THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.
FARM CO OPERATIVE DIVISION
A
MESSAGE
TO
EVERY
MEMBER.
A NEW DAY FOR FARM FAMILIES LADIES AUXILIARY OUTLINES
(From The Eggsaminer)
The program to carry electricity
into rural areas now without elec
trie service is a venture in creating
hotter living conditions for the far
mer, his wife and his children that
is being eagerly watched by the mil
lions of Americans directly interes
ted in agriculture.
The Federal Government, through
the Rural Electrification Adminis
tration, is initiating a program con
sidered of urgent national neceessi-
ty. When It is realized that about
86 per cent of the farm homes of the
country lack electric service of any
kind the problems of the program
ean be measured by the vastnees of
the field.
For the farmer wanting to share
in the benefits of rural electrifica
tion the R. E. A. program means co
operative effort with neighboring
farmers so that projects of sufficient
size can be presented for considera
tion.
The Government’s aim is that the
cost of line building and wiring, the
rates for service, and the cost of
sanitary equipment and electrical
appliances shall be brought within
the means of the greatest possible
number of farmers.
R.E.A. will make loans for pro
jects to all groups, public or private,
which submit sound projects and
demonstrate their ability to operate
them. Loans normally will be for
twenty years at three per eent in
terest. The loans will be secured
by the general credit of the borrow
er, or In certain instances by the line
itself. No farmer will be required
to mortgage his home.
Following the policies outlined In
the Federal Water Power Act, the
bill creating the Tennessee Valley
Authority and elsewhere, a prefer
ence will be given to application
from municipalities and other agen
cies of the State, and to non-profit
associations such as co-operatives.
Irrespective of the amount of loans
made to private companies, adequate
funds will be kept in reserve to meet
any demands from public sources.
Nearly every State is represented
in the applications already on file
with R. E. A. Authorization of loans
for the first of the projects, meeting
required tests, will be made sdon.
No like opportunity for extending
power and light lines into the rural
districts has ever been presented.
The rural electrification program
will employ mass construction, dur
able and efficient, and very much
more economical than was to be had
heretofore. Money for the projects
can be obtained at low cost. This
with the additional loans that can be
arranged for installing plumbing and
sanitary fixtures and the purchase
of moderately priced electrical ap
pliances on easy terms gives many
farm families a chance for improved
living conditions rarely to be acqui
red through independent effort.
With electricity comes running
water in the house and barnyard
and adequate lighting for all house
and farm purposes. It is a short
step to a modern bathroom and a
modern kitchen sink. And the pos
sibilities for electric refrigeration,
washing, ironing, cooking and sew
ing by electricity will appeal to ev
ery farm wife. Add the uses to
which the farmer can put electricity
in easing his toil, increasing crop
production, and reducing the cost of
farm operation and some of the more
Important benefits of farm electri
fication become apparent
How inadequately the Nation’s
rural districts are at present electri
fied is exemplified in the report of
a survey of a county in Illinois,
made by a county agent. In this
county, where 2,196 farm families
reside. 1.800 of them have no bath
tubs. 1.743 still use oil lamps. 800
farm houses have no kitchen sinks.
750 still carry water to and from the
kitchen, and 700 farm women have
no washing machine of any kind.
In the Maryville (Ohio) Electri
fication Experiment Station it was
found that 13 families used 125,000
gallons of water a year. To pump
that water took 206 kilowatt hours
of electricity. At 5 cents a kilowatt
hour the cost was $10.30. If a per
son could pump 300 gallons of wa
ter an hour, a rate possible only for
a short time by a strong man. it
would require 416 hours to pump
the same quantity. Man power at
25 cents an hour would have cost
1104.00. If human workers had
been paid only the 510.30 cost of
six MONTHS PROGRAM
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Farm
Bureau outlined a program of meet
ings for the next six months at its
regular meeting held Friday, No
vember 1, at the Hermiston Union
church at which they entertained
the ladies from the Stanfield and
Westland Granges. Acting as host
esses were Mrs. Wm. Barber, Mrs.
Alfred Cable and Mrs. Wm. Tucker.
Mrs. Harold Buell conducted an in
teresting session of games, and the
large number in attendance enjoyed
a reading given by Jo Ellen Mopps
and a solo by Mrs. Thos. Wilson.
Mrs. Henry Hooker entertained by
telling fortunes.
The next Auxiliary meeting will
be November 15, at the club house
in Columbia park with Mrs. Wells,
Sr., Mrs. Joe Udey and Mrs. Lester
Hammer acting as hostesses.
The executive committee met re
cently at the home of Mrs. Henry
Sommerer and outlined the following
program for the next six months:
November—Hermiston: Mesdames
Barber, Tucker and Cable.
