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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1916)
Cloverdale Courier Published Every Thursday Fran* Taylor, Editor and Publisher. “ Entered aeseeond-class m atter, Nov- eiuhei i3 lb 4 1905 at the postoffioe at Clo- vard&RLTillamook County, Oregon, un der Acs of Congress, March 3rd, 18/8. S ubscription H at vs One Year, in advance....................... $1 -QC Sis M onths........................................... Three M onths....................................... A ov ^ rtisiko R at Hi* Displayed Advertisements, 50 cents per inch per month, single column. All local Reading Notices, 5 cents per liije for each insertion. Timber land notices $10-0Q Homestead notices i-0P Political Announcement Cards 110.00 J ob D epartm ent Mv Job Department is complete in every respect and I am able to do all kinds Commercial Job Printing on short notice at reasonable prices. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1916 Tillamook County Agricultural Notes By Roy C. Jones, county agriculturist. _____ • v Silos I was glad to notice in the papers a few weeks ago, a communication from one of our farmers regarding the feasi bility of silos for the Tillamook farmer. I wish to say Amen to all that was con tained in that article. The dairyman cannot afford to be without a silo, whether he is in Tillamook county, W il lamette Valley, Eastern Oregon, ok any where else in the U. S. A. While corn is and always will be, the staple silage crop, nearly any crop can be made into silage and many times saved from de struction by putting in the silo. It is safe to say th at at least GO per cent of our hay crop was injured this year by rain and probably about thirty per cent was practically ruined. This hay could have been saved after it was practically dried by putting it in the silo. It would not have made quite as goo>l silage as before it was dried but it would have made a great deal better feed than it will be now. The saving of one-half the food value in one-third of our hay crop would mean a saving to the county of about $35,000 worth of hay at $10 per ton. The silo is economical because it al lows one to cut the crop and store it away when the maximum yield and food value are there. When one green feeds corn for instance, he has to start before the corn is m ature enough and perhaps feed until it has gone past the best time. The same is true of arti chokes and other feeds used. W ith the silo one can wait until the maximum yield is there and then put it all up where it is handy to feed without get ting out in the wet after it. With arti chokes one gets a small yield of tubers if the tops are cut too green, but if al lowed to stand until they are about in blossom they yield tne maximum crop of tops aud tubers. The silo stores foodstuff with a smaller percentags of loss than any other method. It furnishes succulent feed in the fall, winter and spring months when it is needed greatly to keep up the milk flow. It stores that feed right at the barn where it is handiest to feed. In this age of preparedness can you as a diryman afford to be w ithout a silo? Irrigation Picnic. Last Sunday, 8epteml>er 10th, about forty gathered at the farm of A. W. Sho Sho S h o es As long as they last we are offering ex ceptional values in the following lines which we are closing out at very low prices. Look these over : A few pairs Ladies Shoes, values up to 84.00, pair 81.50 A few pair Ladies’ Oxfords, value up to 4.00, pair 1.00 Nice assortment ot Children’s Shoes and Oxfords pair 1.00 Babies’ Shoes, pair 43c A few pair Boys’ High Tops, 4,50 values at pair 2.00 A few pairs Boys’ School Shoes up to 3.00 values, pair 1,25 Cloverdale Mercantile Co. Bunn, at Beaver, to see the results of or it will be a detrim ent to the land. ♦ •♦ ••♦ •» •♦ •» ♦ •» •♦ S his irrigation system. After,a bounteous Another benefit of the irrigation is the picnic dinner, at which “ Bunu’s Best drowning out of the moles and gophers. f J U O those who wish to Loganberry Juice” was served, Mr. A fine silo, half filled with clover and ’0 . get a better KO- Bunn showed the crowd around the grass, and a field of oats and one of ar DAK this season, farm and told the story of his irrigation tichokes nearly ready to finish filling it, we have made arrange somewhat as follows : Abou five years add materially to the appearance of ments whereby we can the thrift of the farm. The herd of ago he aud bis son in nine days put in take in a few good old grade ¡Jerseys is headed by a young the dam, Humes and ditches to irrigate style machines in trade registered bull of fine conformation and about 25 acres of land. His farm w as on new ones, fast going to Dawson or Yellow weed excellent breeding. and lie w anted tne grass to come in. He Loganberries Pay Well. irrigates in w inter as well as in sum Mr. Bunn, unlike some of our Tilla mer though we have plenty of rain mook farmers, does not have all his through the winter months. The winter eggs in one basket. Two acres of logan irrigation is not for the water but for berries planted on some of the hill land the minerals aud sediment w hich it con above the ditch yielded over 10,000 tains, This season his meadows cut pounds of berries this, the second year three tons of hay to the acre after be of their hearing. The crop netted a ing pastured till the first of June. little over $100 per acre on land prac Through irrigation he has bscn enabled tically worthless for dairying. There { to keep from sevsn to ten cows more are many acres of similar land in the than lie ever could before. At present county that could be yielding as well. C. I. C L O U G H , he has »bout 40 acres under ditch and RELIABLE DRU06IST9 is milking 25 cows. Bids Wanted. Tillamook, - Oregon. The fields themselves told the rest of Bids will be received up to October 1, the story, as below the ditch was a fine 1016, for making cheese in the Clover grass and sod while above was a thin dale factory for 1917. Right reserved to yellow weed sod. In some low spots reject any and all bids. Mail bids to Flanker Bros, for all kinds of du m b the need of drainage was apparent show tne undersigned. ing, hath room outfits and fixtures. Til 11. B. Lockwood, Secretary. lamook. Ore. ing that the water must have an outlet | 'RotaRCfeantng an& Q&epamng,