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About La Grande observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1959-1968 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1959)
w - L A 1 - ' L. -. --5 -H U ' FAMILY SCENE A gathering place for the Henderson's seems to be in their spac- I : . i -. , w t i ..t. ...:u i...- I ft .,.! urt .ln...,U 1 lotis Kiicncn. nere urace ncnuersiin is siiuwii whii nur sun, ujim, v, mu nci uuuii- terv Durinda, 11. Grant Henderson was in the fields when this picture was taken. Hendersons Have Busy Life On New Farm By VIRGINIA ANDERSON Obxrver Staff Writer Since she and her husband. Grant, awl two children I.ynn, 9. and Durinda, II. moved onto their new farm home near Summerville. Grace Henderson ha been busy painting, cleaning and repairing in an attempt (o Ket everything into shape before harvest. On their 118 acre farm she and Grant raise peas, wheat, oats, hay, rye, grass, ami feeder calves. They hope to put in ork farrows which will hold 36 gills and litters toon. Before moving into their new home about three weeks ago, Grace "painted everything but the front porch." New flooring has been put on most of the floors, and she is having a new wardrobe built in the bedroom. The flowers around the house have kept her busy too. Eventually the Hender sons hope to tear down the old house behind the main house and landscape down to the creek which is a few feet from their back door. Grace raises most of the family's vegetables in her garden at the back of the bouse. "I'ractically everylhing is canned or in the freezer," commented Grace ulwut the vegetables and fruits her fami ly cats. a i...,. r!-.. Li;ll r;.lL.' time to sew a lot of school clothes, j She is publicity chairman for the Union County Farm Bureau and State Citizenship chairman. Site is a member of Iho extension unit and teaches a Sunday school group of third grade lioys. Last Summer she helped with the 411 camp acting as chaiH-rone and was in charge of Stunt Night. Sitting in her re-finished kitchen which Uiasls new counter tops, drawers, and pink walls and ceil ing. Grace said that her favorite ivcie was one lor basic Sweet Dough. Starting with I lie basic re cipe, she said, "1 just use what ever is handy," to add a final lunch. i Her recie is: 2 cakes compressed yeust . 1 cup milk 2 eggs 1 lea.s'Hxin salt ' cup granulated beet sugar 3 '4 to 4 cups enriched Hour, silted. j Dissolve yeast in milk which has been scal:tcd and cooled to lukewarm. Add eggs. salt, sugar, short ening and flour: mix well and turn out on lightly I loured board. Knead until smooth and elastic n Let rise until double in bulk in a greased bowl covered with a damp lowel in a warm place 85 to 90 degrees). Dough can be shnk'd after one rising or punched down for second rising. Turn out on lightly floured board or cloth and shape into de sired roll shaes. Bake rolls without filling al 425 degrees K. for 8-10 minutes. Killed rolls should be baked at 375 degrees P. for 25-30 minutes. Grace's daughter enjoys helping with the cooking too. Durinda keeps busy in her 4-11 livestock work. She raises a lamb for the fair each year and last year start ed a savings account with the money from her lamb. Lynn spends most of his time during the summer riding his bi cycle, fishing, and "pestering to go swimming" according to Grace. The children have made a little swimming hole in the nearby creek where they swim and wade. A week ago Sunday the Hender son's invited a few friends over for a politick picnic and were sur prised lo find that just before they finished eating G5 people from around the valley came with their potluck disht.' to join the house warming. Grace seems lo enjoy life and who wouldn't with two kids, two dogs, two cats, and a donkey named Cujicnkc. Senator Urges Housewives To Write Ag. Dept. ' WASHINGTON itlPD-A: Mis souri congressman today urged America's housewiveV to sit down and write a letter to the Agricul ture Department telling the gov ernment "how they feel about a proposal to end the- federal grad ing of lamb. The department is seriously considering dropping the service on Aug. 1. The views of interest ed parties on the Issue must be submitt ed by July 6. Hep. Charles II. Brown D- Mo.) .suggested the letter-writing action following congressional hearings Thursday. It came after Agriculture De partment officials admitted to a House subcommittee they had not sought the views of consum ers or general farm organiza tions on the issue at hearings last spring. Only groups repre senting producers, packers. wholesalers and retailers were in vited. Hep. .lames Roosevelt ID-Calif chairman of the House unit, said he found the omission hard to understand even though the de partment hail done no wrong legally. Japan Reveals Tests Of U.S., Russian, Italian Wheat Crop i Pendleton i . . , .Results of tests made by Japan on Russian and Italian wheat