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T he G ate C ity J ournal NYSSA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923 CLUB NEWS NOTES State Market Agent News ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT TUB BOVS AND GIRLS. NATION SERVICE HAKES APPROPRIATION S ARE CLASSIFIED JpiSEEK PRONOUNCES SOU SUITABLE FOR FRUIT AND O. K. I OR EXTENSION Outside o f the County fair, the big- gest event in the club work ia the j boys’ and girla’ summer school held in Corvallis, for two weeks every summer during the month of June. This year there were 343 club mem bers from ail over the state assem bled there for a good time and to learn the newer methods o f caring for their projects. The instructore of the college give their time for a period of two weeks to helping the boys and girla solve their problems. Classes begin at 8 in the morning and last until noon. Afternoon assembly ia held from 1 until 3. A t this assembly speakers from all over the country come to tulk to the boys an girla. This year among these were Supt o f Public Instruction Churchill Industrial Filed Worker Calavan a representative of the Union Pacific railroad, another of the Holstein Freizian cattle as sociation and numerous other inter esting people. After the assembly the boys played baseball or basket ball. Malheur county with the reat of the Eastern Oregon representa tives stood third in the base ball series. The girls went in swimming in the large tank or had physical exercise o f some kind in the gymna sium. In the evening various kinds of parties were held or perhapa a movie or talk. Malheur county was represented this year by the following Mr*. W. L. Turner, Billy Turner, Ontario; Floyd Park, Jordan Valley; Danton Humphrey, Vale; Eldrd Lockett. Joe Davis, Brogan; Cora Elliott, King- man Kolony; Elmer Parker, Wade; Violet Lees, Doris Lees Mable Lees, Bonita; Mr. and Mrs. George Lees, Bonita, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hotch kiss, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Kinder, Vale. A most wonderful time was had by all and those who went this year are anxious to go back again next year as was expressed by one boy, when asked if he thought the trip was worth the time and money, “ All that is worrying me now is, how am I going to get there next y ear?” (Malheur Enterprise) People of Vale and the Warm- Irrigation district are feel- ather jubilant over two facts eek. Thi reclamation service recently announced the appropriation o f $10 - 000 for additional surveys upon the proposed extension and the report of the (soil survey is most satisfactory. TBcse two facts are considered ad ditional assurance that it will be but • short time until the federal ser- has finally accepted the project ill begin construction work on ihysical plant to utalize the sur- water of the present district place into productivity the acres o f dry land surrounding Vale. A Jew days ago officers of the dis trict were notified by Manager Bond at Boise that $10,000 has been ap propriated for further surveys and that a crew o f engineers would be at Vale immediately after July 4th. Those engineers are to locate perm anent canals for the proposed ex tension. While the soil survey did not show aitjihlng new it is further substan- tati ion of the previous surveys made and ¡proved the character o f the soil to be suitable to irrigation and productivity. The federal engineer in Charge o f the survey gave out the following statement for publication concerning the survey. «The land classification of the pro posed Warmsprings extension has been completed. The soil maps and reports covering the work will be finished in a few days and sent to State Chamber To Hold Farmers Of the Denver office. Twelve soil types Oregon representing the various soil condi-1 tions and soil classes were estab- j Portland, Ore., July 6.— Special— lished. A detailed soil survey would A. S. Dudley of Sacramento, said to no doubt show several different be one of the best Chamber o f Com types . It should he remembered merce men in the United States, has that the work just completed was a been selected as Executive Manager land classification rather than a de of the Oregon State Chamber of tailed soil survey. In a soil survey Commerce, beginning August first. all minor soil variations are indicat The Board o f Directors o f the ed, but such a survey would be im- State Chamber authorized the ap pract lcal at the present time. pointment of a highly-trained organ ^ifThe majority of the soils in the ization man as a step in the state prop. ed extension are well suited wide development program to be un for irrigation and for agricultural dertaken jointly by the Portland and purposes. However, much of the State Chambers. Dudley was select land is not of as high potential fer ed by a committee of the Directors tility as most o f the land in the pre composed o f E. B. Hall of Klamath sent Warmsprings district. This is Falls, I. E. Vining of Ashland and because the