50-Acre Farm Produces 3 Million Eggs Yearly
PUTS GOODLY CASH j
IN J31XIE PURSES:
I'l-ANT 1TY. Flu. (AVWinim !
hint leriiii thu nation' uhmI j
tjcitiifiv tull luxury urn .stream- ;
inir into market from humlredH f :
rmlches unknown to uny iigriuul- j
sural renHytt but always ron with
ihi-ir nnnunl supply of "vault '
money" fruit. j
optimists f-Ktimuto nn nHHurd I
hai-VPHt' of fi.O(M.oO() fjuartH, ftoo.-
mm fiiiart morn t tin it Wfff Iii-kf(l K
I., ii,r. .nr. -,! wnuAii i.r 1l'4-''r.. A I
Ioijk, t-lreary drizzlo lid thi work.
It hroko up a drought that for;
hfvcrnl wofk kept prniluMMH ox- 1
iri'nH'ly u newsy , and ly fiiiM'lyln
moiHiuro ncTossftry tn bring tlio
fruit out for the holiday trndo
rive riHn to the pronpfct that
growers In thiH community will :
add moro than f l,QWi,4U0 to thlr-i
hank nccountK. ; j
First HhipmtH to the north
brought from 'l to a quart, j
.liter, 1,000 (uartH worn Hold at
XI. 25 a uart. At the end of the J
first week of miles tho dally nvor-
UK vn hot tor than J&00 riuartH
at 91 cnls. Sales nro expected to I
reach liOOO riuarts a day around
l ho first of the year. Tho ship
ments will continue thru March,
hut ns the season progresses prires
nro expected to drop.
Plant City makes the first ship
ments of winter strawberries, and
by helm; the earliest on tho mar
ket Rets tho highest prices. Nor
thern Florida follows, then Louisi
ana, Tennessee, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Illinois, Delaware, and
New Jersey market their crops.
Farmers have found tho straw
berry an excellent mhl-wlnter crop
to bo grown when their land other
wise would ho (dlo. In many sec
tions It has become tho "cash
crop." Hero, tho yield usually Is
from SfiOO to 3000 mmrtH to tho
acre and worth from $7I0 to
911)000 to tho grower.
Unliko most farmers, tho straw
berry grower doos not liavn to
wait for his money. Ho drives
Into town with tho day's harvest
and when ho goes homo his money
Is In his pocket, fl rowers finance
themselves, In part with money
from other crops but largely from
proceeds as their sales ore made.
This little town Is a busy place
during tho market season. Thero
Is a modern uuctinn yard with all
tho facilities of any produce mnr- j
hot. When tho yard is filled the
gates arn shut and buyers push
among tho wagons, Inspect tho
rrates, and make offers. Hids are
raised back and forth. If the prlco
does not suit the. producer, bo can
drive. out, rent a rofrigerator and
take his chances on a higher fig-
.. , If.
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ELECTORAL --VOTES
ON FEBRUARY 13
I WASHINViTOX Forces to
1 wrlto finis to tho election of Her
bert Hoover as president of the
United States and Charles Curtis
as vico president nro under way.
i February IS, Is a Joint session of
: thf senate; and the liouw, thi 444
Hfftoiul votes won by Hoover .id
; Curtis will bo formally inscribed
j on the rcords of the government,
i I'reliuiiuaries to- that event b
jgin Jit nua ry If, with a meeting in
j each suite of electors of that state.
The vol thus cast is forwarded to
Washington.
t This year will witness tho ifrat
formal deliverance of the vote
under a law passed nt the last ses
sion, which provides for mailing
the certificate)) to Washington in-
;sled of them being delivered In
' person by chosen messengers. The
government saves 914,Ouo thereby,
' that amount being the average re
! quired in past yeans to bring the
j mr H6ngfrs to Washington - and
; send them hom.
j Six certificates are to be made
of tho electoral vote of each state.
One goes to tho president of the
senate, -four to the secretary of
state, and one to tlifc judge of the
! federal district in which the elec
1 tors havo assembled.
The certificates wm to tho sec
; retury of stat are to he held ub
I jeet to tlie order of the president
I of the tsenato and to be preserved
I for a ear and made part of the
public record of the office.
