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8 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Men., May 1, 1950 FARM and GARDEN NEWS Government Advertising Helps Farmers Sell Their Products In Abundant Supply By OVID A. MARTIN Associated Press Farm Editor WASHINGTON CP) Uncle Sam is using the took of advertising to help farmer! icll their product!. One each month the apririilfnre rienarfment nrenarea a list of food! then available in plentiful wuuicpaicrs, rciaiicis, uie urcaa for use in food merchandising The list is gaining wide atten tion in the food industry and among consumers. By giving the trade a forecast ss . to supplies, it ensbles mer chandisers to spot sales campaigns designed to give consumers the benefit of lower prices which nor mally go along with surpluses. The plentiful food list for May. for example, features porK and pork products, eggs, cabbage and carrots. May is a season of heavy production of eggs and slaughter hogs. The department figures that if it can help merchandisers sell more of these foods it will have less trouble with farm, price sup port programs. Other items on the Msy list include onions, potatoes, lettuce, tomatoes, canned corn and canned lima beans, raisins, prunes, can ned peaches, chickens, manufac tured dairy products, dry beans ana peas, peanut nutter, n o n e y and cooking fats. More than 15,000 key represen tatives of the food trade and closely allied industries get the monthly list. Many trade assoc iations transmit it to their mem bers. Hundreds of radio stations and newspapers csrry the list In food columns snd programs. A number of advertising agenc ies use the list in public service advertising programs. The department is now under taking to develop for apecial pur poses a report which indicates foods that are likely to be in filcntlful supply three to six months n advance. Such a report permits many publications which prepare copy far in advance of the publi cation date to cooperate In the program. Experimental work Is being car Vol. XII, Ne. II. Bad News Feed prices are up again, even UMPQUA FEED pricea. For this, we make no apology, but a bit of an explanation. We, (the liouglas County Flour Mill), wsnt to stsy in business. We csn't do it unless you, our customers, make enough money to stay in business too. Ve realize that you are having about the same problem making ends meet as the little dog that goes round in circles chssing his tail. The purp will never make It, but we have high hopes thst you will. We do know that many of our customers are coming out a bit ahead, provided they are getting good production. And most flocks getting UMPQUA FEEDS are giving good production. (If yours are not, call on the fieldman for help and advice.) Rut getting back to the hike in prices, it has hit every feed con cern in the U.S.A., simply be cause feed ingredients have gone up. Corn has gone up more than (7 a ton the past few days. Soys beans have gone up as much as a dime a bushel in one day, and the price of soyabean meal, a major ingredient nowadays is up proportionately. Even millrun, the by-product of flour manufacture has xoomed I many dollars a ton. And millrun ' makes up a large percentage of 1 any good feed. Millrun has hiked I because of the Guvment polity ' of handling wheat. The poor old Pscific Coast, (considered oxpen-; dahle by many big shots, in case i of trouble caused by foreign coun- try which we dare not mention), i is let out of the flour manufacture business. Due to the way our Guvment figures, western "feed wheat" is priced the same in Portland as good nulling wheat is in Chicago. Minneapolis or Texas. The result is that eastern mills can make better flour cheaper than western hits the price of ecus too. Ted only pellets, and the same size mills, and get it on boats headed ! Ziegler of Camas Valley has a as used in Minnesota, though for Europe, or wherever our fair- i pen of New Damp pullets which shorter. We have consistently ad haired planners want to get rid have been laving 85 to 90 i for lo, vocated feeding our HALF A of it, much cheaper than western these many weeks now. HALF, a mixture of regular HI mills can. The result is that our To stay in the business in spite PRO TURKEY STARTER Mash mills are Idle most of the time, i of Brannan It Co., we need bet- and Pellets, with oer 25'i pro Next result, no millrun, and what ; ter quality breeding, lower cost tein. APF and loads of extra vita little there is priced plenty high housing and the lowest priced mins. We didn't carry on expert From the Pacific Coast, we send : feed consistent with ounliiv t'.ood ments as they did in Minnesota out wheat, instead o( flour, there- j by losing feed