FACE K t KAI. E N T E R P K IS B 4 RURAL ENTERPRISE An Independent—Not neutral—news­ paper, published eveiy Weduesday, ftp W a . H. WHKKMCB 11 a year in advance A rrearages. 1 2 X C * m v»tb Advertising, 20c an inch; no discoun lor time or space ; no charge (or cow position or r tanges. Sa " P a ld -fo i P aragrap hs." to a 11 a a w . a d v e rtis in g disguised as new s SCATTERGUN SHOTS Where’» that myth, the toctial storm ” ? equi The primary law is alleged tf have helped self-starters for office Are they any worse than the boss- started kind ? The anti-saloon league has in­ vestigated Mr. Steiwer and with­ drawn its opposition to his nom iaation to succeed Stanfield, There is less personal liberty today among the people of Rus­ sia than anywhere else—less than under the despotism of the czars. ___ Friends of “ government b) party ” are organizing for war or the direct primary. The latter gives common boohs to muoh ssi in politics. Republicans charge democrats with working for Stanfield's re- nomination, Why shouldn't they? If they can acoomplish it they can eyen things up by working for hi» defeat later. The biggest men don’t live th» longest. Che M*h, 28 inches high, whom Barnum exhibited for year» as “ the smallest man in the world,” died last Sunday, 88 year» old aud wealthy. Stanfield's graiing grab bill ha« been indorsed by both Jardine and Work, witli a few modification» that don’t modify worth a cent If it becomes a law it will have as bad a smell, in a few years, a» Fall's oil grant. Men make slighting remark» about women's observance of fash- Ion and the scantiness of their clothes, but there are hot day» when the brutes would not weai any themselves if it were not thi fashion. Some of the kings of the bootleg business, on this coast and in the vast, who a tew weeks ago thought themselves securely out of jail, a it now securely in. They arc t oi chortling as gleefully v« they i l l . about th e ui>< ii f u ic ib il I ) tf II.' prohibitory law. The bureau of inuuviiial lech siology announces that nuio »erv- ice costs Americans over 914,000,- 4XX) a ysar. The averag« cost ot an auto is 91000 aud the average upkeep and service cost is 9700. And th en are people w h » cell these hard timet I The leaguo of nations is gun through a crisis, hut its foes, who predict its disruption, should hear iu mind that it bus not enconutrred auytliing comparable to the Dorr rebellion or the Pennsylvania whisky rebellion, to say nothing ol the civil war, which failed Ic budge the I’nited Slate« constitu­ tion. Not at Washington, nor a> Palem, but on the farm, will the farmer find prosperity. Belter fertilisation of soil, better selection of crops, better breeds of stock and more use’ of artificial power will characterise the ftrmingof the fniure. Trot. Hvslop on this pag> advises «gainst some spring crops that are likely to be unprofitable this year and recommends growing flax for seed io this county. On page *2 we publish a disartation by John D. Sherman on the prospect­ ive uliliiatlou of electrically trans­ mitted power on farms and in farm homes, wheat it is as roueh needed as n ifields. The Great Outdoors M IR C H 24 35,000 Orphans Would Perish Where Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Humanity are Produced Without Aid From the Outside World...Will Flax for Seed on You Help? Spring O at Ground The near east relief organisation lopes in three more years to place the 35,000 erphaD« now under its isre in homes where they will be ared for and be given a chance to »ecorne iteeful members of society- To that noble end it needs a con Haul inflow of funds. How much will you give? Here is an offer : Every dollar received at this »dice before April 4 for one new /early subscription to the Enter­ prise will he given to the near relief, which will send a receipt to he person who pays the money. The paper will be sent to the name turned in for one year and then stop. These are ten days during which overy dollar received at this office or a new subscription will be tl in;. And your money will feed the aungty and helpless. Or you can send your donation lirect to " Near East Relief, 613 Stock Exchange bldg., Portland. It is the More Promising Crop of the Two for This Year (G. R. Hyslop, Agronomist, O. A. C.) THE M AR KETS P O T A T O E S M A K E COOD RECORD IN 1 9 2 5 VEEKUf TREND OF MtlCES A RECEIPTS OF NOR. WHITE POTATOES » JAN FEB mar ' afr ' may J U R J U L AUG SEP - 5 £ T . NOV A Portland W heat—Big Bend bluestem, 91.41; hard white, «oft white, westaro white, 91.47; hard winter, northern spring. 