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Obierver, La Grande, Ore., Frl., July 34, 1959 pg 3 Valley Farm-Ranch-Home Grain Growers Buy Supplement Of The La Grande Observer Process Plant I 1 Seed KJ"JkJA fr. A Mr' ' "i If"'. Tir!;? I A. -sag rtf;:. w-r ..Vva-: 1 r e.-.-. ?' The- purchase of a seed pro-(for local farmers, Bechtel aaid. cessinf , plant by the Union. prrviou cleaning operations. County Grain Growers Asaocia-I Tne plant is so constructed that tion was announced by Pale Been- Ueed being processed can be sent tel. manager, last Wednesday. through any cleaning process or The association has purchased ny combination of cleaning the former Wade Seed plant in processes desired. The pbnt was t ..... 3i : T . . : ... ..; JOKE'S ON THE WEED Wren Case, left, and John T.' 'Bud' Jone?, both of Alicel, check a plot of morning glory trpated with the new benzoic acid. The test was conducted on the farm of Hen ry Sallee in Elgin. The new treatment is becoming increasingly popular in the coun ty, according to Ted Sidor, extension agant. Area in right hand side of picture has been treated and shows the effectiveness of the chemical. Elgin for an undisclosed sum. This plant makes tho second op eration owned by the Grain Growers in Elgin. They also have plants in Alicel and Island City The plant was built in 1950 but hasn't been operated com mercially for more than a year. The UCXiG will operate -the plant, considered one of the best equip ped in the region, as a wheat and pea cleaning plant Former Wade employees Ray Trump and Ralph Thompson will be in charge of the operation. Tentative plans call for doing business in Wallowa, Union, Baker and Umatilla counties. The operation will not necessarily make seed processing cchcapcr m&ke seed processing cheaper WHEAT GROWERS PROTEST GOP PLAN FOR SURPLUS REDUCTION WASHINGTON UPD A spokesman for wheat growers said today the Republican administra tion's farm program would cut the income of wheat producers with out reducing wheat surpluses. Floyd Root, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, attacked the adminis tration's plan for cutting wheat price supports in testimony pre pared for the House Agriculture Committee. The committee is holding public hearings on proposals for new general farm legislation. Hoot, of Wasco, Ore., id his organization still recommends adoption of its multiple-price plan under which marketing of wheat would be reduced below the cur rent level of demand. This would allow the government to move out part of its surplus stock. Root's program called for sup ports at 100 per cent of parity on wheat used for human food in the PITTSBURGH Mill PAINT LASTS LONGER Miller Cabiitit Shop United States and 65 per cent of parity for wngut going into export markets. Volume of wheat moving into these two markets would be controlled rigidly. WASHINGTON UPI Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson says he would favor a White House conference of top farm" or ganization leaders if there was a chance to produce any real agree ment on farm policy. But he said he didn't think such a conference would accomplish thjs. aim. ,The suggestion. So the meeting came last: week from a House Republican farm leader. Benson made his comment in an interview at National Airport Monday when the secretary re turned for a 10-day tour of three European countries Denmark, Switzerland and West Germany WASHINGTON (UPI) An Ag riculturat Department economist said today meat grading seems clearly to have more advantages than disadvantages. Economist Harold Breimyer said the meat grading seems to be in the interest of both the livestock producer and the nation The statement takes, on . extra interest because the department now is considering a proposal to suspend federal grading for lamb Oregon Takes Lead In Tree Farm Program OREGON (Special) Whose trees grow taller and straighter Qegon's or Washington's? And has Oregon " taken away leadership in the Tree Farm pro gram from its neighbor to the north the state in which industry movement to grow timber crops in private land was born? These questions are posed by the neck-and-neck status of Tree 6 sap FARMERS' SPECIALS Maxwell House COFFEE 2Mb, ASSORTED Popular Vegetables There's No Bacon like Swill's PREMIUM Bacon Lean, Thin Sliced . and . SUGAR CURED For Bable and All Cooking! ' Canrted Hi!k...:.S 5E; Farm acreage reported for the l,wo States. Oregon, with 4.050,226 acres certified in the program, currently leads Washington's 4.036.194 by a scant 14.000 acres. "This is a mighty close rivalry, but one in which nobody