The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 20, 1925, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTiin or.::Go:: stati:s:.!An, rALi::r, crcoN THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20. 1025 i ' dull .poy;:osoF;"j:r.i,,riyi!yei Th2 Liva Str-fc tJ ":at !:du:?ry of th3 United States Is 0r,2 Ci .Vr:t Prc-rticns If Ycu Are ilot Eating a Half a Pcurilcf :.!cat.a Day, Ycu Arc Not -petting, Your and 60 Between ,55 pounds,' r-f. rnat and neat prod ucts are consumed daily. by the people of the United States, ac cording to a statement kiaued by the Institute of American Meat million of vast proportions ,". Mjf. Mayer' stated. '"Getting the meat we eat from the -farm to. the table in volves billions of dollars, millions of head of live stock, and hun dreds of thousands of men. Pro- United States during the last year averaged about 16a pounds per capita or a half a pound per per Bon per day. In addition, ' the lard utilized In this country rep resented 13.8 pounds per capita. ; "Our daily meat ration of some eight ounces is made up of about 2 ounces! of beef, 4 ounces of pork 2-5 of an ounce of' veal, and 4 of an ounce of lamb. - "Virtually all of the meat, eat en in the United ; States' is pro duced here. . Laat year, only 34 million pounds of meat were im portedconsiderably ' less than pne percent of our domestic pro duction and only about enough to last our population through break fast and lunch. "Exports of meat during last r Willamette valley need in order ?rown under the same'condttlons. Beef maki Packers,' .through its Oscar G..Mayer, of Chic j "The live .stock and .in- lustry of the United.Ftates is one -Siting the grass do it "Out Where the West Begins" duction of meat and lard exceeds 20. billions of pounds annually. -.Kat .Half-pound of Meat -Daily '.'Consumption of meat' in the year, consisting almost entirely of pork and. lard,. approximated one and - thre e-q u a rle r . bilil on pounds, worth. $240. 0.00,0 pp.". ;3EEF;FlICIie;liIffi'JILlf.llM. ! aiFj. ei mmmim. I : , , ' "..7r-'':'.-I Ths Use of the-?.!cunteih Pastures arid of the Logged-Off ? -Lands fcr..Bcth Cattls a,nd Sheep1 in the Dry;Surnmer i Time.Suggssted rBeel-RaisingiFrom Dairy ..CattteJn i .too A7iUaraette-Va!iey JJot-Prof liable - 7 : Beef production In the Willam- -ttealley is confined; to the. foot I tills and to some scattering acres r f the valley land .that 4 are suit-, ble only. for grass production ac s ording' to '13. '1 'Potter, head of t nlrcal .industry at the Oregon I hgrjcultural i college, la a special i etter to The -.Statesman. . Sim founding, the -valley, proper, Prof, f 'otter 6ays, -we find I. in many l lares a rim of foothills' covered ith a mixture of .scrub .oak,. fir tnA -ras. 'Thi 'Tttn 'nf foothills I farms' the transition between be al!ey proper ' and.', the ;belt' of jeruse 'timber higher up. . .At the iouthern ea.d; of the ; valley,; tbjs finished lamb, with the result that too many of the lambs do not get fat. . If, however, these native pastures can be used In connec tion with some good farming land so that thelamh3" can be' taken off of the native pastures before the grass dries up and given about a month on clover s or clover and rape, they .will finish off in splen did shape. In -the .meantime, the ewes ,will do well on the native pasture for the remainder of .the year. This we have found tot bo the -most profitable way of using these ' native pastures. It re quires, however, as stated some that he ls not.goinK to make any thing but! of them, and he is will ing to sejl them for whatever. he canget. The man with plenty of grass usually buys these steers at a "low price, runs them , on grasa for one : Or, two years, ; and .then sells them ' for .beef. . There is usually aj heavy loss In producing these dairy rbre"d" steers, but the grass owner usually buys them at a price which' puts' this ,loes on the dairy.fartner, and which may even yield . him SL - profit. , Until our aauy farmers . learn ; better what it coBts"to-raise a steer and , how little a ' dairy bred, steer Is worth in .any case, there, will probably be considerable members of these animals produced and the average quality of ; beef produced on .Wil lamette valley grass will .be ln- creasmgiy low. it 19 quite possi ble to breed and produce good quality steers on Willamette val ley : foothills and pastures, and v Jt Is being done in many places, and would, be done much more exten sively were it, not that the cattle men find it more profitable to fin ish. Jersey steers wbich they can buy for little or nothing from the to'iroviJe ftut'.fcfaetory ' feed for . thplr tto!c throughout t he sea son. These furest'grazlng' lands have not been used ,by western Oregon stockmen, .partly Jiecauae the western 'Oregon .