TWO MEDFORD (OREGON)
Fear EDeciine To Get Rlajor
Attention
- The horticultural research
'-program for 1953 was dis--pissed
at a meeting Feb. 21
:jf the Southern Oregon
Branch Experiment station
advisory committee and staff
jnembers.
, Problems receiving major
attention this year will be
pear decline, stony pit, con
trol of storage rots, evalua
tion of promising new fungi
cidal materials and testing of
.rajbino resistant cherry va
rieties. Pear work will be under
taken to determine the best
rtlme for picking red bartletts,
from the angle of storage and
-handling, and work will con--tinue
on controlled atmo
;sphere storage of pears.
;Tre Nutrition
: Studies also will continue
Zen pear tree nutrition with
Preference to nitrogen sources
r.and time and rates of appli
cation and on the place of
potash in the fertility pro--gram.
.
j Other projects concern
:work on orchard soil manage
ment. The committee also en
couraged continued work on
development of new pear va
rieties under the direction of
Dr. R. C. Blake, assisted by
various members of the cen
tral experiment station staff
at Corvallis.
- Entomological work relat
ing to horticultural problems
will be under Dr. L. G. Gent
ler and include studies aim-
ing for better control of pear
.leaf blister mites, pear psylla,
San Jose scale, two - spotted
and carpini mites and codling
, moth on pears. Dr. Gentnef
' will be testine the effective-
1 nes of dormant applications of
.. new experimental types oi
T spray applications.
'. Attend Meeting
; Attending the meeting were
' Howard Bush, Orville Hamil
;; ton, Charles Henry, Ron
S James, Paul Culbertson, Tom
X Spatz; Lyle Kenney, president
C of the Fruit Growers League:
Clif Cordy, horticultural ex-
; tension agent; Dr. 5. B. Apple,
! h e a d. horticulture depart-
i ment, Oregon State, college;
I Dr. Roy Young, department
of botany and plant patholo
? gy. Oregon State college; Dr.
R. W. Henderson, acting dean
f in charge of Oregon Agricul
i tural Experiment Station,
i. Oreeon State colleee: Dr.
-Blake, H. H. White, superin-
tenaent, soutnern jregon jlx-
periment Station.
During the meeting, Dr
; Henderson and Dr. Apple
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in Research Plan
called attention to the large
amount and constantly in
creasing participation of the
staff of the central station at
Corvallis in trying to work
out solutions of the problems
of this area.
They pointed out that in
the past year the staff of the
central station spent in excess
of $38,000 working with the
State Feeder Assn.
Organized
Salem A new organiza
tion, to be known as the Ore
gon Livestock and Poultry
Feeders association, was form
ed in Salem Feb. 19, with
Arthur P. Ireland of Forest
Grove named temporary
chairman. Noel Bennion of
the state college extension
staff was chosen temporary
secretary-treasurer.
Ireland outlined the pur
poses in this brief statement:
"The Pacific Northwest is
the only region in the country
unable to utilize its own most
economically produced feed
grain. We therefore are
forced to import other feed
grains from distant areas in
which similar livestock prod
ucts are being produced.
Develop Program.
"We propose to develop a
program that will enable this
region to utilize all grains
not used for human consump
tion at a competitive feed
grain price and to permit
growers t6 use any grain they
produce for feed purposes if
desired."
The organization grew out
of a preliminary study session
January 23 when feeders met
to consider their common
problems. At that time they
designed the special commit
tee which met this week and
developed the streamlined
statement of purposes and
aims announced by Ireland.
Another meeting will be
called in the near future to
complete the organization and
formulate a complete state
ment of aims and purposes.
Labor Represented
The organizers were repre
sentatives of beef and dairy
cattle, lamb, turkey and
chicken groups. Labor was
also represented because of
its interest in expanding pay
rolls and maintaining pur
chasing power. A representa
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Thursday. February 27, 1958
Southern Oregon Experiment
station staff on horticultural
problems of the southern Ore
gon area. They felt that the
research team approach is the
most effective and satisfac
tory method of attacking the
complicated problems most
of which require attention of
specialists in several scientific
fields, he said.
In Salem
All interested feeders in all
these groups will be given an
opportunity to join in this
effort and will be approached
later by leaders in their re
spective segments.
The preliminary meeting
in January was called by Rob
ert J. Steward, state director
of agriculture, at the request
of feeder interest groups.
Commend Committee
Steward, following the
meeting this week which was
held in the department head
quarters, commended the
special committee on taking
"this historic step".
