THE HERMISTON
JACK BINNS TO FLY
24,000,000 MEN AT WAR, SAYS EXPERT
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HERALD,
Big Premiums for Poultry to Be Given
at State Exhibit— Entertainment
some Intimation in Petrograd recently
Gen. Sir William Robertson Gives of the possibility that Japan might be
called upon in some fashion to take a
Graphic Facts About Pres
more active part in the struggle.
ent Struggle.
The first suggestion of this sort
DEATH TOIL IS APPALLING
British in France Fired 200,000 Tons
of Ammunition In Five or Six
! Weeks—How Transportation
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Difficulties Are Overcome.
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London.—Gen. Sir William Robert
son in a speech recently gave a graph
ic impression of some of the extraor
dinary aspects of the present war. It
has become merely trite to observe
that the war has now completely over
shadowed every other occupation and
interest in the world, but the extent to
which it has done this is suggested in
a most forcible way by some figures
which General Robertson employed.
In the armies of all the belligerents,
he said, there are now 24,000,000 men,
which excludes the great civilian
armies behind the front ; in the Fran
co-Prussian war the total of all casual
ties was less than 500,000, while In
this war the killed alone can be count
ed by the million.
“During the past five or six weeks
we have, I suppose,” said General Rob
ertson, “expended some 200,000 tons of
ammunition, which has had to be
moved by road, rail and sea from the
factories in England to the guns In
France and man-handled probably not
less than half a dozen times.”
Great Transportation Task.
Two hundred thousand tons of am
munition means rather more than 16,-
000 carloads as measured by the minia
ture freight cars commonly loading
about twelve tons that are used In
England. General Robertson didn’t
suggest, but any railroad manager with
whom one talks will promptly make
good the omission, that the mere trans
portation of this one item of war sup
plies at a time when freight cars have
been sent to France by the thousand
constitutes a terrific drain on the coun
try’s capacity to move things.
To transport ammunition Is a par
ticularly delicate and dangerous busi
ness and it is only because of splendid
organization and high efficiency among
railroad employees that there have
been so very few accidents and prac
tically no real disasters as Incidents to
this service. General Robertson paid
a special tribute to the men who have
organized and carried on this branch
of war work.
Comparing the scale and scope of
the present war with former struggles,
General Robertson was particularly in
teresting and impressive. He observed
that the greatest peculiarity of the
present war is in the colossal numbers
of men employed at the front. As a
matter of fact, he omitted to empha
size his figures by observing that the
great proportion of the civil popula
tion immediately engaged in work for
the support of the army Is quite as im
pressive a peculiarity of this struggle.
A Warfare of Machinery.
It Is a warfare of machinery and
mechanisms, many of them new and
heretofore almost untried. These have
required to be produced, to be tested
and to have great bodies of men
trained for using them.
Comparing the present war with
that of 1870 between Germany and
France, General Robertson observed
that “In the 1870 war armies were
counted by the hundred thousand, and
at the battle of Gravelotte, where the
heaviest losses were incurred, the to
tal casualties were only about 33,000
men on both sides, while for the whole
war the total casualties of both sides
were less than half a million.
“In the present war the killed alone
can be counted by the million, while
the total number of men engaged
amounts to nearly 24,000.000. In fact,
this war is not, as in the past, a war
merely of opposing anules, but a war
of nations, and there is not today a
man or woman In the empire who is
not doing something either to help or
to hinder the winning of the war. A
man of great distinction told me the
other day that he estimated the weight
of purely military effort at only 25 per
cent of the whole, the remaining 75
per cent being, strictly speaking, of a
nonmilitary nature, and made up of
many elements—agriculture, food,
shipping, diplomacy, etc. I think he Is
probably not far wrong, nnd when peo
ple ask me, as they sometimes do, how
the war is getting on, I feel inclined
to reply, 'Why ask me? Why not ask
yourself and the remainder of the 75
per cent?"
Allies Outnumber Enemy.
General Robertson's figure of 24.-
000.000 as the number of men actually
engaged In the military operations is
probably based on as good information
as any maa in the world possesses.
The British general staff knows all
about the armies of the entente coun
tries, and knows all that anybody out
side Berlin and Vienna knows about
those of the central powers.
