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