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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1951)
rA O B 3 SHERM AN COUNTY JOURNAL, MORO, OREGON Lighter Feeders} Wanted By Cattlemen Now Demand for younger and ligh ter weight feeder cattle Is bring ing about changes in the state’s livestock picture. Whether the trend will con tinue or not is a topic being dis cussed preparatory to the state agricultural conference to be held on the Oregon State college cam pus in March by a beef cattle and horse committee headed by I^ rry Williams, Canyon City. Harry Lindgren, OSC exten sion livestock specialist, Is se cretary to the committee which includes rabbit, sheep and goat, and swine subcommittees. While a high percentage of the feeder cattle are sold to out of state feeders, recent pasture im provement in the western por tion of the state has brought problems to be considered. Among them is the fact that eastern Oregon livestock operations are “big” in comparison • with west ern Oregon set-ups where a comparatively few head are kept. Large operation, cattlemen pre fer selling feeders and other FRIDAY, DECEM BER 21, IM I stock in large number Julies. This works to the disadvantage of the smaller western Oregon operator who must shop for a comparatively few head, the com mittee has found. j . While it is customary to sell feeder cattle in the fall in east ern Oregon, most western Ore gon grassland cattlemen prefer •to * obtain ' their cattle in the spring at the start of the pasture season. 'The state’s beef cow popula tion two years of age and older now approximates 322,OtX) head of which 50,000 head are located in western Oregon. This latter is a comparatively recent develop ment. In the past, a large num ber of cattle were sold as two and three-year olds. Today, feed ers afe looking for younger, ligh ter weight stock, the committee says. * • ‘ Steers produced annually ap proximate 110,000, the committee adds, and a considerable num ber of them go in^o California feed lots. Development of more feeding operations in Oregon is one of the points being consider ed. New Book Tells of Soil Conservation Oregon’s Agriculture Districts Cover Rate 6f growth in Oregon's agriculture since 1925 has been about 3Vfr percent a year, Oregon State college agricultural econ omists point out tin a new ex tension bulletin, number 722, entitled, "Oregon's Long-term Trends in Agriculture”, which is now ready for distribution. The bulletin says cash receipts from farm marketings increased from approximately 134 million dollars during the 1925-29 per iod to an average 375 million for 1945-49. Thia is a gain of 180 percent In current dollars, part ly owing to prices that increased 65 ¿percent. • • IA quarter century ago, the bulletin points out, livestock products accounted for more than half of Oregon's cash re ceipts from farm marketings. Latest, figure shows this total is now about 44 percent While some livestock, especially sheeD SHERIFF NOW Sheriff Norman Fields is about again agter spending the past week end in a hospital in The Dalles because of congestion in his chest brought on by a bad cold. i H a lf of State Oregon’s soil conservation dis trict movement has progressed to a ipoint where approximately one-half of the state's privately owned land is now included within districts. NEW SPRAY TRIED Professor Rasmussen of Was hl ington Skate college is expert’ menting w ith pre-emergent spraying for tar weed control in wheat and to date the results are very encouraging. In this method spraying is done in the fall, Immediately after drilling and before the wheat has em erged. Amine and ester appear to be equal for this purpose. •Howard E. Cushman, „execu tive secretary, state soil conser vation committee, said recently that 36 present districts in the state Include almost fourteen million acres. All of the soil con servation districts, he added, have been formed since 1940 ments in the matter of soil and when the first, South Tillamook, water conservation measures was organized. include 124,000 raile^of contour New districts organized in and cross slope farming prac 1951 Include the Sams Valley-Bea tices established, 6,000 acres of gle district in Jackson county strip-cropping, 730 ranch and and the Elgin in Union county farm ponds developed, 500,000 which added 230,500 ’ acres to feet of closed drains, sand dune control on 28,000 acres, and the state total. stream, channel erosion control Oregon contains approximately on 24,000 feet of bank. sixty million acres of which Soil conservation districts are one-half fs public land, Cushman states. Thus, of the ‘ thirty mil- organized, Cushman said, to co lion acres privately owned, al ordinate activities of , several agencies engaged in conservation most one-half is organized. work. Each district organized iSome entire' counties, Jose has requesteed and is receiving phine, Gillia’m, Sherman, Mk>r- technical .assistance from the row, Wasco, Deschutes, lie com soil conservation service. pletely within soil conservation I he state f soil conservation district boundaries. f committee is headed C A For all districts, accomplish- Nish, Cannon Beach, by chairman.’ Terry Bucholtz is home from Washington State at ( Pullman to spend the holidays with his parents, Mt. and Mrs. Art Buch oltz. 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