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Onions Grind CnninlpYim. - "TV 'j. ?1 TT -1 '1 -jit-- ' xnei aaysmgniumonryy At Oregon State College QThey Are Cheaper Than Rouge amhThey Have a Sim- JIar Effect; For They Are Rich in Health v '-! Va; Prbdiicing-lronEtCc r r (John C. Burtaer of the de partment of Industrial Journalr Iim of the Oregon State Agricul tural college, sends the following for this annual .'onion Slogan is sue of the Statesman:)- - The war who onee said that "an apple day keeps the doctor away, but an onion a day keeps the whole world away.! may hare been a good humorist In his time, but he didn't exactly know his regetables. At least, his light treatment of the ralue of u the onion , finds no faTor with the home economies specialists of the state college. . w?v An onion breath ? nowaday is extremely passe. -fot. If the house wife Is Tersed in her art. she will cook her onions In an nncoyered kettle. After they have come to a boil, .she will drain off the water and add fresh. This does away .with most of the YolatlleJ gas that helps boost the sale or listerine. . 4 So, with a little care in the cul inary department, eren self-respecting persons may enjoy, their onions and go -forth .with, un troubled conscience. ' , Cheaper Than Rouge -. Aside from "their - flaror, on ions, while cheaper than rouge, hare a similar effect on the com plexion, for ' they are' rich in health-producing . iron, as well as other, raluable minerals. They are available at any season, are easily grown and can be prepared In varied and tempting ways. They may be served as a relish, boiled and served with butter, creamed, scalloped, as soup; in combinations, as seasonings in meat loaf and other meat mix- tu. stuffed and' steamed or baked, served raw with salt, or cut fine in salads and salad dres sings. Here are a few ways of using them in the menu: Good Onion Iteclpos Stuffed Onions Remove Ekins from onions, par boil 10 minutes in boiling salted I water to cover, cool Lnd remove part of their centers. Fill cav ities with equal parts of finely chopped cooked chicken, mush rooms, stale soft bread crumbs, and finely chopped onion which was removed. Season with salt and pepper, moisten with cream or ; melted butter, place in but teired shallow, baking pan, sprin kle with buttered crumbs and bake in. a moderate oven until onions are soft. Glazed Onions Peel and prick small ' silver- fkinned onions and cook in boil ing water 15 minutes. Drain and dry with cheesecloth. Melt three tablespoons butter, add two table spoons sugar and onions and cook 20 minutes, or ; nntil browned, using an asbestos mat under the saucepan during the' last of th cooking. - Omelet Make a" French omelet. Turn o.n a. hot copper fryproof platter, pour, over onion sauce, sprinkle with. two" tablespoons cheese, place in a hot oven and bake un til cheese 'Is melted. Onion Sauce feel and finely chop one Ber muda onion and cook three m'n ntes with two tablespoons bu' r stirring constantly." Add two and a half tablespoons flour and stir until well blended; then pour o gradually, while stirring constant ly, one cup of milk. Bring thif to a boiling point and let simmer three' minutes. Add one -j egg yolk, slightly beaten, and diluted with two tablespoons milk. L . v French Fried Onions . j ' Peel onions, cut In fourth inch slicos, and separate into rings. Dip In milk, drain, dip In floor. Fry In deep fat. drain on brown paper, and sprinkle witb salt. Onion Pie , " " Make crust as for ordinary pie. Blice onions. j add beaten egg, milk or cream, and small pieces of uncooked bacon. Season.-Put In cruet and bake. Excellent meat- and vegetable dish com bined, and rich in taste. Onion Souffle Cook onions : In boiling salted water until soft, drain and force through a sieve; there should be one and fourth cups onion pulp. Melt four tablespoons butter, add four tablespoons Hour, and pour on graduolly one-third cup water In which onions have been cook ed, and one-third cup cream; then add onion pulp and bring to the , boiling point. Season ' with salt and pepper. Beat yolks of three eggs until thick ond lemon) colored and add to first mixture. Cut and . fold In whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry. , Turn into a buttered baking dish and -bake 25 minutes in a moderate oven. : Serve at once. Stuffed Onions With Peppers 6 medium to large, onions. 