ingredients, as well as the payrolls the flour mill em-1 ployees should be getting, pro vided values were allowed to seek their proper levels. Hut such is the inevitable re sult of having things planned in Washington. Perhaps nothing can be done about it. We wired Har ris Ellsworth and Guy Cordon at Washington. (Have you? Why not') Ellsworth ssys in reply: "The Department insista it is unable to make any special arrangements 1 concerning feeds without upsetting the entire program on these supplies. This list is distributed to anu rauiu auu lu cuusuiucr aiuuus campaigns. ried out on the use of television as a means of informing consum ers about plentiful food. More Beef Cows Than Dairy Ones As a supplement to extension '"" ury dustry 1867-1947 a new publica- tion, extension circular 536, en-' titled, "Oregon's Dairy Industry Agricultural Satatistica 1947, 1948, and 1949", has been released by OSC. Tables included in the mimeo- graph indicate that beef cows two line years of age and older outnumber Ik cows of the same age iirouD : 320,000 to 238.000. The figures rna P"'e for January 1, 1949. In the period ' There are regional tight spots 1940 to 1944, the circular states I in lhe "Pply of some nitrates, there were 27.1000 riairv . i particularly on the west coast and compared with 264.000 beef cows I two years of age and older, in- dicating the beef industry is on the rise. Purpose of the circular is to bring the older dairy statistical bulletin up-to-date by adding in formation on county production, average farm prices, and cash re ceipts from farm marketings in recent years. The 15-page mimeo graph was prepared by the agri cultural economics section of the OSC extension service. Copies of the circular are avail able from the county extension office or by writing direct to OSC. The time to make notes about tulips is when they arc in flower this spring. Bulbs must be planted Unci Hank Soys: FOLKS WHO ALWAV'! "THINK ABOUT NOSODV auT Themselves usual ly fcNO UP WITH ONLY ONE FRUND,' ,.H crops." (We sssume the "pro- best turkey growers, there can be gram" Is to make the wheat, corn only one brand in a year that is and soyabean farmers happy, re- so full of "it's." That, as you gardlcss.) Quoting further from know, is UMPQUA. Ellsworth: "He." (the Soc'y. of Hut, shall you feed mash, pel Agriculture), "is fully aware of lets, or a combination of the two? the situation which exists as a re- Granules, or crumbles, so-called, suit of the decision on poultry." are getting a big play these days. (Meaning taking off supports on The Mill hasn't gone in for them poultry but not on feed. ) j yet. And now we find that we have More quotes: ". . . rumors . . . been wise. strategy of Administration to ad-! minister existing laws . . . create discontent . . . producer groups DacKgrouna I o r increased Propaganda campaign . . for Brannan Plan ..." So there you nave ' The Brannan Plan has ow become the "Brannan Plank'' 'n n coming congressional elec- tions. and w ill also be the Brannan Plank in 1S52. The idea seems to he. "It you don't like it, we'll nunc yuu ue 11 . On That Bum Feed To prove what we sav about UMPQUA FEEDS being the high- est in qualiev, end the nearest in price to help you stick it out in j the poultry business till inflation breeding is available, and be- coming more common, wire i houses will solve the cost of hous-1 ing. and of course, vou knew e Try it this year And you 11 use would say this, UMPQUA FEEDS i it again next season, will solve the teed problem. ; Poultry Equipment Doc: "There's no need to worry i Have you got plenty of good about yoqr wife now: you'll hae poultry 'equipment? Remember, a different woman when she gets vou are going to pay for it any home from the hospital " way. so vou might s well have it. Hubby: "That's fine, Doc. But At the Mill we have the best, s pose she Iindsout ." , vPta feeders', from chick to hen . . , .... size: metal nests, easy to keep A traveler in Viashmctnn Stat. ,,... ..j li ...... . got stuck in a small town on c. count of a landslide It was still Liming cata and doss. Turnme Fertilizer Cost Less This Year Farmers were urged today by E. Harvey Miller, chairman of the Oregon State PMA commit- tee, to take advantage of this year's slightly lower cost of fer Ulizers in carrying out 1950 agri cultural conservation practices. "Lower prices for farm products," he said, "should not discourage the continuation of adequate fer "b" a" zer compared to farm income is substantially below prewar levels; and the ACP is continuing to pro vide assistance in obtaining con servation materials including fer tilizer." The fertilizer price situation is indicated in s recent summary by the