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8 The Newi-Review, Reitburg, Ort. Mon., June 20, 1949 i jf FARM and GARDEN NEWS flit? Even washing Is fun with this separator! "land lakes," Aunt Jane laid the other day, "I haven't had it to easy for yean, Since John got the new McCormick separator, it's almost pleasure to wash it." "How come?" Mary asked. "Do you wash it in the new automatic dish washer?" "Not exactly. You see, every part that touches milk is made of spot less stainless steel and that's io easy to clean. It stays shiny and satin-smooth all its long life." "That tugbt to make them easy to wash and keep clean," I said. "Makes it easy to get premium quality cream, too," Jane an swered. "And John says it skims close . . . down to a tract. Pays for itself in no time with extra butter fat." Right then Mary decided to take Henry to the IH dealer Saturday. Might get him interested'in a new McCormick milker or in an In ternational milk cooler, too, now that hot weather is coming. More Farm Work Being Done By Hired Hands; Machinery Displacing Horses And Mules By ROBERT E. GEIGER WASHINGTON, June 20. (JPh-Farm families are taking life easier this year and getting more hired hands to do the work. A count Just completed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics showed 56,000 more hired hands on farms In May than there were a year previously. It also showed 311,000 fewer members of farmers' families were at work. SIG FETT 527 N. Jackson Phone 1150 Call 100 for Ntwi-Rtvlew Classified Ads Several reasons are suggested. For one thing, there are more machines on farms than ever be fore, and machines produce lar ger crops with less labor. Second, the world food situation is eas ing. There isn't the pressure on the farmers to produce that there was during the war. This BAE census showed farm neonle are working slightly shorter nours tnan they did last year. But the farm owners them selves still work longer than the hired hands do. The BAE report says that the employes are working on the ave rage . nours a day. j-,ast year they put in 9.9 hours. But the farm operators them selves are working 11.8 hours a day, about 12 minutes less than the year before. Working Hours Compared On the day this survey was made, June 1, the North Dakota hands were working the longest hours pf any in the U. S. Their average day was 11 hours long. The shortest days were worked by Nevada's hired hands. They put In only 8.2 hours, on the ave rage. Utah was a close second, with an average work day of 8.3 hours. Among the farm operators or their families, the ones in Florida have the shortest day, a flat ten hours. In California they put In 10.2 hours. North Dakota farm operator families, like their hired hands, put In the longest days they were working 12.8 hours. More Traotora Used The production of farm ma chinery sot a new record In the U. S. in 1948 and still is at a high level. The number of tractors on Vol. XI, No. 24. June 20, 1949. Sulfa Drugs: Miraclt or Dynamitt. The new sulfa drugs give us some of the quickest action In controlling certain diseases of any medicine that has ever been used. They are truly "wonder drugs." But they certainly have limitations. Used properly, they will cure disease. Improperly, they do positively no good, and may even KILL. We need only recall a few years back when sulfanlli mlde first came out. It would cure anything! (It says here), So It was used for every disease, from bunions to halitosis. It was put In as an Ingredient In patent medicines, and because of the great hullabaloo, it was easy to sell. Everybody bought It, and it Killed not a lew people. Thus It was proved lhat me sui fa-drugs can cut ootn ways: The latest fad among poultry and turkey growers is the new sulfa drugs. Several different kinds. Some good for only one disease, and some for several different ones. But all full of danger. At the uougias L-ounty riour Mill we have two of the very best of the new sulfonamides sulfamethazine. (SUI.MET), and suliaouinoxaline, (SULFA Q) We have both In the powder form for adding to the feed, or in liquid form to be added to the drinking water. It so happens that different diseases respond nest to tne sui fas at different levels. It is Itn possible to make a standard mix ture ol sulia tnat win give equal Iv good results with different tvnoa of disease, xtr with differ ent types even of the same disease. Therefore, we are In a position to give you the proper mixture for whatever disease or disease type your birds happen to have. But we urge you not to feed the sulfa drugs to your birds just be cause they don't look good. Find out what Is wrong first, then feed the right sulfa, If that hap pens to be the best medicine. We have seen several flocks that have been seriously damag ed by being forced to take too much su fa. Ann no amount nr sulfa will cure a bird that iwoila some other medicine. Let's re member, the sulfas are like atomic energy. They can cure, nd thev can kill, depending on how they are used. Be sure you re right, then feed