14 ; cup chopped ham. or chopped green pepper. . . V cup soft bred crumbs. Few fine dry bread crumbs. , ' H cup milk. ,- . . Pepper. " teaspoon salt. . I. tablespoon fat. " ... Remove a slice from the top of each onion and parboil rest un til almost tender. Drain and re move the centers, making six lit tle cups. Add seasoning and re fill the onion , cups. Place them In. a baking dish, cover with crumbs, and the milk, and bake until tender. j '' Onion Fare! , : , . Peel six large Bermuda onions and remove a part of the Inside. Put In saucepan, cover with boil ing water, and let boll six min utes. . Drain and staff with veal force-meat. Place onions In pan on six thin slices of fat salt pork, pour around one cap brown or chicken stock, and bake until on- Ions are soft; the time required being about 15 minutes. Re move onions to serving dish; drain stock, skin - 9ft all fat possible, add dne teaspoon beef extract,, a fourth tablespoon butter, and salt and pepper to taste. Pour over onions. Veal Force Meat Finely chop raw veal; there should be a half cup. Add two tablespoons finely chopped fat sella- with thai beat of them' on Chicago and Now York markets; especially ' the- Conner, where- It has the edge on most onions from other sections. - ..J . ' The"' acreage In - ozflbns In -1 V Lablsh section will be increased to about 500 thlsy year. ?. That should bring around 00 cars for the 192$ crop, adding a substan tial sum to the amount of money brought, from long distances to be expended here,, with., average prices what they hafe been since the contract orders began to be filled In July last. ; ';-.. -; '. ' J -A Quality Product , r . : ; .The , Labish growers prod nee a quality crop for consumption; for keeping over for 'winter supplies.. The sulphur In v the beaverdam soil helps in the keeping quality of the onions. ,y . - Shipments have gone through out the northwest, to California, and as far east as Chicago and New - Yor kvt: - - v. v- y " t : " : ' haves irrrEriESTS Taking Out Seventy Acres of iMint In Order to Grow the Bulb Vegetable . salt-pork and .half cup soft bread crumbs, cooked with one table spoon butter and one tablespoon finely chopped onlont three min utes. When mixture is well blended, add half teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, and one egg, slightly beaten. 100 CARS ONIONS ABOVE 1927 CROP The Lake Labish District Will Go On Up Another Hundred Cars This Year: Already there have been load- d at'the,prooks station 423 cars of onlefis.fcrown last year on tne beaverdam ' lands. There ' , arei There are about 75 cars yet tq ship.. There have been trucked from the district at least 30 cars. This makes up over COO cars of onions for 1928, or an Increase of about 100-cars for that district over 1927.' .This does not take into consid eration the 65 cars of onion sets; about the same as, the year be fore,..: - ; , - ,lt was a good onion year there for high tonnage production and ilso for good prices. Some con-J tracts for email amounts were made at $1.25 a 100 pound sack; the'; sacks furnished. - The open ing market price was around 11.50, and it soon went to $2.25 t- $2.50, and then up to $3, fol lowed by $4 sales. . The growers want, more thai $4 for what they have left," but buyers are just now holding off. A leading, grower told the writer he expects to sell at $4.25 , to $4.35. ' ' . . ' : .A prominent man In the Indus tyr there said yesterday that, if the grower can sell at $1 a sack, with sacks furnished, he will not be losing costs of production. In cluding use of land and other overhead. A Lot Of Money The same authority estimate the . returns, for the bnions al ready marketed at $800 a ear, or $428,400 for the 423 cars, and at present prices the 75 ears wUl bring $1200 each.' oc $90,000 more. Counting the onions truck ed to market, this makes the onion crop for - the district lit close to the half million mark for the 1928 tonnage. These onions were grown on about 400 acres of land. A lot of money for a lit tle land. But good land. And a considerable sum Is paid out each year for fertilizers, in order to produce euen crops. And 1928 was m goo& crop year, as well as one that brought good prices. - A. E, and J. -O. Hayes, who' own the San Jose, Cal., Mercury, are among, the pioneers In the recla mation of the Lake Lablsh beav erdam: lands. In which they be came Interested a number of years ago by accident when the tract was a thicket of tangled un derbrush and undrained swamp, not worth paying taxes on. They built a veritable vege table city, with lumber from their own saw miH which thejf erected. They pioneered the dei velopment of that section. They grew potatoes. 