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lips on Chicken Cookery Studied By Unit Women "Americans have always loved chicken barbecued, broiled, fried and roasted," announced Charles M. Fischer, Poultry Marketing Specialist of Oregon State University, "but until a few years ago the serving was restricted to a few months dur ing the year. Today it has be come a specialized industry sat isfying the all-year-demand of the nation." Fischer visited Morrow county on April 18 in Irrigon, and April 19 in Heppner, training 26 wo men in the art of chicken bar becuing and giving them infor mation on poultry, as well. "Poultry Cookery" will be the topic of the unit extension les sons during the month of May, according to Esther Kirmis, Mor row county extension agent. There are two essentials need ed in barbecuing chicken, in structed the specialist, a place for burning the fuel and a grill for the chicken. For a backyard barbecue you may use a simple pit consisting of as little as four bricks placed on end and an oven rack borrowed from your stove. He advocated the use of eight cinder blocks (8x16x4 inches) one block long, one block wide, and two blocks high, arranged in a square. In place of the oven rack you may purchase hard ware cloth or welded wire fab ric at a hardware store and use it for a grill, he said. The entire pit can be purchased for less than $5.00. Metal barbecue pits are also satisfactory for barb e c u i n g chicken, continued the poultry specialist, be sure to raise the grill high enough to keep the chicken from burning. The dis tance between the chicken and the fire should be about 12 inches. Fuel and Fire Charcoal briquetts are pre ferred as the all-artound fuel because they are convenient to handle and carry and they burn for a long time with a steady even heat, said the OSU man. In a small pit, use about 1 pound of briquetts per half chicken (2 pound broiler is best split in half). Barbecuing the Chicken Place the chicken halves (which have been previously rubbed with teaspoon smoke salt) on the grill with the skin side up. Turn the chicken halves every two to five minutes, de pending on the heat, and baste with fresh butter. Use a pair of tongs for turning. Allow 1 hour to IV hours for cooking. To test for doneness, twist the drumstick. If it pulls out with CHARLES M. FISCHER Poultry Marketing Specialist Oregon State College the flesh adhering, the chicken is done. The Menu The chicken should be the real center of attraction, so don't overload the menu with frills, cautioned the poultry specialist. Potato salad or potato chips, cranberry sauce, rolls and but ter and coffee or milk round out a good barbecue menu. Locally trained project lead ers on chicken barbecuing will show their unit women the "Know-how" of barbecuing at the following meetings. May 1 Rhea Creek Grange hall, Rhea Creek extension unit. May 2 L. A. McCabe home, lone extension unit. May 7 Ray Drake home, Heppner extension unit. May 8 Pine City school, Pine City extension unit. May 9 Old Irrigon school, Irrigon extension unit. May 14 Guy Ferguson home, Boardman extension unit. Local project leaders will con tact members before their May meetings to take orders for the number of chicken halves they need to order, informed Miss Kirmis. Bulletins on "Tips on Barbe cuing," "Chicken Recipes," "Cooking the Big and Small Turkey," and "Nine Easy Ways to Cook Eggs," are available at the county agent's office in Heppner. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. April 25, 1963 Jim Dyess Discusses 14 Wheat legislation Mrs. George Wilken of Dryden, Wn., and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rich, and son, Brad, all of Wenatchee, Wn., are visiting this week with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Munkers. Mrs. Munkers and Mrs. Wilken are sisters. Mrs. Lyle Jensen and Mrs. Lee Palmer took Mrs. Lincoln Nash to Portland April 13 to be with her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Parsons. Remarks of James B. Dyess, Northwest Area Director, Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation Service, before a group of Wheat Growers at Heppner, Oregon on April 22, 1963. In order to put our wheat grower's problem in proper per spective, let's take a quick look at the make up of our whole economy. This nation is blessed or cursed, depending on your view pointwith a huge abundance or productive capacity. As a matter of fact, we have, or can get, more of most everything that we use or enjoy. Our total economy could be classified in three broad categories Indus try, labor and Agriculture. In each category we have over abundance, and as a people we attempt to do something about it. First, let's consider industry we have excess unused plant capacity throughout our manfac turing complex. In steel, in farm machinery, in autos, in ladies silk hose, in bedspreads you name it and its probably got excess capacity. This is not evil it is insur ance against future need. But it is expensive to the public. There are few enough individual pro ducers that each can tailor his production to supply the de mand at a price which will re turn a profit and offset the cost of the unused plant capacity. Now consider labor. Here, too, we have over abundance. Many on our labor force are under em ployed. Many mpre are unem ployed. The rate runs 4 to 6 of the entire labor force. From a social viewpoint, this is bad, but from strict economics, it would be agreed that again this is insurance. In the case of la bor, the unused productive ca pacity is paid for by unemploy ment insurance. Our third area of super abundance of productive capac ity is Agriculture. But here we meet special problems because of the number of farms involved. The individual can do nothing about his excess productive ca pacity unless his neighbors do likewise. It is only through the cooperative effort of all produc ers that they can effectively idle a part of their plant capacity and receive enough to repay them for their efforts and offset the cost of unused plant capac ity. Through cooperative efforts of wheat growers, working through Government, some measure of success along these lines has been obtained. Price