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AGE SIX TUB GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE. THURSDAY MARCH 22 1917 by Oue of the important services ren dered during the year by the county agricultural apents of Oregon lias been in connection with marketiug farm products. $136,000 worth of business has been done through or ganized marketing activity stimulat ed by county agents. Of great importance are those or ganizations typified by the Deschutes Valley Potato Growers' Association established under the direction of the County Agent in Crook Comity. The glowers of that region pooled their product, graded and standardized it with the result that four cars were disposed of in Sacramento at the top market price the first season. The buyers offered to contract last year's entire output at the top market price again. The significance of the pro ject becomes apparent when we con sider that the market was entirely out of reach of the growers indi- dually and that only through the as sociation could they solve their mar keting problems. This association is now starting its third successful sea son with SI members. The most important live stock im provement work is represented by the promotion of cow testing associa tions, breeders' associations, bull as sociations, disease control and silo construction. The stimulus given the work of this character by the as ricultural agents is Illustrated by the fact that ten of the fiften cow test ing associaions in Oregon are in the fifteen county agent counties. Silos bear a direct relation to the live stock industry and 94 were con structed last year in county agent counties. The encouragement of ttiis economic method of food stor age was made a special project in Yamhill County, with, the result that 64 silos were built and not to exceed 0 had been built in all previous years. As a means of stimulating an interest Agricultural Agent Shrock conducted a silo demonstration tour in which 44 automobile loads of farmers or over 200 people all told saw 16 silos including 8 different makes and heard no less than 20 silo owners relate their experiences and give information as to cost etc. Such educational events as that do not take place without the presence of a county agent in the county. Cows and corn make the coin, is the slogan adopted in Coos County since J. L. Smith, County Agricul tural Agent, came on the Job three years ago. Futhermore, the result already apparent is expressed as fol lows: More Corn, More Silos, More Silos, More Cows, More Cows, More Cash. .Coos County dairymen are grow ing more corn and building more si los each year. There are now nearly 250 silos in the county, most of them having been built since Mr. Smith started work. In addition to the silage and silo work Mr. Smith has given a large a mount of time to cow testing asso ciations with the result that four or five are maintained yearly with a total of about 3,000 cows on test. Ten thousand two hundred acres of land have been included in drain age districts organized with the as sistance and in most instances at the instigation of the county agents. Over 400 field demonstrations -were conducted under the supervi sion of the fourteen county agricul tural agents in Oregon during 1918. A large number of them were de signed to show the value of improv ed strains of hardy varieties of grains and grasses. One hundred lime de numerations are Included in the number. Hill selection and seed treatment of potatoes and the value or field peas in Eastern Oregon farm ins are other important demonstra tions. n idea of the field demonstra-ti-o.-, with crop varieties, carried on In Eastern Oregon counties, is shown by the work in Klamath f'onnty, where 45 farmers worked nnCo? the direction of County Agent son. In irrigated conditions, the de monstrations showed the Shadeland Climax variety to be the best suited for Klamath County. Another typical demonstration is that reported by Mr. Howard in Mal iieur County, under whose direction $40.00 worth of pork per acre was produced on field peas grown in an orchard that 'had previously been lean tilled. Huudreds of acres of orchard land in the county are sus ceptible to the same practice al though such remarkable results could not be expected as a rule. Mr. Cate's demonstrations to the Rogue River orchardists in the slg nifiance of fire blight on tree roots as a source of twig infection and the aifalfa variety demonstrations ofj several agents, are other examples. All told. 1,762 acres of corn, 2,950 acres of wheat, 3,000 acres of oats, $83 acres of potatoes, 590 acres of field peas have been included in de monstrations of variety, cultural practice or seed treatment with mate rial in yield above the average in the majority of cases. IISF Three Local Hofs Left This Week For Portland Where They Will En. list For Training on War Ships. RESERVE OFFICERS ARE WANTED BY WAR DEP'T Business and Industrial Officials, As Well As Trained Soldiers, In Demand. