HAGE 4 kL KAI. H N TBkkX ISEj RURAL ENTERPRISE “ M INCH il The Great Outdoors Self'Started or Boss-Started An Independent—Not neu tral—naw« paper, published eveiy Wednesday, W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and V igorous Hum anity are Produced t f f Was. H. WHKICiJKIft SI a year in advance Arrearages. a month Advertising, 2<>c an inch ; no discoun for tune or space . no charge for com position or changes. The Finish is All That Interests the Wise Politician in "Paid*for Paragraphn," lc a Una * • advertising dla*ul»ad aa nawa. The Weak-Minded Seek the Cities Efficient, Trained Minds Required in Modern Agriculture (Donald A . L a ird , Ph. D,a in Dearborn Independent) Inoculate Legmues Keep Dodder Out Farmers Income for 1925 Shows Rise in Prosperity Good Dairy Blood Pays in Tillamook or Elsewhere, FARM MICE CHANCES IN 1925 i u n PER CENT DECREASE n » n u io h ay i t PER CENT INCREASE it SO I t JO n «1 «A-g 400'; nvrsrocK n 4 ' G reat-grandfather and great­ CIRE A LS 65 grandmother acarcely »old a thing from the fa rm . C loth ing waa FRUITS, 167'/, made in the farm house. M utton and vegetables were taken to VEGETABLES lt « 3 the blacksm ith in paym ent for repairing the plow. Firewood wae DAIRY PROOIKTS & 31 taken to the little church and the best of the field to the m inister. Son e butter, a few dozen eggs TOBACCO 6.2% and other products were conveyed to the village from tim e to time POULTRY 60% and exchanged for sugar, spices, •KAft»-M O Established in the year of 1895. hard white, $1.50; soft white, western destruction of the prim ary law. in d u s tria l worker haye been grow Auccurate weights, accuratele white, $1.61; hard winter, northern The fizzle of the 1910 pre ¡ng iess and less. test», guaranteed. spring, $1.40; western red, $1.45. prim ary convention is recalled A schoolteacher in Minneapolis We are a farm ers’ organization Hay—Alfalfa, $19.50@20 ton; valley and its shrouded ghost dances a short w hile ago met on the streei iu that we pay a price fo r butter before the backers of the pres­ one o f her pupils of the preceding tat to absorb a ll receipts less the timothy, $19@19.50; eastern Oregon year, a moron w ith the in te llig e n c t cost of maiutenanoe and operating timothy. $21.50@22. ent convention movement. Butterfat—41c shippers' track. Standfield’s candidacy to be of a ten-year-old ch ild . She dis­ expenses. Eggs—Ranch, 21@23c. covered that her feeble-minded his own successor is dismissed Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook; pupil was now earning in industry is being an unconeidered trifle . Hats off to the farm ers! They Triplets, 31c; loaf, 32c per lb. more than shn herself was paid hy The claim th a t the prim aries tne c ity of M inneapolis. set themselves to the task of de­ Cattle—Steers, good, $8@8.75. have resulted in inefficient of­ Hogs—Medium to choice, $13@14. In ia into in d u s tria l work that vising a state income tax to yield f i c i a l is replied to by holding the farm er who cannot keep in th* approxim ately $ 3 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 a Sheep— Lambs, medium to choice, $11@11.75. up the examples of men who do race enters. There his th in k in g is year. I f the job had been turned things a fte r being so elected, done for him and his work is much >ver to a comm ittee of the lead­ Seattle. of whom McNary is one. But less com plicated and leas taxing ing business men of Oregon, we W heat—Soft white, western white, Mr. Clark says McNary is to be on bis m ind- doubt w hether they could have defeated, if the ring wins, when 1 gain increasing adm iration for produced a less objectionable bill $1.53; hard winter, $1.48; western his term expires, because he those who remain after each week’s than th a t initiated by the red, $1.46; northern spring, »1.47; Big Bend bluestem, »1.52. hits not been pliable enough in batch is forced off the farms Into grange com m ittee I t was a 1926 Hay—Alfalfa, $26; timothy, $28; the c ity . the hands of the bosses. W Frederick Steiwer S C A T1E K G U N SHOTS "A n apple a day keeps the doc to r away.” Poor, lonely old doc tor. Congretituian H aw ley in candi date (or another term. Nobody want« to ruu against him. San Francisco has a children’s theatre and Dayton, Ohio, has a church for children. Which is the more propular? The hyporcrites are not all in the churches. Some of them talk and vote dry to hold the votes of their constituents and in W ashington take a "nip” on occasion. The wets want a national re ferendum on prohibition. The only objection we have to it it its cost. When a fellow wants a black eye the way to quiet him is to let him have it. Albany Creamery Association The Junction City Times tolu of an apple 52 years old as the oldest apple. II. R. Goddard ol Cottage Grove says he has one 62 years old. A Halsey man has Mr. Clark defends his sup­ Adam’s apple. How old is th at? port of