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ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM BUREAU NEWS
Financial Independence Won
By Club Boys and Girls
The days of penury for the boy or
girl who lives in the country la
thing of thfl past. No more is
Johnnie Jones a penniless young
man, uepenaent on bis father's gen
erosity for spending money and with
seldom a cent In his pocket. Wide
awake Johnnie belongs today to a
club organized by the department of
Agriculture and the State College
and is a young man of financial
standing who owns property and has
money In the bank.
The amount of money which a boy
or girl yet in school can make
through club work Is surprising to
tnose unacquainted with the results
At the Eastern States Exposition at
bprmgfield, Mass., in September,
was a club camp to which came 222
boys and girls. These youngBters
were the champions in the 10 East
ern States and the trip to Spring
field was one of the awards they had
won by superior work In their local
clubs.
At the camp were 56 who had been
In the club for a year, 67 for 2 years,
44 for 3 years, 39 for 5 years, 5 for
6 years, 1 for 7 years, and 1 for 9
years. Eighty-nine of the group
owned J9.3B0 worth of Liberty
bonds. War savings stamps to the
amount of $6,266 were in the poss
ession of 172 of the boys and girls.
In savings banks 137 have accounts
which have a total valuation of $13,
736. G4. The average amount of
money invested and deposited by the
club members was $132.21.
Seven of these young business men
owned 10 colts, 64 owned 97 pigs, 95
calves, 9 owned 64 sheep, and 41
owned cows or baby beevoa. Poul
try is a favorite project, 63 members
owning 3,400 birds. One young lad
owned a town lot and 6 others own
ed far mland valued at $7,111. Ten
owned $567 worth of furniture or
kitchen equipment and four owned
automobiles valued at $1,810.
That club work makes for more
and better school work Is testified by
the educational record of the 222 at
Camp Vail. FIfty.two are in gram
mar school, 144 In high school, 6
are In college, and only 20 are not In
any school.
Figures bear out the fact that clhb
work develops the earning power
and encourages business ability,
thrift, and a love of farm life.
hope that you will take the init
iative and see that the majority of
your farmers want this done. The
time of the year to begin is somewhat
I of a qui-titiun, it will probably not b
l u iM-gin hi j-eoruary or
March at the very latent when the
squirrels are just coming out of the
ground. The poison will be assem
bled according to plans prepared by
Die rodent control committees and
will be handled absolutely at cost
It is anticipated that a eallon of
poison grain can be furnished for
probably 75 cents. Think this over
and see what you wish clone in your
locality and let the County Agent
Know.
PEDIGREE AND FEED RATION
THE NEW WORLD
Lulu was bred by J. M. Dickson &
Son of Shedd, Ore., and purchased
by Mr. Van Kleek when still a calf.
Her sire is St. Mawers of Ashburn,
a bull of Ed Cary breeding, carrying
the blood of both St. Mawor and Ro
saire'a Olga Lad. Her dam, Wilda
2d, Is a daughter of G. U. Chief,
thus uniting the two greatest pro
ducing Btralns of Jerseys In the west,
if not In the word, and proving the
possibilities of that combination.
During her test Lulu was retested
every month by a different person.
One month the assistant professor of
dairy husbandry of the Washington
State College at Pullman, and a
notlier, a professor from the Cali
fornia Agricultural college at Davis;
the next one from the University of
Idaho, did the retesting.
Wayne A. Van Kleek, son of the
owner of the cow, who had personal
supervision and care of Lulu, deserv
es much of the credit for the wonder,
ful record. He allowed nothing to
interfere with the foedlng and milk
ing at regular times; but he and his
father and all mombors of the family
at all times took the deepest interest
In the little cow and her record, and
Mr. VunKleek always advised us to
her feeding ns well as care. Her
method of feeding and rations, as
reported by the younger VnnKleck,
are as follows:
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Jan.
Fell.
Mar.
April
May
June
July
Auk.
Kept.
Oct.
Nov.
The silage fed was mostly corn,
with a mixture of vetch from July to
October. The hay was alfalfa, clov
er and vetch. Tho green foed was
green clover and vetch,
The Spring Squirrel Campaign
It Is not too early for the grain far
mer to begin to consider what to do
about the sage-rat or ground-squlr.
rels In the spring. This is another
of those posts which Is not generally
scattered all over the County. Some
neighborhoods are more infested than
others, there is as it Is well known
a rodent law which Is possible for the
County Court to compel every far
mer to poison the squirrels on his
own land or pay for the same being
dono. We are loath to ask the
County Court to do this as a general
policy bocatiBe there might be cases
where this would work an unnecess
ary hardship and it possible we shall
follow the policy of allowing this to
be left to the local Farm Bureau or
ganization to determine Its advis
ability. We wish therefore to call
Bpeclal attention to nil local commit,
tee-men to the fact that we are ready
to co-operate with you In seeing that
all the land in your territory Is wW
poisoned and well taken care of, but
Profit in Poultry
F. II. Chapman of Parma, Idaho,
makes answer to the question, as to
whether or not there is profit In the
poultry flock, properly cared for
Here is Mr. Chapmans' statement,
which is furnished The Idaho Farmer
by Prcn Moore, the poultry exoert
connected with the University of
Idaho extension department.
