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fr--Tho Statesman, Salem, Oregon; rriday. Tannarr 15S3 rr : 1 : US Farmers Cautioned to Buy, Sell Carefully to Avoid I Squeeze in 9 53 By LIIXIE L. MADSEX Farm Editor, The Statesman If the farmer can avoid being caught between the shaky prices for bit produce, and the rising costs for his purchases, 1953 should be a good yeari farm economists were predicting as the curtain was rolling down on 1952- All indications are that business enters the New Year and the new administration with increased confidence. If the farmer will watch his selling carefully and do his buying with even more care, he will come out ,okay, these econo mists say, as they warn that there cai. be no philandering this new year in either the going or the coming markets. Buyers have not gone on a strike. Customers are still in a buying mood, but they are asking a bit more for their money. Like the farmer should do, the buying public is looking over the situation before forking out the price. I The buying caution which has been thrown to the wind in post war days, had better be blowing back again if the farmer is not going to find himself, along with other businesses,- out on a limb from which neither the Republic ans nor the Democrats can rescue him, these same economists indi cate. Looking ahead, fewer lambs are on feed" this year than for some time past, although the number has been declining gradually in recent years. Feed lambs for early disposal, is the suggestion. Watch ewes carefully that they weather lambing in good condition and that lambs born are also lambs saved for market. A couple of lamb loss es, particularly in the smaller - flocks, can mean profit lost. Beef cattle prices have been un certain of late, and apparently will remain uncertain for some time to come. The buying public is redis covering there are other meats than beef. Even restauranteers are reporting that the eating public is .substituting fowl and fish for the $4 and $5 a plate steaks. Market indications are better for common kinds of meat than for the top priced. The Pacific Northwest has more cattle on feed than us ual but in some of the larger cattle states such as California and Colo rado, fewer cattle are on feed than have been in recent years. Remember that potential egg layers were down in number 5 per cent this past November from year ago.. Sufficient early chicks should be ordered to fill the hous es to capacity with layers in early faft. Dairy meetings held recently in dicate that prospects are pretty good in that score. But warnings re being issued not to keep poor froducers with the present cost of if vaii nlan tn si srrinff A J V . wheat, buy your seed now is the warning. The general wheat out look not only in the Pacific North west, but in the entire wheat pro ducing country is bad. Dry weather prevented seeding of much wheat and killed that which was planted In much of the country. Estimates of planted acreage run from 50 per cent down of normal growing wheat iields lor tnis time oi year, The year just closing has been one of mixed blessings lor uregon farmers. One of the heaviest crops on record, sharply declining live stock prices, record high farm in come, and almost record high farm costs, make the final outcome ra , ther hazy. Prices received for most crops so far this season have been lower than last year. But the tonnage was greater, so that the value of the 1352 crop production reached the record high leveloL4284,508, 000 in Oregon. This estimate by Niels I. Nielsen, in charge of the Oregon crop reporting service for the USDA, is 9 per cent above last year and more than four times the pre-war average. Oregon's fields, gardens and or chard produced 4,627,700 tons of food, feed and seed. Oregon's gross income reached a record .high of $459,000,000, about $29,00p,000 more than last year. Crop receipts were up $37,000,000, while live stock receipts were down $8,000. Cattle and lamb prices dropped from 25 to 35 per cent during the year. Hog prices, which took their big slide in 1951, showed a further decline of around 10 per cent in 1952. Farm economists axe pre dieting a further cattle price de UJine of 20 per cent over the next several years, while the upswing in cattle population is expected to continue. But, say the cattlemen of longtime standing, even with these drops, you can make a good living with cattle if you are efficient. , Average farm price of beef cat tle for the first 11 months of 1952, s given by the crop reporting -service was $23 compared with $27.50 for ail of 1951. Hogs aver aged $20.20 during the year just dosed, while $22.50 was the aver age for 1951, and lambs $23.45 against $29.00 the year previous. Production of principal seed crops topped the relatively small 1951 output by 53 per cent Prices were sharply lower; making the value of the 1952 crop slightly less than last year. Tonnage In the Oregon berryfields was second lar gest on record, and up 45 percent from 195 L. However, lower prices I brought the value of the