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V fy FARM and GARDEN NEWS jf I The News-Review, Roteburg, Or Mon., Jan. 21, 19SZ Dairymen Plan $100,000 Public Relations More GEARHART I Oregon dairy men ire planning to go ahead with their (100,000 public relations pro gram, proposed here earner tnis week. They Instructed new officers at Wednesday's session of the Oregon Dairymen's Association to start ' the program as soon 'as posible. They will work with dairy pro ducts processors In trying to build up gooa win lor tne industry. Hans Leuthold, Tillamook, was named president; Palmer Hen ningsen, Astoria, first vice presi- aent; aawin Kerr ot Maineur County, second vice president, Roger Horse, Corvallls, was re' elected secretary-treasurer. Directors include Knox; Dick Lyon, Junction City; Vernon De Long, La Grande; and Fred Rudat, Brownsmeaa. E. E. Karsan of Oregon State College submitted a report, based on the year 1849, that placed the reum cost oi mine delivered in glass bottles to Portland homes at 8.16 cents a unit, compared with 6.25 cents for milk delivered wholesale to stores in cartons. Little Mora Meat Predicted In '53 WASHINGTON 14) Countrary to nopes, tne nation will get little more meat this year than it did in 1951-because of dwindling feed grain supplies and prospects are even worse lor 1H53. The Agriculture Department Fri day estimated that reserves of such grains corn, oat abl.s y,ernd 1 . a grain sorghums will drop to 18 million tons by next Oct. 1. That is about 10 million tons below last Oct. 1, Wltn feed scarce, farmers quit not expected to top last year's av raising livestock. Hence, the de-erage 140 pounds per consumer and """""" ""a, meat supplies are may even go lower in 1953. :f..l mi tST. 1952 Alter 40 Cut In Maltrlili iiiPfi mi rlKif QUARTcR Building st annual Kali 1951 Mi'inmnn FEWER HOMES Above Newschart shows gloomy out look for new home construction during 1992 after Defense Pro duction Administration ordered 40 cutback in strategic building material. This repre sents a 400,000 reduction from the 1,100,000 dwellings that were built during 1951. Middle sketch indicates approximate annual rata of home construction, for first quarter of 1952, prior to the cutback. More Than 300 Expected At 4-H Leaders Meeting More than 300 men and women from 24 counties in western Oregon are expected to attend the 18m annual 4-H Club. Leaders' Confer ence at Oregon State College Jan. 22, 23 and 24, announces L. J. Allen, state 4-H leader. Emphasis will be on understand ing the club member. Miss Joy Hills, director of teacher education and certification, state department ot education, will lead discussions. Miss Hills will also present the first steps in being a successful club leader. The 1952 conference will be es pecially helpful to first-year leader according to Mrs. Alice Lindsay, Grants Pass, president of the Ore gon 4-H Leaders' association. Pros and cons of the 4-H awards program will be discussed by Miss Emmie Nelson, Chicago field rep representative of the National Com mittee on Boys and Girls club work. Information Offered As in previous years, new sub ject-matter information in home economics and agricultural pro jects will be given by OSC exten sion specialists. A teen-age dress revue and re ports on the 1951 National 4H Club Congress will highlight the Tuesday evening program, Jan. 22. The latter will be given by 4-H member Joe Ellingson, Mapelton, Mrs. William Berkey, Portland 4 H leader, and Miss Nelson. Mem bers of the Campus 4-H club will review the International Farm Youth Exchange which the club Is sponsoring in Oregon for the second year. The banquet Wednesday, Jan. 23, will featur e presentation of special awards and music by the OSC music department directed by Rob ert Walls. The annual eastern Oregon 4-H Leaders' conference will be at La Grande Jan. 20, 30, and 31. Oregon Stockmen Will Hear OPS Program The office of price stabilization meat program will be discussed by G. A. Stearns, Portland, head of the Oregon OPS office, at the annual meeting of the Western Oregon Livestock Association in McMinnville Jan. 28,29 and 30, Pre ident Archie Relkkalo, Asotria, has announced. The program has been arranged to attract sheep and swine growers as well as cattlemen, emphasizes H. A. Llndgren, Oregon State Col lege extension livestock specialist, association secretary. F. L. Ballard, associate director of the Oregon State College ex tension service, will discuss nl.ins for the 1952 statewide agricultural Dairy Problems Considered By State Committee What does the future hold for dai rymen who do not produce grade A milk? That's a question being mulled over by members of a statewide dairy committee headed by S. B. Hall, Troutdale, which is making preparations for the agricultural conference to be held on the Ore gon State College campus March 27, 28 and 29. R. W. Morse, OSC extension dairy specialist and committee secretary, reports some discussion relative to conference March 27, 28 and 29 on rfp0!'ts,some mscusston relative to the OSC camDus I eliminating grades and eventually Other speakers and their mik jects will include Claude Steuslolf, Salem, past president of the Oregon