t&Th gtcrtetmcm, Salem, OrM Thursday. December 7. 195Q
Oregon Farm
Output Makes
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Br lint L. Madsen
- Farm Editor, The Statesman
Quite a block of Oregon's wheat
producers find themselves living
out of a cracker box. More wheat
producers would like to live from
out cracker box if there were
onlv more cracker boxes.
There can't be more cracker
boxes filled In Oregon unless an
eat more crackers" campaign is
Inaugurated, i At least that seems
to be the oninion of those who are
now manufacturing crackers.
There Isnt, they say, profitable
room for more cracker-plants in
Oregon. I i
Cracker-flour is milled by most
of the flour mill companies in the
state. The amount of cracker
flour milled, depends only upon
the demand from cracker baker
ies, r One miller estimated some
months ago that at least 10 times
s much cracker flour is milled
in Oregon as is used here.
Since most of the varieties of
wheat crown in Oregon are partie
ularly well adapted 1 to making
crarker flour, more cracker flour
eoffta be milled if a market was
. available.
FUur Shipped
. Besides cracker flour, cookie
flour is also manufactured here in
large quantities. Richard K. Baum
of the Oregon wheat commission
once made the statement that the
quality of the soft wheat -flours
make especially good cookies. "At
present some flour is shipped out
of Oregon to California and oth
er states, and in these shipments,
at least two sacks of cookie flour
are shipped out to one of the
cracker flour.
This cracker thinking all came
about because of the conversation
of J wo farmers.
"Not much of the stuff we grow
gets into national business. Out
side of i the canneries, Oregon
doesn't have many interesting
processing plants for farm prod
ucts." said one farmer.
: "You can . say that again! 1
don't see why some 'of all this
romance of i processing we read
about can t be done here in Ore
gon." the other answered. There
was more in the same trend.
It was then I thought of. Ore
, gon crackers f and the new plant
In Portland which turns out over
a dozen million crackers a day.
Certainly crackers . are largely
flour. Just as certainly cracker
flour is largely wheat.
Largest Company Here
The cracker and biscuit Indus
try in Oregoriiis dominated by two
large companies, the two largest
companies in the nation. The Na
tional Biscuit company is the larg
est. The Sunshine Biscuit com-
pany is second in output in the
nation. Both jof these companies
operate mills bf their own. Both
also buy additional soft wheat
flours.
The Sunshine Biscuit company
bakes soda crackers at its Fort
land bakery on a six-day week
schedule. Some cookies and a full
line of candies are made there.
There are many other bakery
plants, much larger, owned by this
company. But its largest flour
mill is located at The Dalles. This
has a milling capacity of four
thousand 100-pound bags per day.
The wheat used is brought direct
. ly from the growers in almost all
Instances.
. The National Biscuit company
, completed its new $10,000,000
plant at Portland this fall. It
opened for operation in October.
Bated as the biggest bakery west
of Chicago, the plant embraces
390,000 square feet bf floor space.
Capacity is, a million and a half
dollars worth of bakery products
a month. This company processes
more than 45 per cent of the
crackers used in the United
States.
409-foot Ovens ;
The ovens alone in this new
plant are each 400 feet long and
there are six of them. They oc
cupy a huge room measuring 750
by 150 feet. Pans of batter are
placed on a,, slowly moving belt
(that's where the term "band"
oven comes from). The belt is
timed to take the batter through
a heated tunnel for the proper
baking period. When done the
. product moves to the packaging
department In an eight hour shift
- one of the six ovens consumes 125
barrels of flour.
, For each barrel of flour how
miay bushels of wheat are used?
The wheat growers can go on from
here.
The National "Biscuit company
officials gave as one of their rea
sons for locating in Portland that
here was the center "of the supply
of raw materials which make up
about 52 per cent of the manufac
turing costs.
And now to get back to Mr.
. Baum of the wheat commission.
In i recent report published by
Oregon's wheat commission, he
saidT "The1 soft' wheat varieties
grown in the northwest territory
are all desirable excepting Rex.
There is a great need for local
wheat n volume which runs 10
per cent to 11 per cent protein.
Low protein wheat necessitates
Importing ; Montana wheat for
strength, whereas local varieties
of sufficient strength would be
used if, available."
