THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1937.
THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON ORËCON
WS
FARM CO-OPERATIVE DIVISION
A
MESSAGE
TO
• • F FIVE
ad J
EVERY MEMBER
BOARD MEMBERS
CROP ROTATION
VISIT OTHER PLANTS MAJOR 37 PROGRAM
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
UMATILLA PROJECT FARM
BUREAU.
VOUD never dream that fast freight service meant
and reduced the time between Council Bluffs and
I greater saving or newer styles, would you? That
Ogden—the great transcontinental speedway — to
Farmers on the project are show
The annual payment of $1.00 per
the plant and
it really affected your home or pocketbook ? Or that
less than b»lf of the former running time.
Bureau Coopera- ing interest in a six and seven year member was due March 1st, and if
Union
Pacific's
gigantic
'
Challenger"
freight
locomo
it remains unpaid will become de
But more than that (and this is where you come in),
was what took crop rotation program in an effort linquent after 60 days. To be en
tives saved you money?
fast schedules mean reduced inventories, lower stocks
to
build
the
fertility
of
the
soil
in
Yes,
that's
what
fast
freight
service
means
to
you.
V. Jones, vice
titled to deal with the Farm Bureau
and replacements for stores and shops... enable shop-
and this is why it happened:
keepers to passalong this saving to you, in lower prices,
president, H. M. Sommerer. mana- this area. Jay T. Pierson, new as Co-operative, Grange Co-operative
because quick turnovers cut down costs and losses.
We wanted to offer the American shipper faster,
ger, and J. H. Reid to Yakima, El sistant county agent, has outlined and Cooperative Service Station,
more precise freight service, the kind you expect from
you must be in good standing in the
So today, when you do your shopping, buy a new suit
lensburg, Tacoma and Portland on thia soil conserving program and is Umatilla Project Farm Bureau, or
crack passenger flyers.
or a gown s might from a New York fashion designer,«
a four day trip of investigation. making it one of the major efforts some other farm organization. The
We started out by buying fifty high-speed modern
even a tin of beans ... your pocketbook will tell you
locomotives for main line service in 1928. Then we
funds thus collected are used for
They gathered much information as for his office this coming year.
the happy results of Union Pacific’s policy of constantly
spent
long
months
of
experiment
to
set
even
higher
planning for the future. Union Pacific always
The 193 6 crop report prepared various things of community benefit.
to machinery equipment and meth
standards. The result—a new type of super-powerful
looks ahead!
ods of handling other cooperative and presented by the district showed
C. M. JACKSON, Sec.
freight locomotive, the “Challenger," designed to
that
out
of
5712
acres
under
culti
institutions of the Pacific North
handle heavy train loads at a speed of sixty miles an
hour. Fifteen of these huge leviathans are now in
Stanfield Grange Dance.
west. In addition to machinery vation there were 3040 acres in thin
service. Twenty-five more are being built.
equipment and plant arrangement, stands of alfalfa. The natural blue
There will be a St. Patrick’s par
These great “Challengers" enable us to maintain
they also looked Into several coop grass mixed brought returns of ty at the Stanfield Grange hall
speed which is 55% greater than it was in 1928
35.86
per
acre
against
326.83
per
Tuesday,
March
23,
after
the
regu
erative egg and poultry plants and
lar grange meeting. All members
methods of handling and marketing acre for cash crops such as barley, are
urged to attend and have a good
eggs and poultry products, also their oats and corn. The 2127 acres in time.
alfalfa
brought
325.72
per
acre.
systems of supplying feeds.
In this systematic crop rotation
The Washington Cooperative Egg
Westland Grange Meeting.
and Poultry association did an $80,- program recommended by the assis
The Westland Grange will meet
000,000 gross business in feeds and tant county agent a natural result Thursday, March 25th, at the grange
al] poultry products last year. The will be an increase in livestock hall in Minnehaha district. A pot
state association has nine plants, raised on the project. With the in luck dinner will be served at 7:00
p. m. and everyone is asked to be
all of which handle feed and the crease in available feed it will be present.
Members are asked to
to
increase
numbers
in
live
possible
packing of eggs for market. The Pa
bring dishes and silver.
cific Cooperative Poultry Producers stock.