were made available here recently by the Oregon Wheat League based on reports from Ja pan obtained through their Far Kast oflice in Tokyo. Japan's wheat pirchases are of great iniirtunce for she is the leading dollar custn mer for U.S. wheat. The Russian and Italian wheats were given extensive tests by tech nicians at two of the largest flour mills in the Orient, Nisshin and Nipion. Comparisons were made between the Russian wheat and U.S. dark hard winter wheat; the Italian wheat was compared with Western While wheat, its nearest counterpart. Additional tests are contemplated to compare milling and utilization qualities. The Russian wheat kernel is comparatively a small grain and its bushel weight is about one pound less than the U.S. grade. Protein content of the USSR wheal was checked at 12 4 rcent as a gainst 11.8 for U.S. wheat. ro li in quality was very similar for the two wheats. The Japanese Food Agency buys U.S. hard wlieat with a minimum protein content of II 5 percent. Subsequently re ceipts of U.S. wheat run close to this figure. However, higher pro tein wheat is available to the for eign buyer if he desires it. Moisture content of the Russian wlieat appeared (uite high at 12.3 percent compared with 10.8 tor U.S. grade. Trade speculation in Tokyo centered about the mois ture content of the USSR wheat with respect to transportation pro blems. U.S. wheat had more dockage at .5 percent than the Russian wlieat with .22 percent. But in the categories of foreign matter and damaged grain the USSR's wheat contained .43 percent and 3.8 per- Cattle Benefit From Peavine Hay, Silage Peavine hay produced cheaper and faster gains in the first 84 days of a 132-day beef cattle fat tening period than either peavine silage or alfalfa hay. In the last 48 days of feeding, peavine silage brought faster and cheaper gains than either peavine or alfalfa hay. David England, animal nuns bandman at Oregon State College, and Norton Taylor, UmatillaCounty Farm Census Set For Fall Oregon farmers, along with farmers in every other state, will have an opportunity to help set the record straight this fall when the nation's 17th Census of Agri culture gets under way, reports Marion Thomas, Oregon State Col lege extension agricultural econ omist. The farm count, scheduled to start in October, will mark the be ginning of the most complete in ventory of farming, housing and population ever made. It will pro vide current facts on what appears to have been one of the greatest periods of change in American history. The last census of Population and Housing was taken in 19SO. while a partial Census of Agricul ture was taken in 1M!4. Since then, statisticians have been trying to trace Ihe great chang'.-s taking place. They have worked with in complete information and are anxious for results of the census. These data will help statisticians true up their estimates and will supply information of great in terest to everyone concerned with America's growth and stability. Thomas says. D. C. Mumford. OSC agricultural economist, stressed th? importance of the farm census to each farmer. As farms become larger, the in- extension agent, reported that pea vine hay not only produced cheap er and faster fattening gains than alfalfa, but wintering cost per pound gain was lowest for peavine hay, highest for peavine silage. Peavine silage fed in combina tion with alfalfa hay, however, produced cheaper and faster gains than peavine hay in the- last 48 days of the experiment. Peavine hay still brought cheaper and faster gains than the silage-alfalfa hay combination in the first 84 days of feeding. - - Results emphasize that hay pro duces cheaper and faster gains during wintering than silage, but silage is superior to hay in a finish ing ration. Peavine hay was tested this year for the first time to find Its possi ble place in a local feeding pro gram. Vines were spread back on the land after vining, dried, windrowed, and baled. As in previous experiments, cat tle were provided by local pro ducers who also paid for feed and yardage. This year. 216 steers from 8 producers were fed. This is the ,ifth year a cattle feeding experi ment has been conducted, testing effects of local roughages fed in combination with various grain levels and hormone treatments. Stilbestrol and Synovex implants improved both wintering and fat toning, gains. Co-Ral, a com mercial spray for cattle grubs, appeared to control grubs but did not increase gains. dividual farm becomes more im portant to the total farming pic ture. This makes it desirable for each farmer to know what others are doing before he makes his own decisions for the future. ' 1 Since statistics obtained from the farm census are only as true as each farmer's records, the econo mists urged . Oregon farmers to keep accurate records. YVorld's Corn, Rice Crops To Reach Record 'WASHINGTON tUPI - The Foreign. Agricultural Service said today world crops of corn and rice in 1958 were of record ro portions, considerably larger than previous output. , The agency estimated the world corn crop at 7,300,0(iO,(KK) bushels. 