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T u a la t in V alley Milk Committee Sees Benefits In Daily Fresh Test MARSHFIELD SPORTSMAN FARM NEWS After 1948's Postwar Peak Index on Prices Declines 4-H Record Enrollment '49 Club Year BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, January 6, 1950 Candid Forestry 'ALIFORNIA ORANGE P R O V E S A R E gus-, B U T - •'Statewide use of the daily fresh FARM PRICES HIT SKIDS FIRST FOLLOWED BY sample milk test would mean dol lars in the pocket of every dairy BREAKS ON WHOLESALE AND CONSUMER LEVELS f* '■ ‘■ ’■"'NG AN D DAIRY man,” Neal Miller, chairman of the milk committee of the Oregon Jer f JTS LIM ELIG H T sey Cattle Club declared in speak Surveys indicate that in 1948 the with 1.81 pounds a year earlier, , A C T IV IT IE S ing at the meeting of the Wash- post war peak in price levels was and an average for November of ; ington County Jersey Cattle Club reached and that since then a stea 1.94 pounds per person. All i, ords of enrollment and For the three coast states, No in Hillsboro Thursday. Miller was dy downward trend, except for mi pointing out the advantages of the nor fluctuations, has shown on vember milk production is above completions of 4-H club work in daily fresh sample milk test over farm, wholesale and consumer a year ago. O f the other main W.ashington county were brok“ n western dairy states, Utah pro in the 1949 club year, reports levels. the composite test. Farm prices hit the skids first, duced the same as a year ago, county extension agents, Miss Faye Henry Hagg, Keedville, reported on his recent trip to the meeting showing a steady shrinking since while Idaho produced less than Nichols and Joe Cox. Ninety-three per cent of the 1488 of the National Federation of milk October 1946 in fact. During the last year. California is the largest milk club members enrolled completed producers, in New York. He told first month of the year, the far of the battle this group is waging mer received 51 cents of every dol producing state in the west, and their projects. This is the highest HAND MADE in congress in behalf of the dairy lar spent, with 499fc given to mar produced 422 million pounds dur percentage of completions even at men of the nation He also stressed keting charges. For the next two ing November. Washington is next tained in this county, being well To Fit Your Feet O F THE above the state and national level, the importance of Mr. Millers, re months, his share and marketing and produced 137 million pounds. CASCADES IN OREGO N OIL TANNED UPPERS Oregon ranks third, with a pro the county extension agents stated. expenses were divided 50-50. marks on milk testing. AN D WASHINGTON, PRIVATE duction o f 87 million pounds. Ida Starting in April, the farm pro- RED LUG SOLES The most popular projects were The main order of business of F O R E S T LAND OWNERS HAVE 3,O i2,gol A C R E S the meeting was balloting for state j ducer’s share dropped to 49 cents ho followed with 82 million, and clothing for the girls and dairy for IN T R E E FARM S - D E D IC A T E D TO P ER P ET U A L the boys. Four hundred and twen officers of the Jersey Cattle Club. and in June hit a 7-year low at 48 Utah with 46 million pounds. PRO D U CTIO N OF F O R F S T C R O P S - T W E LV E 10-INCH In comparing milk ptoduction ty-seven girls enrolled in five Fred Knox, Gaston reported on the cents Compare this to the August T I M E S B IG G E R e v e n THAN A LL THE ORANGE per cow in the western states, Ore divisions of clothing and 147 club Junior Jersey Sale being sponsored | 1948 share « f 53 cents. G R O V E S O F C A LIFO R N IA . by the Washington County Jersey In mid-October, farm prices av gon has the lowest daily average. members carried teh dairy project. I Cattle Club and announced that eraged 219r below the peak of Jan- Dairymen who report the produc Other piojects which club mem the committee was now accepting | uary, 1948. In 1946. parity ratio tion of their dairy herds on the bers participated in were: cookery, consignments of heifers for the stood at 133. By October, 1949, the first day of each month indicated canning, health, homemaking, knit 327 S. W. Jefferson sale. an average 14.9 pounds of milk pet- ting, rabbit, poultry, livestock, farm j ration had declined to 101. (Across from Labor Templet Mancel Melott, Hillsboro, pres Farm products at wholesale con cow for Oregon on December 1. safety, crops, garden, woodwork P O R TLA N D OREGON ident of the county club announced tinued to slump through October This, however, is up a pound com ing, leathercraft. rose and flower, that the next meeting of the or to a level neatly 1491 below a year pared to a year ago. California orestry, and soil conservation. ganization will be January 19 in earlier. Foods were down .SS^. All t shows the highest production per Highlights of the year included Read our classified ads Hillsboro. . commodities, other than farm pro cow of the western states on De 4-H summer school, livestock and ducts and foods, were down more cember 1, of 18 4 pounds. Washing crop tours, county and state fairs, than 5 '-", compared to November ton and Idaho both had the same and National 4-H Club Congress. , average of 17.6 pounds. Utah’s 1. 