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I New Bulletins On Sale A comprehensive report on methods of marketing Oregon livestock, including some digest ed improvements, has been pub lished by the Oregon State college agricultural experiment station. Entitred "The Marketing of Ore gon Livestock," station bulletin 514 was written by E. L. Potter, an OSC staff member for 43 years. Among other things, Potter rec ommends that Oregon cattle pro ducers take advantage of the com- Of Liveststock Published! QSC Finds Male Hormones Saves On Cattle Feed petitiva situation in eattla market ing by getting away from the idea of always selling at certain places or to certain buyers. Various sections of the publica tion cover marketing practices in Oregon on beef cattle, swine and sheep as well as general informa tion on such things as freight rates, and cooperative livestock market ing. Copies of the report are avail able at the Douglas County exten sion office or OSC. ymmimw'-mmv ' it's the handy way to buy Brew 66 the light, smooth, distinctly beer that gain' in popularity week alter week. lip SICPCS- MfWINO COMPANY, SAUM. OUfGON A new way to save feed while fattening beef cattle has been re ported by the Oregon State Col lege experiment station. It involves the use of male hormones to pro duce increased rate of gain on relatively less feed, according to Dr. Ralph Bogart, animal husbandman. Testosterone, the male sex hor mone, was injected into the mus cles of animals in trials last year. Increased sains of .4 of a pound per day were obtained. Feed sav ings amounted to nearly 1M) pounds of feed for each 100 pounds of gain. New tests are under way this year, Dr. Bogart reported. The aim is to find a more practical method of giving the hormone. Now they are mixing the testoster one right into the feed and results to date are promising. The tests were started to learn whether the male hormone causes bulls to gain more rapidly than steers and both to put on weight quicker than heifers. On the basis of tests by Dr. Bo gart, it appears that the hormone does control the differences in rate and efficiency of gain to a large extent. A non-masculizing hormone, methostan, was tested and had no effect on either rate or efficiency of gain. Testosterone injections, while boosting the gains by heifers, did not quite bring them up to the level of steers getting the hor mone. Heifers with testosterone gained 2.5 pounds daily while steers with the same treatment gained 2.7 pounds. Without the hor mone, heifers gained 2 pounds a day and steers 2.4 pounds. No ill effects were reported when the carcasses of the test ani mal were examined. They were marketed at 800 pounds with only a slight tendency toward bullish ness showing up in one or two animals. Heifers did show a high er proportion of rear to front quarters than steers. Hatchery Chick Output 76,000 Below Last Year Oregon hatchery chick produc tion this June was below that of June, 1951, by 76.000 chicks. Hatcheries produced 1.100,00(1 during June, a seasonal decrease of 910.000 from production in May, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The number of ooults hatched during June was 310.000, compared with 854,000 hatched in May and 433.000 hatched during June, 1951. The 1952 cumulative number hatch ed through June is 4.025.O00. This is eight per cent abov? the Janu ary through June total of 3,712,000 for 1951. FARM and GARDEN NEWS Logging Waste Study Made In Douglas, Other Counties "-'""1ISMM1 MIIHIIM11 I un III! I I Mil IB VOL. XIV NO. 30. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1952 DEMOCRATIC PROSPERITY Last week the Democratic convention monopolized the ra dio all week, "pointing with pride" to the wonderful pros perity we are enjoying and "How good we are having it." And promising four more years of the same. Guaranteeing It, in fact. Let's look at this "prosper ity". Take every dairyman or poultryman, (including turkey growers), on the Pacific Coast. They can't feed wheat, the his torical feed of the Northwest, because the huge surplus of Northwst wheat was shipped 1 to foreign countries. ' That, in itself, is OK. We must export our surplus goods, to offset the goods we import, j BUT, - the American taxpayer ; pungled up $200,000,000 in the form of a subsidy to get this wheat to foreign parts. Mean time, the feed consumer on both Coasts helped pay this tax besides paying a lot more for his feeds. Now, two hundred million dol lars don't mean much to the present spending administra