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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1945)
Willamette News and Turkeys on Assembly Gleaner By Lillie L. Madsen ; Fum and Garden Editor ' Unless you see it for yourself, you won't believe it But turkeys can be killed, dressed . and in the cooler 30 minutes after they are unloaded from the farmer's crate. , O. F. Ryals, who, is manager of the Salem branch of the North west Poultry and Dairy Products company, and Mrs. Ryals, who is in the office, was saying that when this war, with its extra rush and worries, is over, they are going to take a month off and get ac quainted with what is going; on in their home town. There is plenty -going on behind both closed and open doors, they opine, that the average Salemite doesn't even guess at i f Out at the products' company this week I $aw a new assembly .line - - turkeys. I stood in one end of the processing building and saw birds being unloaded from the - trucks and by a turn of my head, saw the immaculately, dressed birds drop off the overhead sys tem and wheeled away to the cold storage rooms. The whole pro cess from the last gobble to the final touch of grooming : took a trifle less than 30 minutes a bird. And while, one bird - was being dressed the same was being done to scores of others. Considerable turkey-catching is done at night in order to have the turkeys on hand in the morning. birds must be .taken care of just as received. At the loading dock the birds are removed from the crate, the feet clamped into the carriers i which, travel continuously, along a 450-foot conveyer. The turkeys are hung head - xlown, but they don't mind this long. ; Only a few seconds after hung up, tifey are neatly stabbed . in.the threat. One employe has . complete charge of the killing. The travelogue then continues to the scalding vat, followed by the automatic; buffer, where 85 per cent of the feathers are re- iin to ' the- manual buff er fopera ted, says 'Mr. Ryals, by an artist Next is the long line where hand finishers clean off the last pin fea thers From, the hand pickers, the birds go to the torch, station, on to the last rites, the showers, where 13 nozzles spray the birds thor- oughly as their lengths are trav eled. The birds tome out all dress ed up and, are fitted with paper bonnets and, whisked away to the cooler. ; : The; poultry assembly line is rather, new in Salem, but it has speeded up work greatly. By : January 31, when the turkey sea son, will be wound up, jt is ex : pelted that over 125,00 turkeys, f forming about ZVi million pounds Twill have traveled its course. Be- sides this about 50,000 pounds of chicken each month of the year are taking their final journey, f While watching the somewhat : gruesome travel of the fowls I : learned that a Salem farmer : hauled away the huge stock f j feathers and used them for fertil i izer on his fields; that. some of the J good handpickers, made as much I as $2.00 an hour,; Several made 1WCU. UICU S.V L1SC7 W 111 m. LliULCI. ; ers in the products plant was $1 I an hour. k . i There are 70 employes at the Salem plant At present all the j turkeys go to the government i The: - company this spring will build a 40-feet addition as a re i ceiving station for its live chick i ens.' The poultry is all purch s ased from Willamette Valley farmers, with Woodburn, Molalla and Lebanon forming something . of a boundary for the territory from which it is collected. 11 Questions Arise In Farm Insurance ; While congres has , passed I a crop insurance bill which author izes insurance on wheat and flax beginning with the crop for har vest in ;1945, it is not known ;if 1945 I insurance ; program can be put Into operation on any new . crop. ' Insurance for wheat and flax is limited to 75 .per cent of the . average yield on the insured : farm. The crop insurance bill author izes an appropriation of 30 mil lion dollars to the war food ad ministrator for payments to flax growers to increase the production of flaxseed in 1945. Payments would be made by the - AAA. WFA has asked farmers to ex pand 1945 plantings to five mil lion acres a 52 per cent increase "over the acreage of flax in 1944. n ir. 'if. nt: Seeded 4111s 1 ear Military requirements point tip the need for meeting; the 1915 milk production goals, with the requirements for dry whole milk and. dry ice cream mix still In creasing and requirements for Cheddar cheese and evaporated milk expected to be as large In 1945 as in 1944. - iVieivs of Farm K 'A? ' ' I V ?w r. ' . ' 4 , s ' 11 ' ' ' A':'.