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News Note« From
AH Over Oregon
Gleaned by the \V estern
Newspaper Union
The Great Outdoors
W h e n Broad,
Clothing, Health and Vigorous Humanity are Produced
able to lake over the management
and control of the projects, to run
them to suit themselves. For years
they have heen complaining—most
ly without reason—about the extra
Appointments to Cabinet For vagance of the reclamation service and Reaching Rural Homes
the autocracy of the project man
That Are Prepared
New Term Completed By
agers. Now they have the oppor
for Receiving
President Coolidge.
tunity to demonstrate how much bet
ter they can do the job. One great
(U . S. Dept. Bulletin)
Washington, D. C.—President Cool cause of friction will be eliminated
and
everybody
will
be
happier^—
idge completed the cabinet that will
Radio is being used for dissemin
serve with him after March 4 with February SUNSET.
ating many kinds of information
the appointment of William M. Jar
among rural homes, from weather
dine of Manhattan. Kan., president of
and «prop reports to geheral agri
Beet 8ugar Combine Charged.
the Kansas B u te Agricultural college,
cultural facts. Extension workers have
Washington, D. C.—Charges of un found radio useful in giving talks on
to be secretary of agriculture.
AU posts now are filled, the only fair methods In competition are made agriculture and home economics to
hitch being the opposition In the sen- by the federal trade commission the stay-at-homes who can not at
ate to confirming the nomination of against the Larrowe Milling company tend demonstrations and meetings,
Obarles B. Warren of Michigan to be of Detroit, and 17 manufacturers of who nevertheless would like 40 be
beet sugar, in a complaint made pub nefit by extension teaching. A recent
attorney-general.
lie
by tbe commission. The complaint instance of how well a program in
The special session ot the senate on
March 4, however, is expected to dis charges that the respondents are en home economics can'be planned and
pose of this stumbling block. Con gaged in a wrongful combination and sent out by radio has been report
forming td hla policy of cleaning off conspiracy to suppress competition in ed to the United States department
hie desk In preparation for his new ad tbe marketing of beet pulp, a by-pro of agriculture from Oregon.
ministration, the president also Bent duct of beet sugar manufacturing.
A newspaper having a broad cast
to the capital the nomination of Frank
ing station invSed the state home
is the tractor radiator drained?
B. Kellogg of Minnesota, now ambas
demonstration staff to give a series
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sador to Great Britain, to be secre
Publicity never made a cow give of talks of interest to farm women.
tary of state, succeeding Charles more milk.
During the summer months, food"
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preservation was discussed every two
Evant Hughes, March 4.
Be sure that the poultry breeding weeks. Half-hour talks were given
Oectl Creel, director of the Univer
one after-noon a week during the
sity of Nevada Agricultural college, is house Is clean and sanitary.
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winter months on such subjects as
expected to get the assistant secre
and
Cover crops are safe fertility and nutrition, home management
taryship when Jardine takes office.
provide humus, no why not grow clothing. The topics to be sent over
the radio were listed a week in advance
Jardine la a product of Idaho
them?
in the radio programs of three news
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ranches, on which he was born Janu
papers, so that anyone might plan to
ary 14 1373. Moving to Kansas about
Save and apply to fields, especially listen to those of especial interest.
1900, he took up agriculture from the on thin spots, as much stable manure
Titles for the nutrition talks in
academy standpoint, teaching several us Is possible.
cluded, “Some important factors in
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agricultural schools. Later be became
Finding four-leaf clovers tnay bi nutrition," “Earmarks of defective
affiliated with the federal government
lucky, but planting the three-leaf kind nutrition.'* “ Ideals for today's nutri
In experimental work. He was nam
Cows do not enjoy moldy silage, and tion,” “The noon meal at school,"
ed president of the Kansas State Agri
"Food and food habits," “Are you
cultural ooDege In 1918 after eight It makes horses sick.
e v e
a good fireman?” "Some important
year« In oonnectlon with It. Recent,
Farmers of the United States planted building blocks,” “A matter of min
ly he wan a member of the presi
7170,000,000 acres of crops in 1024.
eral," “The elusive vitamin,” “A
dent's agricultural commission, whose
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league of rations,” “Food, teeth, and
recommendations now are pending
Semi-solid buttermilk Is a valuable
before congress.
poultry feed, especially when there health,” “A well-ordered alimentary
Is no home supply of sour milk or but canal,” and "Our friend the dairy
termilk
T H E MARKET8
cow.”
