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SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 1918,
flax Producing Countries
,Quit Oregon's Opportunity
Ireland Alone Is Producing Normally Northwest Only
Place That Can Overcome Flax Famine.
From earliest dawn of civilization prices. Unfortunately Governor Withy
flax lias been held in high iHti-eiii.lcuriic saw fit to let Mr. Crawford go
.fcgypt excelled in flax fabrics, Babylon I and whether intending It or not, gave
gave them promiinence among her pro-the industry a hard stub, but not a ratal
tiuctions, and the royal purple of Tyre lone,
was used in color-ins the linens of that $2,000 An Acre,
day. On down through history runs a Mr. Crawford is so impressed with
fibre of flux many nations being famed the adaptability of the valley to raise
Dairying Is in Third Place
Among the State's Industries
Bossy Brings More Than $20,000,000 Yearly Into the
State and Is Adding Steadily to This.
Oregon's leading industry is lumber
ing, and next to it conies wheat. The
former is largely a west of the Casca
des product, though there are largo
bodies of fine timber east of the moun
tains. Practically all the yellow pine
finding her provender among the stumps
and logs of the new pasture, which with
out her aid, could not be made to pay
taxes on itself. She finds her food
there and keeps down ferns and weeds
tramps out the young growth and helps
timber is on that side, but the great j nature get the land ready for the plow.
bodies of "Oregon Fir," are on the In 3915 the butter products of the state
ADDITIONAL SOURCE I
OF ELECTRICITY FOR
IHE CITY OF SALEM'i
;
I STARTTtlE NEW YEAR RIGHT
for their fine weaves of its fibers. When I the very best quality of flax tnat he lias western slopes, or west of the moun-' were estimated at lu.000,000 pounds. Iu
Belgium arid Holland separated, the for-! leaded about 180 acres on which he will j tain range that divides the state. What 1916 this had increased to above 20,
nicr turned attention to the growing of j grow flax, except on about ten acres (lo you think is the third industry in 000,000 pounds and while the statitics
flax and up to the overrunning of the I which he will plant to hemp. As a mat-1 the way of financial returns? Probably for this year are not available those
country bv the Prussians practicall v
led the world in the making of fine liu
ens, or at least shared the honor with
Ireland. France, too, became noted for
the fineuess of her linens although she
ter of patriotic duty every farmer who not one in a dozen who are not informed ! who should know estimate the yield of
can. should plant at least a small trac'jon the subject would guess it. It is; butter alone at 25,000,000 pounds. The
of flax, for it is the ono product the not horticulture, not the Hood Kiver ap- price, too, has gone steadily up and that
country needs that cannot be bought, j pie nor tho Salem prune, nor botli com- i number of pounds represents $12,50
bined with the Koyal Amies and Jiings 000
thrown in for good measure. It is not Coast Counties Lead,
the fruit, neither is it the great hop I Coos and Tillamook, both coast count-
Oregon should show the balance of the
was not a great producer of the flax United States how they can "fly with
from which thev were made. Of recent ' her Willis," and the way to do it
years the world lias depended fur its 'is to raise nax. At tnc same lime u . crops once so iamous rjut wnicn nave
supply of linens and flux products on j will prove a profitable crop, and in the j been largely reduced by the plowing up
Belgium, Ireland and Hussiu, the latter! near future will bo ono of the leading of the yards following the state going
growing practically three fourths of the ! crops of the valley. It is not in thdry, and others following Oregon's ex-
growing of tlax that the great revenues ample. It is not the berries, .Logan or
vwll be produced but m its manutacture. others, or the potatoes or tho nay,
An acre of flax, it is estimated, at pres-1 though the latter cuts some figure in it,
cut prices, will be worth when its crop
lias been manufactured from $1,750 to
$2,000. It is a crop giving much em
ployment to labor, and this especially
in its harvesting, for to make the finest
thread or linen the plants must be pull
world's supply
At present there is a flax famine.
