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PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
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STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT
After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal
Oil and Lubricating Oil
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satisfaction. Made for all ears and trucks.
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per gallon. Differential and transmis
sions filled at 15c per pound.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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THESE FELLOWS
WITH CARS THINK
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Poem hy
jtlncle John
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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.
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