RURAL ENTERPRISE The Great Outdoors Au» tnUcpehütui Nut avuliat — ß tw , paper, published evsiy Weiiuexlay, • t Was. IL » m m km much to plant, cultivate and sbrav I-oor stand a . it doe, . guod „ * * * • Tba potato Is one of the wo»t „ i-en .lv. a ,id crop. grown. p r l« « L “ ’ becauee of the high labor and f e r t u J i fl 5<Jfa year Advertising, » c an inch; bo ditcoun for time or space ; no charge for com >u«tion u rc iauges. * • **Pai<l-for Par«rapha,** Ic a Hat * • advertising dlagulaad as aawa Pierce Downs the Portland Ring The Wise Guys Angle foi the Farmer and They Get the Hook Where Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Humanity are Produced 155 Oregonians Fur Fanning in Sprouted O ats for Electric P ow er A s k Seed W hoat the Beaver State, L a yin g Hens on the Farm Foxes Valued a t $100,000 Brought to Oregon in one Shipm ent Salem, Or.—The state board of con It frequently happens th at one trol held a special meeting here Sat little suggestion in a farm paper is urday and considered approximately worth more to a reader than the cost 1{S applications for loans under the of several years’ subscriptions. so called farm relief bill enacted at The farm ing articles published sn Mr. Waggener’s silver fox farm at the recent session of the legislature The farm s of the United States This bill authorised an approprla the Enterprise are not the "guess Ash Swale, described in the Enter some day will be electrified. The work of white-collared • easy-chair prise a few weeks ago, the starting tlon of »1,S00,000 with which to pur chase seed wheat for the grain grow farm ers,” as such published articles labor of farm ing will be made less j f a chinchilla rabbit farm by a cou ers of eastern Oregon, whose crops are sometimes glibly called, but are burdensome through the use of pie of Brownsville young men, a ware deetroyed as a result of the re the result of careful and painstaking electric power. But while it is tru e kunk farm in the same neighborhood cent cold weather. experience, whether on an ordinary th a t this power is now being furnish md Duncan McKercher’s deer park One hundred and two of the re- farm or at an agricultural college. it Crawfordsville are Linn county quests for loans received by the board An instance came to notice in our ed to 2 1-2 per cent, or 164,347 of nstances of the tendency of the aggregated »83.401.62, or an average correspondence this week. In the the 6,500,000 farm s in the country, American farm er to get out of the of »118. Enterprise of Jan 21, was an article the problem of supplying rural dis vercrowded beaten track and try Although represented at the time of two of three dozen lines telling how tricts has by no means been solved. The farm er is potentially a heavy something new. the appropriation was made that prac in the absence of green feed, hens Prince Edward Island has the lead tically all of the wheat east of the may be put in b etter condition by user of electric power. But he and widely separ n the breeding of foxes and a recent Cascade mountains had been destroy sprouting oats by th e heat of th e his neighbor are and so fa r t seems th a t umber of the Dearborn Independent ed, more recent reports Indicate that kitchen stove in five small muslin ated hronicled a shipment of 100 of these the loss has not been as extensive as bags, starting one each day. the expense of getting electric inimals, valued at »1000 each, from pictured to the legislature. Perhaps no Linn county poultry- power to him will be considerable. hat province to Oregon. It also has been reported to the man has been short of green feed Long steel tower electric tran sm is Fur farming is being so widely board that a large number of the for his birds, and perhaps there has sion lines are built across country stablished, and so many inquiries farmers who suffered partial losses been a time when eggs were scarcest and to those not fam iliar w ith elec egarding it are being received by of their wheat crop are financially and highest when some of them trical development it seems an easy he United States department of able to reseed their lands and will might have increased their output m atter to run a wire off these lines griculture, that the biological sur not apply to the state for assistance. to every farm they happen f6 cross, Difficulties in the Road Are Bound to Be {Surmounted cost of production. Better y i,id, fr • -w .il« way, to lower cost of production. „ J hie mean, better stand, of health, Idgh-yleldlng plants Well aalectJd seed potatoes will outyleld aven.se seed stock by 50 per cent, demon,!,» During the past season the department of vegetable gardening of the «tMt, college of agriculture tested 4? n,r7 ? 