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EIGHT
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON. Tt i -
Corn Valuable Adjunct to
Stock Raising and Dairying
,Yield This Year Above a Million Bushels Effect Shown
In Rapid Increase In Livestock.
The pioneers who dared the dancers
of the plains in the years long gone,
most of them came from "corn count
ries," and having tried to grow that
erop here with poor success came to the
conclusion that "corn would not grow
In Oretron." The idea
dence is was like giving s dog a bad
name, for it stuck. The trouble was
not that the corn would not grow, but
that owing to the early wet season,
oiiu tuHir continuance, railed to Hard
en and to cure, for sixty years the idea
that Oregon was not a corn state has
prevailed, still prevails. However, stir
red by the success Jim Hill had made
with it in other places, some of the
more progressive farmers began to take
an interest in corn growing. They con
ceived the idea that in time it would
be possible to evolve a corn that would
mature even in the damp climate of
Oregon. The result lias been both, en-i
eouraging and gratifying. While per
fect success cannot yet be claimed it is
evident crrnAfc afritr.tt li.va Ua.
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ripen in Oregon will be created. This
to a certain extent has already been ac
complished as the various corn shows
lave demonstrated. The area planted
to eorn has steadily increased and the
yield has increased with it. Along with
this it can be stated that the experi
ment of acclimatizing a corn has gone
a long wayj, and that we now have a
variety or varieties that will in moat.
years mature properly. The eorn show
here a short time ago had some as per
fect specimens as could be found in II-
linois or Iowa. The ears were larcre. tt.n
rows even, tho grains long and the cob
covered clear over the mid. This u
shown in several varieties.
It is eneouraging that this is so for
without corn the fattening of livestock,
especially hogs, cannot be carried on
ucceBgx Uliy.
Great Money Makers.
The present price of hog products,
bacon lard and hams, is muh flint air.
eryimnz mat tends tn ini-mu the vioi.i
of the state in this line is indeed a mon
ey producer. As an evidence of the
effect of the increasing of the eorn
cror and with it the jrreater nrndnot'mn
of hogs, it might be mentioned that two
years ago mere was not a stock buyer
in the country. Through the efforts of
me oaiera commercial ciuo Mr. Ueorge
.yre, wno naa had considerable exper
ience as a stock buyer in the middle
west, was induced to undertake the buy
ing of livestock, and the encouraging
01 us growing dj ine larmers.
The first season he handled less than
$40,000 worth of livestock, but he talk
ed hnea while hnvinc them nrcrpd hno
i " - e - & - e
growing,, patted the farmers on the
oacK ana pointed out to them mat tne
profit of farming was largely increased
by sending their crops to market in a
mftnilf AeturAf) ainta infitpnrl rif aa ra
material, and proving that a fat hog or
steer Vll illnt Aa much f ft tnantifaftiip.
ed product as though factory made.
In 1916, Mr. Eyre continued his buy
ing and proselyting. More corn was
planted, more hogs fattened, more steers
turned into fat bppf. find hv the end nf
the season he found that his purchases
for the year were more than double
those of the year before. " He liked the
business, and this spring took the field
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the New Year by using
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MR. MOORE MYLEAGE, General Manager
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again. In the meanwhile the bovs and
girls jiig clubs had ben organized thru
Ins efforts and those of the United Sta
tes National bank of Salem and in do
ing this all of them builded better tha
they knew. But of this subject more
eisewnere.
During the .year 1917 Mr. Eyre pur
chased livestock in the territory adia
cent to Halem, vulued at more than
.fl7j,000. This was double the purchas
es of the year before and moru than four
times the total dealings for the year
Livestock Improved.
Another marked feature of the busi
noss is the greatly improved eharacte
of the stock. Marion county now boasts
some or the very finest blooded hogs
that can be round anywhere, and one
Marion county linn is raising sires that
bring prices practically unheard of else
where. This is what corn has done and
is doing for the country and it has ouly
begun. Another thing it helps ia the
dairy industry. It is a splendid mater
ial for the sflo, and these are beiug
multiplied all over the county. As a
mutter of fact they are, for a time at
least, a necessary adjunct to the grow
ing of corn for they will provide for the
saving of such of the crop as fails to
mature, and which without them might
be lost. Unfortunately there are few if
any reliable faun statistics for Oregon
outsido of a few crops and so just how
much corn was crown in the state last
year is hard to say, but that it was well
above a million bushels is asserted by
those best informed.
