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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?
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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
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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
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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
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'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"