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About Ashland American. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1927-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1927)
. . 1 ! . : . ! c A n POULTRY RAISING PROFITABLE HERE I RANCH NEAR BELLflE W MODERN A FFA IR V isitors are W elcome One Hen Lay* Over On e Hundred Egg* in O n e Hu n d r e d and S i x teen Day*. The News in Medford runs a “ Peoples Safety Valve” column for letters from readers. We don’t know why the following letter was sent to Medford instead of to the Ashland American, but it is good and will stand reprinting: “ Poultry raising to the layman is like any other business that is not thoroughly understood. We see chickens every day and see the beau tiful eggs displayed at the groceries but little is understood how the lay ing stock and egg-producing hens are produced. A trip to Bellview just two and one-half miles from Ashland is a new poultry farm being registered as the Oakview Poultry Farm owned by E. B. Shaw, operated by Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Barnes, who for a number of years have been in the poultry busi ness in the vicinity of Albany, Ore. “ On approaching the farm our at tention is drawn to the many build ings located there and a great white flock o f chickens, white leghorns are the breed that all egg-producing farms specialize in. The first pleas ant thing that came to our vision was the neat appearance of things, the next was the well constructed buildings and third of all was that we were greeted with a smile and shown all points of interest by a smiling attendant, who explained all chick ens. We were escorted down to the big building first where the chickens were trap-nested, here was quite a surprise for city people, about five hundred hens being busy working; a great row of nests were provided for them and as soon as the hen en tered the nest her weight automat ically closed the door of the nest; she deposits her egg and is kept a prisoner until released, as the at tendant takes o ff a hen her number worn on a metal band on her leg is registered on a day sheet, such a sheet is kept by the week, then the sheet is placed in a loose leaf led ger which also carries a monthly re port. One hen that came to our no tice was a little white fowl, no dif ferent than the rest, but carried the number of one hundred and two, and her name was Lady Beautiful. The record books showed that this bird had laid one hundred and eleven eggs in one hundred and sixteen days, this is only one of hundreds of egg-pro ducing hens enclosed in this build ing. One would think that this was all that there were to the farm, but you are mistaken, w’e were shown some stately male birds that have records dating back from hens that had an average of over 250 eggs per year. These cockrels are valued from $25 to $75 a piece. Last but not least, we were taken to a smaller building known as the ’ ncubator house. Here we are shown four incu bators, each holding five hundred and forty eggs that arc on their way to become baby chicks. These eggs also have their records before being hatched. If the mother of these eggs did not produce two hundred and fifty or more eggs per year, she was culled from the flock and her eggs were not used for hatching. So you see how interesting trap-nesting is and what wonderful records can be kept and also the control over the ‘ggs for generation weeding out the slow producers and replacing them with active birds. Whether you ire in the market for eggs or chicks you are welcomed to this farm and the trip will be in the way o f an edu cation to any one coming out. By F. O. CARTY. ---------------* --------------- I I LEGAL NOTICES S UMMONS I NEW OREGON W E EK LY INDUSTRIAL R E V IE W Corvallis — Historic old Corvallis hotel will be replaced by modern In the Circuit C o u r t f or the State of Or e g o n , f o r Jackton c ou n t y. hostelry. Plaintiff J. II. DUTTON, Clatskanie — Wooden & Hall will vs. erect $30,000 store and office build LILLIE DUTTON, Defendant ing. To LILLIE DUTTON, Defendant: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON, you are hereby noti Klamath Falls— Four cars of fat fied and required to appear and cattle shipped from Dalton ranch answer the complaint of the plain tiff filed against you in the above bring $0,000. entitled Court and cause, on or be fore the 3rd day of February, 1926, La Grande gets second artesian that if you fail to answer the same well, flowing 200 gallons a minute at before that date, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief de 1200 feet. manded in said complaint, which is for a decree forever dissolving the Salem’s $217,000 building permits ¡bonds of matrimony now existing be for January were mostly for small tween plaintiff and defendant, and f for the custody and control of the | homes. minor