The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1913-07-26
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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LATEST DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE NOTES

tFrom Our fortinnd Correspondcnt)
That the policy Of the Portland
Commercial Club to continue the
campaign Of farm development
throughout the state is in high
favor with the business interests
of the city is evidenced by the
fact that the present campaign
has met with more prompt and
favorable support among property
owners of Portland than any
movement Of like nature that
has been conducted in the past.
A few week ago the CONNER
cial Club set out to raise a fund
of $50, 600 to be expended in
development work throughout
Oregon during the next three
years and 80 successful has been
the effort that at the present
time the fund is we'll above the
800. 900 mark and il is believed
by those having the campaign in
charge the full sum will be pledg-
ed within the next month. In
the list of those who have given
definite sums are 160 firms and
individuals representing virtually
every branch of business activity
in the city.
The fact that onions from
Texas. potatoes from California
and eggs and poultry from points
outside of Oregon are being re-
ceived in Portland in carload lots
while the farmers in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the city, as
well as those tributary to the
railroads leading to this market,
cannot find a market for their
produce at any price has led the
Portland Realty Board to actively
take up the question of establish
ing public markets where gard
eners and farmers may dispose
of their products direct to the
consumer with great benefit to
both. II is stated that the fact
that farmers cannot sell their
own crops in Portland without a
license, and the further fact
that the commission men will
not buy from him except at their
own prices, is causing many
farmers to allow fruits and
vegetables to 20 to waste rather
that dispose of them at a lost.
That the dairy business in the
coast counties has been establish
ed on paying basis is evidenced
by the fact that the Clatsop
County Cooperative Cheese As
sociation has recently been pay
ing &c more per pound for butter
fat than the market price. The
average amount of milk now
being received is nearly 5000
pounds per day with a prospect
of greatly increased supplies in
the near future. An ice manu-
featuring plant will be installed
before the advt mt of hot weather
next season.
Attention has recently been
called, by the Oregon Agricultur-
al College, to the fact that many
farmers who are so unfortunate
as to have hay injured or spoiled
bv rain are making the mistake
Of either burning it in the field
or allowing it to rot in piles. It
is stated that spoiled clover or
alfalfa hay is worth $3.50 to
$1,000 per ton as fertilizer it
evenly spread over the fields and
plowed under, and that every ton
of hay 80 worked into the soil is
approximately worth four tons of
fresh manure. A ton of clover
hay contains 40 pounds of nitro
gen, 8 pounds of phosphorus and
80 pounds Of potash. which, if
purchased in the open market
would cost the farmer about
$10.60. and as clover and vetch
is yielding about "a tons per acre
this season. the plowing under
of the spoiled hay adds a fer
tilizer value of not less than $25
to each acre.