THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1983
HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON,
OREGON
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OREGON STATE NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
Butterfat —14 @ 15c.
Eggs—Ranch, 15 @ 16c.
Cattle- Steers, good, 11.75 @ 5.25.
Hogs—Good to choice, $3.50 @ 4.35.
Lambs — Good to choice, $5.25 @
5.65.
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Cattle—Steers, good, $4.25 @ 5.00.
Hogs—Good to choice, $3.50 @ 4.00
Lambs—Medium to good, $4.75 @
5.00.
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First bricks of Rogue River cheese
made at Central Point have been in
troduced at Medford. The plant has
been In operation for a month and
has already shipped several tons to
California but has refrained from
local sale until the cheese is properly
aged. The ultimate capacity of the
plant will provide for the use of
30,000 to 40,000 pounds of milk
daily.
get allotments, with the result that
tax delinquencies were offset and a
reduction of $9500 in the city's war
rant debt was made. The city spent
$71,634 during the year.
Fuel has been supplied to all the
needy In immediate territory of To
ledo during the winter by the Cream
ery Package company of Toledo. This
Is in the form of waste wood which
cannot be used by the plan: and
would otherwise be burned.
A large mule, and an automobile
The white robin that each spring
comes back to Sherwood has made driven by Troy Qualls of Klamath
his appearance again this year on I county, met recently on The Dalles-
the Walter Dewey farm near Sher I California highway near Williamson
wood. This is the third year that river, head-on. The mule was killed
the bird has been seen in this vi | and the automobile badly wrecked.
cinity. The bird is snowy white, with
A protest again! the rerouting of
a red breast, and is always found in
i : 1 ghway from the north-
a flock of other robins.
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is a 50 per cent reduction compared
with last year.
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The postoffice at Melrose, Douglas
When Ray Toft of Jacksonville
county, has been discontinued. It
was established 46 years ngo. In ' committed suicide, last October, it was
those days it took the mall carrier a reported that he was in financial dif-
full day to travel 25 miles from one I ficulties. An inventory of his prop-
end of ids route to the other. Today I erty, just filed, shows that he left an
the carrier travel 59 miles in about estate valued at $67,259.
four hours.
Wheat experts of Pendleton be
lieve that heavy wheat land in Uma
tilla county, frozen out during the
winter, will be reseeded 100 per
cent, but that much of the light land I
will be left unseeded.
Word has been received here that
Dougan-Hammond co., of Portland,
awarded the contract for the con
struction of the new Oregon City post
office, will start work this month on
the new structure.
Congressman Samuel A. Kendall of
I Pennsylvania, who recently commit
Owners of dogs in the city limits ted suicide, was financially interested
of Tillamook City have been warned for many years in large timber hold
by the police department that the ings on the North Umpqua and East
ordinances that prohibits dogs from | Umpqua rivers.
running at largo will be rigidly en
forced to the letter.
Mary Hoffman Vining, an Oregon
pioneer of 1853, is dead at her home
in Ashland. She was nearly 96 years
of age and was the mother of Irving
Vining, a member of the state game
commission.
A decision of the circuit court de
termining the minimum or upset
price at which f rm land in Umatilla
county may be sold under mortgage
foreclosure is asked in a suit filed 1
Road work in Clatsop county is be
at Pendleton.
ing held back pending spring tax
Acreage in alfalfa in Lane county
is gradually increasing and more will
be planted this ye at than in any pre
vious year. Sixty-nine soil tests for
22 different farmers were made dur
ing February.
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Non-Producers
Save
Feed
ing the past 11 years the number of some form every day. Now that
eggs per hen to pay for her cost of spring is coming and eggs are get
feed has ranged from 48 to 72 per ting more plentiful, and cheaper in
year, averaging 62. In IU.J, It re
price, this can be done without in
quired rat eggs per hen annually to pay
her feed costs. About ten dozen are creasing costa. Nutrition authori
required per bird to pay the entire ties recommend eggs at least three
or four times a week for a well
cost.
On this basis you can easily esti balanced diet. This is because of
mate what your own Hock Is doing their value as body-building food,
Now is the time to cull the old hens their high vitamin content, and be
In the Hubbard section the straw
As with the dairy so with the poultry, cause they are an excellent source
berry crop will be light this year. The
this Is the year to weed out the non of iron in a form very easily utilized
long drouth last summer prevented
producers mercilessly. Fortunately, in the body. Because of this Iron,
the development of fruit spurs, while
the ratio between feed and eggs Is
the big freeze of some weeks past
eggs are good blood builders. Al
relatively good, so that If you do cull
raised havoc with the plants. Black
though
eggs are richer in iron than
closely and then exercise more than
caps were not injured and the dam
usual care your poultry business may milk, they contain much less cal
age to raspberries and logans was
come through fairly well during the cium or lime. For this reason they
slight.
are in no way a substitute for milk
next year.—American Agriculturist.
