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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1925)
Making Success of Production of Pork The Great Outdoors uromuot $£<¡1,057,308 In 1033, an la- t-reaa« oí $l4l,«<9,2u* tor lit« year. Germany Ahead In Reparation Pay, Parle —Germany has for once got ahead of her engagements In ths paw ment of reparations. The transfet committee under the Dawes plan, <2r«par«4 by th« U nit«» Bttt«« r>«>*rtm «»t which mat here Thursday, found that at A trte a ltu ra .) A pound of pork every seven min deliveries In kind made since the utes la the record of a quarteC-aectlon Dawes plan went Into effect amount fprn belt hog farm on which actual fig- to 32,000,000 gold marks more than urea were kept for a year by the Unit the total expected. ed States Department of Agriculture, (By Everett Earle Stanard) Washington. D. C.— Assistance for in co-operation with the University The competitive hunt plan for th- the livestock Industry through exist of Illinois. The operations on this farm and the plane of cropping and ing financial agencies and through a extermination of peats and varmint "Future development of the herd feeding were used at the basis for an which yearly devastate the farms o says O. E. Reed, formerly of Kansu- new land policy to grant grazing on exhibit which was ahown at the Inter unappropriated public domain were now with Michigan College of Agr the Willametts valley was originate' The Enterprise is telling, everj national Live Stock exposition, held at recommended Wednesday to President cuitare, “dependa to a great extent up apparently by ’ he farmers of the Asi Coolidge by his agricultural commis week, of things that farmers of Chicago November 29 to December 7. on the kind of sire used with the herd The principal crops grown on the it has been said that the sire Is lial sion In a preliminary report. Linn county are doing, or can do Swale district, just to the northwes* farm were corn, oate and soy beans, the herd and It is a fact that all futun A later report will deal with possi to bring in income outside of the of Brownsville. So successful ha very little feed being purchased and cows In the herd carry 50 per cent o ble additional relief through revision ordinary and popular lines of pro much of the oata being marketed as thia system been, so simple in i t his breeding. of transportation charges and a pro duction grain. During the year 78,700 pounds There are several kinds of rust on The herd sire should be pure bret tective tariff. The oommlttee said It workings and so practicable that By sowing cabbage of an early of hogs were marketed, which was a cereals Two of these rusts are most of the breed he represents and 1» It is being adopted by various com wished to emphasize now that “the variety in August, transplanting little more than a pound every seven backed by good ancestry. I f possible commonly found on w heat; namely, munities and bids fa ir to find its wa he should be a sire whose mother am welfare of agriculture also demands any time before February and ■nlnutee during the entire year. The orange leaf rust and black stem rust. other close female ancestry have an early and thorough revision of the taking proper care of the plants, outstanding reasons for the success of Both are caused by fungus organisms into all of the country districts shown high records of production. ? freight rate structure.’’ tho writer has been able to take this farmer, who did most of the work and the “seeds" by which they spread The plan, as outlined by a membe Declaring existing agencies can han them to town early in June, when himself, are given as follows: Con are called spores. These spores ger yearly record Is to be preferred t< of the club at Ash Stfale, is as fol one of shorter duration. dle the livestock financing situation, ihe only cabbage on the market venient arrangement, enabling the minate, forming a germ tube which owner to care for the pigs with little lows: A representative organizatioi I f it la not possible to know the rec the commission declared the federal were from California and not labor; well-balanced rations, produc enters the living host plant and pro ord of production one should by ul, Intermediate credit banks "should as nearly as nice as bis. duces a spot which later breaks • f the farmers or residents of a givei ing gains without waste, and continu means see the mother of the anima) it sume the full responsibility by ag through the epidermis. This Is called district must be organized. I t mus' Fresh green vegetables, right ous use of fresh pasture, providing question and note how closely she con gresslvely and sympathetically under pustule. have its proper officers, its constitu forms