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Hay and Wheat Leading Crops In Slate in 1965 Orriiim farmers again 14 ths nation In value t anap tx-ana for irulri)f, filbert, arvrtal klmU of ranrbrrnra, and arv rral klmla of arsU during tht I'M A crop n-aon. The atatr'a crop output rrarh ih a riHiird Mfih In both ton nag an1 value, rrrts Mra. Klvera llurrrll. Orrgnn JMata t'nlvimlty extrnaion ajrrleultur a I erunwnUt. itMM Indicate! a total har vest of ft 8 million tuna with farm value of t;Hl million. ThU meant a 7 pcrrm! tonnage In rreaii and a 5 prrrrnt gain In value. Substantial Inrrra In flrM crop, tree frulta and nut, and vegetable more than offwt dr- dlriea n arrda and lierrlea. Hay wa the leading crop In lerma or value in la The olh er nine crop making up the "top ten" included. In order: wheat, pot a torn, eara, barley, anap iieana, straMbrrrlr, rye Win aeei, rherrle. and green peaa. Green pean ut WhmmI out oat for tenth iut. Value quoie are derived from ratlmated rodunton of cropa and aeaon prlrr received by grower !umm1 on aale rnadt up to IJw-rmher 1, with an al lowance for the rent of the aea aon. They do not reflect the net farm Income, Influenced by rl Ing farm caprniw. Field crop avountcd for nearly thrr out of every five ton produced In Orecon thl pait year and nearly $J out of every $. of value. Tliee crop Include grain and hay, ota. toe. epermlnt, augar beeta. dry pra, and h. (a-egon prtwluce more than a third of the domestic ai-ed crop aupply and lead the nation In production of aeven different aeed crop. However, weather wa unfavorable for iM-ed pro duction In I'M'A and the tonnage doptx'd atwiut a fifth. Tree frulta and nut contin ued to recover from 1W13 drop, with apple, pear and prune contributing most jo thl recov ery. Bcrrlca were pulled aharply lower by atrawbcrrlca which uffered considerable freete damage. However, thl Ion wa made up. to aome extent, by a record high tame blackberry crop. The value of Oregon' vegeta ble moved higher aa Increase In procelng vegetable more than offset decline In vegeta ble for fresh market. POWER CONTROL ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE WE BEfAIRi Eiactrlc Motor ?owt Tool Hydraulic Jacks AlamlU Equipment 421 8. E, 4th faodlatoa Phon 278-5882 YOUR EAGER BEAVER NORTHWEST FORD DEALERS CAN PROVE IT: lawiPteiiiiS tort 0blt 500 IDoOf Hardtop Salt! on 4lif tager-fo-iatisfy '6m are booming! We're selling 28 more Fords than lest year, and we've chewed down prices In an eaoer beaver effort to oea our sales recordl Come get an eager-beaver deall iKfMM to Hl-Wil)lM, Oitfo, Nortkui Mitw M4 laiu. tnt 10 montkt IMS n. rl It mlM l6. Peterson Returns From Wheat Tour To South American Countries (Wat K. I'rlerMin arrived home Saturday night following a inontn long tour oi muhi Anti fi. a. the trip In-lng short oird by the Oregon Wheat Crimrra IxauUo. lie arrived In Portland Thurs day by Kt plane after a 30 hour fllvhl for rtao I'aulo. urarii, "i then left for Newnrt to attend a meeting of the Oregon Itural Area !cvrlopmeiit Committee, of which he t a member rep rewriting eaatern Oregon. The meetlnir wa held In Newport Thursday and In C'ooa Hay Fri day where a program wa pre ruled. "The Oregon Coast lmk Ahead." Accompanying him to the coaatal meeting waa llarrla lllg glna. former county Judge of Hood itlver county. Peteraon had written a letter from Argentina to tell of hi travel there, but brought It home with him becauae he felt the plane trip would bring him home quicker than It would come by null. It follow: "We are no win Argentina. Can In by way of the lake country from a little place call ed luerto Montt. Chile, where we arrived by plane ycnterday. 'The trip here waa by both bu and boat. In fad. thl 1 retreated three time. First, bu ride, then boat ride, and by and through beautiful mount a I n country. torgeoua mountain cenery and a now-capped leaka. Pleads Staep. Winding The b ride arro the moun aln In Puerto Blest. Argentina wa miMtt Intereatlng. Steep and winding road and through aome of the heaviest thlcketa of greenery I have ever Been. We Ktf fuctisla and ahasta dalslea growing in abundance along the roadntde. In fart, there aeem to I? many wild flower growing here, let not exactly wild, etth er. We at home certainly a not call the fuchsia a wild flower. "On arrival at Barllorhe we checked In at the Lino Hotel, very nice lodge and right on the lake. Lake Nahael Huapl. We enjoyed aome leisure time In thl beautiful lake and mountain country. A few of u hired a boat with attendant and done ome fishing. Only Roy Hobby of our group aeemed to be the lucky one, catching a rainbow trout aome 30 Inches long. It was hard to leave this mountain resort among such picturesque surroundings but we must proceed and arc now In Buenos Aires. Yea, we are In Argentina and the country of Pcron. Most in teresting and certainly different. Less Indian at least. Buenos Aires I aald to be about 98 white; 84 native born and of Italian, Orman and Spanish descent. Four million people or six million with the suburbs. Baal. Wheat Exported "In a sight seeing tour of the city we sow the many love ly avenues and plazas as well as the busy waterfront. Much shlppln gtakes place from this 100 miles Inland harbor of the Atlantic coast. Principal prod ucts for export arc beef, hides