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T he H ermiston H erald VOL. IX HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1915 X WILL COMMENCE NEXT WEEK GENERAL GREENE HONORED IN BRONZE. While the attendance was not large, owing to the season of the year, the Commercial club meeting Monday was a good one and considerable work was accomplished. A good proportion of the members present was from the country, showing the interest the farmers ore taking in the work of the club. There was a general discussion of road matters and several places wh the araxeled roadsswere nt pair. The attention of the road supervisor will be ailed to these and’ it is believed no trouble will be had in keeping the surface smooth. The question of prevailing on the county Court to locate a rock crusher, screens and steam roller in the west end was discussed. As soon as the work starts on the main road from Umatilla towards Pendleton this will be necessary, but members thought if an outfit could be placed in the west end before that time much good work would be done on other roads. Espec ially is this true in the Hermiston country where the farmers and busi ness men have given considerable aid to road work and intend to do more. The matter of a farmers institute for this fall was taken up and while noth ing definite was done all believed a start should be made in the near future. The dates when lecturers can be had from O. A. C. will be secured as early as possible that farmers and others interested may arrange their work to attend. • " " The dairy show committee had noth ing to report more than that work of a general nature was being attended to. By the latter part of the month a definite date will have been fixed and plans for the 1915 show well under NEW BULLETIN ON BREEDING CHICKENS A new bulletin, “Breeding of Chick- ens,” has been added to the reading course numbers as issued by the poul try department of O. A. C., written by Professor James Dryden, head of the department. In this number of the series the methods by which the Oregon Agricultural college poultry department has been able to obtain auch satisfactory results in developing egg-laying qualities of chickens is. ex I plained as fully as is consistent with : 1 be character of the publication. The information is conveyed in a pleasing readable style, well adapteri to generai reading work and at the same time | entirely plain in directions for those wbo desire to make a practical ap plication of its principles. The follow- | ing paragraph will give an indication of the character of the contents and the style in which the bulletin is written: “This reading course will have to do with fowls. If you choose to call them chickens, no harm will be done. Fowls i are chickens if you don't spesi it with a “n.” One hen doesn’t amount to a great deal, but all the hens in the United States produce so many eggs and so much poultry each year that the money value of the wheat croplast I COUNTY COURT APPORTIONS MONEY FOR FAIR PREMIUMS has At a meeting of the fruit growers packing the Hermiston growers want association Saturday evening final to learn all possible. In this way a reputation for our fruit will be estab arrangements were completed for the lished which will be of great benefit handling of the big 1915 Elberta peach in future years. crop. Next week and the first ship- While there is nothing compulsory in connection therewith, the associa- menis will be under way. The association plans on securing anlion voted that so far as possible all outside man who thoroughly under- | packing will be done at one central stands packing to be here and super- | point. Those growers who live several vise that part of the work. This is miles away will likely pack in the the first year the Hermiston country orchard. All within close distances has had fruit to ship in any great will haul the fruit to the Umatilla quantities and the growers want to es Storage & Commission Co. warehouse tablish themselves right from the where the packing and shipping will start as putting out nothing but first be done. Even with an expert super grade. As practically no one in der vising it was thought a more uuiform stands scientific packing this was pack could thus be secured. It will looked upon as the only business pro also save hauling boxes and papers to position. Another year and an outside the orchard and then back. Work is now under way assembling the boxes man will not be needed. A man from the fruit distributors, and several thousand are now ready. Crawford peaches are now ripe and with which the local organization is affiliated, will also be here to give in local shipments are being made daily. structions in picking. When ship These are also being handled almost ments go in car lots to the far eastern entirely through the commission com states, picking at just the right lime pany, as it has everything in shape for means everything and in this as in the the work. COMMERCIAL CLUB HAS GOOD MEETING NO. 46 The county court Thursday set aside Young, by virtue of his office, funds for district fairs as recommended charge of ihe school exhibits. He has by the county fair board. The Her divided the county into two divisions miston Dairy ai d Hog show was given | and will use 8250 in each. One section OKAA IP" eri . • .. . $500, the Vincent fair -r $500 __ and 3 .g the * ,33 will exhibit at the Vincent fair and industrial school fairs of the entire the other at the Hermiston show. county $500. While out of their juris Just where the division will be made diction, the court asked the members has not been announced but will be of the fair board to look after the known soon, together with a full list fairs in a general way. to which they of premiums. All west end children, agreed however, are certain that their ex- County School Superintendent bibits will be entered at Hermiston. FARM METHODS MADE MATTER OF RECORD Farmerscan contribute much to the development of improved agriculture by making records of their most suc cessful farm operations. It is ai together likely that if all farm prac- tices in Oregon were as good as the munga,. best that has besideye loped ree of ver. year