November 15—Club house: Mes
dames Wells, Udey and Hammer.
December 6—Club house; Mes
dames Reid, Christley and Hughes.
December 20—Hermiston:
Mes
dames Dyer, Rainwater, Lage and
Dawson.
January 3—Club house:Mesdames
Clark, Harr and Morris.
January 11—Club house:
Mes
dames Ryland, Corman and Lindner.
February 7—Hermiston: Mes
dames Lynch, Prindle, White and
Bloom.
February 21—All day at club
house:Mesdames Jendrzejewski, Ad-
dleman and Mikesell.
March 6—Club house: Mesdames
Hutchison, Upham and Sommerer.
March 20—Hermiston: Mesdames
Connor, Dunning and Guiwlts.
April 3—Club house: Mesdames
Ott, Hooker and Lathrope.
April 17—Club house: Mesdames
Wilson, Barham and Buell.
May 1 — Hermiston : Mesdames
Harding, Bensel, Hammon and Turn-
blad.
FARM PRICE INDICATIONS
BRIGHT; BUSINESS BETTER.
former can do
almost
anything.
Congressman Walter M. Pierce
will be guest speaker at a Umatilla
Project Farm Bureau meeting sche
duled for Thursday, November 14, at
the Union church at 8:00 p. m. All
members and friends are cordially
invited to be present. Musical and
entertainment numbers will also add
to the program.
LOST — WRIST WATCH; NEAR
Grange or Farm Bureau. Initial*
N. M. W., gold link chain. Finder
please leave at Herald office. 11-ltc
60 USED STEEL TRAPS. HEATING
stoves. Hermiston New & Second
Hand Store.
11-ltfc
FOR SALE—SMALL COOK STOVE.
55.50; heater for $3.00. Mrs. R.E.
Osborn, Osborn Apartment*. 11-ltc
Farming and running farm homes
entail real work, but where the far
mer follows new methods and adopts
new devices the advantages of farm
life may be realized to the full.
term*. While crop conditions in the |
12th FCA district were spotty this
year, higher prices tor most commo
dities, especially live stock, have giv
en farmers a more hopeful outlook
all around.”
Mr. Adams pointed out that land
bank borrowers are cleaning up their
installments and getting their loans
in good current condition; members
of local cooperative production cre
dit associations are paying off their
crop and livestock loans; interme
diate credit bank discounts have
been heavily liquidated and loans
which the emergency regional agri
cultural credit corporations made
during the emergency period are
more than two-thirds cleared off.
"Such a repayment record, of
course, is what the Farm Credit ad
ministration has good reason to ex
pect,” Mr. Adams explained, "for
while many loans have been made to
refinance farmers who were on the
brink of foreclosure, the Farm Cre
dit administration is not a relief
agency. It represents a permanent
farmers' cooperative credit system
extending credit in a sound, busi
ness-like way, out of fund* obtained
principally from the investing pub
lic through the sale of securities, and
with each Ioan written on a collec
tible basis.”
I SOW FOR SALE—DUE TO FAR-
row the first part of December.
Weight about 250 or 300 lbs. W. H.
we =
Cook, on Eugene Ranch, Route 1.
Cooperative* Will Close.
Also one fine Ramboillet buck—
10-ltc
The Farm Bureau Co-operative sheep at the above address.
and the Co-operative Service Station FOR SALE OR TRADE—2 H. P.
will be closed over Armistice day,
single phase General Electric mo
which comes on Monday. All patrons tor. Will trade for 1 H. P. motor.
of these concerns are reminded that Inquire at Herald Office.
7-tfp
an extra supply will be needed to
PIANO FOR SALE—REPOSSESSED.
carry them over the holiday.
Balance 597. You take over con
tract on this fine, high grade piano,
Credit Union Service.
balance, 597.00, and pay 55 a month.
The Hermiston Oregon Credit Address Mr. Smith, Adjuster, Cline
Union office will be open every Fri Piano Company, 1011 S. W. Wash
5-3tc
day between 2:00 and 4:00 o’clock ington St., Portland, Ore.
P. M. The office will be found in the
Grange Co-operative building.
The official Oregon vote Is an
nounced as 2464 yes to 420 no.
There were nearly half again as
Winter Closing Hours.
many votes cast in Oregon this year
Beginning November 4th, the as a year ago, though there were on
Farm Bureau Co-operative of Her ly two-thirds as many contracts. The
miston and the Co-operative Service vote in Umatilla county shows 87
favorable votes by contract signers
Station will close at 5.00 P. M.
to 6 against. Non-signers voted 143 GOOD MALES BRING
yes to 29 no.
