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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1914)
12 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION United States Agricultural Year Book i. fHE yearbook of the United States I Department of Agriculture for 1918 has just come from the presses and is now being distributed to congressmen and to correspondents of the department entitled to receive copies. The new volume differs in several respects from its predecessors. The articles that it contains are iu general of a more pop ular and instructive character, and al though the book itself contains a smaller number of pages, it is safe to say that it has as much valuable material in it as ever. In addition to the secretary's report there are 14 special articles by de partment experts and an appendix con taining statistics of the principal crops; a table of the animals imported into the United States for breeding purposes for which certificates of pure breeding have been issued, and lists of tho agri cultural colleges and experiment sta tions iu the United States together with tho names of the state officials iu charge of agriculture. The book is illustrated by 54 full page plates, of which a large number are reproduced in colors, and by 21 tables, maps, and line drawings. In the articles in the yearbook the cost of living plays a prominent part. Dr. Pennington, for example, points out that Americans neglect a valuable source of food by failing to take ad vantage of the immense supply of fish at their disposal. The protein eontent of fish is fully as high as that of meat and yet although meat prices rise stead ily little or no effort is made to use the cheaper substitute. It is the foreign population of the United States which eats the greater part of the fish con sumcd in this country. Dr. Pennington points out that the ordinary American is completely ignorant of the great va riety of fish at his disposal. The cheapness of this food is also scarcely realized. Dr. Pennington names 10 staple varieties some of which it is safe to say can always be purchased for less than 10 cents a pound, even when prices are highest, and can usually be obtained for less than 5 cents. Another article by W. F. Ward shows how greatly the beef industry in the south has profited from the work of eradicating the cattle tick. One indi cation of the growing interest in beef industry in this section is the large number of farmers who for the first time are buying puro bred cattle. The business side of farming is con sidered in two articles by W. J. Spill man and T. N. Carver: Factors of ef ficiency in farming, and the organiza tion of rural interests. Trof. Spillman finds that in the last analysis the farm er himself is the determining factor in every successful agricultural enterprise. He is as quick to see the advantages of a new system of management as he is those in improved methods of tilling the g-.il or feeding his stock. Dr. Carver tells with the aid of graphic maps what has already been done in the way of or ganizing co-operativo enterprises for the benefit of farmers. Mutual insurance companies, co-operative creameries, cheese factories and elevators are among some of these widespread enterprises. Other articles deal with various branches of the work of the department ranging in subject from a discussion by C. F, Langworthy of what the depart ment does for the housekeeper to an article on the practical value of en tomology by F. M. Webster. Prof. F. E. L. Beal has gathered material for an article on American Thrushes which hows that they are not to be i-rized for their gong alone but are in other ways tl real assistance to the farmer, and J. F. Collins tells of practical tree urgery. More strictly agricultural papers are those of C. B. Ball on the jrain sorghums, L. H. Dewey on hemp, tt. 0. E. Davis on economic waste from toil erosion and W. A. Taylor and H, P. Qould on promising new fruits. The present health laws and their relation to the department are explained by F. 0. Caffey, and, finally, A. D. Melvin con tributes an article on the South Ameri tan meat industry. A city of New Tork Stato has been nied frr $2,000 damage! for the loan of a boy'n finger in public school. The boy was directed hy the teacher to abut the door. As b wa doing to the door slammed ahut, and one of the boy'a fingers was so badly oruhed that it had to be amputated. MINISTER'S EXPERIENCE TOLD Eev. Mr. Dunsrr.ore, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Independence. was quoted to say that after 25 years' active work for prohibition in Kansas, Iowa and Oregon, he had reached a con clusion that the results obtained are worse than the original condition. James LiarK, or Springfield, was named ex-otfieio member of tho State Board of the Hop Growers and Dealers' Association of Oregon. John Eamunson, of Eugene, was named chairman of the Lane County Division, organized teday. The organi zation will bo an active factor against the state-wide prohibition movement. Industry at Stae In Vote, "The climate and soil of Western Oregon make hop growing a natural in dustry," said Colonel E. Hofer, of Salem. "The whole world is demanding our products. The hop industry is de clining elsewhere in the United States. Within ten years this industry will be located in the Willamette Valley and will make it the most prosperous region in all the world. 'We are putting this industry up to a popular vote under the name of pro hibition. An industry worth $26,000,000 will, in the opinion of experts, be de stroyed without compensation if Oregon joins the ranks of prohibition states.- If these people had to pav the hop growers of Oregon for the destruction, of this property, the enthusiasm of the dry campaign would expire prematurely." (Paid Advertisement) FIGHT IS CONTINUED AGAINST "DRY" STATE worth $300 an acre, employs 50,000 p pie part ot tho year and brings $6,000y 000 into tho state annually. Eastern brewers, they say, havo stated that they will boycot a state which hai no exchange market. (Paid Advertisement) Industry Worth $26,000,000 Would Be Ruined, Say Hon Men at Eugeno Meeting. BREWERS' BOYCOTT IS FEARED $6,000,000 Brought Into Oregon Yearly Threatened, Assert Fneakors Min ister Quoted as Saying Prohi bition Results Are Bad. Eugene, Or., June 20. (Special.) Opposition to state-wide prohibition, as destructive to the $26,000,000 hop in dustry in Oregon, was expressed by 100 hop growers and dealers in session here today. The speakers included Mrs. M. J. Tibletts, of Eugene, who Baid she had reared two girls and four boys, and that none of them had been harmed by the industry in which she has participated for a quarter of a century. The hop men favored tne local and county option, bnt declared that state wide prohibition will destroy the indus try, which utilizes 26,000 acres of land Highest Opinions Tho highest food author ities in the land agree that Aluminum Compounds i n Baking Powder are not harmful. This should for ever put a stop to mislead ing advertisements. Read OUR Label Write ns for U. S. Pnltetin No. 103, Dept. of Agriculture. One Price 25c per lb. ALL GROCERS Crescent Mfg. Company Seattle, Wash. . A fit-? e&nfk'f i Malt Rainier is the Pure Malt Tonic For Mothers Who Require Additional Nourishment and Strength. 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