PAGE SIX ' - The OREGON STATESMAN. Sateia, Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 14, 1930 .
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Editor's Note
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of The Oregon Statesman. U also In chars
of tha market newa of thia paper. Each
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Markets - - Crops Farm Home - - Livestock
The Diversified Interests of
Willamette Valley Fanners
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Polk County Farmers Se
cure Increased Yield on
Drained Land
Bv J. R. BECK
DALLAS. Sept. 13 Thous
ands of feet of tile hare been laid
during the past two years on
some of the most prominent farms
of the county. Crops Just har
rested off of these tiled lands
showed that their owners hare
profitedN great deal from this
work.
The laying of tile on many
farms has been put off from time
to time because of the difficulty
in getting the tile put in properly.
A little over a year ago Q. M
Partridge, ttfe manufacturer of
Monmouth, purchased a mechan
ical ditch digger which greatly
speeds up the work of laying the
tile. Mr. Partridge has taken
contracts with the. various farm
ers for the installing of drainage
systems on their farms, enabling
them to get the work done both
efficiently and cheaply. As a re
sult, hundreds of thousands of
feet hare been laid.
' Systems Large
J. A. Campbell of Perrydale. B
O. Fanning of Ballston and John
B. Stump of Monmouth are three
farmers who hare had large
drainage systems Installed on
their places in the past two years,
Mr. Fanning having some 60,000
feet laid on his place and .Mr.
Campbell putting in 15.000 and
on the Stump place many thous
ands of feet were also laid.
Mr. Campbell reports that his
15.000 feet of tile cost him fl,
500 in the ground but this high
cost was due to the need of put
ting In a great deal of 12-inch
tile to carry run-off water from
adjoining farms. Fifty acres
benefited from this tiling work.
In commenting on the benefits
from the tiling Mr Campbell stat
ed that he never grew much of
anything on fifteen acres of the
50 acre field and this past year he
yot an excellent crop of fall grain.
The wheat showed up the best in'
the ground that was the poorest
before drainage. "Even at the
cost' of 115,000 It will pay me ten
per cent on my investment this
year," stated Mr. Campbell.
Used 10 Years
In another field Mr. Campbell
has watched the benefits from
tile drainage for ten years and Is
firmly convinced that it pays.
On his farm north of Rickreall,
Webb Lewis put in 10,000 feet
of tile two years ago' before Mr.
Partridge got his machine. This
is in a 40-acre field and was in
stalled at a cost of 750. Mr.
Lewis states that this tile com
pletely reclaimed three acres for
fall grain. ."It is difficult to
estimate how much I am benefit
ed but a good deal. I consider
tiling an absolutely good invest
ment," stated Mr. Lewis. Anoth
er field on the Lewis place that
has been tiled is changed over
from a spring field to one that
is suitable for fall seeding.
More Being Installed
"Just east of Derry station
along the Hawthorn highway, F.
E. Pence Is Installing the first
unit of a yery complete drainage
system on the Dr. Findley farm.
Already some 25,000 feet of tile
are in the ditches, ready to cover.
This tiling project was outlined
by the state college extension
service last winter. Mr. Pence
stated that on his place where it
is necessary to put the tile so
close together it is costing In the
neighborhood of $40 an acre for
the tile in .the ground.
It is Mr. Pence's intention to
put in drain tile on much of the
front tier of fields along the
highway but there is some doubt
as to the success of tiling the
ground that lays back next to
Basket Slough because of the
soil type.
Almost without exception the
tiling work is being done to
change fields so that they can
be used for fall seeded crops and
for the seeding of red clover,
which Is so necessary in the ro
tation on Polk county farms to
maintain their fertility. A little
tile in some fields would dry up
spots that would enable the own
er to get on the field in almost
any season of the year. These wet
spots keep him from preparing
the rest of the ground until they
have dried out and that makes
the other ground too late.
Fruit Growers
Seek Lower Rate
YAKIMA, Sept. 13 In view
of the prevailing low price of
pears and apples, and the uncer
tainty of the future market, par
ticularly for pears, the Wenat
chee, Yakima and Hood River
Traffic associations have joined
In their attempt to obtain an
emergency export rate of 11.00
per hundred on apples and $1.20
per hundred on pears. Requests
have been presented to 15 rail
roads, including the Great Nor
thern. This hoped for special rate
is to be in effect for this season
only, and applies to fruit destined
for foreign shipment only.
