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Choti With Your Home Agent BEPPHZI GAXETTt TIMES. Thursdxrf, Pcwnbt 11, 11 County Agent's Office Hints on Holly Care, Decorations Given ITOIIMM NEWS By ESTHER KJftMIS Some folk are for t u n a t e enough to have mm Orison Holly and want to know how to keep It fresh Holly and other preen shrubs make welcome gin to those who live In areas where green are not available. Add a bit of holly or Juniper to each Christ mas remembrance. Tret real holly and other greenery with a fruit hormone solution for longer life. After r Inline branches In water to wash off excess dust, dip In hormone sol ution that Is three times the Mrength recommended for treat ing fruit trees. This hormone i may be purchased under several trade names at garden and seed stores. Treated greens may be packed In cardboard boxes lined with moisture-proof paper or foil While we're talking about Christmas, why not make Christmas tree salad. This Is lots of fun for children and adults, too. Serve Christmas tree salads for dinner one of these December days. I'our a cranberry gelatin salad mixture into cone-shaped paper cups. Place the cups in glasses to hold them upright. When they are set, unmold and decorate with softened cream cheese In pastry tube. Candles are always a part of the holidays. Candles that have been used to some extent may need cleaning. You can clean candles with a cloth dampened in alcohol. Also your candles will drip less if refrigerated be fore using. How about adding some holi day charrr to your fireplace? Some chemicals burn with in teresting colors and when added to the fire in a fireplace moke a lovely display. Usually these colors come from metallic salts. Easiest to get is copper as either copper sulphate, known also as blue vitreol, or copper chloride. This burns with lovel Livestock Market Cattle Hogs Sheep SALE EVERY TUESDAY 12 NOON On U. S. Highway No. 30 NORTHWESTERN LIVESTOCK COMMISSION CO. Res. Hermiston JO 7-3111 JO 7-6655 Hermiston, Oregon Frank Wink & Sons Owners Don Wink, Mgr. blue and preen flames. Stron Hum chloride or nitrate will burn with a red flame, lithium chlurhle will burn with purple color I in?, and barium chloride will burn with a bright green flame, but these chemicals are more difficult to obtain. The chemicals can be put on the flumes dry but are more difficult to hold In the place desired. Cones, soft wood, rolled paper or sawdust can be treated In several ways to hold the chemical. The burnable material can be dipped in melted wax and the metallic salt crystals shaken over the soft wax to hold 1L Or the crystals can be mixed with melted and partiauy cooiea wax and painted on the cones or other materials. Since the metallic salts will dissolve in water It Is possible to make a solution and soak the burnable materials in this. First provide a glass or crockery con talner as the salts may corrode metals. Dissolve aproximatcly 1 pound of salt in a gallon of water. Soak the porous mater ials for several hours. Then dry thorouehlv. Some of the salt should adhere to the material so it can be burned. May I wish you and yours the warmest Christmas greetings. May the holiday be filled with happy memories. Reports Given Before 4-H Livestock Club The Blackhorse Livestock meeting was held at the Ray Papineau home December 3. The meeting was called to order by Martha Doherty, president Barb ara Bloodsworth led the 4-H pledge and we sang America the Beautiful. Roll call was taken and Karen Edwards had an ex cused absence. The minutes were read and approved. The program of work was discussed with the members of the club and It was accepted. There were suggestions for a community project and we finally decided to sack Christmas candy. Thftre was no new busi ness. ASC Committee leeifoMS Complete In elections Just completed, Gustafson, Lloyd Cooley, community and county AM. com- ence Rucker, Carl Knight inltteemen lor me VJixi program vear have been elected by the agricultural voters they will rep resent. The people elected to commun ity committees are as follows. (the tiMt alternates respectiv ely): lone: Dick McEUlgott. Alfred Nelson Jr., Rollo Crawford, Mil ton Morgan, Donald Heliker. Alulne: Larry Campbell, Jack L. Barak, George Luclanl, Robert Kilkenny. North lleppner: W. C. Rosewall, Kenneth Turner, O. W. Cutsforth Jr., Douglas Drake, William Kenny. South Heppner: Barton Clark, Alvin Bunch, Raymond French, John Graves. Lexington: M. V. Nolan, Wil liam II. 1'adberg Jr- James Bloodsworth, Bryce Keene, Ken neth i'almer. . Munzan: Verner Troedson, lea Palmatcer. Kenneth Smouse, Roy W. Lindstrom, Eugene Kletmann. Eichtm le: Louis carison, Laurence Becket, Roland Berg strom, A. C Warren, Frank Anderson. Boardman: Henry Z 1 v n e y, Charles Anderegg, Larl Mctjuaw, Arnin Hug, Ernest Obermeier. Irrigon: Paul Slaughter, Leroy Clar- ten. The county committee cnosen for tha JlHi2 program year Is: Paul W. Jones, chairman; Paul W. Tews, vice chairman; Roy Part low, regular member; Roy Martin, first alternate; Bob Van Scholack, second alternate. The alternates to the county committee were elected on com munity committees but when elected to the county committee left the community with only four members. The remaining members Just moved up and filled