TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. APRIL 8. 1920
A COLUMN OF "GOOD” FOR OUR farmer with amazement, chagrin and
thanktulness—and possible he ran
DAIRYMEN.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK
Pertinent Facts Relating to Increas­
ed Production, Better Stock and
Practical Methods,
CAPITAL AND ¡SURPLUS,
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(By Rollie W. Watson)
Having resided in Tillamook Coun­
ty for nearly twenty years and in re-
1 cent years being a keen observer of
| our leading industry—Dairy Hus-
, badi y—in its various * lines of en-
1 deavor, 1 have come to the conclusion
that the dairymen of the county—
that is the majority of them could
profit and would profit much by
giving the thousands < j 4 milch cows
which they ate mostly ‘just keeping’
more scrutinizing attention. With the
end in view, of helping my friends
and neighbors to a larger and broad­
er understanding of their chosen
business, prompts me to give to the
dairymen ot the county through the
columns of the Headlight, from time
to time some startling revelations as
they appear fiom various sources,
Times and conditions are changing
rapidly in these days of increased
and intensive production to realize
the greatest returns: the dairyman
that "pails cows” must give more at­
tention to his animals in the future
than in the past; better breeding,
and feed together with the Babcoca
test and milk scales in the handling
of each cows production w ill obtain
better results and larger returns.
$50,000.
Member
Federal Reserve
System.
Back of YOU there is always
a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.
ACK of every member bank in the Federal Re­
serve System is the strength of the organized]
banking resources of the country.
By dealing with this bank which is a member of the
Federal Reserve System, the system’s facilities and re­
sources are available to you—virtually just across the
street—W’liat is this worth to you in giving confidence
as to the stability of your banking arrangements.
OFFICERS
R. E. Williams
H. T. Botts
David Kuratli
C. M. Dyrlund
B. L. Beals, Jr.
President.
Vice-President.
Vice-President.
Cashier.
Ass’t Cashier.
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DIRECTORS—
H. T. Botts, Chairman. *
R. E. Williams
James Williams
David Kuratli
John Erickson
T. W. Lyster
Wm. Maxwell
Albert Marolf
D. Fitzpatrick.
With the end in view of creating
interest among the schools of the
county, a plan is being worked out
in all its details by County Supt. G.
B. Lamb, these plans will be explain­
ed in full in the next issue of the
Headlight. Every school and every
grade will compete for appropriate
prizes in this contest which will
have to do with articles written by
the students on live stock and cheese
production. I believe that this con­
test will create a larger interest and
broader understanding of our lead­
ing industry.
NOTICE.
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Have sold my interest in
the Tillamook Transfer Co.
and have bought into the
Citv Transfer Co., and all of
the old customers who wish
me to do their work will find
me on the Job
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JACKJHARPER,
BALL SHOP, TILLAMOOK.
Take your Herses there and get
First Class Shoes for them.
1 guarantee all work to be
satisfactory, if not, bring it back
and I will make good without
extra charge.
We pay top prices for Hides.
the whole scale or human emotions—
as the truth dawned upon him con­
cerning his past operations with cows
and what the industrial future might
now hold tor him. Yet there are still,
doubtless many farmers uselessly ral­
lying the same burden ot unprofi­
table investment and labor under
which this man struggled so long,
and like him, in ignorance ot their
mistake. It is for such men that we
are repeating this stoiy that has
come to us from the far northwest.
Any man owning cows, the produc­
tion ot each one of which is not
known to him in weight and fat per­
centage, should read 1’ and take its
warning to heart. A cow that does
not produce milk enough to pay for
her feed should be fitted for the
butcher at once.
Coincidentally with the conclusion
of the above paragraph, another un­
profitable cow story came to hand—
Ulis time from the Missouri college
of agriculture. It is a surprising one.