I Vice President Charles G. Dawes
1 will prenide at the ceremony Feb
i ru.iry 13, which by law will be in
flie house at 1 p. m. Four tellers
will count tho votes, and Mr.
Dawes then will nnnounce the re
suil and thus the mandate of the
people of November 4 will hnvo
been finally and formally carried
out.
DEEPEST HOLE IN
l Inst.'d almost four yeara. It waa
' delayed once because fire deatroy
' eil the derrick and again when the
j bit as lost more than a mile be
I low the earth's surface.
S Flv oil s.indfl were encountered.
The firs', down 24 feet, gave 0
DOWN 8523 FEET?
PORTLAND. Oro.. -Jan. 12. (P)
Pacific university defeated Colum
bia university here last night, 44
to 33, In their basketball mix.
Miniiini flow of 320 barrels dnU:
MmnniYri -with the peak proouc
tion of S77 barrels a day from the
fifth sand. After 3.1.000 barrels of
had been pumped from mo
first Siuid. drilling was resumcu
:uid the second was found at a
depth nf Sol'O feci. Iw total out
put was small. Tho third sand
was encountered at 62S4 and the
fourth at S4S4 feet.
Cost of drilling to the first snnd
was 8135.000.
The success of the University of
.vii f.ir.int-A wilt lend to tlti'
j drilling was SOl feet. This was deepening of other wells, which
made in Orange county, California have ceased to return oil in payiig
Jand the hole was abandoned as j quantities, in the hope that even
i dry. ; more wealth than the original
i Oil from tho Texas well Is so j project contemplated will be found
I high in gasoline content thut it below.
can be used fur cleaning clothes or I . .
I polishing floors without being re- WASHINGTON 0P The pub
i fined. It tests 6ti.9 per cent gaso- !Hc domain produced a govern
! line of 58.7 gravity; 24.G per cent jment revenue of $0,700,001 for
j kerosene; 6.5 gas oil. and I per the fiscal year 1027-28. largely
cent sediment. lout of mineral lease royalties. The
I Drilling of the deepest oil woll 'administrative post wnw ?'i,000.H0.
r&VT.Y P.ITA, Texas tJP) The j
deepest hole in Hie ground goes j
down feet.
! It is the oil well on or rather, .
j in Keagan county land owned by I
!tho University of Texas. !
The previous record for depth in Texas venture
raise chickens by the thousands.
Ills neighbors couldn't see it.
They said tho fancy price ho paid
for his brood fit wis was foolish.
Tho Httlo farm and flock had ex
hausted his financial resources.
Johnson's wlfo did
counting herself. True,
( could make a fortune coino homo storm he started all over ngnln.
, lo roost with the chickens. -' About one-third of the egg out-
j Today tho Johnson farm near ' put of the Wichita Falls farm is
'Wichita Falls has ir(,00a Leghorn '-used for incubation of baby chicks.
, hens w hich lay 3,000,000 eggs a t Johnson sold 800,000 baby chicks
year. There are so many chickens : lats spring and summer. They
thai an investment of 100,000 is . were shipped to Mexico, Canada.
I represented by the buildings ond Cuba, South America. Kurope, and
inlpinent needed for their care. ; South Africa, as well as to every
stale In the union.
President Calles. nf Mexico, re-
3,000,000 eggs mean by way of an cenily sent two personal reprosen-
income nn Johnson and his wife. inlives to Texas, to select founda-
On Mote Johnson's poultry farm near Wichita. Falls, Texas, (above), the chief crop is eggs. Johnson j
(upper left) started the business 25 years ago with five hen and a rooster and the general comment of the
neighbors was that he was foolish. Mic hens are white leghorns, such as shown at lower right
lly Lester Posvnr
(Associated Press Feature Kditor)
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (I')
Mose Johnson Is wealthy been use
he counted his chickens before
they were hat'-hod.
Twenty-five years ngo he gave
up a clerical Job, bought five
white Leghorn hens and a rooster . f it li
and moved to a r.o-acre farm lo , their
wives, who buy eggs for
table, can appreciate what
And, there is another, ultho smal
ler, Johnson poult ry farm near
Jlowle, Texas.
