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Say Benson Plan
Not Workable
Bv OWEN CRUMB
UTICA. N. Y. W The throe
largest dairy-farmer organization!
in the Northeast mm urn u. r.
Senate Agriculture Committee Sat
iirday that the Kisenhowcr-Bcnson
farm proram was not working.
The groups, representing nearly
40,000 dairymen, demanded what
they called a neuer program.
But the New York Stale Farm
Bureau disagreed. The Farm Bu
reau now claims 73,000 member
but expects to lose about 50,000
nexi year unaer a rrw kni.liiiii
program. It president said in
testimony prepared for a commit
tee hearing:
"The present program of flex
ible supports is working in the
right direction and should be con
tinued." Dairy organization spokesmen, in
their prepared remarks, maintain
ed that low prices on farm prod
ucts did not decrease production.
Secretary Benson Mas main
tained that over the long haul
reduced prices under the Hepubli
ean flexible price support pro
gram will discourage Riirplus pro
duction and eventually raise farm
prices.
Stanley If. Benharn, a Itcpubli
can and newly elected president of
the 23,000 member Dairymen's
League, urged adoption of a "soil
bank" plan partly to replace the
present national program. Under
such a plan, the government would
rent land from the farmer and
take It out of production.
This proposal has been advocat
ed frequently to the touring Sen
ale committee, which has held
hearings In all major farm areas
of the country. Twenty-five wit
nesses were scheduled for here.
NOT IMPERTINENCI
RICHMOND, Va- - Back
talk from the pupils is being en
couraged in Richmond's public
schools. The pupils' speech is
tape recorded and played back as
a means of ironing out defects in
diction and grammar. Said Mrs.
Elizabeth Collier, a fifth grade
teacher: "It is noticeable almost
immediately that they try to im
prove their speech and tone's."
EAT HEARTY
AND STILL
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end your froth froien food will
totto to good next winter,
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COLLECTIVE CORNCOB-
Corn pops all over this ear
grown in Russia's Kharkov re
gion. It wa developed by
Agronomist Molebny, director
of the region's Lenin State
Farm, to see how many "satel
lites" could be grown around
the main ear. By selection and
creation of conditions, be says
be has increased the number of
shoots around the main axis to
from eight to 12. An official
Soviet source says at least 75
per cent of the special seeds he
developed have produced plants
with many cobs.
Heavy Bird Increase
Noted For Turkey Folk
J. F. Ronebrake, chairman of
the Douglas County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee, reports the following
information recently received from
the state ASC office:
Turkey breeders in 15 of the
most important turkey stales ex
pect to hold about 13 per cent
more heavy turkey hens at the be
ginning of the 195ft hatchery sea
son as compared with the number
held this year. Intended increases
vary from 5 per cent in South Caro
lina and Washington to 31 per cent
in Texas. Michigan is the only
state expecting a decrease 13
per cent below last year. Holding
of -light breed hens are expected
to increase only 7 per cent.
He Did The Right- Thing,
But Just Couldn't Win
EVERETT1 A Arthur E. Palmer
did right tut things just turned
out wrong.
Driving in Mountlake Terrace
while this week's snow was still
pn the roads, the Reltingham man's
car skidded on a hill. Palmer
parked the car at (he side of the
road and went after chains.
When he got back his car was
gone. Another motorist had run
into it and knocked it over into a
50-foot gullev.
So Palmer left to put in a call
for a wrecker. By the time the
wrecker arrived, a driverless car,
parked on the hill nearby, bad
slid down Die hill and into the
gulley. It whammed into Palmer's
already hanged up car.
It wasn't reported what Palmer
tried next. Maybe he just gave
up as one of those days , . .
In spite of the growth of syn
thetic fiber, ahout 70 per cent of
U.S. textile needs are still sup
plied by cotlon.
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No nml In shovel out ... or suffer costly delnw. Get
.Sulnlun,(,- bv (Joodvear. Tlx- Snbmb.vii.r's powerful
nmlti-cleaird tread has 186 knifr-liW rtign th.it take
hold in mow. slush and mud to pull v throuch. Stop
in male vour deal (or the exua salrtv extra trac
tion nl nevr Suburbanites by Gorxlwar NOW.
