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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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