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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
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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.
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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. In the other. type, tem
peratures between 40 to 43 de
grees got the same results.
Mechanical refrigeration or
chunks of ice may be used to
maintain the desired tempera
ture, Horton observed. In the
past, without controls, tempera
tures ran as high as 50 to 65
degrees, depending on weather
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Heppner High School
SCOOP
By Alice Peterson
Dale Osmin, Jay Sumner, and
Shirley Palmer won the Future
Business Leaders of America
Easter hat contest.
Candidates for king and queen
of (he band carnival have been
selected. 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.
Shirley Kononen has announ
ced that she will run for state
vice-president of the FBLA, Jim
Morris is her campaign manager
and Janice Beamer is his assist
ant. They plan to make sage
brush corsages to pass out at the
convention, and wear shirts with
Shirley's name on them.
Mrs. William Weatherfred will
substitute for Mr. Popham while
he is in La Grande.
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Pilot Meat Program
Now in Eastern Ore.
Slaughterhouses and meat
packing plants in Morrow, Mal
heur, Union, Baker and Gilliam
counties will be unaer the pilot
meat inspection program opera
tions from March 26 until April
13. The state department of
agriculture, which is conducting
this survey at request of the legis
lature, says 12 plants will come
under antemortem and post-mortem
Inspections in these counties
at this time. Other plants in
the areas are already under vol
untary state inspection or in
operative at present.
Th pilot program, which for
the short period follows a pattern
of compulsory meat inspection,
will enter its twelfth area with
these inspections. Two four-man
inspection teams, each headed
by a veterinarian inspector, will
be in the plants constantly dur
ing the three weeks.
Information and findings
gathered from the survey will be
compiled in detail for presenta
tion to the 1957 legislature, which
wants to know whether compul
sory statewide meat inspection is
desirable and necessary and how
much it will cost, according to
J. F. Short, director of agricul
ture.
Dr. Rolla Sexauer, assistant
state veterinarian working out of
Salem, will be in each of these
counties periodically during the
pilot operations. He is field
supervisor for the operations. He
says plant operators have co
operated well with the pilot pro
gram in all areas in which the
inspectors have operated. In ad
dition to actual meat inspections,
the pilot crew carries on educa
tional work to help the plants
correct insanitary practices and
conditions.
Miss Jean Marie Graham spent
the Easter weekend at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Graham.
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FAIR-MINDED
This year we hope to see many
exhibits from the North section
of the county and are really look
ing forward to their help in mak-.
ing this the Biggest Little Fair in
Oregon. As always, any sugges
tions or help are sincerely ap
preciated by the Fair Committee.
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Mrs. W. M. Fisher, mother of
Mrs. Tom Wilson, left Sunday for
Phoenix, Arizona where she plans
to vacation for about a month.
She was accompanied by her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. E. Fish
er of Walla Walla.
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