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Thursday, April 8, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Many Cash Crops Found in Forests Farm Woodlot Will Produce Many Trees, Bushes, Berries of Value. By Robert B. Parmenter, Extension For- ester. Massachusetts State College. WNU Service. "God in the hills,” a favorite line in by-gone melodramas, might well apply to today’s farm woodlot. Be sides saw timber and cordwood, the farm woodlot offers many other cash crops to the enterprising own WORLD’S BEST COMICS Lighter Side of Life as Depicted by Famous Cartoonists and Humorists Waste Space THE FEATHERHEADS er. PLEASE Many farmers are getting annual incomes from Christmas trees. They also sell "press brush,” or tip ends of spruce and balsam which are clipped off and baled for manu facturers of Christmas greens and decorations. Some men have sold fern-picking rights on their land, the buyers using them as decora- tions. There is always a market for tree seeds. Acorns, walnuts, butternuts, black walnuts, and cones from spruce, pine, or balsam may be gathered and sold in the fall. Bean poles and pea brush are always in demand, and poles and stakes for proping up heavy branches of ap ple trees often find a sale. Much of this material can be gathered while making thinnings in the wood lot. Fence posts and rails are always useful on the farm, and taking them from the woodlot means quite a saving over a period of time. Novelties made from gray o r white birch, twig baskets filled with white pine sprays and cones, red berries, and dried grasses also add to the income. Decorative buttons made from walnuts or butternuts can generally be sold to novelty shops. Maple syrup and sap need only be mentioned. Everyone knows the value of a good sugar bush. Cattle bedding made from trash wood by cones treated chemically to produce colored flames in the fireplace, and white birch for fancy fireplace wood are some of the other forest by- products. A little scouting around for a market will often lead to new uses for old forest products, and every new outlet means more money from the farm woodlot. KE My seat , MADAM ) Ou “ THANK KINDLY—AND TUST WHERE a WAS YOUR Dez SEAT ks QuAw COURTES VIRTUE: 2 ) AND VIRTuE IS is OWN REWARD S’MATTER POP— The Pooch Might Have Learned Something By C. M. PAYNE 2T -R- 16 HoRANCE! (Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) MESCAL IKE A Break for Muley / MULEY BATES GOT d HISSELF ARRESTED AGEN) LAST NIGHT FER. a A- CATER WAÜLIJ ' SQ) PhiL pave LOUD HE DISTURBED/ Arrey j -1 WAS JEST OVER TO see TU' LAVER. ( HE ALLOWS HE CAN "X /PROVE VUHRE A MORON ) OR SOMETHIN’ OR OTHER ) AN‘ GIT YOH SENT UP 7 — TO T— INSANE asylum RIGHT — OH DONT 1MATTA PAN NO .— FINE !!. Spruce and Fir Among Best Windbreak Trees Norway spruce and Douglas fir are the most satisfactory trees to use as windbreak plantings, according to J. E. Davis, extension forester. College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. A good windbreak is easy to have, its success depending upon location, soil preparation, choice of trees, spacing, protection and care. A windbreak will be effective on the leeward for a distance eight times its height. Since the trees average 40 feet in height, it is best not to have the buildings near er than 50 feet nor farther than 320 feet from the trees. If closer than 50 feet, snow drifts may form on buildings, and dead-air pockets may cause excessive heat in sum mer. The windbreak affords best pro tection if built in the form of an inverted “L” on the west and north of the farmstead. Plowed prefer ably in the fall, the land may be fit ted in the spring. At least 4-year old transplanted trees are recom mended and even larger trees will assure more success. Silage for Young Cattle Silage in large amounts can be used to feed thin common-to-medi- urn yearlings or older cattle which are to be marketed this spring, ac cording to E. T. Robbins, live stock extension specialist, College of Ag riculture, University of Illinois. Sil age with or without dry roughage is combined with three or four pounds of cottonseed meal or soy bean oil meal for each head each day by some experienced finishers of butcher cattle. Corn is added during about the last two months, and the cattle are sold when about two-thirds fat. (Copyright, FINNEY OF THE FORCE ‘LO. JOE- GIMME A BOWL o' CHOWDER By Ted OLough’in “ BOWL OF — CHOWER—- / MAKE IT HOT/ HEY T oe — ) Counter Attack DON’T WORK ON HOW DEZ 4 ME- THE BOSS IS IN THE KITCHEN— IXPECT ME I'LL CALL HIM — TEAT THIS? WHAT’S THE TROUBLE, COPPER 2 ‘CAUSE Ol , AIN’T GOT j NO SPOON! 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Oversight The Curse of Progress “That letter I gave you thir morn ing—did you post it?" asked the wife. “Well, no, deai,” said her hus band. “Of course you didn’t. And 1 told you it was important that it should go today ” “Yes, dear.” “And you forgot to post it. If that’s not just like a mani” “But, dear—” “Don’t ‘but’ me. I'm angry.” “But, dear, look at the letter. You forgot to address iti ” More than 900 varieties of cab bage are now grown in the United States. The proportion of grain-fed cattle in the 1937 slaughter supply prob ably will be smaller than for 1936. * ** One broken tile may make a whole line of drainage worthless. • • • Former 4-H club members com prise 34 per cent of home eco nomics students and 39 per cent of all agricultural students in courses at Ohio State university. * * * Too many high producing cows have “off years”; it pays in added amounts of milk and fat produced during a lifetime if special effort is made to have such cows dry at least eight weeks before calving. 21 L An Art Experiment "Lady,” said Plodding Pete, "kin 1 1 iang around the barnyard awhile?” “What for?" "1 have been studyin’ up on in terpretive music an' if dere is any way of makin' sound take de place of reality I want de benefit. Lemme stop an' listen to de pigs grunt an’ de hens cackle, 'cause sumpin’ tells me dat's as near as I’m goin' to git to real ham an' eggs.” By GLUYAS WILLIAMS DOOR-BELIS 15 SUPPOSED so BE 1AKIN6 wheuce eraeiiie ICRESiiNl WOULD HAPPEN TERE’S ME BELL AGAIN A LONG FIRM RIN6 BABLY SOMEBODY SCUM* SOMETH DOOR- BEiL kNlows TAT riha - ONLY THE POSTMAN
