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'IjjjftFARM and GARDEN NEWSaj 1 ORDER re v BABY CHICKS . 1 Boyington Hampihirt Hansen White Leqhoms 500 or mart hthd to rdtr till Jan. 1, wtakly rhrafrr, dtlivtred fr to your ranch. U.S. PULLORUM CLEAN Better Profits from Better Birds FORD & HOUCK BREEDING FARM Rt. 1, Box S20, Rosebura; or Place Order At Douglot County Flour Mill IT S Call for an 'on your farm demonstration' of the new Ferguson '30', the 3 plow tractor. Now at LEE MORTENSEN INC. 200 S. Pine Phone 3-7534 r.w -wiim'i,,ii'1'i: mil ii 1 VOL XIII NO. 48 irS A HARD LIFE To all you good friends who buy feed at the Douglas Flour Mill, and other places, it's pret ty tough to find the prices up ev ery time you come to town for a bag of feed. But after you pay the new hike, your worries are over. For us at the Mill, it's just one headache after another. We not only have to keep prices as low as possible, but we have to do it in the face of higher costs. If we didn't value our friends and customers so much, there are days when we'd gladly lock the place up and go look for a job on OPS. Here's what we run up against when we go out to re place the things we sold you last week: "Result of heavy ex port bookings . . . wheat was pushed up to $2.4414 . . I (It was $2.17 in July). "Mills sold out on millrun for Nov, and Dec. . . . Small lots offered last week gobbled up quickly at $64 per ton . . ." (Last summer it was $52). "Corn markets up sharply to $83.50 per ton . . . Even at that high figure demand was I keen . ." (We bought corn all summer at $65). "Oats continued to advance with Calif, buyers eagerly seek ing supplies . . . Good oats sold as high as $77 per ton . . ." (Last Jan. oats was $5J.OO). "Feed barley prices contin ued to rise, going above the $70 level at the weekend . . . Re maining stocks in firm hands with no disposition to sell . . . Strength in barley market . . . heavy export sales . . ." (Bar ley plentiful a year ago at $59.) "December soybean meal quoted in very limited quanti ties at $75 . . . bulk Decatur . . . several processors reported they were sold out thru Jan. . ." (We bought a lot last year at $55 "bulk Decatur"). "Beans being held by farmers ... oil market sick . . . meal will have U. carry the ball . . . some talk about upward shift in ceiling price ..." "Meatscrap firm at the ceil ing. . . $105 f.o.b. producing point . , . Fishmeal continued scarce . . market $2.35 per unit . . . ceiling price . . . f.o.b Vancouver, B. C. . . . " (Fish a year ago was only $1.95 per unit). "Cottonseed practically disappeared from the market . , Calif, sellers booked thru March . . . Producers not taking or ders, expecting new ceilings on I ,, L.,,.,1,1 .11 U,t Vyear at $73 or less). And so it goes. Even alfalfa meal dehydrated is selling in Calif, at $7S per ton. Eastern feed manufacturers are buying NOW New Red. U.S. APPROVED HERE THE ALL NEW FERGUSON "30" Thingi that look alike are not always the tame. Best way to be sure it to rely on the name. - -i... ... - - - it at $100 per ton f.o.b. East Coast. And to make it worse, election is coming along, and there is good reason to believe ceilings will be hiked, and all prices will go even higher. All we can do is hope that prices of eggs, fryers, turkeys, pork and other stuff you custom ers produce will go up along with feed costs. Sorry we mentioned it, friends. But we just want to show you that we aren't hiking your feed prices just for devil try. Mr. Anthony: "Case No. 5555. Will you state your problem please?" Consultee: "Mr. Anthony, I have been engaged for some time to a girl. Recently I found she has a wooden leg. Should I break it off?" (The above is said to have ac tually taken place.) THE BIG TURKEY SHOW You have only a few days left to pick out your best birds for the show. Or let us help you pick them, if you wish. Paul Abeel, the hustling manager tells us he is getting ' entries from all over the country, and it looks like one of the biggest shows ih years. Be sure and look us up when you come out to the show. We will be there, as usual, and will try to make you comfortable and happy. BELIEVE IN SIGNS? We aren't too superstitious, but once in a long time we see a sign we really believe in. And one you can believe in is the new sign we are having painted on the outside of the Mill telling you about our hardware dept. Have a look, as soon as it gets plastered on the wall. And speaking of the hardware dept. At our house it was al ways impossible to get the ball games on our radio. But we got a little one at the Mill, and didn't miss a game the Portland Beavers played after that. Ii your radio won't reach out for distant stations, try one of these. They can't be beat. And we have the slickest Iron ing board you ever saw. Not to mention one of those cute little "HANDY CART" thingamajigs. Has two wheels, instead of one like an ordinary wheelbarrow. It'll hold a sack of feed, and fill come in handy in garden ing and yard work. You'll have to see it to appreciate it. Yes, and how about some anti freeze? Getting plenty cold. "I hear the police have orders Next Year's Wheat Harvest Gets Off To Favorable Start WASHINGTON VP) Next year's vital wheat crop for which the government has set a goal of about 1,150,000,000 bushels is getting off to a