to good dairy type. If the sire'* taking to cover the field and thus sup from the fields where they are cheap feed and keeping the hogs In Leaf rust has a widespread occur tion and bylaws, its rules and regula grown, are now available to winter excellent condition. father has daughters (hat have proveí rence. Its pustules after are found on tions. I t will through the year hold t to be good producers he Is more cei port and supplement the normal f i residents and travelers io Oregon the leaves of wheut when the plants number of hunts, and toward the tain to transmit the dairy qualities de nancing of livestook paper." and the west. are young. They are of an orange yel The only legislation suggested was close of the year the big annual hunt sired. Very often It Is possible to Fresh berries, too, may be had low color, hence the name “orange leaf A banquet will then conclude th« buy an old sire that has proved to bi amendment of the agricultural credits virtually all the year round, to rust.” Ttie round spores can be rec High-priced feed such as the milking ognized by means of a microscope. a good breeder. Good results from th. acts to eliminate the provision that gether with many western grown year’s program. herd must have Is not required for the use of such an animal are almost cer prohibits rediscounting by federal In fruits. Though this rust causes some damage, The hunt at Ash Swale Is a com growing heifer, although she must It does not cause serious losses. tain. The objection to buying un old termediate credit banks of loans nego petitive event, and there is, of courst The rapid development of winter have a liberal supply of good rough bull Is that be Is high priced If Idt tiated by federally chartered agricul considerable rivalry between the two farming in Oregon, California and ages, says O. A. Williams of Indiana. Rust on Stems and Leaves. value Is known and one runs the tural credit agencies. teams that engage In it. Two cap neighboring states now is produc In an exchange. The heifer that will Stem rust la common on both stem* 'hance of getting an unruly animal tains are named each year and the A bull calf Is usually selected. A call ing a constant supply of excellent soon freshen needs a generous supply and leaves. Its pustules can be told fresh green vegetable», so th at suoh of mineral matter. Alfalfa, clover or from those of the leaf rust by their captains lead forth their small force can be purchased for less money and to trap, shoot and lay for such ani ihe owner can train him as he chooses Feeding the fall farrowed p it canned products practically have soy bean hay supplies this need and reddish color and the torn paper-llke mals and fowl as skunk, rats, mice Too much attention cannot be given should be given careful attention He been eliminated from dining cars furnishes the bulk to develop the di edges of the pustules. The red spores to the selection of a sire, for future- needs n substitute for the green feed of the Southern Pacific. gestive system. Silage is too watery of the summer stage are oval In shape. mink, coon, weasel, polecats, hawks success depends largely upon the bend the summer pig gets to keep him The red or summer stage develops Favorable comment on these und Is also low In ash and protein for owls,, coyotes, eagles and bear. The of the herd."—Kansas Bulletin No thrifty and healthy. The best winter heifers. Not more than fifteen pounds rapidly under favorable conditions, winter products of the west daily curcass of each animal or bird is giv 187. substitute for green feed Is alfalfa is made by tr.velers from the east a day Is advisable. Some grain la spreading the rust from field to field. cn a certain valuation, so that the The spores are so light that they may needed to produce best results. hay of good quality. Fall pigs fed on the trains. score is readily computed. The team When the roughage Is silage and a he carried long distances by the wind. on a ration consisting of corn and The com, any is now obtaining legume hay, ground com or a mixture Moisture does not cause rust but fur accumulating the larger number of tankage In proper proportions and and of grains, depending on the coet, may nishes favorable conditions for the points in a given number of days is having free access to fine alfalfa hay exceptionally fine cabbage The be used at the rate of two to five spores to germinate and multiply. declared winner. The natural check put upon tin will gain and thrive almost as well cauliflower from Oregon. -odllng moth larvue by low wlntei as spring pigs on alfalfa pasture If cabbage is firm, tender and sweet. pounds dally. The common barberry, (Herbert* Without silage and There is a considerable incentive _ district