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ikQSH&KS Afr&Tsf j. 1 936. TWO NEW S OF FARM s LI FE GRANGES COUNTY AGENT'S REPORTS CROP NEWS' DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE NEWS PRIZES OFFERED 4 H LIVESTOCK RAISERS Trip M National Show and Cash Scholarships Open to Oregon Winners. CHICAjfiO. Aug. JO The Thou. E. Wlllioil gold iw-dul for the out- ' standing- county Hi livestock cluh member Is utsal" offend lu all counties of Oregon announces the iitttlonul coiuinlltee op hoys' nd girls' club work. It and other attractive prises provided In tills national contest ure to ho awardml by cluh tauter at the close of Hie feedliiK and showing season. Jleports of county winners uiit be submitted (u the Estate leuder's office to allow for Judging before Nov. 2. Forms for -the use of contestants uiuy he no " uiirod of county nisonU. 'J'ho winner of "Into honors re ceives a Su gold watch and be comes eligible' to compete for one of four ull-.expenao trips to the 16th National Club congress to bo held ' in Chicago Nov. 27-Dec. 5 in con- nectlon with t''n International 1 Uvestuck exposition. From tho I four trip winners three vvlll he - chosen to reculve cush scholar- ships of (WOO, $200 and f 10Q. In addition W glviim JS boys suc !' cessful (n the pust six contests u start on college careers, participa tion by bundreds of others bus helped them to master problems of livestock production and lo estab lish valuable herds of their own. Their examples ulso have led to the adoption of better practices by lintire communities In livestock furmlng! '. ' o i the hoi water cure, to protect do mestic crops. Frank McKennou,' head of Uie plant division lor Oregon, an nounced tue action w-as cousiocreu important since Oregon's bulb growing was a niUliou dollar In dustry. The interstate rpjajuutine wus lifted about a year ugo, be said. U, sTPOTJITOCiP ' rOUTJ.AMJ), Auk. 7- .AP i-olluiinury enAlninlttB of ,Ui iio-i punnipiit of agriculture Jmllt'iUe liiut Oi-okoh'ii J'.iaB wool iiqiJucl,om Will he slightly lens 11 mu in 11)34 or 1036. The eBtlnmted fiRiire for this yukr 1b 1H,318,0I)0 )k., ub eomparutl lij I'.i.UHH.diHi iuhi your una ultuhtly . in ore In lfl.,4. An uHllmaUd 2,13, UI)0'-huKd of uuei will- litrn "tliiB-'your wheruiiK 2,2i.i,u)0 were 0. 1017) liiut year and 2.2SO.UOO tlie year liofore. ' The lamb crop import of llio do luii Uiu'iii, also loloHHtHl tuduy. tihowod ,Uio uumbur of broi'ding even in the HUitu to bo the In'iiv Icwl 111 1h your In boijio time. The totul a)iroxlmaUd J.SSu.iiOO a vomimreu tp JW.mii) lout year and 1. KtiX.Onu Jn Xl34. Tin iuituJir p( lunibH docked wan 1,5711,000, more than laBl year but eoi.Htderubly leuH UUui 44i urovloUH year. ftlnlity-; Jour per cent weio ewes, h mime ; "proportion uh lat year, lu IM'M ; the periiPiituKe waft 11. j The report revealed that winter! OWo loKaes In Oregon were light Uii8 year. Jmt tlmre had beeji aome , lotui pi early ltmiLm. hale luuilm . woi'O nuiil to have done well., IlunnoB ,voro reported jtooil. with u goutl crop of loed on lower WASHINGTON, Auk. 17. (A P) The BiniiJleat potato crop ver recorded was predicted by the eg-, rlcultuie department. fu Ha statement on crop condi tion a August 1, the department, crop reporting board said the pros pect was for a 2114,637,000 hubej harvest, seven per cent lews than lust year, ft compared with a Jive-year average of 372, 1 J 5,000 bu-, Hhels. ' "The lute potato crop Is In a cri tical condition," the report Haid. "A continuation of the drought would jCKuJt lu very light yields in most commercially Important flec tions from western New York to the iJukotas; hut timely rainfall ,durlug August would probably re sult in a general benefit to the crop Jn most areas. ' ". ' "In the fjve central surplus late; potato state, and in Iowa, Ne braska and Wyoming, drought con-! dltlous are responsible for potato ; crop Ioshps