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C H I C K r jJ J E
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rural enterprise
AVOIDABLE
J« , „ ,
tragedies
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fatedy ¡hM .- a
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far k* «mi. a
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t« v g a the periormanc« of an
ACrvrtitsejr >«c >a >»ch
, o t.a e fo . act. tam ely, ia tryiLg
The Great Outdoors
W here Bn-ad Meat. Clothing. Health and V igorous Humanitv an- Produced
to k ill a a-«r befere ho ha»
•»iartwaed sW tarr k w a asae or
they are by bo means complete.
a feaaie Adoest te xher pewaJu»» T he A g ricu ltu re
Except among tbs thrifty, compe Irrigation in
Paragraphs for Farmer!
be ahouid be forever tarred from
oí the Future tent truck gardeners near oar large
I rsiag f.rearrtia
W A T E R IM T H IS V a L L K Y
W estern Oregon
cities the waste of every form ot
Potatoes that arc j.bbed witl
Nearly every aoumobde accident
agricultural effort is appalling.
fork« or cut are not No. 1.
U
la another eolomu on this page m due to enntnal careJes-ness. Wher.
Dairying
sails
lor
tbe
growing
of
Biggest Combination of
a
tar
akida
in
tamnyr
•
corner
or.
A
Prediction
That
This
.tgomiooua urops that add to tbe
M a prediction that the W ’Hamel t<
Io tbe United States only lh
Brains and .Muscle
nitrogen supply of tbe soil, instead
valley will some day become tfee a w»t parement and the driver
\
alley
Will
Lead
in
oountie»
are prouoUDCtci free h 3a
claims that he was going careful!)
Will Win
of depleting it. If tbs farmer
bovine tuberculosis.
0
greatest irrigated farming sectr n he m.Jcea a false claim. No mattet
the
Country
sells tbe fat in the m ilk, and feeds
id the D a iiee fctatea.
Aren
t
you
proud
of
.
bow aiowly he was going, he wax gv
Ford's Weekly)
tbe skim milk to calves, swine and
Oregon’ ’ ’ we. often heard fro«
To oce who baa always been told irg too fast under the condition-
f arming will be surely, adequately
(George Huntington Currey in
kens, be is sending away no
7.
,b’ d , "’ p' c" ,i
that in wtatera Oregon " i t rains The skidding proves this.
oitregenous
fertility
from
bis
farm
“Oregon
Business)
and profiUbiy conducted in this coun
except as it walks off ia the car
When he runs into another car or
thirteen mouths in the year,” and
Gradually southern Oregon took
try by the lame methods that our cartes of the livestock be markets
who baa act thoughtfully studied a ditch, a post or the river in the
the lead in irrigation and without
1
0
i
the
25,000,000
cow.,
397.000
other
large
industries
are
conduct
fog he io to blame for the reaults
conditiona i a a, thia may be atari
doubt the big irrigated area of south
If the fog wax so dense that he could ed. Not tomorrow, 'ey next month, belong to tbe 800 cow testiog
county bed 3 i l . c m lb .
era Oregon ia today in the most this month that had p . , erJ L*?
Hog or aeern impossible, tv ti
stations.
not safely drive in it it was a crini» or, probably, to any great extent
though ba realises, aa many d< for him to do so.
A recent bulletin of tbe depart, prosperous condition of any farming inspection« by O. A. C.
within the next ten years. But it merit of agriculture says; ‘ ‘ It is section in the state.
not, that here ia a eomparati vel)
After every accident which could
Changing market demands and t l
f¥Yi50,000 P *™ "» *»rn»p
u bound to come if thia nation ia to estimated that the average dairy
it»al plain containing more acre» have been avoided by careful driving
improved farming methods have re $1,368,000 picking 80,000 bale« ol
continue
to
thrive
and
live.
tow
in
tbia
oouatry
produce«
daily
than all the area, for inatanaa, o' the driver ought to be disqualifiée
14.000
acres BM
The output of the corneetjy man about 4000 pound« of milk con cently brought irrigation to the front hope from
Massacbmslts
and Coouecticu' from ever driving a ear agrin.
balsm
tb
it
year,
the
hop. being
ir.
the
Willamette
valley,
where
many
Leave the driving of cars to per aged, amply capitalized farm will be taining about 160 pound« of butter
8
com blued.
farmers now predict that Oregon will worth nearly $4,000,000.
