Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 05, 1960, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextB Crop Production Report Made During Closed Door By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press International Washington - Wing 4, sec ond floor of the south build ing, Department of Agricul ture, Is a comfortably air-conditioned Eovernment office, Jt Is open to the public. But if you walk Into it anytime be tween daybreak and s p.m., cdt., on July 11, you'll be locked up. You'll be in the midst of a group preparing the first all crop production report for I960. You'll stay there, under guard, until the report is re leased promptly at 3 p.m., cdt. Don't try to get out. You can't. Don't throw your weight around. H won't do you a bit of good. There are no exceptions -lecretaries of agriculture, mes sengers, visitors, casual pass ersby - all are required to stay put, once inside the crop reporting board's working quarters during preparation of a crop production report. Its been that way for 35 years. No change is contem- ; plated. There are few secrets more .. closely and successfully guard ed than the estimated produc- tion of such speculative crops as corn, wheat, cotton, oats, soybeans, livestock, and many - others that go to make up the I nation's store of food and fiber. r The secrecy surrounding the crop report stems from a : cotton scandal in 1905. A high official of the then Bureau of i Statistics, which prepared i crop estimates, used his ad ; vance knowledge of what the government report would '. show and speculated in the ; cotton futures market. He is purported to have passed on '. his information to accomplices : by means of signals involving movement of window shades, f A trial brought out that the official's share of profits from the use of the information amounted to more than $70, 000. He was fined $5,000. Start Secrecy Congress immediately ordered the department to keep crop reports secret until time for their release to everyone. The department started the "lockup." All lockups deal with re ports that have speculative value. The release time is tied in with the opening and clos ing of markets. For example, Congress set the release hour for the cotton report at 11 a.m. to coincide with the clos ing of the Liverpool cotton market, then the world's larg est. The department releases general crop reports simul taneously with, or after, the closing of the New York and Chicago grain markets. Here is how the July 11 crop report will be prepared. The 41 state or regional offices that cover continental United States make up their state re ports and recommend them to the crop reporting board. The recommendations are airmailed to a locked box in care of the office of the Sec retary of Agriculture. The box has two locks. The secretary's longtit feiidual milkide on the market Extremely high margin of safety fo plant (if Emy and toft to handle FOOD representative has one key and the chairman of the board has the other. About 20 min utes before the board's work ing quarters are locked up, the board's chairman and sec retary, the secretary's repre sentative, and one or more members of the field force proceed, under guard, to the box, unlock It, and bring the unopened reports to the work ing quarters. The quarters are locked, with guards posted outside. Inside, telephones and in tercom systems are disconnect ed, and Venetian blinds at nil windows are closed and lock ed by means of a slotted rod which is then sealed. The technicians study the state recommendations, arrive at production estimates for each state, pass the information along to the board chairman who determines the final esti mate. The information then goes to computers and tabu lators who prepare tables which are stenciled and mimeographed. The entire re port is signed 15 to 20 min utes "before it is issued. The signer must be the Secretary of Agriculture, undersecre tary, or one of the assistant secretaries. The doors then are unlocked and the report given to newsmen standing by open telephones to their offices. The report is then transmitted throughout the country, and the lockup is over. MARKET Red Bluff Livestock Auction ReDort. CATTLE: Salable 610, including around ISO calves. Around 80 per cent of supply stocker and feeder classes, remainder mainly slaughter cows. Auction active, represented classes steady to strong. Instances 50 cents higher on slaughter cows. Supply mainly of northern Call- lomia on gin. Slaughter cows: Individual and 810-1200 lbs. $15.50-17.90. individual Stocker and feeder steers: Small lots and Individual Medium and Good 330-500 lb. calves $24.00-25.90. individual Common and Medium calves S16.00-23.00. A 23 head lot Medium and Good 628 lb. vearlinss $22 60, individual Common and Medium 550-750 lbs. $16.00-22.00. stocker ana feeder neiiers: mau lots and lnamauai common ana Medium 300-450 lb. calves $16.00-23.30. A 42 head lot Good 358 lb. yearlings $22.50. 31 head lot 648 lbs. common ana aieaium ouu-tuu ids. sm.uu-auju. Stock cows: Small shipments Medium and Good with young calves at side $177.50-192.50 oer pair. Common and Medium $14 1.00-162.00 per Feeder pigs: Small lot Good 78 lbs. $18.10. SHEEP: Salable 46. Supply mainly feeder spring lambs: about steady. Feeder inrinc lambs: Small lots Good 70-82 lbs. with full wooled Delta $15.00-15-20, small lots Inferior and Century Farms Deadline July 10 Salem - The Oregon Histor ical Society and the state de partment of agriculture, co sponsors of Oregon's Century Farm program, announced to day extension of the deadline to July' 10. Any farm in Oregon owned and farmed continuously for inn vnr nr mnrp fn the samp family, and which meets the U. S. census definition of a farm, is eligible. This defini tion. 10 anrne nr mnrp with agricultural sales of $50 or more a year; or, a less tnan 10 acres, sales of at least $250 a year. The sponsors said the dead line has been extended be ftauco nf some confusion with the later deadline In the Cen- PROFIT ENEMY N0.1 MITES . m. w m t ON APPLES, PEAKS AND OTHER FtUIT CHOPS Hera's fuovan protection for your oppf, peor and other fruit crops. Twiim fa HW oulilanding Niagara miticide development thai can now be applied at first cover and again In one additional cover appfi'coffon up fo horveif ft'me. Tedion alio provides iheie other protection advantageti ruttlni Iff la Wrk MACHINERY AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION Niagara Chemloal Division Session When Arthur M. Hyde, former governor of Missouri, was secretary, he arrived early one day to sign the re port. He signed, picked up his hat, and started to leave. The board chairman told him ho couldn't. Hyde reached for a telephone. It was dead. He stayed until release time. Another official had an appointment at the White House at the exact hour of release time. A president is not supposed to be kept wait ing. He was this time. About seven or eight years ago a member of the staff was stricken with appendicitis. He was allowed to go to the In firmary until release time, but there was a guard hovering around him until the report was issued, The work of the crop re porting board is one of the oldest and one of the most valuable services which the department gives to farmers, Best proof by the way it is regarded is the fact that it is studied as a model by visitors from all over the world. It started because farmers found out how hard it was to grow the right amounts of farm products to get a fair price unless they had avail able unbiased information, on a nationwide scale, about the kind and amount -of each product needed. The govern ment has been providing crop estimates since 1839. NEWS June 28 19fifl small lots Utility and Commercial and penlots Canner and Cutter $20.10. individual and small lots Common 60-70 lbs. wooled $8.40- Paul H. Lehigh, Federal-State Market News Service tury Farm applications the two previous years. Full details and applica tion blanks are available from county judges or commission ers, from the Historical So ciety in Portland or the state department of agriculture in Salem. AMERICANS TRAVEL New York - (UPt-About 6,600,000 Americans will spend about $2.6 billion on foreign travel in 1960, in both cases a 10 per cent rise over last year, according to travel officials. These Americans will spend more on tourism abroad that they will for for eign automobiles, textiles and iron combined. Contact Your Niagara Field Man. Today MEDFORD MAIL CHIT CHAT - By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Fim Editor .. . i - .1.. ..J lre mnrin In Apparently a nuinuer ui .. . . ... c ii. tills column IB51 WTO. nnum im .