WHEAT AND FLOUR
Totnl Commercial Stocko na Shown by Pnrtinl Tabulation
of Food Survey of December 31, 1917
Tin total slocks of wheat In commerelnl chnnols on December 211, 1017, nn
Indicated by n pnrtinl tnhtilntlon of tho foot! survey of tliu hitter (Into, wero
approximately ouo-luilf ns largo mn tho commercial stocks on linnil December
ill, 1010, according to n statement Issued by tho United Ktiitcn department of
agriculture. In this connection It In pointed out Hint tlm commercial vlslblo
supply figures published by tliu CIiIciiko hoard of trade showed stocks on lmnd
January f, HUH, about 30 pur cent of tho commercial visible nupply reportod
for Jnnnnry (J, 11)17, while tho vlslblo supply riaorti by Hradstreet for Jan
uary 5, 1018, wiim approximately 30 pur cent of Unit reported for Junuury 0,
11)17.
'I'll' commercial Mocks of whent nt tlm end of December, 1017, compnred
more fnvornbly with those of n yenr enrllor Hum did the, slocks at tho end of
August, 1IU7, Hut holding of December 31, 1017, being 50 per cent of those
rejmrted for tlm corresponding (Into In 1010, while tho cominorclnl stocks of
August III, 1017, wore only ,I7 per ceit of those for tliu same dnto In 1010. At
the name time. It U Indlcnted Hint there wiim only n slight chaiiKO In tho rel
ntlvo Impnrtniico of tho commurclnl stocks of flour on tho dates of tho two
urveyH ns compared with tint corresponding dnto n yenr earlier. On August
81, 1017, thu commerelnl stocks of flour wero nboilt 75 per cent of tho stocks
reported on hnnd August .'II, 1010, whllo on December .'II, 1017, tho stocks of
flour were 70 per cent of those reported for tho corresponding dnto In 1010.
Tho totnl wbent crop of 1017 wns approximately 0.V),(XX),000 bushels, as com
pared with 010,000,000 hiiMhulN for tho previous yenr nnd with 800,000,000 bush
els, tho nvcrnico for tho tlvc-ycnr period 1011-1015.
Tho Hiinl.Hgures for tho August HI. 1017, food survey show Hint tho totnl
commercial stocks of wheat on that date wero 75,000,000 bttslmls, or less than
two Mouths' supply, while tho commercial stocks of flour wero about 12,000,
000 bnrrcls, representing approximately a six weeks' supply.
Tho elevators, mills, and wholesale grain deulers held 88.4 per cent of tho
commercial stocks of wheat reportod for August :il, 1017, nnd .15.8 per cent of
tho total commerelnl stocks of flour reported for Hint date. In tho enso of
flour, retail dealers held 21.0 per cent, bnkerM 20.3 tier cent, wholesale grocers
0.7 per cent, anil storngo warehouses 5.3 per cent.
Minnesota and 1'tillfornln reported tho largest commerelnl Htocks of wheat
on August :tl, 1017. their holdings being 7.200.000 nnd 0.891.000 bushels, re
spectively, while Missouri, Illinois, and Knnsns each held about 5,000.000
bushels. Tho combined holdings of these Ave slntes amounted to 2fl.000.000
bushels, or more than 1.1 per cent of tho total for tho United State. In tho
enso of flour, eight states reported about one-half of tho total stocks of tho
country. Now York lending with 812.800 barrels, followed by Pennsylvania
with a')0,i:tS, Illinois with (CIO, 120. and Nebraska with 034,015 borrels, while
California, Texas. Minnesota, and Missouri each reported about 500,000 barrels.
Varieties of Cheese
Catalogued
(Hy ttin United Hint's Department of Alt
rlcullute.) Th distinct varieties of cheese num
ber probably about IS, although the
names Riven to tho mnnufnetured kinds
totnl several hundred. This statement
Is mado In tho t'nlted .States depart
ment of agriculture's bulletin No. 003,
"Varieties of Chwse. Dcscrjptlons nnd
Analysis," which Is a revision of for
mer government publications on tho
subject. More thnn 10 names of cheeso
aro given In tho bulletin and aro of lo
cal origin, usually having been derived
front towns or communities.