Grange Dance.
HIGH-LAYING HENS
Stanfield Grange will sponsor a
COMPLIMENTS
FARMERS
FOR
dance Saturday, November 9. Mu
Use Progeny Testing Plan to
sic will be furnished by Mel’s Mer- PAYING OFF DEBTS.
rymakers.
Pick Best Sires.
Complimenting northwest farmers
e » ....
on
the
wisdom
they
are
showing
in
Prepared by the United States Department
REORGANIZATION OF BLUE
of Agriculture.— WNU Service.
liquidating their debts out of im
A good male 1* ten times a* impor
RIBBON CALF CLUB.
proved farm earnings, A. C. Adams,
general agent of the Farm Credit ad tant as a good hen in building up a
flock of poultry. For this reason pro
The reorganization of the Blue
ministration of Spokane, reported geny testing, a method which enable*
Ribbon Calf club was held Novem-
today that the large volume of loan a poultry breeder to Identify the supe
berl, at the home of Arwllda Foster.
payments being received by FCA rior male* in his flock, is a necessity
Marlon Ott, Marijane Hammer, Vera
agencies “substantiates our faith in to progress In poultry breeding, says
Sisson, Mary Wilson, Leonard Mopps,
the debt-paying morale of our bor Dr. M. A. Juli, In charge of poultry
Floyd Wilson and Lois Hutchison.
investigations for the United State* De
rowers.’’
The officers elected for the year are
“This encouraging progress to partment of Agriculture.
Too much significance ha* been at
Arwllda Foster, president, Marijane
ward debt retirement is particular tached to phenomenal record* in egg-
Hammer, vice president, Mary Wil
ly gratifying,” he declared, "because laying contest*, according to Doctor
son, secretary, with Lois Hutchison
it is the purpose of the Farm Credit Juli, who bases his statement on the
as leader.
administration to help farmers work results of a recent experiment with
A committee was appointed to
their way out of debt, by assisting White Leghorns and Rhode Island
make out the program for the year’s them to get their obligations adjus Reds at the Beltsville research center
work. This committee is comprised ted on a more reasonable repayment of the department, at Beltsville, Md.
High-production records In the mnces-
of Marion Ott, Marijane Hammer,
and Arwilda Foster, assisted by W.
A. Sawyer, assistant county agent,
and Lois Hutchison, club leader.
B uying P ower of WHEAT
POULTRY
• FACTS •
—» « i
Business conditions appear to be POTATO SURPLUS PLAN UP;
favorable for maintaining at least
the present level of demand for farm
products through the next few
months, according to the current
summary of the agricultural situa
tion and outlook report just issued
by the extension economist at Ore
gon State college.
Prices paid by farmers for com
modities bought, including interest
and taxes paid, have not changed
much recently. The composite in
dex was last estimated at 128 per
cent of the 1910-1914 level. This Is
one point lower than a month pre
vious and a point below a year ago.
While these prices paid have tended
to remain about the same or go a
little lower, the prices received by
farmers have risen In recent months,
the report shows. As a consequence
the relation of prices received to
prices paid is now the highest in
more than five years.
The general level of farm prices,
both in the country as a whole and
in Oregon appears to be higher than
at mid-September when it was 107
per cent of the pre-war average.
This was up one point over the
mouth previous and four points
higher than in September, 1934.
Highest among the individual
commodities on the index were meat
animals at 131, chickens and eggs at
126. dairy products at 102 and
truck crops at 101. Grains stood at
97 and fruits at 82, both lower than
a year ago.
The index of Oregon farm prices,
which is based on the 1926-1930
average instead of the pre-war per-
iod; shows a three point gain from
64 to 67 since September. 1934. A
parity level, to use the familiar AAA
term, would be an index of 96 per
cent. Highest in the list of Oregon
commodities, as compared with the
1926-1930 prices, are horses, hogs
and- eggs, while lowest are sheep,
potatoes, hops, barley, oats and ap-
pie.
The general level of farm wage
rates has shown the usual seasonal
advance and Is now nine points
above a year ago and the highest in
four years. Some decline in the
supply of available farm labor ap
electricity they would have averaged pears to refleet the recent pick-up
less than 21 cents an hour tn wag- in industrial employment •
es. In addition, band labor would
have been required to carry the
fresh water into the house and the
waste water out.
With water and electricity the
Walter Pierce Will Speak.
WANT ADS
PAGE FIVE
The most significant thing about |
the recent corn-hog referendum In |
the eyes of most observers was the
greatly Increased favorable vote this
time as compared with a year ago.
