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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1972)
WILLAMINA TIMES THURSDAY, OCT. 26. 1972 working away from the farm cotu ge chgeee perhaps —Continued fcom Page Two there only as a collection and take from the farm w hai of cuietct charge- to farm ers point. A smah' dairy w ith they ctah get easily as supple have ijJmost doubled in each tew cowis may not last very m ental income and from Ithesse ru ral living which a decade. In recent years, p ri rouicn longer. lot of fam ilies really like. vate ' ¡Busin ass es have a iso We find s-fi lot of folks The N ational Farm ers Or adKbed i-i'ge investments in runneng .a few beef on pas the research ahd develop ture and. we jh in k they pro ganization and the F a r m m ent of h e inputs needed bably w ill be able to cont inue Bureau are putting together • for agrtouilt'nral production but perhaps the cattle w ill be i'he prcduclticn of a lot of or in related processing, mar- finished in larger feed yards farm ers en d pooling their keuing find ¿'Jstrihution. The :. nd from there'go to market. ■sites. This w ill probably help ¡the indiv.dual farm er investments in and the flew Recently (we visited with stay a Little smaller than if of new technology to agricul ture are expected to con 'inue one of our Yamhill county ne w as to compete all on his a-s fa^ih .taker an d productive farm ers about h e w orker own. E ut 'again, this leads cropland increase in econo uijjuaii'.cn. He showed much to some contractual 1 ype of concern and distress over the marikeiting and again we mic scarcity. 'think it w ill help stabilize l'he real cost of food to the availability of good workers .a'grjcuil'ture an the future. ■ and this is a problem th it Anierican consumer has de- ei.ned by halif or more since has been w ith us m any years. 19120'- Thiis has occurred be 'But, I think his problem is cause wiage rates in non a real concern b e c a u s e —TIMES CLASSIFIEDS farm indus.tries had quadinup- when we think of all 'sides of ied between 1929 and l'97O, this isiltuation the w orker ARE GOOD SALESMEN— and prices of farm products likes to h iv e w ork the year ■less 1 ban doubted dur ing the around and some of our same period. The explana term s are off ering year tio n for this is the compe around w ork while others do titive nature of the agricul not have anything for some tu re sector w hich rests firm one to do the year around yeit extra heilp is needed dur ly on technology advance. Have governmen. p r o- ing the harvest periods. Well, What are we going •grams encouraged formation .of. larger unite? This i‘s a Ito do about this changing very debatable question. Most time? I think we can see programs, w hether p ric e . sup very plainly that most of our port, land retirem ent or di tu tl time operators ere ¡try rect payments, essentiaiiiiy ing to get their farm s into “Uncle Sam gets most of base both performance re the size thait ,WilT give them quirements and rew ards upon a full t me job and a full our funds, so Washington, past hisim y for individual time income. We will con D.C. should be named ‘Fund r e m i t t e e . Glenn R. Jack, Chairman, 5495 Grove St., West Linn, Ore. »7068_ units. Also, most programs tinue to have folks who City.’” t Support aiitemjpt to perpetuate cer resifity make th eir living tain past relationships among tenant's and owners as long Third in a series of PGE Watt Watchers* Tips: as tenants rem ain on the tana. At various times, smaller farm s have been given a re l ative advantage trough m ini mum allotm ents or upward fcdtoring of paym ent rates and more liberal rules for land reiiremenli!. ‘In the 1970 ; Act moat of these conces sions. except fo r cotton farms, w ere eliminated. In stead a lim it of $515,000 w as placed on payments that targe farm s could receive; this limit hiss, however, gen erally been regarded as in- etsteia.rve. There is a tendency for some people to think in terms of oommericjali farm s being a h there is to farming. Yet, in reality there are approxi mately six units with under $20,000 in sales per year for every unit wiilth over $20,000 ' m isales. ¡Bach year there are more ru ra l residents .who are farm ing and ¡also working full time off the farm. in our visitations w ith farmers, we find it is realty ■becoming more difficult for the small farm er to sell his produce than it has been in the paeli. There is a trend tow ard contracting and inte grated production. S o m e Keep filters Always make sure that doors types of farming, which, sell When you stop to think about it, clean. almost all their products to your garage, basement and your modern electric heating system By being a PGE Watt Watcher, under contracting, are m ilk attic remain closed.’Letting heat does a lot more than just keep producers and sugar beet you’ll enjoy all the comforts and escape to these parts of the house is your home warm. It also eliminates growers. conveniences only electricity can simply a waste of energy and ContradS and vertically in old-fashioned heating problems ... bring... and at a reasonable cost. tegrated production increased money. like cold drafts and hot spots. You’ll be a happier customer. . . and slighilly in the past ten years, Keep heat indoors by sealing Since electric heat is flameless, . between I960 and 10'70 — that’s what PGE service is all about. areas* around doors and from an estimated 10 to 22% there’s no build-up of soot or grime For a bookful of energy-saving | windows where it could escape. of the total output. This re on curtains or furniture. Apd i t ., ideas you can use throughout your presents considerable v aria If your home has a fireplace, keep helps you save energy by allowing home, mail the attached coupon tion by crop and (type of live the damper closed when it is not you to vary room temperatures stock .product. C urrently an today for your 12-page Watt in use. estim ated 3i6.2% of the live individually. Watchers' Guide. It’s free from PGE. Check your home’s insulation stock and livestock products You might be surprised to discover and only 14.3% o f'th e crops carefully. Poor insulation can that you can often enjoy all a te produced under contracts increase your heating costs these benefits of electric heat o r integration. However, drastically and unnecessarily. 1(10% of the sugar beets and without using as much energy as sugar cane and 98% of the Thoroughly examine and clean you do right now. fluid rr,'-lk and 97% ; of the your heating system each fall. PGE asks you to be a ( broilers are produced' under It can save you money in the prio r commitments. Watt Watcher and try these long run. It is o u r olbserva'.ion th at energy-saving tips: contract's do aid in stabilizing Once you set individual room a m arket. u nder the present laws in thermostats at your family’s Oregon, when a dairyman lowest comfort level, you should wants to sta rt up a new dairy not have to touch them again, he m ust find a m arket for Portland General Electric Company regardless of variations of outdoor his m ilk and : one th at will 621S.W . Alder ma sell fluid milk in order to Portland, Oregon 97205 temperatures. In fact, moving get an allloitmenlt ¡in the milk thermostat? up and down increases I ’d like to be a W att Watcher, PGE. Please send me m y free W att business. But doesn’t this your heating costs. Watchers’ Guide. maKe sense, since it would be Turning your central heating foolish to give a man an al NAME lotm ent if there was no m ar system off at night will just ket: for his product? make it work harder in the ADDRESS The num ber of m arkets morning when walls, floors and available has declined a? well as 'h e num ber of pro ceilings have become cold. ducers. We find only about Night set-back should be no more two manufladturers of mclk than 5 to 7 degrees. products now other than the cheese we have on the coast in Oregon. Thirty years ago there w ere m any buyers of m ilk products ¿n the Willam e tte Valley, some of them operators making fbuitlter or —FARM notes 1he OLdlvrn&i. R e43ect\\^ d eU \\fyatt your person to person Congressman. If you enjoy ~ the solid comfort of electric heat (and over 100,000 PGE customers do) use these energy-saving ideas 3 7 4 5 0 I 2 Portland General Electric Company
