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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT PAGE EIGHT About the County AGRICULTURE TO MAKE BIG STRIDES FORWARD TUESDAY. MARCH 21 D~ Increasing production and reduc- ing costs on the farm through irn- proved equipment only have been Rollle Watson and R. A. Leonard begun. J. B. Davidson, head of ROCKAWAY HOTES were here on business Tuesday. the agricultural engineering de- They called upon W. J. Mead. partment of Iowa State college, be- Elmer Pistum, with a crew of lieves. A. L. McCarty and family, of men, will resume work at the rock The progress in agriculture ia the Manzanita, were guests of Mr. and crusher. last fifty years will be eclipsed with Mrs. Oscar Klein Sunday. in the next quarter century, Mr. < ’ Otto Schrader, of Idaville, spent Davidson says. He thinks those the week end with his mother at who say we have reached the limit BAY CITY NOTES Rockaway. in farm equipment to reduce tbe cost of production lack vision. William Stevens, merchant of A. Ramsey, of the Tillamook Bay “A survey in Story County shows Rockaway, was in Tillamook Mon Fish Co., returned Sunday from a it takes a man and three horses day on business. business trip to Portland. three hours to plow an acre,” Mr. Davidson said. “By using five horses Mrs. Gay, of Portland, is spending J. H. Miller has returned from he can plow that acre in two hours. a few days at Rockaway looking Portland where he has been visiting Using a tractor he will plow it in after her summer cottages prepara for the past four months. one and one-half hours. tory to selling. “Thus we show the progress made. W. V. Lindley, of the Whitney But we only have scraped the sur L. Sampson, of Portland, is in Co., was a visitor here last Friday. face. Hardly* that." Twin Rocks for a few days oversee Mr. Lindley was formerly a resident ing his business interests. of this city add was prominent in FARMERS RACE OF MECHANICS The farmers are becoming a race the city’s affairs. The work on the new beach hlgh- of mechanics, Mr. Davidson i said, ¡’ way is progressing very fast, Tho G. V. Doughty arrived from Gold He told how the motor car was road already being cleared to Man Hill last week. Mr. and Mrs. Dough responsible. It brought out the hattan and in three days will cross ty left here a year and a half ago ability to handle machinery, The the outlet to Lake Lytle. for California, where they have sucess of many farm implements i had made their residence until three been due as much to the mechanical James McCord and W. H. Hart- months ago when they moved to ingenuity and common sense as any mas, of the Oregonian staff, are at Gold Hill. Mr. Doughty has been other factor, Mr. Davidson said. the McCord cottage for a few days, ill and will stay on at the bbach to "In ten years when a man goes to superintending the erection of a recuperate for a while. He will the field to plow he will start the new summer home at Saltair. later again join bls wife at Gold plow and leave," he said. “It will HUI. run itself. It may be only a small Mr. and Mrs. N. Bosier, of Rock- . plow or one of several bottoms. It guest away, have as their house W. C. Fulks, of Summit, Ore., is i will run beck and forth, turning Miss Emma Kling, of Portland. the new depot agent at Garibaldi. He itself when it strikes the fence. came here with his family last week [ Meanwhile the man may be doing and took up his duties the first of i something else. He may start other WHEELER NOTES plows. But will be relieved of the the week. drudgery of plowing as it now is _ . known. Tom A. Cathers, local station H. McGinn, ..Fantagtic? Many raan} operations in agent, left Tuesday for a six weeks camp, was in of the Coates’ logging the city on business factories now grown He will stop at a commonplace < ’ trip to the East. last Monday. • are more difficult than Buch an Ontario to visit some of his rela- operation. It will be worked out fives. Mr. Russel will have charge J. O. Bozorth, city treasurer, went within a decade.” of the station while Mr. Cathers is to Tillamook Saturday to transact away. business for the city and also to YOUNGER GENERATION STUDIES MACHINES visit freinds tn the neighboring It has been announced that the city. The younger generation on the senate has confirmed the appoint farm particularly was interested in ment of Minta Lundberg as post- production Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilkins, of the equipment to lessen mistress. far famed Wilkins Orchestra, were costs by making greater production possible, he said. More than that Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Montgomery the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Till- the young folgs were thinking about are the pround parents of a 10 % man, on aMrch 10. those things. They had confided pound son, born March 11. Dr. ideas in him, in certain instances, Rinehart attended. J. D. Mitchell, manager of the So much attention had been Bay Ocean hotel, was in the city given the last year or two to the S. A. Craft, of Camp 4, who was Wednesday. great problem of farm marketing severely injured recently, is report- that production may have been lost ed to be rapidly recovering at a Miss Leona Peregoy, city school sight of to a certain extent. But Portland hospital. teacher, spent the weekend visiting the production was important and her parents at Nehalem. would find itself in its proper posi H. H. Bosel}, of Nehalem, was in tion. whatever might be the solution town Wednesday on business. Mrs. J. M. Millsap, of Twin Rocks, of other problems. "There is no reason a man can’t Kendall Scovell, of North Forks, left for Portland where she will be plant four rows of corn at a time in the guest of her