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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1916)
i Colleges of Articles Beneficial to Agriculturists, I Mining, Capitalists, Etc. High School Lunches Prove To Be of Greatest Value Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis Can a high school student get ting a lunch in the school get more than twice the value of lunch secured elsewhere at the same price? That.1 this is actually the case is shown con clusively in a comparison of foods and prices made by the department of do mestic science at the Oregon Agricul tural college. According to this list the following food and prices at ob tained at the high schools, having a food value of 700 calories. In a typical Bchool lunch the follow ing items at the prices given are pro cured: Cocoa and whipped cream, 3c; egg sandwich, 4c; banana, lc; four dates, lc; 3 cookies, lc; total, 10c. Of the usual lunches purchased else where the following is said to be typi cal of those bought by high school stu dents: 3 crullers, 5c; cup of coffee with cream and sugar, Be; total, 10c. The food value of this latter lunch is 250 calories, in comparison with that of 700 calories of the typical school lunch. Reports from some of the schools of Oregon where lunches are served, show that there are other advantages con nected with the practice of furnishing the school lunch. It affords a means of furnishing instruction and training in preparing and serving meals eco nomically and wholesomely. It also lends additional attraction to the work of schools and tends to keep attend ance and interest at the best. Teach ers are frequently regular customers of the school lunch, which they find helpful and pleasant in comparison with the cold lunches which they might otherwise have to eat. The following is a typical menu of the Kenton school of Portland : One apple: 2 slices of bread and butter; 2 crackers and a bowl of thick soup. Changing Conditions Compel Cheaper Pork Production Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- vallis The number of recent farm sur veys conducted by the U. S. depart ment of Agriculture and the Oregon Agricultural College Extension service have clearly shown the need of more livestock on the average Oregon farm in order to make farming more profit able. Notwithstanding this fact f arm ers are forced to confront the further fact that recent pork prices have been such that increasing the number of pigs kept on the farm involves a seri ous risk of loss and makes improved methods of production imperative. The farmers also find that on some of the most profitable farms the number of pigs kept is related somewhat to the number of other livestock, especially dairy cattle. Just how to reconcile these somewhat conflicting require ments is a problem that progressive farmers are beginning to, give earnest consideration to, and the following points brought out at the recent Farm ers' Week exercises at the college may prove of value to them: Conditions and methods of produc tion are already beginning to undergo changes demanded by changing condi tions; the quality of animals is being increased and the number is being reg ulated by conditions that now exist and which will prevail for the next year or so. It is pointed out by G. R. Samson, swine specialist of the col lege, that both pure bred breeding stock and pork hogs must be produced more cheaply than they were five years ago. It also was shown that the further fact should be taken into consideration that some farmers can well produce Dork at ten cents a pound but cannot profitably produce it at six cents. Evidently, then, each grower should take into consideration the cost of producing feed and the cost of labor in caring for the stock. If these condi tions are such that he cannot make a profit at the present prices he should discontinue cork production until prices improve, or if the economic con ditions on his farm are such that he can produce a fewer number with Drofit. then he should confine his efforts to the number that may be thus grown at a profit. While it is not likely that the present prices will re main as they are for any considerable length of time, and while it is true that there are already evidences of better prices, it is well to accept con ditions as they are and, as Professor ' Samson says, "cut the garment ac cording to the cloth." Another element in cheaper produc tion is a more complete combination of fattening and growing pork which means that no retarding must be al lowed to occur in the growth or devel opment from birth to marketing. Pos sibly a