United States Dcpsrtment of Agriculture In some areas the slightly lower whosesale price for the materials are off-set by high er freight costs, so that the price larmers pay will run about the same as last year. Sunnlie. of miyerl frlti,.r .r. about even with last year. Cur- rent potash supplies reflect the i 01 Production which occurred during the strike last winter, but should be adequate in later months. The strike loss was in part made up by imports; and its : . ... - - - : 0,al wipe out the ,', V uW.y amicipatea last tau. tvra oum supply ln fow nortn central states. The "50nal demand for nitrate in incse areaa is aoove average. Due to. uncertainties last autumn on the part of farmers as to the crops they would put in this year, many did not make their fall contracts, and adequate provision was not made to store msterials for thu anticipated spring demand. This also contributed to the regional light snots. With the exception of these focalized pinches, however, the report indicates that nitrogen supplies ar expected to be reason ably adequate to meet the de mand of the nation's farmers dur ing 1050. in the fall, when memories of the varieties we liked have grown dim. May 1, 1950. to the waitress in the beanery. he remarked: "Certainly looks like the flood." "The what?" she says. "The flood! You know, the ark, the 40 days rain, the landing on Mt. Ararat? Surely you've read that." "Listen, Mister. I've been so busy I haven't read a paper for three days." Psychiatrist: "Are you troubled bv improper thoughts?" Patient: "Well. no. To tell the truth, Doc, I kinds enjoy them." What Feed For Turkeys I The question is not what brand of turkey feed. That question is settled. On account of price and quality, and results proved year i after year by Douglas County's Work done in Minnesota has proved that ooults ted a mixture ot mash and pellets for 3'j weeks then changed to small pellets un- til ready for grow pellets at 8 weeks averaged 2 3 lbs. more at 8 weeks, and were more uniform in size than poults fed straight mash, or crumbles, These experiments were proved again by Washington State, where it was found that birds fed pellets were ,i ios. ncavicr ai 10 weeus. !and poults fed granules (or crum- bles) were only .4 lbs. heavier than control buds fed the same identical formula in mash only, And on less feed per lb. of gain. At the Flour Mill, we don't make crumbles or granules. We make and Washington, but now we know why poults have consistently done so well on our HALF & HALF. h, .n. ..." batteries: and hears 'of other mnk ' Sow Thick, Then Thin Out To Prolong Garden Harvest In the smaU home vegetable gar- den. where maximum yield is de - sired, there must be no vacant spaces in the row. The only wsy to insure mis is to sow plenty of seed, but not too much, and thin out the excesa plants. No matter how high the germina tion of the seed, accidents may oc cur which destroy seedlings, and there must be spsres to replace these losses. But unless the stsnd is gradually thinned, the plants may be so crowded that both qual ity and yield will suffer. With some crops, especially those of which the roots and leaves are eaten, this method of planting starts the harvest weeks earlier, and substantially increases the total yield, because half grown plants pulled up in the thinning pro cess, provide delicious servings. Carrots, for example,, can be al lowed to grow without thinning un- Mil the roots are as thick as a little finger. Roots pulled at this stsge will be sweeter and mores tender Red Clover Seed Planting Advised Red clover seed can well be produced on some of the land taken out of other crops this year, in the opinion of E. Harvey Miller, chairman of the Oregon State PMA committee. The clover will Erotect and build up the land and adly needed seed will be pro duced. Red clover is grown on more land than any other legume in this country, the chairman points out. The average acreage bar- vested for hay during the ien year period, 1938-47, was about 21.000.000 acres. In the same per iod the acreage harvested for hav of alfalfa was 14.000,000 and of lespedeza 6,000,000. The Droduction of clean red clover seed in 1949 was low, amounting to a little more than 61.000.000 pounds. lhal came from 1,240,000 seres that were harvested for seed, ln other years, seed production has been much larger because more clover was harvested for seed In both 1944 and 1946 the acreage harvested for seed was mora than double that of 1949. The produc tion of clean seed in 1944 was about 100,000 pounds and in 1946 more than 104,000,000 pounds. The 1949 production is only a little more than half of the 120, 000.000 pounds of clean seed which state PMA