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I The) News-Review, Rosebura, Or. Men., Dec' 12,' 1949 gfTFARM and GARDEN NEWS j New Formula For Parity To Start , Jan.l; Will Find 'Fair 'Prices ' By OVID A. MARTIN AisocUUd Prcu Farm Roportr WASHINGTON OP) The government will start using a new standard Jan. 1 for measuring prices of many farm products. The purpose of using the standard is to determine whether, In the language of Congress, those prices are "fair and equitable." The standard is called "modernized parity," as distinguished from "parity" for the old measuring rule. The government first started measuring farm prices In 1933. Provision for doing so was made in Ddecedent-breakln? crop con trol legislation enacted by the Roosevelt New Deal administra tion to revive a bankrupt agricul ture. The law authorized use of various measures to pull price up to parity level. , The agricultural ' adjustment act of 1933 said in effect that farmers were entitled to prices for their products which would give those products the ourchas Fng power, In terms of non-farm goods and services, that - they enjoyed In a past favorable per lod, usually 1909-14. In other words, the law said a dozen egps should buy as many nails as It did In the base period. Mainten ance of such relationship, he add- ed, would be "fair and equitable" to an. The law set up a formula for determining parity prices for various products. Except In few cases, this formula has been In constant use for nearly 17 years. Dlreoted by Congress But Congress has directed that the formula be changed the first of the year. It said, In effect, that the old formula is not ac curate enough becasue it does not take into account changes In the demand and In the costs of producing various products since tne laua-14 penoa. The new formula will take Into account demand conditions and production costs of the lmmedl- ( cot Mccormick. deerino There's DO time loK in the dairy bam wheorouuMaMcCOUUCJC-DluUNO Milker. Here's wbyi Fleet unit oa floor, attach ataa cbioa boie, turn oa vacuum no traps, so hook oa palL Apply teat cups ooa at a tlme-aod you're milk log. You doa't hare to balance pail, or worry about It being level. - You can tare Dlentr of time with this quick, direct milking method the McCouuck.Duuno way. Get complete details oa this modern milker from tu bow. SIG FETT 327 N. Jackson Phone 1150 0 GRAND CHAMPION OF THEM ALL-"Judge Boy Bean," a 1280-pound yearling Hereford, was named grand champion steer at the International Livestock .Exposition io Chicago. Members of the Pecos County 4-H Club, Ft. Stockton, Tex., who raised the steer as a club project, are seen celebrating bis victory. Will Slaten, IS, right, was the original owner of the prize beet ately preceding 10 years. In General the new formula will set up somewhat higher parity prices for livestock and livestock products and lower ones for crops. These differences reflect In the main the fact that modern machinery has reduced the cost of producing most crops, while higher wage rates have boosted the cost of producing livestock and livestock products. Where did the idea of a parity measuring standard for farm prices originate.' It's impossible to get an ans wer acceptable to i.ll favm lead ers and agricultural historians. One of those active in efforts, to get federal farm-aid legislation Vol. XI, No. 41 Deo. 12, 1949. To G-t And To Katp Getting a great many of the things we want represents con siderable of a problem. But It Is sometimes easier to get things than to keep them. (Money, for instance.. What we had In mind Is a hatching egg market Right now, most everybody is out of a mar ket for their hatching eggs. But the few who are still selling and getting the high premium are those who have for years shipped the best quality eggs, produced on a feed that gives the best in lermitv. natcnaoimy ana Uvabillty of chlx. Wa look for the demand to pick up shortly after the holi day. And when it does, you want io De in position to lurnisn ine Kind oi eggs we just described. You want It so that when any body is cut off from a market, it won't be you. If your stock Is good, and you have the right proportion of males and females, your fertility should be good. Fertile eggs must be handled properly to maintain their fer tility too. Hatchabllity and Uvabillty of chlx or poults depend largely on the type feed you give your breeding flock. This applies to turkeys as well as chickens. Probably turkeys need even bet ter feed. But, remember, when we say good feed, we don't mean the highest-priced feed you can get. UMPQUA BREEDER'S MASH ''as consistently produced the ro. suits we have mentioned. It isn't hard to find out what to nut in mash to make It a sood Erred. er'i Mash. It Isn't hard to cot the ingredients necessary. We have known for years, as re sults have proved time after time. Except In the war voara. we have had the stuff. We have It this year again. In addition. UMPOUA BREED. ER'S MASH will be further Im proved this year. We are now Including in the formula the new A. P. F. about which you have been reading so much. Alreadv It has been proved to better the best mash heretofore produced. (In case --ou HAVENT read about it, APF stands for Ani mal Protein Factor, and Is about the newest thing in the field of