
own and the four orphans. I kept 
goat's milk before them all the time, 
but three of the younger brood died. 
That leaves me beset with five kit- 
tens besides our two cats. Well, seven 
is not as bad as eleven. 

Blackberries are an important cash 
crop in this part of the state, and this 
year are proving a gold mine to the 
pickers; and the farmers are not los- 
ing money on them. ‘The cannery at 
Grannis is packing for quick freeze 
and the armed forces are taking the 
bulk of the pack. The fantastic price 
of 13 cents a pound is being paid for 
the berries delivered at the packing 
shed. Unless stopped by act of God, 
this one shed will pack over 900, 000 
pounds this season. 
The bushes do not bear until the 
After that the crop re- 
quires about 20 man days labor per 
second year. 
acre per year, aside from _ picking. 
Sixty crates to the acre is an average 
yield—over a thousand pounds. -And 
if an investor will come in wearing 
duckings and looking for odd. jobs to 
meet expenses, while keeping his eyes 
open, it is easily possible to buy good 
berry land, clear title and usable im- 
provements, for $25 an acre. ) 
Mr. Cole sold a drifter 160 acres 
on credit. 
considerable new fencing and im- 
proved the dwelling and paid. out in) 
full with the proceeds from the sec-: 
ond crop. Then abandoned the farm: 
and drifted further west where he 
hoped “‘to do better.”’ 
The man built a new barn, 
THE YELLOW SHEETS 
How. do you like doing without 
meat and. soap? Well, just resign 
yourself. We are simply being con- 
ditioned for central planning, whereby 
the politicians at Washington will plan 
our lives and everything will be just 
lovely, even though we go hungry and 
dirty.. We all know that if the small 
slaughter and packing houses were 
permitted to operate to capacity, and 
if farmers were permitted to slaugh- 
ter all their surplus animals and sell 
the meat without red tape, there would 
be more meat for the table and much 
more fat for soap. But that would be 
individual initiative instead of State 
Socialism, which just won't do at all. 
What would a lot of the political ap- 
pointees do for a job if we were left 
free to manage our own affairs? I see 
by the papers that snoopers will be 
turned loose to keep an eye om the 
food lockers. Fine Gestapo training 
for the snoopers. Next thing it will 
be our preserve closets. 
Of course all this flapdoodle is un- 
der the excuse of protecting us from 
the boogher of the Black Market. Per- 
sonally I prefer to be free to protect 
myself. [I can refuse to buy if the 
price is too high. I consider the Black 
Merket much the lesser evil, and if 
they keep on they'll make the Black 
N-arket as fashionable as bath tub gin 
wd to be in the Prohibition era. 
But the real purpose is obviously 
Restrict 
until the owner must quit or deal with 
the Black Market, and then crack 
down and eliminate him. All as cor- 
to eliminate small business. 
rect and legal as the Nazi business 
deals, 
het Qo 
