THURSDAY, AUG. 18. 1949
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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Bonanza Beef Club Keeps
Close Eye On Weight Gain
Of Prize-Winning Calves
Cslvr of the Bourns Triple B" 4-H Beef club were weighed
Thuraday, August 11 by fruncli Skinner, Klmth county 4-H club
agent.
Ann! Lou Romlvedta calf, "Klngflsh", made a dally gain of 222
pounda. Vernon Haley call, "Whli", mada a 2 60 dally gain. Two
calvca were tlrd for third high; these being Carol Cliallli' "Popeye
with a dally gain of 240 and Catherine IJearborn'e calf. "Ginger,1
rlth the aama dally gain.
"ITie following lut I the club members and their calvea for a feed
period of M dava:
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Annla Lou Romtvedl ..
Vernon Haley
Carol Chatlla . .
Catherine Dearborn
Maryanna llellekaon ..
Ann Challla
Ma Challla
Avhlld Romtvedl
Gertrude llorfflrr
Avhlld Romtvedl ...
Vernon Haley '.
Many Brown
LaVerne Hanklna "Tar-Boy"
Joe Hoefler ........ ...... "Dreamer"
"KlnifUh" 210
"Whla" $30
"Pop-Eye" 5M
.. "Olnger" 8
"Yanuey" glO
"Buster" 878
Tyronne
"Amos'
"Bill'
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P. I. Scramble" 800
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Spud Supply Prospects Off
6 Million Bushels; Figure
Shows US Shipping Up
Potato aupply prosperta from the
182 hirmt declined by si million
bushels during July, according to
Una weeks official crop forecast.
National production la now esti
mated at 26334.000 bushel, about
one-lltth lena than the 446.160.000
bushels produced In 14. and near
ly orta-tenth below the IBM -47 ever
la three bushel below the yield tn
aga of 203.403.ooo bushel. The na-
Uonal yield of 101 buahela per acre
dlcated by July 1 condition, but
1 ' would be second only to Ui record
yield of 212 buahela harveied In
ItU.
For the 22 lata state, a crop of
mm.000 bushel la Indicated.
In these mates, production amount
ed to 244.2OJ.000 biuhela In 1041 and
the iaig-47 average waa 304.473.ooO
buahela. The crop now In prospect j
la only ahihtlr below average ini
the Eail and West but la consider-
ably below average In the central
part of the country.
In the lata Btatea In the Eit.
potatoes deteriorated during July
In upstate New York and In the
three eoulhern New England
Btatea. In contrail. Main poutoea
continued to make excellent growth
during July. The aet of tubers la
generally heavy, and grower are
praying and dusting very thor
oughly. Central and Western Aeeaa
In the central part of the United
Btatea, the prospective crop de
clined about a million biuhela dur
ing July. Yields were reduced In
Minnesota. South Dakota and Iowa.
In the eoulhern part of Minnesota,
hot dry weather In early July re
tarded development, reducing pro
duction pros pec la In the Hollandale
area. v
In the Red River valley counties
of that state, growing conditions
were generally favorable during
the past month. In all areaa ol
Michigan the crop la making satis
factory prngreae. In Wisconsin, po
utoea continue to look very prom
ising, with July rainfall generally
ample.
In the West, poutoea deterlor
, ated during July, with prospective
yields In Nebraska, Monuna, Ida
ho, Wyoming, Colorado and Ore
gon now below the July 1 Indica
tion. In Ule Klamath Baaln of Oregon,
lata June frosts reduced the pros
pective crop mora than was expec
ted a month .go. The early crop
In Malheur County, Oregon Is turn
ing out excellent yields and pros
pects In central Oregon are very
favorable.
The 2S.7I2.0OO bushel crop esti
mated for the eight Intermediate
Btatea la somewhat higher than the
July 1 estimate. July rains caused
aome Improvement In the New Jer
aey crop. Recorded movement for
Virginia Indicates a larger produc
tion than waa forecast on July 1.
Despite some Improvement in crop
prospects, production now indicated
for the Intermedial Btatea la 2
per cent smaller than the 1041 crop
and 21 per cent below average. The
commercial early crops in Missouri
and Kansaa are yielding below ear-
uer expectation.
. lloasrgrewn by Tnscka
Rail ahlpmenu will not be of
much value during the next sever
al weeks because of the affect of
homegrown. Homegrown auppllea
will dominate a large part of the
country lor ecreral weeks In Au
gust and September.