Both in Oregon and in the country
as a whole, the favorable majority
jumped from considerably less than
2 to I to from 5 ta ? to 1.
Italy Believed Home of
Original Leghorn Fowls
The history of poultry reveals that
“Italy was, undoubtedly, the home of
the original Leghorn fowls,” says the
Montreal Herald.
Early literature
shows that poultry of several kinds
was bred at least 8,000 year* ago, and |
fowls were need In Rome for food 2,000
yean ago.
Indications resulting from careful
and widespread Investigations, are
that “The Leghorn fowls a* they ex
isted In Italy prior to 1815 were a
mongrel lot,” descended from promis
cuous matings, without any attention
being paid to color, body formation or
productivity. The greatest develop
ment in the breed has taken place in
England, the United States and Can
ada and it la significant that the high
state of development attained In these
countries has led breeders in the
native home of the Leghorn to import
specimens for the sole purpose of im
proving else, stamina, conformation
and productivity—not to say profit.
A. W. CHRISTOPHERSON
Physician and Surgeon.
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Bank Building
Office Hours
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W. J. WARNER
Attorn ey-at-La w
Hermiston - Oregon
DR. A. E. MARBLE
CHIROPRACTOR
Office: Two door* weet post office
Office Hours: 8 to 12 - 1:30 to 5
Phone 481--------- Hermiston, Ore.
(Nor Including Benefit Payments)
ARTICLES FARMERS BUY
Hermiston Post No. 37
CORN-HOG VOTE INCREASES.
Recent events point to adoption
of the federal diversion plan for part
of this year’s potato crop as a means
of removing the burdensome surplus
which is greatly depressing prices,
says E. R. Jackman, extension agro
nomist at O.S.C., who attended a
conference of potato growers and
dealers in Idaho.
The same events point to consi
derable opposition to a marketing
agreement for potatoes along the
lines recently proposed and indicate
that the Warren potato law will not
be enforced unless Congress appro
priates funds for its administration.
In order to put into effect the
diversion plan for No. 2 potatoes,
the potato section of the AAA has
applied for several million dollars of
the custom receipts fund made avail
able for removing surpluses or pro
moting exports of agricultural pro
ducts. The plan proposed calls for
payment to growers of 25 cents per
hundred pounds for any potatoes ex
cept culls which growers divert to
other than normal sales channels,
up to 10 per cent of any grower’s
crop.
For example, if a grower has pro
duced 1000 sacks of potatoes, he
could, if he desired, accept 325 for
diverting 100 sacks to other than
commercial channels. These must |
be No. 2 quality or better and he
must agree not to allow cull grades |
to enter commercial channels. If he
can sell the 10 per cent to stockmen
for feed he is entitled to the 10 or
15 cents a hundred he would get that
way in addition to the first 25 cent
payment.
Those who favor this plan believe
it would be self-regulating in that I
the growers would sell under it only
when prices were extremely low. as
at present. At the time the meeting
was held in Idaho, growers there
were being paid 40 cents a hundred
bulk for No. 1 Idaho Russets. A
parity price for western potato
grower* Is considered to be about $1
a hundred.
try oT hens used In a breeding flock
are. of course, desirable but the ex
periment shows that such record* on
only one side of the ancestry are not
sufficient assurance of high-producing
pullets. On the other hand, three gen
eration* of good egg production record*
do give some assurance of good record*
of the pullets.
A ben that produce* good laying pul
lets by one sire may produce pullet*
with much lower averages when mated
to another sire the next year. This In
dicate« that a hen’* value as a breeder
is not always shown by the average egg
production of her daughter* but de
pend* also on the mating involved.
The ability to select superior breeding
males is of great importance because
a sire's influence on a flock I* at least
ten times as great as that of a hen.
as one sire 1* usually mated to ten or
more ben*. The Index of greatest val
ue in determining a sire’s breeding
worth was found to be the average egg
production of all of his daughter*.
Meets first and third
Thursday. Legion Auxil
iary meets second and
fourth Thursday.
Legion Hall.
COST IN TERMS OF WHEAT •
■
I7 bu.
1910
TO
1914
20bu
1932
W. L. Morgan, D. M. D.
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icilricie
HE sacks of wheat show how higher wheat prices are giving farmers
purchasing power, even without counting the adjustment pay-
T more
ments. They show that when wheat was at a fair exchange value before
the war, 15 bushels would buy a plow. In the depth of the depression in
1932 it took 55 bushels to buy the same plow, but in 1935 a farmer could
buy the same plow with the money from 27 bushel* of wheat The sacks
of wheat in the other squares show the purchasing power of wheat in
terms of a suit of clothes, paint, and barbed wire.
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