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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, August 21, 1923
A PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. F. E. FARRIOR
DENTIST
Office Up3tair3 Over Postoffica
Heppner, Oregon
or;
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office In Court House
HEPPNER, OREGON
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORN K YS-AT-LAW
Masonic Building
HEPPNE-R, OREGON
DR. A. D. McMURDO
PHYSICIAN and SCKGEOJT
Telephone 122
Office Patterson's Drug Store
HEPPNER, OREGON
DeLUXE ROOMS
Summer Rates
75c & $i.oo
Over Case Furniture Co.
Same K. Van Vac'or R. R. Butler
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ATTORNKVS-AT-IiAW
Suite S04 Flral National Bank Bldg.
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FIRE INSURANCIS
; Successors to
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HEPPNER, OREOON
ruone 3831. We have money to loan
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Agent for Pacific Illdg. & Loan Ahs'ii
.General Itoii! Nutate and Insurance..
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Paved Yards Save
Feed and Labor
Floor Is Sanitary and Does
A. way With Unsightly Mud
Holes in Barnyards.
No farm is complete without a con
crete feeding floor as part of its equip
ment. It Is hard to estimate the
amount of feed that has been lost and
wasted through being fed In the mud.
A paved feeding floor is sanitary and
does away with the unsightly mudholes
so common to barnyards.
Easy to Build.
Concrete barnyard pavements, as
shown In the Illustration, are easy to
build, and the man who has never had
experience with concrete can acquire
what is necessary In a short time by
it:
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Concrete Barnyard Pavement.
carefully following a few Instructions,
Not all of the pavement need be built
at one time. A strip '20 feet wide is
enough for a beginning. Additional
strips can be added as desired.
Plan for Paving.
In paving a feeding yard with con
crete, first grade the site so that It is
practically level. If the drainage Is
not good, drain tile should be laid. A
sub-base of several Inches of gravel or
cinders is sometimes advantageous.
The concrete should be mixed In the
proportion of 1 part of cement, 2
parts of sand and 3 of pebbles or
broken stone. A thickness of four
Inches Is the allowable minimum and
five or six Inches Is safer, especially
where heavy loads are likely to be put
on the floor. The surface should be
made to slope toward one corner, with
a pitch of not more than one-fourth-lnch
per foot, and It should he finished
with a wood-Moat, which leaves a grit
ty surface that can be easily cleaned,
yet affords a linn fooling for the stock.
After the concrete lias been laid It
should not be used for at least two or
three weeks.
The? following table shows the
amount of materials required to build
pavements of various areas, using one-two-three
mix and a thickness of four
Inches :
Silimri- Ft. .Sucks of Cuh. Yds. Cut,. Yls.
of i 'a v'lll't. Ccno'iit. of Sand, i'ebblta.
Him) nil 2 3
lim (il 4 6
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Sweet Corn la Superior
for Feeding in Summer
In making plans for summer feed
ing, the value of sugar corn should not
be overlooked. In certain dairy sec
tions where Its worth Is recognized, It
Is not unusual to find almost every
dairyman planting a moderate-sized
patch with which to meet the mid
summer period when pasturage Is
short and green f coil nt a premium.
In the choice of the variety to plant
It Is well to choose the later maturing
sorts such as Country (ietitlemnn and
I'.vercreon. The earlier varieties will
mature as a rule before there Is real
need for them In dairy feeding. The
earlier varieties of sweet corn are
lacking In stalk and leaf as compared
with the larger and later sorts.
Fowls in Orchard Kill
Many Injurious Insects
Any fruit which grows high enough
to he nut of reach of the hens Is
honetlted by their presence. Hotter
irops are produced and greater
l-row th Is In evidence. Some years ago
Cornell university mnrte a test which
showed very conclusively that the
presence of chickens in an orchard did
more irood tow ards killing Injurious In
sects than nil the liquid sprays that
could be applied.
Little Improvement in
Quality of Seed Helps
It bus been estimated that more
than H.OOO.i) pounds of seeds, ex
clusive of seed potatoes, seed sunar
canes, nnd other vegetative planting
stocks, are sown or planted annually
In this country. Even a small Im
provement In the quality of seed
planting would result In larger crops
at little or no additional expense or
In the same production on t smaller
acreage.
Consider Farmer First
in Establishing Routes
When establishing routes for good
mails, the Interest of the fanners Is
the tlrst thing that should be taken
Into account. As It Is over them that
all that goes to clothe and feed the
hungry ungrateful world must he
transported, let Uvi slogan of roads
be, "Farmers First."
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It protects you by substantial payments if to
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It pays double in case of accidental death.
The New York Life offers many different plans
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Can you afford to take chances against fate
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Think it over.
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S. A. PATTISON, Resident Agent
HEPPNER, OREGON
Cucumber Beetle Will
Injure Garden Crop9
Pests Make Their Appear
ance Suddenly.
Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
The striped cucumber beetle attacks
and injures seedling cucumbers, melons
and related crops, but especially the
cucumber, as soon as they appear.
