HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926.
PAGE THREE
Farm Activities t
J FROM THE "MORROW COUNTY FARM BUREAU NEWS" J
Morrow County Wheat
and Wool Show.
The time to select wheat for the
Morrow County Wheat and Woo!
Show next fall i at harvest. At this
time a sack of the best wheat can be
selected in the field, marked, and set
aside until time for the show.
The prize winning wheat will be
sent to the Northwest Hay and Grain
Show at Portland and exhibited in
the name of the grower. Last year
the one exhibit of wheat drew a total
of $16.00 in prize money at the coun
ty Bhow and at the Northwest Hay
and Grain Show in Portland.
A number of wool fleeces have been
brought in to the County Agent'3 of
fice to be held for exhibit at the nool
show next fall. The following is the
premium list for the show:
Market Classes.
Wheat 1st 2nd
Hard White $3.00 $2.00
Soft White 3.00 2.00
Hard Red Winter .. 8.00 2.00
Western White 3.00 2.00
Variety Specials.
Hybrid 128 3.00 2.00
Turkey "Red 3.00
Fortyfold 3.00
Bluestem 3.00
Federation 3.00
Baart 8.00
Hard Federation .... 3.00
Barley
Any Hulled Variety 3.00
Rye 3.00
Wool.
Best Fine Wool Fleece
$10.00 $7.50
Best Medium Wool Fleece
$10.00 $7.00
Best Coarse Wool Fleece
$10.00 $7.60
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
3rd
$1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
$5.00
$5.00
$5.00
U. S. Employment Service
Opens Office at Arlington.
As a result of action txken in the
Moro Conference, followed up by the
Eastern Oregon Wheat League, the
United States Department of Labor
is establishing a seasonal employment
office at Arlington this summer. This
office will be in charge of Charles F.
Story and will be open starting June
16. Mr. Story will serve farmers of
Morrow and Gilliam counties and will
be in touch With employment centers
to fill orders that cannot be filled
from men at Arlington. His office
phone will be Arlington 352, and his
home phone 252.
Orders for men for farm work can
be sent in through the County Agent's
office at Heppner, or directly to Mr.
Story at Arlington. If after ordering
men farmers have a chance to hire
another man, the order should be
cancelled, so that a man will not be
sent in to take a job already filled.
The farmer in a case of this kind is
liable for the railroad fare of the
man that does not get a job.
The Arlington office will be under
the supervision of W. C. Carpenter,
Director of the U. S. Employment
Service at Spokane. Mr. Carpenter
states that the Secretary of Labor
and the Director General of Employ
ment were giving more attention to
the problem of seasonal and harvest
labor than ever before and wish the
local office to be of service not only
to farmers in getting help but to the
employes in getting a job.
Colorado Potato Beetle
Control.
These insects pass the winter in
the soil as adult beetles. They appear
in the fields in the spring just as
early potatoes are sprouting. They
feed on the tender tips of the young
plants and after a few days begin egg
deposition. Eggs are deposited in
compact masses on the under surface
of the leaves. The larvae are slug
like, deep reddish in color, and they
too attack the foliage of the potato.
When mature they drop to the soil
and tunnel in to change again to
adult beetles. Through most of the
Middle West, there is a second gener
ation of the beetles and grubs in mid
summer, i
Poison sprays are the standard
treatment for the potato beetle. Two
applications of spray should be made,
the first as soon as the beetles ap
pear on the young plants in the spring
and the second about two weeks later.
The dust spray is excellent for the
earlier application. This is made by
thoroughly mixing one part by weight
of lead arsenate or calcuim arsenate,
with six parts by weight of sifted
wood ashes, air-slacked lime or sul
phur and dusting on the plants when
there is no wind blowing.
Calcium arsenate is the preferable
poison. Lead arsenate, however, will
control. Use the poison as a spray at
the rate of 1V4 to 2 pounds powder
to 60 gallons of liquid. When spray
ing with bordeaux for potato diseases
the arsenate may be added to the bor
deaux spray.
Pocket Gophers.
The pocket gophers are a destruct
ive pest in many of our alfnlfa fields
along the creeks. They take poison
readily when it is properly placed.
The following method is recommend
ed. By using a prod made out of iron
or a tt-inch gas pipe locate the main
runway or tunnel. The mounds are
usually on a side tunnel from six to
18 inches from the main tunnel. Af
ter the tunnel is located the poison
baits are dropped into it and a clod
or rock placed over the hole, to ex
clude the light.
The best bait are sweet potatoes,
parsnips and carrots. These are peel
ed and cut into pieces about one inch
long and one-fourth inch square. Ov
er two quarts of these sprinkle one
eighth ounce of saccharine and one
elirhth ounce of strychnine alkaloid
eround thoroughly together. Only
such material should be prepared as
can be used at one time as it soon
snoils. Baits properly put out should
make- at least a 75 per cent kill. For
small areas a few traps, persistently
used will be satisfactory in controll
ing this pest. The Maccabce type of
trap gives very good satisfaction.