However, Johnson has not :s-
t little , capod trying times in tho chicken
ill tho I business. Five years after he start-
tlon stock from the Johnson flocks
tor a poultry ranch ho plans to
establish near Mexico City Imme
diately after ho retires from office.
Johnson'! love of tho poultrv
hatching wus still to be done, but j ed his flock a tornado swept his I business goes baok to the time he
she consented to giving up tho ; farm, destroying a (JOoO-egg incu- was a Ulilo boy, scarcely nble to
eorlalnty nf a. weekly pay check j hator and nlmnst all the hens. walk, when ho had a couple of
because she believed her husband I With 150 birds that survived tho chickens for pels.
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Western National at Denver,
Colo., Draws Livestock Elite
tiro. i
Usualjy, ho talten tho hlghost
bid, J lo must decide, within a half
hour whether ho will sell, for
thero aro other wagons waiting i
their turn nt tho gate. Most grow-
ors aro known to the buyer by tho i
way they pack their boxes. Seldom .
does a buyer "dump" a box of j
berrles-to seo If tho small ones aro j
nt tho bottom but ho may if ho,
nhooscs for it is his unwritten '
right. A few growers tnko enough
ju'ido In their produco to placo
their namo on their boxes. Culls
nro so tea rco that a canning and
preserving plant established here
Homottlino ago was forced nut of
business. .
t-Y i Mz4 ill- -
MENTAL POTTERING
HELD A HIGH BOON'
TO BIG THINKERS
' 5 v
r.O fi-ot hinh. A liirso twin Eln
Htnln camera will lm usort to Btuly
minute dofections ot light from
HtniH ns It piises clone enoiiKh to
tho sun to lip nffcctpd by tho olar
power of Binvlty. Much doflcctlon
of IlKht 1h part of tho KlnHtoln
theory.
luiinp tho eclipse two'tnemlicrs
of tho Swnrthmore party who will
work at the hase of the camera
telescope, .1. not expect "to get
even on illrect Kllmpso nf the
phenomenon.
f
The eighth annual canners" meet
ing, which draws students from all
western states and Canada every
your, will he held this1 year from
Oregon State college. This is con
ducted In tho horticultural prod
ucts department under tho dlrec
tloii of Professor 10. ir. Weieaml.
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Crentlvo thought ot artists, auth
ors, . scientists nnd nuisiciann Is
necompllshoil usually whilo tho Tluv tyivcs of imrchml hull mid Drlre-ulnnln? )..' I,,,.--,. i.i
mind is occupied by "irrolovant will enter the Western, National Livestock mul llorxc show In lien- '
tuntters." ver nro shown nhove. A rami ilcmouMimiou of n .slx-hors lilteli i
, This conclusion -waa announced )H one of Ihe nttriictloiiK of ilio I ult show. I
to. the American Association for I
tho Advancement of Science hero . DEN'VKU (.fl'i Livestock val- liuioase of fao.OOU.flOO in total'
tyduy by Kllot J). Hulchlnson, of urd at nearly f 1 00.000.000 listed valuation of slock I the result
tho University of Rochester. entries that exceed by j" ori"r 1110 .National Western's posl-1
Ho mill it was based on mat.- mimhvr exhibited .!';' u'lrt'" ""-i
rial gathered from personal In- , , l;ct for "f.-odor" antnuils. I
tervlews ' with or written com- tast ''m'' wl" llL 'tll''.vcd at the Mnl. ,,, st .tt0H wlll ,.,..
tnents from some of the most fa- --tid isatiunai esteru i.tvcstocK resented in tho pens anil stall.
liioua of present-day Itritlsh and and Horse Show here January I I' anil reservations have been mndo
Ameiienn thlnkei-s. Included woro 10 The value of cattle, horses, Tor visitors from (lermany., I'an
Arnold Hennett, , lames M. Har- sheep, swine, and oilier animals adu. Ai'Kcntlna and .Mexico. Oni ric,
13. Phillips Oppenhelm. Her- exhibited In was appraised . load lots ot stock will be. shipped
trnnil Russell. J. A. Klenilng, Sir at f so.oiio.000. from Colorado,. Wyoming, i tah.
