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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tfcundey, January SI, 1937 'arm and Garden r Hi, ' 1 4. .- "V '1 . 1 . JMV ' few - I? t f Forestry Graduate Conferences Planned Corvallis Six Oregon State j college achool of forestry leaders ! have arranged meetings with i forestry school graduates in Medford, Bend, Coos Bay, Eu gene, and Portland. At the meeetings, forestry alumni will be asked to evaluate the forestry school courses, grad uate performance and placement program in the light of their experiences since graduation. Twelve graduates from each area have been selected to par ticipate in the meetings. 4. PEAR MEETING L. C. Terriere, assistant chemist for Oregon State college, was among speakers at a meeting on pear production in the Rogue valley. A meeting on peaches was held Tuesday afternoon. Above, Terriere points to chart illustrating his talk on adjust ing air blast sprayers for reduced gallonages. Speakers included specialists from Oregon State college and the southern Oregon branch experiment station as well as Jackson county extension agents. Both of the meetings at tracted a large number of local fruitgrowers. flew Methods of Transporting Pears Topic of Short Course New methods of getting North west pears to market in top con dition will be reviewed Feb. 20 and 21 in a tri-state short course at Medford. Growers, packers, shippers, retailers and other handlers will pool experiences and research findings to reduce damage and strengthen market demands for the region's $25 million annual pear crop, according to short course chairman S. B. Apple, Oregon State college horticul ture department head. Now in its eighth year, the Northwest perishable loss pre vention short course is sponsor ed jointly by Oregon State col lege, Washington State college, the University of Idaho, and the American Railway Develop ment association. Two Morning Sessions Two morning sessions at the county courthouse, Medford, and an afternoon tour of pear pack ing houses and storage plants in the area have been arranged by the short course planning committee. Committee chairman is Covert A. Dyke. Spokane, agricultural agent of the Chi cago. Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad company. Transportation problems will be featured the first morning starting with a report on load ing and handling of cars by A. H. Fielding, San Francisco, superintendent of Transcontinen tal Freight bureau. Chairman of the morning meeting is T. A. Merrill, horticulture department head at Washington State col lege. A. L. Batts, Chicago, execu tive vice-chairman, freight claims division of the Associa tion of American Railroads, will review pear loss and damage rrtings of various regions. Rat ings are based on claims made against railroads or shippers for damaged fruit reaching terminal markets. Condition of Pears Condition of pears arriving at markets in relation to time on the road and periods of hold ing will be discussed by V. T. Jessen, Jersey City, district in spector for the Railroad Perish able Inspection agency. Henry Hartman, OSC profes sor emeritus of horticulture, will speak at a noon luncheon report ing experiments on controlled atmosphere storage of pears. The afternoon tour of pear pack ing and storage facilities is un der the direction of Clifford Cordy, Jackson county exten sion agent, and Shelby Tuttle, manager of the Southern Oregon Sales company, Medford. G. W. Woodbury, head of the University of Idaho horticulture department, is chairman .of the second morning program. Re ports include loading of pears in LA lug boxes, E. H. Collins, The Gateload Manufacturing com pany, Medford; and transit temperatures in carloads of pears with various icing schedules, H. A. Schomer, USDA physiologist at Wena tehee, Wash. Pear storage tests with polye thylene bags at Hood River and Medford will be reviewed by W. M. Mellenthin, superintend ent of the OSC Mid-Columbia branch experiment station at Hood River, and Elmer Hansen, OSC horticulturist. Possibilities of preserving fruit and other perishable foods through irradiation will be fore cast by E. L. Zebroski of the Stanford Research Institute. 