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Spilyay Tymoo Warm Springs, Oregon April 20 2000 11 Arlene 4-H it onaamiTui iMMir service (503) 553-3238 Home Economics Internet Address: http:www.orst.edudeptwsext The Oregon State 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 Exenslon Service offers Its programs and materials equally to all people. The Clover speaks by Arlcne Boilcau 4-H Agent& Minnie Red Dog 4-H Program Assistant There are many activities coming up during the summer, here are a few you all can choose from. All About 4-H Camp 4-H Camp at Round Lake (use to be 4-H Camp at Crystal Springs) dates are Monday, June 26lh to Fri day, June 30lh , 2000. Cost is $95.00 Per camper. 4-H Culture Enrichment Camp At Peter's Pasture, dates are: First session, Sunday August 6lh to Saturday August 12, 2000, for grades 21"1 to 5,h grade, campers are to arrive Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. and depart Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. (please no early campers or late campers on these two days). Second session, Monday August 14,h to Sunday August 20, 2000, for grades 6th to 9lh, campers are to ar rive on Monday from 9 a.m. tol2 p.m. and depart Sunday after the noon meal. Please, campers before you leave the camp grounds re member to check out with your camp counselor. Another great opportunity for students in the 7lh to 9"1 graders is the Oregon State University Summer Days to be held on campus June 20lh to 23rd, 2000. This conference will be packed full of fun, educational activities that 4-H members will not want to miss. Students will have the opportunity to choose from a April 15lh has come and gone. Hopefully, all your tax information was handy and your forms were filed on time. Time to breathe a sigh of relief, but don't relax too much. Now is the time to look at your finances for THIS year and how to manage your money. Paying family bills can be overwhelming, sadden ing, frustrating and time consum ing. In faying Family Bills (EC 1422), Alice Mills Morrow, OSU Extension family economics spe cialist, offers advice on bill paying. There are so many payment options available now - cash, check, charge or debit. Paying with cash has its benefits but you must make sure you always get a receipt. The receipt is your record of cost and is proof that you paid for the item or service. If you are paying for a bill with cash, the person receiving the payment should mark the bill paid and return it to you. Keep this until you receive the next statement showing that pay ment was received. If you pay for something in cash and you have no bill, ask for a receipt. Never send cash through the mail. You will have STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Consider early weaning- m 7 M ' Mi' 1 1 by Bob Pawelek OSU Livestock Agent Consider early weaning Time of weaning can be altered to manipulate cow body condition to maintain high reproductive rates and reduce winter feed requirements. Cows nursing their calves for a longer or shorter period of time than is traditional decrease or increase their body condition. Often when a cow is declining in body condition the calf is not grow ing at optimum. Changing either the calving date and (or) the weaning date will have an influence on cow condition. Age boileau BobPawelek Clint Jacks Deanie Johnson Youth Livestock Staff Chair, Madras Secretary Bcrnadette Handley - wide-variety of workshops that will actively engage them with experts from around OSU's campus. Lead- ership & citizenship skills will be emphasized throughout the week, which will conclude with and OSU Summer Days Quiz Bowl Competi tion among members. Here are some of the workshops being provided "Fisheries & Wildlife", "Web Page Development", "Veterinarian Medicine", "Engineering", & For estry just to name a few. The cost for this conference is $160. If you or you know someone interested in taking a trip to the OSU campus this summer, give the OSU exten sion here in Warm Springs a call for a registration packet. Want to learn how to operate a tractor? Well, give our office a call. Tractor clinic is set for June 3rd & HOME SWEET HOME By Bernadette Handley, Family & Community Development Agent no proof that you sent it and the money may be stolen. Send a check or money order instead.' V If you have a checking account, you may pay many of your bills with a check. The canceled check is proof of payment. A check (share draft if you belong to a credit union) is a written order telling the bank, credit union or savings and loan to pay an exact sum of money to someone else. A check is a safe and convenient form of payment. Postal or money orders are often used if you don't have a checking account. A bank issues personal money orders and postal orders are available at your local post office. The amount is filled in when it is issued. It is important to fill in the blanks (name of the payee, the date and the signature of the purchaser) immediately. Until the blanks are filled in the money order is just like cash - anyone who has it can use it. Keep your copy until you know the money order has been received and credited to your account. Debit cards are one of the quick est ways to make payments. It saves