and wheat. We ace some huge grain terminals. Agricultural products are principal exports from Argentina, and last year amounted to 1.4 billion dollars worth. The agricultural area ra diates out about 300 miles. The . wheat ndutry I great but nt too profitable rua Huenua Air r aa land 1 too valuable. But of wheat, more than 11 million tona were raised last year. The verr yield per are Is around 23 bushel "But It I cropping every year for a number or year, then aome rotation. Ihey aay some summer fallowing la done far ther out. The average farm U around TV) acre In aire al though there are larger Kstan- clas, somewhat near what they call a "Hacienda farther up north where the owner lives In the city and ovates by remote control. "Many farm operators live In town, because of achoola, poorer roads In the country and lack of electric cooperatlvea. This was a tour of the city, but gath ered much of my Information from a very capabl egulde. Stockyard Big "A few of U took a day off. hired a driver with car and went out to see the stockyards and a ilrlve out Into the coun try. Huge stockyards and pack ing planta with capacity for 10.000 head of cattle. The kill la around 5) per day now but can go up to 3.000. Not being too familiar with packing planta and aalesyards, I could only Judge that It la one of the moat modern and up-to-date systems that can be found anywhere. Trucks arrive constantly. This day, 410 load had arrived, they aald. Sales were going on and bring around 11c for choice WW- to H00 pound animals. Price seems oulte stable, going from 11c to lie, we were told. "Itlders were around every where and were on nice looking horses. There must have been 40 or 50 riders, and they were always on hand, bringing the cattle from one corral to anoth er. The cattle are mostly the Angus type, although we saw a few Hercfords and some Hoi steins. Land Worth U00 Act "Our drive continued out In to the country, and we visited one or two of the Lstancias. From 8000 to 12,000 acres these were, one of which was prin cipally dairy, milking some 3.000 cows per day now, all Hoi steins. It was a 9.000-acre dairy farm with land around $400 per acre. Twenty-four milking ma chines were in operation. "But this Is the best of grass country. One farm, 12,000 acres, where we visited was practic ally al lgrazing and a natural for cattle. This land was val ued at possibly $250 per acre. They said the cattle for market were practically 99 grass fed. As a whole it all looked quite simple with owners living In town and overseers and trained helpers in charge. The farms visited had been in the fam ilies for 150 or more years. Rain fall In the area la quite con stant, averaging around 40 inch es per year. We wanted to see some of the wheat country but that is pretty far out and not for this trip. Harvest had been pretty well completed there, though. We saw some of it as we came in by plane, and It looked as If farms were nicely dneveloped, nice buildings, trees around, and so on. Paron Influence Felt "Should say something about SEE YOUR EAGER BEAVER NORTHWEST FORD DEALER the government tt Argentina There are many political par tie. Twenty four, aomeone said The peronlsta Is possibly the greatest. Military dictatorship brounht Prron Into prorr.inrr.cn, lie was elected president In 1!MI. By some It I said he all but ruined Argetnlna, which be came somewhat f a welfare state. IUII roads, electric power companies and even the atock yard were taken over by the government. Pcron encouraged Industral growth at the expense of agriculture, lie had a strong following from the labor move ment and together, with wife F.lvita. was a strong supporter of the women s suffrage move ment. But the dictator rule was soon ended. F.lvita died and Per on himself was forced to go In to exile. There I atlll much po Ittical unrest but government Is more stable than for a great many years. It Is now aald to be somewhat democratic and free enterprise is coming Into Its own. "Am finishing this Irr Sao Paulo, Brazil. We are nearlng the end of the tour. The tour really end three days hence and In Brail, but I am leaving the group tomorrow to go back to the States and home in Ore gon. It is hard to leave the tour group as we have really gotten to be like one large family and there is still a bit left of the planned tour not finished. How. ever. I appreciate being placed on the State Itural Area Devel opment committee and wLsh to attend meetings in ewport and Coos Bay, February 10 and 11. I am intensely Interested in tromotlon as always. Perhaps I can bring out something a lit tle later what this group is doing or planning to do on a statewide basis." Bokcrs to Return From Mesa, Arizona Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker of lone will return home from their winter vacation in Mesa, Ariz., next week, they write from the south. "We have really been enjoy ing the winter here, although we have had a lot more rain than usual," they said. "Have been having aome more this week, but the sun is out this morning and we hope the rain Is over for now. "Monday Is to be the Oregon picnic, and we hope to go to that. Have seen a lot of Oregon people from the Valley but hardly anyone else Irom East ern Oregon." S -r-v 3 I , 1... J. M. LANDAU, GENERAL TRAFFIC AGENT WALLA. WALLA State Livestock Price Outlook Good, Says OSU Oregon livestock produceri ran look forward to another year of favorable pr!