Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-07-06
MORROW COUNTY
BOYS AND HOGS
Should Organize to Show
"Dad."
BY j. GARFIELD CRAWFORD.

By j. GARFIELD CRAWFORD.
Just few days ago the Portland dali
newspapers carried story to the effec
that William Handley, OF Burns, Ore
gon, had Just completed the shipping o
5000 head OF beef cattle to the Chicago
market. Then, one of these paper
commented upon the subject in its ed
torial columns and sort OF wondered why
such condition should prevail wher
Portland packers wanted livestock.
Every packing house has a certain
capacity for the slaughter OF cattle and
certain capacity for hogs, another for
sheep and so on down the line. 1t has
been easy to keep the beef end of the
plants running, but the hog and sheep
departments have sufferd for several
years. Packing products are not made
up entirely of one class of meat, but a
great many of the products are made
by a combination OF pork and beef
These products cannot be made when
there is no pork. which, also, causes
decrease in the consumption Of beef.
When the pork run is light it forces the
beef run down, hence the shipping of
beef cattle to larger markets. The
Chicago market is probably not as good
as the Portland market in price, but il
is better when it comes to taking large
consignments and general run of cattle
The Portland market for more than
six months past has been the best hog
market in the United States. The pack
ing houses OF Portland need the pork 10
help dispose Of their beef products and
the packers are willing to pay for the
stock. The people of the states OF Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho are the |
people to be benefited by the big pack
ing plants at the mouth OF the Willamette
and it Is up to them to keep these in.
stitutions running.
The farmers must raise more livestock
the truck grower must grow more fruits
and vegetables and the poultryman must
raise more poultry. Nearly everything
raised on a farm can find market in
any of these big packing plants. The
business man of the country towns must
awaken from his lethargy of selfshness
md go in partnership with the farmer of
ais locality.
at is a hard matter to teach an old
log new tricks" is an old, but trite say
ng. 1t is hard matter for boy to tell
lIs father how to do anything and get
way with it, so it is hard for the man
With stiff collar to tell the tlller of the
oil where he can improve his condition.
)own in Texas and in fact, through most a
t the South, the men of progress have
iven up the idea of trying to get the y
old man" to take hold Of anything, so j
ley have taken bold OF the boy. The +
usiness man Of the town has gone In '
artnership with the boy on the farm
nd the two together are showing "dsd" fl
few things about farming. n
Uncle Sam bas come to the assistance .
the progressive element of the South,
Ie same has come to every section of a.
Is domain. Government experts on b
rming are in the field and are teaching
q farmer boys the improved methods Y
agriculture. The business man is u
rnishing the capital for the boy to work q
in the shape of substantial prizes. ID
le boys are raising more corn to the n
re and more cotton to the acre than W
cir fathers. Now the boys have gone
10 the stock business and they are
ing to show the fathers how to supply
g packing houses with bigger and bet CT
: hogs.
Hog clubs are being organized all
er Texas and the boys of the farm
We become interested. Was ever there
10Y who was not interested in a pig.
he was not il was no fault of his be
8 not raised right; he grew up under
wrong environments and lacked Just
It much of boy life. Hog and boy are Be
, words synonomous. Br
The merchants of Heppner should get illJ
back of this work and give Morrow G.
nty the fret hog club in Oregon. Fic
s work is going to be started in Ore All
!, so let Morrow county lead. There
be Boys Hog Clubs, Bows Wheat
bs. ETC., and Morrow county should
abreast Of the times, we'll we might spl