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Tirf covlstarinj -H club
mei.tjcrsd ftfont conomics will
reciP CfHjij medalF for their
wong gVFiffg the past five fo 10
years :& ,-H club work, cording
to Glcfln Kain, Jcton county
4-H exr.ion lcnt.
Catherir. Carroll, ffaufhtep of
Mr. an Mr. Kermit Carroll,
Eagle Point, ni Dona Brown,
daughter of Mr. and Mra. I. L.
Brown of A jplt g ate, will receive
the girls' hom economies medals
presented ft Montgomery Ward, j
and Coifan totttieir all-around
prograttvs in come economiea.
Evelyti Neidermeyet. daughter of
Mr. M. N. Neidermeyer,
of Meitetl. fcas been awarded a
county medal in canning by the
Kerr Glass Manufacturing Cor
poration. Catherine lias completed 10
years in 4-H and was recently
name! aa 9t4. winner in the na
tional awrde program and was
Qwardefl a trip to National 4-H
Club Congress itt Chicago. She
leaves T ?Rksgiing day for Chi
cago wiift Jnaft Dobrot of Central
Point 9$ Carolyn Tiega of Tal
ent as Jfie three Jackson County
cmembers in tie Oregon delega
tion to Chicago. Jn her 10 years
No T6 Reactors
Found In October
Salem No tuberculosis re
actors were discovered in Ore
gon cattle tested under the federal-state
program during Octo
ber, says the monthly report
from the state department of ag
riculture. Tests were given to
1692 cattle in 172 herds.
However, 192 brucellosis re
actors were found last month.
Brucellosis testing covered 26,
254 cattle in 2,725 herds. In ad
dition, over 3700 calves were
vaccinated. 8evn-tenths of 1
percent of th cattle tested for
brucellosis throughout the state
reacted.
According to state veterinar
ian Dr. K. J. Peterson, testing
is now starting in range coun
try since cattle are moving off
the range into their winter feed
ing areas. It is expected that
large numbers of range cattle
will be tested this winter.
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By HIAWATHA ESTES
The rough-hewn shake roof
of this 2039 square foot home
tilts wp at the gables and terra
cotta tilea cap tlfe used brick
chimney. A birdhouse lends a
quaint agcent to the garage roof.
Adding tfte exterior charm are
diamond" janed windows, used
3rick plantera and veneer plus
wide Overhanging eaves that
shelter ta antry.
The unusually large rooms are
grouped on a center hall plan
to separate the quiet sleeping
ara from tfie activity zone.
The living room, extended by
a spacious dining ell, opens to a
broad rear patio. The triple glass
doors can be opened in summer
and sealed tia;ht in winter to be
come a giciura window. Corner
tn Home Economics
a 4-H membtr aha has taken
clothing, cooking, knitting, can
ning, twine, dairy, frering, and
junior leademhip. Her recent
achievements hve included
champion dollar dinnr winner
Dr, Peterson New
Inspector Leader
In Missouri Meet
Salem Dr. K. J. Peterson
of Salem, itate veterinarian with
Oregon's department of agricul
ture, was elected president of
the National Assembly of Live
stock Sanitary Officials in St.
Louis, Mo., last week.
This organization, which is
particularly concerned with con
tagious diseases of livestock that
spread from state to state, is
made up of state veterinarians
from the entire United States,
Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico.
The nation-wide brucellosis
eradication program was the ma
jor discussion topic this year,
the president-elect yported. An
thrax, which this year has caused
heavy losses in Oklahoma, was
also discussed. Special empha
sis was given to the control of
this disease once it strikes.
While in St. Louis, Dr. Peter
son also attended the annual
meeting of the U.S. Livestock
Sanitary association. At this con
ference, the latest research on
livestock diseases was presented.
Dr. Peterson commented that
many states, including Oregon,
are now conducting research
programs in an effort to develop
satisfactory control programs for
anaplasmosis. He added that an
aplasmosis is a serious disease
in parts of Oregon at the present
time.
