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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1915)
Some Canneries, Loosely Organized, I)o Not Pay NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS. FOR THE SUCCULENT CARR01 Six Ways of Serving Vegetable That Should Be of More General Consumption. Portland — The wool market in the East is In a most excited condition and Creamed Carrots. — Scrape and stirring times are looked for in the wash the carrots, cut In thin slices crosswise; ooll in salted water until Western states when the buying sea tender, drain off the water, cover with son opens. Everybody in the trade is sweet milk, add salt to taste and a bullish, the growers because they are small piece of butter. Thicken with practically certain to get very high a spoonful of flour to the consistency prices, and the buyers because they of good cream. Carrot Croquettes.—Boll four large cannot be otherwise. carrots until tender; drain and rub The contracting movement is begin through sieve, add one cupful of thick ning to get a little headway iu the white sauce, mix well and season to West. It would be booming were taste. When cold, shape Into cro there enough sellers. Buyers stand quettes, and fry same as other cro ready to contract for wool anywhere quettes. in Eutern Oregon, but they are not Carrot Soup.—One quart of thinly able to make any impression yet on sliced carrots, one head of celery, the growers, and may not be able to do three or four quarts of water, boll much in this line before shearing time, for two and one half hours; add one- unless they offer a good deal more II Appropriation Hills Dry Act Signed bp half cupful of rice and boll for an hour than they are talking now. Dealers Provide $77», 706. 10 fund Governor Withpcombe would be glad to contract for good longer; season with salt and pepper and a small cupful of cream. .State Capitol, Salem — Appropria Stae Capitol, Salem-—"It is the best medium clips at 22 cents, such clips as Carrot Pie.—Scrape and boll the tions for sundry and miscellaneous de piece of constructive legislation in the they bought last year at 17 to 18 cents, but sheepmen turn a deaf ear to carrots until very tender, then mash partments of the state government ag world,” declared Governor Withy- such proposals. While values are go thoroughly, and to one cupful of car gregating (778,700.40 are provided for com be Thursday afternoon as he at ing to be high this year it would be rot add one pint of milk, one-half tea in a aeries of 14 appropriation bills in tached his aignaure to the prohibition folly to predict any definite prices. spoonful each of salt, cinnamon and The hop market is plainly moving ginger, one well-beaten egg, sugar to troduced in the houae by the joint bill. "I heartily approve of its every in an upward direction, under the in sweeten to taste. Bake slowly in one house and senate ways and means com provision. If the legislature does fluence of a strong export demand and crust like squash pie. mittee. nothing else, thia act alone la well with stocks at a low ebb. Fourteen Carrot Preserve.—Boil the carrots These bills carry the item» for main worth the expenso of the session.” cents was paid thia week for choice until tender; peel and slice them and tenance of the executive of the state to each pound add one pound of gran The governor wu in a happy mood Oregons. This quotation has not been ulated sugar and one-half cupful of government, including tho salaries of when he signed the bill. He declared seen since the middle of last Septem ber. water; flavor with lemon. Simmer the governor, secretary of state, statu that It gave him a real pleasure to be This top price, 14 cent«, wu paid slowly until rich and thick, then seal. treasurer and their office assistants. able to have a part in so wholesome by I-ouis Lachmund to Henry Eoff, of Carrot Marmalade.—Boil the carrots The governor is given his usual allow and so beneficial a piece of work. Independence, for 400 balea. Harry until perfectly tender, then mash to a ance of $500 a year for traveling ex Members of the Women’s Christian L. Hart bought 177 bales from Robert fine smooth pulp, and to each pound penses. Temperance Union and other persons, Ankeny, of Rickreall, at 12} cents. allow one pound of sugar, six almonds, The only big state Institutions pro who have been interested in the "dry” Wheat — Bid: Bluestem, $1.54}; vided for in those bills are the Sold movement in Oregon for many years, fortyfold, $1.53; club, $1.52}; red his cartoons appearing in national pub the grated rind of one lemon and the iers’ Home at Roseburg, with $31,- stood about his desk. lications, has donated the poster for juice of two and a few drops of al Russian, $1.42; red Fife, $1.47. 