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
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