committees estimate farmers would like to plant in the spring of 1950. The present acre-1 age of the three principal legumes, is about 5,000.000 acres below the average grown in prewar years. Red clover seed imports to the end of January were a little less than 3,000,000 pounds. Imports in the peak years 1930-37 averaged less than 14.000,000 pounds with about 'i million pounds coming from eastern European countries that are no longer important ex porters. Hearings On .Standard Honey Containers Set SALEM (.Pi The State Depart ment of Agriculture has ordered hearings to decide whether the standard honey containers should be changed. The hearings will be held in Medford May 4. Portland May 9, and La Grande May 11. During the war. non standard honey containers were used. The hearing will decide whether any of these containers should be made standard. Perennial flower seed should be included in the spring seed order and sown when the weather is cool and the soil moist. Germina tion is then much better and the seedling plants have a long season of favorable conditions for growth before being transplanted to the border in the fall. Talking About a Home? So mony people do noth ing but folk about it' But If yrx really wont :o i out home, consult me now Persona1 mention. Economical terms RALPH L RUSSELL Loom and Insurance Loan Represenattve Equitable Savings A Lean Assn. 11 W. Can Phone tt'J than the mature crop, 1 Beets may be thinned the first I time just when the bulbs begin to ' form. Cooked with their young tops they will be a dish to remember, Half grown vetetables cannot be bought in markets, but they are among ne most delightful divi dends wr.ich the home vegetable garden pays to its owner. To maintain his supply of spare plants until sure of a perfect stand, the amateur should thin out by de grees. At first, plants of row crops may be thinned ot to stand one inch apart; which will insure, to each room to develop without entangling roots with a neighbor. As they grow, alternate plants should be removed, and so on until the opti mum spacing is achieved. Turnips do not grow well if crowded. If the young plants 'are pulled up so they stand 4 inches aoart in the row. in a remarkahlv nir-lr lim h will H Uro enough to use. Disease-Free Potato Liked By Group A new, more disease-free class of certified seed potatoes to be known ss "parent stock" hss been proposed by the Oregon Potato commission and the seed certifi cation committee of the Oregon Seed Growers league, it is an nounced by Elmer Johnson, OSC extension seed certification spe cialist. The new certified seed potato classification, those in favor of it say, would have such low disease tolerance limitations that few growers would attempt meeting the requirements. Those who do, however, would have no difficulty selling seed, it is believed. If grow ers are interested, the new class will be established. Seed meeting certification stand ards would be used as planting stock for further certification a parent source of seed. The potato commission and seed growers' lesgue seed certification committeemen meeting jointly in Corvallis recently, also made changes in existing potato seed certification standards. They were reworded, shortened, the require ments for carrying rogued vines out of the field was dropped, test plot tolerance for diseased stock ' lowered from 10 to 5 percent and grades have been made the same for all classes. Johnson states the "red tag" classification for all certified seed potato grades has been eliminated The "foundation" and "certified" classificatons will remain in the 1950 certification program. Copies of the 1950 certified seed potato standards are available through county extension offices, or by writing direct to OSC. On second field inspections, no mosiac, leafroll, verticillium dis ease, or variety mixtures will be tolerated in fields entered for "par ent stock" certification. Growers interested in applying for the new certifcation class are being asked to declare their intent at the county extension office. Plant pathologists from the college as well as the seed certification specialists, expect to inspect fields. Deadline On Livestock Branding Record Cited SALEM ?) Oregon livestock owners have until May 31 to re cord their brands. The State Agriculture depart ment said that of the 16.000 brands in the state, only 3.000 have been recorded. The law requires that every brand must be recorded ev ery five years. If an owner fails to record his brand again by May 31, any other livestock man can use the brand. Quick-grown, young vegetables are the best, and only the home I garden, where they may be har- ability of the plants to obtain nitro vested as