FACE
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RURAL ENTER PRISE
UUUAL ENTERPRISE
In d e p e n d e n t— R o t
n e u tra l— new s­
paper, published ev eiy Wedueaday,
An
tfp Waa. H . W H E K I I K
»1 a year in advance
Arrearages
|other aapirant the report did not
taate pleasant, ao he wrote to til
Oregonian th at the action was
bad taste.
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W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Humanity are Produced
It is easy (or him who knows the
125(C a month ropes to appoint an investigaiin
A d v e rtu in g , 30c an in r h ; no diacoun
for lim e or a pâte : no charge fo r coin
auaiuon o r c jaugea,
an “Pald fo i Paragraphe,'* (c a line.
are ag varttaing dlagulaad aa newa.
The Great Outdoors
MARCH 17
committee th a t will be harmleee
-xeept as its salary and expense
affect the treasury.
Every ten taxpayers are said to
support a government dependent
Add a few to the commissions and
Tobacco kills insecte—some cf hoards and investigating commit
them bipeds.
tees aud it will he every nine.
8CATTERGUN SHOTS
•«a*«
The Tariff Might
Help the Farmer
Competing Imports Worth
More than a Billion of
Dollars a Year
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P R IC E S
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R E C E IP T S
FOR
Tillamook Cheese
Found Its Market
1925
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It Climbed to the Top and
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It LEADING
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(F. L. Ballard in C apper’s
( Eugene Register)
F arm er.)
A great many people are fond of
One man controls the sales
raying that so far as the tariff is
end
of the farm business in Till-
“ Tillamook on tne R in d " is
concerned everything has been
Il it is laudable for the French
amook
county, Oregon. In no
more popular in eating houses
done for the farmer that cau he
government to forbid the nse
other county in the United
than “ Bingen on the Rhine.’’
done. A little study of the fig­
arsenic in coloring canoed green
States are the farms so com­
ures casts some doubt upon that
peas
“
except
for
export,"
perhapi
pletely under the direction of a
The horse and the automobile
confident essertion. For example,
I
single
individual. In a modest
our
government
does
well
to
am
are on a par in one respect. When
of the $1,818,000,000 worth of im­
office
in
Tillamook, the county
plov
an
expert
whose
study
ol
ported agricultural products last
either of them hulks one can uet
seat, that man makes decisions
ioreign taste enables us to unload year $1,056,000,000, or more than
the tame words to express hit
which directly control the tide
on foreign peoples ten or twelve half, were directly competitive
feelings.
of
rural prosperity of the whole
with
tke
products
of
the
American
million cigarets yearly. See p. 6
farm.
OO prices in 1925. according to a market analysis by the Sears-Roebuck I
T H lam /w lr
.
Benton county republicans met
Included in thiscompetitive total
Agricultural Foundation, have been the highest since 3920 and the num- i
*.
AinamoOK plan, a COmbl-
“ Little Orphan A nnie’ is the were animals, $8.800,000 ; meats, her of hogs slaughtered nearly 20 per cent less than In 1924 and 1923, when 1 nation of intensely farmed units
and indorsed a candidate for the
$7,252,000 ; eggs and egg prod­ production was at a record level. With prices approximately 50 per cent and individual management of
gnbernatorial nomination. To an- best picture story running.
ucts. $8,988,000; milk and cream, higher this year than last year, hog producers have had an especially profit­ the selling end, is getting larg­
$10,114,000; cheese, $17,318.000 ; able season. The range of prices has run from »10 to almost $14.50 per hun­ er incomes for the farmers of
animal fate, 687,000; hides and dred pounds, the peaks being reached In March, July and September.
that Pacific coast county.