He didn’t suggest how the numbers
are now divided between the two sides,
but It Is very certain that the entente
nations decidedly outweigh their ene
mies In mere numbers. The Germanic
powers on the other hand, have the
great advantage of shorter lines and
easier communications. With Russia
comparatively inactive. It is not at all
certain that the weight of numbers is
now very decidedly tn favor of the en
tente peoples. But the weight of ma-
chinery Is decidely to their advantage.
OREGON.
FAIR WILL AID FOOD
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which came from Russia was In a brief
dispatch saying the government had
categorically denied persistent rumors
that Japan might be employed to bring
pressure against Russia with the pur
pose of convincing Russia that it would
be highly undesirable for her to re
pudiate her obligations to her allies.
Such a suggestion of course would be
most unfortunate, and the denial from
Petrograd Is unquestionably absolutely
correct, according to the best authori
ties here.
World's Greatest Reserve.
But while the employment of Japa
nese force as an argument with Rus
sia is quite unthinkable there has been
a renewal of the suggestion that
Japan's magnificent army might yet
require to be employed in some way in
the European field. It represents the
greatest reserve of completely pre
pared military force that ever stood
behind an active military campaign in
the world. If there were only means
of moving it Japan could readily and
quickly put 2,000,000, or If necessary
4,000,000, soldiers into the field.
To move any considerable propor
tion of such a force even into the near
est fighting areas by water is a ridicu
lous impossibility at this time. But
there has been serious discussion, I
am told, at some of the recent confer
ences among allied leaders of the pos
sibility of bringing Japanese soldiers
to Europe by way of the Transsiberian
railway. Today this would necessitate
an immense expansion of the carrying
capacity of that route.
A very large part of it has now
been double-tracked, and if it shall be
recognized by the end of this year that
the war is likely to continue several
years the further development of
Transsiberian tonnage capacity might
be found feasible and even necessary.
One thing is certain and that is that
on neither side is there at present any
such prejudice as formerly existed
against introducing Asiatics and Afri
cans upon the European battlefields.
The conception of this war as a war
of the whole world has been strength
ened very greatly since the beginning
of the present year. It is looked upon
by the western powers now as every
body’s war, a war In which everybody
has not only an interest but a duty to
perform. That conception has affect
ed the attitude of remote and detached
peoples to a striking extent. For ex
ample, among tribes in Africa which
would not be presumed to know any
thing about what is happening in Eu
rope it Is said that there is a very con
siderable interest and a desire to help
the western nations.
HERMISTON,
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Jack Binns, wireless hero of the
steamer Republic may gather fresh he
roic laurels In the air. He has Just
enrolled for the British flying corps in
the new British recruiting office opened
In New York, under the direction of
Brig. Gen. W. A. White.
Binns will be remembered as the
first wirelees operator to effect a res
cue at sea through persistent calls for
belp.
Binns was the wireless man
aboard the Republic when she was
rammed by the Florida off Nantucket,
January 23, 1901. He stuck to his post
while the ship was sinking and sent out
the famous S. O. S. until the Baltic re
sponded and rescued all of the 800
persons aboard the rammed ship.
Since then he has resided in America.
Olympia—Premiums for poultry ex
hibits will be doubled at the State
Fair, according to Harry H. Collier,
of Tacoma, superintendent of the poul
try department, who visited the state
department of agriculture here Thurs
day. The reason for this is that it is
desired to stimulate the interest of the
people of the state in poultry raising.
M. Collier stated that during the
campaign that is being waged to in
crease the supply of food in the coun
try, the raising of poultry can play an
important part. It takes only three
months to bring chickens to the stage
where they may be useful as food.
Any other meat producing animal re
quires from 18 months, as is the case
with pork, to three years, the time
necessary for cattle to reach their
greatest productive point, to become
food products.
If chickens can be used for the pur
pose of meat supply and will meet the
demand in so much shorter time, the
raising of them should be encouraged,
said Mr. Collier. And for that reason,
he added, the premiums will be raised
on exhibits of them at the State Fair.
