SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
West Polled Group
To MA Conference
Here, Oct. 27-28
Approximately 500 people are
expected to attend the Western
Polled Hereford Breeders' con
ference here Oct. 27 and 23, ac
cording to Lyle Hoyt of the
American Polled Hereford as
sociation. The A'o-day meeting in the
armory and at the county fair
grounds is expected to draw
cattlemen from the 11 western
states.
Object of the conference, ac
cording to Hoyt, is to have well
qualified breeders present the
plans, objectives, and techniques
used in raiding polled hereford
stock which other stockmen can
use for their own benefit. Anoth
er purpose is to assist production
of better polled herefords every
where, he said.
'There will be no college
men nor extension men on the
program," he commented. "All
speakers will be successful
breeders."
Breeders To Talk
One of the outstanding breed
ers on the program in the Arm
ory Oct. 27 will be F. L. Robin
son, Kearney, Neb. He is expect
ed to talk about breeding pro
grams, drawing on his 40 years
of experience.
Following him will be Russell
Pfiefer, manager for the Carna
tion Farms at Carnation, Wash.
The farms owned by the Carna
tion Milk company are setting
up an elaborate polled hereford
breeding program similar to
their dairy cow breeding pro
gram. The farms are world-famous
for the latter program,
Hoyt said. Pfiefer will speak on
looking ahead into the planned
breeding program and using les
sons learned in the dairy stock
breeding prosram.
Freeland Farnsworth, Porter
ville, Calif., will explain how
records can assist in the breed
ing program. He has kept a set
of records over a period of 20
years on his operation.
Principal speaker at the Sun
day evening banquet will be Don
This Week's
By HIAWATHA ESTES
Natural materials mark this
2336 square foot home with dis
tinct individuality. Slabs of rich
hued flagstone face the chimney
and part of the garage, extend
ing to form planters for colorful
flowers and greenery. Wide
boards in vertical pattern con
trast with the rough textured
rock roof. A long horizontal
frame unifies the front window
grouping.
From a wide, covered landing,
double panel doors lead to the
entrance hall.
The center hall separates the
quiet bedroom area from the
work and activity part of the
house. Half walls separate the
living room from the entry to
admit light to the hall.
Triple glass doors open the
huge living room to the patio
and rear garden and big fire
Chittenden, secretary of the
American Polled Hereford as
sociation, Kansas City, Mo. He
will speak on '-Looking Ahead
with Polled Herefords."
The banquet will honor offi
cers and directors of participat
ing associations in the west.
These include: American Polled
Hereford association, Columbia
Empire Polled Hereford Associa
tion, California Polled Hereford
association, Oregon Polled Here
ford association, Idaho Polled
Hereford association, Washing
ton Polled Hereford association,
Round-up Polled Hereford asso
ciation with headquarters at
Pendleton and West .Cascade
Polled Hereford association of
western Washington.
Allyson Smith, publisher and
owner of the Pacific Stockman
livestock magazine will be toast
master. Also speaking Sunday
night will be Dick Hibbard,
Imbler, Ore., national director
of the American Polled Hereford
association representing the dis
trict of Oregon, Idaho, Washing
ton and western Montana.
Tentatively Scheduled
Tentatively scheduled to speak
Sunday night is J. C. Holbert,
Davenport, Iowa, rated as one
of the three top after - dinner
speakers in the United States,
Hoyt said. He is also considered
the largest individual feeder
cattle dealer in America, Hoyt
added. His topic would be what
the commercial breeder thinks
the purebred man should be
doing.
Monday morning's session will
start at 8:30 a.m. with a talk on
the feeding and care of herd
bulls and brood cows by Ken
neth Vaughan, manager of the
Elm Lane ranch, Fresno, Calif.
Following him at the speakers'
table will be Jim Roan, former
manager of the Four Daughters'
Polled Hereford ranch at Ellens
burg, Wash. He will speak on
tips on feeding and fitting sale
cattle.