with legume hay, reduce the grain rec- vulgaris), Is an Important factor in for the teams and captains to d< temperatures is often over-estimated protected from cold nnd disease. The Farmers in the Roseburg the spread of stem rust. There are a their beat. The winning aggregation by the fruit grower. The most of our protein requirements must also be have developed an excellent grade I omnJenile<l above somewhat, Insects winter in the pupu or egg stag, met. Thia will require one-half pound of brocoli. I "H h corn allage and timothy hay or few other species of barberry which is given at the year's end a splendid und usually In well protected places of tankage per head per day. Where Iu the past Utah has been noted I Corn fo<’der' 8t h8jf the may take stem rust and spread It to banquet by the losers. That is to say The codling moth Is an exception and tankage and alfalfa hay are fed min for its tender winter celery but grain mixture a high protein feed such grains and grasses. the defeated team stands the expensi winters as a caterpillar under loose eral mixtures are not needed. us gluten feed, cottonseed meal, soy 1 Barberry Starts Spread. this winter farmers near Portland beans or olltp^tl. Timothy hay or of the supper. To be sure, both bark usually well above the ground An Infected common barberry w ill have produced a variety that is on u corn fodder are never satisfactory urface. One would suppose that tern teams dine, and their families and par with that of Utah or any other «lone. At least half the roughage start an early spread of stem rust. peratures approximating zero would friends besides. As the expense ir Several cases have been observed Cracked nud dirty eggs are worth section, kill these frail Hrvaa under their scunt must be legóme hay. The producing considerable, it behooves the trnpper where local epidemics have started only a little more than half us much pNitectlon. Observations made In tin Apples of a uniform size are ability and ante value of thousands o# and hunters to do thoir best while thi state of Washington show that low as cleun fresh eggs with sound shells. specially packed at the orchards cows are grv-atly reduced because they from such sources. hunt is on. The Japanese barberry la liurmles* Keep the uests filled with clean straw, temperatures do play havoc with thus, in Oregon and California for din- »cere not iwoperly fed and eared for and should be destroyed. arvae, but unless these temperatures sawdust, or hay, und avoid the loss An added incentive is the dons Travelers frequently while they were carrying their first Look out for early appearance* of from cracked eggs. Ity keeping the ing cars. re exceptionally low. (he codling motl calves. tion of a silver loving cup to the cap both leaf und stem rusts on grain* llock Indoors In muddy weather, the comment on their good flavor. loes not suffer serious winter killing tain who brings in the best individual Ranuhes in a number of favored number of dirty eggs can be reduced. and wild grasses. Send specimens In Washington It was foiutd that tern kill or count. At Ash Swale, Charles sections of the Pacific ooast are and record of location of early stem peratures of 25 degrees below sen D IE MARKETS Bowers, basing accumulated the lar supplying winter-grown “ sum rust on grain or wild grasses to the Fahrenheit were followed with coin gest number of points for the foui plete killing of over-wintering codling mer'’ squash, naw potatoes, fresh ( r n M H i * r i t * u a lu o M at«« D *e«rtxn«nt botany department of the State Ag Portland moth larvae. Temperatures neur If years in succession, received the cup ricultural college.—E. A. Lungren, 0 ' A a rio u lto n .) Wheat — Hard white, $2.00; soft oei.s, lettuoe, asparagus, eggplant He was closely pressed, however or, degrees below zero still allowed 30 per H a lf a mlllUMi fanners are to be State Leader, Barberry Eradication, white and northern spring, $1 so and many other varities of vege •ent to come through unharmed. several occasions, by other members tables to tempt the palates of the asked te report to the United States Colorado State Agricultural College. The most eftlclent natural check Is hard winter, $1 88; western white Depurtmmt of Agriculture the number of the club. traveler. $1.87; western red, $1.83. not temperature or birds, or even In of cows and hel fiera kept for milk this Tho annual banquet is made the During the last two years the Hay— Alfalfa, $19.60®20 ton; valley sect partial (eg. It Is tile total failure year compared with last, the number occasion of an elaborate program f the upple crop, due to late frosts or timothy, $22.50@23.50; eastern Oregon levelopmont of winter farming in of hens and pullets of laying