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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1929)
PACE TEN THK CAPITAL JOUKNAU 8ALKM. UKKUON FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929 J M H H ft f I U fl J if 5 mi :4 it? MILL RESEARCH MAY BE AID IN WHEAT PUZZLE decrease in per capita consumption in this country from as high as 5.7 bus.iels per year before the war to four bushels in 1928. OKJahoma City, Okla. V irmers of the hard red. winter wheat belt have organized to com bat Canadian and Argentine compe tition and to sponsor research that may solve current problems of pro duction and muling. Representatives of farming inter ests in five principal wheat-growing states Kansas, Colorado, Ne braska, Texas and Oklahoma are included in the Hard Red Winter Wheat Research conference. Agricultural colleges, experiment stations, commercial agencrs, grain dealers' associations and various farm organizations have banded together in the common movement. Three sets of problems will get Immediate consideration: finding proper methods for handling '"com bined" wheat, learning the relative value of new methods of soil tillage by power machinery, and "how to get the real value of high quality wheat when we grow it." The United States department of agriculture is supporting the con ference, whose president is Car.1 Williams, editor of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman. . "Our first step," Williams ex plained, "will be to determine what we don't know about wheat. Then a research program will be con ducted at various colleges and ex periment stations, in cooperation with the department of agriculture, with a view to solution of immedi ate as well as future problems. "It's a long way from the scien tist in his breeding plot to the larmer in his field, yet the work or one is necessary to the success of the other." Williams believes American wheat farmers are confronted with a serious problem of competition in Canada and Argentine, where farm ers can grow and market wheat cheaper because of newer land, higher yields per acre and a lower level of production and transporta tion costs. Furthermore, he points out, other difficulties are presented by declin ing per capita consumption of wheat In the United States, and the likelihood that Russia, which formerly produced one-fourth of the world's crop, may return to im portance as a wheat-growing coun try. He cites statistics shoeing the SERVICE MEN GO HEAVY ON JAVA Washington (LP) Uncle Sam's , fighting men are heavy drinkers of coffee. j Three times as much coffee U : consumed bv service men soldiers. sailors, and marines as by civil ians, according to a recent check of commerce, war and navy depart ments' records. Soldiers are allowed an ounce and a half of coffee a day, or 34 pounds a year, while sailors on battleships drink 36 pounds a year. On de stroyers and other small craft where duties are more arduous the con sumption is greater still. "Java" is the navy's favorite drink. It is always available and is served to the men before and after "watches". When officers aboard ship get together to discuss news form home and incidents of ship life, they by-word is: "Let's have a cup of coffee." freshIrapeswiu. be kept barrelled San Francisco UP In an effort to Mabilize the grape juice Industry of California, shippers are packing their product in barrels instead of "lugs" or boxes. In barrels the grapes are frozen and placed in cold storage until market conditions assure a profit. Then they are shipped to the point where a demand is found. Officials say the new method will prevent flooding the country with grapes during the producing reason and save vineyar&sLsts from recur rence of the depression that caused severe losses last year. Grapes are. said to remain fresh six months in I barrel'. FEDERAL PEARL FISHERIES Caracas, Venezuela, (LP) Vene zuela's pearl fisheries are hereafter to be operated by the government. With the close of a 2-year contract wnn one baimi Abouhamad, Minis ter or me interior Cardenas an nounced that the farming-out sys tem would be dropped and the direct exploitation tried out. The pearl-oyster beds are situated on Margarita Island, end their product has usually been shipped direct to London Jeweler?;. How the cooking tests were conducted Slowly, carefully tasting as they went Women o! the United States will be inter ested in knowing how the now famous cook ing tests were recently conducted in New York by four famous cooking experts. Vegetable foods were chosen and cooked in many ways, because vegetables are so im portant to the balanced diet. The experts were experienced in discriminating shades of flavor. Not more than three vegetables were cooked and tested at one time in order that the sense of taste should not be blunted. This explains why the tests had to be carried over such a long period of time. In every case, vegetables cooked in little water with the addi tion of a dash of sugar won unanimously. This, at first, might strike some as surprising, but it must be reirembered that it is not the purpose of the small amount of sugar to make the vegen.lcs taste sweet. Sugar is used here at a seasoning, and it is perhaps the greatest seasoning of all. It develops the natural, delicate flavors of the vegetables just as it does of fruits, cereals, meats, gravies and soups. Encourage variety and you encourage health for every member of your family. Serve at least two cooked vegetables a day in addition to a raw vegetable salad. Serve at least two fruits a day. Serve milk desserts. Then make the balanced diet so attrac tive that everyone will welcome it. Good food promotes good health. The Sup.ar Institute. Bi JS" LESS THAU S nourishing, boJyjj . 1 building foods are BAKIN 1 the only kind that I should ever, be H served but to be H sure of always get B ting such foods you fl must select only the I best of baking ma f f . I terials and use 1 ACTING I CalumCt' the l0aV' ACTINg Ha ener of proven I ?.Tl?!$v "fz pip QUARANTINE ON FLORIDA FRUIT FAR-REACHING Washington OP) Federal offi cials working tp check the Mediter ranean fruit fly say new points of infestation are found -dally In Flor ida. The secretay of agriculture has revised the quarantine to make It possible to regulart any new area immediately. The revision provides; further more, that no host fruit or vege tables shipped from Florida into northern and northeastern states may be reshlpped to territory in the south and west, where direct shipment from Florida already is prohibited. That means no product from Florida, likely to carrv the fly .can be shipped to New York or some other state and then reshipped or otherwise transported to Ala bama. Arizona, Arkansas. Cali fornia. Geonrla, Idaho. Louisiana, Mississippi Nevada, New Mexico. North Carolina. Oklahoma. Oregon. South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas. UtJh. Washington an Porto Rico All of the main rUnis area !n th central section of Florida is in fested from coast to coast, but in festation In the outer points still In In The Indolent stafre and prob ably the result of fruit being moved from the original points of Infesta tion. Twelve counties are known to have orchard Infestation. Thev are Oransre. Volusia Seminole. Brev ard. Lake Diivall.. Marlon, Osceola, Polk, Putnam, Sumpter and Hills borough. Perhaps 75 per cent or more of the Florida citrus crop was moved nit hffore the fir to discovered. being shipped from the Orlando section, which is believed to be the original point of infestation. Fly infested fruit has been found in markets in Texas, Arkansas, Geor gia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio and in New York City. Orchard infestation Is said to be confined to Florida. Officials deny any known infestation in Georgia where the peach crop soon is to be harvested. Wherever the pest may appear, the government Is ready, by virtue of its revised quarantine, to act immediately for Its suppres sion. All states In which the fly Is of particular danger have entered into a vigorous campaign to ferret out all Flflnda fruit and destroy any found to be infested. They are cleaning up dumps and other places where the larvae might be hiding to prevent local infestation. SWEET TOOTH BIG Swampscott, Mass. (IP) The United states has the biggest "sweet tooth of any country on earth. Charles A. Qlabau of the Bakers' Weekly told the New England Bakers' Association In a speech nere. KILL 105 RATTLERS Sonora, CaL tP) Rattlesnake season Is here. 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