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i i ! I 4A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Ttiunday, October 23, 1958 Farm Project Fits Into Family Farm Cental Point The farm ly believes in variety in dairy project of Dave Foote, sopho more in vocational education at Crater high school is de signed to fit into the family dairy farm operation. Dave's family owns a dairy farm of 50 acres, two miles out on Scenic ave., Central Point. Total dairy herd in cludes 50 milking cows and 11 or 12 calves. The Foote family apparent- Meat Information School Slated Professional people who service consumers with meat information and want to know more about meat are invited to a meat information school at Klamath Falls, Ore eon, Thursday. Oct. 23 at the fairgrounds lecture room. According to Mary Pat Lucy, According to Mary Pat Lucy, Jackson county exten sion agent, local arrangements chairman, the school begins at 7 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m. William Robichaud, expert from the national livestock and meat board, will conduct the school assisted by Doro thy M. Sherrill, Oregon State college extension service. Ro bichaud will show how to get several cuts from one cut of meat, demonstrate attractive ways of cocking, serving and carving, and offer money-saving ideas that can be passed onto consumers. All home economists, retail ers, restaurant operators, chefs, and teachers who are interested in attending the school can get more informa tion from Jackson County Ex tension office, by phoning SP 3-6211, extension 211. 1 This Week's Belying its spacious appear ance, this 1280 square foot home can be built on a 50 foot lot. Its, three bedrooms, two baths and efficiently planned living space make it unusually comfortable to live in and-easy to care for. All rooms radiate from the basic center hall plan. For privacy and. quiet, the bed rooms are separated from the work and activity zone. A doorway could be located be tween the entrance hall and the front bedroom to make this room into an office, if preferred. Wide, space-saving wardrobes have sliding doors for easy access, and shelves above. The master bath contains both tub and stall shower. Twin lavatories have storage underneath for towels and supplies. . hi,J!jjSl-141i " I r-. , " - Tmimta-- v. i .,. ...i , nr...,, n. n- ,. J f" . .). , .' 4 T I . - y. . 'r " - -- S!f vtxmaa K uviwe doom aa v t' I ' LJ J mKTH tLTIPo r A KNtt . rpy .-IT-JL-T- . I .ft, HMOOM a -,s .t -i PLAN NO. 3624 SMeE j 1280 SQUARE FEET. 20o -4 1 ; ppl I I animals. Dave has seven head of Jerseys, his sister is rais ing Guernseys and his dad Holsteins. These Future Farmers of America farm projects aren't cheap. And 'Dave's is no ex ception. He figures he has S750 invested in dairy ani mals. Besides his cows he has approximately S450 invested in swine. The younger farmer has specialized in Yorkshire swine. He has four head, one boar, a gilt and two sows, plus quite a few little pigs. York shires are best Dave figures since the market trends now indicate a bacon-type of hog is more popular. Not quite so much waste with this breed, he said. The young Central Pointer figures the hogs will fill in for his dairy enterprise. When dairying profits hit a new low the sale of hogs should bolster the farm economy, Dave said. This, he said, is good coordin ation. Dave started with a dairy herd building it up gradu ally. His father gave him one cow to start with. Hard work and several loans from the bank did the rest. Dave couldn't explain ex actly why he likes Jerseys above all other breeds. A Jer sey is just a good cow, he said. While in 4-H work he ex hibited cows at the county fairs, but never in the state fair. He did take his hogs to the state fair, however. "FFA has helped a lot with technical advice in my farm ing," the young farmer said. "This covers proper grain ra tion, building a budget and other helps." . Dave's steady, , persistent growth in student farming proves this. He has paid his father back for the initial in vestment. He is extending his interest to farm crops, also. . Home for Living Glass doors to the patio open the big living room and expand the activity area for sun bathing, outdoor meals and entertaining. In warm weather the wide rear patio will be as much a part of your living room as the pleasant interior. The dining alcove can be left open to the living room or refined with movable room dividers. Convenient for quick fam ily meals is the well-lighted eating area in the kitchen. Ample cupboards and built-in kitchen appliances are ar ranged for step-saving effi ciency. Washer and dryer are located in the service area. The half-bath is handy to both the work area and play yard. An oversize 21 ft. by 21 ft. outside dimensions, garage Forinm trara "'ami tii nfflti ,.ytffnrirrrmtnTin)tf1 . rifni giTm fin i.t i i gjucifor mum 't DISCS GROUND - Carl Simmons, senior in