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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1943)
Weekly Page of Farm News1 PAGE EIGHT "AuRimt ID. 1043 Night Auction to be Livestock Show Feature in Fall PLANS SHAPING FOR BIG SALE SEPTEMBER 20 A night auction will be the outstanding feature ot the annual junior livestock show to be. held September 19 and 20, It wai decided at a meeting this week of the executive commit tee. Heretofore, ; auctions have been held in the afternoon. It was decided that this year business people and others who want to attend the auction could probably go more' con veniently at night than during office or work hours. The sale will be held on the night of September 20. It will follow a banquet for 11 exhibitors to be held at the tVillard hota'i by- the Rotary club. This banquet will supplant the usual barbecue. It was sug gested that the banquet be lim ited to exhibitors and various officials of the FFA and 4-H work and officials of the show. The banquet will probably start at about 5:30 p. m., and the auction will get underway at 7:30 p. m. Indications that the number of animals exhibited this year will be somewhat smaller than in previous years. Arthur Cole of the FFA and Clifford Jenkins, 4-H leader, re ported fewer prospects for en tries, but ample to make an in teresting show. " There will be 35 4-H steers ' for sale. Lee Jacobs is chairman of the executive committee, represent ing the Rotary club. Others at this week's meeting were Cole, Jenkins, E. A. Geary, Fred Pet erson and C A. Henderson. Not a Bad Stand of Corn vt , Hank Perkins in His Garden Home Dehydration Methods Told in New OSC Bulletin Weekly Market Trend (Kfiilor'i Hot: Ttw following market n formsUow Is supplied from material ob tained oTer the goTeraraent leased vfra m the office ot the extension economist at Ore gon State college. The material. In the form of c weekly sammsry of trend In the live stock market, is not Intended to replace apot dav by da7 market reports.) CATTLE MARKETS The total receipts of 2100 head of cattle were offered locally at North Portland Mon day, where prices remained mostly steady to strong. The enly distinctly higher' price was for medium to good beef cows and bulls which sold at' about 25 cents higher than last week. A load of good fed steers brought $14.70, while grass fat Steers ranged mostly between 111.50 and $13 though a few leads brought $13.50 to $14. An extreme top of $14.50 was paid at San Francisco for some sorted experimentally fed steers. At Chicago prices were down about 25 cents although top grades of steers and yearlings were steady. A top of $16.75 was paid for five loads of medi um weight and weighty strictly choice fed steers. Salable receipts of cattle at North Portland totalled 2685, only slightly under the week before. More grass steers and fewer beef cows were noticed. Supplies of cattle at Chicago recently have been grading about 40 per cent choice and prime, 47 per cent good and 13 per cent medium. Fewer of the top grades have been re ceived in recent weeks, al though current offerings show a larger percentage of top grades tnan a year ago. The number of cattle being iea in me corn belt states on August 1 shows a decrease of 11 per cent as compared with a year ago. The decreases are general in all states except Wis consin and south Dakota. inose wno nave cattle on feed expect three-quarters of them to be marketed in August, September and October, and the remainder in November or later. This Indicates a short supply of long fed cattle in the later months of this year. SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts of sheep and lambs at North Portland reached 3500 head over the weekend although only 2500 were offered Mon day. Total salable receipts last week were 3650. Good to cohice spring lambs brought mostly $11.75 on a strong market with a few sorted lots selling to $12. Most feeder lambs brought $10. Choice wooled lambs were ab sent from the San , Francisco market- but most shorn lambs were salable at $13. Chicago and Omaha reported a fairly steady market although all the top prices were from 15 to 25 cents below last week's close. Contracting of lambs con tinued very quiet the past week and indications are that large numbers, particularly of medi um and lower grade lambs, are Harvesting of fruit or vege- taoies for dehydration early in the day and prompt preparation for processing are important fac tors in successful preservation of food by this method. These and other pointers on handling all of the common kinds of fruits and vegetables by home dehy dration are explained in a bul letin just issued by the O. S. C. Experiment station entitled "Home Fruit and Vegetable De hydration." In this station circular. No. 149. D. H. Wiegand, Thomas Onsdorff and