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PAGE FOUR THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925. Farm Activities FROM THE -MORROW COlMT FARM BUREAU NEWS" What Kind of Seed Treat-! ment? Fnrr r etir.n.derir.g t the . frftt tiirt what kind of ii treat ment they will um thit falL Almot itd ptr cent of the wheat planted in Morrow county last fall was dry treat ed. A large per cent of the spring planted waa dry treated. For the lait four yean careful checks have been wade by County Agents through out Eastern Oregon and by the Kx pcr.mcnt Stations on the various v.ethods of aeed treatment for smut control. These result hare uniform ly ahown that the copper carbonate methods give as good control as where bluestone cr formaldehyde were used. Thew have been cases where there was more smut in copper carbonte treated wheat than in wet treated whfat- There have been other caws, and it is believed more of them, where tha most smut was found in the wet treated wheat- Some of the smut tiest fields of spring wheat found this year were wet treated. None o? the treatments that have been used in the past are fool proof. All rquire that a good job of treating be done to insure smut control. This means with tha dry treatment that a good quality of copper carbonate be used. It should test at least 50 perj cent metallic copper and be fine enough so that 99 per cent of it will go through a 200-mesh screen. The treatment must be done by a ma chine that will thoroughly coat each kernel of grain with the dust. It is especially important that the dust be distributed along the crease and in the brush end of the kernel. Where grain is free of visible smut, two ounces to the bushel is sufficient pow der to use. Where grain is visibly smutty better results will be obtain ed where three ounces to the bushel are used. The main advantages of dry treat ment are not alone in smut control. It will control smut as good as any other treatment. Dry treated grain germinates quicker and makes a fast er growth in the falL There is a can er&ble saving in seed grain. Drills shauld be set to tow from 15 to 25 per cent less dry treated seed than wet treated seed to get an equal stand. Seed can be treated at any time by the dry method while using the wet treatment requires that it be treated every day. Farmers should keep close watch of the grain coming from the treating machine, so that a good job of treating will be done. If the machine runs too fast the grain will stick to the sides and not fall. If you set it at too large an angle it will run through the machine too fast to do a good job. POMONA GRANGE IN OCTOBER, The Pomona District Grange for Morrow and Umatilla counties will be held early in October at Irrigon. The Irrigon Grange is making extensive plans for the entertainment of a large number of visitors and have a drill team at work preparing for putting on the Pomona Degree. Poultry Demonstrations. Two poultry culling demonstrations were held in Morrow county last week. H. E. Cosby, Extension Poul try Specialist, met with forty farmers on the Charles Dillon place at Board- man Wednesday, August 19. After a preliminary talk, Mr. Coby showed the latest culling methods. Due to the heat, the whole flock was not culled. On August 20, a meeting was held on the Gerald White chicken ranch at Lexington, attended by 28 people. In his preliminary talks Mr. Cosby emphasized a few essentials for the poultry business. The first essential in the success of the poultry business is the rearing of thrifty, vigorous pullets. This means green feed dar ing the growing life of the pullet and raising them on clean ground. Soil contamination has been the greatest limiting factor xn the poultry indus try in Oregon. No section of the state is free from this trouble. Any one raising pullets year after year on the same ground that they were brooded on is certain to run into this trouble. To show that it was present in Morrow county, Mr. Cosby nd the County Agent brought in a pullet from a poultry farm at Boardman that was affected with leg weakness caused by soil contamination. The post-mortem examination of this pul let at the Boardman meeting showed it to have three kinds of intestinal worm parite. Practically all of the leg weakness present in many poultry flocks is caused by these worms. The remedy, according to Mr. Cosby, is taking the pullets from the brooder house and placing them in portable colony houses that can be moved to clean ground each year. These worm para si lee do not affect hens to any extent. Another visit to the county will be made by Mr. Cosby early in October. Is Your Bull Safe to Handle? The answer to the above question is always "No," unless you have your bull in a stout enough pen to hold him, and arranged so that yon do not ever have to get into the pen with him. ! Within the last six months two j Morrow county farmers have been j seriously injured and narrowly es-1 caped death by their bulls. Hardly a week goes by that there is not some farmer in Oregon or Washing- ; ton killed by a bull. In many casee j it is the