during July estimated at 22.000.00U bushels. However, potato prospects sbowed a slight Improvement during July In New Kngland and the Pacific const states, 'where Uie vines grew rap idly during the' past month. Home potato blight is apparent lu Maine but does not appear to be spread ing." A Willie pptatp crop pf 39,780.000 bushels, or 7 per cent of normal was forecast for Maine. The white potato crop lu Ne braska was es it inn led at only 4,815,000 bushels, or 20 per cent of normal. CREAMERIES FORM ASSN. FOR TESTING 8ALKM, Aug. 17 (AP) Hep rpbentu lives of eight creameries lu Lane, Linn, Muiiou and Clackamas counties buve tunned the first creamery leatlng association In .Orogou "to aid tlm dairy Industry hy Aeitdlna'PtMiriU.eitoe in the indus try;' State director goloir T. w(ifte niiriciunoed. Other associations wUl be start ed In vurlous sections of tho state. AVliite said.' The orgniikation is similar to the cow testing associa tions. ' A Llronsed slate tester will spend ,tliree days a month at each cream-i jory repreBeateil 10 weigh, sample: and test the jnllk and cream re-; eeJved. Tho records will ho avail-, able ror all ahipperB and will be u state guarunlee. El MELONS REGARDED GOOD VOTE GETTERS 1MJ.I.AK, Tex. ( AP Waler,niol- ou feasts are good vote getters. candidates in a leceiU Tcxus jri mary discovered. Jn fact, .they were more populur lu JaUas county tliau klsttlng babies, orchestras, steak frit or morning coffee. Chi U ten ami grown-ups an eighth of a .melon to Uie person with no second helping cleaned up JK5 tons of the juicy, red meat at the expense of candidates dur ing the campiiinn. Apples Superior to Oranges in Content Of Vfteniin A, Nrition Scientist Fjnds IIO.STON. AUK- 17. (AP) Sci- once made the orange take a hack s.eui ut the iniemiuipjiai appie shippers convention here. Bclence reported the oraugo, coujjuonly believed ti b.e a good source of vitamin A, contained only about one-half as much of the vitamin content as some var ieties of apples. I)j Ini A. iManvlllo, director oi the nutritional laboratory at Ibe Oregon medical school and a noted scientUt lu the Xield of nutrliion. said: 'Many varieties of apples nave been found to be gupd sources oX Vituni.ji A, alUiough some of the leading works on nutrition have red 1 1 oil apples as having only u hioderate viainln A content. "Actually the viamin A vaJue varies with the variety and while ll is true that ome varieties may he poor sources of this vJtamin, the HpiUcnburg, yellow Newtown, WJnesap and Arkansas Black have from 84 to 36 units per ounce while the orange, commonly be lieved to bo a good source of vlta- jnlne A, has only 20 units' be said. Jjr. Manville explained there al so ,was a similar variation of vita min C value in different varie ties of appk'B. ' Ho urged care in the selection of varieties' for. 'pro duction, kii 'regions oUilted to apple cul ture, he said, the apple could he depended upon as the principal Bource pf the vitamin thai prevents scurvy one of particular value be cause Jhe apple b geueiaLly .eaten raw. Of High Remedial ylue - "Manville a((vapced an Entire ly new and revolutionary view of the nutritive and - thereapeutic value. of the pectin in apples as a result of an exhaustive research which he directed on pacific north west' apples for the ' past" fpuy years. He pointed out remarkable re sults had been obtained clinically in the treament of children with raw apple pujp for various lutes tinal disorders. "Wheu the therapeutic value of the apple is mors generally recog nized it will be used phophylactl cally as much or more than any other therapeutic use to -which it may be vut. "J do not hesitate to say that to children in large cities and to those living in areas where It Is common for jthe jtemperature to reach high Jevels, such- methods of jirophylaxis or therapeutic treat ment will prove to be one of the greatest -blessings