slightly slower development than has been secured with the best Alaska Sends Students. University of Oregon, Eugene Four students each more than 35 years of age, are among the 75 who regis tered at the State University at the mid-winter term. Two graduates of other universities also registered. Nearly one-fourth of the newcomers are maiorine in the school of com merce. One man came from Alaska to studv journalism for two years, after which he will return to Alaska to do newspaper work. One woman came with her husband, each intending to take a full four years' work. 1 Northwest Stockmen, Dairying Interests, -Written for this Paper pigs is sometimes necessary, but cer tainly a more rapid development than that of the average must be accom plished. During the sucking stage the mother's milk must be more liberally supplemented with feed which the pigs can eat, and in addition the mother's ration must be calculated to produce a heavy flow of milk. If feeds of these sorts are not produced on the farm and can be produced there, they should be. And if they cannot be secured on the farm they must be gotten else where. Be assured that if a pig loses a jot in his growth he will not make a two-hundred pig as quickly and as economically as if he had not," says Professor Samson. "At the end of the first month a suckling should weigh about fifteen pounds, and during the second month he should gain about 6ne-half pound daily. During the third month he should gain about seven-tenths of a pound daily, and during the fourth nine-tenths of a pound daily. At five months he Bhould be kept practically on full feed and start gaining from one to two pounds daily for sixty days. Figs fed in this way will finish even and there will be very few when brought to market that are not of the right weight and in the right condi tion." May Mean Establishment of Tanneries in Northwest University of Washington, Seattle A ton of wood shipped . by parcel post, in fifty-pound mail bags from the National Forest reserve near Sumpter, Oregon, was received at the chemistry department of the university last week. According to the parcel post deliveryman this is the largest single consignment that has been received by the Seattle Postoffice. The work will be carried on by Frank M. Jones, a graduate student in the chemistry department, under the supervision of Dr. H. K. Benson, who was recognized at the meeting of the American Chemical Society last sum mer as a leader of the industrial re search work being carried on in the United States. The Alaska furs and hides the from Montana provide enough skins for the establishment of tanning plants in the Northwest, according to Mr. Jones, but it remains for the capitalists to be shown that the tannin extract can be obtained from the woods of the Northwest. When capitalists have been shown that they can obtain the raw material at a low cost, Mr. Jones believes that tanneries will be estab lished in the Northwest. To Celebrate Baby Week In Many American Cities Washington, V). C There are 1727 communities considering some prepar ation for Baby Week, according to the inquiries received by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. This number does not include those of whose interest in the cam paign word has come to the bureau in directly. The letters about Baby Week are still coming in from evey state in the Union and from every type of com- Imunity, such as a Colorado settlement torty miles irom a railroad, a ciud oi women on one of the government re clamation projects, a Montana coal mining town with a large foreign population, a southern mill village, and a club of farm women in a Middle Western state. Texas has its own Baby Week slo gan Baby Health is Texas Wealth and Mississippi has started a competi tion to secure a slogan for that state. North Dakota reports plans for a state-wide essay contest in the public schools. In a few state campaigns the State Federation of Women's Clubs, the State University Extension De partment, the State Health officials and those who are especially interested in education are all co-operating in the Baby Week campaign. Many large cities are going to have a Baby Week. Definite plans are under way in Albany, Baltimore, Bos ton, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneap olis, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Francisco, Washington and other cities. New York had a successful Baby Week in 1914 and will probably hold another this year in the late spring. In its suggestions for Baby Week observance the Children's Bureau lays special emphasis on the opportunity it affords