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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1920)
y 4 j BRANDS AND STANDARDS TEND TO DEVELOP BETTER FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MARKETS MARINES RAISING STARS AND STRIPES AT ST. THOMAS I w M UST M A K E B E T T E R B U T T E R Imports Emphasize Impressive Lesson for Dairymen— Foreign Com petition Active. T o meet foreign competition, dairy farmers o f the United States must be able to produce a better quality o f product and produce and mnrket It more economically and more efficient ly, according to specialists in the bureau o f markets, United States de partment o f agriculture. Arrivuls o f shipments o f Danish but United States marines raising the Sturs and Stripes over the fort ut St. Thomas, once u stronghold for pirate* ter are already affecting prices on the New York City market. Argentina Is This “ paradise of Jolly Rogers" Is now guarded and policed hy men of the marine corps. producing nearly three times the amount o f butter and cheese con sumed, and some o f the surplus may be expected to come to this country or compete with our products In for eign countries. Before the war Si beria was rapidly extending its dairy industry and when conditions become settled In that country It may be ex pected to come back as a factor in the world’s market. Recently there have been signs o f interest in dairy ing in South Africa, and the industry as developed in New Zealand and Aus tralia must be reckoned with. I f the dairy products manufactured in the United States are o f a better quality than those from other countries they need not feur competition. Can ada’s cheese industry illustrates this. A strict system o f government super vision in the training o f cheese makers, in the operating o f the fac tories, and in the grading, marketing and exporting o f the product, exists there. This has tended toward an improvement in the quality o f Ca nadian cheese until it ranks with the finest on the English markets. The dairy industry in Argentina has A group o f liig business and real estate men o f Chicago have formed the Chicago Housing association to project grown rapidly since the beginning o f plans for building homes at cost, to he sold to the public at cost. Members o f the Chicago Housing association, made the war. Before the war butter ex- u tour of inspection o f the new homes which the association is constructing nt Pleasant Gardens on the South side. One hundred and seventy-live houses, all fireproof, are to be erected by the association. About sixty are nearly completed at the present time. These homes will be sold to the wage earners at cost, approximately $4,000, on a basis o f 10 per cent cash and the balance within 15 years. SOLVING THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN CHICAGO RETURNING TREATY TO PRESIDENT S LA Y S M OUNTAIN LIO N Part of One of Shipments of Danish Butter Arriving in New York Which Have Caused American Dairy In terests to See the Possibility of Growing Foreign Competition. ports from that country totaled 3,262 tons a yea r; in 1918 they were five times that. Cheese exports were far exceeded by the imports in 1913. Now the conditions are reversed— over 6,000 tons o f cheese being exported in 1918. Today most o f these exports are going to European markets, but should conditions become favorable It may be expected that some o f these w ill come to this country. The bu reau o f markets warns dairymen to be prepared to meet this competition. By a vote of 47 to 37, the rejected treaty was returned to the president. Left to right : W. L. Van Horn and O. A. Sanderson, secretary o f the senate, who is carrying the defeated document to the executive office o f the White House. SOLVES LANDING PROBLEM OF PLANES Mr. J. W. Howell with the mountain CANS B E T T E R T H A N B U C K ET S lton he killed. Mr. Howell was watch ing a full-grown cow elk which he had M o s t C onvenient fo r C o llecting M ilk approached to within 20 feet, when a t Barns and Conveying I t to this mountain lion leaped upon the elk the House. and killed her, and Mr. Howell then killed the lion. Milk and cream from even a fe w cows can be much more conveniently FR A N C E 'S G R E A T E S T B EA U T Y handled In regular milk cans than In the shallow pans and wide-mouthed buckets commonly used. Cans nre con venient fo r collecting the milk at the barn and transferring it to the house. These cans may be bought in vari ous sizes. For handling cream and sklmmllk where separators nre used, or even where cream is set to sour for buttermaking, the "shotgun can” Is very convenient. It can be easily cov ered and set In water and is conven ient to handle. D IF F IC U L T CH URNING C A U SES Am ong O th e r T hing s C ream M a y Be T o o T h in and T e m p e ra tu re M ay N o t Da R ig h t Difficult churning may be due to sev eral factors: T oo thin cream. It should test be tween 30 to 35 per cent fat. W rong churning temperature o f the cream. Sixty degrees Is about right. In a few Instances It may be due to the action o f certain germs. In some Instances it may be due to feeding foods which produce a large 5.868 Filipinos Served in Navy. The "Gyrocopter,” Henry A. Berliner’s new machine thut Is designed to It Is not generally known that 5.868 percentage o f hard fats. enable an airplane to rise or descend on a very small area. This machine, Sour cream churns easier than sweet which will operate Independently when tilted forward, will fly horizontally. Filipinos have served In the American cream. navy. The tilting I* accomplished hy changing the center o f lifting pressure. Mile. Lucille Batalile, selected by a committee o f prominent politicians, artists, and theatrical managers as France’s'most beautiful girl, during re cent contest nt Hotel do Vllle. She wns awarded prize nfter careful se lection from almost 1,000 contestants, and crowned as the queen o f queen* inspecting B u tte r P re p a rato ry to S hipping I t to a Foreign M a rk e t. O thefi T h in g s Being Equal, Inspected P roducts A re Counted M ore D esirab ltf T h a n Those N o t Inspected. (Prepared by the United States Depart have developed some trade there in re* ment o f Agriculture.) cent months. There may be nothing in a name, but I f the United States Is to keep its there is a lot in a brand, especially present export trade In dairy products In the export trade. Practically all ex and not suffer from possible competi port business o f food products Is han tion in home markets, It is necessary dled on a basis o f branded goods. To to pay more attention to the quality o f a much greater extent than the Ameri its products and make fuller use o f can producer realizes foreign buyers brands and scores in handling its but make use o f brands in