Agricultural Department
Authority Listed in Law
rN'ot: Uili if another In a serltfl
frAm the title department nf arri
rnlture about lu flrU 25 yean. The
department wat created July 1. 193 1-
Salem Laws spell out the
work of the state department of
agriculture and beyond their
scope it has no authority to
serve.
The laws it administered after
being created in 1931 have little
resemblance to the agricultural
code of today. Some have under
gone drastic face-lifting or mod
ernization. Only last year the
legislature substituted a short
ened, modern basic livestock
sanitary law for the whole patch
work of laws on this subject
which had developed through
the years.
Some laws have been tossed
out entirely due to changing
times. Two examples are repeal
of the stallion registration law
and the gasoline standards law,
both within recent years. In
1931. Oregon still had a lot of
horses on the farm and nearly
200 stallions, mostly draft horses,
were on the state registry. The
gasoline law of 1933 died on the
vine, too, because its useful days
were past; once the department
laboratory tested all gasoline
sold.
New Legislation
Shifts and development within
aericulture and allied industry
broueht about new legislation
and operations throughout the
25 years of department me
Among the more recent were
laws embodying the new concep
tioin in contrast to quarantine
of stopping plant pests and
diseases on arrival through sys
tematic surveys; the regulation
of all commercial applicators of
herbicides; the weather modifi
cation act which requires regis
try of all who would change na
ture's ways'with rain, hail and
frosts; and the livestock auction
ales market law.
Court tests were called over
some laws, both in the depart
ment's formative years and la
ter. The produce dealers' act of
1933 was challenged in the
courts but was declared consti
tutional. But the agricultural
adjustment act of that same year
was unconstitutional.
To replace the lost AAA act,
the 1935 special session voted a
new agricultural marketing act.
Under it, the director soon
mailed 20,000 questionnaires to
farmers but the act was never
actually used for a farm com
modity group. It was repealed
later to give way to the present
commodity commission enabling
act.
Naw Aid
Last year a new aid to mar
"keting problems and develop
ment in Oregon came in a law
creating a division of market de
velopment in the state depart
ment of agriculture.
Another field in which far
reaching changes have occurred
in the past 25 years is dairy leg
islation. It was a big step in 1933
when a permissive grade A milk
and cream law was passed, and
again in 1935 when the first
Bang's disease control act re
quired compulsory inspection in
dairy cattle countries.
Probably more battles have
been fought, boih before and
after enactment, over dairy laws
than any other phase of the de
partment work. The first act
(1937) setting ud price differen
tials on milk and cream was held
constitutional after a court suit.
Parts of some other dairy laws
have been tested in the courts
with some decisions for and
some against the' legislation.
The fluid milk act and Bang's
codes wer ecompletely rewritten
In 1945. The versions have since
been amended but they set the
pattern for today's sanitation
programs in the dairy field.
Standard Container
Many will recall the days
when the department set up a
standard 12-ounce container for
strawberries, raspberries and
other berry items. (During the
department's first five years,
grades and standards were writ
ten for virtually all Oregon com
mercial perishables.) The berry
hallock order was contested, too,
but upheld in courts.
Another milestone in the de
partment's operations for bene-
HASN'T TAKEN A
DRUG LAXATIVE
Ifeorutipatinn due to lack of bulk
it imur pmblem.rad what All-Bran
didltor Mr.
C. E. Grcff.
Sprinefield.
O. "for 2S
years I tried
etery eonstu
potion remedy
imaginable.
Today I'm a
happy man
and reailv
regular, thinks to Kcllogg's All-Bran."
Good-tasting Kellogg's All-Bran cor
rects a common cause of constipation
(lack of bulk). All-Bran supplies the
natural laxative bulk you need daily
for regularity. Kellogs 's the original.
ready-toot bran cereal has helped
millions regain regularity. Try All
Bran for 10 days. If not satisfied is
every way. return empty carton and
get twice wh2t you paid.
fit for both producer and con
sumer came in the wood act
(1941) patterned after the fed
eral pure food act.
The law creating the depart
ment gave to it regulatory and
inEpc-tional powers and to the
state college extension service
and experiment station farm edu
cation and research work, respec
tively. This basic division still
holds.
In a like manner, but not until
1945, the department and state
board of health mutually sup
ported a law which put the in
spection of places where food is
consumed on the premises under
the health agency; other food in-
Three Medford Youths Get Elk Scholarships
Portland Six southern Ore
gon youth, including three from
Medford, have been named re
cipients of Elk Lumber company
scholarships to Lewis and Clark
college, according to an an
nouncement from Dr. Lewis A.
Thayer, chairman of the college
scholarship committee.
The three Medford high grad
uates who will enroll this fall at
Lewis and Clark are Richard S.
Arnold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
bur A. Arnold, 1011 Reddy ave.;
Robert E. Avers, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer V. Ayers, 26 South
Orange St., and Walter H. Knight
son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace F.
spection remained in the department.
Knight, 452 Fab-mount st.
Also honored with Elk awards
were Joan M. Kuhnhenn. Brook
ings; Barbara L. Moore. Klamath
Falls, and Janet M. Robinson,
Rogue River.
Arnold, who has been active
in all Medford high music or
ganizations and local and na
tional Boy Scout work, will ma
jor in music education. Also ac
tive in music and speech proj
ects, Ayers will major in pre
law. Knight, a member of the
rally squad. Boys' league and
physics-chemistry club, will pre
pare for laboratory research.
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Mrs. Anna Nye Dies "
In Hospital Friday
Mrs. Anna E. Nye, 89, of Tal
ent, died at a local hospital Fri
day, Aug. 3.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday, Aug. 7 at 1:30 p.m. at
Perl Funeral home with the Rev.
John Reynolds, First Presbyteri
an church, officiating. Interment
will be in Siskiyou Memorial
park.
Mrs. Nye was born in Meno
monie, Wis., in 1867. In 1895 she
was married to Stephen A. Nye
at Devils Lake, N.D. The couple
moved to the Medford area in
1907 where they resided until
Mr. Nye's death in 1951.
Survivors include one daugh
ter. Miss Ruth J. Nye; a son, Ste-
Sunday, August 8. 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKZ SEVEN
Tom Edwards Named
Construction Engineer
Salem (U.R) Tom Edwards,
southwestern Oregon division en
gineer for the State Highway de
partment, has been named con
struction engineer for the de
partment. Edwards' post at Roseburg
will be taken by Frank D. Mor
gan. Edwards joined the highway
department in 1930 after gradu
ating from Oregon State college.
He is a native of Condon.
phen G. Nye, Medford; and three
grandchildren, Philip and Ste
phen Nye of Medford and Mari
lyn Jones, Ketchikan, Alaska.
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