From October 1, 1918, to October
1919.
Number of hens, 160.
Eggs laid. 29,708: average
hen, 185 2-3.
Cost to feed, $528.25.
Income, $958.55.
Total profit, $430.30.
Cost of feed ner hen. t3.30.
come per hen, $5.99. Profit per hen
Average price of eggs sold, 38 3-10
cents.
Cost to produce, 21 1.3 cents.
per
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'mt his wire and children did like
u is-e.
In every patriotic drive his record
was a hundred per cent or better.
When he wag called upon to tight
en his belt and save the wheat and
meat that he himself had produced
that humanity could be fed he did his
bit without stinting.
Vhen he was called upon to give
up his sons to stop the Hun he did
not say they were necessary to his
business; his wife and daughters
volunteered to put on overalls li
heir place.
When peace came he had done all
that man could individually to pro
mote reconstruction.
He has made an honest effort to
fumifh his quota of employment to
returned service men. And It Is not
ton much to say that no industry has
absorbed more returned soldiers
than fgriculture.
Fanners' Americanism
During these days of strikes and
lockouts, short hour controversies and
wage wrangles, when anarchists are
rampant In industrial circles; when
the production of necessities, the In
crease of which is necessary to the
decrease of living costs, is being pos
itively curtailed, hile labor and bo-
called capital iire flying at each other
tlirouts. The farmers have made an
enviable record.
Not only did he work sixteen hours
a day during war time when other
industrials were content with eight;
APPLE CANKER INVADES
European apple canker, called the
wotst fruit tree disease in Europe,
has been found on Oegon apple trees,
reports Dr. S. M. Zeller, assistant
plant pathologist at the O.A.C. ex
periment station. The new disease
appeared on red cheek pippin trees
in the Willamette valley, and on
Bismarck, bellflower and delicious
trees in the coast district. It is alio
appearing on the native oak, and
every effort should be made to pre
vent its spread, Dr. Zeller says:
' Kewtons, Spitzenburgs and other
leading valley varieties are evidently
cot busceptible.
Some Winter
It seems that this is one of the
winters that the snow has been deep
er but probably it has been a long
while since the thermometer has been
as low. We will stand a great deal
at the game because of the great a
mount of snow in the mountains and
will probably not have any hot wind
another season. Whether or not
the snow will be permitted to go In
to the ground will remain a matter
of future development and deter
mination. If the ground will only
thaw out? Yes, if it will only thaw
out.
L. MONTERESTELLI
Marble and Granite
Works
PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
All parties interested in getting work in my li n
should get my prices and estimates before
placing their orders
All Work Guaranteed
SHEEPMEN!
ATTENTION!
We have stocks of
COTTONSEED CAKE
SOYA BEAN CAKE
Both NUT SIZE and MEAL
for immediate and future de
livery. We purchased early.
GET OUR PRICES BEFORE
BUYING
Write or Wire
Swift & Company
Animal Food Dept. NORTH PORTLAND, OREGON
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Your Grocer Has It.
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HEPPNER FARMERS
ELEVATOR CO.
The Price of
Pork Chops and Bacon
Here are reasons why the fine,
fresh pork tenderloins and pork
chops, or savory ham, or crinkly
bacon, which you enjoy for break
fast, cost much more per pound
than the market quotation on live
hogs which you read in the
newspaper:
An average hog weighs 220
pounds.
Of this, only 70 per cent (154
pounds) is meat and lard.
So, when we pay 15 a pound for
live hogs, we are really paying more
than 21 a pound for the meat which
we will get from these animals, even
after taking into account the value of
the by-products.
But people show a preference for
only one-third of the whole the pork
chops, fancy bacon, and choice cuts
from juicy hams.
This means that when we are sell
ing Premium bacon at 43'2per pound
wholesale and Premium hams at 30,
there are other parts for which we get
as low as 6 or 8 per pound. The
net result is an average profit to us of
less than 1 a pound.
The choice cuts are higher because
of a demand for them.
Another thing: Only 35 pounds of the
entire hog or about 1 6 th is usually
marketed at once. The rest must be
pickled, cured, or smoked. This takes
months, and adds to the costs which
must be met
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
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It is convenient easy to carry
about, and economical oil is
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everywhere the same high
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