year's 1 production up only 30 per cent. -f While production of tree fruits and nuts reached 304,100 tons, larger than the year previous, it was below the 10-year average and prices averaged about 6 per cent under the 1951 season. A connection between the Nile -and the Red Sea, in effect forming a Sues CanaL existed at several periods In ancient times. Light Gives Hormone Key To Flowering Light is one of the big answers to production, scientists at the University of California are an nouncing. The all important hor mone won't do it alone. Evidence uncovered by several scientists in recent years indicates that the mystery or liowermg is related to the level of auxin (the plant growth hormone) in the plant. Florists have been working to find the mechanism which con trols flowering time and amount of flowers in plants. In recent months the theory that the rela tionship of this hormone to dark ness and light is the key to the flowering mechanism, has become and accepted fact. A certain level of this hormone seems to be necessary for pro moting flowering. Any increase or decrease in the level may block this flowering. The auxin level is increased by exposure to light. Plants with low auxin levels may be brought to proper levels for blooming during long daylight hours. Blooming may be blocked by long exposure to light in plants with initialy high auxin levels. This explains, the scientists re port, that whij auxin will make some plants flower, it has the op posite effect m others. The right balance mustbe reached, and finding this is the next step. Dr. Karl Hamner and Dr. Anton Lang, who have made some of the most important contributions in this line of research, add that man's ability to control flowering is not only important to the florist but also to the agriculturist. Pro duction of fruit,' corn, tomatoes and the like are directly related to the flowering stimulus, and this stimulus seems to be the relation between light and hormone. If the proper level of hormone can be maintained during the longer growing days, much may be ac complished, these scientists feel. Farm Calendar, . , Jan. 5-7 Aerial dusting and spraying conference, Corvallis. Jan. 6 Polk County Livestock Association, 7:30 p. m., Rickreall. Bob Scharf, president. Jan. 7 Silver Creek Soil Conser vation meeting, Knights of Pythias HalL 6:30 p. m. Silverton Grange serves dinner. Jan. 13-14 Oregon Dairymen's Association, 5th annual meeting, Corvallis. Jan. 13-14 Two-day landscape course, soil conditioners, mulches, fences, Irrigation, Corvallis. Jan. 18 Marion County Jersey Cattle Club meeting. Jan. lt-21 Western Oregon Livestock Association meeting, Corvallis. Feb. 5-6 Western Oregon Grange lectureres school, Corval lis. Feb. 23-24 Oregon Farmer Un ion convention, Salem. Feb. 24-25 Irrigation Clinic, Corvallis. Feb. 2-t7 Oregon Shorthorn Breeders Association show and sale, Prineville. Oregon's Brand Law for livestock Discussion Topic The Oregon brand law will be thoroughly discussed at the Linn County Livestock Association's an nual meeting in Lebanon on Jan. 12, reports Leonard Forster, Tan gent, president. Discussion leader is Jack Cochran, Brownsville. Ac tion will be taken in reference to attendance at the-Western Oregon Livestock Association meeting in Coquille. Jan 19-21. Forster says the Lebanon meet ing should be of great interest to all livestockmen in the county as it win cover reports from Francis Williams, county trapper; discus sion. Oregon's livestock disease problems by Dr. R. R. Younce, state veterinarian; a talk on com bating livestock diseases by Dr. O. H. Muth, Oregon State College, and a report dealing with feeding livestock by Joe Johnson, acting head of the animal husbandry de partment at the stafe college. FATX TOARD TO MKET -? The Linn County fair board will hold Its annual meeting In the Al bany courthouse on Jan. 10 re ports L: E. Arnold Lebanon, presi den. The purpose of the meetings, says Arnold, is .to adopt a budget for 1953 and elect new officers. Other board members are R, A. Talbott, Albany, and Tim Kelly, Jefferson. Creamery t"------' ' i in ' 1 1, i y-iTi-ii--iffT-)'iti'Ti'riiiv , m m 10, I''Wumwj "Mf4'UlL-M""' "WPJI-'t r - - ? . xr-' ? L.,,. - - r r v . .. i i ii iit jfc-fejijmi hm,k r.fc..i V 4 ir -mi n .. . f" ' ' I . . . : - Three Marion County Berry Growers Rate Three Marion county growers are among the 27 Oregon Marshall strawberry plant growers whose fields have passed inspections fo certification during the iaaz-03 season. Local growers are Lorren Barr, Silverton; Schumacher Bro thers, Sublimity; and George Veal, Salem All fields must also pass a root disease inspection before plants can be dug and sold as Oregon cer tified plants. An estimated 16 mil lion plants will be produced from 154 acres Tf all fields pass the last inspection to be made early in 1953. This is a noticeable decrease from the estimated 30 million plants produced from nearly 300 acres during the 1951-52 season. Several million plants from last years crop were never dug6 be cause supply of plants