A P R IL 29». 1925
K U KAL. E N T fcM K K Ib K
l’A G E 2
The Great Outdoors
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 20
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¡100 Acres A No. 1
Sheep Pasture
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Highest market
price paid far
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P o w e r S h e a r i n g M a c h in e
See me before you sell
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j ¡ m Greene, Harrisburg, route 2.
J. D. Rod*
3 mile« west of Halsev
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I it Pays W ell to
Grade Potatoes
a id keeping It up until next filling
Other« feed the entire year excepting
during the flush q f pasture In Muy
apd June.
Its
R o ta tio n W ill C u t L oss
D ue to S oil E ro sio n
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O r e g o n M a y R e g a in
L o st P re s tig e a s a
G ro w e r
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W ANTED
Prof. M. F. M iller, head of the de
partment of soils, college of agriculture
of the I'nlverslty of Missouri, present
ed Interesting figures on losses due to
soli erosion In a talk made at the
annual meeting of the Ktflsas Crop
Improvement association at the K a n
sas State Agricultural college. Profes
sor M iller and Ills associates In the
Missouri agricultural experiment sta
tion hare* found that on an average
Missouri soli having a slope of about
3 H per cent, the entire surface soil to
a depth of 7 Inches would be lost in
50 yeurs of continuous cultivation of
corn, In about 150 years under contin
uous wheat culture, and In ubout 250
years In fields rotated to corn, wheat,
and oats. Sod laud, that la, land In
permanent pasture or native sod, would
require 3.400 years for the same loas to
take place, according to the Missouri
ans' estimates.
about the house and their presence
may be readily detected Salt and pep
per pqtches on the underside of the
roosts or a characteristic "buggy” odor
indicates mites. I f taken In tim e anti
by keeping condition, about the house
or coep "clean" these parasites cun do
but little harm.
Because of their different habits of
life, mites require different treatment
than Uce. Cleunlng the house thorough
ly. spraying it, and painting the roosts
and neqts w ith a good preserver or
creosote w ill “get" the mites. ' Nothing
more effective or more economical thun
sodium fluoride could be used to rid
the birds of lice. F o r a spray that Is
available, effective and economical a
solution made from refuse tractor or
auto crank rase oil diluted w ith kero
sene Is very satisfactory.
White Oats
Mrs Nate C- Smith
Greatest Discovery
in Fertilizing Soil
L ik p L e g u m e s , C o r n G e t s
N i t r o g e n F r o m A ir .
T im o th y a W a s te r
, Legume« ara not the on],
crops that take nitrogea from
the air. More than fifty years ago
the imporlunt discovery was madh
that legumes—podded plants—
often use m »re nitrogen than they
take from the soil they grow in.
This, it was surmised, they must
absorb from the air through their
leaves.
Years passed, and Investigator«
discovered that this extra nitrogen
v e u u ia u u ii im p o r ta n t
is apropriated by underground
in K e e p in g A p p le C rop tiacteria from air which enters the
F ru it must be considered fo r stor soil and that it is fed to the roots
age long before the harvest, according of the plants.
The microscope
to Prof. D. B. Garrick, New York State discovered these—a different bac
College of Agriculture at Ithaca, In terium
for each variety.' Their
calling attention to the condition of presence was discernible by the
some fru it now being taken from stor unaided eve, for they formed nod
33— F o d d er
FARM WOMEN ORGANIZE
SS— A a y
af
e a r lo a a
b a m b e a t I b e C D 1 O |(S O S o r C a ttle
age. Insects * and diseases must be
11— F r o l l e
g ra n a e a
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ules of considerable size on the
eliminated by correct spraying and
If the low price reduces the
• 1 — L o a * p e r io d s o f t im e
37— B a r a «
roots
of their host plants.
Campaign to Start In June to Enroll care.
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I d — P . F . a f •‘ w ill* *
3N— A n I M
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I acreage planted as much aa seems
BS— F e a r
The
department of agriculture
SO— M o v f w r s a l r a a s r
50,000
Members.
| likely there is a prospect that the
The fru it should be mature when
• 7 — F r o m a d e f in it e p a s t t lu , e a a t l l
81— O e s a ic tr fr a l n a a ra a
aud the < xpstiment stations culti
Washington,
D.
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O
rg
aniiatio
n
ol
picked,
'jut
not
overripe.
