Tile Drainage May
Double the Crop
The Great Outdoors
Apple Variety
for Every Role
C- H. Falk sr. Has Proved
This . M achine Cuts
the Cost
Where Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Humanity are Produced
Palatable, Healthful, Nutri
tious ¿nd Least Ex
pensive of Fruits,
There is much land in Lion
county th a t would be benefited
demonstrate that fact» but or
late the high cost of tile as put
a dar iper on such improvement.
Tnirty years ago J. C. Stan
dish tile drained a wet portion
of his little farm west of town
and was well pleased with the
result of the investment, though
he says th at with tile costing as
much as it does now he would
hesitate to use it if placed in
the situation he was in then.
On one part of the tract water
used to stand three feet deep
at times. The tile ended that
C. H
Falk sr.
is the lean
exponent of tile draining in this
section. Coming here 22 years
ago, with a knowledge of drain
age practices on eastern farms,
he began to lay tile and to be
laughed a t by neighbors for do
ing so. Soon he was sowing
ciops in March on land similar
to that which his neighbors
eould
not
work
u n til
M ay
01
W ashington Boy Is
1110,1 ,cientific ■•y«““'
Live Stock a Factor.
Pig Contest W inner
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U tter Produced 3,056
Pounds of Pork.
P rep a red by Ih * U a ita d S ta te « D **<rtrB «nt
o f A < r lc u ltu r a .)
M farm boy of Spokane county,
Wash., belonging to a Junior agricul
tural extension club, was a ton-Utter
contest winner of 1824, according to
reports to the United States Depart-
men! of Agriculture. He not only pro
duced 3,065 pounds of pork from one
litte r of pigs In six monthk, but kept
« careful record of how be did It, In
cluding the kind and amount of feeds
used and all expense Involved.
Ills
records show that hla _ plga made an
iverage dally gain of l ’,4 pounds each
ach from date of birth until sold. Thia
tain cos£ a little lees than 8 1-8 cents
i-er pound, not Including a lfa lfa pas
mre to which the pigs always had free
lccess. T he boy sold hla prize win--
nera to a packing house for >11.10 per
'00 pounds, receiving 25 cents per 100
pounds becaase of tbe excellent finish
>f bis hogs.
This young stockman, Fred Gray, be
lati in the awioe business about two
ears ago by joining a pig club which
he Junior agricultural extension agent
'f the county organised, buying a pig
s other pig club memben do, to feed
nd manage In demonstrating the
•conomlc value of the beat methods In
■wine husbandry. Hie purebase was
i Duroc sow of excellent type.
He
ullt a warm, movable hog bouse, pro-
Ided plenty of dean w ater and pas
ure, and carefully practiced good san
itation methods In addition to efficient
reeding. H e was able to raise elghi
pigs from the first litter.
W ith the
ocond litte r he won the centeet.
It was stiown too that while high
crep ytolda alone do not Insure a good
farm Income, tbe yields on tbe suc-
eeeeful farms averaged higher than
on the unsnccesaful farms.
In the
caee of torn the average yield on the
(oor beat farms was 50 bushels un
acre compared with 44 on the four
least guooeasful farms.
Stm yar pro
portions held for the other crops. In
■esters! the men obtaining the best
yields kept considerable live stock,
ased ooxamorclal fertiliser, drained
land and limed the soil when neces
sary, uaed good seed of varieties adapt
ad to laoal oonditlons and treated their
seed to prevent diseases, and followed
good methods of cultivation.
No one thing bud a greuter Influ
eace on comparative protits than the
Uve stock returns per head. On the
(pur most successful Clinton county
fhrras the yield of butterfut per cow
was 100 poynda, compared w ith 83
pounds an the four least successful
farm s
The best farms bad one calf
par cow every 14 months, compared
te one every 10 months on the least
successful farms. Other comparisons
to fa ro r of the most successful farms
• e r e : 8 l 8 per cent pigs per sow per
year, compared with fld ; 0.3 eggs per
hen per year, compared w ith 5.8; and
14 chickens, compared to L2. One of
the four most profitable farms bad
enough live stock to consume 1.251
Imebals of purchased com per year In
addition to >,400 bushels grown on the
farm .
On the four most sueceesful
farms the average amount of com con
sumed wua 2,702 bushels compared
with 2X115 bushels on the four least
Mioceasful farms.
Linn County May
Be a Linen Center
family suffer from different ailments,
their positions should be switched In
order that any such pests may be dis
continued.