vocational agriculture in Crater high school, Central Point, slices through the earth with a row of discs on the back of Biuetongue Hits Lakeview Sheep Salem An outbreak of blue tongue was reported in a flock of sheep near Lake- view last week, according to the state department of agri culture. The flock has been quarantined and the area is under close observation to prevent spread. . ' 1 The first heavy frost will kill the biting insects which transmit the virus disease. Frosts are long plt due in the Lakeview area. will provide adequate park ing for today's larger cars. Storage place and workshop space is still available along one wall of the garage. A compact gravity furnace is centrally located in the bedroom hall. Natural stone adds rustic contrast to the painted wood siding. The gables of the shake roof tilt upward above jutting beams and diamond window panes add a quaint note. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of S7.50 for the first set and S5 for each additional set. when ordered at the same time. This plan will be available for a period of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for deliv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfac tion, a new home plan book. Homes for Living, may be pur chased for SI. Send air orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes. P. O. Box 404-T, Korthridge, Calif. , aund Garden) CHIT "CHAT-- By JOE G. COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor The question of a possible rise in milk prices for the Rogue valley area will depend on the outcome of reports .by Portland area dairymen committees on Nov. 1. Then reports should be ready from three committees appointed by Dick Westerberg, Ashland, president of the Oregon Milk Producers. The committees were appointed during a meeting Saturday in Portland of 354 OMP mem bers who serve the Portland milk shed. Then the group asked for a price increase of approxi mately a cent a quart from about 17 Portland milk proces sors and distributors'. However, whether a price boost will be made depends on the processors and distributors. To answer all arguments of these middlemen the OMP committees will be making a survey of market milk usage, will work on public relations and the third committee will Durine the meeting. Lester retary of the OMP, explained the rise in price is needed be cause of increased production costs and because dealers cut the price to producers June 1 due to increased labor costs. The orice cut to producers was 23 cents a hundred weight. The proposed increase would be 46 cents a hundred weight. It would bring the producer price up from 12.8 cents a quart to 13.7 cents. The last retail milk price in February, : 1957, The current price to consumers for a home-delivered quart of standard test milk is 25 cents. This milk nriri increase Sept. 4 on this page we carried a story that milk may in crease one cent per quart throughout the state-not just in the Portland area. -. TVion avnlsinnl that manT ilairvmen were already feeding hay when ordinarily . ., September is considered a "pretty gooa. monin in payouis. T'e Vi. vsocrinnincr nf thp neriod nf less milk when the dairy man gets more si the milk in to produce much surplus, it "t thinv Viat tTip'damaee pastures and the cows have tion," Adams said tnen. . tcan see no nope xur a mvic xavux able situation sooner than spring." A survey of milk producers' costs was almost complete then. Now, we understand, the put on the survey. We hope to Earlier survey results, which showed 46 per cent of the total cost is charged up to feed. The dairyman is faced with an average increase of a dollar a ton for hay. From Eugene south the cent. This accounts for 21 per cent of the total cost. This means then, in at least 67 per cent of the dairyman's cost picture, costs have definitely gone up. Figuring all costs 100 pounds of 4 per cent milk brings actual production costs of $589. Those people working on milk promotion in this area might follow the example of an Alaskan dairy. It prints oil lease certificates on the sides of milk cartons, according to Food Engineering. Twenty-five such carton certificates en title the bearer to a ten-thousandth interest in a genuine oil producing area. ' We usually avoid getting even a little involved in politics in this column. However, during an election year and with the farm issues a vital part of the current campaign it is hard not to. We are somewhat in the position of the wealthy society matron who invited a notorious jewel thief to her party for "color." Asked if she wasn't risking notoriety for her party she replied, "Oh no, he always wears gloves." It's interesting to note that the Farm Bureau gives in cumbent Republican Senators a large lead over their Demo cratic colleagues following a study of Senate voting records. This study was distributed to all Farm Bureau members in the 48 states. The report merely