8 " i beW Green Mountain. Hural, and Irish Cobbler seed stocks available In order that the relative yield and disease content of even these mlglit be determined. Several of these seed struins showed no disease what- ever. The average yields of ,11 strains of Hurals, Green Mountains and Cobblers, were 389, 342, and 245 bushels per acre respectively, and growers Interested In obtaining new and better seed potatoes for next year’s planting should Inquire early either from tlieir county farm bureau agent or from the department of vege table gardening of the stute college of agriculture. Last week we left the governor with "his back to the wall” fighting the legislative highbinders from Portland. Since then the Oregon law makers have adjourned and there haa been time to count the dead and wounded on the field of battle, and the governor’s friends are not among the mourners. When Governor Pierce opened the conflict by firing the Portland dock commission bodily it looked to out siders as if he had made a colossal blunder, but in the light of succeed Several Other Standard ¡IX events that act might have been -Vegetables Are Entitled the foxiest strategy of the season Its direct outcome, the reversal of to Good Attention. his action and restoration of the com (and income) by following the ad Peas ought to be ln every garden the mission, and making it independent ey of that department has sent out vice referred to. But the Enterprise, to supply the farm er with power. whole season through. Alaska for of the governor, filled’ his opponents i questionaire asking for full figures The linqs carry from 6,600 to the earliest, F'lllbasket to follow Alas though specializing in Linn county with arrogant pride and they under egarding foxes of various species Oregon Hens Lead farm ing information, is read in 200,000 volts. In the m ajority of ka, and possibly Gradus or Nott’s Ex took a program which was impos funks, raccoons, minks, muskrats, qases it is impractical and tod expen celsior will more than supply you with places far away. (Corvallis Independent) sible because of its verv insolence early varieties. Main crop varieties possums, martens, squirrels, beav sive to tap a line and reduce Frederick H. Morrill w rites from — , the to furnish you peas to can for winter Pierce gave them their day with the rs, fishers, rabbits and any other Corvallis hens are startling the Haverhill, ... voltage to a degree it can be used on Include Dw arf Champion, which Is far N. .... H.: dock commission, a local affair with ur bearer, which may be raised in world in three contests in three cor “ In your paper I saw a method of “ farm - More current would be lost and away the best variety for the small which he was little concerned, and iptivity. When the returns arc A n — 1__ _ rv/\ i _ in tbn • 1 am X1— — . — - a « in return got the bulk of what he ibluated and a comprehensive bul ners of the United States by their sprouting oats. As we have 20 hens in the -transform er th an would be garden. up»d on the farm. 7 he biggest and best sweet pepper Is and they were not doing well in the laying. 7 “’ . ™ ” ’’ leekin* Portland rode tin issued there will be a large The only feasible plan evident so considered to be the Chinese Giant. In Puyallup, W,ash„ among 122 egg line I thought I would try it. I her h gh horse to a fall ,o emphatic demand for it in all parts of the Ruby King Is another well known man pens, the Hansen White Leghorns, bought a bag of oats, price $2 for 80 fa r seems to be in the building of low that its echoes still reverberate o untry. go pepper but usually not as good as volto.ge lines extended from a tra n s pounds, and started six bags and from near Corvallis, are 25 eggs in U « t Sunday’s Albany Democrat the Chinese Giunt. Then among the “Wild” game may be domesticated they are doing a lot of good I former substation in a nearby town. ■aid: hot peppers there Is Red Cayenne, and id treated in life and at slaughter the lead, five hens having laid 138 believe.” At present, too, the ra te is not one a little of this pepper w ill go a long The announced