NYSSA GATE CIEY JOURNAL, THURS., APRIL 21, 1938. WITH THE MALHEUR COUNTY FARMERS In the Feed Lot ... I v a v . 4-^- A jÿjpf Russia ranks first in barley pro­ duction. • • • Matured sugar cane contains 18 per cent sugar. • • • The United States soil erosion loss is put at $400,000,000 yearly. •¿>*AV çcw • - 4 W W t in » » v ' ' .jT . a*«* MALHEUR COUNTY GRANGE CALENDAR Boulevard Grange meets second and fourth Thursdays at 8:00 p. m. Frank Sherwood, Master. Big Bend meets first and third Tuesdays at 8:00 p. m. H. R. Hatch, Master. Vale Grange meets first and third Friday at 8:00 p. m. Ed Charles, Master. Oregon Slope Grange meets fir t and third Thursdays at 8:80 p. m. James Danielson, Master. Harper-Westfall Grange meets second and fourth Fridays at 8:00 p. m. Charles Belgarde. Master. Arock Grange meets second and fourth Saturday at 8:00 p. m. Ted Hon. Master. Wild Rose Grange meets second and fourth Saturdays at 8.00 n. m. Arthur Antrium, Master. Eldorado Grange meets second and fourth Fridays at 8:00 p. m. at Ironside. Floyd Howard, Mar ter. Snake River Grange meets first and third Tuesdays at 8:00 p. m. Mr Parkinsen, Master. Kingman Kolony Grange meets second and fourth Mondays at 8:00 p. m. Mr. Anderson, Master. Oregon Trail Grange meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 8:30 p. m. John Stamm. Master. Willowcreek Grange meets second and fourth Fridays at 8:00 p. m. I. O. N. Gr*ange meets first and third Fridays at 8:00 p. m. Nteman Mackenzie, Master. KINGMAN H. E. C. ENJOYS CARD PARTY POMANA GRANGE MEET SAT. DR. JAMES MILLAR. SPEAKER The third card party given by the ! “Europe’s Challenge to American Home Economics club of Kingman i Democracy" Is the subject chosen by grange was a great success. A good , Dr. James Millar of the College of sized crowd being present. The door Idaho in the main address at the prize was won by Mr. Smith of Nys- Pomona grange meeting Saturday, sa. The high score prizes were won ! April 23. The grangers meeting at by Mrs. Sue Ashcraft of Adrian and the Harper high school building are Dale Ashcraft of Kingman, low planning an all day meet. Dr. Millar score prizes went to Roy Perry of is scheduled to speak at 2 p. m. The morning session will begin at Adrian and Mrs. John Holly of 10 a. m. Regular grange business Adrian. wil lbe taken care of at this time and will be open only to grangers. The afternoon program is open to the public. Dr. Millar traveled last summer in Europe and took special work at Oxford university in England. Grangers feel very fortunate that they can bring Dr. Millar to Mal­ heur county. The public is invited to attend. Mrs. M. M. Greeling, Pomona lec­ turer, is working with Mrs. G. R. Bloomquist of Harper in arranging other features of the program. LET US NURSE YOUR CAR to tip top Running Condition with our Special Spring Servicing NORCOTT SERVICE STATION 2nd and Main Street ELDORADO GRANGE Eldordo Grange indefinitely post­ poned their dance schduled for Sat­ urday the 16th owing to the death of Ed McDeRoe. G. Y. CHESTER For County Commissioner For Economy and a | Deal For All I>aid Political Adv. Convenient Cottage Planned For Family of Small Income • * Sussex, England, is flning fruit growers who do not fight pests. • • • A correctly adjusted plow does better work, saves time, and pulls easier. M ilk A M ainstay Of Farm Incoine FAR.AA CASH MILK l.lCOMfr ( in miuioni of souam ) ■ 955 © CD © © stubble affords some protectio i for poultrymen wifi need to re­ average. major farm commodity except cot­ were 4.3 per cent higher and em­ to the grass while it is becomin : place a large share of their flocks • • • ton to return farmers more cash In ployment down only L8 per cent In well established. for production next fall. When buy­ Recent experimental work has January than the same month of January 1938 compared with Janu­ Such a method is entirely suitable ing chicks, there are a number of shown that summer decrease in 1937. Farm cash income from milk ary 1937. in those seasons when fall rains are things the poultryman cannot af­ egg size is due mainly to high tem­ of $132,000,000 for January was the Further evidence of the impor­ sufficient to bring early germina­ ford, among which is getting just largest for the month In eight years peratures. tance