HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1930.
PAGE FIVE
BETTER HANDLING
TURKEYS SHOWN
College Experiment With Flock
Under Confinement Prove
Successful This Tear.
Increasing the weight of a flock
of turkeys from 35 pounds to 2745
pounds in less than six months, with
a mortality of less than 10 per cent,
is the first-year record of the new
experiment In raising turkeys under
confinement being conducted at the
Oregon State college branch experi
ment station at Hermlston.
The test is being conducted in the
heart of an important turkey rais
ing section of the state as a means
of finding the best method of avoid
ing future serious losses from dis
ease and also to discover most econ
omical methods of feeding and man
agement. The station started this year's
test with 250 day-old poults purchas
ed from a commercial hatchery
April 24. Weighed In at that time,
they totaled Just 35H pounds. On
October 9 the 226 remaining birds
weighed 2745 pounds, making an
average of 12.2 pounds per bird.
The turkeys were brooded, raised
to maturity and fattened on 1.12
acres of alfalfa land which was Irri
gated every f three weeks. They
were moved five times to a new
enclosure, and it is planned to keep
turkeys off that land for three
years.
In a little more than 5 months
the birds consumed or destroyed
enough alfalfa to make 1.87 tons
of hay In addition to other feed.
The total feed cost to October 9
was 9.5 cents per pound, with total
cash costs, including original cost
of poults, brooder fuel and 10 per
cent depreciation on equipment, of
8.35 cents, making a total of 17.85
cents per pound of turkey.
Seventy-five per cent of these tur
keys will be marketed November 10
to reach the eastern centers by
Thanksgiving. A circular giving
details on this experiment Is plan
ned for publication this fall.
FARM POINTERS.
Alfalfa leaves and blossoms, up
to 5 per cent of the mash, makes
an excellent substitute for green
feed for chickens when kale is not
available, tests at the Oregon Exper
iment station show.
Oregon sheepmen who have found
it advantageous to start feeding the
ewes a small grain allowance be
fore they go into the feed lot will
find wheat is just as good a feed
as corn, and in most instances Is
approximately 22 cents a bUBhel
cheaper, says the extension service
of Oregon State college.
An ounce of strychnine mixed
with one-eighth ounce of saccharine
and sprinkled over 10 pounds of
some root crop such as carrots, par
snips, or sweet potatoes cut Into
half inch cubes, has proved an ex
cellent mixture for poisoning go
phers In Oregon, reports the exten
sion service. The material is drop
ped along the main tunnel.
Oregon poultrymen who mix their
own mash or scratch grain will
find the use of barley a real money
saver at present price, say poultry
specialists at Oregon tSate college.
Ground barley may be used up to
15 per cent of the mash ration, re
placing about 50 per cent of the yel
low corn normally used. In sec
tions where Hannchen barley is
available it may be used whole as
20 per cent of the scratch grain,
but for other varieties better re
sults are obtained by having It
rolled.
HOMECOMING ATTRACTS.
Advance Interest In the Oregon
State college Homecoming program
Saturday, November 15, is so great
that the Southern Pacific railroad
has arranged to spot a string of
Pullman cars In Corvallls to supple
ment hotel accommodations already
fully engaged in advance. The game
this year Is with the University of
Oregon.
TASTY,
FRESH
Shell
FISH
Eat them here now. Pre
pared to your order.
FOB A
GOOD MEAL
ANY TIME
or Just
A LIGHT LUNCH OB
FOUNTAIN
REFRESHMENTS
ELKHORN
RESTAURANT
IRRIGON
Mr. and Mrs. Bullivan who have
been visiting their daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Warner the past week, returned to
their home in Salem Monday.
Russell McCoy and two of the
grade teachers, Miss Renfro and
Miss Laughbon, motored to Pendle
ton to see the show Saturday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Coryell were Her
mlston visitors Saturday evening.
Mrs. Tom Caldwell made a trip
to Portland to visit her daughter,
Joyce, who is teaching near there.
Frank Brace has been suffering
much pain and inconvenience for
several days because of a badly
mashed thumb.
Mrs. Charles Stewart, who under
went an operation recently in Port
land, returned home Thursday
greatly improved in health but still
very weak.
Mrs. Alfred Houghton was on the
sick list several days with a se
vere cold.
The regular meeting of the
Grange was held Wednesday eve
ning with quite a good attendance.
A nice program was given by the
young people, after which a dell-
clous lunch was served by the ladies
which was enjoyed by all.
The Home Economics club held
its meeting at the home of Mrs.
Frank Brace Thursday afternoon.
