r AGE SIX
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"fire Burns Down, and
Fire Insurance BUILDS UP."
One follows the other quickly when
you hold a Policy in such companies
as this office represents.
No matter how much or how little
Fire Insurance you need, from $1,000
to $100,000, let us place it. Do it
now; tomorrow may be too late.
BILLINGS AGENCY
KEAIj estate and insurance.
HSHLWND
Storage and Transfer Co.
C. F. lUTKS, Proprietor.
Two warehouses near Depot.
Ooods of all kinds stored at reason
able rates.
A (ienoml Transfer Iiusincss.
Wood and Ibtrk Sprint's Coal.
Phone 117.
Office, 99 Oak Street,
ASHIiAND, OKKUOX.
IF YOU HAVE ANY
Broken Legs, Arms or Backs
r any Dislocations in yonr Fur
niture, phone for the
Chair Doctor
CONSULTATIONS FREE
PHONE 413-J.
Ashland Billiard Parlor
10 East Main St.
J. P. Saylc & Son
Some Small
ACREAGE TRACTS
Eight acres; 2Vt acres in bearing
fruit, 2 acres of young fruit and ber
ries; 8-rooui house, nearly new. This
place is two miles from Ashland and
nicely located. Price $3,00Q. Part
cash.
Ten acres in the city, commanding
a nice view of the upper valley;
acres of fruit, acre of pasture, bal
ance wood timber; 6-room house,
large barn, woodshed, chicken house,
nome personal property. Price $4,500.
92,000 cash.
Two and tVeeMiuarters acres, all
in berries, tore of strawberries;
rood 6-room house, city water and
ttfiUs; about 1 V4 miles from Ashland
Bosroffice. Price $2,800. $1,000
ash, terms on balance.
Cunningham & Co.
.ASHLAND, OREGON
PRINTING
That Attracts
The Tidings has one of the best
quipped plants for commercial
printing In Southern Oregon, and Is
prepared to turn out first-class worV
la the line of
TVodgrc
Placard
Circular
KnTelopea
Hill Heada
ifttfr Head
(felling Card
, -ItiialneM Card
Dance Programs
Wedding Invitations
Wedding Announcements
Tag, Ticketa, Lalwls
Notes, Receipts, Etc., Etc.
-Ashland Tidings
Phone 39.
Conserving Waste
Of Farm Products
Recognizing the importance of con
serving the great amount of our fresh
fruits and vegetables now going to
waste in the northwest, and feeling
the need of changing perishable prod
ucts Into manufactured goods which
can be marketed to advantage over a
longer period of time, a committee
with its membership from the four
states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana was appointed by the
president of the National Apple Show
at Spokane last November to devise
ways and means of promoting the
fruit and vegetable by-products in
dustries of the northwest.
This committee has held several
meetings and collected valuable data.
From this data it is seen that the
by-products industry of the northwest
is facing problems which, as the vol
ume of our fruits and vegetables in
crease, will become more serious; one
of the most important of these prob
lems being the marketing of the fin
ished products. For this reason the
committee favors a central selling or-1
ganization for the expert supervision,
selling and distribution of the fruit
and vegetable by-products grown and
packed in the states of Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana.
The object of such an organization
would be, primarily, to, in as far as
possible, establish and maintain a uni
form system of grading and packing,
and to obtain for the manufactured
products which it handles the cost of
the product plus a reasonable amount
of profit.
To bring about this condition il
would be necessary to:
1. Affiliate as many of the by
product plants as possible in this
movement in order to avoid ruinous
competition, and, by handling a large
tonnage, to be able to reduce cost of
handling.
2. Buy supplies, such as cans,
boxes, spray material, oil, sugar, etc.,
in large quantities and effect a saving
thereby.
3. In so far as possible, establish
a uniform system of grading and
packing the fruit, vegetables and oth
er by-products through this organiza
tion, and to exercise such supervision
thereof as shall insure to the pur-!
chaser that all by-products sold
through this organization shall be of
the class and quality represented and
marked on the packages.