bull that has always been ; considered gentle and absolutely safe; to handle that does the damage. Plans for a bull pen whereby the bull can be handled with safety and where no on will have to get into the pen with him can be obtained from the I County Agent. These pens are sim- j pie to build and are relatively inex pensive. They should be made large: enough to allow the bull room to ex-j ercise. We pay insurance on our buildings, lives, and crops, but many farmers in Morrow county are taking chances with their bulls. A good bull pen can be classed as form of life insurance. j NORTH MORROW COUNTY FAIR.; Tha dates of the North Morrow County Fair have been definitely aet for September 11 and 12. The Fair: was moved ahead so that it would ! not conflict with the Round-Up and j the Heppner Rodeo. Premium lists ' have been printed and mailed to all j fanners in the Boardman and Irrigon 1 pert ion. The Fair will be held at the achooihou. and entertainment is be ir.g planned for both Friday and Sat urday evenings. The premium list shows over four hundred dollars as cash prizes for agricultural products. Ail Morrow county farmers can en ter farm products for competition. Gluten Tests of Wheat From time to time inquiries come to the County Agent's office regard ing the testing of wheat for gluten. The Slate Grain Inspection Depart ment at Portland has the following note in its pamphlet on rules and reg ulations. The department should be addressed to the Chief Inspector, 723 Court House. Portland. Oregon. "In its laboratory at Portland, the state inspection department has just in stalled complete facilities for testing! of flour with an experienced chemist in charge and is now prepared to make dry or moist gluten tests of flour or wheat samples, protein tests of flour, wheat or feed samples, mois ture determinations, ash determina tions, etc. All samples for chemical analysis should be in air-tight con tainers. e shall be g.ad to answer requests as to service rendered by this department.' - JACKRABBITS. Jack rabbits in the rabbit-infested section of Morrow county are very scarce this year. This scarcity is due to very heavy poisoning operations in most of the county last year, and the killing of many rabbits by the very cold weather the first of the year. Wherever rabbits are present in any numbers farmers are urged to put out poison as now is the best time to keep the rabbit crop down. One rabbit killed now means from ten to twenty less next year. The best method to use is to cut twenty pounds of young alfalfa into one and two-inch lengths. Over this sprinkle, stirring constant ly, one ounce of strychnine algaloid. Put out this poison in small hand- fulls in runways from two to three hundred feed away from alfalfa fields. Each runway should have two or three small piles of the poison bait in it. FARMERS PICNIC WELL ATTENDED. The Farmers Picnic held on the Wright Brothers place on Rhea creek was attended by 200 Morrow county farmers and their wives. Horseshoe games were the prevailing outdoor sports, the elimination matches being won by Carlson Brothers or uoose- berry. Lemonade was furnished by the Morrow County Farm Bureau and . The Gosper How Old Is Mary? ; W? V :-7 fiSp rip &j 4fp Bessie M. Ran dell, 22, of Ft. Worth, Tex., grew tired of "the pace' and was converted. At San ta Anna, Calif., she organized and built a church and took to the pulpit So great was her success that now she is on world tour aa an evangelist- August 1, 1$25, intentions to plant this fall, replies were received from 24.000 farmers in various parts of the I'nited States, Their replies showed an increase in the contemplated acre are of wheat to be seeded this fall, of 9.7 per cent. On this basis the total acreage to be seeded this fall would be 46,411,000 acres, compared with 42.317.000 acres seeded last fall. A similar inquiry a year ago gave a result only one per cent higher than the December estimates of the acre ape actually seeded. Reports received from Oregon grow ers indicatd that the wheat this fall would be only 95 per cent of that seeded a year ago. In the western part of the state the reports indicat ed an intention to plant a slightly increased acreage, but in all of the larger wheat growing counties a de crease was indicated. The very se vere winter killing of the crop seed ed last fall, together with the good results obtained this year with some of the newer spring varieties, may have influenced many growers to give more attention to spring seeding. RYE: Intentions to plant rye this fall reported an increase of 21.0 per cent. Last fall the estimated acreage seeded was 4,206.000 acres. Should the indicated 21.0 per cent increase actually be planted, the 1925 fall seeding would amount to 6,089,000 acres. Oregon rye growers reported inten tions to plant more than 69 per cent more acreage than last fall. However the rye reports were too few in num ber to be a satisfactory indication of probable seeding. Oregon rye is grown mostly for hay and pasture. It should be understood that the foregoing is not really a forecast of acreage