Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-08-09
Commercial Club and Agricultural
Interests.
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To Capital Journal:
Recently Colonel Hofer wrote the fol-
lowing published in one of our city pa
pers:
"The Salem Commercial club will
do well to expend at least half its in
come and its greatest energies promot'
ing dairying and swine raising. We
need more small farmers.
Did the versatile Colonel ever raise
and market swine with corn SO, shorts
$l.60 per 100 pounds, and sell the swine
at $675 per 100 pounds on foot' Not
to finance his present Mexican trip sure
raising hogs he would have gone as
ga bundle stiff" i. @. hobo. "We need
more small farmers7" What fori To
raise more strawberries retail 5 cents
a box' More loganberries for drier at
/ 3.4 cents, canning company l-2 cents
per pound9 More % cent eggs on 81
wheat feed More small farmers to pick
cherries at Eola for 60 cents per 100
pounds that are contracted for 5 l2
cents at cannery9 More small farmers
to work nine hours setting poles on a
hop ranch for 80 cents in order to pay
SIS taxes on his little six acre farm3
The taxes to pay one man 81 per day
for cutting roadside thistles, another
man $3.50 per day for supervising said
thistle eutting-$4.50 per day cost to
the small farmer to protect his bare.
foot children as they trudge TO logan
berry picking at so cents per 100
pounds. Great is the Oregon system.
Do you think the small farmer is
writing to his uncles, cousins and his
aunts to come to Oregoni Not so the
rural mail carrier notices it. The Salem
Commercial club will do well to cut out
the promotion Of lawn tennis tourna.
ments, organization of egg circles, the
hunting of potato market in Portland,
and "expend at least half its income F"
in salary and expense of market max
er, o sales agent, fruit demonstrators.
One that can create demand for what
the small farmer has to sell-find a
place TO sell it-strawberries in refriger.
ator car, lots south their berries are
long gone when ours are prime. Prunes,
loganberries, refrigeratored to cities in
the middle west, potatoes to regions Of
crop scarcity. The dried prune and log.
anberry to "dinner bucket pie' labor
centers like Joplin, Mo-, with its 10000
pie eating miners, Gary, Indiana, and
its steel workers, Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona whose ranchers now haul out
New York dried blackberries, imported
Sicily carrots by the 100 pound sack.
Ask right now at 999-railroad eating
house lunch counters for "loganberry
pie " and what will the vision in white
shirt waist sayl "What are logan
berries7" But she, and so does the
waitress at Halifax and Hongkong
/ knows what Postum cereal, Kellogg
Korn Flakes and all other demand bust
ness built by brains, energy and prin'
ters' ink foods are and SO do millions
of demands create users, that pay the
price.
Make the small farmer prosperous
and he will edo the rest, " won't need
J the Autographed booklet.
Otherwise il will be 'baek' they Ga
where the frosty fall morning air rings
with the truck Of 20 cents per bushel
corn against the side of the wagon box
The neighboring renter passes whistling
"Dublin Bay" on 60 bushel load of
Al wheat. The children with "shoes on
their feet" fix the pasture fence 70
keep the $50 spring calves from the
alfalfa field until dad can get the fifth
cutting in stack-go--even back TO the
Ozarks where the crack Of the sorghum
mill mingle with colorature soprano Of
the guinea hen-where a turkey roost.t.
in every tree--a bacon hog slestas
under every oak--a box Of home grown
tobacco and barrel Of cider on every
porch. heap Of black walnuts and
hammer by every step stone, string OF
| braided pop corn ears hangs from the