O
f
the
two
man
in
Linn
county
who
.plants
SS— M i n a r . a ( r . a . l a k l . i
• e llla g a
JM— S l . a d . r r u * a ( » a l a i
certified seed potatoes on good the Federated Farm Women of Am er It la better to have the fru it slightly vate the e bacteria and supply
W o o d y p e r e n n ia l p l a n t h a r f a g
M — C u a lr a d l.l
potato
soil that has been in other Ica was completed here a fte r the dele underripe, as It ripens slightly a fter them on ueinand for tbe inocula
a s i n g u l a r m a l a « te rn
17— P l< p .a
<1— L o n g , h e n r y b a l r a b o u t a e c k a f
W — O k a .r v .
crops the past two yeurs, give* gates had been received by President picking. F ru it must be carefully han tion of crops of red elover, white
som e q a n d ra p e d a
dled, for, when the skin Is broken, the clover, alfik-, ve»ch, peas, beans,
(ood care and gratis* properly, can Coolidge and Secretary Jardine.
♦J^—W o r d a w a it e d b y l a a a r t o m a k e
enter. The etc., a dilfe e rt organiiation for
The purpose as set forth in the decay organisms may
bias h a p p ie s t at a a l a w o r ld
S a la ilu a w il l a p p e a r l a a a s t l a .a u
4«t a satisfactory price.
fr i'It should not be allowed to stand each.
< 1 — S t a i n , e a lo r
tentative
draft
of
the
constitution
I
t
The day when •' Salinas valley
In the sun a fte r picking, but should
Now comes a startling new
“re-ostabllsh the peace, happlnest
Solution o f Puzzle No.
ind Oregon Burbanks ” stood at
be cooked as soon us possible.
discovery. In a three-year
and prosperity of the farm homes, tc
the
head
of
tba
list
in
San
Francis
J b ;B J T 0 C A 1 A L A |
I t Is Important to select keeping va rotation of corn, oats and timothy
G v e | e : l
io i 1 otato
Q + on L r D w n A / l i » » . JO
o,Bt0 market
Ullrktt quotations
quotation« passed enlist as members groups, associa rieties, such as Baldwins, Ben Davis, and clover or timothy and other
o o ,N H N O ,N r B < r
^ L U C K B r e e d i n g I long ago. Certified set ¡Land care- tlo n , or Individuals in a national or and Uussets.
grasses the corn crop took more
V .S L T ie lD llP A ,
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pul grading may bring the Oregon ganlaatlon which shall be s tric tly non
Any room w ith good ventilation and
nitrogen from tbe air than the
political and essentially educational
J o u r s H T o b e
a
low
tem
perature
w
ill
do
fofligtorlng
.R e p o rts a n d C o m m e n ts F ro m | s e n d in g Ck t<? ltb ior“ *r blgh
clover did 1
, J une B valo r
and economic In character
fru it. Ventilation la Im portant iS get-
experiments were til
mad»
The organising com mittee plans tc ! ting a low tem perature as soon as m,s I . These
,,
® exPerimenls
a d e
a t er s
S to c k m e n in V a rio u s
start
liri an actlye campaign in June tc sible. A tem perature of 30 degrees I
Lomeli uoivereity. The crops
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P a r ts o f C o u n try .
get 60,000 farm women In the federa w ith 80 per cent relative hum idity, la were grown in twelve cement tanks
l O R .E a ^ ,A B E R
Blackleg of Potato
the best for storage.
and tie drainage watsr, the soli,,
tiou from every state in the union
< P re p a re d by th e U n ited I t * t e e D e p a rtm e n t
' j 81AI l m B l e ' a b
crop«, etc., were all carefully
Can
Be
Controlled
oaJt o ,_ re
of A s ri.__
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Destruction of much of the spring analyzed,
An unuauul amount of sound counsel
The total of nitrogen with corn
truck garden crop near T he Dalles,
on questluns of live stock hreetilQg Is
F o r m a ld e h y d e o r C orrosive
,'ontaluud In recent reports received by
either by being washed aw ay or by was much greater ;han in the
In the timothy
the United States I ’epurtiuent ut Agri
hall, and damage to fru it of an unde unplanted tunks.
S u b lim a te F a v o re d .
culture from stockmen*throughout the
term ined extent, were reported by tanka there wan a loss of nitrogen
A lf a lf a P ro fita b le C ro p
country. The reports and comments
farm ers and orchardlsts as a result of instead of a gain.
Potato blackleg one of the most M otion P ic tu re G iv es E v e ry
It appears that each particnlar
f o r U se in A n y S e c tio n were Invited by a questionnaire ou destructive of tuber diseases, can be
a freak hall storm and near cloud-
methods of Improving farm live stock.
