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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1925)
SEPT ER 1 K URAL ENTERPRISE Ai. iau«|o»r><4* u t —b u t n e u t r a l—new» paper, published e vei y W e d u e s d a ,, after another commonplace. they The Great Outdoors become ass Wa. U. AHLKI.KK Ex-U uvernur W « t'< request fot Sen i t or Star, field’ s a ttitu d e in the J 1.50 M year btore ieeue is to te answered. Advet tiling, 3de an tach ; no ditcour T u r senator la b illed for tr ia l ai for lune or ip ce : no charge for con Baker Fridas on a charge of being oositioo or c langes Sa "Palo-foi paragraphs.*' Ic a llaa ruak and disorderly. We don’i sia a d v s rlia i g disguised as news. •ee tbe " d r u n k ” in the report o he selling of tl.e trial, hut tbe ar SELF-HELP IN SIGHT sling officer aeaerte it. During tho List hundred years discoveries nnd inven tions have revolutionized near ly every department of pro ductive industry. The farm ar well as the factory has exper ienced the forward thrust o improved productive power Impossibilities of a few yean ago are achievements of today The writer of this is no cen tenarian, but he rememben when the first horse-draw mowing machine came into th part of the country where h lived. After that came tJi< reaping machine, with mer following it and binding tht shdaves. Then came the self binder, a wonder In its day Now we have the combine. Henry Ford is a mighty practical man, but we are not looking for a fulfillment of his prediction of a day when our foods will be synthetically iroduced by chemists and a ittle capsule will contain meal. It that time should come we might rush to the surgeons to have our useless stomachs and intestines lopp ed off, like the useless tonsil or appendix. Fashions change both inside and outside of us. In feeding stock it has been found necessary* to give not only the nutrients required but enough “roughage” to proper ly distend the digestive tract We are all animals and subject to that same natural law whether we ' believe that we descended from the monkey, the elephant or the skunk or simply that our ancestors am theirs started from the sam starting post on th<> long am devious race we all are run ning. But it looks as though the farmer might come into the sunlight of prosperity by his own action, as has the oil pro ducer, the auto maker or the grain gambler, and without waiting to get justice in the f ' ..riuum ta riff acbedple er iti W here Bread, Meat. Clothing, Health and Vigorous Hum anity are Produced Hay Cut and Cured In Thirty Minutes And It Has Twice the value of the Usual The military air service is ontrolled by the army ant Product .avy. When attempting tunt like that in which the One man, on the average, tenandoah was wrecked wt .ills as much soil and raises ould like to see the secretar s of war and the navy go as much produce as three did 100 years ago. Americans are long. ,etter Tbe strike, as used by lah< nions to force wage increases, ne c f tl e m o il form idable wa reapone l o o m , b i t some—ow th Portland barbers can’ t make tin irn th ing work in enfo'cing thei ire to 65 emte per haircut. Tho United States m not rid itse lf of senate Charles G )awes with a wave of land. He is talking to »eople who pay the bills, hose same people have >tes. the the anc the The best daily paper in the ate outside of Portland, the lugene Registei, e x a c ts te tove into a new home, with ew and up-to-date machinery md apparatus, early in 1926 fed, and by o n e -lb ird ja v Keep Bees Busy dry and in finely ground form, Problems Worry without a fork e w having Alfalfa Growers to Make Money been used to handle it. ___________ i ___________ Mason uses a mower with a conveyor attached. As the Variety of Seed, Time of Remove Filled Supers as hay falls before the on-rushing Soon as Possible and Put sickle it is elevated to a chop Seeding and When to Cut per, where it is cut into lengths Are Perplexing. in Empty Ones. of one foot and then dumped into a large wagon-box. Trucks The three problems which worry The “busy” bee Is not nearly so In or tractors easily haul several alfalfa growers the most are variety dustrious as he has been pictured by loads of hay to the barn at to seed, time of seeding, nnd time of blg admirers. In fact, he has some cutting. The University of Illinois very tiumun qualities. He works when one time. been studying these problems for , bere , , on incentive to work, and he At the barn the hay Is auto has years. Conclusions on the bag been known to loaf on the Job matically unloaded into the several most suitable varieties have been ar- dreadfully when he has