Federal Senatorial Outlaok Stirs
The ratio between prices of hogs and corn prices turned favorably for
skins, $96,746,000; miscellaneous
Carl Haberlach manages the
the feeder last spring and Is now the best that It has been since 1922. Last
More Republicans than Democrats animal products, $25,000,000; spring’s
pig crop In the corn belt, which Is now coming on the market, was county’s farm business. He sells
grains and grain prsparations, estimated to be 10.fi per cent less than the pig crop of the spring of 1924. This . practically 100 - per cent of _ the
—
$26,237,000 ; fodders aud feed, Indicates that rather high prices are likely to be maintained during most of ’ products of all farms. Last year
Stanfield Enters the Lists With Vulnerable Spots in $11,850,000; yegetables and vege­ the 1920 season, unless a very large crop of hogs Is produced and pushed rap he sold one product—cheese_
table preparations, $36,244,000; Idly Into the markets. Excepting the months of January and February, re­ for $570,000 more than returns
Armor . All Shout for Retrenchm ent—and the fruits
(excluding bananas) $34,. ceipts at the eleven leading markets of the country hove gone below the 075,- would have been on a general
Biggest Possible Grab for the State
500,000; nuts, $34,283,000; oil i)00 level and from June to October have been below the 550,000 mark
market price level. This velvet
Whose Votes They Covet
seeds, $64,725,000 ; vegetable oils
divided down to an average of
nd fats, $75,000,000; tobacco,
$750 a farm—more than the net
Guessing at
Albany
/ J CORRESPONDENT of a Portland daily (we forget which $83,881,(XX); cotton, $52,775,000 ;
income of many farms thruout
Hax, $3,575,000 ; wool, $141,976,-
the United States.
daily) says the democate thus far have but three outstanding 000.
Creamery
Association
Reclamation Costs Had the cheese output of the
candidate! for the federal eenetoritl nomination in Oregon and that
It will ba argued, of course, that Key to the dairy industry of the
great dairy state of Wisconsin
one of these is too old (perhaps the correspondent is an Oelerite), oi e American farms do not produce
Willamette valley
Washington, D. C.—The reclamation sold at the average Tillamook
enough
of
these
commodities
to
hai committed political suicide in Washington and the third cannot
bureau announced that the total eati- price,
additional
returns to
supply the demand, and so there Manufacturers of LINN BUTTER
command harmonious party
Market
cash
prices
paid
for
cream
m,ttt0 f° ' al‘ reclamation projects ask- farmers there would have been
must be resort to importation
*
. " .
.
o if l
o e
In n lltflln r »
i xr i a i r \ n
id
n « r\
ed f for,
Including »I division
of r a old
pro­ 25 million dollars.
support.
and eggs each delivery
True enough, but why is there lack
jects,
is
»106,289,060,
and
that
the
av­
More than that number on the
Through the recent depression
of production? Because, mani­ Our monthlv co-operative price8 erage annual income of the reclama­
in
agriculture, Tillamook farm­
republican aids haye sent ns
festly, the price is not high enough ou crj* m will uet the dairy man
tion fund for the past five years has
ers
have made more improve­
to w arrant the American farmer in
more monev.
their statements, which would
been approximately »8.600,000. Re­
producing more. A higher price
ments on their places than any
fill some pages if we published
ceipts
declined
»2,952,667
last
year.
According to figures quoted by
at home would promptly bring up
Proposed new projects and divisions other farmers in Oregon. New
them «11, and nearly every one
the production total. It would the Engere Register and reprinted of old ones number 26 and are located barns have been erected, fresti
«tresses two irreconcilable ob*
ikewise help to relieve the farm on thia page we are importing
in ten western states. The number paint has been spread, livestock
jects to be sought—the largest
depression that ie the cause of so about $8 per head of our popula
for each state aud the total estimated has been improved, and new land
much agitation.
obtainablealppropriatian« for this
cleared. And more important,
It is, of course, apparent th at lion of products of the farm. If coat are as follows:
Tillamook housewives have en­
state and a reduction of taxa*
Oregon,
six
projects,
to
cost
»26,-
those crops of which we produce families average 4 persona that
tion. Representatives of other
800,000; Wyoming, two projects, to joyed the use of more household
an annual exportation surplus can would be $32 per family. Less
conveniences. All this is a result
states might in raped« such a
not be benefited by a protective than half the families are on farms cost »16,060,000; Washington, two new
of
added income obtained by Mr.
projects
and
extension
of
one
old
one,
tariff, because their price ie set and it would be over $64 per farm
program.
»13,800,000; Idaho, three projects, $12,- Haberlach for the farmers who,
abroad
and
not
at
home.
