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"(OU MKDFORD (OREGON) Contest, Bulletin Will Give Boost Up For Soil Judging Corvallis Better understand ing of Oregon's wide range of soil types will receive a double boost this month with a state wide soil judging contest for soil conservation district supervisors and a new bulletin on soil judg ing just published by the Oregon State college extension service. The judging contest, first of its kind in the Pacific North west, is scheduled November G20 at Tillamook. Each of the state's 55 soil conservation dis tricts is eligible to enter a two man team of supervisors. The contest is -sponsored by the Ore gon Association of Soil Con servation districts and Pacific Supply cooperative. Arthur King, OSC soil con Cicrvation specialist in charge of Contest arrangements, says the i?ew college bulletin, "Soil Judg ing From the Ground Up," is designed to help farmers evalu ate goils tnd put them to best use. H adds that it includes all basic information needed for the toil judging contest. Th 30-page illustrated bul letin was authored by King and Murray Dawson, OSC soil scien tist, and may bt obtained free from Oregon county extension office or the OSC bulletin clerk, Corvallia. Judges for the contest were (announced this week by Ralph Wilsftn, Salem, president of the Association ot districts that are (now established in 31 Oregon counties. JufJges are W. W. Hill, Portland, stata aoil tcientist, soil conservation service; Ellis Knox, OSC soil scientist; and M. M. Oveson, superintendent of OSC's Pendleton branch experiment atation. Contest awards from Pacific Supply cooperative will include $100 cash for the top two-man team. Sharpest judges, either individuals or team members, will appropriately receive knives. A special contest for women will include awards of kitchen cutlery. King says soil conserva tion district supervisors or their wives can register for the con test by writing Howard Smith, Tillamook county extension agent, Tillamook. The contest will precede the annual meeting of the SCD association at Tilla mook, Nov. 21 and 22. SOUND SLEEPER Old Town. Me. (W Truck (Salesman Harold L. Cole of Richmond, Va., got a good right's sleep but it cost him ($294. Police said a thief crawled through his overnight cabin window, walked through the room while. Cole snoozed and (tiole his watch and wallet con taining the money. O This Week's Town, Country B HIAWATHA ESTES o Personal privacy is frequently overlooked in the open planning of many homes today. Every family needs a place to gather nd a place where each member can be. alone. In this 1680 square foot home, 'ihe problem is solved simply, comfortably, tastefully. The "bedrooms and den can be closed off from the noisier activity and work area. The den, with double ;glas doors that open to the jpatio, can be a family recreation room by day, a quiet sport for homework lessons by night. As your family grows, it could be came a fourth bedroom. The vast living room-dining room offers ample space for en tertaining far anough away from the bedrooms that conver sation will not disturb sleeping children. A big fireplace and wide windows on three sides make this area bright and at tractive. In thechannel kitchen, built in appliances are keyed to your color scheme. Ample cabinets, work surfaces, and a breakfast nook add to meaj-time effi ciency. Washer, dryer, broom closet and one-half bath are part of the service area. In the bedrooms, windows are high and wide for- plenty of light and ease in arranging fur niture. A private bath and dres sing room with built-in dressing tabia complete the master bed room suite. A linen closet, doubl lavoratories and semi- o MAIL TRIBUNE Pre-Cooked Turkeys Predicted For Future Turkeys pre-cooked in elec tronic ovens and packaged ready for the housewife to take home to and pop into the warming oven are among future developments to enable American people to eat better cheaper, according to Noel Bennion, extension poultry specialist with the Oregon State college. Researchers know the house wife doesn't like to spend more than an hour in the kitchen'pre paring a meal, he said. Agricul ture and food processors are aiming at that fact. This will in crease the use of turkeys, also. In fact aince 1940 there has been a tremendous increase in both the use of turkey and broil er chicken. Since that year con sumer purchase of broilers has increased 120 per cent and tur keys 140 per cent. Reasons are reduced price, better product, Research Programs Mapped For Dairy Corvallis Long-range re search programs to tackle ma jor problem areas of Oregon's multi-million dollar dairy in