HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. Januarf 12. 1967
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Farm Market
REVIEW
Bt STEPHEN C MABES
Agricultural Economist
AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS WITH
OREGON AGRICULTURAL
FACTS
Elvers Horrell. OSU extension
agricultural economist, has put
topether some facts and figures
which can be used as answers
to a sort of do-it-yourself qui
about agriculture In the Beaver
state.
Randy Reference Items
What if someone should ac
cost you on a dark street and
ask questions as: Where are the
farms which produce Oregon's
half-billion dollars worth of ag
ricultural products? Which
countv has the largest farms?
What products are the most im
portant? Here are some facts
to impress even the most Inquis
itive stranger:
Oregon farmers sold commod
ities valued at $4?6 million in
1965 with government payments
boostine the total to an even
half-billion. Crops accounted for
57 per cent and livestock 43 per
cent
Willamette Valley Leads
Six regions make up Oregon's
fanning districts with the Wil
lamette Valley the leading pro
ducer, accounting for nearly
half of the crop sales and a
third of the livestock sales.
Ranking behind in order are
the Columbia Basin. South Cen
tral, Snake River Basin, South
ern Oregon, and Coast and Low
er Columbia regions. The Wil
lamette, Southern Oregon, and
Coast and Lower Columbia ac
count for the 18 western Ore
gon counties, the other three
districts include the 18 eastern
Oregon counties.
Marion Leads Counties
Marion County sold $45-milli-on
in farm products in 1965 to
lead the list of counties. Uma
tilla County was second, Mal
heur placed third, Clackamas,
fourth, and Klamath, fifth.
Those five accounted for 35 per
cent of the state's sales, at $176
million. Wheeler Spreads Are Largest
The Columbia Basin's Wheel
er County has the fewest and
largest farms. Clackamas Coun
ty in the Willamette Valley has
th most farms. Hood River
County has the smallest farms,
with Clackamas running second
in that category. Umatilla Coun
ty in the Columbia Basin has
the largest amount of cropland
and Lincoln County on the Coast
has the least.
Agriculture Top Ten
The top 10 commodities in the
state in terms of cash receipts
and the leading producing coun
ty in 1965 are as follows: (1)
eattle and calves, Klamath; (2)
dairy products, Tillamook; (3)
wheat, Umatilla; (4) potatoes,
Malheur; (5) greenhouse and
nursery, Multnomah; (6) pears,
Jackson; (7) barley, Umatilla;
(8) chicken eggs, Clackamas;
(9) hay, Klamath, and (10)
snapbeans, Marion.
Market Steady During Week
Prices held mostly steady at
Oregon livestock markets last
week but fed cattle and hogs
remain under pressure of larg
er U. S. marketings. Despite
larger feedlot inventories ana
fall marketings, Oregon fed cat
tle prices are about SI higher
than last year. Total U. S. red
meat output was up 7 per cent
from a year earlier at a near
record 579 million pounds.
Corn Belt feedlot operators
continue to build up inventor
ies at a faster pace than in 1965
despite current losses on feed
ing margins. Prospects of a rec
ord corn crop and improved 1967
prices may account for this.
Hogs Higher
Hog prices around the nation
were up a little last week. In
Portland barrows and gilts
brought as much as 50 cents
more. Portland sheep prices were
steady.
Local Vegetables Still Around
The Portland wholesale veget
able market may not be as dy
namic as some, but it has fur
nished a good outlet for many
tons of Oregon vegetables. Good
supplies of local produce items
were found at the wholesale
level last week, including broc
Oregon Angus Association
OREGON TRAIL ANGUS CLASSIC
Saturday, Feb. 4th, Hermiston, Oregon
SELLING 80 HEAD
60 Bulls 20 Females
UMATILLA COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS
Sale Starts 12:30 P.M.
This Will Be a Quality Offering
Judging Friday, Feb. 3, 1 :30
Social Get-Together, Dunes Motel
Friday, Feb. 3, 6:30 P.M.
Banquet McCabe Cafe, Friday, 7:30 P.M.