tion. But add it onto the 500 million that was lost (by the taxpayers) on the potato deal, and the many millions more, on which we don't have exact fig ures to keep up the price of cotton, peanuts, corn, soybeans and many other products, and you have a tidy sum. Meantime, because we have these artificially high prices, we are IMPORTING cotton and cottonseed meal, soybean meal, meat and fish meal, et cetera, at slightly below ceiling prices set by the same Democratic ad ministration which promises and guarantees us four more years of the same. v With the same goods we, the American taxpayers, are stor ing in huge quantities, being imported from foreign coun tries, what are we to do with the stuff we are hoarding to guarantee high prices. The amount of our money tied up in these hoarded surpluses runs into several billion dollars. And while this goes on, we are having more and more of our paychecks "withheld," and finding it harder and harder to have enough left to buy shoes for the baby. And we're guar anteed four more years of the same! fail LITTLE KNOWN FARM FACTS A company down Texas way Is making these "push-over" gates. Everybody hates to open jates. Ve don't have any of these "push-overs" but our new aluminum "Dering Lifetime Gate" is such an improvement over your old gate, that it's almost a pleasure to open it Come in and look at it. By the way, Vance also has another new item in the hard ware Dept. Plastic pipe, n o less! from Vi inch to 1 inch, and you can get any amount you want. Comes in 400 ft ro'ls. Fittings V all, just like regular pipe; but pipe is getting hard to get, due to steel strike. HOT WEATHER FUN Rastus and Liza were roller skating. She slipped, fell, rolled over, but with considerable agil ity regained her feet. Then ask ed; "Did you-all see how quick I recovered inah equilibrium?" "Sho' 'nuff", replied Rastus. "Almost befo' Ah noticed it wasn't covered." BIG BUSINESS Last year Larry Newport, (with a little help) tested 30,033 breeder chickens, besides a mess of turkeys. Many of these were "tube-tested," and tubes must be ordered In advance. We have a letter from Dr. Dickinson of the testing lab at OSC, saying it is imperative for producers to place orders early for tubes if the testing is to be done during the last four months of this year. If you are a customer of the Flour Mill, want us to tubetest your breeders, take warning. Let us know your needs, your preferred time, and we'll do our best to sewa you. CHEAP EGGS An easy way to cut your cost of egg production. Experiments have proved that pullets laid an extra dozen eggs a year when allowed 48 ft of feeding space per hundred birds than when only 24 ft. was given. Feed needed per dozen eggs dropped from 7.25 lbs to 6.88 lbs. At present prices that mean approximately 2c a doz en. At 180 eggs per year, (a conservative figure:, each bird would net you 30c extra, or J30.00 per 100 pullets. Why not buy a couple xtra feeders. You'll never make a better paying investment. We have some fine feeders sev ral standard makes. Hubby; "The bank returned our last check." Wifey; "Goody! What'll wa buy with it this time?" AND ANOTHER THING There is nothing better for nest litter than rice hulls. And we have them for you. In com pact bales of 40 lb. each, it will take so much less space than the oldfashioned big bags. Less broken eggs, less soiled eggs, it will pay for itself quick. FANTASTIC FACT The Guvment spent $100,000 running a "survey" which re vealed that half the men wear pajamas, and that pj's are worn more in cold weather. (Aren't you glad to know that? At the price, loo?) . BIGGER MILK CHECK Does your cow give milk, or do you have to TAKE it from her? At this time of year, milk production slips. Pastures are not so lush. So we just gotta feed Old Bossv a little better. Then she'll GIVE. We are hiRhly gratified in the fine increase in our dairy feed business since we have used molasses. In many herds cows are eating double what they did; and you must get feed into cows before you can get milk out of them. We figure UMPQUA DAIRY RATION is the best buy in the country for dairymen. Come in and let us figure all the angles with you, or let us come out to your farm and show, you want we mean. i Cows lap it up like kids do candy. For the same reason, too. It's sweet and tickles their plates. But, more important to you, it has the proteins, vita mins and minerals your cows need to give long continued heavy production. Sailor; "Doc, I'm marrying Marion, and there's one thing