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Heppner Gazette Times, Thurs'day, August 30, 1956
New Hard White
Wheat Ready for
Oregon Release
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
Release of a new hard white win
ter wheat variety this fall may
swing Oregon's wheat Industry
into large-scale production of
bread flour and improve the
state's export position.
Representatives of the Oregon
Seed Allocation committee an
nounced this week that 8,000
bushels of the new variety are
ready for commercial plantings
in Oregon's intermediate rainfall
area of 10 to 14 inches.
Committee chairman D. D.
Hill, Oregon State college farm
crops department head, says
actual distribution of seed will be
handled by county committees
appointed jointly by the Oregon
Wheat League and the OSC ex
tension service.
Official release of the new
wheat was made Friday in Wal
la Walla at a meeting of indus
try representatives and OSC and
Washington State college re
searchers who worked jointly on
its development.
The new variety still referred
to by its technical name Selection
41 of27-15 X Rio-Rex is highly
smut resistant and outyields its
parent, Rio, the main turkey
type wheat grown in the 10 to
14 inch rainfall area. The 27-15
strain has the same parentage as
named after title clearance by
the U. S. department of agricul
ture. Suggested names are Brio,
Burt, and Bayles.
Need for such a wheat has long
been felt by Pacific Northwest
millers who import most of their
bread-type wheats from Montana.
At the same time, foreign buyers
of Pacific Northwest wheat re
port strong demand for bread
type wheats. Most of the re
gion's current exports are soft
club varieties not suited for the
bread flours.
OSC research administrators
and industry representatives are
hopeful that Selection 41 will re
place club and turkey wheats in
the intermediate rainfall areas
as fast as seed is available. Dr.
Hill says this year's 8,000-bushel
seed supply in Oregon should
seed some 10,000 acres of the
state's 200,000 acres in the 10 to
14-inch rainfall area. Recom
mended seeding rate will be 30
pounds or less per acre based on
Umatilla county trials last year
when seeding rates as low as 20
pounds gave wheat yields in ex
cess of 70 bushels per acre.
Selection 41 has a bearded,
common type head, white chaff,
and short lodge-resistant straw
in contrast to limber-strawed Rio
that lodges badly. Over the past
six years, Selection 41 has yield
ed slightly more than Elmar and
Brevor and 18 percent more than
turkey wheats in the intermedi
ate rainfall area.
Researchers point out that the
new wheat should mean Deuer
profits for producers and more
stable markets for wheat from
this area. Since turkey wheats
Yosemite Perks Up Under Mission
66 Program, Motorloggers Report
Brevor. Selection 41 will be are low-yielders in the area, the
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BY J. RICHARD NOKES
Qtf MKor, The OrafoMtn
A brighter day has dawned
Jor our national parks. Two
years ago in the white Ford of
the Oregon State Motor asso
ciation we visited four national
parks in California, Oregon and
Washington and came .back
with a rather dismal report of
many condition we found
therein. Housing was below
par. sanitary facilities in many
cases were poor, campgrounds
were run down, roads and parK
lng facilities Inadequate.
Last month on another Ore-Eonian-Oregon
State Motor as
sociation motorloe we visited
the largest of those four parks,
Yosemite in central California,
and came away convinced that
things are definitely looking up
in our wilderness wonderlands.
There are two main reasons
for this optimism:
1. Concessionaires, the pri
vate companies who supply the
lodging, restaurants, gift shops
and the like, have greater con
fidence in their long-term fu
tures. They feel that gone is
the threat of a few years back
that private enterprise might
be replaced by the federal gov
ernment in providing creature
comforts to those who desired
more -than a starry sky for a
ceiling and mother earth for a
bed.
Program to Run Ten Tears
2. The park service, sup
ported by congress and the ad
ministration, has embarked on
a ten-year improvement pro
gram,. "Mission 66," which will
provide $500,000,000 for capital
improvements and another
$250,000,000 for operation and
maintenance if carried through.
Let's take first what the
yosemite concessionaire has
accomplished.
In the last year Yosemite
park and Curry company has
invested upwards of $1,000,000
in capital improvements (more
than $2,000,000 in the last four
years). A new Yosemite lodge,
dedicated in June, cost $1,000,
000. Other funds were spent for
a new hotel-type housing unit
that will accommodate 70 per
sons in modern middle-class
: I
The potato and straw plus sup
plement fed cattle also came out
ahead on carcass grade. EL N.
Hoffman, Malheur station super
intendent, and J. E. Oldfield, OSC
animal 'husbandman, reported
that the potato-straw carcasses
graded 1 commercial, 13 good,
and 9 choice. The alfalfa-corn
: group graded 17 good and l
choice.
j In the experiment, potatoes
were fed whole and free choice.
Straw also was fed free choice.
: Small amounts of alfalfa-f rass
!hay were fed the first 10 days
until cattle were eating pota
toes regularly.
