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HALSEY R A ILR O A D T IM E
raisers la evidenced by thé ïlmoât
North
South
eoBtpiate disappearance of tbe fat
«M l
wether from the market, the lamb be­ I No. 18, l l 37 a. in.
M iia Beulah M iller and Mrs Buck­ Eugene Thursday to visit Mrs. Flor-1
No. 17. 12:15 p m
ing the market sheep relied upon gen
ner were visiting in Albany and Sa­ ence Ix-eper. Mrs. M iller also visited |
ALBANY
24, .4:27 p m.
23, 7.26 p. m.
erally for greatest returns.
lem last week.
the dentist.
22, 3:20 a. ui.
21, 11 32 p m.
Having in mind these general facta
Not. 21 and 22 stop only if Bagged.
7 H £ PICK OF T H B BIG
regarding the decreasing efficiency of
PICTURES
animals as meat producers and the No. 14, due Halsey at 5:09 p. m , stops
changed practices of farmers and to let off passengers from south of
S U N D A Y -M O N D A Y
feeders, Dr. W. J. Spillman of the Roseburg.
JULY 6-7
bureau of agricultural economics.
No. 23 runs to Eugeue only.
a
United States Department of Agrlcul
No. 21 runs to Eugene, thence Marsh­
Grown«, Lridg-» work and filling«. I t w ill ,Prtper«4 kr
tJal<««
D «p«rtm ,nt
ture, bas shown the possibility of ap­ field branch.
io hsr finest production
a t A artculturs.)
pay you to get my prices ou your dental work.
In the opinion of most tractor own­ plying tbe law of diminishing returns Passenger» for south of Roseburg should
Cusick bank b uilding , A lb a n y
i
ers in the winter wheat belt the great­ to meat production with much more take No. 17 to Eugene and there transfer
est advantage in owning a tractor is accuracy. By the use of experimental to No. 15.
that it enablea them to do more work feeding data obtained by various ex­
knew enough to be able to read the In a given time. Saving horses in hot periment stations through actual feed
newspapers and magazines, which was weather and Increased yields are ad- Ing triais, he 1ms found that tbe rate
SUNDAY MAIL HOURS
as much a . anybody needed to kn ow . I
" ; nt7on^ ^ m b .re .'T h e s e of gain of an animal from a certain
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Thereupon, the teacher challenged facts were brought out In a study re- unit of feed, provided the feed Is not
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them to bring In the next day any edi­ cently concluded by the United States changed, decreases with surprising I Halsey postoffice is open Sundays
9
Zane G ra y’s
His analysis was based 1 from 10:40 to 10:50 a. in. and 12:15
torial article from any newspaper or Department of Agriculture. Tbe de­ regularity.
By MARGARET BOYD
! magazine, and satisfy her that they partment points out that such factors on the results of 500 hog-feeding ex­ | to 12:30 p. tu.
knew the meaning of all the words in as these cannot be measured in dol­ periments and the results of feeding
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Sunday m ail goes out o nly on
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<i) hr Margaret Boyd.)
the article they selected.
lars and cents, but must be considered 150 steers. He found that the hogs, Ithe north-bound 11:37 tra in :
The pupils were members of the In determining whether or not a trac­ after reaching a weight of 100 pounds,
” 1 can never rightly know the mean­
Mail goes south once a «lay, closing at
ing o’ what I hear at church, only a Junior class, and of average ability. I tor la profitable on any farm. First on each 200 pounds of grain fed them 11:05 a. 111. ; north twice, closing 11:35
Halsey Happenings etc.
When the next day came, one after i
made
an
average
gain
of
95.7
per
cent
jit hart and there."— M as Mamar.
t.
