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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1 , 1942.
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Price Ceilings on
Dried Prunes to be
Af Grower level
Dried prunes and raisins will
00 placed under price ceilings at
the grower level, in a regulation
to be issued by the office of price
administration In about two
weeks. It was announced in
Joint statement made by OPA and
the U. S. department of agricul
ture.
These price curbs the first to
be fixed on any fruit will be set
at the same levels as the buying
support prices to growers offici
ally announced by the department
01 agriculture on August 22, 1U42
Such prices reflect approximately
110 per cent of parity to the grow
er.
The grower support prices
which will constitute the celling
as well as the floor for these com
modules are as follows: for
three district California prunes,
6 1-4 cents per pound basis; out
side California prunes, 6 cents
basis; northwest prunes, 14 cent
per pound less than prices for out
side California prunes of com
parable size.
Military Needs Put First
"These new prices, which con
stitute both support and celling
levels on prunes and raisins, arc
sufficiently high to encourage
maximum production and yet not
too high to discourage consumer
distribution of that portion of the
packs available after military and
lend-lease .requirements are fill
ed," Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard and Price Administra
tor Henderson said In a joint
statement.
. Under a recent war production
board order, freezing all 1941 and
1942 stocks of dried fruits and
raisins, sales to the domestic trade
may be made only after the mili
tary and lend-lease requirements,
which are on a tonnage basis,
have been filled., Thus, the gov
ernment will absorb most of the
dried pear, peach, and apricot
output, a lesser although still
major share of the dried prune
output, and a still smaller but
still principal portion of the raisin
pack. ,
Date of Planting
Vetches Related
To Aphis Control
Delaying the seeding of fall-
sown annual legumes until after
October 10 is one of the most
practical methods of controlling
aphis the following year, accord
ing to research carried on hy fed
oral entomologists, and Just re
ported on by them, says Dr. Don
C. Mote, head of the entomology
department at the O. S. C. experi
ment station. The report applies
()nly to western Oregon and
Washington.
1 The research on planting dates
ds related to uphls Infestation the
following year lias been carried
on by L. P. Hoekwood and Max M.
tleeher, federal entomologists in
charge of the field station near
Forest Grove.
,' Records kept for I lie past 25
years indicate that this delayed
planting is effective with all types
of vetches commonly grown here
hi Oregon, and for Austrian win
ter field peas.
Cultivation Important
' Tile recommendations given by
Jhese entomologists are that the
legumes be sown in well prepared
ground which Is free from earlier
growth of volunteer annual leg
umes. The recommended date of
seeding is around October 20 and
not before October Hi. If the seed
j FREE when you buy
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these regulation Air Corps
Squadon insignia the kind
actually on fighters and bomb
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This Week
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Nature Runs Amok in Pacific War Zone Earthquake
Soldiers and civilians in the Pacific
tuiuu wjo auuui u uuuujusa in rauaurrujii, m;w ituuituia uiicr mo severest eartnquaKO ever recorded mere.
Damage was estimated at one million pounds after tremors felt from Auckland to Duncdin. The quake struck
last June 24.
bed is cultivated reasonably close
to this time the danger of earlier
volunteer growth Is largely elim
inated. .
This time of seeding has also
been found to give maximum
yields In most years and ulso aid
in the control of weeds und stem
rot, according to the report made
by the federal entomologists.
lo secure maximum uplils con
trol It is also Important that near
by cover crops or green manure
crops bo plowed under by April
of the following spring, the
principle of this means of con
trol Is to deprive the aphis of de
sirable plants for over wintering.
Prune Sanitation
Rules Are Simple
If operators . , of prune driers
will follow three simple rules,
there Is little likelihood of dried
prunes being seized because they
do not meet state and leueral
sanilary requirements, officials
of I he state department of agri-
cull lire declare.
These three fundamentals to a
sanitary output will entail little
If any expense lo operators. They
are:
1. See that no decayed or de
composed fruit is dried. This will
mean sorting before prunes are
dried, but will repay good divi
dends.
2. He sure that prunes are wash
ed thoroughly, and that the wash
water Is changed olien. Water
should be changed at least twice
daily, and it would he belter to
change It more often.
3. More dried prunes in a clean
sanitary place protected from
Hies, rodents and other contain!
uallng factors.