loses, said W. D. Hagensteiin, executive vice-president of Industrial For estry Assn. Tree Farm sponsor in the Douglas fir region. "Every acre of private timberland brought under Tree Farm man agement means more jobs and payrolls and more hunting and fishing opportunities for the people of both states." E. L. Kolbc, chief forester for Western Pine Assn., Tree Farm sponsor cast of the Cascade, said the 18-ycar-old Tree Farm pro Cram symbolizes the vast strides which industry has made over the past decade and a half to ward putting itself on a stable, itistaincd yield basis. "There arc more than 1.300 professional foresters employed by industrial tree farmers in Orc 5rn and Washington today," Kolbe declared, "and industry's success in creating a host of modern new products' from wood and developing techniques, for utilizing more- of each 1rce har vested is opening up new oppor I'tirrties for all woodland owners who are ready to grow timber as a crop." especially designed to keep from mixing seeds, Bcchtel stated. The first shipment of peas ar rived at the plant Monday and cleaning operations will get un derway next month. The Alaska peas will be cleaned for shipment to England through the Inland tmpire Pea Growers, Spokane. Most of the seed will" be bcuKht in the field. The buying, processing and reselling of seed will form the major part of the cperation. The Grain Growers hope to re store the plant to its former prominence when it was a major shipper of seeds throughout the Northwest. Financing for the purchase of l he plant was provided through the sale of stock. Among Valley Farmers By County Agents Ted Sidor and Charles Cavin First quarter 1959 found the! farm value of farm foods in the market basket" about seven per cent lower than the same per iod in 1958. The retail cost of these foods, cushioned by higher operating costs, fell only one per cent. The difference was made up by higher costs of get ting the foods from the farm to the retail store. Labor makes up about half of the marketing costs. Employes of food-marketing firms carried home fatter pay enve Llopcs this year. Rail freight rates for many farm-food prod ucts were also higher, and some increases were chalked up in truck rates. We recently received some In lormation irom Hay Teal, our seed marketing specialist, on the various blue grasses for seed. He sent us part of a letter from Burt Mu riser, professor of agronomy at Pennsylvania State. He has this to say about some plots he had out: "As you know, we have had these strains only in pilot plot tcsU. up to the present time. New port this year is performing exactly like it did last year. It develops a fairly dense turf dur ing the early part of the season and then begins to shoot seed heads. As soon as this condition divelops it makes little effort to produce bottom growth, and consequently the entire plot be gins to look thin and stemmy, This permits weeds to come in which must be cleaned out by treatment The plot begins to look fairly good again by the middle of August Apparently it is a very difficult strain of blue grass to manage satisfactorily for uniformly good quality turf. Our plots of Morion,- K-5 (47), and K 1 (51) continue to produce the best quality turf of any strains in the' test Most of the California selections have been completely taken over by weeds and other grasses. The Park, Delta, and Troy varieties have 1'ad such serious recurring at tacks of leaf spot this spring that they have thinned out to the point where weed encroach ment is a major problem. 501 "Your Quality Store In La Grande" Where You Shop 5 Air Conditioned '' , Floors In Comfort. Home Administrator, To Miss La Grande Merlin Haldorson, supervisor for the Farmers Home Adminis tration, will not be in La Grande for his regular office day, Aug 4. The next regular scheduled day in La Grande will be Sept. 1 from 9 a.m. to noon. Haldorson can be contacted in the County Extension Agent's office on that day. The supervisor will be in his office in Pendleton to receive cullers Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31. - -) , -' 41 ,1 " rfJf , U 1 .Mm 1 i t.f -J. I : HE'S NOT HORSING AROUND Bill Hindman of Elgin looks over his Belgian colt. Hindman eventually plans to have a six horse hitch. The Belgians are used fo.