Present were Mrs. Houghton, Mrs.
Markham, Mrs. Oliver, Mrs. Fager
strom, Mrs. Haskell and Mrs. Isom.
The afternoon was spent in plan
ning a program to be put on in
November. An excellent lunch was
served by the hostess at the close of
the meeting.
Mrs. W. C. Isom was a Hermistori
visitor Monday.
Shirley Frederickson entertained
a number of the young folks at the
home of Mrs. Tom Caldwell Satur
day evening.
Mrs. Hazel Norcross and children
of Portland are visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Lamoreaux
were seen in town Sunday with a
new car.
Verdle Leath and Kenneth Al-
qutst were guests at the W. C. Isom
home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Jones were
Hermlston visitors Friday.
Mrs. Carl Haddox of Hermiston
visited her relatives over the week
end.
Several children in the commun
ity are convalescing from an attack
of the mumps.
The Irrigon high school boys are
practicing basketball three evenings
a week and should be in Bhape to
play a good game later in the sea
son. Mr. Weir, the eighth grade
teacher, is the coach and is an en
thusiastic leader.
The Home Economics ladies will
serve supper at the grange dance
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to be given October 25. The grange
is planning to give aaeries of dances
every two weeks during the winter
months, also card parties at inter
vals. The past summer has been a
very busy one and old as well as
young need a little recreation for
a change.
ALPINE.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Bennett, Gro
ver Sibley and Fay Hayes motored
up from Portland Saturday to visit
with Mr. Bennett's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. L. Bennett of Alpine, and
with Mrs. Bennett's sister, Mrs. Mc
Daniel of Hardman.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Finley and
son Claud were looking after bus
iness interests in Hermiston Sat
urday. Mrs. G. L. Bennett and Grover
Sibley drove to Heppner Monday to
visit with Mrs. Bennett's daughters,
Helen and Ruth.
W. T. Doherty and W. J. McDaid
motored to Heppner on Sunday and
were accompanied home by Mrs. W.
T. Doherty and small son, William
Ross.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Bennett, Gro
ver Sibley and Fay Hayes, who
came up to visit with friends and
relatives here and at Hardman, re
turned to Portland Tuesday morn
ing. The cast has been chosen for the
play, "Fascinating Fanny Brown,"
which is being prepared by the Al
pine high school to be given at Al
pine on November 14. The cast is:
Percival Gale, who keeps a summer
hotel, Idlewild, Alex Lindsay; Billy
Pearson, the only man at the hotel,
Lawrence Doherty; Henry Dudly, a
college sophomore, Gene Senter;
Mrs. Caldwell, Margaret McDaid;
Audry Caldwell, Dorothy Doherty;
Dorothy Dudly, Mildred Howard;
Florence Howe, Margaret Howard;
Mrs. Moffett, a neighboring cottag
er, Rosella Doherty; Martha, a serv
ant, Reitha Howard. If you want
to laugh, come and see it
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Rauch and
Miss Doris Klinger motored to Lex
ington Saturday evening to attend
the dance.
Mrs. B. P. Doherty, Katherine
Doherty and Rosella Doherty mo
tored to Pendleton on business Wed
nesday evening.
Mr. and Mr3. Dan Lindsay and
Alex motored to Pendleton on bus
iness Wednesday.
Oregon Mutual Fire Company,
rates 25 per cent less, will insure
your buildings and contentsL A
good substantial company whose
earnings stay at home. Represented
by H. M. Bull in this territory.
Phone 92, Lexington. 29-32.
For Sale Auto knitting machine,
completely equipped and in fine con
dition; -price reasonable. Phone
13F31, City. 28tf.
PORTLAND
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W. C. T. U. NOTES
MARY A. NOTSON, Reporter.
Clarence Darrow, In an interview
in Portland last week, stated that
one fourth of the inmates of the
federal prisons are violators of the
liquor laws. This is very nearly cor
rect, and it shows that Uncle Sam
is doing some enforcing of prohi
bition. But, Mr. Darrow went on
to say that one-half of the inmates
of the state prisons are there for
violating the liquor laws. In this
last statement, he shows himself
woefully ignorant, or he is wilfully
falsifying. According to the official
figures given in the Congressional
Record, on January 1, 1930, there
were 116,670 prisoners in the state
prisons, of which 4,037, three and
one-half per cent, were violators of
the prohibition laws. There were
actually seven states without a sin
gle liquor law violator in their pris
ons. Mr. Darrow decries the law
against the selling of "dope." He
makes fun of the Mann act, which
protects women against the white
slave trade.
