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Pact 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, April 5, 1956 '56 Oregon Outlook For Beef CatMe, Hogs, Lambs Listed Oregon cattlemen, contrary to national trends, have cut back total beef cattle numbers for 1956 even though local winter feed lots are bulging with a record number of steers. But local efforts to revive sag ging prices will likely be nulli fied with pressure from slight national Increases in cattle num bers, say Oregon State college specialists. Big reductions in Oregon cattle numbers include 19,000 fewer yearling heifers, 2,000 fewer bulls, and 11,000 fewer calves. This forecasts some drop in local stack er and feeder supplies this year, reports W. Y. Fowler, OSC live stock marketing specialist. Oregon's beef cattle production of 1,456,000 on January 1 was down two percent from last year, even though the number of steers rose from 114,000 to 129,000, Fow ler reports. Other current beef cattle fig ures for Oregon are 119,000 year ling heifers, 328,000 calves, and 32,000 bulls. Mature cows, the only segment in breeding ani mals to show an Increase, rose from 495,000 last year to 505,000 for 1956. Nationwide, total beef cattle numbers are up about one per cent over 1955 to a new high of 97 million. A record number of mature cows, plus 321,000 more calves now totaling more than 19 million head, seem likely to hold local beef prices down de spite the Oregon cutback, says M. D. Thomas, OSC agricultural economist. Thomas says the beef picture now adds up to this: Another big national calf crop in 1956 with calf prices likely to be lower than in 1955. An Increase over the small slaughter of calves last year. More stockor and feeder cat tle for sale the last six months of this year than during the same period in 1955. Less recovery in beef prices next fall than seemed likely earlier. Elsewhere in meat animal trends, Thomas looks for lower hog prices and for lamb prices to follow beef. National hog Aft: y Jgafe NEW YORK The possible pattern of highway travel of the future Is dramatized in the General Motors Motorama of 195(5, shown here as a New York audience watched fast-movinp Motorama stage entertainment at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. After a Jan. 19-24 public showing in New York, the giant admission free CM display of "dream cars" and other attractions will appear in Miami, Feb. 4-li and later in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston. last year, now totaling more than 55 million. Oregon's increase is even greater 24 percent more hogs now numbering 157,000 head. Most of the increase is for the spring market and is expect ed to push prices down during the next two or three months. Thomas says prices next fall will depend on the size of the nation's spring pig crop coming from two percent fewer sows. Far from alarmed by the big Oregon Increase in hog numbers, the OSC specialists say local growers are now in position to capture a larger part of the local pork markets. Oregon still ships in about two-thirds of Its pork supplies. Oregon sheep and lamb num bers declined from 847,000 In 1955 to 830,000 this year a bigger cut back than the national decline of one percent with total U. S. sheep and lambs numbering 31,109,000. o Printing la Our Business I See Us numbers are up nine percent over For Your Next Printing Needsl DUE TO ILLNESS ELLA'S GRILL WILL BE CLOSED Friday Through Monday, April 6-9 OSC Plans Study Of Oregon Wheat Growers Problems OREGON STATE COLLEGE Plans for an intensive study of Oregon's wheat industry prob lems and of long-range recom mendations on future wheat pro duction, marketing and utiliza tion have been announced by the Oregon State Growers League, will be patterned after a similar study made in 1925 that served as an industry guide for more than 20 years, Dean F. E. Price said. All divisions of the school of agriculture instruction, experi ment station and extension ser vicewill cooperate in the study. Seven staff members have been named to the central planning committee. They are J. R. Beck, Manning Becker, Wilson Foote, Harold F. Hollands, E. R. Jackman, Paul Mohn and Ray Teal. Jackman also served on the 1925 study. Four committees of from 25 to 40 members are planned to con sider production and land use, marketing, farm income and costs, and government programs. Committee members will be drawn from all sections of the state and from all parts of the wheat industry, including grow ers, processors, handlers and con. sumers. The committees, which will be called together soon for their organization meetings, will spend several months gathering data and forming recommenda tions. They will make their reports at a statewide meeting early in 1957. The 1925 conference, held at Moro, brought organization of of the Wheat Growers League and other recommendations that pointed the answers to many of the problems confronting grow ers at that time, Dean Price ex plained. Reduced wheat crop values and reduced acreages are the two big problems facing growers today, he said. The value of Oregon's wheat crop during the last three years has been cut 40 percent from around $74 million in 1935 to $44 million in 1955. The 'wheat industry normally uses almost 2 million of Oregon's 5 million acres of cropland. In 1953 before allotments, more than 1,300,000 acres were planted to wheat and the balance was in summer fallow. The 1956 wheat acreage allotment is 819,522 acres. Planted Fish Losses Drastically Reduced In Stream Study OREGON STATE COLLEGE Oregon's lakes and streams may be better stocked with game fish in the future as result of re search at Oregon State college. This optimistic outlook comes from the laboratories of the Ore gon Cooperative Wildlife Research unit at OSC where scientists re port they have found a way to drastically cut the "delayed mor tality" rate, or death of fish with in a week after planting. The key is temperature control Research shows the mortality rate of planting fish can be re duced from the estimated 10 per cent average of past years to less than one percent. Since some 500,000 pounds of trout are planted annually in Oregon, the 10 percent mortality rate would mean a loss each year of about 50,000 pounds Figuring the cost of raising trout at not less than one dollar a pound, the value of fish lost would amount to some $50,000. Two graduate students at OSC Howard F. Horton and Wayne Linn have studied the problem1 of delayed mortality in their work for master of science degrees. Horton says temperature con trol in the planting tanks, ap pears to be the principal factor in mortality. However, research is continuing In an attempt to learn the causes. One approach is through use of drugs to re duce nervous tension in the fish one suspected cause of delayed mortality. The Oregon state game com mission uses two standard types of tanks In transplanting fish from the hatchery to planting site. In one type of tank, Horton and Linn found by keeping water temperature lower than 55 degrees Fahrenheit mortality was reduced to less than one percent. 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Those from the senior class are Edith Morris and Low ell Turner. Mona Howard and Dean Connor are the junior class candidates, Ron McCabe and Toggy Applegate, sophomores; and Janice Martin and Dick Ro binson, freshman choice. Clyde Martin of the state de partment of education visited Heppner high school Tuesday and Wednesday. The constitution was present ed to the student body for ap proval last Friday. The ensemble groups from the Hepper band that went to the music festival at Pendleton, on March 30 received ratings as fol lows: clarinet trio, senior divi sion II, clarinet duet, junior di vision II, and t vocal solo by Marylin Munkers received a rating of III. Thosa attending the district speech festival at La Grande this Friday and Saturday are, Mere dith Thomson, George Little, Dar rel Blake, James Monahan, Lance Tibbies, Betty Rose, and Wayne Soward. W. J. Popham will ac company them. 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