2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Oregon, TTwrsday, January 22, 1959
Highlights of Upcoming
Aqriculture Laws Released
Salem-Highlights of propos
es legislation affecting laws
administered by the state de
partment of agriculture were
released , today by Director
Frank McKennon.
Without discussing the mer
its of each, McKennon noted
that the following bills to be
entertained by the 1959 legis
lature are principally from
three sources: (1) those the
department has suggested as
"housekeeping amendments"
to make laws more workable
or to modernize existing
statutes; (2) proposal resulting
from conferences of the de
partment's advisory groups
and officials; (3) and changes
affecting the department
which originate from inde
pendent sources.
Seed law-Would establish
funds for control work by
budget rather than by con
tinuing appropriation.
Produce Act-Remove wal
nuts and filberts from the
law.
Control area law-Author-Ue
department to receive and
expend funds to enforce con
trol areas. Allow publication
of control area orders in a
local newspaper where appli
cable. . Insecticide application-Control
application of insecticides
to protect polinizing insects.
(Move for this legislation
originates from Malheur coun
ty alfalfa growers.)
Hay dealers act-Establish a
flat $1,000 bond requirement;
provide more adequate funds
for enforcements
Livestock brands-Authority
to use simplified procedures
in re-recording. Amendments
to improve brand procedures
upon death of recorded own
er, and to correct conflicting
statutes with, respect to es
trays. Predatory animal and ro
dent laws-Revisions to bring
both programs under a single
law administered by the state
department of agriculture;
provision for an advisory
board composed of represen
tatives from O.S.C., state
game commission and other
interested agencies.
This Week's
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By HIAWATHA ESTES
Much of the charm and
character of this 1639 square
foot home lies in its hand
wrought detailing.
Band sawed rafters outline
the gables of the split cedar
shake roof. Painted horizon
tal siding is combined with
board and batten for design
interest and for color con
trast, rich-hued used brick
veneer is used in front and
repeated in the chimney and
the planter beside the en
trance. Shutters at the win
dows, diamond lights in the
corner bay and a cross-buck
motif on the garage doors add
additional rustic touches.
From tha sheltered en
trance center hall channels
traffic to every room
Built on the open plan, the
kitchen commands a view of
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Auction markets - Special
provision for the holding of
one-day horse sales and pro
viding adequate supervision
by the department.
Meat inspection - Require
operators to pay full costs of
overtime inspection. Permit
department to establish ex
empt areas for farm slaughter,
with farm slaughterers to sell
output within the area. Elimi
nate hearing requirement in
designating slaughter time be
tween given plants.
Confine slaughtering of ex
empt custom plants to their
own establishment. Require
retail meat markets and lock
er plants not licensed to
laughter to have carcasses of
animals they handle slaugh
tered at an officially inspect
ed plant or to identify as un
inspected farm slaughtered
meats received for custom
processing.
Permit farmers to sell farm
slaughtered animals direct to
a home consumer and give
the department the option of
requiring an inspected or un
inspected tag on such products.
Milk Sampling Proposed
Fluid milk - License milk
truck driver to take samples
for bacteria tests. Authorize
department to set frequency
of butterfat sampling of pro
ducer milk by regulation (now
established by law). Change
frequency of . department's
city milk inspection surveys
to every two years instead
of annually. Amendments de
fining milk and establishing
standards of identity for vari
ous milk products.
Frozen desserts - Raise li
cense fee for retail freezers
from $5 to $10 plus $2.50 for
each freezer head and fee for
wholesalers from $15 to $25
plus $5 for each freezer head.
Also eliminate present maxi
mum licenses of $20 for re
tail and $50 for wholesale;
and license each business es
tablishment. Eggs Make standards of
quality (no change in sizes)
same as federal' grades. Set
annual $5 license fee at whole
sale and producer levels, ex
empting producers who sell
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the patio and, play yard. Meal
preparation and clean-up will
be quick and easy in the effi
ciently planned work area,
with its window-enclosed din
ing corner, built-in appli
ances and pantry closet.