The traffic association's export
committee is now taking up with
steamship companies operating
out of Puget Sound, the Question
of space, temperatures, and ser-
Tice. Most of the apples and pears
from this state' are now being ex
ported by way of Pacific Coast
Ports, which is an argument In
favor of a reduction la east-bound
rates of fruit intended for for
eign market.
A horse trail has been com
pleted -to the summit of Mt, Whit
aey, in California. 14.49C feet
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Imported Eagle's Double Boy, champion Jersey bull, owned by M. O
Gnnderson of Silverton.
Imported Eagle's Double
Boy Winning National
Fame in
SILVERTON, Sept. 13. A re
cent issue of The Jersey Bulletin
and Dairy World, a nationally
read magazine in the Jersey
world published at Indianapolis,
Indiana, ' carried a story of Im
ported Eagle's Double Boy, the
splendid herd sire of the M. G.
Gunderson Jersey herd at Silver
ton. The article gives the following
Information: "Few sires leave
their marks so Imprinted In the
herd of their -home countries as
Improted Eagle's Double Boy,
who celebrated his eighth birth
day on August 11, 1930. is doing
in the Jersey herds of Marion
county, Oregon.
Sire of Winner
"Where there even a vestige of
the human about Double Boy, we
fear that he would spend his de
clining years In boasting about the
ribbons and and his descandants
have taken, are taking and will
undoubtedly take for years to
come. For Double Boy, himself a I
champion winner, has sired me
grand champions, besides any !
number of lesser fry. This Is a
record that any ancestor may well
be proud of. We also feel quite
certain that he would like to tell
how his sons have proved so pop
ular that 22 of them are being
used by Marlon county breeders
as her sires. Few sires can boast
of more.
"Imported Eagle's Double Boy
was bred by T. W. Avril In St.
Queen on the Island of Jersey.
Messers. West and Reid Imported
him in 1923, and sold him at auc
tion the same year, M. G. Gunder
son of Silverton bidding him in.
That same autumn. Double Boy
began to show his stuff by placing
first In the senior calf ring at
the Oregon State fair and second
at the Pacific International show
at Portland. A year later he placed
nrst as senior yearling and took
the Junior championship at the
Portland show.
"Double Boy's sons began to
come in ior riDDons at Oregon
shows in 1925. Eagle'? Spotted
Boy has more than strutted his
stuff in Oregon rings. He appear
ed before the public for the first
time in 1925 and took the Junior
champion ribbon of the Marion
county group at the Oregon spring
shows. A year later he followed
suit at both the spring shows and
the Oregon State Fair. In 1927 he
capped the climax by being twice
grand champion in one month at
the Oregon State fair and the SI1-
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AURORA, Sept. 18.
There are two farmers who
are not complaining about
production, or low prices.
Homer and Harry Fredrick
sen of the Needy district,
are satisfied with 1S3 tons
of flax, taken from a 60 acre
field.
They have their own pun
ins; machine, and have re
cently Invested in a herd of
20 fine Jersey cows.
rerton community fair.
Prizes are won
"Eagle's Buster Boy and Eag
le's Rlnda Lad have both been
winners of the grand champion
prizes at the Oregon spring Jersey
shows, and in the 1930 Marion
eounty ring of the spring shows,
his sons carried away both the
grand champion ribbons and the
reserve champion ribbon, the first
going to Lad's Lady Rinda's Ea
gle now owned by Samuel Tor
vend, and the second to Eagle's
Eminent Progress, pwned by Vic
tor Madsen.
"Lest we are thought Mid-Victorian,
let us hasten to say that
all the honors for Imported Eag
le's Double Boy have not been
won by sons. The feminine ele
ment quite in keeping with the
day is also doing its bit. Eagle's
Pollyanna has been twice Junior
champion and once grand cham
pion in Oregon shows. Others
have taken firsts. While few
"figures and facts" are obtain
able from official records because
of the lack of an official testing
association in Marion county, in
variable Individual records are
showing Double Boy's daughters
as higher testers and better pro
ducers than are their mothers.