*old at a price ao much lower than fat.
sons who never have been responsi
In
the
economical
production
eventually see one of the largest ir
Comparatively few W ||),mel(e Ue for accidents and «bo shooting the output of inefficient farm , that
The largest marketing concsrn
valley farmers have thied to irri- >f game to those who never have it will be impossible for the latter of milk and butter fat the largest rigated districts in the United State«. in Oregon and tha large.t wool
gaini are to be obtained through
Irrigation is no longer a sectional, marketing organization i„ , ht
gate crops of any considerable ait», been known to shoot without know to continue in business.
the culling out of those cows that tut a state-wide opportunity.
The
entrance
of
skilled
manage-
Lmted State« 1« the Pacific Co-
and many «till believe that tbe cost’ ing what they were shooting at.
produce less than 4030 pounds of
The successful farm unit is the operative Woolgrowsrs of Port
*n<
1
C
*P1UJ
that
demand»
of doing ao would exceed the
‘
'killed management — into agricul milk, containing less than 160 economic basis of the entire recla land.
Pictures on the stage and lb* ture will be brought about gradually pounds of butter fa t.”
beoefit, though all will admit that
mation program. Drainage is not
Glenn Ohling of Albany had
George H . Brownell.
there are timea, almost every year, nagaziua covers have bean wort by the increasing inability of more
only associated with irrigation pro
a» the »tats fair a litter of 12 , j x.
blems, but the drainage Of swamp
»hen a little water on the lend Jeccnt recently than they were a and more of our present-day farmers
months-old pig. that w.igb.d 2670
THE MARKETS
and waste lands is as true land re pounds. He h .d fed them four
•h ila ago, but last Monday even, to continue the battle to make
woijld be worth much money.
clamation as . irrigation. Likewise ton., at . eo.t of $25, and he .old
The wheat crops which ahortl) ng one showed in Halsey that we living.
Portland
the matter of clearing logged over them for over |26O.
More and more of those poorly
befere harvest this year looked • re glad to Say wa have not sect
"Tiest
Big Bend bluestem, $1.46;
lands, the use of public lands and all
located, worn-out farm , will be
hard white. $1 43; soft white and west
like bumper yields but disappoint- advertised by any rvpatahle show
Grain, hay and potato yield, in
abandoned. The cities will absorb
similar
problems must be considered
•d all tapes when thrashed would house. It was brought by a tramp w n e of the owners and tenanta; era white. $1.38; hard winter, north in their proper relation to the water Oregon are larger than last v»«r
ern spring and western red, $1.35.
A 100.000,000-buahel ahort.g. of
have gone tar towards paying for showman who did not attach Lis others will be given employment by
Hay — Alfalfa, S it e is ton; valley ing of the irrigable acres in the state
potato« in th . United S .at.i i.
for an irrigatien plant on many a name to bia advertising. "Q u o hoac farmers who run their farms
(Dearborn
Independent
—
Henry
timothy, 318(120; eastern Oregon
meetly too far away to stimulate
farm in return for a little water V Adie ” is a story that cannot I t as factories.
timothy, 321 @22.
the price in Oregon.
There
are
going
to
be
fewer
farms
joat at thair time of need.
Butterfat—55c shippers' track.
p ctured decently. To present it
Piffle of Politicians
Lggs—Ranch. 41850c.
A big meeting at Aum.ville ¡.
