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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1949)
PACE EIGHTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY. JUNE 2 J. 1949 National Potato Letter Early Commercial Spud Production Under Figure For '48, Over US Average IT A. I. riT7.S!M:.:ONDS Total early commercial potato production at 67 million bushels U almost 10 million bushels under last season but still nearly nine million buhels over average. The late spring group of atatet shoas a small drop, from S mil lion to 30 0 million. The maimer Froup is reported for the first time this season at 32.0 million bushels, about J million under IMS but less thsn half a million bushels over average. Largely because of the inclusion pf New Jersey In the latter group, these figures nave some significance for August and September but can not be regarded as conclusive be cause a considerable volume of July August supplies will come from late areas not included in this estimate. Long Island potato crops are 10 days early and In good condition. Arlsona probably will have dose to last year s crop, around 3000 cars or a few less. Washington la believed to have reduced early acreage as much as so per cent but still will have an Influential volume. Idaho has a smaller acreage, com pared with a year ago. and will start Its movement to market In early July. Colorado's northern sec tion has reduced early plantings cx-mpared with IMS. Several of the (ummer areas customarily hurt their deals by rushing the harvest, and will be more Inclined than usual to do so this year If predictions of a bare spot In late June materialize Growers usually do not delay dig ging If their crops have sized and trie market is hot. Movement and Markets Rail shipments last week spurted to the highest total since the close of the seed movement In April To tal for the week was 611 S cars, up IRS cars over the previous week. Alter allowing for price support ton nage. commercial movement for the week was 0430 cars, up 1143 can over the previous seven-day period. The past week has shown the largest commercial movement by rail for any period since the corre sponding week a year ago. However shipments likely are much heavier because of the greater volume mov ing by truck. For the week. California, Arizona and North Carolina accounted for eS3 cars of the total. Virginia shipped only 210 cars but will move up rapidly. California likely is W rer cent finished. Timing ot the various segments of the crop ap pears to be about as near to perfect as the potato industry can hope to experience at this season of the year. . Last week's generally firm mar tots have deteriorated. This reac tion had been anticipated for some time with no apparent reason tor the continued strength of the sev eral previous weeks. California declined from tl.TS ta 13.30 In two days, and over the week-end and up to Tuesday has suspended digging to enable the market to recover. North Carolina and Virginia have suffered similarly, with declines of SO to 00 cents. For North Carolina this seems to be a rather normal seasonal experience, with the mar ket about steady at the lower prices at Elisabeth City but with prac tically no demand and too few sales to establish a market at other points. Virginia reported as unsettled and weak, with growers slowing their digguig. With California parsing Its peak, there is a chance, however, that markets will hold fairly close to these lower levels. Shipping point prices still are 50 cents over floor In California and TO cents over the floor in the east. Price Support Legislation Recent proposals to the house ag riculture committee by the National Potato council appear to be not too highly regarded by members of the committee. This is regrettable as industry representatives had been given 15 days In which to produce a "strong program." carrying penal ties strong enough to end over-production. The council's proposal that the Hope-Aiken act, with Its 60 per cent of parity support, plus a fixed formula for distributing the national acreage goal and some gadgets for taking care of new land, has brought forth no favorable comment We doubt very much that it meets the requirements laid down in earlier hearings by the committee. You can get any kind ot a report ou want on the Brannan plan under political discussion this week at Des Moines. So tar. no single senator or congressman has stepped j forward to champion Brannan' j price support proposals. Strategy j now is to hold the plan over for use I as a campaign issue in 1053. At least the Des Moines meeting has made It very apparent that there are many who favor high level support, at least for one more year, and who want farmers to get tneir price in the market place rather than from the public treas ury. Only real difference between the two is that cost of high prices in the markets is borne entirely bv consumer and hits the poor man hardest: support from tax revenues hit the rich man hardest. The total support value of the crop would be the same in either case. Almost final figures on ISO crop price support purchase put the total at 128J million bushels at a cost ot about 330 million dollar. Purchases from the IMS crop to date amount to 13 million bushels at a cost of around 3 4 million dol lars. Performance on the army flour yf , . cs n : -V.. - -- i i n i ' " - l ' Chrysler's 1040 convertible coupe make it bow to the public. The New Yorker model, ' shown here, accommodates