The U.S. Livestock Sanitary
association functions as an ad
visory body, and is composed of
state veterinarians, federal regu
latory officials, cattlemen, re
search scientists who specialize
in livestock diseases, and per
sons who are connected by busi
ness with the livestock indus
try, such as railroad representa
tives and stockyard owners,
at state fair and champion divi
o-d
windows brighten the dining
area.
Quick family meals may be
served in the sunny breakfast
nook in one end of the roomy
kitchen. A half-bath opens to the
service-laundry room. Only a
step from the service area is the
rear door to the attached double
garage, for sheltered passage in
bad weather.
A half-wall and a cased open
ing unite the family room and
kitchen.
Light and airy, the master bed
room includes a large dressing
room with "his" and "her"
wardrobes, a bulit - in ' vanity
table and a private three-quarter
bath with tiled stall shower and
pullman lavatory.
Plenty of light, ventilation
tiltiy, TTOe It, 1IBT
For 4-H Members
sion style review winner at the
state fair.
Donna his completed eight
years in 4-H Club work and has
completed projects in dairy, rab
bits, clothing, knitting, cooking,
and junior leadership. She has
done outstanding work with her
livestock, winning a dairy trophy
for three consecutive years run
ning, and has had outstanding
exhibits in clothing and cooking
and has been top stylist in the
style show. Both Dona and Cath
erine are now freshmen at Ore
gon State college in Corvallis.
Evelyn has completed five
years in 4-H and has taken sheep,
ducks, hobbies, clothing, freez
ing, canning, homemaking, and
knitting. Evelyn has done out
standing work in helping provide
the family with1 food with her
canning and freezing.
These club members will re
ceive their medals in conjunction
with their achievement pro
grams. ui: r.
i winner uiven
In 4-H Poultry
Two Medford 4-H club mem
bers have been announced as
winners in the national awards
program for poultry in judging
recently completed in the na
tional awards program, accord
ing to Glenn Klein, 4-H exten
sion agent.
Craig Wright, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Wright, and Jean
ette Nouguier, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Nouguier of Med
ford, have been announced as
winners of poultry medals to be
presented by the Sears Roebuck
Foundation.
Jeanette has completed five
years in 4-H C'ub work and has
taken clothing, cooking, fores
try, junior leadership, and poul
try. She has maintained a farm
flock at her home place on Kings
highway to provide the family
with meat and eggs.
Craig has completed six years
in 4-H and has his major em
phasis in poultry. He has also
taken forestry, cooking, sheep,
vegetable gardening, horse, and
outdoor cooking.
The medals will be presented
to these club members in the
near future, Klein said.
House Plan
20.20
hand closet room are happy fea
tures of the two family bed
rooms. The master bath con
tains both a recessed tub and
stall shower.
Many closets, a pantry, a lin
en closet and built-in cabinets
provide an exceptional amount
of storage space. A forced air
furnace, centrally located, gives
year-around temperature con
trol. Complete working drawing of the
above plan can be obtained at a cost
of S7.50 for the first set and S3 for
each additional set. when ordere 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 satisfaction, a new home plan
book, TOWN and COUNTRY HOMES
may be purchased for SI. Send all
orders for either plans or books to:
Hiawatha Estes. P.O. Box 404-T
Northridge, Calif.
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By JOE COWLEY
Farm Editor
One of the general recommendations made by a subcommittee
nn'der the Jackson County Water Resources committee is that a
forester should be added to the Jackson county extension agent's
staff. Such a forester is now operating out of the extension office
in Roseburg, Douglas county. This operation has proved success
ful, for the four or five years it has been functioning, according
to our informant.
A forester would advise the farmers operating tree farms on
such things as harvesting, pruning, forest cruising.
Acquiring this additional personnel would require a petition
addressed to the county court. The county pays operating ex
penses and remainder of the required funds are provided by the
state and federal governments.
The water shed management subcommittee is making the rec
ommendation to improve practices in forest lands affecting the
water shed of this area.
