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I The News-Review, Roteburg, Or Mon., Jan. 21, 19SZ
Dairymen Plan
$100,000 Public
Relations More
GEARHART I Oregon dairy
men ire planning to go ahead with
their (100,000 public relations pro
gram, proposed here earner tnis
week.
They Instructed new officers at
Wednesday's session of the Oregon
Dairymen's Association to start
' the program as soon 'as posible.
They will work with dairy pro
ducts processors In trying to build
up gooa win lor tne industry.
Hans Leuthold, Tillamook, was
named president; Palmer Hen
ningsen, Astoria, first vice presi-
aent; aawin Kerr ot Maineur
County, second vice president,
Roger Horse, Corvallls, was re'
elected secretary-treasurer.
Directors include Knox; Dick
Lyon, Junction City; Vernon De
Long, La Grande; and Fred Rudat,
Brownsmeaa.
E. E. Karsan of Oregon State
College submitted a report, based
on the year 1849, that placed the
reum cost oi mine delivered in
glass bottles to Portland homes
at 8.16 cents a unit, compared
with 6.25 cents for milk delivered
wholesale to stores in cartons.
Little Mora Meat
Predicted In '53
WASHINGTON 14) Countrary to
nopes, tne nation will get little
more meat this year than it did
in 1951-because of dwindling feed
grain supplies and prospects are
even worse lor 1H53.
The Agriculture Department Fri
day estimated that reserves of such
grains corn, oat abl.s y,ernd 1 . a
grain sorghums will drop to 18
million tons by next Oct. 1. That
is about 10 million tons below last
Oct. 1,
Wltn feed scarce, farmers quit not expected to top last year's av
raising livestock. Hence, the de-erage 140 pounds per consumer and
"""""" ""a, meat supplies are may even go lower in 1953.
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FEWER HOMES Above
Newschart shows gloomy out
look for new home construction
during 1992 after Defense Pro
duction Administration ordered
40 cutback in strategic
building material. This repre
sents a 400,000 reduction from
the 1,100,000 dwellings that were
built during 1951. Middle sketch
indicates approximate annual
rata of home construction, for
first quarter of 1952, prior to the
cutback.
More Than 300
Expected At 4-H
Leaders Meeting
More than 300 men and women
from 24 counties in western Oregon
are expected to attend the 18m
annual 4-H Club. Leaders' Confer
ence at Oregon State College Jan.
22, 23 and 24, announces L. J.
Allen, state 4-H leader.
Emphasis will be on understand
ing the club member. Miss Joy
Hills, director of teacher education
and certification, state department
ot education, will lead discussions.
Miss Hills will also present the
first steps in being a successful
club leader.
The 1952 conference will be es
pecially helpful to first-year leader
according to Mrs. Alice Lindsay,
Grants Pass, president of the Ore
gon 4-H Leaders' association.
Pros and cons of the 4-H awards
program will be discussed by Miss
Emmie Nelson, Chicago field rep
representative of the National Com
mittee on Boys and Girls club
work.
Information Offered
As in previous years, new sub
ject-matter information in home
economics and agricultural pro
jects will be given by OSC exten
sion specialists.
A teen-age dress revue and re
ports on the 1951 National 4H
Club Congress will highlight the
Tuesday evening program, Jan. 22.
The latter will be given by 4-H
member Joe Ellingson, Mapelton,
Mrs. William Berkey, Portland 4
H leader, and Miss Nelson. Mem
bers of the Campus 4-H club will
review the International Farm
Youth Exchange which the club Is
sponsoring in Oregon for the second
year.
The banquet Wednesday, Jan. 23,
will featur e presentation of special
awards and music by the OSC
music department directed by Rob
ert Walls.
The annual eastern Oregon 4-H
Leaders' conference will be at La
Grande Jan. 20, 30, and 31.
Oregon Stockmen Will
Hear OPS Program
The office of price stabilization
meat program will be discussed
by G. A. Stearns, Portland, head
of the Oregon OPS office, at the
annual meeting of the Western
Oregon Livestock Association in
McMinnville Jan. 28,29 and 30, Pre
ident Archie Relkkalo, Asotria, has
announced.