to be seeded, but rather an indication of farmers' intentions to plant as of August 1st. The actual acreage that will be seeded this fall will be largely affected by climatic conditions (mostly rainfall) and by prices prevailing from now until seed ing time. The present seasons suc cess with some of the newer varieties of spring wheat may also be a factor in some localities. F. L. KENT. The Grain Marketing Company. j (The Agricultural Review.) The Grain Marketing Company fail ed in its ambitious attempt to con vert a group of the Urges tprivately owned grain concerns in the country into a nation-wide, farmer-owned co operative marketing agency, and the Armour Grain Company, the Rosen baum interests, and the other old-line companies involved are returned to their original status. Thus passes probably the most com prehensive plan ever undertaken to place the control of the marketing of grain in the hands of thg producers. Of all the co-operative schemes so far launched, this one included hand ling facilities, financial backing and experienced management, in a meas ure placing it entirely in a class by itself. Various causes will be ascribed for this failure, but the real cause was laid simultaneously with the launch ing of the project, and was due to lack of understanding of the farm organization situation on the part of the promoters. The omission of the farmers' local elevator groups and the pooling associations was fatal. The belief on the part of the grain companies' officials that the represen tatives of the Farm Bureau Federa tion, who controlled the producer wing of the movement, could later bring these two groups into line, was never justified. Instead, the eleva tor and pool groups, displeased over the manner in which the organization was effected without taking them in as charter members and giving them the measure of control to which they believed they were entitled, were mostly hostile or Indifferent. In spite of the fact that the far mers elevator groups and the pooling associations constitute a decided mi nority of all grain farmers, they rep resent the bulk of these who are in clined to join any co-operative mar keting association. Any new move ment, working the territory already so well combed by these two groups, and without taking them into consid eration, will have hard sledding. A minor cause of the failure was the manner in which the properties Involved were appraised. This, how ever, was chiefly due to the fact that it supplied a weapon to those who were opposed to the movement for personal or other reasons. The man ner of appraisal was unwise, to say the least. Volumes could be written about this episode in the co-operative mar keting movement, and will be. The essential facts are that it was an un necessarily hasty, short-sighted. Ill advised attempt to carrv out a good idea. It may prove to be the fore runner of a better planned and more successful effort along the same lino. The promoters of the Grain Market ing Company are entitled to credit for the manner in which they safe guarded the interests of those farm ers who bought stock in the concern. All money paid for such stock is to be returned, it Is announced. This is something new in co-operative mar keting undertakings. Some of the severest critics of the Grain Mar keting Company have been connected with or have indorsed movements of this character wherein the farmers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. WINTER WHEAT NURSERIES. Plans are being made by the Coun ty Agent coopertaing with the Moro Experiment Station for two winter grain nurseries in Morrow county. A large number of new winter wheats will be tried out in these nurseries. Some exceptionally promising srout- reaisting varieties will be planted. Many new hybrid wheats such as the federation and fortyfold crosses will be put in. W HOLE CONTINENT IN WHEAT POOL. 'The announcement has just been made that all Australia Is to be cov ered by a co-operative wheat pool. In Victoria the Labor government has provided that the pool shall he com pulsory while the other governments are offering inducements for volun tary pools. The federal government has promised to finance an all-Australian pool by funds of the Common wealth bank. When bees persist in attempts to swarm and moderate Increase is not undesirsble, artificial swarming may be resorted to. This is especially ad visable when preparation for swarm ing has gone to ofar to be prevented. The methods for artificial swarming are explained In the O. A. C. exten sion service bulletin, "Beekeeping in Oregon," hy R .A. Scullen. Mary Louise Spas, daughter of a poor N. Y. janitor, Is back home washing dishes, following a few days of Princess' existence as the adopted daughter of a millionaire. Mary's parents consented to her going. Fifty new dresses made Mary happy for a day then the storm broke: gossip about her real age claimed to be 16. It U said her age was misrepresented. Mary cried. -She wasn't happy she tried suicide, 'tis saidthen ran away back home. very acceptable as the day was hot. After dinner, B. B. Bayles of the Moro Station discussed the federation wheats, and F. L. Ballard, County Agent Leader, gave a very interesting talk on the economic conditions in Oregon. Thirty people visited the spring wheat nursery on the Berg strom Brothers place after the picnic. 