nutrition.) If you feed UMPOUA MASH with the new improved formula. making It better than ever, you can be sure of giving your hatch- 'ng egz customer full value, and feel sure that you can sell eggs when others can't As to the . irice time after time we have proved that you can pay more ut vou can't buy better feed. UMP: BR. MASH will cost you $4,401. . Uncle Honk Says AIN'T IT FUNNV MOW fH' SIZ6 OF BOMB. FOLKS VESTS DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH "fHEYVt OOT in -mem POCKET. Dairymen, Look! Many dairymen breed their cows to freshen at this season of the year, and It is good bust ness too. They give lots of milk during the winter Just because they ARE fresh, and start all over again when the grass gets green in spring. But with dairy products high priced at this season, it is hard to spare enough whole milk to give your heifer or veal calves to grow tnem properly. We have the answer for you here at the lour Mill, rne answer is kaf-KIT." KAF-KIT Is not a milk sub. stitute. It is a "milk replace ment." A bit of a difference, and here's why. KAF-KIT contains 98 of the milk serum solids, plus guai nteed avail able amounts of Vitamins A. D. and Riboflavin, and needed by your growing can. One 42 lb. kit replaces 336 lbs. of milk, which gives you 4 10 irallon cans of whole milk to sell at hlRh prices. Yet, KAF-KIT contains all the vitamins and rrrowth factors needed bv your "Ives. Sell this extra milk and still sell or raise "milk-fed calves." One kit raises a calf to where you would ordinarily wean it. And at half the cost of milk. Come In and ask the boys about it. You can't afford to raise vour calvec, and won't want to raise tnem anv other way, once you try KAF-KIT. It has been tnnr. oughly proven by PEEBLES, on mousanos of calves. Gold In Them Thar Hills Last spring during the poult season everybody who thought he knew anything about the tur key business was keeping his mouth shut and his fingers cross ed. We admit we did a bit of both. It looked like too manv turkeys would be produced, and that feed wouldn't drop enough to make up for it. There was a big crop raised. Prices for turkeys dropped sharply. Feed was somewhat lower than In 1948. Many grow, ers expected to lose the prover bial shirt. But much to the sur prise of everybody, turkeys made a little money for many grow ers. We have heard of a few growers who had heavy mortal ity, and a few who used some of that turkey feed which was olated with 14 carat gold that actually lost money. But strange to say, those who bought a good turkey feed at a moderate cost, made about dou ble as much as expected. We told you last week about one grower who cleared $2.50, (He corrected us, and says It was really $2.51) above feed and poult cost. Now Gene Fisher, well known all over the county has given us some very Interesting figures. In spite of a serious outbreak of 'examttis when his birds were 'bout 8 weeks old, and had al ready consumed considerable feed, he obtained a pound of dressed turkey for each 5 lbs. of MPCHTA TURKEY FEED fed. He arrives at this figure by a slight calculation. He sold his turkey hens, for breeders live weight. At approxl. mately 6 months old they aver aged a strong 17 lbs. So he cal culated that they would have averaged 15 lbs. dressed. (We hope to snort they would!) The tome only went around 25 lbs at 7 months, but they were canonized with CAPETTES, which fattened them up, but mav have stopped their growth earlier. A ,.. v .Inno ITMPOtTA TOR. KEY FEEDS averaged a cost of approximately 44c a pound. Gene's feed cost, In spite of the hexamltis, was about 21c per lb. t AHH tn that nnult cost and brooding cost, and It still evident that uirseys can be raised In Douelas County on UMPOUA TURKEY FEEDS at a nrr,m Thu tnok ntp nn aver age of 112 lbs. of total feed per bird, Including what liene raisea. Considering the hexamitls and resulting mortality, a setback M.hloh hnri in rw nvprvomp. we consider these results remark- hle. and wish to thank Mr. Fisher for his figures. VUa alen faal nfe In Bdvlslnff anybody Interested In the turkey Hisiness to go anead lor tne TMnq year. Indications are for emnilnr crnn. and that feed mnu Ha ovon imver than this year. We KNOW that UMPOUA FEEDS will be even oener. ine breeding flock will be small In TViitaln. Wa itron that Vnll nlarp vour order quick. Don't let all our good poults go twers rni. You can make good money raising them at home. during the 20's and '30's 'M. L. Wilson,, now director of the U.S. Extension service says perhaps a hundred or so persons could claim some credit. Gen. Johnson Sponsor Historians generally agree, however, that George N. Peek and gen. Hugh S. Johnson, asso ciates in a midwestcrn farm machinery concern, were among the first to sponsor it. They ori ginated the slogan "Equality for Agriculture" in a book publiched In 1922,. when agriculture was suffering from depression. Peek later became the first agricult ural adjustment administration and Johnson the head of NRS, an emergency agency set up in 1933 to help revive industrial prosperity. - The idea of attempting to give farm prices purchasing power equal to that of the 1909-'14 per lod was embodied in he famous McNary-Haugen farm aid bill See NORGE Before You Buy $5 per Month Rebuild Repair Repaint Add years, of eervlce to your Washing Machine. Material and Workmanship Guaranteed. Easy payments as low as $5 per month. Phone 805 BERGH'S Appliance Service 1200 S. Stephens See NORGE Before You Buy passed In the '20s and vetoed by president (Joolldge. Many farm leaders in and out of government contributed to eventual passage of a law set ting up the parity standard. They include peek, tormer secretary of agriculture Henry A.. Wallace, President Edward A. O'Neal of the farm Bureau Federation and several farm leaders in Con gress. Rexford G. Tugwell, a mem ber of the famous "Brain Trust," has been credited with helping to sell the Idea to President Roose velt and to work out details of the parity formula. Brannan Farm Program Scored DENVER, UP) The ores!