, November, 1974 Page 19 G-AND USE ) Percentage of All Farm Numbers and Sales by Non-Family Farms by Region, State and Type of Production . 1964 %of %of %of Type of %of %of Region Farms Sales State Sales Production Farms Sales Pacific 13 71 Arizona 89 Vegetables 17 85 S. Eastern 6 56 California 79 Fruit & nuts 17 71 Mountain 9 54 N. Mexico 63 Other field crops 20 70 Delta 8 51 Colorado 57 Cotton 10 58 N. England 11 49 Mississippi 55 Poultry 8 43 S. Plains 6 45 Maine 53 Other livestock 3 31 Lake States 2 14 Texas 52 General 5 30 Corn Belt 2 13 Arkansas 50 Dairy 6 23 N. Plains 2 18 LOuisiana 48 Tobacco 3 18 Appalachia 4 27 Wash.-Ore. 46 Cash grain 3 15 Georgia 43 Michigan 21 Wisconsin 13 N. Dakota 13 · Iowa 9 Source: R. Nikolitch, Family-Size Farms in U.S. Agriculture, USDA ERS No. 499, February 1972, pp. 7, 9, 10. (MEDIA ) We are doing the layout on the second video exchange directory for the Seattle area. .• . . . and it will be out inNovember. We also are working with a lot of folks and cable companies in order to help people understand the hardware/softwear reel to real time process. -Roeby Simms North Community Television Project Box 5463 Seattle1 Wash. 98105 Willamette Valley Observer 454 Willamette St. Eugene,~e. 97401 New community non-profit weekly newspaper, to be published soon. Willame tte Week Weekly newspaper soon to be published. Ron Buel, publisher. 320 S.W. Stark, Rm. 315 Portland, ~e. 97204 243-2122; 243-2128 Paper somewhat modeled after National Observer, Oregon Times, or Christian Science Monitor. First issue to be published around Nov. 12. $8/yr. see also Audio-Visual ~ETWORKS ) Co-op Contacts P.O. Box 19142 Portland, ~e. 97219 A specialized, people and resource findery, memeographed free classified ad, 5-page flyer. Lists mostly people inNorthwest looking for rural communal connections, encouraging the use of the vehicle for sharing, swapping, bartering and information exchange. Pretend that all the entries in Rain are numbered.... Then you could follow a sequence like 7, 23, 106, 108, 51. Try it. I don't know what they will be-if I numbered them now, Number One might be Number 138. Skills Service Directory Harpers Magazine, 50¢ 2 Park Ave. New York, N.Y. 10016 Western Union Messages by Satellite. Phone 800. 325-6400 for free booklet, "Information Networks." see also Geology, Agriculture OPEN, NW Information Network Address correction: P.O. Box 692 Port Townsend, Wash. 98368 or P.O. Box 5599 Seattle, Wash. 98105 Other NW Information Networks: Jaybird Information, Box 554, Republic Wash. Co-op Contacts, Box 19142, Portland, Or. 97209 Rational Circle, cfo 2256-13 Patterson, Eugene, ~e. 97405 Rural Resources and Information P.O. Box 874, Toppenish, Wash. 98948 Vancouver Learning Exchange, 2455 W. 5th, Vancouver 9, B.C., Canada (Edward Goehring, OPEN.) The Avacado Exchange at the University of Washington Experimental College was discontinued. The Avacado people are now starting a network called "Visions Exchange." (Edward Goehring, OPEN) Reflections from the Road About three weeks ago Dana Atchley presented an audio image tour of his last year's rambling through America. Attended by 250 people in the Earth Tavern's new public space. Picking thin~ up, leaving them off, a carrier ·pigeon with a camera and tape recorder. see also Education, Outdoor Education, Community •
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