The State Fair is an annual event
and will be held in North Yakima from
September 17 to 22 this fall. Mr. Ben
son, state agricultural commissioner,
is of the opinion that the fair will re
ceive a better attendance from the
Sound territory this year than ever be
fore. The reason he gives for this is
that the Yakima valley is coming more
and more into prominence as a pro
ducing center and is making particular
endeavors to entertain the visitors at
the fair in a cordial way this year.
GRAIN OUTLOOK ENCOURAGES
Bumper Crops in Walla Walla, Eureka
Flat and Yakima Sections.
The grain crop outlook in the Inland
Empire, is reported by W. G. Paine,
of Spokane, to W. C. Wilkes, assistant
general freight and passenger agent of
the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail-,
way company, as follows:
“Weather clear, calm and cool. No
rain, excepting scattered showers. Big
Bend will need rain soon. Palouse
country will not suffer for two weeks.
Conditions reported fair as a whole,
optimistic generally.
“Big Bend crops full of promise.
No immediate danger from lack of
rain. No signs of burning, except
slight damage near Schräg. Bumper
crops at Yakima, Walla Walla and Eu
reka Flat Will be some threshing by
August 1. No general rain since last
report. Conditions in Palouse, Big
Potlatch and Nez Perce not so full of
Heads are forming low.”
promise.
lunch hour will miss the stocky,
white-haired figure who preached the
Gospel in the heart of what the ma
jor part of the nation has come to
regard as a den of wickedness.
He has enjoyed the reputation of
being the highest paid street preach
er in the world. From Trinity he re
ceived a salary of $5,000 a year. No
one will ever know how much of this
“the bishop” expended on himself, but
the poor will tell that he has always
been open-handed and has never with
held his aid when money was needed
Good Crop of Alfalfa.
% ; to keep a home together.
He was a close friend of the late
North Yakima—The first cutting of
J. Pierpont Morgan, who often went alfalfa hay in Yakima valley is about
BOY MAKES BOMB OF
completed and the growers report a
PENCIL; LOSES HAND : to his house.
good crop, and say it has been put in
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Lorain, O.—Aspirations to be ! > SMOKE MORE AND EAT LESS the stack in fair shape. The baling
season will soon begin and growers
a real munition worker Just like : !
some of his grown-up compan- ¡ ' Latest Advice Given to British People and dealers are jockeying for the open
ing price. The dealers are trying to
Ions, cost fourteen-year-old John : I
In the Food Shortage
contract for $12.50 per ton, while the
Katonak his right hand and ; ’
Situation.
growers are asking $15. All labor en
lacerated his knee. Johnny took ; !
the lead from a pencil, filled the ; !
London.—“Smoke more and eat tering into the production has in
creased over last year. In most in
hollow tube with powder and ¡ ’ less !”
plugged it with a dynamite cap ¡ ‘
This is the latest advice given to stances men in the hay fields have
in each end. He attached elec- ¡ ‘ the British people In the food short been paid $3 a day and board.
trie wires to set off the charge : 1 age situation. It comes from Sir John
and when the wires became J, Rees, who says:
crossed the explosion followed. ¡ !
"It is to be hoped that the increased
tobacco duty will not reduce the quan-
tity. The less people smoke the more
are liable to eat. It is well known Wheat—Bluestem.
.$2.20
WALL STREET BISHOP QUITS they
that the grossest eaters are non-drink- Fortyfold..............
. 2.15
Chib........................
. 2.15
Famous Street Preacher Placed on Re ers and non-smokers.”
This advice refers to women as Red Russian........
. 2.10
tired List by the Trinity
well as men, for the smoking habit Oats—No. 1 white
$44.00
Corporation.
has spread widely among women since
Barley—No. 1 feed
42.00
New York.—“The bishop of Wall the war started. Formerly women Cattle—Steers, pri me... $9. 50@ 10.50
smoked
only
in
their
homes
or
In
res
street” has held his last service In
Steers, good »...
8.75@ 9.25
his open-air cathedral at the corner of taurants. Now they can be seen in Steers, medium .
8.00@ 8.75
Broad and Wall streets, with its pave the streets and In factories puffing Cows, choice....
