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VOL. XVII
FARM BUREAU WILL
MEET HERE TUESDAY
A JOINT LUNCHEON WITH COM
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HERMISTON. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1923
MOTHER OF J. D. WATSON
DIES IN CALILFORNIA
Death Occurred at Los Angeles Feb.
10 Watson Family Former
Residents o i th is City
CONGRESS PASSES
RAPIOS SURVEY BILL
MAY 5 DATE SET FOR ANNUAL
FIELD AND TRACK EVENTS
Rules and Regulations of the Oregon
H igh School A thletic Associa
tion Applies to Contests
RECLAMATION MEN
TO VISITHERMISTON
$50,000 APPROPRIATION APPROV
H. J. STILLINGS GETS
HIGH GRADE STOCK
Gilt From Entermille Sale at Baker
From Prize W inning
Stock
No. 24
INFORMATION FOR
POULTRY RAISERS
With the date for the annual field CONFERENCE FAT T ETI to DISCUSS
H. J. Stillings, Tuesday received BABY CHICK TIME IS HERE NOW;
and track contests of Umatilla coun
DISPOSITION McKAY WATERS
a bred Poland China gilt, purch
USE HENS AS BREEDERS
ty schools set for May 5, and the date
ased at the Fred D. Entermille sale
for the sectional contests designated
held at Baker last week where some
Cost of Production and M arketing to
$100,000 For Survey of the Columbia as on or before the third Saturday in Herm iston Commercial Club to Honor high grade stuff was auctioned off. Problems of Hatching. Brooding,
April, grade and high schools are al
be Discussed by 0 . A. C. E x
The sow Is a yearling and tips the
Basin Project Also Passes; Both
Officials W ith Banquet at Her.
Breeding Given by County
ready grooming their athletes for the
scales t l an even 500 pounds, and lg
perts at Meeting
events.
Await Signature of President
miston Hotel Friday N ight
one of a litter of 14. One grandsire of
Agent in Letter
The schools have beene divided in
the sow was sold for $20,000 and
to five sections. Pendleton and vic
another for $15,000 and this line of
The Hermiston Farm Bureau will
Tuesday afternoon word waB re inity comprising the first; Milton-
F. E. Weymouth, cheif engineer U. stock has been consistent winners of
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Poultry farmers of Umatilla coun
ceived to the effect that the United Freewater and vicinity the second: S. Reclamation Service, Denver. Col prizes at shows throughout the mid ty are given aid through a letter
States Senate had approved the bill Weston, Athena, Adams, Helix and orado; R. F. Walter, assistant chief dle west.
on Tuesday, February 27.-An all day
sent out to owners of commercial
providing $50,000 for survey of the vicinity the third; Echo. Stanfield, engineer, Denver, Colorado; H. L.
program with attractive features has
Mr. Stillings considers that this (locks by Fred Benton, county agent.
Umatilla Rapids Project along with Hermiston, Umatilla and vicinity the Halgate, district counsel, U. S. Recla ig the best sow he has ever had in The letter In question Is a quotation
prepared. The general public
$100,000 for survey of the Columbia fourth and Pilot Rock and vicinity mation service, Portland, Oregon and 'his herd and will be a big addition from H. E. Cosby, extension poultry
and the members of the Oregon Co
Basin Project.
the fifth. Each section is controlled H. D. Newell, project manager, Klam to his already high grade Poland specialist at O. A. C. who is recog
operative Hay Growers in particular
Hence the authorization measure Is by a director.
ath project, Klamath Falls, Oregon China herd. Mr. Stillings does an ex nized as a specialist iu the care and
have been Invited to attend. The
through both houses of Congress and
program will open at 10 o'clock with
Rulea and regulations of the Ore and formerly manager of the Uma tensive business in supplying high management of poultry flocks.
awaits the President’s signature. The gon High School Athletic association tilla project will visit Hermiston Fri grade stock throughout the state.
a talk on the cost of production by
The letter Is as follows:
money ig not yet actually appropriat will apply to all high school contests day.
