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o Christmas Tree During, Selling Planned By Grades Corvfllis A new era in 35hritma tree buying and sell injf may be just around the cornfcr easing that tedious chor of touring a Christmas tree lot, fhaking out one tree after Jin5her, looking for just the right one. Tor the first time, Christmas treat can be harvested and sold this year on the basis of feder ally standardized grades. This offers possibilities for better re turns to growers for good quality trees, says Gary Sander, Oregon State collegt forest products marketing specialist. Grading will b voluntary and inspection service will' be pro vided for a moderate fee by the department of agriculture at all major shipping points and termi nal markets. A big advantage of the grading system is that producers can now sell trees "sight unseen" but graded to distant markets. Such a system offers protection to both the pro ducer and dealer, Sander ex plains. Growers can now select trees that will bring better prices and leave) the others for later harvest for the Christmas trade or other purposes. Standards were developed by the USDA agricultural market ing service at the request of the National Christmas Tree Growers association and several Irtate associations. The three grades U.S. Pre mium, U.S. No. 1, and U.S. No. 2 will be based on five factors: density, taper, balance, foliage, and freedom from deformities. Trees that can't qualify for any of these grades will be listed as culls. U.S. Premium is the tree most shoppers consider "perfect" straight, symmetrical, well-filled branches, evenly tapered, fresh, clean, and healthy. U.S. No. 1 allows more variation in shape. A U.S. No. 2 may have more sparse foliage and may be full on only two sides. All trees carrying U.S. grades will be fresh. But a family that wants a tree to stand in a corner or against a wall where a flat or "thin" side won't show will b able to buy a No. 2 grade (it lower cost. Mori detailed Information on IfTades may be obtained by writing to W. L. Close, federal (itat inspector, state department of mp-iculture building, Salem. obbomicjj Simns FAMOUS SCHWINN QUALITY AT A LOW, LOW PRICE! f ftVs America's best bik. uy! Fo jttus Sthwinn Qtnl'rty at a special pre Otistmas sale price! 26 boys model jk red, girls in blue. See your Schwiiw iiohr today. 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Mr. McCurley pointed out the aim of 4-H Club work is teaching boys and girls new skills and atti tudes and new ideals as they work with livestock in the 4-H Clubs and with other people in their communities. Club members receiving awards were as follows Tenth year: Gary Legler, Nor man Barnes. Ninth year: Dale Smith, Nan cy Barnes. Eighth year: Max Frederick, Joan Dobrot, Carl Skyrman, Leslie Kellow. Seventh year Carolee Brant ley, Phyllis Taylor, Margaret Taylor, Glenna Mae Brown, Carol Meyers, Sandy Higin- botham. Sixth year: Susan Wright, Craig Wright, Danny Gilman, Vernola Hutchison. Fifth year: John Anhorn, Da vid Foote, Bill Anhorn, Bill Charley, " Patsy Charley, Jim Conger, Evelyn Niedermeyer, James Frink, Alice Thompson, John Caster, Alison Pinkham, Julie Ashton, Cheryl Swanson, Wayna Brown, Laurene Kellow, Mary Savage. Fourth Year: Todd Caster, Ricky Smith, Jeffrey Anhorn, Carol von der Hellen, Willie De brick, Russell Frink, Bobby Kuest, Glenda Branch, Patty McCue, Sue Higinbotham, Col leen Franek. Third year: Larry Ryerson, Clifford Pinkham, Carolee Kuest, Nancy McKay, Sharon Thompson, Patty Branch, Mary Head, Carolyn Leonard, Monte Cook, Marilyn Cordy, Marilyn Watson, Bonnie Brantley, Linda Gibson, Judy Gebhard, Mary Daniels, Doris Inman, Elaine McKay, Richard Russell. Second year: Clint Gibson, Donna Debrick, Earl Van Hoy, Wallace Skyrman, Verne Pen dletin Jr., Dennis Pfaff, Frank Mengel, Penny Sampert, Peggy Jones, Mary Jones, Katherine Straus, Aletta Myers, Anita Month PHONE SP 2-2472 Pierce, Shirley Savage, Charla Jo Meyer, Pat Striplin; Michael Anhorn, Carol Fotte, Scott Ea ton, Carolyn Sidener, Nikki Hammond, Mike