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HEAVY SNOW PROVES BENEFIT;
STATE CROP PROSPECTS GOOD
FARM NEWS
Butter, Cheese
Storage Stocks
Keep Mounting
Beware Buyers Of Show Farms On
Spring Baby Chix April 5-6 Tour
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- I Itinerary and plans for a two-
Snow which pinguid Oicgon clur- > support to other garins. Not more
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pea,k l ° r l“ k* day tour *• be held in connection
in* much of January and February j than a slight reduction is expected
Th
. . . . .
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y
* ‘i00n wtth the forthcoming market hog
has turned into a blessing for many in the effective parity prices for
The nations cold storage supply at hand, the state department of and carcaa!( , how ,
PortUnd
Oregon farmers.
¡grain crops compiled with 1 SHIP-50. of dairy Products continued a agriculture today called attention AprU 4 and 7> have
announceJ
Ushering in the first day of
The market outlook for most o f downward tiend through March 1,1 o f chick buyers to the importance bv H
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spun* this week, county extension Oregon’s spring-planted seed ctops according to the weekly dairy mar- of taking precautions to protect animai hmha d 8
extension
agents throughout the state «
looks favorable for 1950 as sup- kets review prepared by the OSC their purchase against any possible * Tour o l s e m h I n u
Tour assembly point will be the
ported general crop prospects as j plies are not excessive In relation extension service from USDA re- appearance of Newcastle disease
j courthouse, Hillsboro, at 9:30 a. m.
excellent for this season. A min- j to demands. Ladino clover, red ports and other data. Stocks of
imum of winter klU took pU c. to | clover and alU fescue are especial j butUr and cheese are still very t h f d i v in in ''^ f" mmiYl ln ^ L t°y . ''s ^ n ^ ^ r o d u c T r T ^ W M h in g t o n
fall seeded crops, they said, due ly • promising where conditions for high, being above
J said that 51 . ,
f Newcastle county to be visited include W. T
largely to the unduly heavy snow production are good.
also above average. Other dairy have been officially diagno^d 'in PuTnanTand '
"Farmington
cover.
PaHty prlce. change frcrn t l ^ product, in cold storage as cream. Oregon in the three years since Albert Greener
H illsL^o
and
Possible exception, however, is to time, going up or down with the condensed milk and
evaporated this disease was first Reported Ritchey Bros . Forest Grove. Dur
some tree and trailing cane fruits ind^x of farm cost prices. The new milk are seasonally low, and well bere
ing the afternoon, a visit to the
which stuck up above the snow index includes wages for hired below a year ago
No new cases have been diag- swine barns at OSC is planned.
cover during the sub-zero cold | farm labor, interest, taxes and
Butter stocks on March 1 in cold nosed since February 14, this year.
The following day. April 6 , the
snap Peaches and boysenberries commodities used for production
storage were estimated at 94 mil- But with the spring movement of tour will include stops at Marion
are reported hit by cold weather in and living. At mid-February this
lion pounds. This is over ten times chicks just around the corner each county points. Farmers to be visit-
index stood at 248 per cent of 1910-
some areas of the state.
the amount in storage a year
chick buyer should make sure that ed include Richard Schaeffer a
Livestock came through the wln- 1914, only 2 per cent lower than a
earlier. It Is also over six times the Oregon’s position with respect to 4-H club member, Salem. George
ter with only normal losses being year before
average for March 1 . Most of this N e w c a s t l e continues relatively Kraus, North H ow ell- and F L
reported Spotted hay shortages | With the general index of prices
present supply belongs to the gov- good.
Zielinski, St. Paul
and the OSC
have been made up by trucking in j received by farmers at 237, the ernment or around 82 million
To thig end he |UR(|t| ^
u gwine barna
out-of-county supplies or by sub- national average exchange value
would be well for buyers ( 1 ) to gf*t
Plans for a live hog showing on
atituting protein supplements.
j of farm products was 96 per cent poun s.
Pacific coast butter holdings are their chicks from an Oregon April 4 at the Pacific International
Support prices are an important | 0f parity at mid-February. That is
factor in the outlook for both food 5 per cent lower than a year be- large. Over 4.2 million pounds were hatchery; (2) to take delivery of building in North Portland call for
gralns and feed giains Both wheat fore> mostly owing to a decline of in storage March 1. This compares the chicks in their own cars or judging to be completed during
and corn are to be supported at 7 per cer){ ¡n the general average with about three-fourths of a mil- trucks; (3) or have them delivered the afternoon. Judges announced
lion pounds a year earlier. Over in the hatchery truck. These pie- axe Theodore Clausen, head swine
90 per cent of parity, despite in- (Gf p. ices received by farmer*,
half of the present stocks are in cautions will help avoid some of buyer. Swift and Co., Portland;
creasing suipluses. This will give ___ _ _
cold storage plants in California, the hazards of the disease.
Harold Flagg, hog salesman, Ben-
a little less than a third are in
Knickerbocker pointed out that 1 son Commission company, Port-
Oregon, and the balance in W ash -jthe quarantine me, hod 0f control land: and 4 °« B.
