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" NEW FEEDERS CONSTRUCTED Dr. J. A. B McArthur. right, and Ted Sidor in
spett new construction at the Eastern O ri'gon Experiment Station at Union. Work
ers at the station under Dr. MuArthur's supervision have built new feeders for re
placement heifers at the station. The picture above is an inside view of the feeders.
(Observer Photo)
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October's
ricss Up
On Farms
0t4(.n Ur;n prices showed
mixtMl pattern of ups and downs
n urtubvr and endtd up with an
sverave twj per cent higher than
a month age, reports S!rs, Etvera
Hcrrell, extensiun asrkultursl
ectnomivt st Oregon iJate Col-Uge.
At the same time, reports from'
the U. S. department of agricul
ture show prices received by
Tartness over the nation dropped
iseasonaliy in October tj a point
two per cent lower than last
month and the lowest in nearly
two yeari. National farm prices
jnw stand sps per cent below
Ust year and the lowest since
,-tuveiiiuer ayDf,
In Oregon, October egg and
turkey prices moved up, and milk
and milk cows also carried high
er price tags. Feed grains and
wheat climbed, and hay and pota
to prices also rose.
These gains in state farm pric
es were partially offset by lower
prices on most meat animals and
wool, broiler prices dropped for
the second straight month, and
corn prices turned lower. How
2ver, gains averaged more than
losses for the state's farmers
md total farm prices averaged
two per cent higher than in Sep
tember and four per cent above
a year at;o.
Meanwhile, prices received by
IF.S. farmers fell to the lowest
iverage in nearly two years.
Cattle, hogs, corn, grapefruit,
alves, and eggs all moved down.
Higher prices on milk, fresh to-
j natoes, and wheat only partially
ffset the decline,
i Prices the nation's farmers pay
( ,or goods and services also moved
:ower in October, but at a much
! Sower rate, Mrs. Horrell found,
farm wage latcs were down, as
Ivere prices paid for farm pro
' 'uetion items. However, higher
jrices paid for things used in
arm family living offset these
i jwer costs to some extent.
With prices received by farm
.rs dropping faster than prices
'aid by farmers, the purchasing
xjwer of farm products slipped
i little last month. The parity
-Uic the government's yard-
lick for measuring the relation-
i ip between prices received an!
rices paid by fanners fell to
lie point below September this
.'ear. six points below October
B38, and the lowest since Aug
.lit 1940.
Observer, La Grand. 0r,, Fri Nw 13' WW
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Valley Farm-Ranch-Home
Bill Sabeut, ij
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PRIZE BEEF First animal to go on the auction block at 5rand Nmionai Livestock
Exposition at the Cow Palace m San Francisco, Calif, was "Tim Topper, a 1000
pound Hereford, Grand Champion Fat Steer of the sbew. "Tim Tcf was bought
at the phenomenal price of $5.50 per pound bv the Hyatt Itousf Hole!. etured
with "Tim Topper" are its raisers,- Mrs. Joiene Hardy awi nusband (right reart of
Bakersfield. Calif, and buver for Hyatt House, Jack P. Crouch.
Among Valley Farmers
By County Aontt Td Sidor and ChI Gavin
. An alfalfa breeding method be
ing tried is callel the doubleeross.
It involvrs four parents and resent-!
ties hybrid corn production meth
ods. As srtth corn, the best combi
nations of four parents (douhle-cros-s
i have not been as good as
the best combinations of two par
ents 'singlecrosst.
But with corn, doubleeros seed
has been largely used because of
the h'gher costs of singlecross seed.
With alfalfa, however. ed yields
from selected parents have bn
goad. Thus, the singieerosa is also
being used expcrime.itally. With
averaged 76,$ pounds at weaning,
and graded high utility and low
good, the better lambs sold for
cents a pound more.
Weaning weight, conformatioc
and condition of the rams were
considered to selecting those for
the research project. Of the 16
rams studied to date, Bogart point
ed out that even'lhe poorest were
rated average or better. Much
greater difference would be evi
dent in offspring if rams were se
lected randomly, he emphasized
Cattle oa farms fat Australia on
s .eed .ouH be produced by March 1, 1959, were estimated at
"READY FOR OPERATION a.New feeders have been bai'.t at the Experiment Sta
tion at Union and are now biing ttsed for the-teeding-af. replacement heifers, ..
