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The Great Outdoors
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185 Acres of Land
in L in c o ln county
W . M. Burbank
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W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Huntanity are Produced
b p th e U n ite d
o f A < r t e u it a r « >
t
Highest market
price paid ter
your
TO LET
Vartous method« of tr« id n < hum,
for Infestations with blttos and suet
!n< lie * w»r* tested by. the bureau
antinul Industry, 1 nlfed State* D<
pertinent of Agriculture, during tb
J. L>. Rode
laat flsrot year, In the course o'
3 miles west ot Halsey
studies In the treatment and eontr,
of external puni.-Utos of live »loci
T he beat result« were obtained by dl|
ping or «praying with coaJ-tar-creosot
aotutlona or araenlcal dip.
Coal-tar-creosote eolations are foun
on the market aa afoclt dip« under va
rloua trade name« with Instruction
on the label« for dilation. The araen
leal dip la the saute aa that used fo
destroying cattle ticks, and la use,
In the same dilution.
(P r » p v » d tiy tb « U s.t«d Ita tM D epartm ent
Testa with sulphur-dioxide goa t
cure aarcuptlc mange proved to be on
O f eepeclal la te re « to greenhouse
successful. Treatments with gas con
men are Che studies of greenhouse In
rentratlona aa high aa 10 i>er cent an
ae< ta and problems of greenhouse
consisting of two hours’ exposure ot
fumigation conducted by the bureau
four different days at flve-day inter
of entomology of the United States
▼alt failed to cure advanced caaev
Department of Agriculture. Distinct
Other degreea of concentration an
progress has been made In this Held
with treatment at different interval
during the past year. Among some of
likewise gave negative results.
the Insects on which work has been
The Department of Agriculture It done may be mentioned the larger
making exhaustive Investigation» o’ bulb fly, the cyclamen mite, the Cat-
the numerous kinds of parasites— botl
tleyu fly, and the tip moth of pine
external and Internal— that affect do seedling«.
mastic animals, and also maintains at
L ife history studies of the larger
"Index-cutalogue” of the publish««
bulb fly have been started, and exper­
literature on parasite», which Is be iments conducted In the disinfection
lleved to be the moat complete of It: of bulbs from the Insect. Ths larvae
kind In etxletence. I t Include» dati
appear to be very resistant to vacuum
on animal paraaites found In all part: fumigation with carbon disulphide at
of the worid.
the rate of 4 and lb pounds per 1,000
cubic feet of space. Control experi­
ment s Intended to teat the efficacy of
100 Acres A No. 1
Sheep Pasture
Aid Greenhouse Men
in War on Insects
FOR H A L E OR T R A D E
F u r SALE
W ANTED
Wool Sheep to Shear with
Red
K 1 D g
Power Shearing Machine
See me before von sell
W. F. Carter
G et L'p and D ust
Shall Service S tk tio n , Halsey.
Phone 12F12 H arrisburg or w rite
Jitn Greene, H arrisburg, route 2.
Spring Wheat
White Oats
Mrs. Nate C- Smith
We re Getting the
Spuds Must be Labeled
Africans’ Goats Potatoes sold in lots of 50
Dairying Pays in
Western Oregorn
Good Stock, Home-grown
Feed and Care Have
Their Reward
There is little profit, usually,
in
a dairy herd of five or six
About the 1st o f May 117 oboice pounds or more must liave the
cows.
0. A. C. investigators
name
and
address
of
the
grow­
Angora goats from South A ir ca
a study of
are expected to arrive at a New er and the grade stencil ed on who have made
Much Progresa Has Been
and outgo in small
Jersey porb Later they are to be the sack, according to the new receipts
Made During Laat Year.
sold in Texas, A m e rica ’s chief potato grading law now in e f - |^ ieJ on. dailies declare that high
Angora goat state. Some of them feet in Oregon. The United! Pro^uclnK cows should be kept
may come to Oregon.
States standards for table stock in large enough units to keep
Goat men of South Africa, fear­ were adopted in Oregon with down overhead expenses, that
in g Am erican com petition in the
the exception that “culls” are “they should be in het-ds of not
mohair markets of the world, called “no grade.” Certified or less than ten ”
have been try in g to get their gov­
Just the same as in manu­
standard seed are designated as
ernment to prohibet exportation of
facturing harvesters or produc­
such.
the auimals. I t has beeD a work
O nly lots of ten tons or more ing gasoline, production in the
of mneb d iffic u lty to get the pres­
dairy is more expensive per unit
ent shipm eut of cboite breeding need to be inspected. Provisions in case of a few units than of
totek out of the colony, bul for enforcing the acts are in­ many.
