8 Th Nw-Rvlw, Rosebur;, Or. Mon., Dae. 19, 1949 j1 FARM and GARDEN NEWS jg Douglas County Conservation Plan For 1949 Completed; 500 Take Part Farmers of Douglas count have Drettv well comnleted a conservation practices for 1949 ana are now planning ior ivov, accordlne to J. F. Bonebrake, chairman of the county PMA committee. Incomplete records Indicate that 500 farmers In Douglas county carried out con servation practices under the 1949 ACP. This is about 17 per cent of all the farms In the coun ty. The county allocation of funds for assisting farmers in carrying out approved conservation prac tices in 1949 was $82,500. About 50 per cent of this will go to the farmers for seeding pasture. This practice is Important in Douglas county because our soil is organic matter and nitrogen, and is suited to grazing more than cropping. It soon will be time to sign-up In the 1950 Agricultural Conser vation program. The county al location of funds for the' coming year Is $64,000. Chairman J. F. Bonebrake explains that since these are public funds to be used to protect the public interest In the soli and water resources of Douglas county, each farmer as well as each farmer committee man has a responsibility to see that every dollar is used to get all the conservation possible. The people of this country through the government are cooperating with farmers, he emphasizes, by shar ing in the cost of conservation practices which assure a con tinued abundant but balanced production from the land. "Any farmer who cooperates In this program," says the chair man, "should be proud of t h o part ho is taking in building more productive land so that there will always be plenty. This doesn't WALLPAPER AND PAINT Largest Stock In Douglas County. PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phono 242 rT77T3r7jf ' 'I'JtJA WUHMJfi Vol. XI, No. 49 Merry Xmoi This no doubt sounds trite, but still it is the truth. It seems only a few weeks ago that we were wishing you MERRY CHRISTMAS for 1948. And here It is a whole year later. We will be closed on Decern. ber 26th, and again on Jan. 2nd, 1950, since the big days fall on Sunday. Quite a coincidence, huh? So be sure you get enough feed on Saturday so your birds and beasts will enjoy a big Christmas feed too. Also, be sure that you ask early lor your l'JSU calendar. You will need it to kecD ud with the times, and besides, so many of our customers use our calen dars to help In their record keep ing. It is also a reminder to you of the appreciation we feel to ward you all through the year tor your continued patronage. Our Christmas wish to you Is that, even though you may not have been perfect little boys and girls all year, that Santa Claus will fill your stocking with everything you have been wish ing for, and that everything will fit, so you won't have to spend he next lew days excnanging. SO, AOATN, MERRY CHRIST. MAS TO EVERYBODY, Looking Ahead It Is a bit early to make too definite plans for 1950. t Don't mat aate mane you teei oiacru But we would like to call your attention to a fact that you have no other way of learning. Last year, we tested 9.S41 tur- 'tevs lor bleeders, besides what ever other testers may have tested. This year, as nearly as we can learn from those best qualified to know, there will not be more tnan o.uuu mras. That's r loss of over one third. Even if these breeders gave phenomlnal results, say 20 poults per breeder, (a very optimistic figure), it would mean only tu, 000 turkevs for Douglas County In 1950. The County planning hoard recommends about 175, 000. Let's get our orders In early, so we don't have to Import poults from other districts. Remember, the outlook is much brighter than at tills time last year. Sheepmen end Sheepke pan It has Just occurred to us that there arc far less sheepmen In Douglas County than there arc men keeping sheep. The differ ence, as we view It is that a sheepman Is kept by his sheep, while the other gent Just keeps his sheep. While the season started off fine for good winter pastures, the recent cold weather has mean too much of some things now at the expense of not having enough later on, but it does mean so using the land to provide a balanced abundance today ana a continued balanced production ior tne iwure. New Strawberry Hints Big Yield PUYALLUP, UP) A new strawberry develoDed In Wash ington is yellows-resistant and nromlses to out-vield an old fa- vorite, the Marshall Berry, by 50 per cent, a researcher reports. Addressing tne western waan Meton