, V. Gunn, farm management in
“Umatilla county poultry demon
^tigator rrdm O. A. C. Mr. Gunn FEDERATED COMMERCIAL CULBS ed for the investigation and may not Each district ig limited to two con
The conference Is called to diBcuss POULTRY RAISING PAYS
stration farms have been making a
be
secured
until
the
next
Congress
has recently conducted some investi AND FARM BUREAU TO MEET
testants for each event in the section with Interested parties the disposi
WELL FOR G. R. ROBINSON very favorable record In comparison
meets. However the expense is au al contests. Each will be required to tion of the McKay Storage waters.
gations in Malheur county tor the
with
the other
demonstrations
thorized
and
will
go
through
in
due
complete a training season of at It is expected the Chief Engineer will Two Hundred Per Cent P rofit Made 'through the state finishing for two
purpose of determining what differ
ent farming operations cost, what M eeting to be Held in Pendleton Fri time. There is a possibility it may be least three weeks. In the grades con announce the policy of the service,
successive months among the 20 high
Off 100 W hite Leghorn
voted by the present Congress before testants are limited to three event» determine the acreage to be benefited
day, March 2; W. D. B. Dodson
it costs to grow certain crops and
est producing flocks. Mr. Cosby. Ex
Pullets
It
adjourns
on
March
4.
and in the high school division, to and if satisfactory arrangements can
what kind of farm in Malheur coun
of Portland Chamber to Speak
tension Poultry Specialist, has the
Local supporters of the Umatilla five events.
be made with the interested parties,
ty Irrigated sections are paying the
G. R. Robinson, is principal of the following timely suggestions
to
Rapid
Project
are
jubilant
over
the
best. Mr. Gunn has these figures nnd
In the grade division, the entrants provide a general working prpgram Columbia school, likewise he is a make:
The annual meeting of the Umatil success attained.
will be able to show exactly what it
will be divided into the following looking forward toward the securing successful poultry raiser. At the Co
“Baby chick time ig here now-—
la County Farm Bureau and the joint
The Rapids Project has gone
cost to raise an acre of alfalfa, an
classes: 75 pounds and under; 95 of the right-of-way and the beginning lumbia Farm Bureau meeting last not six months hence. Success or
acre of potatoes, an acre of corn and meeting with the Federated Commer, through Congress on equal terms and pounds and under; 115 and under, of the construction of the McKay Saturday evening Mr. Robinson ad
failure next fall and winter Is now In
other products. He has also done some clal clubs will be held In Pendleton proportionately receives more money and anything above 115. Their con dam sometime during the coming dressed the meeting on the care and the making. Icubators and brooders
for
a
survey
than
does
the
Columbia
extensive work in the Willamette Friday, March 2. Thig affair was or-
feeding of fowls. He had figures to should be set up, examined, cleaned
tests will consist of dashes; baseball summer.
valley figuring out the cost of pro Ignally scheduled for February 16 Basin enterprise.
throws; running high jump; running
The Hermiston Commercial club show of his expense and these will and regulated. Test the old ther
ducing butter fat under different but owing to weather conditions and
broad Jump; shot put; folk dancing will tender a banquet to the visiting be of interest to the poultry raiser of mometers with a clinical thermome.
conditions. These cost figures are of the fact that Mr. Dodson could not HERMISTON AND COLUMBIA
and tennis.
officials next Friday evening at the the project. The expense of feeding a ter because thermometers must regis
vital importance to Hermiston farm leave Salem made it advisable to post
BOYS ORGANIZE PIG CLUB
The high school events will be Hermiston hotel beginning at 7:30, flock of 100 is six-tenths of a cent ter correctly If the incubator is ex
ers who are attempting to get estab pone the affair. Dodson will speak
The Chief Engineer and his party per day per bird and his sales of pected to perform accurately. Op
dashes; low hurdles; half mile run;
lished on a good firm basis.