-.. ...... vegetable stand operator caught the blue blazes from some growers and wholesalers ior dciiik " . . of small store operators and some growers want this par ticularly fruit and produce man to truck fruit and vegetables for them. ..... i i,.,. ... mUM 11IIJU1 IHt.l, """-'.'I " number of growers for a farmer's market hero. Ihcse grow ers and our fruit and vegetable stand operator nslst such a market can bo operated profitably. So wo will probably meet some time next week with those who arc Interested and cuss over plans, tins snouin m m v" n readv being considered. This is for promoting a small, but r.m,ftnhln vpirotnble Industry for the Rogue valley and pro cessing those vegetables here, .i..n nnnw lAnrnpd in noerata such a farm- , -. r a m...i..s nnt He says this would be a profitable operation since there Is a "terrible markup on sucn iwuu. n"i "1,,. tacts must be established with wholesalers In California ...k. ...o .noniniictc Snme. for Instance, handle nothing but vegetables; others nothing but , M elnra nhnilt $200 B month figuring on un ovemsv .,..-- -"- J . , . must be allowed for overhead. This includes building and equipment but does not include labor which will vary ac cording to the kind of place operated and number of co operating growers. a. m. xnnc'fWinif As the fruit stand op- tUJ VN (IJT , Ik 9 ... w.. erator said, "Every state but Tk,. hn,,cAu,iv who are v,,n. nri vetjetnhles hefore in and buy. The price outlook, according to expert observers, -.in nr,i mr.rnv murh. Generally, weather and the recent cannery strike in California server put it, Kigni now mere are 110 tjuuu uuji, this time of year tne prices on mellons are low." a it.... i. rvcr it.. AVIUlUlllg 1U v, "- its peak in western Oregon In Uie tiooa ruver area, i-riv-tra somewhat with some packers , . 1 t uit ..n.ni liverea, lor mursnun vmici;, --- ---- i ' r.nlvnr.loc tn nrnfAicnrt so far this i ;iu season total aoout muuon puunus auuu pounds less than during the same period last year. We noticed some "U Picking" in a strawberry field just north of Phoenix, and perhaps there are can get out ana get mis years r ninutnn tc arte nttapucujr pi mi. & a t. .m itKt a inr.nl diets the supply will remain are sizing well in most news No processor price nas Deen iru. DnmUrrv r.pnwori a np intlon at Its mcetlnK X I1C IICU AVtipw-f J " - - in Multnomah county last week, voted an increase In rasp berry picking prices this year, inis inciuues o . 1 M . i.nir Mni lnet vpur tn nne cent this season crease ua aiuui a no. .... - The new picking rate would mean four cents a pound plus . t v,,, r wiiininotte. Canhvs. and other varieties. a one . .. .-- and six cents a pound plus a one ceni Donus on me nuuing ton variety. A new bargaining agency called the Red Rasp berry Growers Association of Oregon has been formed rec ently. This organization will 1960 raspberry crop, reports. You haven't seen many boysenberrles on the local market 1 1 ui ' nv ih. ...1 nf the ennn. Weather cut ana jjruuauiy wuu . iu. this crop, also. In California, the boysenoerry narvesi nas nearly liusscu m cor. ... ..... Fresno and Modesto areas where most of that state's pro duction is grown. Yields there have been running lighter than usual. Oregon Boysenberry receipts through June 18 totaled 3.2 nnlinHf mmiMPfH With 8.4 PlllliOn dUrlflK a C0IT1- parable period' in 1959 when the season was a few days earlier. Prices to growers, delivered to processing plant or minted at 12V4 to 13V4 cents a pound in' the Fresno area, with Modesto area growers were receiving an average oi 10 ceuu a pound, and Watsonville district growers, 10 cenis. mat prices are considerably higher than those quoted last season. rm- .l.tnnnn ...mn ta nrnntirntlv nVPr in Call- 1I1C dLlili;Ub .- '11 6 a : - rri 1, lornia. Aim vaiuicijr o.i.c j nii are oeiiiB niouc nwi, . eastern prices were reported in the Santa Clara valley is . 