Sweet clover planted to one field
of Oregon, with headquarters in
Notice of Annual Meeting of
Portland, do the same kind of busi- may be pastured alternately with
Hermiston Mercantile Co-op.
ness in much the same way, but not permanent pasture and In this way
furnish more actual feed value from
so large in volume.
The annual meeting of the Her
California has three similar as- a smaller acreage. This plan per
sociations, Southern, Central and mits the pasture to grow for a short miston Mercantile Co-operative will
Northern, and their methods of bus time while livestock is being pas be held at the reclamation building
iness are much the same as those of tured on the sweet clover pasture. Saturday, March 20th, at 8:00 P.M.
Every member is urgently reques
the sister states.
ted to be present as several matters
Each state organization does all PROPER CROP LAND
of importance will come up for dis-
local marketing within its territory
cussion.
but the states have a working ar PREPARATION TOLD
E. H. Dunning, Mgr.
rangement whereby eggs are shipped
A large number of farm sales
from one state to another on re
have been made since last fall in the
quest from one state for additional Hermiston, Stanfield, Westland and CITY OFFICIALS
supply. All surplus eggs produced West Extension districts, and a sim
west of the Rocky mountains are ilar number of new leases have been ASKED TO ATTEND
marketed under joint arrangement made with a result that many new
people have made their homes in
between the states and a large mar this
Municipal legislation enacted at
territory. Along with this new
keting organization with headquar movement Is shown a greater inter the recent session of the state legis
lature, traffic regulation affecting
ters in the east, known as the Paci- est in farming here among the for cities,
accounting and fi
mer land holders. Among the sign nance. municipal
fic Egg Producers, or PEP.
fire fighting, sewage dispo
ers of the work sheets of the soil
SHIP AND RIDE UNION PACIFIC
The various coast plants receive conservation
program were many sal, bicycle traffic, building codes,
the eggs from the producers at who declared an interest in a larg and many other subjects of vital im
their packing houses and candle, er acreage of alfalfa and cultivated portance to city officials will be dis 12*30 feet in order to get loose from ranged tor quick sale. It interested,
under the leadership of ex
sort, cool and pack in cases, and pastures, and rotation methods of cussed
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
write Mrs. F. Remington, Auditor.
perts at the twelfth annual conven the rock.
farming.
With
one
or
two
excep
load in car lots for shipment to any
Inter-INSURANCE Exchange
1011 SW Washington, Portland,
tions every farm with a habitable tion of the League of Oregon Cities,
market east of the Rockies as direc house on it is occupied, and much to be held at the University of Ore
Oregon.
28-3tc
C. A. JACKMAN, Local Agent
ted by the P.E.P.
abandoned or new land, is being gon March 18. 19 and 20, accord
All Kinds of Auto and Truck
ing
to
word
received
here
this
week
FOR RENT—LIGHT HOUSEKEEP-
The Pacific Cooperative Poultry brought under cultivation. With by local city officials.
Insurance
ing
rooms;
Garage;
2
roomed
cab
the
opening
of
spring
operations
bet
Hermiston -
-
Oregon
Producers at Portland, to which
ins, furnished. H. E. Hanby, Her
ter methods of farming are shown
Officials
of
this
city
who
have
Hermiston eggs are shipped, is now in all the districts.
miston.
27-tfc
been invited to attend include:
erecting an additional building at
Recently the Herald printed a Mayor F. C. McKenzie, Recorder ROOMS TO LET, & APARTMENTS. FOR SALE — MILK COWS; SEED
Carter
Apartments,
catty
corner
the cost of 3100,000.
short editorial on the value of pre Chas. Taylor. Councilmen B. S.
potatoes. J. S. Burnham, Hermis-
30-3tc
WATCH
CLOCK
One thing was noticeable to the paring the land and distributing the Kingsley, W. W. Felthouse, B. from the depot.
ton.
27-tfc
water,
and
this
week
secured
an
in
LOST
—
AN
ENGLISH
SOVEREIGN.