you the time of writing a check and of the calf at weaning is affected by both the date of birth and the date of weaning. Any change in time of weaning must balance the potential positive impacts on the cows with potential negative impacts on the calves or calf market weights. Cow Body Condition The condition of beef cows at calving is associated with length of postpartum interval (time following calving). It also affects lactation performance, health and vigor of the newborn calf, and in extremely fat or thin heifers the incidence of calving difficulty. The condition of cows at breeding influences the number of services per conception, calving interval, and the percentage of open cows (Herd and Sprott, 1987). For spring calving cows body condition in the fall affects the amount and type of winter feed supplements that will be needed (Momont et al.,1994). Cows in ad equate body condition usually need only small quantities of supple ments, while thin cows usually need large quantities of supplements high in energy. Researchers in Minne sota (Thompson et al., 1983) re ported a 6-10 higher energy re quirement for maintaining thin cows (versus moderate to high body con Zack del Nero Minnie RedDog Natural Resources 4-H Assistant 4,h, 2000, at Hillsboro High school. Students must be between the ages of 14 &17. The training will include 14 hours of class time to earn a certificate for operation of tractors or farm machinery. The cost of the clinic is $25 per participant. Partici pants will be allowed to keep their instructional booklets. Deadline for signing up for the clinic is May 26, 2000. Space set for 30 participants only so call if you are interested. Okay lets make an after school snack "Cheesy Nachos." Items needed are oven, pot holders, cookie pan (or cake pan will work), cheese grater, & sharp knife to cut cheese. Ingredients needed are: 4 cups (one large bag) tortilla chips, 2 cups of grated cheese, 1 cup of salsa. 1 ) Turn oven on to broil. 2) On the pan, spread the chips evenly out over pan. 3) Spread salsa over the chips. 4) Sprinkle grated .cheese over the salsa. 5) Put the tray in oven, not to close to top of oven so the Nachos will not burn. Cooking time will only be 5 minutes so make sure you check Nachos when the cheese melts and is a little bubbly, remove from oven with pot holders. Let cool a minute and then enjoy homemade Cheese Nachos. If there are any questions re garding any of the summer activities please give the OSU extension office a call at 553-3238. mailing it. Whether you are with drawing money from an ATM (autq mated teller machine) or paying ra bill by debit, keep your transaction record! Note the transaction on your checkbook ledger or savings account and carefully review your monthly statements. If there is an error in the statement, immediately notify the bank in writing. When you use an ATM machine, think about your physical safety. The ATM may be open 24 hours a day, but it may not be safe to go to the ATM after dark. A PIN (personal identification number) is necessary to access your account and is your protection against unauthorized use of your access card. The best practice is to memorize your PIN. Don't carry the PIN with you and don't choose an obvious PIN such as parts of your name, address, and birth date. If your access card is lost or stolen, imme diately notify the bank. If you would like a copy of Pay ing Family Bills (EC 1422) or more information on money management, feel free to contact the OSU Exten sion office at 553-3238. dition) through the winter in a cold environment. A cost savings may also result from having cows enter the winter in good body condition. Matching Dates To Forage Base Timing the start of calving in an ticipation of the plant growth cycle can reduce the need for high levels of supplement or hay. The cow's nutrient requirements increase sub stantially after calving and continue to increase through peak lactation, generally 45 to 60 days post calving. At the same time reproductive functions must be supported in order to remain on an annual calving schedule. As range or pasture plants ma ture, nutritive quality declines to the point that optimum production can not be maintained. While an indi vidual plant's maturation date will vary with the year, temperature, rainfall, soil, elevation, aspect, etc., it is well established that with matu ration comes a decline in both di gestibility and protein content. Re gardless of the date, this decline in quality begins at the boot stage for grass plants and at the bud stage for broad leafed forbs. Research at the Northern Great Basin Experiment Station near Burns, Oregon indicates northern Great Basin desert ranges typically reach maturity in mid July. MM Natural Resource The Value of Healthy Riparian Areas The following contains excerpts from an article by Sherman Swanson, Range Specialist for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Service. The transition areas between the aquatic ecosystem and the nearby, upland terrestrial ecosystem are called riparian areas. These areas "are identified by soil characteris tics plant communities that indicate free or unbound water and include the wet areas in and near streams, ponds, lakes, springs, and