——
nani mm iKEiiti
Too Much Trouble Not Valid Excuse
I
called middleman.
Oh! it is aa brood
trouble heretofore stated.
Stranger Told Many Fanners Won’t be Bothered
With Hogs, Sheep, Cows, or Chickens
not have to buy canned smoko or
trouble salting down, and take
chances on the pork not keeping, just
take off the wrapping paper, which
C. L I reland . Managint Editor
I
F riday .
January 25. 1924
sol lega at Correlila to develop a state
culture. It ia a proposal so v’tol to
the future interests of the state that
It has enlisted a largq number of the
Meeting in the dis-
been presented are delegations repre
senting the interests of the farmer,
business man, banker, cooperative
are interested in the
J group see the viewpoint of every
other group and to blend them to
gether into a state program that can
be accepted by every interest for
ity of all.
Those who attended from Sherman
Kean, W. S. Powell, W. H. Ragsdale,
from Moro;
Fred Krusow, 8. B
Holmes, John Schamen, from Grass
Valley; A. A. Dunlap, J. C. Wilson,
J. E. Norton from Kent; H. R. Mc-
Two autos containing twelve pas
sengers left Moro last Saturday at
6 JO a. m. for Pendleton where they
attended the Umatilla county confer
ence called to consider the formation
aid in the formation
of a government wheat export com
mission. Those in the party were
L. Bslsbe, W. H
Ragedale, W. 8. Powell, Roy Powell,
J. C. McKean, O. G. Sayre, H. B.
Barnum, Geo.
Pinkerton,
A. H.
Hennagin, Clarence Sparling, George
Mitchell.
To learn aa much aa possible of
the plan to finance and put in action
sion, which! is believed by many to
bo ths best solution of the grain
growers' problems, a county confer
ence of farmers, business men, and
all others interested in this question
will bo bold at Moro this next Mon
day. Those who are interested in
calling the conference together con-
Adently expect that there will be
deM to 600 in attendance, Several
from outside tho county will bo
A union of broccoli growers has
boon formed at Roseburg, the growers
affiliated with the Oregon Growers’ Co
operative association having signed up
with the Umpqua Valley Broccoli
The work of remodeling the depot
facilities at Oregon City in compli
ance with an order of the public serv-
Clsaaap of the Roosevelt highway
la Tillamook and Coos counties, of
exclusive of
the White river bridge; of the John
Day highway to Unity and of The
county was adopted as part of Its 1914
program by the state highway oom-
misaion. la session at Portland.
Ona hundred and fifty Union coun
ty farmers sat down at a banquet at a
them just 14 cents apiece. Nearly
everything on tho tobies was the pro
duct of the farm, and the cost a plate
was computed at tho price tho farm
er was paid for tho products, plus the
labor cost of preparing tho food.
Seventy
thousand
Income
tax
blanks, filling a total of 104 mail
fiuatiey, collector of internal revenue
thio district that filed a return
association
BARB
say !
Bit MOOCRN
Rt MAY KNC^
LE5S ABOUTI
MAKING BRtAr
BUT SHt
KNON/5 MOW
ABOUT MAK»*
cheaper than raising the pesky stuff lovely morsel is ready for slicing.
Sheep? There is not two hundred
ourselves, as being a side issue it
breaks into the wheat raising game, sheep in our county. Why? Oh! we
only
keep •
a few
m.d on account of the barley having could 001
1 ««P
tow head, and as I
The following article, written late such short straw, and long beards, । •aid before, too much trouble - to
last fall by a transient visiting the hirtd help during harvest object bother with. And wool at 45c per
tourist at Wasco, is printed by the to working with it, which is rather pound, and an increase of nearly 100
embarrassing for the employer, to be per cent in your flock, and one of the
interest to many of our readers. It obliged to take the matter up with best weeding machines in the world,
and still it does not pay. I do not
is worth careful study. Tbs excuses the help.
It seems
In fact it is too much trouble to understand you farmers.
voiced by the fanners interviewed are
that
every.thing
is
too
much
trouble
heard many times each year in all monkey with such small piddling
in
this
country
crops
as
oats
and
barley,
and
again
sections of our county. It brings to
How about poultry?