- stockmen have worked on too small a scale to' Justify moving their stock po far, partly because they are un familiar with handling their stock under range conditions,, and part ly because the. drive through the Cascades, has, been somewhat dif ficult. The last difficulty, yith our present . supply of roajls, should T not he Insurmountable, and .would not be so to stockmen In the ' habit of handling stock under range conditions. The oth er two difficulties will require lime, and patience" to overcome. Also Cut-over "Lands In addition to forest graxing lands on higher parts of the Cas cade mountains, - there is being made available every year .consid erable areas of cut-over lands In the nearby forests. Almost any of ..this . cut-over laud, if -well burned Af te r logging," and , & " go ad mixture of .domestic grass sown In, the ashes,, will provide at. "east five or six years ,.of very fine grafing. Most of this land being at a higher altitude t,han pur val ley .pastures and foptjhjUs. tomes on later In the spring, and is bet terfo dry'weather and would, tberefqre, be 'a . eplendid supple ment to the grazing we now .have. By the latter part of May or the first of une the .valley, and. foot hill pastures begin to; dry up and lambs qn such pastures will have made about all the gains they are golng to make. for. that season. yetjwill not be quite big: enough or fat 1 enough tor market.; ,lt these same lamba ,could then ,go Into the mountains for thirty or sixty days, they would. be Injprime condition. It Is possible that our logged-off "lands , will afford the finest solution ', of -this problem In advocating the -use of logged- off lands as a supplement. to our native pastures. -.we are doing, so In full knowledge of the tact that these logged-off viands grow up to brash In ..from .Jive, to . ten jeats and so finally become practically worthless for grazing purposes These " lands, however, ; can be made to supply five or ten years of splendid grazing, and 'since the area, cut over, each year Is in creasing, new logged-off areas are available faster than the: old. areas grow up. to brush. In fact. It seems highly probable that if ever a- permanent; system of timber production Tis developed in west- era Oregon, the plan will call for grazing, during the first few years after logging,' partly as ; a means of fire protection and partly as a source; of Jncrased ; rejenue, .The use . of such lands In connection with our present .valley and foot hill lands-would enable our stock men to produce a much better product at a lower cost. Ilencp a beef bred calf at $2 is a lietier Investment than a dairy bred calf as a gift. ' ' The great peed of the beef In dustry, however, is some change in our marketing system which will cause the different grades of beef to he Fold, .on their merits. Our. friend, Mr. -O. M. Plummer, has well expressed -this in his slogan. "Truth In .Meats," al though this. slogan might reflect on the honesty f- the dealers. which Is not altogether warranted. As the matter now stands, a con siderable percentage of. our shops In. Oregon ;handle only meats of low grade and the consumers who buy there know what they are getting. At the other extreme. there are a few shops very, very few, however that sell only the best grade, of meats, where con sumers can always be sure of get ting nothing, but , the best. ;Prob- ably ; 75 Per f cent of our retail shops, however, handle meats varying Inequality from-good to bad, and in such shops the buyer Is never ' sure of ..what-he 'is ."get ting. Today ;he .gets a good piece of beef, tomorrow1 -H b bad. .This situation hurt the trade very much and f tends to lower the whole rcale of beef prices. without any resulting Increased satisfac tion to . the consumer. . Onr. con eumers would much rather pay fori their meat on the basis of what they are getting. .They would rather pay more for the good and less for the bad. "Above all, they would like for the quality to be dependable. Only a small pro portion of our housewives make a practice of .serving beef for. com pany or other special , occasions, in spite of the -fact that there 1s nothing finer than a choice beet steak or roast. The reason U that the housewife cannot 'be cure of getting a choice cut. Jlence, ahe buys pork or veal or'poultry, which she finds more dependable. In a great many of our shops. Jt is possible for a housewife who is. a good judge of meats, to go personally and select something of good quality. " Not many"! our housewives, however, are good Judges of meat and it is not likely that fhey ever wU he. They must depend to a considerable -extent upon such things as trade marks, reputation of .dealers, etc. The possibilities of standardization and the establishment of reliable grades list well illustrated ' la " the bacon trade. There is probably no meat product .that is more variahle in quality than bacon. et the packers.' both largend small, are now grading and mark ing their bacon In such a way that the consumer knows from the trade .mark almost exactly ..what he is getting. The mme thing is possible in beef, and will come in time. I- 1 . ' j E. U POTTER. Corvallis, Or.,; Aug. 19, (M. Potter is professor ..ml ani mal husbandry at the OreRtm Ag ricultrirai college and' he Ij hig.h authority. Ed.) St-appoowe drainage dUtrkt of fers $210,040 drainage bonds. Ued'ord to vote October fi on new sS.oav water works pro- OreRon wool growers still, have iri.OO 0.000 pound unsold wool on hand. "; j :GU AO ANTEED . -USED 'V -V PRICED RIGHT 1 , TOE BLUE FRONT . - , . ..... . " ' . V ' Liberty end Ferry A SALE.IVI 1S.0.0 PEOPLE. Aftcrriodn ,.-mm , -iiini" 4 ,0 10X)9 MENAGERIE" A!!! MAIS .' if M X t iv 1 vv N 1 m rim idi c ..! LENGTH i R1R.CARS ' FORMING TO AiNS OVtR', MASSIVE WOODEN -RINGS- 6 STAGES n&IGINATtNG arittSTUPENDOUSLy1 PRESENTING THE W.ORLDIS ' BG GEST C&CUSI FEATURES 350 PERFORMING HORSES introducing ' ICO tN -A SINGLE 1 W OlSPLAy -5 HERDS Giant anobabv 'ELEPHANTS 100 ClOWHS 800 JNTERNATIONAlLy 1 FAMOUS MFS AND WOMEN jftRENlCSTfiRS DOORS OPEN AT I art 7 P.M. PERFORM ASCS JT 2 48PM .Downtown Ticket Sale. (on Circus ; Day bnly);at ; :PATT0NJR0S, Book Store; 340 State St BEEFJ.IARKET.DEI.1ANDS .'REGULATE .PRODUCTION (ConUnut from pist 8) i. - ' ' ' Finisbbs cp- the good cns in the feedlot oihlll rim Is often several miles I little. fanning land in addition to J dairymen. wt.ith hut aft we to farther the native pasture,, and tlao it re- . i tQuire a little more cart and at- rth, it gradually disappears. Onl . tn ' , n,ann- n. thi year's operation and to the details of management. than many of. the users of such lands are willing to devote to it. . ! o! western aide of the valley, by e? time, we """reach 'Washington unty, the dense timber of "the ountain'j and the valley farms , . actically Join without any Inter ! nlng hiU grazing. On the, east It n side of il.e valley, this hill i: azing'i abttiiant'in Lane and na counties. It narrows down u. Marion countv and by the time f) reacfiel Clackamas county,. has Ucticajly disappeared. In addi- 5n to ttse hilldands, we -have 'me cor. -iderable Areas, of very f.t valleyjand of rather low pro 1 ctivity, that' so .far has been f-J alcr-t prclusively. for grai- I; purp; . .Tl.c?e are as . are md partially in Marion county, ft more largely In Linn, Lane, fj. Eeiton counties. These fillamette valley grazing Jan;Js ive a somewhat higher carrying :acity than the tyr'cal . eastern jeTn range lands, but while a 3 curiber of acres is required Eurr-rt a steer for the season, ) Eiecr will not make as large '. :aia ' a3 he will eist-of the i ur tains. It usually takes from is to 10 acres of gra?s in.wet -i Oregon to support a steer for year.'. In-.acliUioi .to tbis, he ! 