Next speaker on the program
Town, Country
places add cheer to both the liv
ing room and family room.
Cupboards, counter work sur
faces, a pantry and modern
built-in appliances combine for
work-saving convenience in the
kitchen-breakfast nook. Wide
banks of casement windows
keep rooms bright and sunny.
In the unusually large service
room there is ample space for
washer, dryer and ironer. as
well well as a frozen food stor
age unit. A handy half-bath pro
vides a place for the children to
clean up in muddy weather
without tracking through the
central part of the house.
The double garage is connect
ed to the house by a breezeway.
A boon to the man who dreams
of having his own home work
shop is the 10-by-20 foot work
shop room adjacent to the garage.
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Thursday, October 17, 1957
Pigs Said Neurotic,
Hypnotism Employed
Most neurotic creatures are
pigs, according to George Crock
er, who describes himself as
England's only full-time pig
1 ypnotist.
'If their quarters are cramped
or they suddenly see a stranger
or somebody says hard words
to them, it upsets them terribly,"
the hypnotist said. "I hypnotize
pigs regularly to keep them fit
and happy," he told those at
tending the recent Smithfield
Livestock show in the United
Kingdom.
will be Otha Grimes of Ogeechee
ng farms of Fairland, Okla.
He will speak on what produc
tion testing can do for a polled
hereford herd. According to
Hoyt, he has done more produc
tion testing than any other
polled hereford breeder in
America.
Another speaker in the Mon
day morning session will be M.
P. Moore, Circle M ranch of
Sanatobia, Miss., and vice presi
dent of the American polled
hereford association. He will
talk on some factors behind the
nation's top polled hereford
sales. He is rated as having the
world's record top polled here
ford sale for the last five years,
Hoyt said.
Discussion Scheduled
A three-way talk will be held
Monday afternoon on practical
suggestions for raising polled
herefords. Speakers are Chuck
Eggleston of Polled Hereford
World magazine, Kansas City,
Mo.; Bob McKellar, northwest
representative for the Pacific
Stockman magazine and Sherm
Guttridge, northwest representa
tive for the Western Livestock
Journal. The panel will be open
to questions from the audience
relative to their problems, Hoyt
said.
Following the panel discus
sion cattle demonstrations will
be given by Ralph Cook ranches,
Medford; Bill and Gayle Woods,
Eagle Point; Richard Ireland,
Ashland; E. N. Lippert and Sons;
Yankee Creek ranches, Medford;
Table Top ranches, Medford;
Mira Flores ranches, Medford;
R. E. Smiley ranch of Grants
Pass and the Applegate ranch of
Jacksonville, Ore.
From Aug. 28 to Oct. 2, 1893,
tornadoes in the United States
killed 3,000 persons.
House Plan
The master bedroom, which
opens to the patio, contains a
dressing room, private bath and
extra wardrobes. Three addi
tional bedrooms allow for fam
ily growth. In a smaller family
one bedroom could be converted
to a den or study. All bedrooms
are comfortably large, with
ample wardrobes and high-set
casement windows.
Closets for linens, storage and
a forced air heating unit open
from the center hall.
Complete working drawings of the
above plan can be obtained at a cost
of S7.50 for the first set and $5 for
each additional set. when ordered at
the same time. This plan will be
available for a period of four months
from this date. Please allow two
weeks for delivery. If the above
home does not entirely meet with
your satsifaction. a new home plan
book TOWN and COVXTRY HOMES
may be purchased for SI. Send all
orders for either plans or hooks to:
Hiawatha Estes. P. O. Box 404-1,
By JOE COWLEY
Farm Editor
Edilor's Note: The following is some talk or "chit chat"
overheard from farmers in Jackson county about different
items of aqricultural interest. Much of it was picked up at
Monday's county agricultural committee meeeting in th
courthouse.