exceeded the demand ' Most Oregon strawberry grow ers credit the use of certified plants with helping them stay in the strawberry business during the past 10 years. Although there is room for improvement, produc tion per acre from certified plants has been greater than that from non-certified plants, according to D. L. Rasmussen, county exten sion agent. The Oregon strawberry plant certification program has been headed by R. Ralph Clark, horti cultural specialist, Oregon State College. Clark has been assisted during 1952 by Norman Dobie, OSC certification specialist. Lists of growers - who have passed the first three inspections may be ob tained from Clark or Oregon County extension agents. Hop Market Slows Down As Year Ends Hop markets turned inactive late in December following the announcement that the hop mar keting agreement and order will be terminated on July 1, 1953, ac cording to the market news service of the department of agriculture, Trading, which had been fairly active in 1953 crop hops for future delivery came to a complete halt, and markets were entirely nom inal at the close of December. Buyers of both spot and future delivery hops were out of the market while growers appeared generally inclined to await further market developments, It was reported Wednesday that 50 to 75 per cent of the 1953 crop of hops in Oregon, Washington and Idaho had already been con tracted, while reports from Call fomia indicate a somewhat larger percentage had been sold. Supplies of 1952 crop salable hops were at a low level with de mand very moderate early in the month. At the close of December there was no market for 1952 crop spot hops, but based on earlier sales, prices were nominally placed at 50-53 cents per pound on seeded clusters and at 60-63 cents for seedless hops, basis 6 per cent leaf and stem content. The market for 1953 hops for fu ture delivery was also nominal and quotations 'placed at 45 cents per pound for seeded dusters, 47 cents for semi-seedless and 50 cents per pound for seedless hops, basis 6 per cent leaves and stems. Orders Must Be Placed to Keep Steel Mills Going Supplies of baling wire, nails and fencing materials may fall short of demand during 1953 un less sufficient orders are placed early to boost lagging mill out put, W. M. Tate,: committee chair man of the Marion. County pro duction and marketing: adminis tration committee,, caustoned far mers this week, r "We have been advised that be ginning in early September steel mills began reporting empty space on their rolling schedules for bale ties, coiled balling r wire, nails. woven wire fencing, netting and barbed wire, Tata reported This situation has grown steadily worse. If orders sufficient to utilize full mill ' capacity are not placed shortly, it is "quite possible that shortages win occur ' next . spring and summer. ..... i . Patrons9 Day Draws 1,000 1 in-- " ?-';. i WjKr &.i-.&k im i i.im i n it MT. ANGEX Business men ef Mt. Ansel had a busy day Tuesday when they served dinner for the-creamery Patrons' Day. From left are Fred Schwab, Harold Bovrbannals and Clem Batsch, serv ing Mrs. Jee Smith and hea little daughter, Beatrice Anne. Guernsey Cow Sets Production Record August J. Minke Jr., Mt AngeL has made a. Guernsey state cham pion record with his registered cow. Favorite's Dora Daisey. Her Droductlon of 16,610 pounds of milk and 861 pounds of, butterfat is the highest Herd Improvement Registry record for a six-year-old in the state. The sire of the cow, Bonnibell Fayorite, owned by J. R. Alexan der, Hillsboro, has two daughters in the Performance' Register of The American Guernsey Cattle Club. Trench Silo Plans Should Be Made Now Spoilage in trench type silos has been at a r"'""""" this season, Ben A. Newell, Marion County agent, reported Wednesday, as he urged farmers to investigate and possibly arrange for one prior to the grass season this spring. There is a lot of variety in types of construction, Newell points out as headds that the type as a whole i holds promise of a cheap way to store grass silage on local farms. Where sloping land provides good drainage for trenches, they have been particularly effective. Filling is much quicker but extra care is needed to be sure enough packing is done to force out all air pockets. Silage crops should be cut when young and tender. Newell described one of the suc cessful trenches as built on top of the ground. It sets, he said, on a concrete slab and has treated poles for sides which are lined with 2 by 6 tongue and groove carddeck ing. Most of the silos have been covered with 12 to 14 inches of sawdust with good results. Fossil sequoia trees were known to science long before the living specimens were discovered in Cal ifornia. M6C Herbal Cough Syrup Especially prapairad for baby & older children's cough. A wonderful relief. Cfm They, love it. JUC .... Only at ' . r SCIIAEFER'S DRUG' STORE Open Dally A. U.