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0 THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1923. PAGE THREE i;iiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimHma Farm Activities FROM THE -MORROW COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS- BmnMniniiiiinntMHiMinni:niiriiniHiitiniiimttmmc Extension Department of the 0. A.C., cooperating with the State Depart ment of Education. " Copper Carbonate Treat ment For Wheat Gain ing: Rapidly. Br. H. B. WILCOX, Lexington During- the year 1921-22 ten thous and boyi and glrla In Oregon, not only joined aome club, but completed their work. Morrow county, 1 am aorry to say, furnished very few, if any, of those boys and girls. It Is the sincere desire of the writer of this article, and the purpose of the writing, to try and arouse an Interest In this work. When boys and girls and their parents come to understand the advantages and pleasure of this work, they will need no further coaxing. In the school where I was princi pal last year every boy and girl old enough was doing club work, and the only trouble I had was to keep them from undertaking too many projects. The last 8 years I have put In the most of my spare time working with a county leader In organizing and furthering club work When club work Is first mentioned in a commun ity I notice a tolerating Indifference. As soon as a few boys and gtrls be come interested and seriously under take the work I find they are con tinually coming back for more. We might say that club work Is a correspondence study helped out by actual instruction by specialists. Club work Is carried on throughout the United States. Thru this work instruction In the projects favorable to a locality may be secured. Help from competent specialists is avail able at times also. As an example: Five or more boys or girls In a community wish to or ganise a pig club. They must select their officers, elect? a local leader, and send to the extension department at 0. A. C. for their Instructions. These are sent to them and contain the Instructions as to care and hand ling of pigs Reports from time to time must be filled out and sent in and further Instructions will be sent until the course Is completed. Dur ing this time an expert on this pro ject will visit and give instruction and criticism on the work the boys and girls have done. By the time they have actually fed pigs, made out reports about pigs, and talked pigs in their club meetings, I don't think they would give the kind of an an swer I found given In an eighth grade state examination aome time ego. I corrected the papers for a certain county that year in the final exam ination and this Is the answer I got on one paper to the question, "name two breeds of hogs." This boy l sup nose after careful thought was able to think of only one breed and wrote "Razorbacks. Almost all endeavors In the home and on the farm are Included In aome project of club work. There are 17 different projects at the present time. The work is free to all boys and girls from 0 to 18 years of age. The infor mation given out Is practical the hmX available and valuable for young and old alike. I enjoy along with my children their club work. Some will say "I can teach these things,. to my chil dren" I have noticed - a tendency sometimes on the part of some par ents to construe club work as med dling too much with home affairs. But I find Instead of that It helps to carry on home affaire more pleasant ly and profitably. In conclusion I wish to say that If any community or person wishes fur ther Information on club work, I am willing to help you In any way that I can also the following are recog nized as boys and girls club workers, teachers, county school superinten dent, county agent, farm bureau, parent-teachers associations and other organizations. For supplies and def inite instruction write H. C. Seymour, State Club Leader, Corvallis. Club work Is conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the A recent trip Into the wheat grow- ng section of Washington by the County Agent revealed the fact that from 60 to 90 per cent of alt the wheat seeded there is being treated by copper carbonate. The Washing ton farmers have had one more year's results with copper carbonate than have we had In Oregon and bankers, business men, and farmers are all well versed in its merits and it is predicted that next year all the wheat that section will be treated with copper carbonate. While we do not hesitate to recom mend that you treat your wheat with copper carbonate, we do recommend that you be mighty careful about the brand of powder that you buy. A product known as Corona Copper Compound, commonly known as Cor ona, is on the market. This contains only 18 per cent basic copper where as copper carbonate contains at least 52 per cent. This Is a very inferior product and has not given the same results that copper carbonate Is giv ing and is liable to be disappointing to you. It may cost five or ten cents lesa per pound but you are treating to control the smut. We hope to be ble to issue definite recommenda tions of the sources of good