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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.
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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. ,
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Pays Big Dividends In Oregon Crops
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! 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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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rangy Klamath boy by unani
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Judges. Gill Buckheot, Mount An
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Rouw, Franklin of Portland,
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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.
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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.
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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. If marketing quotas
are in effect and a farmer mar
kets more than his quota, he must
pay a penalty on his excess
marketings.
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