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, March, 21. The U. S. War Department wants trained men for reserves officers in the event war, and many of these same trained men may be equally desirous of as certaining their status should they be called to arms. Every qualified man can have his status fixed by taking an examination for the posi tion which he is best qualified to fill. This examination can be taken be fore Col. V. A. Colwell, commandant of the O. A. C. Cadet regiment, and Lieut. R. D. Johnson, who have been appointed examining officers by the War Department. Men proficient in any of the following lines are eligible if not over age limit, to take the ex aminations: Army service, either with the U. S. Army of National Guards, graudu- ates of institutions with prescribed military training, such as the Oregon Agricultural College, whose gradu ates are particularly desired; rail way mangers, superintendents of large supply and warehouse con cerns, animal buyers, wholesale mer chandise managers, and other highly trained specialists in similar lines; mechanical, mining, and electrical engineer; physicians, surgeons and dentists. Reauests- for application blanks should be sent to Col. Colwell, Cor- vallis, Ore. When these blanks have been filled and returned, appli cants will be notified of the time to appear for examination. All who pass successfully will be entitled to commissions in the regular army, ef fective for a five-year period, with rights of renewal. Then, should the call to the colors be sounded each reserve officer will, when called know precisely what his status and duties are,' each in a position to serve his country best in the capacity to which he Is best suited. Threee Heppner boys, Harry and Charles Groshens, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Grcsliens. and Elmer Presley left Wednesday tor Portland having enlisted for duty in the Unit ed States navy. The boys have signed up for four years of this work and at the expira tion of their time m the service they will be a finished product of Uncle bam s fighting force on the high seas Moreover, from present indications, the boys may have the opportunity of participating in some actual light ing before many months. The boys were encouraged to en list by Vic Groshens, who, although being a naturalized citizen of this country, is a true patriotic citizen Mr. Groshens received army training in France before coming to the Unit ed States and he realizes that this training is invaluable to the young man. This action on the part of these boys will undoubtedly act as a stimu lant to recruiting and many more young men will probably sign up for military service. In fact a number have signified their intentions and especially if there should be an early declaration of war. Shipping la Hay. Hay is being shipped into Prairie City and is being delivered for a little less than 125. A number of Btock men in the upper end of the valley are out of hay. Another week and more will be added to the list and by the first of April the hay supply of the county will practically be gone. v earner reiier must come within a few days or the loss of stock in this county will be serious. Canyon City bagle. WANTED Old iron, rags, and junk. Buy and sell second band fur niture; will buy your hides and pelts, paying market price; $3.66 per ton for old iron delivered at railroad in Heppner1; old rags, 75 cents per 100 pounds. Geo. W. Verdot, at Second Hand Store, Heppner. filuisyer ' ''"tsse demonstrations consisted of different varieties of field peas, al falfa, grasses, wheat, oats, barley, Ja.rV'tifrs of field peas were grown Keller both dry and irrigated land conditions. On dry land, the Ban galia proved the heaviest yielder this Keason. its yield being estimated at fourteen busheis of seed per acre. The Carleton proved the superior Jor lay purposes. The peas were grown Campaign Under Way. Oregon's good roads campaign na. been launched. The Legislature'? Committee of Eight, three senator; and, five representatives, has taket charge. Contributions of $10 eacl were made by all members of th- committee and the formal requcr.' was made of the press of the state that subscription lists bs opened in their columns for the collection oi funds for the county and state cam paigns. The only restriction aH t: subscriptions was that none from paving companies may be accepted All subscriptions made for the statf. campaign are to be remitted to Sena tor E. D. Cusick, treasurer of the leg islature committee at Albany, Ore-, gon., County campaign subscription;! 1 are to be handled entirely by the lo cal organizations. It was the sense of the committee that organization of county cam paigns be left entirely in the hands of the several counties, and that the sole function of the state headquar ters is to be the dissemination of such literature, information, adver tising and other service as may be required by the county organizations The state headquarters also will co operate In securing speakers for lo cal meetings to discuss the bonding bill. There are many excellent ,n m.ume armea rows, imrty-nve in- speakers in the different counties ches apart, so that they might be bet- who are well versed in the provl- ier cuiuvaiea. wnen irrigated, the sions of the bill and discuss same ab- peas unaer an conditions were seed- ly, and the services of such win be ea in rows