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Federation wheat was the highest
post o£c« 41 Moro, Oregon. July 2S, 1891 yielding variety of wheat grown in
Umatilla county this last crop year.
It sometimes is planted In the fall as
winter wheat, although G. R. Hyslop,
professor of farm crops, says it is
unsafe for fall planting except where
the winters are mild.
The three federation spring wheat
varieties—federation, hard federation
and white federation—are of Austra-
iin origin. The first sowing of these
varieties in the United States was
made at the branch experiment station
at Moro in 1916 from small quantities
of seed supplied by the department of
agriculture of New South Wales,
Australia.
Because of their high yields in the
station in 1918, a limited quantity of
seed of hard federation and federation
was distributed in 1919 to farmers for
further trial. The result obtained by
the farmers in 1919 and the result on
the station justified a further distri*
notion of these two varieties to
different parte of the state.
Hard federation is a good milling
wheat and is coming into demand by
the
millers.
Federation usually
grades soft white and except where
rainfall is light and growing season
hot usually outyields hard federation.
The hard federation yield in Uma
tilla county this year will not be
heavy because of unusual drouth, but
its growth, the county agent reports,
is remarkable. Indeed it is the only
spring wheat to be harvested.
C. L. I reland
Editor and Publisher
August 22, 1924
F riday
There is surely no reason why the
American designer and craftsman
siiould be original at the expense of im
memorial convention. That way there
often Uee nothing but strained fantasti
cality, writes Royal Cortissoa in Scrib
ner* a. I remember the splash that was
made in the salon by the French
craftsman, Carabin. No wonder he got
himself noticed! He would carve a
goblin atop a chairback or reveal him
climbing up over the edge of u fable.
Then the craxe for l’art nouveau set
tn and furniture abroad looked more
or lees like the notorious “Nude De
seen ding a Staircase." In the earlier
exhibitions at the Metropolitan mu
seum there were repetitions, as I have
said, of established motives, but, thank
hew ven, there were no freaks. There
wasn't even the ghost of one in the
eighth show, the show this winter. It
was sane, conservative, a model of
good testé.
Fines assessed in cases resulting
from the activities of the state pro
hibition department during the six
months ending July 1. 1924, aggre
gated 177,407.49, while the expenses
of conducting the department were
115,451.37, according to a report pre
pared by George L. Cleaver, state pro
hibition director.
.ocai Man Member oí Party to
CoEect Oregon Historical Data
An excursion to the lava beds near
Klamath Falls, where the Indians
made their last stand in the Modoc
war more than half a century ago,
will be made August 21st by a party
of prominent Oregonians
The trip
will be msde by auto, the round trip
from Klamath Falls msde in one day.
All who may wiah to join the party
will be welcomed. Some of the ex-
curainniste will continue their quest
into Lake county where they will
visit the geysers.
Among the party will be Captain
O. C. Applegate, who fought in the
Modoc war and knew the contestants
intimately; Jeff C. Riddle, author
of a popular illustrated history of the
Modoc war and son of Winema, the
Now that Parte has decided
Pocahontas of the Modocs; the Rev.
ish American jazz, London Is netting C. Hulet, pastor of the First Presby-
M
about a crusade on American cowboy lorian church of Merrill;
steer-roping exhibitions.
1
Ze ve1y of Moro,assistant county school
superintendant of Sherman county;
out the exportable surplus of Ameri and Dr. John B. Homer, professor of
at
Oregon Agricultural
can civilization.
history
college.
An astronomer tells us that the sun
is splitting Into two parts. Wall, wo
All c«real grain and fruit crops in
don't mind that as long as the two
parte agree to keep traveling In the eastern Oregon were far below the
normal yield this year, according to
same direction.
a report just sent out by F. L. Kent,
statistician of the bureau of economica
Thia generation can drive au to mo-
in the federal department of agricul
bile«, fly airplanes, talk by radio and ture. A near failure of spring grain
do many other things, but It is not and clover seed, and the smallest
quite so sure that it knows how to prospective potato yield *in many
bring up children. -
yeara, are outstanding features of the
present situation, the report states.