-:--:;':!': & Aim Perlick and Aarustlne Keitseastein make the pin-feathers fly b the poultry "assembly line" Products company. Peterson Talks Production for Discusses Agriculture State Agriculture Director 1 Declares High Food Production Necessary for Duration of "War ;. Continued high production of in the opinion of Elmer Peterson, While admitting governmental flicting opinions for "the need df huge stocks of foods with continued high production" and "the need of curtailment in production of cer tain food stuffs", the tightening of Farm Bulletins January 5 at the Marquam community hall. Farmers will meet to discuss current farm prob lems!. The Clackamas cpunty ag ent and his staff will meet farm ers there and Rex Rots, Jersey breeder is arranging the meeting. It starts at' 10 a. m. k Januayr C, 10 a. mJat-VFW hall, Salem. Marion county Farmers union quarterly meet ing. No host luncheon 1 at noon. H. D. Raich, national vice ores- ident, speaker. January 9 and 10. Memorial Union building,, Corvallas, county farm labor assistants conference. January 10, 10 a. m., at Bridge port, Polk County Farmers union quarterly meeting. I January 11, Oregon State col- lege, Western States conference on virus diseases of stone fruits. Ob ject is to arrive at somi uniform procedure for handling; the in creasing menace to stone fruit in dustries from spread of virus dis eases throughout the west January 11, Dallas, Polk county livestock meeting, for all produ cers of livestock in the county. January, 15, 16 and IT Oregon Dairymen's association meeting at the Corvallis' Memorial Union building. .-. . January 18 and 19, at Corvallis,1 the AAA conference. - ! January 22 to Feb. li at Cor vallis, the 24th annual canners and frozen food packers short course. ... . x - January 23 and 24, at Eugene, Oregon Seed Growers league meeting. - . 1 -' January 25, Salem, a meeting of Marion and Polk county cherry growers. January 27, at Salem annual meeting of the Oregon Jersey cat tie Club.:;-: ! .' "r --r: January 30, Dallas, the if arm ac counting meeting for Polk county farmers. . . - Land Prices Level . Land prices in Oregon are now at about the same levelj as the World war I land" boom peak, according to a discussion of the trend in land values contained in the current issue, of the Agricul tural Situation and Outlook is sued by the OSC extension ser viice. '' . v il'-:'l; Udncl tlcals, Iijbl halves . . 70 C FUhri Utzli large . . 706 ALSO IN THE SHELLS i nighest price cash en delivery for ore bird run. See as before yoo selL nonnis iiLonFEiii paciiiitg co. 4 CO N. Front Street, Salea &llev: Famiier : and Garden - A ( if at Northwest Poultry and Dairy on Food Oregon; overall focx food stuffs is still necessary, state director of agriculture. agencies frequently sent jout con rationing "is not such as to make us complacent", said Peterson, in an interview this week. However, Peterson added, the war food administration! has set Oregon production goals about the same as those for last year with only small variations. Peterson did expect a shortage in rthe Ore gon ' lamb crop because i "Oregon producers were not going: to raise fine lambs only to give them away at market time." ; ! j When asked about agricultural legislation, the state director of agriculture did not favor jso much the making of new agricultural laws as "taking such laws as we now have and make them 'applica ble tq current conditions! It isn't more j laws we need,! but- better ones"; he said. He admitted that current conditions had iriot been prcpitious for best enforcement of laws already existing. Quoting from his report to the governor, Mr. Peterson said that "It may be reasonably j assumed that j Oregon's agricultural indus tries will play an ever increasing ly important part in ou state's economy.. Through reclamation and flood control together with more Complete utilization $f exist ing productive acreage, it seems that the agricultural production of the state might still be tially increased. ; ' May Hold Fair ; iubstan Mr, Peterson also said that in this report he had stated that the department's administration is looking forward ti the holding of a fair in 1945 and making plans to do soJ "providing such a course will not appear detrimental to the national effort" Thej need of a new agricultural building to be considered in the, MA.i Ua iU4 w..!:ia:. ! : fuiLc uuuiuiiik program, was also pointed out by Me. Peter son, i The state printer hks need for the space now being occupied by the department offices. He suggested the possibility o such a building established at the State lair grounds where there! "is al ready owned by the state ade quate property for a department office building together wfth lab oratories, heating plant nd ga rages.") He added that "the de partment now pays rent on its present! quarters and it Would ap pear feasible for the rentjal paid to j be I increased sufficiently to amortize the-cost of new and ade quate quarters over a period of years."