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v- r Heavy Surplus Of Pigs Offers Knotty Problem To Congress 10 Keep Prices From Falling By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. There are too many pigs. This trite statement does not refer to the kind that hover around the Washington pork barrel, though it might. The surplus pig population is made up of the four-legged variety easily convertible into Jowls, fat-back and pickled feet complete from squeal to curly tail. in April, i48, the Department of Agriculture asked farmers to increase their farrowlngs by at least 10 per cent, so as to bring more than 34,000,000 pigs to mar ket in the fall of 1949. A con tinuing meat shortage was antici pated then. It hasn't worked out that way. So now ,vhat Is done with the surplus pig population will have to be decided bv Con gress before it goes home this summer. If Congress does nothing, the government will be forced to buy enough processed pork to keep the price of hogs from falling be low 90 per cent of parity. This figures out to approximately S16. 50 a hundred pounds. Total cost 10 me taxpayers may be as much as a quarter of a billion dollars. And even then, the gov ernment won't quite know what to do with all this surplus pork, uiiue u jibs 11. Only alternative to this pre dicament now in sight is Secre tary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan's new farm plan. De partment of Agriculture experts think it would cost something less, and do more good. They don't know this. The Brannah plan would have to be tried for a year, to make a real test on how it would work. Past Praetice Costly First government experiment In buying pigs to keep up. prices, which cost $30,000,000, was back in the 1930's. Over the years, memory of this event has been pretty well distorted. It is now remembered as "Henry Wallace's plowing under of baby pigs." But It wasn't a bit sillier than what the government would be forced to do under the present law, if the Department of Agricul ture has to go into the market and support the price of live ITCH 'Srablesl In hlshlv rnn- tflgfous and will con tinue for life if not flnnnrll. It rnnaa la the itch-mite, which is immune to ordinary treatment. EXSORA kills the itch-mite almost Instantly. Onlv three days' EXSORA treatment is required. Mail orders given prompt attention. Fred Meyer nrurs, Rosehurr hogs at $16.50 a hundredweight. There was a second purchase program from November, 1933, to May, 1934. Two million pigs were bought then for another $15,000,000. All 'pigs weighing over 80 pounds and bought by the gov ernment were processed as dry salt pork and given to the poor. The little pigs weighing under 80 pounds were too small to pro cess. As one farm expert now re calls, these were the little pigs that grew wings and flew right up to heaven amid howls of pro test against such public slaugh ter." Anvway, they ended up as 10,000 tons of grease and 5000 tons ol tannage protein siock looa. At Least Saved Corn In the cold light of historical research on the subject, a case can be made that it saved corn by getting ahead of the 1934 drought. All those little pigs that were killed didn't have to be fed. The program also gave food to the needy. It reduced the pig surplus by more than 8,000,000 head and it raised hog prices received by farmers. In Januarv, 1933, hogs were selling at $2.59 a hundred. At the start of the buying program they were $3.77. At the end they were $4.19. It also raised the prices of pork for consumers. But it was the converting of those angelic baby pigs into tank age that gave the program its black eye. That is what scares Department of Agriculture ex perts now, as they look ahead to the prospect of having to buy a lot of surplus pigs. If the government went into a pork buying program now. it would probably end uo as it did In 1933, only on a much grander scale. york ctoesn t Keep forever. Two years is about . the . limit. OI course it could be given to Eu rope or China, at taxpayers' ex pense. But if some of that sur plus pork had to be dumped in the ocean, there would be an awful public uproar. f "" VOU BUMS.' NOU NEVER VV I INTENDED TO UNDRESS' ) -s2L 1 VOL) KMEW THIS RIVER J JCui,?X V vjASN't over three y VSsajGR. ( INCHES DEEP ANY iiOw PLACE-'rtXJ'LL NEVER A I.llt MT. Off. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. William! Science Plans Greenhouse To Take Place Of Sun, Soil, Climate To Produce Superior Crop Chick Sab Week of Healthy, Hardy Chicks 500 AUSTRA WHITES, straight run, started 10 days old. '500 AUSTRA WHITES, straight run, day old. 1500 NEW HAMPSHIRES, straight 100 ANCONA Pullets, 2 weeks old 200 ANCONA, straight run, day old. 1 cent off on all chicks OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK PONTON HATCHERY 1440 Harvard Ave. Phone 168 By RALPH DIGHTON PASADENA, Calif. UP) A new world of agriculture in which plants that never see the sun or feel the elements produce crops of incredible size and fla vor, awaits Just over the horizon. Between that world and this. scientists say, He .only a few years of experimentation in a orana new "climate factory at the California institute of tech nology. It's the Earhart Plant Research Laboralory a super greenhouse with built-in weather and soil con trols. Every kind of climate in the world which will support plant life can be reDroduced in this $400,000 nursery. Built with funds donated by the Earhart foundation of Ann Arbor, Mich., it will be dedicated this week. Known as the "Phytotron," this laboratory will artificially recre ate or eliminate all but one of the known factors in plant