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The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Mon., April 3, 1950
jff FARM and GARDEN NEWS jj
Bitter Weather Of January
Disposes Marketing Problem
Br HAROLD ROGERS I volume or quality. Now i food
WALLA WALLA i.Vih ait
January'i bitter cold aeema to have
disposed of the marketing pros
lema which were vexing the
Northwest's aoft fruit grower! six
months ago.
Growers last fall were talking
about marketing agreements which
would limit shipments, either b y
UniVERSflL
puiups
AND
warn
trtiiMi
FOR DEEP
AND SHALLOW WEIK
S(fU Stf
JET-TYPI WATER SYSTEMS
IDEAL FOR
HOMI, FARM
AND INDUSTRIAL USt
DIITII1UTI IT
Vel. XII, Ne. 14
What About This A. P. f.T
First, what li A. P. F., this new
product we farmers are reading
so much about? What Is Its pur
pose? Is it necessary? If it is now
necessary, why wasn't it neces
aary years ago? These and many
olher questions come to mind
when we read the adi and ar
ticles about A. P. F.
Well, first, A. P. F. happens to
he the alphabetical conglomera
tion that means Animal Protein
Factor, hereafter called APF.
Animal Protein Factor is not, at
the name might imply, a protein.
On the other hand, it is i vitamin,
or more properly, two or more
vitamins, needed by people, most
animals, and birds.
Like all other vitamins we now
know, it haa always been needed
for growth and health. But only
recently has it been isolated, so
we could study it separately from
other vitamins.
For that matter, though we are
all vitamin-conscious nowadays,
and take Vitamin A, B, I', I), or
a mixture of all, we glibly boast
that Grampaw and Grammaw
lived in fine fetlle without ever
having heard of vitamins. Our
forbears had their vitamins, just
the same. They took their vege
tables from their own gardens
and ate them the same day they
plucked them. We get ours off the
vegetable stands days or even
weeks after they have been har
vested. Grammaw lived hale and
happy, and never saw a can op
ener. Nowadays if a bride lost
her can-opener, she would have to
eat out. or go to the neighbors
(Some of them, at least.)
So, nearly evervbodv and every
thing got enough APF, without
ever knowing they needed it But
a few people, and some animals j
and birds developed pernicious
anemia, and eventually died from
it. Not enough red blood cells. If
one couln nae eaten a dor en i
pounds of raw liver every day. i
this disease misht have been over- i
come. Hut the treatment was
worse than the disease I
In APF, one of the vitamins is
H.12. which cures neonle suffer
ing from pernicious anemia, and :
makes them strong again. This
vitamin is so powertui that a dose
n'n J" muJ T,J, ! li
human
nflir i vi mi ,m ,,-nj. bui
IIUIK will
bring noticeable relief Or t lb.
wou'd be enough to (nil if v 54 thou-
d tons of "ck starter mash
with ample B-12.
Kut! H 12 is only part of the
APF. The whole story it far from
told. We could rattle on for sev
eral pases of "THE FEEI BAtl"
hist telling you about this won
derful discovery, and what is al
ready known about it. Still v.e
would be (ar (rom the whole
story.
tt' Vnnw enouch about It. that
we have APF in all UMPQl A
POULTRY ana I u n r e. i
i km
many of them do not even know
whether they have orchards.
Processing vegetable growers of
the state, however, have got their
cooperative bargaining agency into
operation in a limited way. The
Washington State Farm Crops asso
ciation will attempt to aid grow
ers of lima beans and seed peas
in I960. Other crops may be added
next year.
Some apple growers have kept
on pushing for a marketing agree
ment for their crop, which appar
ently was not seriously damaged.
But the department of agriculture
rejected a request for hearings last
week. Officials said general sup
port for the proposal had not been
shown. It is doubtful whether back
ers will be able to gather accept
able evidence of aupport in time
for action this year.
But anyone who has peaches
and apricots next summer will
not have to worry about price: he
can probably get about anything
he wants. The long and intense
January cold wave caused heavy
damage to trees. The cherry crop
also has been hurt estimates vary
widely. Prunes apparently suffered
the least overall damage of any
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SOMl FOLKS CAN'T
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and I'MPQUA t'ALF MEAL. It is
needed for growth, and more ur
gently in very young animals and
birds. Calves utilize it efficiently
until they are old enoush to syn
thesize it themselves, (about the
time they begin chewing their
cud). Your eggs won't hatch
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When you use UMPQUA
FEEDS you may rest assured that
your requirements for APF are
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of your insurance is about 3c per
cwt. of feed. For this 3c invest
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feed will give you double the ef
ficiency that any feed not contain
ing APF can possibly give.
'What Is vour birthstone."
Pad-"
The grindstone. Son. the
grindstone!"