of recent times. '"The apple more than any oth er food with which we are ' ac quainted possesses therapeutic advantages in the highest degree. Fruits such as the apple should be considered as being more than food. They are medicinal agents posseaslng both prophylactic and therapeutic powers," he said. tvo JlarUetts by the AAA in Cali fornia recently Is said to have bad the effect of Improving the tanner juice ln .California. jc FARM PRICE MEET pALLEp AT SALEM SALtiM, Pre., Aug. 17 For the purpose of continuing the in vestigation of prices of certain agricultural commodities, to de termine whether or not they Are below parity, as outlined in .Ore gon laws, and to consider the ad visability cu invoking the aid of the Oregon agricultural marketing act, a puhllc meeting is called hy me nirecior oi agriculture, io oe held in Hie conunorclal club rooms in Sulem at 2 p. m. Monday, Aug ust 24. " VALE PROFITS ON POTATOES ARE GQQD VAI.R Dip Amp 17 CAP. f let ween 40 and 50 cars of pota oes, valued at approximately $25, QfiQ. rolled out of Vale last week GROWERS OF VETCH The request of Oregon seed pro ducers to have a plant Quarantine placed against imported vetch and certain types ol pea seeu has oeeu approved by Washington authori ties and such a quarantine went into effect on August i, ,0. 3, C. 'oUieiuls have been nptified. . The quarantine order, issued by the secretary oi agriculture, says ,thal it has been detei mined that certain imported vetch and pea seeds are frequently Infested with, one .or more species of seed .weev ils, narUeularly .live vetch bruebld. Jloretofoie iip iuspectloti had been mado of these sueds for this pest, hut .front now oji entry of Blich seeds will have to meet rjgtd in spocton reqtiii'.omejits.' i . . i' j ' This affords addltlouul protec tion to the Oregon industry to tliat now .provided by state quarantine, na; the O. S. 0. men. The highly destructive ye ten bruebld has ill ready become established iii cer tain eastern and south Atlantic stales where it Is said to threaten the eastern vetch seed Industry. J'JlTective control ' of this pest has not been worked out. and .every effort Is being made to keep it from spreading to western states. VALUE OF BORER (CONTROL PROVED Mi .M1NNVILI.K 1-roor of the' value of the application of paru dichlorohenzcnc lor peuch and prune root borer control fc found in a survey made In ViuuhMl coun ty during the past year, buys t.'oiNity Agent Ilex Warren. A check of 61 treated trees MRtnvdu only six affected by borers, whlln an 'examination of -til unt'vaied It ties showed 53 were affected. He recommends making the treatment a'lir August 15 uiid hefo.ve lull r.iins start. APPLE PROSPECTS WASJJJNCiTON, Aui5. 17 CAJ?) Less hard hit thau the .east and mhldle-wcsl hy advertte conditions our .western states will produce 15 per cent of the country's aiulc crop this year, the agriculture de IturtmeAt prophesienl. AlthouKb westerji harvests will noi touch or five-year .ayerae marks, tho production of percent use will jump from Si icr cent last year to this year's pstiniate because of the poor prospects, in other parte of the country. "I'rospecU are relatively more favorable In the Pacific coast and Jtocky mountain group of slates wnere damage from late freezes was less severe than in eastern' areus," the department report Hal'l. , ' ( ........ The lD.li' ostlmaie of 102,487,000 bushels Is the smallest crop since mi. . Total production figures for ma' jor apple-Browing stales, five-year average, 1935 production and indi cated 11136 production, by bushels, respectively, Include: H Oregon, 5,082,000, 3,500,000,' und I, 200,000. AAA TO PURCHASE BARTLETT PEARS COHVAI.US. Aug. 17 (Al) Authorization lor the purchase In the near fulure Jy the AAA of J'aciflc noilhwost Bartletl pears lu carload lets has been received from Ihe AAA commodities purchase section, officials of Oregon Stulc college were informed Imhiv Tin. announcement said deliveries prob- uoi.v win oe accepted within a fen days. A considerable proportion of the cars ot. pears w ill be bought at Vaklma. Wash., but other pur chases will also be made nt We- mitcht'O. Wash.. Hllil ut II, mH lllvor und iMcdford, it was said. Purchase of 200 nirs of number Initial Use WH Occur t Annual Ram Sale to Be Hel) Septemjbe.r J. KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Aug. 17. Plans are being drawn and bids will he called for at once for the construction ot a combinatioii sales and judging -ring at the Kla math county fair grounds In $la math Falls. The sales fing will lie used for the Jjrat time at Uie third annual southern Oregon ram sale which wllj be held jn t)ia,t city on to market described by growers as "the besj In' years." It was estimated lat year's slilpment of 315 cars would be doubled in 1936. l3rlces quoted here raiifod from Sl.no to 12.00 a bushel. Tuesday, September 1, Jt will be : used later for the Klanntth county 4-H clubs and Smith-Hughes pro jects In Uieir annual junior fair. ; The third annual sale promises to outshine the two previous sales in thai a keen rivalry has devel oped among the breeders of the west in their efforts lo consign rams that will l-rlng tho highest price. This rivalry has resulted In very careful selection of ramB consigned and the purchasers at this sale will be assured ot only top-notch breeding stock, carefully selected, and should have no hesi tancy in bidding on the lots offer ed. The tew facilities being con structed by the Klamatb county fair board will materially speed up the sale and Colonel A. W. Thomp son of Lincoln, Nab., will preside as auctioneer ln his usual capable manner. On Monday evening, August 31, the third annual livestock banquet wtllbe held in the ViUard hotel nt 7 p. in.' County Agent C. Hen derson of Klamath county v"' preside as toastmnster, and prob lems affecting Uie livestock Indus try will he discussed. Short ad dresses .Will be clveD- by promjft ent men on the Pacific coast and the banquet will serve as a means for the sheepmen attending the sale to become better acquainted with each otiier. ' . . RYE CALLED BEST FOR fEED CRISIS MANJUTTAN, Kaa. (AP) The greatest hope of relieving the live stock feed shortage lies In fall planting oi rye, sayB Dr. C. W. CumpbeJI. head ot the .Kansas Slate college animal husbandry de partment. "Bye is our niost dependable orop and best hope for the produc tion pf fall, wijupr and spring teed..iThls crop will produce mora pasture and' withstand 'more' un favorable weather, trumping und gracing than any other small grain crop-" ' . . . - - ' .. 40 PCT. OF OREGON BEEF IS EXPORTED COItVALUS, Aug. 17 (AP) Approximately 40 per cent of the beef produced in Oregon is sold outside jthe state, H. A. Undgren, extension animal husbandniau at XXregon State college, said. Oregon is one of 20 states which produces a surplus of beef. ' Oregon livestock associations nnd marketing agencies are join ing with similar organizations na tionally ln observing August jas na tional beef month. In the last few years the industry Jn Oregon lias succeeded in stimulating a demand for higher quaUty products,' Bald Undriren. - -WABMNCTON, Aug. 1". I AIM The bureau of entomology and . phmt tiunratitiue " of Ihe depart ment of agriculture suld today ' grasshoppers and rhim-.h Iiuks t ui'o ruining many Xleldp of grain and forage which have escaped thr drought. The bureau Haid Vlhe varieties of I crlrkolB Marmoii a ti d Coulee, botii generul feeders have swarm- cd over parts of the northwest, lu Hpilo of control measures that com ' pletWy ' W'iiied out many baudti, Alanuon cricket infestations in Ida ho and Nevada are alarm Iniily , huge. Montana aluo lias enorm mis numbers of thin cricket nnd lilah, Wyoming, Colorado and Ore- (gon have smaller. iufentaUuiis. . "Tho turnip seod weevil, a com paratively now pctd, has ruined a lot of mUHtaid, and ciibbage sO(tl' lu' wetmu'tt Wushtiigton and Ore gon, and the (uinalo pluworm has Injured tomalues tu Htntthoru .Cali fornia." 