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8 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., July 25, 1949 jff FARM and GARDEN NEWS jf Seed Yield From Four Oregon Grasses Below Normal But Far From Status As Failure Seed yield prospects from four important Oregon grasses, while not to be classified as a "bump er" crop, are anything but a fail ure, summarizes a veteran crops observer, E. R. Jackman, O.S.C. extension farm crops specialist. A crop by crop summary by Jackman Is as follows: Chewings fescue: The Willam ette valley crop Is not as bad off as earlier believed. Approximate ly 6,000 acres will yield close to the normal 250 pounds of seed per acre. Yields In eastern Ore' gon, where 800 acres are located, will yield about one-half normal or 250 pounds, Jackman est! mates. Creeping red fescue: Annroxi mately 4,500 of the state's 5,000 acres are located in Union coun ty where seed yields are normal ly more than 400 pounds per acre. This year, the crops specialist expects yields to fall to slightly less than 200 pounds per acre. Alta fescue: Most of this acre age cut for seed is in the Wil lamette valley. While yields will be reduced somewhat they will approximate the normal yield of 200 to 250 pounds per acre. Yields In Union county will be cut by two-thirds and will range about 200 pounds per acre, the special ist believes. Common ryegrass: Severe win ter Injury In the Willamette val ley materially decreased the stand. After much spring air OIL TO BURN For prompt courteous meter ed deliveries of high quality tore and burner oil CALL 152 MYERS OIL CO. Distributors of Hancock Petroleum Products For Douglas County Vol. XI, No. 29 No Grain on Saturday Wo want all the grain you can spare out of this year's harvest We want It so bad we will pay you Portland prices for vour oats, barley and speltz, and as mucn as uncle sam win nav you for your whe-at. (AND WHEN WE MEET UNCLE SAM'S PRICE. THAT'S But whatever happens, rlon't bring any of It on Saturdays. Cause on Saturdays, half our force goes flshlne. and )t keens the other half too busv nuttlns out tnose good, tnose popular inose economics!, those iresh UMFQUA FEEDS. (The fol ow. Ing Saturday, the other half goes iisning ano the I snermen d sh out tne iced). So. no matter wot hanopns. don't fetch vour grain In on Sat urdays, Why not loin the bovs ana go iisning.' Your Poor Milk-Kow! wniie driving tnroueh our beautiful, though presently drv countryside a lew days back we noticed some nice looklne Jer seys eating browse In a dry pas ture. The grass was nipped pretty close, all right, but there was some nice Juicy poison-oak in the pasture, and along the crccK some nice brush. It Just occurred to us that people In the past have been making a mistake keeping goats to clear up the land. No Income except from the hair, and eating a kid occasionally. When they might hf.ve used Jerseys, and had Income from milk. Seriously, though, we are sure these nice sleek Jersevs had ac cess to a good bait of 'UMPQUA MILKMAKER every milking. They couldn't of looked so nice. otherwise. Good cows; good udders. And doubtless, what this man enjoys, he owes to udders. Why not check up on YOUR pasture? If It's getting short, your best bet Is to UP the amount of UMPQUA MILK MAKER, and KEEP UP the amount of milk. It's hard to bring the milk flow hack un after it ha hit the down grade. Deep Litter end the Easy Life Folks tell im they forget thlnes In the rush of work, and some times "The Feed Bag" re minds them Just in tne nick of time. Well, let us remind you rleht now: It's time to get that deep litter started. DeeD litter started early will get to work, and when winter comes will not need to oe re- moved. If we wait too :ong, the plane reseedlng, the crop Is still UKeiy to De somewnat in snort supply due to reduced acreage. Instead of the usual 90.000 acres there will be about 60,000 acres cut for seed. An unusually dry spring In the Union county area accounts for ine low seed yields in mat area, Jackman states. Word from the Spokane area In wasnmgton, where much chew ings fescue grass seed Is produc ed, Indicates yields in that sector win be about 25 percent or nor mal. Much creeping red fescue seed is produced In Canada, but Jackman does not know the stat us of the crop. Certified alta fes cue seed will sell higher than the support price of 35 cents a pound for blue tag seed, Jackman be lieves. Wheat Damage Payments Made PORTLAND, July 25 UP) First payments in Oregon for damage to wheat have been sent out to wheat growers by the Fed eral Crop Insurance corporation. Director Murl Cummings said Union county had been hardest hit of the state areas by weather conditions. He said only 69 no tices of probable Joss have been received. Cummings said the state's 1949 crop outlook had Improved over previous estimates, when drouth conditions appeared most severe. . He