intention of the me as humanely as our laws pre- e^gs during December and January Those oats, in sprouting, took to encourage a liberal use of power way. house and Iennte machine, headed by or an average of 27.6 a month for ime sheep or cows to be handled, something zroni t he ajr> the iight on the farm s, and in some of the ex Among the pimpkins one of my fa ‘ho Multnomah delegation., was to he money now spent in "protect each. They have taken eight firsts vorites Is the Cushuw, says a writer In got the governor. g” such game to be shot at by out of a possible ten in this costest, and the water th at the dry’ grain did perimenta! areas it has been found the Successful Farming. Some class not contain, and those hens were th a t three ru ral users of pdwer to a The governor had heade.l a strong •portsmen” at certain seasons, with which is international in scope, and ify It among the squash, for It has the benefited by it. mile use less electricity than the av shupe of a squash ln some measure, which Mr. Hansen says is the keenest »entiment for „„ injom( ta , and > regard to the suffering inflicted That the farm s shall be supplied but It makes a pie like pumpkin. •een this iderf become a law and then v poor shots, could be much more competition in the world. with electric power there is no doubt Sugar, and Buff Pie or Quaker Pie are In Storrs, Conn., another pen is in ttx T ^ J he“vMy moneyed ' “nomlcally handled in the new way but th at the use of it on the farm will tlrst-class pumpkins, and, by the way, It T H E MARKETS id the day is coming when it will the lead in an entry of 140 pens. In atU ck u p o h R. with the income he g reater than in a small business Is a mistake not to have pumpkins to Los Angeles in a competition of 50 tax. so with numerous isaues. The and when enlightened people will in the city cannot be ascertained I t put away for winter, so plunt enough. Portland dea of the governor V as the read ok upon present day practices as pens the Hhnsen entry is second on 1 Table Queen Squash. Wheat — Hard white, »1.94; soft will be employed for lighting justment „/ state government so and mething as barbarically cruel as " ecount of sickness during January. There la a new squash, commonly white, northern spring, hard winter small power in the home. On the Mr. Hansen believes his pen will as to relieve ordinary citizens from e now regard the sufferings inflict termed Table Queen, which ought to be more thap their share of state bur- 1 upon many domestic animals be- make up for lost time, the illness hav and western wtilte, »1.88; western red farm to pump water, saw wood, grind In every garden. It Is a small Indi »1.86. feed, milk cows and chum. den. and so as to force the powerful ure humane legislation hi their he ing passed. vidual size, fine baker and a good Hay—Alfalfa. »19®19.60 ton; valley keeper. Plant these and one larger ir was thought of. non i Uf> ’ "d bear ""methlng timothy, J19@30; eastern Oregon late variety and you can even get approximating their just share of A movement is on foot to prohibit timothy, »22@>24. Few New Varieties Are along without sweet potatoes If you , the burden. i . setting of traps for wild animals find them hard to grow. Buttorfat— 47c delivered Portland. Recommended for Garden hlch do not kill when they catch. The early squash comes along at a Eggs—Ranch. 28©27c. bill to abolish the market «rent's of- ‘ liousands of creatures caught in A garden on a farm ia for a very time when your appetite Is Just set for Cheese— Prices f. o. b. Tillamook; definite purpose, as a rule. It gen iee and place grain inspection hack an-set traps die lingering and Every Grower Should Ar them. The White Bush Scallop and Triplets. 26c; leaf, 27c per lb. T h . h n , PUb" C ’•“"’mission. □ainful deaths before the trapper erally Is not planted directly for profit, the Summer Bush Crookiieck varieties but to provide the family with the Cattle— Steers, good, 87.75®8.25. ure standards. range to Get Best Seed. . '’ " Wn" '’"W ed . A ttem pt, to ’.