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BEST SEED NOT
TOO GOOD FOR
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Early selection of good seed Is
something that can be done now
! toward the success of a 1943
victory garden, reminds A. G. B.
Bouquet, professor of vegetable
crops at Oregon State college.
Seed catalogs are now arriving,
including those from Oregon
firms which are prepared, in
many cases, to provide locally
adapted strains and varieties.
An experienced seedsman is
Important to garden success just
as is a trained medical doctor or
, dentist to health, says Professor
Bouquet. An experienced seed
dealer who knows seed varieties
is much more likely to contri-
' bute to the success of the garden
than one who handles seed mere
ly as a side item, he says.
While some seed may appear
' at first glance to be rather ex
pensive, the actual cost of seed
for a garden is so small in com
parison to the value of the pro
ducts that the best seed is the
cheapest, no matter what it
costs, adds Professor Bouquet.
; eH that is purchased on a cost
basis alone often gives unfavor
able results, either wnn poor
germination, lack of uniformity,
r hnth. Most successful com
mercial gardeners buy the best
seed avaiiaoie regardless oi ine
price, knowing that the cost of
seed is a comparatively small
item in any case.
v-.,. professor B o u q u et recom
mends early purchase of seed
while full stocks are available,
and also the purchase of only
as much as is likely to be needed
thi vpar. Extension bulletin
No. 552 lists desirable varieties
and suggests the amount of seed
necessary to plant varying areas
nf the different veeetables.
As one usually has some seed
left over, it is wise, he says, to
murk each racket of seed with
thm riatn it 1 tnirehased so that
it will be possible in future to
. tell wnicn seea is sun saie 10
use. Ordinarily vegetable seed
may be used safely after it is
a year or so old.
Always read the classified ads.
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who successfully harvested a mighty
crop of sugar beets despite the wartime
labor shortage
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Big Sums Asked for Fighi
Against Hoppers This Year
WASHINGTON, March 4 W)
Almost $2,000,000 will be needed
this crop season to control grass
hoppers, the bureau of entomol
ogy and plant quarantine csii
mated before a house appropri
ation committee, which reduced
a request for $3,944,000 for over
all insect control to $3,500,000.
In addition. $544,500 will be
needed to fight pear psylla and
$200,000 for Mormon crickets,
the bureau said.
Both grass hoppers and pear
Dsylla require greater expendi
tures than last year but a de
crease in Mormon crickets is re
flected in a smaller sum for
those pests.
Comparative figures are: grass-
hoppers, $1,873,000 estimated for
the 1943 crop season, svio.iuu
spent last season; pear psylla
$544,500 this season, $355,000
BEET BY-PRODUCTS
USED IN FEED TESTS
Use of sugar beet by-products
and locally grown corn and hay
in fattening cattle in Malheur
county is now being tried out for
the first time on the newly estab
lished Malheur branch expert
ment station at Ontario, accord
ing to an Initial report made by
D. E. Richards, superintendent
of the branch station at Union,
who supervises such feeding ex
Deriments. The new feeding trial was
started January 11, with 40 head
of Hereford heifers in four lots
of 10 head each. They are be
ing fed various combinations of
alfalfa, hay, corn, wheat, beet
milD. molasses, and cottonseed
meal. At the end of the first
weighing period average daily
sains of two pounds or better
had been made, which Richards
said is encouraging. Largest
gains at that time had been made
by the lot receiving hay, corn
and beet -pulp, although the mi-
ferences were not great and it
was still too early to draw any
conclusions.
When the station was estab
lished by the legislature one of
the purposes in view was to
study the fattening of cattle by
1 using beet by-products.
ProctsssfJ In tHree great Spreckels fac
tories on the Pacific Coast, Honey Dew
Sugar is sparkling pure, sweet, fine in
grain a top quality sugar
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last season; Mormon crickets,
$200,000 and $285,000.
The increase of more thn one
pilllion dollars in the grasshop
per expense Is necessary al
though infestation is slightly less
than last year. Dr. P. N. Annand,
bureau chief, testified.
The increase is occasioned by
this additional operation that we
propose to carry on, to compen
sate for the low availability of
labor, and the inability of the
farmer to get equipment," he
said. "We are proposing to go
into places which are hazardous
from the standpoint of spread
into other territories.
The department plans to sup
plement the usual volunteer bait
spreading -work with spreading
by means of government-furnish'
ed equipment and paid crews
where extensive grasshopper in-
festations occur on range or Idle
lands adjacent to land devoted
to the production of valuable
food, fiber and forage crops
Losses from grasshoppers last
year reached $14,000,000, An-
nand said, but the bureau's work
saved some $30,000,000 ' worth
of other crops.