growth such as soil, climate, Insects and sunlight. One Mystery Remains The one factor which the phytotron will not be able to con trol is cosmic radiation. These are the mysterious rays which come from somewhere out in the uni verse, constantly bombarding the earth and sometimes changing the evolution of living things upon it. "We don't know any way to pro tect our plants or ourselves from these radiations," says Dr. Frits Went, director of the Laboratory. "But we hope, by controlling all other factors, to learn exactly what effect these radiations do have. "Strangely enough, we already know more about the effects of radiation through X-Ray expert ments than we do about the ef fects of weather. Experts have bred strains of fruit and vege tables for one characteristic or another through generations, and nave never Known which effect was due to breeding one year, or 10 weatner tne next. May Boost World SuddIv "If we can tell In advance what plants will grow best in what climate, we should be able to in crease the worlds food supply even under current farming methods. , Control Of Bothersome Insects Pays Big Dividends In Oregon Crops NOW Gasco Briquets are the Northwest's favorite solid fuel. More than 100,000 ton are manu factured and sold every year. Briquets are small pillow-shaped lumps of carbon, scientifically designed to give more heat than wood or coal. Briquets hold fire 8 to 10 hours ... leave no ashes for you to carry out. They are small, uniform in size, require little storage space. Order Briquets today! YouH save $1.00 ton . . . You'll be sure of good fuel (remember last winter's shortage). This offer for limited time only. DENN-GERRETSEN CO. ! Few persons argue that con ; trol of bothersome insects is not a paying proposition many do , not fully appreciate, however, the full value received from in ! sect control measures, i R. W. Every, O.S.C. extension entomologist, backs up this state ment with the case of the hairy vetch weevil. This Insect, which promised to knock out the hairy vetch seed industry In the Willa mette Valley a few years ago, is now controlled by dusting with the insecticide DDT. Every says control recommendations were the result of timely effort and cooperation between the O.S.C. experiment station and USDA en tomologists. In jirst this one' crop alone, the extension entomologist states that controlling the hairy vetch weevil brings a net return of upwards of $850,000 annually. He points out that 92 percent of all the hairy vetch seed grown In the United States was pro duced on approximately 48,000 acres in Oregon last year. Faced with extinction a few years ago, the crop is now profitable. Every believes that at least 90 percent of the hairy vetch acreage cut for seed is dusted wtih DDT to control the vetch weevil. Dusting Pays Off Trials carried on In Oregon by federal entomologists prove that an average of 192 pounds of seed an acre is gained by dusting. Commercial Insecticide com panies provided DDT as well as other experimental materials to carry on the original control work at a time when DDT was jiff Swift's Doiry Coneentrote makes home grains produce MORE milk. Swifts OAlRyf Concentrate mm '" mm, ELM Wt carry a full line of Swift's Poultry and Dairy Feeds. ROSEBURG GRANGE SUPPLY 222 Spruce Phone 171 not generally available. Once con trol measures were devloped, in formation became available to the seed industry through coun ty agents. Comparable gains have been made against other Insect pests, Every points out. These Include the pea weevil which at one time threatened the pea canning in dustry, cherry fruit fly, pear thrips and codling moth among many others. "ELECTROLUX""" Cleaner and Air Purifier Bales, Servlea, Repaln and Supplies Wayne Ovarbeck Phone 373-P.-2 "Eventually we may find it feasible to grow all crops In such laboratories. The increase in yield and flavor may well Justify the expense. It already is true in the case of orchids." As the word "phytotron" sug gests, it is not so much a green house as a huge instrument for the study of botany. Its various rooms produce tem peratures ranging from 25 to 88 degrees. Humidity can be reduced to 10 per cent, simulating desert air. Rain, fog and even smog (smoke and fog) can be created by the turn of a valve on the huge instrument board in the direc tor's office. Plants brought into the sealed, air-conditioned laboratory a r e fumigated. The chemically en riched sand which serves as soil is sterilized. Scientists who tend the plants wear sterilized over alls and boots, because bacteria and insects might be brought in on street clothing. In this artificial world, Dr. Went believes, will be produced plants such as have never been seen before. "In a world faced with a food shortaee." he savs. "the significance of these studies cannot De overemphasized. SCHOLARSHIP GRANTED PORTLAND, June 6. (JPt Ed Whitney, Klamath Falls southpaw who stood out in the boys all-slar game Friday night, has a $1,000 scholarship as the game's outstanding player. The annual award was given to the rangy Klamath boy by unani mous vote of the board of five Judges. Gill Buckheot, Mount An gel, was second choice for the outstanding player, and Jerry Rouw, Franklin of Portland, third choice. Regardless of its age or condition your old loebox or refrigerator is worth up to $50.00 at Jack Fariis and Son with MANAGED MILKING says Experienced Dairyman " L IN I FARMER'S tr OWN WORDS RESULTS- L biereated Prxtaettee 2. Lew Bacteria Cemt 3. Easy m tlx Herd 4. Jim Time I. Selves Leber Shertage W. H. dim pi in, owner of Hivm Hill Farms, Rochester, New Himpihirt, writm "I hivt been