Purebred Sheep Breeders Associa tion, Western Oregon Sheep pro- aucnon opportunities and prob lems, Charles Evans. Independ ence, past president of the associa tion, swine production; Dr. R. R. Younce. State Department of Ae. riculture veterinarian, national pro gram to eradicate brucellosis; and Harry Stearns. Pnneville cattle- man and president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association. Meeting headauaters will be Hotel Oregon. Dr. John. M. Swart hout, OSC political science depart ment head, will be the annual ban quet speaker and Walter Leth. Monmouth, master of ceremonies. r-I f.i'J''BYjJ 4J'fi.M.ni m jii.w.B-m. ii mm am ---- VOL. XIV NO. 3 MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1952 A STIFF UPPER, LIP It take a lot of nerve to stick with the chicken business with egg prices dropping and feed neaaeo tne otner way. But as the feller says, "Only the brave deserve the fair," and only those with good nerve will be In position to rake in the egg profits when prices get to sea sonal nigner levels next sum mer. A business as stahln and nrof. Itable as the egg business, can't be abandoned just because prices adjust themselves to or dinary spring and storage lev. els when spring increase in pro. duction forces an adjustment. It happens every year, but some years the adjustment is more drastic than others be cause it is longer delayed. The poultryman has already profit- ea oy tne aeiay. La's look back a minute and see where we have come from. In 1950 the wholesale price of eggs in Ban f ranclsco averaged Mtt for five months in (he spring. In spite of this, the Cali fornia Egg Contest, with most ly good entries, and some quite poor, made a net income of $3514.00 from the contest flock starting with 884 birds And they sold their eggs for 3c less than the Frisco market. Their feed cost about the same as umpqua Egg Mash did at Roseburg. True enough, local egg buyers are paying only 38c a dozen right now when the wholesale price in Portland and Frisco is a dime higher, (too much of a spiead), yet, the contest in 1950 tooK an average of 35tt for five months straight, and slill came out witn a neat wad of douuh This was flrpnmnllchnH ht having food chirkmt mgn egg production, and prop, er management and good feed, All these things are available to pou trvmen and ovnurlonf pouiirymcn in Douglas County j-ocai natcnerics can sell you high production bred chlx, you mil if vb inn annn mannnnninn. and the Douglas Flour Mill can sell you the good feed at a fair price. nut. Dicase. tar vmir nwn good, get your birds as early as VOU Dosslhlv ran Thn hct profit is mado on eggs produced in late summer and early fall. Onlv earlv hntphnH hiv win . "(( uig eggs ounng tnoso momns. urner vnnr rhiv fnrinv iuuii inanx us next i nrlstmas UNDER O.P.S. That the fttpnlr hart hnnn .,,n through one of thnsA "tanrinr. izers- was plainly evident. Yet the diner at the lunch rnnnini- was having a struggle. Finally no inrew aown nis uniie, glared at the desiffn nf thn mmiiin. ana remarxed to the proprietor. " It ' - , A .1 ' .Z i ' v a m l u i i i . i h ill.. ,,i 1 1 u tire that still has so much good tread." EFFICIENCY IN GUVMENT A Cargo of fine anvnhnnn mnil is on its way back to the US. and thereby hangs an Interest Ing talc. This particular ship ment of an article entering into every bag of feed you have to buy, contained 3200 tons (Enough soybean meal to run our plant a couplo years.) It was "sold" to Japan, and naturally, the Guvmcnt furnish ed Japan the money with which to buy. But it didn't suit the Japs, so they sold it to For mosa. (Probly our Harry film' lined the money again, as For. mosa. doesn't have It t Evident. ly Japan took the money they got from Formosa, and bought lor cash, soyabean meal from Manchuria So now, the meal is coming back home, and per haps the Guvment won't have to pay more than the freight nacK ana mrtn across the ocean. For a trade famished for meal is licking its chons in ant clna tion. Wo couldn't buy it direct from the urocessors nnw. so maybe we can gel it from our irienas across the sea. We ll let you know what we have to pay for It, in case we're lucky eiiougn to get part ot this cargo. CUSTOMARY PROCEDURE An undertaker found a donk ey dead in front of his place :;t uuMiicss. no asKca tne po lice what to do with it. Said the police, "Bury it, of course, lou're an undertaker, aren't you?" "Sure," he answered. "But I thought it only right to inform the relatives first." (Ed. note; Not Roseburg po lice. Not even Oregon police. We have some mighty nice cops here). DON'T NEGLECT FEEDING Pretty bad wcnlher Don't take chances on losing your stock Not with lambs and wool so high. You can't afford in We have, besides the hmt in Umpqua Sheep Cubes, some mighty fine alfalfa hnv A hit of grain hay, too. SUBLIME TO RIDICULOUS We often wonder ahnut nnr Congress and the men who make It up. We sometimes even wonder if they are "all there." For Instance, last week they listened to Winston Churchill, a jolly good old Britisher, who no doubt had good message for them. He usually does. Now this week, we hear they are to have an opportunity to. see the father of the latest "litter" of