listed the votes of all In cumbent senators on 13 measures chosen as key issues. A tabulation of such votes on farm issues shows that of 14 incumbent Republican senators running for re-election, 12 had favorable voting records and only two had unfavor able records, according to the TB's viewpoint. However, of 13 incumbent Democrats running for re election six had favorable records while seven voted against Farm Bureau advice more than they followed the organiza tion's policy." ' It should be pointed out that the FB usually backs Ad ministration agriculture policy. Also, the issues which the FB listed were not restricted tp vdtes on farm bills. Such issues included votes on reciprocal trade, labor law changes, states rights, federal aid to education. To achieve a perfect rating from the FB, a senator in the 85th Congress would have voted this way: Aginst bills freezing farm price supports, for labor bills granting states more authority over unions, and banning secondary boycotts, against federal aid to education and additional school construction funds, against restrictions on reciprocal trade, and against several Democratic backed measures aimed at boosting farm price supports or restrict ing support cuts. . . The Oregon senator's names did not appear in the re port as Being in the majority against the FB farm issues or in the majority for them. Only one senator had a perfect score and that was Sen. Roman L. Hruska, Nevada Republi can. - - ' . . . the Crater Future Farmers of America chapter tractor. The work was being done recently in the vo-ag farm plot, near the high school. be planning strategy. v Adams. Applegate. and sec hike in tne Fortiana area was forecast is nothing new. On hay is never fed until October. . . 1 ji. x bottle and can. He isn't forced was explained. has been done already to the dropped materially in produc finishing touches are being have it for publication soon. were not quite conclusive, labor costs have risen 4 per Crater FFA Cha pter Rates High In State, Nationally Central Point Crater Fu ture Farmers of America chap ter at Crater high school, Cen tral Point has a state master chapter rating and will re ree 4-H Named To Two girls and a boy have been selected for leadership and citizenship honors in the national 4-H awards program in Jackson county, according to Marilou Garner, county 4-H agent for home-economics. Philip Krouse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Krouse, Ap plegate, and Carol von der Hellen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. von der Hellen, Central Point, received citizenship- recognition recently from Thomas E. Wilson, Chi cago, 111., donor.- Susan Wright, daughter . of Melvin O. Wright, Medford, is the recipient' of a county medal for outstanding leadership ability. This award was do nated by Edward Foss Wilson, Chicago, 111. "Susan Wright, throughout her seven years of club work, has exhibited the qualities which have enabled her to be a real leader of younger club members in her commu nity of Oak Grove," accord ing to Miss Garner. "Her projects have includ ed beef, sheep, horse, out door cookery and junior lead ership projects. As a junior leader, Susan has been able to help her fellow members in the Oak Grove Woolies sheep club to assume a more responsible role as club mem bers. This- year Susan is at tending California Polytech nic at San Luis Obispo, Calif. Western Oregon Livestock Meeting Set Lorvams Livestock pro ducers from 14 western Ore gon counties will convene Nov. 12 to 14 at West Linn for the 23rd annual meeting of the Western Oregon Live stock association. Morning committee sessions will open the three - day meeting with the first gener al assembly at 1:15 p.m.. at the West Linn hotel, accord ing" to Dean Frischknecht, Oregon State college exten sion livestocks specialist and association secretary. Walter Shumway, a McMinnville rancher, is association presi dent. Committee sessions are elated for legislation and tax ation, marketing, wildlife, range and pasture, livestock diseases and parasites, and resolutions. The association is comprised of 14 county live stock associations and repre- Eight Counties Yet Non-Certified Continue Testing Salem Dairy and range herds are bing blood tested for brucellosis in eight of the nine remaining Oregon coun ties scheduled to reach certi fication next June, the state department of agriculture re ported. The remaining range cattle will be tested during the win ter months under the coopera tive federal-state disease con trol program. Only one herd must be tested in order to cer tify Wheeler county, reported Dr. A. G. Beagle, federal vet erinarian in charge of Oregon. During September 982 herds containing 7,824 rattle were blood tested in Oregon. This disclosed 52 reactors for a percentage of 0.664. An esti mated 28,080 cattle were test ed through the milk ring tests given to 1,387 herds. Forty four suspicious herds were disclosed and blood tested as s result of the milk ring tests. 