Have you
mind the remark once made by a there is always a lull in the market
farmer who, some years ago, lived during the fall and early winter, many poultry farms here? No not
east of Moro to the effect that * ’weeds consequently the price ia not in ac any real poultry ranches, although a
were good for the lead ’ ’ and that he cordance with wheat, and for this few ranches have a few chickens, but
“did not want to be bothered with reason alone, it is better to have as a rule the chickens don’t pay.
cows because he couldn’t get any one wheat to put on the market in the They only Iky in the spring, and then
to slay on the farm when he wanted fall so that one can pay their store
to go fishing.” This same farmer oil Is, and possibly buy a few tires if dozen, and when eggs are 60c to 66c
fopght weeds and kept cows before he needed for the winter season. And per dozen they don't lay, and all in
waa (able to leave the farm for an again if we had the barley or oats all they o «re a nuiaance, always
easy time in town. If bs had not wo would be obliged to carry them scratching Mound where they are not
changed his viewpoint, he might not over to use during the summerfallow
now have the easy time he enjoys so ing season, and think of the interest «a is this country ? Ob! yes, 25c to
well. This is a copy of a letter you w'ould be loosing on all thia 30c in Portland, but after one haa to
written by a tourist stopping at Hotel amount, and again we are not using make crates to ship them, and got
Sherman, Wasco, and left with us any horses now on the ranches, as them caught out of the tree tops, and
caterpillars, or gas machinery are work half - the night, it is worth all
by R. C. Atwood.
"This is written by one who taking the place of horses now-a- you can get after paying the freight
and other expenses. And again in
might, appropriately, by some, be days.
raising
chickens, one has to have an
I
said
to
them,
this
must
be
a
called a tourist; 1 am a stranger in
incubator, and there is danger of
wonderful
country
where
one
needs
your community, in your cqunty, and
of my questions arose, and said that
in your state.
On my way from arrange for only one crop of grain netting the place on fire, burning up they were glad to have met me,
each
year,
and
that
can
be
planted
all
the
eggs,
chickens,
as
well
as
California by way of the central Ore
And if of which 1 have some times had my
gon route chanced tn stop over night and reaped without the use of horses. the whole darned ranch.
every
thing
goes
wsll with the doubts.
Do
you
have
much
dairying
in
thia
at the town of Crescent. That night
Woll, after my friends were gone I
Oh yes! Down on th* hatching, tho next thing that happens
was the end of a hard day’s drive, country?
sat
thinking what an opportunity for
but with a good rest was ready the coast, and in the western part of the the youngsters all gst tho Gaps, and many good live men who would like
the
next
thing,
they
are
all
being
state,
but
here
we
can
’
t
bother
with
next day for another drive equally as
the chance of carving out a home,
trying.
When discussing my next three or four cows ar.d calves, as it eat up with the Mites, and so goes men who never think of the word
the
chicken
business,
trouble,
trouble,
requires
too
much
time,
and
forces
stop with residents of that place a
trouole, men who pay no attention
stranger told me of the Hotel Sher us ranchers to be at home night and and time.
to
the sun, only that it may shine
I find that's great many of these
man at Wasco in which an acquaint- morning, rain or shine, to do th*,
early in the morning, and go out of
socalled
ranchers
actually
buy
the
stripping,
and
feed
the
calves;
and
ance of his by the name of Atwood,
again one never geU away to a eggs they use on their table, along sight late in the evening, this is the
was interested, He guaranteed me
picture show, let alone going to the with their shipped in bacon, ham, kind of men who should have a chance
that I would be well treated. Well,
in this glorious country, and we have
Wasco and he was coa*t for a short vacation, or to the butter and potatoes
plenty of men in the middle western
They
tell
me
that
the
ranchers
will
Pendleton Round-up, or any old place,
right.
all these who have cows have to do not buy their neighbors butter, as states who would be glad to cast
I arrived in plenty of time for is just milk night and morning, feed they claim it will not keep as sweet their lot with you people, if they only
dinner and from the courteous treat the calves in their season, and gathei as tee shipped in product. They also knew the conditions hers as they
ment by the landlord I believe 1 the barnyard odor day in and day out informed mo that the principal part exist.