8.25@ 8.50
ment of asphalt and its ceiling of sky. away at pipes, mild cigars or ciga- Cows, medium ..
7.5004 8.00
rettes.
In other words, the Rev. Dr. William
6.75@ 7.25
Arrests of women for smoking in Cows, fair..........
Wilkinson, friend of millionaires and
Heifers......... ...
5.00@ 9.25
office boys In the financial district and munition factories became so com- Bulls....................
5.000 7.25
holder of noon-day services there for mon that the magistrates had to 1m- Calves................
7.5004 9.50
pose
severe
penalties
to
break
it
up.
many years, has been retired by Trin
. .$15.25015.90
Hogs—Packing .
ity corporation, whose missioner he
.. 13.90@14.25
Rough heavies ..
has been.
The weather’s about the only thing Pigs and skips ..
.. 12.00@12.50
The crowds of rich men and poor some married couples have in com- Stock hogs..........
.. 11.00012.50
who fill the canyon of Wall street at mon.—Chicago Examiner.
Sheep— Wethers.
..
8.7509.50
Ewes..................
7.5008.05
Lambs................
.. 10.0012.75
Flour—Patents, $11.40.
Millfeed — Spot <prices: Bran, $32
per ton; shorts, $35; rolled barley,
$48 ; rolled oats, $50.
Hay — Producers’ prices: Timothy,
Men of the army and navy of all ships are to receive a $30 a month in
Eastern Oregon, $26 per ton ; alfalfa,
ranks will receive a 20 per cent in crease.
crease in pay while on foreign service.
Pay in the navy under the new $18; valley grain hay, $184/ 20.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 37c per
The increase is figured on the 1908 schedule will be as follows :
pound; prime firsts, 36c. Jobbing
schedules.
Prints, extras, 38c; cartons, ;
------Monthly— prices:
The revised schedule of the army
Rank.
Shore.
Sea
1c extra; butterfat, No. 1, 38c; No.
and Marine corps. Just issued at Wash Admirals ............................. .$1,125.00
$1,237.50
733.33 | 2, 36c.
ington, Is as follows:
Rear admirals (1st »...
666.67
Eggs—Ranch, current receipts, 30c
Rear admirals (2d »...
550.00
500.00
Chiefs of bureaus.............
Monthly
500.00
per dozen ; selects, 32c.
.....Ml 6.17 Captains ...............................
Lieutenant general
Poultry—-Hens, 14@ 16c per pound;
320.83
..... 666.67 Commanders ....................
291.67
Major general ......
broilers, 19@22c; turkeys, 20c; ducks,
..... 500.00 Lleutenant commanders
250.00
275.00
Brigadier sanerai ..
[NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
PAY OF ARMY AND NAVY ON FOREIGN SERVICE
Colonel ........................
291.67
Lieutenant cotonai .
Major ..........................
Captain ......................
166.67
First lieutenant ....
141.67
Second lieutenant .
51.00
First sergeant, all arms.......................
Battalion sergeant major.....................
Color sergeant .............................................
Sergeant, cavalry, artillery. Infantry
Corporals, all arms .................................
nance, signal corps, hospital corpa
Privates, second class, hospital corps
Privates ....................................................
31.00
Nurses will receive an advance of
$10 a month. Doctors will receive
.......................................
200.00
Lieutenants, junior grade
Ensigns ......................................
Midshipmen — at acade
my ..........................................
166.67
141.67
Lieutenants
Chief
boatswains,
gun-
nere,
carpenters.
sail-
makers, machinists and
pharmacists .........................
Medical directors .................
Medical inspectors .............
Burgeons ..................................
Pay directors ..........................
Pay Inspectors ......................
Paymasters
18@22c; geese, 10012c.
191.67
50.00
141.67
291.67
........... .. ..........
Chief petty officers will receive from
$47.60 to $77.50 a month ; second class
Veal—Fancy, 144015e per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 191c per pound.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 70 @ 75c
per dozen; tomatoes, $1.8502.00 per
crate ; cabbage, 2@3e per pound ; egg-
plant, 25c;
lettuce, 35050; cu
cumbers, 50c@$1.25 per dozen; pep
pers, 30@40c per pound; rhubarb,
2@3e; peas, 4@5e; asparagus, 5416c;
spinach, 607e per pound.