I want to get off my chest." Doc; "OK, tell me about it." Tar; "It's this tatooed heart with tha name 'Mabel' on it." A study to determine the amount of useable wood left on the ground after logging operations has been undertaken by the Ore gon forest products laboratory. Plots in Douglas County, us well as four in other southwestern coun ties Coos, Curry, Josephine and Jackson are among those under scrutiny in 19 Oregon counties. The main problem, according to J. B. Grantham, acting manager director, who is in charge of this study, is that of matching the ma terial usually considered as waste with mills which are adapted to handle such salvage logs. The study will tell location and volume of the useable wood left overs in Oregon. New ways to utilize the forest wastes can be come sidelines of established lum ber mills through closer cooper ation between the millmen and loggers, Grantham added. One hundred l'a-acre sample plots are now being studied. Re search plots were selected on the basis of ownership, size of opera tion and location from the 400,000 acres of forest lands annually cut in Oregon. Four forestry students are mak ing an inventory of all tree parts left which are over S cubic feet in volume. These forest left-overs are classified in three divisions according to possible use as a ve neer bolt, saw log or pulp wood. The in-training foresters also re cord all visible, external defects which help to determine how much of the logs are useable. The Pacific Northwest forest ex periment station has been working half time on this project. Carl Mayer, Portland, representing the station, has been general field su pervisor. Also cooperating have been the regional office of the U. S. Forest Service and the Oregon State Col lege school of forestry. J. D. Snod grass of the OSC forestry school has been field leader of the labora tory crew. Use Sulphur Spray Or Dust To Control Peach Brown Rot Brown rot of peach fruit gener ally is most noticeable just prior to and during the harvest period The rot appears as soft brown areas on the surface of the fruit and can spread rapidly with fav orable weather conditions. Wettable-sulfur spray or sulfur dust are the best known materials for the control of brown rot of peaches, states J. Roland Parker, County extension agent. Time and number of applications PARASITE MISTLETOE ST. ANTHONY. Idaho IsV For esters are trying to give a kiss of death to a variety of mistletoe in some forests of the Intermountain ' region. It isn't the decorative or kissing kind of mistletoe. It's a dwarf or false mistletoe, a parasite which robs a host tree of plant food. The mistletoe slows the growth of trees, distorts their shape and some times kills them. Grant A. Morse, Targhee Na tional Forest supervisor, said se lective herbicides (weed killers) are used to destroy the parasite. GOOD FLY-KILLERS SAN FRANCISCO I The Chi nese Communists are bavins a cleanup drive in Peiping, and the way the Peiping radio tells it, you can just see groups of fly counters going around saying "ten million and one, ten million and two." For a broadcast heard here an nounced that among the monu mental accomplishments of the cleanup drive is this: Peiping has killed 60 million flies. will vary with weather conditions. When wettable sulfur sprays are used, six pounds of wettable sulfur to 100 gallons of water is recom mended. If dust is preferred, use 325 mesh sulfur or finer at the rate of 50 pounds per acre. Sprays or dusting are equally effective and the grower may use which ever he prefers or is equipped to use. Where brown rot of peaches has been troublesome in past years, three or more applications of spray or dust may be required to eive effective control, For the average year and nor mal conditions a control prugram is outlined as follows: First appli cation, about five weeks before harvest, or earlier, according to weather conditions; later applica tions, repeat once a week or as often as necessary to check infec tion; last application should be made a few days before picking. It is important to have, sulfur in the fruit when picked as fruit in the ripening stage is most suscept ible to attacks of brown rot. In instances where the Western 11-spotted cucumber beetle is trou blesome and working on the ripen ing fruit, add 5 per cent methoxy chlor to the sulfur dust 14 days before harvest. Egg Production Drops In June Oregon egg production was 8 mil lion less in June than in Muy. Egg production from laying flocks during June was an estim ated 