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Plastic Tags
For Oregon's
Cattle In Use
Smalt plastic tags which Oregon
cattle w.ll carry from country
brlmd inspection points or auction
markets to the slaughterhouse
w Sether it be in Oregon. Colorado,
California or some other western
jeXn wick congratulated
4-H Achievement Party Is
Saturday At Island City
enkamps on Saturday at 9:30 a.m.
The money earned at this event
will be used to sponsor club activi
ties and to enlarge their club
treasury.
By JIM HUBER
Union County Agtnt
The Vnion Cou:itv 4-11 Achieve
ment Party will be held at the Is
land City Farm Bureau Hall Sat
urday at 7:30 p m. Purocse of this
Avpn! i to ff'vp rreop.litinn to elu'l
state-are now being applied by the j members who have won ouisiand
State's brand in?pectirs. inB awards durins the iwst voir
The tags will be glued on thelg-.d to focus attention on club mem- j tional 4-11 Club Congress.
left shoudler of all dry and cull , bers that have just completed Jean will join the Oregon dele-
Cur compliments to Jean Wick
for bcir.g named sectional winner
;n 4-H Forestry and a trip to Na-
cows. They tell where the animals
originated and are the key to the
new simplified method of re-certifying
counties and stale for bru
cellosis.
their first year of club work. igalim oi Thanksgiving day and
A representative from the First i travel to Chicago, stay in the Con
N'ational Bank of La Grande will I rad Hilton Hotel and participate in
be on hand to present 4-H pins to
youngsters in the La Grange, Ladd
Fred Pope, animal division chief jCanyon, Fruitdale and Alicel areas.
for the state department of agri
culture. say this is how the new
program works:
Presence of the tag is a signal
to blood test for brucellosis wher
ever the animal is slaughtered.
Blood samples will be seat to the
State-Federal Brucellosis Labora
tory at Salem and submitted the
the agglutination test. If the test
is clean, the herd of origin and the
county will be given credit towards
recertification. If it shows a reac
tor, it will also be credited to the
herd and the rest of the eligible
cattle blood tested.
Dopa.-tmcnt representatives will
place tags only on dry and cull
cows. In saleyards. tags will be
placed as the cows first come into
the yard and this wiil be done
ouickly so it will not stow the fast
moving operations.
Pope points out that this is an
important innovation for the cattle
man as it greatly reduces the on-the-ranch
testing which has been
.going on for years. At the same
time, the tagging system will bring
to light any reactors and pinpsiit
a i i t i Ul,w4 lAttte
w , . r-'mr ified status
Uhitn thp t.i0 are n rr.USl ior . . -
blood tests in whatever state they
appear. Oregon will continue to
teat all eligible cattle sent to
slaughter here.
The tagging plan has been under
study by federal and state officials;
for more than two years. It has
tone through field lists, both her"
and in other states, ad is now
starting full-sccle operjtion. Sev-
enteen western states have receiv-i
cd the "go ahead" sit"! for the
tagging system and oihi-r sia'e.-;
are cxoec'.ed to adort it. making
thp nrft'jr.im nationwide.
In addition to being a new tool
fr.r re-cert ftcaticn. the tas.'?i"g
system has been approved by the
federal Agricultural Research Ser
vice for use in brucellosis pro
rfcims in slatps which haie not
jet reached original moJifled cert
Many Businessmen will be on
hand to present 4-H awards that
they have donated to 4-H'ers dur
ing the past year.
All clubs attending are request
ed to bring cookies and the 4-H
Leaders' Association will serve
runch.
Union County Junior-Leaders un
der the direction of their new presi
dent, Ruth Hoxie, will present a
program and serve the refreshments.
Achievement programs will be
completed this week with events
being scheduled at Union, Cove
and Imbler. PTA's at Union and
Inibler will sponsor these events
and at Cove we have a joint spon
sor, the PTA and Cove Farm Bur
eau. The Mt. Glenn Homemakers 4-H
dub pe planting a busy Thanks
giving weekend as all of the girls
ia the club along with the.leaders,
are planning to bake sweet breads
on Thursday and Friday and will
stage a coDfcey food sale at Bohn-
Ih? Xatiora! 4-H Club Congress
November 29 to December 3.
This is the first time in Union
Couity 4-H history htat a club
member has won state honors in
forestry, not to mention sectional
ho iors that Jean has won.
We can't think of a more deserv
ing girl, nor one who has worked
harder in scoring successes in for
estry, clothing and cookery.
