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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1918)
21 BILLION IS VALUE OF U. S. CROPS THIS YEAR Nearly 1,000.000,000 BushoU More Grain Was Raised Than in 1916. CORN LEADS ALL THE REST Production of Grain and Othar Farm Produ ct! Far Exceeds Any Othar Year In Hlatory o f C o u n tr y - W eather Rulna Flax. / ' ■ Washington.— Farmer« contributed approximately f21.000,000.000 to the wealth o f the nation thla year In th« production of grain un<l other fnrm pnaluctx, far exceeding any other yenr In the hlatory of (ho country. Of thla lliimcnac total the corn crop Irmla with an eat I mu ted value of $4,068.672,000. '•’he oata crop la valued at $1.0*11,427,■ ««HI; wheat at $848,372,000, and pota- toea at $543,806,000. • I'Inal report on the cropa hna Juat been 1 aimed hy the department of ag riculture, and It ahowed that with the exception of wheat the leading grain« eatnhllahed records in production. A l>lg wheat area waa planted, hut aevere winter killing cut down the crop heav ily. Cotton waa caught hy an enrly froat and aufTcred a aenaatlonal loss o f approximately hale« from early eatluiatea. A late «caaon and early froat a hurt the corn crop, hut more In point of quality than quantity, and there la more aoft corn In tha country thla year than ever before. FRANCE’S AVIATION ARTIST one nnd 1« given a « 1,687.280,000 bush- ela, compared with l,2fi 1,837,000 huah e l« laat year. Th e live-year average waa 1,230,400,000 buahela. Production o f rye 1« placed nt 00,- 14.r>,000 huaheln, ngnlliat 48,802,000 huaheln laxt year and five-year uver- age o f 41,300,IKK) huaheln. Th e barley crop 1« filially entlmnted nt 208,073,IKK) huaheln, against 182,300.- IKK) huahel« la «t yeur. 'Phe bumper potato crop 1« uni In tnlued In the linai report ; In fa rt the figure o f 442,330.000 huahel« 1« a little In excea» o f the preliminary eatluiut)- and compares with 286,0GB,000 huahela laat yeur. W eather Rulna Flax. Unfavorable weather condition« ru ined Hie llax crop ami the yield 1« eatl mated at only 8,473,IKK) huahel«, against 14.200.000 hualiel« laat year. Produc tion o f hay waa 70,7)28,IKK) Iona o f tuun* ami lf>,402,(KM) tona o f wild, compare«! with 01,192,000 tons to d 10,100,000 tona reapectlvely laat year. Th e rice crot> totaled 30.278,<KK) huahel«, ngalnat 41.082,0tl0 htiHheln hut year. Buck wheat pnaluctlon wiu 17,400,000 hu«h eia, compared with 11.840.IKK) buahela In 1010, Th e kalllr corn crop wua 77>,- 800.000 huaheln, aguhut 50,340,(KKl huahel« hut yi-nr. Follow ing allow« urea, yield per acre M. Ilenrl Furro, ofllclnl aviation ar and production In huahel« o f the lead tist of th«« French government, who has ing crop« : brought to this country a remnrkable HOMESTEADS FOR SOLDIERS Opening o f Reclamation Projects Ad vocated by Irrigation Congreaa. Yakima, Wash.— Soldiers and «ailora returning from the European war w ill find the government ready to give them home«teadfl on reclamation proj ect« and prepared to net them up in husinena i f leginlation projected by the Wanhington Irrigation institute is en acted by that time. Legislation fo l lowing the Australian plan an outlined hy Dr. Elwood Mead in hi« address be fore a recent meeting o f the institute w ill be fostered here. A t a meeting o f the executive com mittee o f the institute held here Fri day evening, the proposition wa« dis cussed at length and a legi«lative com- rnitee composed o f R. K. Tiffany, chairman, E. M. Chandler, George E. Rodman, D. V, Northland and E. F, Henson wa« appointed to draft a bill to be presented to congress through Washington members. The commit- I tee also decided on the date and place for the next annual meeting, fixing j December 17 and 18, 1918, at Yakima. i STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. T Fire which originated in the Odd fellow s' Building at lone Thursday night wiped out half o f the city ’s bus iness section. The lr/ss is estimated at $40,000, with about $20,000 insurance. The Bear Creek Logging company has purchas«® seven miles o f railroad, two locomotives, cars, logging engines and complete logging equipment o f the Sorensen Logging company, near Sven- sen. An ordinance which prohibits all youths under 21 years o f age from playing cards, pKXil, billiards or bowl ing was introduced in the North Bend city council Friday night. The council expressed the opinion that the age should be reduced to 19 years. As long as he buys a dollar’s worth o f th rift stamp« weekly, Clarence Steinkopf, o f Redmond, who pleaded guilty to a charge o f desecrating the United States flag, w ill have