A list of the best-known names ap
plied to the distinct varieties or groups
Is ns follows:
Ilrlck, cncloenvnllo, enmembert,
cheddnr, cottage, dty, cdan, emmental,
goudn, hand, holsteln, llmbttrg. ncuf
chntel, pnrmesau, roquefnrt, snpsngo,
sennno nnd trapplst. Descriptions nnd
chemlcnl analyses of the foreign nnd
domestic cheeso mentioned In tho bul
letin aro given alphabetically.
Attempts to mako emmental and
llmburg cheese In this country have
been very successful, the bulletin says.
These varieties aro being mndo by 500
factories In Wisconsin nlono and by
factories In Ohio, New York and north
ern Illinois. Investigation also has
shown that enmembert and a cheeso
of tho snmo general nature as roquo
fort or stllton, can bo mndo success
fully In this country.
"Thoro Is no reason," says tho bul
letin, "to bellovo Hint any variety of
cheeso Imported ennuot bo made here,
although with present knowledge It
would not bo advMnble to try to make
many kinds. Probably scientific In
vostlgntlon would show how to Im
prove on tho average, quality of tho
choose made In tho old countrlos, for
It must bo remembered that ouly tho
Tory best Is shipped by tho Kuroponn
mnkers, tho rest, or poorer grades, be
ing consumed at home. -Unfortunately
a feeling provnlls In tho United
States that cheeso cqunl to tho best of
tho Kuroponn product cannot bo pro
duced here. This fooling Is based upon
a lack of knowledge of actual condi
tions In Europe and of tho conditions
affecting tho qualltlen of cheese. Cer
tain pnrts of Kuropo probably aro bet
tor favored by desirable climatic con
ditions nnd by inoro general dissemina
tion of tho bacteria or molds necessary
to tlm characteristic ripening of dif
ferent vnrlctles, but oven the best aver
ago natural conditions can bo Improved
on by artlflclol means Rlnco necessary
molds or bacteria can bo grown In puro
culturo and utlllred anywhere. How
over, tho cost mny render It Imprac
ticable." '
Carries His Own Bones
Around ns a Mascot for
Coming Diamond Season
All bnll plnyers. believe In luck nnd
most enrry n tnllsmtin of some sort,
but It remnlns for Forrest Cntly,
Mack's new big catcher, to carry
around with him thu strangest token
of all. It Is nothing less than two
bones from his own body.
Last winter Cndy was In a motor
accident and had his shoulder broken
In several plnccs. Two pieces of bono
The Bettor Way.
"Do you toll bedtlmo stories nt
your houso?"
"I used to until my wlfo got next
to mo. Now I cither got homo In good
season or say nothing about It"
Forrest Cndy.
wero removed, and now Cndy Is never
without them.
"They aro a part of me or wore,"
Cndy explains, "and I'm only carrying
them ns near whero they belong ns
1 can. My ann's as good as over,
although I thought for a tlmo that I
would never play ball again. Yet
somehow I feci that If I lost those
two llttlo pieces of bono my arm
would go back on me."
Salaries Paid to Governors
By Various States of Union
flovcrnors of Vermont nnd Nebraska
receive $2,500 n year, tho governors
of Arizona, Maine, Now Hampshire,
New Mexico, Rhode Island nnd South
Dakota receive $3,000 a year; tho gov
ernor of South Cnrollnn receives $3,
500 a yenr; tho governors of Arkansas,
Connecticut, Delaware, Nevndn, North
Cnrollnn, Texns, Utah and Wyoming
receive $-1,000 it year; tho governors
tif Maryland, Mississippi nnd Okla
homa receive $1,500 n year; tho gov
ernor of Iowa receives $-1,000 a year;
tho governors of AInbnmn, Colorado,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Knnsns, Lou
Islnnn, Mlchlgnn, Missouri, Montnnn,
Oregon, Virginia, West Vlrglnln nnd
Wisconsin recolvo $5,000 n year; tho
governors of North Dakota nnd Wash
Ington recelvo $0,000 n yenr; tho gov
ernor of Kentucky receives $0,500 n
yenr; tho governors of Minnesota nnd
Tenncssoo recolvo $7,500 a yenr; tho
governors of Indlnnu and Massachu
setts recolvo $8,000 n year; tho gov
ernors of Cnlifornln, Now Jersoy, Ohio
nnd Pennsylvania recelvo $10,000 n
year; tho governor of Illinois receives
$12,000 u yenr; tho governor of Now
York receives ?0,O0 nyenr.
List of States of the Union,
Number of Squaro Miles and
Number of Counties in Each.