1 1 1 roaaSiae, ior I S ana larger auum 9iw wa vnoii nr-u .Annti a taw artftinnt ihinrnf-nta at thp end j annua, rv a an icijuih a - of June with the volume beginning to build up at the start of this weeK. We have tasted some good local cherries this year, but this fruit like others is In short supply. Only a few acres of sweet cherries are raised in the Rogue valley, anyway. One grower here raised 5V4 tons of sweet cherries last year and produced only 13-25 pound boxes this year. As we mentioned last week If you want quality The Yakima sweet cherry harvest is over as you read this, but shloment will continue for some time yet from Wenatchee, Wash. However, ton to this valley would be won't see any of that fruit here. Sour cherry producers who are Just starting an Infant Industry here should be encouraged by the OSC market renorts. Sour cherry production is down 15 per cent in the Lake states this year and 28 per cent in the west. A heavy carryover of canned red cherries partly offsets this smaller crop. We haven't heard any reports on the local sour cherry production. Bagley agreed to handle the local crop. A local source reports that also. The high average price on a good tomato will range from 19 cents to 29 cents a pound locally. Of course, price depends on size and quality. We spotted some high quality small tomatoes on local shelves and out of Fresno, Calif., selling for two pounds for 29 cents. However, weather hit this crop, too, and tomatoes In the Fresno area are not ripening as they should wnicn Housewives can find good still pretty nign on local sneives. Switching to another subject-youthful labor on farms we received an Interesting call from a member of the local Inter-agency council, (This is a group representing various social agencies such as welfare, Red Cross, etc. which meets regularly In the county health Our caller wanted to know given organizing teenagers ticularly In the orchards. We us by an authority on the remarks. Our caller thought that could be organized. He thought also that a pear picking school could be set up to teach quick and efficient picking, Wc guess this will bring quite a few snorts from the experts, But the fact that this subject hour by a group of highly Intelligent people Indicates some thing. Depending on your attitude we'll leave it up to you TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. n ........ !..... Hint unn fruit and u th suutfestlon made by a w hnvo the experience. citrus fruits. --- - - , - uregon nas a wnnn 9 "'"" waiting for lower prices on cannlnc or freezing better get has tied things up. As one ob apncois, racnra v ........ Blrnu - hnrrv harvest has Dassed ""' " J - and Is fast approaching a peak iu s.wwc.a .... posting 14 cents a pound, de- 1 1 nants tnr MnrthwpJit. and I. -Un.. 1 K mil linn other items wnere me iamuy irccci su7' A In inmo Oreffon areas, but . emirro mnf rms this and Dre- light. However, the berries ana me quamy is upiuvtu. posiea ye.. . - ... .., ne in eueci ana acwve iui us - - - one source for local markets. some as high as 15V4 cents. ". J " k.. hnan anftlerl nnrl deliveries una ww.. - - - - iietrifte nf4P. rpnnrbi. Recent .'." - "i ---- as unfavorable. Cannery price generally quoted at $90 a ton, U . - em tnni) 4Vinn loot caaann you win nave io pay ior 11. trucking fruit from Washing too expensive so you probably cannery in Asniano nas again tomatoes are dear this season, cuts tne supply. quality lettuce but this is department conference room., if much attention has been for farm harvest work, par repeated comments made to subject including ms more acid platoons of youthful workers was discussed for at least an German Farm Work Different By nancy shaver IFYE to Gormnny There are only wisps of louds In the blue sky, the sun is warm, with a light breeze, It is perfect weather for hay making, and hero 011 my first host farm In western Germany U10 liny is being hauled Into the burn today, My host father, Herr Kom- merman; a son-in-law, Albln Gladln; my two host brothers, Amonuis and Grcgor; and two neighbor men are work ing In the fields. In the house, Frau Kemnterman and daugh ters, llildegard, Elly, and my self are kept busy preparing meals. One week ago, the hay was cut. Mowers here are