He said there has long been
a need for livestock and poul
try feeders to present an or
ganized viewpoint on their
problems to the rest of the
livestock industry and to the
cereal grain and forage crop
interests
Ireland said he assumed
the temporary chairmanship
because as a dairyman he is
vitally interested in the eco
nomical feeding of cereal
grains which is so important
to maintain high milk pro
duction at competitive costs,
He noted he has watched a
substantial decline, in the
manufactured dairy products
industry in Oregon due large
ly to high feeding costs.
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Won By Jorgensen
Corvallis Jorg ensen's
dairy, Medford, took third
place in the strawberry ice
cream division at the recent
Oregon Dairy Industries an
nual dairy products contest.
James Dunlop, Medo-Land
Creamery, Eugene, took sec
ond place in that division
James Sweatt, Klamath Falls
Creamery, took first prize for
the best strawberry ice cream
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- CHIT CHAT
By JOE G. COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
We said goodbye to an old friend four days go.-We said
it with a lump in our throat and a stinging mistiness in our
eyes. This fellow had been our friend and partner for over
11 years and was leaving on a long trip. We would never
see him again. We mention it in this column since he is like
the partner of many farmers.
One farmer on a local turkey farm says his partner takes
the place of three good men in handling the birds in the
field. Herdsmen have come to know him as a friend and
companion while standing watch over the flocks on the
lonely mountain pastures. Children have both trusted and
loved him. He has protected a good many from onrushing
cars on busy streets and the dangers of the nearby mill
pond or irrigation ditch.
We remember this big Collie, with his tail waving like a
triumphant plume, guiding school children across a busy
street. Those who strayed out of the crissing lines were
promptly but gently nudged back into the safety zone. Noth
ing which trespassed on his property was too big nor too
tough for him to tackle. Whiskey-soaked bums and, stray
salesmen were quickly dispatched with an ominous growl
and a quick charge. On the ranch he was a constant com
panion of a young ranch-hand and his horse. One time
Robbie, the Collie, was holding the reins while his master
was inspecting the far end of an irrigation ditch. The horse
suddenly decided to join his rider and both dog and horse
were sailing over the ditch.
That accounts for the slightly crooked tooth. The scar on
his nose was caused by a .22 bullet from a Christmas rifle.
A slight scar on one forepaw came when hardly out of his
puppyhood. An Airdale had growled threateningly at his
master and was stopped nearly at the cost of a leg.
Robbie was a furry comforter against the cold night air
on overnight camping trips in the mountains, someone to
talk to. during a spell of loneliness, a mischievous puppy
with an air oi, wisdom, a patient retriever of tossed balls
He was all of these things and
the veterinarian puts him out
turned him over to a farmer
his last trip. We didn't have
Recently, .we moved into
things important to most men,
bathtub. And while moving in a new neighbor said "howdy.
There was a time when we thought most people had forgot
ten the cheerful meaning of
hear it used more often around Medford and vicinity.
We have been interested in
since so many articles have
publications. Some seem to think that both hay and feed
can be put into pellet form and used profitably by the farmer
and others do not.
During a recent state feed dealers' meeting Dr. Wise
Burroughs, Iowa State college,
is so high that increased feed
not enough. A local agricultural authority claims that much
alfalfa hay has enough protein without the pelleting. How
the hay is taken care of and the stage at which it is cut are
among factors which determine its protein content.
Now protein in itself is
which to judge feed value.
being used to indicate the calories of productive energy. In
other words, how feed can be converted into energy units is
the key to efficient feeding,
farmers' wives may be surprised soon to find their husbands
discussing calories for their
Most of this work has been done with poultry. Cost of
feed required per unit of product is the real measure. Feeds,
then, must be both efficient and economically sound. This is
determined by the rate of growth in production and the
potency and balance of the ration, according to G. F. Combs,
University of Maryland. Now,
on an ever-shrinking margin
to the thin line. Those farmers
the feed, the less feed required per unit of product, will be
ahead. They will be using less feed and getting more for
what they jio feed.
Research in . Maryland
There the farm scientists discovered energy levels ranging
from 505 to 1,240 calories of
have been shown to give rapid
"It is particularly important that rations be formulated
so that both energy and protein will be efficiently utilized
in order to produce products most economically," Combs
stated in his study. . :-
Oregon State college is conducting a study to test the
efficiency of pellet feeding. According to reports, dairy cattle
are less productive on pellets, but the reasons have yet to
be learned. This is based on
So far there seem to be two
waste if the stock are good
up self-feeders. Under the
feed could be put out for cattle in one day to last them a
week. However, some farmers
way to .keep a check on the
Other agricultural authorities report there is no magic
in pelleting livestock feeds. It is a good idea, they say, to
check into the quality of hay roughages used. If the hay is
ground finely before pelleting you can't be certain of the
quality. Dr. James Oldfield,
partment has pointed out that quality control is needed to
evaluate the total protein energy vitamin and mineral value
of such feeds.