Potatoes — Buying prices, $3.254/
3.50 per hundred.
Green Fruit—Strawberries, Oregon,
$1.3501.60.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 47@53c
per pound; coarse, 58c; valley, 60@)
63c; mohair, 6065c.
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF.
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Ott Timn, an employe in a logging
camp at London, near Cottage Grove,
was killed Monday when a snag fell on
him. He leaves a wife and four chil-
dren.
More than 40 visitors already have
been in to the Oregon Caves near
Grants Pass this month, although the
season has not regularly opened. The
camp at the head of Williams Creek,
where autos are left and the forestry
trail taken, is in operation.
The Jensen shingle mill at Wheeler
was destroyed by fire Monday morn
ing; loss $10,000, no insurance The
mill was of three-machine capacity
and was shipping two to four cars of
shingles each week. An adjoining
lumber mill plant was saved.
Paroled prisoners from the peniten
tiary earned $165,102.24 since July,
1915, and $14,879.50 during May,
when 216 reported, according to the
report of Parole Officer Keller, just
filed with Governor Withycombe. The
average monthly earning was $52.03.
The stock of Mrs. Charles Greogry’s
women’s furnishings store at Dallas,
was totally destroyed by fire Monday
night. The fire was discovered at
11:45, and immediately reported to the
night watchman, who was using the
fire hose to flush the street, but upon
breaking in the whole room was found
to be a mass of flames and none of the
$10,000 stock was saved.
On their return from an inspection
of the Payette-Oregon slope irrigation
project off the Snake river, Attorney
General Brown and Superintendent of
Banks Sargent were enthusiastic about
the project. They went as members
of the state bonding board to investi
gate the land relative to the certifica
tion of $225,000 worth of bonds the
district proposes to issue.
With wood prices soaring at Salem,
the wood famine that confronts Port
land promises to take hold in the val
ley.
Except in a few isolated' in
stances wood has not been purchased
for much less than $6 a cord, even fir
being out of sight.
Wood dealers de
clare that but little wood has been cut
and with the draft in sight there ap
pears little chance of finding large
crews for wood cutting purposes.
Determined that there shall be no
repetition of disaster like that wrought
by the breaking of the Killimaque
Lake dam, in Eastern Oregon, when
the town of Rock Creek was wiped out
and thousands of acres of crops flooded,
ranchers along the streams that flow
down the sides of the Elkhorn moun
tains, where irrigation reservoirs have
been built at the sources, have started
a movement toward protecting them
selves.
County Judge R. W. Warsters of
Roseburg, says the first roads to be
improved in Douglas county under the
state road bonding act will be those in
Pass Creek and Canyon creek canyons.
Besides $350,000 to be obtained from
the state and federal government,
about $200,000 realized from the
county bond issue will be expended in
improving the Pacific Highway in
Douglas county. Work will begin this
summer.
Opening bids on the $418,000 port
bonds was indefinitely postponed Mon
day by the Port Commissions of Toledo
and Newport.
With 24 applications on file before
the Public Service commission for in
creases in rates in the 15 per cent
intra-state rate cases, it is expected
that the commission will require at
least 20 hearings before all of the tes
timony and arguments are in. These
hearings will start July 9 in Portland.
A committee of farmers along the
route of the Great Southern railway
has filed a petition with the Public
Service commission at Salem against
suspending the 15 per cent increase of
rates asked by that railroad, and de
claring that suspension of such rates is
liable to cause withdrawal of the line
on account of the low rate and light
traffic.
The question of what disposition Ja
son Moore intends to make of his lease
on Summer and Albert lakes will arise
again at the next meeting of the State
Land board. Secretary of State Olcott
received an inquiry from the City
Saftey Deposit company, of Omaha,
asking what has happened to the Jason
Moore proposition and what steps must
be taken to obtain a lease on the Sum
mer and Albert lakes for its potassium
salts.
LIVE STOCK FAVORED
Setter Soil and Greater Prefits
Assured to Farmer.
attle and Diversification Are Essen
tial to Success in Farming Busi-
ness—Raise What You Need
for Feeding.