Iiussia no longer furnishes her great
quota 11 1 1 4.1 ticlgiuin too, is out of the
spinning. Of all the great fbx growing
countries Ireland alone is producing her
normal quantity. (She is in fact proline
ing considerably more than her average
crops, Having it is estimated l.iiymu
acres now devoted to flux growing. This ed, not cut. When cut tho square end
is virtually tne world s supply, und re
cently this entire crop was coinniaiiiler
rd by tlwi English government. The re
sult is that there will be no linen of any
kind or quality after the slocks now in
tho markets are exhausted.
An Urgent Need.
The United States needs great quan
tities of linen ill connection with the
building of her uirslnp fleet, anil where
It is the meek and lowly cow that stands
sponsor for the third industry, for her
products place the dairy industry safely
in third place, and it may be mentioned
will in the not very remote future make
the wheat kings of Umatilla and tho
Eastern Oregon wheat belt Jook to their
notwithstanding the ragging of them laurels.
out in-scutching still causes a knot iul The cow does not toot her own horn,
the thread. However, a machine has ! lint she has a way of getting there that
been perfected for pulling flax and if it , bodes no court for the wheat growers land is bcinrr cleared, where the dairy
proves the success claimed for it, thisso far as position in "industrial socie-jCow is doing great work in the wayxof
feature, and tne most serious urawuacK ty, is concerned, ihe wneut crop oi providing ready money to keep lann
ies, are the leaders in dairying and both
have devoted much attention to the
making of cheese, Tillamook cheese any
where in the northwest means the best
cheese on earth, and she makes millions
of pounds of it. Tho Coos product finds
its market largely in Kan Francisco and
other California points. For this reason
and for this only, it has not the reputa
tion throughout the state that has been
achieved by the Tillamook lactones
products.
Marion county is an ideal place for
dairying, and attention is oeing turned
to it more each year. There are vast
stretches of land along the edge of the
mountains and in the foothills where
to irrowina the crop too, will be re
moved.
Must Act This Year.
Some idea of the tremendous effect
alio will gi t it is a mystery. England j on the prosperity of tho country tho
will of course, let her have nil that can j flax industry would have can be seen by
possibly be spared for this purpose, but
there will not be enough, The answer
to this problem is that we must grow
it here in America.
Experiments made here and on the
Bound in Washington nave demonstrat
ed that the very bent quality of fiber
can "bo produced in the northwest, and
Coos and other coast counties are if
anything still better situated for the
growing of this much needed crop, than
even tho Willamette valley, as climatic
conditions there are iileritic.il with those
of Ireland. The s'ate experiment of the
last two years has demonstrated beyond
nil question that flax can not only be
grown profitably, but of the very best
quality. Bnmplos of valley fiber took
tho medal before the war, in competi
tion with the best Belgium produced.
llnd'T the efficient management of
(Superintendent Crawford of the state
prison flax plant, the growing anil hand
ling of the crop has been brought to tho
knowledgo of many farmers and the
product turned out by the prison plant
is in urgent demand and at tho top
a little figureiiig. At $2,000 an acre,
which at present prices is a low esti
mate for the manufactured product of
that area, a section of lund would pro
(luce more than a million and a quarter
dollars a vear. Ireland's 150,000 acres
are valued even higher than this and
will bring a return of more than $300,-000,000.
What is needed just now is immcdiato
action and steps have already ben taken
to induce the agricultural department to
assist in getting the flax industry start
ed ho coming spring. The Salem Com
mercial club realizing the importance of
the industry has done all in its power
to advance it, and is still at work get
ting manufacturers interested. More
than four-fifths of the flax producing
area of the world is not now producing.
Oregon and Washington are the only
known localities that can take their
place and kep tho world supplied with
thread and linen. Will they rise to the
opportunity f
Outlook for Coming Year Is
Brightest in State's History
tho state this year owing to high prices
is worth in the neighborhood of $.10,
000,000. The dairy product, it is esti
mated is worth above $22,000,000. It is
only an infant industry too, even count
ing the calves, and it is growing at such
a rate that it bids fair in time to push
even lumber from first place.
Just a Cow.