Four-H News
MALIN COOKING CLUB
The Malm Cooking club was
called to order by our president,
Amelia Cacka. The secretary
read the minutes of our last
meeting.
We had a demonstration on
rolled oats, after which we had
our party. The boys passed out
the valentines, then we had some
games and the meeting was ad
journed.
Marie Fields, news reporter.
SNAPrY STITCHERS
The Fairhaven Snappy Stitch
ers spent one day of last week
sewing pillows and pillow cases
for the Red Cross and all are
anxious to sew for them again
On February 15, we had a
Valentine party in the home eco
nomics room. Lucille Schiesel
Joyce Ekstrom and Rose Gron
dahl were on the game commit
tee and Geraldine Martin, Mar
gie Mikkleson and Marian Schief-
erstein were on the refreshment
committee.
We drew names and ex
Weekly Page
changed valentines containing
defense stamps,
After we hud eaten Union in
the cafeteria we came beck to
the home economics room and
ale dessert. This consisted of
ice cream and homemade- cakes,
baked by the club nicn.bers. Wo
had a wonderful time and hope
to have another party soon.
Rose Grondahl, news reporter.
MALIN BUSY BEES
OF THE HOME
The few meetings of our club
have been called to order as us
ual by our president, Franclc
Phillips. February 8 wo had a
Valentine party half of our pe
riod and wcrkod on our crnyola
wall hangings tho other half.
Wo have been getting along
very well with our work and
quite a few of the members have
already completed their first
project. Most of us have already
started planning our next pro
ject.
We think we have done a
great deal toward our room's Im
provement. Joan Thompson, news reporter
THE THREE K'S
The Keno Klothing Klub met
on February 26, 1943, in the
Inch school home economics
room at 1:30 p. m.
The meeting was opened by
Betty Joe House with songs
Cleda Sacks led us in some very
peppy yells.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons took up a
collection for tho frame which
she bought for the 4-H member
ship poster which Mr. Jenkins
gave us.
We decided to hold one more
meeting before the exhibit in
May.
Mrs. Scherer had the girls de
cide who they wanted to give
the demonstrations in the final
exhibit. In group I, Dolores
Heiderer and Jacqueline Pritch
ard are going to demonstrate
how to make the handbag: Elea
nor Simmers and Mary Lou Lay
ton will make a luncheon cloth;
Patsy Ward and Kathleen John
ston are to explain the crochet
work. In group II, Gloria Fitz
simmons, Donna Layton and
June House will give a demon
stration of the steps in making a
dress. ,
Patsy Ward, news reporter.
TRAILER IS NURSERY
At the "World's Biggest Trail
er Park" in Baltimore, near the
Glenn Martin bomber plant, a
trailer has been fitted as a nurs
ery to care for youngsters whose
mothers work in the factory.
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By-products of the sugar-making process
-beet tops, beet pulp and molasses
are fed to cattle and sheep. They help
produce our milk and meat .
of Farm News
Weekly Market Trends
(Killlor'i Nol: Tlit Mtnwlnc tnrkt in-
formation It kuppllril from mntcrlal olt.
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tin, om,- nf llto cit-Mulon ftvnomUi nt
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form nf a wrrhly tiunmary or ireiuil la lh
llvrlook luitrltrl, ll lint tiitiinlrtl to rcplnM
tHl ilfty by day niatkv rriMirti.)
Cattle Markets
Cattle receipts in North Port
land were about the same as
last week with 1100 head avail
able for local sale. Tho top
price of $15.90 was reached for
one load of good .choice fed
steers compared with an ex
treme top of $18 a week ago.
Tho bulk of tho medium to good
fed steers, however, moved at
mostly $14 to $15.50. At San
Francisco about tho only trad
ing was in lower grades which
were steady to slightly higher
compared with a week ago. The
market at Chicago was mostly
strong on good und choice of
ferings reaching a top of $17.15
for heavy weight steers.
Total receipts at North Port
land for all last week were
about 900 head under the cor
responding week a year ago
Meat consumption statistics just
released show that the per cap!
ta consumption In 1942 ranged
from 7 per cent to 13 per cent
higher than In 1941. Largest
gain was in use of lamb and
mutton. Hogs were at the bot
tom of the list. Combining the
three types of meat gives an
overall increase of 8 per cent
ubovc 1941 and 22 per cent
greater than tho average of the
previous five years.