A prune grower along the VVi'- >n the movies is to licentiously wid fewer farmers in this country.
And,
despite
this
seeming
contradic
Cheese—Prices
t.
o.
b.
Tillamook;
Frost
too early or frost too late, planned for Nov. 18, when 0. A.
lametta river a few years ago pui jortray
licentiousness.
"B an tion of economic law, the price
cold wet springs, drouths in summer, C. m.n will make a .tart lor the
of Triplets. 31c; loaf. 32c per lb.
in a pumping plsut and irrigated 'lo r ” might be put on the screen
Cattle—8teers, medium. 36.75@8.oo. innumerable pests — many are the large.t flax demonstration in tb.
wen the better class of farm land
his trees when the condition of the i i sacb a way as to be inslroctivs will not greatly increase.
Hogs — Medium to choice, 311 7541 troubles that beset the farmer, says west. T h . plan i . to put in 20
soil seemed to need it. He got a and inapiriug and without re
1 arming is due to become a highly I 12.50.
the Canton (Pa.) Sentinel. There is • ere. to aeceratn the beat kinds of
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice one source of evil, however, mas soil and qj seed.
abort crop, as did bis neighbors. p roach.
specialized business, capable of be-
>ng adequately conducted on half or ' 312.OO@13.OO.
■ od they thought ba had waat<d
querading as a friend which, if the
8nd l»»tle newspapers a
Bulgaria aod Greece each tall» two-thirda the number of acres now
farmer gives too much time and proclaiming that prosperity is r
bis money. But the next year tha
Seattle.
irder
cultivation.
A
farm
will
be
thought upon it, may cause him as turning to ag-icultuie. Mark
trees that had been unirrigated eel t it Jeagua of nations that tie
Wheat—Soft white, western white.
•slued according to the profit it will
much trouble, delay his crops and Agent Spence « > » be dose not »<
hut a aoanty crop while bis set other is lying about bar. Perhap-
31.41;
western
red,
3137;
northern
’how on a balance sheet When it
spring, 31.38; Big Bend bluestem retard his progress as much as all how it is possible, and that th
aod matured a bumper yield with brtb tell the truth now.
seen that a farm cannot make a 31.4$.
of the drawbacks mentioned above, tnatanoes they cite are special pr<
no irrigatl an aiuca the previous
profit, it will be thrown on the mar
and that is listening to the profes duoerg— isolated instances of tfc
Hay—Alfalfa,
$23;
D.
C„
$28;
tim
season. The bread which he had Leprosy is Being Cured ket and thereby become an influence othy, $26; mixed hay. 324.
sional politician trying to delude the few wno have made money. Ther
tending to decrease the price of all
tiller of the soil into believing that »re profits made on nearly a
•»at upon the waters returned to
Butter—Creamery, 4»@65c.
there can be legislation enacted di farm products, but they are uearl
Twelve persons have been releasee 'arm land.
him after many days.
Kggs—Select ranch, 57@60c.
The successful farming system of
rectly for the benefit of the farmer «11 made after they leave th
Hogs—Prime,
31tAO@14.10.
*om
the
leprosarium
at
Carville,
Irrigation will he one factor i-
farmer»' hands.
and to no one else.
Cattle—Prime steers, 37.75@8.25.
a., aa cured. There leprosy is be the future will be the one that com-
•hie vafley in the doubling and
bines the daily turnover system with
Cheese—Oregon fancy, 30c; Oregon
Such legislation never has been or
Wisconsin has the most comprs
.'g
combated
with
some
success
trehliag of the yield per acre pre
mong the ZM patient». More pa the too-prevalent present one-crop standards 26c; Washington triplets will be enacted for the simple reason henaive standardizing and Isbelini
•licled in an article in the Deaibori
2Sc.
th ft it can not be enacted.
faw of all the states. The depart
•enu are expected to be parolee turnover system.