It was not long ago when the averago
dairy cow was just a cow. She wore
more horns than was necessary and her
recticule where she carried her milk was
not very much in evidence. She could
have been milked in a tomato can with
out having to put sideboards on it, and
she hud more beef in her f orcquarters
than aft, for bIio tapered back like a
gimlet. Her owner was afraid to go in
to tho dairy business for fear ho would
swamp the market, though her milk was
of an aristocratic blue kind. Now it is
all different. The Oregon bossy is a
lady with tho blood of a long line of
distinguished ancestors in her veins. She
is the result of selection and breeding,
until sho is today a remarkable example
of what human skill can do to improve
animal life. Sho is a scientific milk
producing machine, with all tho latest
patents, self starters, and all that. She
produces tho greatest amount of butter
with the leust amount of food. - There is
little waste, for tho machine is as near
perfect as human ingenuity can pro
duce. Not only is she a producer of but
ter but she is also a clearer of laud,
improvements going, and without her
aid they would stop, or at least bo great
ly delayed.
Sometime the timber industry will be
exhausted, though it will be many years
New 60,000 Volt Transmis
sion line From Estacada
Oa the Clackamas
The Portland Kailway, Light &
Power Company during the early part
of this year completed the construc
tion of a new 60,000 volt electric pow
er transmission line to Salem from
whl.it is known as their Eiver Mill
hydro-electric power plant on til1
Clackamas River, near Estacada. It
took about two months to complete the
installation of this line it being con
structed by way of Beaver Creek and
Mt. Angel on- the 'Willamette Valley
Southern Railway. Since completion
it gives fealcm la source of supply ab
solutely independent of Its present
principal source, which is the hydro
electric plant of the same Company on
the Willamette River at Oregon City.
I he power from the last plant is coa
ducted to Salem over a 60,000 volt
transmission line located mostly on the
right-of-way of the Oregon Electric
Kailway Company, the substations of
which latter coniplany are also supplied
With electricity troui this Tine.
Furnishes Power for S. P.
The installation of this new line
necessitated an addition to the sub
station at Mill and iJibertv streets, to
contain the high voltage transformers
which chango the voltage from 60,000
down to 21100 volts, which is the pres
sure used in distributing the electricity
i throughout the city. This new trans
mission line and the transformers have
a capacity of 2500 kilowatts, which is
equivalent to the amount of electricity
required to operate 10,000 20-eandle
yet, but when that time comes bossy Pw"( 2o-watt incandescent lamps,
will be on hand chewing her cud betwen
tho stump's and gathering from waste
places the delicious butter fat. '
Full Marion county data is not at
hand but there are creameries at Sa
lem, one each at Jefferson, Woodburn,
Silverton, Mt. Angel and Hubbard.
There is no reason why Marion should
not be a leader in this industry for she
has a fine whiter climate where the
erass is green practically the year thru.
Tl.n ..nimfi.tr iifnnnil lin i, o.lartlrl till
the" growth of clover, pasture is almn-1 whe i transferred into electricity
,ln,,t n.nvketintr fm-ilities a unusually1 of a proper voltage for use in the
such as are ordinarily used in the
home.
Four Sources of Supply
Tn addition to supplying power to
Isalem by this line, power is also sup
plied to the Southern Pacific Company
at the power house at Mill and Liberty
streets, land transmitted by a 60,000
volt transmission line north to Union
Btreet, across the Union Street bridge,
ana to the substations of tho S. 1',
Co. on the west side of the valley
good and now that the growing of corn
is proving a success and silos are being
erected on nearly every farm ,the feed
problem should be reduced to the small
est one. The silo has given dairying
its greatest boost, and the steadily
climbing prices of butter and all dairy
products are giving it another, and a
most appealing ono from the farmer's
viewpoint. It has been said that flax
will make Salem 'the Belfast of the Un
ited States. This being true Salem is
pretty certain to have two distinguished
honors thrust upon her for dairying is
pretty certain to make her the Elgin of
tho coast
Every Saw Mill In Slate Will Run to Capacity Grain
and All Other Products at Record Prices.