A good plan la to reverse last year’s
plan und then change It back again
next year, thus furnishing a rotation
of crops. I f this Is not done, at least
the arrangement should be chihged
by moving the sections devoted to one
vegetable this year to some other po
During the week Mr. Sanson
sition In the garden removed a few
feet at least next year.
has
become more confident
A good rule would be to plant tbe about Willamette valley
linen
root crops next year where the leaf
m
anufacture
and
he
announces
crops such as lettuce and spinach
have grown this year or to give the that his company is about ready
root crops the space next year where
to come here and build. Thus
the legumes, a term applied to mem
is a prospect of three
bers of the pea and bean fam ily, have there
been this year. It w ill not be a diffi mills on th e ’coast. Probably the
cult m atter to study out this arrange
one a t Vancouver will be the
ment with a little practice.
Planting the ta lle r growing crops first to operate, then the state
a t Salem and then Mr.
Such as corn and tomutoes ow one mill
side of the garden one year and then Sanson’s, if he builds, and the
moving them over to the other side latter is as likely to be in Linn
the following
_ season w ill be a con county as anywhere else,
yenlent method of securing rotation.
A t a meeting of interested
U rotation cannot be conveniently ar- f a r m e r s a t t h t , A ] b a n v o h a m lw r
ranged because of the small size of I “ r m e r s
l n e •** D a n y c n a m o e r
the plot, the best w a j is to make op . ' , conunerce
Saturday it de-
for the deficiency by careful fertlllz- [ Veloped th at from
300 to 500
Apples, being palatable, healthful,
nutritious and the least expensive of
fru its and In season the yeur around,
lend themselves to a greuter variety of
uses than any other fru it.
Various
sorts o f Hpples are adapted for differ
ent uses und a bulletin issued by Cor
nell university for the llrat time at
tempts a classification o< the various
apples in the m arket or commonly
grown In regard to th e ir desirability
for dessert, apple sauce, baked apple*,
apple pie, puddings and fo r canning
aod drying.
Good fo r Dessert
T he following w ere listed as very
good for dessert, dessert being used
In Its oldest accepted sense, eaten raw,
out
of hand— Yellow
Transparent
when well ripened, Chenango, Graven-
stein,
Jonathan,
Esopus,
Tolman
Sweet, Yellow Newtow n, Northern
Spy, McIntosh.
F arth e r western states would add
Delicious to this list.
The following are listed as good
dessert apples— W ealth y, F a ll Pippin,
Tompkins, King, Hubbardston, Fain-
»use. Wagener, Rhode Island Greening,
Hundreds Acres of Flax
to Be Be Sown Here
This ¿Season
will probably be
raised in Linn county and th at
a linen mill is quite liable to be
built a t Albany a t a cost of
$600,000. Between now and
May is the tim e to sow the crop
and the state has seed for sale
at Salem. Get busy.
ing and occasional timing of the soil to ? acres
sweeten It up.
of ‘ f la x
Baldwin.
T he following are listed aa useful
for dessert— Red A ttracbun, Sweat
Bough. Oldenburg, Roxbury Russet.
Excellent m aterial fo r apple (flee
w ill be found In the follow ing varie
ties— Yellow Transparent, Red As-
trachan, Oldenburg, T w en ty Ounce,
Maiden Blush, Jonathan, particularly
good; Snow, Baldwin, also recom
mended, and N orthern Spy.
Baking apples are listed ns follow*—
Sweet Bough, Alexander and W elf
Riven Twenty Ounce, W ealthy, highly
recommended; McIntosh, Tompkins
King, Tolm an Sweet, Rome and North
ern Spy, recommended particularly.
Apples for general cooking are as
follows— Prim ate, Oraveosteln, FkU
Pippin, Hubbardston, Wagener. Rhofle
Island Greening, Esopus, Baldwin,
Roxbury Russet, Ben Davla.
For Apple Sauoe.
Recommended fo r apple sauce are
Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, Tw enty
Ounce, Malden Blush, W ealthy, Mc
Intosh, F all Pippin, Tom pkins King,
Jonathan. Esopus, Northern Spy.
The flrm-Ueshed apples are recom
mended for combination w ith celery,
nuts, dates and other m aterials In
salads.
Cooked apple blends with
softer materials such as tapioca, rice,
other cooked fruits, and doughs of
various kinds. Apples ure best with
foods which do not have a strong
flavor of their t»wn which w ill con
flict w ith or cover that of the apple.
The housewife w ith these points In
view frequently can substitute apples
for other fruits Is recipes to good
advantage.