- logging operations and feeding during the winter. The mare weighs approximately 2,200 pounds. Fan Helps Up Cattle Weight The recent opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway has made Chi cago and other Great Lake cities, ocean ports. Water transporta tion is, of course, much cheaper generally than other methods of transportation. The United States Department of Agriculture has calculated that the cost of mov ing wheat from Duluth, Minne sota to Rotterdam, Netherlands, will be 12c a bushel less by the Seaway than by the combination to the East Coast by rail and then by boat to Europe. Simi lar savings will be enjoyed hy other grains. This new develop ment will cause many changes in freight rates by rail, highway, and water carriers. It is impos sible now to anticipate all the changes that will be made in an effort to remain competitive. There is one thing for sure that Oregon will, in some way, be affected by this new Seaway and the changes in freight rates. One of the most obvious effects may be a loss of our export market for feed grains and wheat to Europe. The midwest now can er.joy cheaper water transporta tion than we have had from the Pacific Coast. Part of our farm managemen' studies included one on farm equipment. One that was inter esting was that on hay balers: The fixed cost per year when you include depreciation, inter est, taxes, shelter, insurance and repairs comes to $634. The var iable cost per bale on such things as fuel, lubricants, sup plies (wire), labor, tractor costs come to $1.74 per ton. When biokcn down, the figures show that you must have at least 230 tuns of hay a year to be able to afford a baler. If you have less than this amount, it would be cheaper to have hay baled on u custom basis at $4.ou per ion At $5 a ton on a custom basis you would have to bale 189 tons to break even. -o- ' Wool and lamb producers will voice their opinions of an agree ment between the USDA and the American Sheep Producers Coun cil. Inc., during a month-long referendum in Sept. Agricultural Secretary Benson Says the agrcemont would con tinue financing of the council's advertising, promotional and re luted market development acti- Every farmer knows hot weather makes cattle as well as humans lose their appetite. A California barnyard test may be the answer to summer slumps in areas where long periods of hot weather are a problem. In the tests, cattle in an open pen in the path of a steady breeze from a ventilating fan ate 24 per cent more feed per dayi In ad dition the cattle put on 80 per cent more weight in sustained summer heat. Average temperatures, day and night, for the 70 day test period was 90.3 degrees. Average humi dity was 46 per cent. Air temperatures for both the control groups was about the same. The breeze in the "fanned" averaged 3-7 miles per hour while in the other pen it averaged only 0.6 miles per hour. FARM PRODUCERS WE HAVE THE, Industrial Equipment You Need! ' A.M. SPRINKLER IRRIGATION SYSTEMS RAINBIRD SPRINKLERS Atlas Workshop POWER TOOLS Phillip Rad. Head Concrete Fasteners Bolts Chains Steel Sree Cable GATES BELTS A PULLEYS All Six GE 1 Electric Motors VICTOR Welding Supplies Portable Farm Acetylene Welding Units Rust Being Used As Helpful Item While U.S. industry is spenamg billions of dollars fighting rust, one company is actually manufactur ing the stuff and turning it into useful products. The firm is the General Ceram ics Corp. Its main products arc "fcrrltes," whose principal ingre dlcnt is iron oxide, better known as rust. Ferrites are magnetic ma terials widely used in television sets, radios, computers, radar eq uipment and other electronic de vices. . General Ceramics manufactures its ferrites by purchasing scray iron from iron and steel mills, dis solving it in acid, heating it, wash ing away the impurities and then pulverizing it. Recently, the firm came up with a new ferrite called Q-3 which it hails as a long step forward in the search for a television antenna that can be installed inside the cabinet of the receiver. vitics on lamb and wool through deductions from wool payments for three more years as authoriz cd in last summer's extension of the national wool act. Mow Open For Business UNION COUNTY GRAM GROWERS has taken over Ihe former , Wade Seed Co. Plant at Elgin and will operate as a GRAIN and PEA . CLEANING PLANT You're Ahead When You Have Your Seed Cleaned in one of the Best-Equipped Plants In The Region) We Offer ... . COMPLETE LINE OP CUSTOM CLEANING ' SEED WHEAT FROM FIELD INSPECTED ' CROPS FOR PURCHASE We Welcome Inquiries Our plant will be operated by former Wade Seed Co. employees Ray Trump and Ralph Thompson. UNION COMITY GRAIN GROWERS Elgin Ph. HE 7-2631 Alicel . Island City , . Ph. WO 3-5851 PACIFIC CENTRIFUGAL IRRIGATION PUMPS Industrial Machinery and SUPPLY 16-ft Cut... HUGE 37-in. 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