Will Increase Acreage.
Those farmers who have grown corn
and raised hogs are more than pleased
with results and each and every one
of them will extend the area of his corn
field and increase the number of his
hogs. Bacon and butter are in the same
class so far as price goes and indeed
for the finest bacon bossy and her fa-
i mous product has to take seeoud place
for the bacon sells for the higher price.
Another feature of the planting corn
and selliug hogs is the speedy returns.
A jug purchased when the eorn is plant-
led w ill run on clover pasture and wait
for the corn to grow. The pasture is
:iaooui un ne necus, or wuuis uum c -!
rives at hoehood and by that time he
TT;has the frame and size and tne corn
4 j puts the meat on it and the solidity toj
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Salem, Oregon
'the moat and in a short time the pro
I duct goes to the market worth from fif-
;ty to sixty dollars. Besides tne money
' side of the business there is also a pat
riotic side to it, for it is the hog pro-ilni-tn
the country wauts for the boys
"the gentleman who pays the rent,"
Let him pay yours.
MARION COUNTY SCHOOLS
(Continued om page three.)
Salem Public Library Makes
Splendid Showing for Year
Resides Purely Literary Volumes, Has Added Many
ijuujis un jrracucai everyday Matters.
The library extends with the New many minds and hearts, books are doing
Year greeting, a renewed invitation to for their readers everyday. They reveal
everyone to come and enjoy what it has the great thoughts of the greatest minds,
to' offer. Besides the books of more They make the life of other times and
literary nature there are practical books other nations ours. They kiudlo the
For the business man, fires of sympathy and humanity. In a
lover in the trenches, and bacon is as
cessary as bullets in the winning of
line war.
Every farmer who raises a
neces
the if
TT!few acres of corn and grows the hog?
J to eat it and make bacon is swatting
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I the kaiser just as certainly as though
I stated the livestock purchased ry Air.
' .1. .;.-. 1017 "ilii.l m 17:i
;000, and this was double the value of
;the 1916 crop. It should be the aim of
i'the farmers, of the district to again
'double the output in 1918 and if pos
iilsible make the figures travel np toward
the half million mark.
improvement of the teaching of these
subjects. During the visits to the
schools following these meetings, the
superintendent or supervisor gives the
teacher any help she may need in apply
ing the suggestions to the work in her
school. Definiteness of purpose in ftll
supervision work ii the ideal which radi
ates from the superintendent's office.
' Beading Circle Plan.
In order to make the work of these
local mettiiiiis more definite, tn r.vii I fr all tastes
as many as possible of the teachers books on new methods and efficiency
every day problems and to unify the!aie being added slowly but constantly.
professional feeling of the county 's! Cody " How to Deal With Human Na-
teaelung force, a course in professional : Iure ln -Business," and Brisco's "Eco-
reading will be conducted through these jnomica of Business," are among the
meetings. Two or more of the readinu-' many. The engineer will find hand-
circle books from the state list will be ! books on whatever department interests
read throughout the county. ' i nim beside tie volumes of the Interna-
One of tho most seriously considered i tional school of technology, which treat
problems of educaotors today is how j ot almost e very work in the world. The
to measure the results of teachim student may select at will, those that
Many moral schools and colleges now I supplement his text.
have one or more experts who devote! r or the teacher who will be proficient
their attention to scientific investij;a-l,'le 1'brary includes many and choice
tion along these lines. The result from I contributions from the best educators,
these investigations has been a number! He who is interested in the war, and
of tests and measurements w:;ii h have this " everyone of us, will find a selee
been standardized according to the ry-ition from which to choose: Empey's
erage abilities of various grades of -pu-i"Over the Top," Hav's "First Hund-
pils. A great many eitv svstems of fed Thousand," MeClure's " Obstacles the pages of one of the 13o magazines
schools have used one or more of these i to feace," and Aldrich s "On the Edge seven thousand people are enrolled as
standard tests. Portland is perhaps the j0' the War Zone," are'suggestive titles.) patrons who have "opened the door" to
most notpble example in the northwest.! Practical Books. enjoy the pleasures which the library
The convention of City Superintendents j It is, however, the housewife whose i offers freely to everyone of the 17,0UU
which met in Kansas City devcted prae-i needs have been brought to the front j citizens of Salem. It is not the oldest
tically the whole time to the discussion ' under the Hoover regime. For her island wisest alone who come. The little
of tests and measurements. jfirst of all "Feeding of the Family," j ones seik these treasures most eagerly.
