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About Clackamas County news. (Estacada, Or.) 1928-1957 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1941)
,ACKAMA3 COUNTY NEWS that, due to abundance, top quality Oregon apples are better values this year. According to Oregon growers the ready-to-market crop of golden-green newtown pippins deserves a high rank among the apples of the world. They point out that this variety posesses all-around qualities for baking, pie making, salads and eating out of hand. In additions to pleasureable appe tite appealing values recent research has revealed that the old advice “an apple a day” had more scientific truth to it than folklore. Besides high min eral content of iron and calcium it i^ found that apples contain vitamins A, C and G (B complex) plus regu latory pectin. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 7, 1941 Sweet Home whore one of the majojr | Tin- detailed findings of these eco- gradual improvement in the pastures dams is planned surveys are under nomiats Harold R. Hochmuth of the is being accomplished at little cost way to , .d alternate sites on the USDA and William W. Gorton of the aside from the labor of the operator south and midulc Snntiam rivers. farm mangement dopaitment at Ore- ind his family. The eight prospective dams taken gon state college have just been pub- It was found that the "theoretical average” ranch in that region runs together will create storage lakes! pished as station bulletin No. 381 lakes with a combined area of 2 6 ,-1 entitled "Ranch Organization and 600 sheep, makes a ranch income of $1533, a labor income of $708 and 800 acres or the equivalent of a sin- Range Land Use in Coos and Curry gle circular lake having a diameter • Counties, Oregon.” returns 5 percent on an investment of 7 V. miles. Although many hazards exist in of $33 per sheep. IN FA N T D EA TH S DOW N this livestock enterprise the returns are sufficient to warrant such hazards over a period of years, provide oper ators with a satisfactory income, and at the same time increase the general taxable wealth of the region. The investigators found that tho expansion of the livestock industry in this area in recent years is due to three factors. These are improved transportation, cooperation of for estry officials in the burning of log. ging slash and brush,, and the intro duction of improved varieties of gras ses. It was found that improved gras ses are an especially important item not only for that region but thruout western Oregon, where one of the major needs is the improvement of pasture growth in cut-over lands and in other livestock grazing areas. The operators in Coos and Currj- counties who have been maintaining these improved pastures the longest reported to the investigators that he amount of feed produced is now on an increase rather than decrease. The Oregon’s infant mortality rate de clined approxnnately 1.5 points in 1940 from the 1939 rate the public health research department of an Ore gon life insurance company reports. The rate for 1936 was 36.6. The preliminary late of infant moi-tality reported to the state board of health for last year was just slightly over LAST COUNTY O PEN S 35 which would give the sR.te one of STAMP PLAN the lowest averages in the country. ---------- o---------- Increased removal of agricultural surplus from Oregon farms was cited Livestock Farm s in Coast today by M. Louis Belangie, area di Region Prove Successful rector of the Surplus Marketing ad The establishment and maintenance ministration with the announcement that Benton county, the last county of pasture on properly adapted cut in the state had come under the food over and brush lands in Coos anc* Curry counties are relatively profit stamp plan on January 28. Last area in the state to inaugur able as a basis for an expanding of ate the food stamp plan was Benton, sheep and cattle industry in that re Coos,, Curry, Linn, Lane, Douglas, gion according to detailed studies Josephine and Jackson counties. O il . made by federal and state agricul gon is among the first in the coun tural economists over the past few try to have the plan on a statewide years. basis. Belangi pointed out that the com plete cooperation of the State Public Welfare commission, county commis sioners and welfare departments, the food trades thru their Surplus Foods committee, the WPA and public as sistance families has made possible the rapid expansion of the stamp plan in this state. It was estimated by Belangie that in a year’s opeiation of the food stamp plan in Oregon approximately 62,000 public assistance persons will buy nearly $3,000,000 worth of or ange colored food stamps receiving nearly $1,500,000 worth of blue sur plus food stamps free. The blue food stamps are goo<J only for the purchase of surplus foods as designated by the secretary o ' agriculture. On the list at present are apples, pears, butter, Irish potatoes, onions, eggs, pork meats, lard, flour, prunes, raisins, corn meal,, rice, or- j Ladies Hosiery anges, grapefruit, dry beans and ho miny grits. 