Spilygy Ty moo, Wji-m Springs, Oregon April 19, 2001
Illackhawk Basketball
presents
"Slam and Jam 2001"
Open Men's Tournament
at
Warm Springs Community
Wellness Center
April 20, 21, 22, 2001
8 teams only, four game
guarantee, round robin
format
Single elimination
championship Sunday
$250 entry fee
Contact: Sam Kentura
P.O. Box 8
Warm Springs, OR 97761
Warm Springs Graduating
Seniors Fundraiser "Class
of 2001"
The Clover
Speaks
ArltHt hoi lean
Minnie Tulalakus
4-H Camp leadership Education Week
end Dates arc May 18 - 20 at Oregon 4-H
Center in Salem, Oregon. Cost $ 35.00.
Sign up soon
4 11 Camp Information: High Desert 4
II Camp located at Round Lake Dates arc
June 25 to June 29,h 2001, Round Lake is
located in the Sisters area the cost will be
$95.00, with limited scholarships available.
The 4 -6'h graders may apply for slots with
own transportation. Sign up NOW.
Warm Springs 4-H Culture Enrichment
Camp at Peters Pasture: Dates are: Session I
July 29 - Aug 4. Session II Aug 5-11,
2001. Remember State 4-H Summer Con
ference for June 27-30 at the OSU Campus
(this was formerly OSU Summer Days.)
What kind of 4-H leaders is the 4-H pro
gram looking for?
4-H Leaders who are willing to share their
skills and spend time with youth teaching
them. What kind of 4-H Clubs? Beginning
Beadwork, Intermediate Bcadwork,
Basket making, Livestock, horses, cattle,
rabbits, etc. These arc some of the 4-H Clubs
that youth would be willing to join all kinds
of sewing for young 4-Hc'rs Cooking with
young 4-H'ers.
Chatcolab Dates are June 22001 Theme
"Together We Build for Tomorrow"
Hay! Little cooks here we go with an
other fun food activity, remember to have
an adult with you and to wash your hands.
Good job. Fruit Yogurt Shake. Utensils you
need are:
Measuring cup, ice cream scoop, table
spoon, an electric blender, glasses, and
straws. Ingredients you will need are: straw
berries, bananas, peaches, yogurt, and skim
milk, sugar. 1 cup of fruit (cut up), 1-13
cups of non-fat frozen yogurt. 2 cups of skim
milk
2 Tablespoons of sugar. Put all ingredi
ents in the blender close the top then puree
Pour in the glasses. Enjoy with cookies
or some crackers.
Calving
CPR
By Bob Paweek '
When a listless calf is pulled or delivered,
refrain from hanging the calf upside down
or swinging it around to get it breathing.
The weight of the intestines pushes against
the diaphragm, essentially compressing the
lung field and making it difficult to take that
first breath. Also, the amniotic fluid the
calf swallowed throughout the pregnancy
can flow backwards from the stomach
through the esophagus and into the mouth.
If the calf inhales at that time, he aspirates
stomach fluid into the lungs. When you see
fluid running out of the mouth and or nose
of a calf being held upside down, that is a
refluxing from the stomach not "clearing"
his lungs.
Instead, insert a straw inside the nostril.
That acts as an obnoxious stimulus that the
calf tries to spit and sputter away from Roll
the calf from side to side, rubbing it vigor
ously all the while. This combination of
stimuli usually gets that calf breathing
within the first 60 seconds.
Source: Drover's Journal March 2001
Springer Golf Tourney
The Kah-Nce-Ta Golf Association is
hosting the Springer Golf Tournament
scheduled for April 21 & 22.
Schedule is as follows:
Friday, April 20, Practice Round.
Saturday, April 21, Tee times start 9
a.m., Horse Race 3 p.m. and Dinner
7p.m. Entry Fee: $120.00 includes Tourney
Fee, Green Fees for Saturday and Sunday,
Tee prize and Dinner Saturday
Lean beef provides important nutrients,
and the fear of getting nvCJD, by itself, is
not reason enough to stop eating it.
BSE infects the brain, spinal cord and
. central nervous system tissue of infected
catde. It has never been found in muscle tis
sue, the part of the cow used for steaks and
roasts. Still, the possibility of exposure to
BSE has some people wondering whether
it's safe to enjoy that filet mignon.
Good news for gourmets: The Food
Safety and Inspection Service, a division of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), inspects cattle before slaughter to
identify any that show signs of BSE or other
TSEs. It can spot infected cattle by looking
for unusual behavior such as changes in tem
perament, lack of coordination, difficulty
rising and unexplained weight loss.
USDA officials condemn animals that
show signs of neurological disease and send
the animals' brains to the agency's national
laboratories for testing. They have examined
about 12,000 animal brains from around the
United States and Puerto Rico, and to date
all organs have tested negative for BSE. The
meat of animals even suspected of BSE in
spection can't be sold for human consump
tion. " Some people need to restrict their intake
of red meat as a precaution against heart dis
ease. Others choose not to eat beef because
they don't care for the taste. But those who
enjoy eating lean cuts of beef in moderate
amounts need not avoid beef because of fears
about BSE, according to Jennifer K. Nelson,
R.D., director of clinical dietetics at Mayo
and an associate professor of nutrition at
Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minn.