former is mostly up Roy T. Bishop o f Portland. land and is not so well supplied with The new State Chamber executive organic matter as is the bottomland., will devote a major part of his time Tffere is less of alkali in the up- to the state outside o f Portland, 6UUE because they are older and particularly along the lines of coop have been subjected to more leach erative marketing and the general ing. The greater weathering of the and betterment of agricultural condi uplands is indicated by the presence tions according to State Chamber o f a more or less compact sub-soil, officials. This line o f work is one in especially on the level bench lands. which Dudley is particularly well SKpSome o f the soils classified seem qualified, and is exactly in line with id be especially well suited to such the state-wide development program fruit and vegetable crops that re for which a fund of $300,000 is now quire a deep, moist soil. Much o f the being raised in Portland. upland should be well suited to or Dudley was formerly an assistant chard and small fruit crops. secretary of the Los Angeles Cham “ In general, it can be said that the ber of Commerce, and for the past soil conditions should not be a limit three years secretary-manager of the ing factor in the establishment of Sacramento Chamber. Under his the proposed irrigation extension.” supervision, the Sacremento Cham ber has developed into one o f the leading development organizations of California and recognized nationally as a model of its kind. J. W. Brewer, General Secretary Vegetables that are best irrigated by running the water in furrows a- of the State Chamber, will be retain long the side of the plants are to ed in his present position. matoes, sweet corn, rhubarb, cu Only one farmer in 50 in the cumbers, mellons, beans, and squash, and such general crops as are grown United States has a truck, showing with rather a wide distance between how few truck farmers we have. the rows. A penniless man who went to the Shothole borers attach only the Kansas oil fields to get rich owes trees that have been set back by $1,500,000 now. HAS MARKErEXPERT I t FARM WINTERS son ■ injury enough to form a “ sour sap” condition. On boring into such g tree the insects prepare to feed theft young grubs by planting in the tunnel a fungus that will grow only in sour sap conditions. The beetles are attracted to trees in this condi tion, and attack them. So the first Step in control is to find the cause of poor vitality in the tree, and to S e m ive it as much as possible. Ser- |fjously infested trees should be cut 'Out and burned. K The greatest benefits o f crop rota- Btion are the humus and nitrogen tadded to the soil. Other advantages Karo diversity o f crops with steady L output, more even distribution of ffwork through the year, eradication ■ o f weeds, plant diseases, insects, ■ toxins, and improvement of tilth and | water holding capacity of the soil*. Wolves often raise 13 pups, and usually hank around the doors of other large families. Tiling to be satisfactory in heavy weather must handle half an inch an acre of rainfall every 24 hours. In unusual storm periods the O. A. C. experiment station field tiles have run off as much as an inch an acre in one day. Infectious abortion of cattle, wide spread in Oregon, has no diagnostic symtoms, but can be diagnosed by a blood test. Infected animals often give birth to live vigorous calves, and may be very active spreaders of the disease. Owners of abortion free herds are advised by the O. A. C. experiment station never to intro duce females that have not been teited into their herds. $1.50 PER YEAR ----- By C. E. Spence------ ARID LANDS IS PROBLEM The potato growers of Uregon should have a strong co-operative I . marketing associatiuu, organized | ........... ... - along tne California contract plan, to put this industry ou a profitable “ ,u 1 i n i w f c i f c w iis mill dependable basis. Many sections of the state are ASHINGTON, — Much has Since 1021 the statistical record of naturally adapted to potato grow been said and done for the agricultural aid shows the advance* ing, and it is said tnat but one financial aid of the Ameri by the War Finance corporation, both state, Colorado, can equal Uregon can fanner. Much Is still for aiding eiports and the financing in the qualtiy and quunuty of tms being said In furtherance of Improved of crops, to have been as follows: crop, yet for ears with few excep rural credit facilities and a new law T o » p o r t e r a ..................................| tions the Oregon farmer has not re extending credit opportunities to agri T o co-op ora tivs m arkaun* a sso ceived the cost of growing the PROBLEMS OF EXTENSION ARE ciations ........................................... U0.iW.SS4 crop. culture has Just been passed. Little Last fail thousands of bu- THOROUGHLY UNDERSTOOD T o banking and financing Inatl- Is generally known, however, of the the ground be t u t io n a ............................................... a 7 .ra .4 a sneis were left in BY DEPT. HEAD actual extent of government aid to the To Uva sto c k loan com panlaa ... 