Gathering spot for the fam
ily is the big family room. A
wall of slicing glass doors ex
pands this activity area to in
clude the patio. A second door
leads directly into the work
shop area of the double gar
age. The big corner fireplace
dominates the living room.
With a sliding door between
the living room and family
room, these areas can be unit
ed for parties or separated
when either adults or young
sters are entertaining separ
ately. The family bath, with re
their eggs only on their own
premises. Apply case tax fee
to producers as well as whole
salers. Give director of agri
culture authority to lower
case fee tax below legal
maximum.
Producers selling to whole
salers would not be subject
to license or case tax.
Warehouse law Require
non-licensed warehouses to
post appropriate sign and let
department check their busi
ness records to make sure
they are not subject to this
law. Adopt compulsory insur
ance for warehouses.
Storage of grain as basis
for farm credit-Repeal pro
posed by department.
Fryer and broiler labeling
To require container or tag
to. show state where grown
and name of any chemical
preservative used. (Sponsored
by fryer industry committee.)
Produce dealer bonding-To
require bonding of all dealers
in agricultural produce; prob
ably will be submitted as
amendment to Oregon pro
duce dealers' act. (Originates
from Klamath potato growing
region.)
Provides Law Repeal
Breed milk-Proposal to re
peal existing law. "
Financial-Authorize depart
ment to regulate extension of
credit; authorize bad debt
charge-off; increase depart
ment revolving fund to $2,500.
Commodity Commissions -Proposals
as a result of legis
lative interim reorganization
study would (1) relieve the leg
islature of commission budget
approval-put them ori an an
nual basis and require a pub
lic meeting before commis
sion adoption, certification
and filing through the direc
tor of agriculture; (2) give
commission direct control of
their banking; (3) require con
sideration by governor of pro
ducers' recommendations on
commission appointments, and
(4) make state services by
Department of Finance and
Administration optional on
cost basis to commissions.
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room. For all-year comfort the
centrally located forced air
furnace could be equipped
with air conditioning. Both
the forced air furnace and the
water heater have been cen
trally located for economy of
installation as well as oper
ation. 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 purchased for
SI. Send ill orders for either plans
or books to Hiawatha Estes, P.O.
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CHIT CHAT
' By JOI COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
This is the time of year when the agricultural people
seem to be concentrating on sales - either working or
worrying about 'em.
From what we have observed recently the beef people
and the pear people are both working for better sales and
the pear people are also doing considerable worrying. A
little directed worrying often produces results. The aimless
kind doesn't.
The beef people after doing some directed worrying on
their sales volume - the amount of meat actually on the
table in American homes - are doing some promotion work.
The pear people are, already famous for their product
promotion program but now seem to be doing some aim
less worrying about the growing trend toward concentrated
buying power in a few hands.
Dale Carnegie in his well-known book, "How to Stop
Worrying and Enjoy Life" suggests that the worriers study
their problem, do all they can to solve it, then forget about
it. You don't always stop worrying after you have done
all you can about the problem, but at least, while you're
busy doing something about it you don't have time to
worry. .
Anyway, the beef people are doing something about it.
Here Thursday to tell beef men of southern Oregon all
about what is being done about meat promotion on the
national level was Richard J. Nolan, Denver, western repre
sentative of the National Livestock and Meat board. Also
present at the courthouse meeting was Howard Fujii, com
modity director of the Oregon Farm Bureau, the sponsoring
organization for the meeting.
After listening to a steady stream of facts and figures
on this nation-wide beef promotion program and thumbing
through the concise, eye-appealing little pamphlet put out
by the National Livestock and Meat Board, we decided the
brightest spot in the whole promotion program and prob
ably the most effective is the work done on the state and
county level
Mrs. Don Nichols, representing the Jackson county and
Oregon Cowbelles, in a clear, well-modulated voice, told
how schools in the county and state are given $10 for home
economics departments with which to buy beef for cooking
instruction. With the money goes promotional material to
explain how cheaper cuts of beef can be prepared to make
nourishing and tasty meals. Seven schools in Jackson county
have received the money this year.
