NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
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¡ 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.
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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
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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