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HESSEL'S
TRACTOR & EQ U IPM EN T CO.
121 S E. Morrison Street
Portland 4, Oregon
Phone EAat 4939
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DEERE PARTS
SEPTIC T A N K C L E A N IN G
In Compliance With the
STATE HOARD OF H E A LTH
All Work Guaranteed
At Depression Prices
Call Us For an Estimate
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Riverview Cemetery
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B E A V E R T O N E N T E R P R IS E — Friday, December 23, 1949
Chick Prices in
'50 Due To Stay
Near Same Level
Bennion said the relationship be­
tween the pounds of feed a dozen
eggs will buy—the egg-feed ratio
—during the months of November,
December, January, F e b r u a r y ,
i powered centrifuge, calipers and
March, April, and May is closely
an assortment of test-bottles and
tied in with the number of chicks
a pipette.
Baby chicks will sell at approxi­ hatched each year. He points out
Samples are warmed and drawn mately the same levels during 1950 j that the ebb-teed ratio now is not
into the pipette in the amount of as they did this year if present as favorable as it was in early
17.6 cubic centimeters o f milk for hatching industry expectations are 1949. Thus, he anticipates some na­
transfer into long-necked test bot­ followed through.
tional reduction in chicks hatched.
Prospective chick asking prices
tles. Sulphuric acid, 17.5 cubic cen-
Despite an anticipated downward
l Unoeters, Is added plus enough were made public recently during
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trend
in chick numbers, the poul-
water to bring the mixture up Into the annual fall meeting of the
Oregon Baby Chick association | try specialist said that Oregon
test column, neck of the bottle.
hatcherymen expect to step-up
All sample bottles are numbered, when the annual industry "inten­ their output next year. The reason
to correspond with numbers on the tion” survey results were made is that Oregon now imports ap­
test bottles as well as in the record known by Noel Bennion, O.S.C. ex­ proximately 25 to 30 percent of the
tension poultry specialist.
i book.
Asking prices for both Leghorn market eggs and chicken meat
Twenty-four at a time, the hot- i
and heavy breed cockerels are set consumed, and local producers are
( ties are put into the centrifuge,
for one cent advances, survey re­ in a good competitive position to
after a preliminary agitation by
sults reveal. Hatcherymen expect assume much o f this market.
hand. When the hatch of samples
Hatching industry spokesmen see
to receive 4 cents apiece for Leg­
has finished in the centrifuge, they
horn; 14 cents for heavy breed no reduction in feed prices and
are taken out and brought to a
other production costs during the
day old, sexed cockerels.
: uniform temperature by a warm
coming year.
Straight
run
Leghorn
chicks
are
| water bath.
expected to stay at 1949 levels—18
When the egg-fee* ratio is high,
Then, with the fat at the top of cents. Meanwhile, a dip from 19 to Bennion explains, chick numbers
the test column, the tester takes 18 cents apiece is expected for normally increase. The opposite is
calipers to read the butterfat con- ' straight run heavy breed chicks.
true when the index is low.
tent which is translated to a per­
centage figure. The volume of milk. 1
as recorded in the weighing at time ;
of lactation, is multiplied by the
percentage figure to arrive at the
per pound or fraction of pound
.butterfat content total.
The lactation records book pages
are filled out once each month, at
the visit of the D H IA tester. Every
cow in the herd is listed, by name,
ear-tag or number designation and
scrupulous care is given to care­
fully and accurately give a lacta­
THE O R IG IN A L
tion figure for each cow.
Date of the tester’s visit may
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W ESTERN
vary within 3 days of a "centering”
HARDBOARD
date, sometimes without previous
warning. The centering date is
h a l f w a y b e t w e e n the previous
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month and the present month. Lac­
tation-records are considered rep­
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resentative of fifteen days on ei­
ther side of the centering date.
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Bilyeu, to whom we are indebted
for a close-up look at DHIA test­
ing methods, is a former retail
,
'. E s - - * O F°r porqi’et floors
dairyman from the state of Wash­
ington. He has had wide experience
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in all phases of milk production,
including contact with the D H IA (
program there.
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C H a P C O co m e i in three thicknesse» —
He has served with the Washing­
1 8 " , 3 16 " . 1 ' 4 " o n d m 4 ' x 8 'd im * n jio n .
ton county association some 1H
—— M a n y b e au tiful finish effe cts c a n be o b t a in e d
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years.
(The end)
with C H A P C O . T o u g h e r —yet e a s il y w o r k a b l e with w o o d h a n d tools,
FOR REMODELING
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December Averages
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A R IZ O N A
P h oe nix
Tucson
Yum a
C A L IF O R N IA
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Fre sno
L o t Angeles
Red B lu lt
Redding
Sacram ento
S a n Diego
S a n Fran cisce
S a n Joso
COLO RADO
D enver
G rand Junction
Pueblo
ID A H O
Bolso
Pocatello
MONTANA
Butte
H avre
Helena
K a llsp e l
N EBRA SKA
L in co ln
N orth Piatto
Om aha
NEVADA
Nona
W innem ucca
Avf.