Most of the early varieties of corn are in the silo in Jackson
county . . . Average price of Bartlett pears is estimated at S3. 60
a box . . . Some still have cattle on pasture. In Klamath Falls
they can't sell 'em ... 18 cents is about tops for steers . . . this is
for large steers . . . good to low good steers weighing about 800 to
900 pounds . . . number of trucks carrying cattle seen moving
through the county . . . considerable speculation as to who is
shipping cattle into the county . . . Cows pretty weak at recent
sales . . . Started dropping a month ago.
Charlie Hoover reports lot of "junk cattle" seen in Kansas re
cently as he was traveling through the mid-western and western
states . . Saw a lot of feed lots in Idaho but few cattle in them
. . . According to a current stock publication. Montana, Utah, Idaho
said to be considerably below average in the number of feeders
available.
Number of cattle observed at the big sales in the county but
nobody seems to know where they come from ... A farmer-visitor
to Long Beach, Calif., recently observed meat selling over the
counter at SI. 50 a pound. Not even the beef men in California will
buy at that price. On the hoof here beef is selling about 18 cents
to 20 cents a pound . . . Sliced bacon is running 97 cents a pound
. . . lucky to get 27 cents for hogs.
Bulls all higher . . . running about S100 a head over last year
. . . Lakeview sale, cattle running less this year than last year . . .
Fertility test on bulls knocked down many 25 to 30 per cent in
price.
Market about firm on dairy cows. Hogs down . . . government
urges farmers not to raise a lot of 'em. Charlie Hoover says mid
west is booming . . . labor high . . . Big operators can't afford to
raise hogs in quantities . . . Getting plenty of feeders in Arkansas.
In Idaho, he says, feeder pigs are being marketed about 17 cents
to 18 cents now, according to what he observed ... In most of 11
western and mid-western states visited observed few feeder pigs.
Didn't visit Nebraska where there are supposed to be plenty.
Each farmer can take a page out of the packing houses con
cerning careful management, a farmer remarks . . . Hoover re
marks that after visiting 11 states, he is sure we have the best
pasture here in the valley . . . only California has corn as good
as ours, he says. Can thank the Southern Oregon Experiment sta
tion for that.
Hoover says he discovered why cows are selling so high in
the mid-west. Cow beef is mixed with a barbecue powder like
that used in barbecused sausage . . . makes delicious cow-burger?
Gonna get some . . . All going for bacon-type of hogs, Charlie H.
says. v
Hoover also reports "farmers are feeling good in the mid-west
in spite of hard feelings indicated in the egg tossing at Benson . . .
Average Jackson county farmer has drifted away from raising
hogs although Hoover and others advocate hog raising under
current conditions . . . Used to be called "mortgage raisers."
Probably high cost of grain drove the hog off the average farm,
one farmer commented. That and the fact you can always smell
a farmer, who raises hogs or silage, at least a mile away, another
wryly commented . . .
Sheep don't look too hot ... S3 a 100 in the last four weeks.
Fat lambs locally are selling about 18 cents . . . quality lambs de
manded . . . ordinary pasture and feeds won't do . . . There are
about 10,000 lambs in the valley and all of these are expected
to go to Klamath to feed.
Government has set up a new program for farmers having
comparatively small acreages of wheat . . . under the new program
wheat can be used on the farm for feeding, seeding and human
consumption for allotment purposes. The Soil Bank program is
frozen at 50 million acres nationally until the wheat prices decline.
Seed crops . . . last month too dry for cutting, this month too
wet. May be hay shortage by next spring. All hard seed, however,
is not germinating. Have a chance to save most of seed crop if
it is dried and thrashed.
Milo crop in California hit pretty hard with rain . . . Alfalfa
is hurt locally . . . You're asking for trouble if you harvest the
last of September . . . acreage is down and yield down in hay
locally . . . When recent rains hit part of one farmer's hay crop
he used a manure chopper and spread it all over his fields.
