The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1913-03-01
LATEST DEvELOPmENr' LEAGUE NOTES
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by the State immigration Com
mission, is in demand by schools
and colleges where it is used as
o textbook, which is helping
along the "know-your-state"
movement. The almanac, of
which an edition of 3S0,000 was
printed, is filled with data care
fully gathered and complied and
n, in substance, an admirable
encyclopedia on Oregon. This
book is being distributed to in
quirers in all parts of the coun-
try from the Portland headquar-
tiers of the Oregon Development
League and copies will be sent,
without charge, to any state de-
string them for use in education
al work. -
During the coming year the
book will be completely revised
and enlarged and letters are now
being sent out to the county as
SCISSORS in order to get accurate
statistics on land classification in
the various parts of the state, in
that reliable figures may order
be printed as to the extent of LAND
timbered, tillable, untillable, etc.
The Ontario district hopes to
make that one of the best dairy
sections in Oregon. Heretofore,
the chief emphasis has been
placed on the possibilities of fruit
growing and a big apple district
has been built up. Hereafter,
the chief effort will be to attract
dairyman and to induce local far
mers to keep herds of milk cows.
Letters were sent to 80, 600 dairy
men throughout the country, to
So, agricultural college stu
dents and to 1000 butter makers
telling of the advantages offered
to dairymen by Ontario and the
surrounding country.
School children of the state
are signing petitions sent out by
the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction asking that the
famous battleship Oregon be put
at the head of the opening naval
parade through the Panama Ca
nal. After being signed by all
the school children of the state,
the petition will be returned to
Salem and forwarded to Presi-
dent and Congress early in the
Spring.
That Oregon can grow splen-
did corn, ranking with the best
corn states of the Union is the
statement of c. l.. Smith, agri-
culturalist for the O.-W. r. &
N. Company, who is arranging
a corn show to be held next fall
at Pendleton. This will be open
to corn exhibits by farmers in
every part of Oregon and another
show will be held at ColfaX.
Washington, for the farmers of
that state. Farmer" Smith de-
clares that the average corn crop
per acre is larger than in Iowa,
that corn is a plant that will
adapt itself to almost any eli
mate and should be made one of |
the chief items of agricultural
production here.
A use for hop vines left in the |
field after the crop is picked has
been found by an eXperimenter
at Tacoma, Wash. He proposes
to utilize the fiber in much the
same way that flax is used.
chemical is used to dissolve the
vegetable matter that encloses
the fibre and the latter is then
ready to be dried, carded, spun
and made into cloth. Practically
the same treatment and machin-
cry can be used as in the flax
manufacture.
A Shetland pony will be an at
tractive prize in the juvenile in
dustrial contest to be held at the
State Fair this year. 1t will. be
awarded to the boy or girl max
ing the best exhibit of livestock
and is offered by the Portland
Union Stockyards Company. The
mnst consist of at least
one trio, or pen, of chickens or
ducks, two pigs and a sheep.
There will be many other prizes {
for which the young farmers |
may compete. q