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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1922)
l'Ani; Fun; TIIF, UAZKTTF.-T1MKS, HK1TXKR. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1922. L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All pri des interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed The Byers Chop Mill iFurwrl; SIHEMPI-S MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here i ! To the Automobile Public ! I Have the NO NOZ self-adjusting bearing bolts installed, and eliminate your bearing trou bles. They have been tested and give perfect satisfaction. Made for all ears and trucks. WE SELL ZEROLENE OILS 15c per quart. Over 5 gallon quantities 57y2c per gallon. Differential and transmis sions filled at 15c per pound. Fell Bros. t 1 Block East of Hotel. mm ! t Auto Repair Shop. Satisfies the sweet tooth and aids appetite and digestion. Cleanses mouth and teeth. A great boon to smokers, relieving hot, dry mouth. Combines pleasure and benefit. Don't miss the joy of the new WRIfiLErS P-K-the sugar coated peppermint tid bitl HEIRESS 43 TO f5 'j r I s i When Mrs. Marion R. Stephens, 43, of Chicago, divorced, and heiress to millions, announced she was going to marry A. A. Vonsiatsky, 23, Polish refugee to the U. S., then the news movies started to grind. The young Pole slipped an overcoat over chemical stained overalls to pose for this picture at the Baldwin Locomotive plant, Eddystone, Pa., where he works. The insert is of the heiress, who says she will live with her husband in an humble cottage near his work. She was the former wife of a prominent Chicago clubman. GE C'OVNTY AGENT CHIEF TELLS HOW I'ERTIKIKU WHEAT SAVES MOR HOW COI XTY tlOO.OOO A YEAR. Two years ago Morrow county farmers were losing $100,000 a year because of mixed wheat, according to F. L. Ballard, leader of county agents of Oregon. Oscar Keithley, an extensive wheat grower, and pres ident of the Morrow county farm bureau, began to investigate the mat tei and took it up with the farm bu reau executive committee. This led to a campaign to improve seed wheat. Some members of the committee were familiar with the work done the year previous in Sherman county in running a system of certification whereby those flds passing inspec tion for purity of variety were listed throughout the county as sources of seed. This piece of work had, in fact, A seventeen-year-old girl, Mil Eleanora of London, is going to try to emulate Blondin's act of 50 years, aeo by walking a tight rope across Niagara Falls. She will comc to America in June for the feat. HOME SWEET HOME by F. Parta wrocASTE- WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING'? YOU NEARLY HIT lit f TH filRDS 1 , WITH CHEAP I CATij ARE. THE I WORST ! ) WED REFUGEE 23 AUTOCASTEft. WHEAT SAVES FARMER MONEY attracted the attention of farmers in the state of Washingon and six car loads of Turkey red had been ship ped here at a substantial premium to the growers. i The Morrow county farmers decid- ed that the same plan was the meth-, od to follow in improving the purity' j of stands in their county and instruct- j efl the county agent to devote consid-1 erable of his time to that work. He! secured the assistance of Professor G. R. Hyslop, and they were able to secure only 400 acres of wheat suf ficiently pure for certification. The location of this clean seed was pub lished throughout the county and a! gratifying acreage was sown that fall with seed from these fields with the result that next year 4000 acres passed the certification inspections. This last summer Morrow couny led all the counties of Oregon in acreage of certified wheat with approximately 13,000 and is making rapid progress in the quality of its general, run of wheat offered for sale. Samples of Morrow county wheat took high plac es in the Northwest Hay and Grain show at Pendleton and at the Land Products show held in connection with the Pacific International Live stock exposition. Similar work was carried on in 14 counties last summer, most of these being in eastern Oregon. In most counties certification was confined to a few varieties particularly adapted to the districts in question In Uma tilla county 694! acres were certified. This was largely Jenkins club, which was grown from certified wheat ship ped in by Fred Bennion, county agent, the year previous. Sherman ccunty certified 2421 acres, Wasco 488. An example of the results of certi fication is found in Friend a small community in Wasco county, where ahout ten carloads of wheat are pro duced annually. In 1919 when the fields were visited for inspection it was found that all of them were pro ducing badly mixed wheat. There was a dozen pr more varieties of wheat in the neighborhood. All of the crop marketed was shipped out tjraded as mixed wheat. The purest field found was one of Fortyfold, car rying a mixture of 2 per cent. This entitled it to a certification in grade "B." Several farmers were in at tendance when the field inspections w ere made, and becoming interested, 1 obtained certified wheat for sowing that fall. They cut the number of varieties down to Fortyfold and Tur- ME HEY, YOU ! A 1 rTl rfl . , . 