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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1946)
Big Wheat Crop Looms In Nation Another great national wheat crop this year is indicated by current USDA acrcuKC and pro duction data, says L. R. Breit liuupt, OSC extension BKriculliir ul economist, in a weekly review of farm market, price and out look information. The prelimi nary figure on total wheat acre axe is 3 per cent yreater for the Whole country than last year. With the output of winter wheat already forecast at slight ly more than last year, spring wheat yields will determine whether a new wheat production record will be made in 1946. Growers have indicated inten tions to increase the national spring wheat acreage 1.6 per cent. Planting is nearly fin ished. Supplies Smaller Even should the 1946 wheat crop be as large or larger than the record breaking crop of 1945, total supplies for the 1946 47 marketing year will surely be smaller. Owing principally to heavy exports during 1945-46, the carryover next July 1 prob ably will be substantially small er. The present situation indi cates that the total supply may be from 100 million to 200 mil lion bushels less. The supply should be ample, however, as it is not expected that United States overseas shipments will be nearly as great in 1946-47. Northwest Wheat Meanwhile groat public inter est centers on wheat in me pa cific Northwest currently owing to conflicting demands for the stocks on hand in this area. Ow ing to the scarcity of other con centrate feeds, much wheat is regularly usea for feeding poul try and grain-eating livestock in the Pacilic states. The production of the feed grains, oarley, oats and corn, in the four Pacific states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Califor nia, in 1945 was less than 2 per cent of the national production of these crops. Ten per cent of -he national human population is in the four Pacific states, how ever. Thus, much wheat must be fed if enough meat, milk, eggs and poultry are to be pro duced in this area to supply the people with such foods. Clean Seed Recommended Leaf roll, that virus potato disease which forced russets out of Yakima, Wash., did not gain a victory over susceptible potato varieties in Aroostock county, Maine, "because growers learned to combat it with clean seed. This Maine county has a cli mate somewhat similar to the Klamath "basin while Yakima's growing season is longer and warmer, conducive of building up tremendous insect popula tions, including aphids, largest spreaders of virus diseases. Planting clean seed is one of the most profitable ways of in suring clean virus-free crops. Commercial growers can't afford to rogue thoroughly or spray much and must rely on clean seed and do all in their power to encourage neighboring growers to do the same as aphids mi grate, bringing leaf roll and mosaic infection from diseased fields. Seed certification provides for two iiem inspections, a bin in speotion and inspection of sam ples at Oceanside. Calif. An interesting fact is present ed by Klamath county Gem seed certification statistics for 1945. Over 1500 acres were entered in the program. Three hundred acres met certification standards. Two hundred of the 300 acres were fields nlanted to Art Small's Montana seed. Very Ut ile or me acreage planted witn that seed was rejected. Of 1200 acres planted with seed previ ously certified here only 100 acres passed. The seed had met certification requirements in 1944. In 1945 it was still good seed for a commercial planting but disease had increased. Field inspection notes and re sults of the Oceanside sample planting inspection are available at the county agent's office and should be used. China, Japan Jaunt Talked By Truman . WASHINGTON, April 18 (If) President Truman told his news ( conference Wednesday that he would like to visit both China and Japan during a tentatively j planned trip to Manila this sum 1 mer for the inauguration of Phil '. ippine independence. The president said that he had no plans for a fishing trip to the Pacific coast, but that he was seriously considering visiting Manila for the Philippine cele bration, July 4. THE Dl" AND NEEDLEWORK SHOP 325 Main Suite 7 Knitting Yarns Hiawatha Crepe-Corda Hiawatha Chenille for Hata Knitting Instructions Commercial Knitting Susan Bates Needles KATHLEEN KRIZ Owner Shop Closed on Mondays Leveling Valley Land yrir--.i- . - ""V. .v A 12-yard carryall and R-D 8 tractor, toil conservation equip ment is shown above being used ior leveling land in Langell valley. Under the AAA conservation program payments are allowed farmers for this type of work. Farm signups are being continued until the end of April. National Potato Letter NATIONAL POTATO LETTER Even with no official estimate of po tato stocks, a glance at carlot shipments, corrected for current heavy weight, will convince