111. and 5:30 p. m. Mail stage for
cost, depreciation, and running ex­
another rose, read his article, and 1
of the gain made on the preceding 200 ' Brownsville. Crawfon’sville and Sweet
(Continued from page 1)
There are two main reasons wtu the acknowledged that be didn't know ■ pense are considered by some men the
greatest disadvantages In the owner­ pounds; and that cattle, after reach­ | Home leaves daily at 6:45 a. m.
Mrs. George Alford was in Albany bearer may not understand the meali­
what thia or that word meant. Finally, ship and use of a tractor.
ing a weight of 800 pounds, made a
Saturday.
ng of what he hears at church or else­ | the last boy, the ablest pupil in the
gain on each successive unit of feed
Used for Fall Plowing.
where : the thought may be a complex | class, rose. He had selected the short- 1
Mrs. W. A. Muller was an Albany me, or tbe words uaed may be un
On farms In the winter wheat belt- equivalent to 200 pounds of grain of
est article lie could find, one of only a where tractors and horses are owned, 98.2 per cent of the gain made on the
caller Friday.
known to tbe bearer. It is the rare |
(5c a lin e )
half dozen lines. The words In It were the majority of men use their machines preceding 200 pounds.
Arnos Ramsay was an Albany vis­ »penker rather than the usual one who of the simplest, and he smiled trium­
Basis
for
Computation,
for fall plowing, very little spring
can apeuk simply euough to be under-
Chicken d in n e r Sunday.
itor Saturday.
phantly as he read the last sentence,
These results give the feeder a defi­
vtood by his entire audience. To do which stated that the governor’s ef­ I plowing being done, and for fitting
Good E ats Restaurant.
nite
basts
for
computations
on
what
' ground after plowing In preparation
W. A. Allen was a county seat to uttrn require» a translation of
forts had been futile. The teacher j for seeding. Tractors are used for may be expected from the animats he
rbonght from the speaker's vocabulary
visitor Thursday.
asked him the meaning of “futile." He slightly less than one-half of the Is feeding. He has known, to be sure,
Old papers for eale at 5c a Lundle
that It Is as definite a translation as
said that was easy, everybody knew drU„
>nd , , „ t„ more than one.haj f that a given quantity of feed produced
Mrs. George Alford and Rene and one from Latin to English.
i t tbe E uterprise office.
steadily
Ie3s
meat
as
the
finishing
what futile meant, but he couldn’t Just | of the harveatlng. Except for very
Every day, on all sides of ua absurd
W illiard arrived Thursday for a two
express It. The teacher then asked |
period approached, but he did not
Ideas and notions are being taken I him whether the governor succeeded i light operations and running large
days visit from Irving.
know that a definite percentage for
from speeches and articles that seem I or failed in his attempt, and he had grain separators, many farmers use
Dudley Henry drove over from perfectly simple and clear to the
their outfits for all of their belt work. the decreasing rate of gain eouid lie
i no Idea. The word futile was fam iliar For cultivating, haying, stacking grain, obtained early In the feeding period
Chitwood Saturday for a visit.
speaker or writer.
' in sound; but quite without meaning
and used to predict future gains If
Several years ago a high school to him. Because he knew the sound drawing header wagons, hauling bun­
Mrs. I. W. S tarr of Brownsville
there is no change in the ration. If
dled
grain
to
the
thresher
and
threshed
teacher of English and her class got
was a passenger to Portland Satur­ Into an argument on thia subject. She of the word, he had assumed that he grain to the bln, and for harvesting changes nre made in the ration, as Is
knew the meaning. Tbe same thing la
frequently done by successful feeders,
day
i ha tired them they did not know every- true of a surprisingly large number of row crops, horses are used almost ex­
clusively. On the average the tractors another percentage would have to be
luy
English;
they
augured
her
they
Mrs. John Bressler returne,I Sat­
the words we hear and use.
do 40 per cent of ail the drawbar established to apply to the new ration.
urday from a visit of several weeks
In the experiments referred to, the
work on the farms where they are
(Prepared by the United States Depertm ent
hog«, starting with a weight of 100
with relatives in Portland.
