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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.
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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.
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vtto ui su
kinds. Hop Cloth, Burlap and Twin.
Sacks of all kinds mnmifncl
n o
ship anywhere and bay everywhere.
WINKLEMAN BAG CO.
Oldest, Largest Second Hand Bag
Dlers in Northwest.
17b Front St,
Portland, Or,