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2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tnursday, April 3, 19S8
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Rules Amended
For Meat Check
By Ag Department
Salem The state depart
ment of agriculture calls at
tention to several amend
ments in the regulations re
lating to state meat inspection.
These additions were made
over a period of time in an
attempt to clarify the pro
gram, says M. E. Knicker
bocker, animal industry divi
sion chief.
Under one amendment, no
change in the established
slaughter schedule may be
made unless application is for
warded to the department, or
given a department livestock
officer, seven days in advance
of the desired change. This re
quirement is made so inspec
tion personnel will be avail
able. Meat inspectors who work
on legal holidays or in excess
of 40 hours of straight time
in any calendar week, or be
fore 6 a.m. or after 8 p.m.,
or in excess of eight continu
ous hours in a day, will come
under the overtime provision
of the regulations. This means
a cost of one and one-half
times the straight time alloca
tions. ,
Legal holidays established
under the order are all Sun
days, New Year's Day, Me
morial Day, Independence
Day, Labor Day, Veterans'
Day, Thanksgiving Day and
Christmas Day. If holidays
fall on Sunday, the succeed
ing Monday will be consider
ed the holiday under the meat
inspection program.
The third revision permits
the department to allocate a
minimum hourly charge, if
meat inspections personnel is
available, In plants that re
quire meat inspection at times
other than the established
schedule. Such services will
be charged as four hours if
the overtime is four hours or
less, or as eight hours if the
overtime period is more than
four hours.
Officers Reelected
For Potato Group
Bakersfield, Calif. HI)
The Western States Potato
Growers council has reelected
all officers and directors in a
meeting held in conjunction
with the 14th annual Kern
County Potato Growers As
sociation convention.
They are Claude Aunger,
Stockton, Calif., president;
Roy Hirai, Nyssa., vice presi
dent, and Merrill Webb, Red-
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Smaller Plantings Set
Bv Farmers for This Year
Corvallis Oregon farmers
a
intend to plant about 5 per
cent fewer acres this spring
than a year'ago, according to
Mrs. Elvera Horrell, extension
agricultural economist at Ore
gon State college.
Studying results of a ques
tionnaire sent recently to the
national's farmers by the
USDA crop reporting service,
Mrs. Horrell found that Ore
gon growers plan to seed 18
per cent fewer acres of spring
Segregation Pens
Now Postponed
Salem The state depart
ment of agriculture said to
day it has postponed, for the
present, putting into effect its
recently announced require
ment for segregation pens at
auction markets for clean
cattle tested under the bru
cellosis program.
Other major changes in the
brucellosis, eradication pro
gram, originally announced
as effective March 1, were
put into effect March 15.
Under the principal change,
all herds not reached by the
milk ring test will now be
blood tested only once each
three years.
Robert J. Steward, director
of agriculture, says the state's
activity in testing for brucel
losis reactors through all
slaughterhouses and auction
yards will be continued to the
fullest extent as a means to
trace back and locate centers
of infection. The program of
milk ring testing will also be
continued for the same pur
pose. The second major program
change entails a reduction in
indemnities for reactors, as
previously announced.
NEW RECORD MADE
Salem A record 4958
cars of vegetables and fruits
passed through Oregon ship
ping point inspection centers
during February. This total
not only constitutes a record
for February, but is 817 cars
more than during the same
month in 1957, reports the
state department of agricul
ture. mond. Ore., secretary-treasurer.
Directors and the states
they represent are Arnold
W. B. Whiteley and M. O.
Stratford, Idaho; Howard
Michaelis, Washington; Ted
Still, Colorado, and Hirai,
Oregon.
Cheyenne, Wyo., is
the
highest state capital.
SO. HSICDOW
wheat this year than in 1957.
More acres were planted to
winter wheat last fall, how
ever, and this would still
mean 8 per cent more land
in wheat this year, she said.
The state's farmers also in
dicated they expect to plant
7 per cent fewer acres of oats
than last spring, 3 per cent
less barley, 2 per cent less
sugar beets, and expect to
harvest 3 per cent fewer acres
of hay. On the other side of
the ledger, Oregon farmers
said they intend to up their
usually small corn acreages
by 11 per cent, and increase
fall potato acreages by 4 per
cent. Acreages of dry field
peas will be about the same
as last year, it was reported.