would have gotten my dinner even We think a rancher should have s of the bread used in this country is
After finishing my cigar, I became
though I had been hours later. After little recreation as well as a banker shipped in ahoidy baked. All the drowsy, and decided to hit the hay,
I registered, and had my room with or brick layer.
stores in the country towns sell bread as you western people express your
bath assigned to me, I had my car
Where do you get milk for your at ,10 and 16c per loaf, which the selves when you wish to retire. 1
stored for the night just across the family? Oh! we buy it at the store housewives claim is about as cheap could not have been in the hay more
atreet. On my return to the desk at by the case, which answers the pur
as though it was baked on the ranch than twenty minutes, when I was
the hotel the landlord took my grips pose just as well as though we had taken into account the fuel and startled, and raised up in bed and
and proceeded me to the second floor, the cows to bother with.
water, and perhaps some light, time wondered where I waa, and if I were
and upon entering the room, the first
Do you raise many hogs? Not on and trouble, f asked myself, can dreaming. At first I thought I was
glance told me I would have a good your life! Not me. One of the, this be true? My father being a at the Hay-market riot in Chicago,
rest that night, as the room was gentleman answered. We would have miller, I have heard him say that a back in 1864. But after rubbing my
clean and in order, the bath tub had to hog fence nur ranches, which would barrel of flour would make 290 one eyes and convincing myself that 1
been thoroughly scoured, plenty of- eret more than we would make in a pound loaves of bread, which would
sure awake, I found that it was
towels, also plenty of individual life time raising hegs. And besides bring gt lOe each 229.00 when retailed only a few out of town people who
cakes of soap, hot and cold water, in look at the trouble we would have out to the consumer. Now if we had been to a picture show. From
fact every convenience to be had in running after the hogs, and the feed can buy a barrel of flour for say the sound and the noise made near
a Michigan eity.
it would take three times per day $9 00 we would be saving 120 00 less a the hotel and directly under my
After scrubbing up, I went down to snd the time it takes to feed ano trifle for fuel, providing our house window, I think that all the one,
the dining room where I was received butcher, and besides we would have wives did their own baking. From twos, Ihrees, fours, fives, sixes, and
pleasantly by one of the young lady to keep a few fleet dogs to dog the the conversation I have had with these all the way up to sixteen cylinder cars
waitresses, who must have been hogs out of the wheat. This all costs, gentleman farmers, it seems that the made since Seldon took out his first
coached as to how I was to be treated, and takes time and creates an im great question now pending is the patent was in the parade from ten
even though so late coming into the mens« amount of trouble. One of great volume of trouble confronting thirty to four o’clock a. m. In the
The care that were being
dining room, aa it is not often one the gentlemen spoke up and said, no them in each and every thing they morning
receives such marked attention these hogs for ma, I would be like one of undertake., In fact it impressed me demonstrated last night had all their
days when every one has his eye on my neighbors, 1 would take a gut to such an extent, that j took pie cut-outs open,also their cylinder rings
the time piece, and just wants to get and shoot the first one 1 saw on the liberty to ask if many of the farmers were so set that on every half cycle
she would back fire, this of course
ranch.
here in this country wore clothes,
And as to the excellent chef-
Well how do you get your supply shirta and overalls? 0 yea! such ns would help draw the attention of the
d’oeuvere, he is great, his way of of pork, for winter or every day use? they have. Why do you ask? For bystander, or the poor tired traveler
fixing dp tee bo ne steaks is little We get it at the stores, good bacon
the reason that every thing you have who went to the hay to get a good
short of a miracle, his stuffed baked all done up in nice fly proof cloth for to do, seem« to be so much trouble nights rut
potatoes are something one could look only from 60c to 60c per pound, ano
The operators doing this difficult
in this country.
forward to from one meal to another, hams put up in the same manner for
But I suppose one must remember demonstration surely wanted the on
but his apple pies has nectar and 50c to 60c per pound, which is quite we have federal as well as state lookers to know that they were some
ambrosia pushed out of the way and reasonable, considering the great
drivers, and if necessary could climb
laws, that must bo obeyed, otherwise
forgotten.
The crust doesn’t need amount of trouble one has in raising
we might all be subject to criticism
Talk about horns, it is simply
to be carved, chiseled or scooped, but hogs.