any tkepUc that aiup pea ranee during March has been tre mendous; perluip a record. The farther we go. the more certain we are that the clean-up will be relatively easy, with the poMbie exception of Ked Kiver Valley. Shipments in several areas will show more rapid tapering off. and in about six weeks, maybe a little earlier this year, early shipments will equal the late volume and thereafter rue rapidly. In the meantime, late areas are just as much in the spud business as In mid winter, what with planting under way or in Immediate prospect, and problems of fertiliser, labor, competition, and marketing to solve. Movinc Movement last week turned down ward afiain. which is typical of April j after the heavy seed shipments of March. 1 TV.!. I u-i 1U rar. nr 11(11 nrt ImMiiw the previous week and 1373 below two weeks ago. Daily average for the past week was 859 cars, which probably in cluded fcome seed, also about 2t cars for Canada, but on the whole tonnage was about what the markets could stand under prevailing conditions. Important declines in old-crop ship menu were noted in Colorado. Idaho, Maine. Minnesota. Nebraska. North Da.' kota and Oregon with minor chances elsewhere. For the early states, south ern California now has total of 203 cars: Florida has 3459 with 490 cars for last week alone; Texas has 437 with a 372 car total for the week. This makes the total for the early movement 4106 cars, with California and Alabama due to start in small way this month and Hast ings. Florida and Texas coming into stride, prospects indicate plenty of early potatoes in April. Demand and Markets Markets show a wide range, from very dull to stronger. In Maine, the demand has been fair after nearly three weeks of slow activity, with prices 10 cents under the April ex-ceiling. Idaho, de mand has ruled good after a similar pe riod of slowness, with prices 10 cents over ex-ceiling. North Dakota demand is reported slow, market tone weaxer but too lew No. 1 sales to establish a market. Wisconsin, demand continues now. market. about steady with a few sales of commercials but not enough No. 1's to quote. Michigan demand has been very slow, market emu, too tew saies to es tablish market. Upstate New York de mand also is slow with the market about steady and prices still S to 10 cents over the ex-ceiling for very few sales. Early markets are in fair to good shape, with Dade County, Florida re porting moderate demand, marxet aoou steady, prices $2.10 for washed 50's. Hastings. Florida demand has been good, ! market steady ior .o. l. zsixe a. out weaker for Size B. prices around $4.05 u Size A ana wasning eacn are worm a dime. Texas, Lower Valley, demand is good, market firm, prices about $1.70 to 51.75 for washed 50's packed I'a inch minimum, a Texas habit acauired in re cent years, evidently war-inspired. Terminal reports are mixed. .New York has ruled dull on old stock with new. unsettled and weaker. Chicago old demand has been moderate, market slightly stronger: new. demand also moderate with the market steady. At lanta is steady all around. Boston re ports a better feeling for old: new. mar ket strong. Detroit, old about steady but better feeling prevails: new. slightly stronger. .Minneapolis, oia ami, new stead)-. Philadelphia, old slightly stronger, new about steady. San Francisco, about steady all around, prices $3.75 to $4.25 for U. S. No. 1. Size A Klamath Russets, in lcl wholesale lots. Indications are there Isn't much of this stock left to move. An April cleanup is about nor mal for the Klamath-Tule Lalte area. Surplus Disposal As Indicated, the real problems of late crop disappearance by May 1 are about solved. However, there are considerable quantities of potatoes around, especially in the Red River Valley, which may be troublesome to individuals and to USDA, especially as to deteriorated lots. Can ada will continue to take good mar ketable stock in reduced quantities. General Sheet Metal Gutters Awning Bars Flue Extensions s Skylights S) Metal Flashing s Tanks s Roof Jacks s Metal Roofs s Ventilators J. S. Fade Sheet Metal Contractor 468 Spring Phone 3616 Sm Jt ik ,v j A r , v f (I if BtDEB POTATO jJH maoe 0 to 50 cars daily. VSDA has processing outlets in Cadillac, Michigan, Muscatine. Iowa and Omaha. Nebraska. Should be able to accommodate M) cars daily. Stronger feeling in Chicago may mean that junk offerings are pretty welt cleaned up by the commercial movement to alcohol plants, and that reasonably clean stuff can be sold at support prices. This alcohol business can be big very big Distillers have very little gram to work on. and apparently are willing to pay good prices fur low-grade stock (or whiskey blending alcohol. They are re ported as paying above support prices lor sound low grades delivered at plant in midwest territory. At any rate, out lets will not be lacking in the imme diate future. tsrly Crop