THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1948
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PACE ELEVEN
National Potato Letter
Spud Picture Unchanged;
Demand Slack, Shipments
Slow At First Of Year
We Just u butt L hud our miy on Mip
ply lii-a wi'ck. Them In nothing m?w
ID Dip plt'tino, Mont folks hitvt
bfPii (UvM'ntli)K Lin Dt'iTiiihfr (Inul
rmi) ii'iiort ami hyliiK lo tliulrtr
whut, It iinyllilntt, II limy innui to Lite
rriniUnitrr of I he nmikellnK m-ufiun.
Mon ncMMIl to JlilVf cotu'ludfd thai
11 hitMi'L chiinurd thli.K much.
IM'i'iUh linn totul In 1) nullum hu.thrlri
nljuvp e-tt limit tM iiri'dn, hut lUU mll
llmi huhi'U jilirndy have lvm
titkrii by the Drpitrtiiit'itl of Aurlcul
1 tit r l.utr rrop production I it bout
ripinl to tin nhiirt) of iirrd.i, bill uboilt
hull of th I ip.u ( mil it of AkiIcmI
ttitr'ii piitrhunrn luivr num from thr
Uxlv ri'ip. 'I'hnrforr, lytci crop mip
plli't Atmuht bft brlwem 8 mill 11)
million below Jicrdv Mtmiwhllc, i(
1:0111 f-r. dciiuitid him hrrn very id ink
il I id .' hlpiliriltn liKht. An tin- Wrrkfi
pftfyi, Ihi? irlimllllllbl kllliply 1 Uitlnlllu
on I hi rrumlnluK urrtU, und may
yrl piivn them. In other word, n
leeiiiinu hhurl crop limy br tttniliiK
lnb a loiui nop. 'I hlit dcvrlopinml
IgfiuUl bo uctelerutrd by n tur hhort
nuf Next ifpoita of importance hit
Jmiuary 1 Km k. due it In ml January
i!0, Hint CrrUfini Heed pMKluriloit,
due about (h ftume time.
Movement
An Was expected. fthlplliritU fell off
hai plv dui inu l.'hilMnut week,
down i'jl lo 2UW ftoin i In: mil of
Iho piccedinif week. However, kov
ttrnmeiit t-art dropped rioin ':ir to
417 m l he net commercial decline
wns only 4:0 cam. Lookm a I totals,
hhlpmcnln to tUUi art) inure than
HtHMi earn behind Ian I neavm In the
1H lain urphi luUv Thin In hhaip
ly uaoUNtrd for by kiualler pmmIuc
Unit and partly by the lain ntnrt
rained by delayed fniita. There l
itotliuiM a la null ut about the nhurl
fall. und will not be If demand pick
up afn-r the yeur-end uulr a car
fthoiUu't develop?., in which euac
IimI Krotind could not be regained.
I r in 4 ltd and Market
Maino report that the demand i
alow improving lo moderate, the
market dull to flim and h'aolufer.
and prices up 1ft to 20 cent at IU
cent mrr Uie floor. Up title New
York demand haa ruled Mow but
improv.nii, the market turned from
dull to kllb'htly AlroiiKer, and price
up & to 10 tent a at t)ie floor Ut a
nickel under the floor. North Da
kota demand U reported Improving
fioiu very alow, the market about
At end y after a long period of dull
neiut, and price uncliniiirrd to a
nickel off at lb centa under the
floor for IIIim, and 7b to 30 centa
under the floor for Cobblers. Col
orado demand la reported Improved
to fair, the market nirudy after a
dull period, and prices unchnmted at
40 centa over the floor, washed of
fering. Idaho demand hna ruled
Ullht to fair, .mitely limited to Rood
mit; thr-martrri illRhtly ttrOHiter
flter a long period of very limited
alf. and prices up 2ft centa almo
the luM report at $1 lb over the
floor for wathed otTrritiR. Wn th
ing ton demand continues very nlow,
With too few inles to eMnbllxli n
market itnce December 3. MlchlKaii
reports prartlcnlly no demand, with
too few sales to quote. NebrnAka
demand lia.i ruled slow turuiuK
nuKlerate. the market firm, and
prkrn nbtiut unrhanKed to 70 to 7i
eent. over the floor-on wire sales.
Terminal rejtoru show Chicago
demand hKht. tile market nteady to
firm after atrr tiKlhenliiK; New York
uiiAeitied with fit in to sironKcr
teiidir.cy; Altlant steady: HoMon
firm Ui about steady; Detroit firm;
Mtieapdls dull; I'hlladelphlii firm
after MreuKthenliiK; Han Tranclsco
steady, with Klamath Kuvsets brliiR
ll)K 4 0 to $4 75 til wholesale I.VL
lots. Arrivals and trackholdlnn are
both sIlKhtly lower. Termlnnl dls
trlbulor stocka are rrported low In
many sections, ludicatintf probable
BHln in demand In the near future.