child of said marriage named in said complaint. This summons is served upon you Union county spent $232,185 dur for the period of six consecutive ing 192(5, more than half for roads. weeks and seven publications there of, in the Ashland American, a La Grande payrolls for 1926 weekly news paper printed on Thurs day of each week in Central Point, reached $1,999,838. Oregon, commencing with the issue of December 30th, 1926, in pursu Klamath Falls bank clearings for ance o f an order of the Honorable January reached $1,459,999, 30 per C. M. Thomas, Judge of the above named Court, made and entered cent above January, 1926. herein on the 28th day of December, 1926. Eugene— Pacific Poultry Produc W. G. TRILL, Attorney for Plaintiff ers sign up for 50,000 hens in Lane My residence and Postoffice ad county. dress is: Central Point, Oregon Newburg— Yamhill county agricul d-31-f.ll ----------- * ----------- tural organizations hold three-day N O T I C E TO CREDITORS marketing school here. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, Klamath Falls— New $40,000 city that the undersigned has, by order of library ready for dedication. the county court of Jackson county, Oregon, been appointed as adminis- of the Estate of Isabell J. Southern Pacific will buy North tratix Stines, deceased, and has duly quali western lumber for constructing 1500 fied as such. All persons having claims against said estate are here new bo?f cars. by notified and required to present the same, duly verified as required Marshfield— Coos Bay shipped 6,- by law, within six months after the 017,619 feet of lumber to Japan, dur date of the first publication of this notice, which first publication is the ing January. 7th day of January, 1927. My resi dence is Medford. Oregon, and place Portland — Heavy shipments of of business is First National Bank Portland-made bathfhg suits go to Building in said city. FRANCES COCHRAN, Europe. Administratix of the Estate of Isabell Stine, Deceased. Portland— Southern Pacific Rail W. E. Phipps, Attorney for said es way company contemplates extending tate, First National Bank Building, its lines from Klamath Falls to Al Medford, Oregon. j.7-f. 4 turas, California. ----------------------------------------- A Mathemat ician. North Powder— Pacific Fruit Ex A school teacher once received a press company has put up 14,000 note like this: “ Dear Mam— Please tons of ice here this season. ixcuse Johnny today. He will not be at school. He is acting as timekeep Perry— Grande Ronde Lumber Co, er for his father. Last nite you gave cut 20,000,000 feet of lumber hero him this ixample; If a field is four last year, with 250 men. miles square, how long will it take a man walking three miles an hour to No increase will be demanded for walk two and one-half times around national forest grazing fees, this year it. Johnnie ain’t no man, so we had to send his daddy. My husband left Roseburg— Industrien financing early this morning and he said he service organized for local develop ought to be back late tonight, though ment. it would be hard going. Please make the nixt problem about ladies as my St. Helens— Knights of Pythias husband can’t offard to lose a day’s will spend $30,000 on modern lodge work. “ Mrs. Jones.” building. -------------------* ------------------- When charged with flirting on the Klamath Falls— Plans are made for street, Ed. Stevenson of Chicago labor temple at cost of $40,000. asked that he be whipped, but was given two months in jail instead. Klamath Falls— Jacl^man-Grafton Mrs. Ella Milner of Chicago was \ company plans three potato ware refused a divorce when her husband j houses at Oleno, Merril, road cros swore that he had to sleep with his ' sing and Pine Grove. trousers on to keep her from taking his money at night. Klamath county sheepmen will clip more than 1,000,000 pounds of wool this spring. Klamath county stockmen expect great year for grazing and feeding stock. Klamath Falls— Eight milese sur facing completed on Midland-State Line highway. Klamath Falls — Forest Lumber company will build 30 employes’ homes. Fort Klamath — $35,000 now In dian agency hospital nearly complet ed. ---------- + ---------- ASHLAND Ashland the first city in Oregon, on the paved Puri fir highway, just 22 miles from the California line, has many attractive features that are not found in many other cities. I.ithia Park astonishes and delights the vis itor anti proves a source of rest and comfort to the weary. Mineral spring of a variety and qualitv rare ¡"deed | bring relief to many ami a rlimat^ of j equability and rareness satisfies the year around. A city of 6000 people. .State Normal, pretty homes, bti-ii'*-J The so-called agricultural problem is largely a political problem as to what to advocate in order to round up the most votes. 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