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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

June 25, 1959 (6 pages)

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operated marketing, cases, set the pattern processing and marketing of agricultural products. The leaders in _ these organizations—management SHORTS froin the Farm Bureau Drawer California strawberry growers will harvest 3,600 acres less this year than last, aocording to Gruz Venstrom, California Farm Bureau field specialist in deciduous fruits, nuts, and grapes. There are. .13,200. acrés “of strawberries to be harvested this year as against 16,800 acres harvested in 1958: Due partly to this reduction in acreage, Venstrom anticipates no extreme price adjustments nor bad supply situations this season. However, the freezer price for berries continues to move up because of the strong national market for fresh berries. se 28 @ California Farm Bureau women are joining hands to help food distributors sell more eggs during the special egg promotion campaign set for July 9 to 18, according to Mrs. Stella Kanouse, California Farm Bureau field secretary. In various.counties over the State the Farm Bureau women are making contacts to urge restaurants to features eggs, to get grocers to use egg displays, and to obtain publicity for the event from newspapers and radio stations. Eggs are now selling at the lowest prices since 1941, according to Mrs. Kanouse, who says that the Farm Bureau folks are calling this to the attention of city dwellers so they may take advantage of this special food bargain. *ec *# & L. W. Feldmiller, general manager of the Valley Livestock Marketing Association “of Stockton: announces the .resignation of George Neilsen, for five years an employee in the order buying repartment. Neilsen plans to go into. business for himself as a cattle buyer, and will move from Stockton to Reno in the near future. s;* * ® Well planned and managed controlled burning programs will aid materially in wildfire prevention by converting brush land to types of' cover producing less fuel to burn> ‘They also provide fire~ breaks.and open access for easier control of wild fires, according to Ray Hunter, director of the California Farm Bureau’s department of natural resources. Hunter has mailed forest fire prevention posters to each of the 54 county Farm Bureaus, calling attention to the need for extreme caution to prevent fires this season. ** @ @ A meeting of the California Farm Bureau Bay Area pollution committee will be held in Berkeley on June 29, to discuss a possible recommendation on the use of obstolete orchard heating equipment, according to Chairman Herman Gerdts of San Jose. **e 8% ¢ “Farming is not a separate unit of our economy. It creates jobs in farming, but it also creates jobs in transportation, processing, " manufacturing, warehousing, and in trade: It contributes much to the packaging industry. Machinery trucks and cars, fertilizers and insecticides, also are businesses looking to agriculture for markets. Agriculture creates employment for a very large part of our working population, and can, therefore, be a major factor in the nation’s prosperity. This is another reason why you should be interested in the farm problem and its solution,” Earl D. Schlaman, director of commodity Bureau services of the California Farm Bureau Federation, told : no equal. leads the nation in. the ee. ment of farmer owned and farmer purchasing and service cooperatives. These farmer associations have, in many in the willhandling, money a Cooperatives. Dr. D. G. cussion of “What's Ahead California Agriculture.” ket efficiency. meeting, analysts will discuss the er. Farm leaders participate Money—always a subject great interest—will be discussed by representatives of the farm credit banks and the Farm Credit Administration, with a Banks for Cooperatives. Looking to the future production, marketing, cil. Not must, forgettnig that California Farmer, the Big Story be developed. s+ * # KEEPING ABREAST in the nation. Currently, and member, these leaders will and development. ‘Eat More Eggs’ _ Campaign Planned Eggtober. lease of new egg recipes. ifornia, June 22, 23 and "24, 300 leaders of California’s farmer cooperatives meet to discuss changes which are currently taking place ih the fields of marketing, prodresearch. The occasion will be the joint celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Agricultural Council of California and the 25th anniversary of the Berkeley Bank for Aldrich, the recently appointed university dean of agriculture for the University of California, will keynote the program ‘with his disFarmers are constantly looking for new and better ways to improve their efficiency. Production techniques have developed rapidly since the war years. Now farmers are placing more and more emphasis on increasing their marAt.the Monterey outstanding university; industry, retail and management many problems facing tomorrow’s farmwill hear and in panel discussions on the trends' in marketing and the trends in product handling. in the balancing of research between service, and promotion will be William Rhea Blake, executive vice president of the National Cotton Counfarmers in these changing times, rely on city folks fer support in legislative as well as other matters, Jack Pickett, editor of the will outline in Agriculture. This big story must be told over and over to non-farm families if a mutual understanding is to California farmers have worked hard for many decades to build their organizations into the finest these farmer owned and operated associations are at their peak. The farmer members realize that to maintainthei r pace setting ability their leaders, both management must “constantly keep abreast of the changing developments. Three hundred of gather in Monterey to exchange ideas, learn new techniques, and map plans to keep Oalifornia agriculture and farmer owned cooperative associations a substantial cornerstone in our state’s economic.:-growth Everyone is going to be urged to eat more eggs in October, when