of A griculture.)
owned.
pounds, made a gain of 45.37 pounds
Heavy losses to the apple Industry
Tractor
owners
in
the
winter
wheat
Mesdames L. C. M erriam and J. C.
belt say their machines have effected on the first 200 pounds of grain fed to from apple scald can be reduced very
Standish and Miss Beulah M iller were
an average yearly reduction per farm them. The steers, after reaching a materially, according to the United
callers a t the H. L. Straley and E
In the total amount of hired and fam­ weight of 800 pounds, on their first States Department of Agriculture, If
S. Marsters homes Thursday.
ily labor for about one and one-half unit of fi^ed (equivalent to 200 pounds
certain practices in preparing the
months. These same men are now of grain), gained 25.20 pounds. Thus,
fruit for storage and market are fol­
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Mr. and Mrs. George S tarr and
keeping on average of eight head of ilie hogs started off much more rapid­ lowed. Apple scald Is one of the most
Mrs. Fanny Starr drove to Corvallis
work stock—one for each 42 crop ly than the steers, hut the rate of gain serious storage and market diseases
Bunday
afternoon. The latter re­
acres— where they had 11 head before dropped le.-s rapidly In the ease of the of the apple and has an Important
mained for an extended visit.
the tractors were purchased. Many steers us they take longer to reach the bearing on all market operations dur­
farmers reported that the number of finishing period.
ing the latter half of the storage sea­
Mrs. P. J. Forster and her mother,
It is the belief of the department son.
horses could be sHIl further reduced.
Susceptibility to scald varies
Mrs. Angeline Ackley, took the stage
The annual cost of power on farms that feeding results on the farm will
with the season and with orchard con­
for Crawfordsville Saturday, to visit
In the winter wheat belt where trac­ he found to follow the same law of ditions and management. Early-picked
their cousin, Mrs. Anna Alexander.
the and poorly-colored fruit is extremely
tors are owned has been decreasing llinln'siiing returns, although
each year since the peak of 1920. Con­ rates of gain of farm nnlntnls general- susceptible to scald, while well-col­
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Mrs. Charles Falk and children
sidered separately, however, the cost 'y may not be so rapid as the gains of ored, well-matured apples are more re­
spent the week end In Eugene as
By the scientific lubrication of 20 to 25 P liK C E N T M O R E Z of keeping the horses was slightly similar animals fed definite rations sistant to the disease.
M IL E A G E AND 1 O W E L
|,|g|,er [n 1923 than It was In 1922 be- under experimental conditions. Of
guests of Mrs. F alk’s sisters, Mrs.
the upper cylind er walls and
A summary of the practical results
Joy Roberts and Mrs. Blanche Sweet.
coiubustiun chamber lu b rica tin g
Bv the lu b ric a tin g of ma
cause of Increased feed costs, while eourse the law as stated will apply obtained on scald control In a series
gasoline elim inates the heat and
cbinery wo reduce fric tio n ; ® the cost of power furnished by tractors •r.!y to animals on a full ration. This of experiments conducted by the de­
Mrs. J.
Thompson and daughters
was slightly lower in 1923 than in fset, however, dowj not In any way partment Is given In a new bulletin
steady drag on tbe m otor caused
by tbe reduction of fric tio n •
Helen and (Taire, from Albany, and
I».:-,filet with tlie principle that equal just Issued as Farmers' Bulletin No.
1922.
| I y friction.
we reduce the am ount of £
Norwood and Jenny Parrish of Yaki­
tuantlties of feed will show progres­ 1380. It Includes brief descriptions of
Variation In Coat.
power
necessary
to
drive
uia
£
ma, Wash., visited at the O. W. Frum
There Is always a wide variation in sively smaller results In gain as the the effect of maturity of tbe fruit,
home Tuesday of last week.