the vacancies. The newly elected committee men are looking forward to ad ministering the ASCS programs to the expected satisfaction of all who are concerned. Nancy Doherty gave a report on Leplospirosls and Jimmy Bloodsworth gave a report on Bangs disease. Tony Doherty re ported on the livestock Judging field day and Barbara Bloods worth reported on the 4-H of ficers training meeting. An nouncements were made and the meeting was adjourned. Tony Doherty, reporter Get Your Steel Fence Posts Now ! At Present Low Pr,cesfyjc $4 Ranging From eTt to jL 10 PER POST Prices Going Up 7c Per Post As Of January 1 Good Supply On Hand BARRATT SALES CO. 422 Linden Way PH. 6-9157 Rains and Snow Brighten Outlook For Irrigation The family gathers . . . Santa arrives . . . Christmas Joy is everywherel May yours be a generous share. I 4 1. We extend most sincere best wishes to all and take this opportunity to thank you for your patronage. Efcsfrom Farm Chemicals Oregon irrigation water sup ply conditions that dipped to the critical point last summer have taken a turn for the better start lng with statewide heavy rains and snows during and following the Thanksgiving period. W. T. (Jack) Frost, Oregon snow survey supervisor for the Soil Conservation Service and Oregon State University agricul tural experiment station, reports mountain snow cover greater than usually expected at this time. Frost cautions, however, that continued above-average storm conditions are needed to re charge" exceptionally dry water sheds, especially in eastern Ore iron. While snow cover is good foi this earlv in the winter, carry over water in all eastern Oregon reservoirs except Upper Klam ath Lake and the main Des chutes dropped to near rock . bottom during the past irrigation season, Frost reported. Above average water run off will be required during coining months to build up adequate supplies in reservoirs lor next summer. Early winter precipitation is especially valuable tor replen ishing underground water sup Dlies that feed creeks and springs for the late irrigation season, the forecaster explained. Early frost in some ea&vern Oregon soils was taken out by the IhanKsgivlng storms ami soils are now recharging their water supplies. Both Lake and southern Alalneur counties re port practically no streainflow with most of the present precipi tation and snowmelt going into the dry soils. However, small amounts of Malheur run-off are being caught in the Warm Springs and Agency Valley res ervoirs in the west part oi" the county. The Crooked' river near Prine- ville is now producing excellent run-off, indicating that the soil is primed, l'rineville and Ociioco reservoirs are starting to mi well, Frost stated. Unity reservoir in southern Baker county is now storing run off and the area appears off to a eood start. Frost gathered the preliminary reports irom supervisors oi res ervoirs and irrigation districts and from U.S. Weather Bureau cooperating stations throughout Oregon. Scattered reports on Novenibe precipitation, not Including th last two days of the month, showed the following compari son with the lo-year average from 1943 to 1957: Roseburg, 40 percent above; Baker 0 percent above; Klamath Falls, "better than normal." Areas showing below normal Included Pendleton, Burns, Lake view, and Salem. Frost said any appreciable precipitation in sev eral of these areas during the last two days of the month could bring them to near normal. trust said his first official re port, based on general observa tions, will be made in early Jan uary. Specific forecasts will be gin Feb. 1 and continue monthly through May. The February 1 ieport should be highly significant, the fore- ister stated, since long-time records show that we normally ave two thirds of the years to- Growers Attend Stockmen's Shortcourse in Washington Cow Belles Back Beef Promotion A stepped up education pro gram In the schools In unorgan ized Cow Belle counties is an nounced by Bee Hynd of Cecil, president of the Oregon Cow Belles, who attended an execu tive meeting in Portland Thurs day. Approval by the Oregon Beef Council of the project to the ex tent of $1,500.00 was received at a recent meeting of the Oregon Beef council. An appropriate con tract will be executed between the two organizations. This beef educational program has been carried by the state evenings in pre-arranged If the five Morrow county livestock growers who attended the 11th Annual Stockman's Shortcourse at Washington State University last week got as much from it as I did. I am sure that they would agrtw that It was well worth their time and effort. With the weather the way it was the past week, I know that some of these livestock men left their ranch reluctantly. Hon and Tom Currln, W. W. Weatherford, Terry Thompson and Gerald Peterson Irom Morrow county were live of the 413 livestock men from nine states, 2 Canad ian provinces and old Mexico that spent a profitable week on the WSU campus. They partici pated in as many of the VJ2. lec tures which were offered as time would permit as well as tours to the beef, sheep, swine and horse barns to hear of and ob serve research being carried on at this university. Some aLso par ticipated In a few of the 28 lec tures provided for the horse own ers shortcourse and