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Other topics
were:
“Servants
Portland
Cabbages keep well In a barrel without wages,” "Using time
ef
Wheat —• Hard white. 81-83; soft burled In the ground.
ficiently,” “The home workshop,”
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white, 31-73; northern spring, 31-80;
“Do your
dollars
spend
well,”
Watch your seed corn. peHS, etc., and
hard winter, 3^-86; western white,
“Household backgrounds and cos-
fumigate
promptlv
if
weevils
appear
51.80; western red, 31 76
mefics,” “Dirt chasers,” “Knicknac)|S,’’
Hay—Alfalfa, 319® 19.60 ton; valley
Label your products. Of what avail
“Temperamental color»,” "Clothes
timothy, 519080; eastern Oregon Is pedigree If Its possessor Is name lines," »“Texture and pattern effects,”
timothy. 322084.
less?
“Dress foundation," "Values in tex
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Butterfat—45c delivered Portland.
tiles,” and others. Two Iteighbor-
There
It
no
short-cut
to
ease
In
Egge—Ranch, 81®24c.
hoods in which there had been no pre
farming;
bat
there
ure
wuys
of
uiuk-
Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook:
vious extension work for women re
lng farming easier.
Triplets. 31e; leaf, 32c per lb.
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quested home economics extension
Cattle—Steers good, 87.60® 8.00.
work as a direct result of the talks
Farmers winter-feeding fat stock
Hogs—Medium to choice, 510.25® know that keeping them ulivnys Just 11 and one community learned for the
first time of extension werk and its
312.00.
little hungry keeps them on the guin
functions.
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice,
s e e
Home Economics by
Radio in Oregon
A New Secretary
He Sweeps Clean
of Agriculture
W ith New Brooms
The Eastern Oregon Dental asso
ciation held a two-day sseslon at La
Grande
Morris L. Johnson, Klamath couifty
appraiser for the state bonus commis
sion, has resigned.
Burglars entered the general store
nt Q ulna by and appropriated merchan
disc valued at (700.
(By Elaiue Woodworth)
Captain John Erickson, for 42 years
A farmer 2 | miles east of Craw-
engaged In towboat service on Coos
urdsville has been doing extensive
bay, Is dead at the age of 77 years.
xperiinenting in trying to develop
Two armed robbers held up the
Parkrose State bank, Just outside the i broom-making industry. Each
ear for several years he has
city limits of Portland, and escaped
with about 31650 in cash.
lanted a "lew acres in broom
The Parkdale robbers were ar orn, not only usiog one oertain
rested and most of their loot re type but trying several, and has
covered, T hey oonfeesed.
Vo Graft is Left Here
Between Producer and
Consumer
H. L. Plank of Junction City was
elected president of the Lane County
Jersey Cattle Breeders' association at
the annual meeting m Eugene.
Crater Lake national park was the
only park in the United States which
paid dividends In 1924, according to
Colonel C. O. Thomson, superintend
ent.
The date for the Pacific slope news
paper conference has been set for
April 17 and 18 In Portland, accord
ing to Fred W. Kennedy, secretary of
the press association.
Work on the tunnels of the Eugene-
Klamath Falls cut-off Is proceeding
rapidly and the completion of the 3650
foot tunnel which Is being bored un
der the summit of the Cascade^ la ex
pected about July 4.
Between 30 and 40 men are working
on the Ashland-Klamath Falla high
way In an effort to keep it open. In
■overal places the road base has
broken through and It is with diffi
culty that automobiles are able to pass
the points.
Two major general Improvement
bond Issues aggregating 330,000 and
changes In the present city charter
providing for registration of voters In
city «lections will be placed before
voters at The Dalles at a special elec
tion March S.
Fire logses In Oregon, .exclusive of
Portland, in January aggregated >14»,-
440, ««Cording to a report Issued by
Will Moore, state fire marshal. The
most disastrous fire was at 'Bilver
Lake, where a hotel burned with a
lo ss of 580,000.
During the past year the Umpqua
Valley cannery In Roseburg spent over
338 ,000 In purchasing produce from
the farmers of Douglas county, and
approximately 335,000 for labor, ac
cording to thg report presented to the
Stockholders at the annual meeting.