Dairying . . . Every dairyman in the county seems to be bor
rowing more money . . . cows and more quota . . . Farm Home
Administration was scheduled for Roseburg last night . . . the
directors hope to be more liberal with government money . . .
don't have much ... It is estimated it costs $35,000 to start a
family farm in Jackson county according to FHA officials here.
Arden Dairy company buying into Grants Pass is expected
to help this area. Should send a lot of milk into Eugene . . . Milk
surpluses in Jackson county dropping . . . Good replacement cows
now bringing $175 to $200 . . . Not many good cows for sale . . .
Mexico recently brought a lot of cows from Idaho. Union Pacific
railroad has worked out a deal for cheaper rates on heifers being
shipped into eastern Oregon and Idaho from Wisconsin.
Clover and grass hay is selling for about $24 in the barn in
some cases. Klamath hay is selling for S16. Hay in eastern Oregon
is bringing about $12 a ton. Madras has a lot of hay this year.
They're losing a lot of Klamath hay.
Those who sold turkey eggs on consignment last spring are
still trying to get their money back.
Commission Meet
To Be Held Friday
For Beef Raisers
A hearing will be held at 1:30
p.m. Friday in the Gold Hill
Grange hall on need for crea
tion of an Oregon Beef commis
sion, farmers are reminded.
This will be a series of 17
hearings conducted by the state
department of agriculture and
held throughout the state from
Oct. 15 to Nov. 1, according to
Director Robert J. Steward.
The commission proposal af
fects all who are producing beef
for the market, including those
who sell dairy cattle for meat.
If the commission should be
created, producers could be as
sessed up to 10 cents per animal
on all sales for slaughter or for
shipment out of the state. These
funds would be restricted 'to
use on solving problems associ
ated with marketing of beef.
The petition also places other
limitations upon the beef com
mission. The Oregon Cattlemen's as
sociation filed the petition in
July asking for hearings and
referendum on the commission.
The scheduled hearings will help
the commission determine whe
ther there is need for a self-selp
program for the Oregon beef
industry. If the department de
cides in favor of the petitioners,
the proposed commission must
still be approved by a producer
vote.
The hearing applies to dairy
men as well as stockmen since
a number of dairy cows are also
sold for beef.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio. wrhich
includes Cleveland, leads all
other counties in the country
in the amount of vegetable gar
dens under glass.
Chick Feathers Used
For Wide Purposes
They say there's a use for
everything and nobody knows it
better than the farmer. Now this
applies to chicken feathers.
During recent years chicken
feathers - have changed from
waste to a part of fertilizer,
feathers cooked and ground into
a nutritious protein meal for
livestock feed. Now they are
being tanned.
In this new form they are con
sidered more durable than wild
duck down which costs about
S5 a pound in sleeping bags
and arctic clothing.
The feathers are cleaned,
dipped in preservatives, made
water repellent, swelled and dis
torted and given more curlyness
by alkalies, and tanned in a new
process developed by scientists
at the University of Cincinnati
The Army gives top priority to
this downy filler.
U. S. FARMER OLDER
The American farmer Is get-
tine older, according to census
figures. The average age of the
U. S. farmer today is 50 years,
according to these figures. He
was 49.6 years old in 1954, 48.3
in 1950, and 48 in 1940.
The American dogwood is the
official flower and tree of Vir
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Wheat Increasing
In 1958 Acreage,
OSC Man Reports
Oregon wheat farmers are in
creasing their 1958 acreage des
pite prospects of lower wheat
prices, says M. D. Thomas, Ore
gon State college agricultural
economist.
Thousands of Columbia Basin
acres planted to barley last year
are going back into wheat follow
ing changes in the 1958 Soil
Bank program, the economist re
ports. Farmers can no longer in
crease barley plantings equal
to their reduced wheat plantings
under the 'bank's" acreage re
serve program.