! . - It - is estimated the average American Soldier eats approxi mately jfive and a quarter pounds of food! a day as compared with three and three-quarters pounds for the average civilian. i Telephone 7611 tWw. Ranch, Ramblings By Rural Reporter W. G.' NIBLER and Ben New ell, both of the county agent's of fice, have been doing some work on their own in' testing ' controls for wire worm.. They report that they found no results from carbon disulphide , or naphthalene, but that : the new Ethide treatment showed some results. This was tested' out on the Harold White place at West Stayton. j Ethide is an entirely new chem- cal compound developed in the laboratories of the Commercial Solvents corporation. It is said to be powerful, safe and "effective as a fumigant Prior to this test at West . Stayton, . it - has been used chiefly as a fumigant for houses, warehouses, office buildings, stored grain and flour, packaged cereals and furs. In the test at West Stayton, the Ethide was put into the soil in the spring ip sufficient time before planting to permit the gas to es cape from! the soil before prant- ; . - i i - il . - ! Albert Barth of Marquam,plans to top dress 40 acres bf alta fes cue to be used for sheep pasture next spring. An additional acre age of this popular grass will be harvest fori seed. Barth is using alta fescue for Canada thistle con trol in addition to its utilization for pasture and seed. 1 , . n -. i Year around pastures, uses and methods of purchasing commer cial fertilizers, latest methods of raising and feeding swing and sheep are among the subjects out lined for the farmers meeting to be held at the Marquam commun ity hall January 5. J. J. Inskeep, Clackamas county agent and Rex Ross, well Jtnown Jersey breeder are' making- the arrangements. Lunch, will be served at noon. - : Ben Newell reported that the crops looked pretty tough in Mar ion county after the late Decem ber freezes,1 but that he was of the opinion that most of them would snap out ofiit with the rain fol lowing, j Chet Loe reports that some of the late October and November grasses ? seedings looked j pretty good if they had been drilled in. Some : of the broadcast seedings were not so good. Vera Jetti, who lives north of Shaw was rather disappointed in his September seedings of chewings fescue, but his was broadcast instead of drilled also. ;: i Fourteen! acres bf alta i fescue and subterranean clover,, estab lished Ion the Russell Scramli farm at Macksburg last spring, i looked so good that Russell planted an additional 12 acres in September. This is believed to be the first planting of its. kind in the Macks burg district Russell says ne ex pects to utilize this combination for sheep pasture and for! seed. A new plow with plowsole fer tilizer attachments' will be used in demonstration preparation of soil and fertilization of prunes berries, hops, flax, field corn. sweet corn.' Another new imple-1 ment for placing fertilizer, at plow depth without turning a furrow is also to be constructed fcom the farm engineering department at the state college., ,' ! Stale WKeal Acreage Lower Than Onetime In 1869 120,000 acres of wheat were planted in Oregon. In 1927, 1,102,000 acres were grown here, The 1869 crop amounted to 2, 340,000 bushels; while the; top acreage of 1927 produced 27,540,- 000 bushels.' i ! I The most valuable crop was a smaller one, produced in 1920, when the 21,795,000 bushels re sulted in a cash farm income of $36,658,000. S The : lowest average price over . a five year period was from 1930 to 1935, when the sea sonal average price - of only 59 cents a bushel returned an aver age cash farm income of only $8,' 264,000. The highest average price was from 1915 to 1919 at $1.62 a busheL 1 - . ' , : Oregon's ; total acreage was re duced markedly from; 1939 through 1943, with only , 728,000 acres grown fin the latter j year Under the stimulus of war de mand, however, the acreage j was increased in 11944 to 929,000 acres. DRESSED ! I Vea! and IlogslUanlod! Top Prices Paid I ; Prompt Eemittance Ship to "' j- FrcJ Hsyer - j , Ileal: Divisica ! 444 8. W. Tamhm St or S. E. 82nd A Fester Elvd. VPe eaa accept only ! animals killed In compliance r with O. P. A. regvIaUons.1 , L Farm Loan Units to Met3t January 10-11 - Special meetings of the stock holders of the six national: farm loan associations serviced by the Salem Group NFLA office will be held on January 10 and 11, J. J. Sechrist, secretary - treasurer of the associations, has announced. The meetings or jthe Dallas, Marion-Polk, Stayton and horti cultural associations iwill be on Wednesday; January i!0, ' in ' the chamber of commerce rooms in Salem. Willamette and Yamhill NFLA members will jtneet in the chamber of commerce rooms in McMinnville on Thursday, Janu aryll. The purpose of: the special meetings, Sechrist said, will be to vote on a plan for rehabilitation and consolidation of (associations, which is being' presented to the membera by the Federal Land bank of Spokane. . The present strong financial position . of the Federal Land bank has placed it in a position to liquidate the losses that some of the associations have suffered on endorsed farm, loans and thus rehabilitate fall associa tions so that members who have paid off their loans may receive settlement in full fo the stock which they held in the association, he said. , , : 1 ; - ; ' . The rehabilitation apd consoli dation plan has already .been pre sented , to and approved by the boards of directors f the six