of fluid milk distribution to tion. says E. R. Jackman, extension any kind of chicks, regardless of 0 0 0 and 14.8 per cent greater than In economic stability is that despite agronomist at Oregon State college. how low the price on them may be Brood sows neglected during the January 1937. Total farm cash curtailed business activity during marketings of all other farm the last quarter of 1937, milk com­ Where rains do not ocme, however, It is suggested that poultrymen winter usually charge their owner from products was down 10 per cent. the seed starts In the spring and the purchase nothing but chicks from pany payrolls increased 4.8 per tor his ^attention when it is time grass is often unable to compete blood-tested stock. Nor can the Total farm cash Income from mRV cent and employment .7 per cent to count spring litters. • • • tor the twelve months of 1937 was over the last quarter of 1988. with the millions of annual weeds poultryman afford crowding more that rJarte at the same time. chicks into his brooder house then Most of the market ducks in the for which it was intended; 400 United States are of the Pekin vari- | RURAL ELECTRIFICATION reach 21 farms. chicks is about enough for a house ety, according to the United States SHOWS BIG COUNTY INCREASE1 Electric service is now being tak­ WHEAT VARIETY TRIALS 12 by 14 feet. bureau of animal industry. en to the farms between Vale and STARTED • • • Buying more chicks than the poul­ Jamieson, and contraction has al­ Rural electrification of Bie lower ALBANY — Randall Grimes of try raiser can feed well throughout Packing materials may give eggs ready prograssed several miles out different flavors. Flavoring is Snake river valley has been keeping from Vale. It Is possible th a t the Harirsburg is growing White Hol­ the year is another addition to his caused by evaporation of some pace with the agricultural develop­ CCC camp nine miles from Jamie­ land and Zimmerman wheat in "cannot afford” list. Since feed sup­ compound that enters through the ment of this area. Particularly in son will be reached this spring. mea ured plots this year as a dem- plies are now plentiful, home mixe 1 the new Vale and Owyhee projects onstrrate trial in cooperation with feeds can be fed from the begin­ egg shell. has electric service been made avail­ Eventually this same feecfcr will County Agent F. C. Mullen. The ning. The chick ration can be the reach Brogan, for which 60 miles j able almost as rapidly as homes same as the laying ration. A finely of construction will be required to I plots will be closely observed and ground mash is not necessary to LINN TO HAVE “FIVE have been built. their yields weighed and compared. cerve a majority of the farm homes. YEAR PLAN” feeding success, for in experiments In fact, there has been an in­ Seven hundred ninety-two farms Wheat growers are of different op- at the Nebraska Experiment sta­ ALBANY—A "five year plan” for crease of 136 per cent in the num­ pinions as to the merits of the two Linn county agriculture has been ber of farms using electricity since :n Payette county are receiving varieties, Mr. Mullen says. tion, better results were obtained worked out as a result of the re­ 1928 within the area of Idaho Pow­ electric service now as compared to with a coarse mash, for both hens a total of 489 in 1928; Washington and chicks. Laying in a goodly cent county economic outlook con­ er company’s Payette division. The BENTON CLUBBERS PLANT county has increased from 134 to supply of feeders so that no chick ference, reports County Agent F. C. territory comprises Payette, Wash­ TREES 367 in ten years. Farms served by will have to “wait” for his feed is Mullen. The program, to be backed ington and a small part of western another recommendation. Needless by the extension service, calls for Canyon county in Idaho; Malheur Idaho Powor company in Bakur CORVALLIS—Benton county 4-II emphasis on seven definite major and a portion of Baker county, Ore­ county, Oregon, have inceased forestry club members have recently to point out, no poultryman can af­ from 106 in 1928 to 282 in 1938. ford to raise his flock on old ground. projects. These are dairy herd im­ gon. During the expansion of| rue il planted more than 900 trees fur­ Then, after the poultryman