At a meeting last Saturday after mile run; javelin throw; shot put; will leave for Portland Friday night. eggs average $1.75 per day.
at the afternoon session of the coun
erate the incubator according to in
He feeds 5 pounds of wheat In the structions and experience, not upon
• H. K. Dean, superintendent of the ty Farm Bureau meeting and will noon, a Pig Growers club was organ discuss throw; high jump; running
ized.
The
members
of
the
club
Include
morning and 10 pounds of whole the advice of some one using an en
F- périment Station, will follow Mr. present the State Development Plan
broad jump; pole vault; half mile HERMISTON HIGH WINS
corn for the night feed. The mash tirely dlfferet environment.
Gunn's discussion with an analysis at the big Farm Bureau-Federated Leon Norquist, Gilbert Whitsett, 'relay race.
DOUBLE
VICTORY
IN
DEBATE
used is hig own mixture, which is
of the present cropping system on Commercial club banquet which will Lowell Stockard, Walter Norquist,
The board of control for the meet
"The brooders should have free
Le Roy Guisinber, Tilford Stillings.
the project. He will quote from fig be held that evening.
Is Hermiston proud of her local before the fowls at all times in a range longe before as well as during
consists of Sanford Sigrist, Pilot
Tom
Lenhart,
Alton
Hooker,
Bill
and
hopper,
and
is
composed
of
the
fol
ures from the 1922 project census
The Oregon Development Plan is
Rock; James Harrah, Umapine; and debaters? You just bet we are! And
the breeding season. Breeding hens
which will show the general tend the outgrowth of an investigation Jimmy Waugaman, Art Neifort, Aline Austin Landreth, Pendleton.— East we claim to have sufficient reasons lowing: Ground corn, 20 pounds; that have been confined to the lay
ency on the project and what type carried on by the state development Hooker, Carl Haddox and Dicky Up Oregonian.
for our pride. Didn’t a team com flour middlings, 20 pounds; mill run, ing pens, artificially lighted, fed
of farms seem to have made the most committee financed by the Portland ham.
posed of Wallace Reed and Lawrence 35 pounds; meat meal, 15 pounds; moist mashes and forced for eggs is
money.
The members of this year’s organ UMATILLA COUNTY FLOCK
Chamber. Representatives were sent
Heinl representing the local high bone, 15 pounds. Oystershell, grit not the place where the average buy
A Joint luncheon with the Com to other states to secure ideas for ization was also members of the club
school journey to Heppner last Fri and charcoal are fed from a hopper. er really desires to purchase his day
OWNERS ARE HONORED
Mr. Robinson’s birds are of May
mercial club has been arranged for Oregon's development and see where last year. According to plans an
day, winning a 2-1 decision over the
old chicks. Tho fact that some get
hatch and at present are laying from
noon. Every man will pay for his own by states like California were forg nounced by the members nine of them
Heppner debaters?
fair results by tills method during
Two
owners
of
poultry
flocks
In
70
to
80
per
cent.
He
figures
that
plate but the opportunity will be af ing ahead while Oregon was stand will compete in the Pacific Interna
one season lg no reason for assuming
The
local
orators
were
not
satis
forded for acquainting the business ing still. The conclusion was that tional pig feedig contest next fall Umatilla county have been honored fied with this victory so a team com the hatching should be a little earlier that It will always mean Increased
In the report covering the month of
for the best results. His chickens are
men with the problems confronting California farmers were prosperous with pens of four pigs each.
vigor to future generations. The
prising Zona and Earl Bensel, who
the farmer. At this luncheon Mr. and that they were the best adver
Last year th'e two Waugaman boyB January from H. E. Cosby, extension debated at home with Umatilla won of the White Leghorn variety nnd of “hereafter” of wrong management
tíunn and other speakers will make tisement for new agricultural settlers and Tilford Stillings won $166 in poultry specialist of O. A. C. accord 'over the above named school, thus good breeding.
today is coming sometime, to some
short talks.
