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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1948)
Santiam Flax Growers Sign Tow Contract Willamette Valley Farmer 0: t' JEFFERSON. Oct. 27 Follow ing a six mcnths period of nego- ! tiations. Santiam ; Flax Growers have announced that a contract : for tow has teen signed with Sam uel Velazquez, general director of a Mexican firm with a capital stock of over 20 million pesos. The contract was signed by Harry As bahr. secretary - treasurer of the local growers, and covers several hundred towns of clean water retted tow with a total value of some $80,0ff. It will be shipped to Mexico fcy rail over a period of six to eight months, shipment probably beginning in December. J Growers may now took to the future with confidence because Sant:am Fi.'x Growers have two definite cutit's for their tow. They will contPL.e to supply Oregon , I lax Textiles with their require-! merits, as well as fitting the Mexi- ! can order. The orders for tow j which Santiam Growers now hold ' will keep key personnel busy un- til the 1949 crop is harvested The Mexican firm is at present ; operating a large crushing plant I for linseed ci;. and is in the proc- ; e-.s of building a sugar bag manu- f acturiru? ptint 500 miles west of ' Arexico City It is using chiefly its own proouii.on oi iiax tow wnicn will be blended with the clean water-retted towt shipped by , Santiam Growers. I Local Proooct Gto4 Samples cf the two produced here was sent to this firm by air , express, and after preliminary ; trials on its. machinery, it was found th-t the local product is satisfactory. Mr. Velizouez. who does not speak English, was bv A. Perez, commercial acting as interpreter. While here, Velazquez bought additional fiber j Despite more stringent certifi flax machinery to be used in a catton standards coupled with a plant his company is building in , bad year for the potato virus dis- northenri Mexico on the Gulf of , ease, leafroll, a slight increase has California They also bought 500 i occurred in the acreage of potato bushels of Willamette vallev Tiber ! seed certified in 1948 as compared flaxseed to be sown this fall in with last year, the area cf their northern plar4 A total of 4481 acres was enter and it will be tracked to the border ed in the potato seed certification for them. program this year, but approximat- Pictures cf the buiidihgs and '. cly 30 per cent of the acreage fell eauiDment st Santiam Flax Grow- by the wayside Deiore completion . IS etc s and. Views vf Farm and Garden BY ULUL L. MADSEN. I I . T . -, P 4 ' ii t". ?V trS,.t- Ilk Farm Calendar I Th StaUmman, Saint, Oroqjon. Thursday. Octoboc 23, 18i3 13. ' Jt4 ' A jr ... r i ttm 'mufti Oct. 29 North Howell Flow er show and dinner, the latter from 6 to 8 pjn. Oct. 29-Nov. 7 Grand Na tional Livestock exposition, San Francisco. Nov. 3-5 1948 annual meet- , iruj of Oregon Reclamation Con- jgress. Grants Pass. 1 Nov. 3 Annua meeting of 'Linn-Benton Dairy Breeders aa- sociation. 100 a.m. 4-H club ; fair building. Albany. Nov. 4 Oregon Turkey Hatch erymen, 8 pm. Salem Chamber of Commerce. Nov. 8-7 Rabbit show, state fair grounds, Salem. Nov. 9-12 Oregon Farm Bu reau convention. Bend. Nov. 9 Northwest Hereford association sale, LaGrande. Nov. 10-12 National Coope rative Milk, Producers Federation convention, Multnomah hotel. "Portland. Nov. 15-16 Annual meeting Agricultural Cooperative Council for Oregon, Multnomah hotel. Portland. Nov. 17-18 Annual meeting Oregon State Horticultural so ciety, Corvallis. Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Annual meet ing Oregon Seed league, Multno mah hotel. Portland. Dec. 1-3 Pacific Coa$t Tur key exhibit, McMinnville. Dec. 8-10 Northwest Turkey show, Roseburg. Samuel YeUzquex of Mexico pictured here examining tow as it comes mtt of the Foraao tow cleaning machine at the Santiam Flax Growers plant at Jefferson. The tow win be snippet to bis firm in Mexico where it will be asea in manufacturing sngar bogs. The tow machine was designed at the Santiam plant. (Photo by Hal Wynd.) ! Potato Seed More Plentiful SSTSSSof Than in 1947 POULTRY ADVICE GIVEN J Poultry extension experts give the following tips for poultry care: Pullets will lay well only if they can keep up their body weight. A ration of 55 per cent laying j mash and 45 per cent scratch grain will enable them to do this. Lime the little with hydrated lime at the first sign of its beginning to pack down. One pound of hydrated lime for each bird in the house is the standard rule. Don't keep your laying house a hot house. Keep it well ventilated and at a tem perature of about 50 degrees. MT. ANGEL COW ON RECORD Clackamas county's three Dairy Herd Improvement association testers. Milton Corum, L C. Ber ney and Richard Gale, report four herds made an average pro duction of 40 pounds of butter fat over the recent month. Those making the record were Vernon Hepler. Can by, 43.1 pounds of butterfat; Mrs. Antoinette Van derbeck. Mt. Angel, 41.6 pounds; Carl Olson, Molalla, 49.2 pounds, and Mary Schmitz, Cedardale, 48.4 pounds. of the final inspection, states E. C. Johnson, extension specialist in certification. After completion of inspections. 