Am erican p ertina city has won.
cluded in it making it a misdea-
It is economical, too, to keep
meanor to sell potatoes that are only
registered animals. You
not properly marked. Copies of may find a grade or a nondes­
Better Than W heat
the new grades may be obtain­ cript that will give a high yield
When S. F. Zysset started in ed from the county agent.
of butter, and you may find a
Save Resistant
the Angora goat business
There is a stiff fine for selling scrubby subject in the register.
the “wise ones” derided ; 50 pounds or more without the
Chestnut Trees how
that spindling little kid which grade and the grower’s name There will always be occasional
reversions to ancestral types,
Sam paid $25 for? But Sam and address on the sack.
with a registered herd these
Blight Is Steadily Spreading knew his “kid” and for 25 years A summ ary of the potato law. but
recessions
will be few, while
Eliminating Horse From
.
Over Country, Killing
his
purebred
goats-
He
had
can be had by a p p lyin g to tbe
Metropolitan Center» |
hydrocyanlo-arid
dental prodigy will reproduce
Many.
faith and stood on it.—Scio Tri state m arket agent.
•C ity use of horses Is on tbe de
carbon disulphide. etg., against
her own type. It takes genera­
bune.
cllne," says Dr. Carl W. Gay of thi tbe cyclamen mite have been begun.
Get a copy, if you have potatoes
(Prepared
by
(ha
Unit«4
It*be«
D«p<rim«at
tions
of careful breeding within
University of the Stute of Ohio, In r Fumigation against ths C attleya fly
for sals* and avoid a fine or a ja il
ot M r t c u l t u M )
certain lines to establish a de­
recent lecture at the New York Stan
sentence.
wtth hydrocyanko-add gas has not thus
T h e cheetnut blight la steadily
sired strain, and when establish­
College of Agriculture ut Ithaca. Hi
fa r proved of value In any of Its
spreading over the oonntry, exterm i­ Different Varieties of
saya, on the other hand, that the re
ed it takej very little outcross­
vtsges, and other coutrol methods are
nating the American chestnut as It
verse Is true ou farina.
being studied.
Common Vetch Compared Gauge Value of Seed by
ing to ut.do all tiiat has been ac­
moves. The financial loss has been
Doctor Gay aald that the hors,
Investigation In the general fla il of very heavy for owners who failed to
complished.
Common vetch and Its varieties Is
breeders of the country hare been fol
fumigation have Included the tearing cut th eir dead chestnut before It de­ the subject of a new publication Just
Germination
and
Purity
Whether
the
dairy-man
lowing a policy of blind optimism by of various dosages and exposures on
teriorated, and the United States De­ Issued by the United States D epart­
A lfa lfa seed la regularly advertised chooses the lttle butteF machine
making themselves believe a hors« a variety of plants, such as oechlds partm ent of Agriculture and state for-
ment of Agriculture aa Departm ent In various papers which reach farm
boom lies around the comer. Th< nod various bulba T he kllHng power
egtry departments have been active In B ulletin 1289. The bulletin discusses homes, at 57 to «9 a busheL We have called the Jersey, the “milking
traffic problem in the large cities 1» of calcium cynlde for eertaln green­ advocating tim ely utilization.
red polled or
and comperes the different varieties as each year examined such seed and find shorthorn”, the
so aonte that the horse-drawn vetilclty house aphids comperes favorably with
R ésistant Tree.
to seed and straw yield, rate and time that the cheapness Is an Illusion. By the pail-filling Holstein, it will
are becoming fewer and fewer,
, qutvalent dosages of sodium cyanide
However, a few cheetnut trees have of seeding, method and depth of seed­ way of illustration the following de­ pay him to stick to type. Then,
•hat the breeders must look to tin Under greenhouse conditions It was appeared to show a marked degree
ing, viability of seed, w inter hardiness tails may be of Interest: A sample culling out any defective calves,
farm er as a purchaser.
found that overnight fumigation at tbe o f re e l.tance to the blight, and It la
Just tested Is quoted at 57 a bushel, the remaining surplus animals,
and numbers of other factors.