4. Advertise northwest by-prod
ucts more widely and efficiently.
5. Distribute more widely the
manufactured products. The Panama
canal will be of as much assistance
to the by-products trade as to the
fresh fruit.
6. Marketing direct through paid
representatives as much as possible,
and cut out as many of the middle
men as possible. To further this end
aid in every legitimate way towards
the formation of consumers' clubs
and associations should be given.
7. Have an agent to settle claims
for losses Incurred in transit.
8. Have a committee of experts
that may be called upon to give ad
vice to communities contemplating
starting by-products plants regarding
organization, amount of produce
needed, type of building, kind of ma
chinery needed, management, saving
of waste, water supply, etc. The ex
pense of this committee to be borne
by community employing it.
9. Have an employment agency to
look up records of processers, man
agers and bookkeepers and for rec
ommending same to communities
needing their services.
10. Urge our technical colleges to
establish courses of Instruction with
the object of fitting students to be
come processers, managers and book
keepers of by-products plants, grow
ers, associations, etc.
11. Advance money as fast as the
business may warrant to enable grow
ers to handle their crops before re
turns are received from the manu
factured products.
The Oregon
Potato Patch
The Oregon Irish potato patch con
tains 49,000 acres this year and the
total production will be approximate
ly 6,311,000 bushels. The condition
of the crop is 92 per cent of normal
and the price at the present time is
averaging around 46 cents per bushel.
In continental United States there
are 3,708,000 acres planted to this
product and this year's production is
estimated at 360,614,000 bushels by
the federal Department of Agricul
ture. This year's crop will exceed the
average crop of the past five years
by approximately 4,000,000 bushels.
The nation's production last year was
331,525,000 bushels, was produced
on 3,668,000 acres of land and sold
for $227,903,000, or an average of
90 cents per bushel.
Phone news items to the Tidings
ASHLAND
Oregon Institutions
Use Foreign Eggs
Few Oregon people have any idea
of the extent to which they have been
partaking of eggs imported from
China for their breakfast since the
duty on this food product was re
moved by the Underwood tariff bill.
Records at the United States custom
office in Portland show that from Oc
tober 3, 1913, when the admlnistra
tion's. tariff schedules went Into ef
feet, until June 30 last, a period of
only nine months, 259,511 dozen
poultry eggs, valued at $32,710, were
received at Portland from Shanghai
and Hongkong. This quantity was
more than 250,000 dozen more than
the importations for the full year end
ed October 3, 1913, when only 9,048
dozen eggs, with a valuation of $700,
were entered from all foreign points.
Neither do these figures tell the
whole story, for the reason that the
bulk of imported eggs for the Pacific
coast market is entered at the ports
of Tacoma, Seattle and San Francisco
and distributed from those points by
jobbers to their trade.
Prior to the action of the democrat
1c congress last year there was a duty
of 5 cents a dozen on all imported
eggs. But in the Underwood bill this
tariff was removed and eggs from
China and all other foreign ports are
admitted free. The Oregon poultry
man feels that he has a legitimate
complaint because of the removal of
this protection, while the consumer is
unable to figure how, with eggs quot
ed at from 25 to 30 cents a dozen,
the removal of the duty on this prod
uct has reduced the cost to him.
With the amended tariff schedules
provided In the Underwood bill other
farm products are finding their way
to the local market. This is particu
larly true of fresh beef and butter.
For the year before the Underwood
bill went into effect not a pound of
fresh meat or butter was received at
this port. But the importation of
these products began simultaneously
with the material reduction In the tar-
iff as provided by the democrats. The
duty on butter was reduced from 6
cents to 2 cents a pound, while a
tax of 1 cents a pound on all fresh
beef was entirely removed.
The result has been that in the nine
months ended June 30, last, 5,488
pounds of butter, valued at $1,391,
were entered at this port, while for
the same period the importation of
fresh beef amounted to 154,637
pounds, with a valuation of $15,338.
All of the beef came from Canada.