age- and Distinguished guests appear at the weBt has made almost unbe the number of sows farrowed or bred 'liter causes, which removes food for timothy, $21®22. The lucky farmer tn the ton-lttter speakers, generally including mem t It© Insect, it Is a well known fact that lievable strides. to farrow this fall and next spring. Butterfat—47c delivered Portland. contest of Indiana was W. F. Parks. bers of the state game commission and after years of complete failure of th Questionnaires will be distributed by Eggs— Ranch, 44@46c. His ten pure bred Poland-China pigs ipple crop, codling moth damage b the Suntium Fish and Gume associa tifs rural mall carriers. Cheese— Prices f. 0. b. Tillamook tipped the scales nt 2,774 pounds. The soil on a good farm should get tion. Good music is provided, games dkely to lie very light. Its ability t< Triplets, 28cI loaf, 29c per lb. This Information Is sought to form better every year. Here Is how he fed the sow and «me hack Is strong anil In the yeni The basis for forecasting production are indulged in, and the refreshments following this failure the schedule ot • • • Cattle—Steers, good, $7.25®7.7S. pigs. The mother got corn, some and market supplies so tbat farmers are sumptuous. Charles Carlson tankage and a little skim milk, and three sprays carefully directed agulnst Hogs— Medium to good, $9.60® 11.00 In cribbing Immature corn, ventlla- may adjust production to demand and president of the club since its organ the run of a mixed clover and timothy the pest, cannot he safely altered Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice tlou la one of the biggest problems. market thalr products In a more or T. H. Parks. Ohio Slate University ization in 1907, is master of ceremon pasture, while she carried her litter. $1*018. derly fashion. Surveys of this kind After farrowing, a thin »lop of ies, and he literally sees to it that begun by the department two bran and shorts was fed for three I were everyone has a good time. A t thi Seattle years ago In connection with pigs, W or four days. Com was added on the annual banquet, “The Coon Skin," Wheat — Soft white, hard wlntei The corn stalk borer spends thie and the success of the system has fifth day and tankage when the pig* humorous newspaper, edited by homr $1.88; western white, $1.87; wester, winter In the tap root of the old con t been such that the surveys bave been were a week old. Feed was gradually I f you want to get the beat result» talent, and detailing in joking fashion extended to dairy cowe and poultry. Increased until the sqws were getting from your hens thia fall and winter red, $185; northern spring. $1.90; Bi» stalk, where It Is protected from win tho neighborhood news, is solemn) ter weather, in the spring the adal t a liberal feed by the time the pigs provide them with plenty of green llend bluestem. $2.15. rend. Thus the club serves the c< were two weeks old. Hay—Alfalfa. $22; D. C„ $27- tlm moth or "miller’’ develops. Eggs food. Green food Is essential to egi niunity in a social way. Pigs were started to eating on a production. Is a stlniiilnnt to tin othy. $2«; D. C„ $28; mixed hay. $24 layed on the growing corn. Injure Ila caused by the larva or grub T ills slop of shorts and aklro milk, and were The competitive hunt plan can be -owls, nnd nlso possess«* vitamin, Eggs -Ranch. 45®48c. Sweet clover is one of the best crops f<el by hand in a “creep." Corn wae worm bores Into the corn stalk, gt n „f. that are essential to body health an, used to advantage with variation Butterfat—48c. ing the plant, and causing It to bgi-ak bn grow for the purpose of turning un added a couple of week» before wean level opment. One club that we know of has been Cattle—Choice steers, $7 60®8 00 down before the ears are mature. , in der to build up the soil. Not only does ing. After weaning the pigs were fed There are two ways of supplying formed by the residents of two dis Hogs— Prime light. $11.4O®ll«o tt add organic matter and fertility to com. short» and skim inllk and had some localities Injury Is severe. 