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S TTOMK AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Oregon Agricultural College is the Friend of the Farmer Page of News Notes and Interesting Articles Specially Written by College Experts For This Newspaper. F" llaUfoliiBSMa ir.nr " rttmSTV" I Vtow of Oregon Agricultural College, Corrallis, Oregon, tn Sole Aim of Which la to Aid Agriculturists, Professor Carl N. Kenedy, Newly Appointed .Specialist in Hones, at Oregon Agricultural College and Secretary Oregon State Stallion Registration Board. PBOFESSOB CAKL N. KENEDY, of the Animal Husbandry depart ment of the Texas Agricultural College, , has received the appointment as special instructor in the branch of Animal Hnsbandry work that relates to horses,-in the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. He was graduated from the Iowa Btato College at Ames in 1912, having majored in animal husbandry and spe cialized in the branch of breeding, care and management of borees. He was an assistant instructor for part of the col lege course and did practical work in feeding and fitting horses for the show. At the Texas school he was in charge of the work connected with horses, cat tle and sheep. In this capacity he was assistant coach of the stock -judging eollego teams, and had the very great satisfaction of seeing his team win the first honors in stock judging at the in ternational Stock Show in Chicago. This was the first time that first place had gone to a Southern team, which generally has limited equipment and material in comparison with the larger institutions of the great com belt. One of the duties to be performed by Professor Kenedy in the Oregon insti tution is acting as secretary to the State Stallion Begistration Board. These duties, which will bring him into close touch with the leading horse i raisers of the state, will be performed on lines similar to those followed by Professor E. L. Potter, head of the de partment of Animal Husbandry, the present secretary. His duties include inspection and registration of all stallions offered for public service. In addition to these features he will lay special emphasis on the enforcement of the law in all of its phases. The law was designed to, benefit stockmen by improving the breed of horse in Oregon, and will do so if universally followed. No one has a right to offer the services of a stal lion to the public for hire without hav ing him inspected and registered. There are three divisions of stallions, and tho registration law includes them all in its provisions. Purc-breds, eligible to spe cial registry, grades, vhose sire or dam Were pure bred, and mongrels, are alike lubject to the provisions of tho law. Tho educational value of registration Will likewise receive special attention dnring the coming year. An earnest at tempt will be made to eneourage farm ers and horsemen to eome under the provision of the law, and the advan tages of doing so will be made as plain as possible to them. Farmers will be encouraged to breed their very beet mares to tne best sires available, pref erence being generally given to the pure-bred. "Most farmers have two or more mares as a general rule that are pecu liarly adapted to breeding purposes that if bred to acceptable sires will produce colts for tho owners that will materially raise the standard of farm horses," says Professor Kenedy, "and we shall do what we can to show them the ad vantages of this practice." FAKE CHOLERA REMEDIES. HOG raisers of Oregon need to be on the alert to prevent the intro duction and spread of the hog chol era into their parts of the state. Since the disease is due to a germ of micro scopic size it naturally follows that it can be communicated to well hogs only by permitting the germ to be carried to them. A knowledge of the different methods of carrying the germ from in fected to well hogs is essential to pre vention. Some of these methods of spread are given by Dr. B. T. Bimms, vcternarian at the Agricultural College, as follows: 1. By direct contact with hogs suf fering from cholera. 2. By carriers, that is, hogs that have recovered from cholera but still pass germs with their droppings. 3. By humans that have come into contact with infeeted hogs or premises. 4. By dogs coyotes, buzzards and other carrion -eating animals that have fed on the carcasses of infected hogs. 5. By stock carB, stock yards, etc., in which have been placed infected hogs. 6. By infected water. 7. By slops, swill and garbage that have been infected with bacon rinds or ham bones from hogs that had been afflicted with cholera at slaughter. Germs will ordinarily die out in four months in lot conditions, but are so resistant that they survive the usual curing and packing process as carried on in the big packing houses. After they have once found lodgment in the hog there is no remedy known but hog eholera strum. Growers should there fore take every precaution to see that germ3 do not enter their herds by any ot the foregoing means. OREGON WRITERS PROLIFIC. CIVBEGON has produced more lit- Vr erature in her fifty years as a state than the Thirteen Orig inal Colonies have produced during their one hundred and fifty years of existence," says Professor J. B. Hor ner, professor of History at the Agricul tural College, in his illustrated lecture on the literature of Oregon and the men who produced it. Professor Hor ner speaks from first hand knowledge, since he had an intimate personal ac quaintance with raapy of the state's great authors. In proof of his claim he delineates the writings of Joaquin Mil ler, Edwin Markhnm, Colonel Baker, Ella M. Higginson, Sam I. SimpRon and other authors of note, whose prolific writings run into many volumes. INSECT ENEMIES. REGON farmers must learn to know their insect enemies beforo they can combat them so successfully as to stop the enormous leak due to their ravages. Tho information and material that will enable them to