as sociations involved. - ; ! r Zinc Deficiency in Fruit Orchards Found ' . Zinc deficiency in ; cherry, ' ap ple and pear orchards one gath ers is something like 1 vitamin A deficiency in the human race. In fected trees are sprayed with" dor mant applications of zihe sulphate (if one can get it) at the rate of 25 to 50 pounds per 100 gallons of water. The application should be made in late February , or early March, and trees should be spray ed in much the same vyay as with other dormant applications. For trees mildly infected, "ja dormant application of zinc sulphate at the rate of 15 to 25 pounds to 100 gal lons of water should be; used. This information comes of the Wash ington State college department of agriculture, t i M WARDS - 153 North Liberty la the state department ef acrieiiltiure laboratories. John Slmll works with the officUl samples of all commercial feeding staffs offered - for tale In the state. ; j Tag on Food Reveals What s In the Bag For your own protection, look for the tag-then study f it be fore buying feeds. This is advice from the state department of ag riculture. ; ; In ranch words, if the ! farmer doesn't ! get what he expects, It's him for it. The tag is ithere. It tells you what the bag I contains. Better than weeping afterwards, do some careful ' reading before the bag is yours to be left hold W. ' -' 0r U 1 - - The Oregon commercial feed stuffs ; law requires, among other things, that "every lot or parcel of commercial feeding stuff of fered or exposed for sale or dis tributed within this state! shall be labeled or have affixed thereto a tag in a conspicuous place; on the outside thereof, containing a legi ble and plainly printed statement ; . Model N BBRtflEBi WmM Complete set 500, ' . n r - .. ; ' j, . SOO-Tliirlr 1 ' - LZJ U 500-chick size. ; :., .i.l L iLj L-J ! . E li tin In the English language clearly and truly certifying:" the mini mum of crude protein, crude fat, crude fibres, ash, ami in the case of poultry feeds, the maximum of grit and Shell and other mm eral matter, and the . specific name, of each ingredient used in its manufacture. j Protein is the most valuable constituent of feeds. Under the present war time, conditions, source of protein for feeding pur poses is the limiting factor in the production of feedstuffs. -j Samples of all commercial feed ings stuffs are - taken and ana lyzed in the state department j o i agriculture laboratories. But in all purchasing of feeds it must1 be borne in mind that compliance by the manufacturer with the guaranteed! analysis on the label does - not ; always indicate - the quality bf the feed. The state de partment of agriculture cannot prevent the sale of a feed properly registered, labeled and sold in accordance with the feed stuffs law. : In making his selection 600 and 800-lb. sizes. Classified Airertislng Sidesman, -Classified Ads Call 9101 j Three insertions per line23c Six Insertions pet lint -40c One month per line -$1-25 Minimum charge 25c; S ti. min imum 85c; tLj min. 45c No refunds. . J Copy for this pag accepted uni til 6:30 the evening before publica tion lor clarification- Copy re ceived after this timo will b run under U beading , "Too Lata to Classify j Tho Statemnan assumes no finan cial responsibility for orrora which may appear in advertisements pub lished in its columns and tn cases where this paper ta at fault will reprint that part of an advertise ment In which th typojTaphical mlsukeaccura. . .-. The Statesman reserves the right to reject questionable advertising, It further reserves tho right to place all advertising . under the proper classification.; A "Blind" Ad on ad containing a Statesman box number for an ad dress is for the protection of tho advertiser and must therefor bo answered. by letter. The Statesman is not at liberty to divulge Infor mation ii to the Identity of aa advertiser using o "Bund" ad. Livestock ami Poultry nnnnis taken for broad breasted Bronze poults. Ph. S02 Jefferson. RABBIT FRYERS O : turs. Ph.; 1-1234 WANTED: Beet and canaer cows, bulls and veals. WUI call at farm. r L Snethen. 3570 K. Turner Hoaa. Ph. J13. Morns or oyes. , . j Aactions ; Stayton Auction SALES EVERY THtTRSDAY NITE . ... . , 1:30 Pf. 1 fresh Jersey cow.! 1 fresh Guern sey cow, X reg. Hereford buu, 1 pure bred tmroe coaiy always mm i cows to pick from, fat calves, day old calves. Furniture. Machinery. 1 saddle in good condition. -2 bicycles, cream separator. Circulators, wood & oil. Several new springs i and mattresnes. Don't miss it some good buys for everyone. : ; . Help Wanted SWITCH board Marion Hotel. operator wanted. J WANTED: Kitchen, helper, day. shift Blue Bird Cafe. ! feedstuffs,' the purchaser should be guided by his tiwn study and observations, -and. I should seek the advice of the local county agent or the services . maintained at the state college. The agricul-. tural department lis responsible that the guarantee! on the tag of feedstuffs is as claimed. .' i -1 j j Market .notations on page 7 today of 1 Phone 3194 n.