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The OREGON STATESMAN, Eakri, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 1, 1935
dl Service Proves.-tiiMeim
Producers
COUIITY AGENT i
PROVIDED HERE
Marion Has One First Time
L in Decade; Required by .
! Control Projects
Marion county in 1934 bad the
services of a county agent the
first who has worked here: in
more than a decade. The selec
tion ol the agent was brought
about when the Marlon County
Wheat Control association otter
ed to 'defray $1000 of his costs
' in order to use his 1 serrices In
setting up their control project.
Subsequently the corn-hog pro
ductlon group paid another $1000
to the agent's budget for the
year, j In 1935 the agent's work
will be sponsored by the county,
, the state and the federal govern
ment. .Lloyd Riches, a farmer In this
- vvpuuij, m Kiecwa icr me 100. I
Wi-OnTc
county, was selected for the lob
tne uregon state college agreeing,
that a? agent for Marlon county
should; be selected from the ter
, xitory. -
While a varied program . of ob
jectives was laid out for the year
which embraced irrigation. Im
provement! of forage crops, car
tlficatton of potatoes, improve
ment f fruit production, control
of rodents, instruction in dairy
husbandry i and meetings for the
improvement of agricultural mar-
keting many of these projects,
perforce, could receive only scant
attention from the agent because
of the. rush of emergency relief
work. ! . '
, Probably one-half of Mr. Rich
es' time was required by the hog
corn adjustment program and the
wheat-control program coupled
1 with, special work in the farm
debt adjustment program and in
v the emergency crop loan work.
The; first month of February,
1934, revealed how much work
the adjustment programs twould
place upon: the county agent. In
that period alone 18 educational
and sign-up meetings were con
ducted, reaching into all districts
of the county. Farmers in 1 at
tendance numbered 1124. j
''Th attitude of farmers gen
erally with whom the agent i has
' come tn contact has been friend
ly and cooperative, Mr. Riches
reports. ""Aside from AAA land
-emergency activity, there nave
been many requests for funda
mental agricultural service in con
nection with farm problems. Many
of these requests were answered,
but it was impossible for i j the
county agent to. satisfy many re
quests for service because of i the
volume of work necessary In con
nection with the AAA and other
emergency programs." ,
Some of ; the accomplishments
of the county agent's department,
apart from the emergency pro
gram, include the following: r-"
Farmers in the Woodburn -
. Hubbard district were aided in
forming a drainage district to im
prove 200 acres of land on j 34
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Three- irrigation" tours ' were
conducted to show the advantages
f irrigation, particularly for the
production of summer field crops.
One held August 8 at Lake La
Dish was,. a banner meeting, 66
persons attending.
Four field tours were arranged
and conducted during May i to
- show-, the advantage of planting'
alfalfa as & field crop.
' ; Additional activities of the
" county agent included the follow
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Help in potato standardization
and Improvement ; . f "
Participation in a county-wide
meeting of cherry men, attended
by '100i growers. : J
Four demonstrations of rodent
control throughout the county.
Assistance to chicken and tur-
. key raisers.
- go busy; was the county agent
with production adjustment work.
; it was well-nigh impossible on
FRED E.
TO OUR PATRONS:
rWfi know just what the pulling power is of a friendly -smile
and a proper consideration by the man, we are dealing:
' .with, and. so; feeling that necessity, wei are anxious to make
; J. thi office a friendly place. We want ouri personal contacts to
' be friendly and we Wantthetone of our correspondence to be"
of the same type. We hope We are! making progress in that-.
respect and! we sincerely hope that in the last 365 days you
1 , have found our office, one such as-we have outlined. If it has - .
been so, we need 'not worry about our future relations, and if
it has not been, we want to make it so.iJl ' .
, , . The Season's Greetings go : out to you with our ' sincere f
S thanks and appreciation . for your .many courtesies during the '
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Satisfaction With Marketing Code :
Indicated by Most Prune, Growers
Ruinous Inequality of Payments to Growers is Ended; Signal Gains.
,1 ,r "I ;l In Total Income are Claimed
Oregon, prune, growers, operat
ing for the first time during the
past year under the' provisions of
a marketing code similar; to one
adopted I by 1 prune growers ' of
Washington, report themselves
92 per cent In favor of the! code
with the eight per cent opposed
centering, their objections 'primar
ily on the contention that prices
have not been raised j in the
amount they think necessary. ( v
- Such is the summary of a prune
grower's isurvey recently complet
ed by the offices here of the Ore
gon prune code control board op
erating through R. A. Bailey, ad
ministrator. i ' j :j ;
Growers who favor the ! code
have found that it has worked re
markably well in the'; first year
of Its existence. Some of the sal
ient gains" brought the' prune
erowe'S beCft "
itf beertL,,e fnlioy'---
set for the
prune market with the re$ult that
ruinous inequality of prices' paid
growers has been checked.
Adequate financing facilities
for warehoused prunes have! been
provided. ! , j 'j
Uniform-inspection service has
been established, the inspector
frequently acting as a non-parti
san arbiter between grower and
packer. . ! -" i . If" -
A minimum value on off-grade
fruit has been established: " ,
In the dollar and cents column.
the prune code's "officials find
there have been ' signal - gains
through the operation of the code.
Dried Prune Price M
Shows Steady Gain M
Due to establishment of a' one-
point sack test for dried; prunes
many days for him to leave his
at the offices In the federal build
ing were tery numerous, totalling
1501 in the first 10 months' the
agent' office was open I here.