Alyce Holmes of the food .industries department explain every step in handling fruit and vegetables from the time of picking in the orchard or garden through to storage. The bulletin even includes some suggestions on the preparation of dehydrated food for cooking. The importance of keeping drying temperatures at about 150 to 155 degrees is emphasized in the bulletin. If temperatures below this range are maintain ed the evaporation of moisture is not rapid enough, while If higher temperatures are used the food dries too rapidly for best quality. Fortunately, the same temperature is applicable to all kinds of fruits and vegetables hence does not need to be varied. "Early morning harvest of vegetables while they are fresh and succulent is recommended," say the authors. "Rapid hand ling then will conserve vitamins ordinarily lost through long holding in storage. Under no conditions should succulent vegetables be held longer than six hours after harvest before drying and it is essential that they be kept cool during this time." ' While some have criticized de hydration as being wasteful of valuable food elements, this is not necessarily the case if the products are promptly and prop erly handled, the bulletin points out. Fruits and vegetables con tain varying amounts of vita mins, sugars, proteins and min erals all of which are essential to the body. With proper care given to each step in the prepar ation and processing, maximum amounts of these elements may be retained. The bulletin contains three pages of tabulated directions for handling 27 different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Dairy being held on farms beyond the time they normally would move. HOG MARKETS Hog markets continued to strengthen in North Portland on Monday with prices ud as mucn as cents over last Fri day. New high prices for recent weeks have been reached last week prior to the present in crease. Good to choice slauehter nogs Drought mostly $15.50. The San Francisco market snowed a gam of 25 cents also. where some Oreeon hoes Drought the extreme top of $15.90. An uneven tone prevailed at nicago with a weaker - trend on lighter weights, while heav ier weight hogs are: slightly nigner. me top price of $14.80 was paid for good and choice 170-240 pound hogs. The hog-corn price ratio In the Midwest improved one point In the last week of July, but was still considerably be low a year previous. On July 31, 100 pounds of live hogs at Chicago prices would purchase 12.8 bushels of corn. WOOL MARKETS The Boston wool market spotty the past week with some sales of free wool and some of mat neid by the Commnriifw Credit corporation. Grader! fine staple territory wool was sold ai a clean price of SI. in fnr choice wool and $1.14 to $1.16 for average lots. The USDA estimate th ioa shorn wool ' ctod at nnnrnvi. m a t e 1 y 377,000,000 pounds. about 4 per cent under Inirt year's record production but 3 per cent above the 10-year aver age- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor of Weyerhaeuser Camp 4 on Greensprings mountain spent the weekend with Mrs. Taylor's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Schmoe and family of this vicin ity. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Horsley ac companied by their uncle. Bill Horsley, were business visitors in Lakeview on Monday. Mr. Horsley of Portland, has been visiting in the Joe Horsley home for the past several weeks. ' Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Schmoe have received word that their grandson Raymond Kolf of Pon dosa, Calif., is improving at the Dunsmuir hospital where he un derwent a major surgery last Tuesday for severe injury and cuts to his arm -which he re ceived while working in a saw mill at Pondosa. - Lloyd Hanking is able to be up and around at his home after being confined to a local hos pital for some time. He is still under a physician's supervision. Sylvia and Francis Roberts returned to their home Monday in Klamath Falls after spending the past couple of weeks with their grandfather and family. the Fred Schmoe's. Award of contracts for con struction of an extension of the Madera Canal to increase war food production in the San Joa quin valley of California was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. The work is an important link in the Central valley multiple purpose project under construc tion by the Bureau of Reclamation. The award for building a 10- mlle unlined stretch of the 37- mile long irrigation canal went to Larsen Brothers and Harms Brothers of Sacramento, Cali fornia, on a bid of $448,668.75. Oberg Brothers, of Inglewood, California, were awarded a con tract for building a siphon for the canal across Fresno river, on their bid of $135,371. The con tractors are prepared to begin work promptly. Commissioner of