Haneline, N. R. Mueller, F. F.
local men on their trip. That is the
REPAIRING
terview from E. D. Martin, manager
Finder please leave at this office
cooperative plants not only handle of the Hermiston Irrigation district Knerr, M. E. Watson; City Attorney
Notice of Land Sale.
A. W. BEHRMAN
W. J. Warner. City Treasurer O. C. and receive ample reward. 30-3tp
the mashes and other feeds for pro on the subject.
WATCHMAKER
NOTICE
IS
HEREBY
GIVEN
that
ducers but under the same roof have i Mr. Martin urges all new farmers Pierce, Fire Chief Art Beasley, City FOUND
WRIST WATCH. LN- the undersigned. Mayor of the City
HERMISTON
OREGON
30-3tp of Hermiston, Umatilla County, Ore-
quire at this office.
packing facilities. The business is as well as the old who are making Health Officer Dr. F. B. Belt. and
improvements
to
level
their
land
Police
Chief
H.
A.
Pankow.
done on a separate financial basis
FOR SALE—HEAVY TEAM GELD- gon, pursuant to Ordinance No. 170
but under the same management well and to build larger ditches
ings. H. C. Shanks, Opposite Til passed by the Council of said City
with wider turnouts in the interest
RADIO NOISE
den fox farm, Hermiston.
30-ltc and approved by the Mayor thereof
mostly. The advantages of a local óí better crops, saving of water and
on the 19th day of February, 1937,
packing plant was in a saving in i also saving of time in the work of Turkeys Need New Range
ELIMINATED
FOR SALE—EQUITY IN ’31 MOD- will on the 8th day of March, 1937,
Unless utmost precaution is used,
quality of the ergs in reaching the irrigating.
el A coupe: V-8 wheels, sporty at the hour of 2:00 o’clock in the
FOR PARTICULARS SEE
final market. The eggs are cooled,
He says that there is not a piece | turkeys cannot be raised success- paint job; Moyer’s Men's Store. ¡afternoon of said day, offer for sale
30-3tc to the highest bidder for cash in
candled and packed, saved from heat of land in this region that cannot I fully on ground where turkeys or Phone 111. Hermiston.
hand at the office of the Recorder
chieens have ranged the year be-
Je
I.rlgaied
eiticiently
with
a
four
1
of local shipment, and reach the inch application of water, while the | fore. Even then, after disinfecting LIFE COMPANIONS. OUR DIGNI- of said City of Hermiston. Oregon,
fled method assures happiness. No j the following described lots of land
market in car lots in much better average has been from eight to nine | such ground, trouble often arises,
condition, thus bringing a better inches, and often with poor results. I says the Wisconsin Agriculturist names published. Write for particu ¡ heretofore acquired by said City
Eureka Club, 1233 SW Hall. from Umatilla County. Oregon, to-
DR. A. E. MARBLE
it costs very little more to put land and Farmer. The only safe plan lars.
price.
Portland, Oregon.
30-2tp ! wit:
CHIROPRACTOR
The board is giving some consi- in proper shape to flood quickly. 1 is to provide new clean range and
Lots 11, 12 and 13 in Block 4 In
With the use of an instrument, or runs for the birds each season. PORTLAND PROPERTY * WILLA-
Office:
Two
doors west post office
The
deration to packing facilities.
the City of Hermiston, Oregon. as
good study of the land, or water
given healthy stock and good
mette Valley lands and also stock
Office Hours: 8 to 12 - 1:30 to •
quantity of eggs is about sufficient used before seeding, a float or a few Then,
platted
in
the
NW
1
SW
‘
Sec
care, the flock has the best chance ranches in Eastern Oregon, to trade
tion 11. Tp 4 N. R. 28, E. W. M.
Phone 481------- Hermiston. Ore
in this territory if all eggs were cen days with a fresno will often do the to grow and thrive.
for farms in this irrigated belt. E.
F. C McKENZIE. Mayor of
job.
Above
all,
he
says,
don
’
t
just
tralized at one point, but more eggs
P.
Dodd.
Hermiston.