658.76 for the biennium, and the Tu-1 the 1915 Rose Festival. It is to be mond flavoring. Bring to a boil grad Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran, $30.50 berculoeis hospital, with $53,176. used at once to attract tourist travel ually, and let boil, stirring constantly Man lx>»t Since fire found. 031.50 ton; shorts, $32.50033.50; An aggregate of $110,000 is re to Oregon and Washington. Already for five minutes; then pour into Marshfield — Joseph Booker, whose rolled barley, $350,36. quired for !>ounlies on wild animals for conventions in Seattle, Tacoma, Walla jars and zeal. Corn — White, $38 ton; cracked, $39. the next two years. Of this sum $20,- body was searched for in the ruina of Walla and Spokane will bring to Wash Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 000 is to meet a deficiency in the fund tho Bunker Hill boarding houae, where 016; valley timothy, $12.50; grain ington more than 150,000 visitors, i DAINTY BASKET OF MACARONI of the last two years. The present seven persons perished by fire, was hay, $10012; alfalfa, $12013. Most all of these delegates are ticketed legislature voted to increase the found in a Smith-Powers logging camp through to Portland and other Oregon For the Luncheon Table or the After Vegetables — Cucumbers, hothouse, bounty on coyotes and to place a at Wagner. points en route to California exposi $1.25(0,1.50 dozen; eggplant, 80,10c noon Tea This Is a Delicious bounty on seals, and additional ex- tions. Portland this year co-operated pound; peppers, $4 crate; artichokes, Confection. The reason for his disap;>earance |>endituroe will be required for those with Washington cities in securing 85090c dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 crate; without leaving any word caused the I , cabbage, 1}01} c pound; celery, $40 many conventions. purposea. Take two cupfuls sugar, one cupful When J. C. Cooper, of McMinnville, boiling water and one-eighth teaspoon widespread search to be made. He , v ,„vc, « cauliflower, $2; sprouts, 8 He ' ,4.25 crate; Oregon, won the slogan contest with ful cream of tartar. Put ingredients Houae Passes Hill Against said he went to a small waiting depot (,t.9c pound; head lettuce, $lv750 2 the phrase “The Whole World KnowB in a smooth saucepan, stir, place on Bunker Hill the morning after the crate; rhubarb, lO012}c pound; ; car Use of Trading Stamp» at the Portland Rose,” it was suggested to range and heat to boiling point Boll fire, waited there for daylight and then rots, $1.25 sack’ I beets, ‘ * ’ $1.25; pars- him that he ask his son to donate a without stirring until sirup begins to State Capitol, Salem An anti-trad started for the Wagner camps on foot, nips, $1.25. poster. Young Cooper lives in New ing stamp bill. Introduced to drive the W. C. Laird, deputy sheriff, went to Green Fruits — Apples, 75c0$1.5O dissolve. Remove from fire and place York. His father wrote him at once, ' in larger pan of cold water to instant popular trade magnet completely out Wagner, 56 miles from Marshfield, for ___ box' ; casabas, $1.65 crate; cranber and Cooper wired the festival he would of the state, wu paast-d by the houae. the prisoner and placed him in jail at ries, $11 barrel. ly stop boiling. Remove from cold donate a poster to incorporate his Tho measure wu introduced by Repre Myrtle Point. He will be returned ---- I Potatoes -Oregon, $1.1001.15 sack; r=T father's slogan. He values his work water and place in a saucepan of hot sentative Thomu Brown, of Marion. here and the coroner's jury will «••• re | Yakima, 9Oc0$1.15. at $300. The accompanying illustra water. Now dip macaroni In sirup at Senator l.afollette, of Marion, was the sums the inquest. Mr. Booker will be i Onions — Selling price $1 per sack, tion shows the poster with a photo regular intervals close to edge and Oregon Boy Give» Rose asked to explain why he was awake country points. author of a similar bill in tho senate. of Fred G. Cooper. It is being put two together. When