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Last year packers paid 6? a pound for salmon, offered it again this year. Fishermen demanded 8? to meet present costs and anticipated inflation. Canners made a counter offer: A retroactive bonus if inflation boosts fish prices. Said the fishermen: "Eight cents or no fish...
Into the mouth of the Columbia River last week swarmed hundreds of thousands of plump fish. The salmon were running, fighting rapids, flashing over falls, bucking fishways around dams, bound more than 500 mi. inland to spawn and die. And last week for the first time in years no man hindered them. Boats cruised slowly on the river to see that no nets were laid. The Columbia River fisherfolk were on strike...
Editor Van Coevering does not overburden his magazine with preaching. Most of it is filled with conversational stories about Michigan fields & streams, articles on sports and Nature-lore. Michigan's foremost Nature-lover and onetime Governor, Chase Salmon Osborn, contributes a lyrical paean to Spring. First issue of 40,000 sold out 95%, even in hard-pressed Detroit...
...little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them...
...Salmon Fish's diploma last week bore the seals of Dr. Martha Eliot of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Dr. Elmer Martin Nelson of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...