WILLAMETTE VALLEY- FARMER
News and Views of Farm and Garden -By ULLIE L MADSEN
Sheepbreeders
Arrange Full
Day's Program
An array of prominent names
appear on the speaking roster
planned for the annual meeting
of the Oregon Purebred Sheep
Breeders association. The meeting
will be held at the American Le
gion club at 2650 South Commer
cial street, Salem, December 19,
starting at 1:30 pjn. Claude Steus
loff Is president of the group.
Judge T. Brand will be banquet
speaker at 6:30. He will be intro
duced by Walter Holt, manager
of the Pacific International live
stock association, banquet toast
master. Other speakers during the af
ternoon and evening sessions in
clude W. P. Wing, secretary of the
California Wool Growers; How
ard Vaughn, Dixon, Calif, presi
dent of the National Wool Crow
en; W. J. Steiwer, president of
the Oregon Wool Growers: Mrs.
Floyd T. Fox, president of the
Oregon Wool Growers auxiliary.
Too get four women together, no matter where they are from, they'll find something to talk about. Thla'l 5?ndjHgg' Sale sheep breed
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Larger Receipts Higher Cost
Scheduled for Farms in 1951
The general farm outlook for
Oregon in 1951 is for larger farm
receipts and higher farm costs, ac
cording to a report Just issued
by the extension service at Oregon
State college.
Gross farm receipts are expect
ed to be larger for two reasons:
a moderate Increase in output (if
weather permits) and somewhat
higher average prices. Higher
prices are expected, especially for
preferred foods, owing to increas
ing consumer purchasing power
and an expected higher support
price level as the parity index of
farm cost prices goes up.
The parity index includes com
modities bought by farmers for
production and living, and also
hired labor, taxes and interest.
The index is expected to go on
up at least 5 per cent during the
next 12 months, and a new all
time peak in farm production ex-
picture Is proof. Here are from left to right, Mrs. Vers Scott, secretary of the Oregon Wool Growers
association; Mrs. Floyd T. Fox, president of the association; Jane Burke, newly appointed county ex
tension agent In home economics, Marion county, and Sang Won Woo of Seoul, South Korea. The four
got together at the recent Marion County Livestock association meeting at Waldo Hills and In a few
minutes they were visiting like old-time friends. (Farm Photo for The Statesman.)
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The new officers for the Marion County Livestock association, from left to richt, J. J. Thompson, Sa
lem, vice president; Alvin Hartley, Silverton Hills, president; Ben A. .Newell, Marion county agent, sec
retary, and Lyle McKinley, Woodburn, director. Statesman Farm photo.)
er, and George Cadmus, former
Oregon State college faculty mem
ber, now with the Philomath Feed
company.
Vaughn will show pictures tak
en of the Royal Livestock show in
England, of sheep projects both
in uigiana and Switzerland, Stei
wer will report on the national
wool growers' convention held
tnis past week in CasDer. Wvo
Hogg who judged at the Chicago
International show, will speak on
that event, and Cadmus will soeak
on the sheep feed outlook for the
coming year.
Also to appear on the afternoon
program will be a breeders' for
um directed by Floyd Edwards
oi AID any.
A feature of the meeting will
be the presentation of the Oregon
rureorea neepbreeders troDhv
xnis tropby is presented each
year to the exhibitor who contrib
utes we most to breed type at
uie annual ram sale. Eugene F.
nuDDara of Corvallis will make
me presentation.
The association has approxi
mately 100 members, Mr. Steus-
iou reports,
Chick Raisers
Are Expecting
Price Boost
Poultrymen can expect to pay
a little more for baby chicks next
year.
Chick prices, following the gen
eral price pattern, are inching up
wards, . Noel Bennion, Oregon
State college extension poultry
specialist, has. learned as a result
of his annual statewide hatchery
"intention" survey.
Oregon's 1951 chick hatch, the
specialist predicts, will approach
thirteen million birds, five per
cent above this year.
To carry out the survey, hatch
eries throughout the state were
contacted. How many chicks do
you intend to hatch next year, and
UGaumelli HsunmlbilDuiigs
penses Is expected In 1951.
Consumer demand is expected
to be especially strong for meat
and the supply of beef and lamb
will not be much If any larger.
