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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1916)
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; . ¡ G E N E R A L CROP CONDITIONS | Washington, D. C. — Senator Lane Portland— Wheat— Bluestem, $1.08; would abolish the Indian service, do per bushel; fortyfold, 97Je; club, 96c; away with Indian reservations make red Fife, 96c; red Russian, 96|i. every Indian a full-fledged American Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, citizen and give each Indian an allot $18.50@ 19.50 per ton; valley timothy, ment on which to make his home. $16; alfalfa, $20. That accomplished, he would withdraw Millfeed— Spot prices: Bran, $23.50 government support and throw the In (a 24 per ton; shorts, $26 (a 26.50; dians on their own responsibility as rolled barley, $31.50(<(32.50. citizens. He embodied hi» ideas in a Corn— Whole, $37 per ton; cracked, bill which he has introduced. $38. The Lane bill puts an end to the Vegetables — Artichokes, $1.10 per Indian bureau and provides that a com- dozen; tomatoes, California, $2 per holdings ] mission appointed crate; cabbage, $1.50@ 1.75 per cw t.; company were subject to sale to , President at $5000 each shall, under garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 20(u the delinquent certificates the j the exclusive direction of congress, 25c; eggplant, 25c; sprouts, 8@ 9c; as other lands on which the taxes work out the details of the pro- i horseradish, 8$c; cauliflower, $1.25 posed. were not paid. The unpaid taxes per dozen; celery, $4.75 per crate; BM knt to about $30,000. The bill makes no provision for t h e i lettuce, $2.40(<i 2.50 per crate; cucum Suit was brought against the South- disposition of surplus lands in Indian Iregon company several months reservations, nor does it provide for bers, $1.50@1.75 per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 75c(d$l per box. compel them to pay the taxes the disposition of tribal Indian funds Green Fruits— Grapes, $4 per barrel; 6n their lands in this county for j in the treasury, cranberries, $11. ear 1909. An answer was filed Senator Lane also introduced a bill Potatoes — Oregon, $1.50(<iL75 per klie Southern Oregon company in to amend the present law prohibiting sack; Yakimas, $1.75@1.85; sweets, it was denied that the taxes $3.25(jft 3.50 per hundred. _____ la lien against the land, or that Onions— Oregon, buying price, $2 f. CHILDREN OF AMBASSADOR thejwemained due and unpaid on the o. b. shipping point. da tacit reaching delinquency. It was Apples— Spitzenbergs, extra fancy, Alleged by the defense that the $2.25; fancy, $2; choice, $1.25@1.50; Scates of delinquency were not Yellow Newtowns, extra fancy, $2; egularly with the clerk. fancy, $1.75; choice, $1.35 (a 1.50; Dther contention offered by the Rome Beauty, fancy, $1.50 (a 1.60; was that the Federal courts Winesaps, choice, $1.15@1.35; Stag- decreed that their interest in the man, choice, $1.25(<i 1.35. | did not exceed $2.50 an acre, Eggs—Jobbing price: Oregon ranch, in some instances they were candled, 29@30c per dozen; uneandled, ed as high as $20 an acre. The 28c. ■je contended this was sufficient Poultry— Hens, small, 14c; large, lify the entire assessment. 15(rtl5$c; small springs, 14@15c; tur county attorney offered in ev- keys, live, 18 @ 20c, dressed, choice, the orignial certificates of delin- 24@25c; ducks, 12@14c, geese, 10c. :y, which Judge Hamilton held Butter — Prices from wholesaler to regular and sufficient to warrant retailer: Portland city creamery Jsal of the lands for taxes. At- prints, 60-pound case lots, standard y John M. Guerin, o f counsel for grades, 34c; lower grades, 28(<i32£c; ^Southern Oregon company, an- Oregon country creamery prints, 60- ;ed that he would appeal the case pound case lots, standard makes, S2Jc; Supreme court. The question lower grades, 28@31c; butter packed fed in the case are identical with in cubes, 2c less. Prices paid by job of the Oregon & California grant bers to producers: Cubes, extras, according to local attorneys. 29|c; firsts, 27Jc; seconds, 25c; dairy j Land Board Stands Firm on Irrigation Project !lem — The Desert Land Board ¡esday stood by its recent action commending to the government a , er extension of the state’s con- with the government on the Ben- J Falls unit of the Central Oregon A g n e s a n d Stefano M a c c h i di C ol- ation company’ s project in Crook j W. At this meeting a copy o f a j le re , th e c h ild re n of th e Ita lia n a m jution adopted by the Bend Com- b a ssa d o r to the U n ite d States, w h o ial club protesting against any a ided In th e Ita lia n w a r re lie f fu n d er extension o f the contract was b y p e rfo rm in g n a tiv e d a ncing In na- butter, country roll 16 @ 18c; butter fat, No. 1, 32c; No. 2, 29c. Veal— Fancy, l l @ l l $ c per pound. Pork— Fancy, 10c per pound. Hops— 1915 crop, 10fri 13c per pound. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 18(n25cper pound; valley, 25(u26c; mohair, Ore gon, 28(u 29c. Cascara bark— Old and new, 4c per pound. Cattle— Choice steers, $7.25@7.75; good, $6.750/7; medium, $6.50(</6.75; choice cows, $5.50 @ 6.75; medium, $4.75(u 5.20; heifers, $40(6.40; bulls, $2.500(4.50; stags, $30(5.25. Hogs— Light, $7.50 @ 8 .0 5 ; heavy, $6.50017.25. Sheep — Yearlings, $7 @ 8; ewes, $5.75@7; lambs, $7.500(9. „ ,, CO//£i7£S O í _ . Articles Beneficial to Agriculturists, Stockmen, Dairying Interests, Mining, Capitalists, Etc. — Written for this Paper , ! I ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦< 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 o f lunch secured elsewhere at the same price? That this is actually the case is shown con clusively in a comparison of foods and prices made by the department o f 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 o f 70C calories. In a typical school lunch the follow ing items at the prices given are pro cured: Cocoa and whipped cream, 3c; egg sandwich, 4c; banana, lc ; four dates, l c ; 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, 5c; 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 o f 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 o f 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 t iv e costum e. have clearly shown the need of more braced in the Benham Falls tract livestock on the average Oregon farm i the sale of intoxicating liquor to In- bout 74,000 acres, in order to make farming more profit e board decided to send the addi j dians. As the law row stands, it is a able. Notwithstanding this fact farm data furnished by J. E. Morson felony to carry liquor into an Indian ers are forced to confront the further ding the Morson Land company’ s reservation, even though it is not sold fact that recent pork prices have been Mutton Wool Held. The Lane bill jet at La Pine, to the department or given to Indians. I There has been very little early such that increasing the number of e Interior. The board is favor- makes it a felony to sell liquor to In | shearing in the Northwest this year, j pigs kept on the farm involves a seri dians, but merely a misdemeanor to i to granting Morson a three years’ Usually a considerable quantity of | ous risk of loss and makes improved sion on his contract with the carry liquor into a reservation. I mutton wool has been shorn by this ! methods of production imperative. The as he desires, but the Federal date, but owing to the stormy weather I I farmers also find that on some of the department so far has refused to the present season, the sheep are al- [ j most profitable farms the number of the state an extension on its con- j lowed to go to the slaughter houses | pigs kept is related somewhat to the until Morson suppiles more in- with the wool on them. Some shear- number o f other livestock, especially aiion. Just how to reconcile ing has been done at the Seattle stock -; ‘ these somewhat conflicting require | yards, where the wool is held for the London — The whole western front later market, but nothing has been ments is a problem that progressive ty Assessors of State the scene of engagements. At some done at the Portland v »r r U o r in the f » rmt‘r9 are beginning to give earnest Hold Convention at Salem is ^ j consideration to, and the following points the big guns have been roaring Yakima country. Contracting has not yet started in I points brought out at the recent Farm lem—Through the passage o f the incessantly for days, the infantry have the Northwest. Buyers are in the ers’ Week exercises at the college may ■;y high school tuition fund law, been engaged in hand-to-hand strug of value to them: j field in some o f the districts, but have j prove ands of children in Oregon are gles; grenade fighting and mining not been able to agree to terms with | Conditions and methods o f produc- able to attend high school where operations have played a prominent The market is strong | tion are already beginning to undergo : this was not possible because part in the battles, while airmen have 1 K and the prospects are good, but buyers changes demanded by changing condi parents’ inability to bear the fought each other above the lines and consider the prices demanded as en- | tions; the quality of animals is being ;se, J. A. Churchill, superinten- have been cannonaded from below by | increased and the number is being reg- tirely too high. of public instruction, told the the anti-aircraft guns. In spite o f the very severe weather i ulated by conditions that now exist y assessors of the state. The as- The Germans followed up their re t s began a three-day session and in the past six weeks, no heavy losses j and which will prevail for the next cent successes in Champagne by the to stock have been reported. It has I year or so. It is pointed out by G. R. rence with the State Tax com- capture of an additional half mile of been an expensive feeding season for 1 Samson, swine specialist of the col on here Wednesday at the state trenches around Tahure, in that dis the sheepmen, but it is believed the j lege, that both pure bred breeding Tax Commissioner Eaton is trict, and their artillery bombardments winter losses will prove but little more j stock and pork hogs must be produced 2 an of the conference, in the neighborhood of Massiges and more cheaply than they were five years erintendent Churchill praised the than the average. Navarin have been answered in kind ago. sigh school tuition fund law i n 1 by the French. It also was shown that the further dress, declaring that officials of Lewiston Retains Show. To the north of Soissons, around fact should be taken into consideration nited States Bureau of Education the Spokane— Unanimous adoption of a that some farmers can well produce «hlníto», D. C.. considered Ore- E ™ ? : " I * ' » * ‘ I V 'T - V .