What substitute has the old-fash Unprecedented drouth is given as the
ioned superstitious fellow found for reason for this condition. The Oregon
the cast horseshoe he used to pick 1924 winter hsrvest was nearly two
up on the streets?
week» earlier than usual, hence nu
merous figures on winter wheat and
winter oata were available by August
L It appears, continued Mr. Kent,
thst the acreage which was seeded
rather early and which made a good
winter growth, made up the higher
producing fields.
Two young girls have been admit
ted to a high school In Copenhagen
who are perhaps the flrst of their
race to receive a European higher
education. They are Eskimo girls
and were adopted by the Arctic ex
plorer. Amundsen, on his last trip
to the polar regions. The girls have
only one name, which sounds some
what barbaric, but for the memonr
they are Kokanitta and Carnitta. First
thing they did after arriving in Copen
hagen and after having looked around
a little was to have their hair bobbed.
That's an Important step on the road
to civilisation. There's hope for the
Eskimo race yet
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MODERN INCONVENIENCES
HAVE just had a letter from Wgt'
son, a rural friend of mine who con
1
templates moving to town, and, know
ing aa he does that I am au old settler
in my community, he asks me to help
him find a suitable place in which to
live. He wishes, he says, “a medlum-
aised house with all the modern in-
cooveniences’’ Perhaps it is only a
alip of the pen for he is none too
•rudite; possibly lie was serious In
wbat be said; in either case I under
stand him.
Tbare is a good deal said on occa-
alon concerning the discomforts and
privations which our pioneer ancestors
suffered—the meagerness of heat and
light and means of communication with
the outside world with which they
had to put up, and the almoat com
plete lack of modern machinery.
I am not at all sure that the hard
ships of modern life sre any less
severe than those my grandfather suf
fered.
No man who has a telephone in his
bouse has any chance for uninter
rupted I el surfed a y or night. It was
raining this afternoon ; I could not go
out. I was aloue, so I decided to do a
little construction work in the base
ment. I had only settled down to
buslnsMi when I heard the telephoi »
bell Jangling. At flrst I decided to
ignore ft, but then it might t* ,m
portant so I rushed upstairs almost
breaking my neck in an attempt to get
there before tlje caller rang off, only
to find that ti»e operator had called
the wrong number. I am not at all
convinced that the man who invented
the telephone conferred an unmixed
blessing upon humanity.
Electric lights are wonderful, but
we had to resort to the old-time can
dles the other night while the'local
dynamos were being repaired. Water
pipes and automobiles and oil heat
ing plants bring their inconveniences
which sometimes outnumber their
comforts.
I recently looked through a modem
kitchen and laundry in a friend’s
house, equipped wifh every sort of la
bor-saving device. It would take a
graduate of an engineering college to
operate the machinery intelligently. The
ordinary maid would electrocute her
self the flrst day she were turned
loose in such a machine shop.
I believe Watson was right when he
......... all
referred to the house filled - with
modern Inconveniences."
BILL BARBER’
A large elk, one of the four sent
from Okanogan county last winter to
roam In the Lake Chelan region, was
shot by the game commission after
permission had been granted from
Olympia. The elk has been going on
rampages near the Williams ranch at!
Twenty-five Mlle creek, chasing every
one who showed up.
Oregon Highways Return Good
Big Dividends to Their Owners
A clever statistician has estimated
that the state highways of Oregon,
which represent a total state invest
ment of about $70,000,000, besides
the county roads that feed and serve
them, actually return the state a fair
interest 0.1 $800,000,000. This return
comes in the way of tourist revenues,
that without the comprehensive sys
tem of state roala^wbtold rever reach
the state. Investments that pay a
profit on four time« their normal cap-
itelization ought to be safe any
where. A good roads policy that ip
beyond the reach of the stampeder
makes such returns possible.
Oregon in the past has built paved
roads of a quality comparable to city
streets. By recognizing the advan
tage and necessity of shork absorbing
qualifit • in a ptverrant it has not
only h* Id down fir-t costs tut it has
redued rnamtenarce costs to a mini
mum
This latter item las wrecked
many a good roans proi ram due to
the useless drain it entails on. tax
funds
Complete tilings of candidates for
state offices, as certified for the bal
lot by J. Grant Hinkle, secretary of
state, show 47 candidates for the nine
elective positions. The field includes
25 republicans, nine farmer-laborites
and 13 democrats.