The Capital Journal greets its army of ally unknown. The dairy industry, too,
readers this glad New Years day and j has grown to immense proportions and
Tej lices with them over the bl ight pros- i prices for all its products a.i such that
poets fur the coming year. It says, j it is like finding money ulniost. So far
the; too, the winter has been ideal, warm
with a consequent saving of
I
"blight" knowingly, for despite
dark cloud of war hanging over the ; and open
country, and the many hearthstones j feed, and therefore of money. The prices
where a vacant chair stands on account . j of Oregon 's famous salmon have ad
of the war, it believes this condition ! vanceil greatly and this industry will
will be short lived. To it many things 'pour another streamlet of coin loose in
indicate the cud of the war is not far the state. The taking over of the rail-
away. The ever recurring peace talk is
tme of these things. When the war was1
CornIt's Culture and Uses
Fast Taking Place of Wheat
i
Luther J. Chapin, Former County Agriculturist, Enthus
iastic Over Possibilities of Crop
roads by the government gives promise
that the car shortage will be shortened
liiit a year old the Journal prilicted that and perhaps done' away with entirely,
when peace began to be talked serious
ly tho end would not bo far away. That:
'giving nil our industries an opportun
ity to expand and to get their products
pence talk is continuous now. That it is to market,
not based on terms that permit peace! Some Money Makers
being negotiated is true, but the talk is' Here in the valley there has been a
Boriuus, and is a feeler to draw out : great increase in livestock, especially
the ideas of all parties to the war. It; bogs and the sales last year were more
could hardly be expected that any mi- t linn double those of the year before,
tion wauting pence would state thojThe j remise this year is that the pro
terms it is willing to take in opening duetion of 1017 will be again doubled
a discussion concerning it, for it would and that well up toward a half million
naturally ask much more than it expect-j dollars will be returned to tho farmers
ed to get irt order to have something to ' of Hum section from this source. The
trade on. We believe liermnnv has! outlook jg t(, that the flax industry
reached the stage where she must have will this year pass forever out of the
and whether we are right' experimental stage and that it will take
The evolution of the corn industry in
tho United States has been extremely
interesting. It has been hindered by ob
jections some more or less well found
ed, most of them however, only imagin
ary. Not many years ago corn was consid
ered out of its latitude in northern Io
wa, and a suggestion that it could be
grown in Minnesota would have been
net with ridicule. Minnesota is now one
of the leading corn producing states.
The rapid lunreh of this crop into
northern latitudes has been made possi
ble by the use of homegrown, acclimat
ed seed and the application of better
cultural methods.
which are so vital to the young corn
plant. Later cultivations have for their
purpose the destruction of weeds and
the conservation of moisture. They
should be given when weeds appear or
the earth mulch' is destroyed. A good
rain in summer, unless followed by a
surface cultivation to reestablish the
mulch, frequently leaves tho soil wit a a
lower moisture content than before the i
rain.
Probably the most important use for
corn in tho valley is for silage, al
though many farmers are coming to de
pend on tho corn crop to fatten their
hogs, and feed their chickens during
operation of the electric railway lines
of the S. P. Co. in th'is section of the
Willamette Valley.
The introduction of this new power
line gives Salem and vicinity four
sources of supply two from the two
plants abovo mentioned, one from t.e
steam plant in Halem, and one from
the small water power plant at Silver
ton. Either of the first two' sources
are of ample capacity to supply the en
tire requirements of Salem and vicin
ity, so that either lino will serve as a
relay or auxiliary source to the other,
so that in dase of trouble on one line
or at one power plant, electricity can
bo -supplied from the other jn a few
minutes.
Helps State Institutions
The introduction of this line is of
considerable benefit to the customers
of the company in this vicinity, as it
insures almost continuous service,
which is of considerable importance to
electric power users in particular, and
also to the Stato Institutions, such as
the Asylum and Penitentiary. If the
lights in the Penitentiary are sudden
ly extinguished for more than a very
lew minutes, due . to tailure of the
source of supply at certain times, there
is always danger of an outbreak of
some kind, and the increased reliabil
ity of service made' possible by this
new line will benefit this institution
in particular, prottibly moro than any
other.
The total expense involved in bring
ing this new line into Salem was ap
proximately $40,000. All of the ma
terial that could be supplied locally
was purchased, as well as labor.
This puts Salem in the strictly up-to-
date metropolitan class of cities with
respect to its electric light and power
service.