firm add a The measure levies a 5 per cent ex and dressed while others in the build Eggs — Fresh Oregon ranch, case Festival Poster Design graph reproduced in three colors. The back third macaroni and so on until a circle cise tax on the gross receipts not only ing were escaping in their night count, 220.23c; candled, 24c. Fred G. Cooper, an Oregon boy, who _ ground is a battleship gray, the rose a is formed large enough for base of of all concerns conducting a trading clothes. Poultry — Hens, 13013jc pound; basket has won fame in the East recently for 1 Pink Testout and the leaves green. stamp system in the state, but on all mixed, 12012}c; broilers, 18020c; Over these fit another layer of maca merchants who use them. It wu ad Polk Exhibit» Planned. turkeys, dressed, 20021c; live, 16c; roni and over the second layer a mitted by those who sponsored the bill will snap readily. Raising Vegetables Monmouth — Plans for exhibits at ducks, 13016c; geese, 8010c. third one. Make a handle of stretched that the meuuro probably will put an the 1915 Polk County fair have been If you make several successive sow candy twisted, and adjust same. Ar Butter — Creamery, prints, extras, tor Cannery Use end to the trading stamp business. ings of beans about every ten or range basket on small plate, fill with S2c pound in cue lota; }c more in less (From O. A. C.. Corvallis. Or.) Ostensibly, however, the measure is made by pupils in the schools of this that case lota; cubes, 26c. fifteen days up to about the 15th of ice cream, garnish with whipped You know that the slogan of the June you will have beans coming along cream, flavored and sweetened, and intended to raise funds for the state, city. Gardens will be planted at t|>e Veal—Fancy, 12012}c pound. as the receipts from the proposed tax earliest clearing of the weather and Pork—Block, 9}c pound. past four or five years has been “back at definite intervals. surround with holly.—Exchange. are to go into the state treuury. People in Western Oregon have not Hops—1914 crop, 12014c; 1913 to the farm.” The question of what drying off of the ground. In addition Representative Brown painted a crop, 12c. we are going to do with the small grown tomatoes very much. A lot of Wash Chamois and Doeskin Gloves. dreary picture of the misfortune of the to having instructions as to the proper Hides — Salted hides, 15c; salted tracts of land comes up. Many of people even have trouble growing them The secret of success in washing small merchant who is made to com- cultivation of vegetables on the plots, them have fruit trees and the owners for the market. Southern Oregon has chamois and doeskin gloves lies in bulls, 10c; salted kip, 15c; salted calf, pupils are to have gardens at home. pote with the concern that gives away will have to wait four or five years done the most in this line. We pay trading stamps as an inducement to High school students, however, will 19c; green hides, 13}c; green bulla, until the fruit comes along. What are $10 to $12 a ton here. In the south using lukewarm or cool water—better cool than even a few degrees too have only home gardens, as the school 9c; green kip, 15c; green calf, 19c; attract custom. He declared that the the price is $6 to $8 a ton. they going to do until that time? warm. trading stamp is an unnatural trade garden plan has been abandoned. dry hides, 26c; dry calf, 28c. The important feature here is vari If they turn to vegetables for the That, at least, is one of the secrets; Wool — Valley, nominal; Eastern condition, that it is an economic waste Great interest has been centered upon ety again. This is a variety chosen cannery they get some cash or the and that it really proves an expensive garden work by the grammar school Oregon, nominal; mohair, 1914 clip, promise of cash. If there happens to more for weight than for size or the other is to use soapy water. The attachment to the business of the boys for the past two years. They do 27c. smoothness. We do not want one that soapier the water, providing It Is of not wait for the season to arrive be Cucara bark — Old and new, 4}c. be a cannery in the immediate vicinity cracks, but still it does not need to be the right temperature, the silkier and merchant who usee it. fore plans take form. The earliest Pelts — Dry long wool, 13c; dry they can can get more of an average smooth. The Stone and Matchless are softer the gloves will be. They should vegetable raised command high prices short wool, 10c; dry shearings, each, income than if they have only a city well known varieties. In this section first be freed from all dirt fn a soap Amendment Asks Change at market. 