As Utile at $1.33 A WllKl
CARTER TIRE CO.
The new look - the new models
I for '56 are the rage.
i We in forestry aren't to be out
done. New ideas and new methods
are always cropping up.
The latest is a new way of re
establishing a stand of trees on
logged-off land.
Trot Planting Cotfk
Average planting costi in Doug
las County are $25 an acre. These
costs include the price of trees
and labor involved.
Cut that price and you've made
yourself a new look in the forestry
game.
That's just what research peo
ple have been working on for a
number of years. Results have
been spotty but it looks like
they're getting close now.
Let me illustrate by telling you
about some experimental work
that the Rose burg branch of the
Bureau of L.and Management is
doing in cooperation with the Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Thev have selected a typical log
ged-off area near Reston that was
logged this summer and had the
slash burned this fall.
Rodents Art Still Rats
Oh, yes, I want to set you
straight on one of the biggest head
aches in getting a logged-off area
back into young trees That's
right, rats.
lo be really scientific they are
called white footed mice.
Nels Kuverno, Fish and Wildlife
Service research man working on
the BLM experimental area, told
me every acre oi forest tand has
to 12 of these mice. I believed
him, too, after we finished running
a trap line that held a number of
the lillle "darlings."
Bill Stein, research forester with
the Forest Service, recently fed a
number of captured mice a diet
of Douglas fir seed. He found that
they really liked them and con
sumed 300 seeds per night. In sev
en months, the period which the
seed usually lays on the ground
before germinating, one mouse will
eat roughly pounds of seed.
Sick Mice Wonted
Enough about what they do
how do we get rid of 'em.
For a nu m ber of yea rs. re
searchers have tried to eliminate
the mice by the use of poison.
Local "rats" were killed but
adjoining neighbors seem to sense
the "ghost town" like area and
would migrate in.
Nels Kuverno puts the new ap
proach this way. "We aren't in
terested in eliminating the rodent
but just the rodent factor."
How are they doing that? It's
simple, actually.
They treat the seed with a re
pellent poison. The mouse eats a
few treated seeds and suddenly
finds he isn't a dumh, stupid
mouse but an educated, sick
mouse.
tie gels a few seed, in his
stomach he dnesn t feel
good the wheels in this little
mousey head starts going
around and he deducts he's sick
because of having "tested" too
many seeds.
Being smarter than a human, In
(he future he will leave tree seeds
alone. "Of course," NesI says, "if
the mouse eats too many it will
kill him but we believe the nig
gest percentage of them know
when lo quit."
One-Third Tht Coit ,
Maynard McCormack, who heads
up the reforestation program for
the local Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, believes the repellent poison
win ne me answer.
"They may not have tht exact
poison perfee'ed," Mac says, "but
the method look: good.
"We believe our reforestation
cost will be one-third what they
are tor tree planting.
I think Mac is right and this
"make 'em sick" method has lots
of possibilities for our recently
logged farm woodlands.
PHIL thru
Douglas
For ASC
Douglas County fanners will bal
lot by mail to elect ASC com
munity committeemen. They'll pick
chairman, vice chairman, rcau-i
lar member and first and second
alternate in each of 10 conwnun-1
dies in the county. I
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DANCING SPUDS uua-snapea potatoes seem to dance, to the
amazement of Antone M. Almeida, who grew them at Fairhaven,
Mass. The spuds look a little like pudyy pigs, ducks, sea lioni
and what have you.
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HE'S SUPER Here's -Super." li)5.i Urand Champion siljpr oi
the Grand National Livestock Exposition at San Francisco's Cow
Palace. Owner is Sue White, right, of Lubbock, Tex. Presenting
her with a silver plaque are H. W. Guntlcr, led, and Robert A.
Lamoree, both of Staulfer Chemical Co. Sue a'-o received $500
from the American Hereford Association.