dustry have been tentatively mapped following a meeting of some 65 dairy plant managers and Oregon State college staff members. H. W. Schultz, head of the OSC food and dairy technology department, was chairman ofi the full-day "fact finding" session at the college to study the present dairy situation and draw plans for strengthening it. Expanded research was rec ommended in the fields of dairy plant efficiency and dairy pro-" ducts marketing, . "quality con trol" of dairy products, distribu tion cost, sanitation practices in plants, packaging of dairy pro ducts to maintain or improve quality and increase sales ap peal, and consumer preferences in dairy products. An economic study of the pres ent dairy products surplus pic ture was requested. Other main recommendations included re search on possible uses of "ad ditives" to improve keeping qualities of dairy products, de velopment of new dairy pro ducts and a study of the teach ing and placement program for students of dairy manufacturing. The meeting concluded with a recommendation that the college select a committee of plant man agers representing all regions of Oregon to work with the college in developing details for long range research and teaching, in cluding special short courses at the college for dairy plant em ployees and managers. PLAN NO. 4563 680 SO FX . partitioned fixtures are features nf iho familir ViV oi tne xamiiy batn. The clean-CUt lines Of the X- a rt - ii . . i - i - tenor are accented by a bright- hued rock roof. Continuing the horizontal lines, box framed out- line the windows and louvred 0 ct ,.000 panels between. Stone veneer. lends Stability to the combined ... ; j ui,ti vertical and horizontal siding. J ft. a. DM " Ps1 n.u 2 n 9'8 r h & L k- P. Thunday, Norwuber 14, 1957 and better packaging, Bennion said. Broilers are now oven-ready cut up and tray packed. Will Be Cut Up In the future turkeys will be cut up and sold in smaller pieces, the poultry specialist said. All of ftie poultry today is being processed in plants where they are prepared as oven-ready or pan-ready under state or fed eral inspection. Veterinarians are on the production lines to ensure wholesomeness in the product, he added. Both turkeys and broilers are cheaper now than they ever have been. Eggs are also selling cheaper now than 10 years ago even with the inflationary spi ral in effect. Due to the small profit margin and high cost of production the larger and more efficient oper ation is progressing and the smaller and less efficient pro ducer is being squeezed out. "The most outstanding devel opment in the poultry industry is the growth of the broiler pro duction. During 1934 only 34 million broilers were produced in the U.S. This year VA billion will be produced. The price is going down, but efficiency in production is increasing. The same is true of egg production," Bennion said. Today 50 more eggs per hen are being laid than in 1940. These improvements in efficiency mean just one thing cheaper and better food for the consumer." In Oregon, the gross income from the poultry industry is over $40 million and accounts for about 10 per cent of the agri cultural income, Bennion said. Of that $40 million CO per cent of that income comes from eggs. Seventeen per cent comes from turkeys. Fifteen per cen$ comes from broilers. Oregon has two major indus tries forestry and agriculture. Last year the gross income from forestry totalled a billion dol lars and the gross income from agriculture one-half billion, the extension specialist said. Next comes the tourist business with $150 million, mining with $30 million and fisheries with about $16 million. These, Bennion said, are the state's main industries.' "This state just doesn't have the resources for heavy indus try," Bennion said. It has nei ther the coal nor the steel. For estry and agriculture will con tinue to be our important in dustries as will the industries allied with these two main in dustries." Annual payroll in agriculture is about $160,000, Bennion said. That includes farmers, farm la borers, people working in food processing and industries which serve agriculture. House Plan Complete working drawings of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of S750 for the first.set and S5 for each additional set. when ordered at the same time. This plan will be avaiiabie for a period 0fFf0ur months from this date. Please allow two df0ers JrS'tire" et'SKh your satisfaction, a new home plan book. TOWN and COUNTRY HOMES may be purchased-for si. Send ail orders for either plans or books to: Hiawatha Estes. P.O. Box 404-T Northridge, Caiu. -iviiPjb-' LlVIM-DINIM V III t-3 CHIT Bt JOE COWLEY