1925 FARM CENSUS 1 Preliminary Announcement For Mor row County, Oregon. Washington, D. C, August 12. The following statement gives some of the results of the 1925 farm cen sus for Morrow County, Oregon, with comparative data for 1920. The 1925 figures are preliminary and subject to correction. Jan. 1, Jan. 1, 1925 1920 Xo. of Farms Total 694 - 692 Operated by: Owners 513 571 Managers 8 8 Tenants 1"3 113 Farm Acreage All land in farms 926.252 781,613 Crop land 1924 324.116 Harvested .... 127,171 Crop Failure 36.947 Fallow or idle 159,998 Pasture, 1924 - 684.201 Plowable 13,750 Other 562,084 Woodland not pastured 642 All other land.. 17,293 Farm Values Land and build ings $14,854,494 $16,836,048 Land alone .. 13,244.566 15,501.164 Buildings 1,609,928 1,334.884 Stock on Farms Horses 8,802 8,644 Mules 2,210 1,614 Cattle, total . 10.280 13,388 Beef cows .. 2,765 3,693 Other beef cattle 4.493 7,070 Dairy cows .. 1,746 1,527 Other dairy cows - 1.276 1.098 Swine, total .... 3,424 3,901 Breeding sows 361 524 Principal Crops 1924 1919 Wheat, acres .. 89.228 102,859 Bushels 637,557 979.438 Barley, acres .... 2.258 5,295 Bushels 23,566 53,941 Hay, acres 34,588 22.941 Tons 36,720 29,885 Cows and heifers 2 years old and over. Sows and gilts for breeding pur poses 6 months old and over. I NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY YOUR I I LUMBER Rough lumber, at mill . . . $15.00 per M Shiplap, at mill $ 19.00 per M No. 1 Rustic, at mill No. 2 Rustic, at mill No. 1 Finish, at mill No. 2 Finish, at mill $30.00 per M .$25.00 per M . $35.00 per M . $30.00 per M Flooring, at mill $35.00 per M Will deliver in truck-load lots of 1500 feet or more at Heppner for $6.00 per M. Posts, Tamarack and Fir 6c Each 1 6-Inch Pine Wood, at mill, $4.00 Cord 1 Pyle& Grimes i Parkers Mill, Oregon Intention to Plant: Winter Wheat and Rye WHKAT: In the recent inquiry on " Hi rt , . nWi(iik''l-i--"'ifn' When you are ready to seed, don't forget the new SUPERIOR DRILL WITH THE ALEMITE OILING SYSTEM We have both the Superior and Kentucky Drills in both disc and hoe, also the Rotary Rod Weeder, which is sure to get all the weeds. You will surely save money by buying a new drill instead of using an old one that does poor work, and you know it does not pay to plant yur seed on weedy ground. Gilliam & Bisbee HARVEST SPECIALS Bring in a list of sup plies needed for HARVEST and get our prices. Let us have a chance to figure with you. Maybe we can save you money. We have a good line of Harvest SHOES for men and boys. Leather and Canvas Gl o v e s, Oshkosh Overalls and Coveralls. Malcolm D.Clark T ? T t T ? T ? ? ? ? ? T f y ? t ? ? ? ? ? T y t y y t t f ? ? y t ? y ? ? ? ? y ? ? y y y y y y y y Vanity Cases Used 3000 B. C. Scientific excavations in the ancient city of Kish, so we are told by a news dispatch, shows that women car ried vanity cases forty-nine centuries ago. Why did not the luxuries of that old civilization spread to the rest of the world? Why were the delicate and pleasure-giving things of life buried and hidden away for so many ages? Without the printed word, information could hardly be spread to other countries and the knowledge of events and things could scarcely be preserved. Today, if a bet ter rug is produced in Kurdistan, it is sono advertised for sale in American newspapers. If a better necklace is made in China, a printed advertisement will shortly de scribe it and quote the price on the other side of the globe. Advertising publishes the secrets of good things from one end of America to the other. The newest and best products of forty-eight states are told about, fully and truthfully, wherever the public press is read. Read the advertisements and you keep from being buried like Kish. ADVERTISEMENTS TELL YOU WHAT IS BEST TO BUY WHERE TO GET IT AND WHAT TO PAY FOR IT y y y . y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y t y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y r 'Every day in every way "Yes, sir, this old Ford actually seems to be getting better every day. Since I drained the crankcase and filled up with the new Zerolene T' for Fords, she starts quicker, has more power, and seems to go a little farther on a gallon of gasoline." Zerolene "F" for Fords gets to all the parts where oil is needed, especially the wrist-pin bearings and the upper half of the cylinder walls, which are frequently "oil-starved" when an unsuitable lubricant is used. Zerolene "F" for Fords is made by the Standard Oil Company's patented vacuum process. It deposits a minimum of carbon. Yet Zerolene "F" for Fords costs not more, but less than most of the special Ford oils on the market. A Ford is an A-l transportation Invest ment. Protect your investment by proper lubrication. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) "Feeds those oiltarrtd Fords"