School started last Monday for
but should be considered a supple
eight children of the forest fire-
ment to it. Dishes prepared with
blackened Cochran area. In a convert-
Sanitation Pays
these two protective foods in combi-
ed railroad car, a teacher, hired by
finnois poultry men who used sani nation assure a highly nutritious,
citizens of Wheeler, will teach the
tation and otherwise practiced good
children of the few families remain- | management got a return of 31 cents as well as palatable result. The ad-
ing after the worst fire in the history
an hour more for their labor last year dition of cheese to any egg dish
of the state laid desolate the region.
than flock owners who did not use rives rest nd flavor which adds to
e pala ibility, A few recipes Ie-
sanitation, according to a summary of
Expenditures of the city of Bend
their records hy H. II. Alp poultry ex turing esgs, with milk and cheese,
during 1932 were $34,000 under bud-
tension specialist of the University of ¡re:
keon Hot Springs has
One hundred and fifty men have
i y a group of property
begun work in five-hour shifts on
wn ra along the precent route.
the Pacific highway at Ashland.
Twonty-cne per cent of the men are
The Yamhill county court has re
selected from the Jackson county un duced the tax on dogs. The new rate
employed Hot. The remainder are i for males and spayed females is 50
from Coos, Curry and Multnomah conta and for females 75 cents. This
counties.
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In the Trout Creek section on the
H. L. Friday ranch, an unusual sight
to be seen by the traveler on The Dal
the MARKETS
les-California highway is a small herd
of buffalo feeding In the alfalfa field.
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Portland
These animals were secured recently
No wheat quotaitons.
by Mr. Friday while in Portland and
Hay—Buying prices, f. o. b. Port | brought to their new ranch home by
truck.
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $12.50.
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No wheat quotations.
Butterfat—16c.
Eggs— Ranch, 15 @ 16c.
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Hogs—Good to choice, $3.60 @ 3.75
Cattle—Choice steers, $4.25 @ 4.75. '
Sheep—Spring lambs, $5.00 @ 5.25. |
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Speaking of longevity: Word has
Out
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been received by J. I. Hallmark, who
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HI-WAYS TO HEALTH
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and
Cost of
has moved back to Cove. Ore., recent
By Ada R. Mayne
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ly from Lu Grande of the death of a
According to the poultry depart •
brother at the age of 101 years. Mr.
ment of the New York State College • OREGON DAIRY COUNCIL •
Hallmark, who is nearly 70. was the of Agriculture, feed Is about one -halt $*$9229**$***%
youngest of a family of 12 children, I of the cost of keeping a hen. 90 pounds
Delicious Egg Features
all of whom were alive until this I being required per year for slightly
A wise resolution for any house-
death occurred.
| better than average production. Dur wife to make is to serve eggs in
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SEATTLE
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A year and a half after receiving
a report of a stolen watch from Tom
Halverson, of Klamath Falls, the
city police located the watch last
week in a second-hand store.
The Lane county chapter of the
Red Cross will do investigatory and
relief work for the county commit
tee of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation.
payments, which are expected to give
the county court an idea of what
funds may be expected to be real-
The Ma yea cedar mill on Middle
Elk, in Curry county, is to te moved
south of Ophir this week and work
will continue on cutting Port Orford
cedar for storage battery separators.
Pastor Whitesmith of Community
Liberal church at Eugene has pro
posed to the Lane county court that
it allow property owners to work out
delinquent taxes on the roads.
Stockholders of the Old Union Ditch
company, organized 50 years ago in
i Yakima county, have celebrated its
Josephine Chard, 3, of Demar, died 50th anniversary and approved new
at Kelzer Bros, hospital as the re articles of incorporation.
sult of falling in a tub of scalding
water at her home last Sunday night.
George W. Dunn, state senator,
Jackson county, has been elected
More than 200 men are now em president of the First National bank
ployed in county relief work in Mar of Ashland to succeed the late E. V.
ion county, it was announced by offi | Carter.
cials. Others will be added later.
Alfred siakis of Blaine was arrest-
1 ed recently on a charge of unlawful
Velma Kizer, teacher at Albany, is possession of deer meat and was sen
displaying a fully developed, ripe tenced to 50 days in Jail and fined
pineapple, the fruit of a tree that ■ noo.
Illinois. He cites this as further evi-
dence that the difference between sue
cess and failure In poultry raising Is
largely one of good management, since
sanitation Is always part of good man
agement.
Flocks handled under the
recommended sanitation system paid
their owners a return of 70 cents an
hour for labor, while nonsanitation
farms paid only 45 cents an hour.