* The fur Industry in central Oregon
Is kerlously menaced by the use of
polsoo by government trappers, It Is
held by private trappers In Lake and
Deschutes counties. It Is said that
many valuable fur bearing animals
ether than «oyotes are being destroy
ed.
One hundred and eighteen mills re-
porting to the West Coast Lumber
men's association for the week end
ing February 7, manufactured 97,012,
061 feet Of lumber; sold 88,300,404
feet and shipped 87.964,130 feet. New
business was 9 per cent below produc
tion.
A full-grown bobcat was electrocut
ed on the 68,000-volt line of the Vale
Electric company, between Vale and
Nyssa. The oat climbed the 60-foot
tail« and got Its face against the top
wire while Its legs were around the
ground wire which ruus the length of
the pole.
A switch at Cayuse, where a big
Mullet engine was derailed, was block
cd by Harvey Strong, a 17 year old In
dian of Toppenish. Wash., according
to a confession which the youth made
to Deputy Sheriff Bennett at Pendle
ton. The Indian gave no reason for
his action.
Suit to foreclose a mortgage tor
3873,403 14—the largest sum ever In
volved In a legal action In Jackson
county—was filed In the circuit court
at Medford by th« Welch Investment
company and J. W Stewart of Spo
kare agatnat the Rogue Hlver Valley
Canal company
A pulp and paper mill coating 32,-
■04,000 will be erected at St Helens
at oace by ths Hawley Pulp A Paper
eoospsne and ths Charles R McCor
0 k k Lumbar company. It was an
•minced by Willard P Hawley Jr..
«*wprest<lent and general manager of
(he paper company
Ths Eugene city council has order
ed a special election April 13 to suth
arise Issuance of 3884,000 Inwood* fee
the following purposes Fifty thousand
dollars sewer reconstruction. 338.000
||W fire apparatus. 180.044 for pav-
^ o n t i u t t t t l on celuton 6 )
ci used no little comment among
the euterprising farmers in his
vicinity.
He says this is one crop one can
lever depend upon.
There are
ears when the core will be excep
tion! ly fine and other years when
iere is little or nothing. The
irn requires a long growing
■sson, and in this region is beet
hen planted the latter part of
day or the first of June. It is
lianted in rows about tbe same
• pth and distance apart at field
>rn. It requires a compact sub-
41 and sandy surface, aud will
mt thrive unless it has a great
leal of water. Due to tbie, very
,i w places in Oregon are well
lapted to raising it
Most beginners make tbe m u-
t ke of harvesting tbe crop too
I . te, as some consider it necessary
for the stalks io be well matured
>nd leave it out to develop and it
is caught by tbe fall rains. How-
•vsr, it must be haivested only
itfitr the beads are welt developed
u <d tbe stalk firm. First-class
h oom- makers muke brooms of
.Teen corn.
Tbe home-made brooms have
>i en criticized as inferior, but this
i talk which originated among
larger liinnufactutors, who fear the
ompetitiou. O»e can hardly dis
tinguish the home-made brooms
lorn tbe product of the factory.
Tbe Crawfordsville farmer is
-killed in this industry, baying
•een raised on a brooiu-making
(arm. He bag all his own equip
ment and sows from 12 to 15 acres
a year, making tbe brooms during
he slack season jo winter. He
Hys be baa always found a ready
market for brooms at a reasonably
rofitable prioo around hie own
arm As very little expense is
i iached to ih6 growing of tbe oorn
mil manufacturing it lotobroome,
311013.60.
h e can afford to undersell precti-
culty all of tbe factory makers,
Beattie
which ronders the disposal of bn
Wheat*—Soft white, 31.82; western
product easy.
Congress Eyes
Co-operation
Washington. D. C.—Creation ot the
federal co-operative marketing board,
one of the principal recommendations
of the president's agricultural confer
ence, was proposed In the senate by
Senator Capper, republican, Kansas,
while the senate and house agricul
ture committees both continued ex
amination of members of the confer
ence with a view to proposing other
kdttalatton to carry out Its findings.
The Capper bill followed exactly
the terms of the measure offered In
the house by Representative Haugen,
republican, Iowa, chairman of the agri
culture committee ot that chamber,
which has the approval, in principle,
ot Chairman Carey of the president's
conference.