reported frost in June In Union county might have dam aged as much as 90,000 bushels rcelalmable under the Insurance plan. Meanwhile, the U.S.D.A. an nounced county goals for the 1950 wheat crop, set at 944,891 acres, down 10 per cent from this year's acreage. Allotments Include Douglas county. The News-Review classified ads bring best results. Phone 100. Uncle Hank Says . . . A PERSON AU. WRAPPED) UP H HIMSELF MAKE6 A HECK OP A IOOK1N PACKAGE. thing seems to flatten out, and we have to work like slaves. We saw some the other dav. Just In the right condition. It was sawdust. We recommend sawdust as the best material for building up good deep litter. Most any ordinarily good litter will work, If started early enough, though. Still, ten In ches or a foot of sawdust is Ideal. We don't know why we tell you all this, because we have a batch of cane litter on hand to sell. It's perfectly dry, and makes a fine built-up litter. It should be started now, too. Tt Is used very generally back In the East, where they don't have saw mills. So, If you can't get good drv sawdust, don't get discouraged. Come In and load up on this "SERVAL STAZDRY" litter. We are having a olenrance sale on SERVAL. -While It lasts, onlv $2.00 a bale. About the same coverage as peatmoss at half me price. TEACHER: If Mother cave you a big apple and a little one and told you to divide with your brother, which would you give him? TOMMY: Do you moan my big brother, or my little one? A Chinaman with tooth ache phoned the dentist for an ap pointment. Dentist: 'Two thirty all right?" Chink: "Yes. tooth hurtoe all light. Hurtoe like hell! What time I come?" Another Reminder It's a little carlv for this one. But, how much light would your electric bulbs give on a real dark night in the egg factory? We have seen bulbs so covered with dust and grime that we doubt whether the hens could in I "L FOUR-FOOTED MOWER S Passengers from a KLM Beek, Maastricht, Netherlands Wheat Smut Treatment By Wet Method Gaining In Popularity Although dry methods give Just as effective control, use of the newer wot, so-called slurry treat ment, to prevent wheat smut is gaining popularity throughout Or egon's wheat belt, reports an O. S.C. farm crops specialist, Rex warren. Number of machines In use has Increased greatly within the past year or so, the specialist adds. To make use of Ceresan M by the wet, slurry method, requires a specially built machine design ed to weigh accurately and meas ure wheat seed as well as the amount of treating material used. July 25, 1949. find the bulbs without a match. Electric lights help you get good production when th price of eggs Is best. Why not get what you pay for? Plan on some new bulbs for the coming win ter, or if your old ones are still good, clean them up a bit. We find even our living room bulbs get to the point where they need to be replaced. Save the hens' eyesight. Get new bulbs. (We don't sell bulbs). Don't Use in Metal Many people In Douglas County use blue vitriol, (blue stone and copper sulphate are the same) occasionally for their chickens and turkeys. It is a good practice, If used according to formula. But It must not be used In metal. However, If you have metal waterers, you can make them safe for medicated water of any kind by painting them with "DAB." It Is cheap and effec tive. Covers the metal which will keep the medication from contacting metal. "DAB" also slops leaks In wood troughs, un less they are too big. For coating the seams In new troughs, or filling small cracks In old ones, as well as rust holes in metal troughs, "DAB" will do the Job. Don't throw those old troughs away. Save money and time by repairing with "DAB." Get it at the MILL. Lecturer: "He who gives In when he Is wrong is wise; but he who gives In when he is light" Voice from audience: "Is mar ried!" Clean Cool Water We don't like that song on the radio, but we do like the Idea of clear cool water Xje poultry and livestock In warm weather. We also like the Idea of good sanitation around water ers. Your birds can have both with "DOUGHBOY VVATE R BUS." Several of the county's loading poultry-men huve gone 100' to Doughboys. They are economi cal in price and water usage, can be cleaned In two seconds, with a minimum wast, and are all 'round the most sanitary proposition we have seen in watering paraphernalia. One doughboy will handle the re quirements of 200-250 mature layers, One more reminder You ran Cay more, but you can't buy litter feed. r . airport. The sheep clear away more trass than the mower they replaced. Big advantage the wet method has over other treating methods using Ceresan products is the fact that obnoxious dust and fumes are eliminated. With the slurry method, seed wheat must still be allowed to set 24 hours between treating and planting, Warren emphasizes. This waiting period allows full utilization of gas that