P h a s e o f C u ltu re as W ell
plant has it« associated bacteria
W hile farmers are growing a ,,„„1
controlled hy treating the seed pieces
I he following terse statements seem
deal of a lfa lfa they do not grow on.-
which become intensely active
with hot formaldehyde or corrosive
«ultable for cousldoratlon by farmers
a s U tility .
.
T H E MARKETS
toqlli enough.- It Is by fs r the best
sublimate, provided the seed pieces arc
when they find the friendly roots
seeking to Improve their herds aud
planted Im m ediately, or are kept oui
noncultivatcl crop we cau grow, and
of their associate in their neighbor-
Uocka:
<P r,p<r*4 *x tb e V s l u s S tatM n -a sr tn ia ir t
o f reach of a certain small fly until
Portland
u iu ally returns ms much profit per
hood once more, and that tbe
®r A sr lceltu ra )
T trs e Statements.
they are planted.
W heat — H ard white. »1.55; hard bacteria which work with other
ftcre as corn, wheat, or any other cul
A motion nb-ture llluatrating the cul
"The chute« of a herd sire will likely
tivated crop.
This fly lays Its eggs In great abun tivation and utilization of the soy bean
w in te r and soft white, »1.50; western plant« become temporarily dor
make or break you In the dairy game
¡As a hay crop It la second to non«,
white, »148; northern spring, »162
mant.
I f .von pick a good one, the price you dance about the time potatoes are be has Juat bees completed by the United
yielding as high hs fobr tons to the
Ing planted. I f It happens to luy State« Departm ent of Agriculture, In
western red, »1.49
pay Is o f little oonsequence; I f you
There was twici as much nitro
acre la favorable years and never
them upon seed potatoes aud such which the bureau of plant Industry-
H a y — A lfalfa, 320 @2L ton; valley
pick e poor one, you w ill pay toe much
gen lost from one unplanted lank
leas than two tons.
It Is liked by
seed Is plunled, file eggs hatch out worked In co-operation with Ohio
e u n If you get him for nothing."
tim othy, »2O@21;
eastern Oregon
per year a« from the whole nine
every animal on the farm from chick
what Is known as the seed-corn tuag
State university.
Thle picture, en
'Pure bred, are better sellers and
tim othy, »23034.
ens to horse«, and they w ill |,.ave
planted ones. Perhaps summer
make more meat for the amount of got, so called because when first dis titled, "Four Men and the Soy," waa
B u tterfat— 42c delivered Portland.
»heir grain to eat good a lfalfa hay.
fallowing is a more expensive
covered It was attacking com seed at Columbus. Ohio, last September
fe-d and length o f time.”
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, Eggs— Ranch. 23@26c.
I f It la within their reach. (Jive
lings. According to J. O. bench of the while the annual "Soy Bean day" ac
practice than has been supposed,
When young, untested stock Is sold,
Cheese— Prices i. 0. b. T illam oo k:
calves all the a lfalfa hay they will
division of plant pathology, Mlnnesotu tivities of the Ohio State College of
A man whose name, we believe,
I h e breeder should keep In touch with
eat a fte r they are four months old
Triplets, 24c; loaf, 27c per lb.
( ollege of Agriculture, the eggs contain Agriculture were In progress. It ta la
t h e purchaser, so that If the stock
was Barber, raised corn continu
nnd they w ill thrive on It. It |a al
the
blackleg
organism
when
they*
are
C
attle—
Steers,
good.
»9
75@10.25.
two
reels.
doe« not turn out aa It should through
ously, for many years, on a little
maot a necessity for milk cows
„
deposited. Then as the maggot bore-
Hogs Medium to choice, S I2 ® 13 65
no fault of the purchaser, the breeder
Four W o rried F arm er,.
patch of grotym on Lake creek,
doesn’t m atler what you feed . row
Into the seed piece It carries w ith It
e , ! n e cP~ L a “ 1” '
to choice^
can make the deal right. I t pays
between Mapleton and Swisahome’,
The story of "Four Men and the
I f you leave the alfalfa out .h e will
the
bacteria
which
first
rot
the
seed
»13.00®
15
00.
directly and Indirectly, aside from the
Soy" concerns the trouble? of four
despite the current belief «t that
decrease In the flow o f milk at on, e
and
then
spread
to
the
stem
of
the
fact that it Is the fa ir way to do."
farmers who "were worrte-L' each
time tl^at both rotation ind change
"Preach Individuals first and pedl- plant, causing It also to rot and die
Seattle
of seed were necessary to success,
'T h e maggots feed upon the bac after Ida own faahlon, and who found
Oroens In the garden are better than groce second."
