.
own, which is quite loyal to its home I F A L L the chickens raised in the
>rinter in this respect. Frequently, it 1 United States last year were lined
OUR TREASURY IS SOUND.
i a six-page paper and there are six up tall to tall in one continuous row
olumns to the page.
Mr. Wheeler (bey mould extend around the world
Secretary Mellon has informed the egan at the printing business Octo- four limes w ith »9,480 bene le ft over.
president that the charges of dupli­ er 18, 1868, and his 18th birthday I f all the eggs laid by this great
American flock were loaded Into cars
cation of liberty bonds have been ame the next month. He confesses they
would extend from Boston to
hat
he
sometimes
breaks
the
union's
investigated by two separate and in
Chicago, 103,530 cars In all.
4-hour-week rule. — Oregon Ex-
In
1923 there were 543,000,000
dependent investigating forces and
hanges.
chickens raised In American poultry
the integrity of the treasury depart­
The foregoing was true when writ- yards. T h e ir farm value totaled »354,-
199,000. The total value o f poultry
ment has been maintained.
More­
en. Since then the linotype work is products In the United States In 1922
over, the 27 employee of the bureau
was $884,000,000, which exceeds by
of engraving and printing who were eing done about six hours nearer »20,000,000
the total value of the 1922
lome
and
a
man
has
been
found
who
mysteriously suspended under the
wheat crop. And this report doesn’t
Harding administration are to be re­ urns the press for about half the Include chickens and eggs produced
on town and city lots, w ith the excep­
irinting of the paper.
instated.
to sail eggs. Around 1908 they began
Io make real money. A poultry farm
'.< umd was the result. Men ctm e from
the cities and the fa rm s and bought h
a few acres of land and • few laying
hens and aet to work to make their
fortune, in lees than a year they had
flooded the markets w ith egg»
T he 1
price «vent down to a ten-cent level.
The dealers would buy np the eggs
and put tbem In storage, borrow money '
on the eggs In storage and go back
Commercial and Savings accounts Solicited
and buy more eggs.
T h e farmers
dumped them In a helpless way and
broke prices In that fashion, while the
produce dealers dumped them con­
sciously onto the San Francisco Prod­
uce exchange w ith the Intention of
breaking the price. The dumping In focal units. Usually the village «tore-
the spring dominated the price o f the keeper handles the circle’» shipment
LAWYER^AND NOTARY
entire year.
California poultrymen and he Is paid so much per dozen for
stood this state of affairs until h alf his trouble. Through local units the
H alsey , O regon
o f them were broke. Then they got eggs bring slightly better prices, but
the
producers
are
still
helplessly
In
together to try their own hand at
marketing. In 1916 they Incorporated the power of the dealers. And the
the Poultry Producers of Central Cal­ same dealers are io control of ut least
ifornia.
One
thousand
producers 90 per cent of our total egg production.
Women to Pool Eggs.
Second a t, opposite Halsey Garage
Joined the association and they start­
Now the women of the West are
ed selling in January, 1917.
Short
orders at all hours up to 11 p. m.
going to pool their eggs In the C ali­
Every one of these 1,000 hen owners
fornia
way,
and
they
have
already
subscribed for a »10 share of stock
started to work.
Local associations
and signed a contract to deliver all
of his eggs to the association for four nre being organized to assemble and
grade the eggs. Next these locals w ill
years. W hat the association proposed
he federated Into state selling agen­
to do wag to grade the eggs and pool
cies. The last step Is the coordinat­
them by grades, then sell them out,
ing of the state groups into a great
one cent a dozen being deducted to
national egg producers’ marketing as­
cover the expenses During the first
sociation.
eleven months It handled »2,049,000
There are al! sorts of difficulties to
A ll work done|proiuptly and reason­
worth of eggs at a selling expense of
be overcome—man-ownership, woman-
only 2^1 per cent. The business stead­
ably. . l ’lione No. 269
ownership, some o f the eggs In one
ily grew until In 1921 It handled
section hnndled In one way and some
662,604 cases fo r Its 2,436 producer
In another. But out of this confusion
members.
In 1922 worth
the producers
\
keted $6.833.000
of eggs, mar-
of 1 I the
r * r-ll<“r8 h-,v<5 ¿
brou«ht real mer-
i HALSEY STA TE BANK
Halsey, Oregon
C A P IT A L
AND
SU RPLU S
Amor A. TussingJ
Dad’s and Main’s Restaurant
Square Meal, 50c
tion of a few large commercial flocks.
It Is safe to say that the poultry In­
T > United States treasury depart­
Seventy five people took part in the dustry la a bllllon-dollar business.
ment has handled more money than
.rganization of the company to pro- Its owners are the wives of American
any other institution in the world ii
tote a water system from Clear Lake farmers.