My greatest wonder is bow these
impossible
to describe the noise this
as a confection is browned to a turn,
Where do the stores get this pork?
flaky and full of taste. Ohl I’ll not From Chicago or Kansas city; Why raising only one commodity crop each bunch of would-be chauffers made,
each trying to out do the others, with
forget the chef at the Hotel Sbcrman. should we worry where it comes fr^m
year (wheat) and expect to make a
their horns of every description, police
(we called them cooks in the olden as Jong as it fills the bill snd
profit after taking every expense
whistles, electric horns, sirens, cal
days).
suits our tasters?
necessary to live out of the wheat
liopes, and cow bells, finally they
After this dandy dinner I seated my
1 cannot see why ypy people here bin. Our Michigan farmers would
wore themselves out, and things be
seif in one of those large easy chairs should not raise your own hogs and
not last through the first season, if
came quiet once more.
in the lobby, and listened to those savp the freight to and from Chicago,
they were to follow the methods of
The next morning X^rhile at break
who were seated near by, and found besides toe packers profits, and a
the Sherman copnty farmer.
fast, two gentlemen came in and
it very interesting learning about dozen other whackups with the so
My two informants becoming tip*
seated themselves at my table, and as
bow the farmers do their harvesting
soon qs thp opportunity presented its-
and general farming in this great
self, I took the liberty to inquire if
grain country.
—
the hullabaloo the night before was
Myself coming from what we call
an unusual affair, and the gentleman
in the east a good farming community
at my left said that it was not at all
in southwest Michigan, I began to
unusual. When I asked how any one
warm up and make inquiries as what
was expected to sleep, he said that
was tbs principal crops raised, ss
they merely had to get accustomed to
well as the different kinds of live
such out bursts of gayety, which
stock raised on these rolling hills.
took from four to six
Ona of the gentlemen was a large
months.
rancher, ou or near a place called
I then Inquired if the city had no
Gordon ridge, and the other was
ordinance prohibiting such a nuisance,
living on the John Day river farther
and the party on my right stated that
east, and near the Webfoot school.
the city aidermen looked upon it with
The former snower I ng my question,
more favor than one might think, as
ssid Oh yes, wo raise wheat exclu
it gave the stranger or tourist who
sively, of the turkey red variety,
comes this way the impression that
which is Usually sown any time from
the city was a great deal Hk« Bytte,
Angus» 16th to November 1st of each
Montana, in the old days when they
year. I questioned, don’t you raise
worked three eight hour sifts each
any corn? Oh no, too much trouble,
day| good bualnem, splendid energy,
only a patch now and then for roast
and plenty of pep.
ing ears. Don't you raise any oats?
At this, the young man on my
Lord no! we have them ship our oata
loft said that one of the milling oom-
in from California. Can’t you raise
paniea of Wasco, (the manager) told
them? Oh yes! but It is a lot of
him that they had sold more cracked
troubls to raise oats snd barlsy, as
corn, shipped from lows for chicken
we always have to change tho riddles
feed during the last few months, than
in the harvesters after threshing
over before at this time of year.
wheat, which is sxlrs troubls and
Judging from what I have aeon and
hoard, especially last night, I am
of man loafing around you can’t be
afraid that tho poor chickens have
ehangng »gives and riddles all the
not boon getting their share of
cracked corn.
A d jui tell me that you can t
Yours Truly,
raise barley in this country with a
Putnam Puterbaugh.
profi to yourselves, with wheal Ml*
Pokegon. Michigan.
the moot of our barley io shipped in
; AN AMERICAN WHO 18 SERVING TIME IN A GERMAN PRISON
from St. Paul, Minnesota, which only
Lieut. Corliss H Griffis, one of the two Ameriesns who attempted
■
Thought for the Day.
crets us laid down at Wasco from
Some people alm at nothing and hit
to kidnap Grover C. Bergdoll, draft evader, and was given a ’’relatively
246.00 to 100 00 per Ion rolled. Even
at this seemingly high pries, it Is [ light” s ntence by the judge.
At present and until we can readjust our
prices we are giving a 5 per cent discount
on all merchandise sold.
We are very much encouraged at the ati-
tude of our customers have taken and the
encouragement offered us in our new
method of store management.
We invite you to call when in town,and
look over our list of special prices* ^ will
pay you to do so.
Moro Trading Co.
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