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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
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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. .
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The dining alcove can be
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Convenient for quick fam
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Ample cupboards and built-in
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The half-bath is handy to
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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
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Homes for Living, may be pur
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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