Roosevelt in his last campaign on the ground of Two men shared the samt Roosevelt’s strong American good fortune, followed by disas personality and a friendship ot te r . O n * s p e n t the rest of his life long standing. mourning the disaster. The oth He claims th a t thd hand­ er went rejoicing over the mem picking organization proposed ory of what he had enjoyed. that if he would keep out of the Which would you rath e r be campaign this year and let an eastern Oregon man go to the A learned w rite r whose word» are reproduced from the Dearborn Independent on this page »aj» the m any who ere leaving fu iiu r f. r cities do so because they have i i t enough intelligence Io I e go d modern fanners. W<‘ ailepecl t l i . l some of them are operating lin o ­ types. '»nate he could probably »uc cii'ii McNary when the bosses «laughter the latter. Where Does Steiwer Stand ? H jwo the Foxes Are Fed From Goddard, Alaska, S. A. M it la w rites . It has been an unusualy warm w inter and 28 above was our coldest, which I presume was no colder than it was there. We have tw enty-four foxes on the island now, which we f ed twice each week at this time ot year, but will feed every day when there are young ones. The feed is cooked in a sixty-gallon kettle and is usually two tacks of herring, seven gallons of roll­ ed wheat and one one gallon of cracked rice, which makes two feeds. Frederick Steiwer of Pendleton, the man whons the old guard republicans want uom inaV il to -ucceed the deserted Stanfield as -eoator, in announcing his can­ didacy set fo rth a set o f ’* p rin c i­ Read, on th is page, wl at Dr- p le ’ ’ in terms so elastic that H urrah for the Cow ! L a ird says shout the qualification» they m ight he etretched to cover Dr. E. V. McCollum, school of is many sins or virtues as doee a f a good farmer. Then tu rn to ch a rily . He says: hygiene and public health, Johns the fir»t three columns on page 8 " I stand for justice to the Hopkins university, who has for and compnr» his income with that (aim ing in d u s try ,’ ' etc. more than a decade been giving W ould you help the farm er by to the world a newer knowledge i f the incompetent who leaves ti.e larm to become a part of tie 'pending aouie more money on the of nutrition, has said : "T he peo­ series of investigation« and report« ple who have achieved ; who have m achinery of a factory. How th it have been run nin g since the long can tlieie conditions endure? memory ot man? or by ta xing become large, strong, vigorous - ■■■ —— — him to buy his own surplus and people; who have reduced their hold i t for a rise? or hy p u ttin g infant m ortality; who have the The federal bureau of efficiency a higher ta riff on meats, o, which best trades in the world; who found a department in Washington we im p o rt 71 m illio n d o lla rs’ have an appreciation for art, lit- em ploying 250 men to collect cer­ worth, or on hides and skins, that gessive in science and in every tain taxes a modern hank we pay over 96 m illion s for activity of human intellect, are system was installed and the force «broad, w hile the hide of our steer the people who have used liberal reduced to 80 men, saving »230,. '• nut worth ca rrying to market? amounts of milk and its pro­ 000 a year in th a t one office and or how ? ducts.” making 170 enemies. In 1924 the money value of Like a ll the rest, he favors 'eduction of taxation and increase milk produced in the United f ' xpendilure in the locality where States at the farm was more Anton Faltus had a hatch of tie w ill want votee. than the total farm value of the 1800 Hollywood strain white ’ ’ I believe in the p rincip le of cotton, the wheat, and the pota Leghorn chickens come off Tues­ the 18th am endm ent.” to crops. T here waa produced day, and they are all sold.— W ill you work and vote against fifty billion quarts. Scio Tibune. leg sliiiog more kick in wine and Dairying is a gigantic indus­ beer ? You may he juet the man try and America's one of the we want. We would tike to be leadng dairy countries in the sure. “ 7 ;!:; I^ost Purse timothy P. S„ $20; do, mixed, $26. Butter—Creamery, 40@42c. er the repealed 1923 law, and so Eggs—Ranch, 25@30c. perfect in detail th at it will stand Hogs—Prime, »13.75@14.10. up in-contparsion with the feder­ Cattle—Prime steers, »8@8.75. al income tax act of 1926,—ex­ Cheese—Oregon triplets, 27c; Ore­ cept th a t it may not reach in­ gon standards, 25c; Washington trip­ come from intangibles owned in lets, 27c. model, a vast improvement ov­ world. The clim ate and green at the post office or b e t* * n there fields of this state place it and C lark's corner. F r * dollar» The Oregon Christian Endea­ among the foremost dairy' states in coin. Leave at Enterprise vor union will meet in Albany erature end music; who are pro­ office and receive rewar I April 15 to »8. of our country. Oregon and deposited outside the state— Oregon Voter. Spokane. Hogs—Prime mixed. »13.75 ® 13.85. Cattle—Prime steers. $7.50@8.25 T here was an increase of 1000 per cent of farm failures be­ EXPORTS DECLINE tween 1910 and 1924, while APPLE there was no increase in com­ Q u a n tity and V a lu e D ecreased in C om ­ mençai failures during this parison W ith 1924. time. T a riff justice, if th a t were Washington, D. C.