The Cowbelles also sell beef cookbooks and last May
saw the first printing of state place-mats colorfully illus
trated with state maps showing the location of various
brands with a key to the ranch name and ownership. These
place-mats make colorful table decorations, especially dur
ing this Oregon Centennial . year. Hostesses please make
note and contact Mrs. Nichols at Ashland to place your
order. They are comparatively inexpensive.
' Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coles, Prineville, (he is secretary of
the Oregon Cattlemen's association) have developed de
hvdrated beef candy and are now working to develop a
fcandy bar, Mrs. Nichols informed the group of 18 people
attending the meeting.
The Cowbelles also sponsored various cooking schools.
A beef cooking school in Phoenix Tuesday drew 100 people
and not all of them women we understand. Bev Lyons,
California Oregon Power company's home-economist, put
en a savory demonstration of cgoking various meat recipes
and these recipes were passed out to the crowd. Trowbridge
and Fiynn electric company sponsored some prizes.
Beef, Inc. - a beef promotional agency in Oregon, is
planning a colorful exhibit in Portland for the Centennial,
ft will consist of an old-fashioned butchershop, movies will
give a little of the romance of the industry and meat will
be cut and wrapped for the various meat counters in the
area right in front of the visitors.
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During his talk, Nolan explained that the National Live
Stock and Meat Board represents all segments of the in
dustry. Sixteen directors of the 30-rhember board represent
the growers and feeders, five represent the livestock market
ing agencies and four represent meat packers and five
represent the retail meat trade and one represents the
restaurants. The program is financed by voluntary contribu
tions from livestock growers and feeders, and meat packers,
Nolan said.
As explained in the pamphlet, the board works for the
beef industry through a diversified program of meat pro
motion, education, information and research. Through re
search, it uncovers scientific facts to strengthen the position
of meat as a food. Through its work in promotion, educa
tion and information it carries these facts to the nation.
To build what it calls a "meat-minded Arnerica," the
board stretches its program to cover motion pictures, meat
research, cooking schools, television, news, radio, clinics,
exhibits, test kitchens, posters, medical groups, literature,
contests, schools and demonstrations.
Under the classification of meat research, we under?
stand there are over 200 grants for research on the nourish
ment from meat. Doctors have learned, for instance, that
senior citizens need substantial amounts of meat in their
diets. We were shown recently, a refrigerator room, stocked
full of meat at the Jackson County Farm Home.
Pear industry people are becoming increasingly wor
ried over the trend toward placing buying power in a few
hands. Now chain stores seem to be merging wth other
chain stores. Thus they can place a demand on sizes and
grades of pears, and pretty much set prices. ,
These power-buying groups have knoeked down the
strength of the auction to practically nil, we understand.
The result is that the auction is no longer the bellwether
of pear prices. This also means that the auction program
has been discontinued in many areas resulting in practically
squeezing out the small shippers and brokers.
One bright spot in the pear market picture is the fair
revival of the export market. However these outlets can't
be depended upon, we are informed. Acceptance pf Rogue
valley pears continues to be good, industry sources state.
The answer to this problem, according to some pear
men, is obvious. Concentrated buying power requires con
centrated selling power. In other words, packing house men
could hold daily meetings, scan market reports, decide
what they will accept for their fruit and aim at those
prices. This may not be the solution and better ones could
be offered but we haven't seen any in action yet.
What Is Marketing Told
In New OSC Publication
Corvallis-How do farm
foods move to family tables?
This is one of the questions
answered - in a new bulletin
published by the Oregon State
College, extension service.
Titled, "What Is Market
ing?" the new publication
points out that marketing
moves a product from the per
son who produces it to the
person who uses it. And, sec
ond, it returns money through
marketing channels to the
producer.
