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“ O h, I ’ m co m in g back',
W a rd e n , I ’m ’ ju s ’t g o
in g o u t to see Q u en ten
•N orquist a b o u t
i something in it for milk pro- returns are comparatively low. effort ro increase the supply of. feed, both forage and concen
I dücers, but profits could hardly
“From, a farmer’s standpoint, grade A milk in the City of Port trates; and the labor 'require
be described as extravagant.
the dairy business is easily dis land, milk has been shipped in ments and labor cost of the eh-'
During OPA, $5.22
continued; it is much more, diffi from Skagit county, Washington, terprises. ‘ The quality require
of Seattle, within the past ments for grade A production
“Then, during OPA, October cult to establish. Efficient pro north
year to meet local production also have an effect on which en
1, 1943 to Ju ly 1, 1946, the cost ducing herds take considerable shortages. Fluid milk has also terprise is adopted. Another fact
of producing 100 pounds of grade money and time to develop. The
shipped into Eugene from or has been the more or less con- 1
A milk averaged $5.22. The Port fact that other farm enterprises been
Medford
and into Roseburg from tinued agitation and campaign
are
not
as
confining
and
offer
land milk quota pool price to
Grants
Pass
during the same per for lower prices arid cheaper milk
greater
immediate
returns
makes
gether with the subsidy averag
iod. Meanwhile, these markets by people who have but little
ed $4.77 a hundred. Obviously, the dairy future somewhat un are or have been in past years, understanding of dairy industry
many dairymen were operating certain. It is especially so in the center of dairy producing re problems. This is also added in
in red ink, and it was logical for view of the current growth in
ducement for the dairymen to get
It is not often that we use material written by someone many of them to select new farm population in the Pacific Slope gions. For example, a recent sur into
some other enterprise.
vey in Lane county showed there
states.
With
declining
cow
num
else in this column, but we think the following information enterprises, such as seed grow
“Most farms have alternate
were 18 grade A producing units
bers
and
increasing
human
popu
ing. Many did just that.
pertinent for both producers and consumers of milk:
with an average of 30 cows each uses to which the land can be
“Since G P A controls were lift lation, unless changes are forth
“ There seems little hope that wholehearted agreement ed, the average cost of produc coming, it does not seem unreas in the immediate Eugene milk- put that will bring in just as
which have been shifted to much or more money with less
will ever come without true understanding on the age-old tion for dairymen has continued onable' to believe- that a point shed
other farm enterprises. Similar hired labor and less grief than
could
be
reached
where
milk
sup
controversy that has become known as the “ milk question.” to elimb. For the period, Ju ly ply will hot meet demand.”
ly, there are many non-produc milking cows. Examples are cash
ing units in the Portland milk- crops, including seed, livestock
Over the years, no segment of the country’s farm popula 1946 to May 1949, the average
Here
is
a
bit
of
information
not
of milk production has been
such as sheep, beef and poultry.
shed.
tion has been criticized more bitterly by the consuming cost
included
in
the
report.
In
round
an estimated $6.47 a hundred in
“Dairying is a long term farm When the relative price for these
public than the dairy industry.O
figures',
the
producer
obtains
12.-
the Portland area. In turn, the
either brings an equal
Strife between consumer and were a general cross section of average quota pool price has 25 cents a quart for 3.5 percent enterprise that 'can be easily products
or,
greater
net return per acre,,
eliminated.
It
can
only
be
rein
dairyman producer has been 81 chosen from more than 400 averaged $6.10. Thus,- again, the milk delivered to the. plant. Two
there
will
be
a decline--; in the
stated
with
an
efficient
herd
marked by strikes, violent de Willamette valley farms. Each of average dairyman has failed cents a -quart goes for store
dairy industry.
nunciations, heated arguments— the tarins had in common the pro again to meet his cost of pro mark-up. The remainder of the over a period of years. It is an- “Milk is a necessary and a de
enterprise that is easy to get
and, little understanding.
cost, about 6.75 cents is accounted nut
duction of grass for seed or had duction.
difficult and slow to get sirable food product. I do not
‘Because there is. no substi some acreage in improved pas
For the 12 months’ period, May for in cost of processing and back into.