The program has been arranged
to attract sheep and swine growers
as well as cattlemen, emphasizes
H. A. Llndgren, Oregon State Col
lege extension livestock specialist,
association secretary.
F. L. Ballard, associate director
of the Oregon State College ex
tension service, will discuss nl.ins
for the 1952 statewide agricultural
Dairy Problems
Considered By
State Committee
What does the future hold for dai
rymen who do not produce grade A
milk?
That's a question being mulled
over by members of a statewide
dairy committee headed by S. B.
Hall, Troutdale, which is making
preparations for the agricultural
conference to be held on the Ore
gon State College campus March
27, 28 and 29.
R. W. Morse, OSC extension dairy
specialist and committee secretary,
reports some discussion relative to
conference March 27, 28 and 29 on rfp0!'ts,some mscusston relative to
the OSC camDus I eliminating grades and eventually
Other speakers and
their mik
jects will include Claude Steuslolf,
Salem, past president of the Oregon
Purebred Sheep Breeders Associa
tion, Western Oregon Sheep pro-
aucnon opportunities and prob
lems, Charles Evans. Independ
ence, past president of the associa
tion, swine production; Dr. R. R.
Younce. State Department of Ae.
riculture veterinarian, national pro
gram to eradicate brucellosis; and
Harry Stearns. Pnneville cattle-
man and president of the Oregon
Cattlemen's Association.
Meeting headauaters will be
Hotel Oregon. Dr. John. M. Swart
hout, OSC political science depart
ment head, will be the annual ban
quet speaker and Walter Leth.
Monmouth, master of ceremonies.
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VOL. XIV NO. 3
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1952
A STIFF UPPER, LIP
It take a lot of nerve to stick
with the chicken business with
egg prices dropping and feed
neaaeo tne otner way. But as
the feller says, "Only the brave
deserve the fair," and only
those with good nerve will be
In position to rake in the egg
profits when prices get to sea
sonal nigner levels next sum
mer. A business as stahln and nrof.
Itable as the egg business, can't
be abandoned just because
prices adjust themselves to or
dinary spring and storage lev.
els when spring increase in pro.
duction forces an adjustment.
It happens every year, but
some years the adjustment is
more drastic than others be
cause it is longer delayed. The
poultryman has already profit-
ea oy tne aeiay.
La's look back a minute and
see where we have come from.
In 1950 the wholesale price of
eggs in Ban f ranclsco averaged
Mtt for five months in (he
spring. In spite of this, the Cali
fornia Egg Contest, with most
ly good entries, and some quite
poor, made a net income of
$3514.00 from the contest flock
starting with 884 birds And
they sold their eggs for 3c less
than the Frisco market. Their
feed cost about the same as
umpqua Egg Mash did at
Roseburg.
True enough, local egg buyers
are paying only 38c a dozen
right now when the wholesale
price in Portland and Frisco is
a dime higher, (too much of a
spiead), yet, the contest in 1950
tooK an average of 35tt for five
months straight, and slill came
out witn a neat wad of douuh
This was flrpnmnllchnH ht
having food chirkmt
mgn egg production, and prop,
er management and good feed,
All these things are available
to pou trvmen and ovnurlonf
pouiirymcn in Douglas County
j-ocai natcnerics can sell you
high production bred chlx, you
mil if vb inn annn mannnnninn.
and the Douglas Flour Mill can
sell you the good feed at a fair
price.
nut. Dicase. tar vmir nwn
good, get your birds as early
as VOU Dosslhlv ran Thn hct
profit is mado on eggs produced
in late summer and early fall.
Onlv earlv hntphnH hiv win .
"(( uig eggs ounng tnoso
momns. urner vnnr rhiv fnrinv
iuuii inanx us next i nrlstmas
UNDER O.P.S.