Long line of Champions
"But when we Jook at what
came before Imported Eagle's
Double Boy, we are not so sur
prised at what is coming after.
His sire was Golden Maid's Doub
le and his dam was' Brampton
Sybil Lass. Sybil's Gamboge 3rd
was his grandsire and Sybil's
Gamboge was one of his great
grandsires. Others of his ancestors
are Gamboge's Oxford Gem, No
ble of Oaklands, Gamboge Ox
ford Sybil, General Cowslip and
Imported Golden Maid's Prince."
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Rare Pieces of Handwork
Being Sent to Oregon
State Fair
Spun, dyed, and woven by hand,
that is the history f a large bed
spread entered in the textile ex
hibit of the Oregon state fair by
a Bcotts Mills woman.
The spread is the property of
Mrs. Igna Myers and is one of the
most unique and beautiful pieces
thus far to be received at the
fair offices, according to Mrs. El
la S. Wilson, secretary of the
state fair board.
The bedspread Is made 1 n
squared design of two sha4es of
red, black, and a shading of gray.
Scores of attractive entries al
ready have been received for the
textile exhibit, Mrs. Wilson said
today. Two outstanding exhibits
have been provided by Charles
Pratt of Philadelphia, who has
entered a eilk patchwork quilt
requiring more than 1,500 hours
in its manufacture, and by Mrs.
J. P. Leaman of Woodburn, who
has sent a bedspread, hand made
of crochefTflllet, valued at more
than $500.
Seven states already are rep
resented by entries into this di
vision alone, it was revealed. Ap
proximately $800 in prizes are
offered.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP)
- The summer's drought has
been beneficial to dairymen, be
lieves. Dr. P. H. Stephens of the
agricultural economics depart
ment a( Oklahoma A. and M.
college.
"With sluggish business condi
tions reducing the demand for
dairy products, an lnto-storage
movement would follow, hurting
prices of these commodities for
years." he says.
"With the number of dairy
cattle Increasing, and the
amount of milk produced per
cow also growing larger, the
stage was set for a large over
production of dairy products this
fall, similar to the conditions
now being experienced by meat
producers."
ELLS' EWE IS
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MONMOUTH, Sept. 13. Wil
liam Riddell and Sons exhibit of
Lincoln sheep at the California
state fair at Sacramento won. for
them champion ewe of that
breed, and a majority of the
other prizes offered. C. H. Da
vidson of Halsey, won champion
ship on his Lincoln ram.
In the Cotswold entries C. Lo
rence and Son of Monmouth
scored heavily, winning cham
pionship On ewe and many other
first prizes.
C. H. Davidson of Halsey was
awarded second place on Cots
wold ram lamb. AH of these
sheep were exhibited by Walter
Hubbard of Monroe, 'Oregon,
who has a large show string of
various breeds of eheep and An
gora goats from the Willamette
valley on a California circuit.
Woman Conducts
Tour by Airplane
To Boost Legumes
CLARKSVTLLE, Tenn. (AP)
Airplane advertising has
reached the farm in Tennessee.
Led by a woman, president of
the Montgomery County Lespe
deza association, pioneers in the
growth of the giant types of that
legume sent a plane on a three
day tour of Indiana, Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas.
- Mrs. P. A. Meriweather, pres
ident of the farm association
since its organization three years
ago, headed the plane party of
five. Speeches were made at
stopping places and two radio
broadcasts were made.
Kobe and Korean lespedeza,
becoming important crops in
Montgomery county, were spon
sored in this section by the ex
tension department of the Uni
versity of Tennessee. These va
rieties yielded 250 pounds of
seed at 30 cents a pound from
2.000 acres in 1929, giving the
growers a $75,000 cash income.
This year the county Increased
its acreage by more than 5,000.
Two tons of hay to the acre
and a seed production of from
300 to 500 pounds are not un
common. The plant is similar to
alfalfa in protein content and ni
trogen left in the soil.