has provement, small seed improvement, nished by the State Forest nursery, During the same ten-year period electric service, electric rates have raised his pullets, a task that will strawberry production, pasture and according to Tom Caldwell, county hay improvement, sheep manage­ there has ben a 141 per cent in­ steadily decreased by means of club agent. The trees were placed in require six months of his time, he crease in the mileage of elecric dis­ ment and breeding, management of tribution lines to farms. At the pre­ twenty-one rate reductions since shelter belts, wood lots, and wind cannot afford to ruin his good work by leaving his pullets out on range 1937. Idaho Power company’s aver­ turkey breeding flocks, and weed breaks on farms at Monroe, Philo­ control. The goal in club work will sent time 296 farms in this area are age rate for domestic service in math, Beaver Creek, Richland, Al- after they have started to lay, or be improvement in all phases, with using electricty, and 755 miles of 1937 was three cents per kilowatt sea and Wren. Varieties used in­ after October 1, or to put anything the 4-H program tied in with the rural pole-line are are employed. hour. The low rate has been con­ clude Ponderosa pine, maritime but fully developed, well-fleshed pul­ totals are constantly increas­ ducive to maximum development of lets in the house next fall. county agent program wherever Both ing. electric use on the farm as well as pine, maritime pine, Scotch pine, possible. New lands in the Vale and Owy­ In the towns, and a consistent ex­ Norway pine, Douglas fir, Norway spruce, Chinese elm, black locust, New Uses for Honey Are hee projects have offered a large tension of rural service. MAKESHIFT BROODERS Russian olive, Russian mulberry, field for the extension of electric Found by the Scientists and carigara. CORVALLIS — Makeshift equip­ lines, and progress has been rather The power of honey to absorb and POISONING SAID BEST FOR ment for use in hatching or brood­ retain moisture gives it many in­ GOPHERS ing chickens is most expensive in remarkable. In 1928 there were 219 OREGON LEADS IN PLANNED dustrial uses, in addition to its value the long run. believe^ H. E. Cosby, farms in Malheur county using FARMING, JACKMAN REPORTS eleatricty, while today there arc as food, studies by the bureau of DALLAS—For pocket gophers, head of the poultry department at Oregon's plan of holding economic chemistry atid soils show. This qual­ Oregon State college. His comment 864. Two hundred fifty-one miles of which have begun their spring ac­ came as a result of inquiries on how line have been built there for farm tivity in clover and alfalfa fields, outlook conferences periodically to ity of honey, called "hygroscop- use, of which 159 miles have been poisoning is usually considered more j keep the state's agricultural produc­ icity,” will make for greater use to make a brooder out of an invert­ satisfactory than trapping, says' tion in line with marked demands is of the honey grades not adapted to ed wash tub and a lantern. While he constructed since 1928. Idaho Power company's construc­ County Agent W. C. Leth. Poisoning j attracting a great deal of national home use. explained to the Inquirer how such •ureau studies 'ncVided the be a makeshift brooder Is supposed to tion crews have been building rural takes less time, because if no new attention, reports E. R. Jackman, be made, he added that he would lines almost constantly In recent damage is noticed it is unnecessary extension agronomist, who has just havlor of honeys of different flower much prefer to raij^ a small num­ years. Following Is a tabulation of to go back to look at traps, and the returned from Washington, D. C., origin—white clover, tupelo, buck­ ber of chicks with hens to take their work in the Payette division over-head investment in traps can where he assisted in making plans wheat, tulip poplar, and mesquite. be saved. The poison recommended and regulations for the AAA wheat All these honeys are found useful in chances on this type of equipment. since 1935: No. of Miles No. of farms by the U. S. biological survey is loans under the ever-normal gran commercial baking of bread, cake, and cookies. When these products extensions of line reached powdered alkaloid strychnine, dust­ ary plan. Ohio's Water 1935 .... ..... 