For Catalogs Write
HAROLD RANKIN, 809 Tamarack
Hermiston, Oregon
coli, Brussels sprouts, cabbace,
carrots, celery, mushrooms dry
and green onions, potatoes,
squash, bunched vegetables in
cluding greens and radishes,
. and bulk vegetables such as
turnips, rutabagas, beets, car
rots and parsnips.
Farm Forest Market Slow
Buyers maintained softwood
log prices at previous levels dur
ing November but stopped buy
ing logs. Hardwood operators
were very active in the log mar
ket and increased their prices.
The hardwood log supply has
been very poor.
Oregon Livestock
Prices Way Up; ,
Way Down in 1966
Oregon livestock producers
found themselves on a price
roller coaster during 1966. ac
cording to Stephen C. Marks,
extension agricultural econo
mist at Oregon State Universi
ty. The year started with live
stock prices buoyant across the
board but ended with prices
dropping far below the long
time highs chalked up last
winter.
Fed cattle prices hit a seven
year peak of $30 per hundred
pounds by early March, and
steer calves touched $34, ac
cording to Marks. Slaughter
lamb prices reached an even
more dramatic 15-year high of
$29 in January', and hogs top
ped the list with an 18-year
high of $30.50 per hundred
weight.
The roller coaster hit the
downward stretch in late
March, however, and by early
November choice steers were
being cashed in at prices aver
aging 22 per cent below the
year's high point. While fed
steer prices improved a little
in December, they still finish
ed the year 20 per cent under
the 1966 peak and 5 per cent
below a year ago, it was not
ed. The price plunge for hogs and
lambs was even more cataclys
mis, according to Marks. From
mid-winter to November, pric
es for top grade hogs dropped
31 per cent. Although there was
some later improvement, year
end prices averaged 25 per cent
below the 1966 high and were
23 per cent lower than a year
ago.
Slaughter lamb prices drop
ped 25 per cent below the year's
starting point to a low of $22.
Lamb prices showed little im
provement and finished the
year 20 per cent under last win- j
ter s high and around w.du oe
low year-earlier prices.
The roller coaster price pat
terns in 1966 were spurred by
record red meat production to
tals. Hog slaughter the week
before Christmas was up 45 per
cent from the same week in
1965. Sheep and lamb slaugh
ter was slightly less but im
ports of land and other red
meats took up the slack. Rec
ord supplies of broilers and tur
keys also contributed to the
competition for the consumer's
meat dollar.
Two Trackers Meet
A meeting of the Two Track
ers 4-H club was called to or
der by Frances Abrams, vice
president, on January 3. The
secretary read the minutes and
called the roll. Most of the
members attended. Our leader,
Floyd Jones, showed us the
first prize ribbon we won in
the parade. We divided into
groups and studied for our tests.
Then the meeting closed.
Jill Scott, reporter
Spending their vacations at
the ranch home of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth Smouse were their
daughter Cherilyn, and son,
Kenneth Lynn, both from OSU,
and son Carl from Salem. Ac
compaying Kenneth Lynn were
two college friends, Willis Ho
bart and Dale Stennett. Carl re
turned to his school in Salem
on January 8.
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HOT DOG BUSES, such as this
and show work being done
promote wheat consumption
Oregon Winter
Wheat Acreage
30 Above 1965
Oregon wheat growers are
ahead of the national trend in
wheat plantings, according to
Stephen C. Marks, Oregon State
extension agricultural econo
mist. Marks says the annual USDA
December report on winter
wheat seedings shows that Ore
gon growers seeded 997,000 ac
res or 30 per cent more than
in fall, 1965. Nationally, win
ter wheat plantings are up 26
per cent.
The larger seedings follow a
32 per cent increase in the na
tional wheat acreage allotment
for the coming year. The allot
ment boost was made in antici
pation of increased domestic
demand and greater export
needs for wheat, points out
Marks. The boost also was
prompted by lower carryover
stocks, expected to total only
400 million bushels on July 1,
1967.
The size of the new wheat
crop will help determine the
amount of wheat shipped over
seas under government pro
grams during the balance of
the wheat marketing year, it
was noted. The President last
week allocated 900,000 tons of
grain to India and 500,000 tons
to Pakiston for shipm e n t
through March. This included
half wheat and half sorghum
grains.