babies, the quads born a few days ago to an Arkansas couple. The noble father, bless you, Is on a personal appearance tour of the East and South, and will be exhibited to Congress by his Representative in that aug ust body. Just why the father of this lit tcr should rate such acclaim is far beyond us. We happen to have sired a fair sized brood oursclf, but never felt that we deserved undue credit for the fact Even had we sired a whole flock at once, we still think the little woman had a lot more to do with it than we, and deserv ed the acclaim Nor is it a great feat to fath er a litter Pappy Done got five at a time, and he wasn't too smart. Most anybody should eventually hit the jackpot if he plays the slot machine long enough. And Mr. Dione, as well as this boy from Arkansas already had families up in the teens before they struck it rich. All one at a time, like ordinary fathers too. Well, maybe it Is a great ac complishment, after . all. CLASSIFIED SECTION FOR SALE, Poults eggs now in incubator, hatch about middle of February. Early tur keys look good. Bounds Turkey Farm, Myrtle Creek. SPEAKING OF TURKEYS Umpqua Kindergarten Tur key Starter has, in addition to the best fishmeal, (herring), meat scrap, milk products, all the vitamins listed by the Na tional Research Council, and in much larger amounts, and also includes several extra B vita mins, the latest. 11-12. and an eludes penicillin. . As you anti-biotic supplement which in- know, penicillin is the antibio tic found bv our own Oregon Station to give best results of all those on the market Ump qua Feeds always lead the pro cession. FERTILIZER TIME His Daddv'i name was Fer dinand, his mother's name was Liza, we now approach the time of vear when land needs fertilizer. Taking orders now for land plaster, (gypsum), and we ex pect a car of Ammonium Sul phate the first part of Febru ary. Don't get caught short. Or- der now, and we'll save it for you. OSC Sprinkler Irrigation Meet January 22-23 Sprinkler systems can be a near Dcrfect method for irrigating only if properly designed, installed and operated, Arthur S. King, Oregon State College extension soil con servation specialist, says in calling attention to a two-day sprinkler iniKuiion scnoot and discussion at ubu jan. a and 23. Both the SDrinklnr Iri-ioaliAn school to be held Jan. 22. and the discussion meeting thn rniinunn,. uhult ine joint sponsorsnip of the Willamette Valley project com mittee, tne Willamette Basin Com mission and the OSC extension r. vice will be held in the new food technology building auditorium. Starting time for both sessioni is 9:30 a.m. King says. Sprinkler irrigation fundamentals will be discussed at the school meeting hv John Wnlf nsp cultural engineer, and Ralnh Brownscombe, soil conservation service engineering specilist. Sel ection of irrigation equipment will be the theme of Robert Morgan Fred Johnson, and Crawford Reid, commercial company representa tives. Electrical Dower use will be discussed by Floyd Miller, Port land electric company irrigation specialist. Viewpoint Listed A bank's viewpoint In financing sprinkler irrigaton equipment will be expressed by Henrp Shelton, Hillsboro bank executive. The following dav. sneaker In be heard will include Colonel T. H. Lipscomb, corps of engineers, Port land, who will describe irrigation benefits from the Willamette basin project. The bureau of reclama tion's part in the Willamette Basin getting on a basis where all milk would be of quality fit for human consumption, li wis were true, sur plus milk would be marketed as dairy by-products cheese, butter, powdered milk, icecream mix and similar products. Prica Requirements Told It would mean, the committee believes, that processing plants would pay producers on the same price basis and the price would depend on what a plant could get for its entire whole milk volume. A milk production subcommittee headed by R. M. Lyon, Junction City, is in the midst of preparing a report covering this phase of the industry. The dairy roughage pro gram, the committee believes, should be aimd toward more milk per acre. In terms of management, some of the problems being studies which reduce mux "yield" are over grazing, absence of rotational graz' ing, failure to use fertilizer cor. rectly, harvesting hay and silage ai me impuper maturity stage, ana lacx ot Knowledge about pal. atability of various feedstuffs. Here are some Questions that nave arisen relative to the econ omics of dairying: What size herd to nave: how does dairy enter prise income compare with other agricultural pursuits? What type buildings will the dairyman of the luiure own What is the invest ment per cow required for the average dairy? Should the major dairy emphasis be shifted to areas of cheaper land and where most of the roughage requirements can be produced more economically. Turkey Researcher Wins National Award James A. Harper of the Oregon State College agricultural experi ment station was awarded the $500 national turkey research award for 1951 by the National Turkey Feder ation at its recent annual meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The cash award is presented each year by the federation to the