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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1941)
'ACRiniLTDRAI. OUTIiOK. KLAMATH COUNTY, OREflON. PAGE TIIREB Land Use Report Diversification Urged Factor In More Effective Land Use Kiitniwt in, in-it fONSIDKHATION of previous Iniicl into rccummcndatlona In the Unlit of present world con dition brlnga to lliiht no plucc where Mime recommendations nil be materially changed. I-oik of diversity la a weakness which exists in tlio arm munagemcrit of ninny operator. AllhouKh unto farms lire best adapted to straight crop or straight live stock farming, diversification continues to bo a desirable farm management fuctor to aid In less ening tlio Imrdfthlp of low price year in indivliliiul commodi ties. On project Innda It is appar cnt that livestock la not Includ ed as an enterprise on many farms. Inclusion of a livestock enterprise, whether dairy, sheep, beef, or lings or combinations of these is emphasized particularly on heavier lunda best utilized by cropping to improvo permanent pastures or hay crops and not at all adapted or not as well adapted to potato production. This recommendation is made With the knowledge that live stock numbers are Incrcnslntf and may be expected to continue to increase as shifts to forage and livestock continue in regions producing wheat, corn and cot ton; thnt federal reciprocal trade policies will probably result in imports of South American meat products; and that present live stock prices are high, making it . hard to acquire foundation stock. INFLATION QUESTION STILL UNANSWERED Increased industrial activity with Increasing employment due to the war and defense program expenditures point to good do mestic demand for agricultural products other than those whose production was built up mate rially on export markets which do not now exist. Lower com parative prices aro expected in the period following cessation of hostilities. The question of in flation, however, remains unan swered. Without variation in dollar value, operators who buy in at high prices must consider the possibility of retiring debts or realizing on Investments on the basis of lower commodity price sales. Natural yearly Increases ac cruing to livestock are pointed to as on advantage to this type of investment as compared to in vestments necessary in annual ly depreciating equipment called for by the. mcchani.ed nature of crop farming. Excessively heavy per-acro equipment in vestment with consequent de preciation Is undesirable. Most remunerative disposal of production from acreage devoted to soil building crops and neces sary In fertility maintenance of potato land, lies In livestock pro duction. Shipment of allium (ST. 1 x tsjTvf L-r , Mi hiJ, J&uFV y . JUST BEFORE THE MEETING Waiting for the grangers Is Sils group f grangers, . hay even at reasonably good prices Includes suln of fertility which can be retained In lurgc measure by feeding ocrutions. I-ons of local hay markets with retirement of itinerant stockmen as a result of federal grazing regulations and policies has not resulted In alfalfa acreage re duction but has put the problem of hay disposal up to farmers who have not yet taken up farm type livestock operations. DIVERSIFICATION GIVEN STRESS Emphasis on diversification and stressing need of livestock in farming operations does not im ply exclusion of cash crops but rather anticipates conservative and consistent acreage of cash crops from which maximum pro duction of a quality product can bo expected, notations In which cush crops are Included provide a means of releasing the frozen assets which exist In the form of fertility built up by pasture and hay crops. Marked Improve ment In production of all crops can be traced In largo measure to better land leveling brought about by extensive potato farm ing. Better land leveling aids In fertility maintenance by provid ing for better water use with less loss of plant nutrients through leaching and erosion. Klnmuth agriculture is fortu nate in that it has not been de veloped on the basis of national surplus crops, now left without the export markets on which sale was dependent. Further reduction In wheat acreage is not advisable. The basin is a wheat deficiency area and allot ments now set represent only 55 of usual wheat acreage. The policy In setting special crop allotments should tend to en courage self-contained economy within geographic areas when that is possiblo and crop pro duction In question can compete successfully with other areas. Any other policy encourages in efficiency. It has been definitely shown by limited planting of sugar beets that this crop can be prof itably grown in competition with other beet-producing areas. Ex pansion of the crop, however, is prevented by provisions of the About the Pictures All of the pictures in this section were