Ranch equipment for hay pelleting is coming, agricultural
authorities predict: J. D. O'Connor and Sons of Klamath
Falls are credited with the first commercial pelleting in this
state.
There are various types
alfalfa pellet or one with 10
l-A-J 1 , r
ieiea cuoes are popular ior
alfalfa and one-third grain.
added, or pellets may consist
According to dairy specialists at Kansas State college, if
a farmer gives his cows all the hay they'll eat with enough
concentrate added, it isn't necessary to give them any extra
mineral except saltThese specialists say cows getting alfalfa
hay need a concentrate which
protein.
There seems to tie no limit
scientists. At Washington State
being treated with radio waves to soften them up. Germina
tion is said to increase from
People who are interested in Jackson county's participa
tion in the Oregon Beef commission referendum say not
nearly enough farmers have
Fifty-nine were eligible for
10 to Feb. 24. We counted 38
A statement in Hoard's
the farmer something to think about. The article in this pub
lication for dairymen states, "The dwindling farm popula
tion indicates the farmers
This may in part explain why
tary of agriculture is fairly
isn t so big anymore.
we hope he understands when
of the misery of old age. We
- friend who will take him on
the nerve to do it ourselves.
a house which has the two
a broad fireplace and a deep
this word. We would like to
the pelleting process for feeds
appeared in the popular farm
said the cost of this processing
efficiency and rate of gain are
not considered a good basis by
Calorie - protein ratios are now
according to the new trend. So
livestock.
while the farmer is working
of profit his costs must be kept
who realize the more potent
' ' .
was concentrated on broilers
productive energy per pound
growth.
the exclusive feeding of pellets
main advantages absolutely no
feeders, and it is possible to set
second main advantage enough
may say this is not the proper
cattle's condition.
of OSC's animal husbandry de
of pellets. One is the straight
per cent molasses added. Pel-
t nl A J. AT- i 3
Deei. inese contain iwo-mirus
Molasses or antibiotics may be
of a straight grain cube.
has about 12 to 14 per cent
for the ingenuity of the farm
college hard alfalfa seeds are
60 per cent to 96 per cent.
registered and few have voted
the voting scheduled from Feb
who had voted as of last Friday,
Dairyman recently should give
political influence is waning.
Benson feels his job as secre
secure. The big pressure bloc
Refunds Are
to
Egg Producers
Patronage refunds totalling
$522,618 are currently being
distributed to the farmer
members of the Oregon Egg
Producers, Grant Young,
Medford branch manager, has
announced. Medford area
members' share of the 1957
patronage sefund payment
will total $54,157.
On Jan. 1, the association
continued' its policy of re
deeming its capital certifi
cates in five years by recall
ing tne 19o3 issue at the face
value of S573.810. In addition,
$135,444 was- paid out to
members-as 1956 interest on
outstanding certificates. -
Altogether, the Oregon Egg
Producers is currently dis
tributing a total of $1,231,872
to western Oregon farmers.
Young pointed out that with
1957 agriculture markets
again at depressed levels, the
payments represent a welcome
boost to local farm income.
Audit Figures
Final audit figures for the
1957 operation of the farmer
owned marketing and pur-
cnasing association showed a
dollar volume of business in
excess of $9,500,000. Although
leed ana supply volume de
clined slightly from the rec
ord high reached in 1956.
sales for both departments in
1957 represented the second
highest volume attained in as
sociation history. Egg receipts
increased by 12 per cent and
were the highest since 1945
The patronage refund being
returned to local producers
represents a refund of 8V6
per cent in the feed depart
ment and a four per cent re
fund on all farm supply pur
chases. The management re
ported that the association
closed the 1957 business year
with assets exceeding $334
million and no mortgage in
debtedness. '
Dunbar Carpenter, route 3,
Medford, has represented
Jackson and Josephine coun
ty farmers on the board of di
rectors since 1953.
Fifty-Two Head Sel
For Cal-Ore. Sale
Fifty - two head of cattle
will be offered for sale at the
annual California - Oregon
sale scheduled here March 19
and 20, according , to Earl
Jossy, county extension agent.