Upuds will cost more In January be
rnu;e of a 20 cent rl.se in support
price.
MUcrllam
Maine is reported still In trouble
with the power supply, with ware
houses and starch factories working
niKhl.t. Hasn't hurt output much,
but those niKhta In Maine nro
niiKhiy cold . . . Department of Arl-
cullurtt Is stilllnu some- Maine sput
fnir Northern Aroostook to factories
In the south end of the county.
Northern factories urn well supplied
from local low Krades . , . (Several
research projects are KettliiK uiidrr
way pursuant lo (he Marketing He
ncaich Act. No slKtilflcant proKiess
to report yet. We're Klad to see
marketing research net a shot In the
aim, but sad to see so much of the
possible benefits from pu.it research
lost throiiKh lack of application.
MiKht be a Hood Idea to slart pruo
MdiiK what we know and then uo
on fiom there . . . Department of
AKt'lculture puiclmM-ft from the J 147
crop now nmouut to about lUtt mil
lion bushel, about evenly divided be
tween early-Intermediate and late.
All but about 0 5 million have been
deposed of Utefully, with no 1osm:s
reported since July. HIiKhtly over
3-7 million are stilt In stortiKe,
available fir domestic markets if
needed or for deposition elsewhere,
probably ubioad . . . New consumer
ntnndurd for potatoes, effective De
cember B. hhoiild be of tiilerrst to
all sections. They are permlMlve
and not mandaUiry. but we'd like lo
bet It won't be Iouk until there Is
quite a volume of iradinK done on
the basis of the new standards,
tirade labelling will mean more to
comumeis than before, since the
new K'ades specify "tirade A" or
"(hade IT with n slzn dcftiKlialloii,
small, medium to larue, and lare.
Krom therte dehlKiiiilloim a consumer
can pretty well tell what lies get-
UiiK, and very well tell what he
wantn . . . 1'arlty Is up attain
jilenty up. Indices of prices received
and paid both set new hitch rccoidsi
In December. Prices lor all groups
of commodities except fruit In
creased, while feed, clothlnn. and
building material! accounted for
most of the Jump In prices paid.
Potato purity price now Is $1H3 er
bushel, up 3 centa since November,
tut TS tif t mI iii-m n fi r lien lHr
(received nveraged $1.72 per bushel.
114 ht cent of current parity and
lol per cent of July. 1M7. parity,
the basis for 1047 late crop pike
support.
TOONERVILLE FOLKS
6KANRAW 6II.LI3 CLECP3 lH HIS FLANNEL UNION SUIT ANP
LOCKS IT IN THI" ROOM WITH HIM WHLN HE TAKES A BATH
to
rf
Eradication Of Cattle
Grubs Ups Milk Production
And Adds Weight To Beef
Hr JIM KMN'GH b rutflcd wi that the powder totf
'IIib Miuwm lor the control of one d"w t( ths ktn.
of the more deatmcUvs llvcutock I A wash made up o( 12 ounce of
purunltcB, cattle Krul. I apprcmch- five ;ir cent rotrnone dust, lour
I11K. Mtockmcn and dairymen may ounccn of granular laundry tump to
well be making preparation for thin i one ifallon of water la practicable
Agricultural Activities
Around The Klamath Basin
control work. Heel cattle on Iced
thai are treated will make more
than a five per cent Kaln In wciKht
than untreated anlrnaln. A 2u to 25
per cent Kaln In milk production
when treatlnif a small number of
anlmaln. The wash la worked Into
the anlmal'a back with a atlff bruah.
The npray for treatlnK cattle for
uruba la made by adding aeven and
can bo expected from dairy cowa one-half pounds of five per cent
treated for cattle Krunn, over un- rotcnone dut to 100 gallon or wa
treated cowa. ' tr. A tank with an agitator should
The timing of treatment of In- UM:J- 'Ine ury hM be ap
fcaled anlmala la deWjrmlned by the : Plltd al 400 Pounda preaaure, hold
flrat aonearancc of Kmba. In the ! the nozzlea 12 to 16 Inches from
backa of the cattle. Thla will vary
but gruba have bf-en ob-terved in
the backa of cattle In Klamath
county an early aa December 15.
Treatment should begin 30 daya
the backa of the cattle. The coarae
driving apray will penetrate the
opening made by the grub. One
hundred gallon of apray will treat
150 to 200 animal In about an hour
after the flrat gruba appear In the ' Bt a c"l ' leM thn two nt 'of
buck nf nit . unrt ahnulri rr. !
pentrd at 30 - day IntervaLa as ' Dipping for cattle grub control la
needed. a little more expensive. Ten pounda
Rotenone la one of the beat. If ' "' "ve tenone daat plu
not the beat, Insecticide for cattle
Italna whlrh have wuvhrd arroia
Orei. ,n the flrat week of III4H, ru
lug illNRiitrr In other parts of (he
(ale. have brrn only brnrflrlal In
Klainnlh bantu.