A man in Webster county was milk­
ing 50 cows when he joined the cow
testing association in June. The test
elintiated 26 and he is now making
more profit from the 24 than he
made on the whole 50, besides reduc­
ing his labor by one halt. His neigh­
bor who started in a year ago with
37 milk cows has reduced that num­
ber to 14, with the same result—
more profit from fewer cows. It was
found that 36 per cent of the cows
in this county association were los­
ing money for their owners. The cow­
testing associations have done much
for dairymen. They teach the way to
find the profitable cows by the use
of milk scales and the Babcock test.
More power to ’hem!
The fire marshall of Vermont,
Joseph G. Brown, reports the sale in
his state of a rat poison labeled, "A
J. P. No-smell rat killer” which con-
tains a hazardous amount of phos—
phorus in the elementary state. He
states that under local test the act of
opening the can produced a violent
explosion due to the liberation of
compressed gasses, with the result
that .urge amounts of the compound
were blown in all directions. The
bulletin continues: "The compound
produces large quantities of fumes
and evolution of gas when exposed to
the air and when once ignited it is
practically impossible to extinguish
the fire by any ordinary means. This
material is not only hazardous from
the standpoint of storage and use,
but is also dangerous to persons
handling cans of it since it was only
by good fortune that no personal in­
jury was suffered by us in opening
the sample can tested." Perhaps this
rat poison is put out by I. W. W.
propagandists, as they have been dis­
covered using phosphorous to destroy
wheat and other crops. The rut poi­
son would ignite when dampened, It
not before, and burn the house in
which it was placed, and no trace ot
the cause would be found.
I have just received a letter from
Mr. O. M. Plummer, general manag­
er of the Pacific International Stock
I Show, in which he w ishes to convey
to the people of Tillamook County,
and particularly to the stockholders
his sincere appreciation of the sup­
port given to the International. This
• county with its customary vigor
' again demonstrated to the State of
; Oregon "that we do things right”,
as our quota was $2500, this being
i overscribed forty per cent. Mr. Mus-
j ser, who had charge of the Dairy
I Food Exhibits at the International
will again have charge, he states
| that statistics which he is compiling
| from other dairy product shows of
the country indicate that the scores
' made by our cheese men of Tilla-
| inook show that the
scores made
were higher than any average made
at any similar show, he also states
| that there will be the keenest kind of
| competition this year from all over
the Pacific Coast and has entries
Irom the eastern cheese centers. Mr.
Now the prohibition amendment to
.ilus.-ter further states that "I trust
the Constitution has been passed the
we will have an entry from every
Democratic politicians want to make
cheese maker and factory in Tilla.
it an issue. This seems to go right
mook county.” Tillamook cheese took
along with voting of Andy Jackson.
all the prizes last November at the
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International Dairy Exhibits show,
You may have noticed that a can­
It will be well for our cheese makers
didate for President who claims to be
to keep this in mind.
bigger than his party is likely to be­
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come a president who thinks he is
Watering the cows is one of the
bigger than his country.
important requirements for the milk
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yield. Watering the cows is the
One of the attributes of real great­
simplest • means of increasing the
ness is humility. The political leader
milk flow w'hich is too often disre­
who revealed the exaggerated ego
garded by the average dairyman.
should be avoided by the people as a
Those who would realize the greatest
false alarm.
income from their cows should have
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unlimited supplies of pure ■ water
Necessity has driven the bolshevikl
available for the cow at all times.
Mr. Fowler called attention to the to pass laws conscripting labor, with
advantage of having watering cups compensation based on service and
in the barn, in a recent issue of the Vithout uniform limitation of hours.
Headlight. Mr. Fowler did not relate That government is going to lose
any figures bearing .on this matter some of its popularity with the sons
to fill out his
remarks. Hoard's of rest.