Horticultural meeting. Dr. C. D. Schwartze said the new variety, named the "Northwest," may yield nine tons per acre. It was developed by him at the western wasnington txperimeni station here. Most strawberries are not good canners. but Dr. Schwartze said the "northwest" gives promise of being a good canning berry. He rated Its freezing quality as about on a par wltn tne Mar shall. Trial plantings have been dis tributed to growers, the research er said, and fuller reports of field performance will be available next year. He said three varieties, one of them developed by Dr. J. H. Clarke of Cranguyma Farms, Long Beach, may have solved the problem of red stele rootrot. The resistant varieties are Tem ple, Sparkle and Fairland. Dr. Clarke developed the Sparkle va riety. Dr. D. F. Allmendlnger, sup erintendent of the Southwest, Washington Experiment station at Vancouver, told delegates that raspberry yields could be step ped up 25 to 33 per cent by In creasing the number of canes per hill. Dr. John H. Hanley of Seattle was elected president, succeed ing E. L. Tichnor of Centralla. Morrill Delano, Puyallup, was named first vice president, Art Osgood of Lynden second vice- Unci Honk Sei Wit LONE80ME&T FEELINQ IN TH' WORLD 13 TO BE LOOKING DOWN THE WRONCk END Of A GUN changed things. Last winter was a corker, and proved to many iwpers mat it Daia to oecome sheepmen. The ewes that were fed brought enough wool to pay thplr board, and brought either single or twin lambs which made the grade. We don't say you must feed UMPQUA SHEEP CUBES, to nuallfy as a "SHEEPMAN." But we do believe there is mighty little, If anv, pasture sufficiently lush that sheep shouldn't be fed. And that wouldn't make the iced a good Investment. - - ........ ..una. ntiana at molasses, Just anythlne that they WOAA rl t . n..tn nlfnlf. ft. iiKe ana mnve on. nut 11 you vmiu ine jcea inai will give you the most for your monev, and keep your sheen in the hichest condition, you can't find anv. hlng better than UMPQUA SHEEP CUBES. Proved every year. 15 protein, and as always true of all UMPQUA FEEDS, priced right. Two ladles were dlscusslne an- other, (you know how it is, Mom). Said Kitty: "Let's sec. her hus band was a Judge, wasn't he?" Said Kat: "Well, evervbodv thought so until he married HER." What About This? Seeing the fuss In the naners about high property taxes, we heard a swell idea the other day. Edith, lour bookkeeper, you know), says "Why not a with holding tax on taxes? Then it would come painlessl" like the rest of our taxes, and wouldn't spoil our Christmas season like this year. ' We believe Edith has something there. We don't holler about paying 307o of all our In come for all other sorts of taxes. r.. mmmrni Up r&sm .. McdK L-ES BULLY FOR HER . . . FOUR OF THEM! Cleo, a 8-year-old Holstein cow, casts a wary eye about as her newborn quadruplet bull calves make their camera debut at the Sarafin Morals farm near Newman, Calif. This is Cleo's second set of quadruplets, bringing her total offspring to 11. president and Dr. Schwartze secre tary-treasurer, uave Biscnon, Vancouver, was elected to t h e board of directors. Governor Langlie was princi pal speaker at the annual ban quet talking in opposition to the proposed Columbia valley ad ministration. SANITATION OFFICIAL NAMED SALEM. UP) Melvln Conk- lln, Salem, was named bv the Slate department of Agriculture to supervise slaughterhouse sani tation in Oregon. For the past eight vears. he has been field supervisor for the milk control law. Dae. 19, 1949. Hod You Noted? The price of eggs is still down. Had you noticed that the price of UMPQUA FEEDS were down a fraction too? We sharpened up the eversharp and figured how we could save a nickel off here and there, without In any way lowering the quality. What we can't savvy is, at the time we were dropping our prices a bit to help you out, most other feed companies felt Impelled to hike theirs about the same amount. o a On That Bum Feed Mrs. B. J. Hardy has a fine flock of leghorn pullets, Just shucking out eggs for Gosh Sakes. When egg prices hit the skids, she decided to do some thing about it. So she changed abruptly from a high priced feed she had been using right over to UMPQUA MILK EGG MASH. It will seem strange to many of you, but we were not surprised when she said the birds seemed happier, are laying Just as many eggs, and best of all, Mrs. Hardy is a heap happier over the size of her feed bill. You too, can get at way. For a Merry Christ mas, let us suggest vou