JACKSON COUNTY FARM NOTES
Compiled by County Office O. S. C. Extension Serito
County Farm
Planning Conference
Committees working on vari
ous phases of agriculture have
about completed their work and
will be ready to report to the
general meeting to be held at
the USO, Medford, February 5,
at 10 a. m.
These committees are made up
of farm men and women from
practically every section oi the
county and consist of farm crops,
horticulture, livestock, dairying,
poultry, land use and farm home
and rural life. They have been
seeking the answers to the ques
tion of what Jackson county
farms can produce and market
to the best advantage during the
peacetime years ahead.
All farmers and their wives
are Invited to attend this meet
ing on February 5, and join in
the discussion of the committee
reports.
Milk Situation
Against Butter
Increased demand for fluid
milk and cream added to a price
structure that favors marketing
these rather than cream for man
ufacturing purposes, are factors
chiefly responsible for acute
market shortages of butter and
cheese despite record production
of milk on farms.
The high purchasing power of
the public, together with the re
turn of large numbers of service
men, have brought a sharp in
crease in demand for dairy prod
ucts, especially fluid milk and
cream. All restrictions were re
moved on the consumption of
fluid milk and cream some
months ago.
In a special study of 66 repre
sentative cities of the United
States, the Production and Mar
keting administration found that
sales of fluid milk in September
were eight per cent larger than
In September 1044, while sales
of cream were 53 per cent larger.
Child's Colds
rsr wicks
Time Tustwt " Va rr-r..-
This increase in consumption of
fluid milk and cream was most
pronounced in the extreme east
ern portion of the V. S. This has
resulted in a widening of the
trade areas and an increasing
proportion of the midwest milk
moving toward the east for fresh
consumption. Current reports
indicate that the trend has been
accelerated since September.
As pointed .out in a recent
weekly review, prices paid for
butterfat are much higher in the
fluid milk and cream trade than
when the butterfat is ocessed
into butter or cheese. Naturally
that tends to discourage produc
tion of butter and cheese if mar
kets for the other products are
at hand.
Output of milk on farms in the
U. S. in 1945 is expected to set
a new high record of about 123,
000,000,000 pounds, three per
cent above last year and 19 per
cent above prewar average.
Turkey Goals Lower
For Next Year
Speaking of the situation for
next year, here is warning of
possible danger to Oregon tur
key growers issued by Noel Ben
nion, extension poultry specialist
at Oregon State college.
Bennion calls attention to the
fact that the U. S. Department of
Agriculture has lowered its tur
key goals for next year at the
same time that Oregon breeders
are holding over an extra num
ber of laying hens. The U.S.D.A.
national goal for 1946 calls for
a 19 per cent reduction in the
number of turkeys raised next
year compared with 1945.
Inasmuch as Oregon is one of
the leading turkey producing
states in the entire nation, the
action of growers here will have
considerable effect on national
production. Bennion believes
that if they carry out the present
indicated heavy carry-over of
breeding stock, they may find
themselves in a glutted market
next season.
Best estimates place the carry
over of breeder hens at approxi
mately 20 per cent increase over
last year. Reports from Califor
nia indicate a similar trend
there. This estimate for Oregon
is not just a wild guess but is
based on actual figures of the
MOOSE
LEGION
will hold a meeting
Sunday. January 27
2 p.m. at
TALENT CITY HALL
number of turkey breeder tftst
have already been tested at the!
poultry disease laboratory at the
college.
Another indication is the num
ber of reservations that are still
on the books for such testing.
For awhile it looked like Oregon
breeders were going to scale
down the number hld ever as
compared with earlier indica
tions, but the figures at the col
lege laboratory do not bear this
out.
Sub-clover Bulletin
Now Off Press f
The first printed bulletin on
subterranean clover now more
conveniently called sub-clover
to be issued by the O.S.C. experi
ment station Is off the press.
Written by H. H. Rampton, asso
ciate federal agronomist station
ed at Corvallis, the bulletin
gives some of the history of this
promising forage legume and
cultural suggestions for its use
in Oregon,
Rampton explains that sub
clover is adapted to climates hav
ing relatively warm, moist win
ters and dry summers, hence in
Oregon it is adapted to the part
of the state west of the Cascades.
Well established subelover seed
lings can survive temperatures
as low as 10 degrees below zero,
however, Rampton states.
This clover is naturally suited
for growth in combination with
grasses which give winter pro
tection to the seedlings. This
clover in turn stimulates the
growth of the grass because of
its soil improving qualities.