106tl5c; salted shearings, each, 15(<i) market. There is always a limit to the Jewel and Bonny Best do well; the bath, and then put through another in lA aae ot Salt Lake» soapy bath in order that they may be 25c; dry goats, long hair, each, 120 the amount of green goods that a city latter being the larger. can consume, and if there is a slump rinsed from the dirt set free. They 12}c; dry goat shearings, each, 100 Reclamation In Planned. The farmers very often use poor State Capitol, Salem — The Forbes in the market the cannery will tend to plants. They don’t seem to realize should then be pressed and squeezed house bill approving the lease of Sum-, Marshfield—A definite movement is 20c; salted sheep pelts, February, $1 keep up the prices. in a thick towel until they are free mer and Abort Lakes to Jason C. on at Coquille looking to clearing a @1.50 each. Many of .our growers are to be criti that the cost of seed is only about 1 from soap and water as nearly as pos per cent of the grocery terms. That tract of the rich Coquille Valley bot Cattle — Prime steers, $7.5007.75; Moore has finally emerged from the cised for the way they have been tom lands to be utilized for experi choice, $7.2507.50; medium, $6.750 growing things for the cannery. No is speaking from a very general stand sible. Then they are ready to be senate committee on publie lands. Attached to the report of the com mental purposes. It is proposed to 7.25; choice cows, $60.6.60; medium, matter how much money the cannery point. Seventy-five cents or a dollar hung to dry in a cool, dry place. Nev mittee is a recommendation signed by clear 40 acres of a 2500-acre tract for $50.6; heifers, $50)6.25; bulls, $3.50 has, no matter what fine equipment it is what the seed should cost for an er hang them near a fire, and never You won’t get a hang them in the sunshine if you three of the members that the bill be the owners and turn them over to per @6; stags, $4.5006. has or how good a manager, it de acre of tomatoes. Hogs — Light, $6.2506.90; heavy. pends upon the farmer primarily for good crop without good seed, and the would have them soft and pliable af so amended that the lessees Will be re sons who are willing to farm this sedi quired to execute a bond guaranteeing mentary deposit. The owner has been $5.5006.20. its real success. If the goods are cost of seed is a very small item. Deal ter laundering. Sheep— Wethers, $607.15; ewe«, not good when they come to the can with good reliable seed houses and payment for ail labor and materials offering $18 an acre for clearing, stay with them year after year. Get Date and Peanut Pudding. contracted for. The amendment also i slashing and burning, but laborers be $50'6.15; lambs, $708.20. nery, it will not be a success. acquainted with your dealer and don ’ t Dates and peanuts make an excep makes the lease conditional ujx>n sub lieve the work cannot be done for that One of the first things is co-opera tionally good combination. Beat two The Coquille Commercial Seattle—Wheat — Bluestem, SI.54; tion. What I mean tu say is co-opera buy haphazard. mission by the lessees or their assigns amount. Plants are extremely important. eggs well, add one cupful of granu to regulation by the State land board club expects to offer an increase over fortyfold, $1.53; club, $1.52; Fife, tion as to seeds and plants. We had the $18 olfer sufficient to get the work $1.47}; red Russian, $1.44. in the sale of shares of stock. an instance last year of a cannery in Don’t buy small plants, but grow your lated sugar, one cupful peanuts finely Barley—$30eton. There is strong opposing sentiment done. this state in which there were four or own and set out about the 15th of chopped, one-third of a cupful of flour in the committee, as well as in the five kinds of beans found in one can. May, having the plants properly hard sifted with one teaspoonful baking Polk Nearlg Rid of Pe»t. Tacoma—Apples—Cooking, 75090c A very important thing as far as the ened and stocky. The soil is very im powder, and one-eighth teaspoonful of body of the senate, against imposing Monmouth — The war on gophers, box; Spitzonbergs, Winesaps, Rome feature of growing is concerned, is portant. A sandy loam is the best. salt Turn into a large layer cake any new conditions on the lease. The reason for advancing the amendment which has been conducted in Polk Beauties, Arkansas Blacks, Staymen that the farmer be critical about the But more important than soil is vari pan. buttered and bake in a moder ety and plants. ate oven about one hour. When cool are that certain laborers and material county for two years has at last se Winesaps and Black Twigs, 85c0 kind of seeds he plants. A great deal of trouble is sometimes turn out upon a flat serving dish, $1.65; Delicious, $1.5001.65. cured a grip on the common field pests ’ men have not received payment for If he were to look over the bean Cider—30c gallon; Oregon, $3 keg; seed at the end of the season he might had with pollination. Try tapping the sprinkle with two tablespoonfuls of work and materials furnished a former work and destruction has abated par find many different kinds. The Refugee clusters of tomato blossoms with a lemon juice and cover with whipped lessee of the lakes, whose enterprise tially, according to the statements 25c gallon. Comb Honey — Yakima, $3.25 crate; of extensive land owners in this sec bean is the most important kind of stick or hoe handle. Do this in the cream. was abandoned, and that the state should take precaution against turning tion. The farmers say the clover crop strained honey, $5.50; Idaho, $3.50; bean grown for the cannery. Some middle of the day when the sun is hot In the Nevada, $3.50. Heavenly Hash. canneries aim to supply the seed them and this will help to scatter the pollen. its property over to a itossible stock has attracted the gophers. Pears — Yakima, $1.50. summer and fall months the gophers selves. In this way a uniform seed is For the cannery we want to get early Beat yolks of four eggs until very jobbing corporation to exploit. Cranberries—$8.25. undermine the clover plants and stop acuqired. If we are going to boost the and big yields. We ought to get 10 or thick; beat into them gradually one Cabbage—Home-grown, 1 }c pound; canning business we have to put some 12 tons an acre here, at least. The cupful powdered sugar and one-half seed development. The animals also College Regent» Confirmed. fatten in potato fields and sap plant Winningstedt, 2c. thing into the can that will make the main thing is to bring them in early teaspoonful of salt. Beat until sugar State Capitol, Salem — The senate life in gardens in the early summer. Carrots—Local, 75c0$l. consumer come back after more. We and keep up the bearing season as long is dissolved. Add juice of two lemons confirmed the appointment by Gover as possible. Beets—Home-grown, $101.25. want to sell our goods on sight. and beat again. Peel and slice thin Turnips—Per sack, $1.35. At the Eugene cannery quite a little six bananas and four oranges, put In nor Withycombe of Clara H. Waldo, .Vetr Office 1» Created. For a bean that is canned whole the Potatoes — Yakima, $20(<i22 ton; Refugee bean, as I have mentioned, is canning is done with beets. The mat a deep dish a layer of bananas, then a N. R. Moore and Jefferson Meyers as Salem — An additional deputyship, White River, $17018; Burbanks, $22; a very desirable one. The Ketnucky ter of growing beets profitably means layer of dressing, then of oranges, and members of the board of regents of Oregon Agricultural College. Senator making the total number.three, for the sweets, $2.50 cwt. Wonder is the bean that is usually put a gross return of about $100 an acre so on, having the bananas on top, and Onions—Green, 20c dozen; Oregon into the can cut. Garland asked if the membership of attorney general's department, was What the trade and it costs about $40 an acre to pro pour the remainder of dressing ovet the lioard complied with the law pro created by an act passed by the recent brown, $1.50 sack; Yakima, $1.50; wants is a bean of good quality that duce them. These can be grown early it Serve very cold. viding that five l>e composed of one po legislature. The salary of the chief California. $1.50. will look good. Beans have led in the an and then followed up by crops such litical party and four of another. He deputy was increased from $2000 to Fresh Meats — Steers, 12}c; cows, product that has been