other surface waters. Water Means Life in the Desert Riparian areas can produce more vegetation per acre than any other part of the range. They are the proverbial oases in the desert that attracts humans, livestock, and wildlife. Riparian vegetation is not only highly productive, it also has the potential to stay green for a much longer part of the year than upland vegetation. Fisheries and Wildlife Wildlife use riparian areas more than any other single'haSitat.Big game use riparian areas for water and to browse or graze on riparian plants. These areas also provide necessary hiding or thermal cover. Small mammals, reptiles, and am phibians abound in the thick un dergrowth near water. More than half of the vertebrates living on rangeland needs riparian areas for some critical period of their life cycle. Salmon, steelhead, and other fish species depend on healthy ri parian systems to provide cover, food, and to maintain proper instreanj water temperatures and levels of dissolved oxygen. Well-knitted, stable stream banks and riparian vegetation provide overhanging banks that shelter fish and shade water. Water Water in riparian areas gets used downstream as well as on site. Water can be the limiting factor controlling such things as livestock herd size, wildlife population size and diversity, agricultural devel opment, and urban development. Users depend on abundant sources of clean water. Improper manage ment in logging, road building, livestock grazing and other uses can negatively impact water qual ity. Instream water temperatures are 4F Satellite OSU Extension hosts a series of educational satellites developed by the U.S. Department of Education. Connecting with Youth - May 16 Learning Everywhere - June 20 Programs will be offered in the 1st floor classroom of the Education Building from 5PM-6 PM. Contact OSU Extension 553-3238 if you are interested in attending. Limit: 10. More arid sites will be earlier and high elevation forest ranges will be later. After these dates it is diffi cult for a lactating cow to consume sufficient nutrients to maintain her calf, herself, and her own body condition. USD A Agencies Seek BILL ; SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, March 29, 2000 Washington State Directors for USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conser vation Service (NRCS), Risk Man agement Agency (RMA), and Rural Development (RD) announced to day their plans for a Tribal Nations Public Listening Session scheduled for: April 25, 2000 Ellensburg, WA 10:00 a.m. -Noon Hal Holmes Community Center 20 1 North Ruby. The purpose of the listening session is to gather Tribal farm owner and operator input on the future of agricultural policy in the United States, particularly farm safety net, conservation and envi ronmental programs within the 2002 Farm Bill. The format of the Public Listen ing Session is one that allows for notables- highly dependent upon streamside cover and riparian area quality, as well as uplands management. Vegetation Riparian vegetation improves wa ter quality by filtering out sediments and nutrients from flows, as well as dissipating energy. When plants re duce water velocity, sediments drop out and add to flood plains. Plants grow in this sediment, using roots to stabilize stream banks during peak flows. Riparian flood plains store water during high flow, then release it back to the stream during long, dry periods. Vegetation can remove excess nu trients, thereby "cleaning" water as it passes through the system. Water with excess nutrients can cause eu trophication downstream, a condition where water becomes choked vith too much organic matter and may appear green and murky. As the or ganic matter decays, it may deplete the supply of dissolved oxygen to levels below that which fish and other aquatics may require. Eutrophication is a special problem for cold water fish like trout, which require highly oxygenated water. Management Proper management of riparian areas involves all land users. It is every person's responsibility to pro tect this vital resource while enjoy ing its tremendous value. Those who make management decisions have a special responsibility to understand the needs of the resource. With proper management, all multiple users will benefit. Without it, we stand to lose even more of this precious and in valuable resource. If you would like more informa tion on riparian area management, feel free to contact the OSU Extension office at 553-3238. Events Input on 2002 FARM prepared testimony, as well as re marks by those who wish to address specific programs FSA, NRCS, RMA, and RD administer. The meeting is being held in cooperation with the Northwest InterTribal AG Council (IAC). To submit statement for the record: Producers who are unable to testify at a field hearing may instead submit written testimony for the official record. Testimonies must include their name, address, phone number and forwarded to USDA-FSA, Chris Bieker, 316 W. Boone, Suite 568, Spokane, WA 99201 by May 1 , 2000. Persons requesting special accom modations (e.g.: translator, disability) to participate in any one of the above listed meetings should contact Jo Lynne Seufer at 1-800-205-9953 by April 17, 2000. Sun t