Trend to Increase
Price Spred Seep
More complaint than ever is
heard about the spread between
producer and consumer. At the
same time the trend of the times
is not to decrease but to lncrase
the spread. Thus we note a
statement about the marketing
of potatoes. It says that the
packaging of potatoes is growing.
Small hags made of cotton, bur
lap, or other fiber, and also pa
per eartons, are used. The bags
Of cartons usually contain IB or
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Careful Cultivation and Excellent Soil
Of L a b i s h Region Combine to Yield
700 Carloads of Onions
By VALMER KLAMPE
LABISH CENTER. Sept. 13
Many people are unaware of the
fact that within ten miles of Sa
lem is a district where land val
ues have increased within the
last 25 years from $5 to $1500
an acre. Nevertheless this is
true, and the district is the Lake
Lablsh or Labish Center region,
lying north and east of Salem.
8 he land is the famous beaver-
dam once thought practically
worthless, and the specialized
crop wbhlch brought about such
enormous transformation in val
ues is onions. While other dis
tricts in other states produce
more, none excel the Labish dis
trict's crop of Oregon Yellow
Danvers in uniform excellence of
keeping qualities and acre yield.
Causative factors which have
brought about such unusual dis
tinction may be found in the soil,
the climate, fertilizers, and seed
selection.
Care is Exact
The culture methods as prac-
ih.u gy growers utrs are uum
interesting and exact.
Preparations for a good seed
bed are started in the fall or very
early in the spring, depending
upon the exact nature and loca
tion of the soil. If the land is
new and has a tendency to clod
dlness, plowing in the fall will
tend to reduce this condition.
However, since the beaverdam is
usually flooded several times
during the winter and spring,
many growers prefer not to plow
in the fall In order to prevent
excessive washing. After plow
ing, the ground is thoroughly
worked, in fact every device is
employed to secure a finely,
packed seed bed.
One of the Important steps in
the ground preparations is the
application of fertlizers. With
an Intensified crop like onions
which In the growing stage use
up a great deal of plant food
both the ground and the crop
produced thereon would soon de
teriorate in quality without the
annual use of fertilisers. Both
commercial fertilisers and ani
mal excrements are used, super
phosphate and potash being the
most common of the former. Be
sides Increasing the size of the
onion they also add greatly to
the keeping qualities by produc
ing a bulb much firmer in tex
ture. Planted in March
The ground being ready, the
onion seed is planted in March
or the forepart of April. Prac
tically all growers here raise
their own seed so that by care
ful selection the good qualities
of the strain may be increased.
The seed is drilled in rows 14
Inches apart, and for this pur
pose the power planter is rapid
ly supplanting the hand drill.
From 2 to 3 pounds of seed
the exact amount will depend
upon the size and test of the
seed, as well as the personal de
sires of the grower.
After the onions are up they
are hoed and weeded alternately
from three to five times during
25 pounds.
And this costs money, Just as
it does to wrap apples and peach
es seperately or to tie asparagus
with baby ribbon. But the pub
lic demands such service and will
have it. It is wasted breath to
condemn the spread. It is here
to stay, and will grow steadily
larger.
Idle men Given
Free Ride Away
From Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)
A free ride to Los Angeles or
Salt Lake City for unemployed
men is given by Las Vegas every
so often.
The citizens' committee orders
a truck when the idle become too
numerous on the street, load the
men intq it and carry them, with
a meal enroute to one of the
larger cities
More than a dozen men a day
apply for work at Boulder dam.
MAKES GOOD SEED BED
SOUTH BEND, Wash. Rye
and vetch sown as a green man
ure crop and turned under late
in the spring makes an excellent
seed bed as well as maintaining
the fertility of the soil, says Vey
J. Valentine, county agent. H.
Freeborough, Seaview, who
used this system last fall had
some of the best nursery stock
in the county this spring.
PULLETS COST 92 CENTS
BELLING HAM. Wash. Five-
month-old pullets, raised on the
W. S. C. formula cost 92 cents
per bird, according to figures
submitted to the county agent's
office. The 1300 chicks cost
$208, fuel and feed cost $381.75,
and the cash returns from the
cickerels came to $95.89. The
cash cost of the remaining 545
pullets was $493.86.
Moving Storing Crating
Larmer Transfer & .