Tho following nro tho stntes of the
Union arranged In alphabetical order,
tho number of sqtinro miles nnd num
ber of counties In ehch :
AInbnmn hns 51,008 sqtinro miles
nnd 07 counties; Arizona has 11.1,0.7)
squaro miles and 1.1 counties; Arkan
sas, 5.1,035 square miles nnd 75 coun
ties; Cnlifornln, 158,207 sqtinro miles
nnd 58 counties; Colorado, 103,018
sqtinro miles and 50 counties; Connec
ticut, 4,005 sqtinro miles nnd 8 coun
ties; Delaware, 2,370 square miles and
3 counties; Florida, 58,000 sqtinro
miles and 40 counties; Georgia, 50,205
sqtinro miles nnd 1,17 counties; Idaho,
83,888 sqtinro miles nnd 23 counties;
Illinois, 50,005 sqtinro miles nnd 102
counties; Indlnnn, ,10,35-1 sqtinro miles
nnd 02 counties; Iown, 50,147 square
miles and 00 counties; Knnsns, 62,158
sqtinro miles nnd 100 counties; Ken
tucky, 40,503 squaro miles nnd 110
counties; Loulslnln, 48,500 square
miles and 50 counties or parishes;
Maine, 3.1,014 square miles nnd 10
counties; Mnrylnnd, 13,327 sqtinrc
miles and 21 counties; Mnssnchusctts,
8,200 squnro mllei and 14 counties;
Mlchlgnn, 57.880 square miles nnd 83
counties; Minnesota, 84,083 squnre
miles and 83 counties; Mississippi, 40,
805 square miles and 70 counties; Mis
souri, 00.420 squnre miles nnd 115 coun
ties ; Montnnn, 140,007 squnro miles nnd
28 counties; Nebraskn, 77,520 squnro
miles nnd 01 counties; Nevada, 110,
000 square miles und 14 counties; New
Hampshire, 0,341 squnro miles nnd 10
counties; Now Jersey, 8,221 squnre
miles nnd 21 counties; New Mexico,
122,024 squnro miles nnd 20 counties;
New York, 40,201 squnre miles nnd 01
counties; North Carolina, 52,420
square miles nnd 03 counties; North
Dakotn, 70.837 squnre miles nnd 45
counties; Ohio, 41,010 squnro miles nnd
88 counties; Oklahoma, 70.057 squnre
miles and 20 counties; Oregon, 00,009
squaro miles nnd 33 counties; Penn
sylvania, 45,120 square miles nnd 07
counties; Idiotic Island, 1,248 squaro
miles nnd 5 counties; South Carolina,
30.0SO square miles nnd 41 counties;
South Dnkotn, 77,015 squnre miles and
58 counties; Tennessee-, 4.1,022 square
miles nnd 00 counties; Texns. 205.800
square miles nnd 240 counties; Utah.
S4.S0O squnre miles nnd 27 counties;
Vermont, 0,504 square miles nnd 14
counties ; Vlrglnln, 42.027 square miles
nnd 14 counties; Washington, 00,127
squnro miles nnd 38 counties; West
Virginia, 21.170 squnro miles nnd 55
counties; Wisconsin, 50,000 squnre
miles and 71 counties; Wyoming, 07,
011 square miles and 13 counties.
5 BATCH OF SMILES
It All Helps.
"1 ortlered my garden seed todny."
"Your garden was a failure Inst yenr,
wasn't It?"
"In a way It was. Still, my neigh
bors' chickens got fnt on the seed I
planted, so my work still had some
effect toward relieving the food short
nge." Dropped Within Reach.
"Do you like your eggs dropped?"
"You bet! I wns delighted whes
they cntno down twenty cents I"
Playing Safe
"You hnvo plant
ed mostly onions
nnd rndlslics."
"Yes," returned
Mr. Crosslots.
"Nobody at our
houso eats them.
So If they don't
happen to grow it
won't mako so
much difference."
Two Hli Senior In Years.
A lady, anxious to And out how
mnny children n now neighbor had
asked one of tho boys, "How mnny of
you nro there?"
"Five," ho answered.
"Aro you tho oldest?" questioned tho
lady.
"No," tho boy replied, "there nro two
older'n me mn nnd pn."
His Ear to the Ground.
"What Is your
Ideas ns to tho po
litical sltuntlon?"
"My friend," re
plied Senator Sor
ghpm, "wo regulnr
expert politicians
know how to go
with tho people.
