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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