1 .Heavy InfeHtations of nd spid ers were reported limn .Maiy.lund -westward through Kentucky and -Ohio to the I'at'iric voum. BULB QUAR A NTINE - RESTORATION ASKED . HAl-KM. Aug 17 AIM - llulli grnwt'i.s In nrt'guu. MikmikIi the tttte di'pai'lmeut of iiKiitulture. h:e petitioned tho federal gov ernment lo ii'liinlale the uiiaiau- II ll i' nil illteiHlate ltiovemeltl 4if linrrlsHUH Iriillrs to piewnt the Ppietid oi itrmaludi, or eelwonn. Tlie art Inn lullnttcd receipt of did from Lvv A. sitrotiK, chief of thai dl ihioii under the federal Hui it uli u i al depailiue.nl, that for- Vigil llUpUltK (if liaicUtMllt bulbi VuiJJ bu i.'nuufij m uuderno the Quai-iutinf tresuneni, voU"ihtjii(t id' Sheep i! Bah! Keep them healthy Keep them well j Give them Richardso n's "Bah-Bah" Capsules All successful sheep owners Know that It Is necensry to fight Liver Fluke and Stomach Worm. This li true in practically all countries and Ute3, and particularly so In sections having mild and moist climatic conditions such as we have In Western Oregon, Washington, and parts of California. So Important It this matter parasite control that both the U. S. Government and many of the states go to great expense lo give expert advice to the stockmen. Also scientific laboratories are called up on to supply the demand for the neceisary remedies to control and eradicate ' these destructive parasites. , . . , I,n Western Oregon there are local conditions somewhat different from those of many other 'places and to meet the problems of this area we have given several years of careful study, observation and tests to find the best, safest and most economical way to solve them. The result of these studies and tests Is a practical, eflective and safe product which we now supply In capsules for the simul taneous treatment of Fluke (Liver leach). Stomach Worms and Tape Worms, in these capsules one Of tht Ingredients is Pure Carbon Tetrachloride, th t well known and officially approved agent for killing Fluke (Liver leach). Along with It In the same capsule Is the' non volatile and definitely prov en worm and germ exterminator Richardson's Iodized Calcium Compound. Each capsule contains full and effective dose for sheep and goats. Right now It a good time to treat sheep and large lambs Get them In good condition before stormy weather. " Give them thit combination capsule treatment called B AH-B AH CAPSULES. You .cap sec them in the doll, You can hear the blighters yell, And you know they feel like hall, Give them Bnh-Bnh, keep them well. Bnh-Bnh, Bnh-Bnh, Bah-Bnh. this dependable, easier to give, safe nnd economical remedy js compounded hud told at RICHARDSON'S DRUG STORE " ROSEBURG, OREGON -Ask the Kcvialerad rbA'inaciUiu explain this treatment. .... V sApestinqfwuse AUTOMATIC '' ELECTRIC RANGE $65 fo,r :o new modern VVestinghouse automatic electee ronge ! Naturally, you are wondering how a good range con be sold for so low a price. Regularly, this same .model sold fpt 9 great deal more money, and naturally we could not afford o sell ony great number of these ot this price We did, however, obtain a small quantity in this special deal that makes it possible to pass the saving on to you ,as long os this particular lot lasts. This range has a white porcelain enamel finish; modern flat-top design;, and a full-Sized enamel lined, standard automatic VVest inghouse oven; 3 standard Westinghouse surface plates; utility outlet and pilot light; standard Westinghouse switches and other Westinghouse exclusive features. You should by all means see these ronges ot once before they ore all gone Our .usual very easy terms opply. The California Oregon Power Company srlfV' pioNEy I PUBLIC ill
