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Page 12 Eugene Register-Guard, Wednesday, March 21, 1915 Surpluses Bogey Forestalled Increase In Production (Ed. Note: This ! the second of lour articles delving into that imminent food shortage and ex plaining the events leading up to the looming crisis.) By OVID A. MARTIN Aiowinteri Press Farm Writer WASHINGTON W) Last summer and laU some ainea mili tary leaders were saying that the war in Europe could end by Christmas. Tha cmvpmment besan to cut back production of war materials and arrange lor a graouai tun version to peacetime production. War food administration (WFA) officials haunted by the fear of farm surpluses, agriculture's troublemakers of the thirties fol lowed suit. They believed that if Germany were defeated in 1944 much less food would be needed to meet military and lend-lease require ments in 1945. Meat production was declining because of a severe feed shortage the first eight months of 1944. But bountiful harvests largely replen ished feed supplies by the fall of that year. Fear Surplus Fearing surpluses, the WFA made no effort to bring about a substantial revival In meat pro ductionwhich a return of plen tiful feed supplies would have made possible. The agency kept in force the reduced price guaran tees for hogs which it established earlier when feed became scarce and livestock liquidation became necessary. Had food officials planned last September with the idea that the European war could continue well into 1945, they undoubtedly would have raised the hog price guaran tee. This would have encouraged higher production late in 1944 and through 1945. f As it Is, millions of bushels of grain now stand unused because there ore no animals to feed. When It became apparent that there was to be no early end to the European fighting, It was too late to do anything which would have brought more pork to mar ket before the winter of 1945-46. More Beef Only beef production is likely to be greater this year than last. But greatly reduced supplies of j pork, lamb, mutton and poultry I make beef all the harder to get. 1 - Cattlemen contend that beef i production could be even larger i than now indicated, but that price I control and other regulations hinder production. They say that the spread between prices which "feed lot" operators must pay for tinfattened cattle obtained from western ranges, and the prices which they get from packeni for fattened cattle, has been too nar row. They say this discourages the feeding of cattle to heavy weights and quality grades. Many cattle go to market thin and underweight. This deprives the nation of 300 to 600 pounds of extra beef per head. III E,S Official concern over possible surpluses is reflected in poultry and egg production, too. Last fall, when end of the European conflict appeared to some .to be near at hand, WFA called upon farmers to reduce egg-laying flocks and in ttlun fniun. ,hlrlrfin fni mat in 1945. 1 WFA was Influenced also by unhappy experiences it had with an egg surplus in the spring of 1D44. More eggs were produced then than the market could ab sorb or storage houses hold. Pro ducer prices dropped sharply. This forced the government to step in and buy eggs in order to carry out a price guarantee and prevent great waste. Even so, some of the eggs rotted. Civilians could get all the meat they wanted then and consequent ly tended to eat fewer eggs. Now the situation has reversed. There U a shortage of meats and civilians are demanding more eggs as a substitute for meats. Smaller Output Yet this year's output of both eggs and poultry meat will be smaller than in 1944. WFA efforts to revive production came a little late. Some WFA officials expect a severe egg shortage next fall and winter. This expectation is based upon reports of widespread sales of laying hens for meat and upon prospects that fewer eggs will move into cold storage this spring. ! The same policies and feed grain developments which caused the pork glut In 1944 have con tributed to a tightening of cooking fats and shortening. The butter shortage appears perplexing when milk production is being maintained at record levels. The exnlanation is simnle. Government price policies tend to ! encourage putting milk into dairy products other than butter chiefly bottled milk, evaporated milk, dried milk and cheese. Labor Short Food production is being ad versely affected by many other factors. The farm labor supply is the smallest in nearly 40 years. Farmers have not been able to get anywhere near the farm ma chinery needed. Fertilizers have not been plentiful. Shortage of rail and truck transportation has often interfered with movement of feed to livestock producers. A recent agriculture depart ment report said that only 65 per cent of the nation's milk cows were being milked on March 1. This is the lowest percentage for that date since 1934 and the sec ond lowest in 17 years. New Skyhook Logs Timber From Air PORTLAND "Is there a real skyhook?" Yes, there is, and the answer to that long-awaited and much-advertised question is being demonstrated daily by the Pointer - Willamette company, which developed and tested the new high-line logging device near Portland. The overhead logging machine, suspended from cables several hundred feet above the low point of a canyon on the north fork of the Molalla river, is operated by a veteran logger who conceived the idea. Phil Grabinskl rides in the cab of the skyhook, with control levers which make the affair seem like a sky-riding donkey engine. Six years of development work by the designers and Pointer-Willamette engineers have gone