believe that a producer-dan be'
tute for milk, milk producer and ture,
1948 through April 1949, it has distribution. This is not quite the
"uairying competes with other expected to continue to tie him-,
consumer have been forced by
Cow Numbers Declining
been estimated that the average whole story however, for most farm enterprises for use of land, self down to his, dairy .for 365
necessity to do business with, one
“Oregon cow numbers reached cost of producing grade A milk of the milk comes in consider feed and labor. In any period days a year and produce milk
another in an atmosphere fre their peak in 1943 when 290,000 in the Portland area has been ably above 3.5%. This situation when conditions are more favor when there are other more profit
quently marked by distrust and cows two years old and older $6.63 per hundred pounds. The sometimes results in a surplus able for other enterprises, there able farm enterprises to lake his
unfriendliness.
were oh hand. Slipping each pooh price to producers during of fat and a shortage of milk will be a change from milking time. Along with a reasonable
Two Sides to Question
year since, the cow population of the same period averaged $6.50. which adds to the producers cows to these other enterprises. price, there should be a sympa
‘There are two sides to this milking age is now estimated at
troubles.
A few factors that enter into this thetic understanding by the pub
Seasonal Production Costs
question involving milk and its 238,000. Meantime, Oregon’s hu
50,000 Fewer Cows
competition are; relative prices, lic of the problems of produc
“As
far
as
dairymen
are
con
retail price. “What Price Milk” man population has grown by
“I recently heard this ques as compared to other enterprises ing milk if we are to. have an
cerned,
pool
prices
set
as
they
is an attempt to tell at least a leaps and bounds — about 50 per
are in Portland make no allow tion,” said Roger W. Morse, O. that might be carried out on thè adequate year around supply in
portion of the dairyman’s story— cent since prewar.
ance for seasonal production S.C. Dairy Specialist. “Are pro farm; the supply and price of our major markets.”
ah effort to show that dairymen
“Expressed
in
terms
of
a
ra
costs. Once established, the pool ducers goihg to provide an ade
have no “rose road.” Their path,
similar to that of the milk con tio, there were 24 cows per 100 prices continue at the same fig quate supply of dairy products
until further change is made. at a price which consumers can
sumer, is beset with economic Oregon residents in 1940; this ure
are less than 15 cows Actually, it is cheaper to pro afford to pay?” The answer in
pressures. Rising costs, labor dif year,there
100 residents. In terms of duce milk in April and May, for volves not only a study of the
ficulties, and, yes, public rela per
pounds
of milk available per per example, than during the winter dairy industry public relations,
tions are among them.
in 1940, the average was 1280 feeding months, November, De but also a study of the public’s
Friday, July 22— Teen A ge Dance at I 0 0 F hall
“Dairy facts and figures sup son
pounds. In 1948, the ratio of milk cember and January, farm man relations with the dairy industry.
plied in this fact sheet provided to people had shrunk to 790 agement specialists point out.
Monday, July 25— Odd Fellows meeting
“There are facts regarding
for your use during June Dairy
“Talk of leisure time and the
the
industry,
and
particularly
Month are furnished by the fol pounds.
“For the pre-OPA days, April 40-hour week has failed, thus market milk that should be
lowing Oregon State College staff
Tuesday, July 26— Teen Age meeting
far, to make an impression on
members: D. Curtis Mumford, 1936 to October 1943, OSC farm the dairy cow population. It’s better understood and appreciat
head, department of farm mam management staff members esti the nature of the animals to re ed. In round numbers, there were
Wednesday, July 27— Chamber of Commerce
agement; L. R. Breithaupt, ex mate average production costs quire attention 365 days of the about 2,688,000 fewer cows of
to
produce
gradé
A
milk
in
the
meeting
tension agricultural economist;
year with no let-up for Thanks milking age on farms in the
and Roger W. Morse, extension Willamette valley section of the giving, Christmas or other holi United States on January 1, 1949
Portland
milk
shed
at
$2.89
a
Thursday, July 28— Kiwanis meeting
dairy specialist.”
