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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1903
Page
7
An 19th century guide extols a wooden well derrick with elm scantlings and 12 inch pulleys for winter well cleaning. It also discusses farm finance, bran quality, thrifty country wages, and pig growth. It ends with methods to combat potato bugs using paris green London purple and lime mixed in water.
A farm built drag uses two strips of timber and three fence posts arranged with sharp forward edges to prevent clogging. The device, costing little, can be scaled with heavier posts for different uses and can be made with ordinary farm tools.
A correspondent notes poultry offers rapid returns unlike many crops. Hens produce in weeks, with chicks ready in three weeks, cockerels marketable in four to four and a half months, and pullets laying by five to five and a half months.
The piece humorously asks where the harvester is and notes a farm tale of a fence corner misplacement. It reflects on dairy cattle numbers around 18 million in the country, roughly one cow per four people. A hog writer quips the modern hog has no points but is round like a sausage.
The Oregon fair schedules sales on September 18 and 19 with an auctioneer and public auctions. Breeders will send cattle and other stock including goats hogs and dairy animals. Bid bidders may inspect stock earlier in the week as around the cattle department attracts strong interest.
Citizens of Rainier organize a temporary board of trade with a committee to draft by laws and report on August 29 to perfect the organization. Its aims include inviting capital, advertising resources, improving roads and streets, and attracting factories as Rainier eyes rapid growth toward a city of several thousand by the Lewis and Clark fair.
Reports from Marion county indicate a strong wheat harvest with yields from 25 to 60 bushels per acre. J G Graham of Balfour Guthrie & Co in Salem notes no crop under 25 bushels and praises heads of grain appearing full and plump despite early poor straw stands.
Prunegrowers' mutual insurance directors decide not to begin business this season and will extend Oregon Mutual Fire Relief Association coverage to prune dryers. The Oregon company will set assessments to make insurance about half the cost of standard firms. Prune growers may form their own mutual by the next drying season.
The Indianapolis News notes the profit of combining poultry with small fruit cultivation when fowls are kept from fruit plots. It recommends raising poultry for carcass sales in fall and winter and early spring hatchings to minimize interference with fruit care, with properly arranged yards to keep areas separate.
An optimistic guide urges expanding navy bean production beyond current limits. It recommends clean land, post corn planting, careful cultivation, late harvest by hand when two thirds of pods ripen, and dry threshing to ensure easy pod removal.
Manager Winstanley of the Oregon Hop Growers' association says twenty two cents is offered for the 1902 crop hops. The price reflects a market strength figure around 20 cents rather than an established market price. Few sales are occurring.
Developments at the Lucky Cuss property by W. T. Cope and partners expose an ore body six feet wide with 13 feet wall separation. Quartz streaks flank the ledge, suggesting larger ore potential as development reaches nearly 300 feet. Values run from 8 to 20 dollars per ton with steady quality and easy, cheap handling.
Under the New Road Law Columbia county adopts a new system for road work. The road master recently appointed toured the county inspecting the lower end and will recommend radical changes in road building.
Daniels and Hanna of Hood River secure a rich timber body on the north fork of the Scappoose and commence a large capacity saw mill installation.
Canned peas are prepared by shelling, soaking in cold water, boiling, and canning in quart jars with the boiling liquid. The guide urges growers to bypass middlemen and sell directly to consumers if negotiation is unfair.
Pendleton buyers pay unusually low prices for wheat compared with other markets. Two sales occur at 70 1 2 cents, another small lot at 71 cents. A 76 cent offer for bluestem comes from Wareka Junction, and bluestem trades near 76 cents at Walla Walla.
Sharp Bros. and Holman report a quartzy discovery on Powell Creek headwaters. They found a four foot wide ledge of quartz with samples yielding values of 80 dollars to the ton.
William Griffith and son G. E B Griffith of Oregon City have sold the Broadway group of mines in the Bohemia district to the Oregon Surety Company for an understood sum of 36000 dollars.
A historical price list shows wheat ranges from 78 79c to 86c in the valley, flour at various per barrel and cwt prices, barley, millet, linseed and bran values, hay and butter and cheese quotes, poultry rates, eggs at 19c, beef and veal prices per pound, and wool and mohair quotes across regions.
The Duchess of Bedford, a wealthy Britain resident at Woburn Abbey, focuses on business over society. Her estate hosts a hospital for tenants, a dairy with a Chinese pagoda style building, and modern American dairy equipment. The Bedfords also boast their own opera house.
The excerpt notes the duke owns more land than most nobles in England. It recalls a past act where one of the duke’s acceptors hanged an abbot at Woburn Abbey. A brother abbot warned the dukedom should not pass three times in succession, a curse tied to inheritance that has so far held, yet the current Bedford family remains untroubled.
Prof Webb of the Royal Microscopical Society in Great Britain possesses the smallest copy of the Lord's Prayer. It is written with a diamond on glass and readable only by the finest microscopes. The text spans five one hundredths by six one thousandths of an inch, allowing about 74 million letters per square inch.
A quip from Cholly Borem about the last day of June and his birthday sparks a brief exchange with Miss Patience. The Philadelphia Press notes a common postvisit observation that women bring home, and share, quick judgments on sister’s children’s wit.
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