*
the beginning of June, and he
W aming Issued Against
was every year getting double
Quack Poultry Remedies
the crop from th at land that
Poultry men w ill do well to inves
they did from theirs in theli
tigate certain remedies claimed to free
most fortunate years, while in
the poultry flock of mites, lice and oth
many years they got no crop at
er vermin, according to a warning Is I
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all.
sued by H . O. Severln, state entomolo
gist of the South Dakota State college. Favor Oats Instead of
Mr. Falk continued to lay
Advertisements have appeared at
tiles until all but 25 of his 160
Protein Deficiency.
Middlings for Fattening
various times claiming that these rem
acres is drained. He is well
Another Important practice which edies, sold In tablet or liquid form,
Wheat middlings, which many farm
showed profitable results on the most when placed In the drinking w a te r ers buy to feed along with corn, tan k
advanced in years and may not
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successful farms was the purchase of
lay any more tile, but he has S u c c o K s fu l W o r r e '
would rid the flock of both external age and pasture in fattening pigs, w ill
We more expensive in tbe next few
tankage for hogs. Operators of these
made a lifetime success of tile P u c c o w a I u l A e g r c , «
und internal pests. These claims are
s recognized that most farm
ridiculous and unreasonable, according months than It has been before, be
draining low land.
Juvenile» farm
feeds are deficient In protein. They
io Severin. He flnds upon examina cause of the decrease In our produc
Mr. Falk
— says the present
Agricultural “ blues” are giv- eeajtoquently supplemented home tion
that the liquids consist of either tion of cereals.
high price of tile is a deterrent n a vigorous challenge by the grown feeds w ith purchased protein
Oats can be used to replace wbeat
lime-sulphur solution, which Is the or
to improvement of much land ecords which negro boys and concentrates. During the night years dinary orchard spray, or is only a middlings to very good advantage, and
herealiout that is too wet in iris have been making in their the four most successful Oltnton coun sheep dip. The tablets are composed ure really worth more when price is
spring. He advises owners of arming and home-making club ty terms purchased an average of largely of calcium sulphide with char considered, In making up a fattening
such land to take lessons in enterprises under the direction l.dOU pounds of tankage per year, as acteristics sim ilar to lime-sulphur solu ration for pigs. Tests made by the
compared to lass then 100 pounds pur
station at the University of
working cement and then make of agricultural extension work- chased by the least sucoesaful farmers tion or else contain sulphur mixed experiment
Illinois show that one pound of good
with Iron rust,
their own drain tile of th at ma .18. One boy wrote his local The most successful farmers also pur
Poultry men have been puying as outs Is equal to one pound of wheat
terial, which will give them a extension agent recently that chased 3,908 pounds of mill feed a
high as a dollar an ounce for this ma middlings In feeding value. R. J.
better and more durable article i t mad made 3,150 pounds ot fea r, compared to 510 p ou nA pur terial, when In reality It should cost Lalble Informs ns that middlings are
by the least successful farmers.
than ciay tile.
•ed cotton on his 2 acres in ehased
less than two dollars per gallon. The a valuable supplementary feed and
Poultry contributed average sales of
The
Corvallis Independent 1924,
claim is made thut the fowl will get many men feel they cannot get along
»223 a year, besides averaging >8(1
the remedy Into their food tube by w ithout them for pigs that have re
last week told of another way In
He had kept an werth of eggs and muat for the home drinking
the treated water. From cently been weaned.
which the cost of tile draining account of the money he had table an the fo u r most successful
For growing pigs and as a means
there
It
Is
supposed to go Into the
may be cut. It said:
»pent in producing his crop, as (arms In tha county. These farms also blood system and then to tbe skin, of economy, outs can very well be used
Philip Corliett, m anager
a p art of his club work, and af had »alee of dairy products averaging where It destroys the rulteg. Such a whole or ground and fed at the rate of
the Corvallis brick and tile ter selling seed and lint cotton M 08 a year. In general It was noted claim Is unreasonable and entirely un one-half pound a day for each pig as
a supplement to corn and tankage.
works, sells drain tile. To sell and paying his expenses, had that the most succeasfnl farms were warranted.
better equipped w ith machinery than
his tile, and a t the same time >265 left. This young farmer, the
least euoceasful farms, although
T H E M ARKETS
Iil planning and planting tms year
reclaim much land which othe. iiershell
Glenn, of Rockdale a was recognised that a 100-acre farm keep in mind that only quality com
Truck Crops Show Large
wise would lie almost worth County, Ga., has also been fol may easily be overequipped.
mands a sure market.
Portland
Increase in Production
less, he has solved the problem lowing the extension agent’s
• • e
It was found that tne best 10 per
W heat — Hard white, hard winter,
T hat the American diet la becoming
of installation for the farmer suggestions in feeding and car cent of the 400 farm s Investigated
Buy legume seed and prepare to
>1.40; soft white, northern spring, and more and more diversified la Indicated
of this territory to a great ex ing for a pig. At the end o f six yielded an average yearly Income, plant several acres per plow to turn western white, >1.55; western red by
the enormous Increase In the pro
fretu
1810
Io
1822,
sufficient
to
cover
provem ent
tent.
