The Herald are TOD ALIVE TO THEM? VOL. XX PROJECT ECONOMICS COMMITTEE REPORTS Close to the Heart and Mind of the Umatilla Project. Wrmtefem llteralö ▼UAL CHANGE« AXS DI COURSE OF BEINO realized here , K eep « HERMISTON, UMATILL A COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1926 M ay 7 Named A s D ate for First Cover Spraying PERFECT RECORD KEPT RY LOCALS VOCAL RECITAL TO BE GIVEN TOMORROW NIGHT AIRY CATTLE AMD A Y IN G HEMS AXE PAYROLL MAKERS FOR PROJECT FARMERS l MO. M ¡TRACTOR CRUSHES COSBY PLEASED AT Field Practice Secured Judging POULTRY SHOWING Stock by Clubs HERMISTON RESIDENT An event of more than odlnary interest to lovers of music will be the vocal recital which will be given Friday 30, at the , , ------- - evening, ---------- - - April ---- — i --------- F. L KELLY KILLED AS MACHINE Get Workouts in Sessions TOPPLES OVER CHANGES IN FARMING SYSTEM Apple and Pear Trees Should Ba IRRIGATORS WW GAME FROM Hermiston high school by Miss Ruth KTrKTTTWT RESULTS BE niG SE- ARLINGTON Seyler. She will be assisted by 0 --------- - • • 1 i v l i l w u V .™ Held Tuesday at ■ - Strohm’s SUGGESTED Thoroughly Coated, CURED HERE. Grace Brown and W. L. Hamm, and And Dyer’s. Funeral Services Held H e n Thii Wilbur Says. Hermiston Maintains Lead in Tri Miss Pauline Thoma and Miss Eliza­ Alfalfa Acreage Should Be Cut and Morning For Victim of beth Straw will be accompanists. Field practice In livestock judging County League With Ione Pasture Use Increased Accident. The recital will start at 8 o'clock. 0. A. C. Specialist Says District Is was done by members of livestock Second. First cover spray for apples and Body Says. It will be conducted under the aus­ clubs in the Hermiston district Tues- Well Suited to Poultry Funeral services for F. L. Kelly, pears should be on the trees in the pices of the Parent-Teacher circle. ; day with L. J. Allen, assistant a f t 8 Hermiston resident who was killed Tri-County League Standing The recommendations of the com- west end of Umatilla county by Fri- Production. Miss Seyler has chosen 18 numbers ¡club leader. County Agent Bennion; Ju an acc,dcnt on Em)grant on L Pet W mlttee on project economics as to day. May 7, and should be applied Hermiston ....... 3 0 1,000 she will sing. Mr. Hamm will sing, ______ and R- F Wilbur' assistant county l) e o ,d Orftgon Trail la8t Tueaday changes in farmng methods in the near as possible to that date in gjg and a reading will be given by Miss Ione ........... ....... 2 1 .666 agent, in charge. Iimorning, were he.„ »u the Methodist Umatilla project were reported to a order that a heavy fresh coating of Echo ........... ....... 1 2 .333 At a well attended field meeting The members from the various Eplscopa, church thlg m0Tnln< at meeting of the farm bureau which arsenate will be waiting for the ...... 1 2 Umatilla ... .333 held at G. R. Robinson's Friday, schools met at the high school at l ! u 0>c,0ck wlth Rev Henry young was held at Columbia school last first worms that hatch, according to BOSSY REFUSES TO EAT FOOD April 23, H. E. Cosby O. A. C. ex- o’clock and were taken in cars to ,n charge Tbe funeral wag largel, Arlington ... ....... 1 2 .333 Friday night. The committee be- R F Wilbur, assistant county agent, ....... 1 2 .333 * ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ * ♦ * * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * tension poultry specialist repeated the George Strohm place where they al(ended gan its work at the economic con- The record of evening temperatures Boardman . OWNER'S SEARCH SHOWS BIG the statement that every farm on th e! Judged some of his Duroc-Jersey hogs. Kelly was operating a trac- Sunday’s Results. ference last February and held ses- at * o'clock having reached the 60 * ♦ ♦ ♦ « * ♦ * * ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Umatilla project Is ideally adapted From the Strohm place they went to L ,n hJghway surfaclng work and Hermiston 8. Arlington 3. sions following the conference. The degree mark April 26 and 27, indl- NEEDLE THROUGH HER TONGUE for a poultry unit of at least 400 the Curtis Dyer place to Judge dairy; , he machln<, glippcd over’ , n em. Boardman 5, Echo 0. report was read by County Agent ca?8 that conditions are favorable ♦ laying henB. The only limiting fac- cattle. Ione 7, Umatilla 4. I bankment, toppled over and caught ’ Bennion, and an explanation of it f° r ?be m° t b to lay eggs. These A milk cow out on the ranch of tor, stated Cosby, Is the Individual Quite a number of new club mem- (he dr,verg body under ltg welght was offered by L. R. Breithaupt, will