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THE SENTINEL POTTAGE GROVE OREGON
Question Arises
As to Just What
Makes a Farm
There is need for a new term
to designate small ptaxs and
homes in the country that are not
operatori as “fams" but arc
nevertheless so designated by the
Census. OSC agricultural cconotn-
Lsts anJ farm management au-
thorities say. To back up their
view they point out th it the Ccn-
• us of 1939 indicates that over
40 percent of the "farms" produc
ed only 6 pc.cent of the total val
ue of all farm products and that
most of the C percent was used
sn these “farms."
Statoil in another way, less
than 60 percent of the faims pro-
duced 94 percent of the total out-
pul anti practically all of the pro
ducts marketed. Obviously, the
economists sty. the Census defi
nition of a "farm ‘ is outmoded.
The data indicate that the num
ber of "farms" that are really
country residences and small part
time farms has increased and be-
come large in some areas. There
is no way to determine exactly
from the data, however, how
many there are and how many
real farms Urge enough to provide
work anri income for a family.
Thus, the economists say. the
value of the data is reduced. For
example.; they point out that la. <
percent of the "farms” were re
ported to be on hard surfaced
roads in 1940. Likewise. the Cen-
sus reported about 60 percent of
die “farms" had electricity, that
about 40 percent had telephones
and that about 51 percent had
running water. But. the economist
asks-, how many of th«' real farms
w«-n- so situated? An«l how many
of the “farms" with these ad-
vantages were country residences
of people who work in cities and
towns ?
The Census shows an increase
of about 44.000 in the rural farm
population of Oregon from 1920 to
1940, compared with about 120.-
000 in rural nonfarm and 140.000
urban. Eut that comparison is not
indicative cf the real population
trend on the real farms, the eco
nomists say, as the increase in
other country places was perhaps
more than enough to account for
the increase in the "rural farm
population."
Food Outlook Is
Greatly Improved
The food outlook for 1946 has
improved greatly in recent weeks.
Iiowever. the supply of inedible
fats and oils necessary for tho
manufacture of many personal and
household items is lower than at
any time during pre-war years.
Reminding local housewives of
this critical shortage, Ernest E.
Schrenk, chairman of the county
AAA committee, pointed out that
fat saving must be practiced every
day, if «gisting shortages of
laundry soup, paints, textiles, wall
paper and other commodities are
to disappear. Mr. Schrenk’s state
ment is based on word from the
USDA Production and Marketing
Administration.
During the war years house
wives accounted for 10 per cent
of the inedible production, and
collection must continue at this
rate if the supply is to be built up
to prewar levels.
Mr. Schrenk explained that
world export supplies and net im
ports of fats and oils into the
United States are not expected in
volume until later this year, per
haps in 1947. For this reason the
American kitchen must continue
to contribute to the backlog of
fats and oils from which the na-
tion must draw for essential pcr-
snnal and household item«.
Th' « nd of rationing has niad«'
av'ul.'ilile more eaoking lais, hint,
. nJ slioi u iiuig Wuh larger sup-
plies now moving from grocery
«lores into hoims, housewives
will have a gn>at opportunity to
save more us<>d fats th in tiny «lid
vhen rationing curtailed supplies.
Schrenk sani.
Edible fats md oils which have
become rancid or too highly Dav-
orrai for further e Hiking use,
should lie salva od and drained
into the fat
• containers
and returned
ncighbot hood
dealers.
and oils, in turn.
will come Imck to housewives in
snaps, soap powders, anti many
other items now in short supply,
Schrenk said.
The Airplane Of Tomorrow
One of the war's greatest para
doxes is that its urgent med far
developing th« world’« most de
structive force at th« very sa
time «dvanccd that came instru
ment cs a peacetime agency faster
«nd further than any period in his
tory. That instrument is. of cours«,
the airplane. The growth of alt
transport since Pearl Harbor is a
modern miracle which holds c»
much in rtore that there seems ;»
be no limit to the forecasts of t>-
post-war future of this indust:*«
which has become full grown prac
tically over night
The airlines of the United Stater,
under contract for the Army an t
Navy, flew more than 308.000.0C3
miles during the first three year,
of the war. carrying vital perso.
nel and cargo to the far corner-
of the earth. They racked up ths
almost incomprehensible figure of
2.600,000.000 passenger miles anc
707.000,000 ton miles. New de
velopments in design, power plant
and instruments, ru.hed to fruition
in ten times the speed of normal
civilian development, were respon
sible to a large degree. Credit goes
also to the pioneering skill and
courage of the airlines for com
panies which had never before
flown outside the U. S. pioneered
routes over all the oceans where
man had never ventured before.
