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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Makin' Cider
RON A MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
The other day we stepped back
from this efficient age when you
can get everything already bottled
or canned—if you can afford to
pay the price—to the time when
you produced with your own hands
the needs of the home. We made
npple cider. Our two sons had
never seen it made; Newdaughter
knew it only as something drunk
from a glass at a roadside stand
and even I had never helped make
it, but the Big Boss dug into his
boyhood memories and pulled
forth the proper method of pro-
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ducing that amber liquid which at
first is sweet apple juice, then
cider, then hard cider, then some
thing that has a kick like a mad
steer, and at last becomes that
household necessity, real apple
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Perhaps we would never have
reverted to the past had not
the ex-marine found on his newly
purchased ranch, which adjoins
the Rocking W, an old cider mill
and prees. It had, perhaps, come
into this valley in the early days,
for it had been many times mend
ed, but was still sturdy and en
tirely adequate. The ground un
der the old apple trees was strewn
•with fallen apples, and we looked,
and laughed and went to work
like a buqch of children.
It was a warn\, golden autumn
day.
The harvested fields lay
quiescent
within the circling
growth of firs around their
edges. The gnarled limbs of the
apple trees cast darker shadows
than their thinning leaves and
there was a faint hum of bees
over the fallen fruit. The rest
less world seemed very far away
from this quiet upland farm, and
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life regained, for those few hours,
something gf its lost tranquility.
Gathering up the firm rosy apples,
feeding them into the ancient
grinder, watching the thick sweet
juice trickle from the pressed
pulp, made ua, in some strange
mystic way, feel very close to
the real spirit of autumn, and I
tipped my cup and poured a li
bation onto the ground in grati
tude to the ancient earth-goddess
of the harvest. I wonder some
times, if we, as a people, have
not lost the virtue of gratitude.
We have come to feel that we are
not'dependent upon anything be
yond ourselves—such very little
selves. It hurts our self-conceit
to feel grateful for anything we
receive, and yet, we are dependent
upon that Something for the very
air we breathe, for the earth upon
which we walk and from which
comes our food, and the materials
from which we make our great in
ventions, and upon that golden
spirit which we call the Sun and
Light We are like children who
say always, “Give” and never
remember to say “Thank you.”
The poorest Mayan peon makes
a tiny altar in his cornfield, and
places fruit and flowers upon it
in reverence to the god who gives
fertility and life to his field and
grain.
In ancient days men
gathered at the temples with their
harvest offerings in thanksgiving
to the Power—no matter by what
name they call it—which gave
forth the means of life, and our
own forefathers bowed their heads
and thanked their God for the
food He gave. The same Some
thing, though called by many dif
ferent names. Yet, how many of
us in this present day offer one
word or thought of gratitude
to the Giver of Life?
I am sitting on the warm grass
in an upland field as I write this.
The Big Boss is discing the dark
rich soil in the field near by. Be
low me lies the orchards where we
made the cider, and the sunlight
brings out the vivid orange-red
of vine-maples against the dark
green firs. Only the subdued hum
of the tractor breaks the quiet.
The smell of fresh moist earth
drifts up to me on a wandering
breeze that waves the sun-dried
grass, and the sky is softly blue
with a few slowly-drifting white
clouds.
It is a beautiful world; life can
be sweet and clean and fine,
but we are never satisfied. We
are given so much, all that we
need, yet we hold out clutching
greedy hands and scream for
more. We want more land, more
money, finer clothes and jewels
and homes than our neighbors;
we quarrel and fight to get these
things, and the getting brings us
no lasting happiness. How can
it? We have lost our realiza
tion of the fundamentals of life,
we have lost our simplicity, our
feeling of oneness with all that is,
and we think that the acquiring
of more material wealth will bring
us joy.
Perhaps, in spite of the millions
of years of our evolution, we are
still very young.
We are but
children in the vast reaches of
eternity. We still are greedy and
cruel and selfish. We, childlike,
want new things, bright glittering
things, and weep when they break
in our hands. And always we ask
for more, forgetting the gifts we
have, or holding them worthless
because they are simple and old
as time, and common alike to rich
and poor.
Our human evolution has,
through the centuries, brought
forth a few men who have ceased
to be children in mind and emo
tion. They have spoken and writ-
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life, but we are not old enough
to understand them. Sometime,
perhaps, we shall grow old and
wise enough to listen and learn,
and then we will find how few
things are really essential, and
we will throw away our cheap
toys and tinsel trinkets, our greed
and selfishness and hate, and hold
only that which is needed for our
happiness.
The sun has dropped behind the
trees on the hill above me, and
the quickening breeze holds a
touch of autumn chill. Nehalem
Domino, the First, and Boy Bald
win, the Thirty-second, our sleek
red bulls, are wandering slowly
across the lower pasture toward
the barn; somewhere a cow is
lowing softly to her calf, and
from the lower ranch comes the
shrill whinny of the horses. I
must call to the Big Boss that
it is time to quit for the day,
then together we will go down the
hill and light the evening fires.
does not come very close to the
actual cost of completing the con
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Despite the need for increased
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digging drainage ditches, land
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The county committee is ask
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his conservation needs now and to
apply to the committee for assist
ance in carrying out any addition
al practices, that can be done
this fall Fall practices which the
committee are encouraging are
land clearing, applying fertilizers,
seeding pasture mixtures for pas
ture improvement, seeding grass
to establish permanent cover in
waterways and gullies, and in
stalling check dams in gullies.
There is still time to carry out
many practices for improving
grazing land, Johnson pointed out.
Assistance is available for range
water developments to promote
better distribution of livestock,
springs, dams and reservoirs.
At the same time the committee
is asking operators who will not
be able to perform all the prac
tices for which they received ap
proval on farm plans to turn in
the balances now. This will en
able the committee to reallocate
the funds to other farms and ob
tain more conservation with the
funds available.
Failure of Columbia county
farmei-s to apply for and u-e the
funds for more conservation work
will result in transfer of unused
funds to other counties, Johnson
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this will be most unfortunate in
view of the great need for con
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