seven inches apart with a enlisted to visit neighboring counties common arm. their expenses to be paid from the in me wneai oemonstrations, tne state campaign fund, early Baart variety showed the best To unite all the counties in the -average spring wheat yields and the state campaign, a convention or sup farmers are anxious to obtain seed porters of the bond issue has been of this variety in order to have a called to meet in Portland, Satur large acreage this year. Demonstra- day, April 7. Meanwhile, the Legis tlons with Turkey Red, Blue Stem, lative Committee will take charge of and the Marquis grades were also the state headquarters, the imme made. In the dry land demonstra- diate work to be under the supervl tions of oats, the sixty-day grade son of an executive committee con proved its superior as the yield of sisting of Senator W. D. Wood of this grade eclipsed the yield of the Hillsboro, Chairman: Senator E D common oats by ten bushels. This Cusick of Albany, Treasurer, and better grade of oats will be grown Representative Roy W. Ritner of extensively during the coming sea- Pendleton, Secretary. Operatives and Owners, Men who think loosely and form opinions without regard to basic facts are heard to say that the pre sent grave labor dispute is between a group of 400,000 trainmen and "Wail Street," the popular metaphor for capital represented in billions. Wall street does not own the rail roads of the United States. True, the New York Stock exchange plays football with railroad and other stocks six-days in the week, but it does not own railroad property. It will perhaps surprise the aver age reader to know that the number of shareholders in American rail roads exceeds 600,000. Returns to the bureau of American railway sta tistics show that on June 30, 1914, there were 456,231 shareholders. The increase in numbers from 1904 to 1914 was 146 per cent, each suc cessive year showing like gain. At this rate, shareholders probably num ber now more than 600,000. Aver age holdings are not large. For in stance, the Pennsylvania railroad company had 91,500 stockholders, 48 per cent of whom Were women. The average holding was 109 shares. Ave rage holdings per shareholder in the United States are about ISO shares. It is generally estimated that rail way bonds are more widely, distri buted than stocks, but reliable statis tics are not available. Railway bonds are largely held by trustees Including banks, saving banks, trust companies, life and insurance com panies, educational and benevolent Institutions. Thus Indirect owner ship runs into the millions. It Is es , timatea that the institutions men tioned hold about $2,000,000,000 of these securities. Whenever any legislation is under taken which adversely affects the re enue of railroads, it directly affects he income from the savings of seve al million people. Only a small icrcentage of them could be classlfi '1 as rich. The laU James J. Hill. ;r instance, was considered the ichest railroad owner in the Unitrc1 1'ates, yet he owned less than 7 per mt of the G'?at Northern Properties vnd the total number of sharehold ers in Ms company at the date of he latest available report was 20, 523. In the present labor dispute, tin -ailway managers represent the in 'prasts of the millions who have in- n-sted their savings into institutions vhich are large holders of railway securities. So in the weighing of 'he rights and wrongs a between la or and capital, it Is well to bear in mind, In this case, that capital is not confined to "Wall Street," but Is also distributed among a great multitude of people all over the land whose industry and thrift enabled them to create savings which are in vested in railway securities. Port land Telegram. Are you out of coal. N. A. Clark has some good Centralta Nut coal that, lie Is selling for $8.00 per ton. . Alfalfa Seed. - . We have on hand a considerable quantity of highest quality alfalfa seed. Get your orders in early If you want any. Heppner Milling Co. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM WILL REORGANIZE WORE Freshman Courso To Be Conibiaad With English In Five Hoars A Week. University of Oregon, Eugene, March, 21. The school of journal ism has prepared for the forthcoming University catalogue a statement of its courses for the next year based upon a plan for greatly intensifying the journalism work of the senior year, emphasizing also the third-year courses, and placing the freshman, and sophomore work in a new classi fication called "pre-Journallsm." An arrangement has been complet ed with the English department, un der which the six hours formerly devoted by the freshman to English and journalism in separate courses and three hours each will be consoli dated into a single dally course of five hours. Dr. E. S. Bates, head of the English department, has assigned the handling of that department's share of the work to Prof. W. P. G. Thacher, who was formerly a maga zine writer. Dean E. W. Allen will teach the school of journalism's part of the course. The senior work, now a three- hour course in editorial writing, his tory of journalism and contemporary journalism, with separate one-hour periods for special newswritlng