In fact the recommendation of the subcommittee goes even
farther "Should extend forest, agriculture and other research
programs in southern Oregon to study and demonstrate desirable
watershed management practices in forest management, timber
and crop production, range use, mining, and construction operations."
The Jackson County Water Resources committee hopes as
many farmers as possible will attend the public meeting sched
uled for Monday, Dec. 2, in the county courthouse auditorium.
Here the findings of the subcommittees will be summarized and
opened for discussion by interested Jackson county citizens.
Farmers should be interested in this meeting, as the overall
report points out "Future economic development of the basin
will probably be found in the field of agriculture with its asso
ciated service industries."
The preliminary meeting Monday is to give the overall find
ings further scope. The summary and any further information
gained at Monday's meeting will be presented representatives of
the state water resources board here Dec. 11. This, too, is a pub
lic hearing.
Jack Mace, soil bank forester for this 10-county district, .re
ports increased interest in this program. One farmer is planting
eight acres to Douglas fir for timber production and has signed a
10-year contract under the soil bank program, Mace said.
Quite a few farmers are interested in the Christmas tree pro
gram, Mace added. However, many cannot qualify since the land
in question must have been under a crop since 1953 and be classi
fied as cropland at the time of seeding.
Mace also said there is considerable demand for fence posts.
Black locusts are ideal for this, he said. New shoots quickly spring
up from the stump, he said.
Something new in the line of Christmas trees is a lodge-pole
pine. This variety is now being used for that in the Salem area.
This area is hardly touched as far as farm forestry goes, Mace
said. This particularly applies to the Evans Creek and Sams Val
ley areas. Mace's territory extends from Curry county -east to
Malheur county on' the Idaho line. Headquarters for his southern
Oregon territory is Medford.
Considerable discussion in the last Jackson county agriculture
meeting centered around a recent recommendation for control of
Brucellosis. A recommendation made to the state agriculture de
partment is that disease status of all cattle passing through auc
tion sale rings be announced by auctioneers. This proposal was
made during a joint meeting recently of the livestock market
board and the brucellosis advisory committee.
Some auction yards have been announcing that, cattle are tested
or not tested but the new recommendation goes a step further. It
wants buyers to know whether an animal comes from a clean herd,
an exposed herd or whether the status as to brucellosis is un
known. This joint group has asked the department to work out a sys
tem so cattle can be identified into which phase of the. brucellosis
cleanup program they fit.
A veterinarian told us that the state should soon be. accredited
as brucellosis or Bangs-free. (For the non-farmer brucellosis is
classified as a,i undulant fever. And undulant fever is a long
persisting bacterial disease. It is marked by undulating or remit
tent fever, profuse perspiration, pain and swelling in the joints. It
is contracted from cattle, swine and goats and is transmitted
through milk. Modern sanitary safeguards have cut this transmis
sion to practically nil, however.)
This veterinarian feels that a report on brucellosis testing is
posted in the paper frequently anyway and the other announce
ment is not necessary. Also, the two auction yards in southern
Oregon are rated the top yards in Oregon for maintaining cattle
in the easiest and most disease-free way, the veterinarian said.
One of the so-called big city papers recently has devoted con
siderable space to the. field mouse problem in Oregon. According
to reports, this mouse plague seems to center around Klamath
county, according to other newspaper accounts. However, local
agricultural experts say the field mouse problem is spread through
out Oregon, and is actually no worse in one area than in others.
These mice are also recognized as a potential health problem as
well as one for agricultural economics. Dr. William Jellison, in
charge of the U.S. disease laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., is mak
ing a study of mice caught in Klamath county.
Latent word on the mouse menace is that nature is taking care
of her own. As when the grasshoppers overran the Mormon crops
the seagulls are once again coming to the aid of the hardpressed
farmers. Thousands of seagulls have spread over Lake county
pouncing on the scurrying little animals.
Locally, too, the mouse picture is encouraging. The kill through
special. control measures is reported high. However, a more ex
acting report is not available until a thorough survey is made.