During this same period the air
lines demonstrated in another way
that they have come of age, de
pending no longer on any benevo
lence from Uncle Sam. For the
first time the revenues which they
turned into the postoffice depart
ment from the carriage of air mail
so far exceeded the fees paid to
the carriers that all the deficit of
the early years has been wiped out.
Last year the airlines far from re
ceiving a subsidy made a substan
tial profit for the government.
The harvest of the extraordinary
efforts of the war years was ready
to be reaped as soon as final victory
came and it will be shared by mil
lions of Americans whose war serv
ice has made them more air-minded
than ever. Already the 19 domestic
lines have concrete plans, with
many orders already signed, to in
crease the size of their fleet to 1005
planes. Those ships will be capable
of carrying nearly 37,000 passen
gers. They are not just the
dreams of designers even though
many of them will be able to cruise
at speeds of close to 350 miles an
hour and carry loads of 20 tons
over distances of 3000 miles and
up. Some of these planes have ac
tually seen strenuous war service.
From the chaos and destruction of
war has come at least one bene, t
which will be of incalculable va.. a
in bringing mankind closer u.
gether—the airplane of tomorre...
Plastic Coating
Damask
linen
tablecloths that
can't be s’.iined by gravy and
brightly «■< lured draperies that can
be wiped clean with a damp cloih
are an un1» the postwar develop
ments foreseen as the outgrowth
of wartime research into plastic
coating of fabrics
Vitamin C Lack
Serious Matter
For Oregonians
Through exiHTimcm station re-
s'arch al Oregon State college
and extension activities through
th«* state, nutritional develop
ments with vitamin (' arc being
passed alonr to homemakers, re-
ports Miss Lucy
I
V Case, exten-
sion nutritionist. Recently Miss
Case carri«) out a demoitstru-
tion called “Ktvping Fit
t.imin C" in th«' Olney grange
hall near Astoria.
M i«s Case prvpa i cd
meal
high in vitamin C for the home-
make.-s at Astoria, as she explain
ed handling, suiting and cooking
methods which U*st preserve this
food element. Sho named air. heat
and waler as the common enemies
of vitamin C. Miss Jean Starker,
emergency assistant in Clatsop
county, assisted in the demonstra
tion and will develop the vitamin
project in 10 other rommiini- small amount of vitamin C.
Sho cited cases where n mid-
After «ununarizing college
die-aged woman wns relieved of
< .udì. Miss C'i<«' explained
stillness in the knee joints by
th«- aVt'i'ugc |H*r«<in needed
taiing citrus fruits anil tuniaiois.
min C daily hi h< Ip pix'sent low a school child's bleeding gum«
« liai resistance to bacterial
stopped bleeding m throe days
ms. build and maint ain strong with the assist unco of tomato and
I nines and .teeth, prevent
pain orange juice ami u tinnier'« sorc-
and soreness of joints and limbs, nes ol shovldeis and joints were
prevent hemorrhages and anemia, alleviati d by di inking hr wife's
strengtWien walls of blood Vessels, home cannisi tomato mice
aid in healing wounds, hold body
Direclions lor vitamin ( reten-
rolls together, prevent scurvy,
prevent irriiability and improve tion in canning, freezing and dry-
ing
included in bullet In HE
disposition.
A sample of I i I imx I taken from INAA availnhle at extension olile-
a vein in the arm can lie tested
chemically for the amount of as-
curbic acid or viiaimn C pres, nt.
explains Miss Case Such tests.
Suv Oil I'UI |> >»rtul
she adds.
made this past
Sovbean nil 1« mu bid» xtrmis, nn
year in th«' rural grade schools ore hand tilling i vipm vinents for edi
and higti scjaxils of Marion. Jose ble uils, and on the other having
phine, Tillamook Malheur and -h.u a« n iistics uf drying oils Ils
Sherman counties by the Oregon isade tin edible purposes such .is i
Stat«> college exj «'l inient .station. .hortentngs, margarine, and ««lad
Results tabulated
Marion ■it d cooking oils has increased mark-
county indicated that 62 percent -dly In recent years It also Is used
in industry as a drying oil In palms
of the grade school children ami ind varnish««, and is employed in
70 percent of thè high school -oap, linoleum, oilcloth and printing
children studied were getting tun
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