is formed by Ceresan M. It kills smut spores. Although water is used in the slurry method, Warren states the moisture content of seed wheat is Increased less than one per cent by proper use of this treat ment. New Improved Ceresan, copper carbonate or basic copper are all recommended smut control treat ments. With New Improved Ce resan, dust and fumes are ob jectionable. Copper carbonate and basic copper, while effective, depend entirely upon direct con- Registered Willametta Val ley Lred Romneys from Im ported rams. Choice selec tions now available.. OAKMEAD FARM Newberg, Oregon The New goodvear O-P-E-N C-E-N-T-E-R TRACTOR TIRE Does wet, boggy ground tall your tractor keep you from working your fields and threaten your crops? Play safe let us Install a set of new Super-Sum-Grip tires on your tractor. In actual farm tests, these sensational suptr-lrac-tion tires pulled heavy loads through wet, slick, slippery soil where other tires bogged down , . . and they don'l cetl penny morel Greatest pulling com In and plane are surrounded by sheep at tact with the smut spores. Their use Is ineffective when mixing is not thorough, the specialist points out. A good many warehouses as well as commercial seed treaters have now Installed the slurry method. Poor treatment which resulted from short-cuts or cutting down on the amount of offensive mate rial has been virtually eliminated through use of the automatic slur ry treaters. Slurry treating seed as it comes from the field will not af fect germination if the grain is planted within six weeks, War ren points out. Hold-over Ceresan treated seed is planted 20 per cent heavier, the specialist ad vises. Pigs' Raid On Garden Costs Their Owner $400 PHILADELPHIA (JP) When Robert H, Garrett's little pigs go to market, Garrett hopes they'll bring their weight in gold. That would make up a iittle, he reasoned, for the $400 they cost him to explore greener pas tures on the other side of the fence. The state superior court set that price for the corn and tur nips Garretts' 26 pigs consumed in the Lancaster county farm of Mr. and Mrs. James Consylman. SURi-GEtl the on earth look It over Hansen Motor Co. Tire Dept. Oak & Stephens ROSEBURO, ORE. Phone 44 Grange Master Puts High Prices On Middle-Man PORTLAND, July 25 UP) Morton i o m p k l n 8, Oregon Grange master, blames the middle-man for high food prices. He demands a congressional investi gation. Tompkins charged that the farmer was being made the fall guy on the current market. He said farm prices on many commodities are at a "ruinously low" level, while retail prices are being held high. These retail prices result from "high mark ups by processors and distrib utors," he told a reporter. Tompkins said he had asked the secretary of agriculture and Oregon congressmen for a con gressional review. Tompkins took potatoes as an example. The retail price has held at 5 cents a pound both last year and this, although the sup port price has dropped from $2.35 to $1.40 a hundred pounds, he said. The grange master added that grower prices in strawberries fell 33 per cent, while the retail price of frozen strawberries went down only 13 per cent. A letter he wrote to the sec retary of agriculture said. "It would appear that food proces sors and distributors are retain ing all of the high markups of previous seasons and taking whatever price adjustments seem necessary or expedient out of the pocket of the farmer, all tne while letting him get the blame for high prices of food stuffs. Frankly, we don't like it." Heavy Corn Crop Spells Reduction In Meat Prices PULLMAN. Wash.. July 25 UP) The mid-west's bumper corn crop win mean still competition for northwestern livestock pro ducers, but should also bring low er prices for the butcher's cus tomers. That was the opinion expressed by Karl Hobson, extension econ omist, at Washington State col lege. Hobson said the corn crop es timated at 3 1-2-blllion bushels will mean cheaper food for hogs and cattle In the corn belt. Corn sold around $1.00 a bushel In many mid-western areas last winter, Hobson said, and added that a price increase is unlikely with a large harvest In sight. He compared that price with the cost of wheat In the northwest which is generally near $1.90 a bushel. The economist said the large corn harvest and a large carry over from last year's crop should mean lower retail meat prices for two years. Milk, Cream Shipments At Reedsport Decline Shipments of milk and cream to the Reedsport Creamery and Cheese factory are dropping off sharply, according to Svend Knutsen, owner of the plant. A seasonal drop is normal at this time of year, but the pro longed dry spell has dried up the pasture on all ranches along the coast to such an extent that pro duction has taken a heavy slump unusually arly this year. The demand for cheese is not strong, either, according to Mr. Knutsen, and