the Poultry and Egg National Board kicks off its second annual The campaign will feature “Miss Eggtober’” contests, special luncheons for food editors, food columnists, and others; and refor ticed at first for it occurs deeper than most Bronog. tools penetrate. bees first will not drain away. If the field’ is partially grown, standin tes’ quickly leads to seed an true in the field headlands where it is —e to park farm eq soil compaction is not nothe ap wg tks in fiel fields which been planted or if the crop waroot . onger aproblem. Further, rotary tillage leaves the soil in a loose, porous condition which promotes : good reservoir of subsoil moisure. ~ ru xx Freestone Peach Group Predicts Bigger Crop The majority of the advisory council members of the California Freestone Peach Association, ne meeting in Modesto, estimated the 1959 crop at 305,800 tons, about 10 per cent higher than last year. This tonnage estimate includes special tres panel composed of the 13 presidents of the national’s Regional it. There was some variance in opinion of the council members, who represent all peach growing districts, about the sizing of the Y and anticipated tonnage. Last year the crop total was 275,000 tons, toms were processed. Facts On Milk For June Dairy Month Milk and its products are rich in calcium. Man needs calcium in his diet to build -bones and teeth and to give tone to heart muscles. contain 75 per cent of the calcium needed according to science. Milk is also ‘a= major source of protein.’ The
human body needs protein to build and repair muscle tissue. And, not only is milk a refreshing drink, but it is a quick source of energy through its suppll of protein, butterfat, and milk sugar. Milk as a food benefits people of all ages from the cradle to the grave, from babyhood to old age. The cost of nutritional elements in a quart of milk would be over 40 cents if it were to be duplicated in other foods. Butter has been churned for thousands of years as a homemade product. creamery was established in the VU. S. takes the cream from 10 to 11% quarters of milk to make one shpiping and processing of which 120,000 Three glasses of milk in our daily diet, carbohydrates The first butter in 1848 in Goshen, N. Y. It College Agricultural Studies Call Grads June high school graduates who are undécided about their future college -training might well consider agriculture, This is the suggestion of Farm Advisor~-Doug ._Hamilton ofthe University of California, who also serves-as college entrance advisor in this county for the university. He points out that regularly the demand for graduates from the University of California and other. agricultural colleges far exceeds the supply. The landgrant agricultural colleges of this country graduate about 7,000 young men and women each year. Some 15,000 could be employed. No longer should agriculture be:.considered as. including only production. Many of the demands for agricultural. graduates come from chemeical firms, fertilizer indistries, machinery companies, processors, and others. Galifornia leads the nation in total value of agricultural production,-some 2.8 billion dollars annually. Servicing this huge industry, the processing and marketing, ‘#nd the. actual production deman@"4 large number of graduates, YR educated in agricul‘ture. More information about college agricultural training can be obtained ‘from the farm advisor’s office in the Veterans Memorial Building, Grass Valley. PAINTING WM. F. GOLLUB ® Quality Work Reasonable ; Rates pound of butter. Four pints of! INTERIOR EXTERIOR Phome Grass Valley 874 Also Spray Painting cream gointo every pound ie butter. Without Surgery a new heali rhoids and tion (shrinkage) amazing ein suppository or ointment f. members of the Optimist Club in San Francisco recently. counters—money back guarantee. Shrinks Hemorrhoids Stops Itch— Relieves Pain For the first time science has foundor on with the astonishing ab to shrink hemor-to nae as pain — without pov nee he i Bows wg! on nt ev n, ac ucfan toe om took place. 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Robert] , * ‘}Runels, chairman of the. special committee, has compiled the reMay. turns and has just reported them to the Berkeley headquarters of the California Farm Bureau Federation, Eighty-seven per cent of the returns urged that the government stop the present Price supucts with Sonoma and Marin Counties sg principal contributors, gis _Egypt has been a republic since . the meeting. were raised year, . Hog Production 3 Meet Slated At Stockton An all-day ‘meeting to explore the possibilities of greatly expanding hog production in California will be held July 30.at the} out, a.return of 30 per cent, About. } Stockton Hotel, Stockton.E. Floyd Forbes, president of in were from the Paso Robles the Western States:Meat Packers . side of the mountain, where much Association, which is spearhead-. of California’s milling wheat: is ing the campaign to free Cali-. produced—all subject to supfornia from dependence on midwestern pork producers, Louis A. Rozzini, president of the Galifornai Farm Bureau Federation, will serve as chairman of “According to the best esti-. accidents account for five million mates,” Forbes. said, consumption of pork equivalent of about 6 million hogs a year, Only about 335,000 hogs in California last “New assembly-line methods of raising hogs in small ‘space and other incentives offer a great potential to increase hog production in California,” Forbes said, port programs as soon ag syered whan. ; P Sixty-six per cent f Ports at all; Desehtoekees acreage allotments,. and. pes perl fe . cent opposed the Soil Bank pro. gram. Of the 1,200 cards mailed ond by the committee, 340 were filled . 60 per cent of the cards mailed . LY REPAIRS Lawson Termite ports—with the remainder coming from along the coast, which is largely devoted to diversified agriculture, Runels reported. said It has been estimated that home “California . accidents a year, of which 780 ,000 is the. Tesult in disability. 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