Willi hither than uiml winter
temprralurrt now, the ground ha
hrrn free of front and open to ab
aorb the aoukllig ralnv, rapeclallv
uelenme un the range and paature
lunda whleh berame pretty well
dried out In !!.
(itoweih who have not made ar
rangements for allotmrnla of fer
tilizer xhould do ao Immediately,
Walt Jendrejewhkl. asslatant coun
ty agent, advises.
rangementa now. While some are
delaying purchase to see how the
Oreanslde tests rume out, they may
find themselres without any good
seed. The 11)48 goal for Klamath
county la 13,000 acres of spuds.
Occanalde teat will be completed
January 28 and 20 according to
present plana. JcndrMjew.ikl will
piobably be there.
Dan and Malile Maker, I'oe valley
raurhers, have returned from an
two ounces of a wetting agent to
grub control. It can be used either ! v ' Klln ot water are the propor
a a dust, wash, apray. or dip. If i tlom- Anlrnal should be held In a
a dust 1 used, it xhould be composed """ming position lor two minute
of one part by weight of five per 1 10 aMUre Penetration,
cent rotenone dust to two parts i I" addition to gains In meat and
diluent or Inert material such aa ' ni"k production resulting from cat
Trlpoll earth. Using a duster, two i ll Krub control, operators are as
peraona can treat about 100 animals i urcd of Increased values for the
an hou? If they're run through a j ll,de ' cattle at slaughtering time,
chute, at a cost of not over two ' 11 Pa' 10 lreat " more than 15 to
cents each. The animal s hair should ' 20 trubs are 'ound on any one ani
mal.
Printed material on cattle grub
control Is available at your county
agent's office.
4-H Leaders Slate
January Meeting
The Klamath County 4-H Lender
association will have It monthly
meeting January 10 at 1:30 at the
chamber of commerce, Trancl A.
Uklnner. county club agent, an
nounced. Members of Mra. Lawrence Marti'
cooking club of Palrhaven will put
on a demonstration for the benefit
of the leaders.
January 27 to SO ha been set for
the atate conference of 4-H club
leader In Corvallls. Plans and ar
rangement for this conference will
be discussed.
Klectlon of officers, discussion of
home economic Judging, and live
stock project work are also on the
program, Mklnner said.
Republicans Set
Up Committees
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (IP) Ma
chinery for running the republican
national convention was virtually
completed today with the naming
of committees on rules, contests and
convention call.
Clarence Buddlngton Kelland,
author and national committeeman
for Arizona, was named chairman
of rules, Ezra Whltla, Idaho, chair
man of contests, and Governor
Ralph Gates of Indiana, chairman
of convention call.
Chairman Carroll Reece of the
national committee announced the
appointments.
Footstool
Class Held
The first of a series of IS foot
stool workshops to be conducted by
the county home extension service
was held at Merrill In the Presby
terian church annex on January
and 6. 1048.
Special training m upnolsiery
technique such as the lacing of wob
blng and tlelng ot aprtiigs was ex
plained by Mrs. Myrtle Carter,
clothing and house furnishings spe
cialist, from Oregon State college.
Additional Information on padding,
welting and covering was given by
Helen P. Utlne, county home demon
s', ation agent.
The remaining workshop will be
held at illy, Bonanza, Olene, Chllo
quln and at the county experimental
farm located near the airport. Visi
tors are welcome.
Registration Is closed. However, a
few cancellations are being sent to
the office of the home demonstra
tion agent and a waiting lLst to re
place these cancellations Is being
compiled.
Those completing footstool at the
Merrill workshop are: Mr. V. O.
Rexford, Mrs. W. R. Fotherlngham,
Mrs. Iva Kllpatrlck and Mrs.
Charles Hill of Merrill: Mrs. E. J.
Lahoda. Malln: Mrs. Lee Holllday,
Mrs. Ray Garrison and Mrs. R. E.
Benolst, Klamath Falls.
cago on vacation from their ranch
In Malln.
Cattle shipments to winter pas
ture In California have begun with
the change In weather In the basin.
Dave Liskey, of Liskey Brothers
extended varatlon in 1047, the last ranch, shipped 10 carloads of white
months of whirh were
Laguna Beach. Calif.,
swimming and golfing.
spent at t fares last Sunday to the Liskey
enjoying leased pasture land at Frulta, Calif.,
j near Willows.