- dent of the National Woolgrow- ers association cans tne Brannan farm plan a "mess of pottage." He said it contained a disguised attempt to take control of their Industry. Howard Vaughn, Dixon, Calif., sheepman, made the statements in a blistering attack during his presidential report at the associ ation's national convention. Vaughn said the association en dorsed a production payment plan designed to offset lower fe deral tariffs on wool and a shrinking of the national wool in dustry. But he said the Brannan plan, often confused with this accoring to Vaughn, was far dif ferent and unwanted by wool growers. vaugnn pointed out that In 19 42 there were 50,000,000 breeding sheep in this countrv. suddIvIii? 80 percent of the nation's wool needs. Today, he said, that fig ure has shrunk to 27,000,000 fill ing only one-third of the require ments. He cited federal cuts in graz ing permits as a fundamental factor in this decline. Opening the 85th annual asso ciation meeting. Colorado Gov- ernor Lee Knous urged the grow ers to support a basic land in ventory as a means of settling me oispute over grazingonfed-eral the dispute over erazinsr on fed- eral lands. Hormone Solution Prevents Holly Shedding Leaves An easy-to-mix hormone solu tion used as a dip will prevent leaves from falling off holly boughs shipped for Christmas de corations, reminds R. Ralph Clark, O.S.C. extension horticul ture specialist Shipping undipped holly Is fre quently a source of disappoint ment, the specialist adds, be cause, more often than not It will arrive at Its destination with leaves separated from the stems. The hormone, sold as a pow der by feed and seed dealers and handlerrs ofa commercial suy materials, is mixed with water to form the dip solution. Recom mended dip solution depends up on the brand used. In any event, it will be three times the re commended rate for preventing apple drop. Another source of ranld hollv leaf loss occurs when fresh cut Dougns are stored or displayed near rinenin? apples or Dears. Both fruits, the specialist ex plains, give off ethylene gas as they ripen, and this eas hastens loosening of the leaves. Complete leaf loss may take place in three or four days when boughs are ex posed to even comparatively low ethylene gas concentrations. Where small quantities of holly are to be treated, dipping can be most easilv accomplished us. ing a kitchen sind and drain- board. Treat soon after curine Best method, Clak states, is to use a wire basket and a large bucket or tub. Dip the hollv lad. en basket just long enough to wet tnorougniy tne holly: allow the excess solution to dram off. Pack hollv for shipment while It is still moist. Best results are obtained when moisture-p roof cartons sealed wun gummed tape are used. Holly Keeps loneer when stored at a temperature under 4U degrees. ' uas or oil furnace fumes will also affect the rate of holly leaf fall in many homes, Clark warns. Expert To Investigate Disease' Of livestock SEATTLE (rP) Disease among livestock in the Astoria, Ore., area, believed due to a lack of some Important mineral ele ment In the soil, will be Investi gated this week by an eastern expert In that field. Dr. Kenneth C Beeson, dir ector of the U. S. plant soil and nutrition laboratory at Ithi ca, N. Y., said he had been asked by an Oregon agricultural exper iment station to make the Inves tigation. - He is here attending a Univer sity of Washington chem- urglc conference. ' "Just what is causing the trou ble has not been established," Dr. Beeson said. "However, it is believed to be due to a short age of cobalt In the soil." Shamrock, national floral em blem of Ireland, is a species of hop clover. . FLOORING : Siding O Finish PAGE LUMBER & FUEL U54 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 New Spud Rich In Vitamin C SEATTLE. UP) A new varie- ty of potato which may increase greatly tne nations supply of vitamin C. was described here. Dr. Kenneth Beeson. director or tne U. S. plant, soil and No. trition laboratory at Ithaca, N. Y., told of its development at the laboratory. ine new spud has not been named. He said in an interview it is suited especially for grow ing in the northeastern states, but that the same vitamin-producing qualities can be in-bred in potatoes in other regions. Dr. Beeson said potatoes now provide about one-third of the nations vitamin C. needs. "Bv doubline the content." he added, "we can make nearly two thirds of the national require ments available In a form that will insure widespread use." 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