—Indiana Farmer's Guide.
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s and Noodles an Gratin.
4 ta bles, con a butter
? tablespoons flour
’ 14 enn milk
1 teaspoon salt
16 teas, o on w ite pepper
2 cups diced celery
6 hard cooked eggs
12 cup grated cheese
1 package noodles
Cook noodles in salted water un
til tender. Make white sauce of
flour, milk and seasonings. Brown
celery In butter. Put noodles, cele-
■y, sliced eg s, and cheese in alter
ate lay: ra Into buttered baking
ish.
Four white sauce ovi r all.
prin le > ith grated
cheese
and
aprika. Set id moderate ov n un-
l cheese melts and browns light-
y. Serves six.
Watch Flock’s Condition
Fowls should he handled frequently
If one Is to know their true condition.
They are disturbed least by doing this
at night after they have gone to
roost.
If too fat. reduce the feed
ami increase the amount of bran
It results are still poor. Increase the
n>... nt of animal feed such as meat.
Scraps, etc. liens with too much fat
are not In good laying condition he
cause the fat prevents the egg from
passing through the egg duel.
It
takes some experience In handling to
detect the 'pink of condition” In n
laying ‘ien but II is a knack that
can be easily acquired.
Erg Itoll with Cheese Sai e.
For Good Hatch
The older, and better known essen
tials of a good hutch are these: (I)
Eggs must be fertile. In the breeding
flock there should he one vigorous
mule to every eight liens In the heav
iest breeds, one to 15 In the Rocks and
Reds, and one to 20 In the light breeds.
(2) Eggs must be gathered same day
ns laid. (3) Eggs must be stored in
a temperature between 32 and 68 de
grees Fahrenheit. and should be turned
daily. (4) Eggs shoulI be selected
normal In shape and size.
Make you r favorite bakin
pow-
r 1 iscuit dough adding two table-
poons of cheese with shortening,
oil out to about 1 inch thi kness
nd spread with tthe egg filling:
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
12 teaspoon salt
4 hard cooked eggs
Make a thick white sauce of the
flour, milk, salt and butter. Add
the < hopped, hard cooked eggs. When
•ool, spread on the biscuit dough.
Roll the dough Jelly-roll fashion
and cut Into half Inch slices. Place
slices cut side up in pan and bake
in hot oven 15 minutes. Serve with
( heese sauce or melted cheese.
Cheeoe Souffle.
Poultry Facts
4 eggs
1 % cup milk
Chickens need at least four square
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs
feet per bird in small houses.
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1 tablespoon butter
It Is claimed that a hen’s eggs reach
% lb. American cheese
maximum size during her second year’s
% teaspoon salt
laying.
1 teaspoon paprika
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3 drops Tabasco sauce
When wild turkeys appear near a
Heat the milk, bread crumbs, and
tame Hock they greatly excite the do
butter in a double boiler. Shave
mesticated birds, and a wild gobbler
will allm k a tame one. usunily be the cheese into thin slices, idd it
Ing victorious over the barnyard var to the hot mixture, and stir until
the cheese has melted.
Add this
letv.
mixtura to the well-beaten egg
yolks. Season to taste with papri-
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:a and Tabasco. Fold the h t mix-
line Into the stiffly
beater
egg
whites containing the salt
Pour
Into a greased dish, and bal
in a
very moderate oven (300 1 ) for
one hour, or until set in the enter.
Serve immediately.
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she has grown at her home.
Wild Horse grange, at Adams. Um-
Recall petitions have been filed at atilla county, has passed resolutions
Warrenton. Clatsop county, seeking opposing a sales tax and also a 3-mill
the recall of G. Clifford Barlow, po tax for state purposes.
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lice judge.
John Boyd, 60, of Medford was In
Wc now have over 1,000
subscribers.
The Reedsport Chamber of Com a serious condition in a hospital as
merce will issue scrip secured by the result of an explosion In a local
large payrolls in the lower Umpqua rooming house. Boyd was attempt
valley. The scrip will be In denomin ing to build a fire with the aid of
ations of 25 cents. $1 and $2.50. kero ene when the explosion occur
Orders for wages are given priority
red.
right In the redemption of the scrip.
The signs of spring have not read
Walter P. Fell has been reelected
true this year Pussy willows ap- | president of the Eugene water board.
peared, grass sprouted, earwigs were The board votad to d continue the
seen, incubators b r o u G h t forth str « t I i cervice in the College
their young and still spug did not Crest district.
come. But now the boys have begun
to piay marbles and spring is here.
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Photograph,
Ruth Aleeader
Nicholr
Girl Scouts have nimble fingers and willing hearts. They prefer to turn
out pretty clothes, when they can get the material, but thousands of
them are contributing their services as seamstresses to the needy
these hard times.