his sen tence suspended. He has promised to buy four stamps a week as long as the war lasts. Cotton Grown Along Colombia. Ellensburg, Wash. — T. Brulett, of For many years there have been ru McPherson’s sheep ranch at Rich mors o f oil in the Rogue R iver valley, mond’s ferry, on the Columbia river, oil prospiectors have come and gone, has raised some cotton. It is o f fair but aa yet no oil has been found. Be quality and good color, but is not long lieving there is oil there, and that and had not fully matured. Those in propier organization w ill find it, the terested in its cultivation think that Rogue R iver Oil company has been because o f the long growing season organized in Medford. and the hot, dry summers, and the fact The experience o f Lew Pritchard, a that the country there is only 435 feet Y ield collection of paintings, depicting the above sea' level, the cotton may be well-known young man o f Klamath per Falls, in entering the Arm y service aerial battles over the firing line and grown on a commercial scale. A re«, acre. Production indicates the great need o f men in get W i n t e r wtieut..., r . « ' M M O I S 2 « I X Incidents . 070.000 o f uvlntlou life high In the Hprlnc wheat ............ 19 , 6 1 1 . '/OQ 12 . « 222.7SX.00Q clouds. ting out spruce for Uncle Sam’s aero As machine gun observer he C om . ...................... lll.7SS.000 20« I.I5I). «>4.000 plane manufacture, and how quickly took part In many o f the encounters he o a t a ........................... .................................... « 2 , 6 7 -\«XJO X « 1,4X7.2X8.000 the government fits a man into his so graphically portrays on hi« can I l y a ............................ ......................................................................... « . 102.000 1 « «0.146,000 7 P a r l a y ................... ......................................................................... « .X M .O C K ) 2 2ra.976.000 37 propier niche in the service. vass«-«. A'rungeinent« are being made 1,000,000,000 Buahela In Excess. K a f f i r c o r n ......... S . 1 S 3 . 0 Q 0 14 7 7X.rW.000 to exhibit this notable collection In the L Governor Withycombe reached a de Neurly l.ooo.i xxi.txx) huaheln more I ’n t n t o e * .................. «.«¡xi.nori ino i 442,33«!.000 principal cities of the United States H w a a l p o ta t«> a a ... 143.000 91 « cision Friday to retain the special X7.14I.000 Wheat— Bulk basis for No. 1 grade: grain waa rulaed than In 1010. The H a y , I x m a .......... S 3 . S l i . 0 rj 0 1 49 •79.S2X.000 under the auspices of the Aerlul Club agents stationed in Clackamas county Hard white: Bluestem, Early Bart, •Inal eat I mate xhowa a total prraluctlon H a y . w i l d ............ 1 8 . 4 72 .O O 0 >4 •14,4* o f America. Allen, Galgalus, Martin Amber, $2.05. to cope with the strike situation in of r.,nt«I,r^H,000 huahela of the five Klxiwril .......... 1 , 101.00 0 4 .7 8,473,000 Soft white — Palouse bluestem, fo rty the mills there, after he had conferred leading grain«. Thla compare« with Curiosity Aids Red Crosa. • T o n i. fold, W hite valley, Gold Coin White with a large delegation o f mill and 4.686.263.000 huahela laat yeur, and 1« fVitton production thin yenr 1« esti London.— A farmer In a village In Russian, $2.03. W hite club — L ittle business men o f Oregon City, headed doae to the record aggregate produc mated nt 10.949.0tX) equivalent 600- southeast England raised $1,000 for club, Jenkins club, white hybrids, So- by Sheriff Wilson, o f Clackamas tion In 1010. pound bales. Tobacco yield j« given ns the Red (¿rose through the agency of Red Walla Walla— Red county. The total wheat yield 1« given a« 1.106.461.000 pounds; sugar beets, n Zeppelin bomb which fell In one of j nora, $2.01. Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, Cop- O.'itl.K'j.s.txxi huahela, compared with 0,237,000 A service flag with 80 stars, repre ton«; beans, 15.701.000 his fields. Thousands of people came 030,318,(MH) huahela laat year, and 800,- pounds; onion«, 13,544,000 bushel«, and from nearby towns to see the crater, pei, $1.98. No. 2 grade, 3c less. No. senting the boys and girls among the 3 grade, 6c less. Other grades handled students who have answered their ¿101,UK) huahela, the 1011• 16 average. cabbage, 502.700 tons. which Is described us "big enough to by sample. country’s call “ in the last war for Corn production 1« estimated «t The apple crop was 58.203,000 bar put a house In.” The furmer charged Flour— Patents, $10. 8,180,494,(KKi huahel«, about 31,000,000 rels; jx-nrh«-*, 45.