was less than the value of the products of the hens These products —eggs and poultry—were estimated by This statue to General Nathanael Greene of Revolutionary fa: government officials as worth over cently unveiled at Gullford Court House Battle Grounds, N. C. $(>00,000,000 in 1908. Think of that! Then ihink of this: the poultry pro ducts of Oregon last year were worth enough to pay all the appropriations made by the last legislature for two SPECIAL CORRERPONDENCE years. And vet large quantities of Guests at the Bei se home are Mr. ezgs and poultry are imported into sister and bis neice of Chi the state. Double the quantity could One hundied men are now at are en route to the ex- grading railroad from Grants be produced in this state without over cago. „Th position al have stopped here for a Hays. Hill. stocking the markets.” - -visit of eev days. The" $1,250,000 S. P. bridge acron Mrs. Howard Laughlin, of Caos Bay is to be done by Oct. 1st. by some agricul- . -, se: hid re- The work Mr: and LAN CUW TESTING A good ma y dairymen ot Oregon who are operating in parts of the stale not yet developed in this industry are planning to carry on cow testing in dividually with the aid of the public schools. This is in line with the pol- icy advocated by Professor E. B. Fitts, extension dairyman of the agricultural college, who has just returned from a successful tour through dairy districts of this I. nd. "My suggestion to these dairymen,” says Professor Fills, “was that thev should join cow-testing associations as soon as the number of cows sufficient for organization are secured in their locality, but in the meantime not to wait for organizing before beginning the work < f testing. The men were | shown how they could get a pair of | scales and suitable record blanks and weigh the milk of each cow at each milking and record the result. In this way a comparatively exact record of production will be made. • “As to testing for percentage of but ter fat, it is suggested that a Babcock tester be secured by the local school and that testing be done by students under the direction of the teachers or other qualified persons. In this way the butter fat content of the milk can be secured at a small cost and when this is compared with production rec- ords, each dairyman will know just what his cows are doing. They were also advised in this connection that unless the cow gives at least 200 pounds of butterfat per year she should be eliminated from the herd and her place filled by a more profitable animal.” with ing this Walter Dav ited with Dwight and Amos Sell turday night. Mr. and Miss rlM are among the few people who are enjoying straw- berries now. They have some fine specimens of the everbearing variety on their ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Merril Potter are en tertaining Mrs. Potter's mother, two sisters and bro her-in law of Van couver, Wash., this week. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Palmer visited at the F. E Ranney home Sunday afternoon. A. F. Drolshagen was a guest at Beacon Hill ranch Sunday evening. E. A. Hobbs in a letter to his family tells them that he witnessed the sink ing of the Eastland. The statement made in the North East news two weeks ago concerning Mrs. Hume Park’s departure to her former home in Kentucky was an error. Mrs. Park has recently been critically ill but is now convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Park will go to Ken- tucky later when the reclamation work closes. Otto Leising, of Milwaukee, is mak ing an extended visit with his brothers. Mr. Leising is returning from the Panama exposition. Mrs. W. S. Parks and children, Dorotha and Busier, were in Pendle ton Tuesday. J. T. Embry and Edward Hobbs spent Sunday in Irrigon at the Park home. COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES ANNUAL CORN SHOW AGAIN THIS YEAR Mrs. John Hibler and children are SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE The O. W. R. & N. Co. has an- nounced its third annual corn show in Walla Walla late In November or ' early in December. Rules of the coo- 1 test and other information will be sent out in plenty of time. The acreage planted to corn in the O. W. R. A N. territory is two or three times what it was last year and plans are for a pro- , portionately bigg.r and better com up from Irrigon to spend a couple of weeks on the ranch. Mrs. Lay, of Tacoma, is visiting at the home of her son, L. D Lay. Mr. and Mrs. Hannan and Daughter are visiting in San Francisco and other points in California. Mr. Spencer made a business trip to . . Pendleton Wednesday. Mrs. Sellers returned Sunday from a show. a 1 bisit with relatives in Portland and Momouth. She was accompanied The Hermiston country farmers have, home by Mrs, Lee Irvin and children contributed their share to the increas, ed acreage and everywhere the corp 19 looking splendid. A number have al a time. Mrs Boro, Mrs. Eriksen and Norma ready signified their intention of ex hibiting and if they do there® no spent Thursday at the Phipps' home. reason wby a good share of the prem- Miss Jeanette McKeen, of Boston, iums should not be brought we have the corn. home as left Thursday after visiting relatives He e for a fe w days. i».of the Fifth Annual mole Eiver Grape carnival bava chred for September 13, 14 and IS. le in charge say the carnival this Pass to Briggs spent t Mond etin WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL- REVIEW OF ST NORTH-EAST NEWS Mr. and Miss Quiw? Mrs. E. A. Hobbs horie a rest and change of diet. Col lars should be examined frequently to see that they conform to changes in the size of the neck as fat changes to muscles and the hames should be kept perfectly adjusted to the collar. The mane should be kept from under the collar and the shoulders should be washed at meal times, preferably with a little salt in’the water. Oats is the standard grain where available, and mixed clover and timothy is one of the best hays. A little hay may be given ak noon, all the animals will eat up cleanly over night, and none in the morning. Water" should be given three limes a day before feeding, and it should be clean ‘ enourhyfor the “will be