Norton, Caro lyn Barnes, Marsha Watson, Karen Renfrow, Sue Ann Ruth erford, Elaine Young, Kathleen Frederick. First year: Cecilia Fichtner, Billy Ullom, Mfke Charley, Jack Peek, Ross Conger, Mary Che ney, Bonnie Cheney, Mary Lou Van de Kamp, Charles LaGrone, Dennis Hile, Jerry Scarborough, Lorenzo Miller Jr., Donald Her zog, Marvin Hamilton, Carole Crenshaw, Steven Crenshaw, Marilyn Lathrop, Dan Burrell, Alan Brooks, Johnny Knox, Penny Van de Kamp, Tommy Abbott, Karen Alldridge, Mark Schmidt, Gregg Schmidt, Shar on Forde, Marilyn Brewold, Sherri Lynn Burelson, Patricia Callender, Nancy Cavin, Terrie Lee King, Tari Lee Martin, Suz anne Monsey, Terry St. Ger main, Virginia Rae Chadd, Sally Bailey, Kathy Thompson, Donna Bailey, Judy Frink, Julio Jones, Linda Johnson, Donna Ham mond, Nancy Inman, Laine Don ker, Jean Bonney, Judy Lewis, Barbara Rominger, Barbara Wheeler, Suzanne Flynn, Karen Hunter, Donna Meade, Carol Straus, Judy Patterson, Karen Griggs, Janet Pfaff. Stale Seed Growers To Meet Dec. 5-7 Eye New Markets Corvallis New market possi bilities for Oregon forage and turf seeds will highlight the Ore gon Seed Growers League's 17th annual meeting, Dec. 5 to 7, at the Multnomah hotel, Portland. Market expansion for Oregon forage grass and legume seed in Japan, -Korea, and South America is "highly promising" through proper promotion, says Rex Warren, Oregon State col lege farm crops specialist and League secretary. The league is investigating pos sible government assistance in market promotion under Public Law 480 designed to move sur plus commodities into overseas markets. Discussion leader will be R. Wallace Rice, Grants Pass, manager of -a Josephine county growers cooperative. Major changes in U.S. seed crop uses based on a survey of agricultural agencies will be re viewed by William Youngman, foreign agricultural service, Washington, D.C. Trends in the key southern states' markets will be reported by Ray Teal, OSC seed marketing specialist. Gager Vaughn, Chicago, head of one of the nation's largest sales organizations for turf seeds, will duscuss trends in turf va rieties for home lawns. Growers will have opportunities to tackle specific problems during com mittee meetings for turf seeds, legumes, cover crops, seed po tatoes, and seed certification. Possibilities of marketing as sistance through state and fed eral programs will be reported by a committee appointed to in vestigate such programs during the past year. "Challenge of Change," a re port by Oregon State college ex tion service staff members, will trace recent changes in U.S. ag riculture and the general econ omy in an attempt to help the seed industry chart long-range goals. Secretary of State Mark Hat field will speak at the Decem ber 6 evening banquet. Master of ceremonies will be Walter Leth, Polk county senator. Spe cial events are planned for wom en attending. Special meetings are scheduled during the convention for the Northwest Chewings and Creep ing Red Fescue association and the two-year-old commission for fescue market promotion. Study Launched To Broaden Decency Law Washington (IPi The U. S. Roman Catholic Heirarchy has launched a study which could broaden the Catholic-sponsored Legion of Decency's scrutiny of movies to cover radio and tele vision programs. The one-year study also could lead to establishment of a new agency similar to the Legion of Decency. The heirarchy said it will look into the "most suit able and acceptable means" of keeping a moral watch over broadcasting. The action was taken by 178 Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops during a three-day annual meeting here last week. It was announced Tuesday by Bishop William A. Scully, Al bany, N.Y., chairman of the Episcopal Committee for Mo tion Pictures, Radio and Tele vision. ALMANAC OUT Dublin, N. H. TCP) The Old Farmers Almanac is out in its 166th consecutive annual edition. This is the oldest periodical in America which has been pub lished continuously in the same name and format. Farm Cify Week Set For November 22-28 During the early 1900's