Modern
Miss: "Grandma, did
you ever
flirt when you were
younu"'
Grandma
afraid 1 dtd
"Yes, dear. I'm
M. Mr "And did you get pun
ished for it"'
0. M r "Yes. indeed! I mar
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Kiting vicious, and picking tor, i
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i results, and cannibalism. Then
i profanity. Put the little cusses 1
i don't care. We so ahead swear-;
ing and they to ahead picking
i But it can be stopped instantly. I
with very slight expense, not too
much trouble, and with no bad!
results to the chix The answer is
an electric debeaker. we have
them for sale at Ihe Flour Mill
They don't cost much, and the re
lief to your feelings would be
cheap at a hundred t ties the
cost
We also have lots of other
equipment, including those popu
5 Va.
I Traces Of Potato Ring
Rot Seen Near Redmond
REDMOND W) Traces of po
tato ring rot have been discovered
in thia area, Ben Davidson, Oregon
Potato commission administrator.
has disclosed.
He urged growers to report im
mediately to the Central Oregon
Potato Growers association any
cases of ring rot. A serious infes
tation, he ktji, could cut returns
from the region's $.1,000,000 potato
industry in half.
This is the only commercial po
tato producing area in the nation
which has been kept free from the
disease, Davidson aaid.
INSPECTOR APPOINTED
SALF.M Lit The State Agricul
ture department has announced it
has hired frank M Turner, su
perintendent for Alderman frozen
foods at Dayton, as a food sani
tarian. He will check food aanitation in
canneries and freezing plants.
of the atone fruits.
Grave concern is felt about winter-damaged
peach and apricot
trees. Many acres have already
been cut down or pulled out, al
though state college experts feel
such action may be too hasty.
California Cain
The northwest's loss will be a
gain for California fruit growers,
but the region's prune and cherry
producers are optimistic about
the market picture, too.
Many people buy a certain
amount of fresh fruit as a matter
of course, and if, for example, they
can not get the peaches they pre
fer, they will buy whatever t a
available.
But good markets are no help
to the grower who has nothing to
sell. Many of them barely paid
expenses last year, when a record
crop of all types of fruit drove
prices down to pre-war levels.
You need money to keep trees
growing, or to plant new ones, even
if they are not producing fruit. So
financing has become a very criti
cal problem for a lot of growers.
Efforla are being made to obtain
some sort of emergency financing
program from the federal govern
ment, and some agriculture offi
cials are sympathetic. Government
help is sought because losses might
be too heavy, and the loan period
too long, for private financing.
April 4, 1950
lar paper feeders. Popular with
chix. poults and growers alike. A
nickel for the small feeders and
a dime for the large site. Use
(hem as long as needed, then
throw them awav.
On That Bum Feed
And here's one for the book!
Mrs. Alton Rice. Dillard poultry
enthusiast, bought a case of eggs,
had them custom-hatched, and
brought home 335 chix. At 10 days,
two have died and one been step
ped on. (She shoulda kept Alton
out of the brooder house.) C'arr's
Hatchery hatched the eggs. Neal
Meyer of I-onkingglasa produced
them, and die hens ate t'MPOl'A
BREEDER MASH, with APF
in it.
After gafing admiringly at the
chorus girls costume, Hank
mused- "Wonder who made her
dress."
"I'm not sure," answered Bill.
"I imagine it was the police."
When a car stalls on a moonlit
night on a country road, if the
driver looks into the girl's eyes,
he's single If he looks at the gas
gauge, well, you know, he's mar
ried. ! Hove You Tried It?
We have a rather new product
at the Mill that should interest
iall dairymen who like to raise
! their replacement heifers. And
also those folks who like to raise
a fine veal or baby beef for the
locker.
This is called KAK-K1T. It is a
replacement for the whole milk
Mother Nature intended for calves
to have. But nulk is worth a
heap to sell, and butterf.it. too
And a feller needs all the income
he can i;et.
So with KAFKIT for a very
few dollars, you can raise just as
good a calf as if you let the little
rascal suck Ihe cow. We wouldn't
have believed it either, only we
saw it priced the other day John
Harbison has a beauty of a calf,
a month old. and looks as fat and
sassy as any calf we ever did see
If you try it once, you will never
feed whole milk again.
Jack: "Let's give Ihe bride a
shower."
John: "Count me in. I'll bring
the soap."
Calling All Bargain Huntert
I'MPQl'A MILK EUt; MVSH
went up a bit in price, along wnh
the rest But it is still (he best
buy in the feed line for anvhodv
with laying hens $4 05 per iiV lb
sack. 18i protein, has APF. and
a rich vitamin concentrate, assur
ing that your layers get esery
thing they need.