Over the nation, small cuts
in acreage of spring planted
crops were indicated. If grow
ers carry out their March 1
intentions, acreage of 16 ma
jor crops planted in the spring
would be down, 2 per cent
from a year ago, Mrs. Hor
rell said. And, the way things
look now, this means the total
planted acreage of 59 princi
pal crops will be a shade be
low last year but even this
slight decrease would shrink
the planted acreage in the
nation to the smallest total
in 40 years.
Even though acreages
should be cut this year, total
prpduction could hold up,
Mrs. Horrell reminded. Mod
ern machinery, use of fertiliz
er, and all-around farming
"know - how" have upped
yields greatly in recent years.
There is also the chance
that farmers may change their
minds before spring planting
time is over, Mrs. Horrell em
phasized. The whole purpose
of the spring questionnaire is
to let each farmer know the
thinking and tentative plans
of other farmers. After learn
ing what growers intend to
do, each farmer wants to do
some adjusting of his own
planting plans.
Price changes, labor supply,
amount of available money,
government programs, and
the weather could also change
the picture, Mrs. Horrell ad
ded. This Week's
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Chemist Named
For Foods Field
Salem Thomas P. Marsh,
formerly of Los Angeles, re
cently joined the staff of
chemists with the state de
partment of agriculture. He
will work entirely with foods.
Since the advent of statewide
meat inspection, the depart
ment is stepping up its la
boratory work in the foods
field.
At first, Marsh will work
primarily on dairy foods and
meats. Later, the department
plans to tring jams and jel
lies and other processed food
into the laboratories and will
concentrate on food items
made in Oregon and sold pri
marily to the Oregon market.
Marsh comes to Oregon
from the Los Angeles Health
Department where he served
as a chemist in industrial hy
giene for six years. Prior to
that he spent five years as a
chemist- with the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service in Wash
ington, D. C, and five years
with the Los Angeles City
Health department. .
He received his B. S. and
M. A. degrees from Oregon
State college, and did ad
vanced work at Purdue uni
versity and the University of
Southern California.
Rate Lobbying Shows
Salem The effectiveness
of combined efforts from the
Pacific Northwest is indicated
in ICC ExamineF Otto A.
H a n s o n's recommendation
that the commission condemn
reduced rail freight rates on
dressed meat coming into the
Pacific Northwest, according
to Robert J. Steward, state di
rector of agriculture.
"Examiner Hansen's recom
mendation to the ICC fur
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Gardens Delayed
By Spring Rains
By DON BERRY
County Horticulture Agent
Spring rains have delayed
the early bird gardeners, how
ever on light soils early gar
dens should be planted as
soon as possible.
Good soil preparation is the
foundation for a successful
garden. Working the soil
when it is too wet will leave
it cloddy and stiff, and it is
better to delay cultivation un
til excessive water has drain
ed out even if a few of the
early crops are not planted.
The addition of fertilizer
and organic matter when the
soil is prepared for a seed
bed is a good practice. Where
obtainable barnyard manure
spread two to four inches
deep and worked into the
top six inches of soil will not
only maintain high fertility
but also loosens heavy soils.
Where barnyard fertilizers
are not available the applica
tion of sulphate of ammonia
at one pound to two pounds
per hundred square feet or a
complete fertilizer at four to
six pounds worked into the
surface ahead of planting is
beneficial.
Sawdust applied about
three inches deep and
worked into the surface soil
will help loosen the soil, he
said. Extra nitrogen should
be applied along with it, since
sawdust takes the nitrogen
from the soil. In addition,"
later applications of nitrogen
to the garden will be required
to keep the plants growing
vigorously. Any kind of fresh
sawdust is good and you need
not worry about pitch or
resin. Sawdust also makes an
excellent ' mulch for shrubs,
strawberries and cane berries.
Here again extra nitrogen
should be used to keep the
plants vigorous. .
Results
nishes ample proof that when
all of the forces of agribusi
ness pool their efforts, results
can be obtained. About 80
farm, livestock nd business
groups in the Pacific North
west region joined the public
utilities : commissioner and
our department Sept. 30 in
Denver to present our case
contesting the reasonableness
of these selective freight rate
reductions. Steward said.
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CHIT CHAT
By JOE G. COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
All you have to do to bring the neighbors over for a chat
on a bright, sunny day is to start pushing a lawnmower.