"If ail dried prunes handled in
Oregon this season are cared for
as outlined above, the department
is confident that there will be no
seizures of dried prunes here," A.
W. Met.ger chief of the foods and
dairies division', predicts.
Planting a leguminous cover
c op on bare spots in the victory
garden in September will protect
the ground over winter and help
solve the fertilizer problem next
spring.
PURSUIT SQUADRON
N C .
war zone take a losson In destruction
Farm Machinery !
Rationing Soon
Begins in Douglas
The Douglas County USDA
war hoard announced today that
the new farm machinery ration
ing program will be In operation
In this county within a few days.
Rationing will be handled by a
county rationing committee com
posed of the county AAA chair
man and two farmers appointed
by tile county war board. Two
alternates will ulso be named.
The program was placed into
effect by the U. S. department of
agriculture order of September 17
temporarily freezing all farm
machinery in the hands of deal
ers. J. Roland Pnrher,. secretary of
the war hoard, described ration
ing as the only method of In
suring fair distribution of avail
able equipment and its placement
where it will do the most good
in wartime farming production.
"Farmers will not bo surprised
at machinery rationing," Mr. Par
ker said. "The appeals they have
received to comb their farms for
scrap iron has convinced most of
Ihem that critical metals are
terribly short, and that every
ounce of steel that goes into a
new farm tractor must be taken
from a new tank or gun."
Needs Arc Classified
Farm machinery In one class
ification I Croup A), which is
scarce and especially needed to
meet current agricultural needs,
mav he soltl only upon approval
by the county farm machinery
rationing committee. Machinery
in ti second category (Group B).
including Items somewhat less
scarce, may be sold upon certifi
cation hy the farmer to the dealer
that it Is required lo meet current
agricultural needs. A third class
ification (Croup l'), includes the
smaller items thai may be sold
without rest lief ions.
Group A Includes beel lifters,
beel loaders, combines, corn pick
ers, disc harrows, feed grinders,
fertilizer spreaders, grain drills,
grain elevators, hay balers, lime
spreaders, manure spreaders,
milk coolers, milking machines,
pickup balers, potato diggers,
shredders, and tractors (includ
ing garden tractors).
Group ti machinery, which can
be purchased upon certification to
a dealer that il Is needed for cur
rent product ion. includes most
other farm equipment and ma
chinery. Group C. which is exempt from
any form of rationing control. In
cludes hoes, rakes, lurks, scythes,
shovels, and all hand -opei aletl and
one and two-horse drawn larm
machinery and equipment not in
eluded In Group A.
There are no restrictions on
sale or transfer of used farm ma
chinery, equipment, or repair
parts.
Who Are Eligible
Kliglbility requirements for
Group A purchases include in
adequacy of present equipment
and Inability to meet (arm pro
duction goals hy repairing, or by
purchasing or renting used m.i
eliinerv. or hy custom or exchange
work. A purchaser must turn in
replaced equipment and agree lo
rent or let others use the new
machinery on specified terms and i
conditions. The put chaser must j
present a satisfactory reason if
changing from horses or mule
power to motor x)wer, or from
hand labor to machinery.
Applicants who are refused
cert nicai ion for machinery pur
chase may appeal to the Stale
I'SDA war board 2nd then to the
from Mother Nature as they work
special war board assistant to the
secretary of agriculture.
A list of applicants receiving
certificales and the equipment
which they purchase will be kept
available for Inspection in county
offices and will be made avail
able for publication in local
papei's.
Equipment in Croup A must not
be purchased later than October
31, 19-12.
News of 4-H
Q CLUBS
Those 4-H club pheasants which
were held over for further de
velopment were liberated during
the early part of last week. Those
Just liberated brought the total of
Douglas county 4-H birds to 563,
produced from a total of 1000
eggs. Mr. John McKean, of the
state game commission, was here
on August 24 and liberated most
of the birds at that time. Only
35 were not big enough to liberate
with the lust group. Club mem
bers were paid for their birds
liberated at that time. Checks for
the last 35 are now In the office
of the county club agent."
The Edenhower Livestock club
is holding ils meeting tonight at
the Edenhower school play shed.