for extending permanent work for infant welfare, such as infant wel fare stations, visiting nursing, special nursing and instruction for prospective mothers, city inspection of milk, spe cial work for the prevention of blind ness, and little mothers' classes and home nursing instruction for school girls in the upper grades Experimenting in Ores. The College of Mines at the Uni versity of Washington, is making tests upon small quantities of ore to determine what ore can be treated and under what conditions the best results can be obtained. The college intends to add to its present complete concen tration mill, a full set of laboratory flotation units. Before the end of the present semester the college will make a report upon the results of the exper iments which may be the means of saving a great deal of time and ex pense in the operation of the mills. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland Wheat Bluestem, fl.08; per bushel; fortyfold, 97Jc; club, 96c: red Fife, 96c; red Russian, 96 Jc. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $18.60(5)19.60 per ton; valley timothy, $16; alfalfa, $20. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23.50 24 per ton; shorts, $26 26.50; rolled barley, $31.5032.50. Corn Whole, $37 per ton; cracked, $33. Vegetables Artichokes, $1.10 per dozen; tomatoes, California, $2 per crate; cabbage, $1.501. 75 per cwt. ; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 20 25c; eggplant, 25e; sprouts, 8(S?9c; horseradish, 8Je; cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery, $4.75 per crate; lettuce, $2.402.50 per crate; cucum bers, $1.501.75 per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 75c(a!$l per box. Green Fruits Grapes, $4 per barrel ; cranberries, $11. Potatoes Oregon, $1.501.75 per sack; Yakimas, $1.751.85; sweets, $3.253.50 per hundred. Onions Oregon, buying price, $2 f. o. b. shipping point. Apples Spitzenbergs, extra fancy, $2.25; fancy, $2; choice, $1.251.50; Yellow Newtowns, extra fancy, $2; fancy, $1.75; choice, $1.35 1.50; Rome Beauty, fancy, $1.50 1.60; Winesaps, choice, $1.151.35; Stag man, choice, $1.251.35. 'Eggs Jobbing price : Oregon ranch, candled, 2930c per dozen; uncandled, 28c. Poultry Hens, small, 14c; large. 15151c; small Bprings, 1415c; tur, keys, live, 18 20c, dressed, choice 24(u 25c ; ducks, 1214c, geese, 10c, Butter Prices from wholesaler to retailer: Portland city creamery prints, 60-pound case lots, standard grades, 34c; lower grades, 2832Jc; Oregon country creamery prints, 60 pound case lots, standard makes, 32 Jc; lower grades, 2831c; butter packed in cubes, 2c less. Prices paid by job bers to producers: Cubes, extras, 291c; firsts, 27Jc; seconds, 25c; dairy butter, country roll 16 18c; butter fat, No. 1, 32c; No. 2, 29c. Veal Fancy, 1111 Jc per pound. Pork Fancy, 10c per pound. Hops 1915 crop, 1013c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1825c per pound; valley, 2526c; mohair, Ore gon, 2829c. Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per pound. Cattle Choice steers, $7.257.75; good,. $6.757; medium, $6.506.75; choice cows, $5.60 6.75; medium, $4.755.20; heifers, $46.40; bulls, $2.504.50; stags, $3(5 5.25. Hogs Light, $7.60 8.05; heavy, $6.507.25. Sheep Yearlings, $78; ewes, $5.757; lambs, $7.509. Mutton Wool Held. There has been very little early Bhearing in the Northwest this year, Usually a considerable quantity of mutton wool has been shorn by this date, but owing to the stormy weather the present season, the sheep are al lowed to go to the slaughter houses with the wool on them. Some shear ing has been done at the Seattle stock yards, where the wool is held for the later market, but nothing has been done at the Portland yards or in the Yakima country. contracting has not yet started in the Northwest. Buyers are in the field in some of the districts, but have not been able to agree to terms with the growers. The market is stroner and the prospects are good, but buyers consider the prices demanded as en tirely too high. In spite of the Very severe weather in the past six weeks, no heavy losses to stock have been reported. It has been an expensive feeding season for the sheepmen, but it is believed the winter losses will prove but little more than the average. Lewiston Retains Show. Spokane Unanimous adoption of a resolution here Wednesday by the di rectors of the Northwest Livestock association, declaring that Lewiston, Idaho, would continue to be the per manent home ot the association s an nual stock show, ended a recent move ment among various groups of stock men to have the annual show trans ferred