The other day one of the neighbors started leaning on
the fence to waggle chins with us when somehow the con
versation got around to farming. He used to be a beef rancher
in Montana before and during World War II. His spread was
up near Glacier National park where things got pretty
rugged in the winter. He had done considerable wheat farm
ing in other localities, too. This veteran sod-buster and cow
puncher got out of the business . when his son decided he
had had enough.
' Now in his mid-70's this fellow looks anything but feeble.
He seems mid-stride in life. No cane supports a rheumatic
body. His blue eyes are still sharp and keen. A wealth of
knowledge on farming has been tucked away under that
white thatch of hair. Only trouble is it's not being used
except on the garden patch he's recently plowed behind his
house. We have run across a number of old farmers like
him who are neither really old nor worn out just retired.
But why should all of their accumulated knowledge be re
tired? It's too bad some of these old fellows can't be formed
into some sort of an advisory group to give the younger
farmers the benefit of their experience.
The old timers can usually find the easy way to do things.
This being the back-scratching or political"2eason (you scratch
my back and I'll scratch yours) any labor-saving ideas in
that direction should be timely. One old veteran of the soil
decided his steers could just as well be doing some good
while scratching their backs. He strung a heavy cable across
one end of his pole-type shed in the feed lot He wrapped
some heavy burlap around one section of this cable and
soaked it with insect-killing chemicals. It saves him consid
erable spraying as the solution runs down over the backs
of his animals as they scratch. Too bad political lice can't
be removed the same way.
This same old fellow started "pioneering" when he was
62. Being a county official might have prompted it. We have
noticed over the years county officials seem to have a yearn
ing to high-tail it for the brush now and then. He and his
wife lived in a corn crib while he cleared and started devel
oping his 100 plus acres with his two sons.
Only way you could reach his farm in those days was by
pulling yourself across a boiling white section of river in a
flimsy ferry. No telephone line extended into this wilderness
so this was one county commissioner who spent a peaceful
evening at home. By the time civilization did reach him he
had left politics far behind him. That included the state
senate later.
Such a man could easily teach the younger politicians
and farmers a thing or two. As we said, he did things the
easy way. The old senator carefully classified his land as
to soil types and then grew on it only suitable crops. He
evidently had learned early in life that "Mother Nature" and
"Mother Earth" are logically thought of as female elements.
You can't control 'em and you usually wind up doing things
their way.
This old gent usually got underway on a troublesome
chore by saying, "Well now, being a lazy man I just have to
sit down and think for a bit. Hate to use a lot of energy
when I don't have to." It's too bad such wisdom has to be
thrown on the scrap heap of
Dr. Burton Wood, Oregon
omist, feels big changes are
that agriculture of Oregon is
according to Robert Henderson, Oregon State college, lien
derson said leadership is needed to keep up with the changes
and the agriculture board is one agency which might provide
that leadership.
Dr. Wood said, however, when appearing before the board
that "Our farmers are really aware of what is underway
and they will look over all individual operations from the
standpoint of where they are going to be.
He added that a statement from the board would relieve
panic in some circles of agriculture and suggested the board
help farmers see through the
some industries.
Dr. Wood said a top merchandising manager of a food
organization in the east cast some doubt about the future
of the Pacific Northwest frozen food industry. Dr. Wood
reported this executive was doubtful if his company will
be buying any products from the Pacific Northwest in the
next five years. '
Reasons given were: first, the rising transportation costs;
second, the company representative said his firm cannot
depend on the Pacific Northwest for a source of supply.
"You have a one-crop agriculture and you are subject
to instability in climate," this marketing man said. "Some
years you have a lot and other years not much."
"Just a few days ago we submitted samples to a test panel
for frozen strawberries. It was
one of the professional testers
Northwest berries."
Dr. Wood commented that
has to guard agtinst any complacency on products. Oregon
farmers must be alerted to
with processing organizations
"These terms of contracting
farming are much misunderstood in the minds of many farm
ers and they close their minds to it. Get it out to the farmer
that this is nothing new and some farmers are pushing agri
culture in this direction."
The agricultural specialist
turbed since he feels it is shaping up as a struggle for inde
pendence. The board can help by making a statement giving
the farmers a view of what is ahead. This would alert them
to "these needs" and "will give assurance," Dr. Wood sug
gested.
Regarding the dating of pesticides, board members sug
gested that O. K. Beals and Dean Patterson of the Foods and
Dairies division of the,y state department of agriculture meet
with Jackson county people
cluded in this meeting would
Western Agricultural Chemical
from Oregon State college.