1948. One hundred girls and boys at October, nationally, was a month herds covered by reporters aver tended the ten day 4-H summer ! of record breaking egg production, aged 17.3 pounds. school session on the campus of with over 3.7 billion eggs. This rep The highest average milk pio Oregon State college on scholar resented 791 more than October of ; duction per cow as reported by ship! provided by business houses, last year and is 3591 above the ^corresopndents on December 1 was interested organizations, and indi previous ten year average. in the North Atlantic states. There viduals. CULVERT • DRAIN It) Oregon, with a production es the average was nearly 18.9 pounds. Eighty-eight livestock and crop timated at 30 million eggs, the This compares with all the west club members participated in the SEWER • IRRIGATION by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, trend showed an increase of one with an average of 16.6 pounds. Willamette Valley and Coast touis Six hundred and sixty-five dif ¡The lowest region in the United million above the low point in Sep an instrumentality of the United States Government. See Your Building Material Dealer tember. However, it is two million States is the South Central sta'es ferent club members made 798 ex where the average production per hibits at the county fair, and 111 under October, 1948. A sote, profitable and convenient way to Milk production world-wide, cow December 1 was 9.3 pounds of exhibits were made at the state save or invest money. fair. Seventy-three club membeis showed an increase over 1948. by milk. about 491, a gain over prewar fig The United States Department participated in contests at the ures of 591. Feed supplies in west of Agriculture announced this state fair. Seventy-three club mem ern Europe are better, showing month that arrangements have hers participated in contests at the Current Dividend a gain there of about 791, with been completed to sell a large state fair. Thirty-four exhibits were dis about 491 more cows than a year amount of government owned dry- MEMBER FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK nonfat milk solids. The sale will played at the Pacific International, ago. Expected increase in the United be made to the United Nation's In al. Patricia Seidler. 9113 S. W. Can States and Canada is seen at about ternational Children's Emergency \r i . In practically every country, fund. The dry skim milk is to be yon road, Portland. Eugene Evers, increased production as per cow used in child feeding program-, route 2. Forest Grove, and Robert which will be carried out princip il- Yungen. route 1, Hillsboro, repre has been realized. HILLSBORO, OREGON sented Oregon at the National 4-H During the month of October, y in Europe. Club Congress held in Chicago. HAVE A YEAR'S INCOME IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT' milk production on U. S. farms to This sale will reduce present Local leaders of 149 clubs held taled 9 billion pounds, second high government owned stocks to about Accounts Insured to $5,000 W E. PEGG 1,687 meetings during the year to Wm. SPEARS est monthly production mark on 115 million pounds accomplish this work. record. Only in 1945 was this fig ure slightly exceeded. Howeevr, based on the nation’s potential milk users, production was down. The amount of milk produced per capita was 1.94 pounds per day, thl'd smallest fot the month in twenty years of re cord. The United States production of milk during November set i high The Oregon Department of Vet record, estimated at 8.4 billion erans’ Affairs paid 1949-50 property pounds, and is the highest farm taxes on farm and home properties production ever recorded for No of 3360 World War II veterans Your community mortician since 1910 vember. It is 4 per cent above a amounting to $214,171.17, Director \ year ago and is 1 per cent above William F. G a a r e n s t r o o m an the previous high for November in nounced this week. This was a 118 1946. percent Increase over taxes paid I Phone 3411 BEAVERTON, OREGON The amount of milk produced in by the department a year ago, j relation to potential milk consum amounting to $97,973 on about 2000 j ers during November was 1.87 oan properties. pounds of milk. This compares i The property is that on which the veterans’ agency holds mortgage as the result of loans of World War II veterans for the acquisition of famis and homes. The depart ment collects taxes monthly from its veteran property holders and in turn pays the tax to the counties annually. By paying the tax In advance of the Nov, 15 deadline, the depart ment effected a three percent dis count amounting to a saving of about $6600 for the property hold ers involved, Gaarenstroom said. Multnomah county received the largest tax payment fiom the de One of partment, amounting to $79.414. EIGHT GUERNSEY BULLS Marion county was next with $15,- 231, followed by Clackamas with Servicing $13,113 and Douglas county with $12,999. Taxes paid to Washington Washington County Dairy county amounted to $9,612.56. Breeders Association When the legislature passed the World War II veterans' loan act in 1945. it authorized the department to collect taxes monthly, along with loan repayments, to relieve veterans of the responsibility of IMPROVE YOUR DAIRY HERD 305 LACTATION having to pay their own taxes in with a yearly lump sum. RECORD OF FIRST DAUGHTER The first World War veterans' ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION 10,673 Pounds of Milk loan program did not do this, and the result, according to state vet 533 Pounds of Butterfat erans’ officials, was hundreds of Membership Open In Washington tax delinquencies amounting to AVERAGE OF DAM'S THREE RECORDS County thousands of dollars, especially dur 121 S. E. MORRISON ST., PORTLAND, OREGON ing the depression. It ean't happen 7,021 Pounds of Milk DAIRY BREEDERS ASSOCIATION under the present setup, Gaaren 353 Pounds of Butterfat stroom said. MARSHFIELD Shoe Factory OPEN A Savings Account QUALITY CONCRETE PIPE Your Savings Are Insured for Safety Up to $5,000.00 2Vi°/o Pegg J Washington Federal Savings and Loan Association A lo r tu a r y State Dep't. 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