favorable start in most sections of the country. This outlook was reported by the agriculture department in a crop survey yesterday which said ' aggregate crop reduction this year ' will be the third largest of record despite declines in some crops during October. Only in 1948 and 1049 was pro duction larger. The department said that by the end of October, winter wheat seed ing was nearly completed in most areas, although wet weather in eastern parts of Washington and uregon ana in Minnesota and dry weather in parts of the Atlantic states, the South and Southwest had retarded operations. Shew Goed Stands ' Early sown fields of winter wheat and rye were said to show I good stands. This year's corn crop is now ! estimated at 3,088,000,000 bushels ! about 17,000,000 less than a ' month earlier. It compares with 13.131,000,000 bushels produced last i year and 2,980,000,000 for the 10 year average. The department said much of the corn may be of poor livestock feeding value because of high moisture content in frost-damaged corn. Most of the poor quality corn was said to be in areas WKSr COAST JUMLINS CALL LEWIS TRAVEL SERVICE ll M.tel Phan. S-SW WEST COAST AIRLINES Rouburg Municipal Airport Phop. 3-3231 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1951 to stop petting In public parks." "Gee, how long have the cop pers been petting in public parks?" AUTOMATIC FEEDING Nearly every poultryman In Douglas is feeding poultry the oldfashioned way. Packing sacks on the back, and buckets on the arm. Pouring out feed into old fashioned hoppers and letting the birds waste it, in spite of its high cost. When he could turn the job over to a "BIG DUTCHMAN" and spend the time fishing in summer and watching television in winter. The saving an au tomatic feeder gives you is not in time alone. Nor is time even the most important sav ing. An automatic will pay for itself several times over in the feed it saves. Birds also eat better, from the moving trough, thereby making better use of the feed. With feed high priced, and getting higher by the day, you can't afford to have it wasted. You can't afford not to get thr; utmost value from your feed. An automatic feeder will give you more time, more value witb less labor. Come in and let's talk automatic feeders. They're cheaper than you ever thought. Several different models, for dif ferent set ups. LIKE THE MALE PLANE "What's that crawling up the wall," "Why, that's a lady bug.' "Gollyl What marvelous eyesight!" GREENS FOR HENS We 'are often asked what is the best green feed for laying hens. We cheerfully answer "alfalfa." And it is so easy for you, 'cause it's right in the bag all the time. 20 years ago we had to feed greens. Waller round in the wet and cold picking Kale, mustard, etc. It sure helped to. But we didn't know just why. we had to do it. Now, we know, and it makes Life easier for you. Prospective Boss: "Have you any references?" Applicant: "Yes, here's one. Says: 'To whom it may con cern: Bill Smith worked for us one week, and we were satis fied." Young man: "I'm contemplat ing matrimony. How much money will I need?" Old Timer: "More." where beef cattle and bogs are available to use it. Compared with a month ago, latest production estimates are rice, potatoes, dry beans, peanuts, broomcorn, apples and pears. On the other hand, estimates are higher for soy beans, tobacco, sor ghum grain, sugar beets, sweet potatoes and pecans. DDT Specialist On Hort Society Meeting At OSC What danger is there to bum- mans from DDT? That's a question to be dis cussed by Dr. J. Monte Johnston, Wenatchee, Wash., at the Oregon State horticultural society meeting nov. a ana 30 on the Oregon State college campus. A. U. S. public health service toxicology laboratory, physician, Dr. Johnston will report work that has been underway in which or ganic phosphates and DT, a widely used insecticide, have been studied. The appearance of Dr. Johnston at the society's sixty-sixth annual meeting has been announcd by the program commitee headed by Paul Skinner, Medford. Sessions both daya will get underway at 9 a.m. and will be held in the OSC campus Memorial Union building. Climax of the two-day meeting will be a speaking appearance by Oscar Chapman, secretary of in trior, Thursday evening, Nov. 29, in the coliseum building. The pro gram, which will include talks by Governor Douglas McKay and President A. L. Strand of Ore gon State college, will begin at 8 p.m. Other speakers at general busi ness sessions include Dr. J. R. Magness. Beltsville, Ind., USDA agricultural research admimtra tion horticultural research direc tor; and Harold T. Nelson. Boise, Ida., regional director, bureau of reclamation. Robert C. Paulus, Salem, presi dent of the Paulus Brothers Pack ing company, will discuss handi caps in marketing northwest pro cessed foods. Prospects for labor in tne current defene economy is the topic chosen by Glenn E. urocKway, ban Francisco, u. S. Department of Labor regional director. Palmer C. Mendelson, San Fran cisco, nationally known fresh fruit and vegetable distributor, has also accepted a bid to appear. 