Practically all of this tonnage
moves by truck and doe not move
through enubluhed shipping point
dealer. Much of It even detours
terminal markeu by moving direct
ly to reuil outlet. Dry weather In
the East ha reduced the volume
of homegrown over an extensive
area, but not their Impact on the
market.
Effect f high freight re tea.
even on areaa dlsunt from mar
kets, era likely to causa additional
shifting t o truck. Recent press
storlea report that a large vege
Uble operator haa entered the
hauling buslnesa with 26 new road
truck. Moat grower and shippers
can not undertake such a venture
but If the existing rail rate struc
ture continue as 11 la, 11 will have
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No appralaal fee,
No Block U buy,
N commissions to pay.
Quick, local appraisal.
42 year to pay.
Prepayment reaerv plan.
Farm Income repayment
privilege without penalty.
Ned Stewart
AGENCY
Equitable Farm Loom
ll S. lh St.
Phone 2262 or 2154
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the Mine effect as a protective tar
III, working In favor ul arras closer
to markets. If continued a a pnsl
live trend. It could have a strong
enect upon the geographic distri
bution of polsto production and
might even reverse the long time
trend toward mora dlsunl arras ul
higher yield and lower coat.
Movement and Markets
Rail shipments last week were up
sharply from the very low level of
late July, prlnclpnl galna being In
Idaho, Oregon, Washington and
Colorado. .
Market treugthened III Lung Is.
land, Washington nd Colorado, but
weakened again In Long Island.
New Jersey held about steady,
and Nebraska oiiened fairly itrong
and gained slightly.
Better feeling In the marketa
probably Is due largely to cooler
weather, but a new hot sieU and a
flee flow of homegrowna will
head olf any very great or sus
tained strength.
ToUl commercial rail and boat
shipments through July were only
8000 cars, or about five million
ousnris bemud movement to the
same date last year despite the aea
aon'g m uc h smaller production.
Price support purchasea have been
only about half as large aa diver
sion purchases to this date year
ago.
Mlstwllany
Claims by the National Potato
council may bring open contradic
tion. Many congressmen are ask
ing pointedly If the 1042 weather,
rather than acreage, ha not had a
lot to do with the smaller crop. Al
so Industry claims that the 1B4B-60
support program will cost no more
than 40 to to million dollara. Actu
ally, price support buying li mora
likely to go up than down a we
move Into the late crop deals.
Drought In New Jersey and Long
Island la the main reason support
purchasea have not been much
heavier during July and August.
Oregon la the latest state to adopt
a self-assessment plan for potato
promotion and advertising. Wash
ington move In the same direction
waa vetoed by the governor of that
state aeveral weeka ago.
The Western Blope and northern
sections of Coloado have adopted a
U. B. No. 2 grade, f- Inch mini
mum all regulation under the fed
eral and stale marketing agree
ment programs. San Luia valley
probably will adopt a similar regu-
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WORKING ON THE DITCH The bureau of reclamation is widening and deepening the
channel of the big Lost river diversion canal this summer to raise its capacity from the
present 1200 second feet of water to between 2000 and 3000 second feet. Picture shows
work being done on the dry ditch where it is crossed by the Merrill highwoy at Henley.
Is lion a IU harvest time
p roaches.
"No official word has yet been re
ceived on .the California agreement
referendum, which ended In late
June. An announcement should
have been made before this date.
Department of agriculture o f f I -clals
are not commenting In ad
vance of official announcement.
JI'NKKD GOLD'
PORTLAND, Aug. 12 uVi A man
arrested selling junked gold mas
held yesterday for Salem police on
a felon warrant. Police said Wesley
M. Byrd. 43. Eureka. Cal, had ad
mitted entering several dental of
fice In Salem and Corvalll. I
Big Military
Show Slated
At State Fair
8ALEM, Aug. 18 ( The largest
mllltora t,it,n -
cr ajucmoiea on i
twsfc in peacetime will
be shown at the Oregon aute fair
at Salem. Sept. 6 through 11, ac
cording to Governor Douglas Mc
Kay. Ciwvernae McKay aaid the display
would cover le.tvt square leet.
He added, "The Information given
me Is that la not only the largest
oeacetime showing of military
eqilrment ever held on the coast
but that It also U the first In the
nation to combine equipment of
all branch of the armed aer.
vices.''
A photographic floodlight seven
to 16 times aa Intense a auninni
on a bright day. enable motion pic.
lures to be taken at a speed ol up
to 2000 frames a second.
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