Subelover is a native of the
mediterranean region but its for
age value was first recognized in
Australia from where it was in
troduced into the United States.
The first planting in Oregon was
made In 1922 on the experiment
station by H. A. Schoth, federal
agronomist, with seed furnished
by the USDA bureai' of plan in
dustry. Not until 1937 did the plant
attract wide attention when
better adapted strains revealed
superior possibilities. The plant
is proving of particular value on
lands that are too dry or too low
in fertility for white clover. Sub
clover, an annual that persists
like a perennial, gets its name
from the fact that it buries de
veloping seed heads in the soil
or puts them directly on top of
the ground underneath the vege
tative mat.
R. G.FOWLER,
County Agent,
Clothing Projects
Revised By 4-H
The first clothing project has
been recently revised so that the
1A and IB projects are now in
separate bulletins and much of
repetition formerly present in
the two projects is now eliminat
ed. The new Clothing 1A Bulletin
is very similar to the former
project and calls for the making
of a needle case, a project in
weaving, a pincushion, and a
luncheon cloth. These are ail
handmade and the project book
is entitled, "Handwork, a Be
ginning Course in Clothing.
The Clothing IB project book
is entitled the "Just So Girl" and
J omewfief a4vfie4 over the
handwork project. The articles
made in this project are a coin
purse, a dresser scarf, a cro
cheted hot dish holder, a knit
wash cloth and a laundry bag.
This new project gives the girl
instruction in crocheting and
knitting and an introduction to
the sewing machine.
The clothing projects two,
three, four and five remain un
changed. I
The County Club agent will
be glad to talk with anyone
wishing more information about
these or anv 4H club projects.
EARLE JOSSY,
County Club Agent.
Livestock
Portland, Ore, Jan. 34 (UJM
Livestock:
Cattle: SOO, calyest 2S. Openlns
rather slow, early saies beef cattle
steady but some weakness on dairy
tvpe cows, Comtmm-medmm steer
$12 00-1500: heifers Stl.00-1300.
some held higher. Carmer-eutter cows
largely S7.00-S.5S: few down ttf 6 50
and below: medium-good beet cows
stl sn.issfi. common-medium veal-
era Sll.so-13 00: good-choice veeiers
saiaMe $!. 0O-16 TO.
Hogs: 30. Steady. Barrows and
gilts mostiy S15.89, few above 300
lbs. SUSS; good SQtvs $13.50-14.00;
rood 500-600 stags Sft.00: choice feed
er pigs salable SI3.S-15.73.
Sheep: 50. Nominally steady. Good
choice wooled iansbs salable $14.00;
common-medtttm grades $1100-13.00;
goof ewes salable up to $5.00.
South San Francisco, Jan. 24
(U H i Livestock:
Cattle 25; steady; o steers offer
ed; quoted $15-16.50; good sows sal
able $13-13 50; package cutter to
common cows ?S-iO: odd canners
$6 50-7.30; calves salable none; nom
inal: good-choice vealers quoted
$14-15.
Hoes 100; steady; few good-choice
200-300-lb. barrows and silta $15 80.
odd good sows $15 115.
Sheep 1,500; iambs firm: around
twelve decks choice 100-135-lb.
iambs $15 straight: medtu m-good
ewes quoted $5.50-630,
Chlcaro. Jan. 24 iU.P. (WFAI
Livestock:
Hogs: 11.000. active, steady on ail
classes: good and choice barrows and
gilts 180 ibs. and over at $14 85 ceil
ing; sows at $14,10 ceiling, that class.
Cattle: 45O0, Calves; 400. Fed steers
and yearlings weak to 5 cents lower.
mostly 15 to 25 cents o, top $18 00,
out tnese smctiy cnoice voiorano
led steers: bulk $15.00 o $1725;
eastern shipper demand comparative
ly annulled; heifers shared steer de
cline; bulk $14.00 to $18,00.
Sheep: 1,000. Order buyers in
active as yet; scattered sales lambs
about steady to small local killers,
tew good and choice natives $15.00,
with fat bucks out at $14.00.
Wall Street
New York, Jan. 24 iU.B The
stock market continued its re
covery today, with Utilities hit
ting a new peak since iatc 1831.
Trading ran above the 2,000,000
share mark for a full session.
Steels started off strong, be
came unsettled when Canada an
n o u n c e d re-establishment of
steel controls because of the
strike in the United States, but
came back moderately late in the
session.
Kermecott copper ran up
more than a point to a new
1845-48 high in the non-ferrou
metals.
