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"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.
Biologists ssy some beetles
which live under (round are
blind, while others hive two,
three, or four eyes.
Pennsylvania Is the only
source of an obrnnlvo known is
rottonslone.
Women
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nineteen miles at an early date.
Friant dam was 90 per cent com
plete when priorities for mater
ials were denied and work was
suspended by order of the war
production board In December,
1042.
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