located between the front and rear wheels on the right side In stead of behind the tractor. Because of the moisture In the ground and the dew at night, the liny will seldom dry If left scattered or In windrows, my host father has a machine which will form the hay into rows, turn tho rows over, or pick up the hay and scatter it. These machines have been on the market for five years and are very popu lar with the farmers who have large fields. Thero are many smaller fields, however, where the hay must be turned by pitchfork. When the hay Is dry, It Is put into stacks. It Is then tossed by pitchfork onto a wagon drawn by cither horses or a tractor. Both horses and tractor are used on this farm. At the barn It Is put by pitch fork Into a machine which blows and compresses It Into the hay loft. Two crops of hay are pro duced each year - one, the last of May or early June and the other in late August or early September. It Is seldom all fields of a German farm are next to one another. This land has been farmed for many centuries and, of course, there have been many changes in the size of farms. Tho fields used for hay by the Kemmermann family were acquired between 1820 and 1850. Before this, tills land had been common pasture fot all of the farmers in the area. In 1820, the Prussian king, then ruling, ordered that all common property be divided among the farmers using It Each farmer received a sharo In proportion to the size of his farm. Land Chopped Up Much of southern Germany has been under French rule When Napoleon was ruling, he ordered each farmer to divide his land equally among his sons. So, each farmer had to dtvde each field into as many sections as he had sons. After several generations, a farm consisted of a number of long, narrow, widely sep arated strips of ground. This practice of dividing each field stopped long ago. Today, how ever, there are still many fields that are so narrow that they must be worked by hand. The German farmers are Care Advised In Irrigation Water management Is Im portant due to the current irrigation water shortage and the Important relation to one phase of the pear decline problem, according to County Horticultural Agent Clifford B. Cordy. "It s dangerous to saturate the entire soil mass," Cordy said. "Orchardists should keep the distance the water runs down a row short," he advised. "If the row is long the irrigation along it should be broken up In two or three pieces. The number 01 rms be tween, trees should also be kept down to about two or three for the sticky soil and three or four, approximately, for the lighter soils. There should be enough rills so that the water barely mcetB, he added. "This may mean that or- ehardists have to nut on an extra irrigation," Cordy said. "However, total consumption of water will be less and it will do more good than com plete saturation." The glraffo has fewer ver tebrae in his neck than 0 mouse, is faster than a horse, can go without water longer than a camel and can see backward without turning his head. Poison Oak Control RAYS PRAY SP 2-9279 From U.S. nwaro of this problem. They uru working in small groups In the villages to consolidate the land of each farm Into one section. Some fanners are ro htctnnt to tnulu their land, however, so it will take a number of years for tho con solidation to be worked out. As Is true of most West German farms, the Kemmer mann farm has a variety of crops and animals. Thero is no spoclall7.atlon here, Even If a farm has mainly grapes for wine tho family would also have perhaps a cow, a few pigs, and some chickens. On this farm, rya and po tatoes are tho two muin crops but barley, oats, wheat, and beets are also raised. These are all used as feed on tho farm except somo rye and all of the potatoes, Tho rye and potatoes arc sold. The livestock on this 05 acre farm consists of 16 milk cows, 13 two-year-old heifers, and 10 young bulls being fat- toned for beef, 10 young calves, two work horses, 27 young pigs also to be fatten ed, and 100 chickens. Tile cat- tic are of a utility breed. I have seen no breeds specifical ly for cither milk or meat. Tho Kemmermann farm is located very near where the Mittclland Canal branchci from the