f-ed your laying flock UMPQUA FEEDS. They always come thru in the pinches. Sambo was arraigned In a Texas court. The clerk read off: "The State of Texas versus Sambo Johnson." At which Sambo exclaimed hopelessly: "Lawdy Gawd! What a majority! Things Will Chang Eggs are cheap. It has hap pened before. Annually, In fact. It will happen again. Wanna bet on it? Next fall a lot of people are gonna wish they had raised chickens. Egg prices will he high again. If you set eggs you can't sell, or buy from a good grower, you can get the cheapest chlx in years. And they will pay you well next summer. Don't miss a chance to get in the dough. Tourist: "You mean you've lived In this out-of-the-way place over 50 years!" Old Timer: "That's what I mean. T.: "But reallv. I can't see what you can find to keep you busy." O. T.: "Neither ran I. That's what I like about It." (We gotta notion to go there Mondays.) New Spray Hailed In Chemist's Talk PUYALLUP OP) A chem ist hails the development of a new form of parathlon spray which should kill fewer people and more bugs. . The spray, a poisonous farm chemical for the control of mites and aphis, was used widely this year and has been reported high ly effective on the little crawlers. R. D. Eiehmann, Portland chemist, described the safer spray in a talk on the insecticide situation at the annual meeting of the Western Washington Hort icultural association. He said, however, it had claimed a "num ber of lives" this year and cited four such instances. The new developments, Eieh mann said, are wet formulations. One is a paste mixture of para thlon and DDT and the other a slurry f water suspension of parathlon. They replace dusts and wcttable powders. it was tne lnhaianiuty or tne powder that made it d e a d 1 v Eichman explained, with deaths resulting from breathing the dust or powder. Even the wet form remains highly dangerous, he warned and still is not meant for inter nal use by humans. Good old DDT was hailed by the speaker as "still the most important Insecticide in the Pa cific Northwest." It's 1949 record was particularly cited for knock ing off the coddling moth, pea aphis, potato flea beetle, alfalfa weevil and the lygus bug on le gumes. Eiehmann disposed of the bugs but another speaker, Dr. Folke Johnson, associate plant patho logist at the Western Washington X To earn our rating as International Triple Diamond Service Dealers we bad to meet seven rigid qualifica tions. Among these qualifications are technical skill and training of our mechanics; use of International approved tools and equipment; installation of International-engineered parts; and established fair prices. And the seven qualifications we have met mean this to you: 1. Yon get the very best in truck service from us, anything from a lubrication job to a complete over haul. 2, We save you money because of our quick, expert work and our eslablitbtd jair prices. SIG 527 N. Jackson Experiment station, brought word of a new virus wnicn inrea tens the $5,000,000 raspberry in dustry. The Washington raspberry, principal variety grown in these parts, may be infected with one or more new viruses, .ie dciiu. "It is not impossible, though unlikely, that the virus causing strawberry yellows may have been transferred in some way into raspberry plantings," he said. ' Growers should be careful where they obtain new plants, he warned. Featherless Rooster To Get Tweed Clothes MOBILE. Ala. UP) Sam the featherless rooster has only an old wool sock to protect him from the winter chill but ne can look forward to better times. Hes been promised a tweea suit for Christmas. Mrs. Anne Brown ot untario, Calif., Offered to make the suit after seeing an Associated Press wirephoto of Sam, bare and un- t.ippy, pcrcned on owner imck Hasselvander's hand. Hasselvanrier accepted Mrs. Brown's offer and sent Sam s measurements posthaste. In the meantime, Sam must stay in his warm chicken house, or wander forlornly about the barnyard like a sad sack in his old sock. CAN TRANSPORT NUTS SALEM (P) Oregon residents can take fruits, vegetables or nuts into California, the state ag riculture department says. No Inspections ate required un til they reach California, and the California inspection isn't too se vere, the department said. FETT Phone 1 ISO Farm Bureau Won't Support Brannan Plan CHICAGO. UP) The Ameri can Farm Bureau Federation has rejected flatly the Brannan plan for direct subsidies to farmers. The action was taken at the annual meeting. ine federations 5,000 agricul tural