purchasing ter production. What applies to dairy products by cable, and importers in products applies to many other lines foreign lands depend upon brands in ns well. judging the ^quality o f the products they handle. There are three ways o f buying goods fo r export. One way is by the use o f samples o f standard products, another by orders, often cabled, giving instructions to agents to buy specified quantities o f certain branded prod Size of Building Should Be Gov* ucts; the third method, by fa r the emed by Number of Hens. least used, is fo r an importer to visit foreign countries in person and select products wanted. Smaller Breeds Being More Active and Advantages o f Brands. Restless Require About as Much In the United States the use of Space as Larger Ones— Make standard and o f many copyrighted Structure Square. brands on domestic products has helped sell goods o f various kinds and trade-marked goods o f quality have en The size o f the hen house should be joyed wider distribution than non governed by the size o f the flock. From standard, unbranded products. Many 40 to 50 seems to be about as many concerns that have not developed any birds as are safe to keep together. export business own copyrighted trade With flocks o f this size from four to marks on products sold in home mar five square feet of floor space should kets which they value among the chief be allowed to each bird. This will assets o f their business. suffice In most cases where careful at O f course it is not enough merely to tention is given to cleanliness and ven use brands, but their use today is com- ■ tilation. I f the fow ls are kept in ing more and more to be backed up smaller flocks more floor space to a by quality in the goods so labeled. Es bird w ill be needed. pecially is this true where products In sections where the climate is so nre widely advertised. There are some mild that it is unnecessary to keep commodities for which a brand Is in fowls confined, except fo r a few days itself an advertisement and when this ar a time, less space to a bird should brand becomes known among buyers be sufficient. The smaller breeds, being ns a guaranty of quality or grade, It more active and restless, require about serves to expedite the sale o f the prod as much room as the larger breeds. uct. For the greater amount o f floor Take butter, fo r example, o f which space fo r the least cost a building the United States exported over should be square. Other things being .‘{0,000,000 pounds during the first ten equal, the nearer square a house is months o f 1919. A large amount o f the less lumber it will take according American butter is shipped without to poultry specialists o f the United inspection or grading; it is not han States department o f agriculture. H ow dled so that foreign buyers know what ever, it is sometimes out o f the ques they are receiving and ns a result it tion to build a large house square. A does not sell as well in foreign mar building should not be so wide that kets as butter from countries where the sun cannot reach the back o f the inspection and branding are practiced. house, otherwise it w ill be damp. Investigators in the dairy market Fourteen feet is convenient- width. ing division o f the federal bureau of Build the house as low as possible markets has found that unbrnnded but without danger of attendants bumping ter from the United States, while sell their heads against the celling, fo r the ing freely during the present scarcity low house is more easily warmed than o f butter in other countries, is not like a high one. ly to retain a hold on foreign buyers after other countries resume exporta tion. In this fact is an important les POOR H A T C H ES A R E COM M ON son not only fo r dairy interests but other producers desirous o f expanding Condition of Eggs Previous to H a tc h ing Is M ore A p t T h a n Incuba their trade abroad. Creamery men tion to Be Cause. cannot expect to develop a foreign market fo r their products unless they Poor hatches are common with poul- establish reputations fo r their goods Just as manufacturers in other lines trymen, but what causes them is a have done— and standards or brands much discussed question. The answer are a great aid In such business devel depends on r. great variety o f circum stances. The condition o f the eggs opment. previous to hatching is more apt than Building a Foreign T rade. the Incubation to be the cause, al Before the war Denmnrk was a large though improper handling in either factor In the international trade in case w ill produce the same results, butter. She has been famous for her says the United States department o f dnlry products fo r years, not only on agriculture. When eggs fail to hatch, the continent, but in South America, first see whether the breeding stock where even in out-of-the-way corners is kept under conditions which tend o f the tropics travelers found the only to produce strong, fertile germs in butter available came in cans with a the eggs; next, whether the eggs have Danish label. New Zealand has built been handled properly before incuba up a trade with Europe in butter tion ; and lastly, whether the condi through a government inspection serv tions were right during Incubation. ice, and butter must measure up to When an incubator is used a daily certain standards before the Inspectors temperature record should be kept o f w ill place their stamp upon it. each machine. The operator can then Inspection Service. compare the temperature at which This idea oi Inspected and branded the machines have been maintained. butter is not new in the United States, This may prove o f value in the fu fo r the federal department o f agricul ture, especially i f the brooder records ture has been inspecting Interstate and can be checked back against those o f Canal zone shipments of butter fo r the incubator. some time. This inspection, however, is not compulsory, and has not ns yet been applied to export trade to any N E V E R P LO W U N D ER M A N U R E great extent. Recently a large purchase o f butter fo r export was inspected by W hen Seeding F ie ld to C lo ve r F e r ti liz e r and Disking Leave Much a United States government Inspector to Conserve M oisture. at the request o f the purchaser who bought the butter subject to inspection. Never plow under manure or fe r This Is said to be the first time that tilizers when seeding a field to clover. inspection by any government hns been The manure and disking leave an ex naked fo r on any large amount o f but cellent mulch on the surface o f the ter exports. Exporters in the United I ground which conserves moisture, es States who ship to Central America pecially during the hot dry weather usually us" brands on their butter and t in midsummer. SMALL HOUSES BEST FOR CHICKEN FLOCK