THE SCRTJ BHOGt
AND BUY
CAPITAL MILLS PRODUCTS
Perfection Flour
Cream Cereal
Self-Rising Pancake
Flour
Self-Rising Biscuit
Flour . '
Fine and Coarse
Graham
Rolled Oats
Steam Rolled Barley
Fine Middlings
Bran and
Mill Feeds.
Bryant & Prunk
Cor. Church and Trade Stsr Salem, Oregon t
Phone 318
Salem Fruit Company
Handle Local Products
The Salem Fruit company, doalers in
all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables,
favor local products whenever it is pos
sible to obtain them. There are times,
hoor when it is impossible to get local
vegetables, and then they ship in
through their organization. This com
pany always finds a market for pota
toes, onions, cabbage, etc., and aske the
producers to keep their products up to
as high a standard of quulity as pos
sible, in order to receive the highest
price, grading being a very essential
part. The Salem Fruit company has in
stalled a modern beau grading, cleaning
and polishing plant at the cost of sev
eral thousands of dollars, so as to en
able them to encourage this industry,
and put beans on tho market in a first
class condition.
During the season just passed, this
plant handled for the farmers over ono
million pounds of beans. A part of this
output was sold in local markets and a
large percentage being shipped by this
company on a brokerage basis, charges
being for cleaning and polishing only.
The Salem Fruit company wish to en
courage this industry in the future, as
it will mean many dollars to the grow
er.
Oregon Motor Car Co.
Enter This Field to Win
Vick Bros. Take
Oyer Tractor Liae
According to the earlv settlers corn
was grown in Marion county more than! amount of local grown corn is
fifty years ago. As early as 1855 home ing ground by valley mills and
grown corn was grouuu lino meui at mo
old Champoeg mill in the northern end
of Marion county.
Is Becoming Popular
Corn has been grown moro or less con
tinuously in various parts of the valley
ever since that time but the growing
of wheat was so profitable ill the early
days that it never became an import
At no time have we been reminded of
the winter months. A rapidly increasing, the value of blood in breeding stock
In talking with Mr. Farnham, local
manager of the Oregon Motor Car com
pany, yesterday, concerning the auto
mobile business in this territory, Mr.
Farnham says his first six months bu
siness is far ahead of expectations. He
reports the sale of better than 7o Den
by trucks and Studebaker touring ears
since the first of July ant the many
friends he has made since coming to Sa
lem cannot be counted. j
Mr. Farnham savs he expects a big de
mand for trucks of all sizes for the com
ing year. The different war depart
ments are demanding so much from the
railroads that it will make it necessary
for the farmers to use auto trucks to
move their crops next season.
The Oregon Motor Car company is
preparing for just such a condition. To
be able to take care of all Dcnby, as
well as Studebaker owners, they will
early in the spring erect a new building
where they will be able to give the very
best of service. Service is the back
bone of any automobile business, and
to be able to give the best of service
the Oregon Motor Car company will car
ry a complete line of parts for both
Denny trucks and Studebaker cars.
Every year since 1911 when we took
on the Ford agency, we have had a very
nice increase in our business. This is
especially true of the year just closed,
which has been our banner year. In the
past year we have added the Farm Trac
tor lines and have sold a good many car
loads. Tho farmers aro beginning to re
alize it is cheaper to use tractors for
general farm work than to use horses,
and with much -better results as the
work requires less help and can be done
so much faster- than by the old meth
ods. We have again outgrown our building
which at present runs entirely through
the block from High street to Church,
street, fifty feet wide, and have rent
ed a brick building on State street for
the storage of tractors and farm imple
ments whieh- are coming in- in carload
lots to be ready for the spring trade.
We have just installed two more five
gallon stroke pumps for gas and dis
tillate and four three hundred-gallon
tanks .for storage of same. We are en
larging our office and stock room which
will be needed to take care of our over
1 increasing business.
We are specializing on Federal tire
whieh we are distributing and also ara
handling the other leading makes of
tires. We expect to install a vulcaniz
ing plant to take care of our customers
and will do our own adjusting on Fed
eral tires and will see that the tire own
er gets a square deal. Wa.have built up
our business on the plan of giving a
square deal to everyone, stocking only
reliable goods and giving satisfactory
service.
N
MIGRATION OF CARIBOU
From Dawson, Yukon territory, Do
minion of Canada, conies news of the
migration of caribou, says the Christian.