Open a newly constructed mound
set the trap and thrust it into the
tunnel leaving the hole open. In these
traps the trigger is set back botween
the laws so that as the animal conies
pushing the dirt ahead of him to plug
the oDen ne. his body ib Detween me
jaws when the trigger is tripped by
the load of earth.
Jackrabbit Control.
In a few sections of the county
jackrabbits are becoming more nu
merous and control methods should be
used before they get too thick. More
effective work can be done now in
controlling this pest than can be
done when the rabbits are very nu
merous as they were in 1923 and 1924.
Three methods of poisoning are rec
ommended depending on the location.
In the wheat section and where
there are no alkali licks, use poison
salt. Mix this at the rate of one
ounce of strychnine alkaloid to twelve
ounces of salt and place in small
blocks of wood. There blocks can be
made from short pieces of 2x4 or 2x6
with a three-quarter-inch hole bored
in them. Place thee block? around
the fence in the edge of the wheat
field.
In the BoiU'dman and Irrigon com
munities and along the wheat belt
the cedar stake method can be uced
with good results. Mix thoroughly
one quart of flour, ore-half teacupful
of rugar, orte-half teacupful of salt
and one ounce of strychnine alkaloid.
Add water enough to make a rather
thin batter and dip freshly cut cedar
stakes in this batter and stick in
lunways.
In the alfalfa districts, cut twenty
pounds of young, tender afalfa plants
lengths from one to one and one-
half inches. Dust over this evenly
one ounce strychnine alkaloid. Place
this in very small handfuls in run
ways not less than one hundred yards
from alfalfa fields.
SEASON GETTING UNDER WAY.
The dominant item, from farmers'
standpoint, continues to be the un
favorable start-off of the season. Al
though a little lost time has been
made up, the season is still late ex
cept on the Pacific coast. The work
of getting in the crops has gone for
ward under irritating and expensive
handicaps. Dry weather is still a
serious matter in the Southeast, in
the northern wheat belt, and in por
tions of the Northwest, while it has
been unduly wet in the Southwest.
Meadows and farm pastures are gen
erally backward, the average condi
tion last month having bene rated us
the poorest in many years. Corn and
cotton arc both finally in the gound,
the former coming up to fairly good
stands through the central state hut
cotton looking decidedly spotted. A
late spring docs not necessarily mean
an unproductive season, however.
U. S. D. A.
FAIR BOARD REORGANIZES.
The North Morrow County Fail'
Hoard has been re-organized with
Mrs. Mary Wicklnnder as Chairman
of the Board. The premium list will
he announced as soon as it can be
put in shape. The fair will be held at
Boardman again this year and prom
ises to be bigger and better than ever.
the higher altitudes of -the eastern
portion of the state. Not only tender
vegetation but wheat and alfalfa are
reported as having suffered frost dam
age in some sections. Unseasonably
high temperatures prevailed during
the first few days of the present week,
with high winds, rapidly depleted the
soil moisture.
WINTER WHEAT: Oregon winter
wheat suffered a decline during May
from 97.0 per cent of normal to 89.0
indicating a reduction in the May 1
estimate of productino from 19,624,
000 bushels to 18,797,000 bushels. The
Washington and Idaho crops also
(how a falling off in condition of 8
and 6 points, respectively, thus re
during the May 1 estimate for the
three Pacific Northwest ctates from
62,176,000 bushels to 50,018,000 bushels.
The United States winter wheat
crop had an estimated condition on
June 1 or 76.5 per cent, a decline of
i.5 per cent during the month of May.
The June 1 estimate of production is
5-13,300,00 Obushels against the May
1 estimate of 548,908,000 bushels. Last
year's winter wheat crop was estimat
ed at 398,486,000, and the five year av
erage is 591,876,000 bushels.
SPRING WHEAT: Condition of
the Oregon crop is placed at 89.0 per
cent of normal. Acreage estimates
for the present season have not yet
been made hence production estimates
are not available. An estimate of the
acreage of all spring planted crops
will be made during June and will be
available as of July 1.
Condition of the United States
spring wheat crop is estimated at 78.5
per cent of normal. No estimates of
acreage. Private "crop reporting
agencies have estimated the U. S.
spring wheat crop at around 220,000
bushels.
Definition of What
"Horsepower" Means
The commonest term used in mea
suring power is the unit called horse
power.
In considering the power of a ma
chine, however, we must not only
state how much it can do, but how
lrng it takes to do it.