11.44; western red. 11.43. Hay—Alfalfa. $ 1 9 . 5 0 9 2 0 ton; valley t im o t h y . $ 1 9 9 1 9 .6 0 ; eastern Oregon timothy. I l l .50022. Butterfat— 43c ahlppera' track. Eggs—Ranch, 20022c. Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook; T r ip le t s . 3 1 c ; lo a f , 3 2 c p e r lb. Cattle— Steers, good. 97.7598.75. Hogs—Medium to choice, 913914.10. S h e e p — L a m b s , m e d iu m to choice, DEC1 U 8 .0 0 0 XR ECE P IS $isa 7.000 /\ $100 $250 1 A P 8000 v T RECEIPT S 5 ,0 0 0 S A A Linseed oil is one of the most % 4000 im portant constituents of paint $200 r and the linseed oil meal is one ot PRC 3000 the best of the concentrated $150 911 5 0 @ 1 2 .6 0 . L dairy cow feeds. During quite a 2000 number of years the experiment 1 10 0 Seattle. station has tried various kinds of l ì W heat—Soft while, western white, P MX« • RICM.TU — 10 00 •t seed flax and has secured yields $ .5 0 11.48; hard winter, 11.44; western red, of as little as 5 bushels an acre OTATOES were a very profitable crop In 1925, according to a survey made 11 45; n o r t h e r n s p r in g , 9 1 .4 9 ; Big Bend unde) some conditions, many in­ by the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. The acreage w ui the bluestem, 11.47. stances of 10 bushels or better, smallest Hay — Alfalfa. 128; timothy. 128; since 1919 and the yield the lowest since 1917. Following four years and from there on up to 24 bush­ of overproduction and very low prices, the 1925 season started off with a good t im o t h y P. S., 120; do, mixed, 12«. els. I feel safe in estim ating an price, which increased dally. The peak will be reached In spring shipments. Butter— Creamery, 40942c. average yield per acre of 10 The annual consumption of 3% bushels per capita, Including xeed, la 870,- Eggs—Ranch, 25 930c. bushels on average grain land 000,000 bushel«. The 1925 crop is estimated at 323,243.000 bushels or 40,757.- Hogs—Prime, 114914.26. if the crop is put in in good sea­ 000 bushels under normal consumption. Cattle— Prime steers, 18.50 9 9.00. The 1925 crop is 24 per cent less than the crop produced In 1924, -but the son. Many growers of course Cheese— Oregon triplets, 27c; Ore­ ratio of consumable potatoes for the two years may vary still more In favor of will secure better yields. gon standards, 25c; Washington trip­ crop. The Portland Linseed Oil com the 1925 With the acreage cut severely all over the rountry In 1925, the opening lets, 27c. pany, a branch of the American prices started out on a higher scale than the peak prices for 1924 and began Linseed Oil company, will guar­ Io Increase at digging time until they reached In some Instances $3.50 and $4 Spokane. antee a minimum price of $2.52 per hundredweight at local shipping stations. Every grower should save seed Hogs— Prime mixed, 913.7591385. C a t t l e — P r im e s te e r s . 9 7 .5 0 9 8 .2 5 . per bushel for 1926, or the Du­ for next spring, as all Indications point to high-priced seed potatoes for 1926 luth cash price if it is higher. with an exception that the acreage planted will be larger In 192C. They are also willing to guaran­ Oregon F a ir Board Job Filled tee the Duluth cash price for Salem — Frank B. Ingles, prominent them have brought twins and 1927. Albany two brought triplets, making 78 wheat grower and livestock raiser of As there w ill doubtless be a Dufur, Wasco county, was appointed a Coolidge’s Father large carry-over of corn in the Creamery Association lambs from 38 ewes. The boys member of the Oregon state fair board are unable to account for this and as there is a consider­ Established in the year of 1895. phenoma, but believe it is due to succeed Wayne Stuart of Albany, Is Laid at Rest east able carry-over of oats in Ore­ Auccurale weights, accurate)* to good green grass and healthy, who recently left the state. gon, the chances are th a t the oat tests, guaranteed. vigorous bueks.