Dortmund Ems Canal. Tho Mlltelland Canal goes to Berlin and tho other to the Ruhr district. As I pin clothes on the clothes line, I can watch the barges travel Ing to and from Berlin. All day long there aro men and women coming to the house from the barges. They buy a supply of milk, pota toes, or eggs to last the few days until the next stop. All of the extra eggs produced on the farm are sold In tills way. Neighbors also como with their small covered metal milk buckets to buy milk. An average of 25 quarts of milk Is sold this way each day. The remaining 80 gallons Is sold to a creamery. In a few days, I will lcavo my first host family here in Nordrhcln-Westfalcn. My next host family is In the Rhcln-land-Phalz which Is In the southwestern part of western Germany. So, my next letter will be written from the heart of the famous wine pro ducing area of Germany, Sincerely, Nancy Shaver, Oregon IFYE to Germany. Simplify A-r- . J. with "V, now one insecticide controls the major fruit insects... 0 Effective gats even the tough ones Safe one of the safer phosphate Insecticides Versatile-may be used on most fruits . Rtsldu. tolerance of 0.75 ppm on many fruit cropi ncommendatlons permit application relatively close to harvest OmOIHATOHS Or DDT INSCCTICmlt GEIGY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS Ofvhfon tfQitgy Chmtttt 4-H Preiair at Central Point lor Home Economics Central Polut-T'ho Central Point homo economies prefnlr wits held June 21) at Jewell school, The girls from that area hint 110 exhibits on dis play, These IncUmed 'lower ar ranging Judged by Mrs. K. D, Kay, Girls receiving blue rib bons In this category wore senior, Pat MvCuo; and Jun ior, Judy Frink, Linda ond Barbara Vincent, Cooking cxhlblls wore Judged by Mrs. Don Gercn. Site gave blue ribbons ior ex hibits of tho following girls: senior bread, Jeuno Do Ho boam, Mnryedn Frost; Junior bread, Caroleo Kuost, Phyllis Drown, K a t h y Thompson; muffins, Myrna Long, Jen nean West, Dlano Debrlck, Judy Franek. Clothing was Judged by Mrs. Jo Ann Wcalherlord but these plaeings are put avail able at this time. Mis. Sam Jones was the knitting Judge awarding blue ribbons to senior, Colleen Frnnek, Carolyn Barnes, Judy Frlnk. Shirley Roach, Karen Hunter; Junior, Mary Kurz, Julio Thompson. Domonlratloni Hold Seven demonstrations woroj given In tho afternoon. The top Individual was Mury Louise Truly with her dem onstration "Hawaiian Franks" sandwich. Tho top senior team was Kulliy Thompson and Phyllis Brown with "Lazy Day Cake." The young est demonstrators, Judy Fra nek ond Julio Thompson, were awarded to Junior dem onstration team for their "brownie" demonstration. A Judging contest was held In which approximately 75 girls participated. With a pos sible score of 475, the top Judges wero us follows: cloth ing, Ann Bowling, 388; Carol Foot, 347; Nancy Frlck, 345; Judy Franck, 330; Carol Roach, 330; Carolee Kucst, 325. Cooking, Donna Bailey, 300; Judy Franck, 375; Car oly Barnes. 350; Karon Hunt er, 345; Julie Thompson, 340; Nancy Armstrong, 335; Mary cda Frost, 330; Diana Davis, 330; Patsy Charley, 330; Lin da Cornutt, 330. There ore nearly 37 million Items In the Library of Con gress which was founded In 1800 with 740 books and a case of maps. on FRUIT... '" ' 7 ' ' S C TUEBDAY, JULY 6. I860 Washington IIII'D Over seas sales uf most U.S. live stock ami muiit products dur ing tile Jiimuiry-Aprll period were well above those of 11 year ugo, according to n sur vey by tho Foreign Agricul tural Service (FAS). lied meat exports wore up substantially during the pe riod. Majur exceptions to tho uptrend were miscellaneous natural sausage casings main ly beef and canned meat. Ex ports of casings wero down 10 par cent from tho sumo pe riod lust yum', while vanned meat shipments wore off 45 per cent. Modern Artificial Breeding with FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE Dla-fre provsd slrai plus depondabU technical knowhow . . . equals your bast buy In brooding orv Icol CALL... SP 2-4093 C. C. Williams ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE CONTROL T I C I O ft Ctymtton 6w Mill Rlvr Roarf, ArdtUft N.V 3 .-- ..A .iV- I M 1 1 to figure out Jut what.