118 Dairy Operations Quit in Last 10 Years Salem Forty-nine dairy man- men who distribute the milk of Recommendations Due ai Conference One of the most thorough self-studies ever carried out by a major agricultural commodity group will be reported at the Oregon Wheat Industry confer ence, scheduled in Portland, Feb. 13 and 20. The conference is sponsored by Oregon State col lege. Faced with large stocks of wheat in surplus warehouses, Oregon wheat growers decided a year ago to try to find their way out of lowering wheat crop values and reduced acreages. Value of the state's wheat crop has dropped 40 per cent in the last three years from around S74 million "in 1953 to $44 mil lion in 1955. Rather than rely entirely on government programs, growers agreed to adopt a ."do-it-yourself attitude. Through the Ore gon Wheat Growers league, they asked the college to help them study their problems. A study, patterned after a similar invest igation of the wheat industry in 1925, was set up. Eighteen sub-committees, un der the direction of four main conference committees, have now completed studies of trends and problems in the wheat in dustry during the last 30 years. More than 200 persons repre senting wheat growers, dealers, millers, bakers, livestock feed ers, homemakers. exporters and other groups have worked to-1 f ether during the J ear. Corvallis Twenty five sap phire mink, elite of the fur coat trade, have been donated to Ore gon Slate college' as breeding stock for experiments on feed requirements of the species. Scientists and Oregon fur breeders want to know if the i high quality fur with the blue sheen can be maintained on less costly diet than the traditional fish and red meats. Past Trials Nearly 500 brown and black mink passed lower cost feeding trials at the OSC mink experi mental farm during the past year. But the highly-bred sap phire "mutation" may be more susceptible to diet change, the scientists say. The 25 sapphire breeders were donated to the college by the Oregon State Fur Breeders as sociation for propagation this spring. Their offspring "pellers" will go on feed trials this sum mer. Farm superintendent John Adair, OSC fish and game man agement researcher, says the tempermental mink go "off feed" easily and lose size and fur quality when diets are be low par. On the other hand, Oregon fur breeders have ex panded their industry into a Corvallis New trends in pro cessing and marketing dairy products will be revised by state and national leaders at the Ore gon Dairy Industries' 46th an nual conference, Feb. 11 to 14, at Oregon State college. The ODI represents some 200 Oregon dairy plants serving as outlets for products that gross Oregon farmers about $50 mil lion annually. Demonstration Set ODI secretary G. H. Wilster, OSC professor of dairy manu facturing, says conference high lights will include a demonstra tion of a short-time method for. making cheddar cheese, dairy promotion and market outlook, and more efficient plant man agement. The new method of making cheddar cheese that cuts labor costs and reduces processing time by one-third will be dem onstrated for the first time out side the U.S. department of agri culture laboratories where it was developed. Other dairy processing devel opments on the program include a promising method of butter making at OSC that makes but-, ter easier to spread at refrig- j erator temperatures. Judging Planned j Foreign markets and future sales for dairy products under the stepped-up government dis- , poul program will b discussed by C. J. Babcock of the USDA foreign agricultural service. An annual feature' of the con ference is naming of Oregon's best makers of ice cream, ched dar and cottage cheese and but ter. Milk and cream entries from dairy plants throughout the state will also be judged. Also scheduled for the four day program are discussions of plant personnel relations by Dr. P. R. Ellsworth, Milk Industry foundation, Washington, D. C. and a pictorial report on his re cent trip to Europe by Dr. Wil ster. The final morning will stress dairy products sales pro motion with speakers including D. H. Jacobsen, Chicago, re search director of the American Dairy association, and Forrest Townsend of the Vendo com pany, Kansas City. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture rube dull and waakF Most picture tubes can b restored to original brightness at only traction of the cost of replacement. For further reformation CALL Electronic Service 18. N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 Research Service Meeting Scheduled Salem The Oregon depart ment of agriculture will be rep resented at the U.S.D.A. Agri cultural Research service reg ional meeting in Berkeley, Calif. Feb. 13-15. Frank McKennon, plant division chief, will attend. Among items to be discussed will be (1) federal-state quaran tines against importation and movement of products which carry plant insects and diseases; (2) plant pest surveys, which Oregon is already using as an