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(503) 553-3238
Arlcne Boileau
4-H & Youth
Norma Simpson
I lome Economics
Bob Pawclck
Livestock
Sue Ryan
4-1 1 Assistant
Clint Jacks
Staff Chair, Madras
Bodie Shaw
Ag & Natural Resources
Tha Oiegon Stule University Extension Service staff Is devoted to extending research-based information from OSU to the people of Warm Springs
in agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension sea grant program with OSU, United States
Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Exension Service offers its programs
and motorinls equally to all people.
The Clover speaks-
by Sue Ryan
The etui of 19 also brought the loss of a
resource for the Warm Springs 4-1 1 program.
Arlcne aiul I both would like to say a Big
Tl IAN K-YOU to Kaihy I lall for her service
over the years. Katliy was the sewing and
craft lady at Turner's Ben Franklin in Madras
for 22 years. She retired from her job on
December 31st. W henever we had a crafty
question - where can you still find that satin
straw raffia Katliy always knew. She knew
where you could order it. how much it would
cost, and how long it would take for the order
to come in. And she knew this information in
detail off the lop of her head. So, we would
like lo take a moment here to acknowledge
how helpful Kalhy Hall has been to our 4-H
Program in Warm Springs over the years.
The "Creating with Yarn" 4-H club starts
up again alter a holiday break on Tuesday,
January 14th. They meet from 4:00 to 6:00
p.m. in the 4-H Center. A reminder for all
who are attending this club - remember that
this is a short-term club and will only meet
until February lllh. Also, if you haven't
turned in a 4- II registration form please do so
right away.
Arlcne and I arc setting 'dates for our
January through March calendar still. One
class that has been finalicd is "Baskctmaking
with Rosemary". This will be held on two
Saturdays in March, the 1st and 8th. This
class is for students in 5th through 12lh
grades and registration for it will open Feb
ruary 1st. Still on the drawing board are
cookine for kinderp.irion throuph 3rd prades.
sewing for older kids, and "Know Your In
dian Government" for high school students.
As soon as we set the final details, we will
publish the information.
A reminder for all parents and youth - if
you attend a 4-H activity or club, even if it is
a one-time event, you must complete a 4-H
registration form. Filling this out is quick,
painless and easy and it only takes a few
minutes. Once you fill a form out, it is good
for a full year !
I would like to congratulate the four stu
dents at Early Childhood Education who
completed the recent 4-H Babysitting short
course held there over the holiday break.
They are Erica We wa, Jenni Van Pelt, Shancll
Kalama, and Lucy Wolfe. These girls learned
about various ways to care and interact with
younger siblings and relatives.
Some statewide 4-H activities coming up
include: 4-1 1 Natural Science Day on March
22nd. 1997 This is a fun-lillcd one day
session held at the 4-H Center near Salem.
Classes for this year will cover; the world of
owls, Bats: masters of the night, where is our
ecosystem?, exploring geographic informa
tion systems, environmental pollution, fish
ing with your family, archery, and the amaz
ing world of insects. Registration forms for
4-H Natural Science Day arc available at the
Natural Resource Notables-
Warm Springs 4-H office, and are due before
March 7lh. There is a fee of $ 6.00. Know
Your State Government is a citizenship edu
cation program designed for youth learn how
their state eovernmcnt functions. It is held
April 2nd through the 4th in Salem, Oregon.
More information is available at the Warm
Springs 4-H office, and registration will be
handled through the Madras 4-H office. There
is a fee of $ 85.00. It's never too early to
think about summer ! and the dates have
been set for the 1997 4-H Natural Resource
Workshop. This five day workshop is titled
"Mt. Discovery, Exploring the Links be
tween Mountains, Water, People, Food and
Fun". The five-day workshop will focus on
Mt. Hood and the surrounding area. It is set
for August 4th - 8th at Nanitch Lodge( the
Boy Scout camp). Mt. Discovery will be
open to 40 middle school participants, and
has a leadership track for 10 high school age
students. Registration for Mt. Discovery is $
100.
by Bodie Shaw
A Range of Wonders
The Society for Range Management
(SRM) along with the Soil and Water Con
servation Society (SWCS) arc cooperating
to publish a new educational cartoon book
let, entitled "Range of Wonders". This book
let is now a part of SWCS' series of Environ
mental Adventures booklets designed for
youngsters, ages 10-12.