6nions, onion sets and other vegetables, and In the past few years they have been the mint kings of Ore gon, having about 400 acres In thlg plant, making them the larg- j est producers of peppermint oil on this coast. . Take Out Some Mint Now they are proposing; to re duce their mint acreage to about" 3KO finrl t r f rt irao da thai. itfi plantings thta year by about 70 acres. They had onlv about 10 acres and 10 cars of onions last year, though their onion acreage had been much larger In former years more than It will be this year. A. F. Hayes. Bon of A. E. Hayes, is now interested with his father and uncle in these indus tries and is the local manager, with his home in 8alem. The Hayes interests have long been the largest onion set grow ers on thl coast. They produced about 65 cars of sets last year, 30.000 pounds to the car., or nearly?2,D00,0OO pounds. They devote "about 100 acres to sets, the "yellow danvers variety pre dominating. : . ) They, sell the sets at prices ac cording to the season averaging tour to four and a half cents a pound.1 More than 90 per cent of the onion sets used on this coast go from Marion county, . and the Hayes-farms supply thevbulk of them. They go to all sections Vest of the Rocky mountains, and some further east.' The Hayes people are on the Job. the whole year through, and they grow their different crops mostly on contract. Thlr inn r time contracts for their pepper mint oil run out with the 1929 product. These people lire largely re sponsible for the pioneering in tne onion and set Industries In their section, which have become largely stabilized mnd will likely continue in a steady growth. "The million dollar .highway" was a name given to the road -through the Lablsh district a few years ago, the promise being that proposed- paved ""market road would In a few years be backed ; X. Eighteen Cars of Onions ;,; v Grown on Twelve Acres of The Labish Land Last Year - ' . Another Lake Labish Grower Took Thirteen Cars, From Heven Acres, and the Industry Was a Bonanza : : : One For That District A; ' " ' i The principal onion and onion aged about $ 1.71 a Back for the At rrnln of tfe Ca1m Afatvti X , set growjng of the Salem district Is on the beaverdam land of the Lake Lablsh section, commencing about five miles north of the cen ter "of "Salem," where Intensive farming Is also carried on with celery, head lettuce, asparagus, mint, potatoes, spinach and other crops,-with additional ones being experimented with. - D. R. rGross. two and a half miles east of Brooks, had 11 acres In onions last season, and he pro duced 14 ears of onions, 300 sacks to the car. Mr. DeGross has been an onion grower there for 1 2 years. He . came " from the Tigard district, where - he had worked at onion growing for others.- When the onion industry of the . Lablsh section was new. the slogan was 'a car to the acre." They hoped to get up to that , average of production 4- But Mr. DeGross has averaged for his 12 years about 350 sacks to the acre, and his average Plchad abont 11 cart last year, from Dates of Slogans in Oieeron Statesman (With a few possible changes) Loganberries, October 7, 1928. Prunes, October 14. ; Dairying. October 21. .Flax. Octoberi 2 8. -Filberts, November 4. . Walnuts, November Ik ' v; V Strawberries, November 18. Apples, Figs, etc Not. 25. Raspberries, - December Mint, December 9. Beans, etc.. December 1 f . Blackberries. December 23. -Cherries, December 30. " Pears, January t, 1929. Gooseberries, , January 18. " Corn. January 20. ' T Celery. January 17. Spinach, etc February 1. Onions, eta, February 1 9. " Potatoes, etc., February 17. Bees. February Ji. Poultry and Pet Stock. Mar. 1, City Beautiful, etc.. March It. Great Cows. March 17. Paved Highways. March 24. Head" Lettuce. March 11. SUos, etc. April 7. ' Legumes. April 14. Asparagur, etc., April 21. , .J-, Grapes, etc.," April 2f. Drug Garden, May 5. Sugar Industry, May 12. Water Powerr, May 19. Irrigation; Mar 26. fining. June 2. Land, Irrigation, etc, June 