1 E.c"l alrcut a ten of hay anJ ' 1 dalie a rn-'n.for tte ycar.cf ' ) iozl3 ta 2SD pouiJs, 1 - f j cr ::.3 V.i"arett3 va:iey ras teller its Cat va:::y ca tLa fjcll.Hl', cf rrs?3 for about two 'a ta s pil" z.' r ; cf Us year Cj - v - ra far . , Not IrofitabIe Practice , . Therefore, a high percentage of the a&era of this land, being un willing to devote to, the sheep the attention and care necessary, find it more profitable to raise, beef cattle, and it is quite probable that .these 1 lands will, for many years to come continue to produce a good many beef. The quality of beef produced, on; these areas is sometimes good, but more often poor -It ie the habit of many of our dairy " f armexs fo keep 'some steer calves. They keep them un til they are one 6r two. years old, by which time 5 the . owner finds tenance. For eiampte, experi raentg at the .Oregon experiment station show plainly that 3 5 pounds of. alfalfa fed to two 1000 pound steers. at the rate pf lila pounds per head per day will merely, keep :the steers alive a nd will make no ain whatever. On the, other hand.Jf ..this 35 pounds pf .hay . be .fed to , one steer, he will make a 'gain pf.one pound pr better per day. . ith , grass, the difference is even greater. The grass that 'will make a gain of 1!4 pounds to 2 pounds a day on one steer w,hen divided between tw0 will only ieepr those two alive. There la n'oiqueetiori 4n the mind ' of the writer but that In the judi cious handling of our pastures lies Ifine fountain Range I the greatest opportunity for. Im- The bighandicap to either beef I provement In beef production, an i A WmST CLEARANCE SALE e m m 1 y jw 0 cattle or sheep in this area lsP as already stated, the dryness and scarcity. of .feed during' .the sum mer months. .The future livestock production on these. grazing lands will largely depend upon the solu tion of thi3 problem. At the pres ent time there is quite a consider able area of summer grazing land along the. summit of theCascade mountains In the national forest. This . land is used almost; exclu sively by stockmen from" eastern Oregon, especially sheep' men. Many of these men drive or ship their sheep for more than one hundred miles to summer range. These jhigh mountain .ranges af ford splendid feed , for three or possibly four months in, the nm- mer. They are usually; available some time in June and are good until , the danger of fall storm which- will be some time in Sep tember. Thi3 type of grazing is J exactly what the stockmen of tl Improvement that will result not merely in a more -desirable fin ished . product, hut .which will re: suit In a lower cost of production. I In the case of beef coming from our dairy herds, "there la not much possibility for r improvement ex cept through a process of elimina tion. There are hundred pf dairy bred bull calves which are" kept and 1 grown into steers . only to produce- beef of low quality at a high cost of production. These daigri,bred steers should be en tirely! eliminated. Where practical to finish them into veal, this should, be done, since dairy hred calves ' "'make f very satisfactory veaL In no case, however, should they be. kept longer than the veal stage. Even under present low prices,, a beef bred steer will weigh from 200 to 250" founds more than a dairy bred stier and will sell- from $1 to 11.50 more per hundred pounds, even when i 5 'Ky ga t-Ja E-Ja ' rl'H LSsSX I -cUa r 1 tJa L-la IsrrJ if3"" "rTnrTP?-iF- II kJ - I H - 1 ! ! JAJ H;.-' i n . -. . ' y " ; ..... - , -, . 1 AN. EVENT THAT mLL INTEREST JZFERY r:E(mSEWIFEAND:W There are scores of . different Styles and Typs of . ' Davenpqrf . v l$.M$2.s'l -PIe Patterns and colors in fabrics all new and novel designs and effects , " , Odd Dayenports and Chairs at Exceptionally JLqw prices This is Your Opportunity to complete the .Comforts of your LiTins Room Acci.!?r.ts v"I hsrpcn, tt t' '. frst t: :ch cf Tcskra to a. I tca!J, c.t cr tr '.: ta' ts- cut t ; rin arl st:.rts tl'.s hszLzz- A box of 'Poslara ' in the . house v, save a.bt cf At s'l.r - lists. ' ; ' ; T rtain Yo-r Ye Ve reccmrr.s." J I' t St.: J "t nlt''f Accredited by tVe State and the i, A. vw--- University c! Oregon. 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