Oregon's cattlo population has
increased 5 per cent in tho past
year with an estimated 1,127
000 head on farms in the state
on January 1. This represents
an increase of 190,000 heud or
20 per cent in the past three
years. The January 1 estimate
of milk cows two years old or
over is 287,000 head.
Shttp and Lamb Market
Although 1300 head of sheep
and lambs arrived at North
Portland over the weekend,
only 500 were available for the
local trade on Monday. Even so
trading was slow on lower
grades. One load of good to
choice fed wooled lambs aver
aging above 100 pounds brought
$15. though most of the medium
to good lambs moved at $13.50
to $14.75. The San Francisco
top price was $15.50 for 81
pound wooled lambs while In
Chicago the market was slight
Achieved despite
time labor shortage, this hug(
job of sugar-making required 80,000
acres of sugar beets plus the manufac
turing facilities of Spreckels' three
Pacific Coast sugar factories
The U.S. at war is fortunate to have a vigorous sugar
industry here in the West. Fortunate to have farmers'
skilled in sugar beet culture and sugar factories geared
to do a whopping big production job.
With some sugar-producing areas outside the United
States now in enemy hands, today the home-grown sugnr
beet has become our country's most important single
source of sugar, '
SPRECKELS SUGAR COMPANY
ly weaker with top price of
$16.00 for a few cholco luinbs.
The stale sheep population
has decreased 10 out of the lust
twelve years to an estimated
January 1 total of 1,372,000
head, t h e lowest level In 64
years. This represents a de
crease of 13 per cent in tho past
year.
Hog Markets
Hog supplies at North Port-
lund were lulrly good with 1350
head available fur locul trudo.
Trading was steady, however,
with best slaughter hogs in car
loads bringing $15.75. Tho bun
Frunclsco nuirket wus up 10
cents to a top of $15.60 while
at Chicago tho top was also
$15.60. Estimated hog numbers
in Oregon on January 1 wero
323,000 head, up 8 per cent
from a your ago und tho lurgust
since 1915.
Wool Markets
Practically no deuls on ter
ritorial wools occurred 'In Bos
ton tho past week, hence the
market conditions were judged
on a basis of small deals involv
ing other slates. Ono lot of fine
staplo, bulk Wyoming wool
shrinking 63 per cunt wus sold
at a delivered mill grease price
of 44 cents. Offerings of 12
months Texas wools havo been
made at a spring delivery price
of 45 to 46 cents grease basis.
Contracting of wools In Texas
was reported slower Hum In re
cent weeks. The carry-over of
domestic wools at the close of
February is reported to be the
lowest on record.
GREEN SLABS
DoubU Loads IB In. A 7C
Pine Slibs
Buy now and live $2.00 por
double loid. These sUbt will
be dry enough to burn in 4
wseks time-
FRED H.
HEILBRONNER
821 Spring Telephone 41S3
the war-
USED MACHINERY
PRICE nULES
Suit's of used wheel tractors,
combines or' buy bulors In com
binutWm with other used equip
ment, in nil attempt to circum
vent pi'U'O ceilings, has been pro
hibited by Ol'A. The county
wur Ijoiiid can supply full In
foriuutlon on used machinery
price regulations.
WARCROPS V8. WHEAT
Although mui'kiitiug quntu and
acrriige allotment restrictions on
wheut production hitvo been ro-
nnived, growers must still meet
110 per cent of furin's wurcrop
goal to bo ellgiblo for AAA pay-
tot,.
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Snow Flakes
BAKED BY NABISCO NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
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Wholesome sugar Is food energy, direct and concentrated.
All the sugar it is possible to produce Is needed now
by our armed forces, by war plant workers, and by our
Allies in this war.
Spreckels is proud to have a part in producing the sugar
America needs sugar of top quality, This is our war job
and we're equipped to do it right!
Vndir wnnlmt rationing at uihtn our mhiIdh uai al piaci-
SPRECKELS HONEY DEW
li tht largeifriflling, "moll aiitJ or" brand of sugar
bomt-gnum In tho Will
March 4. 1043
I. rirnwnll who llUVB land
and loclllllea.to prodiico essential )
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Wllicrops Bllvll B 111 JT n-u, uijr
bfuns, flux, potatoes und veg
(tables will miiko n btitlor con
trlliiitltm to the nation's war
food supply If Hiey produce mux
limim possible amount of those
crops, rather than Increuslng
wheut ncmigo,
RAILS MOVE MILLIONS
Itntlroud troop movements
havo been stepped up until ap
proximately 1,750,000 mon are
triinsptirled over U. S. lines each
month. Tho figure does not In
cludo pui'llos of less than 50 nor
Individuals on furloughs.
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