sulia-drugs. Little Good News.. Some bad news on the radio this A. M. Farmers' Income low est the past six months for many moons. Seems the farmer al ways catches It In the neck first, tih? But the Douglas Flour Mill has cut the price of RAB BIT PELLETS to $3.95 a sack. I Rabblta are down, too, but we didn't cut rabbit feed Just for that reason. No, another farm ers' product, alfalfa dropped In price. UMPQUA RABBIT PET- LETS have alfalfa, so, there you Is. Might also mention that we have a drop In the price of Gaines' Dog Food. So If the daily upkeep of your pooch Is getting ouraensome we can help you out a nine mere, too. Uncle Hank Says: Some, of -M mei iUat HAVl HAD tH' MOSf FAILURES)! VATER WERl TH MOST SUCCESSFUL. HE: Honey, I've bought some thing Mr the one I love best. Guess what. SHE: A box of cigars. (Bet Mom thought about a bowling dhii,; On That Bum Feed. George Waller, Oakland Big Shot In the turkey business, took home a custom hatch of 407 tur keys. He killed a couple acciden tally, two others got smothered In a plleup, and three lust plain died, leaving him only 400 at mice weeks. And Claude McCully who raises fryer up on the Buck horn Road as a pastime, weigh ed a frver lust past 12 weeks 5 lbs. strong, John: Ever see one of those gadgets that can tell when a man Is lying? jnnnnv: i-verv dav. im mar ried to one. More Good News. Price of eggs la tip again. rtland 554c wholesale. (New York 52'c). Also the frver price Is belter. Frver raisers feeding UMPQUA HILO are making a pretty fair margin now, without any Guvment help, loo! Some Bad News. Took our trusty microscope out hunting the other rlnv. Found sme hexamltls hugs ln couple of flocks of turkeys. It Is very fortunate that we now have a quite satisfactory treatment worked out for hexy so it isn't as bad as In the old days. If you get suspicious and think mavhe your oirus nave It, Bring In a live one, and we can relieve your apprehensions, one way or aiiuiiier. Announcement. We have sold our Oakland store to a couple of fine Oak land boys, Ken Copeland and Monk Stearns. We hope every body who has been buying up there will continue with the new owners, and that a lot of new customers will give them a try. We can Just about guarantee lhat they will have none but completely satisfied customers. Our Mr. Edwards had some Hems which the boys didn't want to take over, so we brought litem down to Koseburg. We will have some bargains to offer from time to lime, as fast as we can get them arranged. To start off wllh, we can sell you either coal or wood burning brooder stoves cheaper than you have been able to buy them for many loan years. Sally What is "college bred," Daddy Pappy It's a 4-year loaf made from Dad's dough. Why Taxes and Feed Stay Up. "The CCC (guvment) today bought 1,829,081 pounds of roller non fat dry milk at 11c and 3, B93.181 lbs. spray dry milk at 12.2"), 12 cars tirade A butter at 59c and 9 cars Grade B butter at 57c." (That was June 8.) "CCC purchased 992,700 roller dry milk and 858,025 spray drv milk at lie and 12.25c respec tively. Also 8 cars glade A but lor at 59c." ( A day later, and a small day). This goes on day after day, ajid helps keep up the cost of living, and your taxes pay for It. Then the Hoover Commission finds, among other things, we pay federal Jobholders over 54 hllllon a year In wages. It costs the guvment over ten bucks to make a purchase, regardless of size. Yet half the several million purchases made yearly are for less than ten dollars. The Agriculture Dept. oper ates as a "loose confederation of agencies, in 1 Georgia county 4 1 government employees at tached to 7 separate field serv ices have been working with 1500 farmers. Want to hear some more? After taxes you have little left. Spend it at the Flour Mill, where your feed dollar does double duty. farms more than doubled from January 1, 1940, to May, 1948. Farmers now own more than 3, 250,000 tractors. Each one of these tractors has substantially reduced the number of men needed to turn out a crop. About 180,000 garden tractors came off the assembly lines in 1948, which was 20 times the pre war output. Sales of corn nick- ers, field forage harvesters, win drow pickup balers and some other kinds of farm equipment all set new high production records. Along with this increase In ma chinery, there has been a decline in the number of horses and mules. The '1948 colt crop was only 200,000 head, the smallest In more than a century. This supply of colts is suffi cient only to maintain a total horse and 'mule population of about 3,500,000 head less than half the present number in the U. S. And many of these are used for pleasure not work. ment, based In part on Bran nan's Idea. Brannan said the hog plan is offered "simply to assure farm ers that if and when there should be a break in the market they will be protected." He added that it would help the Agriculture De partment meet any downward trend in prices "more efficiently and with less expense." He commented that since legis lation to put the program into effect was