the farmer and his wife raised and canned their own fruits and vegetables for the family table, went to town about one a week on Saturday night and seldom took a vacation, according to W. B. Tucker, county extension agent. Today's farming scene has changed. The farmer is no long er behind the plow. He is in front of it riding a tractor that rivals the design, efficiency and often the price of the classiest autos on the market. Reasons behind the change are explained by Oregon State College extension staff mem bers who encourage better un derstanding between farm and city dwellers during farm-city-week, Nov. 22-28. Agriculture has had many growing pains, during the past 30 or 40 years. If crops are de stroyed by adverse weather or insect invasions, food shoppers pay higher prices at the market. In addition to nature's haz ards, increased marketing costs have reduced the farmer's share of the consumer's dollar. In 1945 farmers received an average of 53 cents of the food dollar. To day they receive 40 cents of each dollar spent for food. Like the rest of us, exten sioners continue, the farmer spends most of his income for food, clothing, heat, lights and other living expenses. He eats like everybody else, too. The farm diet isn't limited to what's raised on the farm. The farmer's wife shops for foods at the mar ket just like the city home maker. The farmer is interested in what the consumer wants. When consumers asked for leaner pork cuts, the farmer responded by providing a meat-type hog to replace the older lard-type hog. Consumers requested meatier poultry, and the farmers are now raising birds to satisfy this demand. A 14-year old 4-H and FFA boy, helped by his 20-year-old mule, is U. S. corn growing cham pion for 1957. Lin don Ratlin of Prentiss County, Mississippi, has harvested 250.85 bushels of corn from one acre of ground the U. S. average is under 50. Linden's brother, Lamar, set the world mark of 304.38 bushels two years ago. Their famous mule, Dolly, planted and cultivated both plots in fact, she has been in on five U. S. records. ., Keys to the Ratlin system are lots of fertilizer; a high-yielding adapted seed corn, Funics G-711, planted thick; proper cultivation; and irrigation, if necessary. Hunters Too Helpful In Southern Oregon Salem Deer hunters in south ern Oregon are becoming too helpful. Following an intense program by the Oregon Cattle men's association to teach sports men to close gates on the prop erty they enter, Lake couny ranchers complain that gates are being closed that are supposed to be open! R. A. Long, of Fort Rock, cat tleman and State Board of Agri culture member, stressed that it is very important to leave cer tain gates open to let cattle into water or into their fall ranges. He added, "Next year the Ore gon Cattlemen's association will have to switch their emphasis and instruct hunters to leave gates just as they find them." Ue Mail Tribune Classified Ads A1IXED AND READY FOR ENTERTAINING Hogs Win Prizes For Central Pointer In 4-H Program Central Piont An up and coming young hog rancher is Willie Debrick, 13, Central Point 4-H club member. Willie started with pigs by purchasing a registered Berk shire sow from A. T. Lathrop, Central Point, on Nov. 16, 1956. On March 12, 1957 she farrowed a litter of 12 pigs, raising 10. Average birth weight was 2V4 pounds. At the age of 35 days they were weighed for produc tion registry. Willie kept five of the 10 pigs. He used one for a junior gilt, one for a single market hog and a pen of three for market hogs to be shown at the Jack son county 4-H fair. Young Debrick won three first places with his sow and gilt. His sow took grand cham pion and the gilt, reserve cham pion. The pen of three took sec ond place and Willie placed first in showmanship with his single market hog. Two of the pen of three were inspected for meat certification. The object of this program is to produce leaner pork since there is no market for lard. To quali fy under this program the litter must have been under produc tion registry, This means the