NYSSA GATE CIEY JOURNAL, THURS., APRIL 21, 1938.
WITH THE MALHEUR COUNTY FARMERS
In the Feed Lot
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Russia ranks first in barley pro
duction.
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Matured sugar cane contains 18
per cent sugar.
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The United States soil erosion loss
is put at $400,000,000 yearly.
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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
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Sussex, England, is flning fruit
growers who do not fight pests.
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A correctly adjusted plow does
better work, saves time, and pulls
easier.
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SUNSET VALLEY 4-H HANDI
CRAFT CLUB TAKES MEMBERS
The 4-H Handi-craft club met
Saturday afternon with 10 boys pre
sent. There were three new mem
bers, Pete Cloninger, Glendon, Hil-
lis, and Marvin Vanderpool. Ellis
Givens of Oregon Trail was a vis
iter. On Saturday, April 30 they wi l
have a lemon-ade party for their
mothers and friends.
GIVES HINTS FOR
REPLACING FLOCK
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FARMER TELLS EXPERIENCE Poultry Expert Urges Only
WITH CRESTED WHEAT GRASS
BILITY of the dairy industry to $1,475.000,000, an Increase of $58,-
Blood-Tested Stock
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maintain cash payments to 000,000 over 1936 and $490.000,000
ATHENA—Ralph Dowd, a farmer
Hens will sometimes eat snow, ap farmers for milk and employee pay greater than the low of 1932. An
in the foothills near here, has suc By C o ra C ooke. P o u ltr y E x te n s io n S p e
important factor In the steady In
parently from choice, but that is no rolls Is evidence, says the Milk In crease
c ia lis t. U n iv e rs ity F a r m . S t. P a u l.
ceeded in establishing crested wheat
of dairy farm Income results
Foundation, that this 3H
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proof that they need ice water in dustry
grass on pasture land unsuited to
billion-dollar Industry Is a main from the axiom that farmers benefit
“Well begun is half done," should
winter.
i stay of agricultural and Industrial most from milk sold In fluid form
general
cropping
by
growing
what
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purchasing power during periods of to homes, stores, hotels, restau
wheat could be produced one year be the watchword for poultrymen as
Geese are long-lived, but when recession.
rants.
and then seeding the crested whear they begin the task of pullet-raising
Foundation reports from 138 mar
Unless conditions change, a big
they get along to ten years or more
grass in the stubble the same fall.
Milk, the largest source of farm kets throughout the country show
hatch may be expected this spring,
their egg production drops far below cash
income, was also the only that payrolls of milk companies
Th-> 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. Yes
imals, but never has become one.
terday he even went so far as to
stop there and get out and walk
clear around me. looking me over,
mumbling to himself.
I can't sleep nights. I'm only five
When the Building Bug Bites
years old. and never have had much
serious trouble. Tell me, do I have
a chance?
Your worried friend.
W P. Whifflefender.
A
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FOR ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY
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HERE is a touch of old England
in this home, supplied by the
massive chimney and the -deep
slanting roof, as well as the tflnber
effect around the entrance, and yet
the house has been laid out with
typical American efficiency so Its
compactness means economy both
tn erecting and in use.
The living room is large. The
bedrooms have ample closet space
and are conveniently near the bath
room A dinette replaces the dining
room and adjoins a carefully de
signed kitchen.
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
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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,
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