—Seio Tribune. price will be low in 1926, unless The Mount Hood irrigation district We are a farmers’ organization some wide-spread calamity in in that we pay a price for butter Is seeking approval ot a contract If the w eather holds out till whereby the district would take over the shape of pest or unfavorable fat to absorb all receipts less the season seriously reduces the cost of maintenanoe and operating danger from frost is over th is the Mount Hood W ater company's county will have the biggest water rights and Irrigation system at corn and oat crop east of the expenses. straw berry crop in its history, a cost of 17600. Rockies. With this in view and the guaranteed flax price, I be­ linseed oil meal to the extent and the m arket is ample a t high­ Bend w ill be the site of a fall meet­ lieve th at farm ers under average- th at may be produced from their er prices than last year. Bar- ing of the Oregon Wool Grower»' as­ conditions, planting flax in good delivery of flax seed. This relers and canners want all they sociation, If plans tentatively worked season, may net at least $5.00 amo ’its to 37 pounds of oil meal can get. Bush berries also pro­ out by K. G. W arner of Pilot Rock, an acre over similar plantings for each 56 pounds of flax seed mise well, due to the s ta rt al­ president, and Hugh Sproat of Pendle­ of oats, except on exceedingly delivered. They charge one-half ready given by th e fine w eather ton, secretary, are approved. The meeting will take up problems of cen­ rich land. But even a t that, the the price per pound paid for the all winter. tral and southern Oregon wool grow­ oat yields will probably have to seed. At current prices this is exceed 60 to 75 bushels an acre. substantially less than farm ers As shown in an article in this ers. Wallowa county farmers, organised I fee) safe in a general recom- are paying for this valuable cow paper last week, from the Eu­ In the Alder Slope Ditch company, wUl medation th at flax be plant­ Teed, but it is not m andatory gene Register, the ta riff m ight construct an irrigation ditch seven ed in lieu of oats in many places that they apeept it if the United be so changed as to benefit the p iles in length In the Alder Slope in W ashington, Clac k a m a s, States flax seed price shoyld farm ers by a few millions. But territory near Enterprise, drawing the Marion, Linn, fall substantially below the com­ it won't. John C. Coolidge, fath er of Presi­ Yamhill, Polk, supply ef water from the W allow* dent Coolidge, who died laet week Benton, Lane, and Douglas coun­ pany’s guarantee minimum. river and Hurricane creek, which Flax waste from the scutching ties in W estern Oregon, and in F urther, land th a t will produce if te r a Iona llin~»»- streams have been filed on by the Wallowa, Union, Baker, and 20 bushels an acre of spring plant at the state prison is used farmers. Professor W. L. Powers, secretary Crook counties in Eastern Ore­ wheat, or 37.5 bushels of white for fuel, saving 930 a day. It is Plymouth, V t.—Colonel John C. Cool­ spring oats will produce ovet 10 thought that with a 920,000 plant ot the Oregon reclamation congres«. gon. idge, father of the prealdent, was laid and prison labor it could be con­ and head of the department ot soils Many soils unsuited to long bushels an acre of flax. at rsat Saturday on a bleak hillside verted into 9300 worth of twine at Oregon Agricultural college, was straw production have been covered deep In snow. They burled daily. notified from Washington, D. C., of planted in fiber flax. Under the Trollinger Bros are hiving ex ­ him among those of his kin who had the passage of the Columbia basin H. C. Davis, E. B. Penland, passed before him. In tha little town new grading schedules for that ceptionally good luck with their appropriation of 115,000 to complete cemetery here. President and Mrs crop it is more imperative that sheep this year. They have 72 G rant Taylor and John N. Mc­ allocation of the waters ot the Colum­ Neil were seen in Albany Fri­ Coolidge, their aon John, repreaenta- oniy the best spited soils should head of ewes, and so far 36 ol bia river. day. fives of nation and state, and a few be planted to fiber flax relatives and lifelong friends stood In Seed flax is much more cer­ the snow at the graveside. tain of profitable production This Boy Thinks The funeral service« Were as starkly than is fiber flax where the zi? simple as the lives of these rugged straw length is likely to fall be­ Shipment of H e Knows It dwellers In the Green mountain vat low 30 inches. $ leys At the white farm house where The Portland Linseed Oil com­ Astoria, Ore.