t ' Tlit KUwt-Rrrtaw, Roseburf,, Ore. Men., Fab. 13, 1950
FARM and GARDEN NEWS jg
USE SANDPAPER
Pointers On Proper Care
Of Turkey Eggs Reported
In cleaning turkey eggs, dry
cleaning with fine aandpaper, ftecl
wool and a knife for scraping, is
preferable to washing, according
to Noel Bennlon, OSC extension
poultry specialist.
Quality of eggs and the manner
In which they are cared for, pack
ed and shipped, has a direct bear
ing on hatchability and an indirect
affect on fertility, the specialist
points out.
Bather Eggs Often
Good management Includes egg
fathering five to six times daily
After immediate cleaning, grading
and checking for cracks, eggs
should be cooled and stored at a
temperature from 40 to 65 degrees
in a room with a relative humidity
of M percent
Many eggs that are classified
as infertile, Bennion points out, are
merely the result of -mproper care
Many were fertile, but the embryo
died at an early age.
There is slight reduction in
hatchability, he adds, where eggs
are held longer than seven days,
After 14 days in storage, the hatch'
ability reduction increases rapdily.
TrU nils', a marine new chick I
kl KnwbUud form a nUnf mm
noted far hsalthisr, faaUr grow,
fog chicks. This aise, k) want
onong h far wry f rtini yet enaJl
anoush to b asfti far Lha omiltnot
chicks. Giro yoar chicks s good
tart with "lYitnfst KnimbU.
IM locally fcy
Cafe Leather t Fuel Co. Resekun)
Sutherlie Fruit Qrewers Sutherlia
Ctf feed Jtere Oakland
Altaeetk's Feed Stare Myrrie Ck.
Vl. XII, N. 7
Ltt's All Cooprot
For a lot of us, thrt art sorry
days ahtod. It's ooing to be ckn
nipping ond touch ttoriding. W
don't like, to sing tKt "Bluts," but
wt must fact trt focts.
Now, it's tikt this. Motes. Thts
productr of milk, tggs ond nwats
ot all kinds is taking it on th chin.
Prices arc too low for profits, as w
have known profits th post ftw
years. There Is a slight margin for
the more efficient operators, ond the
outlook for next fall and winter is
quite encouraging.
But one man's meat Is often on-
other man's poison. So while the
producer is producing for pleasure
; only, the consumer has a chance to
live better and cheaper.
Best buys for the housewife who
has trouble stretching the pay check
over taxes, clothes ond Guvment sup
ported potatoes, ond that's about
all of us), would be eggs and
chickens. Those two foods ore among
the "basic seven," and usuolly more
or less considered os luxury foods."
Not so nowadays! Eggs ore very
nutritious; hove nearly every vitamin
required by man, womon and child,
In foct, every child should have at
least one gg a day, ond two would
r- better. Either straight, or in pud
dings, desserts, gravy, etc., etc. Be
sides, eggs ore practically the cheap
est footl, quality considered avail
able.
We think of eggs as so much a
dozen. It we figure them by the
pound we find they are much
cheaper than we realize. A doten
large eggs gives over one and a hoif
pounds of excellent vitamtn packed
food, ond you con buy eggs at your
favorite grocer for approximately 30c
per lb.! And no bones in em, either!
Fried chicken, roost chicken,
chicken and dumplings, yummy! AM
those expressions imply living off the
fat of the land. Those things hove
o I ways been luxuries, reserved for
the rich. Not any more. The pro
ducer is selling at just obout cost,
if he Is lucky ond a good, efficient
grower, otherwise, he is losing
money.
You housewives can buy chicken
irect from the o rower for a heoo
lest money them you ore currently
paying for ony ether type of meat
or fish. And even your butcher should
sell you chicken for less than he sells
his other stuff. '
So here comet the co-operation
! Will isssTesT
Turkey eggs held more than one
week require turning once daily.
Medium Site. Best
Bennion states that eggs weigh
ing between 32 to 38 ounces per
doten will hatch better than ex
tremely large or small eggs. Loot
or tremulous air cells will also e
uuce hatchability. He adds that
clean eggs will hatch about 10 per
cent better than will dirty eggs
Eggs laid in a neat, meanwhile,
average from 10 to 15 percent
better hatchability than eggs laid
in the open.
Bacterial contamination which
frequently results in eggs explod
ing in the incubator is generally
most serious where soiled or wash
ed eggs are used. Explosions of this
type may result in contamination
of other eggs in the incubator, and
the organism that causea contam
ination may live through the ordin
ary cleaning and fimigatioo, Ben
nion adds.