The result has been a sharp
drop in Soil Bank participation
by Oregon's Columbia Basin
wheat farmers. Arnold Bodtker,
Portland, chairman of the state
agricultural stabilization and
conservation committee, reports
only 22,000 wheatland acres
signed into the acreage reserve
for 1958 compared to 112,000
acres for 1957.
Wheat acreage may also be" in
creased by a new aspect of the
government allotment program.
Farmers may now grow up to
30 acres of wheat providing all
this wheat is used on the farm
where produced. None of it may
be sold or traded. Deadline for
signing such an agreement was
Oct. 15.
As in the past, farmers with
allotments of less than 15 acres
may harvest up to 15 acres and
sell the wheat without penalty.
Meanwhile, the national aver
age support price for wheat can
go as low as $1.78 a bushel com
pared to $2 for the last two
crops, according to the U.S. de
partment of agriculture.
Possibilities of Pacific North
west wheat selling above sup
port prices have also dimmed
with prospects of decreased ex
ports in 1958. Indications are
that Public Law 480 which per
mits acceptance of foreign cur
rencies for wheat will be dis
continued next June, Thomas
says.
Mongold Jersey Cow
Sets Milk Record
W. D. Mongold, La Pine Jer
sey Farm, Route 1, Eagle Point,
has a registered Jersey cow that
has a record of 9,216 lbs. milk
with 580 lbs. butterfat.
The record was announced by
The American Jersey Cattle
Club on La Pine Dandy Sirette
which began her official herd
improvement registry test at the
age of 5 years, 4 months. The
production was for a 305-day
period.
Four other cows in the same
Jersey herd were cited by the
national breed organization for
meritorious production records
completed during the past three
months.
The Oregon State College sup
ervised the HIR tests of the
above Jersey herd in coopera
tion with The American Jersey
Cattle Club, Columbus, Ohio.
Oregon Poultrymen
Plan Outlook Meet
Hard-pressed Oregon poultry
men will meet Oct. 25 at Port
land to examine the 1958 out
look and possibilities for boost
ing sales and to debate advisa
bility of . seeking government
production controls.
The outlook meeting of the
Oregon Poultry and Hatchery
association will start at 2 p.m. at
the Mallory hotel, according to
Noel Bennion, Oregon State col
lege poultry specialist and asso
ciation secretary.
Lloyd Geil, Chicago, manager
of the Poultry and Egg National
Board, will present a "blueprint
for more sales." Another pro
gram highlight will be pros and
cons on whether the industry
should seek government produc
tion controls. Debating the issue
will be poultrymen Howard
Hughes, Hillsboro, and Bill
Rogers, Eugene.
Bennion will report trends in
production and prices, and Steve
Cooper, manager of Brentwood
Egg company, Portland, will give
the market egg outlook. Dick
Hanson, Corvallis, Oregon direc
tor of the American Poultry
Hatchery federation, will report
highlights of the federation's re
cent convention.
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Extension Classes
Feature Soils Talk
The fall series of adult edu
cation classes on farm crops and
soils began Monday evening,
Oct. 7, in the Crater hig school
agriculture department class
room, according to Kenneth
Noteboom, vocational agricul
ture instructor.
The first two-hour session
starting at 8 p.m. was devoted
to beginning soil fertility. A
combination movie, lecture and
discussion presentation was
made by Ed Griggs, Crater high
school vocational-agriculture in
structor. Approximately 17 people were
present. Mrs. R. W. Larson and
Mrs. Kermit R. Bickel enrolled
with their husbands.
Nine more well-planned ses
sions remain in the course, Note
boom said. Anyone wanting in
formation on farm crops and
soils are welcome to attend.
Government Feature
Planned For 4-H
A new educational feature of
the Oregon 4-H club program
will be initiated March 7 and 8
when older 4-H club members
hold their first conference on
government in Salem. Meeting
theme is "Know Your State Gov
ernment." Purpose of the two-day session
is to bring together candidates
for trips to the National 4-H
Club Conference next June in
Washington, D. C. Workshops
for 4-H'ers and representatives
of state government will be held
during the conference.