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Mfc'S ALL tAKS f armer jerrr main nas oik ears, ana nc s
Klad of it. Ihev re ears of corn that he grew on his farm near
Hucklin, Mo. His bold averaged an outstanding 169U bushels
per acre. Last year, his average 144 bushels an acre took first
place in the Missouri Farmers' Association contest, ,
Fanners To Vote
Committeemen
Ballots will be mailed out not
later than Nov. 23. according to
Kvan H. Ghecr.. office manager.
They must be returned to county
ASC Office, 321 Pacific Bldg.,
Host-burg, no later than Nov. 30
They may be returned by mail or
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they can be returned in person.
Dec. 2 the voles will be tabu
lated, and winners notified.
The community chairmen will
convene in Koseburg Dec. , in a
county convention, to elect a five
member county committee to gov
ern ASC work for the following
year. The committee elects a
chairman.
This year J. F. Bonebrake, Mel
rose, has headed the group.
To be eligible to vote, person
must live on i farm and draw
the major source of his income
from farming. As Gheen pointed
out this week, the voting is "wide
open" to all farmers. Each term
is for one year.
Each voter should pick five of
the 10 candidates in his commun
ity. Any eligible voter not receiv
ing a ballot may obtain one at the
ASC office.
Candidates are listed by com
munities, as follows:
COMMUNITY CANDIDATES
Community No. 1 O. G. Clark,
Don Dulany, Harley France, H. D.
Hauck and R. C. Head, all of
Azalea; George Z. Newman, Clyde
Smith, Henry Tanner, Dan Clare
and W. B. Garrett, all of Glendale.
Community No. 2 J. L. Aik-
ins, Host-all Ball, George Dawson,
Leonard Dawson, Frank Hamlin,
E. S. Pruner, William Sharpe, Earl
Smith, Vernon Smith and Virgil
Smith and Virgil Thompson, all of
Kiddle.
Community No. 3 Albert
Brown, William Brown, O. J. Kll-
lian and Lawrence Michaels, all of
Canyonville; J. R. Griffin, Ray
Wright and Durnin -Swingley, all
of Days Creek; Clem Tavenner
and Pete Clam, both of Myrtle
Creek; Jim Alyers, Milo.
Community No. 4 Howard
Bronson, Clinton Jones, Charles
Jones, A. L. Alatlhews, Fred Neal,
Delbert Trask, Clay Ulam, E. V.
Weaver, Gilbert Weaver and O. E.
Weeks, all of Myrtle Creek.
Community No. a Ned Dixon,
Frank Grubbe and Darley Ware,
all of Rt. 2, Koseburg; A. If. Doer
ner and Jay Young, both of Kt.
3, Roseburg; George Marsh and
Don Ollivant, both of Rt. 4, Rose
burg; K. H. Granks, Idleyld Rt.,
Koseburg; Joe Brumback, Rose
burg; and J. Harold Nichols,
Brockway.
Community No. 6 Neal Brown,
Jack Hill, M. A. Jones, A. A.
Shafer, John Standley. Dive
Thursh and Ernest Wheeler, all
of Camas Valley; Wayne Breiten
bucher, Tenmile; and C. J. Brady,
Brockway.
Community No. 7 Walter A.
Davis, C. A. Goff, Alfred Hand,
Dave Henry, John Roeder, F. A.
Vasche and Guy Walls, all of Oak
land; Ted Roadman and Gail Win
niford. both of Rt. 2, Roseburg;
and Bob Mode, Cmpqua.
Community No. 8 Warren J.
Billick. Howard Carnes, Norman
L. Compton, Walter Haines, Leslie
Hancock and Don Mode, all of Elk-
ton; Milo Bullock, Wdkam L. Ed
wards, Edlon Fisher and Carl
Madison, all of Oakland.
Community No. 9 W. Lee Al
len, Gordon Baker, and Gerald
Johnson, all of Yonealla; C. C.
Luce, Delton Thiol and William B.
Turner, all of Rt. 1, Yonealla; R.