In order to fulfill the farm ers’ de rate of u ounce o f calrium cyanide
desirable that the more resistant trees
Common vetch Is a native agricul­ the price actually paid for a six-pound
if the herd is registered, will
nauds the small mare« should be bred to 1,000 cubic feet o f space gave 100 be located and preserved. Home of
tural crop of the Mediterranean re­ lot wus gl.25. The purity analysis on
, (• well as tbe larger one« to obtain per cent kill fo r three species of
these may prove to be the starting gion but was Introduced Into the this test was 74.5 per cent, the germi­ bring enough better prices than
tbe desirable wagon-type o f home nphlds. A higher proportion, combined
grades to
pointed for a new growth of chestnut. United States as early as ttie E ig ht­ nation test 49 per cent, hard need 12 equally productive
The wagon type Is becoming more and with high hum idity, cauaed severe A tree should have resisted the blight
eenth century. I t Is rather exacting per cent, that Is, live seed 61 per cent. make a considerable addition to
more recognised as the most deairabl«' burning of many varieties of plants.
under natural conditions for at least as to tem perature and soil conditions The per cent o f pure live seed In that the right
side of the ledger.
farm horse, as It Is a horse which com
ten years before it can be regarded and the portions of the United States sample Is 45.4.
Oregon and Linn county are
bines draft ability with speed on th.
Frank K irk is employed at the
Oaco orobard, near Monroe, and
there is to be applied (be firs t iu -
secticide from an airplane in this
part of tbe country, though i t ba.
been a success in cotton fields ot
the south aDd some forests where
trees were threatened with destruc­
tion. Frank was home for his
d aughter-in-law ’s funeral.
About M ay 1 Entomologist W .
J Cham berlain of 0 . A. C. w ill sn-
pertisa a dusting w ith arsenate of
lead from two airplanes. Special
hoppers in tbe a irc ra ft w ill make
possible tbe spraying of from six
to tan acres a m inute.
Chamberlain expects to spray
for the a lfa lfa weevil in eastern
Oregon the latter part o f May.
X S J “ "±,“^ 5
as worthy
Pennsylvania Improves
Cattle Feeding Methods '
Lnn- well tor a
road. For the farm er with no pride ol
ancestry or hope for posterity, the
tunle Is even more efficient than the
C attle feeding methods In tbe
horse, Doctor Gay says
,ister district have been changed com-
W hile Doctor Gay Is pessimistic
pletaly In the past ten years because
about the future nse of the city horse
of tb * results obtained In steer festllng
he Is Just u s optimistic when looking
at the Pennsylvania State college,
at the fann-horae proposition
A sane,
a t a t * Dr. John M Thomaa, president
safe policy for farmers of tbe East Is of the college, in a report Ob ’T h e
to breed their own replacements
Service o f the I'ennsylavanla State
"Deal In the present needs, not In un
College to the Gommouweulth."
certuln features" Is the speaker's ad
"The old method has been qhanged
vice.
to the modern methoil as developed at
the experiment station." say« Preal
D n t Thomas. “According to the Iwet
available Inform ation, only 10 per cent
>f the cattle feeders In the Lancaster
Brome grass Is more valuable for
llatrlct had stl,« on their farms In
pasture than for hay. It w ill do fa lrlt
101A Approximately 80 per cent of
well on very light soil, as It stumb all the ra ttle feeders in that district
drought w«IL It starta slowly. For are now using silos In their steer feed
this reason sow with clever and tim ­ log work. Thia change In the method
othy. How with nurse crop.
of feeding has resulted in m or* eco
The clover and timothy make most noinical production and has meant
of the crop the second y e a r; a fter that many thousands of dollurs to the ro t
the bromus makes most of the crop. tie feeders o f Pennsylvania.
I f sown without other grass, b o w 111
The experimental work In maln-
to 15 pounds of seed per acre. In a
a In lug a I w f feeding herd has been
m ixture as suggested above, sow five
1-tlmulua for the establlslunent of
o r six poumls per acre.
more such herds In Pennsylvania, ths
Sweet olover and bromus make a number of which la constantly Inoreoa
very good mixture for pasture. How Ing."
from six to eight pounds sweet clovar
four to five pounds timothy and five
pounds brotnus per acre.
It Is not
hard to got rid o(
of consideration as a roslst-
to which It la p articularly adapted are
limited. Aa a commercial crop It Is
confined to the region In Washington.
Oregon, and C alifornia having mild
w inter temperatures. Only the most
hardy varieties w ill survive the aver­
age w inter of the South Atlantic and
G u lf Coast states. Not enough expert
mental work lia s been done to deter­
mine the lim itations of the several
vurletles In the last named region, but
It seems probable that when properly
handled the most winter-hardy strains
can be grown In lim ited areas at least.