Marion in Pront Bank. by Rose, which is generally conceded to even before they can give the necessary
Here again Marion county is in the i be the most helpful, for it discusses in! passport, their signatures. They visit
front rank of educational progress. On I an intelligent way the food needs of I when they can read only the pictures
all the available tables of results from; tho different members of the family in that childish imaginations beautify. One
standard tests there does not appear any health and in sickness. Of this one book hundred of them flock in on a Saturday
record of a county of schflcls, yet there, the library expects to be supplied in . morning to hear the stories which sbme
are scores of city systems recorded. Mar-; sufficient numbers that every home may of them are not able to read.
on county, however, has had a seienti-ihave the benetit. The new restrictions! The library puts an annual lectura
ic and systematic measurement of abil- on food supply have called for new re-1 course which begins this vear with the
ty in reading and arithmetic. The in- dpes. The best of the new cook books l"Libiary at Home," to be held in the
vidua! scores in these two subiects , have been chosen carefully to satisfy main room from 2-5 on the afternoon
four thousand pupils in the sixth.! this need. Hoover calls the library the of New Year's Dav.
seventh and eighth grades of the lounty!" school out of school." Your library! Music will be furnished by the Vic
are on file in the superintendent's of-(wishes to be the school for your house-;trola loaned by the Imperial Furniture
rice. .More detailed results of these , wives, lor your businessmen, for all of . store. The remaining numbers occur
tests will be announced later. 'you who are trying to do more efficient-1 in the auditorium at S p. m. on the dates
Superintendent Smith plans to t ar- i ly a share of the world 's work. j announced,
range later in the year a Teacher 's'Vis-j We are proud of Salem. We can I Library at Home,
iting Day. This will give every rural speak with just pride of her beauty, of i January' 1. A trip through Rome, il
teacher in the county an opportunity to; the worth-while work that is being ac-! lustrated" lecture by Trof. Frederick
observe the work of at leasne of her 1 complished within her confines, of ail; Dunn.
word they open the door of larger life
to us.
It is this broader vision that the li
brary offers to all who will enter. Who
ever will may come to spend an evening
with Robert Louis Stevenson, to follow
with Napoleon his unrivalled conquests,
to see with the mind's eye the develop
ment of the character of Abraham Lin
coln, or to learn the wisdom of Socra
tes. We may well commune with past
heroes, but we would know too the vital
thoughts and deeds of those who have
risen to help us n.eet today's emergen
cies and grasp today's opportunities.
Whomever one seeks for entertainment
or profit he will surely find within tho
covers of one of the 13,000 books or on
of
fellow teachers who has similar prob
lems to meet. This one dny of visiting
is expected ro result ia renewed lrterst
and enthusiasm to repay many times the
time spent in the visit.
Tne teachers of the co'.inty bcth by
word anrl action have shown an admir
able spirit of cooperation in the plans
of the superintendent. The work of ed
ucation, building for citizenship, lies,
after all. in the hands of the teacher
who directs the activities and habits of
thinking of the bovs and girls in
the able men and women who are bear- January D. Concert of Russian Mu-
ing their" share of the world's work.jsie, conducted by Dr. Frank Wilbur
World's Work," has for us a greater, Chase,
significance than ever before. The; January 23. "Russia As It I," il
year's developments have opened ;;fir I lustrated lecture by Rev. F. T. Porter,
vision to the life octside our daily in-j February IX 'Russia; Its Revolu
terests. jtion and Evolutioa,' lecture by Dr.
What the stress of war has done for: John Hall.
February 27. "Russian Experien-
- I As the Irishman remarked, the hog is charge. The success of any school de- doing their work .
pends almost entirely upon the teacher j cos," an informal talk by Mrs. "W. D.
in that school. Marion county will get ! Carlisle.
the best teachers that can be had, then March 13. "The Literature of Rus
her give them every possible assistance in sia," a lecture by Miss Cornelia Mar
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