TO EACH HIS OWN
For each city dweller In Uie
United Suites, farmers raise an
average annual crop of one-fourtn
acre of wheat, one-eighth acre of
cctton, and three-fourths acre if
corn.
let "fcidck"
take over your pork and beefl
We will cut up and wrap your beef cut, cure and
wrap your pork for the locker.
SMOKEHOUSE
127 Market
A. G. "Butch" Zweigart
Klamath Falls
Phone 7060
Potato seed should be purrllased
now before the best Is all gone.
Certified seed Is fairly scarce and
the mnrkrt Is strong, so that many
growers will he left holding the I wjth her sister, who Is ill
sack If lltry tlo not incllrale llleir
purchasing desires and make ar-
The Wlllard Duncans, Merrill po
tato ranchers, spent New Year's
Eve In Reno, after which Mrs. Dun
can took a train for Oakland to be
Klamath Potato Growers
To Meet On January 12th
TuIrUka bom r trader, Mr. anrl
Mr. Kmlt UncUry. spent New
Vrr Kve In KUmath Fall.
Ed and Walt Stastny are in Chi
lly Walt ji;mhzi;ji.uski
Mundny. Jummry 12. U the an ;
mm) mr rlli in rintr for thr Klumnih 1
PoU to Grower ft aiutuclutlon. The
nirctUifi of all potato Rrowrrn l
Hehedulrd fur 1 30 p. m. In th
Mrrrtll urn etc whoo! icymititAmin
AmnnpllnlimntR for the past year ,
Inrludit rnlnhllnhnirnt nf mimrrnu I
labor hmifiliiK unit on fannn. These
farm bulldJimft etul-tu-rnd total a
strip five mil Ions. Of conMder
nblc importance also l.s the nrw
CMpkoii Combination potato (trade ;
und 5 1 early harvest and sale, as b
last n-ftarl If If nf roll spread 1a (treat.
In line uith the first point of the
pioKrarn H. E Flnncll, in churue j'
M-rd certification for Orecon. is to
dlM-uvi arcd certification and Indi
cate how much Oregon certified
ru.srt wed In available. Flnnell ex
pects OreRon's Oceamide test plant
tug to be ready for inspection before
r'ebrurWrV 1.
Dr. J. A Milbrath. plant patholo
gist, at On-Roii state? collene. will
dl.v-UM Irafroll and hhnw slides 11
fMabllshed largely through effort i hintratliw plnnt and tuber ayatpnu
of the RMOclalliiii.
Kevlew of the year'd buslnrns and
election of directors, however, U of
minor concern to urn were who are
turnlt.R attention to potato out
look for next year, (irowere are
concerned with production and
marketing problems and ttcncrul
promotion of the potato Industry.
Promotion of the spud industry
through research and advertising
ol Irafroll and other potato dls-cafirs.
Egg Grading Low
Gets Backing
POHTLANO. Jan. 8 fAt More
strict enforcement of Oregon's eng
KradliiK Ihws had the support to
day of the Oregon Poultry council.
A mmiiiitlre uas rt mi tn work
as discussed bv the potato commit--, ulln lhp MlUc riirct.tor of RRricul.
ire ai me oeea ieaKuc mecunK in . illrP on the nroblem. after notlnc
Portland last month will be ex
plained by local growers who were
present at that meeting.
Mtt grower agree that Round
promotion must start with produc
tion Mineys indicated the quality of
eKKft was not always what the
label on the carton promised consumers.
Maurice Iluxloii, Molalln. was
lion of high yields of good quality I rrctcd president. Felix Wright.
was named a vice prcsl-
potaloes The association has In-1
dorsed the five point program of
) good seed, 2 good land. 3
early roguing of 'tuber perpetuated"'
leaf roll, 4 dusting nr spraying.
"0ldat40,50,60?"
Man, You're Crazy
Furt'l jmir ! Tinnimli r pr t "it. Try
"ITI'I"! ni" Willi (Nttri, I inialtt nifr for ,
nih'liiwn fM-lifw i)u lrlr m lKlt' rk at tr.'O
whlrli tiinr Hien n.l trotiirn mil "oLI." Trr
Iftrri Timir TililfU tor tiv yi'ttiuipr frrlinf, thl
l Usu. N "el tcUkiiitMl" tlM mnig fiuo.
At drill ilnrfi vrywhere In Klnmsin
rlli. at Wlreen'i and Whitman Drug.
Silvrrton,
dent.
Classified Ads Bring Results
It's A
NEW YEAR
They tay a leopard can't
change hU spot but at least
here's a new picture of an
old face.
jL 1,1
My grateful appreciation of a
most successful year.
Sincerely.
Paul A. lee.
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MAUN, Ore.
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CI I Kin AY Malln"' 2:00 p- m'
OUIlUAI i Evenini Shows, 6:30-9:00
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Spot spraying in orchards.
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