Reclamation Harry W. Bash ore advised the secretary. Completion of the Madera canal and Friant dam, its source of stored water supply on the San Joaquin river, was the first irrigation work in the bureau's war food program to be recom mended by the war food admin istration and given clearance by the war production board, Com missioner Bashore said. The work on Friant dam con sists principally of the in stallation of needle valves to be borrowed from Boulder dam for the duration of the war. One of the needle valves will be installed in the Madera canal outlet of the dam, and the other in the river outlet, to give tem porary control over water to be released at Friant dam. Madera dam extends from Fri ant dam northward to Ash-Bar-enda slough. Eight miles of the artificial waterway had been built in 1941 when work was halted by the war. Contracts will be let for the remaining WAGE FOR SORTERS SET BYC1TT The county farm labor com mittec, after meeting Wednes day, announced that the hourly wage of $1 recently established for potato harvest work should also apply to sorters. The head grader, however, does not come under the $1 wage decision. Members of the committee said some confusion had developed on this question, and it was felt a statement from the committee was in order. ' Much of the time at the moot ing was spent in a discussion ot means of getting school chil dren's help in this fall's harvest. Russell Adams, assistant state employment director in charge of youth work, conferred with the committee. Chester Main, president of the Tulolake Growers, attended the meeting, which was held in the offices of County Agent Charles A. Henderson. Attorney Tries Gardening, Has No Complaint to File Merrill Vernon Bowman, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Bowman, will report at Fort Lewis for army training September 1. He re turned to Merrill Tuesday from the University of Oregon, where he has been attending summer classes, to spend two weeks. Mrs. Bowman left this week for Port land to attend an annual meet ing of fire insurance agents, con vening at the Multnomah hotel. Oddfellows and Rcbekahs and their friends of Merrill and Klamath Falls will picnic next Sunday, August 22, in Moore park, Klamath Falls. The affair will be a potluck lunch. Ice cream and lemonade will be fur nished by the Oddfellows. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blatch will have with them for a few days next week their daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Samsel, Hillsboro, wife of Lieutenant Scott Samsel', serv ing in England with the army signal corps. Mrs. Samsel, for merly a teacher at Marysville, is at present employed as an electrician in a Portland . ship yard. Blatch is owner of a Mer rill service station. The Lost River Garden club will meet Tuesday afternoon, August 24, at the home of Mrs. Scott McKendree for a discus sion on flower arrangements. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Densen have as their house guests their son and family of Portland. One of the "city illckert" who planted gardens this year is Henry Perkins, local attor ney, who swells up with pride wnen describing his project on the northern outskirts ot the city. Henry his performed an Irri gation marvel by watering productive three-quarters of an acre with a single H Inch gar den hose. With the assistance ot the hose, the occasional help ot Mrs. Perkins, and the compan ionship of his dog, Happy, the local barrister has brought forth varied crop eliminated by an amazing stand of onions. One-third of the tract is in onions. There are 61 rows, which strung out would total one and one-fourth miles. The onions are so successful they have graduated, into a commer cial crop, and should net Per kins a tidy return for his work. The attorney has between 700 and 800 hills of potatoes, 300 hills of corn and 40 tomato plants. Other products Include rad ishes, turnips, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, pep pers, beans, peas and cabbage. With legal exactitude, Per kins has handled his Irrigation problem on a time schedule. He has an easy chair at the corner of the garden, with an alarm clock on a nearby box. He starts(the hose, sits down In the chair, and at Intervals Indicated on the clock gets up and chang es the water. The onions are watered with an overhead sprinkler system. Water for the remainder of the garden runs out of long narrow boxes built by Perkins for the purpose. He bored small holes in the boxes, and plugged them with corks. He pulls the corks and lets water run out Into small ditches between the plant rows. The dog, Hippy, his hid greit summer along with Per kins. He his stolen the corks from Henry's Irrigation boxes and his learned how to pick pen. 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