copper carbonate before you will need It In the fall. made in several decades. Because of the work done here in an organised way Morrow county leads the State of Oregon in this work. This treat ment ought to make It possible for us to increase our yields at least 16 to 20 per cent. A tour to the Sherman County Ex periment Station was organized and conducted and 45 farmer participat ed. That this trip was worth while is shown by the fact that every farmer who participated has made one or more changes in their farming prac tices which will mean thouaands of dollars to them within the next few years. Their influence baa been ex tended in the communities from which they came. A similar tour will be conducted this year. Extension schools were conducted in all of the larger communities of the county and these were attended by 450 different people. Good results obtained from these meetings can be seen in every community; in addi tion, too, 400 people hearing Brew ster, the poultry specialist, at which meetings two poultry culling demon strations were put on at Boardman and Irrigon. More poultry work is planned for 1923. Through our farm organisation Morrow county took a leading part in establishing a wage scale in Ore gon and Washington which not only stabilized the labor situation but un doubtedly saved $12,000 to 915,000 in wages to the farmers that would have been paid had the scale not have been established. PAST YEAR'S WORK C. C. CALKINS. County Agent. A fairly complete report is ren dered by the County Agent annually. It required 75 typewritten pages to cover the field properly. II more room were available in thii paper we would draw your attention to the woik handled through this office dur ing the pant year with the help of the organized fsrmers. Since, however, one of the chief virtue! of this little publication ii brevity we will call your attention to a few of the project! only and those briefly. 130.000 rabbits were killed by or- ganited poison campaigns, hunts and drives, saving at least $30,000 dam ages during the past year. 4000 quarts of squirrel poison were mixed and put out by the farmers. The sav ing that was estimated amounted to at least 120,000. 6130 acres of wheat were certified and a large percentage of which was disposed of profitably by these farm ers and this will do much to raise the standard of the wheat grown in this county. Variety trials on a field basis have been checked upon and in order to get more definite concrete results eight variety demonstrations have been arranged for with fanners in the various communities which will be put on on an acre basis side by side for the present year. These results will be checked upon next fall. Eighteen tests of copper carbonate were conducted and careful checks were made on twelve of these. This Information was summarised togeth er with Information available from all over the Northwest and put.in the hands of farmers. As a result 20,000 acres of copper carbonate treated wheat have been seeded this past fall. Mr. Jackman, our Farm Crops Specialist, said that this treatment will do more for our wheat farmers than any one discovery that has been 442 cowa belonging to 82 individ uals were tested for tuberculosis. 12 reactors were locaUd and disposed of. A number of meetings wers called affording an opportunity for the wheat growers to meet and discuss the merits of the Association. The office started a movement to obtain a star route from Arlington to Heppner serving way pointa. This would result in speeding up our mail service between Heppner and Portland and return by almost two days. Very satisfactory progress has been made snd we may be successful yet in get ting this route. By securing the services of a Bee Expert for the fanners of the Board man and Irrigon projects we ar get ting that industry on a very solid ba sis. A county-wide picnic was put on In June which was attended by some 760 people. This picnie should be an annual and a profitable affair, bring ing the farmers of the county togeth er for an annual play day. It affords a wonderful opportunity for them to get acquainted as well. The County Agent made 649 farm visits, wrote 2198 personal letters to take care of business transacted through the office, and conferred with 1243 office callers and put out over 3000 circular letters. Conducted 75 meetings which were attended by 3300 farmers.' That this office work ing for the organized farmers meets a real need, there is no question but that it can do a greater service can not be doubted. We ask your most hearty cooperation; if you have sug gestions or ideas you are only doing your part by giving na the benefit of these. Come up to the office when ever you are in town. Get acquaint ed and be ready to put across a still larger program for 1923, which will be made possible with your help. Our agricultural statistician gives the following figures on the wheat yield for Morrow county during the four years: 1919, 887,000 bushels 1920, 1,351,000 bushels. 1921, 2,56,000 bushels. 