- during V, arcifdlng to Stephen C. Marks, extension agricultural econo mist at Otrgon State Universi ty. In an article published In the new Oregon Farm and Market Outlook Circular, Marks fore casts a broader demand for red meat during the coming year. Factors behind this Increased demand Include an increase In the number of U. S. consumers, greater employment and higher Income, and a willingness to est more red meat even at high er prices. Supplies of red meat will probably b smaller In 116. which also will help strengthen the market Domestic red meat production In 19G6 will drop to around 163 pounds per person, down from 1905 levels and from the reo ord 1718 pounds consumed in 1904. according to Marks. Each person's share of pork will prob ably be the smallest In 29 years. Per capita supplies of beef may be a little smaller in 116, also. Changes In the red meat sup ply are a result of livestock pro duction cycles. At the moment. production of hogs and sheep is on the upswing, so more ani mals are kept for breeding stock and fewer sent to market On the other hand, there are more cattle being slaughtered, but at lighter weights, because more heifers are being sent to mar ket Instead of kept in the breed ing herds. This means that an eight-year buildup of U. S. cat tle numbers was reversed In 1963. Cattlemen will be watching the number of cattle in feed lots closely, for some clue as to future prospects, the econo mist says. In the past, when more cat tle went directly to market without going through feedlots, ; the cattle cycle consisted only j of build-ups and reductions in breeding herds. Now, the rapid . growth of cattle feeding has I meant a twin cycle, the feedlot numbers of cycle as well as the i breeding herd numbers cyc,e- I There Is a possibility of a i large build-up of cattle in feed-1 lots this year, with plenty of cattle available in this country as well as in Canada and Mex ico. Prospects of lower feed costs because of large feed supplies may encourage feedlot expan sion in the corn belt also. Hoe prices hit an 18-year rail , high in 1965. reaching a $30 per hundred pound top price at Port-1 land. The 1965 spring pig crop was the smallest since 1937. 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February 1?. 1M Dcnicce Matthews Wins News Contest lone High school has notified Time Magazine that Dcnleee Matthews ha been named the local winner In Time's h an nual Current Affair Contest Other hlrh coring local stu dent include; Karen Nrlwn. lierniece Matthew, pat McLUI gott, and Stan llolsteln. Time's Current Affair Tet. given thl year to more than one million colleges and high school atudents In the U. S. and Canada, consists of 100 quea lions on national and foreign affair. Also Included are audi categories a business, sports, entertainment, science, religion, literature and the arts. - Marks says hog prices will hold up well at least until the fail of 1906. After that, the level of mar ket prices will be Influenced by rising production now under way. The higher price will probably lead to a build-up In production that will put prices on a down akld again In 1967 and 19GH. Higher lamb prices are also expected In 1966, according to Marks. The five-year decline In sheep numbers may be at an end. Aa more ewes and ewe lambs are held off the market to produce more young, the shortage of Iamb meat will help push prices up. Copies of the latest Oregon Farm and Market Outlook are available at county Extension Service offices. Now Ready to Scire You NEW SEED CLEANER And TREATER PLANT Custom Seed Cleaning Bmley S3 ton. Wnect 20c per BusheL 40c per Sack. Any amount 300 Bushel Minimum at Ranch. Additional Charge for Less Than Minimum. HAROLD ERWIN Heppner. Or. Union Pacific's strategic middle route ll Dilf; Pnoet Se on acton. Between liie caai anuaii i.i ic t amo wuji u uii wvvii tial link in the nation's transportation system, vital to its economy in times of peace and to its defense in Union Pacific Railroad Blue Mountain Sets New Class A new course In wardrobe co ordination will be offered by th Blue Mountain Community Col leire evenina" achtwl starting February 23. The course will teach how to make and coordinate ladleV wardrobe accessories. Hats will be dealgned and made, and shoes covered to complement existing or planned wardrobes. Mrs. Beulah Hynd. Pendleton, will instruct the course in the Home Economics room, Helen McCune Junior High school. Pendleton. Classes will meet from 7 to 10 P m. each Wednes day for 10 week. Registration la 112.50 plus supplies. Scheduled lor spring term In the evening school Is an inter mediate Blahop sewing clas and a tailoring class, both In Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. Bad Collins oC Hood River visited Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. LeRov Gardner. On Sunday momlng Mr. and Mrs. Jack Van Winkles Joined the group for breakfast In the Gardner borne. Mr. and Mrs. Collins formerly lived in lleppner where he was representative of the Standard Oil Company. When you patronize Gazette Times advertisers, you help make a better paper Tell them you saw it In the Gazette-Time. 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