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THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20. 1025
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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.".
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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. ";
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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