Breeding flocks which a'e fre
quently moved or rotated on sod
pastures and limited to about SOU
birds per flock produce the clean
est eggs with resulting better fer
tility and hatchability.
No Ortgon Potqtots Will
B Dumped This Year
PORTLAND UP No Oregon po
tatoes have been dumped this year
and none are for sale at one
cent a sack.
That's what the U.S. Production
and Marketing administration re
ports. The PMA added that 277.S02
sacks of potatoes were sold to
stockmen for feed or distributed
to schools and institutions for lunch
programs.
The dumping of potatoes has
occurred in areas where the agen
cies nave not been able to dis
pose of the surplus as feed or at
one cent a sack, mostly in the
Maine potato growing counties.
. New Location
Or, George L. Nicholas
Veterinarian
Graduate of
University of Pennsylvania
la now located at
804 Garden Valley Road
Treatment of all domestic
animals. Emergency hospital
for small animals.
Phone 116
proposition. Let's oil help the grower
get rid of those surplus eggs ond
chickens. After that, he will be able
to get a decent return. In the rrnn
time, we will all be living high, and
saving money all ot once. What say?
Unci Hank Says:
VtoU KNOW IT 3 A FUKINV
kHtNG-m'MOSf WOtTRIW
IS OONt OVES-WlNGi
THAT NEVtR
HAPPtN.
Hoy! Hey!
Another car of good gross hoy
lust unloaded. We also have some
good alfalfa, ond enpeet a car of
timothy in just a few days.
A guy up in Eugene heard a good
riddle ot the office, so he thought
he would try It on the tittle woman.
"Do you know why I'm like 0
mule, Honey?" he sei, ond she sex:
"No, but I've often thought of
asking you."
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A Rule For Succesi
When prices of your produce ore
way down, like now, you need two
things: (1) good, well balanced feeds;
I2)priced right. You get both at the
Douglas County Hour Mill.
We have checked onA Ar...Mm.
checked to be sure that we have m
all UMPQUA FEEDS omnlt vitamin.
minerals ond euenhal nutrients to
build up reserves in your breeding
stock to enable them
abundance of the vital factors to
their embryos.
Our latest oddition to UMPOtIA
FEEDS It the pew APf. Ws nv,
have needed It, but in that, critical
times we couldn't afford to lat you
tola crtoncet. So It's there for vour
protection end insurance.
Avtrag Income Rtvtalcd
La GRANDE P The average
family farm in northeast Oregon
took in 15,440 last year, Frank J
Bartos, supervisor of the Farmers
Home administration, estimated
last week.
Hogs produced a third of the fa-.'
come. Dairying accounted for !
percent; cattle, 13 percent; sheep
12 percent: crops, 5 percent. Bar
tos' district covers Baker, Uma
tilla, Union, Wallowa, Grant, and
Morrow counties.
SHAD DUMB
Love Makes
Salmon Use
Fish Ladder
PORTLAND. (JPl How come
Columbia river salmon climb read
ily over fish laddera at Bonneville
dam when Chesapeake bay fish
are too stupid to do it7
The answer is love.
That's what fish officials said
here when advised of Maryland's
fish ladder problem. That state is
planning a dam on the Susquehan
na river, but it will block shad
from spawning grounds.
Wouldn't a fish ladder solve the
problem, some legislators there
asked? No, officials replied. Shed
are too stupid to use them.
Well, legislators persisted, how
about the fish ladders at Bonne
ville? So M. T. Hoy, assistant master
fish warden for Oregon, waa call
ed on for advice.
He agreed with the Maryland
fish experts: You don't educate
fish. You educate ladder-builders.
They study stream flow, water vol
ume and a number of other things
normally of interest only to fish.
Then they build a ladder.
U It's just rignt, the tisn go up.
If it's not, well there's no use
trying to educate the - poor fish.
Columbia river salmon go up the
laddera because that's the only
way they can get to the streams
where their love life flourishes.
Columbia river shad seldom go
up a ladder. They have no reason
to, for their love life takes place
in the 130 miles of river below
Bonneville dam, Hoy said.
OSC Specialist Appointed
The appointment of Alvin C. War-
nick to the new position of physiol
ogist in the department of animal
husbandry of the Oregon State col
lege agricultural experiment sta
tion has been announced by Wil
liam A. Schoenfeld, dean and di
rector of agriculture.
As physiologist, Wamick will da
full-time research in the beef cat
tle improvement program includ
ing atudy of the differences in ef
ficiency and rate of gain of ani
mals. F.b. 13, 1950.
Than there's the actress of whom
Judy Canova said: "If her figure Is
her fortune, she hasn't got her money
Inveited In the right placet."
