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Page 2 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER WPA Farm Labor Survey Is Made The third in a series of research reports dealing with Oregon farm labor problems has just been is sued by the agricultural experi ment station at O. S. C. in cooper ation with federal relief projects The new report is entitled Pre liminary Information Concerning Employment of Berry Pickers in the Gresham Berry District,” and was prepared by C. S. Hoffman, assistant state supervisor of re search. under the direction of L R Breithaupt, extension economist and state supervisor of rural re search under the federal relief set up. The Gresham area is recognized as one of the farm labor problem regions of the state, requiring a large amount of seasonal labor to handle strawberry and raspberry crops. Professional berry pickers ordinarily come only for the straw berry season as a higher average daily wage can be paid than for raspberries. The preliminary report just pub- lisbed is a result of detailed study of the records of the past two seasons in the Gresham district. It is estimated that approximately 7000 pickers are annually employ ed during the strawberry and raspberry seasons and that most of these are residents of the met ropolitan area surrounding Port land. In the seasons studied, more than 90 per cent of the resident labor was from within a 30-mile radius ot the city of Portland and well over half of the total labor came from that area. For the 1935 raspberry season, out-of-state pickers represented 32.4 per cent of the total pickers employed though more than one-fifth of these out-of-state pickers came from Washington. On Oregon Farms Extension of the export subsidy on wheat flour from Pacific north west states for one year has been approved by Secretary Wallace, giving promise of the removal of more than two and one half million bushels of wheat from Oregon. Washington and Idaho by this de vice. The subsidy applies only to exports of flour to the Philippines. This program was launched last March, and by the time it expired by limitation of time June 30, there had been 190,206 barrels ex ported by means of this aid As it takes about 4.6 bushels of wheat for one barrel of tlour, this was equivalent to approximately 875,- 000 bushels of wheat. The new program is limited to 575.300 bar rels, or a movement essentially in proportion to that attained in the past four months. Funds for carrying on this type of export assistance come from custom receipts, 30 per cent of which were made available through AAA amendments for use in stimulating export or other use of surplus commodities, and in en couraging production of crops needed for domestic consumption. This same source is responsible for the recently announced fiber flax subsidy program and for the di version of walnuts to unusual channels of trade. Although final returns have not yet been compiled, number of work sheets turned in by Oregon farm ers will exceed 18,000, according to preliminary estimates made by county agents and other extension workers. This is a far larger number than participated in the former AAA crop control pro grams in Oregon, though it is ex pected that some of those . who turned in work sheets will not qualify for later payments. Now that work sheets have been turned in, the next step for grow ers is to be sure and keep proof of compliance. All records or other evidence bearing on compliance had best be kept, say those in charge of the program, particular ly where a crop failure may have occurred. Among items that may prove helpful are receipts for purchase of seed or other materials, proof of the kind and amount of seed sown, date and method of seeding, number and identification of acres, and, at timeB, signed statements of neighbors. I , FRIDAY, JULY 17 193« Proverb Contest Closes This Week Bring Or Send Your Answers (With A ONE YEAR Subscription To THE MINER) To This Office Not Later Than July 25, Prizes To Be Awarded August 1 I I | First Prize $5.00 Second $3.00 Third $2.00 Cash Still Time To Win! Here is complete set of cartoons, All you do is bring in answers be fore SATURDAY July 25, And a subscription But Hurry! Each week fur a period of six weeks The Southern Oregon Miner will print one of a Meries of cartons representing some well known proverb or saying. Contestants solve the picture puzz les by writing the proverb that the cartoon suggests or illustrates in the blanks below the pictures. The prizes, totaling Um dollars in cash, will be awarded those sending in complete or near complete answers to the pictures published and either paying their own subscription for a period of one year or securing one new one year subscription to The Southern Oregon Miner. Cartoons should not be sent to the paper until the Serb's is complete. Only one answer may be given to a picture. PROVERB NUMBER 5 / , couonuTtst ®Y CO.ACKY- 1XU TAK» Contest Rules \ MIWUTWI VAW vov \ THAT TOO Wt« A WHO COVLDWfOf* A »AUGJU H WHtM H' SAW Only one member of a family will be given a prize, the auord going to the person in that family submitting the best set. The answers may be written in pen pencil, printed or typewritten. PROVERB NUMBER « Irt-X'g Aii j J PROVERB ANSWERS ARE No. 1 0 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 Proverb Answer No. 5 I No. 6 My Name Address My Address My Name ------------ A----------- VOLUME HOLDING UP IN BUILDING FIELD A report received by State Di rector Parker, of the Federal Housing Administration, states that manufacturers anticipate a sustained volume of sales of build ing hardware throughout the sum mer. Building operations, they explain, are Increasing at a rate that will not permit of the usual seasonal lull in sales of builders' hardware and machine tools. Please Send THE SOUTHERN OREGON MINER For ONE YEAR NAME ADDRESS................................................................ ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) Paid With Answers to PROVERBS By ---------- 1---------- —YOU SAW IT IN THE MIN Bit !