The expression horsepower was in
vented originally for the steam en
gine, and is measured easily and con
veniently by requiring the engine to
lift a given load a given distance in
a given time. The result is in foot
pounds per second.
One horsepower is that power re
quired to lift 650 pounds one foot in
one second, or. conversely, one pound
550 feet in one second. If both the
above are true, a horsepower will also
ift 55 pounds 10 feet in one second.
The number of pounds lifted one
foot in one second, then, divided by
550, will give the horsepower of the
el gine. If it is found on trial that a
certain machine cr engine can lift
'60,000 pounds, or 330 tons, one foot
n one second, we know that its horse
power is 1,200.
PLANS FOR SAFE BI LL PEN ARE
AVAILABLE.
During the past year at least three
Morrow county farmers have been at
tacked by bulls. Last summer one
Morrow county farmer was seen
bringing his cows armed with a shot
pun to protect himself against the
l ull which was running with the herd.
How. long can you afford to take
chances with your life and possible
permanent disability in place of
building a safe bull pen. Plans for a
pen of this kind can be obtained at
the County Agent's office.
The hog market last month reached
the highest point in six years. The
price advance was the greatest dur
ing any May in 25 years, except for
certain wartime inflation years. With
the supply of hogs in sight for slaugh
ter no greater than last year, with
pork products in storage 27 per cent
or equivalent to one and one-half mil
lion hogs less than last year, hogs
are in exceedingly strong market po
sition for the next five months. The
hog-corn price ratio is near the high
est on record. It is distinctly time
now for hog producers to bear in mind
the violent downswing of prices that
has been caused, in times past, by
over-expan3ion under similar price
relationships.
Stocks in storage are always rather
significant at this time of year in re
lation to the new season's production.
Wheat reserves are moderate. Cotton
stocks are probably the heaviest since
1921. Butter stocks in cold storage
on May 1 were four time, last year's
quantity. But eggs were a million
cases less than last year. U. S, D. A.
good methods of home management.
Recognizing this at condition which
can be improved, workers at the an
nual Western Statea Extension Con
ference held last winter emphasized
the need of giving more attention to
home management.
Without a water system In her
house the rural housewife, they say,
carries an average of twenty tons of
water a year and travels 200,000 steps
in doing it. It requires 20 days' un
ion time to carry the water in and 10
days to carry out the waste water, or
a total of 30 days a year spent in car
rying water. Ten days' work could be
saved, say the extension workers, by
having a drain to carry the water out,
even though a complete water system
were not installed.
A dish drainer eliminates drying
about 3 acres of diBhes a year; ex
periments have shown that the house
wife can save one and one-half hours
a day in doing the dishes. A dish
drainer, wheel tray, and similar con
veniences will save this time and give
the housewife more time for rest,
reading, or other pleasures.
Scientific experiments have proved
that three-fourtha of the steps taken
in preparing three meals a day can
be saved by having supplies and uten
sils grouped conveniently. To walk
a quarter of a mile in baking a pie
ii not uncommon. One Montana wo
man, by wearing the pedometer before
and after her kitchen was remodeled,
found that she saved 1 miles of
walking each day in doing her regu
lar kitchen tasks; by more conven
ient grouping she also saved one and
one-half hours of time daily.
In future extension programs at
tention will be given to two major
problems of home manangement the
use of the housewife's time and en
ergy and the managemen of income
and material resources. "The dom
inant idea in the home-management
program," says the United States De
partment of Agriculture, "is to en
courage farm families to make the
most of what they have; the stimu
lation of interest in the constant im
provement of the farm home and mak
ing possible sufficient leisure for rec
reation, intellectual development, and
out-of-the-home interests."
Harvest Wage Scale.
Farmer delegates from Wasco, Gil
liam, Sherman and Morrow counties
met at Arlington June 8 and adopted
a wage scale for transient labor for
the harvest season of 1926. Several
changes were made from last year's
scale to get it near the actual wage
paid by farmers in the district. It
was felt that to get proper service out
of employment service offices at The
Dalles and Arlington that a scale
should be as near as possible to the
wage actually paid. The following is
the scale adopted:
Combines
Sack Sewers $4.00
Drivers - 4.00
Header Tenders 3.50
Separator Tenders 6.00
Caterpillar Drivers 5.00
Straw Haulers 3.00
Cooks up to ten men 3.00
Water Buck and Roustabout 3.00
Sack Jig 3.50
Hulk Drivers 3.00
Picking up Sacks $1.25 per 100
Stationary
Derrick Drivers $2.00
Pox Drivers with nets 2.50
Lox Drivers without nets 3.00
Loaders - 4.00
Sack Sewers . 4.00
Header Punchers 4.00
Hoe Downs 3.00
Engineers 5.0f!