9. Floriculture, Jane II. Hops, Cabbage, etc, June 23. , Wholesaling; Jobbing, JunelO. Cucumbers, etp July 7. ' Hogs, July 14. . i ' Goats. July , 21. ' . Schools, July 21. Sheep, August 4. ' Seeds,;: August 11J Jj : NaUonal Advertising. Aug. 18, Livestock, August 25. Grata A Grain Products, Sept. 1 Manufacturing, SepU 1.' ' ..v Woorworking, etc, Sept." 15. : Automotive Industries Sept. 22. Paper Mills. SepU 2.9. - -v 1 (Back ccps of the Sunday edition of The Dally Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 cenu each, mailed to any addressr i Current topics, 5 cents. has been about. $1.60 a hundred pound sack. For fast eason' crop he sold on the opening price at about $1.50 a sack, then-at $2.25 to $2.50, and: later sale have been it M a : sack: The bulk of his crop has been sold. Mr. DeGross has-17 acres of land, 11 of the tract being beaverdam. On the up land, he grows hay and other crops.' " v . 1 1 . Thirteen Cars, 11 Acres - ! ; Another leading grower of on ions in the Labish section Is W. ft. Daugherty, He produced 18 cars on 11 acres last year, of the Oregon Yellow Danvers variety. the same as used by his neighbor. Mr. DeGross, and other onion men of that section. The land farmed by Mr. Daugherty Is three miles east of Brooks. He has 78 acres under cultivation, 18 acres of the up land being in strawber ries 145 acres of Etterburgs and three of Marshalla : Mr. Daugherty plants with a Bolens one and a half horse gaso line tractor, and distributes the formaldehyde with the same ma Chine. This is put in the rows, for smut, the worst enemy of the onion grpwer. He expects to hoe with his tractor this year, as most Other growers are doing. Mr( Daugherty came from Lebanon Oregon, and h has. been growing onions .four yesfa. He sold the first of his crop (contracted) at J1.25. in July. He sold some car vat $3 a saek. He has two cars left, and can sell aj, better than $4. - He has aver- by a million dollars worth of an nual-crops.- ' That point has been more than reached, and It will not be long till it is a two millon" dollar high way, and then-be only well under way. four years, y He estimates the cost of producing onions at about $1.10 ta"' hundred pounds, where thsrr sacks are furnished : byline buyer. This Is counting all over head. Including the use of the iand.o- f''W;.i.,.' . r1 He finds maggots next to the smut as anonlon enemyT and the wire worm next, followed In or der by the ut worm and the thrlp, all of which the grower must be prepared to fight. Mr. v DeGraff estimtaes that there will be an Increase in acre age of the onion crop In the La- bisn section this - year of about 100 acres over last year. That will mean around .100 ears added for 1929. He estimates that In addition to the car lot shipments of last season's crop, about 30 cars were trucked to market. v. C. Bishop Is another prom inent Lablsh onion grower. He about 12 acre!. He Is now vis itlng In the east. Or the 100 acres Increase this year, about 70 will be by the- Hayes Inteijasts. Ktgnteen Cars, 12 Acres learned that R. C. Blanton. in thel Lake Lablsh section, produced 18 cars of Oregon Tellow Danvers onions on 12 acres of beaverdam land. This Is "getting into the pictures." in onion growing. But It Is possible. In favorable years, for any beaverdam land In that section toproduce as .well. But this presupposes large ex penditures for fertilizer, and good cultivation. However, lit tle or no irrigation is required in onion growing there, contrary to the requirements of celery, the main crop of that section. When there are better onions. the Salem district will furnish them. We have the men who make up an onion cult; we have prod uct to maturity, and we have the sulphur in the soil content of our beaverdam lands to give our on ions the necessary long 'keeping qualities for late and distant markets. .