JACKSON COUNTY FARM NOTES
Compiled by County Office O. S. C. Extension Service
General Food Report
For Year By OWI
v Another report on the over
all situation for the year has
been issued by the Office of
War Information working in
cooperation with the War Food
Administration and the office
of Price Administration. Some
excerpts from this report have
already appeared in the press
and on the radio. Here are
some other excerpts from the
report which appear to have
particular application to Ore
, gon.
The meat situation is dealt
with at considerable length in
the full report. The abundance
of feed a few years ago and
other conditions brought about
an increase in production of
livestock to a point where the
country now has the greatest
number of livestock ever
known. This condition cannot
be expected to last very long,
the report says, because there
is not enough feed to support
the record numbers of live-
stock and poultry we now have
oo hand. The inevitable result
is that cattle need to be mar
keted in increasing numbers.
Chickens and hogs will need to
be reduced to bring them into
proper balance with the feed
supply.
The effect of the ymlted feed
supply on hog marketing has al
rsady been felt in the increase
offerings and the reduction of
pork rationing to zero point
values. The taxing of storage
and export shipping facilities
to the limit also helped bring
the point-free situation. The
prediction is made that zero
point values on pork will prob
ably continue for the next sev
eral months.
Production of beef cattle
goes in long-term cycles, the re
port continues. The number of
cattle on farms has now been
increasing since 1938, reaching
an all-time high of 82 million
head. Cattle marketing usually
go up in the last half of the
year. This fact, coupled with
the unusually pressing need to
market large numbers of beef
cattle, means that Americans
will probably get enough beef
cattle to market this year to
check the upward trend in num
bers, on the ranges. The pre
diction is made, however, that
the beef most people will be
eating will consist to a greater
degree than usual of the popu
lar cuts and the lower grades.
One general statement made
is that, owing to wartime increase-
of income and food, mil
lions vt Americans have found
it possible to increase their
diets; thus, what have been
loosely termed shortages are
shortages only in relation to
greatly Increased purchasing
power.
Turkey Supplies Estimated
Same as Last Year
American civilians are ex
pected to get about the same
quantity of turkeys in the com
ing year as they got this year,
the War Food Administration
announces this in spite of the
fact that present estimates are
for some increase in production
In 1944 over 1943. The re
quirements for the armed forces
will exceed 35 million pounds
used in 1943. An estimated 8.8
SUGAR STAMPS
GOOD INDEFINITELY
Tirtvrrtt
million pounds of hen turkeys
are now being purchased by
the government as fast as they
come onto the market. Plans
call for the remainder to be ob
tained through operation of an
embargo order when 1944 birds
are ready for market.
Some of the earlier indicated
increase in total production is
now being offset by the feed
situation, the report adds.
Growers who had intended
making a considerable increase
are reported to have reduced
the number of late poults.
R. G. FOWLER,
County Agent.
Apple and Peach
Thinning Due Soon
Thinning of peaches and ap
ples should be done in the near
future for best results. The na
tural drop on apples has been
largely completed, but. some
drop will still occur on peaches.
Those that are going to drop
can be told, however, as they
are slightly smaller in size.
. It requires twenty-five to
thirty leaves to produce one
fruit and that is the best guide
as to how much to thin. On
peaches where the crop is uni
formly good, this amounts to
about one peach on every shoot
of less than twelve Inches and
one more peach for each addi
tional six inches of growth.
Where foliage is heavy a few
more can be left, but if foliage
is sparse, it may be desirable
to leave fewer. Where the crop
is light it is necessary only to
break up the worst clusters, but
if two peaches are growing on
opposite sides of a shoot, they
will both develop into good
peaches.
For apples, the fruits should
be thinned to four to six inches
apart depending uniformity of
crop and and density of foliage.
Too little thinning is common
especially with inexperienced
thinners.