Special Prices on Harvest Groceries
Come in and See
Our Special Prices on the Following Items
Preferred Stock Coffee in 5, 2 1-2,
.
pound tins
1
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Bulk Coffee
Fruits in gallon tins
Mexican Beans
Corn
Peas
White Navy Beans
'' Soap, R & G naptha
Pickels in kegs
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Syrup in jackets
Matches
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Moro Trading Co.
We Pav Market Price
For Farm Produce
- Wild morning glory is considerable
of a curse in the wheat fields of east
ern Oregon, but experiments launched
by Fred Bennion, county agent of
Umatilla county, and Profess© George
R. Hislop of O. A. C., may find an
economical and easy way to rid the
land of these clinging and vegetation
choking vines. The two farm ex
perts sprayed in various fashions
patches of land infested with morning
glory on the hank Geer place near
Weston with sodium arsenite.
In the first attempt the chemical
was sprayed straight, in another it
was mixed with soap suds to secure
a more uniform spread over the
leaves. In the third it was sprayed
and then covered over with dry straw.
On the fourth the solution was spray
ed on wet straw placed atop and dry
straw over that.
Experiments with the sodium arse
nite treatment in California, where
fog and rain prevail to a great extent
have resulted in a wholesale killing
out of the peat, and the wet straw
was resorted to to make conditions
conform with those in California.
The decision to use sodium arsenite
was made after an analysis of the
commercial «prwy disclosed the fact
that the contents of it was between
10 and 15 per cent sodium arsenite
The sodium arsenite is three times as
effective when used alone as when
used with other combinations, ac
cording to Professor Hislop.
The ordinary method for getting
rid of the morning glory is constant
cultivation for about two years
One main trouble with this treatment
is, however, aside from the long time
it takes, in the fact that the morning
glory plants must be killed and not
allowed to be above ground, or they
will not be killed but merely
weakened.
Farmers Warned Against Patron
izing Defunct Portland Concern
William W. Masiker, pioneer of
1858, died last week in Spokane. Mr.
Maaiker was a half brother of A. J.
Price and an uncle of L. Barnum and
E. E. Barnum of The Dalles, A. H.
Barnum and Mrs. L. L. Peetz of this
city. He has numerous other rela-
tivec in Wasco and Sherman counties,
and is survived, also,by two brothers,
Carson C. Masiker of Maryhill,
Washington and M. J. Masiker of
Grants Pass, Oregon. His wifs sur
vives also, os does his eon, Walter
Masiker of Spokane, and one daugh
ter, Mia. Frank Pbelpe of Los
Angeles. ■ Mr. Masiker was born 76
years ago in King eoonty. 111 , start
ed acroes the plains in 1862, arriving
in Oregon the following year. He
lived for a number of years on Fif
teen Mile creek near Dufur, follow
ing his coming to Wasco county in
1862.
Io 1870, he went to Grant
county, aad later to Columbus. Wash
ington, now ' Maryhill, where he
was married, in 1877, to Miss Laura
Henderson. Funeral services for Mr.
Masiker were held at Maryhill,
Washington, laat Sunday, A. H.
Barnum and wife attending the
services from this city.
Members of the Every-Day Highway (
association from Washington and Ore
gon gathered at Wenatchee to talk
good roads and discuss the feasibility
of an all-year road east of the Cas
cades from British Columbia to the
Mexican border. Samuel HUI, Seattle,
is president About 75 were present.
High officials of the Russian. Ortho-,
dox Greek Catholic church In America
filed a suit In the United Stetes dis- ■
trict court for western Washington !
at Seattle, Involving ownership and
control of $340,000 worth of church
property in Seattle and Alaska, against
the Russian-American Greek Catholic
church.
Call Upon Us
No niiitter what yAir inerchandi^e^iieiNiH may
be, we are qualified to fill them lor you ,
Room Size and Smaller
Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs
Electric Appliances •
Furniture
Paints and Oils
Builders’ Hardware
Everything for the Home is here
at prices tirai invite a visit to thia store
Moro,
Oregon
THE MORO DAIRY
Q. G. Thor|j?, proprietor
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MORO
Phone 21 Fi
OREGON
The only dairy herd in the vicinity of Moro
that is certified disease-free.