(106,000 barrels; penrs. each visitor n small admission fee and human liberty,” was presented to the M illfeed— N et mill prices, car lota: Eugene High School Friday. Boys huahela under the preliminary figure 13.281.000 bushels; cranlierrles. 245,000 turned the proceeds over to the local Bran, $30 per ton; shorts, $32; mid- from the school have volunteered in und compared with 2,r>00,927,000 huah bur rets, and orange«, 12,832,000 boxes. Red Cross. idlings, $39; mixed cars and less than practically every branch o f the war el« ralacd In I0P5. 'Phe five-year aver carloads, 50c more; rolled barley, $60 forces o f the nation. age wa« 2,77)4.104,000 buahela and the i Oi 62; rolled oats, $62. prevloun bumper crop lu 1012 wn« Enlarging o f the North Bend mill, Corn— Whole, $75 pier ton; cracked, 3.124.740.000 huahela. which commenced six months ago, is $76. The yield o f oata waa alao « record Hay— Buying prices delivered; East nearing completion, and the mill w ill ern Oregon timothy, $27 per ton; val opierate under the new conditions on fm , ley timothy, $250/26; alfalfa, $23.50; February 1, it is announced. The im ; valley grain hay, $24; clover, $22; provements, costing upwards o f $100,- GERMAN AGENTS START 000, comprise drying kilns, planing ' straw, $8. Butter — Cubes, extras, 50c per mill and warehouses, together with a FOOD SHORTAGE SCARE pound; prime firsts, 49Jc. Jobbing spur track connecting the mill with prices: Prints, extras, 52®53c; car the Southern Pacific. Washington.— Th«* work of A number o f important step« in fit tons, lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 56® German agents among hnure- ting state regulations o f railroads to 57c, delivered. wlves to cause ii disruption In Eggs— Ranch, current receipts, 45Jc the system o f Federal control were the markets of household n«*cea- p>er dozen; candled, 47@47ic; se- taken by the Public Service commis sltles iiik I Incite a dlsconP'Ut sion Saturday, foremost among which I lects, 50c. with wnr conditions has caused Poultry— Hens, heavy, 24(S25c per was the acquiescence in the demurrage u falsi* shortage In some places pound; light, 23c; springs, 24®25c; order issued by Director General Mc- In commodities that really are stags, 18®20c; ducks, 200/25c; geese, Adoo and givin g to the Pacific Car De to he had In plenty. 150/17c; turkeys, live, 24c; dressed, murrage bureau authority to publish The national foo«l administra the demurrage rules accordingly. choice, 35c. tion, commenting on the reports These new rules start demurrage Veal— 17®. 18c p>er pound. o f three suctvsslve buying drives charges at $3 a car and go as high as Pork— 19c per p»ound. hy housewives throughout th«* Vegetables— Tomatoes, $2®2.75 pier $10 a day, while the state rule starts the country on salt, laundry blue crate; cabbage, l@ 2Jc per pound; let at $2 a car and go only as high as $4 a ami matches, says there Is no tuce, $1.75®2.25 per crate; cucum day. The Federal rules w ill become lack of these coininodltles among bers, 85c® $1.75 p>er dozen; pieppiers, ! effective January 21. small retailers by the excessive * 15c per piound; cauliflower, $2.25@2.50 The State Land Board has granted buying, that the national stoek pier crate; sprouts, 10® 11c per pound; to parties represented by Samuel Con Is ns largo ns ever, with no pos- artichokes, 85c®$1.10; garlic, 7®8Jc nell, o f the Sam Connell Lumber com slhli* likelihood of shortage with per pniund; squash, 2Jc; celery, $3.25 pany, o f Portland, the right to make a normal demand from the con ¡0/4.25 per crate; carrots, $1.25 per tests o f the waters in Summer and sumer. sack; beets, $ 1.50® 1.75; turnips, Abert lakes, in Lake county, to deter The housewife 1 h warned to $1.50; parsnips, $1.500/ 1.75. mine the extent o f the soda deposits disregard rumors and not to Potatoes— Burbanks, $1.25®.1.40 pier in such lakes. overstock, ns such unnecessary hundred; Yakimas, $1.50 @ 1.65; j Captain C. E. MacFarlane, repre- buying may cause real shortages sweet potatoes, 5c pier piound. ! senting Colonel Disque, is on Coos for a short time In certain lo Onions — Buying price, $1.75 pier Bay consulting with mi Ilmen, logging The National army's "single men In barracks” don’t find wintry duys and calities. nights unpleasant so long as they have letters from home, newspapers and hundred. operators and owners o f timber on the Green Fruits— Apples, $1®2.25 per ; peninsula, with a view to opiening sev music. box; pears, $2.25; grapes, 8Jc per eral new camp« in the spruce district, |iound; cranberries, Eastern, $18 pier ! that the program for aeroplane stock He heard her story, heard thnt her j barrel. may be increased heavily. daughter would not let her hake the Hops— 1917 crop, 15® 18c pier pound; The warm, wet weather o f the past cookies, henrd how she had wnlted un 1916 crop, nominal. month has been a boon to the stock- til the daughter had gone shopping Wool— Eastern Oregon, 50®60c per nnd then mixed the butter nnd done pound; valley, 60® 55c; valley lamb, men o f Um atilla county. In the hills daughter won't let me go out o f the goodies to a perfect brown. This , 45®50c; mohair, long staple, full year, where, during the last fe w weeks of Naval Paymaster Helps Out hou««> much. She thinks I am too the morning she had stolen away ! 