The measure was sent In the usu
al course to the senate agriculture
committee, which plans to continue
its hearings this week and begin
formulation of a program next week
The members ot the president's con
fe;ence appearing before both the sen
ate and house committees continued
to stress the Importance of broad
eclng the field of co-operative asso
ciations.
VEAL
POULTRY EGGS
CAPO NS
HOGS
We want yoer produce and guar*
• n i t e the highest m a rk et prioee
O u r bueineea established 44 years
ago
Reference, Hank of California
P A G E & S O N Portland, Or.
Does the snow sift In on the work
bench and tools In your shop or
garsgeT Melted snow Is water, and
water rusts.
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white, hard winter. 31 80; western red.
The horticulturist of the Dominion
3182; northern spring, 31.86; Big
of Canada has kept well for 20 years
Bend bluestea, 31.20.
Hey—Alfalfa, 383; D. C„ 328; tim by eating 8 to 10 apples a day, he
'old members of the state horticultural
othy. 134; D C., 331; mixed hay, 324
society at a recent banquet.
Butterfat—48c.
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Eggs -Ranch, 26®30c.
Between 1918 and 1924 the plantings
H ogs-P rim e mixed. 511.76® 13.00.
of lettuce rose from li.800 acres to
Cattle-wCholee steers. 37.5003.00.
08.000 acres.
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Chees«*- Washington cream brick,
19c; Washington triplets. 19®20c;
The most successful pure bred live
Washington Young America, 21®22c stock raising In tbe future will be a
community enterprise.
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Spokane
The exceedingly slow and over cau
Hogs -¡Prime miked, 311.86® 11.60.
tious man may seldom make mistakes
Cattle—Prime steers. 87.25@7 75
or accomplish anything.
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Even if machinery old not rust ou*
when exposed to winter weather. It's
in eyesore lying around the premises
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(Sunset for February)
High grade marl gives ahouf the
Twenty-three years after the pass same results ns limestone In making
age of the original reclamation act lover grow, If used In the same quan
Uncle Sam has come to the conclu tlty to the acre.
A Better Chance for
the Thrifty'Farm er
sion, voiced in these pages a decade
ago, that the average man can not
take a piece of raw desert land, put
expensive water on it and transform
the combination inlo a productive
firth in ten or twenty years on a
capital of 1 few thousand dollars.
Having reached this
conclusion
through the instrumentality of Dr.
Elwood Mead, commissioner of re
clamation, Uncle Sam is now re
organizing and reshaping his land re
clamation and colonization policy.
Under the new law all land on
reclamation service projects will be
classified. Land too poor to produce
paying crops will be eliminated; the
remaining land will be classified ac
cording to the productiveness of the
-soil and the settler will he asked
to pay for his water rigl Is on the
basis of five per cent of the crop
returns per annum. To the good
farmer handling his soil intelligently
and industriously this payment scheme
is a decided relief: the thriftiest set
tler will be shown up and will either
have to mend his ways or get off.
Better still, the seUleç* are now
a
a
a
Don’t go Into debt to buy feed for
poor • cows. Investigators find thnt
me ton of every eight purchased by
feeders Is unwisely used-and Is there
fore an economic waste.
Certified Potato Seed
Is First Large Factor
Gottlieb Pfeefer, living horthwest of
Lafayette In Tippecanoe county, Ind.,
grew 85 bushels of real potatoes from
3 bushels of certified early Ohlos and
demonstrated to his own satisfaction
that good seed stock pays.
Pfeefer secured 3 bushels of certl
fled potato seed from the Tippecanoe
county farm bureau last spring. The
Olitos cost 8181 a bushel. These he
planted on a rich barn lot and gave
them good care throughout the grow
ing season. At digging time he har
vested 85 bushels or the largest and
best crop he had ever grown. Certl
tied (xMato seed Is the first big factur
In bringing the farm potato patch back.
Purdue potato specialists say.—Pur
due Experiment Station.
Plan to K ill Quack Grass
If you want to Ary killing quack
grass this year, here ts one method
that Is recommended. Plow Just deep
enough to cut under the sod and turn
the mat of roots to the surface. This
will expose the underground stems to
freezing and thawing and drying out,
which will reduce their vitality. If It
does not destroy them entirely. Then
In the spring plow the field deep
enough to bury the mass of roots at
the bottom of tbe furrow.
A car of
1 I
Land Plaster
J will arrive in February.