Independent from »h u h we quote
farm
ing
in
the
future
will
include
roen$ o.' marketing has tbe powe
om month to month. Officials at
Spokane.
Frost ha. no connection with to eetahliah labels and standardi
»0 »hi«-pegs under the capti- n
he institution aro using the chaul the production of milk and its pro
Hogs—Prime
mixed, $12.25@12 5O.
ducts,
poultry
and
eggs,
vegetables
the colors of autumn foliage, asavi for nil food and farm products, anc
¡oogre oil treatment, but with var
" The Agriculture of the F u ture.”
Cattle—Prim» stee.rs, $7.50@8 00.
Prof. Sweetser, bead ol the botany I • t applies to all products packed ir
itiona. According to Dr. O. E. Den md fruits. AU are quick turnover
Tile draining ia another. By it,
products,
the
two
first
named
being
department, O, A C. Upon the' • he elate.
The department ii
ey,
physician
in
charge,
two
year»
Umatilla county wheat farmers are the approach of winter nature
♦ ifh proper tutnegement, despised
h o ~ which can be produced and
given power to prohibit t.ufait
». isolation for all persons affected
.
Jagda,” may be brought •Ith leprosy would eliminate it in th< »aduy turned into cash every day wanting rain In appreciable quanties stops the flow of sap and graeen competition. Under these condi.
for the benefit of the newly seeded coloring matter and by a pro<eis
Into the^Claae ef the most produi- United States. It ia estimated that in the year.
lions the state produces 70 per
crop, and In some districts the drought
not yet understood by botanists cen» of the oheese of the country
Diversified farming produces a
tlre aoiio la the state.
here are now about »00 cases of the
that has prevailed practically ail fall the leaf takes on tha red and
■ nd 50 per cent of the p ea s.-M ar-
'•rger gross income for the year and may make necessary some re seeding
The elate agricultural college. J;»?ase in thia country.
yellow huts.
ket Agent Spence.
U-
a
great
extent
insures
against
the
whrch «tends reedy to help solve
of fields. Only a small percentage of
chance of serious loss such as exists the crop Is up yet. although more than
Complaint ia made that t
the problems of any farmer who
J. S. Nice wood reports a good po Oregon co-oprrative egg aasocs
m one-crop farming; but, at the same half of the acreage has been seeded.
applies, bee done wonders in tbj«
tato
crop.
time, it offers no guaranty of falm-
tion has been so manipulating thi
direction, s a in m»ny others, a id
ing suocese. The wider the range of
I cold storage speculators hare I« ’
i» graduating youug people io its rid your iywem of Catarrh or Deafncw products, the greater is the skill,
getting the abort end of profit
«used by Catarrh.
ludgment and persistent effort re
agricultural courses who may p|*y
both spring and fall. In the spria
*•“ ri Awaaow M m - « w m
the price is held so that tha ice me
• minant role« io the installation of F. J. CHENEY fc CO- Toledo, Qhtr quired. Diversified farming is now
practiced, to a gre-ter or leas ex
have to pay high for their storag
the naw cud better agriculture.
results
’
» For
Vi beat
UU81 m
sim s use
U
tent, on every farm east of the
stock and in October the pric
TUSSING & TUSSING Mississsippi
was held so low in Portland tha
or four year, ago, when
here . . . |ittle profit jo brjngjn
lawyers
Edgar W. Coolav of the agricul.
Enterprise siyjgested that if
hem
out, while the co-operatjv
tural extension dept..International
[Halsey and Rrowusvilla
wheat did not pay the farmer might
seaocution was selling carloads ii
Harvester company, says ; “ The
try other crops, the reply wa. mad»
Oregon
In any amount, from one gallon to a barrel
New York at a nice advance 01
principles of good busineea applied
«»> aom. exchange, that some lands
the Portland p ric e .-M a rk e t Agen
in manufacturing and commercial
Spence.
are adapted only to wheat. Of course
liurenita apply aliq i0 the busines*
that is not true. There I. no crop
»f farming. The average annual
The most satisfying sight tb,
producing land on which only one
Did you ever see a
t.ives
Gives results
loss 011 the farms of the United A
editor saw in a recent trip into thi
product can be grown. Our critic.