W h e a t - S o f t white, »1.55; western
In the Sny-Bean-day demonstrations
and got and increasing crops. Ris’
grwsnbarks in the pocket.
'None but high producing cow« are terla as well as the decaying tuber,
the solution of th eir several troobles
white, »1.53; hard w inter, ,1.56; west
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corn probably got its nitrogen 'by
prvtltable and the use of pure bred says Doctor Leach. "The bacteria re
with varieties of any beans, early or
B?J Hd' a L».?: “ Orthern ’ Prtns. »1.55; the grace of tbe newly discovered
It costa more to do without good »Ire« Is the shortest road."
main In the Intestinal tract of the mag
Big Bend bluestem, $1.80© 195
farm machinery than to buy It.
got until It pupates and makes Its wav late, ^ h e university farm at Coinm-
hut unseen bacteria.
High U tility Value. *
bus bad provided aoy beaus In all
The Harrisburg Bulletin voices
complaints made by some potato
growers that the amended potato
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gradiug law is burdensome, and
that, aoyway, price* bsve been too
( © by W ta fa ro N«w cpap«r U n io n .)
low tbiayear aud they are going
Horizontal.
V e rtic il.
to quit railing potatoes for eala.
1— I k o r m a k e r ’a to o l
1— S a la m a w a n d e r
♦— O b « k a a d r e d p o u o il« ( a b b a .)
1 be same complaint about this
8— M o a t r o o m a b a r # f e a r a f th e m
7— F a a e e
•" J a ilb ir d w b e S b v a r e a g e r I e H
year
s prices comes from other
• - —Feet re v e rie *
get oat
parts of the United States, where
10— F e r t e l a J e g to f a i r I r e
♦■— W e d g e
13— W h a r a » h r o e a a a s tu p a
1— L a b o r
there has been no grading legisla
11— < 'l t r u a fraalt
• — S m a ll m o a a d a f e a r f b
tion. There baa been overproduc
15— F i l e o f h a y
b— H e e a r r a a f o o r a a lo a , r e p e t i d o s
l b — W h a l y o u o u g h t f a d a I f y a j ir
• — P a r c e l a f a to e b
tion and consequent price depres
• u b a r r i p f l o a b a a a s p ir e d
1 1 — P r e s e n t t im e
sion, but the man who marketed *
1IU-—B i t o f flu m e
18— T n s t e le a e f r o m a g e
11— M a rk le ft by a w a a u d
uigb.grade article has, as a rule,
Id — A f band
3U— Y a r a
1 A— F i g h t
received more for it than he woulu
11— W b a t t b a r u b b e r
y a u r p e a rl I
17— O a la l d e c o r a r l a * a f a c i g a r
for th» entire crop ungraded and
Is f a r
1 * — D e p r iv e a f e e a a lb l l lf y
1 1 - W y t h le a l e r l g l a o f f r a a k f a r t a r «
8 8 — T o t a k e l l q a l d fo o d
baa had the culls, practioally as io
3d— T b o » r w h o a a a b a c k a r t a
Id — T r e e g iv in g a r a la a b la ana
clear g gain,
Io feed to hogs,
W le r m a n
8 5 — O ld
I ' “ much
”
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4T
improving Live
Cultivation o f
Soy Bean Shown
• • •
"Feed your Boll and your soil w ill
feed you," any the soil fortu ity men.
. . .
Weed seeds are coally to the farm In
price paid for them and In lose of
value to tlie crop grown.
. . .
The good farm er lays h it battle
pinna for the Insect and dlseuae war of
the approaching summer
. . .
I se oats as a nurse crop for sweei
clover rather than barley
In either
ease the nurse crop should be art-de.l
at about uue-hulf the normal rate ot
planting.
» • s
Though sunlight coats nothing. It t.
about the meat valuable thing you enn
give your chicks.
s e e
I f you fall to beautify your premise«
w ith flowers and shrubbery, you cheat
yourself and your visitors
In starting a new crop year It la
well to remember that the Incentive to
agriculture la not chiefly profit but the
aatis'rtng of the bunion Interest Is
creative production
A ll crop» except timothy riv e bet
ter y'elda v h m they are grown In
rotation than w h.n grown In contlnu
oua culture, , xp rlmenta at the New
T u rk Bfate Col’ -
r »rriculture
The detailed report td which the
foregoing comments were Incidental
shown briefly that pure bred live stock
has high u tility value from a produc
tion and market standpoint, and that
It costs bat little more to produce high-
rlnss animals than the ordinary k in d
The Investment and othar factors
which appear sometlmss to Increase
production costa are effsel by early
m aturity and other Im portant savings
due to Improved breeding.