This makes it possible for
farmers . and pther producers
Ao exchange the products they
raise or manufacture for items
such as clothing, furniture,
or machinery produced by
others. Without marketing, it
would be difficult for anyone
to get the items used in every
day living, it is explained.
"A glance at the people
over the earth shows that
producers who have good
markets for exchanging their
produce have the high levels
of living, while people who do
not have markets live the sub-
Not Promising One
By GRACE N. PEARSON
Grange Correspondent
The past three years have
been tough going for. the
dairy business and the present
national picture is not a prom
ising one.
Lynn Bramkamp, Sacra
mento, Calif., manager of the
California Milk ' Producers'
federation, told those attend
ing the annual meeting recent
ly of the Rogue River Jersey
Cattle club that dairymen
shouldn't expect a "glorious
future because of government
control or subsidy.
"It is probable," he said,
'that many of the old reme
dies, none of. which has ever
proved effective in the past,
will be tried again under
government auspices. In a
free economy, good prices un
der government sponsorship
result in over-production of
dairy products in order to se
cure a profit; and conversely,
low prices bring precisely the
same result because the pro
ducer must increase his ef
forts in order to meet his costs
of operation
Thus it is that the problems
of the dairy business are
eternal and self-perpetuating.
If they ever are to be solved,
it must be accomplished
through the initiative of the
dairy farmers themselves,
Bramkamp said.
To this end, the organiza
tion which he represents
composed of fifteen producer
marketing groups and includ
ing approximately 50 per cent
of the Grade A dairy farmers
in California, outlined a self-
help plan for the industry
which was presented to gov
ernment leaders in Washing
ton, D.C., last year.
Immediate objections were
raised by both state and U.S.
departments of agriculture
first, because the proposed
bills made no provision for
control by the USDA; second,
because they provided for
sale of existing surplus dairy
products on the world mar
ket, he said. This would Con
stitute "dumping"; and third,
because they made request
for a government loan to
establish the program with no
provision for its repayment.
Bramkamp said.
Irradiation Use
In Preservation
Studied at OSC
Corvallis - Preserving sea
foods by irradiation, a by-product
of atomic fission, could
extend the market for fresh
Oregon crab and provide fresh
fish for army menus in distant
areas of the world.
A new $14,000 grant from
the Quartermaster Food and
Container Institute has been
made to Oregon State college
to investigate irradiation-pres.
ervation of seafoods for armed
forces use.
Precooked seafoods, includ
ing fish sticks, shrimp, smoked
sablefish and smoked cod will
be tested in the study. Fish
will be treated with high dos
ages of gamma rays, the
atomic rays that will kill
spoilage organisms and per
mit storage of foods without
refrigeration.
Fish will be shipped frozen
to the materials testing reac
tor at Idaho Falls, Ida., and
the Quartermaster Ionizing
Radiation Center at Dugway,
Utah.. In tests, fish will be
"shot" with high frequency
rays, then returned to OSC
food and technology depart
ment for six months storage
at "tropical" temperatures of
100 degrees F., and two years
at 70 degrees F., or room tem
perature. Previous tests at OSC on ir
radiated oysters, crab, shrimp,
kippered sturgeon and sable
fish were completed last year
with the U.S. Fish and Wild
life service. "Taste testers"
eould detect little or no differ
ence between treated and un
treated seafoods. According to
Russell Sinnhuber, food tech
nologist in charge of the proj
ect, irradiation has little or no
effects on the nutritive value
of foods, any more than usual
processing methods.
sistence type of life," the
bulletin states.
What marketing is, and how
it is done, is clearly explain
ed through illustrations. Each
of the nine marketing func
tions -selling, transportation,
Standards and grading, finan
cing, market information,' pro
cessing, storage, risk-taking
and packaging and buying -are
described in simple lang
uage, t
Role of housewives in help
ing set prices is also explain
ed in the new publication.
There are also hints on ways
farmers may be able to save
some of the cost of marketing
their products.