...
A Maw Deportment
To try to help everybody, producer
ond consumer alike, we are plan
ning on printing soma recipes hare
for eggs and chickens. It should help
the producer, and give the consumer
tome delightfully appetising meals
on easily digested ond vitamin rich
foods. Here it the first:
4 eggs, Vi teaspoon solt, pinch
pepper, 4 tablespoons milk; I table
spoon butter or bacon grease.
Beat egg yolks, odd seasoning
ond milk, ond whip mixture. Get
large skillet hot and wall greased,
sides ond bottom. Beat egg whites
stiff, but not dry. Fold beaten
whites Into yolk mixture, ond pour
oil Into the hot tkillet evenly. Cook
slowly till "set," then place in oven
37S' till dry ond slightly browned.
Turn out ond serve. You'll like this
way of eating eggs.
Now, please, won't you tend ut
In your favorite recipe for fixing
eogt ond chicken, so we con oil en
joy good eats.
...
Are Canada Tatar Cheaper?
We reod in the paper the other
day that grocers in New Orteant can
sell Canadian spuds cheaper than
they can buy them In the U. S.,
even after paying 90c o cwt. duty.
And ot tha soma time we ore all
paying o fat price for home grown
spuds, one of the best foods in the
world, Uncle $om Is trying to sell
them bock to the producer, from
whom our same Uncle Sam bought
them at Si .25 a bushel, for o penny
o tack. They will be dyed some sick
ly color to we con't eat them, ond
probably wind up as fertiliter. Some
system. Uncle Sam uses. But, who
couldn't do it, os long ot the tax
payer ttill hat a dime to onte up.
...
Doc (after medical check-up):
You odmit you ore bod-tempered.
Do you know science has discovered
thot your bod temper is caused by
on ugly little microbe?"
Patient: "Not to loud. Doc. My
gosh, she's In the next room!"
Oregon Acreage In Certified
Seeds Shows Steady Increase
Oregon's total certified 'seed
acreage, 32,342 acrea in 1M9, show
ed an increase of almost 1,600
acres over the year-preceding, ac
cording to H. E. Finnell, OSC ex
tension seed certification special
ist. The estimated value of all
crops concerned was $7,311,199.
Included in the 1949 seed certifi
cation program, Finnell says, were
24 different crops including 71 var
icties.
Clovers Increase
During the 12-month period in
cluded in the specialist's reDort.
clovers showed the largest acreage
increase. Six varieties in the 1949
certification program had a com
bined acreage of 16,211 exceeding
the 1948 total by almost 7.000
acrea. Ladino was the leading
clover with 9,393 acrea pasing for
cenuication.
Total grass acreage was 23,837
acrea as compand with 27,395
acrea for the year preceding. The
uniavoraoie growing season during
the spring of 1949 accounted for
much of the acreage decline. Fin
nell reports. Perennial ryegrass
was the leading certified g r a a s
crop witn ,si4 acres, it was follow
ed closely by alta fescue with 5,954
acres.
Certification Is Insurance
Certification is insurance to buy
ers that both seed Quality and var
iety is as indicated on tags attach
ed to approved seed lots. Varying
by .crops, certification generally
brings growers a premium for their
product over uncertified lots.
Seed potato acreage which pass
ed certification was 3.035 acres and
was about in line with the 10-year
average, Finnell aays.
The percentage of rejections In
Farm Building
Hints Offered
Designed as a check sheet to use
as an aid before buying, building
or remodeling a farmhouse, a new
Oregon State college extension
mimeograph, number HE 7-302. en
titled, "Is This A Good Farm
house?" is now ready for distribu
tion through county extension of
fices or from the college.
Written by Mrs. Margaret H. Tul
ler, extension rural housing spe
cialist, the 13 page mimeograph
can be used as a check sheet for
judging either working drawings or
an actual farmhouse.
Under such general headings as
farmhouse size and shape, en
trance locations, circulation, doors,
windows, room and outbuilding ar
rangement, space has been left to
make check marks under columns
headed excellent, acceptable and
poor. Detailed check questions are
enumerated under each heading.
Various check points are illus
trated by drawings using a farm
house plan which is available
through the Oregon State college
farmhouse plan service.
Dr. E. W. Carter .
Chiropodist Foot Specialist
129 N. Jackson
Phone 1170
Over Roxall Drug Store
SZ
EARTH J
You mount this handy blade in front of your Farmall
Cub as shown above In that position you backfill tile
drains, push snow, move loose material
For heavier grading and leveling, mount the blade
beneath your Farmall Cub, as shown below. Attaches to
SIG FETT
327 N. Jackson
18 varieties covered was much low
er, however, than in 1948. Use of
better seed stock, more frequent
roguing of diseased plants, and
effective insecticide programs re
sulted in the upswing.