But
we
family. If one-fouitb of the farm
From a three-column appeal
can aid the farmer bv protecting families raised those crops that 430,000; California, three projects, »9,- thru their organizations, have
went out by Mr. Cusiek, the
amply those crops of which we do would be $256 for each family. 771,060; Utah, extension of an old pro­ employed him for more than 20
Stanfield manager,we reproduce
oot produce an exportable surplus, The custom -houte figures are the ject. »6,291,000; Montana, one new pro­ years. As salesman for all the
in the next column a few sen­
and by making production of thojf price at the port of exportation. ject and one extension, »4,900,000; 1'illamook county farmers, he
crops more profitable we can per­ Probably the value at our porta Texas, one project, »3.000.000, and New serves as secretary-salesman of
tences, with comment below.
U n it e d 6 t f t r > S e n a to r R o b e rt N . S ta n fie ld
the Tillamook County Creamery
1- More Uuited States money 1 During Kenator Stanfield’« five haps turn him away from growing would be 50 per cent more—$884. Mexico, one project, »2.237,000.
In addition to these there are three association, made up of 25 co­
years' of service in th« U. 8. Senate, too much wheat or too much cern. Add a 25 per cent tariff on the
grabbed for Oregon during his
ho has been a leading (actor in the As long as we continue to import ouatom-house valuation of $384 new projects requested for Montana, operative cheese factories.
incumbency than the state re­
obtaining of the following approprla-
nouallv over a billion dollars’ and you have $480 p .r, family for New Mexico, and Texas, for which
Said Mr. Haberlach: “We
lions for the state of Oregon:
ceived during all its previous
worth
of products that are directly . raising those products. Freight no estim ates have been made.
adopted a branded trade mark_
( ?otals fo r Flvp Years—1921 1936 .)
history ! If Stanfield were re-
Tillamook on the Rind.’ On the
r <lAril Alii Highways
»6.636.594 oompeiitive with the products ol , from the farm to the consumers
F. reel Hoads and Tralla___ 6.701.087 American farms it is go ng to be J would he added, but they pay
npousibls for it, which he's not,
rind of every cheese sold as No.
April
weather
is
greeting
us
1'lvora and 11Arbors..... *
7,384,000
ard to prove that the farmer can freight from the port cf entry now. March.
he'd be the champion g r u b l-r
1, the word Tillamook is stamp-
Hi •iaiiiMttofl
...
9.631.000
not be benefited by inlel lig«rat ' _________
ed so closely that only a very
I n d ia n A r fa te e ............................... 2.148,547
\>( the senate. No wondor lie
C r a te r L a k e N a t io n a l P a r k ...
292.750 adjustm ent of the tariff
thin slice, indeed, can be cut
leads the log cnltlemen's gr U>
from a Tillamook cheese with«
Total ................................... »32,694.978
for a psrpetual m o n o p o ly of nil
THE MARKETS
out
bearing a part of the word
A
Krand
total
exceeding
all
Federal
public g ra zin g . When il comes
nmroprlnttons for Oregon from Its
stamped jn purple.
t o contemplation of « public
admission to statehood until 1921.
P o rtlan d
“We are keen on economies in
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, hard
grab Mr. Stautield is a broad-
manufacture and purchase sup-
white. »1.48; soft white; »1 51; west
sninded mao.
plies in carload lots wherever
ern white. »147; hard winter, north
.
possible.
By taking advantage
Cv,
From
the
beginning
of
hie
aarVIra.
San-
2 - Y es; taxes h a .e been re-
ern spring, western red, »145.
g of market conditions in volume
.ilm S ta n fie ld Itae a c tiv ely «upported the
has
arrived
■taced (on the incomes of the
Hay—Alfalfa. »20@20.50 ton; valley
R eeublloan n a tio n a l ad m ln letra tln n . and
purchasing, we save the farm­
le aiding P res id e n t roaU dge to bring timothy. »190 1950; eastern Oregon
higber-ups), but Mr. Coolidge,
ers money."
about a tr lr t economy In go vernm ental a /
Those
who
have
placed
orders
may
obtain
timothy,
»2150622.
f a i n and the red uction of tasee
Ae i
mho Is getting scant contidea-
same at their own convenience.
m em ber of (he Fln a n e e C o m m it « . be ef
\IZ So valuable is Tillamook coun­
Butlerfat—46®46c shippers track.
tion from the sonata, complains
(e tilv e ly aeeleted l*reeiSent i»ut«dge In
Eggs—Ranch,
21@23c.