They even burrow down to meet them
before they come above the ground.
They devour . the tender stems and
leallels before the plant is fairly
started, gnaw the older stems and ripe
fruits and act as carriers of cucurbit
discuses. They make their appearance
suddenly and in great numbers, nnd as
they work rapidly an entire crop may
he destroyed In a few days. The
slender white worm-like larvae injure
the plains later in the season by tun
neling the roots and underground parts
of the stems.
The control measures which have
given the greatest promise of success
are preventives, repellents, farm prac
tice, and the use of Insecticides, par
ticularly nicotine dust and arsenate 0
iead.
In suggesting control measures, the
department commends that young and
choice plants in stiuiH gardens be
protected with tight coverings. If an
excess of seed is planted, the attack
will be distributed, and some of the
plants will escape the beetles. Nico
tine dust should he applied directly, aud
arsenate of lead used as a spray,
either alone or In combination with
'.tordeaux mixture. Care should he
taken to cover every portion of In
fested plants, both surfaces of leaves,
vines and stems. Clean culture with
trap plants is an aid. Active co-operation
of neighboring growers of cucur
bits in these methods Is desirable.
Community effort In observing these
methods will undoubtedly lessen the
danger of losses from this pest in the
course of time.
"Yellowing" Cuts Deeply
Into Alfalfa Production
"Yellowing" is one of the most serl- 1
ous troubles of the alfalfa grower. In
the East, says the Tutted States Pe- 1
pnrtuient of Agriculture, It Is rospon-
slide for a greater redaction in yield
every year thuu any of the diseases or '
Insects. In the past few years It has I
been observed In the West, but in the
rest of the country it lias been known I
almost as long as the crop has been
grown on a commercial scale.
Although the cause of "yellowing" I
has never been definitely determined, j
If has been attributed to a number of (
unfavorable conditions. In some cases j
It lias been thought that soil condition j
were responsible, as the same symp- :
turns occur in the absence of sufficient j
lime, plant food, or drainage. Put it j
also oectirs where all these conditions j
are favorable, ns is shown by the qulcK
recovery of the plants after the old j
growth has been cut. When the cause
Is lack of lime. food, or drainage the '
plants die soon after cutting. j
The treatment recommended fir ;
"yellowing" Is cutting of the fields re- ;
gardless of the stage of development j
of the plants. The new growth gen- I
erally comes along noruillv
Ear Tag System Is
Practical for Flocks
Especially Used for Identi
fying Each Individual.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
An Ingenious and simple method of
murklng farm breeding animals has
been used successfully with sheep for
eight years by Cooper Curtice of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture at the farm of the bureau of ani
mal Industry near Vienna, Va. The
system is especially adapted for identi
fying quickly the extent of pure blood
of Individuals in herds and Hocks being
improved with purebred sires. ICuch
animal Is labeled with an aluminum
tag bearing a number. Females are
labeled on the right ear; males on the
left. The young are given the dam's
number preceded by I (or by 10 if the
dam's number Is a digital number) if
it is the first young born; preceded by
2 If the second bora, and so on.
This system is quite practical for
farm flocks of sheep of less than 1U0
bead, and for cattle. If a purebred
sire Is being used to grade up a herd
or flock of nondescript females, the
system affords a very good ever-present
record of the grade of animals
obtained. For example: The first
born young of female No. 25 will be
marked 125. Animal No. 125 Is one
half grade. The young of 125 will be
come 1125, and will be a three-quarters
grade. No. 1U25 will be seven-eighths,
and No. 111125, fifteen-sixteenths. To
illustrate further: No. 3125 Is the
third young of the first young of 25
and a three-quarters grade.
When there Is no longer spnee for
additional figures on the label, the
sixth or seventh generation may be
marked with letters following the num
ber of the original dam. Applied to
female No. 25, the young of the sixth
generation may be marked 25A ; next
generation, 2511, and so on. If desired,
the sire number may he placed on the
reverse side of the label.
Tills method of Identifying animals
may be used In conjunction with an
ear-notching system, which further
Identifies them. A good ear-notching
plan enables the owner to replace,
with assurance as to correct Identity,
tiny ear tags that may be lost.
Eradicate Weed Plants
by Preventing Growth
There Is only one way to eradicate
noxious perennial plants such as wild
morning glories or fK?a vine crowths.
or whatever kind they may be; and
that Is to prevent them from making
any leaf growth during the last half
of summer, or after about July 1.
Whatever method you find most con
venient for doing this will be the most
practical method for you to apply.
Some such plants can be eradicated
by pasturing the last half of summer;
other methods are to keep the land
cultivated the last half of summer, or
to keep them cut down with a hoe
when In some cultivated crop, such as
corn; another method Is to smother
with straw or by growing some rank
growing crop: another Is to keep the
land mowed close to the ground fre-auently.
Certified Seed
Increases Yield
Favorable Results Obtained
by Potato Growers Should
Encourage General Use.
(Prepared by the United States Department
ot Agriculture.)