Certified gram acreage in 1949
showed a decided drop from the
year previously when 6,104 acrea
were approved. The 1949 total was
2.159 acres, and reflected the de
crease in Hannchen barley seed
acreage as well as heavy reject
ions in Elgin wheat due to excess
ive smut.
Young Fruit Tree
Pruning Is Topic
How to prune young fruit trees to
develop a strong tree and induce
early production will be demon
strated at the Paul Helweg far.n
at Winston Thursday afternoon,
February 16 at 1:30. J. Roland
Parker, county extension agent,
will be in charge of the demonstra
tion. Young peach, apple, cherry and
pear trees will be used in the
demonstration. The Helweg farm is
in the lower Winston district, south
of the Winston highway steel bridge
and down the river.
Pruning of the young fruit tree is
important to develoD strong main
limbs and a well-balanced top.
Young trees can be cut back and
pruned too heavily. Heavy pruning
tends to set back the tree and de
lay bearing of fruit, according to
the county extension agent. Each
tree presents a different problem
in pruning and different varieties
require somewhat different train
ing to secure the desired strength
and shape that will stand heavy
crops without excessive breaking
of limbs.
New Beef And Sheep Barns
To Step Up OSC Research
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
With the recent formal dedication
of Oregon State's new beef cattla
and sheep bams, experiment sta
tion research in these fields will
be conducted In as modern and scientifically-planned
quarters as any
in the country, college officials be
lieve. The two barns, along with an
adjoining hay storage barn, were
officially turned over to the col
lege by Herman Oliver of John
Day. widely-known eastern Ore son
stockman and member of the state
board of higher education.
The first of its kind in the United
States, the new one-story, 48 by
240-foot beef cattle barn will house
150 animals and provide for ex
panded research in breeding and
feeding studies. The artificial in
semination laboratory is one of the
best equipped in the nation.
BAD WORDS COMPILED
ROME. Feb. 13. UP) Hot
headed members of the chamber
of deputies may have to thumb
through a little book before they
begin to lambast the opposition.
Chamber President Giovanni
Gronchi said today a list of "in
jurious epithets" which would je
; barred from debates is being pre
i pared. The title: A dictionary of
! prohibited words.
MOVER
the reversible draw
bar . . . operates by
hydraulic Farmall
Touch Control.
We wiU be glad to
show you how the
Farmall Cub grading
nd leveling blade
can be used on your
farm.
Phone 1150
Here's A Dilly Deal
SALEM-CPI-A dilly of a deil
to distill dill oil has been explained
to the Columbia Basin inter-agen.-y
committee by Arthur S. King, soil
conservation specialist at Oregon
State college.
He aaid western Oregon irrigat
ed farma are making good money
producing dill oil for picklea and
perfume. Then he suggested may
be somebody can grow a crop of
something that can be used for
both lacquer and lipstick.
Senator Thomas
Proposes Plan
On Surplus Spuds
WASHINGTON, i.P -Senator
Elmer Thomas (D-Okla) Saturday
proposed a "production payment"
plan aa a solution to the govern
ment's surplus potato problem.
Thomas said after attending a
White House conference with other
top Democrats that he intends to
introduce a bill, apparently based
on the controlversial Brannan plan,
so:
fl) Allow market Dricea of no-
tatoes to reach their own market
levels without price-supporting
loana and (2) assure farmers of
payments from the treasury to
bring their potato returns up to
75 per cent of parity.
Parity is a standard fixed by the
government. Intended to a a a u r e
farmers a return on their rmni in
fair relation to the price of things
uiey must Duy.
A reporter asked Thomas if his
plan wouldn't amount to a trial
run on potatoes for the much-disputed
program proposed for all
perishable crops by Secretary of
Agriculture Brannan, and rejected
by Congress last year.
Would Fever It, If
"No," Thomas replied. "The
Brannan plan called for 100 oer
cent or full parity. I would favor
mat it we had controls."
Brannan stirred up a congress
ional uproar a few days ago with
a proposal for disposing of part
of some 50,000,000 bushels pf sur
plus spuds, acquired by the Agri
cultural department under the
price support program.
Brannan said they are to be dyed
blue to prevent human use and
resold to farmers at one cent a
hundred pounds for livestock feed
or fertilizer.
This Dlan was announced after
the senate agriculture committee
turned down Brannan's request for
uinrucuun on wnat 10 ao witn me
surplus spuds, saying that was the
administration's problem.