The booklet is a great educational re
source about rangcland, grazing lands, and
the livestock industry. This booklet exposes
both youth and adults to the importance of
range and pasture land in an educational and
fun-filled way. The following excerpt gives
a quick peck into what "Range of Wonders"
is all about.
"Land on our planet give us a home and
the many resources we need to live. There
are many kinds of land, and each one gives us
unique gifts. Forested land gives us wood for
paper and building. Farmland with good soil
"Major Choices"
sessions start 11797
Kaleidoscope of Colleges & Cultures
This event will be held on Friday, January
17th at Oregon State University
Sessions will cover "Major Choices" -information
for students unsure of their ca
reer or major choice. Also attend challeng
ing, interactive, small classes led by some of
OSU's outstanding professors. Presentations
will be made by professors from Agricultural
Sciences and Forestry, Business, Engineer
ing, Health, Home Economics and Educa
tion, Liberal Arts, and Science. Stop by the
Extension office for registration forms right
away !
gives us plant crops for food and clothing.
Another type of land is rangcland.
Rangcland is covered with grasses, forbs
(wildllowcrs), shrubs and scattered trees.
With the many different types of plants,
rangeland provides a variety of uses and
products. But it usually has limited soil and
water resources and is not suitable for farm
ing or forestry. Still, rangeland has many
special riches.
Cattle and sheep that grac on rangeland
provide food, clothing and many other useful
products. Minerals from rangeland give us
fuel, construction materials and even medi
cine. Rangeland is a home for countless
plants and animals, including rare and en
dangered species. The natural beauty of
rangcland areas arc also important in manag
ing soil and water resources.
Rangcland is indeed rich with resources,
but it is a fragile environment. We must
carefully manage rangcland resources to
maintain or improve their quality.
With careful rangeland management, we
will always be able to enjoy a range of
wonders."
If you or someone you know is interested,
contact me here at OSU Extension, orcall the
SWCS directly at l-800-THE-SOIL
(843-7645). ext. 19.
Life
Land
Many uses for dated Christmas trees
have access to a chipper or mechanical tree
grinder. Then use the chips as mulch around
flowers and shrubs in the home landscape.
by Carol Savonen
After Christmas, there are many useful
things you can do with your used tree besides
send it to the local landfill for burial.
First of all, don't burn it.
"Disposal of the tree by burning can be
dangerous, particularly if you decide to burn
it indoors in a fireplace or wood stove," said
Ross Pcnhallcgon, horticulture agent with
the OSU Extcntion Service. "For safety, don't
burn the tree at all. There are other ways to
get maximum use out of a retired Christmas
tree."
Penhallegon offers a few suggestions:
-Convert the tree into wood chips if you
-Strip the boughs from the trunk and use
them as a mulch around low-growing land
scape plants.
-Put your tree up in the yard for the winter
and hang treats for birds such as seed and suet
balls, or pine cone ornaments coated with
peanut butter and seed.
-Or, check with your local landfill and
service groups for ideas. Some community
groups pick up old Christmas trees for a
small fee or accept them at drop-off points.
Some disposal companies shred trees and
use the material as mulch in public parks.
"How'd You Brake Your Arm?" will make you smile if not laugh
Collage of Culture in final planning
by Norma I L. Simpson
Since last May, the Collage of Culture
Planning Committee has met six times at the
Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.
The last meeting was January 7, and we all
could see there's lots of work to do to get
ready for the Event May 17, 1997.
Our next Collage of Culture planning
date is February 3, from 6 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome!
Two high school students, who worked in
the last Collage, provided the teen perspec
tive. They had great ideas, and volunteered
to get more ideas for events especially of
interest to the younger crowd. It would be
great if we had some input from the teenagers
from Warm Springs. One idea is a
"One-on-Three" Basketball competition,"
another is a Graffiti Painting Wall competi
tion, and another is a teen dance.
During last year's Collage of Culture, we
surveyed people of all ages to see what we
could do to make the event even better.
One request was for a lovely summer day
- not too hot and not too cold.
We hope to have plenty of hot and cold
drinks available to fit the weather we are
dealt.
As always we can sell plenty of FryBread
and huckleberry jam. Other traditional foods
would also be welcome,' as-well as other
specialties. As before, the committee limits
the number of vendors who sell items so that
they do not compete with each other.
This year we will aim for 12 sponsored
hot air balloons. The hugh art tent we had last
year will also be a spot for more local and
regional art. If more Warm Springs artisans
want to be involved, they can contact me and
I will pass along their names to the
three-member arts committee.