A copy of the bulletin may be se­
cured upon request, as long as the
supply last«, from the United Btates
Departm ent of Agriculture, Washing-
*on>
C-
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A good sample of a lfa lfa seed
should have a p urity of 99 per cent or
over and a live seed per cent of 95
or over, that Is, a pure live seed per
cent of 94. A t 21 cents per pound
fo r 61 per cent of live seed the cost
o f good seed Is 82.86 cents per lb. Be­
sides this we received 26.000 weed
seeds w ith each pound, 675 o f which
were dodder— Anna M. Lute, Ana­
lyst, Colorado State Seed Laboratory
F o rt Collins.
frequently
acoured
by
buyers
from other states in search of
few years and then quickly
registered dairy stock.
succumh to the disease
The office of
The most successful dairy­
foceat pathology, in the bureau of plant
men
produce their own feed
Industry of the United State« Depart
Clover, vetch and alfalfa pre­
meet o f Agriculture at W a s h in g to n
dominate in their hay barns and
la Interested
to receiving reports
o f exceptionally resistant American
corn, sunflowers and other suc­
chestnuts, that Is, trees which survive
culent feeds in their silos, and
a fte r nearly all of the chestnuts In the
their grain rations are produced
vicinity have been killed. Unusually
at
home. Though the Chicago
(vristutit tree« are recorded and ex­
Even the poorest garden spot con­ grain gamblers ran wheat up to
amined at some luter date. Nuts and
tains "burled treasure” for tbe real
a good price last winter, but a
grafted trees from the most promising
Brome Grass a Valuable
gardener.
,
small percentage of growers
are planted In an experimental or- I
e e e
Crop for Pasture Land
•h ard at Bell, Md., for farth e r testing, i
Perhaps the farm home garden Is were able to take advantage of
Interested In Tree«.
I
There is a good
often a failu re because It Is not taken the situation.
T h is office Is also Interested In r
seriously enough.
deal of lost motion in taking a
• » e
pons o f Japanese and European chest- Diet of Baby Chicks Is
crop of wheat to market and
nuts which Imve survived the attacks
Resolutions m aking it unlaw ful to
Started With Sour Milk levy or collect a tax from agriculture with the price of it buying some
o f the blight. The removal of Infected
commercial feed and transport­
limbs and tbe cutting out of trunk
A fte r delaying feeding till the chicks
or livestock for a period o f 16 years,
ing it to the farm. Moreover,
sankera on these foreign chestnuts, are at least 48 hours old, offer them
or until 1940, have been adopted' by
w ill m aterially aaslst them to throw ­ s drink of sour m ilk. Keep them in
one knows what he is feeding
Pomona grange of Y am hill county.
ing off the dlaeese The office of for­ a pen provided w ith scratching ’liter
if he raises it himself. There
Thirty-six
head
of
fine
Hereford
est pathology la, however, prim arily of clean a lfalfa leuv««. A fte r m ilk
are
laws requiring the labeling
cattle belonging to County Judge T . S.
Interested In trees which axe naturally has been before them two hours, feed
resistant.
Cornelius of Astoi^a have sugcumbed of prepared feeds with a state­
1 sparingly of scratch grain consisting
I of six parts cracked yellow com. two
before a malady which attacked the ment of their contents, but the
t h e m arkets
parts cracked wheat, and two parts
herd last w inter, leaving only seven law is disregarded or the sacks
cracked kafir.
are misbranded in too many
survivors.
v
Portland
When the chicks are a week or ten
Dissolve 2 ounce or corrosive cases.
W heat — H ard w hite 1 1 55 hard days old, a mash feed should he pro
Value of Silage Varies
The
farmers
of
the
country
w inter, |1 . U ; soft white. 11.61 west­ vlded to addition to the m ilk and sublimate in 12 gallons of water.
Saturate the ground around" are docked millions of dollars
With the Price of Com era white, 51.50; northern ; spring.
ecratch grain, using 30 pounds bran
with this solution annually for foul seeds in their
30 pounds shorts, 25 pounds yellow cabbages
Sling« made from corn that w ill U i t ; western red. 51.47
New Post of Bees Found
after planting and wheat crop alone. What be­
yield 50 bushels per acre is worth
H a y — A lfalfa, 515® 18 50 ton • v n li,» ,'"rn m M l' ten Pound» meat meal, and three days
, v a io y
flv e pound, hone meal. Mash may
from id to Sfl.50 per too, depending tim othy, 520® 51;
three
more
times
at intervals ot comes of all these screenings?
eastern
in a Maryland County when the corn was put Into the silo.