gotten up drier. It passes through the rived at after watching the perform- , enough honey to keep him through the drier, and comes out with a ance of various kinds of alfalfa on winter. moisture content as low or low- the experiment held at Urbana and on The bee would not contribute much to man’s sweet tooth If he was not ?r than ha.v ordinarily dried in th e branch field at DeKalb. Grimm Best Yielder. persuaded to do so through Intelligent the sun. The hay then goes to During the past six years at De- handling, and through fear of starva the grinder, which grinds it variety of Grimm tion. A hive of bees can be kept at up fine and then blows it into Kalb, a as variegated Baltic has been the best work through most of the summer If the haymow. Thus we see known yielder with an average production you keep this fear constantly before that the human hand has nev o f 4.6 tons per acre. The varieties the workers. er had any occasion to handle were cut three times each season. Quit When Full. Under the old system of hiving a The second highest variety was South it. nany farmers, than they were 100 years ago. And on the arms there are better iurni- ure, better clothing, better buildings, better artificial light ind improvement in comforts all along the line. Part of this is due to increas ed knowledge of the facts on which agriculture is based, but much more to machines Dakota No. 12, with a yield of 4.07 md tools which have been tons. South Dakota Grimm yielded invented. Short Grain Crop 3.76 tons; Kansas common 3.3« tons - We have traveled far from • [) J* • J ’ South Dnkota common 3.1« tons and the time of the sickle, the hand IS I redielea Turkestan 2.9. The latter variety has lail and all the other farm ________ i been on the market In large quantities implements of our grandfath 1 but is not hardy enough to make a ers, but it would seem that we September Production Forecast good variety for mmois. . i v s • : i f At Urbana. South Dakota No. 12 ire still only on the thresh 0T Department Of AgriC U l- 1 yielded best with an average of 4.1 o ld oi agricultural progress. ture ■ ItlHho was Kansas second wlth A few weeks ago the Enter ture k 15 Unfavnrahlp Untavorauie. . iona per toM acre Then came com- prise described a hay-curing ------------- '* mon with 3.8 tons. Grimm 3.7 tons, outfit that so far cut down tht Washington. D. C.—Crop yields this -1 : Gossack 3.6 tons, and Argentine with manual labor of haymaking, year will be. on the whole, well below >nly about 25 per cent as much as the «vhile producing a uniformly the average of recent years, the de other varieties. It was a mistake to ele Ir. Dawes vice-president, to reside over the senate. He it "Her Article of teed, than sort of efficiency expert vas pronounced a real money- hereas what the senators de lavei at.d a help toward bring- ire and need is a deficiencj ng the farm er into his own, xpert. m a financial par with the fol- owei of other industries. If (he FVirii nee is ini'isputabls Last week we referred to at man e iis ed in Africa, in Pal-« nachinery which takes skim itin « a n l in Europe million.- ot nilk from the separator and in vetrs ago, t l at upseii not t ie hirty minutes turns it into a jowder that will keep indefi 3 hie, k i i i i p u 'a r iiitrr p r ita t'o n nitely and be readv for solu- if it and U s lin ’ * chronology. ion and use whenever wanted. Here we reproduce from the Oregon is not the o nly am< Farm Journal an account of where prisoners are perm itted to how Arthur J. Mason, a farm m before su llying fo rth . Eight er near Chicago, not only cures I them , arm*'<l, le ft prison at lis hay without its being ouched by hand, but secures S u itt'e yesterday. vith it twice the nutritive val- A chain is as weak as iti le of ordinary hay. Mr. Ma- veakest link, but a league oi ¡on writes to the Jo u rn al: “For twelve years now I mtions is stronger than iti have given nearly all my time, Wrongest member. md much money, in a research Vice-President Dawes am. laving for its end a new and ¡cneral Mitchell are rebels. better regime in agriculture. “ It must be plain to all that 50 wore Moses and Georgi he rewards in agriculture vV ashington. fave not kept pace with those n urban life. A larger product pet acre, Big Importance of and a larger product for a Trees to Mankind the cost of transportation or or a McNary-llaugen or other kind of subsidy. The man who cut the laboi cost of curing hay and grain and snapped his fingers at tht wqather by stacking his crop under cover and forcing ail through it reported that he *ot a better product at less cost. nun’» year'g work, must be had. This week we have, else