Marks says partial production
data show Oregon's 1967 win
ter wheat crop may amount to
some 33,890,000 bushels. This
would be 37 per cent larger
than the crop harvested in 1966,
and 45 per cent over the 1960
64 acreage.
Nationally, the winter wheat
crop is expected to be 21 per
cent greater than the 1966 har
vest of 1,056,821,000 bushels.
This would be a new record for
winter wheat production in this
country.
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Our engineers have become used to
seeing their ideas show up on other cars.
Two years late. And apparently so have a
lot of car buyers, Because 1 967 Pontiacs
are selling faster than 1966 Pontiacs.
And '66 was a record year.
When you think about it, why should
you wait around for innovations like our
disappearing windshield wipers? Or for
imaginative options like our exclusive
hood-mounted tach? Especially when
you consider that our engineers
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by the Oregon Wheat League to
in that country.
Local Wheat Use
Jumps in Japan
By JOHN WELBES
Executire Vice President
Oregon Wheat League
Due to activities of the Ore
gon Wheat Growers League,
the consumption of wheat foods
in Japan has increased from 33
pounds per person In the late
fifties to 75 pounds per person
this year. This increase has
been due to introducing new
wheat products In the area as
shown by this bus selling hot
dogs which are new to their
diet and will result In greater
cash sales of U. S. wheat.
In the 1959-60 marketing year,
Japan imported about 30 mil
lion bushels of wheat from the
United States. This year, 1966
67, the League is estimating
Japan will import in excess of
75 million bushels from the
U. S., or an increase of over
2501 In a six year period.
Hot dog buses are a common
sight around public places, such
as parks, and baseball and ath
letic stadiums. These came in
to the picture shortly after
Wheat Associates, U.S.A., Tokyo,
the League's representative in
Japan, had their sandwich pro
motion the first half of 1965.
They are now a popular and
common sight in Tokyo, oper
ating similar to our ice cream
wagons. The bus pictured is one
of many owned -by this compa
ny. The only items they sell are
hot dogs and a cola drink.
Each wagon has an oven grill
where the hot dogs are heat
ed, and the operator usually
does all the work inside these
small buses. Around one park,
for example, there would be at
least three or more of these
mobile hot dog buses.
OFFICE SUPPLIES, typewriters,
adding machines sales and
service In Heppner regularly.
Standard Office Equipment
Call Gazette-Times, 676-9228
Maybe our'67Pontiac
is breaking sales records
because people don't want to
wait until '68 for a copy.
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wouldn't turn a Pontiac loose with any
thing less than a standard 400 cubic
inchV-8,0raTempest with anything less
than our revolutionary Overhead Cam
Six, (Not to mention all those new safety
features like GM's energy absorbing
steering column and a dual master cyl
inder brake system with warning lamp.)
In short, our engineers
seem to have done it again.
They may even start asking
Tor royalties on
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Chemical Tools
Now Available
To Combat Weeds
By GENE WINTERS
County Extension Agent
The relatively warm and wet
wvather in late fall and early
winter has made near Ideal con
ditions for the germination of
weeds in cereal crops.
Research at the Pendleton Ex
periment Station and other sta
tions and by the weed chemi
cal industry has shown weed
competition In the early slug
es of wheat growth has been the
most damaging. One tarweed
per square foot at this stage
has reduced yields of wheat as
much as 10 bushels per acre.
Up to last year there were no
herbicides available to use at
the early stages of wheat and
barley growth which wouldn't
damage the grain at least as
much as the weed competition.
Now growers have a chemical
tool that will kill mast hard to
kill annual broad leafed weeds
this time of year without dam
age to wheat or barley when
applied according to directions
on the label. Like most of the
new agriculture chemicals the
rates, application and time of
application must follow recom
mendations for expected con
trol. The chemical bromoxynil. sold
tinder label as Brominil or as
Buctril gives excellent control of
fiddleneck. purple (blue) mus
tard and gromwell when ap
plied after the wheat or barley
have emerged and before the
weeds are past the three or four
leaf stage. These 2.4 D resistant
weeds cannot be adequately
controlled with this material
when left to grow beyond the
4 leaf stage.