44 million eggs, according to the crop reporting service of the Department of Agriculture. May production was 52 million. Still, egg production in 1952 through June exceeded that of 1951 in every month. The rate of lay increased by nearly four per cent. The number of layers on hand dur ing June, 1952, was 2.488,000 com pared with 2,195,000 in June, 1951, The average price received by producers increased from 43 cents per dozen on May 15 to 45 cents on June 15. However, the average cost of laying mash to the producer was unchanged. Oregon producers received the same average price from chickens, liveweight, on June 15 as on May 15. The effects of price changes on the egg-feed ratio was an increase from 9.1 to 9.6, a small but favor able rise for the farmer. The chick en feed ratio did not change. Mon July 28, 1952 Th Nawt-Rtviaw, Roaaburf, Or. Prolonged Steel Close-Down Would Have Threatened Crops OSC Discontinues Sal Of Legum Inoculants A farm service provided by Ore gon State College for nearly 40 years has been discontinued this summer with the announcement by the OSC bacteriology depart ment that it will no longer sell legume inoculating bacteria. Increasing costs and financial losses over the past two years, combined with lack of space, has forced the discontinuance, accord ing to Dr. W. B. Bollen, OSC bac teriologist. Although the basic inoculating service will not be provided, OSC will cooperate in preparing inocu lants for unusual legumes which require special strains of bacteria not available elsewhere, Dr. Bol len explained. Inoculation of leguminous crops is always desirable and in many cases is essential for maximum quality and yield. Commercial in oculants are now recommended by OSC bacteriologists. They are available at most seed dealers. About 2,500 species of lizards are known. SOW FARROWS IV PIGS RALEIGH, N. C. P A pro lific sow recently farrowed 19 pigs on one litter on a Tyrrell County farm. All pigs were apparently normal and healthy at birth. The litter is the fourth farrowed by the half Duroc and .half Poland China sow. She bore 9 pigs in the first litter, 13 in the second and 16 in the third. Cattle have baby teeth that are replaced by adult teeth in the same manner as are the teeth of human children. DAY. & NIGHT Wrecker Service PHONE 3-4148 DOYLES SALES & SERVICE TALKING ABOUT A HOME? So many people do noth ing but talk about it! But if you really want to own your home, consult me now. Personal attention. Economical terms. Insurance Solicitors Ralph L. Russell Latin and Insurant . V. Lincoln ' Mack I. frown A. W. McGuIra J. I. lollay Rum 212 haaJ-4Jll Lmr Rtarasanrativa f.uira.L Saving! I Laan Aii'n. D.a.l.l Caimi Stat lank Bldf. Fully a week's supply of tin plate now is stacked in the ware houses of struck steel plants, Tul ley said, which cannot be moved through picket lines. Another 2V4 weeks' supply is in various stages of processing in the mills. Immediate resumption of pro duction and shipment of tinplate enables the packing of the remaining fruit and vegetable crops in the Northwest with only moderate losses. The Northwest Canners Associa tion was making every possible ef fort to advise farm organizations, local trade associations, consumer groups and to Government author ities, the steel union and the steel companies of the disaster threat ening perishable canning crops in the Northwest. These groups were, in turn, being asked to use their influence to bring about an im mediate cessation of the strike. We do not take sides in the steel controversy, Tulley said, but wt believe the time has come when immediate action must be taken to protect the interest or many thousands of farmers who stand to lose the results of their entire year's work. Furthermore, we be lieve that ending the strike is of vital interest to millions of house wives who will suffer tremendous ly, during the coming winter and spring, if the stalemate continues, he said. POLITENESS CONTEST TEL AVIV IA-A "Politenesa Contest" is being prepared by tha traffic department of the Israel police. To improve road manners a panel of road-touring judges will pick the four most careful and considerate drivers from four dis tricts in Israel. lowiif II I if at TfAcroa I I ? . . . . WW" MO 100 HO LIFTING NO JACKS TO CRANK K WHIN LOWERED, CAN BI IOADEO IASIER STARTS HEAVIER LOADS ON SOFT GROUND Easier hitching easier loading smoother spreading longer lasting. Extra bearing in center of rear axle (or heavy loads. 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