Farm Editor They were still talking at the county ag committee meeting about the successful fall feeder stock sale sponsored by the Jack son County Cattlemen's association. Among those getting top prices for their animals was Slim Hardin, Medford, with his pen of animals bringing $24.50 and one animal pulled from that pen bringing a top price of 25 cents. Clarence Buck, Applegate, had a large pen of stock which brounght $24.20, and Earl L. Porcher, Trail, had a pen bringing S24.50. The sale stiffened the market, according to local farmers and generally pushed all classes of feeders up the market scale. Anoth-' er feeder sale is scheduled at the same place Midway auction yard on Dec. 3. Things are looking up for the dairymen of the valley. An attempt is now being made to get all quotas under one head in Jackson, and Josephine counties. By placing all the milk from the counties into one pool the dairy-farmer here will be given quite a boost. It's estimated that 100 per cent of the dairymen here are cooperating with the coordinated milk sales. A cow with quota is selling at $350. Several cows are for sale now. A lively little discussion developed at MondV night's county agriculture committee meeting over control of Bang's disease. More on that later. Plenty of hay seems to be going through the valley. Hay from Grants Pass is selling at $29 a ton on what is being shipped. The raise in price is due to hay now having gone into storage. Hay is expected to continue to rise in price from now on because of the storage costs. Klamath was hit with rain during the hay crop harvest. Hay from Redmond is bringing $18.70 to $18 a ton. It's also reported as bringing $28 delivered from Scotts valley. Barley from Klamath Falls is reported as bringing $47 a ton. Corn is bringing $56 a ton. Milo-maize is reported to be cheap this year. Wheat is costing $73 a ton to farmers. Clover seed is reported bringing 7 cents over the low of last summer. Blue grass is up over last summer low, too. Josephine Growers' cooperative now has 80,00Q pounds of Talent alfalfa seed ready for Greece. Loutus seed is reported much higher now. A strong demand due to the shortage of the European crop is boosting the price. It's reported to retail $1 to $1.10 a pound in Douglas county. A different strain of alfalfa is being experimented with at the Southern Oregon experiment station. It's called Lahontan. It is reported to be equal to Talent alfalfa in forage value. The seed is abundant. It is also more disease and insect resistant. This is particularly true regarding the spotted alfalfa' aphid which could wipe out all the Talent alfalfa, crop once it hits here. Ben Day reports he is still doing a lot of farming in spite of his new law practice in Medford. Day said Monday night that he wants to get some sheep. Needs about 100 ewes, he said. Right now, he said he isn't raising anything except Talent alfalfa and barley. A committee of Gene McCurley, field man here for the First National Bank of Portland, Arnold Bohnert and John Niedermeyer is contacting all those connected with agriculture in Jackson coun ty to obtain needed donations for publishing a pamphlet on Jack son county agriculture. Cost is estimated at $650. The pamphlet, which will be full of agricultural data, will be distributed free to all interested persons. It will include also some information on forestry. , The 17th annual meeting of the Oregon Seed Growers league is to be held in the Multnomah hotel in Portland Dec. 5, 6 and 7, Wallace Rice announced. Featured event will be a speech on market development. Rice has been director for the league, rep resenting Curry, Douglas, Josephine and Jackson counties, for ap proximately 12 years. His position comes up for election this year. Asked about how many are shipping stock by Southern Pacific, the farmers attending the county agricultural meeting said most of the farmers in the valley stopped shipping by rail many years ago. However, one farmer said considerable stock were shipped out last year. Those having stock to ship said it takes too long by train and service is inadequate. We have always liked dogs, but particularly admire farm dogs. Watched some in action not long ago and it was a pretty thing to see. We saw two dogs round up some hefty porkers by nipping those who wanted .to stray. The two-dog team did an excellent job of keeping the pigs bunched. One little pig decided to join the dogs in the back of the truck and was sent squealing back to its brothers and sisters. On another occasion we watched a young dog herd a bunch of turkeys. This pup must have thought they were animated feather dusters. Every time