1922, 1,159,000 bushels. (Figures for 1922 were gathered by the County Agent from the ware house men and perhaps to this should be added the seed wheat which was retained at home and which proba bly was counted in on the other fig ures given.) The average yields of winter wheat were given as follows: 1919, 10 bushels. 1920, 13 bushels. 1921, 23 bushels. We cannot expect to have a crop here like 1921 every year but there is something we could do to make this yield more constant There was not such a wide fluctuation in Umatil la county or in Sherman county, for instance. A part of this ean be at tributed to the fact that they have come to the place that they have es tablished a definite .system of farm ing. A larger percentage of the far mers are plowing early and there fore are able to seed early. Our rain fall is lighter and one of our big problems is getting a good stand of fall wheat. It is the opinion of those in position to know that with the ad vent of the dry treatment the wheat can be seeded quite safely in the dust and earlier seeding can be safely practiced. This is going to mesn a much better stand. Stephens' results show very plainly that much better stands are secured on early plowed land and the yields are consistently far better where the land is plowed early and the summer fallow is kept clean. If every farmer will make this his motto: "Early plowing, clean summer fallow, and early seed ing, coupled with proper seed treat ing," there is no doubt but that we can increase our wheat yield in any year fifteen or twenty per cent over present yield and maintain it. You have this advantage, you do not have to wait for the other man, you can start now with this safe recommen dation. It means real dollars to your bank account. HONEY FOR SALE In 6 and 10 pound pails. Postpaid to the 1st and 2nd xones, 1214c per pound. To the 3rd lone, 14c per pound; 4th zone, 15V4c per pound. CURTIS WHAR TON, Juntura, Ore. Pioneer Employment Co. With Two Big Offices PENDLETON AND PORTLAND la prepared to handle the business of Eastern Oregon better than ever before Our Specialties Farms, Mills, Camps, Hotels, Oarages, Etc. WIRE HUH ORDERS AT OCK EXPEXIB Peroasl Otto 14 H. CM4 M. 11S SL Weak s. Only Employment Office in Eastern Oregen with Conoectjou hi Portland loga! Guarantee Given. IV. .( Knllt-no paln-costlnue wora. Ask to see Gle-o-ois rile Treatment. PATTERSON A SON Main Street -:- Heppner. Oregon Heppner's Leading Jewelry Store Our large stock of Diamonds are the best. And nothing would be more pleasing these bright days than a nice diamond. Now is the time to have your watch re paired as everyone will soon be busy. We do not advertise closing-out sales. We are here to stay. That's why our guarantee is good. , o WE CARRY PIANOS, PHONOGRAPHS, RECORDS AND SHEET MUSIC 0u rmusic room is a delightful place to spend a few of your leisure moments. Come in and listen to the latest music F. L. Harwood Proprietor Odd Fellows Building, Heppner, Ore. Phone Main 1062 o Who gets the clock in the window? Central Market Four Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Ford Car This Month i. The unprecedented demand for Ford Cars through out the winter months has taken the entire output of the Ford plants working at capacity, indicating that the demand this Spring will be far in excess of the number of Ford Cars that can possibly be built. . II. January was the tenth consecutive month in which retail deliveries exceeded 100,000 Ford Cars and Trucks Requirements for February, the month when preparations are already under way for Spring busi ness, called for 148,407 Cars and Trucks more than 24,000 in excess of the number we can possibly produce. III. Ford dealers in many parts of the country are already finding it necessary to specify future delivery dates on Ford Products because there are no reserve stocks to draw from. IV. Your order placed now will protect you against de lay or disappointment later on It is the only way you can be assured of reasonably prompt delivery. We consider it important to give you these facts, so that if you are planning to purchase a Ford Car, Truck or Fordson Tractor for use this Spring or Summer you can list your order at once and take advantage of our dealer's first opportunity to make delivery. Ford Motor Company Detroit, Michigan See LAT0URELL AUTO CO!, Authorized Ford Dealer, Heppner, Oregon. A Small Deposit and Easy Payments if Desired During Lenten Season we will receive shipments of fish twice a week, Monday and Thursday evenings. All kinds of shell fish, kip pard and salt fish. - And he usual line of good meats. Central Market G. B. SWAGGART KIRK BUS & TRANSFER COMPANY WM. M. KIRK, Proprietor Prompt and efficient service at all times, both day or night. Leave orders at Hotel Patrick or Phone Main 664. BAGGAGE : EXPRESS : FREIGHT COUNTRY TRIPS -:- GENERAL HAULING & mm mm is i ! I W' ia Future Satisfaction Is assured by starting a savings account, NOW. Your savings in the bank are a reserve fund which earns you interest regularly. The income from your savings will multiply the pleasures and comforts of the days when you cannot work. Reach old age by the way of a savings account. Fir& National Bank IIEPl'NFiR, OI.th.GON