-S P. M. Smnday. t A.U .4F. M. HI jr. Ceaunerdal Polk County Livestockmen To Hear Cole T3 E. F. Cole, livestock marketing specialist at Oregon State College, and G. A. Stearns, Stearns and Welch Meat Company, Portland, will meet with Polk County live stockmen at their annual meeting Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 7:30 p. m. in the Rickreall "Grange Hall. Stearns will use as his topic "Hidden values in Livestock Mar keting." while Cole will deal with the livestock outlook situation for 1933. Bob Scharf, Ballston, president of the Polk County livestock As sociation, sponsors of the meeting, is encouraging members and all other 1 persons interested in live stock to plan on attending this meeting. Information concerning? the Western Oregon Livestock Associa tion annual meeting at ' Coquille, Jan. 19-21 will be presented. A brief business meeting will be held at the conclusion of the pro gram by the livestock association to elect officers and directors. Refreshments provided by the livestock association; will be served. LESS HENS EXPECTED Turkey producers are estimating a 12 per cent drop in breeder hens in 1953 from 1952. The total num ber expected for 1953 is 213.840 The poults hatched are expected to result in a 12 per cent decrease also, but the number raised in 1953 is expected to show a 10 per cent increase. The price of sonlts is ex pec ted to be the samer in this new year as In 1952 or an average price ""--of 70 cents. The average price of eggs was 29 cents and is expected to remain the same .in 1953. 1 r -KjjJ-; Valley Farm Income Down During 1952 Reports from various counties indicate that in .the Willamette .Valley the gross farm ' Income dropped during 1952. . ; In Marion County the gross in come dropped nearly 5 per cent in 1952 from the previous year. The widely diversified agriculture returned $32300,000 to land own ers as compared with $34,350,000 in 1951. Cost of operations were up sharply that net return for the farmer fell far ' short of the past several seasons. ' Potatoes : and truck crops, in cluding onions, green beans and sweet corn, accounted for $4,750, 000. Tree fruits and nuts brought farmers $2,000,000 and small fruits returned $3,000,000. High on .the farm crop list was $3,500,000 worth of grain, and $2,250,000 In grass seed crops. Pep permint accounts for $1,666,000, poultry and eggs, $3,800,000 while turkeys returned $2,500,000 and beef sheep and hogs about $1,500, 000. Marlon County rated 75(h among counties In the United states for gross Income In 1951 and first in Oreron, but it was expected that Marlon fell below this position in 1952. The Clackamas County report shows a drop of approximately 4 per cent in gross farm income under the previous year. From an all-time high in 1951 of $25,687,000 the income of Clackamas farms dropped to an estimated $24,647, 750 in 1952. Of the income, 46.9 per cent came from animal products, while 53.1 per cent was derived from farm crops. This difference has been brought about by lower prices for meat animal products, including wool, and most poultry products. Dairy at $3,100,000,' kept pretty much on an even keel with the year previous. Most of the milk from this area is now con sumed in the bottle trade as fluid milk. The smaller dairy herds the ones which formerly produced butterfat for creameries and con- densaries have largely disap peared. On these farms are now beef cattle and sheep. livestock dropped to $2442. 75 from $4,045,000 daring the year. Decline In meat prices and in wool is responsible for this decrease. However, reports show that many ef the Clackamas farmers anticipated this decline and liquidated all but choice beef breeding cows before the drop. Sheep were en the in crease. ' , Eggs and poultry accounted for $4,372,000 with forage seed crops $1,500,000, and hay and grain $2,105,000 an increase, over 1951. The total farm Income in Yam hill County during the past year is estimated at $19,061,000. This income is fairly evenly divided be tween the livestock and the crop products, with $9,264,000 on the livestock side and $9,797,000 on the sale of crop products. Blrrest farm item In Yamhill the past year was cereals which brought $3,885,000, with turkeys listed second at $3,100,000 and dairy third with $2,700,000. POT OP GOLD i NEW Golden Jubilee Model Coming Soon l Valley Tractor Go. 3333 Silverton Road Salem, Oregon Tie oaafc 1TJ Rat Draws Money F Runs to Store to By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE ST. LOUIS m Meet a rat that draws money from a bank, and runs to a store to buy cheese. , Given- a choice of a quarter, dime or nickel, he I chooses the Olive Tree Variety f or Valley Sought Just a little more experi menting with olive trees and they may be grown in Willam ette Valley. ' ' One of the new discoveries in connection with this is they they must have some winter chilling to be commercially fruitful. For this reason, Olive trees do not bear too heavily in southern states where the temperature may not fall below 50 to 45 degrees. So far no varieties have been found that will take a tempera ture below 10 degrees above zero. They fruit best if the winter temperature