57 57 168 ed on fresh green clover leaves and While Oregon farmers have been are made with part honey in place Three hundred of the 41,000 square 1936 ..... 72 57 193 set in the main runways. Alfalfa, following this planning procedure of sugar, they lose less moisture miles of Ohio are water. 1937 .....77 65 180 potatoes, carrots or parnips may be for 14 years, most other states are after being stored seven days than One major construction job In used if clover is not available. Evi­ just now making a beginning in this bread, cake, and cookies made witli 1935 was the electric line from dence seems to show, however, that field Jackman reports. As an Indi­ other sweetening agents. Buckwheat honey gives particularly good re­ Vale to Harper, thirty miles in the gophers are easier to poison cation of the nation-wide Interest sults. length. Fifty-five farms were ori­ with the same food they have been In, this subject, F. L. Ballard, vice­ Honey is also useful in candy­ director o | the Oregon extension making. It is suggested for curing ginally furnished electricity from feeding on regularly, Leth says. service, was asked to prepare a fea­ tobacco, in the same way that sugar this source, but other secondary ture article on the subject which and maple sugar are used. Among feeders have since been built from Darwin Did Not Like Medicine it. In 1937 the Vale-Harper trunk It was Intended that Charles Dar­ will appear as a leading article in other industries that offer outlets was connected to an eight-mile line win should follow his father’s pro­ the May Issue of the Country Gen­ for comparatively large quantities which now serves twenty-three fession of medicine, but it was a tleman. of honey are brewing, wine making farms on the west bench. and vinegar manufacture. The bu­ subject which failed to attract him E. W. PRUYN, Auto Repairing. Two new distribution lines run­ after a year's experience. It was reau points out that there are still Cuckoo Nervy Bird Nyssa, Oregon. ning south and west from Nyssa said that "anatomy disgusted him Nerviest of the birds at birth Is a number of chemical and technical On my way to town every day I were built in 1937. Their total and the operating theater horrified the cuckoo, says the Standard problems to be worked out in con­ pass a junk heap. There are rusty, length is almost six miles and they him.” American Encyclopedia. The moth­ nection with the use of honey in battered cars and parts of cars there er cuckoo builds no nest of her own. each of these industries. of every descripation. It hasn't been but deposits her egg in the nest of so bad passing the graveyard until the hedge sparrow, water wag­ Lungfish, “Living Fossil” just this last month. tail or a similar bird. When the The lungflsh is known as a "living egg is hatched, the young cuckoo un­ fossil,” a creature that is a holdover At first the old man didn't say ceremoniously pushes out of the nest from prehistoric ages. It has much. But lately, he Just can't keep the actual offspring of the foster evolved in the direction of land un- his eyes off that pile of worn out parent bird. cars. It's getting bad, I tell you. 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Most useful feature, however, is the utility room, between the ga­ rage and the kitchen In it are the household washing machine and Ironer. the set-tubs and the heater. Here, convenient to the kitchen operations and with excellent cross­ ventilation. the home laundering operations are done easily and speedily. And there Is added economy in the fact that the utility room eliminates the expense of basement excavation Such utility rooms are growing steadily In popularity Sometimes they are In the basement Far more often they are being placed on the ground floor, even built Into unused space la rambling old bouses Gives You Most For Your Money Dear Mr. Whifflefender: Sure you have a chance. The trouble with your old man is that he doesn't realize what wonders a good stiff overhauling can do for a car like you. We'll guarantee that if he lets us work on you hell pass th at Junk heap so fast you won't even know it's there. Sincerely yours, E W. PRUYN E. W . 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