Senator Anderson (D-NM), for
mer secretary of agriculture under
President Truman and co-sponsor
of the new price-support law, was
not invited to the White House.
He and Senate Majority Leader
Lucas (D-Ill) have publicly a n
nounced they favor withdrawing all
mandatory price props from pota
toes unless Congress passes effec
tive cpntrols over both planting
auu nigmeung oi me crop.
"I think Congress will put out
potato price supports unless there
are effective controls," Anderson
said.
The Anderson price support bill
calls for potato supports from
60 to 90 per cent of parity. Secre
tary Brannan has announced a mi
nimum support for this year at an
average of $1.01 a bushel at the
farm. That is 9 cents less than the
average support last year.
Thomas, chairman of the senate
agriculture committee, aaid Rep.
cooiey (u-;nu) ot tne same com
mittee in the House was calling
a session soon to discuss the po
tato problem.
LIGHT FOR PIGS
DES MOINES (P Researchers
of the Iowa agriculture experiment
station at Iowa State College aay
an ordinary 100-watt light bulb can
prevent the loss of many early
pigs during the critical first two
weeks.
The light bulb In i corner brood
er, or an infra-red heat lamp, will
provide a warm, dry area for the
litter to lie down and sleep. These
lamps also will keep pigs from
crowding the tow toe close for
heat.
Arrange with wt for this
100 liquid tilling sarrlca
bow. It's the aaawer to kow
to eat tha work dooa lasts.
GoodToar Solution 100 ia
craasee cray trod or tire ef
ficiency inci.aaei grip.
Lesaena slip. Coll u today.
aa
Carter Tire Co.
444 N. Stephens Phone 163
Irrigation Use
To Be Discussed
At Meeting Here
Use of irrigation, drainage and
fertilizers to increase production
of field, pasture and horticultural
crops will be discussed by OSC soil
conservation specialist Wednesday,
Feb. 15, at Knights of Pythias hall,
starting at 10 a. m. The meeting
is open to the public and arranged
by j. Roland Parker, county exten
sion agent.
Leroy Warner, soil conservation
specialist, suggests that farmers
install their irrigation equipment
early and be ready to irrigate be
fore plants and crops lack for mois
ture. Frequently, in dry seasons, it
is necessary to start irrigating in
late April or early May to secure a
maximum growth in pastures.
Proper use of irrigation water and
having an efficien irrigation sys
tem requires plannin, states Mr.
Warner.
Drainage of cron and oasture
iana tnrougnout tne county ia being
stepped-up but much needed de
velopment in drainage is required
to secure maximum production on
most larms, "ccoraing to the coun
ty extension agent. Financial as
sistance to land owners ia avail
able under the 1950 agricui.ural
conservation program for the con
struction of drainage ditches. Rob
ert Murray, aecretary of the county
PMA committee, will explain pro-
ceaure ior larmers to secure finan
cial help in construction drainage
ditches and sodwater-ways.
Fertilizers are being used in
greater quantities to uioease pro
duction, of all kinds f crops and
to lower the cost of productoin.
Profitable use of fertilizers, how
ever, states Warner dependa upon
the kind of fertilizer, quantity used
per acre and time of application.
Fertilizers should be purchased on
the basis of plant food available
for each dollar of the retail aalea
price.
Grangemaster Asks Survey
Of Winter Damage to Fruit
PORTLAND '.fl State Grange
master Morton Tompkins has ask
ed Oregon State college to make a
field survey of winter damage in
western Oregon orchards and ber
ry fields.
He aaid grower reports Indicat
ed heavy losses in scattered area.
Salem growers reported all peach
trees under four yeara of age were
killed, he said, and Yamhill or
chardista Indicated all treea under
six years lost.
IRRIGATION
Pumpi Motor Engine!
Aluminum ond Steel Pipe
Gheen System with Pierce Couplings
Roinbird Sprinkler -Suction
or Water Hose)
COME IN AND SEE US FOR FREE ESTIMATE
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DOUGLAS COUNTY
Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange
ROSEBURG, OREGON
Phone 98
Located W. Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracks
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222 Spruce
Seed Potato Land Plot
Again Damaged By Frost
CORVALLIS -UP) The Oregon
seed potato plot at Oceanside,
Calif, has been frost damaged for
the third straight year, Oregon
State college reports.
Some 132 lota of Oregon netted
gem aeeds were damaged there.
Some may recover, but the annual
potato field day will be delayed
until March.
Sixty-five more plots of certified
aeed potatoes were frozen at Ore
gon State, when an explosion de
stroyed the potato greenhouse boil
er. ... '
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