pigs must weigh 200 pounds at 180 days of age. Various other qualifications such as fatback thickness, length, loin area are included. In September a letter from Willard D. Brittin, secretary of the American Berkshire associa tion informed Willie that his lit ter had complied with the quali fications of the lean meat certi fication. This was the 13-year-old boy's fourth year in a 4-H swine proj ect and his first year with breed ing, stock. His other project is raising registered Guernseys in a 4-H dairy project. Figures Released On All Predators Caught In State Salem Coyotes again were Oregon's most destructive pre datory animal, according to fig ures released by Mel Smith, district agent for the U. S'. Fish and Wildlife service, and M. E. Knickerbocker, animal division chief of the Oregon department of agriculture. Almost half of the 1162 live stock and poultry losses report ed from July 1 to Oct. 5 were attributed to coyotes. Foxes, bears, racoons, bobcats, dogs, badgers, mountain lions, opos sums, skunks, and eagles, in that order, were responsible for the other losses. Linn county poultrymen re ported foxes had destroyed 130 chickens, 12 turkeys and 3 guinea hens in their area. Curry county was ,also hit especially hard by predatory beasts coy otes destroyed 67 of the 91 sheep lost in September. Total Losses Total losses due to predatory animals discovered by the federal-state hunters were 524 sheep, 6 goats, 14 calves, 27 pigs, 405 chickens, 4 geese, 100 tur keys, 35 ducks, 3 guinea hens, 3 sage hens, 17 deer, 10 house cats and 16 beehives. . As for the other side of the story, 45 federal-state predatory hunters caught 769 coyotes dur ing a 27-day period, Aug. 25 Sept. 21. Of the 35 counties covered. Malheur hunters turned in the most catches including 89 coyotes and 74 of the 292 bob cats taken in the state. Harney county accounted for 78 of the coyotes and Crook's total for this predator was 77. Ten of the 56 bears trapped throughout Oregon were report ed in Clatsop county. Douglas and Curry county hunters were each responsible for eight. Tied at 13 each, Linn and Clackamas counties had the largest totals for foxes. About one-half the total area of North Carolina is forested. Hurty Herbert LUCERNE " SAFEWJGT Thursday, November 21, 1957 The Medical Roundup HEART SURGERY Quite a few people ask about the advisability of having their heart operated on after an at tack of coro nary sclerosis. I cannot pos sibly answer because I have no idea from their letters if they need an operation, or if they could stand it. All I Alvarez can say is that if I had a heart attack and had recovered well from it, so that I could walk quickly along the street without ever getting pain, I would certainly not think of having any surgery. I would think of an operation only if I could hardly move around without getting severe anginal pain in my chest. I might be getting pain even when I tried to lie flat in bed. The coming of angina under such conditions would indicate that "my rope was short," and I didn't have enough blood sup ply to my heart muscle. Several types of operation have been devised with the idea of throwing more blood into the heart muscle but so far as I can learn, no one of them has as yet on the confidence of all heart surgeons. If I should have to have my heart operated on, I would go to a good heart sur geon and take his advice. Boeck's Sarcoid Some persons want to know what is Boeck's Sarcoid. It is a chronic disease which attacks many parts of the body, much as tuberculosis does. There are some physicians who think it is a form of tuberculosis, and there are many others who are sure that it has nothing to do with tuberculosis. The tubercles that form in the body are dif ferent from those typical of tu berculosis; also, if one injects material from a sarcoid tubercle Dr Way ahead in value RANGER WHAT'S IT GOT? 303 horsepower at no additional cost. Heater control. Foam rubber cushions.' Wheel covers. Oil filter. Styling that is' setting the pace. 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