East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-02
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
WAR HAS MADE
HALF MILLION FOR
COUNTY FARMERS

Already the advance in the price Of
cereals due chiefly to the European
war, has meant profit close TO $780,
900 to the farmers of Umatilla county.
This may seem a large sum but 1t Is
a fairly conservative estimate. 1t Is
estimated by buyers that one-half the
wheat crop is still in the hands OF the
growers Figuring on that basis and
counting for the Is cents advance in
club since the opening OF the war
nets s375,000 alone. But that is not
taking bluestem or barley into con-
sideration. On bluestem there has
been a 25 cents advance and on the
harder varieties of club the advance
has been more than Is cents. On
barley there has been a substantial
jump in price. s21 now being quoted
here whereas but few weeks ago
barley was selling at $3.50.
The local market is again quiet to-
day. Many inquiries are made but
little If any selling is underway. This
forenoon the price Of IS cents was
still quoted but farmers were gener-
ally declining to sell at that price.
Tags for Farm Exhibits. - Secre-
tary C. K. Cranston this morning re-
ceiyed from the Oregon State Immi-
grafton Commission a supply of bill
ing tags which. attached to farm ex-
hibits, will give the exhibits free pas
sage over the railroads to Portland.
These exhibits are desired for eastern
land shows, railroad exhibit cars and
ticket offices, the Oregon state fair
and the Panama-Pacific exposition
The farmers or others sending exhib-
its are instructed to use care in pack
ing them for shipment, Inasmuch as
many are often rendered valueless by
faulty packing. Heads Of grain
should be wrapped separately and
then the whole specimen wrapped
again. Stalks Of grain should not be
tied too tightly and the strings often
break or mar the stalk.
Big Sheep Shipment-E. L. Hoppel,
travelling freight agent for the North
ern Pacific, is here today en- route
to Elgin to supervise the shipment OF
| so cars of sheep from that point to
the Chicago market via the Northern
Pacific. The sheep were purchased
from Eastern Washington growers
| and will be sent east in two train
loads, one train leaving Elgin Sep
! tember 3 and the second train Sep
tember 10. There will be $4,000
head of sheep in the combined ship
ment.
Four Hundred sheep Killed-Tht
district forester at Portland has beer
notified of the loss, in a single day
of 400 sheep that were grazing OF
the Colville national forest in north
ern Washington.
There seems to be an impression II
the locality that this heavy loss wa
due to the presence of poison weeds
on the range; but a careful invest
cation Of the situation reveals tn
fact that the death of the sheep wa!
due to a sudden change of forage
These sheep had been grazing 70
three weeks on soft feed on the high
er attitudes and were suddnly turn
ed onto portion of the range covere'
with ripe lupine and astragalus, tn
latter a species of loco weed.
No stockman or farmer would thinl
of taking stock off green clover an
feeding them heavily on grain, no
would he feed them on grain and the
turn them suddenly out to green clio
yer or alfalfa. Stock must becom
! accustomed to changes.
i 1t is advisable for every stockma
using the range to study the variou
: types of forage within his allotment
and in particular the effect upon tn
i sheep of a change from one kind G
forage to another. BY careful graz
, ing to prevent these sudden change!
, losses such as that upon the Colvill
forest may be avoided
Coos Bay pulp mills reopen wit
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