—Astoria'« boy Bolshe­ Colonel Coolidge lived for many years pany agrees to furnish seed, ap­ vist. Paul Slro, 14. who was dismissed and where Calvin Coolidge pasted his \lz as president of the student body of the proved by the college, at $2.50 boyhood, the brief burial aevvlces of per bushel f. o. b. Portland, S Captain Robert Gray school when he has arrived the Episcopal ehurch was read by Rev which will mean a per acre cost I refused to renounce his communist John White of Sherburne, pa,toy of a t most point* of $1.65 to $2.00 Those who have placed orders may obtain affiliations, has been used as a "red" the union meeting house In Plymouth for th a t item. Thirty-five to for-1 orator throughout the Pacific north­ same at their own convenience. where the colonel worshipped. Six west by the parent communist society, national guardsmen acted as body ty pounds an acre is the reconi-' Those who have not placed an order are w It was revealed. bearers at the house and cemetery. mended sowing. This is no more A urged to do so, as tho quality and the price w The boy la classed as exceptionally There was no eulogy and no muelc. expensive than ordinary plant-i ZA\ are right- bright by his teachers, is retentive It was the desire of the first cltlsen ings of w heat and really not so Z\ \«z *nd speaks well. W ithin the last few of Plymouth, expressed long before expensive as wheat this year. months yopng Slro has been taken tq Reasonable fertile grain land i Z\ his death, that hla funeral service Portland, Seattle, Aberdeen and prob­ should he without ostentation, and hit sufficiently well drained to per-; wishes were respected. ably other northwest cities address mit fairly early working is good.' radical meetings. Medium to slighly heavy soilsI Those who have heard tha boy apeak G ERM ANY MAY W ITH D R A W are usually best. Sandy soils, | declare he makes an excellent address shallow soils or those th at dry Leader Criticizes Opposing Powers out badly are not so good. and has spoken to large crowds. for Obstructionist Tactlee In his discourse he avails himself An early plowed seed bed, well of the stock phrases and principles of B erlin .- Foreign Minister Streee- worked and free from weeds, is the red agitator, frankly encouraging minn told the relehstag that Germany desirable. It should be rolled the employment of force to bring about reserves the right to withdraw her ap­ down firm to prevent too deep the "dictatorship of the proletariat " plication for entry Into the league of sowing and to assure moisture Those acquainted with him give Paul nations In the event the dectalon of for prompt germination. little credit for originality In hla the new commission regarding recon- On dry land 25 to 30 pounds atrucUon of the council doea not cor­ speeches, declaring he merely parrots of seed an acre is enough. Other­ respond with Germany's expectations the words taught him In the classes wise, sow 35 to 40 with a grain The league has been plunged Into a which he himself confesses are held drill like grain. Sow as early as _ Hay is worth just as much in storage a grave crista by the breakdown of re­ by the older communists to Inculcate possible when the ground is cent negotiations for Germany« ad­ their doctrines In the minds of tha you might get for it in case of fire Th to sprout seed mission to a seat, he salt In a formal warm enough school children. American E gle Fire Insurance company statement. He frankly criticised the quickly. Late March, and early will pay you 8i% of the cash value in case obstructionist tactics employed by cer­ to mid-April is best. Late April Hammond, rim.— v v ; . r-.TiiC sowing is more tain powers at Geneva In keeping Ger­ is good. May of loss by fire, -• conditions of eight ehlli many from the council scat promiseJ likely to be successful than grain »ho had been reported to her as it at the same time but is not usu­ her at Locarno. Ing. Mrs. Lucille Myers, 45. a © "Tha outcome of the negotiations ally as good as earlier sowing ex­ probation officer, was shot thr« must be deeply deplored because the cept in wet years. the head by Lester Flntklna. 62, t chief mourner after all la the league The company perm its growers father, after he had quarreled with Itself " he said. to purchase a t a reduced price for Interfering in his affairs. « « •-*0 8 a «AC * « ■va«««1 P All I L a n d P la s te r Ï O. W . F R U M I A m e ric a n E ag le I Fire Insurance Co. C. P. STAFFORD, Agent Ï w to