A. S. Copo nnd Aylmer Uuesset. I " H. Joins, general mannwr iiregon, Idaho and other western
'The characteristics of creatlvo of the show, says the expected states. -
Ideas,"
Mr. Hutchinson said, "nr-
gtio that tho moment of Inspira
tion In which brtlllnnt Ideas flash
Into tho mind Is really a. period
of mental dissociation caused
either by emotion or Absorption
Jn other interests.
"Huch creatlvo ideas usually P
peiir when tho Interest is absorb
ed by irrelevant matters, nr us
ually fniKiuonlaly, often Immedia
tely unrelated to the problem in
hand, are usually discovered on
tho fringe nf consciousness, irre
coverable when lost, are sudden
in appearance, sweep over the
mind in n-flood, develop supple-1
meniary or alternate iorm unu server ot nine total eclipses of the
illsp(ay impersonality." ' 1 Hnn. Or. Dehor l. Curtis Is pre-
AUcaUonlTnot MrilV J;"r ,u'
llge.Ud by the dairy 'cow. and' n; o;il.:( H ,rwt(r f ,,,,.
luvup pucii " mi mrui anil hihmii
iiilddllhg, svhlch got sticky whon
ECLIPSES GOES TO
; SEE HIS TENTH
I'lTTSIH'JUill (pi Veteran ob
wet, should bo combined with
o, more bulky material tike wheat
ur bran.1 or ground oats so that
the digestive juices may mix more
readily with the feed. If wheat
bran or ground onts, or both,
tho total weight of tho grain
mixture. It will crumble when wet
Instentl of .sticking together.
4
' Hani Iuek for Jakln. t
CINCINNATI (l1) Jnltlo May,
Cincinnati southpaw,' pitched only
nun full game in and that
van a shutout victory over the
(Hants In June. Illness and a
pore arm kept III 111 out of action.
before there Will ho another
eclipse of so long duration. Thero
wlll bo tl shorlor eclipse, of a lnln
I mo or so. In Patagonia In J'.ino nnd
I another brief one. over Canada and
j Maine in Ilia:.'.
I 'Sumatra lias been favored with
! eclipses, tha furthcoming ope be
ing urn mini there In Hie last SO
icais. This Is merely a coinci
dence, as, If one remains In the
same locality, hlrf chances for see-
lug a total soliii- eclipse averago
1 about once In Mil years. 1 saw
nth previous Sumatra ellpses. ono
In Itiul nnd the other In lusti.
I "While we have bad solar
. eclluses since th beginning. It Is
! not very many yen since photog
raphy has been known and slnco
' modern scientific methods could
be applied (o their study. Limiting
ourselves In this way to ner.urnto
! and scluntlfio results, it has been
1 calculated that g have had to
date only M luluutes ot real
upse smiiy. and this coming
will Increase tile total lo
' minutes. An ecllnse of
five minutes Is Infrequent."
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comfortable mul safe in
the assurance t lint no trou
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title is permanently pro
tected. If any defect
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Kheny Observatory. PlttsbiirKh.
anil will work as a member of the
eclipse party nigiiiiir.cd by'Swavlb
inore t'ollege.
"The astronomers must be ready
lo begin 'ahnotlni;' when the time
eoinoM," Ur. cm Us said, "for rare- , eclipse
. . . . , . . . .. onds late.
1 in- siar-g:i-er is a goon loser, j i ne swarthmoro party will set
although an ui. Illlng one. in the 1 up an extensive rump.' probably
other band, bo Is as happy as a ' t 11 -little village nannH Takeugoii
schooliioy over nn unexpected va-j mi miles from the northern tip of
cat.i .If the weather Is favorable j Sumatra.
ml good photographs are ob- : Thousands ot dollar worth of
talned. ' equipment wlll be carried. Includ-
"If the wealher Is bad In Sun. a- ing a ..iniera-telesrnpe 6,1 feet
tra May 0, astronomers will h.Qe long, the lens of which Is sup.
(0 wait eight years, unll J3T, , ported by a grnst covered tower
Business Man
Your Eye Glasses
May De All Right
BUT
If they are not "Orthooon"
better vision awaits you here.
Let us explain them to veil.
In BI Focals if you need them.
Dr. Jud Rickert
Optometrist
222 E. Main St. Mrdford
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