White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-08-03

sometimes effects livestock. We do
believe that this writeup can be of
considerable value to readers of
county papers and in fact to all far
mers of the county,
GENERAL
The relative purchasing power of
farm products for the United States
for May, 1923 was 81 cents COM
pared to lC0 cents for the period
19l0-14. This is the highest ex-
change value farm crops and pro-
ducts have had since 1919 when the
purchasing power of farm crops
averaged los cents for the year.
While several of this states products
are low, at this time enough farm
commodities are in good price rela-
tionship to raise the average for the
country as whole 1t is likely that
there will be some recession Of prices
this fall when the bulk of the farm
crops are marketed, however.
DAIRYING
The production of butter, cheese,
condensed and evaporated milk was
per cent less for May than a year
ego. Taking these same products
rom January to May inclusive pro-
duction was 2 per cent less than in
1927 AS a result of this decrease,
prices have been somewhat higher
,or butterfat than last year. Prices
rose on some Washington markets
even during the flush period, the last
Of which occurred on July l6 Cat this
writing) for both butterfat and fluid
milk
Dairynen are observing the real
test Of the pasture improvement
demonstrations to determine how
they are doing during August wea-
thcr. At this season pastures are
usually drying up badly and any
method of keeping them greener
longer, whether accomplished by ro-
tating pastures, fertilization, selection
Of certain pasture grasses or by irri.
cation, helps farmers to take advan-
tage of the usually higher prices at
this season.
/ APPLES. ,xss 4 "a
Apple growers are trying to deter
mine how much the rather liberal
crop outlook was changed by the
June drop in the East. 1t looks
Low as if there would be plenty of
apples in both the West and East.
Short crops are expected in Missouri,
Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
homa ARD Texas.
Although Washington will have a
large apple crop to market this year,
and harvesting costs are quite definite,
encouragement is seen in that the
cost of producing box of apples is
very dependent upon the yield per
acre. 1t was found in marketing the
1926 crop that if apples returned $l.25
a box for all grades that there was
a loss of cents per box, when the
yield was 300 boxes per acre. When
the yield was 500 boxes there was
profit of Is cents and when 600 boxes
were grown per acre there was, pro-
fit Of 33 cents per box over the
price of Sl.25, and there were that
many more boxes to sell per acre.
These figures are shown by survey
of 306 orchards at Yakima and We
natchee by the State College of
Washington.
1t is also interesting TO note that
the 10 most profitable farms studied
had 3e.5 acres of land, 54.8 per cent
Of trees composed of Winesap and
Delicious varieties, with a yield of
o02 boxes of all varieties per acre.
For these ten farms the cost per
box loaded on car was $l.0l.
POULTRY
Sufficient adjustment in the poultry !
industry has taken place so that
somewhat reduced marketings Of both |
eggs and poultry have resulted in
better prices. The average egg price
in the United States for May was
A. cents higher than the low prices
Of last year and poultry prices, es-
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