Storage
Telephone 3131 '
We also handle Fuel OA and Coal
JacVs Beanstalk
Had Nothing on
These Bean Rows
' HOUSTON, Tex. (A P)
The beanstalk that Jack
climbed has nothing on the
beans raised by Fowler. Mc
Daniel of Mitchell county,
In this case, however,
it's the length of the rows
rather than the stalk's
height.
McDaniel has two fields
containing 280 acres, all
planted in pinto beans.
There are only six rows in
the fields, but three of
them each are aproximate
ly 180 miles long, while
the other three each are 72
miles long.
They are, it should be ex
plained, planted in circles.
j tne growing season, depending
o course upon the weather and
freedom of soil from weeds. Most
of this work must necessarily be
done by band since the rows are
so close together. Wheel hoes
and scuttle hoes have been de
veloped for this purpose and then
crews go through the fields pull
ing out the weeds in the rows.
Weeds grow as luxuriantly as
other crops on the beaverdam
and so a great deal of labor is
required to keep the fields free
from them. Every precaution is
taken to prevent weeds from go
ing to seed either on the onion
land or on surrounding land.
Pests Are Many
Happy indeed would it be for
the grower if there were no in
sect pests or plant dteeaBes to
combat, but such is not the case,
and among the list of yield re
ducers we find cut worms, mag
gots, smut, blight, and thrip.
For most of these protective
measures have been developed. A
poison bran mixture composed
of bran, molasses, and Paris
green scattered, throughout the
fields will control cut worms. A
weak formaldehyde solution
sprayed on the seed as it is
planted will reduce smut mater
ially. But the onion maggot has
been more difficult to control;
experiments conducted by field
men from O. S. C. during the
past several years have been un
fruitful. A large number of
sprays were developed, but none
proved practical.
Two years ago two growers,
the Weinman brothers, Ed and
Frank, working on the theory
that the maggots hatch from eggs
laid by a fly, developed a fly
catcher, which, though not en
tirely satisfactory, is the best de
vice known here at present. The
maggot fly is unlike. the house
flv In iltot If um.l.a -1
are pushed across the fields the
flleg are caught as they fly up.
Early morning is the most ad
vantageous time for the use of
the fly trap.
No Control Fonnd
Little or nothing can be done
to combat blight and thrip. The
onion tops become dry and
brown prematurely when they
are blighted and since it is
through the top that the plant
utilizes both oxygen and nitrogen
from the air, the bulbs make lit
tle or no growth afterwards.
Heavy fogs In the early morbning
followed by a hot day as well as
hot weather immediately follow
ing a rain will produce this con
dition. A sulphur dust applica
tion is thought to be beneficial,
although only a very few growers
use this.
Thrip Is a venr small Insert
which cause new ton shnnta t
spring up from the center of the
duids wnen they become infest
ed with them. The neck of th
onion consequently widens and
Decomes rigid, the onion then
DEED
DUYEEIO
We boy all kinds ef Clover
Seeds, Vetches. Ete,
Also, tint class Gray Oats
Suitable for Seed
CLEANING
The very latest type ef
. machinery that saves all
the good seed
Xm will always find we pay
the highest markeTVices
D. A.Whito
and Oops
Rune 160 61 state fit
Salem. Ore,
During 1930
being termed a "thick neck." A
good rain will wash most of the
insects from the tops, however.
When the onions become ripe,
the tops fall over to the ground
and begin to dry. Harvest then
begins: the onions are pulled
and piled in rows, the usual num
ber of rows thrown together be
ing three or six. After laying in
the fields several weeks, curing,
the onions are hauled to the
storage houses where they are
kept until they are sold. The
last step in preparing them for
the market is topping and sort
ing'. Up until two years ago all
onion toppers here were run by
gasoline engines, but since elec
tric power became available then
many growers have replaced the
gas engines with the more re
liable electric motor. Several of
the toppers were constructed by
industrial arts students at Salem
high school.
Improvements Many
Necessity has always been the
mother of invention and each
successive demand has brought
forth some improved device or
practice. Fly traps and power
planters with attachments for
the use of formaldehyde have
already been mentioned. Eleva
tors designed to raise crates of
onions to top shelves of the on
ion, houses made their appear
ance this summer. The usual
topping machine produces a deaf
ening noise when in operation.