*n that state.
prize money and sold their pigs at a ing to information that has been making it a double victory for Her
sooner than others. Whip the horns
ELECTION HELD TO AMMEND
At 1:30 C. J. Hurd, O. A. C. Mark- j Out of this investigation was de- good profit. Leon Norquist won the received by Fred Bennlon, county miston high.
every jump of the raee and the odd»
CITY CHARTER ILLEGAL are 100 to 1 that it will finish last.
eting specialist, who hag long been reloped a plan for improving agri- $75 scholarship prize awarded by agent. Every month a list of the best
Mrs.
Gunn
the
debating
coach
Is
connected with co-operative m arket.' cultural conditions in the state of the Union Pacific Co to the member 20 flocks in the state that are on the deserving of praise for the masterly
"Should pullets bo used as breed
records is made, and S. R. Cooper of
It had been the intention of the
lng movements In the valley and who Oregon. The plan has been endorsed making the highest showing in pig
manner in which the local teams de city council to proceed with the con ers? Some poultrymen advocates It
Stanfield
and
Lulu
M.
Rhodes
of
Her
recently attended the National Co- by Oie State Irrigation and Drainage club work. Lowell Stockard, newly
livered their subjects.
struction and improvement of such but I doubt If they believe It. Con
operative Congress, will discuss new Congress, the State Wool Growers elected president, was last year miston both are included in this list
streets In the city afl the council and sider the way the average pullet la
for
January.
The
Cooper
flock
con
lights on co-operative marketing. At Convention, the State Dairymen’s as awarded the prize given by the coun
DATES FOR GOPHER
sists
of
161
hens
and
the
total
egg
property owners could agree on under cared for during the high priced egg
3 p. m. the Farm Bureau will adjourn sociation, the Oregon Co-operative ty through the office of W. W. Green,
POISONING WEEK CHANGED the provisions of the city charter. At season. What can we expect several
production
for
the
month
was
2.077,
and an open meeting of the Oregon Council, the State Chamber and other 'county superintendent of schools.
the election held according to law generations hence, if the practice is
Co-operative Hay Growers associa- organizations. Portland is raising This prize is a trip to the boys’ and or an average of 12.9 eggs the hen.
Dates designating a week to be on November 1920 an amendment to followed year after year? The hen Is
The
owner
spent
16
hours
in
labor
In
tion will Immediately convene. At ! funds of $300,000 to put the plan girls’ club camp at O. A. C. in June.
caring for the flock. The Rhodes flock known as Gopher Poisoning Week, the city charter was voted on and more mature and accumulated a lot
thig meeting some proposed changes across. The Oregon development pro-
The Hermiston club last year had consists of 380 layers, and the total which had originally been planned
practically unanimously carried so of reserve vitality during her moult
in the present plan of marketing will gram calls for a certain amount of the best stock judging team in the
for Feb. 11 to 18 has been changed. amending the charter as to enable that should give added vigor to her
production
for
the
month
was
3,886
organiziatlon in each county. At the county and competed at the Pacific
be discussed.
eggs, an average of 10.23 the hen. The new date set is March 1 to 8. the council to Improve and construct chicks. The pullet has not completed
The meeting will be held in the banquet to be held in Pendleton on International The members of the The lower production for the Rhodes The campaign as previous outlined streets under the charter provisions. her year’s work and we do not know
the 2nd, Mr. Dodson will present the team were Lowell Stockard, Leon
basement of the Methodist church.
flock is explained by reason of the will be conducted. Weather condi The provisions of the charter being whether the chick Is from a high or
plan and steps will be taken for Norquist and Gilbert Whitsett.
fact
that the flock contains a greater tions were responsible for the chang such that improvement and construc low record dam. The biggest argu
creating the machinery to co-operate
Henry Sommerer is the local cluh percentage of hens over pullets than ing of dates.
tion were Impossible at that time. It ment In favor of pullet breeding Is
Colonization Man Selected
with the state organization.
leader. Hermiston will also have a Is found In the Cooper flock, accord
developes that although the amend the fact that the breeder usually hag
W. G. Id of Portland, colonization
Delegates from each Farm Bureau sheep club, a poultry chib and a calf ing to Bennlon.— East Oregonian.