"Red meat can be a source of dietary fat
and cholesterol, and from that standpoint it
can increase the risk of coronary artery dis
Stockman's
Scales are handy tools, but not everyone
has access to them.
Knowing how much an animal weighs is
important in determining how much to feed,
and estimating sale price.
A simple yet reasonably accurate method
of estimating body weight is described in
today's article.
Beef cattle
Here's how to do it:
1. Measure the circumference at the heart
girth from a point slighdy behind the shoul
der blade, then down over the foreribs and
under the body, below the elbow. See dis
tance "C" in illustration.
2. Measure the length of the body, from
the point of the shoulder to the point of
the rump, properly referred to as the pin
bone, in inches. See distance A-B in illustra
tion. 3. Take the values obtained in Steps 1 and
2 and apply the following formula to calcu
late body weight:
Heart girth x heart girth x body length
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Side Bets; Gross Skins, Net Skins, Img
Putt, I-ong Drive, Blind Draw and Best Ball.
Divisions: Championship Flight, 1"
Flight and Ladies flight.
Cart Fees: Cart reservations and Friday
tec times call (541) 553-1112 EXT. 3371.
Mail Entries to: Kah-Ncc-Ta Golf Asso
ciation P.O. Box 975, Warm Springs OR,
97761
More Info: Contact Satch Miller, KNT
Golf Association President, (541) 553-1227,
Home Sweet Home
by Bernadette Handley
ease," says Nelson. "However, even with that
disease, we don't exclude beef entirely. There
is no need to avoid lean beef if you like it."
USDA officials see no threat to the
country's food supply. Nonetheless, in late
January 2001 they proposed an end to the
quality grading of meat from foreign coun
tries. The USDA currently scores carcasses
as prime, select or choice and marks the
meat with a USDA quality stamp. Ameri
can cattle producers worry that the stamp
makes the meat appear as though it was
raised in the United States. The USDA will
announce a decision on this later this spring.
The USDA temporarily banned the im
port of all meat products from Europe on
March 13, 2001. The action was a response
to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a
contagious condition infecting cattle and
other cloven-hoofed livestock. Foot-and-mouth
disease is not related to BSE. The ban
further reduces the chance of BSE-infected
meat entering the United States.
The precise risk of developing nvCJD
after consuming beef gelatin and dietary
supplements is not knowri, although scien
tists believe that the risk is very small for
products made from American cattle.
People question whether it is safe to eat
products made from nonmeat parts of catde,
such as gelatin. Beef gelatin is used in can
dies and other foods that need a thickener.
BSE has not been found in cattle in the
United States, so it is unlikely to be present
in gelatin made from American cattle. In
1997, the U.S. Animal and Plant Health In
spection Service banned the importation of
live animals and animal products made from
ruminant animals from Europe.
Why might dietary supplements be a
health concern? Brain and glands from catde
sometimes are used in supplements sold
Roundup
divided by 300 weight in pounds.
Example:
Assume that the heart girth measures 76
inches and the body length 66 inches. How
much does the animal weigh?
76" x 76" 5,776
5,776 x 66 381,216
381,216 300 1,270 pounds.
Horses
Tests have shown that the results obtained
this way are accurate within 3 percent of
actual scale weight.
1. Measure the circumference at the heart
girth (C in diagram) just behind the with
ers. 2. Measure the lenght of body from the
point of the shoulder to the point of the
croup (A-B in the illustration.)
3. Apply the following formula to cal
culate the weight of the horse:
Heart girth x hearth girth x length di
vided by 300 50 lbs weight of horse.
on tap
after 5 p.m. or Libby Chase, KNT Golf
Association, Secretary-Treasurer at (541)
553-5338 after 5 p.m.
Motel Listings: Kah-Nee-Ta Vacation
Resort, 1 800-554-4786 (ask for special rates)
($75), Best Western Rama Inn, Madras, (541)
475-6141, Hoffy's Motel, Madras, 475-4633,
Sonny's Motel, Madras, 475-3262, Budget
Inn, Madras, 475-3831, Relax Inn, Madras,
475-2117.
with a promise to increase energy levels or
enhance strength in athletes.
Concern about the possible tainting of
supplements came to light in a letter pub
lished in the July 27, 2000, issue of the.Nw
England Journal of Medicine. Author Scott
A. Norton, M.D., M.P.H, contended that
supplement labels often obscure the fact that
the products contain animal tissues.
"The Department of Agriculture's ban on
the importation of these tissues from coun
tries in which the disease is found among
catde applies only if the tissues are intended
for use in food, medical products and medi
cal devices, not if they are intended for use
in dietary supplements," Norton wrote.'