the price not fa vorable. Eggs of almost all birds and some reptiles and fish are o r have been eaten by men In some parts of the world. Now Prevent the Loss of Valuable Topsoil with the John Deere Killefer Pan Breaker Use this rugged equipment to break hard pan, allowing water to penetrate. Prevents run-off of surface water, presents loss of crops from standing water. INTERSTATE Your John Deere Dealer Soybeqn Brings $500 Million Yearly To American Farmers, Manufacturers By JANE EADS WASHINGTON The lowly soy bean, first Introduced in this country in the early 1900s, has developed into one of our most versatile crops. Last year brought close to $500,000,000 to farmers and manufacturers of soybean products. Some 220,201,000 bushels of the beans were grown last year. Il linois was the biggest producer, with Iowa and Indiana runners- up, the Department of Agricul ture tells me. ' Of all the new scientific indus tries stimulated by the impact of World War II, the soybean indus try has shown the most spectac ular growth and progress. Soy beans now are used in scores of different ways, from the making of paints to patties, toothbrush handles to hydro-carbons. In the Department of Agricul ture's Northern Regional Re search Laboratory at Peoria, 111., where most of the soybean re search is carried on, new outlets for their use are being constantly wonted out. Gelsoy, the new soy-bean prod uct which whips, Jells and glues is the latest of these. It is the first vegetable protein product found which "Jells." It can be whipped like egg-white to make meringues lor pies and is uselul as a water-resistant adhesive. Sticking Quality Great Gelsoy, made from soybean flakes by a process of alcohol washing and water extraction with no heating, has a super "stick-toit-iveness." It will stick to tin and glass as well as to wood, paper and other materials. Laboratory researchers say Its first industrial use will be to seal the cork in metal crown caps for bottles. A wag "In the department says that the device of "steaming open the envelope" to obtain informa tion a traditional dodge of spy story and detective fiction writ-er!-may well become obsolete. "The heat of the steam would merely make the glue water proof," he says. The greatest single factor which brought change in the life of the soybean was the over-running of the Dutch Indies and the Philippines by the Japs early in the war. This cut off our sources of coconut and palm oils and cre ated a shortage of oils and fats In this country. The only domes tic oil-seed which could be grown in large enough quantities to meet the deficit was the soybean. NEW METHOD OF KILLING Wild Blackberries Roses Poison Oak, etc. These weed nuisancei are now past. We ore power equipped to eradicate these pests. CONSULT US AND PUT THAT USELESS LAND INTO PRODUCTION. . July, August, and first part of September is the time for the killing. Jack May Landscaping Co, 1350 Harrison St. Phone 452 J is the time -To Stop Winter Erosion -To Condition Soil Free Demonstration With No Obligation Its oil Is the soybean's most val uable component. Soybean meal and flour are used for a multitude of feed and goods, spaghetti, confectionery and foods for pets. Soybeans are also used for the making of fire extinguishers. A vegetable milk from soybeans is now produced and sold in this country. Rabbit Breeders Group Organized; Officers Chosen Umpqua Valley Rabbit Breed ers association was organized Tuesday at Howard's Hardware at Winston. First meeting of the rabbit grower's group was attended by 21 persons. Purpose of the new association is to further the rabbit industry, to encourage use by the public of rabbit meat, and to increase the value of fur and wool by products of rabbits. Officers of the new associa tion are as follows: Jacene Wiles, president; C. E. Bowman, vice president; Harry Cummings, secretary; Mrs. Har ry Cummings, treasurer; and L. Gastrof, Mrs. E. V. Boyer, End Mrs. Rachel Cox, board of di rectors. Committee appointments in clude: Earl Clark, Charles G. Brent and Gastrof, market survey; C. E. Bowman and Mr. Belding, constitution and by-laws; Jacene Wiles and J. F. Wiles, adver tising; Mrs. Cox and Jacene Wiles, entertainment. ' Next meeting of the group will be held at Howard's Hardware, Winston, at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 2. All interested persons are Invited to attend. Members signed up thus far include C. E. Bowman, Ray and Rachel Cox, Mrs. Inez Stancliff, Mrs. E. V. Boyer, Oscar D. Hub-. bard, George L. Sinclair, A. R. Hern, L. J. Schuster, Beldings Rabbitry, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Metcalf, L. Gastrof, Guy R. Moore, Earl and Doris Clark, Charles G. Brent, Jacene Wiles and J. F. Wiles, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cummings, and Dex ter Sims. 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