We are pleased to have Mrs
Edwin Lampkins jonn our 4-H
leader ranks and we think that
she wiil be a real community lead
er and help us establish several
clubs in the Imbler-Summerville
community.
Wayne Bartron. principal at Im
bler, is leading a 4-H health club
and Mrs. Virgil Yarington has in
dicated an interest in teaching a
4-H health ciub in the Elgin area.
specialized growers, much as corn
u. u i j seea is produced. But un
like corn, where the parents are
oropagated hy seed the parents of
an alfalfa singlecross are propa-;
gated vegetat'vely.
Rooted stem cuttings, made by
cutting of alfalfa stems much as
we slip geraniums, are transplant
eJ ti,, macunery in isolated fields
resembling vineyards. Because al
falfa is a long-lived perennial,
fields should persist for a long
time. After the first year, seed
production could be as high as
from row seedings, because plants
increase in size with age. As with
corn, the farmer would buy seed
for each planting to get the bene
fit of the first-generation cross.
He could not harvest seed from
his fields and retain the initial hy
brid vigor.
Top quality purebred bred ewes
iambs will be offered at the sec
ond annual Bred Ewe Sale at the
Polk county fairgrounds located at
Rickerall, Oregon, tomorrow. The
sale will get underway promptly
at 10:00 a.m.
An outstanding ram will pay for
itself within a year by producing
aucve average lambs, reports Dr.
Kalph Bogart, animal husbandman
at the Oregon State College agri
cultural experiment station.
OSC researchers compared
grade, weight and selling price of
Bulls Net Top,
Prices At Sale
In Enterprise
Calf voted grand champion at the
Wallowa Counly Bull Calf Sale
was a polled bull consigned by
Wolfe Hereford Ranch and sold to
Emmctt Weatherman for $325.00.
The ballots gave reserve cham
pion to a calf consigned by Walt
Stein, but buyers liked him well
enough to run the bidding up to
$340.00 paid by BartoJ Wade.
Average for all cahes sold was
$267.00 per head.
High quality bulls were consign
ed, according to Elgin Cornell,
county agent. The show and sale
were attended by Darret Brown
of the American Hereford Associa
tion and Sherm Outtridge of the
Western Livestock Journal,
Auctioneer was Clayton Tschirgi
of Fruitland, Idaho.
Wallowa county rancners who Mfsprmg from outstandma rams
sold bulls were: Daggett Hereford j ith offspring of average rams Th
16,277,000 head, about 4 per cent
below the same date tin 1938. This
marked the second consecutive
year that Australian cattle num
bers have declined. The reduction
is the result of unusually heavy
"daughter.
There is some concern that this
heavy slaughter will imperil the a-
wiity of Australia s cattle indus
try to maintain Us breeding herd
However,- the. general- opMon is
that most of the slaughter repre
sents earlier marketing of cattle
normally destined for slaughter.
ana heavy cutting of inferior breed
ing stock. In any esse, the heavy
slaughter and large exports of re
cent months can- hardly be main
tained beyond the end of 1959 with
out depleting the breeding herd.
Sheep numbers rase to i52,sas.
900 bead, about 2 per cent above
1958. improved pasture conditions
and strengthening wool prices point
to a further increase. Australia:
mutton asd wool exports during
liOS-GO an expected to be high
Exports to the United States wii
probably remain an important pars
of Australia's total exports.
FARM CALENDAR
13-14 Pacific Coast Turkey
Exhibit, Me.Minnville.
J3-14 Sheep and Wcol School
at Oregon State College, ending
at noon, Saturday, Nov. 14.
14 Oregon Purebred Sheep
Oregon reached that ' Breeders Bred Ewe Sale, 10 a m.,
status last July and all work done Pclk county fairgrounds, Rickreall.
now fs to maintain that status. I 16 l ca workshop for soil
Banch, Amos F. Evans, Hays Here
ford Ranch, Kenneth and Roger
Kooch, Tapoan and Gardner Locke,
James MeCrae. MR. McCrae,
Norman McCrae, 51 ,C. Oveson,
Herbert and Rita Reavis, Walt and
Herman Stein, Van Blokland Here
ford Ranch, F.H. Weinhard and
Wolfe Hereford Ranch.
Purchasers were: Emmett
Weatherman, Joe McClaran, Mrs.
Estella Morton, Darrel Gelsinger,
Sfencer Bacon, Kenneth Craig,
Barton Wade, Truman Poulson,
Bob Willis, Vernon Hays, J F.