That the fttpnlr hart hnnn .,,n
through one of thnsA "tanrinr.
izers- was plainly evident. Yet
the diner at the lunch rnnnini-
was having a struggle. Finally
no inrew aown nis uniie, glared
at the desiffn nf thn mmiiin.
ana remarxed to the proprietor.
" It ' - , A .1 ' .Z i '
v a m l u i i i . i h ill.. ,,i 1 1 u
tire that still has so much good
tread."
EFFICIENCY IN
GUVMENT
A Cargo of fine anvnhnnn mnil
is on its way back to the US.
and thereby hangs an Interest
Ing talc. This particular ship
ment of an article entering into
every bag of feed you have to
buy, contained 3200 tons
(Enough soybean meal to run
our plant a couplo years.)
It was "sold" to Japan, and
naturally, the Guvmcnt furnish
ed Japan the money with which
to buy. But it didn't suit the
Japs, so they sold it to For
mosa. (Probly our Harry film'
lined the money again, as For.
mosa. doesn't have It t Evident.
ly Japan took the money they
got from Formosa, and bought
lor cash, soyabean meal from
Manchuria So now, the meal is
coming back home, and per
haps the Guvment won't have
to pay more than the freight
nacK ana mrtn across the ocean.
For a trade famished for meal
is licking its chons in ant clna
tion. Wo couldn't buy it direct
from the urocessors nnw. so
maybe we can gel it from our
irienas across the sea. We ll
let you know what we have to
pay for It, in case we're lucky
eiiougn to get part ot this cargo.
CUSTOMARY
PROCEDURE
An undertaker found a donk
ey dead in front of his place
:;t uuMiicss. no asKca tne po
lice what to do with it. Said
the police, "Bury it, of course,
lou're an undertaker, aren't
you?"
"Sure," he answered. "But I
thought it only right to inform
the relatives first."
(Ed. note; Not Roseburg po
lice. Not even Oregon police.
We have some mighty nice cops
here).
DON'T NEGLECT
FEEDING
Pretty bad wcnlher Don't
take chances on losing your
stock Not with lambs and wool
so high. You can't afford in
We have, besides the hmt in
Umpqua Sheep Cubes, some
mighty fine alfalfa hnv A hit
of grain hay, too.
SUBLIME TO
RIDICULOUS
We often wonder ahnut nnr
Congress and the men who
make It up. We sometimes even
wonder if they are "all there."
For Instance, last week they
listened to Winston Churchill,
a jolly good old Britisher, who
no doubt had good message
for them. He usually does. Now
this week, we hear they are to
have an opportunity to. see the
father of the latest "litter" of
babies, the quads born a few
days ago to an Arkansas couple.
The noble father, bless you,
Is on a personal appearance
tour of the East and South, and
will be exhibited to Congress by
his Representative in that aug
ust body.
Just why the father of this lit
tcr should rate such acclaim is
far beyond us. We happen to
have sired a fair sized brood
oursclf, but never felt that we
deserved undue credit for the
fact Even had we sired a whole
flock at once, we still think the
little woman had a lot more to
do with it than we, and deserv
ed the acclaim
Nor is it a great feat to fath
er a litter Pappy Done got
five at a time, and he wasn't
too smart. Most anybody should
eventually hit the jackpot if he
plays the slot machine long
enough. And Mr. Dione, as
well as this boy from Arkansas
already had families up in the
teens before they struck it rich.
All one at a time, like ordinary
fathers too.
Well, maybe it Is a great ac
complishment, after . all.
CLASSIFIED SECTION
FOR SALE, Poults eggs
now in incubator, hatch about
middle of February. Early tur
keys look good. Bounds Turkey
Farm, Myrtle Creek.
SPEAKING OF TURKEYS
Umpqua Kindergarten Tur
key Starter has, in addition to
the best fishmeal, (herring),
meat scrap, milk products, all
the vitamins listed by the Na
tional Research Council, and in
much larger amounts, and also
includes several extra B vita
mins, the latest. 11-12. and an
eludes penicillin. . As you
anti-biotic supplement which in-
know, penicillin is the antibio
tic found bv our own Oregon
Station to give best results of
all those on the market Ump
qua Feeds always lead the pro
cession.