Separator Tenders 5.00
Cooks up to ten men 3.00
Hay Hands 2.00
VISIT MORO EXPERIMENT ST A
TION SUNDAY, JUNE 20.
Morrow county farmers will visit
the Experiment Station at Moro on
Sunday, June 20. Farmers driving
over should leave in time to arrive at
Moro for dinner and the inspection of
the station will start at 1:00 p. m.
Those wishing to go who have no
available transportation are requested
tc notify the County Agent at once.
Also those expecting to make the trip
who have room in their cars for any
extras are requested to notify him
eo that arrangements can be made
for all who wish to make the trip.
The route suggested for the trip is to
leave Heppner at 7:00 a. m. by way
of Eight Mile, Olex, and McDonald
Ferry,
way.
returning by way of the high-
Wanted Horses or eattit to pas
ture. J. I. Hanna, on T. i. Matlock
ranch. 8tp.
WANTED Bucks to pasture.
Skoubo, Boardman, Ore.
Service and the Small
Account
This bank is a service institution organized to meet finan
cial necessities of its depositors. The amount of its ser
vice to its dpeositors often tiepends on the bank balances
they maintain.
This bank must carefully protect the funds deposited
here by its depositors. Money can be loaned only when
we feel sure that it will be safe. When a depositor main
tains a reasonably large, steady balance, it is an indica
tion to us that he knows how to use money successfully.
It gives us a reason to believe that loans to him will be
safe. That is one reason why depositors who maintain
large balances get better service from their bank. They
are entitled to it.
And even more than that, a large balance provides
the depositor with sufficient funds to take care of emer
gencies and business opportunities that may arise.
"MM
Farmers & Stockgrowers National
Heppner BUlk Oregon
STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TO VISIT BOARDMAN.
Boardman will be host Sunday, June
20, to the Land Settlement Committee
of the Oregon State Chamber of Com
merce and interested railroad officials.
The visitors will arrive at Boardman
in a special car early Sunday morn
ing, and about 7:30 a. m. will be taken
out over the project. At 11:30 a com
munity dinner will be served on the
Porter and Conley ranch.
A simple and effective wy of kill
in or fleshv rooted plants like the dan
delion and many other weeds that mar
lnwns is use of sodium arsonlte. A
sham slender wood stick is dipped
in the poison and thrust down through
the center of the plant. The arsenic
travels through all parts of the root
system and the most resistant plant
will live but a short time.
The little house ants which are so
common In Oregon, and a nuisance in
many homes, are usually exterminated
with tartar emetic, says the entomo
logist of the experiment station. The
tartar emetic is weighed out by the
druggist in three-grain lots, and mixed
with four tablespoonfuls of syrup.
The poison Is mixed with small chips
or bread crumbs which the ants carry
into their nest to feed the young.
June 1 Crop Report.
Absence of beneficial rainfall over
much of the state caused material re
duction in Oregon grain crop pros
pects, during the month of May, says
F. L. Kent, Statistician, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The northwestern part of the state
had more than the normal amount of
May rainfall, which, however, is nor
mally light, being about 2.0 inches at
the Portland Weather Bureau Sta
tion. The Coast counties had suffi
cient rainfnll to interfere with May
planting, and delayed haying to some
extent.
Some frost dnmnge is reported in
During May, 30 predatory animal
hunters turned in 295 coyotes, 28
bobcats, a total of 323 predatory ani
mals. In addition unborn coyotes
v. ere reported destroyed by hunters.
126 badgers, 223 porcupines, and 15
skunks were also killed. Not includ
ing the unborn young there was an
average of 10 predatory animals per
man for the thirty days. Adam Knob
lock of Morrow county turned in 27
coyotes and was second in the list of
thirty hunters.
Three Acres of Dishes-?
Quarter Mile for a Pie.
Drying three acres of dishes a year,
walking a quarter of a mile to bake
a lemon pie, and pumping 15 tons of
water in a yenr aro some of the do
mestic feats performed by the average
rural housewife who does not follow
Central Market
C W. McNAMER, Proprietor
FRESH AND CURED MEATS, FISH
AND POULTRY
Call us when you have anything in our
line to sell.
Phone Main 652
DoTou Remember
the Day?
Fair Store,
store in the
Fair Store
THIS illustration is of the old
Heppner' s one-time leading
days of the "Interior trade." The
probably handled more "interior" business than
any other store in town. The teams shown in
the picture are only an example of the many eight- and
twelve-horse freighters that used to fill up at the Fair Store.
Those were thriving days for Heppner.
More such thriving days are in the offing. With the
completion of the Heppner-Spray road, Heppner will again
be in line to get this trade.
Heppner can do it, if her merchants go after it the way
the Fair Store did. Good goods, fair treatment, cash trans
actions, and
ADVERTISING
Let's bring this "interior" trade back to Heppner