Mr. Clarence R. Bartlett is leader
of the club. This is to be the final
meeting for this year. The boys
will complete their final reports
tonight and turn them in before
beginning on next year's prolect.
County Club Agent E. A. Ilritton
will be present and show the
colored slides he has taken of 411
club activities in the county dur
ing Hie past two years.
County Club Agent Ilritton
visited at Elkton, I.oon Lake, Win
chester Hay, Reedsport, Gardiner
and Smith River schools oil Thurs
day and Friday of last week. He
stall's that most of the grade
teachers are glad to use the 411
, health program, which of course
is used in conjunction with the
state textbooks. Most of these
teachers have crowded classes
and rooms, and are glad for this
project because of the help it
gives and the time it saves.
Tile eighth grade teachers ex
piessed themselves to Mr. Uritton
that they were grateful for the
new maketing project which they
plan to use in conjunction with
the science textbook.
Don Krumbach. of Dixonville,
lias shipped a fleece from his
purebred Corriedale ewe lo the
Pacific International, where it
will Iv entered In the wool show.
Don thinks that he has an ex
ceptionally fine fleece and that it
should win a place against fleeces
from over the northwestern
stales.
There will be no other exhibit
ors from Douglas county in die
Pacific International, which is to
he streamlined this year. It will
Iv strictly a fat stock show.
Those cluli mourners who are
owners ol fat stock will also en
ter in the judging and showman
ship, hut no other contests are
scheduled. i'o corn show w ill be
held in connection with the Pa
cific International this vear.
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Can More Food,
Advice of Oregon
Nutrition leader
Every individual homomaker
in Oregon can help in the nutri
tion for defense program by can
ning, freezing, drying or storing
every bit of fruit, vegetables, and
other foods that she can obtain
and process, says Dean Ava B.
Milam, chairman of the state
committee on nutrition for de
fense anil head of homo econom
ics at O. S. C,
More liberal interpretation of
the sugar rationing rules is aiding
in this emergency food preserva
tion program, says Dean Milam.
She has now been informed that
under rationing practices now in
force a homemaker may obtain
all the sugar she needs to can any
amount of fruit as long as the
rale of pne pound of sugar to
four quarts of fruit is not ex
ceeded. This means, she says, that one
is not limited in the amount of
fruit put up, either by the amount
canned last year or by the
amount contemplated early in the
season. If surplus fruit is going
to waste or is easily available, it
Is not only the right but the pa
triotic duty of homemakers to ob
lain more canning sugar if neces
sary and put up more food for
future use, says Dean Milam.
Greater Supply Needed
"If families of Oregon are to be
well nourished through the win
ter months, home canning, freez
ing, drying and proper storing of
fruits and vegetables will need to
be greatly Increased this year
over last," the state committee
chairman pointed out. "A greater
proportion of this year's com
mercially canned, dried and froz
en fruits and vegetables will be
required for the army, navy and
lend-lease shipment. Less com
mercially preserved fruits and
vegetables will lie available,
therefore, for ordinary civilian
household consumption.
"I am therefore appealing to
the homemakers of Oregon to
can, freeze, dry or store the sur
plus fruits and vegetables with
which our state is so abundantly
blessed, and thus help not only
Uncle Sam but help ourselves to
meet the food budget problems
for the coming months."
Certifying Aids
Vegetable Canners
Oregon vegetable canners who
paid glowers minimum fair
prices to qualify for war board
certification still will have advan
tages over the canners who did
not cooperate, according to R. B.
Taylor, chairman of Oregon's
USDA war board.
OPA recently announced ceil
ing prices for all canners of 95
cents a dozen for No. 2 cans of to
matoes, and SI 10 a dozen for No.
2 cans of peas. These are the dc
panlmont of agriculture support
prices, and were previously con
fined to certified canners.
Taylor pointed out that all to
mato and H-a canners must sell
35 per cent of their 1912 packs to
the armed forces, and that uncer
tified canners will receive 5 cents
less per dozen on this portion of
their pack. In addition, he said,
department of agriculture pur
chases for lend-lease and other
purposes will be made only from
certified canners, and even
though such purchases are made
at the support price levels, certi
fied canners will save the 3 per
cent brokerage fees connected
with open market sales.