Homeowners, with only one
or two apple trees that over
bear one year and fail the next
can get relief by radical thin
ning of one tree or part of one
tree. If practically all apples
are removed from a tree or a
single limb of a tree, that tree
or limb will set a full crop of
blossoms for the next year. In
future years then, part of the
tree will bear one year and the
other part will bear the follow
year. This will continue until
a frost or some other occur
rence causes a crop failure.
Halfway thinning will not ac
complish this. The tree must be
thinned so that not to exceed
one-third of a crop remains on
the tree. In another week it
will be too late to obtain this
result.
C. B. CORDY,
Assistant County Agent.
Livestock
Portland, Ore., June 8 (UP) Live.
stock:
Cattle, 160; calves 35. Very slow.
Few sales steady. Common -medium
grass steers, 10.00 a 12.00; cutters
down to $7.50; cu tiers -medl'tm heif
ers, 7.60a 11.25; canners-cutter cows,
$6.00'ff660; good beef cows to 911.00;
common medium bulls, 7.50(3 9.36;
good heavy beef bulls up to 10.35;
good-choice vealers, 14.60 16.60.
Hogs. 300. Practically no early sales.
Nominal. Pew good choice 320 lbs..
913.73; light lights salable 10.00a
1 1 .00; good sows, 08.00 m 8.S0: sood-
cholce feeder pigs, 8 60 a 9.50.
Sheep, 300. Oood-cholc snrlnff
lambs aalable steady at 13.60a 14.00;
common shorn lambs, 97.009 7.50;
good ewes, 94.00; common, 2.36$3-60.
BsneHictine-Monastery Ruins
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A lone soldier surveys the ruins of what was once the St Benedictine Monastery high over the town of Cas
slno. newly captured by Allies. The monastery had been used by the Germans as a means of fortification
against the advanclns Allied armies. The monastery and town were taken simultaneously by Allied soldi era.
Sisnal Corns radlo-talanhoto.
head medium to good 700-800-lb
feeder steers, 11.50 .7 12.50; half load
common 820-lb., 69.00; half load me
dium 740-lb. feeder heifers, SI 1.50;
mostly clean-up trade; canner and
cutter cows, se.OOt 8.00.
Calves, 15. Steady. Few good vealers,
913.0014.00.
Hogs, 650. Steady. Pew loads good
to choice 180-270-lb. barrows and
gilts. 914.75; good sows. 99.50.
Sheep. 1450. Choice lambs scarce.
Over 80-lb. quoted 914.00? 15.00; sev
eral loads medium to good offered,
salesmen now showing; shorn ewes
quoted 94.50 down.
Portland Produce
Portland, June 8 (DP) Wholesale
market prices:
Asparaaua Northwest 30-325, 1435;
No. 3, 3J5 pyramid.
Cabage Local green, round. 93.00.
Corn California Golden Bantam,
95.00(3 6.35.
Onions Green, 90c $1.00.
Rhubarb Local field, 15s, 75c; 80s,
9150 box.
Spinach Local. 91-35 orange box.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, June 8 (UP) Wheat:
Open High Low close
July 60, 1.6CH, S159H H.SB'j
Sept. 1.5714 1.5814 1-STu l.74
Dec. ... 1.674 1.581,, 1.57 !i 1.67 ft
May 1.584 1.59V, 1.68', 1.58?,
Each of these made new htehs
for the year. Nash-Xlvinator
and Hupp eaualed their highs.
Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
Amer. Tel. & Tel. 160
Anaconda 25
Chrysler 88H
Curtiss Wright .. 43i
General Electric 36
General Motors 60
Montgomery Ward unquoted
Penn. R. R 28V4
Phillips Petroleum 44
J. C. Penney 100
Radio 9
Southern Pacific 28V4
Standard Oil of Calif 37
Texas Gulf Sulphur unquoted
Transameriea . 9
United Aircrafts 2634
U. S. Rubber 47V4
U. S. Steel 51's
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, June 8 (U.R)
Dairy market:
Butter: 93 score 43, 92 score
42 '4, 90 score 42Vi, 89 score
41?i.
Cheese: Wholesale prices,
loaf 27.9. triplets 27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A 36-37,
medium grade A 30-3 Hi. small
grade A 21-23',-j, large grade B
29-30.
