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RURAL ENTERPRISE
v Governor Pierce la severely
blatt.d by partisan opponents for
vetoing the special election on the
cigaret and tithing taxes. The
special election would have cost
*100,000, it is estimated, and iu
W here Bread, -Meat, Clothing, Health
case both taxes were sustained
weuld have brought ten times as
Poultry Busine is
much in taxes, less cost of collect Oregon Farms
Beset by Pitfalls
ing. This million, we are told, is
Fall in Value
“ lost forever.”
The *100,000
(Prof. Cosby in Oregon
Farmer)
would have been lost forever to
the state. Thanks to the veto, it And Eastern Agriculture
Poultry
dopes,
panaceas, vi
is in Still W orse
is lost only to the tax eaters who
tal this and miraculous that
Condition
would have had it. The miilion Is
find their greatest sales on
not lost forever. I f the people
(M arket Agent Spence)
poultry plants that today are
vete both taxes the state has lost
The department of com built upon greased skids.
the use of it one year against merce, Washington, has issued
There is enough miscellan
saving of $100,000. Ten per a five-year farm census report eous advice along poultry lines
cent is good interest. It the people for Oregon, from 1920 to 1925. to wreck a business of twice
vote against both taxes the veto While the head lines in the
big daily papers make it ap the magnitude.
saved us a clean *100,000.
DEC.
Î3, 192,
The Great Outdoors
j» indapeadsnt—Nut neutral—nsws
j* per, published eves y Weduesday,
$1 a year in advenue
Arrearages. 12XC 8 montq
Advertising, 20c an inch ; no discoun
tor time or space ; no charge for coni
posiMou or cianges.
“Paid-for paragraph»." So a line,
ffe advertisin g disguised a s n ew s
la
CHANCE FOR HARMONY
Forty-one per cent of the
farming land of the New Eng
land states that was under
cultivation 50 years ago is
dead land today, uncultivated ;
there are only four small cylin
der thrashing machines in the
whole state of Massachusetts
and there is not a single real
thrashing outfit to be found
between Boston, Mass., and
Albany, N. Y. Big business
concerns of the east are not
concerned — they want an in
dustrial country. — Hoard’s
Dairyman.
. Let them have their way.
Here’s a chance for harmony.
and Vigorous Hum anity are Produced
Standish Predicts
H erbert Hoover
Slump in Sheep
on Farm Problems
And He Does It “ With a Secretary of Commerce
Cites Four Ills That
Big, Big ‘ D ’ ”
Juggle Prices
John Standish, in his address
to farmers broadcatt from Chieago
Following are excerpts from»
Tuesday noon of last week, at a
letter
of Secretary Hoover to Faro
meeting held on account of his
visit, predicted a rise in the price and Fireside :
of grain and stock the first of the
Agriculture la in need of better
year, but added: “ Tho sheep business organisation of marketing
industry has wade millions ol in all its branches. Some start
dollars this year. Next year there
is going to be a genuine etampede has been made by the farmers in
and sheep won’t be worth a better grain elevators and grain
d-----
marketing aud livestoch market,
He also cautioned against the ing, and great progress has been
alfalfa seed industry because the made in dairy products and per-
farmers have made good in it this ishablee.
year. Cattle prices, he said, are
Commerciol agriculture has
fair and will be better next year. lagged behind the commercial
The rule on which he bases bis organization of industry. Industry
predictions is a sound one : That has gained greatly iu stability in
the tendency to rush into an the last decade.
industry when prices are high
Other industries and services
usually brings overproduction and than agriculture can adjust their
a slump, but the Enterprise does production quickly to shifting
not look for that] rule to go into economic currents, whereas agri-
effei t so instantaneously. A good culture cannot control the weather
many lambs have gone to the and cannot ehift itself to ohanging
butcher thsis year. The Americae demands except in periods of from
sheep supply of a few years ago eighteen months to five years, so
might be doubled without aoy that the problem of better organi-
serious slump. What Australian zation of agricultural markettog is
and other foreign sheep are doing greater than that of industiy.
we are not informed, but, even if
Crises are due to periodio pro.
we had usa for those “ d —’a’ ” we dnetion of a “ surplus,” with fall
would rather have a good sheep, in prices below fair profits to ths
deliverable any time next y ear, producer. The manufacturer op
than two of them.
erates largely upon epecifie orders;
There will be some alfalfa seed in any event he oan quickly
sown, though not near enough for adjust to demand. The farmer
beet results, in Linn county and produces first and finds his market
elsewhere.
subject to every eircumstance of
production and distri butiou after.