30-tfc
City of Hermiston.
slap in your crops.
would be required otherwise to jus
Umatilla County. Oregon
FOR SALE
PUREBRED HOL-
Hermiston Post No. 37
The
ditches
for
spreading
the
wa
CAPTAIN
HIGGS
’
RIVER
tify the installing of euch equip
(Feb. 25-March 4, 1937)
ter should be large and should be
stein cows, 3 or 4 years old: fresh
Meets first and third
ment just now. A packing plant kept well cieaned. Tne turnouts LOG STORY TOLD
in April; some harness, several
Thursday. Legion Auxil
Land
Sale
Notice.
would tend to increase production. should be large enough to carry the
good collars; 1 1-horse gas engine;
iary meets second and
So the matter is in a balance, as to <uii uead or the ditch. Have a
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
(Continued from Page 1)
2 units Surge milking machine, ei
fourth Thursday
the
undersigned.
Sheriff
of
Umatil
which will come first. On the trip, i large bead, follow the water and the
ther electric or gas; pipe and com-
Legion Hall.
I jou is soon over. More water and
G. Smith, la County, Oregon, by virtue of an . 4.. " ", -
the committee found no place where ' time is wasted with small turnouts Wheel in bad condition. Water ris- píete for 26 head.
ing. Weather cloudy. Destination Stanfield.
28-tfc order duly made and entered here
eggs are being produced as cheaply 1 and less satisfaction secured than Celilo. Left Quinton 7:30 A. M., ar
in by the County Court of Umatilla
or of better quality than here, but ! the average farmer figures. Some rived at Celilo 10:45 A. M. Shipped FOR SALE—IMPROVED 10 ACRES, County. Oregon, on the 11th day of
V. R. “Bob” RUNNION
spots
get
too
little
or
no
water
and
the crew to Portland on the 1:05
income and home at once; alfalfa, February. 1937. will, on the 13th
they did find a larger volumi of
some get too much. The lack of A. M. train. Towed the wharfboat fruits, berries, poultry, 400 hens, 2 day of March. 1 937. at the hour of
AUCTIONEER
egg production. Also any additions production tells the tale in the fail
and coal barge to winter quarters cows, hay, 4 rooms; coops, incuba ten o’clock in the forenoon, sell to
made here to home flocks could in and often the farmer blames the at mouth of the Deschutes river." tor, brooder. Only one mile north the highest bidder for rash In hand, FARM SALES AND LIVE STOCK
A SPECIALTY
ditch rider and the land, for his own This was signed by Arthur Riggs, of Hermiston. Place only $1600. at the front door of the Umatilla
no way affect the market.
Make Dates at My Expense
lack of proper system.
29-3tp County Court House. Pendleton, Ore Heppner. Oregon
master; W. E. Baugham, pilot; Cla- Lewis Pearson.
Phone 452
Night irrigation is an unpopular rence Kellogg. engineer; Thomas STRAYED —A RED YEARLING gon. subject to a minimum price of
REAL ESTATE
330.00
therefor,
to
be
paid
in
cash,
Tackaberry.
2nd
engineer and Chas.
subject, but the head of water in the
Bull Calf from my place. Not at the time of sale, the following
main canals must be maintained 24 Spinner, mate, Captain Riggs adds marked
TRANSACTIONS
or branded. Frank Walker, described parrel of land, heretofore
that
he
returned
to Portland and re-
aours a day, so night irrigation is
Boardman, Ore.
29-3tp by Umatilla County. Oregon, ac
necessary. Often pastures can be sumed command of the steamer J. N.
quired for delinquent taxes, to-wit:
Teal.
planned
for
the
night
water
with
FOR
PAINTING.
CALSOMINING,
has
Orval Morris of Nebraska
OSTEOPATHIC
Lot One. out of SE of NE %
Captain
Riggs
during
the
spring,
out
losses
c
‘
ater
or
time
in
irri
paper
hanging,
wall
paper
clean
bought what is known as the Hauge
Sec. 9. Township 5. North, Range
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
summer
and
fall
months
of
1919
and
gating
the
remainder
of
the
land.
ing.
see
Ed
Schell.
Leave
orders
at
berg ten acres one mile west of
28, EWM., Umatilla County, Ore
1910, operated on the Columbia to Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Hermiston.
Main street and with his family of But night irrigation is a matter that Pasco,
gon.