Johnson, OSC
lngton
I is no longer being Imposed on animaI husbandry department staff
The big four markets, New York ' Newcastle disease outbreaks in this member
Chlcago, Philadelphia and Boston state, and that use of live virus
Carcasses will be on exhibit at
showed » slight increase in storage vaccine is controlled by the de the Swift and Company plant,
I Results of the 1950 certified seed holdings last week. Also the total
North Portland, the afternoon of
of a« agriculture
on a a per-
potato tests have gone out from holdinifs of , tolalie b u tte r in the partment
W“ P“ 1 ol
r,c,J,lure on
f,er‘ April 7 starting at 1:30. Professor
| ,he office of the Washington coun- 35 cltle9 of the nation have showed nilt bas,s AI1 applications for per-
mits should be addressed to the A. W. Oliver. OSC is in charge of
ty agent, listing all varies and per- an upwald turn
department headquarters at Salem. the carcass show.
centage of diseases.
The nation’s reserve supply of
Tour
members, according to
No requirements are imposed on
For certification, a potato grow- cheese on March 1 totaled about
Lindgren, will see equipment, swine
the use of dead virus vaccine.
er digs up 20 hills at random, dur- j 350 million pounds. This is about
pastures, and management prac
Susceptible baby chicks three to
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lng the growing season. Part of 35 j^rcent above last year at this
tices as well as animals.
six
weeks
of
age
may
be
vaccinated
these are sent to Oregon State time. Also it is around 56 percent
College greenhouse and the rest , abOVe the five year average The with live-virus vaccine to immu
to Oceanside, California for test government supply of cheese is not nize them against the disease in
Conveniently Located . . .
plot planting.
so large as butter, and totaled those cases where a permit to use
These sample lots are checked around 20 million
pounds on the vaccine has first been secured.
W EST END
On
during growth until they reach March 1 .
In connection with the preven
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OOD B R ID G E
maturity. Readings are made fot
On the west coast cheese cold tion and control of Newcastle dis
Watson
the following diseases: mosaic, leaf storage holdings March 1 totaled ease in Oregon. Knickerbocker
CREMATORIUM
roll and others. Percentage of sam a little more than butter holdings calls attention to the bulletin or.
Street
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ple seed potatoes which are disease or around 4.3 million pounds. Cal this subject (Circular of Informa
Across
infected is determined to give ifornia has the larger supply of tion 473) prepared by Dr. ,E. M.
CEMETERY
comparable ratings.
From
around 2.2 million pounds. Oregon Dickinson of state college experl- ' nm plete F u n eral S ervice in New
In the final tabulation, potatoes holdings are second at 1.8 million ment station and now available
C athedral Chapel at N o Extra Cost
are listed in the foundation class, pounds, while Washington has less 1 through the college or county Riverside la a cooperative assocl
eligible
for
certified
class
and
the
Telephone
ttion with assets of over $800,000
than one-fourth of a million pounds. | agents.
not eligible for certification class.
Since
the
flrsi
of
March
cold
O ffice
TUBE TES TIN G ...
Test plot readings are checked
storage holdings of cheese have
closely with field results. In a wim
continued downward at most ma- i
ple
as
small
as
necessitated
by
the
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Jor centers. However cheese pro- j
test plots, there Is always a pos
duct ion is continuing its upwaid
sibility of variation.
tiend. The nation's weekly produc
Washington county groweis who
tion of cheese has been iunning
participated In the seed potato
well above the five year average
certification were Ernest Ham-
109 W atson Street
weekly production, but has been
bach, Lets Brothers, Henry Steen
under a year ago.
and Bill Tolke.
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Wage Earners In
Oregon Received
$65 Wk. Average
Oregon's production workers re
ceived an average weekly pay
check of $65.86 during the final
11 quarter of 1949, according to the
! State Unemployment Compensa- i
tion Commission and the V. 3 j
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About 400 representative man
ufacturers In all parts of the state
are reporting employment and pay j
rolls each month in building up I
the new earnings figures. An aver- 1
age working week of nearly 39
houi s at $1 69 an hour was shown
1 1 by th e s e reports.
Orgeon's average is second high- |
est among 27 states now reporting
| in co-operation with the U. S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Wyom
ing, with a work week of over 41
, hours reported $ 68 . although the
hourly rate was only $1 64 Wash
ington was third, Just under $65.
j California followed at less than
$62. while the average for report
ing states was $55 47.
Although printing and publtsh-
. ing led all manufacturing groups
with an average of over $75($79 for
mid December), most of this state's
high figure was ascribed to lumber
| and logging, which with earnings
Just over $70 a week, represent*
about 60 per cent of Oregon's 125.-
000 production workers. This com
pared with an average of $66.85
for noithern sawmill and logging
workers and $37.02 for those in
the south.
Oregon cannery employes aver
aged $4.1.91 a week in November.
$2 58 above the national figure,
hut considerably lower than the
$62 91 reported for other food pro
cessors hers.
Those working in durable goods
received an average of $68 02 in
November, about $10 above the
' V. S. average, while those in non
durable* were paid $56.22, about
$4 above the general figure.
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