,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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Come in and see it.
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I f and when the Willamette basin
project is carried to completion as
now planned 1,345,000 acre feet of
usable irrigation water storage will
be provided in the eight dams H .A.
Rands of the U. S. engineer coips
told farmers attending the annual
soil impiovement short course hold a!
Oregon state college the last week in
January.
Rands reviewed the pi-ogress that
is being made on the construction of
the dams and said that the Fern
Ridge reservoir on the Long Tom and
the Cottage Grove riservoiis will be
completed in time to store water for
use in the 1942 low water season.
Those will provide a total of 125,-
000 acre feet.
Rands also explained that because
of the rapid growth of the town of
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