Three Meetings
Set For Local
Owners Of Sheep
Oregon Wool Growers association
officials and prominent livestock
men will visit Douglas county dur
ing the week. Three meetings have
been arranged for local sheep own
ers to meet and discuss produc
tion and marketing problems with
the visitors, according to J. Roland
Parker, county extension agent.
Meetings will be held on Wed
nesday, April 5. at the K e 1 1 o g g I
grange hall; Thursday. April 6.
at the Rice Valley Granae hall
and Friday, April 7, at the Knights
of Pythias hall in Roseburg. A 1 1
meetings will start at 1:15 in the
afternoon.
W. H. Steiuer of Fossil, president
and Victor W. Johnson. Pendleton.
secretary, of the Oregon Wool
Growers association will speak on
the wool situation and government
support program. R. L. Clark of
Portland, a prominent livestock
man, will discuss how producers
can get full market value for fat
lambs and review the trend of
sheep and wool production in Ore
gon and the United States.
Douglas county is one of the few
areas in the country, states county
agent Parker, where the sheep
population has been maintained at
prewar levels. Sheep numbers have
continued to decline for the past
eight years in the United States,
until at present, the ratio of sheep
to human population is 1 to 6
against 1 to 3 in 1012. Mutton ind
wool are two farm commodities
not faced with surplusses and in
creased production is needed t o
meet national requirements.
Oregon Chick Hatcheries
Recommended By Office
SAI.EM, April 3 l.P Chick buy
ers have been warned by the State
Agricultuie department to be care
ful in buying their baby chicks
this spring. The buyers should
make sure the chicks don't have
the fatal Newcastle disease.
There have been 51 cases of New.
castle disease found in Oregon in
the past three years, but no new
last February 14.
The department recommended
that all chicks be bought from
Oregon hatcheries, ,
AMENDMENTS EYED
PORTLAND ,Pi Amendments
to the west coast winter pear mar
keting agreement will be reviewed
in public hearings starting this
month.
The Department of Agriculture
said the first will be at Portland
April 10-11. The others will be in
Yakima. Wash.. April 13-14 and at
Sacramento, Calif., April 17-18.
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Plant Roofs 'Shop' For
Food, Use Atoms As Cash
BERKELEY, Calif. (.Pi The
root of a plant shops around in the
soil for the food it needs. For mon
ey it uses hydrogen atoms, which
it takes from water. Two Univer
sity of California soil scientists
demonstrated this peculiar root ac
tivity by using chemicals which
change color in acid-alkaline re
actions. These testa gave additional sup
port to a new theory that plants
can take nutrients directly from
solid particles in the soil and are
not entirely dependent upon food
elements that have been dissolved
in ground water.
On negatively charged surfaces
ot the plant root, positively charged
hydrogen atoms accumulate. These
hydrogen atoms constitute the
root's "wad" of cash. Each atom
bears a single positive electrical
charge. Nearby on a particle of
soil there may be calcium atoms
which the plant can use. These cal
cium particles are chemically
bound to chlorine, forming calcium
chloride, and each of them bears
a double positive charge. The root
releases hydrogen atoms and gets
calcium atoms. The released hydro
gen teams up with the leftove
chloride particle and forms hvdro-
I chloric acid. The root can pick up
other food elements the same way.
Asparagus Crop
Goes To Market
SAN FRANCISCO -P Califor
nia's multi million-dollar asparagus
crop, largest in the nation, is mov
ing into markets all over the coun
try. The tender sprouts are hitting
dinner tables about a week earlier
than usual, although recent rainy
weather has been a deterrent.
A Department of Agriculture au
thority said growers are receiv
ing about the same prices as last
year and quality is good. Ship
ments now are going into the fresh
market, wilh canning to start later,
are available for cutting. The na-
i jonal acrcaw sca,terc,j
throu2h
22 states, including California, is
estimated at 132.570.
California harvested 69.150 acres
of asparagus last year. The crop
brought growers S16, 178.000.
Oregon and Washington aspara
gus will come into the market a
little later. Acreage in these states
is estimated as 10.600. Same as
harvested last year, with 10,000
acres in Washington. The 1949 crop
brought northwest growers $2,435,
000. GROWING CHILDREN
WASHINGTON (.Pi School chit,
dren ate 167.971.000 pounds of the
government s surplus farm prod -
ucts during the last six months of
1949.
The foodstuffs were distributed
free under the national school
lunch program, the Department of
Agriculture reported, providing
more man a half billion "nutri
tionally balanced meals" to nearly
8.000,000 children.
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Outlook For Truck Crops Only Fair,
OSC Extension Economist Estimates
OUTLOOK FOR TRUCK 218
Oregon farmers will probably
pocket less money from the 1950
harvest of truck crops and pota
toes than they did last season,
but market prospects in general
are still fairly favorable, believes
M. D. Thomas. OSC. extension
economist. He bases his conclusion
on information gathered for a new
outlook circular being distributed
by county extension agents to far
mers and others interested.