she made a dive on one she would come up with a mouthful of feathers. Richard J. Savage, Central Point turkey-raiser and processor, tells us that the price of turkeys is at the lowest market level since 1941. This is good news for the consumer who must shop for the Thanksgiving dinner table, but not for the handful of commercial men in the valley. This area is considered to have an ideal mild climate for the birds, but lack of a processing plant here doesn't tend to encourage development of this industry. Savage has his own plant. Nearest plant is reported to be in Salem. Turkeys are becoming big business in California and the mid-west. Flocks in those areas will number a 100 thousand birds. Feed is also 15 to 20 per cent cheaper in the mid-west which gives that section an added advantage, it was explained. Depicting the plight of modern agriculture, a cartoonist would probably show a horde of hungry mouths rushing a fort, with experiment station men and county extension agents manning the watch-towers. When a person sits down and thinks for a min ute he realizes what a terrific job with which these men are faced. An agricultural authority estimates that every five seconds a person is born whose hungry mouth must be fed and back clothed. And these additional members of this country's popula tion also demand their place in the sun. That means more parks, subdivisions and freeways. It also means an increasing amount of good farm land is taken out of production to provide "living room." This same authority also figures that by using the increase in this nation's population each year, a city the size of Salem can be filled in each of the 48 states. Therefore, instructing and advising the farmer in more efficient uses of the diminishing supply of farm land is not only a necessary but a vital service. Sign-up date for those poultrymen who wish to vote on forma tion of a broiler commission for the state ends Nov. 18, according to Noel Bennion, extension poultry specialist with Oregon State college. He dropped in to see us yesterday. Four Named Tops In Four outstanding Jackson County 4-H Club members have been named county medal win ners in the national awards pro gram in food preparation, judg ing results show. Sharon Coff man, daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Fred Coffman of Central Point; Mavis Strom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Strom, Medford; Patsy Charley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Charley of Central Point; and Ann Darland, dauhter of Mrs. and Mrs. F. E. Darland of Medford were named to receive the county medals award by Betty Crocker of Gen eral Mills Corp. Miss Coffman has been a club member for 7 years, during which time she has carried a foods project every year, and in addition she has carried camp cookery, forestry, swine, beef, canning, and freezing, Klein said. A very ctive member of the Antelope 4-H Club, she is also serving as a junior leader in the Central Point community. mm 4-H Foods Work Miss Strom has completed 6 years of 4-H club work and has taken cooking five of those six years. She has in addition com pleted projects in poultry, cloth ing, and beef. The Stroms live on a small acreage In the south west area of Medford and Mavis has enjoyed her livestock as much as she has her home econ omics. She is working with the Southwest Medford Livestock club as a junior leader. Miss Charley is a five-year club member and has completed projects in cooking, clothing, dairy, knitting, and beef. She has done an outstandin job in de monstration work and has placed high in both county and state competition. Miss Darland is also a five year club member and has been active in cooking and clothing projects during her five years as a 4-Her. Her proficiency in home economics can be seen in her good work in demonstrations and in juding contests where she has placed very high. . - (Additional Farm Form Lahontan Alfalfa Said To, Resist Diseases A different variety of alfalfa and close rival to the Talent variety is the Lahontan, accord ing to H. H. White, superintend ent of the Southern Oregon ex periment station, and John A. Yungen, agronomist. During a meeting of the coun ty agriculture committee, the two men reported that this strain is as high yielding if not higher than the Talent variety and is greater disease resistant, Yung en said. Lahontan is resistant to stem nematode, bacterial wilt and spotted alfalfa aphid, Yungen said. It is practically immune to the stem nematode, tiny para sitic eelworm that enters the young crown buds of alfalfa and causes them to become greatly enlarged and distorted, he added. This