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Dairyman makes this statement in a
The bolsheviki are a good deal like
iecent issue: "Reports made on the
milk records of 28 herds (739 cows) the Democratic party in the matter
for instance, show an average in­ of fulfilling their promises. They pro­
crease per cow per day of 2.45 lbs. fessed to be in favor of peace and
This is 490 tbs. in 200 days, which at they are maintaining the biggest
$3.50 per cwt. totals $17.15 with a army in Europe, and one mostly com­
saving in time and labor of $2.50 per posed of conscripts and foreign mer­
cow means a net profit of over 400 cenaries.
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per cent for the first year." We won­
der if it pays to have plenty of fresh
One would suppose that the maga­
water for the cow? We also wonder zines which helped hang the new
how many of our Tillamook dairy freedoM on the Country would be a
barns have water cups for their little backward about trying to put
cows? This Is not "bull" its facts! something more over in 1920, but
What would be the total Increase for they go right along as if they sup­
all of the cows in Tillamook county posed everybody had forgotten their
with water available when the cow former atrocities.
wants it?
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Representative Igoe, of Missouri,
Every dairyman in Ti’lamook lias introduced a bill providing for
county should ask himself this ques- the abolition of the office of Post­
tion? What shall I do to better my master General. If Mr. Igoe will
conditions? There is somtehlng for possess his soul in patience until the
you to do. Look around you, se what fourth of March he will witness the
it is then get busy.
abolution of the present incumbent.
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Idaho is conducting a live stock im-
What has become of the old-fash­
provmenet projects in 32 of the 44
ioned uplifter who used to say that
counties in the state and recently
if we would only adopt the general
has adopted the cooperative "Better
primary system all corruptions and
Sires—Better Stock,’’ plans as a
crookedness would depart from poli­
means of hastening progress. Under
tics? He has thought up some new
this pian live-stock owners who use
ones and is busy talking about them
purebred sires at the head of their
herds and flocks receive a certificate
Remembering the part most of
of official recognition Issued jointly
by the state agricultural college and these magazines played in wishing
the United States department of ag­ the present national administration
on us, you wouldn’t suppose they
riculture.
would be coming to the front now
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An interesting
and insignificant with so much advice about what the
story is told of a Saswatchewan far- people ought to do in the 1920 elec­
niar who owned a milking herd of 44 tion.
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cows. He decided to test them and
the result of his careful investigation
Politic* in a representative repub-
in this line was absolute proof that ' lie is the deterntlnatlon of public
10 of the cows were not paying for I question* in the forum of public
their feed bill. Of course he disposed | opinion. The biggest menace to the
of these expensive creatures at once | good government 1* the holler-than-
and secured some real milk produc­ ■ thou hypocrite who refuses to take a
ers to take their places; but—here is hand in politics on the theory that
the most interesting part of the i participation in it might soil hi* im­
whole story—only five good cows maculate pernon, and who neverthe­
were required to replace the 10 poor less, is always criticizin g the evils
ones, for they gave more milk than that inevitably follow the indiffer-
the ten! We may well credit
eace and aloofness of citizenahip,
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WHY
Arab Isle of Bahrein Is
Place of Romance
Bahrein, the remote Arab isle In the
Persian gulf, which is the reputed
birthplace of the Phoenicians, has
played an important part in the event­
ful history of the middle East. Tra­
dition says the lustrous pearls that
gleamed on the breast of the queen
of Sheba were fished up from the hot,
dangerous depths of these waters.
• And long before the flood, says
Babylonian mythology, a great crea­
ture. half man and half fish, called
’’Oannes,’’ came up from the waters of
Bahrein, strode ashore, and went
North to teach culture to the Chal­
deans! Here, too. are strange, mys­
terious ruins awaiting the pick and
spade of exploring antiquarians.
But it is the big, high-priced pearls
rather than ruined cities that make
modern Bahrein a coveted prize in the
breakup of the Turkish empire. For
centuries fortunes have been fished
up from these seas each year. On the
adjacent Arab const are certain sheiks
In whose tribes pearls of great price
have been handed down for genera­
tions, and Ishtar, the dissolute Baby­
lonian princess. Is said to have worn
a necklace of Bahrein pearls which
was so long that even when she stood
upright it brushed on the ground.