FERTILIZER TIME
His Daddv'i name was Fer
dinand, his mother's name
was Liza, we now approach the
time of vear when land needs
fertilizer.
Taking orders now for land
plaster, (gypsum), and we ex
pect a car of Ammonium Sul
phate the first part of Febru
ary. Don't get caught short. Or-
der now, and we'll save it for
you.
OSC Sprinkler
Irrigation Meet
January 22-23
Sprinkler systems can be a near
Dcrfect method for irrigating only
if properly designed, installed and
operated, Arthur S. King, Oregon
State College extension soil con
servation specialist, says in calling
attention to a two-day sprinkler
iniKuiion scnoot and discussion at
ubu jan. a and 23.
Both the SDrinklnr Iri-ioaliAn
school to be held Jan. 22. and the
discussion meeting thn rniinunn,.
uhult ine joint sponsorsnip of
the Willamette Valley project com
mittee, tne Willamette Basin Com
mission and the OSC extension r.
vice will be held in the new food
technology building auditorium.
Starting time for both sessioni is
9:30 a.m. King says.
Sprinkler irrigation fundamentals
will be discussed at the school
meeting hv John Wnlf nsp
cultural engineer, and Ralnh
Brownscombe, soil conservation
service engineering specilist. Sel
ection of irrigation equipment will
be the theme of Robert Morgan
Fred Johnson, and Crawford Reid,
commercial company representa
tives. Electrical Dower use will
be discussed by Floyd Miller, Port
land electric company irrigation
specialist.
Viewpoint Listed
A bank's viewpoint In financing
sprinkler irrigaton equipment will
be expressed by Henrp Shelton,
Hillsboro bank executive.
The following dav. sneaker In
be heard will include Colonel T. H.
Lipscomb, corps of engineers, Port
land, who will describe irrigation
benefits from the Willamette basin
project. The bureau of reclama
tion's part in the Willamette Basin
getting on a basis where all milk
would be of quality fit for human
consumption, li wis were true, sur
plus milk would be marketed as
dairy by-products cheese, butter,
powdered milk, icecream mix and
similar products.
Prica Requirements Told
It would mean, the committee
believes, that processing plants
would pay producers on the same
price basis and the price would
depend on what a plant could get
for its entire whole milk volume.
A milk production subcommittee
headed by R. M. Lyon, Junction
City, is in the midst of preparing
a report covering this phase of the
industry. The dairy roughage pro
gram, the committee believes,
should be aimd toward more milk
per acre.
In terms of management, some of
the problems being studies which
reduce mux "yield" are over
grazing, absence of rotational graz'
ing, failure to use fertilizer cor.
rectly, harvesting hay and silage
ai me impuper maturity stage,
ana lacx ot Knowledge about pal.
atability of various feedstuffs.
Here are some Questions that
nave arisen relative to the econ
omics of dairying: What size herd
to nave: how does dairy enter
prise income compare with other
agricultural pursuits? What type
buildings will the dairyman of the
luiure own What is the invest
ment per cow required for the
average dairy? Should the major
dairy emphasis be shifted to areas
of cheaper land and where most
of the roughage requirements can
be produced more economically.
Turkey Researcher
Wins National Award
James A. Harper of the Oregon
State College agricultural experi
ment station was awarded the $500
national turkey research award for
1951 by the National Turkey Feder
ation at its recent annual meeting
in St. Louis, Mo.
The cash award is presented each
year by the federation to the re
search worker who has made the
outstanding contribution in turkey
research for the year. Harper's
work on turkey management pro
blems, antibiotic feeding experi
ments and fertility and hatch -ability
studies was cited by the
award committee as the nation's
outstanding achievement in the tur
key field.