Each county will be repre
sented by one boy and girl, 16
or older. From this group, two
young men and women will be
selected for Washington trips.
Burton Hutton, state 4-H club
extension leader at Oregon State
college, said the new activity is
designed to help Oregon's 29,600
4-H club members learn more
about their state.
Poultry Bits Told
By Wisconsin Man
A University of Wisconsin
poultryman recently gathered
up bits of poultry history.
Among these items, are: Eggs
were sold in barrels until 1900.
The first incubator was adver
tised in this country in 1847 as
an egg-hatching machine.
Farmers thought then it would
be impossible to raise chicks
without a hen. However, the
first artificial incubation was
practiced by the Egyptians and
Chinese over 2,000 years ago.'
Other items' Spanish explor
ers brought chickens to this
hemisphere in the 1500's. Varro
advised Roman poultrymen in 50
B.C., "The chicks ought to be
driven into the sunshine, to
make-them stronger." In 1862,
one author remarked, "We con
ceive it a good hen that will lay
150 eggs the first year, 130 the
second, and 100 the. third year,
after which she should go to the
pot."
Local Man Elected
To Angus Group
Earl W. Hardin of Medford,
has been elected to membership
in the American Angus Associa
tion at St. Joseph, Missouri, an
nounced Frank Richards, secre
tary. Hardin was one of the 205
purebred Aberdeen-Angus breed
ers in the United States elected
to membership during the past
month.
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Short Course Set
For State Judges
Of Horse Shows
The Old West's traditional
love of "good hoss flesh" is un
dergoing a revival in Oregon
that has boomed horse trading,
horse shows, and brought an in
creasing need for horse judges.
To meet the needs of this new
generation of "horsepower" en
thusiasts, Oregon State college
has scheduled a special short
course on horse judging, Nov.
18 and 19, in cooperation with
the Oregon Horsemen's association.
Instruction on how to select a
horse, training and care of
horses, and training of horse
judges will be featured, report
ed Joe B. Johnson, OSC profes
sor of animal husbandry and
short course chairman.
Shortage of local official
horse judges to handle Oregon's
50 or more horse shows each
year requires frequent scouting
of other states for judges, John
son says.
Most recent upsurge in plea
sure horses has come in Oregon's
statewide 4-H club program.
More than 1300 Oregon 4-H'ers
were enrolled in saddlehorse
projects during the past year
and increased interest in 4-H
horse shows at county fairs this
year prompted inauguration of
a State Fair junior horse show,.
Johnson says enrollment for
the couse will be limited to 120
persons, 18 years or older, to
permit individual attention to
students during afternoon "judg
ing workshops." Lectures are
scheduled for mornings.
Course instructors will in
clude Leonard Milligan, noted
quarterhorse breeder and judge
from Colorado; Joe Biles, Port
land, one of the west coast's lead
ing trainers of show horses;
Gene Stark, head of Washington
State college's horse program;
Jesse Bone, Oregon State college
department of vetrinary medi
cine; and A. W. Oliver, OSC
dairy and animal husbandry de
partment. Advance registration blanks
and details may be obtained
from Johnson at the department
of dairy and animal husbandry,
Oregon State college, Corvallis.
Enrollment fee is $10.
Green Buttermilk Sold
By New Zealand Farmers
New Zealand farmers we
wrote about last week also ap
pear to be resourceful chaps.
New Zealand is selling 160,000
pounds of green buttermilk to
Malaya, according to a recent
farm publication. This is pow
dered and a green dye added and
shipped that way. It's used in
Malaya as poultry feed and the
green color is to make it dis
tinguishable from milk.
An electron drill will bore
very small holes in the hardest
of materials even diamonds.
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