•ikes the trouble to visit his work good things te eat which It could not Hogs — Medium to choice, 210 5 (a Radishes are usually about the first , , , thp «»veepor of his eonstltu- ome gnaw off a leg and escape. otherwise have. 12.25. t n r t V ’” 6 ° f the b'ln,Per potato crop things out ln a garden, or at least rad- onal executive powers and give Ml the thought the average trapper If your farm garden Is like moat Sheep— Lambs, medium to choice Just harvested, 454,000.000 bushels (a lshes generally make the first returns. hem to the hoard of control, failed to have in such cases is re- others you will have a pretty good »11916. Besides the early ones such as Early Idea Just what varieties of different ’‘ w" ’ wished to take the control of <ret that he failed to appear in time relatively low price obtained, many Bird, Scarlet Turnip, and all those, have vegetables you will plant These va l i n t ^ / S v 0" him' •PP“’’” 've > get the hide. The a,gony ha in- rieties will be the ones that have suc s ld w ir i Wlli be ln r,ln f‘d to delay con- a few summer radishes such as Icicle 8eattla rahtro, of the fish and the game licts on a dumb brute concerns him or Chartier, and try Just a few of those Wheat— Soft white, northern spring. p r , ? p nv r ,/ ea-''spi,in,ing ceeded best for you In the past By com nngs.on an d o/ lh# o( tot a whit. all means, make these your main »1.90; western white, »1.88; hard win York State „H " rdenhnrK of the New winter radishes, such as Chinese Rose xt W Inter, one of the best, or Celestial, or planting. t-rU and commisaion. The latter a ■rage city customer. ter, »1.87; western red. »1.86; Big Ithaca t m .Fi * * Clares t F ? ’ P° ° r proee'lure, he de- Scarlet China. But there Is one thing that every l M ? .r to \U r’ aucc‘* ded- The In some parts of this state M ars Bend bluestem, »2.10. With tomatoes for the home garden ■ x io m -^ .C „,,M “ “ ° ' d "Dd fa,r|7 safe '.re becoming so scarce th at there one who Is planning the farm garden , • ffort was the Ekwall bill to leg H a y -A lfa lfa . »23; D. C.. »28; tim chean” Pf i r po,atOM ”'hen seed is you will make no mistake with Earll- should do He should plan on experl othy, »28; D. C.. 828; mixed hay, »24 was an effort at the late legislative ' *t« * * » * • ¡"to office. It failed c" ta P- Good seed Is avuilahi» i . ann Chalk’s Jewel New Stone, and mentlng with Just , few novelties or abundance and at relatival- , able ln Ponderosa. Butterfat— 48c. Governor Ftoto. drove the legisl.- «•■ion to fix a closed season for d ^ w Introductions. Therefn-a relatively low cost, Egga— Ranch. 23®80c. T u rn ip , In Abundance. tore into a corner and with its own them, for fear the backwoods farm Most of our standard vegetables burg e v X ' °r H.rden- Turnips In abundan t will be bad Hogs— Prime m(xed. 812@12 26. has er ° f Potatoes who SHid^h ‘U WUh0Ut Mr Pi« " * er's sheep might multiply too fast, were at one time novelties or new In from one or two ounces of early seed, Cattle—Choice steers, | 7.60@7.00. and his avowed defense cf real prop perhaps, and to afford “sport” for trodnctlona All the time new varieties Cheese Washington cream brick, set ,h k " ld arrange at once to or if you eat as few as some of us, a io 7 fUrth#r ,nCr**»: ' > < « ' the dandy who likea to go out with are being developed. These are man! as Chi'X t o ? ”1 ° f bI* pnrtl,-ull,r m *!?ket o°r . 80 ° f early 8eed- r W hile tion real M Uta would. by houk gun and wound or kill something. festly not all Improvements, hut there 19c; Washington triplets, 19®20c type ^ l: : : ntoIfh7 : . x a: ,'heapiy- Milan, Sarly Snowball are good early W always a chance that something Washington Toung America, 21® 22c. 1x The Belgian hare haa lost his pop- new will bs unusually good. Hence. * h" VC bevn ”,ad" to pay Varte,t.le\ L ,t* varletl«A « i which you bor who has I t « h h r n * 1« h - The new taxation consist, of a to- ilarity. The red New England rab- X .1.1* should plant In order to store plenty ,0 ,o 1,1 ow on ■".’’thing niarketlng begins wt»hUPCM* ful P“1“ 10 Spokane. for winter, Include White Egg. or the at will readily Inereuse the amount * * • tax and a levy on the gross >it. bred for its fur, was developed to production high , 7 , CCeMft’1 P“ ,a- Hogs— Prime miked, »12® l2t5. or time the garden will require for Its earning» of utilities ■ quullty p„tHtAe.lgh TleI’lln« a“d high old standby. Purple-top Strap Leaf, ' nto a p a p u la r.h u n d prolific an im al into the general fund / PU>men‘ ’ dt b £ ^ ,0^ C‘ “ 0‘ b* « ^ « * 1 Canto— Prime steers. |7 26®T.76. In addition to these standard vege care, the annuel tryout of a few new svoerai rund of earnings of Now the chinchilla rabbit is being varieties 1, almost sure to be amply tables you are going to lose half the • • • »•eifisupporting state activities bred to produce a fur said to be repaid In the long run. ? U' ° f P"1*“ '1«» run and good of your garden If Vou Boyr dub work this year should producing offiy*1^ Those members intent upon ch.rg- equal to genuine ctynchllla and in fall to raise some of the special crops furnish farm leaders with line oppor 'ng property with the whob bill for ■uch as salsify. kohl-rabl. okra, in,’ton and Oregon the industry Tricks of Trade During iunities to reacli some parent farmers • ’«U government had fought and i becoming quite prominent. parsley, kale and the many other -aids who are difficult to reach otherwise >l«l<2 at the ¿ 7 . . U tU* row w11' Winter Orchard Pruning and ends that after all make a variety usually contributed to repeal the |„- • • • acre Yet h ° f 161 bushels an D. M. Haskins, Newberg, is vice, Growers of fruit trees who do their of food, that not only p1,,aie lhe ap o m e u x . They started something, Any soil that will produce good “vre. Yet, he points out this i. so president of the American National ewn pruning will nnd It both Interest- crops of corn or potatoes will produce Ute but return dividends In health. i . that repe.1, and at Fur Breeding association and owns lug and profitable to apply some of the good crops of sugar beets, proride.1 ®,4 er day they feared to finish it O w ne,. n t 70,000 sheep which will ...i Dr. S. C. Browne and ’tricks of the trad," during this win the sugar beets are properly care,! ? ? • * ° 7 rn“ r whipped them out, 175 pairs. be pastured In four national forests Thomas Small of Scio have good ter's pruning. One of the most Inter ic-r. esting of these 1s to put living ties io ne of them, Senator Dennia. speak- f Oregon this year met In Bend Sat- sta rts at the business. the tree They are of principal value lng of the revenue b*’ \ Baid: wm# K F: hn*ary ” The ,whsn applied to young vigorous trees. "Fellow senator., we' may as well Peas Should Be in All Gardens 4 Plan Now for Next Year’s Potato Crop If a tree of tills type Is found to have a scaffold limb which Is not firmly Why Is a buckwheat cake llks a knit te the trunk of the tree It can caterpillar! Because It makes the he tied there by twining together two butterfly. twigs from 6 to 18 Inches above the crotch and one of which has its origin from the weak limb and the other from tbs mors solid part of the tree. These should be wrapped around each other as tightly is It possible without break ing the wood and the ends should not he cut off until after several years' growth and tha twigs have firmly grafted together. Swh treatment will form a living tie which will have a went your produce and guar- greater strength than any artificial one ante« the highest market prices that could be put la. Crawfordsville, which last year had O u r business e*tabii*hed 44 year* L K Blain, ploaeer elothler of Al ago th e biggest 4th of July celebration In bany. has presented the Albany col He history, ia planning to repeat and Reference, Hank of California lege library with 21 volumes covering gxceed thia year. Portland. Or the Maids n t «•dmit that this republican legi.U ture _as been gyped and fooled by the democratic minority In the ' state r ’i'iTi h“ V* bw“n wr" ^ 1*d. « * • ralled and snubbed up by the bey with the big white hat and the white faced calve. The only thing for us to do is step up and take our medicl •ine. ” Dennis and bit felloire started the fig h t They set out to get the rovem or. The public Is well con tent to »**Jhem taken in themstlves. VEAL POULTRY EGGS CAPONS HOGS W* PAGE & SON will be the first of its kind held In th ? ‘ “d r€t,rMenta ” n « r . of flocks that wlU be pastured ln the D e.chxtea, i U T o reduce your present high cos! of feed- * ; T use “ AAfalia M eal and pure Cane M o - ! Iasses' ! Alfalfa Meal Molasses I A « a lly good dairy feed I7 res*1 ’ •’ •prnent just received t o . W . FR U M santlam Umpqu. , nd Cascade Na tional forest, d a ,,,,, th, oom|n< Hearing of tha wool ra t. c * ., ha, been set lor March M. according to Mnoaneoment made at the offloes of the public . Wv ,c . oammlsai ” bearing will be conducted by r e p ^ ooffi»t.Moa and will be bald t . Port. M«re than eo acres of carrots have dlsetr lr t , n t dd by farmera of Th* canniry contr‘ ct with tha local . Of tha approximate 1600 carloads ^altov " * " ’ * • * ’ 10 ,b* Hood River ey last fall i,,« tjjan 100 “ »In unshipped