All Oregon tomato and pea
canners were certified, Taylor
said, and both growers and pack
ers have cooperated to produce
well over this state's share of the
national pack of 3S million cases
of peas anil 40 million cases of
tomatoes.
J. F. Bonebrake's Herd
Wins Jersey Club Title
I. F. Iloncbrake. Jersey bleed
or, Melrose. Ore., has earned the;
title of star herd awarded by the;
American Jersey Cattle club, New
York City, for a meritorious
high herd production. !
A total of 19 cows produced 81,-
3tiS ixiuuds milk, 4.77!) pounds fat. j
on twice a day milking. The 9.S1 i
average number of cows in milk
throughout, the year produced
7.3S1 pounds milk, S.bti'!-, 418.10
pounds fat per cow. High cow
in the herd was Empress of Myr-!
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tic Grove, 990153, who at 9 years
of age produced 9,329 pounds
milk, 5.42, 535.32 pounds fat.
Golden Chief Bueno, 356S99, rep
resented by 8 daughters was the
leading sire of the herd. These
Jerseys are now entered qn their
second year of production testing.
Hops Ciml tp High'
Price in 22 Years
NEW YORK, Sept. 21. (AP)
The highest prices Jn 22 years
were paid today for the 1942 crop
seedless and duster typo hopes .on
tlie Pacific coast.
Growers received $1.10 cent a
pound for the seedless variety and
SI a pound for the clustered type
and trade advices indicated the
entire output had already been
contracted for by the brewing in
dustry. Reason for the big hop: A small
crop and almost complete lack of
imports because of that man Hit
ler. National Grange Will
Change Meeting Place
SPOKANE. Sent 21(api
The national grange convention
Will mobahlv nnt ho hoi, I h
during the week of November 11
as scheduled because of the city's
crowded condition, James A. Mc
Cluskey of the chamber of com
merce conventions committee
said.
McCluskev tnlnnhnnnrl Mutlinol
Master A. S. Goss in Washington,
D. C. Who said thn mnnnljnn
could not be cancelled because of
national issues of vital interest to
farmers bur that nnnih,,.,
...... u,tuioi llVt;i-
mg place could be chosen
Meet Mr. Class
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HE'LL SELL
HE'LL SWAP
all these and many more
for as little as
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OMEET HIM AT HIS OFFICE
Big Wheat Surplus New
Available for War Uses
Completion of the 1942 wheat
harvest will leave the three Pa
cific northwest states of Idaho,
Oregon and Washington with an
estimated surplus of close to 100
million bushels of wheat, the state
AAA office reports.
. Most of this huge surplus, rep
resenting practically all of the
1942 crop, is in storage on farms
where it is produced. ' The extent
to which it can be put to work
for the war effort depends on the
success of the program to feed
more wheat to livestock and in
DOUGLAS
Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange
ROSEBURG,
the LITTLE
i
man that does
BIG job
Enjoy the income from empty
homos, farms, garages, und even
machinery not in use let Mr.
Class I. Kied find a renter. You'll
appreciate his ability to make
money for you.
Here Mr. Class I. Kied has an
"axis" to grind. He'll sell the
tilings you can't use or don't need
to those who can. Help In the
Job of putting every idle facility
lo work boosting Victory.
A regular Tom Sawyer, this
Mr. Class I. Kied. when it comes
to trading. You'll be another of
his satisfied friends when he
gets you something you DO want
for something you DON'T.
creased use of wheat for produc
tion of alcohol and other war ma
terials, AAA officials say.
The nation's 1943 needs for in
dustrial alcohol have been esti
mated at 470 million gallons, in
eluding 200 million gallons for
butadiene, synthetic rubber base.
Two-thirds of this production will
epme from grain, using approxi
mately 13d million bushels- '.of
wheat, corn and rye.
With normal Importations of
rabbit skins from foreign coun
tries curtailed by war conditions,
there is an active demand now for
domestic skins for making felt
and fur linings for clothing.
ir Keep your "Caterpil
lar" Diesel Tractors pro
ducing. Carefully select
ed materials and preci
sion manufacture make
these world-famous ma
chines able to deliver a
long life of hard work.
With timely, proper ser
vicing and genuine "Cat
erpillar" replacement
parts, even the most sav
agely used machines will
be refit to produce still
more on the home front.
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OREGON
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