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N YSSA G ATE C IT Y JO U RN AL, TH U R SD A Y, M A Y 18, 1939 WITH THE MALHEUR COUNTY FARMERS In the Realm of the H O N E Y B EE By L. G. KLINKENBEKG State Deputy Bee Inspector M ALH EUR C O U N TY GRANGE CALENDAR Bee’s contribution to the world, other than honey. It seems that In the beginning bees main purpose was to spread pollen. I Imagine that they did a lot of swarming and even until re cent years a beeman who obtained | an abundance of swarms thought he was doing very well. Equipment has been improved so that the bees can be cared for in a scientific way, thus preventing swarming as dis cussed in a previous article. When the bees go from blossom to blossom gathering nector, they gather pollen on their bodies and leave it on other blossoms causing them to be fertilized. Some kinds of fruit (Bing cherry is one) need to be cross pollinated and bees are the best agents for this work. Some or- chardists pay the beeman to put bees near their orchards for this reason. Aside fro ft human consumption, honey is used to put inside golf bnlls. There are a few other minor uses that do not use a very large volume. Another thing they contribute is wax, which has been used for many things. In candies, shoe grease, fac? creams, waxing strings for water proofing, and in the manufacture of cars, a great amount of wax is used Bee’s work, aside from honey pro duction Is valued ten time the val ue of the honey they produce. ---------+ -------- BOULEVARD GRANGE John Lienhard, Master 2nd. and 4th. Thursdays 8:30 p. m ........................................... Cairo B IG BEND GRANGE H. R. Hatch, Master 1st. and 3rd. Tuesdays 8:00 p. m ........................ Wade Schoolhouse OREGON T R A IL GRANGE William DeGrofft, Master 2nd. and 4th. Tuesdays 8:30 p. m ........ Oregon Trail Schoolhouse VALE GRANGE Herb Purvis, Master 1st. and 3rd Fridays 8:30 p. m .............................. I. O. O. F. Hall OREGON SLOPE GRANGE Lee Sonner, Master 1st. and 3rd. Thursdays 8:00 p. m...................... Park Schoolhouse H A R PE R -W E STF A LL GRANGE Earl Flock, Master 2nd. and 4th. Fridays 8:15 p. m...................... Harper Schoolhouse AR O C K GRANGE Ted Hon, Master 2nd. and 4th. Saturdays 8:00 p. m ..........................................Arock W IL D ROSE GRANGE Edward Fountain, Master 2nd. and 4th. Saturdays 8:00 p. m ............... Mt. View Schoolhouse EL DORADO G RANG E Floyd Howard, Master 2nd. and 4th. Fridays 9:00 p. m........................................ Ironside SNAKE R IV E R G RANG E Lee Webb, Master 2nd. and 4th. Tuesdays 8:00 p. m ......................Annex Schoolhouse I. O. N. GRANGE Charles Falen, Master 1st. and 3rd. Fridays 8:00 p. m ............................... Cow Creek Hall K IN G M A N GRANGE Dale Ashcraft, Master 2nd. and 4th. Mondays 8:30 p. m........... Kingman Schoolhouse W IL L O W CREEK GRANGE P. M. Stontenburg, Master 2nd. and 4th. Fridays 8:00 p. m. Willow Creek Schoolhouse JAM IESON GRANGE Kay Garrison, Master 1st. and 3rd. Wednesdays 8:00 p. m............Jamieson Community M ALHEUR C O U N TY POM ONA GRANGE J. Edwin Johnson, Master Four times yearly .............................................. (Places advertised) U. P. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS MOURN PASSING OF GRAY ELDORADO GRANGE OREGON STATE COLLEGE— Scores of 4-H members who had won college scholarships from the Union Pacific railroad mourned the recent passing of Carl Gray, former president of that railroad, who had founded the scholarship plan with his own money in 1922. Records in the state club office here show that 209. $100 scholarships have been awarded to 4-H members in Oregon since Gray conceived his idea, of which number 97 have en tered Oregon State college to date. O f these 39 are still in college. Eldorado grange held its regular meeting on Friday, May 12 with 45 members and all officers present quite a lengthy business meeting was held, after which the lecturer Myrtle Rose presented a short in teresting program centering around Mothers day. The ladies on the committee serv ed ice cream, cake and coffee. El dorado will take the traveling gavel to Brogan grange Friday, May 19. House Guest— Miss Fay Swan of Boise, spent a part of her vacation as house In Payette— Mrs. Stella Butler and E. P. Frost guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thomp son. were Payette visitosr Sunday. TYPE S OF BROODER HOUSES Farmers A tten tion: W e Have Just Received a Shipment of Sawed Timbers — For— Hay Derricks STUNZ LUMBER CO. “Satisfaction With Every Transaction” Southwest of “Y ” Phone 110 Nyssa PUT Y O U R C H IC K S O N TH E N EST E A R LIE R Feed Them CHOW-MIX GROWING MASH Mixed In Our Plant Under Purina Mills License *2 pounds of Startena as a starting feed and only 16 pounds of CHOW-MIX. will put chicks into the laying house at 5 months old. CHOW-MIX IS CHEAPER COMPARE THE RECORDS! 