larger and bet'er in every department than I ver before. The ""Work has begun on the Vanrey and Siletz railroad from Airlie to Independ- accurate and detailed record of each ence. step with no other matter mixed in Plans are on foot to establish a with them. A glance will show whether the results were good, and paper mill at Albany. if they were it is easy to repeat them. Spinach raising has become a big If not, they may be thrown away.” industry near Gervais this year. Of course this is more elaborate rec Construction on the first part of ord making than is adapted to the $100,000 improvements at Winino hot farmer's use, but an account of the mineral spring 35 miles from Eugene main steps such as plowing, fertiliz has been started. ing, preparing seed bed, culture, har Hubbard voted bonds for $15,000 vesting and marketing or storing and using, would not require much work high school. and would in many cases afford a verit It Is announced that capital has I been secured to finish cement plant at able mine of valuable information. man ag èiment is we. nor trouble to a i it a success in every respect. We "it is of Kenne- wick origin they, ■ that to make it i he success it dese I they must have the assistance of g air friends. To this end the Kenn Nek Commercial club has sent, throu 1 the Hermiston Commercial club, an urgent invitation for the Hermiston country to take part by sending an exhibit and also want to see as many Hermiston peo ple as possible in attendance. As yet the local club bas taken no action, but it would not be at all difhi- cult to secure a splendid exhibit of grapes for the Kennewick carnival and it is likely this will be done. Reports from ail growers say grapes never looked better than this year. Gold Hill. Many bop pickers are in demand in Willamette Valley for next month. The Columbia river salmon run this year is the best on record. The auto road will soon be com There has been a gradual adjustment pleted around Cape Perpetua. of rates and service on the Columbia Oregon City has voted $20,000 bond since the opening of the Celilo canal. issue for addition tu high school. While all is not yet in as perfect run England is purchasing all the low ning order as the boat company de Wednesday morning early County grade canned salmon to be found on sires, ihe improvement has been Commissioner Waterman, who bad Pacific coast with which to feed its marked. A greater offering of freight army. for both up and down trips of the boat gone to Pendleton to attend the August The first steel for Columbia river is apparent. The better schedule main meeting of the court, was struck by interstate bridge has arrived at Van tained is also resulting in a larger the Pendleton hotel auto bus and ser iously injured. He started to cross the couver, Wash. passenger travel. Powers, Coos county, will have an Up to this week a five day schedule street and was caught with two $18,000 school. was maintained. This was a good ser machines coming toward him from opposite directions. He succeeded in The Oregon Power Co. at Albany vice but a little difficult to keep in dodging one, but the other struck him. touch with. Now, however, this has has in prospect 156 horsepower of new He was knocked to the pavement and business. Nels Darling the Chautau been further increased and a boat will the heavy car passed over him. leave Umatilla on the down river trip qua speaker referred to the progress- Mr. Waterman’s right leg was iyeness of the Oregon Power Co. which each Monday and Thursday at 10:30 be said was one of the properties of H. a. m. This schedule will permit con broken about four inches above the nection by going to Umatilla on the ankle and the ankle itself dislocated M. Byllesby & Co. and badly twisted. He was hurried $350,000 worth of construction added morning local. to the hospital where his injuries to Eugene past few months. were attended to and last reports were Public bath house about ready at that he was resting easy. Mr. Water Grants Pass. man was unable to attend to any of Eugene Brick Co. expects to ship the court business and will probably fire clay products to ail points in not be recovered sufficiently to come Northwest. home for at least a week yet. The Umatilla county branch of the Twohy Bros, have been a w arded con- tract for 30 mile extension of Oregon Oregon State Horsebreeders’ associa & Eastern railroad from Riverton to tion will hold its first annual horse and mule show at Pendleton on October 9. Crane Gap, Harney Co. The new line As no fees will be charged for entries is being financied by O. W. R. & N. of horses or mules and the exhibitors Albany is agitating for natatorium. will be allowed free feed for their The Oregon Power Co. has ordered stock and free admission for themselves To have the eggs fresh market only a carload of iron grates and feed boles and grooms, it is expected that there eggs that, are gathered from regular from Eugene Iron Works. will be a large number of animals nests. Usable eggs now may not be 700 men are rushing work on the shown Members of the O. A. C. live ! usable by the time they reach the city Willamette Pacific railroad to Cocs stock division will be the judges. market, and all eggs of this sort should Bay. be kept at home and used at once. Do James J. Hill is being asked by the not hurt the sale of your good eggs by Portland Chamber of Commerce to including the eggs gathered from stol- Kiamath Falls. ' en nests; extra small or extra large J. W. Moffatt has been awarded con eggs. The latter are likely to get tract for $15,000 waler works at West broken and soil the good eggs in the Linn. Horses at work on the farm should case. Gather eggs daily and as soon as The Oregon Electric will enlarge be given the best of care and the work possible after they are laid; store in a its freight sheds at Eugene and build a should not be too severe or continued , clean, dry, coo) place free from bad for loo long time without giving the odors until ready for market, • large warehouse at Harrisburg. BOAT SERVICE IS GREATLY IMPROVED WATERMAN HURT BY HOTEL AUTO HORSE AND MULE SHOW AT PENDLETON MARKET ONLY THE KNOWN GOOD EGGS PROPER CARE OF THE WORK HORSE
