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J910 1915 1920 1925 1920 1935 1940 1945 1950 The nnrachart above, bucd on data bom the Department of Ag riculture, shows how the U. S. farm population declined steadily, from a 1933 depression peak of 32,000,000 to 26,200,000 in 1945, then climbed back to 27,700,0000 by 1M9. Improved business conditions after 1933 caused a steady migration from the farms. World War n hastened the trend, as millions left the farms for city war plants or the armed forces. Farm population today appears to be levelling off about midway between the prewar normal and the wartime low. HAY EQUIPMENT MOWERS Tractor Mounted or Tractor Drawn J. I. Coie New Idea Minneapolit-Molin RAKES New Idea, Side Delivery, on Rubber J. I. Cote, 10' Sulky , Hay Carriers Hay Forks Pulleys', Hoists, Track, Cable & Rap BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG. OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracks Vegetable Study Set In Motion An expanded vegetable crops re search program which will involve tests of more than 800 vegetable vsrieties and breeding lines lias been initiated by the OSC agricul tural experiment station. The new long-range program includes two major projects designed to keep vegetable processors and produc ers abreast of the latest develop ments in the field. One of the projects will be con centrated on improving vegetable crop varieties for processing and fresh market use through breed ing, testing and selection. Focal point of the second project is the nutritional practices. Selection of the problems to be studied was based on a field survey of vege table growers and processing firms throughout the state. The studies have been set up this spring under the direction of Dr. W. A. Frazier, who joined the ex periment station staff last October after serving nine years as head of the department of vegetable crops at the University of Hawaii. Behavior patterns of new vege table varieties under Willamette valley conditions will be observed in the initial phase of the varity improvement project. Many of the varieties being tested are from England and the Scandinavian countries where climates are simi lar to that of the Willamette val- ! ley. ' Now under observation are 100 i bush bean varieties, 100 tomato 1 varieties, 150 sweet corn breeding lines, and 140 onion breeding lines. Numerous smaller tests involve : cantaloupe, watermelon, squash, ; lima beans, brussel sprouts, and : cauliflower. Seven varieties of bush beans and seven strains of golden cross bantam corn have been se ' lected for more intensive study. Nutritional work in the first year will be centered around fertilizer i practices with green beans. Fer- tilizer field test plots have been i established on farms in the Port land and Salem areas. Emphasis ! will be on method, amount, time I and ratio of nitrogen applications, i Later studies will include fertilizer practices with phosphorus and potassium. Two Glide Residents To Graduate At OSC Two Glide residents, Wynn Oliver and Alfred Lee Pfeifer, will gra duate from Oregon State college at Corvallis tonight. Both are mem bers of Alpha Sigma Phi social fraternity. Oliver will graduate as a chemi cal engineer and plans to work in San Francisco. He is the son of R. B. Oliver, of Glide. Pfeifer, who will graduate as a business major, will reside in Salem where he has been employed by the state public utility com mission. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Pfeifer, of Glide. Both graduated from Glide high school in 1945. SHEEPMEN! IF you ftsl you must sell your wool and mohair now, Pacific Wool Growers will buy outright and meet alt com petition. BUT if you want full value for your wool, send it to your aiseciation and take advantage of this rising market. WE will advance you 50c per pound on delivery. YOU will also get the benefit of prices that are con tinuing to rise above the prices now being paid. S. ion't be milled, ler'i oil work together for a better wool market. Through tha PACIFIC WOOL GROWERS your own cooperative you fet FULL VALUI for your clip. Grower-owned and controlled, the PACIFIC h on YOUR iid of the (onto. BAGS AND TWINE FURNISHED FREE. GET THEM AT A Consolidated Friahtwys tit pot, Roitburf Chat. E. Williami Sportin, Goodi, CanyenvilU W. M. lowdin Rfigrrin Service, Myrtla Crk Sutharlin Fruit Growan Assn., Sutharlin Simply takt your wool to any common carrier and ship it to PACIFIC WOOL GROWERS, Portland, Oregon, fright collect. Ltt us know im mediately which way you wish this wool to be handled. CONTACT ROBERT L. IRVING, ROSEBURG or write PACIFIC WOOL GROWERS direct. PACIFIC WOOL GROWERS 734 N. W. Wth Avenue Portland Canadian Potato Concessions Halt Urged By Growers WAKHTNflTOM Im nmoc. potato growers have urged the gov ernment to grant no further con cessions to Canada on potato im ports in the negotiation of new reciprocal trade agreements. At a hearing before the interde partmental committee on reciproc ity information, gathering data for use by the trade agreements com mittee at an international confer ence at Torquay, England, next September, industry spokesmen urged Instead that: 1. Present quota and tariff reg ulations on Canadian potato im ports be more rigidly enforced, or, 2. That a specific quota be plac ed on imports. Under the. present treaty, Im porters