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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1943)
Weekly Page of Farm News PAGE TEN June 10, 1043 LOCAL CONTROL PLANNED FOR T Klamath county will have an official war meat committee to assist in controlling black mar ket activities and to assume re sponsibility for local operation of the national meat manage ment program, the county USDA war board announced this week. Chairman Burrell Short said ' that the war board had received instructions from Chester Davis, war food administrator, to set ; up a war meat committee for this county, the members to in clude livestock producers, meat handlers, health officials and community leaders. Announce ment of the committee will be made soon, Short said. The committee's main and im mediate task, the war board has been Informed, is to obtain pub lic understanding and support of meat programs so that this extremely important food may aerve its fullest possibilities as a weapon of war. . The committee will review and pass on all slaughtering per mits and quotas, and will carry on educational work with con sumers, livestock and meat handlers and livestock produc ers to prevent black markets from interfering with the prose cution of the war. ' In his instructions to the war board, Davis said: ; "The meat situation is criti cal. We must obtain meat for our soldiers, sailors and ma rines, and for our allies, as well as to assure that meat is made available in legitimate channels of distribution to meet civilian requirements.'" : To do this in the face of in creasing demand from consum ers, and to avoid black markets, Davis listed three "musts" which the county war meat committee may take as its charter. They sure: : 1. That livestock be routed into normal commercial chan nels, preferably to feclerally-in-tpected plants.' ' 2. That the slaughter permit system and the consumer ra tioning program are made to work effectively. 3. To promote sanitation in the slaughtering and handling of meat, to prevent waste, and to conserve meat by-products. The great majority of Klam ath county citizens realize that food is a weapon, and are anxi ous to cooperate in any pro grams to- assist in winning the war, the chairman believes. Many of them, however, are hot familiar with regulations and do not realize that the black market consists of the sum to tal of many small violations of necessary wartime rules, he pointed out. The committee's responsibili ty, he continued, will be to ac quaint all concerned with the neat programs and the reasons for them, and to impress on dealers, handlers, producers and consumers that meat that is slaughtered and sold outside of the : slaughter quotas and per mits, the price ceilings, or the rationing system, is black mar ket meat. FARMERS MAY GET E MACH1 WASHINGTON, June 10 (IP) The senate was told yesterday that a . "substantially increased program" for farm machinery production, providing for about 80 per cent of the 1940 level, will be underway July 1. Senator Lucas (D-Ill.) read to the senate a letter from Donald M. Nelson in which the war pro duction board chairman said that for the quarter beginning July 1 300,000 tons of carbon steel, ana otner materials in propor tion, have been allocated for farm machinery construction. . To assure continuous and bal anced production, Nelson added, advance authorizations totalling an additional 200,000 tons of teel also have been approved for each of the three remaining quarters of the fiscal year. The authorization, the WPB chief said, will meet the farm machiner.' production program requested by the war food ad ministration. Nelson wrote that farm equip ment manufacturers are being authorized today to place orders for materials in the new pro tram. "Special emphasis," . he declared, will be placed on man ufacture of harvesting machinery for, this year's crops. The right whale's spout di , vides near the summit, while the apout of the sulphur-bottom is a tall, thick column. If you want to wii itrhn. Iha Herald and News "want da," 3134. PROBLEMS Four-H News VICTORY VEGETABLE CLUB The second meeting was at Barbara DuBois. The third meet ing was at LeRoy Ades home, Barbara DuBois has gone to sum mer school at Corvallis. The name of our club is Vic tory Vegetable club. Our leader talked about Keep Or e g o n Green. We had one visitor at our club last week and two visitors this week. We talked about our gar dens and if we had any insects in them yet. News Reporter, Joan LaSalle. Cooperation in removing fire hazards and helping to prevent farm fires will save hundreds of man hours in fire control, ac cording to Bob McCambridge, assistant county agent. Farm fire fighting units are being organ ized, and 16 units were repre sented in Henley and Merrill meeting June 1 and 2. These meetings trained farm fire leaders in fighting fires. Crews of from 10 to 15 men are under each leader, and all donate their time and equipment to pro tect their own and community property from fire damage. Farm people who wish to burn should get in touch with Marion Barnes, county fire warden, phone 7991, to get. fire permits. Wyoming Is the only state in