canned in Ore as cabbage and cauliflower. The young Soup for Invalids. wax assured that five members were $2500; tho second deputy will receive 12c; heifers, 12012}c; wethers, 12}c; gon. They are one of the cheapest beets are thinned out at the proper Cut into small pieces one pound oi $2000 and the third $1200. The new Republicans and four Democrats. I dressed hojy, 12c; trimmed sides, vegetables to car. and a cutter is about time and then the beets are allowed to beef or mutton or a part of both. Boll grow until they are about the size of it gently in two quarts of water. Take congratulate the governor upon chang deputy will devote most of his time to 16}e; combinations, 15}c; lambs, 1301 all the machinery that is needed. ing hie mind to comply with the law.” industrial accident commission cases. 14c; Diamond“T. C., 14}c; yearlings, But one point where our growers a dollar or a little larger. They are off the scum and when reduced to a I. H. Van Winkle, of Salem, is chief 13c; ewes, 11c. have fallen down is the condition of then topped and sold to the cannery at pint strain it and season with a little deputy. The legislature also appro Poultry—Ducks, live, 10<(£12c; hens, the beans when they are delivered to about $20 to $25 a ton. They are con salt Give one teacupful at a time. Student» Ilin In Strike. priated $10,000 for the prosecution of dressed, 16 0 18c; live, 10 0 14c; the cannery. What are you going to sidered a good crop, as they can be Eugene Three hundred high school the Hyde-Benson land cases. springe, dressed, 22c; iive, 14016c; do about it? You have to draw the | followed by another crop on the students, who ’’struck” several weeks Odd Uss for Coffee Grounds. squabs, live, $2.50 dozen; dressed, $6; line somewhere. When you pdt the ground. Needles and pins will never rust 11 ago and refused to attend certain Office Made Appointive. turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 28030c; label on the outside of the can it ought As cabbage has a long season in kept In a cushion filled with coffee classes to which the school board had to stand for something. State Capitol, Salem — The f mate geese, 20c. Oregon, not very much work has been grounds. Rinse the grounds in cold fixed a tuition fee, were sustained by Butter—Washington creamery, 300 Do not pick in the heat of the day, ¡ done with cabbage in the cannery. It water, spread on a sheet of paper tc an opinion of George M. Brown, attor passed senate bill 256, which provides 31c; Oregon, 29030c. but keep cool and cover them over costs quite a little to grow on account dry thoroughly, and then stuff th< ney general. He holds that the school that at the expiration of the term of Eggs—Fresh ranch, 24(<£25c; stor and keep as fresh as possible. Deliver of insects. These are the cutworm, cushion. board has no right to charge tuition to the present official the state engineer age, 20025c. to the cannery fresh and when beans the green cabbage worm and the aphis. shall be appointed by the governor. A any classes. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor I hr legal authorities ot association vallis—"Some of the canneries in the work in this country say that all aaso- Northwest are making great success, 1 ciatlona must be purely mutual. How Others are just about existing and still ever, many of our associations are not others are bankrupt.” said Professor of this tyjs- and the most successful C. I. !<ewie, when addressing thg cannery in the alate today is not a farmers who were attending the Farm-1 pure co-operative association. 1 do er»' Week at the Oregon Agricultural | not believe that it la passible to run college. Professor l<ewis attributes ' an association successfully without many of these failures to the fact that laying dividends. A second great tho canneries are run by private cap difficulty which is made by the can ital. whereas moat of those now In I neries in the Northwest is their lack existence in tho Northwest are either j of capital. If your farmers do not feel co -operative or associative canneries. 1 that they are willing to put In $25 "One of the greatest troubles with , each to start a cannery they had better Our co-operative canneries is that leave It alone. I believe that $10,000 many of them arc so loosely organized , is necessary to successfully start a that they cannot do any legal business. cannery.”