Pork production will be around
5 per cent greater, however.
The report contains sections on
10 phases of the outlook: demand.
gross farm Income, production
costs, net dollar farm income, real
iar.n income, production pros
pects, national production trends.
West Coast trends, and short terra
commodity outlooks. A schedule
of additional outlook reports to
follow in groups of Oregon's farm
products In 1951 is given.'
Current 'and historical data on
farm commodity prices nd costs
are given tn several tables and
graphs, and summarized in a spe
cial section. Copies of the report
are available from county exten
sion agents pr from the college.
Farm Calendar
These two weeks it lust can't
be-rambling that the farm editor
is to do if she is to keep even one
jump behind the agricultural
meetings scheduled. No one knows
just how it happened, but it does
seem that the farmers have sched
uled themselves pretty full. While
the meetings all come under dif
ferent heads, a lot of them over
lap so far ' as attendance is con
cerned.
It started Tuesday with two
meetings scheduled. There was
the Guernsey breeders association
meeting at the Osborn hotel at
Eugene and the Polk County Farm
warehouse tour across the river,
Then Wednesday the Northwest
what prices are you expecting to Turkey show opened at Roseburg,
ask, were among questions asked.
White Leghorns Down
Only reductions in chick prices
are expected in White Leghorns,
the survey revealed. Hatcherymen
expect an average 17 cents apiece
for straight run White Leghorn
chicks as compared with an ave
rage 18 cents received this year
Sexed White Leghorn pullets will
bring about 35 cents as compared
with 36 cents received in 1950.,
These are average prices, the
specialist emphasizes, arriving at
by averaging returns from the
survey, report forms. Prices will
vary somewhat by locality and
the survey merely reported think
ing of hatcherymen in October
this year several months ahead
of peak hatchery operations.
13 Cents Expected -
Advances are- predicted for
heavy type chicks, especially cock
erels which will go into broiler
production. Hatcherymen expect
to receive about 13 cents apiece
for heavy type cockerels as com
pared with 12 cents, the average
receiving price this year.
Premium for hatching eggs will
stay about 20 cents above the
price for grade A large when the
producer furnishes the males. In
cases where the hatcheryman pro
vides the male birds, the margin
will average about two cents less
a dozen, the survey shows.
Nematode Staff
Member Added
North Marion county soil district
election was held at Woodburn,
the Marion County Breeders as
sociation at Silverton, the Willam
ette valley basin meeting at Sa
lem.
The rest of this week includes
the annual meeting of the Nut
Growers Society of Oregon and
Washington, Thursday and Friday
at Salem, the Oregon State Hoi
stem association meeting Thurs
day, Salem; the annual Wheat
Growers league Thursday to Sat
urday at The Dalles, the state
corn show at Silverton, Friday
ana Saturday. Next week is al
most as full, the Calendar shows,
Buy 'Molasses Early
For Next Spring,
Feeders Are Told
'; As molasses supplies for silair
making in 1951 will probably be
short, dairymen and stock feed
ers are being encouraged to lay
In a supply now if ensiling will be
one of their jobs next spring.
Prices are expected ; to remain
higher than last season and bulk
or barrel - storage now may pay
dividends.
Cane molasses can well be fed
free choice to dairy cows, accord
Inr. to Ben A. NewelL county ex
tension agent. They will consume
from 2 to 0 pounds a day. To com
pare the dollar value of the total
digestible nutrients value of mo
lasaes with oats, multiply the price
per .Jon by 9 cents and the price
The "addition of Dr. Harold J,
Jensen, a specialist in nematode
problems, to the staff of the Ore
gon State college agricultural ex
penment station has been an
nounced by F. E. Price, dean and
director of agriculture.
Although nematodes are be
coming increasingly important as
plant parasites, their significance
as pests has been overlooked in
the past. Many agricultural crops
are attacked and suffer losses
ranging from a trace to almost
complete crop failure.
Dr. Jensen, one of a very lim
ited number of men specially
trained in nematology, will con
duct research for the experiment
station on nematode problems of
the state. In addition, he will of
fer a graduate course in nema
tology in the department of bot
any and plant pathology. The new
course will make OSC the second
state college in the U. S. offering
specialized study in the field of
nematology.