-, HSIAB1E SEAT: ADDSTOCOH I That the high' priced ear no longer enjoys "a monopoly of driv ing comfort. Is very evident In the 1929 models.. Many features for merly found-only In cars of the $4000. to $6000 class are now ap pearing in the low price field. The new Essex sedan, ' tor example) Is equipped with an adjustable front seat which may easily be placed In the position best suited to the sta ture or inclination of the driver. l With" a few turns of a handle lo cated in the front of the seat the occupant can' adjust It to his or her liking without the least Incon venience. , Although a number of the adjusting devices seen in the past permitted the seat to be mov ed "forward or backward. Its height from the floor and the tilt of the seat back often could not be changed. This objection the de signers of the new Essex sedan have overcome by placing the front seat Upon a curved base. When the "six footer" adjusts the seat for added leg room it follow the curve downward as it Is moved toward the rear and the back tilts to a reclining position. The- driver of smaller stature, however, is nearer to the controls and usually more comfortable when sitting erect, and the seat when moved forward for his or her convenience follows the curv ed based upward The seat back tilts accordingly, and supporting cushions for the back are relegat ed to the past along with other un pleasant memories. ALASKAN ROADS OPEN ALL YEAR Optimistic predictions for 1929 were the unanimous opinion ex pressed by approximately 3,000 Oldsmobile dealers and their er ecutives present at the three larg est dealer meetings ever held by the Oldsmobile company. The third and last meeting was held during the week of the Chicago automobile show. Practically every section east of the Rocky mountains and even Alaska was represented at the meetings. Regardless of the lo cality the Oldsmobile dealers ex pressed confidence that 1929 business would exceed that of last year, which , had ; been the most prosperous 12-mohth period they had heretofore ; experienced. . y Paul d. Pearl made a 1 0 , 0 0 0 mile round trip , to be present "at the meeting in Lansing, ' coming from Fairbanks, Alaska, where he has' an Oldsmobile dealer estab lishment. Pearl gave a far dif ferent picture of Alaska than Is popularly held. s : Roads are open the year around within a 100 mil radius of Fairbanks, he said, am there are approximately 1.000 mo' tor vehicles owned In the city which has a population of $4,5Q0 He nredlcted a glowing future fo the northern territory as its beau ties and 1 advantages become bet ter known. '."'-T'-' 1 '' . !' Chicago Judge So you "were going 60 miles an hour, huh? i Gangster I ha4 to. Judge; yl had Just stolen the car. ' Judge Case dismissed. -Paht-finder. . s-..;. , 5 H c i A Growing Onion Center ; SALEM ia the 6nion center of Oregon and the onion set center of the region west of the Rocky mountains; and this city is increasing in importance in this field yy , ' And will keep on indefinitely. r " j J We have an .onion cult; a necessity in such a special field, requiring v experimentation, comparing of notes on varieties, cultural methods fighting pests, fertilizers, mar keting, etc. " ' i - p Growing good onions is an art. Our producers have learned the art. They are favored by natural conditions, as for instance the sulphur in our beaverdam soil to give keep ing qualities; but alhthe other requirements bringing hish quality and profitable practices must be met. This takes time. It has taken time. ' , ' Every, year our growers have improved their quality, have raised their per acre tonnage; havet adopted better methods looking to economical production. ' The half million dollar output of our main onion district will soon be a million dollar crop, and other sections here will "develop along the same lines. It is possible to produce here a ten million dollar annual onion and onion Ret rmn nn mnOft or run nf lnnri "Onions will bring a higher return for a smaller amount of capital invested than any other big money crop that can be grown on beaverdam lands,-' said a leading grower a few years ago. a THIS WEEK'S SLOGAN fii: . v DID YOU KNOW that Salem is the market, shipping and manufacturing center of a great onion and onion set industry;' that the world does not grow better onions; that, on our beaverdam lands, 200 to 600 sacks of 100 pounds can be grown on an acre; that, year in and year out, taking the average range of prices for ten years, the raising of onions here is a very profita ble line of intensified agriculture; that the industry does not require expensive equipment, and .that there is room here for many more onion growers who. will, give that important branch of diversified farming the intelligent attention and arduous labor it deserves? GIDEON STOLZ CO. 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