WILL INSTALL NEW
ments were carried In the election not enough hens to fill his orders.
man of wide experience, has been se community and from the various club, but memberships for these clubs
SERVICE STATION they were erroneously drawn and the It may be old fashioned to oppose
lected to handle the land setlement of Commercial clubs of the county will have not yet been completed, so the
pullet breeding or to advocate better
amendment« are void.
the Oregon State Chamber of Com be selected to participate in the Joint organization will not be formed un LOCAL EXCHANGE TO HAVE
care of the hens as breeders, but
T. M. Rankin, of La Grande, arriv
In
order
that
such
Improvements
merce.
LARGER SWITCHBOARD ed in this city last week. Mr. Rankin
meeting. All farmers are invited to til enrollment is finished.
nevertheless If the baby cblck busi
as are contemplated can bo carried
Mr. Ide was selected following the) attend the annual meeting of the
Is here for the purpose of formulat out, It will first be necessary to sub ness continues to get the support it
Mrs. Henry Collins and little
decision of tbeState Chamber to or- County Farm Bureau which will be
The local exchange of the Pacific ing plans for the erection of a serv mit the amendments to another elec, to justly deserves, old fashioned, dy
ganize all sections of the state in he,d during the afternoon of the 2nd. daughter, Cathryn, returned to their Telephone Co. will in the near future ice station in the next thirty days.
tion which will be held at the earliest ed In the wool method of manage
need of the settlers, in anticipation i B- W. Whitlock, in charge of Feder. home in Pendleton Saturday after a install a largeer switchboard. This
ment must come back and stay. The
The station will be situated at the practicable time.
the state wide development program ®1 Grain Supervision on the Pacific two weeks visit with Mrs. E. P. Dodd decision was reached after It wag ap corner of Fourth and Main, costing
lime may come when breeding hens
At a meeting of the council Wed
to be Inaugurated this yfar by the Coast, will also speak at the Farm of this city. Mrs. Collins is a sister parent that the increasing business In the neighborhood of $2500 when
will be treated as future breeders
nesday evening City Attorney Warn
of Mrs. Dodd.
Oregon Development Board. Lands ’ Bureau meeting.
from the time they come out of the
demanded a larger board.
(completed.
er was Instructed to draw up a new
egg, Instead of being forced for eggs
avjjtjable for colonization in various
Hermiston Commercial club will
ordinance covering these amendments
districts of the state will be listed send a delegate to represent them at
, to the City Charter with the view of during the pullet year . and then call.
,
and settlers will be placed on specific j this meeting.
having the council act upon them In ed breedor8 because of their unusual.
tracts of land under the supervision ’
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the near future.
* h,Bh record8
of the state chamber.
B w r J AtUck Young
"Average poultrymen with limited
equipment
should avoid the discour
Heretofore, the settlement efforts
Thousands of young fruit trees
PICTURE OF J. SKOVBO AND
of the State Chamber have brought in I planted last spring were killed dur-
WAREHOUSE IN JOURNAL aging problem of trying to brood to
gether chicks of different ages. Unl-
many home-seekers, but It haa been ing the gUmmer by BttBckg of
The issue of the Oregon Journal ¡fortuity Is the thing to consider most.
impossible to check up on the num «ays A. L. Lovett, chief In entomology
ber who have actually settled in Ore at Oregon Experiment station. This
dated February 19 carried a picture Try to get all chicks at one time. It
gon. nor the districts in which they large loss was sustained In spite of
of Mr. Skovbo and his honey ware two lots of chicks are necessary,
have located. Under the new arrange fact that borers may successfully at
house at Hermiston with the expla hatch or buy about one third early in
ment, a close contact will be main tack only unthrifty, poorly growing
nation below the photo aH follows; [the Reason nnd the remaining two
tained with each settler until he is trees. The excessive drought condl-
i "Headquarters of the Skovbo Apiaries thirds at the time best adapted to the
actually located under condition«; t|on. of last summer caused a severe
at Hermiston, Oregon where the only breed. Get them far enough apart so
suited to his means and requirements. drain on lhe TltB,Uy of the treeg pBr.