Don't forget the annual horticulture society meeting at Oregon
State college Dec. 5 and 6. Also the annual meeting of the Oregon
Seed Growers league is scheduled for the Multnomah hotel in
Portland Dec. 5-7.
Fertilizer Sales Drop In
Salem Sale of fertilizers
in Oregon dropped substantially
during the summer months, re
ported J. D. Patterson, chief
chemist for the state department
of agriculture. Only 27,653 tons
of fertilizers were sold during
the third quarter of 1957, as
compared with 45,024 tons sold
during the same time in 1956.
However, record-breaking fer
tilizer sales during the first six
months of this year kept the
1957 total for the first nine
months higher than the figure
recorded at the same time in
1956.
Tonnage reported on liming
materials sold at the end of the
first nine months in 1957 was
42,123, slightly higher than the
nine-months total last year.
Again, however, the total for
the third quarter was low only
24,563 tons were sold, which is
about 2,500 tons less than dur
ing the summer of 1956.
A definite decrease was noted
in the sale of agriculture miner
als. At the end of the third quar
ter in 1956 a total of 16,715
tons of gypsum, soil sulfur and
other minerals had been sold.
The coal reserves of Alberta
province in Canada are estimat
ed to extend about 25,000 square
miles. They comprise about 15
per cent of the world's known
coal supply.
Four-fifths of the world's dates
are grown in Iran.
CHAT.
Summer
The total for the same period
this year was 13,789 tons.
WE'RE BEHIND Retired
Lt. Gen. James Doolittle,
scientist and World War II
hero, testifying before the
Senate preparedness sub
committee said that Rus
sia "is certainly ahead" of
the U. S. in both interme
diate and long-range ballis
tic missiles. The subcommit
tee is conducting hearings
into the nation's missile and
satellite programs. .
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PRIZE BULL A half interest in this senior
bull calf from the Field Hereford ranch of
Central Point was recently sold to Ralph L.
Cook ranches, of Medford and David H.
Holmes of the Arrowhead ranch of Medford
for S5.000. Name of the bull is Fields Zato
Royal. Sire is FRC Zato Heir, 27 and the dam
24 Projects Open This Fall In 4-H Members pf State
Corvallis Oregon boys and
girls who enroll in a 4-H club
this fall can participate in a rec
ord 24 different projects, accord
ing to a new 4-H club project
handbook recently revised at
Oregon State college.
Projects are in agriculture,
home economics, creative arts
and leadership. They include bee
keeping, electricity, entomology,
field crops, food preservation,
foods, forestry, horticulture, live
stock, marketing, knitting, trac
tor, poultry, wildlife and wood
working. Others listed in "Ore
gon 4-H Club Project Handbook"
are child care, clothing for boys,
clothing for girls, health, home
living, outdoor cooking, photog
raphy, junior leadership and cre
ative arts.
To Instruct Leaders
Purpose of the handbook is to
help parents and leaders of club
members learn more about the
4-H club program, says Burton
Top Corn Producers
Will Be Named
At Canby Contests
Corvallis Top corn producers
in the state will be named this
week at the annual Oregon
State Corn show, reports Dr.
R. E. Fore, Oregon .State col
lege agronomist. The show will
be held at the Clackamas county
fairgrounds, Canby, Nov. 29 and
30.
Fore says the show will fea
ture competition for adults, and
for FFA and 4-H club members:
Cash awards, ribbons, and tro
phies will be given each group
in the 10-ear exhibit event, hy-:
brid-yield contest, and corn
judging contest. In addition, a
special plowing contest for FFA
groups, will be sponsored by the
Canby Junior Chamber of Com
merce. Entries in the hybrid-yield
contest will be aiming at a 204
bushel per acre record set .in
1953 by Roinnie Larson, Herm
iston. Fore reports some out
standing yields over the state
this year, and says there's a good
chance the record may topple.
The event was" won last year
by C. J. Cooper, Stanfield, with
a yield of 191.5 bushels.
