SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1958
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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A MULTIPLE-TERRACE gar.
den at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Redman, 803
Front Street, rises from the
level of Upper Klamath
Lake to a sheer rock wall
high above the house level
where there is a sweeping
view of lake and mountains.
A stretch of lawn on the
lakeshore, below, is topped
by the first level of bloom
ing perennials. Others sur-
nd the home, occupied
for
rete
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ec-
ond story to a complete gar
den. The level roof of the
garage is covered with a
miniature lush lawn. The
seventh and last level has
been converted into a com
plete outdoor living room,
upper" pictiire. Here, Mrs.
Redman has built a pool
using rocks and cement, in
front of where she stands,
against the . 25-foot high
iff. Depressions in tne
rock have been filled with
earth and purple clematis,
snapdragons, California
poppies, petunias and se
dums bloom against the
rugged surface. A barbecue
pit, lawn furniture and tree
windbreak provide a hos
pitable spot.
Farm Data Listed
Poultry eggs The U.S. De I
partment of Agriculture reports
that egg prices weakened in Apn'
and early May, but remained well
above last year. A seasonal rise in
coming months is predicted. The
U.S. average price received by
farmers during mid-May was
about 37.4 cents. At the same time
Portland egg prices lost more
ground during the final two weeks
of May but the poultry values held
firm. On May 29 on the Portland
narket, prices paid producers for
Iradc A and Double A large eggs
delivered and graded ranged from
35 to 40'4 cents per dozen. Medi
ums sold for 31 to 33 '4 cents and
smalls brought 23 to 20' i cents.
Fryers The local fryer market
developed a stronger tone during
he final week of May. Prices to
growers in the Willamette Valley
were 22 cents a pound on May 29
for No. 1 quality birds at the
ranch. Buying prices on live light
type hens narrowed to a range of
15 to. 16 cents, and heavy hens
were quoted at 21 cents. An esti
mated 163,000 heavy breed poults
were hatched in Oregon during the
week ending May 24. This was
down five per cent from the pre
vious week but three per cent
more than a year ago.
Gram markets Gram markets
averaged firm during the week
ending May 28. At the same time
country selling remained slow de
spite small advances in the Pacific
Northwest with reports indicating
scarce stocks of free wheat.
Lambs up On the Portland
market a salable lamb supply of
some 2,200 head was about 100
head short of a year earlier and
900 head less than the week end
ing May 22. Most choice kinds sold
for $20.50 to $21, or between 50
cents and $1 above last week's
close. Good spring slaughter lambs
cashed for $19 to $20.50.
Butchers steady In the hog
division at Portland, offer
ings were much smaller than for
the week ending May 22 but 15
per cent above a year earlier.
The U.S. No. 1 and 2 butchers
closed steady to 25 cents under a
week ago. Most transactions
ranged from $24.25 to $24.50.
Slaughter cows off At the
Klamath Falls auctions, slaughter
cows were quoted 50 cents to $1
under last week's levels, but other
lasses held steady. Utility and
ommercial cows sold for $17 to
520.80. Good and choice fed steers
made $25.60 to $28.10. Such heif
ers moved at $25.10 to $27.90. Med
ium and good steer calves ranged
from $27 to $29. The Same grade
heifers calves went at $25.50 to
$27.80.
Wholesale meats The North
west wholesale meat trade picked
up in volume since the Seattle
strike was settled. Compared with
the week ending May 22, steer beef
sold strong to 50 cents up. Cow
beef moved at prices mostly $2
lower. Spring lamb was weak
to $1 lower and pork held about
steady.
Interesting note Back in 1941,
the federal government collected a
little more than seven billion, 200
million dollars in total revenues for '
that year. The agriculture depart
ment reveals today that the gov
ernment's total investment in price
supported farm commodities is
seven billion, 200 million dollars,
an amount equal to Uncle Sam's
total income just prior to World
War II. .
The Soil Bank The agriculture
department has Issued a report on
soil bank operations revealing that
more than 21 million acres of crop
land have been taken out of pro
duction under the 1958 program.
fDf this total, the acreage reserve
program accounts for about 17 mil
lion acres with another four mil
lion acres going into the soil con
servation reserve. Added to acre
ages already in the conservation
reserve from the last two years,
this means there are now about 27
and a half million acres of crop
land out of production.