variety is also resistant to bacterial wilt, a destructive soil-borne organism that causes yellowing and dwarfing of the plants. The Lahontan lias also proved to be highly resistant to the spotted alfalfa aphid, a small, yellowish-green insect that is capable of killing alfalfa in the early seedling stage, on older plants this aphid causes extreme defoliation of the leaves. Talent alfalfa is resistant to neither the spotted aphid nor bacterial wilt, it was reported. The aphid is prevalent in almost all western states except Ore gon, Yungen said. The bacterial wilt is quite wide spread in east New Plant Produces Oil for Medicines A different type of agricul tural plant produced at the Southern Oregon experiment station near Talent is the Saf flbwer. This plant is a member of the thistle family and produces a bright yellow blossom. Oil from its seerls is user! In high quality paint and enamels, some in synthetic resin materials and could even be used in plast ics, according to John A.Yungen, agronomist at the station. One of the acids in the plant's oil is also used in medicine to reduce the fatty material in blood vessels, Yungen said. However, its main use is in paint and varnishes: Grown here it would be planted in the spring no later than mid-April, the ag ronomist said. Regular grain drill equipment can be used for planting. The seed is between wheat and bar ley as to size. It can be planted through a vegetable planter, also, in wider xows, Yungen said. Has Similar Needs It reauires the same fertilizer as erain. From 40 to 60 pounds of actual nitrogen should be ap plied per acre, as the most im portant fertilizer, Yungen said. The nlant is harvested the last week in August to the middle of September if planted in March or April. It requires a longer erowine season. It can be har vested with a grain combine by making minor adjustments. It can also be combined standing, Yungens said. Seed bed preparation Is the same as for grain. By using prop er amounts of fertilizer the yield can be boosted. The Safflower can be grown with the same amount of mois ture as grain. Yungen said it srows well in non-irrigated soil in a semi-arid area such as the Rogue River valley. It is a broadleaf plant so sprays used to kill broad-leaf weeds should not be used around it since it would be" killed. It's an annual plant. However, it pro duces few volunteers which would become a problem the next year. High Seed Production . It produced about 3 5 0 0 pounds of seed per acre accord For r- i i i jt rsJ AfSr By MORTON MILLING CO. Medford, Oregon New Page 7) oimo yoirdeiro ern Oregon and California. Tal ent will not resist it, he said. Lahontan is considered a good seed producer and produces a little more seed per acre than Talent, Yungen said. Now, he said, California is the main producer of the Lah ontan seed. There is roonufor some seed production here. Some farmers are already producing it in the valley. Seed could be used in Greece, but probably will not be used until experi ments are conducted with it there, Yungen said. Lahontan is a little more tol erant of soil and climate condi tions, it was pointed out. It also maintains its stand longer which means a little higher quantity. This strain is rich green, a lit tle darker than Talent. Like the Talent it is leafy and starts to grow quickly after it is cut. There should be a wider mar ket for seed since more areas use it, Yungen said. Oliver F". Smith, plant spec ialist with the United States De partment of Agriculture devel oped the different strain. Here, White has helped. him 'test dif ferent materials so the South ern Oregon experiment station was already raising the five va rieties when they were combin ed into the one strain called La hontan. ' The new strain was officially released for seed increase in June, 1955. ing to experiment station re cords in 1955. Both nitrogen fertilizer and some irrigation was used. If planted here commercially it would be grown under con tract to San Francisco area pro cessing plants. Under such an agreement the seed would be provided, Yungen said. However, cost of the seed is a little less than that of seed for grain. The agronomist said experi ments revealed they could get the plant to produce over 30 per cent oil from the seeds, which is considered a high percentage. H. H. White, superintendent of the experiment ' station, first started working with the dif ferent type of plant in 1951. However, the first work in the country was done at the Univer sity of Nebraska in 1941 where a center was set up to study it. Now the plant is grown to a large extent in California. It has also been grown since ancient times in the