—Exports of boxed possible, would help the farm ers from the United States, com- a little, but the old saying, “Put I apples merce department figures show, fell not your tru s t in princess” ap­ 1 from 6,718,872 boxes in 1924 to 4,922.- plies to present-day lawmakers. 140 last year, while sales declined Cooperative m arketing will help from $15.738,601 to »12.787.495. Barrel some. The rush of youth from apples also decreased, exports In 1925 the farm to the cities will do amounting to 1.706,916 barrels worth more. But th e farm ers whose $8.275.586 as against 1.880,775 valued production cost is too great be­ at $8.547,442. cause of antiquated methods Commercial apple production in must adopt new inventions and creased, the 1925 figure being 31,909,. discoveries or go under. 000 ba.hels as against 28.063,000 the The actual average earnings of farm ers per year are $700; factory workers $41256; rail­ road workers $41572; clerical workers $2,141; m i n i s t e r s $1678; government w o rk e rs $1650. (From 0 . A. C. Bulletin) Legume bacteria are your free laborers— try to enc o ur a g e contained dodder. A n d th is ” ""• where the soil is well inoculated This is especially true of westl em Oregon annuals, as they pro­ duce more nodules and a more vigorous plant during the early period growth. It is much easier and cheaper to locate dodder-free seed in Oregon than to eradicate the pest. Many good lots of alalfa seed free of dodder are for sale. Twenty-two per cent of alfal­ fa seed received for purity test a t the Oregon experim ent sta­ tion seed laboratory this spring contained dodder. A nd th is In January, 1926, there were more than than 5 million pounds or red clover seed imported, as compared with less than 1 mill- lion pounds for the same month *?. 1925- From JuJy> T925, to February, 1926, nearly ten mil­ lion pounds of red clover seed was imported while a little Over 1 million pounds was brought in during the same period for the previous year. The supply of certified pota- tatoes in the United S tates is small. The m erits of certified potatoes are pronounced. Many fat mers hesitate to use certified seed. The general experience is th a t th e certified seed pays even though there is no attem pt for certification, because it usually yieM 3 substantia,1y larger It appears th at Oregon may as plant its normal acreage of spring wheat on th e good pro­ ducing lands, but for the ex- treroely dry Jandl th#re wi„ probably be nothing in it. In well year before The state of Washington led all others with New York second weetern Oregon »pring « he at Michigan and Idaho tied for third place S h °atS4 ^ ay wdI h« replaced and Virginia. Oregon. Illinois, Califor­ • i h seed flax to some extent. nia and Pennsylvania following in order. ' ,The P ^ t o m arket has pick- ea up considerably. The new W. A. C arter of Portland seeks o r o r movement, w hich bexim in nomination for governor. March and increases to some ex- e n i1 in April and represents nearly half the movement in May, will not get into the m arket v^nFy BenuUgh this year to pre­ vent higher prices for old stock. (’hick S tarting Milk Mash If potatoes can be held in good Baby Chick Scratch storage the m arket should in- Egg Producer VI. price to Triangle Egg Mash Attractive prices on Shell, Bone Meal and Fine and Coarse Grit o . w . FRUM is a larger percentage than during other years. The seed laboratory is ready to help any Oregon grow er by m aking free purity and germ ination tests. There is an increase of about 200 dairy cows in Tillamook county this year over last year to be tested for production. The cow testing association has been in operation since 1912 and is the average fa t yield hud teen the average fa t yield has been raised to 289 pounds; in 1921 it was 380, with 296 cows tested; in 1924 1475 cows averaged 370 pounds. Tillamook dair y me n have built up a flourishing bus­ iness in the sale of calves from pure bred bulls and dams with records of 300 pounds of fat ot better. Klamath county has used more than 300 of these calves, and about 100 have been shipped to Josephine county. The de­ mand exceeds the supply each year. Up to March 1 this year 110 head had been shipped o u t Orders have come from all over the northw est territory. some e x te n t itnin the next several weeks. The Umpqua va lle y ship« 1000 carload» of broccoli th is year. The Oregon Linen M ills com­ pany at Salem has bought; »100.- „ L d ’" ’’“ ’ 't 1* m,ny “ of . k A ep rouPd -h have brought 125 to 160 .lamb» per 100 ewes this year