taken at a Klamath county Pomona grange meet ing at Fort Klamath, V..' i I If About the Reports The reports appear ing in this section were prepared at the 1941 Agricultural O ut look and National Prepared ness Meetings. It was felt these reports were of such outstanding im portance they should be preserved and pub lished in full and this newspaper gladly agreed to the undertaking. sugar act which moke it impos sible for basin farmers to obtain acreage allotments. Efforts should be made to secure larger allotments with n longer time goal the establishment of a sugar factory. Compliance with provisions of the agricultural conservation program is recommended. Con servation and parity payments for planting within potato and wheat allotments help to bring agricultural prices nearer to par ity with prices of industrial goods. Advantage should be taken of payments made under the fnrm and range program for carrying out soil and range building practices. Conserva tive operations rather than plunging, and soil conservation rather than heavy cash cropping, arc best assurance of ability to stay in business. When present preparedness and war activity is suspended, the expected recession will be best met by those farmers whose operations are diversified, whose costs of operation arc held to a minimum and who have retired debts as far as possible. In periods of recession, family-size farming units not over capita lized are in a better position than large size units with high operating costs. Except for peak labor loads at potato harvest time, family size farm units arc a source of available farm lnbor. A rather constant farm lnbor reservoir exists in the population in the suburban area and small tracts surrounding Klamath Falls. Lo cation of defense industry or other industry would give addi tional employment to residents of this area and woud also draw from family-type farms. " Form meeting at rort Klamath to open labor requirements, including heavy harvest time require ments, have been well met in recent years. Increased employ ment, due to the preparedness program and Increases in mili tary strength may lessen the sup ply of migratory labor which has been harvesting the potato crop. Aside from consideration of rural labor, Klamath county should consider the possibility of establishing industries other than those already present. Such establishment is needed to maintain county population built up on the basis of logging and lumber operations which are expected to decline in a not too distant future. NEW INDUSTRIES CONSIDERED Industries which might be started include those such as sash and door mills which pro cess timber products; starch plants for utilization of off grade potatoes; and production of condensed milk from surplus milk. With 83 per cent of the county area in non-private ownership and with 10,894,824,000 board feet, or 84 per cent of 17,039, 748,000 board feet total county Pondcrosa pine stumpage as of 1934 on those non-privately owned lands, and with rate of cut for the county taking place at a pace much more rapid than sustained yield practices would carry, future of lumbering ac NEW-TYPE FOODS USED THE NEW-TYPE (SEBSOM THE JttfMGEflATOR WITH t M rir-S Foods are changing. Mora roxen foods more fresh foods more economical bulk buying of meats are In order. DON'T BUY a re frigerator that's built for yesreriVrv. Get Gibson built for TODAY and TOMOR ROW I Gibson's Super Freer'r Shelf, Chill-Drawer and Twin Vegetable Fresheners meet today's AND TOMORROW'S food needs! Inspect Gibson East Side 401 So. Sth tivity is placed in the hands of federal agencies which control those lands. Whether selective cutting where practical is re quired will determine in large part how long mill payrolls will contribute to county income. CM much private land the cut has .Seen considerably heavier than should occur. Had selec tive lodging been practiced, smaller vigorously growing trees not subject to beetle attack and proven by experiments to be un profitable logs, would have been left to develop into paying stumpage for sustained opera tions and for seed trees to pro vide re-stocking. Nature of lumbering business, however, does not provideJncen tives to sustained yield opera tions. Instead, necessity to car- ry investments in timber lands, necessity to risk fire loss and foot fire protection costs, as well as taxes, encourages a cut out and leave psychology that takes no consideration of the economy developed in such timber oper ation. According to 1934 forest sta tistics for Klamath county, 34 per cent or 7,700,110,000 board feet of county merchantable stumpage was in private hands. Of this, 8,144,924,000 board feet was Ponderosa pine, 361,471,000 board feet was sugar pine large ly mixed stands with Ponderosa. Other less valuable species as (Continued on Page Four) t Appliance Phone 3U