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Track Rosebura;, Oregon PHONE 3-5022 FREE PARKING AT Lowtr Profits Predicted In Stat Poultry Industry PORTLAND UP) Increased production, higher costs and lower profits that is the forecast for the Oregon poultry industry next year. Speaking at t meeting of the Oregon Baby Chick association, Noel Bennion, Oregon State col lege poultry specialist said Ore gon chick production will total 15, 000,000 next year-gU percent above this year. Prices for chicks will be up about five percent, he said. Egg production will be up three to live percent and egg prices mght dip a Ittle, Harry R.Roh, general manager of the Pacific Co-operative Poultry Producers, reported. New Feed, Grunts Make Bigger Pigs ST. PAUL, Minn. Wl Amer- : iCm-t itte pjgs may De hastened I to market with a new synthetic milk and summoned to meals with phonograph records of sows grunts. Herbert G. Luther, research sci entist with Chas. Pfizer & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.,,said that piglets fed Uie new concoction weighted 10 to 35 pounds more than normally-suckled ones in an eight-week nutrition symposium -at the Univer sity of Minnesota. Trade named Terralac. the syn thetic contains terramycin, an an tibiotic that stimulates growth, dry skim milk, lard to supply fats, fish oils and tiny amounts of vita mins and minerals. Except for the fish oil, it tastes like heavy milk, Luther reported. It looks like pie crust mix. More piglets- can be produced with it, Luther said, promising more and maybe cheaper pork chops and bacon. He said successful tests have been run on 500 pigs in a Brooklyn laboratory and 3,000 more on large farms .The cost is set at 35 to 40 cents a pound, with the animals using 12 pounds apiece before wean ing. Normally sleepy critters, pigs are usually awakened by the low's grunting. Luther put the grunts on records which were played every hour on the hour at feeding time. Crop Under Snow In Saskatchewan EDMONTON til More than $450,000,000 worth of wheat, oats and barley is estimated to be lying under snow in Alberta and sasxai chewan, waiting until spring to be harvested. Most of it eventually will be sal vaged, but its value after a winter in the open is a question mark. For a second straight year a late growing season and early winter have combined with marketing and transportation problems to frus Strate the farmer's hopes for a bu ing crop of top-quality grain, safely harvested and sold before winter. The farmers are without the cash they customarily receive in the fail when they delivered their grain to the elvators. Those with threshed grain are unable to get rid of it because most elevators are clogged. Farm organizations are clamor ing for financial advances from the federal government to see the farmers through the winter .Busi- CAPACITY MOUNTED PIOVJ J. .. - THE FARM BUREAU nesa men are worried too, because the entire western economy i s slowed when the farmer's purchas ing power drops. Alberta, particularly its southern areas, has been hit hardest. Turkey Industry Delays Plans For Paratyphoid Test It appears impractical to start a turkey paratypnoid testing pro gram at this time. That was the conclusion leached recently by directors of the Ore gon Turkey Improvement asso ciation, representatives of the state department of agriculture, Ore gon State college and the turkey industry. Although the disease is in creasing, it was decided to post pone plans lor a testing program until a more accurate test is de veloped. Paratyphoid, transmitted much the same as pullorum, may also be spread by rats. mice, birds and other animals, aays Noel Bennion, uregon state college extension poultry specialist. An experimental basis testing program is underway in Califor nia, but growers have found costs comparatively high. It is costing t cents per bird in addition to the pullorum test, and results have not been entirely accurate, Ben nion reports. Oregon growers are being urged to bring or send sick or thin, un thrifty birds to the poultry disease laboratory at the college for diag nosis in cases where paratyphoid is suspected. Where the disease is found, flocks should be eliminated as breeders. Control of the disease Is a "must," Bennion asserts, if Ore gon is to hold down mortality rates and maintain its position in the hatching egg export business. He smphasizes the need for rodent control programs in areas where breeding flocks are ringed. Hop Crop Climbs To Record Mark PORTLAND I The hop crop this year reached i record high of 63,019,590 pounds, the hop control board reports. The board said that 26.3 percent or tne crop would be held off the market under the federal market ing and agreement which governs ine industry. va.unt.iB nun, ui C(Ull. n aBUUlg- ton Idaho and California decided to seek amendment of the market ing agreement. A change in the so-called diver sion privilege is to be sought, re quiring a grower to harvest his entire salable hop allotment. As tne agreement now stands grow ers may sell their allotment cer tificates to other growers and hold their crop, or part of it, off the mantel. . An alternative amendment, if the first 'is unacceptable, would limit the diversion privilege to 50 End. ro You Get More for Your Money with a McCormkk FARMALL CUB 1. Do heavy field work plow iYl acres of heavy sod up to eight inches deep in a day on less than a dollar of fuel to the acre. Light job require much less. 2. 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