Reduced acreage allotments
and aupport prices still loom Im
portant in the potato situation. Pro
cessors are not expected to con
tract snap beans or sweet corn
as freely as in 1949 but may take
a few more acres of green peas
if weather conditions favor a long
Conservation Plan
Helping Farmers
The agricultural conserva
tion program provides assistance
to individual farmers to help them
in establishing conservation p r a c
tices on their farm practices
which will check and control ero
sion on their land and improve the
productivity of the soil.
Briefly, this is how Fred Bone
brake, chairman of the Douglas
county I'M A committee, explains
ACT and how farmers can use it
to improve their farms.
Boncbrake says that at thia
lime of the year farmers of Doug
las county are signing up in tne
agricultural conservation program.
The sign-up is to let the county
committee know which practices
are being planned so that funds
which have been allocated to the
county may be apportioned to get
the most conservation for each dol
lar spent.
This "sign up," he explains. In
cludes listing t h e conservation
practices which the farmer intends
to carry out and indicates he ex
pects to carry out the practices
in accordance with established con
servation standards.
Cooneration in the AC program
is entirely voluntary. Farmers and
ranchers who wish to cooperate in
the program, he explains, should
get in touch with the local com
munity committeeman or a mem
ber of the county committee.
Sod Waterways
Hinder Erosion
Sod waterways are proving to be
one of the most effective means
to control gullying in Douglas
i county
says J. r.Honebrake.
I chairman of the county PMA com
1 miuee.
' Before the sod is broken, t h e
waterways were protected by sod
and heavy vegetative growth,
! Bul afer the land was broken out
I of protective grass, too often these
' waterways become gullies. With
tne cover gone
excess water.
toaacd with silt, rushes into the
oniy outlet, digging ugly channels
mrougn tne farm.
ine use oi icrrares as a mpanc
of controlling run-off often in
creases tne need for grassed water
ways because of the concentration
of water back of the tirrarn
Bonebiake suggested that one of
ine simple and easy wavs to main
tain a sod in the nalural water
ways on the farm is not to break
out the sod in the first place. Where
gullying has started or is well
advanced, the land will have to be
prepared for seeding. If sod pieces
are used, they often will have to
be protected by such devices as
drop-chocks or partial dams.
Bonehrake explains that the agri
cultural conservation program in
Douslas county has a special prac
tice to aid farmers in establishing
sod waterways. To qualify for fi
nancial assistance, the farmer
must. . .(Cue specifications, ex
planation and rates of assistance
as given m your ACP handbook
for 1950.)
Market
Move von hirkiy rotrs laviitioafW Fla
w's FnO Fmence Plant If eM too now I
planting season. Lettuce mar be
a better bet than onions in adapted
areas of the state, although both
could be easily over-produced.
Market conditions for other truck
crops depend greatly on amounis
produced, as demand is not ex
pected to be greatly different from
other recent years, according to
the outlook circular.
Commercial potato growers in
the state are being asked to re
duce their plantings by 2.800 acres
or 8 percent. Growers have been
advised of individual allotments
which must not be exceeded if
they wish to be eligible for the
government price support pro
gram. Chances for market prices
to be above support levels next
fall and winter are not very good
unless national acreage allotments
are met and yields are somewhat
lower, Thomas says.
A large spring onion crop mov -
ing to market in competition with
remaining old stocks has demor-
alized the onion market recently.
If market conditions are to be
much better this fall, growers in
late states will eithr have to drop
present plans to increase acreage
or growing weather will have to
be unfavorable. Oregon's 1949 on
ion crop brought good prices up
to late February and was worth
about $6,000,000 to growers. The
late states will either have to drop
tons of snap beans harvested in
1949 brought growers about 6 mil
lion dollars. This was nearly three
times the average return for the
last ten years. Processors also
paid Oregon growers more than
$3,000,000 for the 1949 crop of peas
and around $1,500,000 for sweet
corn. Altogether, Oregon's 1949 pro
duction of truck crops was worth
around $22,000,000 to growers. Po
tatoes added approximately $17,
000,000 additional.
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Grass Crops Suggested
For Surface Of Airfields
SALT LAKE CITY-(.P Delbert
A. Fuhriman, Utah aeronautics di
rector, savs low-growing crops like
grain, alfalfa, legumes and grasi
might be profitable on many air
fields. "Some farmed fields might
be better to land on than they are
in Iheir natural state," he aaya.
"We can take a lesson (rom the
Flying Farmers in the United
Stales. Many have strips at their
landing fields in growing crops.
Their safety record is excellent."
Besides the cash income from the
crops, Fuhriman says, the airports
would benefit in weed and mosquito
control. He addes that if the land
isn't fertile enough to support
crops, grass could be grown and
erosion reduced.
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