goes down to 30 or a trifle below. The catch, scientists report, is that the valley may not have quite hot enough weather, or long enough warm falls. How ever, that an olive suitable to this climate, may yet be found Is the belief. Brother to Aid Hong Kong Ferry Rider LOS ANGELES (JF) A Los An geles school custodian said Tues day that Michael P. O'Brien, who has been riding a ferry boat be tween. Macao and Hong Kong since September 18 because he has no passport, is. his Tacoma-born brother. Joseph Ragan, 52, said O'Brien was born Steve Ragan in 1906 in Tacoma, Wash. He said he recog nized O'Brien as his brother from news pictures andbto make sure, talked with him on the telephone last Saturday . "I asked him two or three ques tions that nobody but Steve Ragan could answer correctly," Joseph Ragan said. "He gave the right answers About our running away once and about the time I almost drowned in the Puyallup River." He said he has , asked Pierce County authorities In Tacoma to send his his brother's birth certi ficate and requested his brother to send his fingerprints and other vital statistics. "When I get the birth certificate and other information, I'll go to the State Department with them," he added. "I'm going to do all I can to get him off that boat." Joseph Ragan said he test saw his brother in 1928 or 1927. "The last I heard of him: previously he was working for the Standard Oil Co. In Hcng Kong.7 O'Brien or Ragan said he was r r "w V w m n 'V www rw r WE ARE OPEN EVERY SUNDAY, FROM1 9 OPEN DAILY 7:30 A. M. 8 P.M. mwmmmmmummmmmmm9mmwmmmmmm9mmmmwmBmwmmwBmmmmmmmwmBmm9mmmu YOUR PRESCRIPTION STORE WHEN YOU THINK DRUGS THINK SCHAEFER 1899-1952-"H Pays to Trade at SchaeferV PRESCRIPTIONS ACCURATELY FILLED - : : , . ...... ; Everything for the Baby The Original Yellow Front Drug Store SCHAEFER'S 135 1 N. Commercial DEPOSITS MADS ON OR BEFOR0 JAN. 10th EARN INTEREST FROM JAN. It Open your savings account today at First NadonaL There' no subsdtute fot a Bank savings account s Save rcgularlj ever payday I Youll hart money to meet emergencies. ..ready cash to buy the things yoa want andneed. So, open you savings account t at First National, die bank that stays open 10tt j ' six days a week, for your conyeniaoice. - " tSaf stays OPEN 10 TO i SIX DATS A VYKK far your coevealMice j CUXD OZZGON TOGHHST romBank Buy Cheese quarter, which buys five pieces of cheese. The dime or nickle buys only .one. 'The rat does this in the labra tory -of Dr. Loh Seng Tsai, pro fessor of psychology at Tulane Un iversity. The test shows that rats have sense of. value. Dr. Tsal told the American Association for the Ad vancement of . Science. The rats also learn to use tools, as well al coins. ' all indicating a high rata of intelligence. j l . It's the first time, he Isays, thai rats have been shown to be abl to use tools and tokens.1 It's been done with apes and chimpanzees and . other psychologists have trained chimps to useT slot ma-, chines. Now rats, which art cheaper and can be bred j to be all alike, can be used for studies of mental processes and behavior in animals, which in turn can help toward-a better understanding of the whys and wherefores of the human mind. The . smart-money rat works it this way: The rat pulls a chain, to spill coins from a can hanging overhead. The rat picks up a coin in his mduth, runs over t put it on a saucer in exchange. foi cheese. . I , - One rat learned the value of the coins, from getting the bigger re ward by choosing the more valu able coin. ; . " Other rats, have learned to move a miniature car to reach food, use a flying trapeze, or pull a chain to raise a ladder to climb to a hiett shelf. Earlier. Dr. Tsal showed that cats and rats can be trained, te cooperate and live in peace.' N Tuesday he reported that a con. firmed rat-killing cat had learned to live peacably and cooperate with, a rat. The cat lets the rat run out of its cage, then bote push treadles simultaneously .t lower a window to reach' theli common dish of food. This cooperation between so-call ed natural enemies proves there is no such thing as an' instinot for fighting. Dr. Tsai declared. : This means that biologically, there is a basis for world peace, he said. luacleay Grange to See Film Tonight MACLEAY Salem's Naval Ah Facility will show a motion plo ture on the training of a naval aviation cadet for a pilot at th Friday night meeting of the Mae leay Grange. The film, which will be shows by John Toeves, YN2, Is in techni color and was -filmed at Pensacola. Fla., and at the advanced training command at Corpus Christi, Texas. Hubert Aspinwall, grange member, will give a group of yocal selec tions during the lecturer's hour. KLAMATH FALLS IB The annual convention of the Oregon. State Association of .Mounted Posses will be held here Feb. 14. captured Dy tne Japanese m Shanghai in the early 30'sV and held as a prisoner during WorlJ War II. He , said , the Japanesi seized his passport. . . : . .. - - ' A.H. TIL 4 P. M. DRUG STORE Phone 2-5197 OP PORTLAND t4 4. t4 .i . ' l . : 1 -