1
host«
who
have
not
placed
an
order
are
I ty land for pasture, that an in­
brin gin g about this y e a r’s t a i redocllot
th a t appropriations bave been
adequate hay supply is grown.
of tH I.W 9 .0 0 «
Cheese Prices t. o. b Tillamook:
urged
to
do
so,
as
the
quality
and
the
price
Further to serve themselves the
jam m ed through which he fears
Triplets, Sic; loaf. 32c per lb.
are right.
Oz
... fa jmers decided to purchase hay
Cattle—Steers, good, »809.00.
will result in a deficit of
w and mill feed co-operatively and
Hogs—Medium to choice. »13014 15
A 100,000,000.
There's your
U/ last year handled a $285,000
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice
• ' strict economy in government
»11 5 0 6 12.75.
H
L a n d P la s t e r I
O. w . FR U M
L
«flaira."
3 - Tha forestry officials pre­
1
S e n a t o r S t a n f ie ld Is t ftatrtnan of
the Committee on Public l^nds and
wealed Htanfleld, the biggest
Surveys, one of the loading Commit­
aheepowuer in the country, front
tees of the Senate, with 14 members
This Committee is of raat Importance
running as many sheep on the
to Oregon and the other ten weatarn
forest reserve as he wished and
state« became It handles all leglala
lion dealing with conservation, reser
made bun lake his sheep off
vatlon. use and disposal of pukhc
lands
earlier than be was willing to,
became they would kill the
The Stanfield grating bill,
Mo« under r o n . M a rad o n V " I engrasa
aetdliog trees and so destroy
Is oi tntareat to Oregon and the other tan
th e (orssts of tbs future, so he
weatern a ta ta a baeeuaa It aeeha ta stab
liter
tha Itvaato rk In d u s try by rta tn a
was highly pleased when be got
stockm an uatn< tha rang«, slthsr an lha
th a t chairm anship. His pro­
u n ra s s n a d public dom ain or In tha na
I tonal toraata, a legal right to , U€h
posed law, if
enaoted, will
lag« Inataad of dapan.lt,, ,
isauad b> the d a p a rlm c n is of tha 'ntartur
represent his most outstanding
• n d ef agriculture
w
and most objectionable activity
iu the senate. It wonld give th e ; ol tha people.
«atlla baron, vested right» which,
Tom, Dick and Harry have to
aa the bill distinctly specifies, they raise or boy feed for the animals
n ig h t sell or bequeath
A con-| they raise .„d .«11 them in compe-
Vact from tha government which tition with wen of the Stanfield
<^n be sold for a price ie robberv I stripe.
Seattle.
Wheat -Soft white, »1 53. western
white. »1.521k; hard winter, »149.
western red. »147; northern spring
$1 46%; big bend bluestem. »1 81.
Hay—Alfalfa. »28; D. C , »28; tim
timothy P a.. »20; do, mixed, »26.
Butter—Creamery. 43045c.
Egge—Ranch. 28c,
H ogs-P rim e, »14014 35.
C attle-P rim e steers. »8 5009 00
Cheese—Oregon triplets. 27c; Ore­
gon standards. 25c; Washington trip­
lets. 37c.
Spokane.
H oga-Prtm e mixed. »13.7501386
C attle-P rim e steers, »3 0 8 60.
To lie successful now-a-day>|
a farmer must have brains. Anj
boob can run a machine in \ |
factory with a foreman to show
him how. That s why so many |
boobs leave the farm.
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
_Jlay is worth just as much in storage as
you might get for it in case of fire. T hj
i American EajJe Fire Inmiraiioe oom panr
|wiii pay you
of the cash value in cm i
of loss by fire.
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent
gz business which included half the
hay, and about two-thirds of the
mill feed shipped to the countv
for winter feeding.
The powers th at be are opposed
'o “ tinkering with the tariff ’’ ie
the interest of the farmer. They
advise him to lift himself by p all­
ing his bootstraps—to provide a
fund himself with which to buy
his own surplus aud so hold up
I the price.
Tlie dairymen who make the
most money raise all their own
f e e d ._____
Cheese is believed to have
been made before any other
dairy product.
FOR SALE
410-agg
site, io
good
runnieg
order
Mrs. C. E. Smilb,
etaluma
Incubator