11 per cent above the Inrger 1957 crop and 29 per cent more than 1950-54 average. , The. world rice crop outside the Communist area in ltt'tf-59 was es timated at 291JO0.0O0.WX) pounds. This was 25.300.000.000 pounds larger than the poor 1957-58 crop, and 6.500.000.000 pounds over the previous record output of I9M-S7. i Acreage this year is up on all ! continents excel Africa. FAS tnid.i Yields also are higher. ' The unprecedented 1958 corn harvest was due mainly lo record outturns in the United Slates and the Soviet Union, now the ranking corn producers of Ihe world. TYPING AWAY Mrs. Grace Henderson has many uses for her typewriter and spends much time typing news releases in her position as Publicity chairman for the Union county Farm Bureau. Recently she was nam ed state citizenship chairman for the Bureau (Observer) FARM PRODUCERS ..... , WE HAVE THE Industrial Equipment You Need! A.M. SPRINKLER II GATee IRRIGATION SYSTEMS BELTS PULLEYS RAINBIRD SPRINKLERS All Siz GE All.. Workshop Elxtric Motori- P0WER T00LS vTcTol Phillips Red Head Wolding Supplies Concrete Fasteners 1 Portable Farm Bolts Chains Steel Acatylana Welding SteeJ Cable Unit PACiFIC CENTRIFUGAL IRRIGATION PUMPS Industrial Machinery and SUPPLY 1410 ADAMS WO 3-4623 LOOK! LISTEN! w . . .-3!Ysfr . I 8 "' TWIN-WHEEL drive mowing is FAST.. .SMOOTH ..QUIET It's the new HAY LI NCR --WORLD'S' MOST MODERN BAURl New Holland ROLABAR Mm A. fasti gentle.., ALUS CHALMERS NEW HOLLAND OREGON TRACTOR CO. 9 Depot 3-2314 rent compared with U.S. scores of .17 percent. 1.6 percent. U.S. wheat contained .96 percent broken grain compared with .55 percent for the LSSlt wheat. In the milling texts, the USSK wlieat's moisture content affected the quality of flour produced as did ins high asli content. Kussian wlieal was also inferior in color and reports stated that is would be satisfactory for producing a low grade flour. Reports from the milling trade in Tokyo reveuled that millers con sider the USSK wheat slightly In ferior to its U.S. counterpart but equal to Queensland semi-hard from Australia and somewhat bet ter than Argentina wheat. In prac tice, it could be milled with Cana da's Manitoba wheat to produce a semi-hard wheat flour. Trade circles reported some question a bout purchases of Russian wheat because of price and freight and moisture content. Millers reported fears about becoming acquainted with a new wheat even if it were a good wheat. Trade groups believe the Japan ese Pood Agency will need to have more information on the quality of USSR wheat available in large amounts on a' sustained basis as well as price. Trade balances enter into the picture also. In December, Japan and Russia's year trade agreement Observar. La Grande, Or.., Friday, July 10, 15 Pag 8 price ana avaua- came into effect. During the first three months. Japan's purchases from Russia were more tlian twice the amount sold to Russia: recent ly, however, Japanese exports hase made a substantial increase. Western White wheat, which represents the bulk of Pacific Nor thwest wheat, was used as a bench mark for the Italian soft wheat sample cargo. The Italian wheat weighed 1.5 pounds per bushel less than Western White and contained a very high moisture content of 13 26 percent, while Western White tested 10.81 percent. High moisture content of the Ital ian wheat affected its teniuerhif. when milled and both the manufac turing and extraction yields .of flour were considerably lower than those for the U.S. grade. Italian wheat also contained a much high er ash content. In color, it coin pared well' with Western White. The Italian wheat showed up better in the tests for dockage, foreign matter and broken grain, containing less of these undesir able materials than the U.S. grade. However, the Italian grade con tained more than twice the amount of damaged grain. As for its usefulness, the test report stated that the Italian wheat cannot be used as a substtiute for Western White wheat in the produc tion of soft wheat flour. It can, however, be substituted for domes tic wheat grown in the Kyushu dis trict and could be used along with Western White and local wheat lor making noodle flour. However, trade circles predict that little if any Ralian wheat will be pur chased. However, Japanese gov ernment officials are continuing to investigate the billty of Italian Wheal. The 20n0 metric ton sample of Russian wheat arrived at- Yoko hama. February 18, JUSW. A &2S metric ton shipment of Italian soft white arrived January 2S, 1959. lad.WEHAYE.., T 1 I Lee riders and JACKETS for Men and Boyt Trotter's HEN'S STORE EASY LAUNDRY APPLIANCES oolocts m SALES & SERVICE POlLVIi ACT NOW! 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