N inety per cent of the American
the last century and a half and hai
o valley towns. Halsey was repre­ poultry product» originates on farms
been A marvel of exact honesty of th<
which are not devoted to poultry as
great force of employes, and it ii s s e d by D. T*ylor. The pnb. a specialty.
ic will be asked to suggest names
When Aaron Sapiro came over the
pleasant to have the admiring confi
rom whch the title of the company border of C alifo rn ia and began preach­
dence of the public in the integrity of
/ill be selected. Waldo Anderson is ing the doctrine o f co-operation, he did
hla talking to the men. And* when
the department confirmed.
resident of the company, Victor 01- they tried co-operative marketing
Mr. Brewer’s charges arose from
iver secretary and Frank Schramm they tried It on wheat and cotton, to­
the fact that 516,000,000 in temporary
bacco, dairy products— the crops they
reasurer.
The two former are Al- considered Im portant. O f course there
bonds were issued and later replace«'
>any citizens and the treasurer a were a few commercial poultrymen
by permanent securities.
But this
scattered In the East and In the West
Jorvallis
man.
“duplication" has been carried out
who were making co-operative egg
marketing a success, but that was a
without error, Mr. Mellon says, and
different s itu a tio n ; commercial poul­
W
e
don’t
wonder
a
t
Professor
Cios-
every temporary piece of paper cov­
and’s conclusion th a t proof-readers trymen were concentrated in certain
ered by a later permanent issue has re bom ra th e r than made, but we sections and their dally output was
large enough to be worth considering.
been destroyed by the department ex
ave a real curiosity as to how some |
Haw Woman Managed.
cept a small portion still outstanding f them manage to live so long.—
W hat Interests the farm er Interests
Eugene Register.
the farmer's wife. N aturally enough,
she was Interested In co-operative
Thst and the longevity of the marketing. She watched the outcome
HIGH PRICE OF BREAD
Intelligent Compositor are both of local ventures In co-operative live
The People's legislative Service, a lue to the marvelous self-restraint stock shipping In co-operative grain
elevators. Enormous losses were be­
national organizatiqn, reports tha't if editora and puhliahers.
ing avoided by orderly marketing. It
worked for every other commodity—
there is no good reason why the one-
Troubled waters are sometimes | why not poultry? There was money which 32 per cent were shipped to the
pound loaf of bread should not be
juieted
by throwing oil on tbem In the hen but not as much as there E a s t Tw enty per cent were carried
sold for 5 cents, as it was before the
should be. By poor m arketing meth-
In storage. Only 48 per cent were
iVon't somebody please reverie and | O(j,
woman had been cheating
war, instead of 9 cents, as now, ex
sold at once.
,
;brow a little muter on the oil themselves out of h alf of th e ir poultry
It took a long time to build the or­
cept a combination of millers and
dollar.
it Washington? Some people
ganization for the business of selling.
F or fifty years the farm er’s w ife ha»
bakersiu restraint of trade, in vio­
here want it aa badly aa tba rich bartered her eggs, a few dozen nt s The flocks had to be standardized.
lation of the Sherman law, whicltit
T he work had to be completely reor­
rich man wanted Abraham to put] time, at the crossroads grocery. She ganized. Certain men who were
asks congress to investigate. The
took what the merchant was willing
i drop on the end of hia tongue.
batching specialists
were put In
to give, not knowing the true value of
fact that E. Firchau of the Albany
charge to hatch all the chicks, and the
what she traded nor the value of what
bakery, who ships more bread than
Secretary Dynby has resigned she received In exchange. That's the rest of the members ran th eir flocks
any other Albany baker, hus long been jec a use he trusted to others tod furm aide of the story. W h iit did the without roosters. T he eggs were care­
fully graded and fed out to the m ar­
selling the old-time loaf at the old- «igned the Teapot Dome lease crossroads grocer do with the eggs?
ket In an orderly fashion, the surplus
T ills Is where the city dealer, stepped
time price lends plausibility to the vithout knowing there was any- In. He saw a chance for a fortune In being processed and packed away In
charge, as does a comparison of the bing wrong about it. He didn't the egg Industry; so did the big pack­ cold stocage for the shortage season.
Under the old system the hulk of these
ing concerns of the M iddle West.
price of wheat now with its price be­ enow it wes loaded.
eggs were dumped In the spring on the
These dealers and packers sent out
fore the war.
San Francisco market.
buyers to the little towns to buy up
Big Pacific Coast Business.
Bakers claim that they are giving
the eggs during the surplus ■ produc­
' Portland poultry producers hnd for
tion season. They bought these eggs
better bread for the higher price.