increasingly efficient method to detect first signs of an insect or plant disease new to the state: 13) research for control and eradication of pests already es tablished and to keep ahead of possible future problems; (4) federal-slate programs for control and eradication of plant diseases and insect pests of regional or national significance. This is one of four regional meetings the national office has scheduled. Entomologists, path ologists, nematologists and plant research and regulatory people from the western states will at tend the California meeting. ufacturing plants and 69 fluid milk pasteurizing plants in Ore gon have discontinued business in the last 10 years, the state department of agriculture re ported today. Kenneth E. Carl, assistant chief responsible for dairy san itation, said at the same time 92 dairy manufacturing plants, are now licensed by the state. The last count shows 73 fluid milk pasteurizing plants in operation. On the producer side, Carl said 2,334 grade A milk pro ducers were under inspection in Oregon on Jan. 1, this year. This is about 130 less than two years ago and about 100 under the number under inspection on Jan. 1, 1949. But the size of herds is increasing. Producer-distributors dairy- Classes in Sheep Shearing Scheduled Free instruction in sheep shearing is available this spring to both adults and youths at five two-day schools sponsored by Oregon State college, announces John H. Landers, OSC animal husbandry specialist. Schools are scheduled March 18 and 19, March 20 and 21, and March 22 and 23 at OSC; April 11 and 12 at The Dalles: and May 10 and 11 at Prineville. Applications are available from county extension agents or high school vocational agriculture in structors. Each two-day class will be fimited to 16 persons selected by a committee that will review dividual need and possible bene fit from the course. Applications should reach Landers not later than March 1. their own cows totaled 112 on Jan. 1, or seven more than eight years ago and five more than two years ago. About one third, or 34. of the producer-distributors under in spection the first of this year were grade B operators. Eight years ago, only grade B dairies were in operation. The increase in the B grade dairies is due largely to advent of the gallon jug dairies. producer-distributors and, 1089 of the grade A producers are under state inspection. Four cities, Portland, Eugene, Med ford and Ashland, inspect the other 1.245 grade A dairies. About the 49 and 69 plants that have gone out of business since 1946: Carl says the shift from factory milk to fluid milk which brought higher returns dried up the supply of many manufacturing plants, causing them to cease operations. On operations for economy. Advent of the paper container, which small plants could not econom ically adopt, was greatest single reason in decline in the number of fluid milk pasteurization plants. Carl said all but eight of the j top of that, plants centralized Sawdust Telephone 2-211 I MEDFORD FUEL CO. discover the difference in at PERFORMANCE! The Golden Hawk For handling and for hustle, the bril liant new Golden Hawk with exclusive built-in Supercharger stacks up against any sports car on the road. And there's room and comfort for the whole family plus unexcelled safety. Take a ride today and you'll agree Craftsmanship makes the big difference! NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY Studebaker '57 at 'DE 'LEIGH MOTORS r College Gets Sapphire Mink For Feed Tests, Diets Eyed BREAKFAST BARGAIN BAY! ARE HERE shop for values at O.K. MARKET tmmmmj 1202 NORTH RIVERSIDE h:ghly competitive $4 million annual business and are hard pressed to keep mink diets up and costs down. ; Scarcity of horsemeat and whalemeat and growing compe tition for beef liver from the ! "cat and dog food' trade have forcused mink industry atten tion upon plentiful species of so called bottom fish. Now, com petition is growing keener for the fish, particularly the more j desirable species being chan- : neled into human food markets. Newest item in the OSC test diets is a "cereal" compounded of local small grains and dried meat products fortified with i antibiotics and vitamins. Adair ; says 1956 trials indicated that j most of the red meat portion of 1 the diet could be replaced with ' the cereal at approximately half the cost. Red meat normally makes up about one-fifth of the mink's total ration. Growth Good The new mix might also re place some of the fish that us ually account for 70 to 80 per cent of the ration. 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