Dr. Jensen, who is from Mount
Vernon, Wash, received his doc
tors at the University of Califor
nia this year. He had previously
attended the University of Wash
ington.
Walt Leth, former county agent
over in Polk county, has planted
lsu acres oi grass this fall on his
Camp Adair farm. Including in
the seeding were Alta fescue, sub
clover, rape, mixed vetches, Ab
ruzzi rye, common ryegrass, red
fescue, perennial rye, crimson clo
ver. This went in at 50 pounds
to the acre and with it went 100
pounds of ammonium sulphate
The soil was also limed at the
rate of two to three ton to the
acre. The spot is going to pasture
some 500 ewes. At present, there
are 370 ewes in the Leth flock
but this number is going to be
upped in 1951.
Walt is running crossbreds.
mostly Romney ewes, and using
buiiolk, Hampshire and South
down rams.
State presidents of the Oregon
Jersey Cattle club get at least one
present during each term in office
John Lienhart, senior, Woodburn,
maxes a gavel out of an Oregon
wood and presents it to the presi
dent. Saturday, John Lienhart,
junior, made the presentation to
Marlin Fox of Molalla. Marlin
gets to keep it, too. He doesn't
have to hand it on to the next
president.
The farmers have quite a time
when Doug McKay's around (He'
Governor Douglas McKay on the
front page of our paper, you
know). A lot of them went to
school with him at Oregon State.
They start out with "Doug", get
McKay" and "Mack" tangled up
in it somewhere and finally settle
for "the governor". Now, the gen
eral greeting to Doug when he en
ters a farm crowd, which he does
quite frequently, is "Hi, Gover
nor!" He's got one on most of
them, though. With this Scotch
memory of his he knows just what
to call almost each one of them
now as he comes into a room of
farmers.
Consumers attending farm
meetings are telling the farmers
how to interest them in buying
the farm products. The farmers
are actually beginning to listen.
to the idea, too. Walter Holt, of
Pacific International Livestock
exposition fame, and also a I
larraer , ioia me jersey men
Saturday that "If you do a better
job in telling the customer what
he is buying he wouldn't row so
much about buying it."
Clackamas county Jersey folk
are doing just this. They are sell
ing an "All-Jersey" milk under
that copyrighted name. It tells
how much more cream the buyer
gets along with his skimmilk and
u seems that Clackamas countv
consumers are liking the idea.
Anyway the state club is planning
to take over the name and push
the product throughout the state.
Polk County Plans
Big Ditching Show
Ditching with dynamite will be
demonstrated at the Elbert Rags
dale farm, Saturday, December 9
at 10 a.m., according to N. John
Hansen, county extension agent.
Mel Hagood. soil conservation
specialist at Oregon State college
will assist Ragsdale in the demon
stration. The blasting will deepen an out
let ditch for a tile drainage sys
tem. Anyone interested in observing
the placement of dynamite and
methods used in this type of ditch
ing is invited to do so, Hansen
stated.
December 7-8 Northwest Tur-
key show, Roseburg.
December 7-1 Nut Growers
society of Oregon and Washing
ton, annual meeting, Izaak alton
League building, Salem.
December 7 Annual Hosslein
association meeting 10:30 a.m..
Marion hoteL
December f-l Ninth annual
Oregon corn show, Silverton arm
ory.
December II Clackamas Jer
sey Cattle dub meeting (story
elsewhere on this page).
December 17 Marion County
Jersey Cattle club meeting. May
flower halL Salem.
December 18-21 Oregon Seed
Growers league, 10th annual
meeting. Multnomah hoteL Port
land.
December 19 Oregon Purebred
Sheepbreeders association annual
meeting. (Story elsewhere on
this page.)
January 3-5 Oregon Dairy
men's association, annual meeting,
Grants Pass.
January 11-12 Oregon Essen
tial Oil Growers league, Corval
lis.
January 15-17 Western Ore
gon Livestock association, Grants-
Pass.
January 29-31 State PMA
meeting, Hotel Gearhart.
Columbia County
Jersey Breeders
Invite Clackamas
Members of the Clackamas
County Jersey Cattle club are in
vited to be guests at the annua!
meeting of the Columbia County
Jersey Cattle club, to be held In
the basement of the Conxreca
tional church, St. Helens, Satur
day. December 9, 7 pjn.
