SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 nearly 25 per cent in the number of hogs this year, corn has been used at a faster rate than it is be­ ing produced Unless substitute feeds are found, next year will see a shortage of corn for feeding pur­ poses If the transportation prob­ lem of moving some 25.MM1.OOO bushels of wheat from th« produc­ ing areas to the stock-raising re­ gions can be solved, this would go a long way toward relieving the feed outlook. Output of meat, milk, and eggs is sure to remain high Farmers arc raising 20.000.000 more hogs than they did last year The n- crease is close lo 25 per cent The number of laying hens has in­ creased 14 per cent, and egg pro­ duction during tne first seven months was at a new peak, with 100 eggs per layer. Milk produc lion has also established a new rec­ ord due to the number of milk co1 s as well as unusually good pasturex and ample feed. Farm Income Up. Abeve map indicates business conditions throughout the country as analysed in the article appearing herewith. and 23 per cent greater than the average during the period from 1934 through 1939 This large out­ put was produced without a corre­ sponding increase in the number of acres used. Yields per acre have been 6 per cent higher than in any previous year, and about 28 per cent higher than the average. They indicate not only favorable growing conditions, but also better farm engineering and manage­ ment, greater attention to soil building and conservation, more in­ tensive farming and superior meth­ ods of cultivation, as well as bet­ ter selection of seed. Many Striking Gains. Farm products of which the pro­ duction goals are being reached or surpassed, include cattle, hogs, milk, eggs, and many of the impor­ tant vegetable-oil crops. Most striking gains have been made in fruits, soybeans, peanuts, flaxseed, barley, rice, sugar beets, and can­ ning vegetables. Some of these crops are 50 per cent larger than last year. More cattle are on farms and ranches than ever before, with much of the increase in feeder cat­ tle throughout the great central plains of the West and Middle West. Pastures have been in excellent condition in most of the country. The hay crop has been far above average, even though some of it has been damaged by rains and by delays in harvesting because labor was scarce. The feed situation is the least encouraging side of the farm pic- of larger ture. As a consequence _ herds of cattle and an increase of While farmers have been t'oing their part in the war effort by pr .. ducing, these larger quantities ot foods and other products that nr» urgently needed, they have also i t- creased their incomes Mom.il- cash income received by farmers has averaged about 40 per cent higher than it was last year. In­ come from livestock and livestock products has increased slight).- more than income from crops. A substantia) part of tills additionxl income must be paid out In . i- creased cost of labor and mater .- als. but the net income remain- higher than it has been for man.* years. Production goals for next year are being set even higher than th-.- were this year, and fanners ti« preparing to meet them Farmer are determined to do their best m supplying the much larger f^ud rt quirements of civilian consume*, and the military forces both h—- and abroad, as well as the gr- ’-» needs of other countries which Ge pend on us. Retail trade in rural areas rc mains high, but the volume ha been reduced by curtailment of p * duction of certain consumer a* * cles. This is a condition which w > be aggravated with the passing of the months as more and mor.- items go off the market, Howevc serious shortages of essential con sumer articles are not exjicctea and the small town and rural re- taller can anticipate a steady vol ume of business on these items. Manufacturing continues to turi more and more to war production with 50 per cent of all output con sisting of materials and munition of war The national Industrie payroll index has risen to 194 an. indications are that wages will con tinue to rise gradually as the term of war production is increased HOME FROM HOSPITAL GO TO GRANDE RON DE By L. G. ELLIOTT President, I* Salle Extension Unirersilv. 9 per cent more than it was in 1941 American farmers have met the ■hallenge and have won a major ictory on the important food pro­ motion front They are harvesting he largest crops they have ever produced, as well as turning out the argest amounts of dairy, livestock ind poultry products. They have ichieved these results in spite of abor shortages, some unfavorable leather in some parts of the coun- xy, and other difficulties. Much of the credit for the splen­ did showing of the American farm- rr in meeting emergency demands, iclongs to the wives, daughters, «nd young sons of farmers who ork side by side with the men in rie fields. The sight of farm wives, ;een-age girls, and schoolboys iriving tractors, planting, cultivat­ ing and harvesting the vital crops Has been no novelty on the farms ■f America during the past season. An important contributing factor, if course, is the high degree of mechanization which farms have ittained this year. Every farmer nade a special effort the early part if the year to put his farm ma- .•hinery in topnotch condition, and every piece of farm machinery saw double duty this year. High Goals Reached. Even the very high production goals which were set this year have been surpassed in many lines. In those places where the goals were not quite reached output has been much higher than it was a year ago and, in most cases, higher than ever before. Farmers can justly be uroud of what they have accom- >lished in the face of handicaps. Total production of food will be Charles Rugg of Siskiyou re­ turned Friday from Roseburg where he spent a month in the veterans' hospital. He stated that he was greatly improved and re­ turned hörne feeling fine. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kerns left early this week for Grande Ronde, Yamhill county, where Mr, Kerns has been employed to teach in the grade school. Their son John took them in his car, expecting to return to Ashland VISIT POKT1.ANI) after helping them to get settled Miss Florence Allen and Miss in their new home. Alta Norcross left Monday night for Portland where they will stay a couple of days and return RETURNS FROM VACATION Mrs. Ivor Erwin and daughter to Ashland with Miss Edith Bork who has spent her vacation at Marilee, were Portland visitros her brother’s farm near Mon- the past week. Mrs. Erwin re­ turned home Monday but Marilee mouth. did not have her visit out so re- mained for another week. VACATIONS AT HOME ------------- •------------- Don Hinthome is spending his The average motorist puts 8.- annual vacation from bank duties 000 miles on his car in a peacetime at home this week. year. First vending machine without CHEAP printing is expensive. Have your work done BIGHT at plungers to sell penny gum was the Home of Better Printing------ made in Rochester, N. Y., in i 1897. Miner office. ujomtn ----- •----- BY JANE1 CURIÍB WOMAN of the WEEK: By the time you read this, June Sprau may again be on the high seas, bound this time for duty as a Red Cross ambulance driver. Only a few weeks ago she was enroute here from Hawaii as a U. S. army matron in charge of 11 alien pris­ oners, all women. There weft six Japanese and five Germans, and it was June’s duty to see that no one jumjed overboard. Before that she was a governess on the islands and watched the attack on Pearl Harbor from her employer’s house while the bullets whizzed past her head. Now 27, June is a native of Muskegon, Mich. When she was little she wanted to be a boy so she could travel. Since then her adventures have included traveling around the world several times, hitchhiking all over this country and flying to South America in a plane of questionable age and safety. Commissioned: I A general felt like applauding, their director was “proud," as all but eight of the original group of 444 WAAC offi­ cer candidates received their com­ missions at Fort Des Moines . . . But no one was more pleased than Representative Edith Nourse Rog­ ers, who delivered the commence­ ment address and whose earlier insistence on the need for such a corps was based on her own ex­ periences in World War I. "BUT HEROES”: An Illinois girl with the Army Nurses corps in the Southwest Pacific recently told. In a letter to her mother, of the heroism of the boys wounded in the Solomon islands battle . . . The question most of them asked first was how to send a letter home . . . They were just "kids,” she said, “but what heroes!” WAVES LAUNCHED: Reveille for the WAVES now attending the indoctrination school at North­ ampton .Mass., will be sounded by a gong instead of a bugle . . . Asked why women who will do shore duty must know about boats, the commandant of the school, Capt. Herbert W. Underwood, ex­ plained that the navy’s women must be able to “hold their own conversationally” . . . When the present officer candidates finish their training (their commissions are provisional, you know,) they will be accorded a very special privilege. They will be permitted to wrte a letter of criticism to the navy department , Bom in Jap Camp Mrs. Regina Owens is shown with her four-month-old daughter, Keginia Madeline Jeanette, aboard he 88 Gripsholm, "diplomat ship." Die baby was born in a Japanese nternment camp in Hong Kong. Mrs. Owens’ home is in Elizabeth- own, Pa. I ‘Must Whip Japs’ TODAY and TOMORROW Dy DON ROBINSON JAIL. possiblUtie». rm anyone wuu is linen..», vu u< | spuming me wiucet m a wu.ui jnii . uieie u.e .ui outline iiuiuia .« in I now miiiioua loi uiiaiiging such a I aujuuiu. regulations ftoni Washington, wme.i u violated involve Jan sen- lenues and siauoie lutes, nave Oven issued so tmcK and last iateiy mat a peison needs me constuni cutu- puiuonsmp oi a good lawyer to avoid las.willing an alleged criminal or a traitor to his countiy. In many ways it resemules the New lot a cuy paraing icguiu lions, wneieby u Oliver, n he pants at an, sianus a 9 b per cent cnanci ox ending up wun u paining tica et. On many stieets there aie no signs to wain tne perpiexeu motor­ ist, and tne best auvice ue cun get num people on Uie street is, ''kun can piouuuiy get away Wiui it u you parx mere a wolle.” Then may oe a couple of old lime taxi driveis who anow wuttt a wli». about parking, but to me great majority, paining anywhere at un is uiviting a lint. bi nil la ny, tne new regulations from Wusmnglon, published on the inside pages ot some of tne news papeis, have not been digested by moat uf us and anyone may un- witllingly be commuting some hei­ nous ciime even without venturuig out from the security of his own m .side. VIOLATIONS ............... willful There have been many arrests and convictions for violating new government regulations, but so far, as far as 1 can determine, those who have been jailed or fined were well aware of the fact that they were "trying to get away Will! something." Industrial concerns which have violated priority regulations were undoubtedly aware of the regula­ tions which applied to their indus­ tries. Women who have been arrested for making false reports on the amount of sugar they had hidden away in their attics, knew they were making false reports. Tire dealers who have sold tires to people who had no fight to have them knew that they were carry­ ing on a form of bootlegging which was both against the law and un­ patriotic. Gasoline dealers in the East who sold gasoline without collecting ra­ tioning tickets were well aware of the possible consequences There may be a lot of regula­ tions which we don't know about, but so far it seems hecessary to commit a willful violation in order be assured of quarters in the win­ ter resort with the iron bars. I SO NOTES Companies A and D of the 331st engineers, located on 9th and C avenue at Camp Wmte, are badly In need of equipment of all kinds for their day rooms, such equip­ ment as books, games, tables, chairs bridge lamps, ping-pong table, old radio or phonograpn, etc. Contact Sgt. Herman T. Niehaus, Coast A 3b 1st engineers. » » ISSESH B udget ANSWERS I—Msactte bar. Í—Altar mi« war. s—s.ooe