Telephone calls totalled 408, An
extensive correspondence was' car
ried on almost dally by the coun
ty agent's office. J ;j
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MANGIS INSURANCE
Bligh Building, Salem, Oregon
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The Pacific Steel Furnace, Hop and Fruit Drying stoves. Gaso
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Business of the Kind in the Pacific Northwest
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Salem Phone 7609 Oregon
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In our daily life we find ourselves ; retracing our steps to
the merchants who indicate a friendly interest in us and have
a friendly greeting for us. - ' . I
i.,Very truly yours,
Frecl E. Mangis Insurance Agency
and the ."bottom" placed - under
the market by a minimum price on
dried fruit, an average increase
of one-cent a pound in dried pric
es on prunes has been effected.
The green prune grower has al
so felt the effect of the code price
stiffening with the result that a
price gain of about $5 a ton was
received. i ; .. v.,-. . . f -l-
'J The 1934 prune crop was
markedly larger, than tho 1933
yield. One year ago the estimat
ed poundage of green prunes pro
duced in the state was 87,000,000;
in 1934 this poundage jumped to
56,000,000, a gain of 51 per cent.
Another outstanding fact in
this year's prune picture Is the
low percentage of prunes still
held in growers' han.djit Mr, Bai
ley, " "prune T eode admlnbtrator?
said - during t.pait.weky thai
only sis tons oz ariea prunes, to
his knowledge, were being held
by growers. On a 3 to 1 reduc
tion basis for green prunes sent
through the driers, this would
mean the equivalent of 4,878,000
pounds of green prunes still In
growers' hands or only nine per
cent of the total yield for the
year.
Code Gets Off to
Late 'Start
: The prune code agreement is
somewhat - unique among codes
adopted for farmers in the state
In the fact that only bona fide
growers of representatives of co
operative associations, which) are
composed of growers, can be mem
bers of the organization. The con
trol board, selected by the mem
bership through districts set up
in the state, is entirely a growers'
organization.
The prune code got off to a late
start, not being officially promul
gated until August 4. As a result
of the rush needed to push the
code to v completion there was a
temporary hitch between green
prune growers and packers in
getting the minimum code prices
on prunes ' Into effect. After a
few tense days, the difference be-
AGENCY
January 1, 1935
tween the packers' view of a fair
price and the growers' view was
adjusted, with , some ' concessions
on both.; sides. Packers through
out the state put up- the largest
crop of green prunes they bad
eter handled and paid code prices.
Generally the packers are not op
posed to the code; their complaint
last summer was based on the
fact that many of them had sold
prunes, in the can, at inadequate
prices, before the price on . the
green fruit was announced by the
growers.'' "j'V--.':"'if
Proponents of the prune code
do not claim it to be perfect. They
will ask some changes in the mar
keting agreement when the legis
lature meets "this month. How
ever, most of the changes will be
minor, and can be worked j out
within the code Itself rather than
in the marketing agreement! law.
1 Costs of operating the coe' to
date have not teen excessivej The
total eost Is slightly under $5000
with the' heaviest expenses of the
code out of the way. - Collections
hare been made at the rate oi
50 cents a ton on dried prunes
acd 15 cents a ton on green
prunes. The code 'management
expects a substantial refund to?b
made to the growers on this j code
cost assessment.'-' - -1 . j H .
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To This Salem Institution
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Deposits Show More Than 100 Times Increase in 65 Years
. June 30, 1870 . 580,008.74 ,
" v j June 30, 1880 . . . 157,529.59 ;
: - Jiine 30, 1890 $893,026.62
June 30, 1900 ........ Sl,135,824.49
I June 30, 1910.......... ,$1,940,603.45 .
1 . June 30,' 1 920 ....... i' 54,434,705.25 -
; June 30, 1930 ............... 56,783,359.79
June 30, 1934 . . ... ...... .... . . . . 58,136,742.74
feember 31. 1934 $8,639,610.96
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Tendency to Avoid. Cities
Believed Illogical by t
Some Observers
Owners of ; tourist s camps ' as
well as citizens of cities who. are
interested in the I tourist, are in
terested in the policy f the State
highway, commission and highway
engineers. . - (: ' .
There has . been a recent ten
dency of highway building to ig
nore cities, and to build so that
ear s
Since 1868
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ie ears nave oeen
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traffic may pass through the state
with the least number of miles,
regardless of whether or sot! this
concurs with the opinions of those
living in ciUes. j j . ;
' Such a. theory of highway build
ing would , eventually route ; all
travel so that it would entirely
miss Eugene, Albany and Salem
and reaching Aurora, would leave
the Pacific highway and be rout
ed straight to Wilsonville and
thence a direct line into Portland
on the west side of the city. i
, The argument is that wheq peo
ple drive, they want to get to their
destination the shortest route, re?
gardless of cities or scenery.! - '
' Those interested in the tourist
and civic organizations in cities,
believe that the highways are not
only built for travel but should
also be a means of acquainting
foreign travel, which means travel
from other states than Oregon,
wiin me Deauues or our cities out
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with the cities as a possible home.
It is a fact that many tourists
who have passed through Salem
have ' become greatly ' impressed
with the city s-d near surround
ings and in many Instances, this
impression has resulted in their .
eventually making Salem or vicin
ity their permanent homes. '
Alumni and High
Divide Contests
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DAYTON, Dec. 11. In double
header benefit basketball games
between Dayton Union high school
and alumni teams here . Friday
night, the Alumni boys' team won
31 to 13, and the high school girls'
team defeated the Alumni team,
11 to 9.
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