leaders from 48 states voted in favor of continuing and mak ing more flexible the compromise farm support program enacted by congress this year. After refusing to permit ad ministration ennnenre nf (ka secretary of agriculture's plan to nuuiess i n e.m, me aeiegatcs adopted a stern Indictment of the Brannan proposal. They said "the ultimate effect of such a program would be na tionalization of agriculture and the distribution system," the cost would be "staggering," and it "would place a ceiling on oppor tunity in agriculture." The convention re-elected Fed eration President Allan R k-llna of Vinton, Iowa, who has ied the uppusuion to tne Brannan pro gram. The expressions on price sup- nnrtn worn nai-r nt a tiCnona of resolutions which included: support of the ECA and the recommendation that emphasis be ntaCPH nn enlf.hnln omnnrw European nations,, leveling of n i r . loin, wctus ana solutions 01 cur rency difficulties. Support of President Truman's point four of foreign policy to make American technological skills available to the world: sup port of the International food and agriculture organization and the United Nations; and urging of continued efforts for international atom bomb control. Oregon Specialty Crops Increased Oregon's speciality field and drug crop production doubled dur ing the war years and the acre age has dropped off only moder ately since, O. S. C. extension agricultural economists point out in a new statistical yearbook, extension bulletin number 696, "Oregon's Specialty Field and Drug Crops." Copies may be obtained free from county extension offices or by writing direct to the college. Covering the period 1915 through 1948, the publication deals with such crops as hops, fiber flax, peppermint, flaxseed, dry beans, sugar beets raised for sugar, and dry edible peas. Hops still show the highest ec onomic value among the special ty crops, the authors point out. Production problems and lower prices, however, have reduced the Willamette valley hop acre age, where 90 percent of the Or gon crop is raised. While hops still account for more than one-half of the state's specialty crop income, sugar beets, dry edible peas and pep permint, by comparison, show the greatest recent increase. During the period 1935-1939, cash receipts from farm market ings amounted to $4,000,000 an nually from the specialty group. During the three year period , 1945 through 1947, cash receipts from the same group averaged $21,000,000 annually. Return of European flax fiber to U. S. markets at the end of the war and high income from other crops have contributed to reducing Oregon's fiber flax acr eage below the pre-war level. A wartime high of 18.000 acres in 1942 had fallen to 2.000 acres In 1948, the economists indicate. mm Hi UfllVERSAL pumps AND WATft lYSTIMt FOR DEEP AND SHALLOW WELLS JET-TYPI WATER SYSTEMS IDEAL FOR NOME, FARM AND INDUSTRIAL US I eisimuti ir Electric Wood Heating Data Gathered By OSC OREGON STATE COLLEGE Results of studies into the use of high frequency heating in the manufacture of Douglas fir ply wood or other laminated fir pro ducts have just been published by the engineering experiment station here In bulletin form. The bulletin, No. 28, Is tech nical in nature and reports on the research by J. J. Wittkoff of the electrical engineering depart ment, and M. D. McDonald, Ore gon Forest Products laboratory, into the "Dielectric Properties of Douglas Fir on High Frequen cies," used as the bulletin title as well. Use of high frequency, appa ratus as a source of heat to cure as a source of heat to cure re resir. glues quickly is already standard price in some large plywood plants, the authors point out. Wtih additional Information the process can have much wid- W (MEED 1 SSn.4?S tejfi33tKB'; Cultivate Either Way with ROTOTILLEJt Among owners results have proved that the Rototiller meth od of cultivation is the most effective. It breaks weeds and grasses into tiny fragments, pulverizes surface soil and con serves moisture. Where conven BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ' ' ' ROSEBURG, OREGON' ;' " ;' ' . Phone 98 ;.. -m i.. Located W Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Track g& 'raft, while you cut ironing time in half I mmsm Now, sit down to do a whole week's ironing easily, j expertly and in half the time I It's simple. With a Frigidaire Electric Ironer you iron clothes faster, smoother, neater, without lifting, backache, physical strain. 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