daughter, Mrs. G. was a visitor to the city last Satur stead of two," he said. "We culti V. James. day. vate now, generally, to kill weeds and c* ^ate a dust mulch. We will William Dahlke, of Lake Lytle, Portland Frank Patchell went to on business, the first part of the who has been attending court at have a machine that will kill weeds Tillamook, passed through the city and make a dust mulch fifty feet week. wide instead of six. There is no Wednesday on his way home. reason a man can’t tend 120 acres Sickness in the family of Rev. of corn insted of sixty. And the Taber, prevented his appearance Mrs. F. L. Dowell, wife of the young men are thinking about that. last Sunday. rural mail carrier, passed the week They wish to tend the sixty acres of — visiting at the home of her mother corn and have more time for some Max nugenin has moved to the at Tillamook. thing else. Sellwood Farm near Newberg. “POWER FARMING" MIS-APPLIED John Harris left Tuesday for Levi Cyphert left for the Gari Battleground, Wash., where he will The term “power farming” was baldi mill last Thursday. not a good one as now applied. It remain for several months. the most economical power came J. B. Lommen, of Mohler, wras from oats, use oats. If it came from William Mathers has left for Port here transacting business Saturday. land, where he will be connected gasoline, kerosene or other sources use them, Mr. Davids .1 was not with the Oregon Box Co. i L. Spencer, of Brighton, spent a committed to ths iraotor rxct pt as few days in Portland. it represented a development. The H. L. King of Bay Ocean, was in farmer would work out the proper the city Wednesday attending to Kaspar Zweifel, of Tillamook, was relation of the tractor to his farm. here calling on the trade this week. business affairs. "Farmers are the most resource- Mr. Zweifel represents the Watkins rul people in the world," he said. 1 Dr. Hawk was called to Tilla "Take a certain farm power plant I remedies. mook on professional business. , manufactured, for example. With I Deputy Sheriff Lucas, was here on I every plant put out he issued a : business last Tuesday. C. R. Lester, consulting engineer , clear, common sense manual of di-| of the Oregon Public Service Com rectlons for operation and main- : mission, was in the city Saturday, tenance. The power plant is an un- i NEHALEM NOTES examining the several water systems usual piece of machinery. But the . from Ocean Lake to Manhatton. farmer, and particulaly the farm ¡ boy. went over his manual carefully ¡ have Mr. and Mr». Albert Mer.d George Williams and Lewis An and in two weeks knew more about i rented an apartment from Mrs. Mary derson, timber cruisers, have taken I the power plant than the local Effenberger. The Meads are former positions with the Whitney com distributor.’’ residents and are visiting friends in pany at Idaville. If all were farmers, there would this locality, and expect to stay for be no bath tubs, no motor cars, none some time. R. P. Lowery, of Mapleton, Ore., of the hundreds of other conven was in the city Friday of last week. iences. If it were necessary for! Dr. W. G. McGee had an accident Mr. Lowery is the former depot every man to be producing food, no | Saturday. While making a profes agent here and was here in regards one would have time to make those I sional call he ran afoul of a vicious to his deposits in the defunct bank. things. Because through the labor' dog that inflicted several wounds in saving equipment the last fifty the doctor’s wrist. years had brought, all men were not needed to grow food, others had Try Stuffed Baked Apples Miss Florence Davis arrived from turned to something else and the Banks, and is visiting with her The name speaks for itself. They developments had progressed to the mother. are fine. For four large apples use stage we know them. eight prunes, two dessertspoons THE TASK OF AGRICULTURE Oscar Klein is suffering from a orange juice, one tabiesppon butter, sore throat. "There are two things agriculture four tablespoons sugar, one-half cup water, one-half cup chopped nuts. must do," Mr. Davidson concluded. A. P. Tohl made a business trip Pare the apples and cut a slice from "It must produce an adequate sup-' to Portland the early part of the thc stem end. remove the core. Soak ply of food. We have a surplus now . I the prunes in cold water for two and It has caused a- bad situation.1 week. hours. Remove the stones and chop But how much worse would be the I A. C. Carpenter atoo made a busi- . the —, prunes, „■ Fill the apple cavities situation if it had been a shortage ne ss trip to Portland. with chopped prunes, a little sugar instead of a surplus. So we must I . and ope teaspoon orange juice to have a plentiful suply of food and a- M. W. Losey has gone to work In each apple, then cover with slice' surplus for export. the Wheeler mill. I cut from end of the apple Put the " Then we must develop such a' 1 apples in a pan and baste with sinip type of agriculture that rural life Clem Adams has moved into the made of sugar, butter and water. standards will be comparable to the ¡ Andrew Klein property east of Bake in a moderate oven, basting standards of life in the city. That I town. i frequently, until the apples are ten- must be done to keep the right kind | der. Then remove from the pan. of pecol *>nle on the land. And equip-1 Otto Effenberger left Thursday to pour over any sirup left in the bot- ment to the big factor in that attain- ’ attend the taxpayers convention at tof of the pan and sprinkle with ment in the future—even mor« so Portland. * nuts than it has been in the past.'* A FIVE DAY SPECIAL £ £ £ £ £ BUSINESS £ £ £ £ £ CARDS FOR $1.50 Try our £ £ Job Department for Better Printing £ £ I £ £ £ i The HEADLIGHT BETTER PRINTING