as signments, accounting work in the printing department and the law of the press, will be consolidated in to a regular five-hour course and will include more practice work in edit ing, -handling exchanges, investigat ing Oregon conditions, and studying problems of news-paper management. Proofreading will be taught in the shop as a laboratory course and not combined classroom and laboratory course as at present. Coypreading will remain in. the junior'year, as will work In advance newswritlng. The mechanical courses will remain in the sophomore year for the present. Three Sizes of BlIICKS this year Seven passenger, six cylinder, 55 horsepower - - $1635.00 Five Passenger, six cylinder, 45 horsepower - . - $1170.00 Five passenger, four cylinder, 35 horsepower - - $785.00 These prices are F. O. B. Heppner EGGS FOR SALE. Thoroughbred S. C. White Leg horn. Famous O. A. C. strain. Seventy-five cents for thirteen; five dol lars per hundred. S. H. DOAK, Lexington, Ore. A material reduction in the price of coal. Centralla nut coal at $8.00 per ton while It lasts. FOR SALF Good seed potatoes. 4t. BURTON H. PECK. Glasses fitted satisfactorily by Dr. Wlnnard, or money refunded. His prices are reasonable, and he Is where you can always And him. No charge for testing eyes'. tf. Kellogg Is the Morrow county agent. See the truck on the streets, doing dally demonstartlon work. Mann of Illinois. It now ttit)i probable that whin the new Congress assembles In April the present speaker, Clark of Mis souri, will be accorded the honor of selection. The country will be for- .unate if that shall be the outcome, bacause the Republican candidate for ;hat place is Jim Mann of Illinois, he satellitte of Uncle Joe Cannon mi the so-called Republican floor eader. The country does not want .Mann for presiding officer of the House, nor is It best that Republican :onors should fall on him. He is not i accord with either the advanced nought of his party nor with the atriotie element which is lead by governor Hughes and ex-President f.oosevelt. Mann Is an old-time ma Mne politician, not broad enough to rrasp the higher principles of govern ment, or tho mission of the republic o civilization. He Is a Little Ameri can, a Chicago antique, an Illinois reactionary, a pacfist and a political hank number. The organization is behind bwause of the usage of the party, which has not been entirely divested of Its old time authority, and' If the Republicans organize the House of Representatives he will be the successwul man. At a juncture like this when the storms of war abroad and of distress at home are whirling all around us, the best men of the nation, regardless of party. ought to be in places of leadership. Clark is not a very great man, per haps, measured by the standards of Lincoln or Jefferson, but he has been tried and not found wanting. He should be reelected to the speaker ship unless the Republican party can find a better candidate than Mann of Illinois. Pendleton Tribune. BUICK DESIGN BUICK VALVE-IN-HEAD POWER The Tightness of the Buick Valve-in lead motor and not the enthusiasm of its salesmen has made the Buick conspicuous for leadership. This new four has a Buick Valve-in-Head motor (with electric starter) which develops thirty-five horse power on brake test and is so reliable for ruggtd service that no eulogy is necessary among "men who know Buick." Its lines are beautiful.. Finish and color are exception al. Deep, tufted black genuine leather upholstery. Cov ered floor and running board, with aluminum bindings, give a trinmess of appearance that is peculiarly Buick. Body, hood, fenders and running gear are painted a glossy, long-wr jing black; wheels are black with white stripes. Tires 31x4 inches. SEE THE BABY BUICK AT THE HEPPNER GARAGE ALBERT BOWKER, Local Agent All Buicks have the Delco lighting and starting system. There is none better. STALLIONS AJ AJ4 STABLES, PENDLETON, OREGON imported Percheron and Belgian Stallions that are extra good nwMu.es oiaer rercueron, Belgian, English Shire and Clydesdales with imported ancestors that are young and good, with correct pedigrees that are desirable. One pair extra Percheron mares. If you are a customer and want to save your money, take time to come and see me. Remember, Good Stallions and Low Price. If Ton Have a Stallion T D tttctitc t ' That You Cannot Use K. JU3LUS, Importer, Longer I might Change PENDLETON, OREGON. FOR SALE 1840 Acre Wheat and Stock Ranch, well improved. Plenty of spring water for stock. All farm implements and improvements ga with the place. Easy terms. Eight miles from railroad. Inquire M. J. Devln & Sons, Heppner, Ore. SHEEPMEN Yon can get the fin est hams and bacons at the Peoples' Cash Market. Your friends can buy anything you can give them except your photograph Bring the kiddies early while they are fresh and rested The picture will be prettier. SIGSBEE STUDIO OVER STAR THEATER Heppner, Oregon. CITY MEAT MARKET UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT All kinds of Fresh and Oured Meats and Lard This is the place to buy Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Salmon, Halibut, Smelts ' AGENTS FOR "SEALSHERT" OYSTERS Johnson & Johnson I