The Oregon statesman., February 19, 1928, Page 25, Image 25

Salem Has Largely Financed Her Own Factories: Should Do It More and More
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
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PRICES REDUCED
ICE CREAM OUTPUT 111 THE UNITED STATES IS fill
Ml A THIRD OF A BILLION GALLONS A YEAH AND
The1 Loggers & Contractors
Machinery Company Makes
Announcement of Import
ance to All Power Users
THE VALUE HAS MOUNTED TO HJMi AIUILLY
The announcement of radical
price redactions. Just released by
the manufacturer of the "Caterpil
lar" Tractor through its local deal
er. the Loggers & Contractors Ma
chinery Co. of Portland, Salem,
and Eugene, has been greeted with
great enthusiasm by local power
users, as well as by the tax-paying
public in general.
The newly announced price re
ductions range from 8 to over
11 and represent a cut of
$400.00 in the price of the largest
size of the "Caterpillar" Tractor to
a reduction of 1175.00 In the price
of the smallest model, the 2-Ton.
Thp announced reduction of
nricfis in addition to those preri-
oasly made represents another cre
dence that ambition to pass on to
nnrrhuen the advantages of in
creased sales, Increased production j
nent economies . In
manufacturing and distribution-
Each year sees remarkable in-1
in the number or -caier-
Tiiiiar" Tractors that go out Into I
actire serrice in the building and
That Is the Value of the Output to the Wholesale Dealers, of Which There Are Now 5000
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INVESTMENT NOT
EXPENSE. D1K
Many Advantages of System
for Any Land Needing
Draining
By Frank I. Weller ' ?
(Associated Press Far it Editor)
WASHINGTON, Feb. '18. (A
P): Three quarters of a century
am Jacob Fu&sell. r Baltimore
milk merchant, started in fun an
ing it. Immediately a multitude
of possibilities arose, including
the development of a popular del
icacy when sugar and flavoring
were added to the milk.
,How well the theory succeeded
ington. The machinery was sim
ple. A single "freezer." at
tached to a drive-wheel that pro
vided power for rotation, was the
entire equipment. When a fac
tory was erected in 1862 in Bos-
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BUILDING UP THE
SDILDFTHE GARDEN
Rnitfnr un the soil and keep-
in? it built up is the first task
f a Qtirressful gardener. It is a
task that can be started right now
while the soil Is froren. Garden
ers are now dependent to a great
extent for stable manure npon
the prepared material from the
stockyards and great packing
plants of the country which sup
ply pulverized sheep manure and
shredded cow manure which are
retailed by seed houses.
They have the advantage of be
ing dry and more agreeable to
handle than the wet strawy man
ore hauled directly from the sta
ble and are more easily distributed
over the garden. In being almost
free of strawy material nhere is
more fertilizing value and less
waste than in the stable product
and also a ton of the dry prepared
manure goes much f urther than a
ton of the wet material as It Is
nsually delivered.
Shredded cow manure may be
pread over the garden now to be
apaded la when the ground is
workable in the spring. 4t is an
excellent Idea to give the hardy
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Seventy-five years ago ice cream was a novelty with no status as a food. Today its production is
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(above) as compared with the earliest ice cream factory (below).
growth.
inHnotrr that has become a giant
of American commerce the pres
ent $650,000,000 wholesale Ice
cream business.
Kussell's milk enterprise suf
fered reverses in the form of
limited outlet In 1851, and to
solve the problem of surplus stor
age he hit upon the idea of freez-
ls revealed In a tattered govern
ment report of that aay which
sets forth that "ice cream is eaten
in fun and not as a food." The
luxury retailed at 60 cents a
quart.
By 1856 demand for ice cream
had so increased that a factory
was put into operation in Wash-
The chart indicates the industry's
ton. orders for ice cream naa
come to American, manufacturers
from England, India and Brazil.
Western cities awoke to the pos
sibilities and a factory was opened
in St. Louis after an initial outlay
of $500 for rights to the carefully
Many dollars of sure profit are
lost to the farmers of the Wilam
ette valley each year through the
lack of draining facilities. Their
farms are flooded in the winter
and remain in a soggy condition
during the summer. This wet soil
tends to reduce crops and does not
allow the land to give its best to
the raising of the crop. Nearly ev
ery farm in the country contains
more or less low land which in
the majority of the cases is non
productive, but which, by the in
vestment of a small amount of
money, could be made ynst as pro
ductive as the rest of the farm.
A thorough system of tile drain
age will prevent any possible dam
age from heavy rains or floods.
It will enable farmers to work
lande immediately after rains and
lengthens the seasons for labor
and vegetation by wanning the
soil earlier in the spring and keep
ing off the effects of cold weather
longer in the fall. It deepens the
surface soil and prevents surface
washing by drawing the water di
rectly down through the sofl to
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THE PIbWUF
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City gardeners are eon fronted
I with problems vastly different
j from dwellers in the wider spaces
of the country, particularly the
dwellers on farms and estates of
several acres. The latter may sel
ect the choicest site on the prop
erty for a vegetable garden. The
city lot or back yard garden offer
no such elasticity of choice and ne
selection as to the quality of the
soil.
Yet the many thousands of dry
gardens are playing a most import
ant part in providing a substantial
Increase in the food supply of the
nation but their possibilities are
hardly touched for there are thous
ands of acres of unoccupied land
in and around our cities that can
be utilized for food production,
thousands upon thousands of back
yards that might well be utilized
for the purpose and which are
serving no other good use.
Transportation of freight is one
of the great national problems.
The city back yard or vacant lot
garden provides home vegetables
without the cost of transportation
and handling and the cumulative
effect would remove a large factor
IE CITY GARDENER
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