1,855 Calves Vaccinated Vaccinations were given to 1,855 calves in 421 herds; 44 per cent of these were given in Coos, Tillamook and Wash ington counties. . Only one reactor was dis covered in the 471 herds con taining 4,106 cattle tested for tuberculosis. Seven cases of sleeping sick ness (encephalomyelitis) were reported in Oregon horses in cluding two each in Jefferson and Jackson counties and one each in Douglas, Lane and Malheur. The Oregon Supreme Court listened to arguments Oct. 16 in connection with the suit brought by some eastern Ore gon ranchers to test the con stitutionality of the 1957 bru cellosis law. In Atami, Japan, is a cir cular hotel that slowly turns on a central axis so that the guest gets a different view every time he looks out a window. " ceive a bronze plaque for its national standing, according to Ed Griggs, vocational agri culture instructor and chapter advisor. Members Awards She is enrolled in the agricul tural curriculum," the 4-H agent said. Philip Krouse has actively participated in the Applegate 4-H club' and community to demonstrate his citizenship, Miss Garner said. Philip has established a sizeable flock of sheep during his eight years of 4-H club work and through his con tacts with other club mem bers as a junior leader stimu lated them to greater inter est and activity. Philip ex tended his 4-H , interest be yond the local area. He was elected vice-president of the Jackson county 4-H teen-age council this past year. Philip is credited also with beef, swine and tractor projects. ' "Miss von der Hellen has done outstanding 4-H club work in both home economics and agricultural projects throughout the last five years of her membership," Miss Garner said. "Serving as president of the Central Point-West Side gen eral 4-H club, .Carol has shown her ability to lead in a community larger than those of Jier local project clubs. In 1958. her interest spread be yond her regular project work in foods, food preservation, beef and dairy to serve as a junior' leader in the Central Point Beef club," the 4-H agent concluded. Nov. 12-14 sents beef, sheep, and swine producers. . ' . . Key speakers will include Dr. J. C. Miller, new head of the OSC department of dairy and animal husbandry, who will report his recent impres sions of the livestock industry in Europe. Walter Holt, Portland, gen eral manager of Pacific In ternational Livestock Exposi tion, will discuss plans for the Oregon Centennial; and Rich ard J. Nolan, San Francisco, western representative of the National -Livestock and Meat Board, will review the 11959 nationwide meat promotion program. Another program highlight is a panel discussion on live stock feedlot operations, mod erated by Hubert Willoughby, Harrisburg farmer. Panel members will be Phil Cohn, Monroe and Hermiston sheep man; Charlie Lucht, Molalla swine grower; Neil Thompson, Canby cattleman; and George Cadmus, Salem, bank field man. Association officers for 1959 will be elected Nov. 13. Potatoes Fatten Yearling Steers Corvallis Potatoes have long been recognized as a good, economical addition to livestock rations, but recent tests by Oregon State college agriculture experiment sta tion show , the lowly tuber can provide the main fare for yearling steers. OSC yearling test steers were fed out to market grades with an average intake of 75 pounds of potatoes daily, a little straw for roughage, and two pounds of protein supple ment. All but one of the test ani mals reached good or choice grade during the 125-day feeding period at the OSC Malheur branch experiment station feed lots. Feed costs per pound of gain were some 25 per cent lower than for comparative steers on a stan dard finishing ration of al falfa hay and ground corn. Detailed findings are re ported in an OSC agricultural experiment station circular of information, "Potato Diets for Fattening Cattle." The circu lar was written byE. N. Hoff man, superintendent of the Malheur branch station, and J. E. Oldfield, OSC animal nutritionist. Copies are avail able from county extension offices or the OSC bulletin clerk, Corvallis. Sturdy Seedlings Vigorous 2 year old seedlings for tree farms, Christmas tree plantations, and handsome wind breaks. Ponderosa and Scotch pines 50 for S3, 100 for S4, 200 for S6. 