As a direct result of the removal
of the tariff on fresh beef the great
bulk of this necessary supply for Ore
gon state Institutions is now Imported
from Austrilia. The meat is entered
at Puget Sound ports and thence
shipped In carload lots to Salem for
distribution among the various instl
tutlons maintained by the state. As
Is the case with eggs, most of the
fresh beef and butter imported for
the Pacific coast trade is entered at
either San Francisco or the port3 of
Puget Sound.
Powder Used
In Pear Orchard
il E. Cale has recently experi
mented with powder In loosening the
soil around the trees in his Hell '5at
orchard. The soil is the red, and
while not with hardpan subsoil had
become compact and did not take
moisture and cultivation readily.
Two feet away, on two sides of the
treeB, holes were made two feet deep
and a half stick of powder was placed
in each, the work being carried on
under the direction of the agents of
a powder concern. When this pow
der was exploded the ground was
shaken for about eight feet around,
though the root system of the trees
pears was declared not to have
been Injured. Later experiments
showed that the ground around each
tree would absorb from 200 to 300
gallons of water, demonstrating how
thoroughly the earth had been loos
ened. The agents of the company
who are advocating the method of
"shooting" orchards say that the
trees will make wonderful growth
and will show greater health and
thrift after the treatment. The trees
In the Gale orchard, which Is of fif
teen acres extent, are about five
years of age.
Big Fire on
Keene Creek
A big fire has been raging on
Keene c-eek for the last six or seven
days. Eleven men have been at work
fighting the flames. It is now well
under control, although It looked at
first as If It was going to destroy a
lot of valuable timber. Prof. Robert
Peachoy, the fire warden, has the men
In charge.
TIDINGS.
Flowing Well
Spouts Fish
Striking a heavy flow of water at
a depth of about three feet sounds
a little questionable, but add to that
the water has a plentiful supply of
small fish, and the incredulous per
son is in the majority. We have the
word of Captain O. C. Applegate for
the phenomenon, however.
The captain returned Sunday from
a trip to Fort Klamath and other
northern points with Hon. Robert A.
Booth. On his way back he stopped
at Klamath Marsh, and there the fish
well is located.
K. Loosley and Jack Pelton, who
have about 400 head of beef cattle
near the Len ranch, about two miles
from Kokanalka creek, found this
summer that their well was getting
dry, so they decided to sink another.
This was started a short distance
from the old one.
At a depth of two feet a heavy flow
of water was struck, from which
there bubbled up water and mud,
with numerous small fish. With a
pole, problngs were made to a ten
foot depth, when mud was again en
countered. For this reason the
pump was Installed over a pipe reach
ing a depth of a little over eight feet.
"All are at a loss to account for
the presence of the fish and the
heavy flow of water," said the cap
tain. "The theory mostly believed
is that the well drillers struck an
underground stream, which may have
come down above ground from some
mountain, sinking into the ground at
some point, like Lost river, and ris
ing again as springs, or in some oth
er body of water." Klamath Falls
Herald.
Rain On Mountain
Thursday Last
Jack Peebler, who came in from
his mountain ranch Friday, tells us
that Green Spring mountain received
a heavy rain Thursday. The roads
over the summit are now exceedingly
bad on account of the mud. They
will dry out In a very few days, how
ever. This is the first rain they have
had for sixty days, as the summer has
been exceptionally dry. Farmers wel
come the deluge.
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FASHION HINT
By JUDIC CHOLLET
The dress that ives long lines to the
figure is always u becoming ouo to
growing girls.
Appropriately the dress can be mnde
from washable materials and from
serge, checked and plaid wools, but in
the picture linen serge is finished with
collar and cuffs of white.
For the eight year size the dress will
require four und one-fourth yards of
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moterlal twenty-seven inches wide,
with three-eighths yard twenty-seven
inches wide for trimming.
This May Man ton pattern Is cut in size
for girls from six to ten years. Send 10
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and it will be promptly forwarded to you
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two cent stamp for letter postuge. When
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Monday, September ?, 1914
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