six passengers com fortably. It is on a longer lSU-inrh wheelbaat and has a Prestomatic Fluid Drive Transmission. An electro-hydraulie mechanism lower e raises the top in 15 seconds or less. The eon vertihle coup is available in 14 body colors, six type of upholstery and thre color option for the top. The convertible also 1 obtainable In the Roval series. usable feed as an arc of tarn grass pasture and eight times as much as even good native grass pastures. SchUftrsrein Is Form Bureau Gueir Harold Srhlefersteln, county weed and rodent supervisor, spoka on weed control at the June meeting ut Ui Bonanaa farm bureau oentar Hthleferstelii classified and ad vised control methods for various weeds brought by the members from their (aniens. Ohio slate " Is known as the "llurkaya Australia, New Zealand and Ar gentina are Hie world's greatest woul-productlng countries. To Buy or Bell Use th Want Adsl FOR RENT r Sawing Mochlnes L.IS SI.Slll Sowing Machine Strvlct Snkl tin skins raws em Strawberry Leaf Rollers Cause Trouble Farm Labor Used because ot the habit ot the worm of getting on a leaf and pull ing the two halves ot the leaf to gether and fastening It with a sticky substance. This habit give it its name ot leaf roller. Strawberry leaf rollers are caus ing quit a bit ot trouble to local strawberry growers. These worms web strawberry leaves together and then feed within the protection af forded by the leaves and the web bing. In this stage they ar very dillicult to poison and control aa material doe not get to th worm. In case w here the worm la prev alent, and the bushes ar full of fruit, any treatment la almost im possible. After the crop has been harvested and a number of the worm larvae ar still present, spray ing may be done with lead arsenate at the rale of three pounds to 100 gallons of water. Some calcium caseins te, about to 1 pound, should be used in the solution to act aa spreader. In using this material. It must be remembered that this is a deadly poison and cannot be used if there is any fruit on the bushes that will be used. Another method that might be favorable would be to use a d listing of 10 per cent DDT powder, after the beme hv been removed. This dust loses Its poisonous prop erties completely after two week of sunlight. It would not be advisable how ever, to use any of the berries after DDT dusting until after the two weeks period and then they should be washed thoroughly. This Insect can be easily recog- Picture Good Oyer Basin i Supply and demand ot general I farm labor la running about equal this season, according to the farm labor manager at the Klamath Falls state employment office. Ranch pay la ranging slightly lower than last year, according to report coming In from some ot th ranches, however the pay varies with individual ranches and In some cases board and room is deducted from the pay and In others Included. General farm labor la getting 15 to 50 per day plus board and room. I Highest pay this year was M. paid j for a short time only, at the begin 1 nine ot the season. ! Most of the lsbor used In this basin is local, but there la some migratory help this yesr as usual. Since th request for cherry pick ers in the northern par nf the state haa been broadcast, around 90 per sons, some local and sutne transients have left for that work, reports at th employment office show. deal is remarkable. Domestic con sumption ot potato flour plant us ually Is around 10 million pounds yearly, and plant capacity normally la about 15 to lg million. But 340 million pounds of potato flour have been delivered In just about a year, much of it by plant that never before produced potato flour. About 3 million bushels of surplus pota bles were used in the past year's production of flour. Klamath Haying rations Start Opei Alta Fescue Stand Subject Of Survey A 31-year-old stand of alta fes cue ' the original planting of a grass developed at the OSC experi ment station wan viewed by more than 300 persons who attended a June field day to view past accom plishments snd present work ot the college in the field ot soil conser vation. I Alta fescue is considered perhaps me most nearly universally adapt ed grasa and hence the must promis ing single grass in America for us aa a soil saver, soil fertility Im prover and all-around forage pro ducer. The visitors also viewed plot where Irrigation and rotation ex periments were started in 1107 when many farmers believed that Irriga tion in western Oregon would "kill the soil." Instead the experiments have shown thst fertility rsn be Improved through a practical pro gram of Irrigation, rotation and fertilization. Some an 000 seres In western Oregon ar now Irrigated Th first pasture-sited field of irrigated ladinn clover In Oregon waa also viewed by the visitors who saw the original 11 acres seeded In 1037 on land that had been aban doned for ordinary crop produc tion. Through this and later trials the experiment stauon demonstrated that an acre of Irrigated ladino and grass will yield four times as much Light haying operations are under way in the Klamath basin these days, especially on dry land farms where rye and alfalfa are being cut. Borne irrigated alfalfa and grass Is also being cut now but operations are still light. Other activities tor late June In the farming area include crop dust ing for disease on spuds, on clover for weevil and thrips and on the upper Klamath marsh for grass hoppers. 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