500 for $10, 1,000 for $15. Douglas fir S14 per 1.000 Shasta and Condor firs $20 per 1,000 Complete list on request. FERNHOPPER FOREST NURSERY Rt. 2, Box 369 Eugene, Ore. Griggs was notified this week that his "chapter is among those given a third place rating in the nation and will receive the bronze award. First place award is gold, sec ond place silver and third place bronze. The award rating is based on the activities the FFA chap ter members engage in, lead ership and how the chapter is rated in various FFA compe titions, community service and cooperative activities. The Crater chapter was state champion last year in public speaking, second in the state in parliamentary proced ure contest, it has its own chapter farm and tractor and the chapter members have a combined investment of $46, 000 in agricultural projects. The Crater put on 17 radio programs and two television shows. Sixty-five of the chap ter members have FFA jackets which also helped if to place high in the competition. Crater FFA chapter is the second largest in the state and has 98 members. Mollala chap ter by Portland is the largest. The chapter has a 15-acre farm plot adjacent to the high school. Ten acres is in barley and five acres in in alta fes cue. Two chapters are chosen each year to represent Oregon in the national competition. This year it was Canby and Crater. Applications are sub mitted to the state vocational agriculture office in July and the chapters are selected ac cording to their records. The chapter owns approxi mately $3,000 worth of farm equipment which includes a tractor, plow, disc, new mow ing machine and a blade. This is the beginning of the third year for advisor and vo-ag instructor Ed Griggs and his assistant Bill McFarland Griggs graduated from Ore gon State ' college in 1949, spent five years in Half Way in eastern Oregon and two years in the feed department of the Quaker Oats company, Spray Roses Now, Homeowners Told .Homeowners should spray rose bushes now for black stem canker, Clifford . B. Cordy, "county agent, report ed today. The disease, one of the most serious . in . roses, causes the stem to turn black which makes the buds with er and die in the spring. He explained the bushes should be sprayed with a so lution of one-quarter pound of neutral copper in three gallons of water mixed with a little spreader. This spray should be repeated in the spring, following pruning to cover the cuts and young shoots, he added. He also commented on the yellowish rust that may be found in area' lawns. He said that the rust will come off onto the shoes when a person walks through the grass. Cordy said that the current favorable weather conditions cause the rust to appear and homeowners should ignore it. The rust spots should clear up as soon as it starts to frost, he stated, and chances are that it will not reappear in the spring. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Rttidtntial Sht Mtal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 "I'M CARRYING United Press International, U.P.I. correspondent in what then was Palestine, died suddenly during World War IL Simon has carried on ever since brilliantly and with an impartiality all sides have praised to cover the big news that the little country of Israel has made. For the best-informed news and what's back of iW from the eye of the Middle Eastern hurricane, read Simon's latest United Press International dispatches, in Medford Mail Tribune V 1 DR. WILLIAM SEARLES Superrises Meat Inspection New Supervisor Meat Inspection Field Activities Salem Dr. William L. Searles, 33, is now directing field activities of state meat inspection by appointment as acting supervisor. He suc ceeds Dr. R. C. Sexauer, now supervising federal meat grading on the east coast. Dr. Searles has been with the state department of agri culture meat inspection staff for 14 months. Until the pro motion to the headquarters staff, he was veterinary meat inspector for the Ontario dist rict. The record Dr. Searles made in the Ontario area mer ited his selection to the super visory post, stated Robert J. Steward, director of agricul ture. He explained that pro visional status for a period is customary under state civil service in promotions of this nature. Holds Three Degrees Dr. Sarles holds three de grees from the University of Illinois, receiving his DVM degree in 1954. He spent the folowing year in meat inspec tion and disease control under the Illinois state veterinarian. This experience included meat inspection at the Chicago Unon Stockyards. He also holds a B.S. degree in agri culture, and did graduate work at U.I. and was on the dairy science staff there be fore entering veterinary col lege where he earned his sec ond B.S. degree, this time in veterinary science. ' -sv. Prior-to coming to Oregon, he operated his own animal hospital in Chicago. He seryed in the Navy from 1943 to 1946 and was an Air Force instructor in 1951-52. Dr. and Mrs. Searles art already located in Salem. Pencil manufacturers - ia Pakistan use juniper wood, known there as pencil cedar. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worth while purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay In monthly In stallments. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. . - . Loans may b paid In ad ranco or in full at any tima. Crater Finance CORPORATION 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking ON',' Eliav Simon cabled when his older brother, If. vf I
