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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.
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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
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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. Growth and
fur quality of brown and black
mink on the test diet was as
good or better than animals on
a higher red meat percentage,
Adair says.
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