8new -
fall
32.8
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33.8
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0.2
0.0
48.0
48.8
37.8
48,4
48 8
48.5
36.6
S I. S
48.3
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2.2
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0.0
0.1
0.0
32.7
28.5
32.0
0.3
3.0
3.4
33 0
20.0
3.3
0.3
23.4
20.7
24.9
23.0
0.4
0.4
8.6
10.3
20.0
27.7
27.4
5.3
3.0
3.2
33.8
30.3
5.1
0.1
N E W M E X IC O
43.1
A lb u g u e ra u o
Rosw ell
39.5
S a n ta Fe
30.7
NORTH D A K O T A
B ltm a rc k
16.0
Fa rgo
12 8
W lllltto a
14.0
OREGON
B ake r
28.0
M edford
38.2
P o rtla n d
41.2
R oseburg
43.2
SO U TH D AK O TA
H u ron
19.3
R a g ld C ity
27.7
TEXAS
A bilene
43.1
A m a rillo
35.5
A u st in
51.0
B ro w n sv ille
61.2
C o rp u s C N ristl 58.1
D a lla s
47.6
D el R ie
52.2
E l P a se
45.4
0.9
3.0
0.1
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Fert W o rth
G alveston
Pale stine
P o rt A rt h u r
S a n A n to n ie
UTAH
M o de na
S a lt L a k e C ity
W A S H IN G T O N
Seattle
Sp o ka n e
Tacom a
T atoosh Is la n d
W Y O M IN G
C h sy sn n s
Lander
S h e rid a n
5.7
7.0
3.3
0.7
1.2
2.9
0.1
5.0
3.9
0.9
4.0
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0.4
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0.6
WEDDING
0.5
0.0
0.0
0.1«
0.2
18.0
30.9
5.0
8.8
42.4
3».0
41.2
43.0
1.4
0.0
1.4
0.0
20.5
20.2
22.0
0.1
7.2
7.S
C T 9 in A verage
means " T r a c e ” , I
Winter officially starts on December 21 and the
above Illustration gives a good idea of just what
residents west of the Mississippi river may expect
for the balance of the month, based on U. S. W ea­
ther Bureau average temperature and snowfall over
the past 50 or more years.
Although findings pick Oregon as the meat
W EST E N D
8 E L L W O O D B R ID G E
47.4
56.3
50.1
55.0
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Map Courtesy Super-Pyro
winterized state on the Pacific coast, boasters of
the climate here will slyly point out what happened
to the recently heralded “ zero wave” which died
aborning by the timely arrival of some warm winds.
But it's still a good idea to bolster the family
chariot with the required saturation percentage of
a good anti-freeze solution.
Green Feed Cuts
Chix or Turkey
Costs In Feeding
Feed costs of chickens or turkeys
on range can be reduced from 10
to 20 percent if an adequate supply
Announcements
of green feed is available, write
authors of a revised O.S.C. exten- j
J sion bulletin, number 659, entitled
and Invitations
| "Green Feed, Sod and Pasture for
FEEDING, LA C T A T IO N SCHEDULE, C O N D IT IO N
Chickens and Turkeys,” which is
Complete Funeral Service In Now
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Cathedral Chaprl at No Extra O od
The authors are Noel Bennion.
Riverside la a cooperative associ
| in the same stall and in tegular
(Continued from last week)
Phone 2321
ation with assets of over $800,000 Beaverton, Ore.
’ rotation, he believes, to get the O.S.C. extension poultry specialist;
Joe Bilyeu, D H IA tester, looked truest production figure.
I E. R. Jackman, farm crop special- I
atound from the centrifuge where
ist; and O. S. Fletcher, Lane coun­
Bilyeu’s advice is reflected in
he was working.
ty extension agent. They explain
the practices reportedly followed
"A dairyman," he said, "has noth­ by Oregon State herd testers who , the saving will depend upon the
ing to gain and everything to lose carry out official sampling for quantity and quality of the green
if his herd-lactation tests are not ¡ v a r i o u s pure-breed associations, feed. Also important is how the
birds are rotated.
accurate."
looking toward the proving of sires.
The specialists point out that ir­
There are many factors which
These latter testers pay surprise
could affect a sampling test result, visits to a farm the night before a rigated ranges, while producing an
he continued. Feeding, milking lactation and check the herd to abundance of green feed as com- j
F UNC HA L S E R V I C E S F OR
schedules and condition of each see that all milk had been taken pared with nonlrrigated, do have
individual cow all have a hearing before the official test period. They the handicap of being an ideal
M O R E T H A N SO Y E A R S
place for disease organisms and
on a milk testing result.
also require rigid cooperation front
parasites to multiply. If chickens
If cows ate not milked regularly, the dairyman that such factors as
or turkeys are run on irrigated
a lactation record might not be a regularity are observed.
range the bulletin authors recom­
true record. Cows should be milked
J. P. Finley & Son • S. W. 4th at Montgomery • ATwater 2181
Under present m a i k e t i n g ar­ mend that birds be rotated fre­
rangements, the production of milk quently.
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Is deemed of more importance than
Four of the best crops, accord­
butterfat content. But an alert
ing to the bulletin, which provide
milk producer is thinking in terms
of the future wherein butterfat palatable green feed during the
summer months without irrigation
may again become a leading rev­
are winter rye Sudan grass, sun­
enue factor, all the while he Is ;
flowers and corn the latter two
striving to improve the present
being used extensively for turkeys
market demand of ntoie milk.
A handy reference guide for see­
Under a regular sampling sched- ' ing and using green feeds and pas­
ule, such as is set up by the Wash ture is in the bulletin frontispiece.
ing County Dairy Herd Improve­ Copies are available from county
ment Association. It is possible to extension offices or by writing
keep close cheek on herd produc­ directly to Oregon State college.
tion as well as a check on market-
lt.g agencies where the sale is
made.
In the actual testing of milk
samples, acid is used to dissolve
the milk, leaving the butterfat to
! float free Other equipment used
includes a 24-hottle electrically
CBEMATOHIUM
MAUSOLEUM
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Regularity of Routine In
Milking Aids Herd Record
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the wishes are always the sam e—
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