hatch within 10 days and unless C. B. Williams in the Columbia dis- specialist in agricultural economics fruit and foliage at this time are Hermiston Irrigators kept thelr tyjct had a sore tongue last week, so liking and adaptiblllty for poultry, bers have been enrolled this year. crushlng htra ao that be djed bef0PB of the extension service of Oregon covered with lead, three pounds to percentage column perfect Sunday sore in fact that the animal finally He pointed out that the poultrymen and extra practice work will be hg r9acbed the bO8pltai jn pendleton. on the project are making an un- necessary to maintain the high stand-■FeRow workmen 8aid he attempted Agricultural college. 100 sallons of water, the first brood when they turned in a victory refused to eat. usually good start, chiefly because ard that has been established by club tQ turn the macblne around in the The report, written copies of °f worms will enter the young fruit against the Arlington nine by a score Mr. Williams did not know at first they have followed correct principles members in this area, the county road and ,O8t conlro| oj near the which have been distributed among necessitating late cover sprays in of 8 to 3. The game was played at that the cow’s tongue was sore. He from the very beginning, rather agent said. embankment. When he attempted farmers, contains a statement of *?u?y and August to catch a second Arlington, but fully half of the thought maybe she had a bad tooth, There are now 70 boys and girls on (Q jump clear hl8 ciotblng caught the resources of the project, the size brood that will develop from them. I crowd was composed of rooters from or possibly had something wedged than starting In a haphazard way and calling for help only when they lhe project enrolled in club worn. and be| d bjm of farms, the average acreage de- Trees must be thoroughly drench- Hermiston who went down to lend between her teeth. got Into trouble. He emphasized the The clubs functioning here are as; Wr and Mrg Ke|ly bad Rved „„ voted to different crops, average id with a fog like spray of sufflc- support to the locals. The Irrigators When he got his glasses on and yield that have been secured over ,ent pressure to reach the uppermost turned the trick Sunday in the us- ‘made an examination of the ani­ three steps In poultry production. , follows: Holstein and Jersey calf (he project jor Bbout ten years. They First, the brooder house stage 1 c,ubB. dairy herd record keeping, bee came here from Grants Pass, Oregon, a period of years, the orices that Hnibs, rather than a coarse spray ual nine Innings. Most of their mals mouth, he found that her ton­ ug, garden, sheep and pou try gnd bave ca|jed Hermiston home ever may reasonably be expected for the ?bat will not only waste consider- games this season have required ex- gue had been pierced by a three Inch where chicks are kept supplied with c,ubg- . since. Mr. Kelly worked with en- artificial heat until they take to the crops grown, cifsts of production, able material but will leave small tra sessions. darning needle. It was still in the _____. . . . ' glues and tractors for many years. profits or losses on different crops areas of leaf and fruit surface un A lot of steam in the early part tongue. He pulled it out, and the perches. The brooder house must ______ He Is survived by his widow and be located on clean ground each year DEATH COMES WTHOUT and a suggestion as to the proper touched. A canvass of twelve of ?be contest gave the locals a de- cow resumed her eating. WARNING TO RESIDENT three grown children, Harry, who ratio of various crops to be grown, périment stations last year by Mr. clsive lead that w a s _ not threaten- “I had some men working for me or If a permanent brooder house Is „ _ , _ . _ _ ., works at McKay dam, Cecil Kelly During 1925 alfalfa was the crop Newcomer, federal agent in charge ed durjng the game. In their part last summer, and they slept in the used the four yard syBtem must be . J. W McDenned Succumbs Friday o{ Pendletou and Mrg EudRh QrOojn produced on about 72 per cent of <,f codling moth investigations in the of the first they grabbed off three, hay," Mr. Wiliams said. “I suppose used. Second, the range house per­ As Result of Heart Attack; of Portland. the plow lai d of the project. Pas- Yakima valley, revealed that o n ly . The rung were tbe result of four they must have lost the needle, and iod which begins when the chicks Was Well Known. Mrs. Kelly is In Hot Lake sanatar- ture came second In volume with three claimed any added control fr6e passports