Consignors include Apple-
gate Farm, Jacksonville, a
bull and two cows; Bernice
Bigham, Eagle Point, two
bulls; Dale E. Bigham, Eagle
Point, a cow; Ralph L. Cook,
Medford, four bulls; Robert
H. and Nettie. Field,, Central
Point, four bulls and four
cows; David H. Holmes, Med
ford, a bull; Norman and Lois
Jacob, Merrill, six cows; Don
ald K. Nichols, Ashland, three
bulls; and Seven Oaks Here-
fords, Central Point, three
bulls and four cows.
R. E. Smiley, Grants Pass,
two bulls and a cow; R. W.
Smith, Medford, a bull; Bill
and Gayle Wood, Eagle Point,
three bulls and seven cows;
Yankee Creek ranches, Med
ford,. three cows.
15 Associations
Sponsor Conference
Corvallis Fifteen leading
industrial, professional and
trade associations throughout
the Northwest are cooperating
in sponsoring the statewide
conference on research and
development for Oregon
small business, scheduled
March 13 to 15 at Oregon
State college.
Five other colleges of the
state also are sponsors for the
sessions, which are designed
to benefit small businesses of
the state by showing how re
search programs and findings
can be used to advantage in
improving products and mar
keting methods.
Leaders in planning the
conference are the Oregon
department of planning and
development, the ""ortland of
fices of the U.S. small busi
ness administration and the
department of commerce, Cor
vallis Chamber of Commerce,
and Oregon State college.
Oregon is the first state in
the nation to have a state
wide conference for small
business as recommended at
the national meeting called
last September by President
Eisenhower. Gov. Robert
Holmes is honorary chairman
and wiM be the opening-day
luncheon speaker.
STRAYED ANIMALS
Salem More than 80
strayed or stolen animals are
listed on the January estray
bulletin of the state depart
ment of agriculture. Heaviest
loss was sustained by a Lake
county rancher who reported
36 yearling calves missing.
Drastic Changes Announced
For Brucellosis Testing
Salem Drastic changes j
in procedures and payments
under the cooperative brucel
losis testing program in Ore
gon will become effective
March 1, this year, the state
department of agriculture an
nounced on Feb. 20.
The changes are the result
of a heavy cut in the federal
share of the cooperative funds
anticipated to carry the state
through to the certification
goal set for June 30, 1959.
The adjusted program calls
for reduction in federal in
demnities for reactors to
match the state payment of
$8 for grade cattle and $12
for purebreds. This will also
be effective March 1. Some
counties have a voluntary in
demnity program in amounts
similar to or under the state
level.
The revised program will
not affect free vaccination
and testing on farms and
ranches until each county is
certified to be free from Tsru-
cellosis.
One phase of the revised
program requires livestock
auction ' markets in eastern
Oregon to make available ap
proved, separate clean pens
on and after March 1, for pur
poses shown below.
All counties except Hood
River east of the Cascade
mountains, and also Jackson
county, are designated as
range counties. - Hood River
Downward Trend
Halted on Milk
Corvallis The recent
downward trend in Oregon's
milk production seems to be
halted, according to Stephen
C. Marks, extension agricul
tural economist at Oregon
State college.
Milk production in Oregon
during 1957 has been esti
mated at one billion, 137 mil
lion pounds, Marks said, the
smallest annual output since
1926. However, 76 million
pounds of milk were produced
in Oregon this January, top
ping December's output by
three million pounds and
matching that produced dur
ing January, 1957.
Mild weather over the state
during January stimulated a
higher average output of milk
per cow, Marks explains, with
this average output reaching
a record level for the month.
Incomes of dairymen last
month were slightly lower
than a year ago, however,
with -wholesale milk prices
partly offset by lower grain
and hay prices.
Across the nation, tenta
tive estimates by the U.S. de
partment of agriculture set
195? milk production at 127
bililon pounds, one per cent
above 1956's record output.
Certificate Given
Snider Dairy Entry
Corvallis A gold certifi
cate award for fluid milk
products went to David Kurtz,
Sniders Dairy at the recent
Qregon Dairy Industries 47th
annual conference.
Kurtz was presented the
certificate for his entry of
Grade A half and half and
Grade A pasteurized whip
ping cream.