re search worker who has made the outstanding contribution in turkey research for the year. Harper's work on turkey management pro blems, antibiotic feeding experi ments and fertility and hatch -ability studies was cited by the award committee as the nation's outstanding achievement in the tur key field. Harper is leader of turkey re search projects for the OSC ex- fieriment station. He has been argely responsible for developing the station's current outstanding program of turkey studies. He is the first Pacific Northwest scientist to win national recognition for tur key research. program will be described by Har old Nelson, regional director, Boise. Luncheon speaker the second day of the two-day meeting will be page editor for the Oregon Journal Other speakers to be heard in clude Wade Newbegin. Portland. and Charles E. Strickljn, state engineer. Getting the most out of snrlnlcler irrigation will be the topic for a panel composed of outstanding farmers and horticultural crop processing company representatives. Meat Industry Sabotage Hazard Alerts Govt. By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON I The Agri culture Department reported Fri day it is on guard against pos- smie enemy saoorage ot tne na tion's livestock and meat industry. Meat is such an important Dart of the American diet one of the first things an enemy might do, the Department said, would be to try to get animal diseases and plagues started on farms. "If foot-and-mouth disease, rind erpest, fowl -pest or foreign types of Newcastle disease should be al lowed to develop undetected, they could menace our livestock indus try from coast to coast and from border to border within weeks," the Department said in an annual report of its Bureau of Animal Industry. "In view of the possibility that diseases could be introduced in tentionally at any time, the plan ners of our civilian defense have asked that the bureau also be -re-ared to meet that emergency if it should arise." Vigilance Star ltd In carrying out this assignment, the Bureau said it has started at the "front lines" the borders and ports of entry. It said inspection and quarantine efforts have been intensified in regard to animal im ports. However, even as the Depart ment announced its new campaign there were reoorts from wiHniv scattered parts of the country that meat inspectors- were tired by the Livestockman's Association Elects President At Meeting Howard Hatfield, Rt. 1, Roseburgr, was elected presi dent Friday of the Douglas County Livestockmans Associ ation, at its annual meeting in Roseburg. W. B. -Garrett, Glendale, was ' elected vice-president, and J. Roland Parker, secretary-treasurer. The group heard four speakers i lll-inrt .1. ...kinU I..1.J 1 during its session which lasted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Joe B. Johnson, professor of an imal husbandry at Oregon State spoke on progeny testing to de velop animals that grow more rap idly with less feeding. Dr. J. N. Shaw, speaking on an imal diseases, said most of the common ones can be prevented by proper feeding and through the use of serums and vaccines. Di seases mentioned include pregnant ewe paralysis, Black disease and pulpy kidney disease. H. H. Hampton, agronomist for the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, discussed grasses and leg- scores. There was no immediate expla nation by the. Department. L H. Troxel, South St. Paul, Minn., president of the Midwest Council of the AFL American Fed eration of Government Employes, said the dismissals were due to lack of funds. Inspectors in Chicago said the same thing happened in 1950 and 1951, but Congress voted funds in time to avoid actual firing. umes for pasture and forage crops. He mentioned aita lescue, creep ing red fescue, rye grass and or chard grass as being among the best perennial grasses to use. Sub terranean clover and broad leaf lotus are among the best legumes, he said. Explains Brand Law Kay Nelson, who is in charge of brand inspection and registration for Oregon Department of Agricul ture, presented an explanation of the brand laws. Only brand regis tration legally recognized are on cattle, horses and mules. Brands on sheep or poultry are not legally recognized nOr are they on cattle, horses or mules unless registered, he said. Elected to the board of directors of the association were the follow ing: Chester Rydell, Drain; W. A. Ry. chard, Yoncalla; J. W. Gorman, Elkton; Isadora Inda, Oakland; Louis Kohlhagen Jr , Roseburg; John Robinson, Glide; Charles S. Dyar, Roseburg; Harold Nichols, Brockway; S. R. Nichols, Riddle; and Lawrence Michaels, Canyon-ville. ORDER NOW BABY CHICKS Boyington New Hampshire Reds. Hansen White Leqhorns ASK ABOUT OUR FREE DELIVERY SERVICE 1 U.S. PULLORUM CLEAN U.S. APPROVED , Better Profits from Better Birds FORD & H0UCK BREEDING FARM Rt. 1 Box 620, Roseburg Phone 14F11 USED RADIOS Good Selection of Home and Auto Radiol 7.00 up Kent RADIO Service) 405 W. Cast, Phone 3-3446 WITH THE FAMOUS FZE FL SPREADS ANY FERTILIZER IN ANY CONDITION IN EXACT AMOUNT! BROADCAST SPREADING OR 4-ROW APPLICATION! DRILLS OR BROADCASTS SMALL GRAINS . . . 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