granted by Parrish, it stuck in the cow’s tongue. She’s are eight to ten weeks old. at which _ W. ... McDermed. j „„ ia._. of turn where she went recently ' for time they are taken from the brood- about 21 per cent of the project through the use of spreader in the opposing twlrler, hits by Voyen and all right now." J. 69, a resident acreage devoted to it. Most of this arsenate. It is his opinion that shook, and an error charged to er house and moved out to the free Hepmlgton glnc8 i 918, died suddenly i raedlcal attention’ rang« being given a place where they lagt Frlday M a re8ult of heart dlg.; — ■■ -- ------------- pasture was old alfalfa, the com- spreader dilutes the arsenate and en- Mathews. In the second Shesely's STANFIELD MAN FINDS »nittee found. Two and two-tenths ables the lighter coating formed to double scored Fehlen. In the fourth can get as much air as possible. case, and funeral services were held PENALTY, INTEREST, MUST THAT CHICKENS PAY HIM per cent of the acreage was devoted be easily rubbed off by movement of tbe i rTiKators got two more on hits Third, the laying house period, Suuday afternoon at 3 o'clock with BE PAID GN 1923 TAXES to vegetables and small fruits. AI- ,be foliage in the wind. --------- by Todd. Hiatt, Smith and Shesely. Even though egg prices have not where the pullets are moved when Rev Dureten of the Free Methodist; falfa seed, corn, both for grain and 1 They added one each in the seventh been high during the past year, S. they begin to come Into production. I church In charge. Interment was Deputy Sheriff Wheeler Says Re- for ensilage, wheat, barley and a FREE SCHOLARSHIP TO SUMMER and eighth, During the morning, Cosby and jraw raising 800 baby chicks. Clar- in life he went to Weeping Water, ww published ip . the Herald In other similar crops, and two per cent’ ship to that member who makes the Rasier, 2d ................. 4 0 $73.60. The difference on his Janu- ence Voliva on the Frank Waiigaman Nebraska, and from there went to; which it was stated that the act of to sweet potatoes, watermelons, early best record during this year. ¡Mooney, rf ............. 4 1 ary 1, 1926, inventory was $31 which ; P'ace with 300 hens and 900 babyj Cahhmere, Washington. He came j the legislature remitting penalty and cantaloupes, berries and such crops, i The exhibit made at the Dairy and Parrish, p ................. 4 1 brought his total receipts for 1926 chicks. E. E. Graham with 200; from Cashmere to Hermiston in| interest on the taxes applied hero. Annual crops were found by the ¡Hog Show, the completeness and ac- Mathews, c ............... 4 1 A part of Mr. Wheeler’s letter 1» to $414.80, or gave him $213.40 as a 1 bpns and 400 ¿hicks. Jim Todd: 1918 committee to be unprofitable on the curacy of reports, and the degree of labor Income on about 150 hens. I with 265 hens and 1000 chicks Mrs. He was married September 10, as follows: whole, and a suggestion was made; leadership displayed 4n the work, "I am enclosing a clipping from Totals........ 38 6 2 Mr. Archer Is now building a hen s - L- Camon with 300 laying hen 1910 to Mrs. Mai^r Ann Watson. that the trend away from their cul­ will be the factors on which the win­ Hermiston— house and making plans to care for and 1000 baby chicks. H. Spinning She preceded her husband in death your paper in regard to remitting ture be continued. ner will be decided, according to Smith, 2d ................. 5 a 4 00 hen poultry unit on his place, of Umatilla is probably the most ex-jin Seattle in 1921. Survivors who penalty and Interest on 1923 water The utilization of surplus man County Agent Bennion. Shesely, c ................. 5 tensive poultryman on the project 'mourn th; death of the deceased are assessments. according to the countyagent. labor in secondary enterprises, At least 10 club members are ex­ Voyen, ss ................. 1 “There has always been a doubt with 900 hens and 2000 baby chicks. a son and daughter, J. E. Watson of either truck crope or livestock, or pected to represent the county at Mathis, f ................. 1 Spinning is going to make use of a Kirkland, Washington, Mrs. W. L. whether this law applied to Irri­ DRAINAGE EFFECTED ON a combination of both, is practical summer school in another year. Six Longhorn, rf .......... 3 Yates, Kellogg. Idaho; one sister, gation taxes. LAND ON BAKER RANCH range house to raise his pullets. and of great importance in the other scholarships were recently Shook, cf .................. 