And Just now all
of our pcoplo nro
lighting for our
country and not
for Jobs,"'
New Calendar Demanded.
"Thoso old calendars nro no good."
"Don't they glvo you tho dny of the,
week, month nnd yenr7"
"Yes, hut who cares. What I wnnt
to lenrn when I get up In tho morning
Is what I go without today."
I STATE NEWS
t
IN BRIEF.
i
9i
Umatilla county has nominated a
woman, Mrs. Ella Terpening, of Pen
dleton, ns n candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket for state representative.
Cottage Grovo hns two young pcoplo
who hnvo set nn example in patriotism
that many older ones might emulate.
The two aro Florcnco McFnrlnnd and
John Van Northwlck, each selling a
cow to obtain money with which to
buy a liberty bond.
C. E. Albin wns elected Mayor of
Snlcm Friday over Frank S. Ward.
Percy Varney and Joseph E. Wright
will contest for tho city marshalship
in tho general election, neither ono of
them having received a majority in
tho primaries as required by the city
charter.
I.awrcnco Middlcton, aged 20, was
instantly killed when the work truck
he was driving was struck by a pas
senger train at a crossing about a mile
west of Merlin. Jack Bccars, aged 9,
who was riding with Middleton, was
badly hurt, but it is believed he will
recover.
Application has been received at the
state engineer's office from the city of
Coquillo for permission to appropriate
five second-feet of water from the
South fork of Cunningham creek, to be
used as a city water supply. The town
proposes to install a pipe line, one and
one-fourth miles long, and the total
cost of the new water system is esti
mated at $5000.
Mrs. E. Terpening, wife of a well
known Lane county pioneer, died in
the Mercy hospital in Eugene Saturday
night as a result of burns she received
when she crawled on her hands and
knees through the flames of a fire
which destroyed tho Terpening resi
dence near tho city Monday night.
Mrs. Terpening had been an invalid
for two years and was unable to walk
when her house caught fire.
After suffering for two weeks from
the effect of raw pork, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry II. Frey, two Russians from St.
Paul, north of Salem, died at the Wil-1
lamctte sanitarium Saturday night.
Three of six children of the couple are
also lying ill at the sanitarium and it
is barely possible some of them cannot
survive. Two other children were at
tacked, but have recovered, while the
raixth, a tiny infant, was not affected.
A man named Coon, said to live at
The Dalles, was drowned a few days
ago in Snake river, below Huntington.
With his brother, E. R. Coon, a
rancher, with whom he was visiting,
and John Tucker, ho was fishing, their
boat being tied to a cable running
across the river. The boat was over
turned by the swift current. The other
o men managed to reach a small
island whence they were rescued by
witnesses of the drowning, but the vic
tim's body was carried down the river
and has not been recovered.
The Brownsville Canning company,
with a plant at Corvallis and one in
Brownsville, is making great prepara
tions to handle the big fruit crop. A
two-story addition to the large build
ing is now nearing completion, and
new offices are being built. The can
nery hns enjoyed a healthy growth and
is handling more business from year to
year. The Corvallis property was re
cently acquired, nnd machinery will be
installed at once. The business of the
Corvallis institution will bo handled
from Uie Brownsville offices, with
Chester Roche, lately of the Oregon
Agricultural college, as manager.
According to farmers near Browns
ville, grain suffers more from aphis
than ever before. Not content with
having half ruined many a likely-looking
war garden, the little green crawl
ers have also been busily devouring
the fields of vetch, and several farmers
in that community report that their
vetch crop is a total loss. What is
more serious, they are now said to be
nttacking tho grain itself in widely
separated localities. In Brownsville
every gardener is busy with spray
pump and lime cup trying to save his
peas nnd beans. Even the grass in
tho streets and alleys is covered with
aphis.
Lemuel Dunham, n logger, is in the
Washington county jail on the chnrgo
of being a slacker, and will bo turned
over to Federnl officers. His home is
at EImn, Wash., and he admits Hint he
did not register.
Ono of the prominent fruit jar cap
manufacturing concerns in a letter to
Mrs. C. II. Jenkins, prominent mem
ber of tho Hood River Womans' club,
who hns mado a reputation for her
canned products, declares that every
effort is mado to assure housewives of
reliable rubber rings this year.
