The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-08

pense of the secretary which amounts
to almost nothing. For full informa-
ton see or write j. R. Ayers, secre-
etary, postoffice address, Kennewick.
VIM. Engles wasted considerable
eloquence at the Finley road meeting
a couple of weeks ago when he paint
ed vivid word picture of the deplor-
able condition of the road he takes to
town. After this display OF oratory
no one liked to get up and say any
thing commonplace so long pause
ensued. The chairman, wishing to
break the spell, turned to John Ber-
nath, who travels past Engles place
over the same road to town and asked:
"Have you any suggestion to make,
Mr.. Bernath?" 81 got no kick conf
ing," he replied, GIVE got good road
to town."
And now we see there is another
butter record smashed. The Holstein
Friesian cow, Segis Fayne Johanna
has just produced 1908 pounds of
milk, making 50.6S pounds of butter
in seven days. Think - over 100
pounds of milk and over seven pounds
of butter day. 50.6S pounds of but.
ter week for So weeks makes 2635.36
pounds of butter year and this at
As cents means $11s5.92 a year from
one cow. Oh, there's money in cows.
But to be serious, the record Of this
cow is nothing accidental. 1t is the
result of consistent breeding and but
serves to remind all dairymen of the
value of high bred bulls. One of the
best young Holstein bulls in the coun-
try sold in Portland last December
for $21, 10000. No one in this neigh
borhocd can hope to secure anything
of this class, but if the farmers would
get together on a community bull we
would have something with a record
behind him not very much less than
this Portland animal, and the increas-
ed value of the calves he would leave
in this valley in five years would pay
for his cost ten times over. There
are too many 2OO-pound cows in the
valley and the 5OO-pound cows are far
too few.
Prof. Hagenaur, soil and crop ex-
pert sent out by the Pullman extern
sion department, will speak to the
farmers at Finley in the Grange Hall
Monday night at 8:15 o'clock. Mr..
Lampson. says it is well worth while
and no one can hear him without
learning something.
Cheer up-altho Mr.. Sheppard's cal
endar predicts rough weather and a
cold spell from Feb. 4 to 9Th, then
snow and ice and decreasing tempera-
ture until March 18th, it isn't always
right. For example Ground Hog day
is given as Feb. LIST, while any school
boy knows his hogship doesn't come
out until the End. Even the ground
hog is off this year, for tho he pre-
dicted six weeks more of winter and
tho he is backed up by Mr.. Sheppard's
calendar and even by the Rev. Irl R.
Hicks, and tho the stosk has not yet
begun to shed, and the black sage
bloomed in October, tho Indian Henry
predicted zero weather in March and
the geese haven't started north yet,
they're all wrong-winter is over.
George Lee says so and can prove it.
He says winter is over because Spring
has come.
John Storland has been going
around with the whole front of his
head skinned up. He says he did it
splitting wood, but Pete claims that
he splits all the wood, so John will
have to hunt up another excuse.
Mrs. Bowles entertained the ladies
at the Ladies' Aid last Thursday by
showing series of original parlor
tricks which can be performed in
fitting office chair.
The Pomona Grange held their larg-
est meeting on record at Benton City
last Saturday. A lot of business was
finished up in the afternoon and fine
program given in the evening. The
Pomona will meet with Walnut Grove
on the 10th of March. The regular
date for the meeting is the 3rd of
March, but since school election falls
on this day the meeting is postponed
for one week.
The committee appointed to raise
f,,,de fo,. tho Cronoo riopo ronu,oc&e,