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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:
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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?
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