4 green food to the hen. says D it Hal! tinct communities. Each district fur Cheese- Washington cream brick ri>e soli when the heavy growth Is the run of a clover pasture. extension poultry hushanrimnn at tin —----------------------- / nialies its team of hunters for the an turned under, but the roots ore active Clemson college. The llrst method I. 22®23c; Washington triplets, 21c “The pigs did exceptionally well nual event, and thus the rivalry it In storing up nitrogen In nodules when from the start,” said Mr. Parks. “One by planting green rood In the yard Washington Young America, 22c. the proper Inoculation Is present. One even keener than is tha case where and allowing the poultry access to It big reason was because I kept the The present price of com makes if of the best times to sow la In early sows and their litters out of the old all of the members are from the same The second method Is by supplyin Spokane especially profitable to uue a self feed spring, about January or February on hog lets. •r for bogs. ,n addltto. ,© X Hogs—Prime mixed, $10 86 ® H oc The pigs were always neighborhood. In places, the scheme green food each day to the pou'ltrv from another lot. The tin t method Cattle—Prime steers, $7.26®7.75. economical gain, made b , p m vid ln , a wheat or rye fields. Another good thrifty and healthy; none of them will probably be adapted to the ex requires less labor and Is less exnen •«lanced ration, the feeder avoids the plan, however. Is to sow with oats or were runted. It pays to keep young termination of the coyotes, which slve. barley In the spring. This Is suggested pig» where there 1» no danger of them .0.« of grain which always Just now are very much on the in The best green feeds for poultry are tiecomlng infected with parasite» and ng wet weather, If fed ot. the ground. us the best method where the stalk crease. This is something yet to be Rape, cabbage, collards, oats, rye and field has been left over winter, worked out, Amt the success of the nearly soy of these can be planted l„ hunt club system now in vogue at the fall and will supply green food for the winter. Ash Swale is a demonstrated thing I? Three »talka to the hill la a good av Eg» production depends to a large and a matter of more than fifteen Federal Income Tax Nets $1,844.833,- erage number of »talks when growing extent on green food. Plant green year's testing. sweet corn. Some varieties will grow 678 In 1822. food now and have high priced egg. from three er four grains a t many as this winter. * Washington, D C.— The total tax a- dosen stalk.. The weaker one* able Income of the American people, should be pulled out. Otherwise the * personal and corporation, amounted in yield wtu be reduced to small ear», or Notwithstanding the heavy rainfall 1922 to $28.300 033,873. and on this oone at all. Three healthy atalka to In thi« county, practically every amount the federal government col the hill should average two to three farm er has land on which irrigation ears to the stalk. lected taxes of $1.844.3*3478. a t some time in the season would nCXtar L-»»- -J —12___ - • I . These figures, made public by the pay Its cost and a p ro fit Farming bureau of Internal revenue, showed w ill pay better when this fact is that 8.717,481 Individuals and 382,883 recognised and acted on. Where the orchard has been In sod corporation« filed Income tax returns for several year« the plowing should Dock h. Smith of Sweet Home has prices market In 1923, ths records for which have Just be shallow, so a t not to tear up th * Just received from the state of Ore beccme complete The aggregate net •m *U feeding root* which always 43 years in huainetf. gon the right to take water from Rtfcrenc«, Ikink of Calif. or taxable Income, as reported In the come to the surface la sod orchard*. Taylor <reek to irrigate three acre* Individual return», was $21.338,312431). Two year* of dean cultivation will The permit is signed by Khea Loper, with an lnoreaac of 128,305 In the nua •end the root* downward and there |U t e engineer. Portland, Ore. >er of returns and of 81.751,OOl.OOl wtn he no danger of dl«turbtng them. IA net Income reported over l i j i . in Afterward» the orchard ahould be kept in aome kind of cover crop ifita®» inxee aeiLed the gqv tn clean cultivation. Pound Every Seven Minutes, Illinois Farm Record. W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, H ealth and V igorous H um anity a re Produced Hunt Club Plan For Fighting Pest Pure Bred Sire Is Seek Way t° Get Summer Products Best for Breeding Farmers in Debt in W inter Time Female Ancestry Shoub Show High Records. One P oint W here Oregon F arm ers Have A dvan tage Over E ast Rust on Cereals Cause of Damage Two Varieties Found on W heat Caused by Fun gus Organisms. Roughage Is Great Need of the Growing Helfer Feed for Fall Pigs Codling Moth Is Able to Stand Cold Weathei Cracked and Dirty Eggs Authorities Plan to Take a Farm Census Winning Pig Litter Was Given Run of Pasture Egg Production Depends Largely on Green Feed? ork of Com Borer ioe Sweet Clover of Help in Building Up Soil Self-Feeders Pay Well INCOME IS 28 BILLIONS Thinning Sweet Corn A car of Land Plaster Irrig atio n P ays TUR KEYS # Wl11 arrive in February. PJa CARONS ce your order VEAL HOGS $ now for delivery right off the c i r at POULTRY KUarantee hi®hp8t PAGE & SON great saving in price S o . AV. I R n i Sod in Orchards