86,041 lie cause the market price would not American farmer In the lust few This totals a p p r o x i m a t i f ........... Ml,000,Ou, pa for the harvesting and market Government fundi were distributed ing. years. Portland Oregonian. The fact le, as shown by the official among all of the agricultural statsa. The potato crop of this state For almost every man thera is a record», that government advances to Banking and financing Institutions In should be pooled through u solid fanners to dute aggregate nearly Iowa and North Dakota head the list co-operative seiluig agency This is word or two with a big meaning, $1,900,000,000. That Includes loans of of the distribution. A few figures simply a thoroughly businesslike Sometimes it is a professional term, the federal farm loan bureau, which give Insight Into the countrywide dis way. Through it trained men can sometimes it is a key to a hobby, and sometimes it is an ideal. has been In operation since 1017. It tribution : do for the growers what they can _______ . In the vocabulary of Hubert Work, Includes also advauces of the War Iowa ......................................$24,339.000 not do for themselves individually; Finance corporation made In the last North Dakota .................... 21.305,000 markets can be stabilized; new mat- secretary of the interior, there is South Dakota .................... 15,725,000 two years. kets can be found; ^ ample credits j suth a word> uambltu of_ I a hi 1 Pro' > tv, tvi . i ii iw vn i i ' n i n n m im n A t F tin« Latest available figures show that Minnesota ............................ 12,700,000 can be secured; grades can be es gramme upon which much of nation Illinois .................................. 5,292,000 al development is hinged— the word from January 4, 1031, to March 15 of tablished, and it would seem that this year the War Finance corpora Nebraska .............................. 11,080,000 through these channels the potato “ reclamation.” If one were an impressionist, he tion advanced for agricultural and South Carolina .................. 11,000,000 industry could he made stable and North Carolina .................. 9.921,000 profitable. would not have to know the sur live stock purposes $913,067,803. The federal farm loan bureau since In addition to these loans to bank The Pacific Co-operative Wool name of the secretary, who was here Its Creation has handled loans aggre ing Institutions tlnunclng agriculture, Growers is an illustration of wiiat yesterday as a member o f the pres gating more than $000,000,000 In con tbe War Finance corporation has may bp done by producers pooling idential part. The brisk walk, the nection with Its supervision of federal made aggregate loan* of nearly $200,- and sticking. Farm market special alert expression, the laconic speech farm land banks and Joint stock land 000,000 to co-operative marketing as ists who have investigated the vari and the steady, clear eyes—one might be sure that he has lived up banks. sociations. ous wool pools in the United ¡States to the cognomen. And one o f the states that this association is the heritages to which he has vw y w w sfw vw w w vu w w yw w w w vw vvw vw s ivw vvvvw t most efficient wool-marketing or biggest fullen is the secretaryship o f the in ganization in the country. It has terior, a post to him comparatively a membership of about 2500 in Ore new, is the reorganization of the gon, Washington, Idaho and north government’s plan for the handling ern California. It sells the uutput of irrigation and reclamation prob sorted, graded and scoured. This lems. puts the fiber into strictly mer The success o f the projects now chantable classes, and sheep men state they get from three to ten under way and the question of ad- art last week. All got along very cents more per pound than outside visibility ot rapid extension are too big a problem for brief discussion, OWYHEE well and are almost as good us ever prices for ungraded stocks. the secretary said. now. The potato crop of Oregon can be Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cantrell were “ The government has already ex Mr. and Mrs. Keeney of Ontario handled in almots the same manner were week end guests of Mr. and business visitors in Nyssa Monday. as wool. A strong membership is pended $134 000,000 in reclamation Miss Mary errick of Long Valley necessary in organization, then cap work and is pledged to the reclaim Mrs. Charles Fisher. came dow;i Saturday with her cousin able management. And the success ing of the arid land of the country,” Robert Stewart who has been vis Archie Cantrell, for a visit with rel or failure of nearly all marketing he said. “ The question of irrigation iting Albert Larsen, was called home atives here. associations depends on manage interests me mightily. We have re to Davenport, Washington last week Ceeii Smith and Orval Kelso are