Í Ü " ! ’. Germans started an infantry attack resolution here Wednesday by the di pork at ten cents a pound but cannot law the best ever passed in the but the French put it down. To the rectors of the Northwest Livestock profitably produce it at six cents. st o f secondary education, Evidently, then, each grower should lowing an address by B. F. Keen- south of the Somme the Germans en association, declaring that Lewiston, deavored to surround outpost trenches, take into consideration the cost of Idaho, would continue to be the per Lane county, on “ Assessment otor Vehicles,’ ’ Commissioner but desisted under heavy fire o f the manent home of the association’s an producing feed and the cost of labor in nual stock show, ended a recent move caring for the stock. If these condi- way declared that automobiles French. Seventeen fights in the air is the ment among various groups o f stock- j tions are such that he cannot make a to be taxed according to their record of Monday and Tuesday re men to have the annual show trans profit at the present prices he should tive horsepower. ported by the British along their lines ferred from Lewiston to Spokane. discontinue pork production until in Flanders. In addition there has The movement is said to have had prices improve, or if the economic con Timber Saving Is Great; been great activity south of La Bassee its inception when representatives of ditions on his farm are such that he lem— In the protection of pri- canal, where the Germans exploded the Cascade International Livestock can produce a fewer number with Heavy bombardments association requested Spokane to take 1 profit, then he should confine his y owned timber in Oregon statis- seven mines. iven in the reports of State For- and an infantry attack in that section over that association’s annual show at efforts to the number that may be thus Elliott indicate that great also are reported, the Germans suc North Yakima. While it is not The request, how grown at a profit. ess has been made in the last six ceeding in entering a British trench. ever, subsequently was withdrawn. likely that the present prices will re At a conference between representa main as they are for any considerable hen the new forestry code was en- Swedish Athletes to Meet Americans. tives of Spokane business organiza length o f time, and while it is true in 1911, and the compulsory fire Stockholm— The Swedish football tions and executives of the Northwest that there are already evidences of d law, in 1913, a reduction in fire association has invited the American Livestock association the concensus of better prices, it is well to accept con i throughout the timbered sec- Football association to play a match opinion was that Spokane should not ditions as they are and, as Professor at once was effected. In 1910 in Sweden next summer. If this is take any action antagonistic to either Samson says, “ cut the garment ac ¡0,997 worth of timber was de- possible, a Swedish football team will stock show. cording to the cloth.” •ed in Oregon. Last year it to- go to the United States, accompanied Another element in cheaper produc orly $9333. Fruit Trade Quiet. tion is a more complete combination of by an athletic team. Ira Nelson Mor e total loss in the five years end- ris, the American minister to Sweden, Portland -The fruit trade was quiet fattening and growing pork which Tith the close o f last year was in a statement in the Stockholm news Wednesday, aside from the demand for means that no retarding must be al 620. This is less than one-si x- papers, expressed enthusiasm over the apples. A car o f head lettuce is due lowed to occur in the growth or devel h of the loes sustained from fires prospects of an athletic meeting be and the steamer will bring an assort opment from birth to marketing. Pos 10, the last years under the old tween the teams of Sweden and the ment of small vegetables. Prices are sibly a slightly slower development m. than has been secured with the best United States. unchanged. Big Guns Are Roaring Along Entire Western War Line . 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 o f 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 one-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 should be kept practically on full feed and start gaining from one to two pounds daily for sixty days. Pigs 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 w o o l ! 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 Postofflce. 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 o f 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, D. 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 ot 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 o f com munity, such as a Colorado settlement forty miles from a railroad, a club of women on one of the government re clamation projects, a Montana coal mining town with a large foreign popui. tion, 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