Swelling and stiffening of the
front legs of some cattle was the
Swank Yosemite lodge, dedicated in June, took the place of
"temporary" facility which had lasted 40 years. At foot of
Yosemite falls, It has three nnlta of redwood, stone, glass.
style. The new unit, called
Cedar cottage, joins Pine and
Oak cottages, which were built
within the last four years.
The lodge replaced a "tem
porary" facility that was
erected 40 years ago. Nestled
near the foot of magnificent
Yosemite falls (2425 feet high,
four times higher than Mult
nomah falls), the lodge is a pic
turesque three-unit develop
ment of steel, redwood, stone
and glass. It contains a lounge
that will seat 200 with glass
walls providing a spectacular
view of the falls. A massive
open, circular fireplace deco
rated in ski motif is the center
of interest.
A second building contains a
cafeteria that will seat 300, a
coffee shop of smaller capacity,
a gift shop and service units,
cocktail lounge, post office and
souvenir shop. This building
opens onto a terraced outside
dining court.
The third building comprises
the registration center, offices
and the lobby.
On the other side of the
ledger, the campsites are defi
nitely in need of improvement,
and Superintendent Preston
said this is high on the list un
der Mission 66. Most of them
have no cooking facilities ex
cept a circle of stones for a
campfire site, plumbing in pub
lic restrooms is rusty and
stained, water outlets are
scarce. Trailer accommodations
are substandard, but a survey
has been completed and will be
used as a guide to improve
ment. What lias the park service
done the last couple of years?
And what will it do first un--der
Mission 66?
It'has begun to meet one of
the most pressing needs -parking
space near centers of inter
est in the valley. It is presently
working to repair some $800,000
in damage to roads, sewers,
trails and campgrounds caused
by a Merced river flood last
winter.
Flood Repairs Necessary
In fact, the amount of money
which must be spent to repair
the flood damage will reduce
considerably the amount the
park service had hoped to spend
on relocating and reconstruct
ing a 21-mile pioneer stretch
of road through Tioga pass that
connects Yosemite with Lake
Tahoe, Reno and eastern points.
A large new campground de
velopment is planned in the
Bridal Veil area on the road to
Glacier point. This and other
campground improvements will
total $75,000. Improvements to
roads, trails and parking areas
will cost another $51,300.
Mission 66 is a ten-year pro
gram that will end in the 50th
anniversary year of the na
tional park service, 1966, and
is designed to ready our parks
for 'steadily increased use
through the years.
Mission 66 is not entirely a
matter of money. It is an adop
tion of a philosophy that long
has been needed in the park
service. It is a statement by the
government that our park sys
tem is a primary economic
asset and is not to be longer
treated like a dog fed with
leftovers.
only ill effect noticed in the poto-
to-fed animals. However, the
researchers said this didn't seem
to affect feed intake or gains.
One animal choked on a potato
early in the experiment and had
to be slaughtered. But after the
cattle learned to eat the pota
toes there was no further trou
ble, it was reported.
Costs in the project were ng-
ured on the basis of prices
Ontario.'
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Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kelly and
daughter Luan of Everett, Wash.,
arrived Tuesday to visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Ferguson.
IN MOTOH TRANSPORTv
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TiiGV eui yyr eo
-fa extra-pro ffp size
growers have swung heavily to
club wheats in recent years. Un- j
fiirtunatelv. thp hich-vieldin? i
club wheats have been going out
side their area of adaptation and
do not always produce suitable
pastry-type flour and have had
the wrong characteristics for
bread flour.
Milling and baking trials show
the new wheat produces flour
and bread that compare favor
ably with any of Oregon or
Washington's hard red winter
wheats. Tests were conducted
by cereal chemists of the USDA
Western Wheat Quality labora
tory and commercial mills in the
Pacific Northwest.
Some millers attending the
meeting opposed release of the
new variety, fearing that it might
replace certain hard red winter
wheat varieties -which they rated
higher.
Although Selection 41 is highly
smut-resistant now, it should be
treated with hexachlorobenzene
as a safeguard against develop
ment of new smut strains, advise
OSC scientists. The HCB treat
ment controls both seed and soil-
borne smut spores.
Potato Ration Givts
Fast, Cheap Gains
In Beef Cattle Test
Beef cattle fed potatoes as the;
main item in their fattening ra
tion last winter gained lust as
fast and made cheaper gains than
cattle fed ground ear corn and
chopped alfalfa.
That's the result of a 123-day
feeding trial carried on at the
Malheur branch station of the
Oregon State college agricultural
experiment station.
Cattle fed potatoes and straw,;
and two pounds per head per day
of a 32 percent protein supple
ment, gained an average of al
most two pounds per day at a
feed cost of 14 'a cents per pound;
of gain. In contrast, cattle fed
corn and alfalfa also averaged,
about two pounds gain per day.J
but at a cost of 20 to 22 cents peri
pound of gain.
Cattle fed just potatoes and
straw, without a protein supple
ment, made the cheapest gains at
14 cents per pound of gain. But
the cattle averaged only a little
over l'a pounds gain per day.
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