using two of yont McCormiek Deering tingle milker uniri on my firm tt Roches ter, New Himpihire, for the pait two yetn. I have Iw uied the Managed Milking plan on our thirty pure-bred Guernsey cowl with wonderful remit. "By preparing the rnwi' udden with hot water application, me of the itrip cup, and allowing milker to remain on the cow for three or four mm utw, we're had very few itrippingi, i low bacteria count, and ery Mtisfactory production.' Put MrCormick'Deering Mamaed Milking t work on your farm, and check the rewlti. Come In and let ui help you install thii system on yovr farm. SIG FETT 527 N. Jackson Phona 1150 Doylifht Tlmt Potltloni Chocking Provti Costly PORTLAND. June 6. UP) The cot of checking petitions was viewed with alarm today by daylight saving time advocates. They are circulating petitions to keep a legislative act that would ban "fast time" from going into effect July 15. But they said only 200 signatures could be checked each day in Multnomah County without cost. Above that number it would coat 10 cents per signature to have petitions checked. Thev said thin mpana nnlu 10. 000 signatures could be counted without cost before the July 15 aeacuine. iney need 19,6. As a result they may circulate more petitions in upstate counties. Spruet Budwerm Barrl Shifts To Mt. Hood Arta PORTT.AMn T,,n R fa The battle against the Spruce hudworm will shift north tn th Mt. Hood area this week. Twelve airplanes will begin spreading DDT over 96,000 acres there with Ace Demers Flying Service, Salem, doing the work. The Forest Service said spray ing of 166,000 acres In the Eugene area Is nearly complete. Still un treated are 10,000 acres near Oak-ridge. Men Jun 4, 1949--Th News-Rvlev, Retabura, Ora. Acreage Allotments Differ From Marketing Quotas; Explanation Is Offered To Clear Up Confusion GRAIN DEALERS ELECT SPOKANE, June 6. B Two hundred delegates from eight western states attending the 28th annual one-dav midyear con vention of the Pacific Northwest Grain Dealers' Association elect ed Frank M. Schreck, Waterville, Wash., as their president. ACTREtS' SIXTH CHILD HOLLYWOOD, June 6. UP) Director John Farrow Is passing out cigars today. His Irish-born actress wife, Maureen O'Sulllvan presented him Friday night with a seven-pound, three-ounce daugh ter, her sixth child. Branks or scolding bridles were contrivances once used in the British Isles to punish "scolding women." It was a headpiece with a piece of iron that fitted the mo;'.th and depressed the tongue. POOSOK Stop itching, dry up blisters quick ly, safely. IS9 IVY-DRY FLOOR SANDING and FINISHING Estimates tL bsliePfoff 320 Word St. yim an laiun rtitwie T349.J News stories about "acreage al lotments" and "marketing quotas" in connection with rapidly in creasing stocks of farm commodi ties have prompted E. Harvey Miller, chairman of the State Pro duction and Marketing Adminis tration Committee, to try to clear up some apparent confusion in the use of the terms. "In view of the possibility that these farm-program provisions may once more be called on to pre vent disrupted market condi tions," Miller said, "farmers and others ought to be sure that they understand what is meant by 'al lotments' and 'quotas.' "During the war, these parts of the national farm program were not used, so this confusion in the use of the two terms is not surprising. There is a very defin ite difference in meaninsr. how ever. The two words are not inter changeable." An "acreage allotment," Miller explains, means that acreage which la required to grow a crop of the size needed. A national al lotment is set by the secretary of agriculture and then broken down by slates, counties, and farms. A farmer may comply or not with his farm allotment, hut if he does not he is not entitled to receive government price supports on his crop. Penalty For Excess A "marketing quota" for a basic crop, on the other hand, repre sents that supply necessary to meet all market demands for that crop and Insure a safe carryover. The national quota is divided among states, counties, and farms by means of acreage allotments. A farm's quota usually the en tire production from that farm's acreage allotment represents that farm's share of the national market for the particular crop. Marketings In excess of the farm quota are subject to a penalty. When supplies dt a commodity reach a certain level fixed by law, marketing quotas must he pro claimed by the secretary of agri culture, but they must be ap. proved by two-thirds of the farm ers voting in a referendum before they may be put Into operation. Once quotas are aopproved, how ever, they apply io all growers ol that crop. Difference Summarised In other words, here are the main differences between "allot ments" and "quotas": Acreage allotments (pr basic crops may be used each year as a means of producing a crop of the size needed. In years when supplies of a crop are excessive, quotas may be called into opera tion, when approved by growers, as a means of marketing that crop in an orderly manner. Acreage allotments can be used without quotas. Marketing quotas require the use of acreage allot ments, for the allotments are a means of dividing the market among growers. Farmers vote on whether or not they want to use quotas in marketing their crop, and two thirds of the farmers voting must approve quotas before they may h nut Intn nnoratlniv Nn VAtA Ik held on whether to use acreage allotments. If a farmers does not comply with his acreage allotment, he becomes ineligible to receive price supports on his crop, but this is his only loss. 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