natural sweet Is produced. Honey Is that the first lot Is old enough to
flrat collected by the bees and Skov take away from the brooder before
tlcuiarly those young trees which had
bo
In turn assembles it at the ex the second lot Is put in. The real early
Aphids Change Spray Time
; h®d incufficient time to develop a
tracting plant from where it ig ship 1 ones may moult, partially but the
The delayed dormant spray ie ap- good root »ygtem-
ped to both local and foregln mark early broilers have a price advantage.
plied too early ofr maximum efficien-
Two methods of preventing borers
ets. Both extracted and solfed are The man who has tried to raise sev
ey in aphid control, as indicated by from attacking the trees are suggest-
eral different ages together Is cured.
marketed.”
evedences accumulated during the *d by Mr. Lovett. The placing of a
The amateur will continue to try It
last wo seasons by the O. A. C. ex- barrel stave or similar shield on the
anyway so further caution Is unnec-
Methodist
Church
Note»
periment station. The standard con. I"mithwest side of the tree to cast a
Sunday school 10 a. m. Geo. Pat- cessary.
trol for apple tree aphids ahs been shadow on the trunk Is one method,
terson,
Supt.
“Good, strong husky chick« may be
the addition of nicotine at the rate of This prevents sun scald of the bark
' put under the brooders and hucket-
Church service 11 a. m.
three-fourths of a pint to 190 gallons wMch attracts borers
! fulls of dead ones carried out. If con
Epworth League 6:45 p. m.
Of the regular delayed dormant lime-
A good whitewash 1« also a pro tec-
! Rev. W. 8. Payne is still with us ditions “re not right. There is no
eulphur application. The ideal time tion against attacks of boring insects,
and will give us one of hig splendid . time In the life of a growing chick
of application for maximum aphis One of the most succesful recipes
messages both morning and evening. when It is out of danger. If brood
coutrol Is apparently at the very tor making whitewash Is eight pound |
You have a speeial invitation to ing Is successful and feeding methods
earl yplnk stage. ’Where aphig con- of quick lime, one half pound of glue ' $
these service«. Harry A. Wann, past correct and the ground contaminated
trol Is an Important factor it seme or casein (powdered), one-fourth "
¡or.
the losses will be just as heavy as If
desirable therefore to delay the regu- pound copper -sulphate, and one
The Church of the Cordial Wel everything was wrong. Try to brood
lar delayed dormant application some pound of flaked napfhallne with
chicks on ground that hasn't been
come.
what or else to apply the pink spray enough water to make a whitewash
used before. The average poultry-
somewhat earlier than normally, add- about the consistency of paint. Car
Henry Hitt has disposed of his man can, at least, arrange a double
ing the nicotine to the pink applica- bolle acid at the rate of one-half pint
residence on Main street to Mrs Ella yard system, using one yard one year
tion. making It the aphia spray, rath- j to eight gallons of whitewash may
j Percy. Mr. Hitt expects to build
pr than the delayed dormant.
be substitut'd for the napthaUne.
(Continued on Page two)
sometime in th« near future.
MERCIAL CLUB ARRANGED FOR
The following is taken from the
Walla Walla Bulletin:
A telegram was received In Walla
Walla Tuesday from John D. Watson
announcing the death of his mother
in Los Angeles, last Saturday. Mr.
Watson had left Friday to go to her
bedside, but arrived too late.
He is accompanying her remains
to Chelsea, Michigan for burial.. His
mother was the only child of John
Dunning. a prominent pioneer mcr-
chant of that locality. She lived 75
years of her life there prior to eoming
west to California a few years ago.
The Watson family were residents
of Hermiston until the past two years
Mr. Watson being connected with the
Western Land & Irrigation Company
of this city.
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