of Canadian potatoes must pay a duty of 37V4 cents a bushel on the first 2,000,000 bushels of seed potatoes and the first 1.000, 000 bushels of table stock (eating) potatoes. Imports above these quo ta.. hav 7S pant, a huchnl 4iti Domestic producers contend present duties, . because of lower labor costs and taxes in Canada, constitute only a slight barrier to imports and that "Canadian pota toes are able to undersell American-grown spuds which receive a price support from this govern ment. They complained also that Ca nadians are shipping seed potatoes to this country for sale as table stock, taking advantage of the larger quota for this variety. The grade agreements committee has authority to strike potatoes from the list of items upon which concessions may be considered at Upward Trend In Meat Prices Shown Again By The Associaed Press The upward trend in meat prices resumed last week after faltering shortly before the Memorial day holiday. Some pork items at mid-week were two to four cents a pound lower than the previous weekend in many competitive stores, but the reductions were expected to be short-lived because wholesale quo tations were working higher. Beet, lamb and veal all edged ir regularly higher in most places. reflecting firmer wholesale prices. Market experts in Chicago offer ed a variety of reasons for the persistent climb. Meat supplies are seasonably smaller, while consum er demand has been maintained longer than usual by the late spring, they said. Figures Watched Also, livestock producers are watching stockyard figures closer so as to avoid depressing prices by overloading the market, ana lysts noted. Summer resorts and eating places are buying more heavily for the vacation trade, too. Top grade eggs turned higher in many places for the first time in several weeks, but the advances were mostly restricted to one or two cents a dozen. However, fryer and broiler chick ens were off as much as four cents a pound in several market ing centers as supplies increased. Nearly all the price changes in produce items were downward, and centered on fresh vegetables be coming more abundant from near by truck gardens. Wheat Crop Lets Senator Elmer Thomas (D-Okla), chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, issued a statement last week saying the nation's total wheat crop may be under the billion-bushel mark for the first time in years. But because of a sub stantial carryover of wheat, we have enough to meet domestic and export needs and there need be no repetition this year of the sharp food price rise which followed the corn crop failure in 1947, Thomas said. The Agriculture department an- Public Welfare Cases Approved The Douglas County Public Wel fare commission, at its meeting this week, approved 18 additional old age assistance applications and denied four, and approved 10 aid to dependent children cases, deny ing six. The cases approved were provided for in the July budget. The county's share of of the budget setup for the period July 1 to Sept. 30 will total 133,134.75. Of this amount 112,120 will be fur general assistance; $13,500 for old age assistance, 7,350 for aid to dependent children, and $160.75 aid to the blind. The total amount spent for April, the report showed was S51.936.X4, which includes funds from the county, state and federal sources. The amount paid to the aged by the Douglas county commission for April averaged $51.09, which is slightly below the slate average of $53.54, but over the state re quirement of $50. Aid to dependent children averaged $113.41, and aid (o the blind averaged $41.86. Closing Datts Set For Breeder Show Closing dates have been set far entries to the purebred and com mercial Angus sales to be held in conjunction with the first national rancher and breeder show at the Ak-Sar-Ben in Umaha on Oct. 5. This announcement was made re cently by P. K. Pratt of Walnut, la., who will act as manager of the sales. During the national Aberdeen Angus rancher and breeder show, there will be two sales of cattle. There will be an auction of pens of two bulls and pens of 15 com mercial Angus heifers at the Omaha stockyards during the morning of Oct. 5. Entries for the pens of 15 commercial heifers will close on Sept. 15. Men., Junt S, 1950 The Ntwi-Review, Rot.burfl, Or. 9 RE-ENLISTS IN ARMY Pvt. Robert D. LeBleau, 19, of Roseburg, has re-enlisted in the U. S. army for a career service and is now with Headquarters company, 3rd battalion, 22nd In fantry regiment, of the fighting Fourth division at Fort Ord, Calif., pending further assignment. Pvt. LeBleau has served one year with the army in the ordnance depart ment. He hopes to make a career in the engineer corps with the army. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert LeBleau of 512 E. Commercial Ave., Roseburg. nounced it would cooperate throughout June with milk produc ers and distributors in a program to boost consumption of milk and dairy foods. May and June are peak supply months for milk, and total milk output this year may exceed the previous record of 121, 500,000,000 pounds (in 1945) if we have normal weather, the depart ment said. The price of milk delivered to homes in 24 cities averaged about five percent lower in the first quar ter this year than in the same 1949 period, and was still lower in April and May. The Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index last week climbed four cents from a week ago to $5.94 highest since Jan.. 25, 1949, and 3.5 percent above a year ago. The index represents the total cost at wholesale of a pound each of 31 general use foods. ant experiment station editor. Cop ies are available on request. the Torquay conference. It also has authority to fix absolute quo tas or bar imports entirely, al though there is not precedent for such a step under present or prior treaties. Research Role In Agriculture Noted In Report The significant role that research plays' in the agricultural develop ment of Oregon is reviewed in the new annual report of the OSC ex periment station and its 16 branch stations and experimental areas lo cated across the state. Titled "Oregon's Agricultural Progress Through Research," the report summarizes in readable form the achievements and activ ities of the experiment station last year. Nearly 50 photos illustrating research results are included in the 140-page publication. Major sections of the report deal with field, forage and seed crops; horticultural crops; soil and wa ter conservation; livestock; dairy production and processing; poul try; wild life and marine; and home economics. "The impact of a population growth in Oregon of more than 50 percent during the past 10 years is being felt in agriculture as well as in an expanded industry," Wil liam A. Schoenfeld, dean and di rector of agriculture, points out in the forword. "Oregon's agriculture is rapidly becoming more intensive and more highly specialized. This situation creates a "pressure" on the land with more soil management prob lems, more insect pests, more plant and animal diseases, and many other problems of a wide variety." The results of research under takings, though not always obvi ous, are of tremendous importance and return substantial dividends on funds invested, the dean explains. The report was prepared by Sam H. Bailey, experiment station ed itor, and Norville R, Gish, assist- 1 Washington, Canadian Fruit Crops Are Less KELOWNA, B. C, .! House wives hereabouts can expect to pay high prices (or this year's fresh fruit. Competent authorities say that the year's soft fruit crop in this area will be less than five percent of what it was last year. Peaches, apricots and cherries in the Okanogan valley, center of the provincial fruit-export industry, suffered nearly 100 Decent casual ties during the winter. Thousands of trees suffered permanent damage. The situation, authorities said, is the same throughout much of the Washington fruit-growing area. Hardly any of this year's small crop is expected to go lo the can neries. Nearly all will go into the fresh fruit market. Funeral Services Set For Robert Gibson, 13 Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. for Robert Law rence Gibson, 13, of Oakland, who died Tuesday evening from acci dental gunshot wounds. "The services will be held in the Oakland Christian church, with Rev. Bristol officiating. Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Slearns Mortuary, Oakland, it in charge. He was born in Portland Oct. 8, 193A, and had made his home in Oakland the last four years. He had been active in school work and athletics and was a Boy Scout. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Gibson; sisters and a brother, Vivian R. of Portland; David C. and Tamari K., both of Oakland. CHILDREN URGED TO EXHIBIT A snerial fpaturo nf iht Rnta Show tn hit hilH WorinacHnv lima 7 at the Methodist church will be a display of arrangements nrr. I pared by children. Any child may enter a display and parents are urged to encourage their young sters to participate. Entries should be at the display room by 9:30 a.m. weancsaay. FARMERS STOCKMEN LIME We are equipped to deliver and spread agricultural lime to any part of the county. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. ROSEBURG LIME PRODUCTS Phone 969-R or Call AAA Office, Pacific Bldg. CASH PRICES Wool 57C lb Mohair 55C lb. Bags and Twin Furnished Free) Receiving Daily UMPQUA 401 W. Oak UA PROD Phone 415 UCE CO. 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Drop in soon ot our Interstate store in Roseburg." DNTEIrlS Have You Seen the New "MT"7 This swell new John Deere 2-row tractor has every thing you'd ask for speed up to 12 m.p.h., lugging ability with little slippage in 2nd ond 3rd gear, fuel savings because of weight, traction because of large wheels, dual hydraulic finger-tip controls, speed ir. attaching tools. The MT is easier on you, too1 Adjustable steering wheel, air-seot, self-storter, ad justable wheel spacings, and all daily servicing can be done from one side no grease gun is needed!" Ask for A Free Demonstration "Tolt tn the mprhnnics if vou reallv want to know how good the machines ore. That's a pretty good rule . . . and you'll find Orrin Kitchin, the Interstate Shop Foreman, and his crew of expert form mochinery men, glad to show you why 'Caterpillar' and John Deere equipment ore tops in the field in value, dependa bility, and obility to 'slug it out.' Drop in the Interstate shop you're always welcome get the dope from the men who really know machinery from deep down inside." Liiten to "Farm Fare" KRNR, 7:50 A.M. TAT 709 N. Jackson ROSEBURG Your "Caterpillar" -John Deere FARM STORE Phone 893 222 SPRUCE ST. PHONE 174