Estimates of tha Hood R iv e r val
ley fru it crop vary. T he bloom has
been more scattered than In any past
season. In Instances growers who had
more than 30,000 boxes of apples last
season say thay count on 10.000 boxes
this year
One east side grower who
had over 25,000 hoars in 1*24 says he
docs sot expect over «OOO boxee. K ill
mate« for the 1825 tonnage ranges all
the way from 800.000 to 1,800.000
ttovo«
Ih e agricultural economic con
ference at O. A. C. brought out
lh« Maternent that in western Ore.
gon nlover yields from 8 to R |
t>u«hela of seed per acre, while iu
the eastern clover see.) sections tha
vi -ld ia but about half that.
And
thia oonntrv Importa annually
$2.1X10,000 worth of seed of t h .
to the surface of the ground where It
develops Into the adult fly. Thus the
nsect carries the blackleg bacteria
with It at all tim es''
C a p a c ity o f a S ilo Is
M a tte r o f Im p o rtan ce
The capacity of the silo Is a mat
ter o f Importance.
Unless one is
keeping at least ten cows the cost of
the silo Is usually not Justified
A
round silo, 28 feet high, w ill hold the
allage for about a dozen cows during
Ihe usual feeding season. A good
standard size ranges from 14 to I f
feet In diameter and 30 to 82 feel
high
Under
ordinary
conditions
cows eat from SO to «0 pounds of
allage a day, according to their else
and conc.tlon o f lactation. A farm er
can easily estimate how much rapac
Hy la needed, on the basis of this
amount to he fed per head.
If one
haa 80 cows to feed, then about 1,000
pounds a day would be repaired, a n d '
for a feeding season of seven month»
« r 210 daya, 220,500 pound« or 110
tona. A round silo »0 feet deep and
I f feet in diam eter Inside holds
«boot 120 tone. T he capeclt.v of th,
ello should enable one to feed from
the surface dally te a depth suffleien
to prevent molding. Thia la usually
placed at around ttfc to 3 Inches
In
recent years some tile -owners on
high priced lands, and not pasturing
aver« n»«stnn»U
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stages, so jho t It was possible to dem
onstrate every phaee o f cultivation
In one day
Hence the plt-ture pre
vents a very detailed exemplification
of the stages In soy bean culture, as
well as scenes showing the utilisation
of soys os bay for cattle, sheep «nd
horesa, and of the seed of the soy
bean oil cake a t a concentrate for
hogA cattle and poultry
Future Is Bright
The conclusion of the whole matter
'to quote from tbe "soy-benn speech '
which closes the exercise» of Soy Bean
day aa portrayed In the film ) 1« that
the aoy been la “a crop of vast poa
slbllltlee to the American fa rm e r.' and
that "Its growing popularity and In
Cri-saing acreage b m lfy y , . ^ l i e f that
It la destined to become one of the
leading farm crop» o f the United
States."
A,
C attle—Choice steers, »8.25®
S7r h ' e i " 7 O7 ’' on fancy to r e f e r s .
inC,nnPrr
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8,an,1* r'1«- « c ; Wash
tngton fancy triplets. 26c.
Spokane.
Hogs— Prime mixed. »12.75013 10
C a t tle - Prim e steers, »9.50 @ lo oo.
T o kill crows that pulled up the
corn, several farmer* in Benton
county soaxed some good corn in
strychnine eolnton
nrd tbeO
coated it with paraffine. They
baited tbe crowa with good corn
for a few date. Then poison corn
was spread. The paraffine delaysd
digestive action till ,J ib e bi,fi,
killed them
’ ’h*u the poison
For thrifty, healthy chicks feed
and
W ith the coming of warm weather
lice and m i l « become a prehlem to the
poultry flock owner hscauas the warm
ev weather provide» coodltlens mors
favorable for^thelr Increase. As prs-
ventlon la better than a curs, the fl<x-k
9«mw mast ha ever watchful for these
Developing Mash J
o . W. FR U M
«
Lice remain on tha body of the bird
while mites live «a tbe underside of
the roost» and u cracks and crnvi,-««
I
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Egg»—Ranch. 27@32c.
Hogs— Primes, »13.75.
ISHER’S CIICK FEED
C o n tro l L ice a n d M ites
D u rin g S u m m e r W e a th e r
P F t; i.
H a y — Alfalfa. $24; .D. C 128- tin,
othr. ,2 S ; D . C ..,2 8 ; mixed h a ;. « 7
B u tterfat— 46c.
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