Fields should be Inspected
very soon for the number and
kinds of weeds present. The pos
sible lass of yield due to weed
competition should be compar
ed to the cost and application
of weed materials. A yield loss
of 4 or 5 bushels would pay
for the cost of a timely treat
ment with one of the bromox
ynil products.
For additional details visit
with your agrioulutre chemical
dealer or the County Extension
Agent.
Rain Readings Vary
December precipitation, in
cluding snow melt, according to
the reports from the Morrow
county weather observers, was
above average for the second
month In a row. Rain gauge
readings varied from over 1 V
Inches to 3 Inches depending up
on location. The Heppner De
cember average Is about 1.4
inches. Considerable variation
in snow fall was observed
throughout the agriculture area
of the county.
The falacy of the real mean
ing of yearly annual rainfall in
farming country, was again
proved at the end of 1966. One
observer reported near average
rainfall for the calendar year
of 1966. But for the most lm-
Dortam prnwlna ra:nn mnnlha
of April, May, June, he record
ed a total ot i.ui inches.
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'Common Sense' Plan
Advised for Wardrobe
By MABJORIE WILCOXEN
County Extonilon Agont
What's the fashion word for
spring? SirinT?T With www
In the air? The fashion Indus
try Is already promoting fash
ions, fabric and patterns for
spring. The fashion word Is
"Variety!" . . . variety of col
or, silhouette, style, fabric.
But "variety" for some wom
en on a limited clothing budg
et Isn't always an easy thing
lo have. You don't have to have
a large clothing budget to be
well dressed. In fai t, many
women manage to look chic on
a limited allowance.
If you're trying to build a
successful wardrobe on a lim
ited budget, it Is fnr wiser to
have n few good clothes rather
than lots of !ncxenslvc ones.
Good clothes those that show
good taste will remain wear
able In quality and line while
other exotic fashion trends come
and go.
Look close at hand and fur
ahead when you do your clothes
buying. Use the common sense
plan. Be fair to yourself and
our pookelliook. Hemember
that clothes are considered an
Index to a woman's character,
Thev reflect to a large extent
what she Is, what she thinks
and her attitude toward life.
You want your clothes to say
nice things about vou. It Is the
same old story high style vs
what looks best on the Individ
ual. The master key to appropri
ate dress Is knowledge of the
correct lines for your particu
lar figure type. Analyze your
self for style purposes. IVelde
which natural lines of your fig
ure are strong anil pleasing, and
also attractive. Know what Il
lusion of height and width your
silhouette gives from front,
back and side.
Remember there Is magic In
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farmers
Thtre'i no belter heating oil thnn Pacific hcntiiig oil. Hut,
we must admit there are other brands Unit are pretty close
in quality.
The big difference is the Circle P brand of service, based on
these principles:
HONEST PRICING ... the lame fair tank wagon delivery
price without discriminntion to any buyer of the same
quantity and service.
TIMELY AVAILABILITY of heating oil and other prod
ucts delivered where and when you need them.
ASSURED QUALITY . . . Pacific heating oil is high in
heat calories, and clean burning.
HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE, filling routine and
emergency need plus a variety of spcciul services at no
extra cost.
"We believe that the agricultural industry, which can
be victimized by nature, should not be plagued by
problems over which man has a degree of control
namely service, prices and availability of necessary
supplies."
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COOPERATIVES
line and resign. I.rnrn how to
relate the Hue of your clothes
to you. There are mim thing
you can alter. Diet and rxer.
else mov help you torn? down
or round out your curves. Hut
when It's a matter of Iwlng too
tall or too Khort, you'll need to
use skill In dressing to empha
size your best points and to
play down your lean attractive
ones. Press Illusion Is a Justi
fied form of deceit and III a
fascinating project to work at.
Rod Thomson. Morrow County
Assessor, and lepuiy Joyce Pheg
lev attended an r'-uMrm Ore
gon assessors' meeting January
10 and 11 at Madras,
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