Seienec Monitor. Great hordes are in the
vicinity of Forty Mile river and at
bvarious other pomts. The total num
ber of animals . moving southward in
search of food is estimated at 1,000,000
head, it is characteristic of the time
th-it the migration would hardlv have
been known outsido of Yukon territory
had it not been necessary to explain of
ficiary that occupancy of the roads by
tne caribou interfered with the carriage
of the mails.
"Mr. Smith has great faith in his
fcllowmen."
'Yes, he even writes 'Personal' oil
a postcard 1"
JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY
also be
and used in
the homes.
The ensiling of corn is doubtless the
most profitable use to make of the crop
sinee the entire crop is thus saved. This
more forcefully than now. Elimination
of wasteful methods and results from
out efforts are vhat we want at pres
ent. The scrub hog, a being of doubt
ful standing any time, is in actual dis
grace now. It takes the place of eats'
)eaco soon, and whether
it not ,eyery move Germany hns inado its place as one of the great businesses j ant crop. The need for special machinery
receuuy iiuiicau-s we are. ai any raie (r this section. It is possioie, peruaps
let us hope our diagnosis is correct, for ' prolmble, the general government will
ii wm menu me uringnig name again. take a hand in tins and give it tne
it needs to make it au assured
change is becoming evident.
The introduction of com into i
tion with clover, together with
rota-live-
itafe most of our boys, and that being' boost
accomplished we can stand anything else sik-ci-ks.
jio matter how tough it may be. The establishing of the Kings Fro-
The Business Outlook. ducts company of their plant at this
In a business way the baby year is plnoe U another leading element in the
n promising youngster. Nu year in Ore-1 ,.ining year's pro-qerity. It assures the
gou's history has opened under bright-1 farmers 'and market gardeners a certain
t-r auspices. The lumber industry, the I market at a fixed price, and it will be
nt!te 's greatest is simply swamped with j the means of bringing half a million
ird--rs. A million tons of shipping to be dollars from outside points for distri
liuilt means a ship of six thousand tons; tuition in and around Salem. Fruits and
inut be launched every other day dm-! i,r, fruit iuices and the stable old
ing the year. It means that every niilltnudby, the pnine, will all go abroad Well on old worn out slimmer fallowed
in tne siaie must run to capacity to siip-jnml bring the money back. In tact there (wheat land. It follows clover or pasture
pry me ucinnim, v-n top oi mis a urn j ,s H0 tiusnu-ss, no industry tnat nas nor; crops and a tree application or nam
iron oouars a niontn are to lie expended i hrur itest future and taken all to-
for aeroplane lumber. To manufacture J K(t her they mean such au era of pros-
IH-rity as this section has never seen.
And on top of it all the biggest and
best thing for all of us is the hope,
which we believe will materialize that
before the year ends. "The boys will
come honre. M
hns also prevented in some measure a
more general adoption or the crop.
The trradiiul decrease iu the averago to the land.
yield per acre of wheat and tho other The more manure applied to corn
small grains has lowered the net profits ground., the better the crop will be, if
to such an extent that tho need for ajtho manure is nniilied in fall or early
is an important item in the economy of . the feed , which a better bred animal
production since about 40 per cent of I would use to better advantage. It is
the feeding valuer of the corn plant is! no friend of the farmer when he is call
contained iu the stalk. The greatest ben-led upon to do his utmost. It eats the
ef it also comes to the soil through the ! most high priced feed but makes the
use of silage, since more livestock can j lowest priced pork. When we are in a
be kept by this method of feeding, pro- hurry for more meat it grows slowly,
eided, however, the manure is returned but when it gets cut through a hole in
the fen-e it movs fast? through the jrr-
winter and well worked into :'ie soil.
When corn is grown for the gruin in
this section it is well to be prepared to
stock, has doubled the average yield ot,ttSe artificial heat to dry out the cob.
wheat and oats on many rarms m tms, a narrow, ventilated crib to nhich heat
valley and will do it on all others if
prowrly managed.
Corn requires a liberal supply of or
ganic matter iu the soil so it will not do
this will require an army of laborers at
high wages, and this must make its ef-f-.-et
felt in nil lines of business.