The Toronto Globe is authority
for the statement that Ontario is
with no
kind of debt to be
sumed."
You know how these things work
"The people know by bitter experience that no power to create new
debt and levy new taxes has ever been left unexercised. No opportun
ity to enlarge the public payroll by political organization, or no chance
to raise and expend public money, has ever been neglected."
This is a Constitutional Amendment
No Use Crying Later . . . Protect Yourselves NOW !
VOTE 325 X m
(Paid Adv. Utility Taxpayers Committee, II. L. Walther, Manager, 206 Sixth Street, Portland, Ore.)
spending 140,000.000 per year for
gasoline and $60,000,000 for liquor.
In the years 1925 and 1926, the two
years preceding the enactment of
the Ferguson liquor law, the num
ber killed in motor crashes was 298
for each year. The two years fol
lowing the enactment of the law
the number of deaths in motor
crashes for 1927, 422, for 1928. 477.
The number of cars increased a lit
tle less than 28 per cent, while the
number killed increased more than
33 per cent The automobile acci
dent insurance rates were increas
ed about 50 per cent The Ferguson
law is the "governmental control"
act
Governor Roosevelt of New York
has declared in favor of state con
trol of the liquor business, but he
hastens to say that this should be
under "some definite assurance that
by no possibility, at no time, or in
no place can the old saloon come
back." That looks like a consider
able part of prohibition still left
with the federal government He
recognizes that the old saloon was
an evil and that it should not come
back, but he does not give the eigh
teenth amendment any credit for
abolishing the saloon. However, the
governor is either fooling himself
Vote Against Power Districts
Constitutional Amendment
"Oregon cannot afford a new class of uncontrolled tax-spending politi
cal bodies, operating tax-exempt property in a hazardous business en
terprise, at the risk of the already burdened tax-payers of the state."
(Statement of 191 Oregon citizens in official Voters' Pamphlet)
Six Jokers in the Amendment
District can be pieced together
like a crazy quilt, out of patches
of "territory contiguous or other
wise, in one or more counties."
Districts can "levy taxes upon the
taxable property of such districts"
with no limit on the amount of
taxes that may be levied.
Districts can "issue, sell and as
sume evidences of indebtedness,"
limit on the amount
or
'issued" or "as-
or thinks he can fool the public.
When the federal government un
dertakes such a scheme as that it
will certainly make a mess of it,
and no-one knows it better than
does Governor Roosevelt. He is
simply throwing a sop to the wets
whose votes he is seeking.
WITH FARMERS
ABOUT THE STATE
Canyon City Victory oats out
yielded all other varieties generally
in the Prairie City region of Grant
county, according to checks made
by the county agent
La Grande Seven cars of lambs
assembled and shipped by the Un
ion county lamb pool last month
brought the season's total for the
county up to 28 cars. Average prices
per hundred on home weights in
creased from $4.91 on the Septem
ber 2 shipment to $4.97 on Septem
ber 30.
Hillsboro Strawberry root bor
ers are doing more damage in
Washington county this year than
any other insect, says W. F. Cyrus,
county agent Growers having old
am
ffromni Dpeimig soDdl
for Taxes.
Districts can take over and "as
sume" defaulted bonds of insol
vent irrigation districts, and load
these debts on to other property.
tZ Districts can and must make up
all losses in higher taxes, in high
er water and electric rates, or
both, without check or limitation.
t Five directors can exercise all
v these autocratic powers, with all
bars against extravagance and
oppressive burdens removed.
patches that are badly Infested are
plowing them up and putting the
land in other crops.
McMinnville Condemnation work
has been started by County Agent
S. T. White, acting as county fruit
inspector, on a large acreage of
deserted promotion orchards on the
hills back of Sheridan. These tracts
under absentee ownership, have for
years been a menace to many well
conducted orchards in that region.
Heppner Sheepmen in Morrow
county are planning on using wheat
chaff, wheat and cottonseed cake
as rations for their ewe bands this
year, reports County Agent Charles
W. Smith, replacing a considerable
amount of the higher priced corn.
Hallowe'en program and party at
Eight Mile Center schoolhouse Nov.
1, beginning at 7:30 p. m. Plenty
of fun, plenty to eat Everyone
cordially invited.
For Sate 402 acres summer range
known as South Jones prairie. Mrs.
Henry Jones, 399 E. 16th, St N.,
Portland, Ore. 27tf.
For Sale 250 head aged fine wool
ewes, and 250 cross bred yearling
ewes. Immediate delivery. W. B.
Barratt & Son. tf.
ED CHINN, ProR.