The Invitation comes from Paul
Reeder. president of the Colum
bia club, as reciprocation for the
hospitality of the Clackamas club
when a delegation from the Col
umbia club visited the March 12
meeting of the Clackamas club.
The annual meetings of the Col
umbia County Jersey Cattle club
are festive affairs, preceded by
seasonal banquet, followed by
program that includes Installation
of new officers.
AH Clackamas County Jersey
clubbers who plan to attend are
requested to so notify Mrs. Charles
Couche as soon as possible so that
information on the approximate
number of visitors may be relayed
to the host club.
Corn Show
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yjucus rriciav
At Armory
Oregon's ninth annual State
two-day corn show scheduled for
December I and t, at the Silrrr
ton Armory. wCl really begin on
Thursday. Exhibits are requested
to be brought to the armory
Thursday morning. Rex Warms
and K. E. yore. Oregon State col
lege, will arrange and Judge the
exhibits all before nightfall
Thursday.
On Friday, exhibits wis be oa
display from t JO ajn. to a nm
The soil ronsenratlon service wUl
snow rree movies throughout the
day. Farm Implements wttl be
on display In the city parking lot
across ine street rrora the arm
ory and there will be a special
dirplay of hybrid corn brought
from Albany.
The Friday program VQ be re
peated Saturday. In addition Sat
urday artemoon at 3 pro. a special
program will be given. Included
in this will be bagpipe music by
W. R. Tomison, an oldUme fid
dlers concert, a square dance ex
hibition and some talks under the
direction of Harry L. Ricbes, Mar
ion county agent.
rree popcorn wd be served
throughout both dsrs by the state
corn show committee.
TOT-LOTS
CHICAGO -(INS)- An Increas
ing number of cities are providing
neighborhood tot-Iotsw for small
children of pre-primary and pri
mary school age making it un
necessary for parents to send
their young a long distance to
playgrounds. A typical example of
this playground development is in
Cambridge, Mass., the American
Public Works association reports,
where during the summer 12
"tot-lots" were acquired and
equipped.
The Brooks mountains of north
ern Alaska are among the least
explored areas under the Ameri
can flag.
Buy Or 0900 Grown
Blueberry Planh
Write for Ccrtoloqrue
Hcinx Blueberry
t Gardens
1 mDe fteata Tae.alaa Bay
Bridge ea Highway 111
Newport, Oregoa
R. R.
Brucellosis is Topic
Of Dr. Yonc Talk
On Next Sunday
State Veterinarian Dr.
Yooce, Salem, wiU be ruest speak
er at the meeting of the Clacka
mas County Jersey Cattle dub, to
be held Sunday, December 10. at
the Mark Jersey farm, located on
the Barlow-Monitor road that
junctions from the south wiUt
99 E between Aurora and Canby.
Meeting begins with a potluck
dinner at noon.
The Prevention and Control of
Brucellosis (Bangs disease)" will
be the subject of Dr. Yooce's talk
and discussion. Generalities on
this scourge of the dairy Industry
will be localized by County Vet
erinarian Dr. C H. Se graves,
Oregon City, who will explain the
nature and extent of his work to
make this county a "Bangs free
area." 1
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June Burke, who is sort of new
in Marion county as county evten
sion agent in home economics, was
greeting folk out at Waldo Hills
Friday night. She was in attend
ance at the Marion County Live
stock association meeting there.
And speaking of meetings and
dinners, those who didn't get out
to Waldo Hills certainly missed it
At the program following the din
ner for the Marion County Live
stock association, almost every
speaker prefaced his remarks with
After that dinner, one of the best
I ever had The turkey tasted
Just like it was done in your own
home kitchen by the best cook in
the family. And after the main
course, you had your choice of
six kinds of homemade pie. They
brought them in a tray and you
actually had to make your selec
tion looking at all the varieties
at once. Some of the association
.members just couldn't make up
their minds so settled for two and
three varieties, and that seemed
to be all right, too, with the Waldo
Hills women.
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The jackal is called the "lion's
provider." When on the trail of
his prey, his hideous calls disclose
his whereabouts to the lion, who
follows in his wake and drives
him away from the carcass when
the kill is made, leaving him only
the fragments.
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