from Lewiston to Spokane. The movement is said to have had its inception when representatives of the Cascade International Livestock association requested Spokane to take over that association's annual show at North Yakima. The request, how ever, subsequently was withdrawn. At a conference between representa tives of Spokane business organiza tions and executives of the Northwest Livestock association the concensus of opinion was that Spokane should not take any action antagonistic to either stock show. All Wheat Markets Are Firm. Portland The wheat market firmer, but there is little doing in the country, as farmers are not sellers. At the Merchants' Exchange 6000 bushels of February fortyfold were sold at 97 cents, the same price as bid Monday, and 6000 bushels of February club at 97 cents, an advance of 3 cents over Monday s price. Uther bids were raised from 1 to 2 cents. Barley was firm, with bids for brewing posted on the board for the first time this season. The oats market was quiet in the val ley, but firm east of the mountains. Fruit Trade Quiet. Portland The fruit trade was quiet Wednesday, aside from the demand for apples. A car of head lettuce is due and the steamer will bring an assort ment of small vegetables. Prices are I unchanged. KAISER'S CORFU linn till i Lin XT If 1 Achillelon," the palace of the emoeror of Germany on the Island of Corfu, which has been seized by the French and converted Into a hospital. The palace was originally built for Elizabeth, the empress of Austria, and was bought by the kaiser In 1907. Greece has protested the seizure of the Island by the allies, and the latter hart lust justified their course by saying that the Island was used as a submarine base by the Teutons. MIRK0 OF MONTENEGRO Prince Mirko ot Montenegro Is sup posed to be in the hands of the Aus trlans and It is reported that, as he has had leanings toward the Teuton cause, he will be made king ot a re organized Montenegro. GEN. SIR PERCY LAKE Lieut Gen. Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, who bas Just succeeded Gen. Sir John Nixon as commander ot the British forces in Mesopotamia, has had a brilliant career In India and Egypt He received a medal In the Afghan war of 1878-79 and also one In the Wolseley Nile expedition ot 1885. Later he reorganized the Canadian militia. He left Canada in 1911 to as sume command of a division In India, but since 1912 he has been chief of the general staff in India. Too Uncertain. "Some men spend their whole lives in the pursuit ot pleasure," said the moralist. "So they do," replied the philoso pher. "Men like that seem to labor under the Impression that they will never be Invited anywhere." Thought He'd Be the Next The Newsy Yer's yer extra! All about the hold-up. Cy Watertop Oreat gosh! I guess It'll Uks th' next train fer bum. PALACE SEIZED BY f .jo" v y TaC . ---www 4 w w t GERMAN CLOCKS HAVE STONE WEIGHTS The shortage of copper throughout the German empire Is marked to such a degree that not only have the copper cooking utensils been converted Into food for rifle and gun, but even the ancient clocks with heavy pendu lums of copper have been made to add to the war contributions. The plctur shows two quaint old clocks In the Black forest. The copper weights ot th penduhmis have been removed and stones have been substituted for them. EDISON AND HIS Thomas A. Edison photographed emplov of the famous Inventor longer Strawberries. Herbert Spencer complains In his autobiography that his pleasures were spoiled by analysis of their sources, and we must not mar this record sea son for strawberries by reflecting that "Ood's best berry" is a mere horticul tural parvenu. The ancient Greeks never ate strawberries at two obols a pound, the customary price on the costennonger's barrows In Fleet street, and had no word In their lan guage for the fruit. The Roman poet Ovid describes the eating ot straw berries among the delights ot the golden age, while Virgil associates strawberry picking with the perils of r 'J ' w l?lwiMwi THE FRENCH r n ! OLDEST EMPLOYEE ill with John Ott, who has been In the than any othar man forty-six years. love. But these were wild strawber ries, as were really the "good straw berries" which, according to Shake speare, grew In Ely place, Uolboro. The evolution of our modern garden strawberries from the Chilean vari ety, Introduced by Captain Frailer, dates mainly from the beginning ot the nineteenth century. - London Chronicle. He Was Wise. The Musician (at Wise's musicals) The piano Is very much out of tuna, sir. Mr. Wise Play something iron? Wagner and they wont netics it