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Entered as second class matter,
December 1906 at the postoffice at
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10 cents per line for first Insertion. much red und alsike clover seed an- .
Minimum charge 25 cents. Subse­ nually as may bo grown on 4$,00«
acres. If grown in Oregon this would
quent insertions 5 cents per line.
annually bring in 1 1-2 to 2 million '
dollars for seed and it would mean
PROTECTING GAME BIRDS
increased yields of other crops fol­
Passage by the United States sen­ lowing the clover. How to get stands
ate of the bill requiring a federal of clover and how to fertilize and
license for every person hunting on handle the clover successfully for
a game preserve set aside by the seed will be fully discussed at the
fdral government brings to atten­ farmers’ short course beginning Jan­
tion the success of the agreement uary 2 at Corvallis. The demand for
by which the United State« and Can clover seed from Oregon is very
nda have sought to protect the great strong because of Its high color and
resources of wild game with which this together with lowering trans­
the entire American hemisphere portation churges by rail,
low
abounds. Our migatory wild bird law freight rates to the Atlantic sea­
was passed only ten years ago; the board by boat, and the new tariff on
treaty with Great Britain by which seed, promises much in the future
Canada and the United States were clover seed business.
mutually committed to an enlight
ened policy conservation was com
The Oregon Experiment ^station
pleted in 1916. Since then there
hag been an undoubted increase in has been leading in vetch experiment­
game-bird life in both countries, al work in the United States for a
though, curiously enough, there number of years. A number of new
have been increased bags by hunters. vetches have proved very successful
The law seems to have operated for and quite well adapted to our con­
ditions. The problems of growing
the benefit of everyone concerned.
The genuis of the original law Hungarian vetch, purple vetch, Tan-
was that it sought to give the wild sler peas, and the possibility of
birds an opportunity to breed and growing hairy vetch for seed will be
feed In the vasf regions which at a part of the seed production proj
present have no other economic use. gram at the farmers’ winter short
Both tho uncharted marshes of the course, January 2 at the O. A. C.
nenm-troplcs and the wide stretches Quite a large business may be de­
of the unexplored north furnish veloped for Oregon by the proper
pasture and havens which may thus, development of the seed industry in
though indirectly, bo made to yield connection with these crops.
food for human beings. It was not
in the spirit of sentimentalism that
ADDING machine rolls at the Herald
the movement was first conceived,
office.
but In the idea that regulator sports­
manship would serve better than an­
archy to achieve.the hunters’ end.
The estimate of the game warden of
Minnesota that the duck season last
year furnished $2,000,000 worth of
food is a measure of the substantial
and practical advantage that already
By JONATHAN BRACE
liag secured.
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X.—VIRGINIA
It is proposed that the federal
UU EAKLY
government shall acquire from time
history of
to time, with the proceeds of hunt­
Virginia re­
ing license, game reservations in all
volves about
tbe name of
the statos which are willing to »o-
Capt. J o h n
operate, these reserves to furnish a
Smith. It was
perpetual guarantee against the ex­
his 1 n d o m-
tinction of valuable species which
itable spirit which enabled the
was threatened only a few years
settlement at Jumeetown to sur­
ago. It It as yet too early to begin
vive the privations and difficul­
to fear that the birds will become
ties thut encompassed It during
an ecanorric pest. They are hardly
those first years. There In 1007
restored to the status they held be­
was made the first permanent
fore the ’vork of extermination be­
English colony in America. The
charter given by King James 1
gan. To a limit very far beyond that
to wliut wus known as the Lou­
which has been reached they are an
don company, under whose aus­
actual benefit, und if the balance
pices JumestowQ and the later
of nature shall be disturbed this can
Virginia settlements were found­
be regulated by lengthening the open
ed, designated that this colony
season as occasion justifies. The im­
should extend 200 miles north
portant achievement of the migra­
and 200 miles south of Old
tory bird treaty is that it checked
Point Comfort and stretch west­
ruthlesg hunting before it was ever­
ward to the sea. Under the reign
of Chnrles II It was considered
lastingly too late.Oregonlan
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such an Important colony that It
was culled the fourth dominion
FARMERS’ OPPORTUNITY
of his empire, that Is, England,
The time Is certainly at hand when
Scotland, Ireland nnd Virginia.
this nation will ent ns much food us
From this Virginia was often
it produces. Any further increase
culled the Old Dominion. The
nume Virginia Itself means the
in demand which will surily come
virgin land nnd was so called
with enlarging Industries and ex­
ufter Queen Elisabeth, the ‘‘Vir­
panding city populations which will
gin Queen.” The surly govern­
give our farmers a better market for
ment of Virginia is of great in­
their products. It is very unlikely
terest. At first communism was
that thp numbers of people engaged
tried, under which system tho
In farming will increase as rapidly
land nnd all property was owned
as will the national population. We
In (ommon and all profits were
know that tho enlargement of our
divided equally. This proved a
disastrous failure. In 1010 the
good farming area has Ils limitation.
first real representative govern­
The possibilities of Inmports of food­
ment lu the colonies wus estab­
stuffs are fully a« limited.
lished, culled the house of bur­
No amount of Increase of demand
gesses, which continued In force
will make every farmer prosperous,
under varying fortunes until Vir­
nor will It make good crops aud high
ginia Joined the Union and be­
prices every year. There will al­
came the tenth state In 1788.
ways bo ups and downs and there
Much might be written of the
will always be some who fail to suc­
churnctor of the early Vlrglnlnn
settlers nnd their great Influence
ceed. Year in nnd year out, how­
on American life. From Virginia
ever. the progressive farmers should
has sprung two other states,
be glad in the future tlia they did
Kentucky and West Virginia.
bib not give up the land. Their
Even so, the state’s present area
business chnncs should b fully as
Is 42,027 square miles. Politi­
good as t*"e city roan's. One thing,
cally the Old Dominion state Is
however, Arorlmn r rlcultur must
entitled to twelve presidential
larn: If this notion la going to tat
electors. This Is about the aver­
more food than it produces, the. first
age of the southern states,
( © by M c C l u r e Nuwupapur S y a d lc a tu .>
Job of our farmers is to study the
hom e m arket. The reel demand for
T h e S to ry of :
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our food will not be la foreign trade.
Home cansumpalon will be the de­
mand to w hich'the farm will cater
and those who study the home dem­
and most carefully will reap the best
profits. — Prof. Robert McFall in
Farm Life.
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