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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1946
Page
6
Extension service records show since 1941 Vogel used 200 gourds per acre of blue phosphate annually and lime at two tons per acre with manure. The program increased forage yield from 45 tons of hay in 1940 to 300 tons of grass silage and 20 tons of hay on the same meadow.
Vegel details a dairy and farming improvement that lifted annual income from 11 000 pounds to 16 080 pounds by liming and soil sweetening. The Vegel farm sits on rolling land near Oretown, once cut over timber country, with Palham asserting others can replicate the success under similar conditions.
An OSC extension analysis shows the US general farm price level rising sharply from mid September to mid October. The price index for crops gained three percent while parity for farm products rose to 152 percent, with animal products up 20 percent and the overall farm price level up 12 percent from mid September. The parity index reached 182 percent, below the July 1946 high of 323.
Ada Lemon reports on a mining journey to Salmon mountain mines with Merman Dodge and notes a skull found on the Coquille river by Will Morris, identified by Dr. Stemmler as bears. Knight and Knapp shift to pack horses for winter between Myrtle Point and Port Orford. Sailors sue a Newport hall proprietor after a dancing ban. Roosevelt donates $100 to aid them. A Rogue River valley sugar factory opens. Wilson’s reelection appears in late counts. Farm costs rise with interest and taxes up 15 percent, stressing farm households.
Reverend Robert L. Greene of CoQuille's Episcopal church began holding services at Powers High School two weeks ago on the first and third Thursdays each month with fifteen attendees noted on the November seventh report.
Myrtle Point observed Armistice Day with a parade led by the Chamber of Commerce band and attended by seven surviving G.A.R. members. Loui M Suplee, a longtime resident and former banker, died Saturday. Local incidents include a fire alarm at Bald Hill and a reporting of the Steele Laundry blaze, plus various community notes.
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