introduced, hog prices have risen "and they didn t go as low as we expected. The new bill, whipped into shape by a House agriculture sub committee, would repeal outright the 1948 law due to set up a flexible price support system at- w to su per cent oi parity, start ing next year. Instead, It would adopt a new parity system proposed by Bran nan, and set price supports at 100 per cent of that standard. The government now supports prices at 90 per cent of parity. Hog Subsidy Plan Only For Crisis, Brannan Explains WASHINGTON," June 20. UP) Secretary of Agriculture Brannan says his new production subsidy proposal for hogs is aimed only at meeting a possible price crisis. He denied in testimony before a Senate Agriculture Subcommit tee last week that it Is designed as an "opening wedge" in a change of philosophy about price sup port operations. Brannan met with the senators .while indications built up that bipartisan support may get be hind a separate proposal for pos sibly the highest price supports ever altempted bv the govern- Hormone Use To Be Featured At Nursery Meet Use of hormone growth regu lators in flower and nursery stock propagation will be featured dur ing the forthcoming two-day meeting of the Oregon associa tion of nurserymen to be held on the O. S. C. campus June 23 and 24, Program Chairman R. Ralph Clark, extension horticul ture specialist, has announced. Discussion will be led by Dr. E. J. Kraus, former chairman of the botany department, Universi ty of Chicago, who was one of the outstanding scientists who contributed to the development of 2.4-D. Retired, Dr. Kraus Is con tinuing hybridization work with chrysanthemums and hermocallls at Corvallls. He was formerly on the O. S. C. staff. The herbicide, 2,4-D, Is one of four or five similar hormone pre parations, Clark explains, that are now In use and continued de velopment. Similar hormones are being manufactured to hold ripen ing fruit on trees, make early to matoes set, and lor other pur poses. Beets do not like an acid soil. If they do not grow well in your garden, try a light application of lime along the row. Farm Income In First Half Of '49 Shows Decline WASHINGTON W?) The net Income of farmers In the first half of 1949, Is probably running at least 10 per cent below the the same period last year, the De partment of Agriculture esti mates. Cash receipts from farm opera tions and probably the gross In come of farmers, will be down only about seven per cent. But the experts estimated that farmers' firoductlon expenses haven't fal en as fast as their income so it will leave them less profit. They said the cost of items the farmers have to buy is down only about three percent. The report by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimat ed the farmers are receiving about $11,900,000,000 from mark etings this year, compared with $12,800,000,000 in the first six months of 1948. Farmers sold more than thev did in the first six months of 1,948 but prices were down about 10 per cent. Receipts from livestock were es timated at around $7,400,000,000 ten per cent less than In the first half of 1948, and crop receipts were estimated at $4,500,000,000, three per cent more than In 1948. Farm Prices In Oregon Descend CORVALLIS,-) The gener al level of Oregon farm prices continued downward In the month ended May 15, the Oregon State College extension service report ed. Based on Department of Agri culture reports and other data, the extension service report said: At mid-day the Index of prices received by Oregon farmers was 158 per cent of the 1938-1947 level a decrease of less than one per cent for the month, but 15 per cent below the record high reach ed Just a year ago In May. Oregon farm costs, including wages, were down only 2 per cent from a year ago. Compared with 19101914, farm costs in Oregon show a greater Increase than do prices received. The comparison: costs on May 15 were three times what they were in 191014 prices received were two and a naif times. Mows fast and clean J around buildings, fields, iyyimii under trees, fences, I long road. it&Qit V Ides, and In JfrHil J JL Ight corners. .rljAf'Sft 6) i7!,V 4 Cul' ' ' ''!!.' ' aVia acres in Shrs. Easy te handle on rough ground or sleep slopes. Cuts 1 Wfrom ground. Rugged. Economical. Dependable. SALES ft SERVICI Green's Garden Tractors 520 N. Jackson 1003-J Plant Lima Beans With Eye Down To Assist Quick Germination Did anyone ever get too many lima beans? In the market, they are a luxury crop. Even small home gardens can grow them, however, and enjoy a rich har vest from a single row, If a pole variety Is chosen, and allowed to climb a fence. ' The foliage Is beautiful, thick and glossy green. The harvest starts late, for pole varieties, but lasts until frost kills the vines. Although only the seeds are eaten, the yield for space occu pied will compare well with other crops, provided the soil is well fed. Use Plant Food Even though your garden soil Is known to be fertile, it will be well to use 4 pounds of complete plant food for each 100 