Bee keepers from all sections of In so doing he must of necessity
Marlon county met In Salem Saturday carryover a periodic “ surplus”
to form a permanent organization.
and he should not be punished for
Sixty poultrymen and others met in providing the national need of
Canby to organize the community for carry-over from good to bad years.
This condition of overiupply is
development of the poultry Industry.
m e isz e convention of the Oregon due to
State Horticultural soolety will bs held
1—Disorderly marketing. Tem
at Salem It was decided at the con porary glutting of the market
vention at Medford. The following breaks the price. Undermarketing
officers for next year were elected: produces ehort famines, diminish-
Four or five hundred hens
pear that agriculture is in a
prosperous
condition,
analysis
should
not be expected to oc
M itcbell's sentenoe was as heavy
of the figures fall far short of cupy full-time employment for
as the powers that be dared to sustaining this. The gains are
an able-bodied man, neither
make it. They would have been based on the following:
should
they be expected to
glad to make it imprisonment for
New construction bn farms
life, with a flogging once a week. increased $22,043,117; num commercially yield an income
limitations.
And how they would have liked, ber of farms increased 5,702; beyond certain
had they dared, to do it without a dairy cattle increased 24,428. This number of hens constitute
The farmer agrees with “ big
But against these assets are a farm sideline rather than a
The farmers join with “big trial and its accompanying expos the following declines:
ure of their shortcomings to the
Farm values, lands and poultry farm. The man should
business concerns” in desiring
public gaze 1
buildings
have fallen $58,037,- nurse the poultry business
more industrialists who must
069
in
value,
or 8i/2 per cent. along as a sideline until the
buy his products. The wise
Oregon walnut orchards are The report says.this is “rela size of the flock and exper
farmer is not half as much in beginning to give indications of tively small in comparison
ience gained w arrant the dis
terested in encouraging set what they will do when mature. with states further east,” and continuance of the pay check
tiers to come and raise more Fred Groner of Schroll’s this year perhaps Oregon farmers may job.
crops to compete with his in got *19,500 worth of nuts from find consolation in the fact
The poultry business is i
other states are in worse fickle enterprise for the own
the market as he is in seeing 300 acres, And this is the year that
condition.
er who rushes in without rec
the market grow through in liter the big freeze.
The fall of land values alone ognizing the hazards that
crease of city population.
in Oregon is $80,082,186, or must be avoided through sys
Another railroad strike for a 13 l/g per cent. If the other tematic management.
And increase of city popu
lation comes only through im general wags increase within three states are in worse condition,
national agriculture must in-
THE MARKETS
migration from the country. months. Then an increase in deed
be in a bad way.
I
Without that the cities would freights is in the cfllng. The strike
The decrease of the average
Portland
soon be depopulated.
The is a club which hits everybody value of land and buildings to
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, *1.54;
birth rate in cities hardly except the striker, and sometimes each farm in the state is hard white, soft white, and western
it hits him the hardest of all.
$2,410.
white, $1.53H; hard winter, northern
keeps pace with the deaths.
Range cattle have decreased spring and western red, $1.50.
It is out on fiie farm that
Hay—Alfalfa, $19.50@20 ton; valley
64,277 and all crops except
Let em Go
healthy livestock, grains, vege
timothy, $19@19.50; eastern Oregon
fruits
have
decreased.
In
one
Halsey, Dec. 18.
timothy, $21@22.
tables and boys and girls are
Editor Enterprise—I read that county, Umatilla, the figures
Butterfat—44c shippers’ track.
produced.
the population of the cities is in- show a decrease of $20,578,-
Eggs—Ranch, 30@32%c.