Becnuso tho army was short of sig
nal corps men who could take charge
of tho detachments of soldier-loggers
sent to Mnrshfield for work in tho
woods, lieutenants of tho infantry wero
given charge. Now that signal corps
men havo received proper training
they aro relieving tho infantry officers.
ROADS GET BIG SUMS
Money Will lie Spent This Year for
Additions, Equipment and Bet
terment on All Lines.
Washington, I). C Railroads under
government operation this year will
spend nearly $1,000,000,000 for addi
tions, betterments and equipment, or
approximately three times as much as
in any one of the last three years.
Total capital expenditures approved
by the railroad administration as an
nounced Wednesday are $937,961,318.
Of this b'g sum $440,071,000 will be
spent for additions and betterments,
such as stations and other property
improvements; $479,680,000 for equip
ment cars and locomotives already
ordered through the railroad adminis
tration; and $18,203,000 for track ex
tensions. The figures disclose Director General
McAdoo's determination to let the
railroads make many improvements
which they had neglected during the
last three years, and postponing all
possible projects requiring big expen
ditures. It also is shown that the rail
road administration is not encouraging
many extensions of lines during the
war emergency, and in some cases
projects already under way have been
discontinued.
Tho railroad administration elim
inated $349,247,000, or nearly one
fourth of the proposals. In paring
down the budget to this extent the ad
ministration made it plain that most
of its decisions are tentative.
In general, the eastern trunk lines
were given generous sums for im
provements and equipment, to enable
them better to handle the great flood
of traffic to the Atlantic seaboard for
movement to Europe. Part of the
capital necessary will be supplied by
the govenment, from the $500,000,000
revolving fund of the railroad adminis
tration, although advances will be re
paid eventually by the individual rail
roads. Wherever possible, railroads
will finance their own enterprises, but
the railroad administration may buy
the bonds or other securities issued.
Examination of the roads' budgets
had been directed by Robert S. Lovett,
chief of the railroad administration's
division of capital expenditures, and
John Skelton Williams, director of
finance and purchases.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Wheat Bulk basis for No. 1 grade :
Hard white, $2.05. Soft white, $2.03.
White club, $2.01. Red Walla, $1.98.
No. 2 grade, 3c less; No. 3 grade, 6c
less. Other grades handled by sample.
Flour Patents, $10 per barrel;
whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20;
barley flour, $14.5015.00; rye flour,
$10.7512.75; com meal, white, $6:50;
yellow, $6.25 per barrel.
Millfeed Net mill prices, car lots:
Bran, $30.00 per ton; shorts, $32;
middlings, $39; mixed cars and less
than carloads, SOc.roore; rolled barley,
$7576; rolled oats, $73.
Corn Whole, $77 per ton; cracked,
$78.
Hay Buying prices, delivered:
Eastern Oregon timothy, $2930 per
ton; valley timothy, $2526; alfalfa,
$2424.50; valley grain hay, $22;
clover, $1920.00; straw, $9.0010.
Butter Cubes, extras, 37ic; prime
firsts, 37c; prints, extras, 42c; car
tons, lc extra; butterfat. No. 1, 41c
delivered.
Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 34c:
candled, 35c; selects, 36c per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 27c; broilers, 40c;
ducks, 32c; geese, 20c; turkeys, live,
2627c; dressed, 87c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 18i19c.
Pork Fancy, 2323Jc per pound.
Sack Vegetables Carrots, $1.15 per
sack; turnips, $1.50; parsnips, $1.25; -beets,
$2.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 75c
$1 per hundred; new California, 10c
per pound; sweet potatoes, 10c per
pound.
Onions Jobbing prices, lljc per
pound.
Cattle May 22, 1918.
Prime steers $13.0014.00
Good to choice steers. . . . 11.5012.50
Medium to good steers.. 10.0011.00
Fair to medium steers .. 8.50 9.50
Common to fair steers . . 8.00 9.00
Choice cows nnd heifers. 10.0011.00
Com. to good cows and hf 6.50 8.00
Canners 3.00 5.00
Bulls 6.5010.00
Calves 8.5012.00
Stackers and feeders. . . . 8.0010.00
Hogs
Primo mixed $17.4017.50
Medium mixed 17.1517.35 '
Rough heavies 16.1516.35
Pigs 15.0016.00
Bulk 17.35
Sheep
Primo spring lambs. . . . ,$17.0017.50
Heavy lambs 16.5017.00
Yearlings 12.5013.00
Wethors 11.6012.00
Ewes 10.0010.50