The dairy products contest
is a highlight of the confer
ence for dairy plant man
agers, plant technicians, and
dairy industry representa
tives to review latest trends
in manufacturing dairy prod
ucts. Record Reported in
January Inspections
Salem A January rec
ord, 5,348 carlot equivalents
or 173 cars a day, was set by
the amount of vegetables and
fruits inspected last month at
Oregon's eight federal - state
shipping point districts, the
state department of agricul
ture reported.
This is 23 cars a day more
than during January last year,
and breaks the previous rec
ord of 165 cars a day set in
January 1951.
Extra Soil Bank Funds
Temporarily Approved
Washington (IP) The House
has voted temporarily to pro
vide $250 million in extra soil
bank funds this year to cover
an expected flood of farmer
applications. The lawmakers
also agreed to slap a $3,000
ceiling on soil bank payments
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and all other counties are
classed as dairy counties
In no event will testing be
required or paid for by coop
erative funds if cattle are
going to slaughter or to an
approved quarantine feed lot.
Neither will free vaccina
tions be administered for fe
male calves in auction yards
if the calves go directly to
slaughter, or to an approved
quarantined feed lot.
Otherwise, these differences
will prevail between range
counties and dairy counties
for eligible cattle going
Lemhi 53 May
Be Grown Here
Lemhi 53, a new spring
wheat variety, will be grown
commercially in this area this
year for the first time,' ac
cording to officials at the
Southern Oregon Branch Ex
periment station.
The variety has been test
ed in trials at the station since
1954 and has performed in an
outstanding manner, they re
port. It has yielded about 15
per cent more than White
Federation 38, a recommend
ed variety commonly grown
here, while the test weights
per bushel of the two have
been equal.
Lemhi 53 is a white chaffed
wheat with a blocky head, of
moderate height with fairly
stiff straw, and it carries re
sistance to stem and leaf
rusts. It was developed for ir
rigation, but it has performed
well under dry land condi
tions of this area, they said.
The variety possesses a
"considerable" degree of cold
resistance for a spring wheat.
Official United States Depart
ment of Agriculture grain
standards class it as a soft
white wheat.
A small amount of certified
seed is available for growers
this spring, according to the
station.
Local Company Gets
Third Place Award
Corvallis Milton Gordon,
Borden company. Central
Point, took third place in the
cottage cheese eontest at the
recent Oregon Dairy Indus
tries annual dairy products
contest.
Curtis Jensen of the Eu
gene Farmers Creamery is
Oregon's 1958 sweepstakes
butter maker.
Jensen won first places for
both the sweet cream and cul
tured cream butter divisions
for an uncontested title to the
sweepstakes trophy. Awards
for tops in each division in
cluded a trophy and gold
watch.
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through livestock auction
markets:
In range counties, brucel
losis tests will be free .on
cattle originating from non
certified counties and going
through federal or federal
state approved sale yards.
Testing of cattle originating
from negative herds located
in certified counties will not
be required or paid for at
these yards. But the federal
and federal-state yards must
keep animals from certified
counties in separate clean
pens to prevent mixing with
other animals. If segregation
pens are not provided, cattle
must be tested at the yard
and the cost borne by the auc
tion market or owner or pur
chaser. Finances Outlined a
In dairy counties the bru
cellosis cooperative funds will
pay for the testing of eligible
cattle going through federal
and federal - state approved
salesyards if the animals are
going directly back to a farm
or ranch.
In all salesyards not federal
or federal - state approved,
wherever located, testing is
now paid directly or indirect
ly by the yard. This practice
will continue at these yards.
In another change, blood
testing of animals not under
the milk ring test will be re
quired only once each three
years, with the exception that
dairy cattle owned by raw
milk producers or distribu
tors must still be blood tested
at least once each 6ix months.
A final provision of the new
regulations says that in range
counties coming up for recer
tification before June 30,
1959, the certification may be
renewed by retesting at least
20 per cent of the eligible
cattle in, at least 20 per cent
of the herds in the county
once every three years. (An
original certification holds
for a three-year period.)
Three TB Reactors
Found in Cattle
Salem Three tuberculosis
reactors and 495 brucellosis
reactors were found in Ore
gon cattle tested under the
federal-state control programs
during January, according to
the monthly report from the
federal and state veterinari
ans' offices at the state de
partment of agriculture.
In the brucellosis work, 56,
728 cattle were blood tested
in 2,568 herds, more than
eight-tenths of one per cent
of the cattle reacted. Calf vac
cination was conducted in
1,187 herds containing 22,756
calves. ,
An estimated 35,700 cattle
were tested in 1,785 herds
under the milk ring method;
this disclosed 179 suspicious
herds.
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