L. Bridges, Ray R. Miller and
Chester A. Rydell, all of Drain;
and J. T. Powell, Oakland.
Community No. 10 Francis Al
hro and F, V. Weatherlv, both of
Elkton; Shirley Black, Nels Fred
erickson, Ray Holliday, Willaim
Knuutilas, Virgil Leach. Bert L.
Roberts, True Shepherd and
Wayne Weist, all of Reedsport.
Don't Be
OUR REGULAR WAREHOUSE
PRICES
ON WINTER FEEDS
ARE YOUR BEST FEED BUY
Corn - $66 per ton
Barley $60 per ton
Oats - $63 per ton
Range Cubes . $67 per ton
Alfalfa Meal and Molasses $60 per ton
Cotton Seed Meal w p.m) $89 per ton
DOUGLAS COUNTY
FLOUR MILL
Cass and Pine Phone OR 2-2641
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ANNUAL RATE
: OF INCREASE m S
"U gS'ua,?! NON-FARM
HOUR pjjm JIJ
T IW.19H 1W1954 iTTl
- HIVATt GROSS NAT, MODUCr
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$100
11.60
11.40
11.20
51.00
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1909 1914 1919 1924 1929 1934 1939 1944 1949 I9S4
VVE REALLY PRODUCE NOWADAYS When a farmer and
non-farm worker work for an hour today, they produce about three
times as much as their counterparts did 45 years ago. The graph
above, from National Industrial Conference Board data, shows
steady growth of our gross national product in terms of dollar out
put per man-hour. For example, In 1909. an hour's work by a non.
farm worker resulted in a product worth about 98 cents. In 1654,
the same hour's work produced about $2.38 worth of goods or
services. From 1909 to 1954, factory and other non-farm workers
increased their hourly output almost 150 per cent. During the same
period farm output rose more than 140 per cent. Inset chart
shows that in recent years, farm productivity has outpaced non
farm output per hour. Since 1939 the former has advanced at an
annual rate of 3.6 per cent, while non-farm output per man-hour
Jias risen onlv 2.5 per cent a year. In contrast, farm output rose at
the rate of only 1.2 per cent from 1909 to 1939, while factory out
put per man advanced at the rate of 1.9 per cent a year
FAO Approval
Given Program
On Atomic Energy
nnup in Th it V Fnmt nH:'a'te over ms duties with the Soil
ROME m -The U.N. Food land Conservalion Servjce reports the
Agriculture Organization (FAO) Sutherlin Sun.
gave preliminary approval Salur-1 Williamson has been with the
day to a new program for work on , service for 10 years. He holds a
use of atomic energy in food pro-! bachelor of science degree in
duction. The FAO's committee on 1 agronomy. His work here will be
program trends and policy ques-1 classification and survey of soil
Hons gave unanimous approval to;
starting the program in .1956.
Approval of the lull assemtiiy is
the next step. The new program,
outlined earlier by Dr. P. V. Card
on. American director general of
FAO, provides for expenditures of
azu.uuu annually ine nexi iwo years.
Part would pay the services of a
biologist to head the program. His
job would be to collect and dis-1
tribute information on atomic ap
plications to agriculture and to
maintain liaison with other bodies,
such as the U.N.'s proposed atom
ic energy agency.
Cardon said FAO should study
such things as effects on marine
life of radioactive wastes dumped
at sea, effects on livestocks and
growing and processing.
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With Your Fingertips!
'56 DODGE
BARCUS
. Sales & Service
Your Dodgi-Plymouth Dealer
N. Stephent or Garden
Valley Road
Mis-eih
Soil Scientist
Comes To County
John R. Williamson, soil scient
ist, has arrived in Sutherlin to
types in the area.
He is presently living in Wins
ton, but will move to Sutherlin
when he can find a house.
LAND
BANK
LOANS
Lone r a n f planning may
nifan the differenre between
farm' full productive- ca
pacity or failure. To plan ia
to nave . . e your local
National Farm Loan Aoria
lion now,
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