By the lub rica tion of the upper c b in e ry ; by reducing tbe
the coat of power on individual farms; ■tnimsl^reaehes ttie finishing period.
soil moisture, temperature, delayed
amount of power ncceatnry
cylin d e r walls and combustion
the total cost of power for drawbar
While many feeders understand In a storage, aeration, oiled wrappers, and
Frank I»»eper was in Eugene Mon­
to
propel
m
achinery
we
re-
“
work may be twice as much on some general way from experience the the direct application of oils and
chamber it prevents tba deposit
day evening and was accompanied
duce the amount of fuel nrc- • | farms as on others of the same size working of the law of diminishing re- waxes to the apple, and states the rela­
o f carbon, which w ill not adhere
home by his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
and type. However, with the proper 'urns ns applied to live-stock feeding, tive merits of these different treat­
««vary to produce sufficient £
to any o ily substance.
management of tractor and work it Is believed that tills more definite ments in the control of scald.
Florence I^eper
The latter'a aon,
power, hence more mileage £
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stock and the Judicious choice of knowledge regnrdlng the decrease In
Francis, was already here.
and power.
Oiled wrappers are the most com­
sources of power for different opera­ rate of gain will enable them to apply plete preventive of scald that has been
By the use of lu b ric a tin g gaso­
I« ]
®
Misa Mona Bond left Thursday fo r.
tions, there would be a considerable It more closely to their business. It Is found. They have eliminated the dis­
line the carbon is removed
Fairbanks, Alaska, on a sight-seeing
I t ie p'oved bv actual tr t Bh decrease In the cost of power for the another means for nldlng them In de- ease as a market factor In all but two
from
the
cylinders,
e
lim
in
a
tin
g
tour. She expects to be absent a 1
year on many farms.
lermlning more accurately when feed
of the eighty commercial tests that
the sticking, burning and p it­ tjia t W A T E R W IL L NOT
Other Intersting facts are contained 'ng will cease to be a source of profit have been made. Low temperature
month and will also v iilt at Belling-1
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tin g of valves, excessive wear on
In
Department
Bulletin
1202.
"Tractors
and when It may be continued longer and prompt cooling of the fruit are of
i f you use lu b rica tin g gaeo- ™
bam, Wash., before her return.
pistons and scored cylinders
and Horses In the W inter Whent Belt, -vltii prhbabllity of profit.
first importance In delaying the de­
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Fred Schick, from Chippewa Falls,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska," by H.
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velopment of scald.
R. Tolley and W. B. Humphries, farm
Wla., arrived Thursday to visit hi»
A copy of the bulletin may be se­
Lub rica ting gasoline is T H E
Tho originators of lu b ric a tin g
power specialists of the department of
father, J. J, Schick, who came from
cured, ns long as the supply lasts,
O N L Y system which provides
gasoline guarantee th a t y o u « - Agriculture. Copies of this bulletin
the same place last spring.
Mr.
from the United States Department of
lub rica tion for the upper walls
can make as many miles 01 K3 may be obtained from the United
The advantages of sweet clover are
Agriculture, Washington. D. C.
Schick senior has purchased a home
of a gatolino engine w ith o u t
100 (altoae o l L U B R IC A i •
States Department of Agriculture,
It is easily grown, does well on poor
in Peoria.
producing catbon, fo u l epark
Washington, D. C., as long as tbe sup­
IN G G A S O L IN E a« you •
low, washed land; Improves soil; with­
ply lasts.
plugs, p itte d valves and fa u 'ty
woul.l make on 200 gallons of £
Mrs. Maggie McClelland and little
stands drought; yields big first year;
ig n itio n .
regular gasoline
-
starts up early second year; provides
grandson, who have been visiting at
Alfalfa will not do well unless there
pasture throughout the season; Is high
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
is lime in Ilie soil within reach of the
in
protein;
does
not
bloat;
and
does
Gray for the past six weeks, returned
young al.’alfa roots, and If the soil la
not winterkill readily.
