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K URAL ENTERPRISE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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'* 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
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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
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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
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I A m e r ic a n E a g le
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‘ 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
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