Place your order $
* now for delivery right off the car at a
great saving in price
$
S
| O. W . FR U M -
(Continued from «olumn 1)
Ing street intersection«, 5378.000 for
MeKensle water project, 3135,000 tor
new reservoir, m eins and pumps, >10,-
000 tor repairing city hall, 330,000 for
paving street Intersections. 336,000
(or Incinerator and 8*000 tor pavlag.
Snow at the summit of the Cas
cades, near the W illam ette pass high
way, not far frbm Crescent lake, la
15 feet In depth and is packed Into a
glacier like mass by heavy rains and
sub-sero weather, according to reports
being brought to Bend by trappers.
Net toll receipts of the Interstate
bridge at Vancouver totaled 322.717.15
last month, an Increase of 3294741
over January, 1924, according to
Auditor Rae. Multnomah county's
share was 813,841.18 and Clarke coun
ty received 39227.46. The gross re
ceipts were 327,524.52; expenses were
34566 02.
The Campbell Towne company of
Oshkosh, Wig., submitted tbe highest
bids to tbe department of the Interior
on a stand of 37,000,000 feet'o f timber
comprising the Creek unit of the
Klamath Indian reservation. Prices
per thousand board feet were 36.11 for
pine, 32.52 for Douglas fir and 31.01
for other species.
There were three fatalities due to
industrial accidents In Oregon In the
week ending February 12, according
to a report Issued by tbe state indus
trial accident commission. The vic
tims were:
R. A. Rtssue, Cottage
Grove; S. E. Hamlin, Yamhill, and
George Hyde, Trenholm. A total of
467 accidents was reported.
The 6 per cent tax lim it was ex
ceeded by the Lane county court In
fixing this year's tax levy, according
to a decision of Judge G. F. SUpworth
at Eugene, and a change in the rolls
will be made accordingly, according
to the county court, which will pro
ceed to reduce the tax 310,714.66, the
amount that the limit was alleged to
have been exceeded.
•
Machinery for the payment of loons
aggregating 31.600,000 for the relief
of eastern Oregon farmers in reseed
ing purposes began to function when
representatives of the, board of con
trol left tor eastern Oregon cities to
complete local
arrangements for
handling the money. Tbe plan calls
for a local corAmitt.ee of five Kt serve
without pay In each dlstrlot.
The rivers and harbbrs bill earrtes
an amendment adopted on motion of
Senator McNary providing for a pre
liminary examination and survey of
the Columbia and W illam ette rivers
from Portland to the sea with a view
to a widening and deepening of the
channel. The project contemplated Is
the m ost'am bitious yet put forward
for any river In the United States ex
cept the Mississippi.
An amendment to the rivers and
harbors bill providing for preliminary
survey of Umpqua river and harbor
with a view to their improvement was
adopted by the senate comm ittee on
commerce. At the same time the
committee gave Its approval to the
McNary amendment giving local In
terests on Tillamook bay credit for
3266.000 already expended by them on
harbor Improvement
Reclamation of the Fort Rock dis
trict of the Deschutes national for
est for grazing purposes, supplying
range for an additional 30,000 head of
sheep, or 8000 head of cattle, is being
backed by sheepmen of central Ore
gon. An appropriation of approxi
mately 3100.000 by the government for
the purpose of bringing water 86 or
40 miles from Paulina lake to the arid
Fort Rock country Is being urged.
A trust deed given by the Tide
water Mill company, which Is 1 sub
sidiary of the Porter Bros, company,
which owns large tracts of timber
land In western Lane county and the
old Hurd sawmill at Florence, to the
Detroit Trust company, securing a
loan of 3400.000. was filed for record
In the office of County Clerk Bryson
at Eugene. The deed covers several
thousand acres of the company's hold
ings.
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Because of the heavy damage that
was done to wheat seeded last fall on
the farm at Moro experiment station'
the grain nursery In Umatilla county
will provide valuable data on the re
sistance to winter killing offered by
the varieties seeded there last fall
according to D. E. Stephana, superln
teodent of Moro station
Last fall
on the Moro farm 10.000 single row
plantings were made and every row
of the wheat was winter killed Some
varieties seeded In the Umatilla coun
ty nursery were killed, but a big per
rentage Is expected to come through
w it> only nominal damage.
As general averages, with tl
active breeds of chickens,
male to 25 females on range
m je to 15 females when
With the heavier breeds use o
to 15 females on range and o
to 8 or 10 females when penr.