100 Pounds - $ 2.50 ----------------- • ------------------ A L TH O M PSO N Cr SO N C O A L — G R A IN — FEED Phone 26 — And Its Care | These windows are equipped with glass substitute covered frames [ hinged in the middle so that the top half may be tipped in to any de sired angle or opened entirely ac cording to the amount of ventila tion desired. Wind baffles are pro vided on each side of each window to prevent wind from blowing di rectly in when the frame is opened. In the rear wall of each brooding room a ventilator opening into the hallway Is provided. The amount of ventilation is controlled by a slide regulated from the hallway. Douis. The doors leading into the brooding rooms from the hall should be equipped with glass so that the brooder and the birds may be observed without entering the pen. All other doors should be solid. A t the bottom of each door on the pen side a 1x12 board is fitted in slides and the bottom of the hing ed door comes to within about a half inch of the top of this board. This arrangement makes It possible to open the door without lnterfer- ring with the litter. The board can be lifted out when the pen is being cleaned. The chick door lifts up. Its bot tom is on the same level as the floor and porch, which makes it easier to train chicks to go In and out. The height to which the door Is lifted should be varied according to the size of the developing birds. As the birds grow larger It will be found desirable to put a 1x4 across the bottom of the doorway to keep the litter from being scratched out onto the porch. Rousts. The roosts are hinged to the rear wall and may be lifted up out of the way during the first part of the brooding period or later when the pen is being cleaned. One-inch mesh poultry netting is tacked to the under side of the roost racks. When the chicks are first taught to roost, the outer edge of the roost rack is let clear down to the floor. Later this Is lilted up and support ed by a 1x12 board that runs along the front and end, thus keeping the birds from the accumulated drop pings. Yard. Although any type of arti ficial yard may be used successfully with a stationary brooder house, a wire porch is shown in the plans. The removal panel type of wire porch Is highly recommended as the removal of the panels makes it pos sible to clean the ground under the porch of droppings, grass and weeds. Litter moisture control. Ten years experience at the college with brooding in a stationary brooder house of this design has shown that with spring or summer brooding there Is no litter moisture problem, but that with a fall or winter brooding, particularly with electric brooders, such a problem is likely to develop. It Is believed that the best method controlling this problem is to resort to some form of floor heat ing. Although the material In this poultry housing bulletin was pre- Brooder houses may be divided into two types; namely, stationary, built on permanent foundations, and portable, built on runners or skids so they can be easily moved with a team or tractor. The size of brooding operations on any farm will determine the type of brood</ house that will prove most economi cal on that farm. When only a few hundred are to be brooded, possibly one or two portable brooder houses will be the best to use. When many hundreds or thousands are to be brooded, a brooder house of the stationary type will undoubtedly prove most eocnomical. Good chicks can be brooded in either type. O. S. C. S T A T IO N A R Y BROODER HOUSE For a number of years the college has used stationary brooder houses with success. A number of houses of this general type have been built on Oregons farms and have proved successful under commercial condi tions. Dimension. The house is 20 feet by 140 feet over all. It is divided by solid walls into eight brooding rooms each 16 feet square, and one feed room, which is 12 feet by 20 feet. A 4-foot hallway runs the length of the building at the back. A building of this design can be constructed to contain either more or less chambers. Capacity. Each brooding room will accommodate 500 ordinary-run chicks. 