Page 4 THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE Wednesday, June 3, 1959 ee LL TOY and CANADA GENERAL | 2.004 calves exported last week. To May 21 | In spite of the short week's Arrivals at public markets|‘t@ding, supplies were in fair were in fair numbers, consider- numbers at most markets. Most ing the holiday-shortened week, classes of slaughter cattle met Top grades of steers were|#% active demand except at mostly unchanged, and heifers|TOTOnto where a slow demand generally steady to 50c higher, |PteVailed due mainly to a lower Cows and bulls were also steady | (ality offering, and at Winni- to 50c higher. Feeder cattle|Pe& Where top grades of steers were in good demand at steady! Were under pressure and sold to firmer prices. Hogs were|D@vely steady to lower in spots, steady to 10c higher, lambs/TP quality steers were at es OM wodhenee, s to 50c higher rates were steady, except at SLAUGHTER CATTLE Winnipeg where they were 50c ; higher. Toronto good steers Cattle Olerings, at public! were unevenly steady at 24.00 stockyards up to Thursday this| , .00, Winnipeg 23.00 to week, amounting to 24,900 Calgary 0 to . head, were about -4,000 less ~ and Saskatoon 21. than last week and about the same as the corresponding week | FEEDER CATTLE a year ago. Arrivals at eastern| There was a good three-way terminals were 2.500 below last | demand for feeder cattle, and wee! all of this decline was/a shortage of stock steers at made at Toronto; and western|some markets. Toronto good markets were down. 1,600 at/feeder steers were in good de- 16,400 head. The quality rating|mand due to improved pastures of cattle arrivals at public mar-|in southern Ontario, selling at kets, although lower at Toronto,|25.00 to 27.00. Winnipeg was is expected to compare reason-|a steady 23.00 to 26.00, Cal- ably well with last week. The gary 22.50 to 25.00. number of choice and good car- ecasses graded under inspection last week accounted for 50.4 a were in short supply. Winnipeg Percent of the total gradings; ' i ch ul this rating was exceeded only closed 1.00 higher while other by a high of 51.5 reached in| ™@rkets were generally steady to strong. Choice and good the week ending May 9. Ex- ive with |Vealers at Toronto were 33.00 Port buyers continue active with 5 x to 36.50, Montreal 26.50 to last week, accounting for the os. 00, ‘Winniper $4.00 to $5.00 largest weekly shipment SRENDCE “ slaughter cattle this year at! HOG MARKET 2,485 head; in addition to| The only change in hog prices these, 3,072 were shipped as|this week was an increase of feeder stock. There were also'five to 10 cents at Edmonton CALF MARKET Top grades of veal calves “Don’t worry, vicar. He’ll be here any hour now! He’s with his first love at the moment , talking and Lethbridge. Toronto grade “A” hogs held at 25. 00; Winni- peg 22.50, a few 23.00. Sows were steady to 1.50 higher, ex- cent at Edmonton. LAMB MARKET The lamb market was un- changed, with receipts continn- ing light. Toronto spring lambs Tanged 28.00 to 32.00 ewt. Good sheep at Montreal were 10.00 to 13.00. _| PORTS were 49 lambs of origin slaughtered in Canadian plants last week. Im- Ports to May 16 (1958 in par- entheses): cattle 3,700 (nil); sheep 7,383 (2,751). | ears down at Elton’s. If you are ‘‘ wedded” to motoring, you, too, should call on — ELTON ELLIOTT Cariboo Home Service PHONE 177 A planned Heater ‘Fertilizer doubles yield of potatoes Yield of marketable Potatoes Was doubled by the use of a complete chemical fertilizer in tests at the Canada Experimen- tal Farm, Fort Simpson, N.W.T. Where the cost of imported Potatoes may range from five to 20 cents a pound, the signifi- cance of doubling local produc tion is obvious. With 500 Ib. of fertilizing per acre, 500 bushels of potatoes ber acre were produced, while unfertilized plots yielded only 250 bushels. Thus, at five cents a pound, the value of the fertilized crop exceeded that of the unfertilized crop by $750. Cost of the 500 Ib. is fertili- zer for the acre application was $40—landed at Fort Simpson. Overlooking the labor of apply- ing the fertilizer, the net gain was $710 per acre. The same tests carried out at Hay River and Inuvik, N.W.T., gave similar results. Further tests will be con- ducted to determine the most efficient formulation and rate of application of chemical fertili- zers for potatoes and other crops. HEAVY US. BUYING During the first quarter of this year, buying replacement cattle in the U.S.A. topped a million head—a new record by a wide margin. In March, feed- Turkeys—hung, drawn and quartered Turkey eggs set in the first three months of this year point to a potential production in- crease of 10 million pounds of turkey meat over the same period a year ago. Canada Department of Agri- culture officials say that from the first of the year to March 21, egg settings totalled $.6 million. Included in this figure are in- creases of 1.4 million—a 28 per- cent rise—for mature weight turkeys, and $03,000--or 72 percent—for broiler weights. On the basis of a 50 percent hateh and a mortality rate of five percent, production would run close to 10 million pounds more than for the first quarter when the total was 4.1 million. Sale of heaviest helped to ease the situation. Most of the light and medium weight birds were cleaned out of storage during the phenome- nal holiday sales. But the heavy stocks and the upswing in marketings have combined to sharply reduce prices. Officials say they have dropped an average of 10 cents a pound since the beginning of the year. Many turkey producers viewing the production boom with alarm and are wondering where it is leading them A normal poputation increase will take care of about 2. last year. million pounds, and better The industry entered 1959]merchandising practices, pro- with a staggering i8 million] motion, and year-round market- pounds in storage, compared] ing will increase per capita con- with million pounds the| sumption. Previous. year. Also spurring sales is the Marketings for the first | eomparatively new idea of half quarter amounted to 7.3 million} 5, quarter turkeys. This fills pounds, 78 percent higher than| ine pill for the housewife who for the same period in 1953] wants turkey——but not : pounds of it at one time. POTATO BEETLE STORY The agriculture department _—$— ee and the Poultry Products Insti- tute are co-operating to intro- are | Repairs WINDING MAINTENANCE SALES RENTALS CUSTOM SHEET METAL SHOP Our shop can handle any and every task : in sheet metal from small‘ domestic fur- oo a W. E. HARDING ELECTRIC & HEATING PHONE 320 Bug found new diet in potatoes Until @ little over 100 years ago, the Colorado Potato beetle was a well-behaved insect. It was unimportant because it fed on the buffalo but, a close rela- tive of the potato, a tough stickery weed that grew along the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Then, sud- denly, it discovered a new diet in the white man’s gardens and adopted the tender-leaved cul- tivated potato as its favorite food. It spread rapidly on potatoes and we have been fighting it DIAMOND “M” ever since. Now, this pest is among our best-known bettles, In addition to the potato, it occasionally attacks other. plants of the nightshade family—tob- aceo, tomato, eggplant, pepper and petunia, This is the story: With the opening up of the west follow- ing the Mormon migration to Utah in 1847, ‘the California gold rush of '49, the pioneer settlers planted potatoes. By 1855 potato growing reached westward to the native home of duce this new merchandising approach on a national svale. It has already become popular in Toronto and Montreal. While the increase so-far this year has been startling, the pic- ture is far from complete. Last year 2.1 million poults were produced during the first there months, and §.4 million in the second quarter. The bal- ance of the year was much lighter, ending up with a toral of 9.2 million. If the trend follows. last year, the big push is yet to come. BALER TWINE IS A TOP QUALITY B.C. 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