had. where on this page, the some what startling story of a farm- Many Useful Purposes Are "The time-honored dry har- i neai Chicago who not only est of the United States (I Served by Large Plants. effects thus saving in cost and exclude wheat foi the mo improvement in quality but Trees s e n e so many useful pur ment) means that not a third doqtiles th * T iu triiivH n in e el poses that It would be quite Impoaal >1 what our lands actually now ble to mention them all. but If you will iroduce is utilized. Thus an his'product per ton by harvest- try to lmnglue for a moment, living In ere of oats, cut in the milk j <r a before th-* usual time n world without trees and without nnj nd dried rapidly, say within time and gets the use of the of the products that come directly la lf an hour, will feed three lantf for two crops in the short from trees, you will at once begin t< mes the weight of animal it realise their true Importance In rela season of Illinois. With seven tlon does under the usual practice. to mankind. niep he harvests 8000 tons of This astounding fact can | 1. Trees absorb poisonous gases f Ifftlfa in a season, with a food ami exhale health gtTlng oxygen, thus easily be verified bv reference I cihtent never before ap preserving our health. to any good text-book, such as ! proached. 2. They shade ua from the ho» sun Voorhees’s "Forag Crops." nd co -’ the sir bv era no rat'--- — oia Speh farming as that ought On my farm an acre ol oats to jiut the farmer on easy lure from their leaves, anil they sliel yields at harvest time 110 streoF ‘er U, from the cold, blustering winds( l , o u n d s o f proteirf; the same W inders never cease. One C on tin u e') on p a te 7 ) acre yields 400 pounds of pro tein when eveporated in June. ( Note here five or six weeks j Announcing Cur Showing of New Pall time in the growing season I saved.) "Men must work in groups Coats, Dresses in farming as they do in urban lifp. and Millinery “We must save the time of our short growing season — of Quality save the land’s time. "Agricultural machinery, at now used ten days a yeat, Moderate Prices must he used at least 150 days i vonr. "The crops must all be sav ed. not allowed to waste 'uV fermentation. Mq4-e fhan llw SMART SHOP slow two-thirds of their fr»od value is now dissipated (n the pro 318 We»t Finit Street cess of what we call maturing, w h ic h Is the name we give f0, ALBANY OREGON. the sacrifice entailed when we I •How them to dry naturally in the field." in It rays t<t bny at the The Journal says of the pro- i SMART SHOP 16.1*25 i c e s s M r . M a s o n haR p e r f e c t e d ; I The hay never touches the 1 ground — 30 minutes after it good swarm seldom pxouuced more than 10 to 20 pounds of honey a sea- ion for the keeper. This was due to the fact that when Mr. Bee got his house full of honey, he quit working. Since beekeepers adopted the sectional hive with supers holding small pound frames, the records of production of a ■Ingle hive have constantly grown until beekeepers say that In good seasons they sometimes run 20U pounds of honey to the hive. Certainly 60 to 80 pounds Is an average yield. The point Is to keep a continual watcli on each hive during the honey flow and to remove the filled supers Tim e of Cutting. as fast ns possible.' putting In empty partment of agriculture's crop report t J The study of time of cutting Indi- ones. If you don't do this, you are Ing board announced in Its Septem j ^ tes tbat tbe b„ t y|eldg wiu be ob. losing Just so much return from the ber production forecast. alned when the alfalfa Is cut when It bees. Oftentimes to delay doing It at Corn deteriorated on account ot 8s In full bloom. The next te st yield the right time, finds the bees out of dry weather In large areas and lndi w as secured when the alfalfa was cut the '*notion" and they will continue to cated production now Is 2,885,000.000 when It was one-tenth In bloom. The loaf. bushels, a loss of 65.000,000 bushels in poorest yield was obtained when It By planting alslke clover for mid the last month. The Indicated crop -vas cut nt the time the new shoots summer feeding and even for late sum Is 148.000,000 bushels more than was were beginning to come. This has mer, the bees can be kept working produced last year, but slightly under *<’’’>> the ‘"n* f',rnl'’r,y use'' bv mnny right along during hot weather, and * ° * ___ __ 1_ but _ a. I— growers In a trials n.l»K with other /tiltilO dates they can finish off on buckwheat or the average of the last five years. «.f cutting proved to he Inadvisable. some other lute crop. Buckwheut Spring wheat yields are running, H ie study carried