needed, can provide gen from the air, where other them. 1 plants must get it from the soil. TRACTORS REDUCED PRICES J. I. CASE, Models VA, VAC & VAH, equipped with Hy draulic Lift, Power Take-Off, Belt Pulley, Starter & Lights. RIDEMASTER, Garden tractor, with 5 HP Wisconsin en gine, with cultivator, other attachments also avail able. TILLEX NO. 40, Garden tractor on rubber tires, 4 HP Wis consin engine, with plow and cultivator. BEAR CAT, Garden tractor, rubber tises, 2 HP engine, with plow, cultivator, disc, and spike tooth harrow, BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington St. ond S. P. R. R Track.! Learning Of Virus Ailments Speeding Up, Doctor Says CORVXLLIS, -4.PV-A man who won a Nobel prize for isolating to bacco mosaic some 14 years ago, predicted here Saturday much more rapid developments will occur in the future toward learning secrets of the many viruses now known to cause man and plants so msny troubles, from streaked tulips to mumps and colds. He is Dr. W. M. Stanley, in charge of the virus laboratery at the University of Cslifornia, who opened the eleventh annual bio logy colloquium at Oregon State college with a sketch of past developments in this field. Other scientists are speaking on various pluses of the virus subject. Close to 200, including high school and college teachers from three states and scores of outside towns, are here for the annual 'CSSIOn session to discuss one phsse of t ology. The colloquium is sponsored oy Phi Kappa Phi honor society in cooperation with other science groups. Dr. Stanley recalled that a Rus sian in 1892 really was the first in discovering a virus, but h e wouldn't believe his own experi ment. Hence the honor went to a Dutch botanist in 1898. The modern phase of virus study dstes only from about 1935 with isolation of a pure virus, and has been given a big boost with the introduction eight years ago of the electron microscope by which vi rus can be seen for the first time. How it multiplies still is a mystery Houseflies Still Buzzing Around Despite Sprays Blame the Spaniards for those pesky insects you'll be swatting and shooing this spring. The common housefly, says H. E. Morrison, OSC entomologist, was brought to this country by Spanish explorers. The year, sub ject to some argument, was 1769. Meantime, screening and sticky paper control measures were first recommended by the U.S. depart ment of agriculture in 1897. Still from the chronological standpoint, sanitation began to creep into the picture about 1915 and fly traps were becoming popular. Fly sprays containing pyrethrum in mineral oil were used principally as a re pellent until 1926. In 1943-44, DDT became avail able, and fly control enthusiasm reached an all-time high. Now, the enthusiasm has been dampened more than somewhat, Morrison states. Difficulty with present fly control insecticides stems from the fact that flies are becoming increasingly resistant. Both DDT and lindane, however, will still give satisfactory short time control during the early spring, cool months. They are not proving too satisfactory, however, when used in hot, summer-time temperatures. When DDT and some chlorinated residual type sprays become out dated, what does the future hold? Morrison believes that space spraying filling a room or build ing with small insecticidal parti clesis likely to become popular. This will require more treatments per season. The encomologist be lieves that general sanitation around normal fly breeding places will also receive increased atten tion Timing of fly control is extreme ly important. First flies are un noticed generally, but they are the propagators of fly populations later in the season. Reducing the number of flies before they have the opportunity to lay eggs will go a long way toward lessening the late summer fly problem, Mor rison states. Dos excrement is -a too-frequent over-looked source of flies. Sweet peas, lupins and garden peas usually grow better if the seed are treated with one of the inoculants available for the pur- pose. Treatment stimulates the Modern Cultivation Of Garden Gives Close Shave, Not Just A Slight Trim The present idea of cultivating a garden is fsr removed from the former practice, which inclined to the view that the deeper you could drive the cultivating tools into the soil between the crop rows, the better. Present day teaching is thst the ground should be stirred to kill weeds, and break the surface crust of soil, but nevei deep enough to disturb the roots of the nearby plants. This makes a lot of differ- 1 ence to the gardener, who no longer has to bear down on the cultivat ing tool in order to make H go down deep. It also approves a sharp hoe