into the new departure. Lifts Loads Of 30 Tons Hanging from a four-wheel car riage which runs over tramway cables two inches in diameter, the skyhook lifts logs 64 feet long, and loads weighing 30 tons. Efforts are now being made to cut the ma chine's weight to six tons and to speed its rate of climb. Advantages claimed for the sky hook include: the elimination of expensive logging roads, costing from $6,000 to $10,000 per mile, also saving trucks, trailers and truck tires; the saving of man power, rigging and heavy equip ment; safety factors, such as the absence of moving lines to strike sparks and start forest fires. Tramway cables for the skyhook are suspended from tall trees fitted with guy wires to keep them from swaying. The moving machine can be propelled in either direction by an additional set of cables. The skyhook literally pulls itself along by its "own bootstraps," the 10 ton demonstration model having sufficient power to pull itself and a cargo of logs up a 50 per cent grade. Easy Mobility This extraordinary traction Is achieved through a system of power-driven sheaves which grip the traction cables and revolve, Tricycles Stolen From Small Boys During Nap The Charles Martins, who live at 1157 High street, have had more than their share of brushes with "meanest" thieves. Last Christmastime, someone stole the lights and other decor ations from their yard. But that was mild compared to what some other "human being" did Monday afternoon. While the Martins' two boys, Larry 5, and Lyman, 3, were tak ing their afternoon nap, some one stole their two tricycles, which were parked in front of the house waiting for their small rid ers. The trikes are fairly new and sturdy, although, because they have been ridden so much, they show some signs of wear. The two little boys have spent a couple of pretty empty days, without their playthings they practically lived on the tricycles. When they first came to Eugene a while back, they were almost lost until the tricycles arrived from their former home in Madi son, Wis. When the wheels came, they immediately found new little playmates in the block and had a big time. v But now they're trying hard not to be lonely again, and their mom and dad are hoping some one will find their triafvcles and bring them home. The Martins' phone number is 1344J. Wonders Of Aluminum Hold Investigating Solons' Eyes By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN I guess maybe your hand wouldn't United Press Staff Correspondent get so tired shaking 'em. The same WASHINGTON UPJ Here we general situation probably obtains go again, friends. The subject is in connection with aluminum col- Aluminum, Wonders Of. sucn as lar ouiions. Sen. James E. Murray of Montana swinslne an aluminum baseball bat and Sen. Allen J. Ellcnder of Louisiana ducking same. Nobody aot hit. The senators merely were investigating I Why weight down your neck with one of those old, heavy, brass collar buttons when you can have a fine, lightweight collar button from the aluminum corporation? When Wilson got his samples products produced and hauled to I spread out, the chamber looked the senate caucus room by the like a country fair. His assistants Aluminum Company of America. These included a fireman's hat, a stepladder, a fishing reel, a shovel, a beer barrel, a mint julep glass, used an assortment of aluminum castings for footstools, while Sen. George A. (no relation) Wilson of Iowa examined a string of alum- a window sciten, two knitting , inum beads. The senators made ii 1 1 i , 1 tin thn snecial committee survev- wlth the result that the vehicle moves with surprising speed. A crew of four men, operating the skyhook in demonstrations, claim to have taken logs down a hillside faster than ever before. A quarter-million feet of logs is said to have been moved down a steep hillside in 20 hours of actual working time. Inaccessible timber can be logged with the skyhook, and logs carried above the ground are not splintered or broken, and do not beat down, standing trees. The machine can be moved on the ground to new locations under its own power by mounting tires on the same sheaves used to propel the vehicle. R. W. Pointer, owner-manager of the Pointer-Willamette com pany, believes the skyhook may eventually be used in bridge con struction, mining, gravel pit oper ations, ship unloading and in placing and pouring concrete in dams. needles, a collar button and pair of dice. I. W. Wilson of Pittsburgh, vice-president in charge of oper ations for the aluminum company, also brought along his aluminum chair, but he didn't sit in it. He used one of the senate's old fashioned wooden chairs and de scribed at length (20 pages of typescript, to be exact) the future of aluminum in tomorrow's brave new world. Aluminum Dice While he talked, he fondled those dice, and I got to wonder- up the special committee survey. ing small business after the war. Aluminum-Man Wilson told 'em there were at least 2,000 articles that could be made better of aluminum than anything else. His tinkering with his own aluminum dice somehow seemed symbolic; neither he nor the sen ators had any idea what the gov ernment would do with its de luxe new aluminum factories, includ ing one which is 12 minutes by taxlcab from Grand Central sta tion in New York. Sen. Murray observed that cop- dldnt like the Idea of Wilson's concern stringing aluminum elec tric wires across the Montana landscape. (That actually hap- "Wo mprolv luflnlaJ . .. - j ..u..lvU i'lui i itinH to have the best transmission lines that could be huilt." WiUnn - tered. 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