to their home in San Francisco Sat­
The disadvantages of sweet clovet sour on the surface foot or so, it may
urday. E. E. Gormley accompanied
are that It encroaches on and reduces he impossible to get a good stand and
them as far as Eugene.
yield of the grain nurse crop, and that growth. Tills crop will grow to some
It produces rather coarse hay In sec­ extent on the food It gets from the de­
caying humus of a soli, but during the
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wyatt pased
ond year.
through Halsey Sunday evening on1
Where a finer quality of hay Is de summer it may become so hot and
sired, one should cut the sweet clovet dry that the humus stops Its processes
th e ir way from Cottage Grove to
with
the grain the first year. It is of decay and then the alfalfa Is with­
th e ir borne in Oregon C ity . W ith
comparable to first cutting of alfalfa out food and will die out.
HALSRY B.NTERFRISB
JULY J. H
Mrs. M. M. Ward and daughter,
Mrs. May M iller, were passengers to
Ir R C tO P S
.
U S e iU l
on Wheat Farms
G LO BE
Farmer Is Enabled to Do
More Work in Given Time
—A Big Advantage.
F IT ”
Dr. C. FICQ, Dentist
“ PLATES
POLA NEGRI
Í
Shadows:
of Paris
THAT
The
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With the High
School Classics
{ H eritage of the Desert •
Paid-for Paragraphs
Reduce Heavy Apple
Loss by W rapping
Early Picked Fruit Very Sus­
ceptible to Scald.
•SE V E N REASONS W H Y .;
L u b r ic a t in g ;
G a s o lin e
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Sweet Clover of Great
Value as Pasture Crop
Alfalfa Needs Lime
■"►ARROW GARAGE® Produce Earlier
GANSEE BROS., Props.
them from her, went Jack Dean,
who will spend a week with his uncle.
Yellow corn has more
('. O. Dryden, and family of that city.' than white corn they say.
Jack was one of the Curry county;
There Is Point at Which
More Feed Does Not Yield
Two Methods Given for
Profitable Return.
Killing Johnson Grass
Johnson gras» is best eradicated by
vitamin»*» [ one of two methods. When there arc
comparatively few spots of Johnson
grass on the farm, plow tip these spots
club workers at the O. A. C. summer'
Due cannot make bricks from straw In the fall or early spring, and grub
school and had been visiting his a u n t,1 nor c,n on*
produce good crops from i out by band all the root systems pos-
Mrs. C. P. Stafford.
1 I><M>r aut'-
slide.
For the first two seasons go
I
• • •
1 over these spots every few days grub-
The W. F. M. 8. of the local Metho-
Trapping Is perhaps the most effec- blng up all roots whose location Is In-
dist church met Friday with Mrs. B. tlve method of destroying moles, but dlcated by plants. When the fnrro is
M. M iller at her pretty new home.' they tuny also be poisoned.
j badly Infested, fence the field hog-
- - -
tight, plow up In the fall and run hogs
About fo rty members and guests
Rye la 0 better pasture crop than on the plowed . ground during
were present. The lesson was ecu
. _ tbe win-
duct»,« hv th» d . . . . i . n - . — .. --.1 «heat because of Its more resistant ter, allowing them to work the ground
was very X r e l t m g
Mrs
t
P
nnd
he'“ « • « * « " • “ *
,or
roc,g
T h " ," e,hod “ >’r,c -
,
Stafford and Miss Alberta
Koontz
favored the meeting with vocal solos ’
which were much enjoyed. Guests
for the afternoon were Mrs. C. Sick-
els and daughter, Mrs. Charles H am ­ '
er and Mrs. C. P. Stafford.