semi-arid areas of the wod such as the middle-east, North Africa, Eypt and India. The seeds were used for a source of oil and red and yellow dies were made from the Safflower blossom. In ancient Eyptian times the oil from the seeds was burned in lamps. It was first brought to the United States in the 1920's. Grain Short Course Set For Pendleton Corvallis Northwest grain elevator operators- will meet Nov. 20 and 21 at Pendleton for a grain sanitation short course. Latest recommendations on maintaining clean stored grain will be outlined. Grain for inter-state shipment is subject to seizure unless it meets food and drug adminis tration requirements. G. W. Krantz, Oregon State college entomologist, is chair man of the fourth annual short course sponsored by OSC, Wash ington State college. University of Idaho, the Northwest Crop Improvement association, and the Northwest Association of Elevator Operators. Extra Egg Profits This Winter Feed TRIANGLE 16 EGG LAYER This year, with egg prices on the upgrade, you can't afford to gamble on feed. Put your profits on a solid foundation with Triangle 16 Egg Layer. This "famous-formula" feed is a perfectly balanced, nutrition-packed ration that gets all the egg-laying power bred into your layers. Right now, with cold weather coming on, is the time to see us about this efficient egg producer. FN MASH OR PELLET FORM Three 4-H'ers Win Top Medal Awards Two girls and one boy in the Jackson County 4-H program have been named county medal winners in dairy, according to judging results completed re cently in Jackson County. Shirley Dunlap, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Dunlap of Jack sonville, Carolyn Tiegs, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Tiegs of Talent, and Jack Esp, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Esp of Eagle Point are to receive medal awarded by the Oliver Corpora tion for their outstanding work in dairy production. Miss Dunlap has completed 8 years in 4-H and has been active 5 years in the dairy program. In addition, she has carried clothing and beef projects. She has established a small herd of Guernsey cattle which have placed very high for her county as well as state competition. She is continuing her interest in 4-H by serving as junior leader in the Ruch Livestock club. Miss Tiegs is a 7 year club member who has 4 years of dairy work to her credit and in addition she has taken poul try, forestry, and swine. For the past two years she has been the junior leader in dairy clubs in Sis-Q and at Talent. An out standing all-round club member, she is current president of tffe Teenage Council and was re cently named state winner in poultry and will be going to Chicago to represent Oregon at the National 4-H club aongress. Jack Esp, a 6 year dairy club member, has been active in his 4-H community with the Eagle Point and Reese Creek Rene gades livestock clubs. A mem ber of the Eagle Point FFA Chapter as well, his interest has been primarily in agriculture and particularly in dairying. He has helped considerably with younger members in his 4-H club in training for showmanship and judging and has helped mate rially with their activities at the county fair. All three of these club mem bers will be presented their dairy achievement pins in the near future. Preview Planned On Weed Campaign Corvallis A preview of Ore gon's 1958 campaign against weeds through legislation and use of chemical sprays is sched uled today and tomorrow at the sixth annual Oregon Weed Con ference, Oregon State college. Rex Warren, OSC farm crops specialist and conference secre tary, says the meeting of farm ers', scientists, and chemical in dustry representatives will tackle weed problems ranging from farms and forests to home lawns and weeds in fish ponds. , Warren says the public is in vited to all sessions at OSC's Withy combe hall stating Novem ber 14 at 10:30 a.m. The open ing afternoon will Include tours of OSC weed control research plots unless it is raining. Visitors are advised to bring old shoes or boots. New materials for chemical weed control just on the market or scheduled for release within the next year or two will be re viewed by chemical industry representatives. Other topics include legisla tion for ragweed control, opera tions of weed control districts, and weed control in all major crops based on farmer experi ence and research findings. The Miller amendment to the pure food and drug act to estab lish safe limits for chemicals used on food crops will be re viewed by D. W. Dean, San Francisco, USDA agricultural re search service. Canada's average tobacco yield per acre amounts to about i;200 pounds.