820
in
land
values
and
build
The New England farms reasing and that of the farms is
Cheese—Prices
f. o. b. Tillamook;
that have been abandoned, as lecreasing. Let the good work go ings. If this is “relatively Triplets, 31c; loaf, 32c per lb.
small
in
comparison
with
losses
Cattle—Steers, good $7.85@8.25.
Market Agent Spence tells in ID.We on the farms will fertilize further east,” there is little use
Ilogs—Medium to choice, $11.60®
another column, will be occu tetter,
cultivate mora thoroughly in further search for the cause
pied, their fertility rebuilt and tiid with more efficient machinery, of farmers going to the cities. $12.25.
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice,
Lloyd T. Reynolds of Salem, president; in g con su m p tion, and so contrib.
their products placed on the ise better seed and raise more The director of agriculture of J12.50@14.26.
C. A. Reed of Hood River, vice-presi- utes to create a surplus
market whenever the increase irope ou fewer acres with less Iowa state college says: “In
dent and Clayton L. Long of Corvallis,
2 —The annual fluctuation in
abor
than
heretofore.
six
years
Iowa
farmers
have
Seattle.
ip city population produces a
re-elected secretary and treasurer.
j production due to weather.
The few farmers will get more lost one billion dollars through
Wheat—Soft
white.
Big
Bend
blue-
sufficient demand for food and money—more comforts and con lack of price equality of other
me aisunctiou or navtng made a
3—The decrease in consumption
stem, $1.55; western white, $1.55*4; gain In the number of farms during'in periods of unemployment and
clothing.
veniences—for feeding the many products.”
hard winter, western red, northern the period from 1920 until.1925. when business stagnation.
There are in cultivation in city dwellers than many farmers
“It is believed )by many of spring, $1.52,
practically all of thp counties of east-
4—Continuous overproduction,
for feeding the fewer city the most intelligent producers
Hay—Alfalfa, $25; D. C., *28; tim
Linn county 61,000 acres of got
ern Oregon showed losses, ts held by
Stabilize agriculture sgainst all
people.
othy,
$20;
mixed
hay,
$24.
that next to a crop failure the
land, only one county in the
Umatilla county, as disclosed by the of these disasters. We certainly
Let ’em go. We'll feed ’em.
Butter—Creamery, 49c.
greatest misfortune is a bump
report of the department of commerce. ; ought to have the brains to cover
state exceeding it. These fig
Hural Optiuiift.
Eggs—Ranch,
46c.
er crop,” says L. A. Rhodes,
During the five-year period Umatilla tho first three and to make a
ures nre given by Paul V. Mar
Hogs—Prime, $ 12.16@ 12.35.
commissioner of the Florida
county farms increased from 2368 to contribution towards decreasing
Cattle—Prime steers, $7.75@8.00.
is of O. A. C., who also says
state marketing bureau.
2484, a gain of 131.
the fourth.
Cheese—Oregon fancy. 28c; Oregon
If agriculture was as solidly
this, county has the second
We should secure domestic pro
26c; Washington triplets
A* we underst and it, the basic duction, so far as may be, of those
organized as other industries standards
largest number of cows in the
28c.
policy of the Federatioa or Lal O' agricultural commodities which ws
rid your system of Catarrh or Deafneu a bumper crop would not be a
state, but does not raise enough caused
is to have its own members wirz import aud thereby replace, as far
by Catarrh.
misfortune; distribution could
Spokane.
of the right kind of dairy feed
4n>cfut> /o r o rrr 40 . . . . .
as little as possible and not to let aa may be, the export surplus on
be regulated to avoid gluts and
Hogs—Good
to choice, *11.76@11.80. anybody also work at all.—Farm
F.
J.
CHENEY
fit
C
O
..
T
oledo,
Ohio
and .is making less profit,
low prices, and consumption
other commodities, for in both
Cattle—Prime alcera. $7.60 3 8.00.
Journal.
cases of export and import of
could be largely increased by
therefore, than it might. The
farm products we are competing
cutting
out
many
useless
mid
county now has 280 acres in
with lower standards of living tod
dle
expenses
and
profits
and
alfalfa and has the largest
cheaper lands abroad.
lowering
prices
to
consumers.
