simmered down to individual tax- ! There is nn evidence ot the lack ot office to farmers in Umatilla county STORAGE REQUIREMENTS
payers, only a small portion is paid a medium of exchange with which was demonstrated recently when it
to buy, and it is only the best grade was learned that the county court USTED BY SPECIALIST.
by each.
Published every Thursday at Hermis
produce that is in demand, and only planned to strike the appropriation
In referring to county agents, Mr.
ton. Umatilla County, Oregon, by
that which reaches the public mar for maintaining that office from the
Five requirements for good stor
Pauline M. Stoop and Alfred Quiring, Howard says that "they were created ket. The farmer has been assisted in budget this year. A group of influen age for root crops or pumpkin are
" I to aid the farmer and his family to
Publishers.
reaching this grade of produce by tial farmers presented their argu- given by G. R. Hyslop, farm crops
success and prosperity” but that the
advice given through the county ments in favor of the retention ot chief at O. 8. C., as follows: Good
Entered as Second Class Matter result has been failure. Studying the agent.
the county agent’s office which re storage must be cool, it is best if
December, 1906, Umatilla County, question more carefully, especially
sulted
in the court deciding in their dark, it needs to be dry, good ven
Had it not been for the county
in Umatilla county, we see where
Oregon.
favor. That demonstration in itself tilation is necessary, and it ought
dairy farmers have been aided ma agent's office and the home demon-
is a proof ot the value of county to be convenient.
terially by projects presented through strution agent in Mr. Howard’s own
agent
’s work to the farmer.
Subscription Rates:
Many persons do not realize the
the county agent’s office, such as the county this summer, the unemploy
One Year ............. .......................
If
there
has been an official can-advantage of handling roots care-
ment
problem
would
have
been
a
11 00 1 "Umatilla Herd Improvement Asso-
Six Months ................................
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I elution” which has aided the dairy- big one this winter with the many vas of farmers in two Oregon coun fully to avoid bruising and conse
.50 men in chocking the production of transients coming Into that section ties the extension service has never quent spoilage, says Hyslop. One
Three Months ...........................
their herds, thus weeding out the from California. The county agent been informed of such actions. A would not think of pitching an ap
boarders, and keeping only the pay- made a portable cannery that was canvas that would be purely nega ple into a basket or box, yet will
ing dairy cows. Through a recent taken over the county in order that tive does not deal justly with the throw mangels weighing many times
CIATION
drive the Umatilla county area was farmers might preserve the excess farmer or the county agent problem. more that are little better protected,
The Hermiston community is he points out. The college has sev
made abortion and tuberculosis free. produce that would otherwise have
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To continue the chain: the farmer gone to waste. Much canning was known throughout the state as one eral free publications on storage of
has learned how to store his butter done by farmers for the relief com of the most progressive little towns vegetables and field crops.
Farmers Uphold County Agents.
fat properly through bulletins from mittee and had this organized effort in the Northwest, and a lot of the
A letter to the Editor of The Ore
not been made early, the situation credit for such a record can be con-
Testerless Tests Worked Out.
gonian, written by Roscoe Howard, the extension service and the coun
| tributed to work done through the
ty agent, which brings up the grade would have been acute.
a dairy farmer at Grants Pass, Or.,
TOLEDO—Lincoln
county
will
Who can determine better than county agent’s office in helping to soon have a thriving cow testing as
commenting on a recent editorial in of butterat. Again the dairymen are
organize
cooperatives,
and
to
give
that paper "What’s the Rest of the benefitted when their cream, which the farmer himself, whether a coun information that put farming on a sociation operated without the ex
| is manufactured by a cooperative ty agent is “loafing on the job” and
Story?” which invited suggestions
pense of a tester in charge, as the
business basis.
for reduction in public spending, creamery, markets at a high grade "devoting a large portion of his
result of arrangements being made
The farmers of Umatilla county
states that “saving can be made by price, and their stock in the manu time to his private business, or play
( with County Agent Conklin by 20
had an opportunity to voice their
the state, the United States, and the facturing plant is enlarged. The politics?" If a county agent is not
or more herd owners.
Each herd
vote
upon
the
subject
of
the
value
plan
works
in
a
cycle,
and
the
re
getting results in a territory assign-
counties by dispensing with the of
owner will collect his own samples
I ed to him, all that is necessary to of the county agent to them, and once a month and will keep his milk
fices of county agent and home sults cannot be overlooked.
they returned a majority for retain-
demonstration agent.”
The cry of overproduction which I eliminate him, is for a representa
weights. The county agent will col
Ing these offices.
tive
group
to
appear
before
the
It is true that an appropriation is is mentioned in Mr. Howard’s letter,
lect the samples once a month and
made by the county, the state and is a cry that is growing fainter as county court, state their case, and
have them tested, returning the re
HEPALD WANT ADS PAY
the federal government for main- the farmer’s problem is studied, request that the county appropria
ports to the dairymen. It is expect
talning the agricultural extension There is no more food produce on tion be withdrawn.
ed to have from 600 to 800 cows in
USE THEM !
The value of the eounty agent’s
service and its officers but when | the market than can be consumed.
the association.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
PAGE TWO
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Thanks
Scarcely had the Pilgrims settled in the Bay Colony
threè hundred and twelve years ago when the terrible New
England winter descended upon them.
Only half of the party survived the hardships and suf
fering of that first year. Those who were spared carried on
like the dauntless pioneers they were, and lived and pros
pered.
Give thanks for the example set us so many years ago.
The homely virtues of self-discipline and perserverance are
still the unfailing source of abundant prosperity.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of Hermiston
Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits Over $50.000.
F. B. SWAYZE, President
A. H. NORTON, Cashier
Money Saved on Sulfur.
R. ALEXANDER, Vice-President
D. M. DEETER, Asst. Cashier
was $37.80 a ton, which on the car-
load amounted to net saving of $150
to the seven farmers who ordered.
Amounts obtained ranged from 1000
pounds to five tons. The sulfur is
used mostly as a fertilizer for alfal
LAKEVIEW—Farmers of Lake
county recently pooled orders for a
carload of soil sulfur which was ob-
tained through the county agent’s
office. Total cost delivered here fa.
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