Henderson told the board
tive regional projects on pesticides were formed to keep up
with the Miller amendment.
spent then on California stations to serve as clearing houses
on pesticides and he thought
through that regional project.
Beals and Patterson made
All inorganic pesticides may
arsenicals, copper compounds
ganic pesticides before diluting are stable. Examples of these
are DDT, TEPP, parathion, nicotine, and 2,4-D. A few or
ganic pesticides may lose effectiveness after being diluted
for consumer usage, it was pointed out. Well known example
of this is TEPP as formulated in dusts'.
Dating of inorganic pesticides would be of no value, the
report stated. The dating of concentrated pesticide organic
material also would be of little value, it was pointed out.
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"progress."
State college agricultural econ
taking place in farming and
not keeping up with them,
complacency which exists in
of significance to us that only
gave any preference to Pacific
this means Oregon agriculture
the fact that they must work
and other groups to keep apace.
and integration and corporate
, .
said the small farmer is dis
interested in the problem. In
be Frank Stewart of the
association and two men
about two years ago coopera
Several thousand dollars were
maybe the board could work
their report on this problem.
be considered stable, such as
and fluorine compounds. Or
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New Specialist
Hired By State
For Label Work
Salem "The state depart
ment of agriculture is launch
ing upon a broad program in
the consumer packaging and
labeling of food products," ac
cording to Robert J. Steward,
state director of agriculture.
- He announced that Walter
L. Morgan, Jr., of Longview,
Wash., has been added to the
department staff as a food
specialist.
In Longview, Morgan was
plant superintendent for In
terstate Packers for six years.
His work in Oregon will be
guided by O. K. Beals, chief
of the department's division of
foods and dairies, weights and
measures.
Because of the wide rami
fications in the consumer food
field, Morgan's activitiy will
develop on a gradual basis.
At first, he will be checking
labels of consumer package
for compliance with the truth
ful labeling provisions of the
Oregon Food act, which is a
counterpart of the federal
food act.
Later he' will devote con
siderable time to sanitation
inspections of food processing
plants whose main business
is sales within the state of
Oregon. Most of this will be
on a seasonal basis'.
Eventually the program
will be expanded as Morgan
assists in training district rep
resentatives to carry on these
duties.
A U.S. Army veteran, the
new food specialist majored
in food technology and minor
ed in food chemistry at Ore
gon state colleg; he received
his B.S. in 1952. He was born
in Astoria and grew up in
Silverton.
Morgan is married and has
three daughters.
QUICK RESPONSE
Marietta. Ga. (m Mavis
Eugene Spears, 38, advertised
in a farm market bulletin for
a job and now is assured of at
least a year's work. Sheriff
Jesse Cooper answered the
ad. served a six-month - old
vagrancy warrant on Spears
and took him before a judge
who sentenced him to 12
months on a road gang.
"Nearly four-fifths of U. S
agricultural exports go to
trade agreement countries.
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Jan. 30, 1958, at Our Farm Store..
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IKE'S WT. 41 -Lbs.
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IKE'S WT.
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Average Daily Gain
Cost Pound of Gain for Feed.
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ICC To Consider
Portland Hearing
Saleni The Interstata
Commerce commission has ad
vised Robert J. Steward,
state director of agriculture,
it will give careful considera
tion to his request for a re
gional hearing in Portland on
the railroads' recent general
freight rate increase.
Chairman John Winchell
of ICC Division 2. which will
hold the hearings, stated the
commission has received re
quests for regional hearings
at other points as well a at
Portland.
Steward's request stressed,
the need for a Pacific North-'
west hearing to enable more
growers ana shippers in this
area to attend and testify. All
agricultural interests in at
tendance at a PUC shippers'
meeting m Portland on March
10 supported the need for a
regional hearing.
The deadline for filin of
verified statements for car
riers has been DostDoned to
April 21. Extension has been
granted until June 9 for those
in opposition to the increases
to file statements.
Weight Regulations
In Revised Booklet
Salem The state depart
ment of agriculture has re
vised printed regulations re
lating to weights and meas
ures, according to Walter B.
Steele, deputy state sealer.
The rules give specifica
tions, tolerances, and regula
tions for commercial weigh
ing and-measuring devices.
Oregon's rules-are patterned
after the National Bureau of
Standards' weights and meas
ures handbook 44, second edi
tion as amended.
The state department of
agriculture is responsible for
administering weights and
measures laws in Oregon.
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