"Consumers who are wary of 'mad cow dis
ease' might want the labels of dietary supple
ments to provide
understandable. ..information about any
animal parts listed."
Because supplement labels don't always
list what's inside the can, it's hard to deter
mine the true risk of getting nvCJD. Some
products blend many animal and nonanimal
ingredients, which makes it hard to estimate
how much nervous tissue or brain the prod
uct contains. There also is no way to know
if products contain animal tissue imported
into the United States before the import bans
took effect.
Supplements manufactured in the United
States from American beef should be safe,
but the label may not indicate whether all
the ingredients came from the United States.
Until the US. supplement industry is regu
lated and monitored more closely, it may
be wise to avoid taking supplements con
taining animal tissue.
Source: http:www.mayohealth.org
home?idNE00246& March30,2001
Example:
Assume that the heart girth is 70 inches
and the body length is 65 inches. How much
does the horse weigh?
70" x 70" x 65" 300 50 lbs weight
4,900 x 65 318,500
318,500 300 1,061
1,061 50 1,111 pounds.
How to measure acreage
One acre of land measures 43,560 square
feet. So, in order to find the number of acres
in a piece of land, simply multiply the length
by the width and divide by 43,560. When
the opposite sides are unequal, add them and
take half the sum for the mean length and
width.
Example:
Determine the acreage of an area measur
ing 500 feet x 400 feet
1. 500 x 400 200,000 square feet
2. 200,000 43,560 4.59 acres.
Kah-Nee-Ta
to offer
swim lessons
Kah-Nec-Ta Resort May Swim I-cssons,
Red Cross certified instructors, will be held
each Tuesdays and Thursdays, in May, at the
Kah-Ncc-Ta village pool from 4 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. The cost is $30.00 per child.
Ixarn to Swim Class ages 3 to 5 years and
6 to 8 years, maximum of 10 students per
lesson.
Space is limited. Call to make reservations
or for more information (541) 553-1112
EXT. 3458 or EXT. 3453.
Natural
Resource
Notables:
Spring planning and
action
The mornings are still pretty cold, but
we've had some real nice, warm days to let
us know that spring is on the way. National
forecasters are looking at the western states
with a lot of concern - drought again. That
forecast translates into two very important
points for us here at Warm Springs: Fire
Danger and Weeds.
Although we are in better shape for wa
ter than much of the state - we are still low.
Weeds like cheatgrass, medusahead, and
knapweed are all taking advantage of the
spring moisture before the "good" plants can
get a crack at it. Cheat and medusahead are
"annuals" - meaning that they do not live
more than one year. Locally, they "emerge"
or begin growth anytime that conditions are
right from spring through fall. The green
on the hillsides indicates that these weeds
are already sucking the water out of the top
of the soil profile and using up valuable nu
trients that "better" grasses, shrubs, and even
roots would need to grow. The result? The
plants that we want to grow are "cheated"
out of what they need. This system affects
you in many ways, whether you realize it
or not. If you dig roots, then you will find
them harder to come by. The wildlife that
we depend on for meat and hides will find ,
less quality forage to feed on. If you run
cattle or horses - they will have to travel
farther and work harder to get enough feed.
As a homeowner, these weeds increase the
fire danger around your property.
Fire behavior varies among different plant
types. Native bunchgrasses and shrubs
evolved with fire - fires that moved through
every 50 years or so. In cheat and
medusahead, fire moves very quickly and
returns often - sometimes as often as every
3-6 years. You can reduce the threat to your
home and property by taking precautions
around your home. Take steps to remove
trees or other "fuel ladders" away from your
home. Remove low limbs from trees. Re
move brush and weeds away from your prop
erty area. For more detailed assistance, con
tact us at OSU Extension or talk to Fire
Management.
Tonight when you get home from work,
take a look at your driveway and "open
spaces" around your place. If you see small
"forests" of dry, brown, "tumbleweed
lookin'" brush that stands 2-3' tall - it is
probably knapweed - most likely diffuse
knapweed. Every one of those plants car
ries up to 25,000 seeds. Do us all a favor and
get rid of it. The best thing would be to
vacuum it all up and ship it back to eastern
Europe where it comes from - but that is
not too practical. If you rake it all up or
mow it - you are going to spread seeds all
around. I think the best option is to rake it
into small piles, mash them down and burn
them in place. Next, get yourself some
Roundup from Bi-Mart and be ready to
spray actively growing plants as they near
"bud stage." Be careful, as Roundup will
kill all grasses and other plants it touches.
Best to follow Roundup with some grass seed
that is adapted to our climate (call us for
recommendations). Putting down "lawn
grass" seed won't work unless you are going
to provide the water it needs. 2,4-D can be
applied a litde earlier (April-May). Like any
chemical, make sure you follow the label
instructions and take the necessary precau
tions. If you would like to know how to
identify these plants and or would like
some help putting together your "control
plan" - give us a call at the OSU Extension
office.
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