1 f DOYOO WANT J -iK LOOKOUT- key red and last summer the ten car loads shipped out graded almost en tirely No. 1. The certification project is only part of a cereal improvement pro gram being carried out in Eastern Oregon by the Oregon Agricultural college. .Another prominent project is the introduction and distribution of better adapted varieties. In this connection the advent of Hybrid 123 in Union county is a typical example Two years ago Frank McKennon of Alicel secured a start with this wheat which had proven a successful var iety in parts of Washington and also in Umatilla county. It proved well adapted to Union county conditions and last summer a dozen other farm ers in the county sowed small acre ages in order to compare it with Fortyfold, the commonly grown win ter wheat of that county. In each in stance the farmers reported favorab ly upon the new variety, reporting yields of five to' seven bushels per acre above Fortyfold grown under similar conditions. Five carloads of Hybrid 128 wheat were sown in the county this fall and as a result it is confidently expected that Forty fold, an easy shattering and only fair ly desirable wheat will be replaced by the higher yielding, non-shattering Hybrid 128. The first field of Hybrid 128 was grown in Wallowa county last summer and did particul arly well. There is every reason to believe that it will replace Fortyfold there. One of the outstanding new wheats of Eastern Oregon is Federation, of which there are two types the hard Federation, a dry land wheat, and the common Federation.adapted to ir rigated land. These wheats have been tried out in the last two years in every county in Eastern Oregon having a county agent, and every in dication is that they are five to sev en bushels better than any compet ing variety. The Federation is an Australian wheat, which has been developed for several years, long enough to estab lish its excellence beyond question, at the Sherman county branch exper iment station. Herbert Egbert of The Dalles, a veteran wheat grower of Wasco coun ty, took sweepstakes on his exhibit of hard Federation at the Northwest Hay and Grain show at Pendleton, while T. A. Sammis, also of The Dalles, took similar honors with wheat grown from the same seed at the Land Products show in Portland. Triplet was introduced last year into Sherman county and is likely to prove an excellent wheat for the south end of the county. Every county agent in Eastern Or egon in outlining his next year's work is planning to devote consider able attention to the establishment of superior varieties by a large number of practical demonstrations as has been done in a scattered way in the past, and also emphasize greatly the superior qualities of those varieties which have already been demonstrat ed to a more or less extensive degree. Emphasis will be laid on varieties, according to counties, .as follows Umatilla certified Hybrid 128, Jen kins club, Federation, Turkey red Morrow Turkey red, Hybrid 128, Federation. Sherman Turkey red Federation, Triplet. Wasco Turk ey red, Federation, Hybrid 128, Union Hybrid 128, Federation. Wallowa Hybrid 128, Federation. Malheur Hybrid 128, Federation. tojcle Jcte if-'Sfo VOU DON'T KILL A DOG BY CUTTING OFP ITS TAIL.LEASTWISE THE DOGS OF WAR. COPYRICHT 1922 PUB ALITJCASHH Si HV. CO. THESE FELLOWS WITH CARS THINK .e THEY OWN THE ROAD - i - - . - . Poem hy jtlncle John , m m " -l in n i ---, m m m , THE VILE GOSSIPER ' I don't believe in gossip which can do a neighbor harm. The gossiper is hated, in the town, or on the farm; I never seen a gossip that command ed any love peddlin' out their slanders, which they know they couldn't prove. Fer instance, here's old Hawkins, that don't live fur from me packs around a budget that he's learned from A to Z. Never misses nothin" that concerns his nearest friends. . . Talks about his neighbors with a zeal that never ends. . . . People told there views of him, he'd find out where he's at. . . .They ttll me, if he had means, he wouldn't feed his cat. . . . Thinks he is the smoothest stick you ever came across. . . . Lets on just like he doesn't know his gran dad stole a boss! An' then he used to gamble like the devil, I am told. . . . Neigh Crook Federation, Turkey red. Des chutes Federation. Lake Federa tion, Turkey red. This variety introduction program is not of a nature to greatly increase the number of varieties of wheat grown, but is, on the other hand, a distinct step forward in the matter of community standardizaion. There are now altogether too many varie ties of wheat grown in the state, the number grown on a commercial scale totaling 63, whereas 14 would suffice for the entire needs of the different districts. Of them 40 varieties are grown in Eastern Oregon, where, in practically every instance, concentra tion on five of the varieties listed above would mean hundreds of thou sands of dollars additional in the pockets of Eastern Oregon wheat growers each year. The wheat grow ers in increasing numbers realize this fact and are co-operating heart ily in the program being carried out, particularly as they realize also that in these days when marketing activ ities are foremost it is more import ant than ever to recognize that fully that much of the success of any mar keting program in its broadest sense will depend upon standardization and consequent efficiency in production. A factor in cereal improvement in the state which promises to increase in efficiency is the Norhtwest Hay and Grain show at Pendleton. The show was organized by Fred Ben nion, county agent, the first exhibi tion was held in September of last vcar. Exhibits were on display from Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon tana, and were housed in a building constructed of five carloSds of bailed hay. The directors of the show are men prominent in agricultural affairs of the Northwest. D. N. Nelson one of the largest wheat raisers of Uma tilla county, is president. Plans are under way to make the next year's event targer than was the first and even more comprehensive than was the first. One class which will be of interest will be the class for en tries from demonstration fields; that is fields sown in the various counties ar the suggestion of the county agent for the establishment of the new var ieties listed previously in this artf clc. Forest Notes Gurdane District. Ranger Woods has returned from a three days trip to read the snow stakes. Less snow was found than on even dates a year ago. Snow stake No. 44 on the head of Big But ter creek registered 22 inches; a year ago it was 26 inches. Stake No. 31 on Ditch creek on the Heppner-Rit-ter road registered 34 inches; last year it was 44 inches. Due to the cold weather the top layer of snow, consisting of from 6 inches to a foot is very dry making snow-shoeing quite good. The last wagon to pass over the Hcppner-Ritter road is reported to have made the trip immediately be fore the storm in November. A trap per with a saddle horse and pack ani mals is reported to have gone over about Christmas time. The ranger states that there is nearly four feet of snow where the road crosses the summit. Very little logging is being done at any of the five sawmills along the north boundary of the forest of this district. The Ely mill near Gur dane is preparing to begin logging. Claud Jarvis and Waldon Straight have established a wood camp at the mill. The Willow creek mill is do ing some logging and is cutting some fence posts and wood as a side line. Federal Funds for National For est Roads. $15,000,000 has been apportioned by the secretary of agriculture among 27 states, Alaska and Porto Rico in which national forests are located for the construction of roads and trails. Of this amount Oregon will re ceive $1,875,644, Washington will re ceive $1,311,022 and Alaska is al lotted $1,020,493. In totals allowed for all national forest states, Oregon ranks third, Washington fifth and bors catch him shootin' craps at seven year old! Folks could tell a heap of facts from them that on to know of how he got his mutton, maybe forty year ago. Of course I know that gossip ain't a very savory dish. . . . But I heard that Hawkins used to guzzle like a fish." . . . You didn't think that scandal hung ar ound that feller's life, but someone says he re'lly swiped another feller's wife! I've heard he wintered in the pen one time in Tennessee, but, wust of all, he gossips, an' this don't look goor1 to me. Neighbors knowed the truth, I spose they'd string him to a limb, but I don't peddle gossip, though I've got no use fer him. . . . Alaska is in seventh place; Idaho leading with California second and Montana and Colorado in fourth and sixth places. Of this sum $9,500,000 known as the "National Forest Highway Fund" is set aside for roads of primary im portance to states, counties and na tional forest communities; $5,500, 000 constituting the "National Forest Development Fund" will be used for the construction of roads and trails needed for the administration and utilization of the forests themselves. These appropriations will mean the development of roads and trails throughout the forests which will aid materially in fire protection. At pre sent there are large areas of track less wilderness within the national forests that can not be reached by tralis. When lightening storms sweep over these inaccessible areas, heavy fire losses of public timber of ten occur. Speed in reaching a forest fire, foresters say, is just as important in protecting the country's forests as is speed in city fire protection. But high speed within the forests means 4 or 5 miles an hour over a moun tain trail. If no trail exists it is often impossible for the fire fighters to average more than one-fourth of a mile in an hour. These appropriations will also, forestry officials say, give a new im petus to the work of opening up are as of scenic beauty for the use and enjoyment of the American people as well as tracts of valuable timber. In the past, construction of many urgently needed forest roads in Ore gon, Washington and Alaska has been deferred for lack of sufficient funds. Much of this work can now go forward. The forest service es timates that eventually over $100, 000,000 will be required to supply a thoroughly adequate system of transportation throughout the 1 56, 000,000 acres within the national for ests. FARMERS GET MARKET REPORTS BY WIRELESS I housands of farmers located in miflriie western states arc twice daily receiving market reports by wireless telephone. There is no cost to the service, onre the inex pensive receiving set has heen in stalled, and which can be purchased anywhere. The Westinghouse Electric Co., from its great free broadcasting station at Newark, N. J., not only sends out market "Por.t 12 o'clock noon and 6 P. M. daily, but also furnishes offi cial weather forecasts and other en tertaming and educational pro grams It has been estimated that more than a half million amateurs (mostly in rural districts and on farms) 'listen m" every day. Pc. tures show the operator sending out market reports from Newark; and map shows distance the messages re received. .' t W .J-.