Conjecture We'll have a new crop report soon, but in the meantime can indulge tn costal gazing. Estimates vary widely, with the lowest around GO million bushels, high est up to about 7o million. Uncertainty lies in the probablecffec(s of the new push for high food production, and the extent to which the campaign to en courage consumption of potatoes in lieu of cereals takes hold. Growers may have more late-planted early acreage than has been reported and wisest heads in the j heavy early production As compared with average, weather has been altogether too good. Despite a few slow starts here and there, growing conditions have approached the ideal no frosU. no serious blight or floods. Yield prospects are now good to excel lent with nearly all areas on time or slightly early. In other words. If exist ing conditions continue, we can have a whale of an early crop whether the acre age goes up or not. A combination of both would be something. We don't feel pessimistic, but things are about too gocd. Somebody ought to have some trouble, just to bear out the law of average. This may be blight in Texas, and especially in Alabama, where rains were heavy recently. Frost danger ts about over in the Southern belt, and blight and drought are about all there Is to worry about from now on. The Mav crop probably is about safe, although there still is some danger that cold, wet blight weather can change the present prospect. Weather Spurs Farming Here Warm, dry weather has caused farming to get under way in all major farming areas. The ground has dried out considerably dur-1 ing the past 10 days and wheat and rye planting are nearly com-'; plete. The land is now being prepared for both oats and bar ley and a little planting has got ten under way. Several hun dred acres of peas have been planted to be plowed under later on in the season for soil building purposes. Acreage of commercial peas to be harvested will be very small. Interest in potato planting Is increasing but there is still con- -siderable amount of russet seed still unsold in the area. Some excellent lots have been sold for : table stock because of poor local demand. , The quantity of seed, meeting PILLOW KLAMATH MACHINE & LOCOMOTIVE MILL SUPPLY DEPT. Spring and Elm Phone 5141 x ELL CHIPS all certified requirements, was not largo but lime Is nerd for till of it by locul flowers. Farm signup, complete to April 1, shows tippt'oximuti'ly fiO per cent of the (ai ins ii KluuiHth county indu'iiled the following (unn production for 194(1: wheat acre age, the .same as Inst year; bar ley, increase of iibout 15 per cent; oats, decrease of about S per cent; potatoes, decrease of 12 per cent to IS per cent; alfalfa, a slight increase; clover seed, increase of about 35 per cent. Very preliminary figures of livestock show some increase in beof cuttle with decrease in dairy cattle, sheep, hogs and tur keys, and slight increuse in lay ing flocks. Log Bark Will Be Utilized LONGVIEW, Wash.. April 18 (i The Weyerhaeuser Timber company has announced three new uses for the by-products of the bark from logs, which their development department discov ered in a quest to make the de barking of their logs more eco nomical. None of the finished products will be tmide by the company, said Clark E. Heritage. Weycr hueuser's technical director, but the materials will be sold to companies engaged in the proper types of manufacture. While Heritage did not dis close how the bark is broken down into various components, he described the new products. He said one was useful as an in gredient of an insecticide and even now is being marketed. Another Is used in the com pounding of resin glues for ply wood manufacture. The third is known to the trode as thermo setting molding compound and to laymen as plastic. When sub jected to heat in a mold, this material becomes a solid such as telephones are made of. Heritage odded many other uses for the bark compounds are under development but have not reached the stage to Justify a public announcement of their nature. Soil Conservation Board Holds Meet Poc valley soil conservation district board of supervisors met Wednesday with U. S. soil con servation service representatives and E. Laton Stephens, U. S. bureau of reclamation, to out line work plans for the district. The group will meet again Monday in the soil conservation office. Drew building, to com plete further plans. The district board includes Wilbur Reiling, chairman, Arthur Schaupp, sec retary. Rex High. Vic Brown and George Stevenson. Langell valley organized and has operated a soil conservation district since 1941. BUTZER'S SEED STORE Everything For Th Garden Send For Our Frea Seed Catalog All Mail Orders Filled Promptly CCCnC " k'nl lbl Gr.w. 