feet of row planted to lima beans. All llmas are tender and seed should not be sown until the ground is thoroughly warmed and danger of frost is over. They may decay in cold soil. The seeds are so large they are easily spaced and should be planted with eye down to facilitate quick growth. Tests have proved that this causes a CLOSE-OUT PRICE AMMONIUM SULPHATE We are closing out the balance of our stock of ammonium sulphate at $62.00 f. o. b. our plant. See your dealer . . If he cannot supply, call our plant. Columbia Metals Corporation SALEM, OREGON P.O. Box 269 Phone 2-2415 definite increase In germination. Maturity Differs Bush llmas are of two classes, large and small seeded; the former bearing larger beans, but fewer of them. The small seeded llmas have been Improved re cently, and new varieties have larger beans, while still produc ing them abundantly. Small seeded bush llmas ma ture in about 65 days, large seed ed bush and pole limas in about 80 days. They have a long season of yield, and will provide beans for the table until frost kills the vines. Bush limas do not bear well if crowded In the row. Plant the small seed varieties a foot apart and the large seeded ones at least 18 Inches apart. The pole llmas may be a little closer, say 8 Inches. Oregon State College Work In Pasture Seeding Seen As Boost To Soil Conservation A 31-year-old stand of alta fescue the original planting of a grass developed at the O. S. C. experiment station was viewed by more than 200 persons who attended a June field day to view past accomplishments and present work of the college In the field of soil conservation. Alta fescue is considered per haps the most nearly universally adapted grass and hence the most promising single grass in Ameri ca for use as a soil saver, soil fer tility improver and all-around forage producer. The visitors also viewed plots were Irrigation and rotation ex periments were started in 1907 when many farmers believed that irrigation in western Oregon would "kill the soil." Instead the experiments have shown that fer tility can be improved through a practical program of irrigation, rotation and fertilization. Some 80,000 acres In western Oregon are now Irrigated. The first pasture-sized field of irrigated ladino clover in Oregon was also viewed by the visitors who saw the original 11 acres seeded In 1927 on land that had been abandoned for ordinary crop production. Pasture Yield Quadrupled Through this and later trials the experiment station demon strated that an acre of irrigated ladino and grass will yield four times as much usable feed as an acres of tame grass pasture and eight times as much as even good native grass pastures. The forage yield per acre from such ladino-grass mixtures as measured by milking cows is equal to five tons of alfalfa or 200 bushels of oats. It will carry about 21 cows per acre for a 200 day pasture season. Another source of valuable In formation for conservation was seen In the hill land pasture trials established in 1943. There selec tion tests are underway to find the best forage plants for this type of land and to determine the best management practices to utilize the forage and improve the soil. Forage grasses and legumes al ready shown to be adapted to the foothill lands are capable of hold ing and improving Willamette valley hill soils and producing enough forage to make ownership of such lands profitable, the visit- ors were told. Growers Set Prices For Three Types Of Berries SALEM, June 20. A growers' minimum price of 8 cents a pound for loganberries, boysenberrles and youngberries was established by directors of the Oregon cane fruits control board at a meeting here. The figure represents the ask ing price for growers who belong to the organization. William J. Linfoot, secretary, said about 80 percent of Oregon's crop of these fruits Is produced by members. ine new price compares witn 111 cents received last year for boysenberries and youngberries, and 12J cents for loganberries. He said this year's crop will be short of normal, and possibly 20 percent under the 1948 yield. Harvesting of loganberries li due to start within a week. Two time -honored practices now considered outmoded are the sowing of sweet peas and the planting of asparagus roots in trenches. Sweet peas planted two Inches deep have proved to yield as well as those planted six inches down; while they have less trouble with funrus disease The fashion for green asparagus, cut above the surface, disposes of any need to plant asparagus roots six Inches deep. ! Automatio Salesmen Five hundred million dollars in goods are dispensed annually from vending machines. Low cost grains and money making finish. We carry a full line of Swift's Poultry and Dairy Feeds. ROSEBURG GRANGE SUPPLY 222 Spruce Phone 171 BARGAINS in USED PICKUPS and TRUCKS These have all been thoroughly checked out by our own mechanics and are warranted in fine running condition. ' The prices ... compare! 1945 Ford Pick-up .... $845 1945 Chev. 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