Ranch. Paul Green, Verne Colvin,
Jack Read, Vernon Britton, Amos
Evans, Donald Smith, R.L. Gorbett
Mack Birkmaier, and John Baxter.
Straw for bedding was donated
by the Enterprise KFA Chapter.
touna the difference is enough
that one lamb crop will cover cost
oi tne Better ram,
Lambs sired by the best rams
averaged 90 pounds at weaning, an
graded good and choice. Lambs
irom the two least desirable rams
Horticulture
Society Sets
Annual Session
Two faatioaaByJmcma twikm
will keynote the Oregjn State Hor
ticulturat Seoetys TOh ammrf
meeting, Nov, srj m at Or
State College.
A former OregKiian. Krvin I.
Peterson, assistant secretary o
the U.S. department of agricul
ture, wiU speak at the VrUm
tnerning general VWnMt. Hi
talk, titled .Yesterdav, Today oi
Timorroai feBm the them
of the meeting whscfc is to revtev
the past 10 years aod explore the
luture of thestaie Iratt and vege
table industry.
J. Roger Deas, o'. Us? American
Can Compaiy in Sew Vork City
will talk on "America's Secre
Weapon" at the Thursday evenini
banquet. Dea? alss is a forme
West Coast resident, having live:
in California much of his life.
Thursday afternoon's general a
ssembiy will feature a discassior
an marketing by OSC agricultural
economists, ti. t . Hsuanos, U.
Korzai asd G. B. Wood.
Most of the meeting Is divided Is
to four sect fens of growers of vege
table cross, apples and pears.
stone fruits, and smaK fruits to dis
cuss their special Interests.
About 1000 growers, fieldmea.
scientists and other agricultssral
eaders are expected to attend the
two-day nhwting ta study new de
velopments production and mar-
Production
Of Meat To
Climb High
fmrm Mews Roenriup
WASHINGTON UPI - The;
Agriculture Department predicts
hat meat production will go up
in I960 to an all time high of mora
thn 23 biliwn pounds.
Ircduction tor tlas jear is -
-oclej to tola! about SJJOO.OBS,
JS0 pounds.
There W be no mm record
:xt year in per capita suptriy,
however. The popyhithm if fcif-Ser-
The 198 supply is expected to
give the avarage American abesst
81 pousda of meat liurnjg Use
year, six pounds less than the
ecord year of i'.i
The dvparime.it said the house
wife also can expert tower meat
pikes, first on nigber-cost cuts
ai Che winter and aping, ana
hen on lser-eoit cuts like ham
jurger next summer and fall.
Meanwhile, the department re
ported that t imports of meat
viii see a r.ew record this year,
oing over one billim pounds far
Jse first time in history. . -
WASHINGTON' fPI Seiea
ists working for the Agriculture
Apartment aad the California
Experiment JsSaiion have devei
sed a sew variety sf oats. -
The new plant is a red cat with
.hurt straw and is resistant to
edging and shattering. It as called
curt" and is adaptable for past
are and hay production.
WASHINGTON UPI Egg
traduction has dropped faster
nan government experts expect
4.
The Agriculture Department hd
een predicting that product; art
hrough the end of 1959 would
ortinue above 1938 levels.
A re; ort shows, however, that
reduction during October cam
j 4,T8t,B,M eggs, down 1 per
I I from the same month te
The drop apparently was the
esult of low egg prices through
ust of this year, the department
aid.
WASHINGTON UM The
lumber o." work'rs on the a
ki's farms is getting smaller.
A t tisS of 8,600,000 persons were
; work o i farms in late October,
:iis as i per cent less than a
ar ago asd S per cent below the
erase (ar the same month ia
ie past five year.
ket";ng. Sectional meetings will b-
3 Ihuisday at .30 m,m. ,
mum ;
Fir, Mahogany and Birth
ALL IN STOCK '
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October Precipitation
At Wallowa 1,88 Inches
WALLOWA (Special October
weather observations show a pre
cipitation during the month of
1 88 inches.
Thursday evening the Mary
aiica circle met at the home of
Mrs, . Verda Baird. Twelve were
present. Mrs. Kenneth Running
was assistant hostess. There was
a business meeting snd refresh
ments. '
Nov, g, a Simplicity style review
was to be held at the Wallowa
gymnasium.
conservation district supervisors,
Klamath Falls.
19-20 Oregon State Horticul
tural Society annual meeting, OSC.
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