ment—success, in putting at the or organized the reclamation service so by the death o f his mother. as to provide a bureau o f reclama leaving soon for Payette Lakes. ganization’s head men who thor Messrs Dick Tensen and Hunter tion, which never before has existed Lon DeGoede went to Ontario Sun of Nyssa were business visitors on day for a visit with Mrs. De Goede. oughly understand the job and who For the director of reclamation we are capable of handling it. Without the Owyhee Saturday. are substituting a bureau which will Mrs. A. C. Bradley and Elba and Mrs. F. L. DeBord and children Jesse Pullen were dinner guests at this efficient management, member cover financing and the application ship or anything else goes for visited Wednesday in the Klingback De Bord’s Sunday. of water for the cultivation o f crops. naught. home while Mr. DeBord made a trip The secretary explained that add Oregon grain growers should not to Ontario and Payette. ed efficiency in the administration of be excited or scared over the news irrigation matters and the elimina Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Glascock and paper stories of record-breaking tion of duplication had led to family were invited to Albert Larsen the country generally. the changes. Sunday where they were treated to Malheur County Real Estate Trans crops o f There will be a large production in fers, Week of June 30th ice-cream. The possibilitie for further aid the Northwest, but this condition to July 7th. Miss Marian Lowe visited her does not prevail throughout the by the federal government to pro friend Ruth Shamberger of Payette, jects in Oregon, the secretary could Dan Dragisich to Bernard East Middlewest, so state those from not discuss, declining to go into de over Sunday. that section. Weather conditions man, part of Belcher Quartz Claim. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher were have been unfavorable, hot and dry, tails on separate districts, such as 4-20-23. $1.00. (y . C. Deed). Warmsprings which is at present dinner guests at Lowe’s Monday. Emilie A. Brroke et vir to Ella through most o f the Middlewest asking federal aid for extension. He Mrs. Joe Wallace who was sever- E. Anderson, EHNE14NW!4 Sec. wheat belt. referred only to the governments’ ly injured by a fall a few weeks ago 16-18-47. 6-7-23. $8,500. Hood River bas seen the folly of pledge for added reclaiming of the is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wil John Molenuar et ux to Jesse E. selling apples around 70 cents per arid regions, and indicated that the lard Lynch, for an indefinite period. Thompson et ul, Lots 14 and 15, box that cost one dollar to grow. Mrs. Della Robinson and daugh Block 2, Taylor’s Add. to Nyssa. Now the growers propose to orgun- details o f the situation in this state, and the plans for extension were ters are visiting in the Geo. Glas 6-8-23. $245.83. ize a strong marketing and distrib-; we„ understood both by bis depart- cock home. They will leave for Cal C. E. S. Wood et ux to Jess Milli uting agency and stabilize tne in- men^ an(j himself personally, ifornia soon after the Fourth where gan, 8 acres in SWHNE14 Sec. 19- dustry. All over the country pro- Tbe matter of reallocation o f the they will join Henry Coleman, Mrs. 19- 47. 6-16-23. $400. ducers are forced to a realization jurisdiction o f numerous department Roinson’s nephew, who has been E. E. Dexter to Chas. Horahan that individual marketing is no at Washington, as proposed in the down there the past 2 or 3 years. ....H N EK SW H Sec. 23-33-39. 2-11- longer profitable and that only bill of Senator Smoot, meet* with Rev. Clive Williams will deliver 21 . $ 10 . through organized pooling and Dr. Work’s entire approval, he said, an address here after Sunday school Chas. Horahan to California Na marketing can they succeed. though declining to discuss the pro on Sunday, July 15. Everybody is tional Bunk of Long Beach, ...,H The state market master will posed alterations in detail. The plan invited to come. NEH SW H Sec. 23-33-39. 1-10-22. give as much assistance to ccsisum he declared, had the approval o f Mr. and Mrs. Lou De Goede were $ 10 . ers’ organizations as to producers, President Harding, and ho would Ontario visitors Sunday. E. M. Hoover, trustee to Jordan when this class become enough in favor it whether it necessitated the Miss Bernice Fenn who is employ Valley Irrigation District, Antelope terested to take the initiative. ..So ed near Ontario, came home Tuesday Reservoir and canal rights o f way. far the consumers have shown but taking over or the yielding of other divisions. for over the Fourth. 