on shows that the honey, however, does not appeal to the •lightly higher than early expecta- ’.eat time for seeding is In the spring market as clover honey. If there Is ions. The crop Is now forecast at i with a nurse crop of early grain, either auy considerable planting of sweet 248,000,000 b u sle ls or 21,000.000 more ,,njg or barley, The yields from al- clover near by, either In fields or grow than early August conditions inritcat -falfa seeded In the spring have aver ing wild along the roadsides. It will ?d, and 1.000.000 more than was pro-1 aged about one-half ton per acre bet- , keep tbe bees busy until well Into the er than the yields of fall needed nl- j fall. And sweet clover Is one of the duced tact year. Winter wheat, al falfa. This study Indicates that farm best and clearest honey-makers you ready harvested. Is estimated at 416, ■ ers can generally follow the recom 800,000 bushels making the country's can find. Prices for Honey. total prospective wheat crop about f mendations made In this article. Seed Last season honey was bringing bee 700,0«.,000 bushels, or 22,000.0001 ai hardy variety thnt has shown a satisfactory performance; seed In the keepers 50 cents a pound right at the bush«' i more than was produced last | spring with a nurse crop, and cut local markets. In the larger cities, the year, but 137,000,000 bushels less than when In full bloom for highest aver price was even more favorable. And the five-year average. a g e yields. every pound that the bees can be en Foreign prospects for wheat annovn- couraged to produce Is Just that much ~ed by the department of agriculture Timber sold on the national for- more “velvet" for the beekeeper. It Indicate t/.at In 24 countries of the «8.S of Oregon and W ashington for pays to have the extra supers all ready aorthern hemisphere the yield will to-1 tthe fiscal year ended June 30, 1925, to be slipped Into place as needed. tai 2.431.000.000 bushels, compared amounted to 704,386,000 board feet, The big honey flow always comes with with 2*303,000,000 last year while in valued at >1,449.898.48, according to a rush and the way the bees get It In he southern hemisphere crops are the report of the forest service re- often catches the beekeeper unawares, aronxlsing and a record acreage Is ap- lating to the national forests of Ore- especially so If he Is a new hand at the and Washington. The national business. Constant prodding Is good / ' i l l I V ’l ' V forests of the two states contain 217,- for Mr. Bee. It will help htin to earo P reparo in V Vz L. 1 I 745,196,000 board feet of standing tim the right to the reputation he has en exhibit, for joyed so long. ber, according to service estim ates. tho FA IR i Bees in Orchard Most Profitable WHEAT, OATS and W h o l e BARLEY Modern Methods of s » Under Handling Insects Are Not Bothersome. onG round Orchnrdists think kindly of the low* ly honey bee. There Is a very con» mon saying among experienced or I chardlsts which sums the matter u( I In a few words. It ts: “No bees, ne fruit.’’ The failure of orchords In 0/ I certain parts o f the country, tbe 1» different fruiting which la often blamed on the season, might very of ten he traced to the absence of hr«» It does not make much difference, so far as the orchard la concerned, whether it Is tame bees or wild bees that perform nature'a method of f*r tillzntlon of the bloom. It doea. how ever, make tome difference to the or chard owner In that tame bees will give him a yield of honey and sure pollenlzatlon without the consumption of extra ground. The game land c»n be made to yield two crops Juet as well aa one. Orchard Failures. The discontinuance of the keeplnl of tame beea on many farms, and ths additional destruction and disappear ance of the wild beea In the surround ing woods have all had their band I In the so-called “failure of orchards." Rees are one of the moat profltabls aide lines which the fanner can carry. He can well afford to consider their possibilities, not only for their nwS sake bnt for the sake of the orchard. Under modern methods of handling bees, they are not half the bother and the troulde that they used to b» Swarming, the old-time bugaboo the beekeeper, haa been practically eliminated, because we have learned Its cause and by practicing prec»» Mz i FISH ER ’S EGG PRODUCER «/ 1 Jives better results O . w . F R U IU / I A m e r ic a n E a g le " ‘ Fire Insurance Co. Hay is worth just as much in storage as veil UL'ght get for it in case of tire. Th 5 Amerio m Eagle Eire Insurance c»ampanf will p; ,ÿ you of the cash value in casp **-□»>■ tire. C .P . STAFFORD.Agent UvP»ff aifthodg, t j gqjUpg 19