Cm Mall Tribune Want Ads.
Wall Street
New York, June 8 (U.PJ
Stocks declined irregularly to
day on slightly increased vol
ume with the low-pr.ced auto
mobile shares making up the
bulk of the business transacted.
Packard, top issue in turn
over in the previous three ses
sions, again made that position
with Willys-Overland second.1
Schilling
Coffee
chilling flavor is
always reliable
Pedersen Designs
Mount for Camera
T Sgt. Willard W. Pedersen of
Medford has designed a camera
mount for use by reconnaissance
units which has been accepted
by the Brmy, according to word
received by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. G. Pedersen, Rt. 4, Box
136-A. As the result of this, Sgt.
Pedersen was named section
chief of an aeronautics photog
raphy unit and has been sent to
Ft. Meyer, Fla., for five weeks
of special training.
Sgt. Pedersen has been in the
army about two and one-half
years.
COM COULDN'T WAIT
San Quentin. Cal., Juno 8
(U.R) Albert Montellano, 23, who
was, scheduled to be paroled
from Folsom prison next Satur
day, escaped from a prison har
vest camp at Grldley, Cal., last
night, prison officials reported
Thursday. Mutt 8, 1944 MEDFORD MML TRIBUNE THREE
today. Montellano had been con
victed of second degree robbery.
He was missing at the midnight
check.
Private Service
For John M. Hix
Hollywood, June 8 (UP.)
Private Forest Lawn Memorial
park services were scheduled
today for John M. Hix, 36, cre
ator of a cartoon feature,
"Strange as It Seems."
Hix' death, was from a heart
attack, the coroner's office re
ported, and injuries suffered
when he fell and gashed his
head were only contributory
causes.
Practically all power cranes
and shovels produced in 1944
will be needed by the armed
services, according to War Pro
duction Board.
ELLSWORTH G. ROBERTS
SUMMONED BY DEATH
Ellsworth George Roberts, a
resident of Modford for 61 years,
passed away at a local hospital
June 7, after a brief illness. He
had been manRger of the stables
for the Sheriff's Posse for the
past three years and looked after
their horses.
A complete obituary will be
published later, and time of the
funeral will be published upon
word from his son, In the United
States army. Perl Funeral Home
is in charge. .
BIRTHS
BATEMAN To Mr. and Mrs.
C h a r 1 e s, Jacksonville Star
Route, Box 118, June 7, 1944,
a girl, nine pounds, at Commun
ity hospital.
GRATITUDE
D-Day was the most critical day of our genera
tion. We are deeply indebted to the press, radio
and news-reels which, since the beginning of the
invasion, have kept us fully informed as to the
movements of the allied forces.
This, the greatest achievement in the gathering
and dissemination of information ever recorded,
makes us realize what our men faced when they
landed, and more fully understand the debt of
our obligation as individuals and organizations
in backing up our armed forces.
Our prayers are with all who are participating
in the liberation of Europe, and our sympathy
goes out to the families of those who have made
the supreme sacrifice.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Chlcaio. June 8 (UP1 IWPA1
Livestock :
Hon, 13.000. Slow, ateadv. Good and
choice 180-330 lbs.. (11.800 13.75:
350-S5O-IO. o lower at tlOAOg
10.75; approximately 30.000 unsold.
tattle. 4uoo: calvea. 700. BulK atcera
and yearling. SU.OOA 16.75: top,
11 mu; oeet lonff yearnnge, aiT.ou:
heifers bulk, 813.0015.50; reavy fat
bulls, (14.35 and better.
Sheep. 1000. One loai good and
choice Colorado wooled lamba held
above (18.00; few native springers held
above (15.50.
South San PYanclaco. June 8 (UP)
(USDA) Livestock:
Cattle. 100. Holdovers, 100. Desirable
tradea absent. Load canner steera.
(8.00 to - ktllera; atocker and feeder
steers dull, weak to lower. About AO
f vil!
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