Both Stationary and Swinging W ringers
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Why Men Prefer Civil Life.
In both Denmark and Sweden, and
to n lesser degree In Norway, an ex­
odus from the army Is taking place.
Officers find it difficult to live on their
pay and fewer aspirants are present-
ins themselves. There is a serious
shortage of noncommissioned officers.
and the voluntary cadres prescribed
by law are becoming increasingly diffi­
cult to find. Labor conditions are so
good for men who want to work, and
pay Is so high for manual labor that
the army ceases to present attrac­
tions.
In Sweden, of 11.S61 volunteers
prescribed by law, 6,154 are lacking.
There are soldiering jobs provided for
by the last financial budget, with no
volunteers to till them. One volun­
teer detachment detailed to the Svea
regiment, consisted of only ten at the
end of October.
The Scandinavian navies, too, nre
considerably underoffleered and vol­
unteers are chary of presenting them­
selves when they can make such good
wages elsewhere.
For mother
fatter« the boys
and fiirls
the sweet for all
ages—at work or
when you’re
nervous or tired
see how it
refreshes!
Why Hats Are Like Houses.
Did it ever occur to you that head­
gear takes on the form of houses?
It is hard to account for some of the
weird hats of the day by this theory,
although perhaps an effort to carry
out the lines of the skyscraper may be
traced In the beanstalk decorntlons of
feathers and flowers which tower sky­
ward from our huts.
However hard to prove, this Is a
theory put forward by an authority on
woman’s dress. To understand Its
claim to consideration call up a pic­
ture of a medieval woman with a tall
funnel-shaped headdress—the henln.
Isn’t It for all the world like the spire
of a Gothic church? And doesn’t it
also suggest the peak tent where
crusading or warrior husband
brother or father spent much of
time?
Take the eastern turban for
other example. It is almost like
dome of some mosque or synagogue
in outline.
How Seal Herds Increase,
A tentative annual census of the
Alaskan fur seals just tnnde by Dr.
G. Dallas Hanna indicates the
strength of the herd as 524,269 ani
mals of all ages, as compared with
496,432 seals In 1918. The number of
pups born, equivalent to the number
of breeding cows, was 157,172, an In-
cre: so over 1918 of 10 per cent In
each class. The aggregate figures for
1919 do not Include the seals taken
for their skins. According to the tele­
graphic reports, 22.027 fur sealskins
have been taken on St. Paul island
and 3.3.14 on St. George Island through
the regular killing season ended Au-
gust 10. A sperisi effort has been
made to reduce the excess of large
mule seuls, with the result tlmt over
6,409 such skins have been taken.
How to "Read” Fingers,
At the muscular portion of
thumb where it joins the hand one
can decipher Imagination and roman­
ticism. In accordance with the height
of this particular part. People with
no enlarged Joint at this spot are sore­
ly dept ndent upon others and cannot
think or act for themselves. This
somewhat corresponds to the side of
the hand where the small finger is
connected, for when placing the palm
downward upon a table the direct
straight line gives way to untidiness
and curiosity, It Is just opposite In
meaning to the curved development,
determining neatness and discretion.
Why Depth Fishes Are Black.
The depth fishes are all exceedingly
ferocious, as shown by their huge, lan­
cet shaped teeth. All ot them are
inky black—n* might be expected from
the fact that their abode Is one of
absolute and everlasting darkness.
Some are blind, while others have
huge goggling eyes; for amid the
darkness phosphorescent lights are
carried by many of the abysmal crea­
tures, even by the fishes themselves.
How War Hurried Invention«.
Th* development In telephonic and
telegraphic equipment effected during
th* war would have occupied probably
from ten to fifteen yean during prdl-
nary peace time*.
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Any man who uses the Real To­
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County Dairy Herd Inspector
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