AVhlle there has been an increasing
tendency on the part of potato produc
ers to use certified seed during the
last few years, the favorable results
that have been obtained from the use
of such seeds should encourage a much
more general use of certified seed,
says the United States Department of
Agriculture. A number of states are
now producing certified seed and
have records showing the comparative
yield from certified fields with the
average yield of the state. In New
York state yields for ordinary fields
averaged 103 bushels an acre, while
the certified fields yielded 223 bushels
an acre. In Minnesota the yield In
favor of the certified seed, over that
of the ordinary fields, was 60 bushels
an acre, and In Pennsylvania certified
fields yielded 308 bushels while the
ordinary fields produced only 100
bushels an acre. Reports from other
states show similar Increase in yield
from the certified fields In comparison
to the average of the state.
Decided Improvement.
Certified seed sent from Michigan
to several corn belt states for experi
mental and demonstrational tests in
1921 showed a decided Improvement
in yield over the local seed. In Iowa
the Increase in yield secured from this
Michigan certified seed was C1.2 bush
els, In Indiana 21 fields showed an in
crease of 03 bushels, in Illinois 61
fields yielded 44 bushels increase,
while In Ohio, where the great part
of the acreage of the state Is planted
with certified seed, the Increase due to
the Michigan seed was only 2.6 bush
els. In two tests conducted in Dela
ware the Micliignn certified seed aver
aged 68 bushels more an acre than
home-grown seed.
Good Season for Both.
Last season was a good one for both
producers and buyers of certified seed.
The large production of certified seed
has brought the price so low that al
though reports show that a premium
of 50 to 150 per cent Is being paid
for certified stock the grower is at
least getting a little profit out of his
work, while the buyer Is able to buy
this seed at a reasonable cost.
Little to Be Gained by
Cultivation of Alfalfa
So long as the stand Is satisfactory
and the plants are making good
growth there is little to be gained by
cultivating alfalfa, says the United
States Department of Agriculture. A
slight increase In yield Is sometimes
obtained by such treatment, but ex
periments have shown that it is not
ordinarily enough to pay the addition
al cost, and the life of the stand is
prolonged but littie, if any.
Under certain conditions, however,
cultivation of this crop may be worth
while. Where irrigation waters leave
a crust of silt on the fields the use
of the barrow to break it up seems
advisable. Also where Irrigated al
falfa is pastured it is sometimes a
good practice to use a harrow to
loosen up the soil, especially if it ;s
heavy-textured. When weeds and
grass threaten to choke out the al
falfa the life of the stand may be
profitably prolonged for a year or two
by harrowing.
The best implement for this purpose
Is the alfalfa harrow, which is a modi
fication of the spring-tooth harrow.
The spike-tooth harrow may be used
on the lighter soils, but Is of little use
on the heavy soils. The disk harrow
Is very liable to prove injurious.
Orchard Intercropping
Secondard Proposition
From the year that an orchard is
first set out, intercropping is a sec
ondary proposition and should be
treated as such the trees come first.
It has usually been considered desir
able to make use of the land between
the trees for the first few years from
the standpoint of increased profit. Fur
thermore, a cultivated crop insures
cultivation of the trees.
Legume Is Satisfactory
Crop for Poultry Flock
One of the most satisfactory crops
to grow on the ground where poultry
ranges Is the legume. Clover or al
falfa are Ideal crops for this purpose.
A half acre of ground seeded to either
one of these legumes will furnish
enough creen feed for a hundred or
more chickens.
Deep Corn Cultivation
Will Cut Many of Roots
When the stalks of corn are 18
Inches high, the roots have met across
a three and-one-half-foot row. Deep
cultivation at this time will cut many
of the roots and check the growth of
the plants. A good rule to follow is
to cultivate deep early In the season
and shallow later when the plants are
larger.
Broadcast Condition of
Highways on Saturday
The condition of highways In Massa
chusetts and bordering states Is broad
cast by radio every Saturday evening
at 6:30 o'clock by the Automobile Le
eal association. This service gives
motorists up-to-the-minute informa
tion on the condition of trunk line
highways.
MAKE
O. A. C.
Tour Next Goal
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The State of Oregon offers you
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Engineering, Agriculture, Com
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nomics, Military Science and
Tactics, Mining, Pharmacy, Vo
cational Education and Music.
Student life at the College
is rich in opportunities for
leadership and personal
culture.
FALL TERM OPENS
SEPTEMBER 28, 1923
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lltf Boardman, Ore.
MATERNITY HOME
I am prepared to take a limited
number of maternity cases at my
home on South Main street, Hepp
ner. Patients are privileged to
choose their own physician at this
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15t Heppner, Ore.
HIGH QUALITY WHEAT
A lot of Turkey Red wheat test
ing 64 H pounds to the bushel is be
ing delivered at the Brown& Lowry
warehouse from the Martin Lovgren
ranch in the Eightmilo district.
Mr. Lovgren is also delivering
Forty Fold that made around 30
bushels per acre. This variety had
not been tested but it is a fine
article.
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