250 day-old pullets, or 250 poults. Walls and Ceiling. The front wall is of double construction primarily to leave the Inner surface smooth. The partitions are all of single con struction with the boards running up and down. This type of con struction requires no studding with in four feet of the floor, so that each wall Is relatively smooth on both sides. For average conditions in most parts of Oregon it has been I found that ceilings are not neces- [ sary. In the extremely cold sections of the state, or In the warm sections where summer brooding is done, the additional expense of ceiling would be justified. Floors. The floors are of double construction: that is, two board floors with an insulating air space between This type of flo w Is rec ommended because It Is warmer and drier thr.n other types. Windows and Ventilators. Two 1 windows, four feet by three feet, are ! provided f w each brooding room t aL paied with laying houses in mind, the fundamental principles are just as applicable to stationary brooder houses. (Continued Next Week) STO C K A N D G R A IN M AR K ET S (Editor's Note: The following market information is supplied from material obtained over the Government leased market wire in the office of the extension economist at Oregon state college. The material Is In the form of a weekly summary of trends In the livestock market and Is not Intended to replace spot day by day market reports.) Cattle Market Cattle receipts at North Portland Monday were about the same as the week previous with 2250 Most led steers brought from $8.25 up to $9.25, although grass steers moved less rapidly with a top of $8.25. These prices were about the same as the week previous. In San Francisco, Idaho fed steers sold up to $9.85, while best grass steers were about $8.75. Top price reported from Chicago was $11.65. which is somewhat under recent top quotations. Arrivals of cattle at North Port land during the month of April were considerably smaller than last year. Approximately 10,000 head were received although only about 2700 of these were consumed in the North Portland district, the re mainder being shipped elsewhere. Sheep and Lamb Markets A salable supply of about 2500 head of sheep and lambs was re ceived in North Portland on M on day, which is about the same as a week ago. Although prices closed last week about steady with the first part trading was slow on Mon day with prices for best lambs ranging up to $9.40 or about 10c lower than the top price a week ago. At San Francisco the market was steady to strong but Chicago re ported rather sluggish market con ditions. Around 40.000 lambs have been contracted In Oregon and Washington at $6.50 to $7.00 for delivery in July or later. These have been mostly taken by mid-western interests. In Idaho a lew loads of slaughter lambs were reported sold for June delivery at $8.00. Movement of north coast lambs Is approximately 30 days ahead of normal although average weights are said to be much lighter than last year. Ranges in Oregon and Washing ton east of the Cascades are report ed very dry with feed short al though prospects are still good for mountain ranges. Hog Market A more normal supply of about 2500 head of hogs was received in Portland on Monday compared with last week's heavy marketings. Even so, the market showed some weak ness with highest price for carload lets around $7 75. maintaining some of the advance of about 25c which occurred late last week. The best lot of hogs sold last week brought $7.80 which was the highest price paid, since late in March. Wool Market her daugher. Helen Michaels, and Marjorie Jensen— all of Lane coun ty. Helen Michaels won the Moses leadership trophy In 1937 In Washington the delegates will camp near the department of agri culture where dally conferences and tours will give the delegates oppor tunity to study the work of the de partment and other government agencies and become better ac quainted with the problems and ideals of rural youth the country To be picked as a delegate to the national camp is considered one of the greatest honors that can come to a 4-H club boy or girl, according to Dr. C. W. Warburton, director of the national extension service. Trading in wool on the Boston markets showed a considerable ad vance in volume last week, most of the gain being In transactions for wool still in the country or enroute to Boston. Prices on spot wool in Boston strengthened somewhat in line with the strong price trend on offerings direct from the country. Large quantities of territory wool of the finer grades were sold to be delivered to users direct from pro ducing areas. Original clippings of bulk fine wool of good French combing lengths brought 65c to 67c, scoured basis, delivered. Similar spot wool sold occasionally at 67c to 68c. Graded territory wool was in better demand than a week ago and quotations were inclined to strengthen. WEED CO NTROL PRO G RAM PUSHED REDMOND—A definitely planned program of control of noxious weeds, with emphasis on clean cul tivation as the cheapest method, ts being conducted in Deschutes coun ty under the direction of County Agent Gus Hagglund. Where chem icals are needed some county aid Is provided individual farmers. THREE FROM OREGON W IL L GO TO N A T IO N A L 4-H CAMP C O R V A LLIS — Oregon will be represented at the national 4-Hj club camp in Washington, D. C.. June 15 to 21 by two club members and one local leader, reports H. C. Seymour, state club leader. This Is (he largest group to attend from here in several years. 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