Harper is leader of turkey re
search projects for the OSC ex-
fieriment station. He has been
argely responsible for developing
the station's current outstanding
program of turkey studies. He is
the first Pacific Northwest scientist
to win national recognition for tur
key research.
program will be described by Har
old Nelson, regional director, Boise.
Luncheon speaker the second day
of the two-day meeting will be
page editor for the Oregon Journal
Other speakers to be heard in
clude Wade Newbegin. Portland.
and Charles E. Strickljn, state engineer.
Getting the most out of snrlnlcler
irrigation will be the topic for a
panel composed of outstanding
farmers and horticultural crop
processing company representatives.
Meat Industry
Sabotage Hazard
Alerts Govt.
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON I The Agri
culture Department reported Fri
day it is on guard against pos-
smie enemy saoorage ot tne na
tion's livestock and meat industry.
Meat is such an important Dart
of the American diet one of the
first things an enemy might do,
the Department said, would be to
try to get animal diseases and
plagues started on farms.
"If foot-and-mouth disease, rind
erpest, fowl -pest or foreign types
of Newcastle disease should be al
lowed to develop undetected, they
could menace our livestock indus
try from coast to coast and from
border to border within weeks,"
the Department said in an annual
report of its Bureau of Animal
Industry.
"In view of the possibility that
diseases could be introduced in
tentionally at any time, the plan
ners of our civilian defense have
asked that the bureau also be
-re-ared to meet that emergency
if it should arise."
Vigilance Star ltd
In carrying out this assignment,
the Bureau said it has started at
the "front lines" the borders and
ports of entry. It said inspection
and quarantine efforts have been
intensified in regard to animal im
ports. However, even as the Depart
ment announced its new campaign
there were reoorts from wiHniv
scattered parts of the country that
meat inspectors- were tired by the
Livestockman's Association
Elects President At Meeting
Howard Hatfield, Rt. 1, Roseburgr, was elected presi
dent Friday of the Douglas County Livestockmans Associ
ation, at its annual meeting in Roseburg.
W. B. -Garrett, Glendale, was ' elected vice-president,
and J. Roland Parker, secretary-treasurer.
The group heard four speakers i
lll-inrt .1. ...kinU I..1.J 1
during its session which lasted
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Joe B. Johnson, professor of an
imal husbandry at Oregon State
spoke on progeny testing to de
velop animals that grow more rap
idly with less feeding.
Dr. J. N. Shaw, speaking on an
imal diseases, said most of the
common ones can be prevented by
proper feeding and through the
use of serums and vaccines. Di
seases mentioned include pregnant
ewe paralysis, Black disease and
pulpy kidney disease.
H. H. Hampton, agronomist for
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, discussed grasses and leg-
scores.
There was no immediate expla
nation by the. Department.
L H. Troxel, South St. Paul,
Minn., president of the Midwest
Council of the AFL American Fed
eration of Government Employes,
said the dismissals were due to
lack of funds.
Inspectors in Chicago said the
same thing happened in 1950 and
1951, but Congress voted funds in
time to avoid actual firing.
umes for pasture and forage crops.
He mentioned aita lescue, creep
ing red fescue, rye grass and or
chard grass as being among the
best perennial grasses to use. Sub
terranean clover and broad leaf
lotus are among the best legumes,
he said.
Explains Brand Law
Kay Nelson, who is in charge of
brand inspection and registration
for Oregon Department of Agricul
ture, presented an explanation of
the brand laws. Only brand regis
tration legally recognized are on
cattle, horses and mules. Brands
on sheep or poultry are not legally
recognized nOr are they on cattle,
horses or mules unless registered,
he said.
Elected to the board of directors
of the association were the follow
ing: Chester Rydell, Drain; W. A. Ry.
chard, Yoncalla; J. W. Gorman,
Elkton; Isadora Inda, Oakland;
Louis Kohlhagen Jr , Roseburg;
John Robinson, Glide; Charles S.
Dyar, Roseburg; Harold Nichols,
Brockway; S. R. Nichols, Riddle;
and Lawrence Michaels, Canyon-ville.
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