the Union to issue two new steel plates this year. Weekly Market Trends HWitor's Xot: The follovtor market In formation Is supplied from material ob tained oTer the (overnmeoi leased win In th office of the extension economist at Oreton State coUece. The material, in the form of a weekly summary of trends in the livestock market, Is not intended to replace spot day by day market report.) CATTLE MARKETS A fair supply of cattle was available at North Portland Monday with 10S0 offered local ly. Prices still showed the weakness which developed last week, with the highest price paid for good to choice grades of feed steers being $16.65. A few were held higher, but most sold below that. Good experimentally fed heifers brought up to $16, though medium to good stock sold mostly at $14.50 to $15.50. ; Prices at San Francisco were about steady with last week's trading. One load of heavy Ida ho fed steers brought $15.75. Chicago offerings consisted mostly of medium to low choice steers and yearlings which moved at prices about 25 cents under last week's close. The top of $17.25 was reached for a few of the best. Midwest markets have been reporting a scarcity of strictly choice steers and heifers. Lower grades have been more plentiful, while packer demand for cows has slackened. SHEEP AND LAMB MARKETS Of the 2050 head of sheep and lambs arriving in Portland Monday, 1350 were offered local ly. Prices sloughed about 25 cents compared with last week's close. A few good to choice spring lambs brought $14.50 to $14.75. - At San Francisco spring lamb prices were steady to 50 cents above last week's close with the top at $15.. At Chicago, the top price for wooled lambs was $16.35, while at Omaha good to choice clipped lambs were held at $14.50 and above, while some spring lambs from Kansas moved at $15.50. A good many poor quality lambs have been appearing on the Portland market and have affected the prices. Lamb mark ings throughout the country have pretty well shifted from the old crop to the new crop. Because of declining numbers of old crop lambs, prices of well-finished Need Expert Care You can grow your own vegetables, and tinker up things around the house, but keeping a radio up requires special testing equipment and expert radio electricians. We have both. Bring your radio in for a tune-up. SPECIALIZED SERVICE UNITED MOTORS 1434 Main " Phone 5103 PLANTS NEED PEST CONTROL AS PROTECT ON By BOB McCAMBRIDGE. Assistant County Agent Vegetables are going to need protection from insect pests from now on until the vegetables are used or put in storage this fall. Insect pest control, to pre vent damage to the crop by these insects, must be timely and ex acting. There are two types of insects that attack vegetables and small fruits sucking and chewing in sects. The chewing insects eat portions of the plant. Some of these are cutworms, leaf beetles, and cabbage worms, corn ear- worms and grasshoppers. This type of insect is controlled by applying a poison dust to the plants or by putting out a poi soned bait. Calcium arsenate dust is an ef fective stomach poison against chewing insects. This is a very poisonous chemical and should not be used on vegetables shortly before they are to be eaten. This dust is. all right to use on cab bage until the heads start to form. Other dust for the control of chewing insects are rotenone, pyrethrum and cryolite. Sucking Insects The sucking insects do not eat portions of the plant but, as the name indicates, suck the Juices from the plants. Some of these are plant lice, aphids, and red spider. This type of insect is con trolled by using a contact spray or dust. It must be directly on the insect itself. This type of in- animals are being fairly well maintained. A. recent study of livestock numbers compared with popula tion shows that while the animal units of livestock on farms as of January 1 this year was the larg est in history, the number in relation to human population is smaller than during the first World war. This was because the human population has in creased faster than livestock numbers in that period. Sheep and chickens are the only type of livestock to show an increase in relation to human population. On the other hand, in terms of pounds of livestock products pro duced, the output in 1942 was larger in comparison to popula tion than it was in the first World war. HOG MARKETS Large supplies of hogs con tinue to be offered in North Port land, the number arriving this last weekend being 2550, of which 2150 were offered locally. Prices recovered some of last week's loss, although the top price was still 25 cents below the top of the previous Monday. Good to choice driveins brought $14.25 to $14.50. Feeder pigs were scarce but were quoted at $i i or above. Oregon butchers at San Fran cisco- topped the market at $14.50. - At Chicago prices were about even with last week's aver age with the top of $14.40. Weakness in hog prices in North Portland has been blamed partly on inability for some plants to slaughter hogs as fast as they are arriving. Even so, hog slaughter under federal in spection hit an all-time high for the month, of April, while the January