The Ladies' Study club meets ungraded. uncandled, big and little, years been receiving the lowest price
There isn’t any better bread.
unight and after th a t we expeot to dirty and clean— all mixed together on the Pacific coast. In 1919 they
,ee members »currying for funds | in»« aa the housewife bad brought adopted a co-operative marketing plan
sim ilar to the one used In the Peta­
for a library buildlug. with “ Ex- th a n tat» town. They bought them luma district. They formed the P a ­
wonderful bird , or a lie .
cheap.
In
the
first
place
the
grocer
■elsiort ” tor their inotto and
cific Co-operntlve Poultry Producers'
as little ns he could and he was
□taring with them “ thu strange paid
glad to sell them fo r only a few cents organization. Today Portland prices
Recent investigation show» that a
are equal to the highest. The associa­
device '* .
p ro fit Eggs don't mean money to the
peculiar ovary disasc is the cause of
tion markets the eggs of 360.600 hens,
grocer; they are simply a necessary
sex-transformation in poultry. In one
h alf ot the production o f Oregon.
nulaanes of exchange
Idaho, and Washington.
particular case it was noticed that a
The d aaleri shipped the eggs Into
Three other groups of Pacific coast
Buff Orpington hen started to erow.
the parking houses. They were sorted
At that time the bird was three and
as to tlaa snd color and they were poultrymen have started their own
marketing organization, all b uilt on
graded sad candled.
Part o f them
a half years old and had raised sev­
the same plan. Now the five Pnrlfle I
wore sold Imm ediately to the city con
eral broods of her own chicks. Imter
Sfitti/) «
c.a»t groups have Joined forces to
suiuors st special prices os strictly
her head assumed the proportions of
work under one great overhead sales
í B t t f t / c i t f tr SB»»k»
fresh eggs T he remainder were proc
a rooster's, and the comb, wattles'and
agency— the Pacific Coast Egg Produc­
eased
or
packed
Jn
cold
storage
to
b a l l i l i Pubfiç
spurs increased in size. Then the
ers. Each group sells Its own eggs
sw si: the s ta le r scarcity, when the«
In Its own particular section, but all
bird began ho molt.
Within six
wore «old st s handsome profit
Si
the *gg business continued yetir after j (he
,0
»hipped out are pooled
months it took on the plum age of a
snd handled from one office.
veer until In 1922 the egg and poultr«
male bird and shortly thereafter the
Along' the eastern cAast more than
divisions i t the pecking business were
" e h e " wes a “ h e ,” U ltim ately the
producing huge profits. Keslers had 466 New Jersey poultrymen got to­
gether In August of 1921 and formed
transformed hen became the father of
til rood pis money Into stlbkpln rash
the New Jersey Uo-operntlve Poultry
chickens.
FOR SALE
Thoa the women decided to clean
Producers' association, which hns only
booee L their markets.
-Now they
We find the foregoing in the Path­
recently been extended to Include pro
are going to have their own snles de
ducers o f all the Atlantic coast state«
-Mnoo' snd establish tlik lr own
finder, s weekly publication issued
This organization Is m o ther model of
t national co-operative- marketing
g iv in g g o d i flow of m ilk
from Washington, D. C. And Wash­
the Petaluma group.
mecMne
T h ia marks woman's first
H. Cl.iNSMArç, Route 1, Halaey
ington couldn’t tell a lie I The Path­
Commercial poultrymen are making
venture Into the economic, field of farm
their markets pay a J u t return. But
marketing.
Through the standard
finder, on its title page, claims that it
they cm never have complete control
type of collective selling they declare
“ shows the way through the jungle of
over the egg market until the hun­
they can treble; their, profile as poul
dreds of farm flocks of the Middle
♦vents.” It's in its thirty-first year.
try women and at the snrae time toll
West are laying co-operative egga
carefully »reded, standardized, guur
It ’• old enough to knew the stereo
The huge production of the Middle
nnteed eggs at a saving of a Bickel
Western state« Is In the hands of the
Admittance IS aud 25c
io e dime per dozen to the con
typed requirement« f a news item:
Feb 22
q i u H all turner, The ■ American Farm Bureau I packers; their control of the surplus
What? Who? when? where? why?
Ladies W itt baskets admitted free
Is strong enough that they c m break
federation was asked to help. The
how? etc., but it omits ell except the
federation responded by calling a ns ! any market
The only atteuipta that the Middle
t tons) eggm arketing conference In
first.