>1 50.
m onths’ feeding, he reports, his ) her cent Interest on their capital under for soil Im
duction of vegetables during the past
• • •
A year aod a half ago Mr. pig weighed 200 pounds. A ne snq >1,405 lo r lHb,or and management,
H a y -A lf a lfa , > lg .5 0 ® l> ton; valley three or four yaara. These crops, ac
When June grass pasture becomes
Corliett purchased a drain dit gro girl of this county, Lucile and to addition an important share of dry,
tim othy, >19® 20;
eastern Oregon cording to the United States D epart
It Is necessary to feed ensilage
ment of Agriculture, had a gross value
cher. Mr. Corbett takes the Hall, has been caring for a Hock the mUh, meat, poultry, eggs, vege to supply tbe succulence. This La sel tim othy, >24<g>28.
of 9318,001},000 In 1824— an increase of
ditcher out to the land, any of chickens as a club enterprise tables. fru it and fnel consumed In the dom necessary with sweet clover pas
B u tterfat— 4>c delivered Portland
34 per cent over 1921. Over 2,800,000
Eggs— Ranch, 25®2gc.
where in Benton county, or out and has sold enough eggs and farm hemes. Supplies thus obtained ture.
Cheese— Prices f. 0 b Tillam ook- acres ure now devoted to the growing
side if the job is of sufficient Hyers to buy most of her school With the saving made on hynse rent,
of such crops as toinatoeq, early Irish
Triplets, 28c; loaf. 2»c per lb
volume, and does the work at clothes. She canned 265 con added an average of >005 a year to the
Sudan Grass Fertilizer
potatoes,
strawberries,
cantaloupes,
torn
Income.
<’», t l»— Steers, good, >8.2S®3.75
cost. More than 40,000 feet tainers of tomatoes from her
T here has been but few experiments
green peas, onions, lettuce, celery, cab
Farm receipts on the four most suc
Hogs
Medium
to
choice,
>13
0
0
0
of trench has been dug by the garden last summer to sell to cessful out of IT furuis averaged $6 • made to determine the hest fertilizers
bage,
asparagus,
cucumber*,
snap
'
beans, watermelons, sweet com. spin
machine and he is now confident assist in paying her board while ate, or a return of 7.2 per cent on the for sudan grass O rdinarily where the H 5 0 -
eoil Is reasonably good, no fertilizers
Sheep— Lambs, medium to choice ach. peppers, cauliflower, carrots, egg
capita
of its efficiency and willing to in school.
pltal Invested, comparad with
are used, but It would no doubt he ad
> 1 1 « 1 (.
plant and a number of ptliers.
eelpla from the four least succeaaful
carry on the work to his capa
vtsable on poorer land to use n com
T he development of the cunning In
farm * la thia graup averaging only
city.
fertilize r such as Is used on corn.
dustry and the Improvement of cold
».ton. of an Investment return of 4.5 plete
Seattle
The machine requires the
In Kentucky the application of add
per «ant
W hile a farm er here and
W heat— Soft white, northern spring storage, transportation and m arketing
work of three men and six
theta made gaod profits during the phosphate at the rate o f 200 pounds
>180; western white, hard w inter facilities have made possible this Im
l » r acre resulted In Increased yields In
horses and d i g s ______
a ditch __
30
wetwt period of the depression, otliers
»15»; western red. >154; Big Bend provement In the diet which Is to Im
eliftit out of ten cases The seed can
portant to the health of the people—
faded to earn a reasonable profit and
inches deep and 12 inches wide
bluestem, >1.90.
be
»own
w
ith
a
grain
drill.
especially of those who are forced to
at an average rate of 300 feet Reasons for Success or Fail a fa ir wage fl»r their labor even la tbe
H a y — Alfnlfa, >23; D . C„ »28; tlm Uve In congested centers of population.
w ar boom yearn
Host of the 100-
per hour.
ure by Indiana Fanners
othy. »26; D. c., >2»; mixed hay »24
Truck crop», grown for sale, are a
acre (arm or* did woU during tha prop
Listing Good Practice
“ Rocks and roots in ‘the soil
B utterfat— 45o.
product of an Intensive agriculture.
pereue parted from 1810 to 1818. Hut
Considered.