The eastern section of the state is
assured a price of around net less than
1.75 a bushel for its 20,000,000 or mere
bushels of wheat. Wool, one of Oregon 's
great products, is higher than ever
known, and this will bring another
stream of gold into the state to spread
itself through every part of it.
Money for Farmers
AI! farm products are high
SAD EXPERIENCE
''And haven't ve ever tried ter git
wr rk ." '
"Yep. I wunst tried ter git work for
assuring; w 0f nl( au ,ut dev wouldii t take
the fanners sn abundance of nroiiev p,ro)iklvii Citiren.
rven though another short crop shonMj
Oregon, where null tilings are practic- JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY
yard mauure will usually pay. Jttting A
deep rooted plant corn thrives best on
a well drained soil which has been stir
red to a depth of 12 or more inches.
Must Have Good Start
Successful corn culture depends large
ly on giving the corn a vigorous enrly
start. This cannot be done on poorly
drained land which is usually lacking
in available plant food.
Deep cultivation during the early
stages of growth, or until the corn is
12 to 18 inches tall, followed by subse-: ta;"n Bs Sf oa as jt, value is known.
quent shallow tillage not to exceed 3 That corn can he grown here even in
inches will usually insure best results. 'the most unfavorable vears has been ful-
can he applied need cost but little and
could be used both as a drier and crib.
Hop and prune driers may also be used
for drying small quantities.
If the crop is to be used to fatten
hogs in fall, a good method is to let the
hogs harvest the corn for themselves. If
this cannot be done because of a lack
of suitable fnce, it may be kept stand
ing in the field and hauled in as fed.
Corn will remain on the stalk in good
condition all winter, whereas, if it is
piled up without being dried it will soon
spoil.
Methods of soil preparation, seed se
lection and i are, cnlt.irnl methods, and
the most profitable uses will all be work
ed out as the crop becomes more srener-
ally grown. Its universal adoption is eer-
den, chicken yard and flo-ver beds than
the 'lipnity of a purebred animal, han-di-np?
ed by fa' tend a peaceful state of
mind, would al'ow. .'t tone's anj
chance to get r,omothi;:j k shouldn t
have the scrub gets it.- It gets out when
yor. are just 'cady for lr;r..'i. which is
a spiritual as well as mateiif.l trade
dy. It gets lung worms r.r.-i lie and
iheumatisni and tuberculosis, and then
it gets cholera and dies.
CORN SHOW WAS LATE
The Polk county corn show whieh
was to have Ween held Friday atd Sat
urday of this week, has been postponed
for one week.
This will bring the dates after Christ
mas Deceniber 2S and 29. This action
was necessary on account of the storms
and high water, which made it impossi-
i bio for Marion eminty exhibitors living
adjacent to Independence, to get across
the river. The ferry has been out of
cemmissisni and the bridge at Salem was
closed for the day or two the first of
the week. For these reasons, it was
thought best to postpone the show.
The first three or four O)er?.tions yhonbl
be givrn in as many weeks. This en'lv
cultivation waims the sr-il and hastens
ly demnntrited during the past two
Raise Larger Crops
It is absolutely necessary that the United States
in the coming year, increase the crop production in
every way. ' I
We will have to supply the world as well as our
selves and that means that every possible piece of
ground be planted with food products.
The supply of seeds is very short and it will be
advisable to buy early in order to secure your needs.
But do not buy more than you will need.
We placed our order for seeds a year ago and are
fortunate in being able to supply our trade as many
dealers who did not buy early are unable to obtain
their stock at any price as the seeds are not to be
had. ,
Our new catalogue will be ready soon and if you
will send us your name we will be glad to send you
a copy then.
year for the past quarter cf a centnry.
veirs. That it csn be grown every rear, It is more profitable than wheat and
has been fully proven by a number of will doubtless o-eupy in the near future
D. A. White & Sons
SEED 5IERCIIANTS,
235 State Street Phone 160 Salem. Oreiron
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the elaboration of plaut food both of farmers who' have grown corn every much of the land now devoted to hops. tMttKttMtMIMMMMMMHIMMMtMMMn'HMlt