The corn judging contest,
scheduled to start Nov. 30 at
10:30 a.m. will be open to any
adult who wishes to take part.
Special sections in the contest
are also set for FFA and 4-H
members during the morning.
Doors to the show will be
open Friday noon, so visitors
may inspect the winning entries.
The plowing contest will be held
Saturday afternoon.
Exhibits of corn silage will
be a new feature of the show
this year. Fore said, to empha
size the increasing use of corn
for silage in the state.
Britain's pre-war colonial pos
sessions comprised a combined
total of 12,230,457 square miles.
The dominion of Canada accoun
ted for about one-fourth of the
total.
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Hutton, state 4-H club extension
leader. More than 2,000 adult
volunteer leaders now lead the
29,600 youngsters enrolled in
Oregon clubs.
Requirements for youngsters
who want to belong to clubs are
listed in the handbook. Any boy
Leadership Ability
Brings 4-H Awards
Leadership ability with 4-H
cluSs in their Communities has
won county medals in the nation
al awards program for two of
Jackson county's outstanding
4-H club members, announced
Glenn Klein, 4-H extension
agent.
Suzanne Palm, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Palm of Eagle
Point, and Carl Skyrman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Skyrman of
Central Point, have been named
winners of the' leadership medals
presented by Edward Foss Wil
son of Chicago. Both club mem
bers have completed eight years
in 4-H club work.
Suzanne has served as junior
leader the past two years in
home economics clubs in the
Eagle Point community. Her
work with younger club mem
bers has contributed greatly to
the success of the 4-H project
clubs in the Eagle Point com
munity. In addition to her junior
leader work, she has carried
projects in canning, homemak
ing, dairy, and clothing.
Carl has served as junior
leader in the 4-H forestry club
at Central Point for the .past
three years, working with from
15 to 20 4-Hers in forestry identi
fication. A freshman at Oregon
State college, Carl was named to
represent the state in the Home
lite chain saw scholarship con
test. His other projects have in
cluded electricity, dairy, poul
try, sheep, and outdoor cookery.
An expert in forestry identifica
tion he has won top honors in
the county and one year was on
the state forestry winning judg
ing team.
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is Fields Royalette 5. This bull calf recently
placed third in his class at the Grand Nation
al Livestock Exposition at the Cow Palace in
San Francisco. He was considered one of the
top herd bull prospects in the show. The calf
was bred and raised by R. H. and Nettie
Fields.
or girl who is at least nine years
old but under 21 may be
come a 4-H club member. Agri
cultural extension offices in all
counties and the City of Portland
4-H office are centers for 4H
club information.
Club members enroll in one or
more 4-H projects, attend regular
meetings where they demonstrate
skills learned, and keep records
of their projects. They are also
encouraged to exhibit accomp
lishments at public shows, fairs
and achievement days.
The 4-H clubs provide oppor
tunities for boys and girls in
rural, suburban and urban areas
to join together under the 4-H
standards head, heart, hands
and health to develop skills of
the mind and hand, the bulletin
points out.
Meat Inspectors
In East Oregon
Salem Compulsory meat in
spection will begin in Malheur
county this week the first
region east of the Cascades to be
covered by the new program. At
the same time, inspection will
begin in the Gresham area, ac
cording to Robert J. Steward,
director of the state department
of agriculture.
Under the compulsory meat
inspection program, all animals
are inspected before and after
slaughter to determine whole
someness for human consump
tion. Dr. William Searles is the
veterinarian in charge of inspec
tion in the Malheur county dis
trict. He will be assisted by four
lay meat inspectors. Three plants
in Ontario, two in Nyssa and one
each in Vale and Adrian will be
covered under the program.
Four local men, Dr; Don Haltz-
heimer, Dr. Robert Brimble, Dr.
S. J. Carter and Dr. Thomas B.
Carter will be the inspecting
veterinarians in the Gresham
region. Full-time meat inspec
tion in this area includes one
plant in Gresham, two in Sandy
and one in East Portland.
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