6-29-23. $35,585. little interest in any movement to It is understood that the realloca Tom Mills and Will Burley from Ivan P. Hart, Odmr. to John Shaw, co-operate with producers and “ up in the hills” were in Owyhee EV4SEI4 Sec. 31; NHSWVi Sec. 32- shorten the line and reduce the tion o f bureaus contemplates, among other things, the taking over of cer over the week end. costs 20- 41; SH N E H , NEH N EH Sec. 6- between the grower and the tain engineering functions o f the Apparently sheep thieves are op 21- consumer. The state market master war department and placing them in 41; SW H SW H Sec. 32-20-41. erating in the community. Several 4-23-23. $5000. is ready to assist any co-operative the hands o f the interior department head o f sheep belonging to Wm. that is founded on a but Dr. Work is simply not going In Owyhee Cemetery Association to proposition Beam have disappeared, Silas Points Harrett Pinkston, cemetery lot. 6-15 solid basis. to details, on this trip, and say* on- has lost one and Bill Peutz reports 22. $5. , , T 7 ~~, T ly that he favors the plan in its en- three missing. State o f Oregon to Samuel S. plodding through long hours of fig - 1 {¡retv Rev. Martin of the Ontario Nazar- Hill, WV4 S ec. 36-15-45. 1-25-22. ures to make books balance; grimy ene church spoke to a good sized $880. stevedores sweating the last of her Here’s the Carburetor o f Politics crowd following Sunday school last State Land Board to Frank E Hill cargo aboard a waiting ship. The Sunday. He was accompanied by Among other signs o f spring in children sing their song_ but those EH Sec 30-15-22. $880. Mr. and Mrs. Grey Kenney and chil clustering procession* of a workday the corn belt the Kansas City “ Star” dren also of Ontario. The party Complaints Filed in Circuit Court. morning that gather toward school noted this one: were guests in the Bigelow home af- ‘ Howdy, gentlemen! Howdyl” sa John A. Trotter vs. Rutherford doors and factory gates and office ( p r U P rV lI'P H Bros. 7-2-23. Recovery on ac elevators are living it. In lonely luted old Riley Rezzidew, halting in Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Smith were count. $138.80. country graveyards from New Eng front of the Petunia Tavern. “ Good dinner guests in the Klingback home The Bankers Reserve Life Co. vs. land to Alaska, in famous tomb* at morning,” some one answered. after church Sunday. "Well, now, do any o f you gentle Eston G. Scroggin. 7-5-23. Recov Mount Vernon and Riverside, Oyster It is reported that Jenkins and Mc ery on notes. $270.02. Bay and Springfield, in the torn men want to argy about the tariff Lain and Jack McConnell have sold earth o f French fields and Phillipine or the income tax, or cusa the leg Our Flag la Still There their sheep to shippers. jungles, and the long-tended rows islature, or anything o f that sort Grandma Bradley visited last week Young voices, scores and acorea of that make a shrine o f Arlington, this m orning?” in the Bend, taking in the Fourth of them together, clear and high and in whether known or unknown, lie those As good a paper as the New York July celebration at the Park. nocently wise, the children’s song who have lived it. The flag flew in “ W orld," in quoting the above head Elmer and Carl Fenn and Guy lifts thrilling through the hall their hearts when they were alive ed it “ Hunting Trouble.” Maybe so, Wallace left Sunday for the Long "When down the street comes fly and above them in their death. So but when the voters cease argufyin valley timber. Louis Fenn took them ing, all proud against tbe breeze will it be with us, for our flag is and cussin'. explainin’, and praisin up, returning Monday evening. . My heart and hand salute thee, still there. then free government has ceased too The little folks in the Rippey dear flag of liberty . . . O forest, The seat o f our central political en family have the chicken-pox. prairie, mountain, all proud against Tourists report many girls walk ergy may then be in highly trainee Norval and Kathryn Lenck of the sky; O flag fur which men labur, ing to Hollywood Many, also, will experts or in benevolent and re Nyssa are visiting in the Robert O flag for which men die-” One have to walk back. sponsible party managera, or in om Elliott home. does not see Johnny's »tarry gaze niseent journalists but it will no Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Glascock and and earnest face (that wilful young If democracy 1 Americans are rushing to Europe be in the people. family Sundayed at the WiUie loafer!) as hie voice lilts up the tune Immigrants are rushing here. Why not worth talking about, then it 1 Schweizer home. but those others o f whom he sings: not swap countries? not worth having, and you won' The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. weary mothers tending their chil have it. Read Lincoln on that. E. Walters were operated on for re dren and hurrying to get dinner While most other countries need moval of tonsils and adenoids by ready; hired men rolling New Hampshire permits divorce out at it the most, the United States uses Dr. J. J. Sarazin assisted by Nurse 4 a. m. to milk the cows; clerks the most perfume. on 14 grounds, ail battlegrounds. g g ISSUES Financial A id to the Am erican Farmer W INVOLVED N A VITAL POLICY INCLUDE WARMSPRINGS County News o f Interest COUNTY _STATISTICS ■a XXI. NO. 37.