On
well-drained
bottom
land
corn
make the machine impractic
They require much skilled labor care
Eggs— Ranch, 27®31c.
to tha period from 1910 to 1815 only planted w ith a lister w ill produce ap
able," s»ys Mr. Corix*tt.
r»»p«».a a* I k » U n it* » t o a lM n « » * r t m . » l
ful attention during the growing sea
Hogs—
Top
hogs,
>14.75.
abont h alf of them succeeded In inak
proxlm ately as high a yield as corn
• f A * r l« u ltu r » . |
“I should like to have the op
son and on most soils the use of rathe»
nig 0 per rent ■« their capital and a planted on plowed ground. On bottom
C attle— Choice steers. >8.25®9 00.
Metheds by which certain IfiO-acre
nf « 0 0 for th eir labor In addl
portunity to talk over the drain farmers In central Indiana made satis
Cheese— W ashington cream brick hgavy applications of commercial fer
land that 1» heavy and poorly drained
to the toinlly living from the there la danger of the corn rotting In
I9c;
Washington
triplets,
19®20< tilizer In fact It does not usually pay
age problems with tarm ers who factory returns, even during the de-
the
spring
In
a
period
of
wet
weather
Washington
Young
America,
2
1 ® 22c to put so much labor into these crops
are considering installation oi pre-ston period, era compared with tha
without using plenty of fe rtiliz e r to in
»hen It 1» planted with a lister On
those who need it
aiethoda used by leva successful farm
sure profitable yields.
Study Is Made
of Many Farms
Broccoli Saved
Roseburg broccoli growers,
v. hbse crop was badly cut by
last December’s freeie, repo
wherever superphosphate was
used as a fertilizer the plants
were not killed.
VEAL
POULTRY EGGS
CAPONS
HOGS
W e want your product and guar-
ant»» the highest m arket pricer
O u r business e-tabliabed 44 year»
K,°
Fafvrenr*.
Hank of California
F A L L & S O N Portland, Or.
er« In the same area In a study Just
cempleted by tha United States D t
p s * mant of Agriculture. In this In
vestigation the business records of 400
Indiana faring covering tbe period
fWtn 1810 to 1 8 « . ware studied.
Uow the succeaafltl fanners obtained
•heir results la discussed by tbe In
vaet igntors In detail. On the most suc-
eew ftll farms there was less *artatl<<n
In cropping systems than on other
farm s
Thus the floor moat profitable
farm» had a yearly variation of only
14 par cent to their corn acreage coot
x t te 2t per rant on tha four least
•’ * ceaafhl Carnw. V ariation* la other
rm p acreages llkqwtse ware »mailer on
the meat profitable farms. I l was alee
found that tha moat successful farm *
usually had aa many fields of equal
■lae *s there wore yrers in the eeop
rotation followed, or else they had
Ce' 1» abet eould bo combined In ench
a way as to dlrdde tha crap acreage
h> as many equal parts aa there
year* In the crop relation
In
p»» «a word», the heat farms had tha
Crop R otation Big
Benefit in G arden
such land It will usually pay t„ p|Ow
with a disk furrow opsaar attachment
to (ha corn plantar.
Spokane.
Hogs— Prime mixed, »12.75@14.oo.
Cattle— Prim e steers, >8@8.50.
operating (or the last six or seven
weeks on a five-day week schedule,
ha ve^ been placed on a four-day week
Good Way to Avoid Perpet
uating Diseases.
T he same crops should not occupy
Uis same space in the garden from
year to year. There are several res
»cos (or this. One of the chief one*
I l to avoid perpetuating disease which
may have afflicted some of the vege
tables the germs of which may carry
over In the soil. As members of the
cahhsse tribe and the bean and pea
FOR S.vl.F,—W hite Leghorn
BAHY
C H IC K S
(rom t ^ . - and three-year-old hens
mated to cockerels having darns
with records o, 24? to 308.
N H edlund, Haleey, Oregon,
Phfiue 55F52, Brownsville.
Tha Booth K elly sawmills a t Spring-
field and Wendllng. which have been
For thrifty, healthy chicks feed
ISHER’S CIICK FEED
and
%
:
I
0/
Mz
Developing Mash J;
o. W. frl m
I
Birds Need Ventilation
Even In cold weather do not make
the mistake of closing the poultry
house so tightly that It does not have
good ventilation. Chickens can stand
cold better than they can stand stuffy
dampness and foul air. One of the
surest way* to bring on an attack of
colds and probably pneumonia is to
«hut the h fk c s so tight that they
do not haveTfood ventilation, D rafts
however, should be avoided.
Use good clean seed for sowing tbe
lawn.
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Sharp farmers oevar tolarata dull
*®oia
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a
S ila « u a lammer feed the year