We agree that we will sell Squeeze Bottles
and Tote Bags with the Collage of Culture
emblem on them. Do you have any ideas that
you would like to buy? We still have some of
those great purple T-shirts with the colorful
hot air balloons on them at the Chamber of
Commerce office, but only medium and large
sizes are available.
One idea was to have lawn chairs to rent.
Anyone interested in that kind of conces
sion? Last year we estimated that 8000 people
attended. The music was great, the dancing
was wonderful, and the food was a reason
able price from breakfast to evening.
Mark on your calendar COLLAGE
OF CULTURE, Saturday, May 17, Friend
ship Park in Madras Oregon.
This story to sure enlighten your day.
"How'd You Break Your Arm?
Even if you aren't a skier, you'll be able to
appreciate the humor of the slopes as written
in this account by a New Orleans paper.
"A friend just got back from a holiday ski
trip to Utah with the kind of story that warms
the cockles of anybody's heart. Conditions
were perfect, 1 2 below, no feeling in the toes,
basic numbness all over, the "tell me when
we're having fun" kind of day.
One of the women in the group com
plained to her husband that she was in dire
need of a restroom. He told her not to worry,
that he was sure there was relief waiting at
the top of the lift in the form of a power room
the female skiers in distress. He was wrong,
of course, and the pain did not go away.
If you've ever had nature hit its panic
button in yoku, then you know that a tem
perature of 12 below zero doesn't help mat
ters. So, with time running out, the woman
weighed her options.
Her husband, picked up on the intensity of
the pain, suggested that since she was wear
ing all-white ski outfit, she should go off in
the woods. No one would even notice, he
assured her. The white would provide more
than adequate camouflage. So she headed for
the tree line and began to disrobe and pro
ceeded to do her thing. If you've ever parked
on the side of a slope, then you know there is
a right way and a wrong way to set your Hp
so you don't move. Yup, you got it. She had
them positioned the wrong way.
Steep slopes are not forgiving, even dur
ing embarrassing moments. Without warn
ing, the woman found herself skiing back
wards, out-of-conlrol, racing through the
trees, somehow missing all of them, and
onto another slope. Her dcrriere and the
reverse side were still bare, her pants down
around her knees and she was picking up
speed all the while. She continued on back
wards, totally out-of-control, creating an
unusual vista for the other skiers.
The woman skied, if you define that verb
loosely, back under the lift and finally col
lided violently with a pylon. The bad news
was that she broke her arm and was unable to
pull up her pants. At long last her husband
arrived, put an end to her nudie show, then
went to the base of the mountain and sum
moned the ski patrol, who transported her to
a hospital.
In the emergency room she was regrouping
when a man with an obviously broken leg
was put in the bed next to hers.
"So, how'd you break your leg?" she asked,
making small talk.
"It was the darndest thing you ever saw,"
he said. I was riding this ski lift, and suddendly
I couldn't believe my eyes. There was this
crazy woman skiing backward out of control
down the mountain with her bare bottom
hanging out of her clothes and her pants
down around her knees. I leaned over to get
' a better look and I guess I didn't realize how
I'd moved. I fell out of the lift.
So, how'd you break your arm?"
Have a safe Martin
Luther King , Jr.
Holiday, from the OSU
Extension staff!
"Work for Justice! Make A Difference" theme for tribute
by Norma L. Simpson
This year the theme of OSU's 15th An
nual Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute and
Celebration, is WORK FOR JUSTICE!
MAKE A DIFFERENCE!. Well we are a
long way from the OSU, to participate in
events of the Tribute on January 12-21, but
we can pay a small tribute here in Warm
Springs.
Some of King's quotes continue to ring in
our minds as they affect all people. So I went
to my files and a Christian Science Monitor
article by Keith Henderson to be correct with
what he said that we hear over and over.
"I have a dream that my four little
children will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their charac
ter." -Martin Luther King speech at the Lin
coln Memorial March on Washington 1963.
Many of us have the same dream for the
children in Warm Springs, in Madras and
around the world.
Another quote was excerpted from his
acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize
only months before he was killed in Mem
phis. "Nonviolence is the answer to the cru
cial political and more questions of our
time; the need for man to overcome op
pression and violence without resorting
to oppression and violence.. ..Man must
evolve for human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression and retalia
tion. The foundation of such a method is
love." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Norway,
Nobel Peace Prize speech 1964.
STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Why are hay prices so high?-
by Bob Pawelek
OSU Livestock Agent
Higher feed prices and uneven forage
quality continue to narrow the livestock
producer's profit margins.
Why are hay prices so high?
Last w inter's favorable pasture and range
conditions resulted in an adequate forage
supply for the cattle inventory nationwide.
But when dry conditions began to spread
across large parts of cattle producing areas
last summer, producers began to cull herds in
reaction to reduced forage conditions and
lowcattle prices. Second-quartcrcow slaugh
ter was 40 above a year earlier.
Although forage conditions in most areas
began to improve in July, cow slaughter,
particularly beef cows, remained large. The
average daily rate of cow slaughter in July
was up sharply from a year earlier. Beef cow
slaughter was up 48, while dairy cow
slaughter rose 10 percent.
A reduced beef cow herd and fewer heif
ers being bred this summer for next year's
calf crop w ill result in a tightening feeder
cattle supply in 1997 and tighter beef sup
plies beginning in 1998.
Higher hay prices are the result of reduced
supplies across the country.
This may lead to additional culling of the
breeding herd after the first-half calf crop is
weaned in late summer to early fall. USDA
forecasts hay production at 149 million tons
in 1996, down 5 from the very large 1995
harvest. Alfalfa hay, which is normally har
vested several times during the growing sea
son, is forecast down 5 percent.
Other hay, mostly grass - normally har
vested only once a year - is forecast down 2
percent.
The farm price of hay is already rationing
the tighter supply of grass hay, which is a
critical component of the winter forage sup
ply for the beef cow herd.
Nationwide, the price of alfalfa averaged
$92.90 a ton in July, up from $89.60 a year
earlier. The price of other hays increased
sharply to $76. up from $64.20.
There is still hay out there to be bought,
but it won't be cheap. I spoke with brokers in
the Columbia Basin and in the Fort Rock area
just this morning, and if you can find feeder
alfalfa at $ 1 00 in the barn, you had better not
look much farther for a better deal.
TanuarY
Garden hints from your OSU Extension Agent
In sunny eastern Oregon, wrap or paint young tree trunks to prevent sunscald.
Send for FS 246, Constructing Cold Frames and Hotbeds.
Reapply mulches that may have disappeared during winter months.
Check with local retail garden or nursery stores for seed and seed catalogs, and
begin planning this year's vegetable garden.
Have soil test performed on garden plot. See your county Extension office for
a list of laboratories.
Western Oregon: where soil is well-drained and workable, plant peas and sweet
pe'as. Suggested varieties: Corvallis, Dark Green Perfection, Green Arrow, Oregon
Sugar Pod, Snappy, Knight, Sugar Snap, Oregon Trail, Oregon Sugar Pod U.
Too early to start seeds for vegetable transplants.
Spray cherry trees for bacterial canker; use a copper fungicide with a spreader
sticker. Gather and store scion wood for grafting fruit and nut trees. Wrap in damp cloth or
peat moss and place in plastic bag. Store in cool place.
Plant deciduous fruit and shade trees.
Mid-January: second spray of peach trees with approved fungicides to combat peach
leaf curl.
Take hardwood cuttings of deciduous ornamental shrubs and tree:
Water landscape plants underneath wide eaves and in other sites shielded from rain.
Watch for field mice damage on lower trunks of trees and shrubs. Control measures
include approved baits, weed control to remove hiding places, and traps.
Moss appearing in lawn means too much shade, poor drainage, low fertility, soil
compaction, or thin stand of grass.
Dormant sprays of lime sulfur or copper fungicide on roses for general disease
control.
Western Oregon: gather branches of quince, forsythia, flowering cherries and bring
inside to force early bloom.
Place windbreaks between cold, drying winds and foliage of landscape evergreens to
prevent "windbum."
Monitor houseplants for correct watering, feeding; guard against insect infestations,
clean dust from leaves.
If moss and lichen on trees and shrubs are objectionable, they can be treated with
copper fungicide this month.
Prune holly and other suckery or thorny plants while it is convenient to wear heavy
clothing and gloves.
Prepare and store potting soil in clean containers.
Propagate split-leaf philodendrons and other leggy indoor plants by air-layering.
Plant some dwarf annual flowers for houseplants: coleus, impatiens, seedling
geraniums. !
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