The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-06-21

gram. Inc T0Cl11C NOTIuWeSI Is
the only area where feed wheat
is now being subsidized. How
long will it continue here? It has
been on and off at different levels
since its inception. If it is dis
continued here, wheat feeds will
take its place? How can poultry
and dairy feeders plan ahead UNI
der this situation?
Daylight Savings OF War Time
Daylight Savings, or War Time
has been an uncalled for burden
for farmers to have to carry under
wartime labor conditions. Most Of
Washington, but especially West
ern Washington, has heavy dews,
and often fogs. This means that
| it is hard to start field work early
in the morning. It is better to start
later and work later in the even
ing. Many farmers estimate at
least a 10 per cent loss Of hired
efficiency from this issue clone.
Ceiling Prices
Ceiling prices have tended to
remove competition in the dis
tribution Of farm commodities.
Hay is q good illustration. Deal
er margins are larger than ever.
Ceiling prices have been estab-
lished with inadequate considera-
ton to production costs, and the
historical price relationships be-
tween the grades, with the result
that timothy and mixed hay
growers have been penalized.
Producers suffer because Of arbi-
trary rules. This could largely
be overcome by conferences be-
tween officials and hay producers
and feeders.
Another illustration: Milk re-
tails in Portland, Oregon, for 14c
per quart and 13c in Seattle.
Farm labor costs are higher in the
State of Washington that any
other state in the Union. Wealth
er and climate factors are al
most identical between the two
cities. If OPA would permit milk
in Seattle and other Washington
cities to rise to the Portland level
and permit corresponding In
creases to producers, it would
solve one important part of this
states dairy problems. The I'M
fair relationship between butter
points and those on butter imita-
tons should be adjusted. In adj
dition, the butter roll-back should
be removed and the butter price
permitted to rise on a gradual
basis to reflect fair price in the
market place without subsidy.
Support prices on eggs without
regard to quality is unsound and
should be changed to increase the
support prices on graded quality
eggs reduce it on ungraded.
Recommendations
l. The entire farm commodity
ng-subsidy method of pricing
should be reviewed with a view
to working out program to re-
move subsidies and restore price
in the market place following the
war;"
2. Experienced mixers and ex-
Iperienced farm machinery opera
tors over thirty years Of age
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service at once, and no more Of
these should be drafted.
3. Supplies of machinery parts,
truck tires, and trucks should be
increased, and also new tractor
tools such as cultivators, side de-
livery rakes, silage cutters, now
ers, plows, etc.
4. At lease one forty-ton car
load of cyanamide to defoliate
seed potato vines in Whatcom
county should be made available
by September l.
S. Congress should Immediately
repeal the Daylight Savings or
War Time.
6. The Feed Wheat Program
should be continued for at least
a year or uneil Cingress can enact
a wheat Income plan
which would permit wheat for
feed to flow into market in COM