O8BORN APARTMENTS
and
on
the
Snake
to
Lewis-
must
be
considered
and
more
pre
________
29-3tp
wife and five children has moved paration made for it.
Dated at Pendleton. Oregon, this
ton.
In
hie
minutes
he
records
many
on the place and commenced im-
with new lands coming in and accidents and difficulties. He and FOR TRADE—GARAGE ON JOHN the 11th day of February. 1937.
provements. He will put part in al
R E. GOAD. Sheriff
more
cropping of the older lands, his pilots learned the channel of the
Day highway, valued $5000; inter
falfa. part in pasture, and will the man
of Umatilla County.
has bis land and ditch rivers and managed to take light ested in ranch property. See R. A.
PETERSON & PETERSON
plant 1000 trees as a lane on the es in first who
(Feb. 18—March 181
shape to use the wa loads through. He states that the
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
south and west. He expects to raise ter will get class
rivers can thus be navigated, but Bentley, Box 26«, Prairie City, Ore-
his
place
covered,
while
chickens.
U. S. National Bank Building
28-3tp
tbe man with guess work and hap- not economically. The enterprise gon.
Get Your Lumber, Cement
Practice in State A Federal Courts
Horace Hodges of Goldendale, Wn. j hazard ways will have to be eut made no money and the costs of
has closed a deal for the old Fow off before bis crops are all .Irriga maintaining the boats In good shape MICKEY MOUSE TAKEN FROM
Pendleton, Ore.
and Nails at
my car Wednesday. Please return
ler ten acres with house and 200 ted.
Wholesale
Prices
to Herald office and receive
feet of poultry sheds, one and a half
There is plenty of water in the
Captain Riggs
to the class Pauline Stoop. Hermiston. reward.
29-tfc
mile north wiest of Hermiston, and system and has been for 30 years, of old river pilots belongs
by Ordering from
and
is
now
operat
DR F. B BELT
will engage in the poultry business. but, according to Mr. Martin, bet- ing boats from the mouth of the Co SHEPHERD DOG LOST FRIDAY
J. C. HOSKINS. Stanfield, Ore.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Mrs. Bessie DeYoung of Stanfield I ter methods in its use must be adop- lumbia to Portland. In one place
night, 5 yrs. old. bobbed tail, ans
Office Hours:
Phone 28F4
has leased her 160 acres under the i ted. A high degree of rotation of In his log be says thst Captain Gray wers
Other
to name Teddy, very timid.
10:30 to 12:30 A M.
Westland canal In Umatilla Mead crops can be carried on and with one
Hours by
of
the
oldest
rivermen
who
died
Mrs.
Jay
Hiatt,
Hermiston.
29-tfc
2 to 5 P.M.
ows to Thorne Brothers for three I the planting of windbreaks, soil ero- a few years ago In Pasco, told him
Appointment
years. They will operate a dairy sion can be prevented, so that any that "Old timers seldom ran the WANTED— BARRED ROCK EGGS
Res. 712 — PHONE — Office 732
W.
L.
Morgan.
D
M.
D
and raise hogs. The place has 50 kind of vegetables and similar crops same boat over two trips ” The Al-
to set Incubator. Leave word at
General Dentistry
acres of alfalfa and 80 of cultivated I can be produced to good advantage. mota and Annie Faxon had 62 wa
Herald office, Hermiston.
28-3tp
pasture
Not only should the farmer adopt ter tight compartments In their hulla
w. J. WARNER
These deals were made recently batter methods In his own direct in which made them almost unsink PIANO SACRIFICE LATE MODEL Bank Bldg.
by E P Dodd, who has also leased terest but should assist by Improved able. The Almota once struck a
Attorney-at-Law
Studio Type piano, located near
his own 200 acres just west of Her- farming tbe growth and develop rock and not only knocked a hole
Hermiston.
Will
sell
at
a
big
sav-
miston to J. Omohundro for the ment of the opportunities In these In her hull but stuck fast. The crew
Hermiston - Oregon
various districts.
had to eut out a piece of the hull
Enlargement of
mill of the Farm
tive of Hermiston
board members R.
u
PACIFI
WANT ADS
¡Radio Louie
Dr. A. C. Willcutt