'ttUO vno cu t keep (hem la the ground. " Butzer's Seed Store Corner s. w. "nd and M.lo St. Portlaod 4. Oregon BLOCKS (Heavy Clamp Boxes) Babbitted and Reamed Both Ends Faced 3A" to 2 1516" inclusive v7 You see the Blue Eell dis play in all leading stores. Grocers say they're the big-, gest selling potato chip-on the market. A delicate, nour ishing food with that grand potato flavor. .They're Sabinized. Farm Labor Camps Set To Expand Grower sponsored camps in Oregon for transient farm work ers, which proved their value during the war years, are all set to operate again in HM(I with expanded housing facilities, says lieu Tucker, assistant stale su pervisor of the emergency farm labor program In the OSC exten sion service. Three additional camps will open for the first time this year at Forest Grove, Salem und at Adrian in Malheur county. The Milton-Frocwutor camp has been expanded to provide for 75 families during the 1040 har vests. This camp housed 25 fam ilies in 11)4(1. The camn at The Dalles has been doubled to pro- vine laeumcs for 2U0 ramllies. The Coburg camp near Eugene will hold 100 families this year a 25 Per cent increase. At' Ma tin in Klamaiii county, the mi grant camp lias been doubled to house 1110 families. Lroit In Stat If Salem farmers and proces sors are able to utilize the Salem airport buildings as proposed, this camp will become the larg est migrant housing facility in the state. Estimates place the number of families which could be housed at 400. The Forest Grove camp will be a 100-family installation and the Adrian camn cares for 200 families, adds Tucker who is In charge of do mestic farm labor camps in this state. Figures gathered in camps lust year indicate that farmers may A Fence to Meet Every Need Mad from selected 48 In. full sis wood slats, evenly spaced and woven between 5 cables of heavy wire. Colors, red or green. It's easily, quickly and per manently erected. Long last ing and makes a good ap pearance. It's inexpensive, too. Available In any quantity. Suburban Lbr. Co. 4784 So. 6th Phone 7709 sH I'LL BE READY IN A JIFFY, MOTHER, NOW THAT MY DRAIN BOARD IS CLOROX-CLEANf I &zm expect an average o( 3 8 field workers per family. All organized cuiups provide central slmwcis, laundries and toilets. The family-sized tents coino complete with light, water, fuel, cots, mattresses, cookslove und lable. ltcnluls per famllv lunged from $1.50 to $4 per week in 11145. Man Faces Life In Prison For Murder PORTLAND, April IB (VI Robert Wulker, ;15, faced a life sentence today for the slaying of Mury I'uguo, 75, In her homo, March 24. He pleaded guilty to second degree murder yesterday. James J. Hathaway, 42, was sentenced to 2(1 years' imprison ment after pleading guilty to the robbery of the Oregon Mutual Savings bunk February 28. Two companions in the holdup were sentenced earlier. HIGH FISH The world's highest fish live In a lake locuted 12,001) feet high mining the peaks of the Pamir mountains of Asia. The fish are trout. EASTER SUNDAY ORDER NOW! Oregon's Own Famous Brookings CROFT Easter 4 Tfc 1 f The very rincit! DELIVERIES Klamatli Fl 1211 Main yes, CL0R0X DISINFECTS, it also deodorizes, REMOVES STAINS. AND, TOO, TKATcu. . . A LITTLE (rUto A Modern home makers carefully heed the advice of health authorities who urge hygienic home cleans ing to protect family health. That's why so many women use Clorox in routine cleaning to make kitchens and bathrooms sanitary, for Clorox is an effective germicide. In laundoring, Clorox provides sanitation, loo , . it also bleaches while cottons and linens inowy-while (brightens fast colon). Clorox is economical and easy to use, Simply follow directions on the label. YEARS Or UNSURPASSED QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE HAVE MADE CLOROX THE CHOICE Of MILLIONS... IT'S ALWAYS UNIFORM ... IT'S ALWAYS DEPENDABLE! bp i(f QMMOaeuriird. MKBM.D NKWS, Kl.m.lk r.lli, On. 2 Apportionments Made In Oregon SAI.EM, April 18 (I') The stale ileparlinent today niiide two apportionments lu counties and cities. They were $511,1(111 In liquor privilege lux revenues for the first quarter of this year, which goes to counties und cities. The iiain RAIN DROPS AMINOS WASH WORD 16 LILIES Combination EASTER BOXES (Potted Plonti) Hydrangeas Rose. Orchids Gardenias A complete selection of cut floweri fresh doily from our greenhouses For the lint time are able to make suburban districts, Charlie Mack Sanford Rota I'M GLAD YOUlRESO CAREFUL, JANE! IT'S A WISE PRECAUTION TO MAKE HOME DAHGERZ0NESHYGIm ENICAUY CLEAN! CLOROX-CLEANf IT'S C0NCEN- LUN(r WAT I s4metmb rII TIII'A V, Aill II. It. other iipuortlouincnt, $0234 for cr.unlles, covers tho siiuin period und is 40 per cent of tho Mills amusement device tu receipts. I ON litillih Nt-RwbbUi Wis li Yvr Itrvinl Juit like Aladdin you havt a moyk genit al yovf lervkal II wosti no poliihai your IwtoUum 01 btluht t Aluddtn'i wl. Grown locally In our graonhoutet! since the war. we dally deliveries In as In the city. . ower ohop Phona 41S9 "9avoute BleacA and FROM CAUSTIC