MORO, ORE.
D. N. MacKay, secretary of the
Auto Truck and Team
Condon Commercial club, has pub
Drayige of all kinds
lished a warning to farmers and
stockmen, in the last Globe-Times,
Special delivery ratee made on
not to give orders to a traveling
wood, coal, etc. to country places
salesman claiming to represent ’fee
Long and short hauling promptly
Com umers General Supply company,
done on short notice.
which is supposed to have an office in
Headquarters at Hotel Moro.
'Portland. The company is said to
have collected money from farmers on
orders for goods to be shipped im OOOOOOOOOOOOOCCOOÜOOOOCXXX
mediately, as long ' as three months
from date of the order the meichan-
dise had not been received.
The
district attorney
for Multnomah >
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4.
county has notified the Condon com
*
Physician
and
Surgeon
mercial elub that the Consumers
General Supply company has been put
out of business and is now a defunet
corporation. The warning was pub
Main 18a
lished in the belief thst salesmen
were continuing to take orders for
WASCO - OREGON
the company.
Milk, 12c quart
Cream, 35c pint
Deliveries daily, morning and evening
USE
; Dr W. N. Morse
MOTOR OIL
AND
UNION
NON DETONATING
Items of Interest From Every where
Rainfall in varioua parte of the In
land Empire extinguished a number
of forest fire«. Precipitation amount
ed to more than half an Inch-
Mrs. Robert Laid was killed near
Waitsburg when the automobile she
was driving went into a ditch. Her
husband was seriously Injured.
Between 600 and 400 Ki wan la ns and
between 750 and 1000 members of the
American Legion will attend conven
tions in Walla Walla the last of this
month. ------
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Fire destroyed the building on Pro
duce row in Yakima occupied by the
Pacific Fruit A Produce company.
Estimates of the damage place it at
1100,000.
Quinault residents Till celebrate the
completion of the new North Shore
highway Sunday with a barbecue and
special entertainment at the Antppa
Kestner ranch.
Fairfield is the center of the seed
pea Industry of the Inland Empire.
There are 15,000 acres in the crop and
last year the growers received more
than $700,000.
An investigation of the price of
wheat being 10 to 15 cents lower at
Davenport than at Creston and other
Lincoln county towns will be made by
the Davenport commercial club.
Congress will be asked to appro
priate an additional sum at the com
ing seasion of congress to provide for
the completion of the report on the
Umatilla rapids irrigation project
An estimated agvteg to the farmers
of Washington of HMM0 was ac
complished during 11 months from
July j, 1923. to July I. 1914, by the
iHortf of ths rodent control work
supervised by Uto Unftfd Statse bk^
logical survey, so cwdlng to Loo
Couch, in charge of rodent control of
this state. A tremendous quantity of
poison was used by the farmers of
the state In redout control. Mr. Couch
has estimated more than 101447
pounds of poteoned grain, 148,075
pounds of calcium cyanide and 9714
ouacea of strychnine wore used.
Proposing one of tbo biggeet hydro-
plectric power schemes of the state,
appl^tipn wh received by Marvlr
Chase, state superviqev of hyAraplIce,
for water rights to divert tbs entire
flow of the Columbia river, with a
dam site located half a mils upstream
from Starr on thp Great Northern rail
road In Okanogan county. Applicant
la George Adama Shamberger of Oro
ville. The dam would be of concrete,
44 feet high and 11M foot long. The
project would develop 110.000 horse
power, It la estimated, and would coot
between fopy and five million dollara
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GASOLINE
Wssttn^MNise
UNION OIL COMPANY
OF
CALIFORNIA
FOR SALE
BY
Sherman Electric Co
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Williams Motor Co., Moro,
Ore.
Authorized Ford Sales and Service
One Ford Truck
One Ford Roadster
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Starter Type, with Cord Tiros,
Bosch Ignition, — a real good buy
- Two Po'o Cars
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One Flupmobile Touring
1 One 1919 Haynes Touring
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Reasonable Prices and Terms
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