It grieves ua that the publi­
West has made toward the co-opera-’
Chicago early last spring
Seventeen
cation did not give some of this in­
t h e marketing of eggs has been en­
states were represented snd a large
formation, as, for instance, who owns
tirely along local line«. In some of
percentage of the official delegates
the dairy districts of lows. Minnesota.
ere women
the wonderful htrd, so are could apply
Wisconsin. Indians and Pennsytv»sia
Plan Is Net New
for a setting of eggs of the breed. Or
the cooperative creatniU*» «re han­
O -e p e ra tlv e marketing of eggs Is
where the miracle occurred - town,
ant altogether e new venture, for com dling the marketing of eggs and poul
try for their members
They usually
merrtsl poultrymen have had their
cou.ity, state, country or even sphere.
m arketing organization« »¡nee pay cash for the produce at the time
Perhaps It we« on the moon or Mars.
of delivery, just the same as the
areaad lfilA
dealer The only difference is that the
W'e await particulars with bated
the Petalum a valley, only e few
creamery does not attempt to mskg «
j anti as from San Frencleco, are located
breath, and with some trepidation, for
profit
In other districts 'h»re ate
toeet e f the commercial ponltry farm»
the Pathfinder is copyrighted and we
h., SIOH»
of eektrei C alifornia
Here Ike farm I shipping associations
are liable to a penalty for infringe
•o f t-.
b»O’ .
I IB ajl ■.hare ape arose th a n 759 0 | lb * a a
F. M . G R A Y ,
D RA Y M A N
DELBERT STARR
Funeral Director and Li­
censed Embalmer
D R. C. FICQ,
:
DENTIST
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Cusick Bank Building, Albany, Oregon
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Plates, Crowns, Bridge Work and Filling«}
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It will pay you to get my prices on your
Dental wcreik
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“ P la te s th a t F it ” :
A Bungalow for Books
□
Eresh Jersey Cow,
FINE PROGRAM
BASKET SOCIAL
FREE COFFEE
SILK QUILT raffled off
S35,O O O
Efficient Service.
Motor Hears».
Lady Attendant
Brownsville___ ______ ________ Oregon
w . L. W R IG H T
■ Mortician & Funeral Director
Halsey and Harrisburg
C all D. T a y l o r , Halsey, or
\V , L . \ \ RIGHT. Harrisburg
FARM LOANS
I can make both F A R M and C I T Y
L O A N S at a very row rate( of intetest
From 5 to 10 years. W rite me for par
trculars.
G. W . I . a f l a r .
Salem, Ore.
410 Oregon Bldg
HALSEY
cbandlsing methods. Out of tills same
chaos the women believe that they
can bring order. The farmer's wife
ha.« taken a tip from the packers* she
IS through trading $2 worth of ’egg,
for 50 cents' worth o f canned goods.
Birds Inherit and Learn Calls.
Birds Inherit culls they u tter when
In the heat, but In many instances
learn the nbtes o f 't h e 1 birds wlfhln
sound of whose voices they have been
veered.
FARMERS,
OU want a witfe-awalre, reliable
firm to represent you on the Port­
land market.
»
We can give you prompt and efficient
service in selling your F R U IT S . V E G ­
Y
ETABLES, HOGS V E A L. P O U L ­
T R Y aud F G O S . We h iv e beeo in
the produce business in Portlaod for
over 40 years
Ask your neighbor about it. W rite us
lor price«.
PA G E & SON,
Cream and Produce Station
Cash paid for
Cream, Poultry, Eggs, Veal
& Hides. M. H- S H O O K
W hy suffer from
headache?
Have your eyes
examined
S. T . F R E N C H
O ptom etrist w ith
F. M,
F r e n c h & S o n s
J E W E L E R S — O P T IC IA N S
Albany, Oregon
Fresh and Cured Meats
Quarter« of B
E
E
, ”
lor canning
purposes at canning prices
C . H. F A L K
_______ C. L. F A L K JR.
Portland
Oregon
Barber shop
Baths Robinson Floral (o
First-Class Work
Agent for Eugene Steam Laundry
Sent Tuesdays.
J . W- ST E P H E N SO N .
Prop.
Cut Flowers
Pot and bedding Plants
l-irst-class Funeral work. Prices ipason-
able, G ive us a trial.
W rite for list of perennials, ttyceu-
houses r'4O East 40th a t P O R T L A N D .
Ore. l ’none Sellwood 1757
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
I lay is worth ju st as much in storage a
you might get for it in case of tire. Th »
American Eagle Fire Insurance conipanr
will pay you b5% of the cash value in case
ot loss by fire.
Did you get our
C. P . ST A FFO R D , A g en t
N ew Catalog?, ?
We have not missed
anybody lt'n tio n a lly .
Any Girl in Trouble
way communicate w ith Ensign le e ef the Salvvt.on Arm y a t th e
W h ile Shield Home, Je.S May fair avenue, Pott Un. I, Oregon.
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