supports have been made available to producers who idled part of their farm plant. In theory, the price sup port, or loan, was to provide ready cash until the producer could market his crops through regular channels at a fair price. But the theory fell down when the adjustment was based on acres instead of bushels. Farm productivity increased at double the industrial rate, so that, in stead of aiding in orderly mark eting, Government storage pro vided a large share of the market. The resulting huge pile of wheat represents a waste of manpower, money and natural resources. A continuation of this sit uation was unthinkable from an economic standpoint and un bearable from a taxpayers etnnHnnint. A taxoaver revolt seemed imminent when storage costs alone for this Government grain rose above $1 million per day. .... So something had to be done a ditterent approacn was mui- cated, actually a solution was available, and had been for a good many years. Back in the littu s your own Senator McNary advocated a two price plan for wheat. He was backed in this by the Ore gon Wheat Growers and I sus pect that the advocacy of such a plan has been one of the tenets nf the Oregon Wheat Growers League since its incep tion. His plan was relatively sim plebut life was not so com plex in those days either. He proposed that the Government stanH rpariv to Durchase all wheat produced at full parity, and what couicin t ne soia do mestically would be dumped in the export market for whatever it would bring. In those days our production was usually one or two hundred million bushels more than our domestic con sumption and export sales were made for as low as 40 cents per bushel. In thnsp rfavs this Dlan Drob- ably would have worked, but it was twice passed by Congress and vetoed bv the President. Again, in 1956, a two price plan for wheat also sponsored by the Oregon wneat urowers League as well as the National Association of Wheat Growers passed the Congress only to be vetoed. This plan was more so phisticated than the original do mestic parity plan of the 1920's. It retained the concept of acre age allotments which our grow ers have lived with off and on since 1938 but it also considered our export markets as a dump ing ground for our surplus pro duction. Finallv. in the Food and Ag riculture Act of 1962 the wheat growers got a two price plan Pub Auction FARM AND EQUIPMENT Wednesday, May I, 1:30 Sharp Newt O'Harra Ranch, Lexington through Congress and signed by . i i-i ; . , . ine rrcsiut'iu. This plan retains some of the better features of recent pro- orams snrh as nrice sUDDOrtS and land retirement, and com bines them with the better feat ures of the two price plans of past years, uur export mantei nnHw this new nrncram is con sidered as a food wheat market, and the wneat priced according ly. At least we have recognized that thp rilimnind nf excess wheat into the world market is no solution to our problem. It would not benefit our farm ers and would create confusion and economic ruin for friendly exporting nations. Arrpauo allotments nlus bu shel quotas serve as a means of limiting production to actual needs. fnntrarv to what some critics say, this wheat program can be one of the most nexioie iarm programs ever devised. If the feed grain bill sched uled to be considered by the House of Representatives Wed nesday passes congress ana is clan or! in to law. it will nermit the virtually free interchange- ability ot all grains. The producer who cooperates in hnth tha wheat and feed grain programs can combine his wneat allotment ana nis iceu grain acres, and plant what pvpr drain wheat, harlev. corn. or milo in any proportion he de sires on his acreage. There is even a special pro vision annlirahlo nrimarilv to this area which permits a grower to substitute wneat on nis oat and rye acreage. Thon hu moans of his market ing certificates, the grower's share of the tood marKet Doin domestic and foreign will be sold at the food wheat price of $2.02 in this county, and the balance of his production will move into the feed market at competitive feed prices $1.32 in this county. This will not ad versely affect the feed market because wheat on feed grain acres are in lieu of other feed ermine ami nil thp average. Over the nation, the total tonnage of feed grains will not ne in orpasorf Because of over excess plant capacity, in order to participate, some additional acreage on the farm would be idled. However, tho farmpr will hp romtwnsated for this idled acreage in order tn maintain his income at the same average level as in recent years. This is a relatively simple nmctram in manv wavs com parable to the program in effect in 1962 but witn iwo maor an ferences. First, the flexibility and free dom of choice in the planting of the best adapted crops on each farm is a big Improve ment; and second, only that quantity of wheat needed foi food will move into the food wheat market as food wheat prices. This is truly a two price plan that offers the growers, at last, an opportunity to get their own house in order. There are many other facets to the program that I won't dwell on here. But I would like to mention a few briefly. The tremendous stock pile of wheat owned by CCC will be re duced to more reasonable pro portions within a few years. The burden to the taxpayers will be reduced about $200 mil lion next year, and an increas ine amount in later years, as the costs of storage are further reduced. Wheat growers income will be maintained. All of this will occur under one condition. The Congress, in passing this law wisely recog nized that it needed tne wide spread support of producers to work properly. Therefore, before the program can go into effect, each year, producers must ap this is not a simple majority prove it in a referendum. And at least 23 or the producers voting must agree. In any other election such a majority would be considered as even more than a landslide. Naturally, there is an altern ative program if 23 of the pro ducers do not agree to this pro gram. It is the alternative that has been on the law books for years. If growers reject quotas, al lotments will remain in effect. 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