Grasshoppers One of the worst
grasshopper outbreaks in recent
years is building up in 36 Califor
nia counties. Agriculturalists anti
cipate that the Northern Califor
nia counties of Butte, Humboldt,
Shasta, Siskiyou and Tehama will
be among the counties plagued by
the hoppers.
Controversial Special Doe Hunt
Defended By California Officials
By DE VAN L. SIIUMWAY
United Press Sports Writer -
SACRAMENTO (UP) Two
officials of the California Fish and
Game Department have come out
with a back-handed defense of the
commission's action in the 195C
controversial doe hunt.
Writing in a department publi
cation, former game management
supervisor W. P. Dasmann and
current supervisor Fred Jones
have this to say:
"The full effect of the doe har
vest of 1956 cannot be completely
evaluated until late 1958 and 1959
because the fawns that such ani
mals might have produced in 1957
would not have become legal bucks
until they were 1 or 2 years of
age."
"It is also true that an extreme
ly heavy kill of male fawns
1956 would have reduced the bag
of legal bucks in 1957.
"Nevertheless, the buck kill of
1957 clearly dispels some of the
pessimistic claims.
"For one thing, the high returns
do show that the deer herds were
at decimated. Also, bag checks
in Sierra and east side counties
have revealed a high percentage
of yearling and 2-year-old animals
in the 1957 kill, an indication that
the 1956 fawn crop was abundant
and survived well, and that spike
yearlings were not wiped out dur
ing the 1956 eitner-sex nunis.
To orove their point, the two re
cite a long, nearly exhausttve list
of statistics on kills during 1957
compared with other years as
far back as 1948.
For instance, the reported buck
kill during 1957 (when 420.300 tags
were sold) was 65,214. Back in
1948. 47.789 bucks were killed and
300,405 licenses were issued. There
were 70.371 bucks reported killed
during 1956 when 448,666 licenses
were purcnased in Laiiiornia. .
"It will be seen that the 1957
kill, while lower than those of the
three orecedine years, was consid
erably be'.ter than those prior to
1954," the article says.
The writers compared the kills
in some of the leading counties.
The kill in Siskiyou County was
highest during 1957 when hunters
bagged 4,396 deer, compared with
5.651 during 1956. In the next high
est county, Modoc, the 1957 kill
was 4,034 and the 1956 kill 4,817.
Those counties fall, of course, in
the late deer season.
After the close of the- three-day
either-sex deer seasons in 1956,
some critics said that deer herds
in come sierra and northern coun
ties were "drastically" reduced
and that it would take years to
build them back.
The article says that the critics
also claimed there had not only
been a heavy slaughter of does
but also the toll of fawns, spike
bucks and older bucks was so se
rious that this would lead to poor
kills in the future.
The Fish and Game Department
leaders go on to say in their article
that of the 30 counties included in
the early deer season hunting area
during 1957. 17 were open to either
sex hunting in 1956 and 13 were
not.
Some counties, for Instance, had
j portions in both the late and early
Trees Dried Out
Before Felling
NEW YORK Wl North Woods
researchers are testing a method
of drying out trees before they
are felled in a bid to cut handling
costs.
The .Newsprint Information Com
mittee said that since demoistur
ized trees are lighter and there
fore cheaper to ship by rail, stand
ing trees are killed chemically,
then left to lose up to 25 per cent
of their weight by evaporation be
fore being felled.
The committee said a solution of
sodium arsenite is painted on the
base of the tree where a two-inch
strip of bark has been removed.
The spring flow of sap carries the
poison up through the tree and
kills it in a few weeks.
Three to 12 months later the
dead tree is thoroughly dried out
and is fulled and shipped to the
mill.
"LEATHERNECKS"
"Leathernecks," nickname for
men of the U.S. Marine Corps,
came from a black leather stock
part of the early uniform worn
to keep a fighter from getting his
throat slit by the whistling sweep
oi a snickersnee.
There are more than 7.000.00(1
pleasure boats now in use in the
United States.
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