50c; six months, 40® 50c; curry, 35 fall, the range was dry as tinder, the grass is now green and succulent old.” He helped her Into his car nnd I ®40c. Grandmother In Distress. and the stock is making up for the Sho took a letter from a hnndhng. It whisked her to Cnmp Itoss. H e found January 15, 1918. lean months of late summer. Roy for her an«l saw her weep for Joy wax from Roy uud It rend In part; Cattle— •‘Grandmother: t leave for sen on on Roy's blue Jacketed shoulder. He Med. to choice steers.. . . $10.00® 10.75 J. M. Peters, superintendent o f the She Stole A w sy From Home to Take Friday nnd all that I lack to make ate one of the cookies. Grandmother Good to med. steers........ 8.75® 10.00 Clatskanie R iver hatchery, says the Boy Goodies and Was Barred me happy Is some of your rnlsln cook- nnd grandson visit«'«! and said good-by. 1 Com. to good steers........ 7.25® 8.75 5,000,000 young Chinook salmon now by the Guard. l«*s. The food here Is good, hut I had Mr. Doyle took her hack to the de j Choice cows and heifers. 7.25® 8.00 in the ponds are in excellent condition. Great Lakes, III.—Ono morning nn to leave without again tasting the pot, helped her on a Chicago trnin, nnd Com. to good cows and hf 6.00® 7.35 The warm rains o f the present winter returned to his neglected work. He I Canners.......................... 3.00®! 5.50 pieriod seem to agree with the salmon old-fashioned grnn«lmoth«*r from Chi cookies thnt I loved so much." "I baked cookies for that boy since was tickled ns n kid. | Bulls................................ 4.50® 7.00 * fry and an exceptional output w ill be cago carefully ellmhod off n train nt “ Jove, she loved thnt boy,” ho snld C a lv e s ............................ About 2,000,- 7.00@10.25 1 the result this season. Great Lakes. She might have stepped ho was big enough to eat them, nnd Stockers and fe e d e r s .... 6.00@ 8.50 000 o f the fry w ill be liberated in June from the dnguerrotype pictorial page ho always had my cookies until he en ns he smacked his Ups. and the rest in August. Hogs— of an old magazine. A black bonnet listed,” she resumed. "Ills mother Is Camps for Homeless. Prime light h o g s ............ $15.45@15.60 The quarterly report o f State En crowned her silver hair and was tied dead. He Is In Cnmp Ross. I must Washington.— Among the largest of Prime heavy h o g s .......... 15.50®15.65 gineer Lewis, completed Wednesday, with Mack ribbons under her chin. see him before he goes away." The gunrd wns Iron. war relief work being carried on at P i g s ................................ 13.50® 14.50 shows that 109 permits to appropriate She gripped a largo paper bag. Tho Paymaster J. D. Doyle Is a busy the present time are camps for home Bulk .............................. 15.60 water and 10 permits to construct guard stopped her. Rut Paymaster Doyle wns not less thousands of persons In nnd Sheepi— reservoirs were issued during the quar “ You can't com« In today,” he told man. These permits include for the her. "Wednesday la vlattors’ dny.” Her too busy to stop nnd h«*nr her story. around Salonlkl, which were started by Western lambs................$14.50®15.00 ter. eyea filled with teara. "But Roy la go He Is not a young man nnd his hair Is Dr. Edward W. Ryan, head of the Valley lambs................... 14.00®14.25 irrigation o f land amounting to 10,639 ing to aen today," aha said. " I came to grny, but ho likes raisin cookies and American Red Crons In that region. Yearlings........................ 12.500213.00 acres and water supply for three mu give Roy hla cookies. I had to run has a heart as big ns the administra There are 70,000 sufferers camping out W ethers........................... 12.00@12.60 nicipalities, the estimated cost o f con In tho tents which have been set qp. E w e a .............................. 9.50® 11.00 struction amounting to $294,887. away from home to get hero. My tion building. i NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT COMFORT IN NATIONAL ARMY BARRACKS ROY GOT HIS D ESIO RAISIN COOKIES