5 "I have received an opinion on thia All of the polutrymen seem to be Mrs. Mattie Malcolm' of Holyoke, scheme of farming, it was pointed presented in other sections of the Mittlesdorf, If ........... S' That land on his ranch Is being well pleased with their marketing Colorado; three brothers, Frank N. which says it does not apply to as­ out by the committee. In regard . county for premier club workers, and Todd, rf .............. 4 gradually drained of excess water Is through the Pacific Cooperative McDermed, Lynden, Washington; sessments on land made by the gov­ to dairying in this connection, the competition for the scholarships is Shake, 3rd 4 McDermed, Platteville, ernment, which means that we must the statement made by Charles Poultry Producers association. With Orlester report was as follows: ¡expected to be keen. Interest in Hiatt, 1st ................. 4 Baker. At one time about 90 acres 12 to 14 cases shipped per week Colorado, and George E. McDenned, collect penalty and interest on Her­ “Dairy cattle offer the best, com -, club work on the part of bankers has Fehlen, p 2 miston and West Extension irriga­ of alfalfa on his place was under Spinning stated that the association Cashmere, Washington. hlnation of opportunities for pko- ; been lively since the Umatilla County Woodward, p ...... 2 M. D. O’Connell, at one time pub­ tion assessments.” three feet of water Drainage ditches had brought him about $25 to $30 fitable employment of surplus mam Bankers’ association heard! a club have been constructed that have car-¡per week more than he could have lisher of the Hermiston Herald, was labor, utilization of pasture and hay, I program at one of their sessions in Totals............ 41 8 11 3 7 ried off this water, and now the secured for his eggs any place else. a brother-in-law of Mr. McDermed. ; FARM DOLLAR NEEDS TO and providing manure for truck Freewater, the county agent said, Three base hits Mittlesdorf, Smith; water table is five feet underneath ----------------------- BE BOOSTED—SHUMWAY A few of the people who were rais­ crops. If the dairy enterprise is -----------------------------------------------------I first on balls, off Parrish 6, off Feh- the surface of the ground. ASPARAGUS GROWN IN WEST ing baby chicks were found to have chaged for hay and pasture at the of surplus labor available after the len 1; left on bases Arlington 13 In March, 1925, a ditch was dug. LIKED BY MID-WEST TRADE Candidate For Senatorial Honon the heat away too early, in- ( farm prices used In the report, and requirements for crop enterprises, Hermiston 11; wild pitches Parrish- and since that ditch began function-j taken ceasing the risk through false econ- Speaks at Columbia on Big if it be calculated that all cost Uhe dairy and general overhead labor first base on errors Hermiston 2 That asparagus grown In Oregon ing the water table has been lowered omy. Cosby pointed out that until Problems. factors except feed and labor a|re have been met, and according to the j Allgton 5; two base hits Voyen 19 inches, and the water is till re-, the chicks had taken to the roosts and Washington and shipped to mid- offset with the value of calves, skim. Individual situation. In general, shook, Shesely struck out by Parr ceding. The water table is now, they should know that they can al- west po,ntB haB won warm pralBe ““ Home problems facing farmers milk and manure It is reasonable to ; however it appears that 500 hens teh 10, Fehlen 4. Woodward 5; hitlalm ost nine feet lower than It was,I ways find heat at t h * ' b ^ e 7 . t o v . account ° f ltB ‘>ua"” r ,B lhe *“for- expect returns for man and labor would demand the available labor by pitcher, Woodard 1, Parrish 1. I Mr Baker declared 1 F -------- ------- ---------------- and suggestions for methods of re- mation given In a recent number of ))evlng the dietrese of agricultural when they become cold. from six cows that average 300 on the average farm after the other ~ ——--------------- the Oregon Journal in a signed story d|Htrlcts were discussed Monday pounds of butterfat annually to b e, requirements have been met. Those written by Hyman H. Cohen, market n,ght at CoIumb|a gch(X)i by A ,R. $360, or at the rate of 36 cents per who desire to specialize in poultry editor. Requests for more of the shumway of Milton, candidate for hour for the labor required." will keep larger numbers and per-1 grass have been received. One para- tb„ republican nomination for With respect to poultry as a means haps devote lees time to crop and ¡graph of his story was as follows: United States senator. The meeting of providing profitable labor the re- other livestock enterprises.” "Reports