3149 acres in 16 coun ties were passed for certification, compared with 2987 acres passed a year ago. ner. ma nicer of Santiam F:ax A complete record or iieia m Growers, visited the Oregon Flax spection readings is available this Textiles in West Salem aari were ' year for the first time for all pota- shown the entire plant bv C. E. i toes entered for certification. Cop ers were taken for Velazquez, who said that the local flax plant is the finest he has ever seen and plans to use this plant as a pat tern for his new plant. j Velazquez and Perez, while here. ; accompanied by Alfred Lent-ch- Everett, manager of the West Sa lem industry. They were interested in this rug manufacturing busi ness, as Everett is using clean water-retted tow produced by San tiam Flax Growers in the manu facture of rugs. Farmers Told Some Incomes Drop Ahead A third year of shrinking real net income is ahead for agricul ture. That is the over-all outlook indicated at the recent annual na tional agricultural outlook con ference in Washington, D. C as briefly . stated by Oregon's repre sentative, L. R. Breithaupt, Ore gon State ccllege extension econ omist. While the outlook was found - better for seme types of farming than others, it was deemed wise for all fanners to operate to meet some recession. Real income as expressed in buying power, how ever, is expected to remain, above the low pre-war level. Cash receipts by farmers, fig ured on a national basis, might drop to a monthly rate 10 per cent below 1948 a year from now but total farm expenses may de crease little if any at alL Cheaper feed is expected to be largely offset by higher other costs, Breithaupt reports. Thus, net in come would be less, and the net income dollar now buys scarcely half as much as pre-war. LOCKER USE EXTENSIVE Recent feceral estimates show that there are 10,817 frozen fodd lofker plants doing business in Jifly of this year, well above an average of a year -ago. At the av erage ue of locker boxes pf r plant, it is believed that three million farm families and about one million urban families stored 1.750,000.000 pounds of food in ti:ese depositories. i es of the mimeograph report have been sent to all potato certification applicants as well as to county agents. The publication contains the names of all grower certifica tion applicants, the varieties plant ed, acreages, source of seed and complete field counts for each as well as indicating "passed" or Re jected for each field. During 1947, only 11 per cent of the potato acreage entered for cer tification was rejected. Eighteen potato varieties were entered for certification this year. The most common Oregon variety, the Netted Gem, accounts for 1704 acres of the total certified acreage this year as compared with 1201 in 1947. Fifteen plants of the new blight resistant Kennebec "Variety were grown in Multnomah coun ty. This planting, seed of which was released last year by the U.S. department of agriculture, show ed up well, Johnson reports. Only eastern Oregon Netted Gem samples are being sent to Oceanside, Cal., for test plot work this year. Western and southern Oregon samples will bo grown in the Oregon State college green house to obtain earlier tests. PEACH TREES DISEASED State horticultural inspector, J. F. Bock, operating in Clackamas county, reports that one peach grower in that county recently found it necessary to pull up and bum every tree in his orchard, and another a substantial por tion of bis trees because of an unidentified virus disease brought in with trees bought outside the state. One pre-Inca civilization in Peru, probably between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D., built stone structures as perfect in workmanship as the Egyptian pyramids. ! Peru has some 50 coastal rivetjs that flow from the mountains to v ard the sea. Promptly Relieves OStsUM Firsl Annual Sale oi Registered Hereford and Shorthorn Cattle To Be Held Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13 and 11 1948 ! Jcnes Banchj Ilerrill, Oregon H atile east of Merrill, Oregon t snUes N.W. of Tnlelake. Calif. Xt smiles sooth of Klaamatn rails. Oregon ea Ore gon Highway 39. Sale Starts al ;12 Hccn Saturday 10:30 AJ II Scnday 120 Head of Registered Ilerefords SO Head of Registered Shorthorns (Direct from nastaro no sntiflil fitting) Bred Cows I Cows With Calves at Side Bred Heifers Herd Boll Prospects These cattle are t norted frosn Canada and are taw finest nerd of largo tjroe cattle over offered. Many anew nrosnccta ta nerd. Per Free Catalogs or Hotel Keserraoons write T. W. Jones, Owner, Jones Kanch, Merrill, Oregon Jack F. Francis, Auctioneer Housevrives Are Shopping W For Top Quality Ileal Products Al Araazing Low Prices Lv3(SI?(3 Salem rr n nnf A complete line of the very best meat products, at the lowest possible prices. If yoa are not getting the best in meat at these prices, come in to Randall's this Week and let, us help you save dollars on your food budget. Branded quality Eastern Oregon Hereford Beef - Fresh Fish - Hormers Hams - and all meat wieners. Fresh dressed and drawn poultry. 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