to April total was the third largest on record. WOOL MARKETS Winter contracted wools are beginning to arrive in fair vol ume at Boston. Idaho fine wools in good condition and staple were sold at a grease price range of 43 to 50 cents, delivered. These prices were about equal to a clean price of $1.18. Trading in foreign wools with moderately ' active Australian pine staple sold at a clean price range of $1 to $1.14. sect cannot be killed by putting the dust or spray on the vegeta ble It must contact the insect. Rotenone dust is more effective against sucking inserts than it is for chewing insects. Its uso is re stricted to beans, peas, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips. It is not to be used on cabbage. Py. rethrum dust is also a good con tact poison and at the present time is not restricted to any spe cific crops. Both rotenone and pyrethrum are scarce and if they can be obtained should be used sparingly. Nicotine dust or Black Leaf 40 spray are also good contact poi sons for sucking Insects. A good control for corn carworm is to use a heavy mineral oil imprcg nated with pyrethrum. This is applied with an oil can. About one-halt teaspoon is applied to the tip of the ear just before the silks start to dry up. Root mag gots in onions, radishes, and cab bage are destructive and hard to control. Napthelcne flukes ap plied in small ditches close to the roots of the plants will tend to repell these insects and drive them away. A solution of corrosive subli mate 1 ounce to 12 gallons of water applied at intervals of a week to 10 days is a good con trol for cabbage root maggot. This Is applied by drenching the soil with the solution around the cabbage roots. This chemical is deadly poison and .should be handled with all precautions. Mix this solution in a glass, wooden or crock jar because it will corrode metal. Ask for Extension Bulletin 551 "Vegetable- Crop Insect Pest Control" at the county agent's office for more detailed information. Take care of your garden this summer it may have to take care of you this winter! GOAL INCREASED FOR El The war food administration's request for stabilization of broil er production is aimed principal ly at heading off over-expansion of commercial broiler produc tion. The 1943 national goal calls for 4 billion pounds of chicken meat, one billion more than last year. Farmers are ex pected to produce three billion pounds of the total, including 375 million pounds from off season broods raised during the fall and winter when brooding facilities are normally idle. The farm plan survey shows that the state's 1943 chicken-for-meat goal probably will be ex ceeded. With both livestock and poultry numbers now at the point where careful management of feed supplies are required, the state USDA war board cautions against further expansion in broiler production, especially where construction of new facil ities is involved. Increased off season production is still wanted, but there's a "floor" under flax seed prices too the $2.85 per bushel loan rate, Portland basis, for the 1943 crop. Ceilings Listed on V" Model Cookers Klamath county residents who are allocated a new victory model pressure cooker by the county farm rationing commit tee are advised by Burrell Short, committee chairman, not to pay more than the following OPA ceiling prices: National cookers, $14.50; Wisconsin cookers, $15.50; Burpee cookers, $16.50. These prices apply to 7-quart cookers with an enamel lining free from chips and carrying a 90-day guarantee. Leaving town? Want to sell your business or your ear? A Herald-News want ad will reach very available prospect. Phone 3124. What little entertaining we do can be brought to the peak of perfection sauce FOR FAIR FINANCING Klamath county today re-' ln 1938- Dodd became chairman eelved an apportionment of, Oregon's first state AAA com $2077 to help finance its 1943 nilttoe. Ho left that post in 19:18 county fair. Tho apportionment!'? become assistant director and was unrl of a totnl of $49.788 !,ncn director of AAA's western made to all counties by the state department. Money received by Klamath county will bo used in part for financing the spring contmunlty fairs, already held, and the fall livestock show, if it is definitely scheduled. Counties which do not hold fairs this year can cither save the money for future years, or use it for any fair or exhibition in the county. Amounts appor tioned to other counties: " Baker, $002; Benton, $78.1; Clackamas, $2320; Clatsop, $759: Columbia, $691; Coos, $1167; Crook, $285: Curry, $193: De schutes, $880; Douglas, $1400; Gilliam, $375; Grant, $373; Har ney, $334; Hood River, $448; Jackson, $1539; Josephine, $444. Lake. $474; Lane, $2616; Lin coln, $409; Linn, $1713; Malheur, $783; Marion, $2658; Morrow, $387; Multnomah. $16,983; Polk, $905; Sherman, $376: Tillamook, $586; Umatilla, $2058; Union, $851; Wallowa, $458; Wasco, $823; Washington. $1431; Wheel er, $188; Yamhill, $1103. 