East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-11-08
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
EAST END TAKES UP
DA|RY|NG BUSINESS
CARLOAD OF GUERNSEYS TO BE
BROUGHT OUT FROM
WISCONSIN.
Fruit Farmers Find Fruit Alone Is
Hazardous and Some Produce
Cream As Subsidiary Crop-Crcam
Checks Useful.

Cream As Subsidiary Crop-Crcam
Checks Useful.
Umatilla county's dairy business Is
by no means being confined to the
western part Of the county and to the
Pilot Rock section. Up in the east
md also there is much interest in
dairying and during the last year de- |
eided progress has been made In the
production of milk and butter.
"our farmers are learning that they |
take heavy chances when they rely |
on fruit alone" says Bruce Shangle. |
editor of the Milton Eagle, who Ia |
here today. Even when they get
good crop they are liable to find low
prices and may find themselves still
owing for their apple boxes after their
apples have been sold. So they are
taking up dairying along with fruit
raising and are making it pay"
Most of the east end dairying is be-
ing done on small scale. the farm
ers keeping from two to a dozen cows
each and selling their cream to the
creamery They find their cream
checks very convenient when It comes
to paying monthly bills. Cream
checks are just as good as gold and
the cream harvest is continuous
process wherein it is different from
the fruit and the wheat harvest.
In the Hudson Bay country many
OF the farmers are converting alfalfa
into cream. whereas they formerly
fed ii to beef cattle and To sheep.
Charles Armstrong of Ferndale.
James Dirk of Vincent, and l.. II.
Rennock of Vincent. a newcomer. are
representative milk growers in that
neighborhood. O. L. Field who lives
on the east side. is another Up the
river. I. w. Short is doing some dairy
ing. and $. s Shields is keeping
dairy cows on his place on the noun
tain.
\ carload of fine grade Guernsey
COWS is being secured from Wiscon-
sin by G. II. Smith. who proposes tn
sell them to the east end farmers.
The cows will cost from $50 to $50
per head and the transportation on
them will be about IS per head. Mr.
| smith is expecting to sell his Guern-
seys at prices ranging from $50 to
| SIPS each.
Wheat farmers in the Milton Free
| water country are also entering into
! the dairy and poultry business to a
considerable extent. Men who for
merry purchased their butter and
eggs at stores are now producing
these products on their own ranches
and many of them have milk and eggs
b, % sell.
Fruit Inspectors Advicc-Late fal.
and early spring spraying of orchards
! Tor the killing of fungus growth Is
strongly advised by County Fruit In
spector $. J. Campbell who gives the
following formula and instructions
Sor the use of this kind of spray:
Bordeaux mixture for winter use
may be made as follows:
Copper sulphate, s pounds.
Quick lime. 8 gallons.
Water so gallons
This is known as the $3.50 form.
ula used only on dormant trees.
When large quantities of Bordeau,
are required it Is most convenient tC
have stock solution made up contain.
.ng one pound per gallon of the re
.'pective ingredients.
Take 50-gallon barrel of wate
and suspend near the top of a coars,
.. sack containing so pounds of com
nercial copper sulphate. 1t will dis
solve in a few hours. 1t Is conven
lent to arrange this the night before
In another barrel place so pound
of lime freshly slaked. Slakini
:. should be done carefully so as no
To burn the lime. When shaking 1
I done make up to so gallons of wa
1 ter. Keep this solution in separat
8 barrels and use gallons of each fl
30 gallons of water. This is your so
t luton to spray with.
= Spray every part of the tree thor
I oughly and you will clean your tree
of the fungus that Is bothering ou
4 peaches, cherries and apples. Spra
h as soon as you can now, and In tn
spring with lime-sulphur.
y In our fall and winter pruning an
u orchard work. clean out every hold
- over canker of the fire blight. w
d are in danger of great damage in tn
e spring, if pruning out and cleanin
o out all blight is not done. Let us bC
IS gin now to remove every cause thi
|. would infect our fruit.
Is Learn by past failures and endea'
y or to use every precaution and e1
pect clean crop of fruit.
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Grasshoppcrs Destroy Spuds =
When several farmers on Dry cree
east of town got ready to dig the
= potatoes they found that a hungi
=. horde of grasshoppers had "beate
=, em to It," and there were no poti
a, toes left to dig, says the Westo
Leader.
"a Never before were these wlngt
a marauders so thick in the Dry cree
=, district. They did not constitute g
a. army of invasion, as in certain par
"a of Nevada and California, but seen
Ia ed to have grown up in the countI
Il, from their grasshopper babyhoo
\, Nyriads of the young pests fastent
IA upon the young potato vines ar
q. stripped them clean. About 10 acr
10 on the Henri March place were rui
ed. w. T.. Lytle lost about 16 acr
20 and W. Huntley about Is acres I'll
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