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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY, JULY 17. 1962 Common Market Policies Pose Poultry Export Problem By GAYLORD P. GODWIN V ashington-(UP1) -The trade policies ot the common mar ket pose a big question mark about export prospects of U. S. poultry and eggs to western Europe. In an ettort to become self uHicicnt in agriculture, the common market countries have raised trade barriers in the form of increased duties and import fees. These bar riers could keep a lot of chicken and turkey and eggs out of western Europe. Because the common mar ket is so new, Agriculture De partment economists are not yet sure what should be done to combat the trade barriers tossed up against U. S. poul try and eggs. About all the economists can do now in speculating on the future of exports is to look at what has made them successful in the past. The poultry and egg indus try is the third largest cash farm income earner in the United States. It ranks behind livestock and dairying. Yet only in recent years have poultry products become im- FROM THE GROUND UP By BART BARTLETT This is the final column that will be devoted to or ganic as compared to inor ganic agriculture. Any prob lems or unanswered questions that remain after this series of articles will be commented upon by request or perhaps treated in a routine manner as future columns appear. There is no special char acter or quality given to any nutritive factor in the growth of economic plants by the ele ments of nutrition having been supplied to the soil from any particular source. That is, iron from decaying hay or other plant residues as com pared to those that come from the salt flats that remain when an inland sea or lake has evaporated and disappear ed. The nitrogen derived from a thundershower is no differ ent when utilized by higher green plants than that from a manufacturing plant. Many necessary plant nu trients are almost never or ganic in origin in the sense that they were ever a neces sary part of the living mole cules of plants. Some of these nutrients are very necessary ior good plant growth. Such elements as calcium, potas sium and sodium are rarely ever incorporated in the liv ing protoplasm of plants. They are in plants as condi tioners or as energy ex changers and as such can even be leached from living plants by rain and irrigation water. This discussion of the ele ments of plant nutrition as re lated to their source could go on and on. It is desirable that nutrition from any source be utilized to feed the world's people. On Insscticidei It is not wise to find a good Insecticide for a pest and use it all season. This is the man ner in which pest resistance )s obtained. It is far wiser to use the best insecticide obtain able very early in the growing season to reduce the pest population to as near nothing as possible. Following the ac complishment of this, sub stitute materials should be used and even combinations and or alterations of these substitute materials by appli cation should be used to dis courage pesticide resistance. By and targe the Bosc pear crop has a peculiar spot on a large percentage of the fruits. Jt may not be as big a mystery as it seems to be at the mo ment. Now is the time for an ap plication of a good control material to the trunks of peach and certain other stone iruit trees for the control of the trunk borer. This pest is not a root borer, in our opin ion, as it has been termed re cently. It is a borer that may girdle the trunks of stone fruit trees. Unless the orchard Is very weedy and grassy; one application made now of a good control chemical in lib eral quantity to the soil, trunks of trees, and weeds will control this pest. Con sult your chemical spray sales- j man for materials and advice. 1 Now is an excellent time , 1o do some summer budding ' of all types of woody plants. Bart Bartlett is not highly In favor of dispcring the flow rrs only after someone has passed away. However the passing of W. B. (Bud) Radey from our local society is here hv mentioned. We knew, liked and will miss "Bud" Radey. portant in export trade. In be coming important, the indus try picked up western Eu rope as its principal over seas customer. Exports Increase Steadily The average annual value of U. S. poultry and egg ex ports in 1951-55 was about $33.8 million. Since 1955, there has been a steady an nual increase, and in 1961 a record $93.8 million worth was shipped abroad. The larg est share of this was com mercial sales through regular trade channels without gov ernment aid. For the increase popularity of U.S. poultry meat has been primarily re sponsible. In 1957, it made up about 40 per cent of total ex ports; in 1961, about 70 per cent. The department said the poplarity of U. S. poultry abroad can be attributed to the industry's ability to pro vide an excellent product that can be priced com petitively in foreign markets. Olher reasons: The conveni ence of preparation offered by fully eviscerated, ready-to- cook birds; increasing alien tion abroad to low-fat, high protein diets; and the excel lent finish of frozen U. S. poultry. Fresh frozen U. S. poultry was introduced to West Ger many in 1956 through sales for local currency under a public law 480, or surplus disposal, agreement. Since then the main U. S. market for frozen chickens has been western Europe. Germany, Switzerland and the Nether lands imported 152.8 million pounds of U. S. frozen chick ens in 1961-almost two-thirds of the total fresh and frozen chicken exports. There are other important market areas where U. S. poultry sales have been grow ing even faster. The British West Indies have shown a steady increase in takings and have topped Canada as this country's chicken-meat market In North America. Hong Kong, a price-conscious market, Is this country's larg est frozen-poultry customer outside Western Europe, tak ing principally poultry parts. Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria now constitute a million pound market in west Africa. Exports of U. S. turkey meat have shown a similar increase. Exports of shell eggs for consumption have shown a marked decline recently. Ven ezuela, still this country's primary market, is rapidly approaching self-sufficiency in egg production. U. S. ship ments there have fallen from 9.8 million dozen in 1960 to less than 3.4 million dozen in 1961. This meant a 46 per cent decline in the total value of these egg exports. The top market for U. S. dried eggs is Western Europe. The United Kingdom and West Germany take about three-fourths of U. S. annual exports. This product, which requires no refrigeration, has acquired a firm commercial footing abroad. However, to tal U. S. exports in 1961 -about five million pounds -were down somewhat from the year before and less than half as large as in the early 1950's. Frozen eggs, on the other hand, have shown a gradual export increase each year. NOW REASSIGNED Second Lt. James K. Korth son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Korth. route 1, Talent, left this week for Portland where he has been reassigned to the 142nd unit of the Oregon Air National Guard. He had been home on leave since gradu ating last month from navi gator training at Connaily Air Force base, Tex. Lieutenant Korth was awarded the silver wings ol a USAF navigator upon gradu ation and also received the Commander's trophy. The tro phy is given to the distin guished graduate who is also first iu his class. A 7 I M ore than 200 million I sponges are consumed annual j ly, of which about 85 per cent are man-made synthetics. 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