Oregon
before the chicks at all times a fte r
ten
days
and
you
will have no Analyiis will find them in
tim
othy.
525®52S0.
A new past of hem. Brnula rosea
they are past two weeks old. Grain
Corn that Is put Into the sflo when
Chumps cow and calf condi­
cabbage
maggots.
B u tte rfa t—45c delivered Portland.
Nitsch, popularly called the bee-louse
may also be kept before them at alt
It Is denting and all tb * lvavee a r*
tioner
or “Bunkum’s butter
has been found present In considerable
Eggs Ranch. 53®5«c.
tlmee a fte r they are three weeks old.
green wlU weigh more than It w ill
The 1920 census shows that booster or some other combina­
number« In Oarroli county, Maryland,
C h eese--P yle«, f. 0. b. Tillam ook:
Keep a dose lookout for lice and
When It Is more nearly ripe and some
a larger proportion of the chil­ tion guaranteed to do wonders
sod In a few other place« In ths United
mltee. feed carefully, provide freah a ir
of the hunks and leaves have begun T rip lets. 57«; loaf. 28c per lb.
Hiates. It is undoubtedly Imported
dren attend the public schools in the dairy.
and sunshine.
C a ttle — Steers, good, 59 50®10 00.
to dry.
from Europe wtth queen be*., , nd
in the country than in the cities.
Hogs—Medium to choice, 5125541
I f vou m u d buy p art of the
I he value of a too of silage always
wbU« It la not. no far, to be regarded
os a serious menace beekeeper« w ill
do well io take stops to eradicate It
from tbetr colonies when <B»rov«r»d
Hcwul« la not a true parasite, ac-
<rordtng to ths bureau of entomology
but It la capable of wenkening a bee
c o ls v by taking Its food and by to r­
menting tbe quv»a bee It Uvea
the
honey carried by the bees, not on
their blood, as was at ous time sup­
posed
It Is fonnd singly on the work
era, and In numlx-ra on tbe queen bee.
but Retdaui on droOvs.
United States Department of Agri
culture d r ru ler 83-1 " T h . to .. l.ou, v
Brnnls <\>«c«, In th« United States,"
by B. F. P h llllp a optauaurlst. Con­
tains s description of tbe speeb-s. Its
distribution, feelin g habit« and meth
•d s of control
This ctn-ular
be
obtained, as tong as tlie supply tneto.
by w riting to the United State. De-
pnriinamt of A g riculture Washington.
varies with toe price of corn per
hushnl and also upon the quality of
t h . corn. When corn Is put Into the
silo liefore It Is to the glaslng stage.
11 Is not worth as much as It would
have bean If tt wars me»« mature.
Salut««« «< P u z z l. No. I E
1IM.
Sheep— Lambs,
511 i0 ® l 4 .
medium
rct.on; know what it is. If it
to choice.
’ in ground form send a sample
v v b .2 ’
Seattle
W h eat— Soft white. 51 5S; w'eeteru
white, bard w inter, western red. 51.50
northern spring. 51.65; Big Baud blu*
stem. 51.55.
H a y —A lfalfa, 554; D . C , 525; tlm
othy. 52«; D. C . 222; mixed hay. 524
B a tte rfa t— 45o.
Eggs Ranch. 17®J2c.
Hogs Primes. 518 75.
C a tti» — Choice steers. 29 25®$ 85.
Cheese O regon fancy to retailers.
87c per lb.; do standards. 25c; Wash
I ng ton fancy triplets. 24c.
i o r m n r ty ,
healthy chicks feed
ISHER’S CIICK FEED
and
Developing Mash
o . w .. FRUM
Spokane.
Hog»- <R>od to choice. 21J 55® 15 55
C a ttle — Prlins siaers. 59 5 *® 10 60.
/L
„ an<* -v o u 0 8 0 l o a m
O f j t is SW* P t -
wy
»4
(
1
up dirt or powdered sorrel
seed.
tb rh° best-paying dairies are
those where brains and indus-
^mbihed in every detail
J / b e work. In western Ore-
F n r fi‘tere 18
livin* and
deSite t'b tHie 5681 dairy‘nF.
aH ft1 *£he °leomar*arine and
•‘11 the other discouraging facts.
a Cu VerJ your radishes with an
Ajshaped tent of cheesecloth,
with earth packed around the
and ^ e mother of the
radish maggot cannot lav her
eggs near enough for her off­
spring to damage the roots