some of the nineteen lectures of the agricul ture public relations section. The 128 instructors from colleges, universities, chemical com-1 panics, USDA, and successful ranchers from as far away as i lla.i.nil iLiAra WdII Slliallflfwt In I their field of which included a broad variety. Covered during the five days were lectures on breeding and reproduction; feeds and feeding; nutritional diseases and ailments; what's ahead for the livestock Industry; pasture and ranges; fish and wildlife; hay and silage; management; buildings and equipment; ani mal health; disease prevention and parasite control; marketing meats; llvestocK credit anu financing; range and irrigated pasture and miscellaneous topics overing all classes oi nvesiocK. In addition everyone had the op oortunitv to consult the instruc tors as authorities in their field, on Monday ana vveonesoay slons carried on In this commit tee and It la grateful to know our Morrow county ranchers w 111 be well Informed of the Issues discussed. Morrow county had the highest attendance at this annual meeting with the excep tion of Umatilla county. One of the Interesting lectures of the Stockman's Shorteours was given by an agent of the Internal Kevenue Service from Spokane. The lecture titled, "In come Taxes, the Stockman's lie turn, The Burden of Proof." con tained a number of good sug gestions which mlht be timely as everyone Is thinking of the 19G1 Income tax return as well as preparing for l'Ji2. As we have always suggested, the agent encouraged stockmen to keep a good set of records. If so, income tax reporting will be simple as well as provoking a basis for analyzing the farm business for weak and strong points. There were many ques tions concerning Income ax audits. The Income lax :',,, suggested again: U that every transaction be written down; 2. that notations he made on the bank statement concerning de posit, what they were for; (31, that records of ersonal accounts be noted In case there was some question as to percentage claim ed of a personal Item as busi ness; (it. If an auditor comes, create a good climate by being frlendlv and helpful and t3t. where leases are concerned that there be notations made If there were oral agreements or disa greements. Instead of talking about In come taxes and record keeping we should wish each of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season. We hope all of you have one. and county Cow Belies associat Ions for the past five years as a major project In the promotion of beef. Funds allocated will be used In metropolitan centers this year. Home economics teachers will receive teaching kits, fully em bellished1 with color charts. On completion of the suggested in struction, teachers may apply for purchase certificates to the Cow Belles for fresh beef to be used in actual demonstrations in their classes. Recorded Brands Gain A 1961 supplement to the State Department of Agriculture Live stock Brand book is due to be published after the first of the year, says Roy Nelson, chief of SDA's livestock division. "We are nearing the 12,000 mark In num ber of recorded brands," Nelson said. During November, 68 new brands were recorded and five old ones transferred to new owners. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gimbel at tended a Pacific Power and Light Christmas party in Pendleton Friday night. smoker" hours. 735 students and stockmen enjoyed the annual student-stockmen's banquet held on Tuesday evening. Dan Thorn ton, ex-governor of Colorado, as well as a businessman in real estate development, mining, manufacturing, insurance, spec ial estate business and purebred breeder, gave an interesting talk. This well organized shortcourse Is eettine more popular eacn vear and more and more live stock men from more and more states and counties are partici pating in it. In looking over some of the attendance information from the recent annual meeting of the Oregon Wheatgrowers League it was interesting to note particl' pation in the various committees Morrow county was well repre sented in all committee meet ings with the most, ten, attend ine the Federal Agricultural pro grams committee held Thursday afternoon, November 30. In ad dition to the ten from Morrow county there were eight from Gilliam, seven from Umatilla and one each from Jefferson, Sherman, Wasco, Union and Ba ker counties participating. There were a lot of important discus him 1P4? Mutual hmum Oojipam C. A aifioiiUment cfl A. RUGGLES INSURANCE AGENCY Hi tffycjtcy en HEPPNER, OREGON Standard legal reserve policies carrenllj saving up (o M OfECOX MBTDU INSDXANCE CO.. McMINNflllE, 0IE60X T 1 mm . ... : H Holiday Greetings ...and best wishes for health, happiness and success in the year ahead. It has been a real pleasure serving you... thank you I L. E. Dick, Jr. 281 Linden Way Ph. 6-9633 i i ATTENTION CATTLE FEEDERS! WE ARE NOW EXCLUSIVE DEALERS FOR IN EASTERN OREGON FEED THE WAY YOU WANT TO HUNDRED PERCENT PRECISION MIXING IN ONLY 3 TO 5 MINUTES BANISHES THE GUESSWORK IN ALL CLASSES OF FEED BUILT TO LAST A LIFETIME LOW COST FOR MORE PROFIT RLJCO (TRI-COrjNTY EQUIPMENT CO.) ARLINGTON ATHENA HEPPNER PENDLETON PH. 6-9258. HEPPNER al snowpack on the ground cr hrs?.r5?-.ri2;rfj:rtr:n?;r:rtr:r(r:r;ni.r( tored as sou moisture at that