1 Kayser and Strutwear Public assistance families fire re quired to buy orange food stamps in the same amount as spent in cash for food prior to the stamp plan. In this Nylon $1.35 manner the food purchased with the blue stamps represents added con sumption of those particular surplus! commodities which break down agri cultural economy and income. Participation in the food stamp plan is entirely voluntary among those eligible to benefit from the plan by reason of receiving some form of public assistance. “The amount of surplus foods be* intg moved off over-laden farms is indicated by figures for November which show 139,000 bushels of apples, over tiwo million pounds of butter, nearly three million dozens of eggs, half-million pounds of potatoes, twen ty-three million pounds of flours,, all these being purchased with the blue stamps thruout the nation,” said Be- langie. The health value of surplus food! to under-consuming families was also stressed. , “A blue stamp baby recently won the health prize at a mid-western fail- while our figures indicate that stamp- users now eat more apples than non stamp users,” said Belangie. “The stamp plan in conjunction with the school lunch program is placing whole some,, healthful foods where it will do the most good in creating a stron- -ger America tomorrow.” Last month 11,475 school childrca received hot lunches prepared from \ surplus commodities under sponsor ship of various civic and school groups. - o— Big Gras« Seed Tonnage Sold by L aG rande Firm An Oregon firm, the Blue Moun tain Seed Growers association with headquarters at LaGrande, has com pleted what is believed to be the lar gest amount of crested whe-at grass seed ever handled by one firm. So far this senson sales have totaled 326,000 pounds. Growers received from $9.16 to $9.78 per hundred pound*, the lat ter price being for the Fairway strain. This seed -was sold not only in Ore gon but in h J f a dozen surrounding states and some in the middle west. For some yeai-s after crested whe-1 grass was introduced in Oregon by the OSC experiment station the seed was high in price, bringing up to 50 cents a pound,, but the supply has now caught up with the demand so that prices are reasonaole. Thi makes possible its wide use for p ture and range improvement purposes SALE of LADIES’ S'TOES R SS SHOES, SPORT SHOES, OXFORDS A large assortment of Ladies Fine Star Brand shoes from our regular stock. Sizes from 4 to 9. Regular price up to $4.98. the T^ROM ra d ia to r to d raw bar, lo w -p riced John Deere Model “H " is “tops” in small- tractor field. Its exclusive John Deere two-cylinder engine design insures the successful burning of the low-cost, money-saving fuels . . . makes possible fewer and heavier parts for longer life, greater de pendability, and easier “on the farm” maintenance. The Model “H” gives you every feature of the larger John Deere general purpose tractors - - four-way power, adjustable wheel tread, wide range of speeds, complete line of equipment, unexcelled vision, hand- operated clutch, easy steering, foot-controlled differ ential brakes, comfortable seat and roomy platform. Come in and see it. the 79 c Hessel Implement Co. M ain Avenue, • r FVr-V Gresham, Ore. •- OUR D EM O C RA C Y / SHALL BE GRANTED ( „ BY THE UNITED STATES ^ c o n s titu t io n o f the u n it e d s t a t e s . ADAMS] lOST OF OUR FAMOUS FAMILIES HAD S/MPLE O JUG//VS. y * iA S S A Q V U S £rrS FA fiA d. JOHN ADAMS - PRESIDENT- I J 9 J - Ì * JOHN QOINCV ADAMS - PRjEblDENT - I 8 2 5 - J W illam ette P roject to Provide New Irrigation ( %!LINCOLN?y KENTUCKY lOOCAQ/Kt. A B R A H A M LIN CO LN * PR E S I 0 S N T - I 0 . I - . 5 , HEY FACED HARD FACTS, CHIN UP. ANO SO TH IS COUNTRY HAS ALWAYS RECOGNIZED AND RECOGNIZES TODAY THE NOBILITY OF WORK ANO CHARACTER. 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