To succeed in the farming business.
we must have cattle, hogs and chick-
■ns, grow corn, clover, alfalfa and
other legume crops adapted to our
soil.
If we grow several crops and one
falls, we will have another to depend
upon, but if we grow a single crop and
for some reason It falls, our entire
year’s work Is gone. Live stock and
diversification mean the building up
of the soil, and as the soil improves,
profits increase. Diversification means
that we have more land In pasture.
Pastures prevent soli from washing.
Pastures should be maintained to keep
the soil from washing during the heavy
spring rains. Fields should not be al
lowed to stand from year to year, ex
posed to the weather.
Live stock and diversification will
keep people on the farms. A man will
put up better buildings If he lives on
ills farm than he will If it is occupied
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Good Farm Essentials.
by a tenant. Live stock and diversifi
cation mean “Raise what you feed and
feed what you raise on your own
farm.” When you grow your crops,
and ship them away you are shipping
the fertility from the soil—mining it,
making It poor.
By having live stock there will be
returned to the land in the form of
manure 70 to 80 per cent of the soil
fertility taken out by the crops.
Humus, one of the things essential
to a fertile soil, can be placed In the
soil by diversifying the crops and do
ing mixed farming. Live stock means
more manure on the farm and less
commercial fertilizer.
The corn belt states pay out mil
lions of dollars for commercial fer-
tillzer; every year. -
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Live on the farm. Build a home,
have good schools, good roads and pro
ductive soils. Don't just have a
“piece of land” or a "farm”—have a
home on the land and make It worth
living tn.
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SULPHUR TO CONTROL SCAB
According to Investigations Soring Ap.
plication Is Far More Satisfac
tory Than Is Fall.
Investigation as to the value of sul
phur for controlling potato scab so far
seems to indicate that spring applica
tions are more satisfactory than those
made in the fall. In experiments the
benefits secured were greater when
sulphur was applied to land on which
no cover crop had been grown the pre-
ceding season than on land where one
had been grown. Formaldehyde ap
plied to the seed tubers and sulphur
applied to the soil gave better results
than when the two treatments were
used separately. Sulphur broadcasted
on the soil after planting appears the
best method of application ; when used
with fertilizers it gave greater effi
ciency when applied In connection with
ammonium sulphate than with sodium
nitrate, with acid phosphate than with
steamed bone and with muriate of
potash than with sulphate.
W. D. Clark was Monday named TEST EACH COW EVERY YEAR
railroad engineer by the Public Service
commission, to succeed E. W. More Animal May Be Suffering From Tu-
berculosis Unknown to Owner-
land, who recently resigned.
Inspection Is Essential.
The Federal Lumber Trade commis
sion, consisting of John R. Walker,
A cow may be suffering from tuber
Nelson C. Brown, A. A. Oxholm and
R. E. Simmons, accompanied by George culosis, the worst disease to which she
M. Cornwall, of Portland, and A. W. is subject, and still show no signs of
Cooper, secretary of the Western Pine it to the proud owner.
For the sake of the children who
Manufacturers association, of Spokane,
spent Monday instecting Bend lumber drink the milk, a qualified veterinarian
should be called upon to inspect and
plants.
test each cow every year.
A. T. Donovan, of Wagontire, near
Bend, has gone to Portland to obtain PROTEIN REQUIRED BY HENS
Pasteur treatment for rabies, which he
fears he may be subject to as the Needed for Bone, Muscle and Eggs and
result of the bite of a wildcat.
is Scarcest In Vegetable World
Com Is Carbohydrate.
Robert Banks, of the firm of Kruse
& Banks, shipbuilders, of North Bend,
Protein Is needed for bone, muscle
announces the firm has been awarded
six vessels by the governmnet shipping and eggs. This la the element that la
board. The ships are to be of the scarcest In the vegetable world, Wheat
Hough type, 281 feet in length, 46-foot is rich in protein, clover haa a fair
beam and 26- foot depth of hold. These share of It mingled with a variety of
elements; oats has some, but
vessels are the first awarded to Coos other
corn is largely a fat-making food, or
Bay, but others are expected to be
what we call carbohydrates.
constructed there.