Stale« is about 30 per cant of the
e<>aat mountains was ■ atahlefu
cited Umatilla county wheat farm.
gross income.
of dairy cowa that get all their ra-
Well, A. F. Knight had a 2000 acre
" T h a principal sources of this
1 008
(««It excepted, pethapsj
wheat farm in that county. A few
loss are as follows ;
from the home farm, have a por.
Failure to teat seed corn,
years ago, when wheat hit the bot
tion of green feed the year round,
Did you ever bear onaT
t«m in tha market, he tried onions
$100,000,000; improper harvest,
»re nappy an(j
an jncotn,
Hrant Steals catches one io a •ng and storing of a«ed corn
•nd sold $234 worth from three
, ’ l keePl fbeir owners in the same
fourths o/ an acre. Thia year he fetal trap In George Marsh’s story, millions of dollars in yield » „ j
• rauie of mind.
And a dairy
got 210 bush«]» on the same ground.
draws leas from the fertility of the
I ba Valley of Voices, ” soon to qaality; planting o( iufarlile sead
Negt year he propose, to plant three
cannot ba astimated ; ravag«« of
'»rm than any other source of
appear as a serial in
income.
times as many, - He ia also dairying
cora root worm, more than $100,-
000,000; waste of cornstalks in
and raising p*,Ub«w . He find, other
RURAL ENTERPRISE
field instead of bciog put in silo
products pay. whether the wheat re
Mrs p reel and and her granddaug
at least $500,000,000 ; failure
suit, air good, or poor,
ter uere in Portland over the we<
1 treat email graiua for im u l fully
1 end.
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D E L B E R T S T A R R [$35,000,000; wa.ts of oienure
Tha census bureau says the
,. JW .
Funeral DirecUr and Licensed through carelaas handling. $300,
mu I modest city is the country is
000.000;
hog
cholera,
over
$65,-
Kaabalmer
• n Oregon. Do you suppose it g <t
000,000; w«da. fu lly $300,000,.
B rnw iierille, Oregon
Hay is worth ju st as much in storage as
that rating because its skirls are
000; Texa. fevar cattle tick, nearly
Call O. P. STAWnaa. Halsey.
$500,000,000;
'
scrub
’
dairy
eowi
you might got f.,r it i n , a s c o f t i r , . . ' n , .
>ow aod its waists high? W ell,
Laundry sent Tuesdays
or OataaaT S t . a a Braw.aeilla
fully $745.000,000 ; depreciation
Agency Hub Cleaning Works
|A i n e n . aii Latrlf Fire lusurancp ««.nii»an J
H didft't. It protested that h .
of farm raachiasry aod tools from
population had bean ovarslalrd
failure to properly house or care
ABES PLACE
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WRIGHT & CO.
for them, impossible to animate
l>*er end pheasants are y .lili^ I
•Oil erosion raaulting from one-orop
Funeral Directors
F- M . G R A Y .
system of agriculture, many mil.
»hair revanga A go d
m „ , T |
W. L W righi, Harrisburg
lions.”
huD»«'«
»-«ing killed
,
Mrs. S. C. Bramwell, Halsey
The figures in tha foregoing bul
wounded b j h onltit* gum.
letin total $2,445.000,000, and
All work done promptly , Bd r„ * , n.
I
ably. PbooeTb«
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“ Tate-to» f-arac'taaa.* U a lía*
* • M ttru aa« < i t . >»; i t s t n
If a l l ’s C a t a r r h
Medicine
| An-Fo Sheep Dip $
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FISHER’S EGG PRODUCER
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Windigo?
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A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
Modern
Barber Shoj
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent
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