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Fur your Summer Vacation
gat your
odaks IZodak
and A Supplies
K
at the
RINOO DRUG STORE
better adapted to thin laud.
e • •
Sweet clover, five years ago con-
sldere»l a troublesome weed by most
farmers, now stands abend of nlfslfs
In acreage In Ohio.
s e e
Farmers should prepare to fight the
destructive watermelon diseases which
seem sure to he with us Ibis season
Where farmers fail to make the right
kind of a start, there Is no hope for
I heir crop.
e w e
Sudan grass can be grown on a
ssndy loam If It Is well drafted and
fairly fertile. It Is used as a snmmer
pasture crop. It ahnnlfi not !>• sown
with sweet clover because they do not
belong together.
Maturing Cattle
•
j tlced every few years, w hile It will not
1 entirely kill out Johnson grass, will
keep It down where It wUl do little
or no dnmsge to other growing crops.
Where Johnson grass Is located In
spots on land that cannot be handled
a t described, then these spots should
b* covered with straw and left that
way for several )ears.—C. A. Heim,
Missouri College of Agriculture.
Alt Tee True.
Customer— "It's tough t« pay 51)
cents a pound for meat." Butcher-
"Yea. but It's tough» r when you pay
25."— Puppet
Much Mere.
Writing a good letter to one's kin
folk requires as much thought as w ru­
ng a letter to the newspapers.
(Prepared bv th« United fltat »a Department
of Affrtcwltare.)
J
Every farmer knows nn animal does
not keep on gaining weight profitably
Just because It eats the feed offered
it. There is a point beyond which
more feed will not yield a profitable
return. The appetite may not lag. but
’ the ability to put on rapid or profit­
able gain does slow up as the finish­
ing period is approached. Farmers
have known this general truth for a
'»»< time, and It has been denion-
' strated at various ezperlment stations
and by animal husbandry specialists
! of the United States Department of
Agriculture. In experiment station
: records and in books on animal feed­
ing there Is overwhelming evidence
' that bogs and cattle as they grow
older require Increasing quantities of
feed to put on a hundred pounds of
gain and that the cost of gains, conse-
j quently, prices of feed remaining the
tame, Inereaaea steadily.
with respect to quality at that stage
However, we have found sweet clover
of greatest value to us as pasture
because of Its earitness and because
of the fact that It remains sweet and
green when blue grass falls, says a south of Brow n s v ille , on good road,
writer In an exchange. In contrast to| W ill saw out vour order fur 115 .50
W.b.v.gawmijJr m|
other years we have practically not | 1 thousand. Delivered Halsey, $18.
touched our hay supply during sum Shannon A M a rtin , R, 2, Halsey,
nier or fall, ns twenty-five seres of I
splendid sweet <*>ver were available |
to the cows at the close of tbe grain |
HALSEY
harvest.
Obtain Greater Yields
From Smaller Acreage
It would seem foolish to have to cul­
tivate five acre« of potatoes, row after
row of them, to get the same number
of bushels that some men get on a
single acre, wouldn't I t 2 But that Is
a frequent occurrence. The fact that
a man grows five times as many rows
of potatoes does not promise him five
times as many bushels each season.
Produce E a rly Cattle.
T ’. itt farmers have followed these Rather plant fewer bills, and put the
results by marketing animals at an extra time In manuring and mulching
em lier age during recent years has and weeding, and get bigger yields
bven indicated In department reports from smaller acreage. Instead of
and comments on the trend of the beef growing the 40 bushels on an acre,
supply. The tendency Is to produce with some special care, those 40 bush­
earlier maturing cattle and to market els are being grown by many farmers
them at an earlier age. That sheep on a quarter of an acre That leaves
feeders have recognise»! the »»me more garden apace, and la nothing
economic truth as cattle and b *g else than "good bugltess u d good
Cream and Produce Station
Cash paid for
Cream, Poultry, Eggs, Veal
& Hides. M. H- S H O O K
A
Modern
Barber Shop
Laundry sent Tueitlays
Agency Hub Cleaning Works
ABE S PLACE
Amor A. Tussing
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