blade as superior to cultivator teeth. The hoe should be used as a cutting tool, not as a digger. It can be drawn in a slicing motion just below the soil surface, so that it uproots weed seedlings in the sprout stage and cu(j off the larger ones. It will pulverize the soil crust so that both air and water may have free entry into the soil, while the roots of the crops remain un disturbed. This should be done after every shower or irrigation, which will tend to compact the surface soil and start weed seed to- germinat ing when timed correctly, it will Egg Production Gains In State Egg producers in the state are getting more and more eggs from their flocks. In 1949, says Noel L. Bennion of OSC, the average hen in the state laid 182 eggs an increase of 33 eggs in 20 years. Meanwhile, the average egg production in Ore gon last year was 17 eggs per hen higher than the national average. A large proportion of this in creased production, the extension poultry specialist states, occurred during the fall and winter months. Increase over the peak producing months of April and May shows only slight changes. The annual rate of lay, Bennion believes, could be still further in creased if poultrymen would re place a higher proportion of their flocks with pullets each year. Pul lets lay 25 to 30 percent more eggs during their first year of lay than they will during their sec ond. Each year thereafter, a cor responding reduction occurs. Thus, THE ROW-CROP 4 "The handiest, workingest linle tractor ever built!" That's what owners say about the Farmall-A, designed especially for smaller row-crop farms. Farmall-A has the power to plow deep, full-size fur-tows-S to 7 acres a day. It will harrow, plant, cultivate, operate hay tools, binder, combine, or do any other kind of farm work. Its Culti-Visim design enables the driver to clearly see the work ahead of him ... permits culti vacing close to rows , . . assures better work Drop in the oext time you are in town and let us tell you more about the Farmall-A and the equipment built to go with it. Far 4iti ceooaeitiice far yn, juit Ml in Hi coupon balew, 4nm it in the mil end we will krinf e Formoll A h rout farm mn4 shew yea hew Mac, it wiH hale yea with elt'ef year farminf. S19 fan International Horvester Dealer 527 N. Jackson, Rasebura. Ore. Please hove your repreentotive toll on me and arrange for e dem- onitrotion of the Farmoll T roc tor on my farm. There is no oM.nn I tioa on my part. (Please check Forma!! tractor wonted .... Formal! Cub Super A ... Super C Name Raata . eatOttite SKJ 527 N, Jackson ,.m ika ,-nitivation of a small home garden to a task no more difficult than sweeping the floor once or twicd a wee. n ..t.;...tin u-tll rlrv out the I soil, and may disturb the surface roots of your vegeiame pi"". which can do more harm than cultivation does good. Besides destroying weeds m the space between rows, those which grow in the row itself must be pullfd when tiny. This requires u 1 nrf i alunvs tedious. j but can be combined with the task of thinning out excess plants, wire the vegetables have become well established, hand weeding will be unnecessary. Free air circulation in the soil has been proved to be a vital fac tor in the growth of plants, bi pro perly porous soil there is a com plete change of air to a depth of eight inches every hour. When the soil becomes compacted and crusted on the surface, this ex change is seriously hampered. Crust formation can be checked by various methods, including the application of a mulch, or by growing a living mulch of fescue grasses. But lacking a mulch, fre quent shallow cultivation is neces sary, especially after every rain. it takes pullets to produce eggs during the late summer, fall, and winter months when egg prices are traditionally highest. Wool Support Prices To Average 34.2 Cents Wool support prices for 1950 will average 45.2 cents per pound nationally according to a recent announcement by tne Department ot Agriculture. This is 90 percent of the March 15 parity price of 50.2 cents per pound. Prices of snor.i ami pulled wool will be supported through pur chases. Tne program will run from April 1, 1950, to March 31, 1931. purchase prices will be based on Uie 1949 average market price and the 1949 CCC price re lationship between grades instead of on the prewar price relation ship. The schedule of purchase prices will be issued in a few days. Savoy cabbage is a line home garden vegetable. It is not often found in markets though its crin kled leaves have a special flavor. TRACTOR WITH Formall -A- pro tar. 1 pwwtr tor erx-mm, crp fanning. I followinol I Arr. fA.-..j I 1 to 5 acres 5 to 20 ocres 1 over 20 acres lai Ne. hena FETT phont mo