Features designed by H. F.
Hanes, onion foreman on the
Hayes Labish Farms, and incor
porated on toppers built for
Hayes this summer will eliminate
much of the unnecessary sound.
The practice of damming up
main drainage ditches during the
dry summer months inaugurated
by a grower a year ago is be
coming more popular as its ad
vantages become apparent, -and
only recently two concrete dams
have been constructed on the
Hayes holdings.
Yield is Heavy
The yield this year is excel
lent; conservative . estimates
Place the crop average of the
district to be over a carload to
the acre. The district yield may
then be estimated to be about
700 cars of 30,000 lbs. each. Al
most 200 acres more onions
were grown here this year over
last.
Price Very Low
The first car lot to leave the
district was topped on Wednes
day, August 27. Quite a num
ber of car load lots have been
sold since that date; many grow
ers not having sufficient storage
room. The price offered by
buyers at the first of the season
was 76c cwt., but at the present
time only 65c Is being offered.
This is considerably lower than
opening sales of the past two
years when $1 and $2 were of
fered growers. At the present
price growers sustain a heavy
loss on each car. Whether or
not the onions are graded to
pass U. S. government Inspection
is the personal option of each in
dividual buyer. At the present
time no reduction in acreage for
next year is contemplated.
(DHOEGSODI STATE
Salem, September 22-28
Don't fail to visit this great state fair;
thousands of prize horses, cattle, sheep
and swine; boys and girls in club work
demonstrations; many county dis
plays; big exhibits of fruits, flowers
and vegetables, auto show, six-night
horse show and scores of other educa
tional attractions hare been planned.
Thrilling "vaudeville entertainment
daily and dancing every evening.
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43 Farmers now Have Per
mits With More to
File
DALLAS, Sept. 13. Polk
county farmers are filing appli
cations for irrigation permits
very rapidly, according to Coun
ty Agent J. R. Beck, who has
been helping in making out these
applications. Mr. Beck visited
the state engineer's ofifce recent
ly and compiled a record of all of
the Polk county permits. This
shows that 43 farmers have per
mits to Irrigate 1,972 acres from
the several streams and lakes of
the county.
Louis Lachmuud has a permit
to Irrigate the largest acreage
by pumping water from Humbug
lake near the McLaughlin estate
in the Independence district.
This' permit entitles him to irri
gate 600 acres most of which Is
in hops. Another large permit
is that held by the E. C. Horst
company which is also largely
for hops.
The Zielesch farm at Parker,
has a permit for one of the lar
gest acreages in the county.
Their project contemplates pump
ing water from the Luckiamute
river for 120 acres, much of
which will be in pasture and al
falfa. " t
While there are a few permfts
dating back 15 years or more,
most of them have been issued
in the last three years and in
case of all of the rivers except
the Willamette they have mostly
been issued during the current
year.
On Mill creek in the western
part of the county three farmers
have permits to irrigate 54i
acres while on Salt creek be
tween Dallas and Ballston three
other farmers have permits to
irrigate 141 acres. The Luckia
mute and its several branches is
one of the best sources of irriga
tion water in the sounty and 12
farmers have permits to Irrigate
506 acres.
Along the Rickreall from Dal
las to Eola eight farmers have
permits to Irrigate 129 acres,
much of which is in the Immedi
ate vicinity of Dallas and is for
the purpose of irrigating small
fruit. The other 17 permits are
from various lakes or sloughs
and rivers of the county mostly
direct tributaries to the Willam
ette river.
During the past few days Mr.
Beck has given help to seveml
farmers in the Grande Ronde
country, who are figuring on Ir
rigating by pumping water from
the upper reaches of the Yamhill
river. The Interest of other
districts in the Irrigation devel
opment here In Polk county has
been quite marked and Just re
cently Mr. Beck has been asked
to prepare material for a stoT
In Oregon Business, the publi
cation of the state chamber ft
ment in Polk county,
commerce, on irrigation develop-
Alabama received $2,615,424
of federal aid funds for highway
Improvements during the fiscal
year ending June 30.
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Pulp and
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