Father
or
mother
would
appreciate
acreage in the state adapted
Another major problem is ths
a pair of Kryptok glasses. Your “But just signing contracts and
to growing flax.
unnecessary number of transgo-
iweetheart, brother or sister weuld organizing selling agencies to
uons between the producer aiid
enjoy a gift from our well-selected do business through the same
Attractive prices are given on half-ton
Uuder a reduced schedule of line of jewelry.
the consumer.
old
trade
channels
won’t
rem
surtaxes * taxable bond mnet yield
Agriculture, as no other Indus
edy present conditions very
in excess of 8 percent to incomes Before or After Christmas
try, develops^strong individualism,
lots
or
more
of
much,
nor
will
electing
five
di
within the higher braeaets to Krydtoks are a delight to the eye
independent character, initiative
rectors to fight the other four
equal a tax-exempt at
per cent. 865 days in the year.
KERR'S OR FISHER'S EGG PRODUCER | and resource. It is free from the
get
us
very
far.”
The invisible bifocals for netr
ever-present boss of industry,
Thua aaith W. H- Lines in a and
Organizations have got to
far.
i
Farm life is free from a certain
apasoh which will appear in the
have loyalty behind them and
artificiality
of urban life because
Oregon Voter this week. The
the one purpose of mutual in
it is in close contact with nature,
Molasses
in
barrel
lots.
editor of the Enterprise dieclaitna
terests to work for. They
and is less subject to the insidious
must start on a cement foun
any personal interest in the matter
sources of moral degeneracy which
dation and build up. Men of
are such a corroding influence in
because ha does not own in excels
ability must direct them. Ore
the life of our great cities. Tbs
•t half a milliou of those tax-free
gon has had many co-opera
bonds of family life must be
bonds. ¡If hs hsdjss many millior s
tive failures because they have
stronger, the health of children
of them as any other bloated cap.
not been run the way the same
more assured, in separate homss
&
italist he believes he weuld le
men would have run their pri
than jn anthills of brick and
mortar.
perfeetly willing to exchange them
vate business.
Co-operation
will win when it is handled
for the 8-per-centa which the
municipalities weuld have to issue E. C. Meade, o„„„,, right and when producers be
CUT FLOWERS
hind it realize that its success
if all bonds ware taxable. He
depends on every member
Optu-isn
would take b i t ohanoee with the H. Albro,
- SHEET MUSIC
giving all th at is in him to
tax collector on that Hi per cent ALBANY
O R EG O N. make it such.
H a ll’s C a t a r r h
M edicine
r
For Christmas
o . w . FRUM
The taxpaying public would pay it
all the same.
DELBERT STARR
Dr. J. C. Booth of Lebanon is
reported to havt gone twelve mile«
on horseback where an automobile
eoufd pet go, recently, to treat
five cases of smallpox in one fam-
Hy. A school bad been aimed on
account of the disease. Would it
not have been wise to even delay
«wnijaladiag paved highways a law
<»vs to build a passable road to
tnat district? Those people pay
taxes.
Funeral Directar and Licensed
Erabalmer
Brownsville, Oregon
CallO. F. SvaevoBD. Halsey,
or U mlibbt S tvb a Brownsville
WRIGHT & CO.
Funeral Directors
W. L. Wright, Harrisburg
Mrs. J. C. BramweU, Halsey
&
Shortage of settlers on somo
federal reclamation projects in
Oregon is due to the inefficien
cy of the government, but Sec
retary Work in effect “ passe»
the buev” to the state by de
laying construction on more
projects unless the state be
comes responsible for settling
them and financing the set
tlers. The secretary is right
so far as his proposal is an
acknowledgement of the gov
ernment’s
incompetence to
perform the lattertask.—Port
land Oregonian.
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
Hay is worth ju st as much in storage as
you might get for it in case of tire. Th ?
J American Eagle F ire Insurance compan J
(will pay you 81% ot the cash value in case|
of loss by fire.
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent
LI A I I ’C
IT /A L-L. O
Floral *nd
Music Shop
Albany
Modern
Barber Shop
Laundry sent Tuesdays
Agency Hub Cleaning Works
A B E S PLACE
TUSSING & TUSSING 1
LAWYERS
Halsey and Brownsville
Oregon