Rails declined Irregularly, ex
cept for selected issues, Alle
ghany shares moved ahead to
new peaks on gains extending to
several points in the prior pre
ferred. Buying reflected reports
that the corporation planned to
eliminate the senior preferred
this year.
Electric Power & Light issues
highlighted utilities on gains
running to more than ? points
in the $8 preferred. Elsewhere
In this group advances extended
to around a point for the most
part.
Preliminary closing Dow
Jones stock averages: Industrial
200.04, up 1.20; Railroad 88.48,
off 0.51; Utility 40.78; up 0.33;
65 stacks 75.49, up 0,18,
Sales totaled 2.210,000 shares
compared with 2.040.000 yester
day. Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American Tel. & Teieg.,i02:i
Anaconda .. 47 M
Chrysler 138
Curtiss Wright 9S
General Electric 48s
General Motors .. 75Ts
Montgomery Ward
78! i
Penn. R. R
Phiiiips Petroleum
J. C. Penney.
Radio
Southern Pacific
Standard Oil of California
Texas Gulf Sulphur.
Transamerica
United Aircraft
U. S Hlmhw
U. S. Steel
4m
54H
55i
1S
60! s-
48',
50
WU
38!$
70U
89?s
BIRTHS
PR1TCHETT To Mr. and
Mrs. N. B 203 Hiilcrest Rd
Jan. 23, IMS, a boy, eight
pounds, at Community hospital.
TIBBETS To Mr, and Mrs.
Willie, Prospect, Jan. 23, 1948,
a boy, nine pounds, at Commun
ity hospital.
CRAIG To Mr. and Mrs.
Charles B., Bt, 2, bos 324, Jan.
23, 1946, a boy, 7li pounds, at
Osteopathic clinic.
UNRUH To Mr. and Mrs.
Abe, Central Point, Jan. 24,
1946, a girt, 8 lbs., at Sacred
Heart hospital.
Thi;rdT, Jan. U, tttt MEDFORD ML TRItTJHE SEVETf
NURSE INDICTED IN I
MUTILATION SLAYING j
Ballston Spa, N, Y., Jan. 24
WS Mrs. Sonja iggett, 58,
Austrian-barn domestic nurse,
was indicted today on three
counts of first degree murder,
manslaughter and abortion in
the mutiSstfon slaying of Lsuia
M. De Ghana, attractive SB-year-eld
Saratoga Springs girt,
Mrs. leggett pleaded not
guilty before Supreme Court
Justice Daniel imrie and nt
held without bail.
Ctssini tint so? Classified Ail :
a m Toe Ut:e lo Classify i2. :3 p rr..
SCHMIDT To Mr. and Mrs.
Paul, 807 Bennett, Jan. 23,
1846, a girl, 1 lbs., at Sacred
Heart hospital.
TOKYO BATHIKG COSTLIER
Tokyo, Jan. 24 J.B
Tokyo's 3,920,000 residents,
already suffering from a scar
city of public bathhouses de-;
priving thent of a traditional !
daily hot bath, received another
jolt today when mHhomies ap
proved a 250 per cent increase
in bathhouse fees. The increase,
effective Feb. 1, raised the price i
of a bath from 20 to 50 sen, or
approximately three American
cents.
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HEARING AID
Medford Hotel
Sat-., Jan. 26
ONE DAY OHLTT
With the New
"Miracle" Aid
No Brtter Wires
Na Hnanc to Wear
Sonolone, Western Electric Bet
tone AeousUeona and others,
slightly used, at BIG discount
For KKaHed "Hopeless Cases'
trv our CUSTOM BUILT GEM,
Your AW Tsken in Trade. "Bafr
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Portland Produce
Portliind, 3sa 34 -Wholesale mar
ket pricei:
Egg To retail!; AA grsd large
49c: A targe 47c; medium 44c; small
tpulleti 39 -40c,
CauW lower Local. No. 1 f325
crate; California S2.T3-
Celery California $3 50-3 75 crate.
Radishes California, No, I, 6001
per dot. bunches.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago. Jan. 24 (UPS
Wheat Open Hlgft Low Close
Slay tSIHs ISOiz JB0a ISU'j
July 1803 ISAM 1801 1803 '
Sept ISO's l0a Ml 18ll, j
Dec 180 180,' 179?. 1805 s
S. F, DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Jan. 24 (U.ffi
Dairy market:
Butter: 93 score 48'4, 92 ;
score, 48, 90 score 47,
Cheese: Loafs 28,2, triplets
27.2.
Eggs: Large grade A 46',2,
medium grade A 4314, small
grade A 3814, large grade B
42H.
Clostne time rr Classified Ads 8:3a
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