identify the most common and destructive pests are easily within their reach and may be had by simply writing for a copy of the Biennial Crop Pest Report, issued by the Oregon Station. A condensed edition of this report nas also been is sued by the Extension division of the Agricultural College and may be ob tained by writing for "Insect Pests of Truck and Garden Crops," to Exten sion Division, 0. A. C, Corvallis. - "In my work as school agricultur ist," says a member of the Extension force, "I was able by means of the Biennial Report to identify and con trol every insect and disease pest that attacked our school gardens and the home gardens. Descriptions are plain ly written and the various stages of the insects accurately shown by photo graphs. Many of these views are printed in the natural colors of the pests, and by reading the descriptions and studying the pictures any farmer in Oregon can soon learn just what peBt is attacking his crops. "Both disease and insect remedies are given in eonneetioa with the story of the pests, so that control becomes merely a matter of making application according to directions. I found it best to take up the study of one pest at a time, unless too hard pressed. By de voting a few minutes each day for a few days to reading about it and com paring it with the illustrations, I never failed to learn its identity and life history. Control measures followed as a matter of course. "Identification of one or more pests is an excellent exercise for parent teachers meetings, school rallies and similar gatherings in which live teach ers meet tne school patrons." EMBLEMS TOR STUDENTS. EMBLEMS for girls and boys who are members of industrial clubs in Oregon I.ave been selected in eon- foTmity with President Wilson 's saying that achievement is the only patent of nobility in modern times. "Achieve ment in State, Home and School" is stamped on each of the five designs of the series, and conveys the leading sen timent of the emblem. A clover leaf with the letter H in the center, sug gests growth and development, while a student lamp and an apen book point the way. These are all features of the simplest design, which is intended merely as a badge of membership and a reminder of duty. The next three designs in the scries are similar to the first, with the addi tion of another clover tear and another H on each higher emblem. These de signs are used to mark advancement in any project, and correspond to fourth, third and second prizes, respectively, i In the last design of the series a ris ing sun displaces the student lamp, a large star fills up the center, and the four-leaved clover lies enclosed. This design marks the highest degree of achievement in any one project, and corresponds to the first prize. Each emblem in the series is designed to show at a glance the membership of the wearer in some industrial club and the degree of his advancement in one or more projects. The entire effect sig nifies the correlation of school, home, farm, shop and business, and by its silent suggestion fosters the same, The selection, which was made by P. h. Griffin, state agent of industrial clubs, has been ratified by superinten dents and other co-operating officers. struction in detail, methods of filling1, kinds of feed for silage and purpose and methods of feeding are some of tha more important features fully treated in this bulletin. A particularly inter esting feature is the chapter on chemi cal changes in silage. Forty-four pages of descriptive and illustrative matter make up the bulletin. It will be an in valuable guide to dairymen and farra-t ers who wish to construct and use silos. Those wishing copies may sccuro thent upon application to the Extension Dm vision, 0. A. C, Corvallis, Oregon. SILO BULLETIN OUT. CONSTRUCTION of silos and silage feeding are the subjects of a now Extension bulletin issued by the Oregon Agricultural College. The kinds and capacities of silos, methods of con- CONTROLLING CHICKENWEED. CLEAN cultivation on cultivated! areas is recommended by the) Agronomy Department of the) Agricultural College as being one of the best means of getting rid of th troublesome littlo chickweed. This weed pest loves gardens and dooryards and! has the habit of floweribg at all sea sons of the year except in frosty wear ther. The seed eoat is heavy enough to) carry the seed safely from one season to another, so that one hardly know when he has eradicated the weed. If the last cultivation of the season is rather shallow, so that ungcrminated seeds are not brought near enough the) surface to germinate, the plant can bt) gradually exterminated. In sowed crops the ehiekweed will probably be pretty well starved and if the stubble is disked after harvest th number of weeds will be greatly re duced. On land thickly sown to clover and grasses the ehiekweed is often starved out. Since it is a lover of water, drainage will help check its growth. On lawns, where cultivation cannot b practiced, the best means of eradica tion is spraying with a solution of iron sulphate spray, mixed in the ratio ol one pound of iron sulphate to slightly over a half gallon of water. It ib ad visable to apply the first spray as soon as the chickweed appears and make) from one to four succeeding applies tions. A. H. BURTON Progressive Nominee Education I graduated from Southern lllia oia State Norn mat, 1001; UnJ. Tersity of Illin , 1007; Uni versity of Orsk Law S c h o V 1913. Experience Taught 6 years In country achoolg, 8 yoars as principal and as superintend ent, 7 years in large high schools; now; teaching in Wash. Hick School, Port land, State Superintendent of Schools Principles I fi .tot longer terms for coun try schools, consolidation where practical, better teachers, teachers promoted for merit only, practical courses, State's money mora economically expended. SACKS New and second-hand ftnnlri t ..n vtto ui su kinds. 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