from Chicago are to the , was under the auspices of the farm port had the following: j The committee found that corn effect that the trade has literally buPeau, "Five hundred hens require about I°r Krain, or for^ensiiage, can not be gone wild over the Oregon-Washing.I Taxeg are b)gh and fre|Kbt rates the same amount of man labor as produced profitably on the project ton offering«. Orders ate available,are hlgb , hp gp,,akpr aid, but relief six dairy cows and the returns per under present conditions, and this for much more stock than can pos- under these two heads, even If hour of man labor for poultry keep- Phase of the report brought out I (Ibly be delivered. The quality of brought about drastically, would not Ing may reasonably be expected to Quite a lot of discussion with Henry the Columbia river growth Is report- > kc flny b)g difference In the flnan- average 50 per cent more than for o tt Producing figures in favor of ed by Chicago Interests to be better , c)al condl, |nn of farmers. Mr. Shum- the dairy enterprises. Much of the tbe u,e of corn ensilage by dalry- than any aspadagus ever received (way dec|arrd wbat ja needed, ha ltbor in poultry keeping Is compare- -men. An effort to secure further In- there." pointed out. Is to bring the purchaa- tively light. From the standpoint formation as to the cost of other ~ Ing power of the farm dollar up to of utilising farm labor, therefore, succulent feed for cows in the winter i LUNCH COUNTER IS ADDED T 0 ,a value Where It will buy 100 cents poultry keeping appears very favor- aa 8 substitute for ensilage has v 4 . W 4 . W W W W * * * * * * * worth of id here products. The prin- able. It does not fit in so well. 6880 launched by Interested dalry- SERVICE OFFERED BY HERMIS- ; clples of the McNr.ry-Haitgen bill w * * * * * * * * * * * * * however, in the utilization of crops ton8". TON HOTEL; BUILDING PAINTED w,u br"1« ,hlB ' ° ndlllon abou‘’ tb’ produced on the farm of which hay Col. J. F. McNaught was chairman > A w w « * * * * * o — * w •• jspeakir mid. and he predicted the and pasture are important items, of the committee. The other mem- Improvement^ and) changes a re; enactment of the principle Into law It would not supply much manure bers Included F. P. Phipps, L. R. Hinder way at the Hotel Hermiston ¡at no very distant date. to put back on the land. Much of Breithaupt, F. B. Swayze, E. P, ¡that mark an enlargement in the Following the talk, refreshments the feed must be purchased. The In- Dodd, E. La Grande Cherry, C. T. ¡business of the local hostelry. Dtir- were served. vestment required In the beginning Haling of Irrigon, R. W. Morse, Ing the past week the work of add-’ A ouartst from Hermiston com­ is much higher than for other live- county agent of Morrow county,' ing a lunch counter has been going posed of Hiatt, Prime, Hamm and stock. Poultry is a highly technical Fred Bennion and R. F. Wilbur,! On. Watson sang several numbers that enterprise In which the average man county agent and assistant county A screen partition has been erect- were well received. is not ao likely to succeed as in agsnt, respectively, of Umatilla ed to cut off space on the east end ----------------------- dairying. I county, H K. Dean, superintendent of the dining room, and a door that Sheep Club Formed “The committee therefore suggests of the experiment station, F. S. will provldq an ent$ance directly A boys’ and girls’ sheep club has that the poultry enterprise, except Green of Echo, and L. A. noble of from the street Is being cut In the been organized on the project with In special rases, be regarded as sup- Irrigon. front wall. The counter is being Ed Jackson as leader. Ofleera elect- plementary to the dairy enterprise. Meetings similar to the one held provided to give the quick service ed Tuesday at the organization meet- In this way skim milk may be util- here Friday night were held at commoniy demanded by tourists. Mrs. Ing were Ernest Cox. president; Mar- ized for poultry instead of swine. Boardman Thursday night and at .C & Dnrfey, owner of the hotel,¡tin Ixinz, vice-president; Celathia Poultry will ntillze some pasture and Htanfield Saturday night. Mr. Brelt- said/ iAtmblrth, secretary. Other members otber succulent feeds which can be haupt said that active interest in Mte exterior of the,building is be-! Include Dick Upham, Tllford Still­ gTown The numbers of poultry the report was displayed at bsth in g '“, p a in te d . .The Interior was Inga, Alfred Hofftnso and Marti» •nay he proportionate to tbe amount meetings. i painted egrllsy this aprlng. Hoffman.