4- TO y Word has been received from j Corvallis where 4-H summer school is being held, that Klam ath county 4-H club members will return home Friday eve ning, June 11, at 7 o'clock at the 'Railway Express office where parents and friends may mtet the club members. The reason parents are to meet their chil dren at the express office in stead of at the post office build ing is because of the fact that their baggage is all being sent back by express. According to word received from Clifford Jenkins, county club agent, all are having a grand time at summer school, and Gene Hartman, of Chilo quin, has been elected president of the Klamath delegation. Barbara Zlnn wrote a song which she entitled "All Over the World;" she and Margie Mikkelsen, Norma Chandler, Christine McCarroll, Shirley Marander and Gloria Bunnell sang it over radio station KOAC and also sang It at the dance Saturday night. An Oregon former, N. E. Dodd. now heads one of the important units of the war food adminstra- tion's machinery for working with farmers to produce food for freedom. Dodd this week was appointed national chief of the agriculture adjustment agency. Ed Dodd is one of the farmers who helped set up the national farm program back in the early WHY BE FAT' It's Easy To Red uct fLS" Ooonrla man hare F mora Jle&der trecefoj flmre. No With thla A VIH ptw rou d"rrS Wl any DMla. aurrhea, potator. meat or butwr. you efmply cuf llfm nnen It-a at u ... A YDH before ftstph mj. Abeolutir iva u. eaon In M OATS Vfjnf, YDS wwer tna direction ot Dr. C. E. Von Hoover, flworn to be. fc0,AYD"v?t,.' PPr only 3.25. Money back If you don't fet i Currln'a for DruH. Waa-forw Drue Da.. Waljrraan'i. m. am by the judicious use of wines . . . for cocktails, for table use, as a bthe sip, for the flavor ful climax as a dessert wine. California or Oregon wine allow you a full choice for every desired taste. WINE COUNCIL OF OREGON rMrMn.4Hi Ave. luildlna Partlentf '30s. Chosen by his neighbors to head the Baker county corn hog committee, he was shortly afterward appointed to the post or chairman of the stato corn hog committee. When the agri cultural adjustment and conser vation program was organized r8ion. comprising the 13 west em slates. Dodd still operates his farm near Haines, Oregon. WASHINGTON, June 10 VP) Congressional opposition to farm subsidy payments spread from committee rooms to the senate floor Wednesday as Sen ator Byrd (D-Va.) predicted they will cost the nation $3,000,000, 000 a year and result "in a com plete regimentation of farmrrs and processors." He said that failure of tho administration to ask congres sional authority for funds con stituted "a sinister aspect." The floor attack, Interrupting debate on an $820,000,000 agri culture appropriation bill, was 2000 of Dry Wood """'s BHeiiaaHeaai eaaaaiHaiBaiiiaBHBiaHaaBBS for the BUSY FARMER Your former sources of wood suddIv have been generally cut off. 1. The man who cut limbs and body wood for you has left the woods. 2. Fewer small neighborhood mills are cut ting wood for you. 3. The hired man who cut your wood may be gone. 4. Your farm help Is needed on the farm producing food. For our own part, under ODT, delivery limits have been reduced to the immediate vicinity of Klam ath Falls. With wood supplies restricted as they are, we undoubtedly can sell all the wood we can get, right here in town, BUT we don't want to leave you high and dry, or rather, snowed in and COLD next winter. . To remedy this situation to provide a means for the farmer to lay in his winter's supply of wood NOW we have established a sales yard on South Riverside, just across Link River bridge. At this yard -are 2000 cords of dry mill-run slab, mixed pine and fir, pine hand picked, and trimmer ends available for pick-up in your own trucks. Fin ish your load with wood each time your truck comes to Klamath Falls. We will have a man there during regular busi ness hpurs (8:00 to 5:00) to take care of your needs , on the spot. Don't Gamble With Your Family's Comfort. Get Wood While You Can. " WOOD TO :4 C H I E t Tills picture of Lieut. -Gtnrral Jacob L. Dcvcn was maile In Eitflsnd after his arrival there lo Ukc command of United Slain fnrrra "III Ul ' European theater. joined by Senator Taft (R-Ohlo) who said he will propose broad new restrictions against subsidy payments except where author ized by congress. Ho declared, however, tliul he believed subsidies should be authorized In some instances such as to equalize transporta tion costs when inequalities de veloped because of tho war emergency. Cords VITAL STATISTICS BRADSHAW Born at Klam ath Valley hospital, Klamath Kit I In. Oregon, on June 10, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bradshuw, 310 Eldorado street, a girl. Weight: 0 pounds 8 ounces. THORNE Born at Klamath Valley hospital, Klamath Falls, Oregon, on June 8, 1043, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Tliorne. 729 Cook street, a girl. Weight: 7 pounds 2 ounces. Protecting the Home front Home Keeper Plan Insurance Protection Tailored to tho Crowing Family (giampU with 110.000 poller) 1. Par' $1,000 and up to clean up family de hi i. J. Pavi $ 10(1 a month while children are dependent. - 3. I'ayi 10,000 after children are grown. 4. "filli Out" Social Security benefit!. OREGON MUTUAL LIFI INSURANCI COMPANY LYNN ROYCROFT 111 North Seventh Street atnw- I BURN" J
