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 _________ U tter Produced 3,056 Pounds of Pork. P rep a red by Ih * U a ita d S ta te « D **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 ------------------------------------ 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 _______ 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, >2428. 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< 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. • • • Sharp farmers oevar tolarata dull *®oia • • a S ila « u a lammer feed the year