days enjoyed by those ifi less than there were in 1943. Here in
‘True, the Portland retail milk hundred pounds. This figure ap confining occupations. Then too, Oregon, there were approximate
price- Iras’ risen during the past plies to milk containing 4.4 per for most efficient production cow ly 50,000 fewer cows two years
25 years from a low of nine and cent butterfat. Cost of production milking hours must be as near old and older on January 1st
this year as compared with
four-tenths cents a quart, 1933, as expressed includes the opera 12 hours apart as possible.,
January 1st 1943.
to 20 and one-half cents a quart tor’s wages and a 4 per cent re
“
Good,
competent
dairy
*
help
“Although present milk sup
in May. Yet, the price was be turn on capital investment. Dur is an exception rather than the
low the average retail milk price ing this pre-OPA period, the Port rule;, thus, little wonder many plies are adequate, how long this
Sandy, Oregon
Phone 793
land
quota
pool
price
for
grade
for the United States, as it has
dairymen have turned to other situation will exist is open to
A
milk
averaged
$2.88
a
hundred
conjecture. After many, years of
been consistently for the past
pounds. A t that level there was , enterprises, especially when dairy
quarter century.
F A R M
on
a w ir
F A C T S
County Agent Takes Look at
Milk Question on Both Sides
COMING EVENTS
DEW DROP INN
13 Minutes for a Quart
in g 'c o n tr a c t f o r m y
“For comparison’s sake, mean
while, how do those top and bot
tom Portland milk prices com
pare in terms of industrial wages?
Figures published by the U. S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics show
the average worker employed in
manufacturing in this country
during the low retail milk price
year, 1933, earned an average
of 44 cents 1 per hour. At that
wage level, it took him just short
of 13 minutes to earn the price
of a quart of milk at Portland’s
1933 retail level.
“In May, Portland had the
highest priced milk in-its history
as expressed in dollars and
cents ■
— 20 and one-half cents
a quart. But, during March 1949,
Bureau of Labor Statistics fig
ures indicate the average indus
trial wage in the nation was $1.37
per hour. Again, in terms of
labor, Portland’s 20 and one-half
cent a quart milk represents a
r o o m !”
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labor output of exactly nine
minutes. Thus, in terms of labor,
milk today is cheaper than it
was at the bottom of the de
pression.
“Similar comparisons for the
past quarter century show milk
to be on a continual price decline
as expressed in time and indus
trial 1 wages.
“Frequently, the five-year per
iod, 1935 through 1939, has been
named as a period of compara
tive.' economic., balance iind pros
perity. Let' us' compare, • milk
prices with the industrial wage,
level for that five-year span. PorU
land’s delivered milk price dur
ing those five years averaged 11
and three-tenths cents a quart;
Again, in terms of minutes of
labor required to earn that quart
of milk, the average industrial
. worker in the United States put
in 111 minutes and 18 seconds
of his time.
‘.‘During March this year, nine
f minutes was the “price” of milk
expressed in average industrial
Wages and the going Portland,
milk price. By comparison, if the
1935 through 1939 price level was
fair ,Portland retail milk now
expressed in terms of labor would
be priced at approximately 2b
cents a quart. Nationwide, by the
same comparison, milk would
average 28 cents a quart.
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lenten Norquist, Licensed Electrical Contractor
Rhone 452
Sandy, Oregon
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seconds, but w hich endanger y o u r life and
limb.
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“ At current prices for milk,
other farm enterprises are more
attractive than dairying, A re
cent survey made by the depart
ment of farm management at
Oregon State College indicated
that, labor income — what the
operator gets for his own labor
and management — in 1948 was
more than three.. times as great,
for example, from seed and gram
farm s as it was from dairy opera
tions.
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“O f 21 dairy farms studied,
none returned their operators as
much as $6,000 per year m the
form of labor income. More than
one-half of them, in fact, retu™ -
ed labor incomes less than $2,000
per year. Five showed a loss of
more than $2,000 for the year.
“Meanwhile, of the 30 seed and
grain farms included, almost one-
half of them returned their op
erators more than $8,000 during
1948 as labor income.
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