The bulletin was written by
Harold F. Hollands and Mar
ion D. Thomas, agricultural
economists at OSC. Oregon
residents can get a copy from
their county extension office,
The proposed legislation co-
sponsored by the National
Milk Producers' federation
and the Grange, was killed in
Congress because of to three
factors, the speaker asserted.
Three years earlier, members
of Congress representing dairy
interests refused to lend their
cooperation and support to
legislation being sponsored by
those representing the cotton
interests. So, in return for
support by cotten men need
ed for passage of the dairy
measures, was refused. The
bills offered opportunity for
political by-play to discredit
Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son. Break up of the so-called
farm bloc in both houses dur
ing the session, was respon
sible for final demise of the
proposed legislation, Bram
kamp said.
These self-help proposals
held great promise because
they were indicative of the
dairyman's realization that
he must solve his own prob
lems, but didn't go far enough,
he said. Future legislation
should include provisions for
improving the quality of all
dairy products marketed by
establishing uniformly high
standards of quality for milk
and for all products from it,
for a greatly expanded re
search program, and for man
datory deductions from re
ceipts of milk producers to
finance an adequate program
for the advertising and pro
motion of dairy products.
Best Approach Explained
Since it is believed the most
valid approach is on a com
modity basis, the drafting of
such legislation is currently
on the agenda of the West
States Milk Producers' asso
ciation, an organization com
posed of Grade A Dairy Farm
er groups in 11 western states
of which Richard Westerberg,
Jackson County Guernsey
dairyman, is president, and
Bramkamp is secretary. When
these drafts have been com
pleted and ratified by the
membership, Bramkamp said,
support for them in Congress
will be sought from repre
sentatives and senators of the
11 states concerned.
Also included on the after
noon's program was a resume
of Jersey, club achievements
during 1958 given by past
president J. E. Parsons of
Gold Hill. These" included
spring and fall classification
tours with five herds partici
pating in each; sponsorship of
a Junior Dairy Cattle show
in May at the Josephine Coun
ty Fair Grounds in Grants
Pass; 100 per cent participa
tion of active club members
in exhibiting Jerseys at the
Josephine County Fair where
they also maintained a Jersey
information booth; sponsor
ship of trophies for 4-H Fairs
in both Jackson and Josephine
counties; assistance to 4-H and
FFA members in securing
animals for Jersey projects;
sponsorship of one meeting of
Rogue Valley Purebred Dairy
Cattle association; assistance
to one new all-Jersey dis
tributor in establishing his
business.
Three junior members of
the club who were present,
were cited by Parsons for out
standing achievement during
the year. They were Joyce
Rogers of Grants Pass, who
exhibited the 4-H grand cham
pion Jersey cow at the Jose?
phine County Fair; Tommy
Case, also of Grants Pass, who
won championship honors in
showmanship at the Spring
Show; and Jerry Moore of
Eagle Point, who exhibited
the 4-H grand champion Jer
sey cow at the Jackson Coun
ty Fair, Miss Rogers, who also
represented the club as Jersey
Princess at the Oregon State
Fair, was presented a gift in
appreciation for this service.
During a brief session, Karl ;
Schutzwohl, Grants Pass, was i
named program planning
chairman for Josephine Coun
ty. It was voted to change
the regular meeting day, on
an experimental basis, from
the first-Friday to the first
Saturday of each month. Next
meeting will be held Feb. 7
at the H. L. McColm resi
dence near Grants Pass.
The gathering, attended by
87 members . and guests of !
the club from Jackson and
Josephine counties, was held
at the Rogue Riviera near
Gold Hill, and was preceded i
by a noon no-host dinner. ' I
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Carol von der Hellen
Outstanding
"I would lots rather clean
out the barn than my room!"
Carol von der Hellen, 17-year-old
4-H member remarked
recently.
This over-ruling interest in
farming is probably one of
the reasons that her leaders
and other members approve
hr choice as 4-H girl of the
month. Her junior leadership
and the many awards she has
won in various phases of 4-H
work provide other reasons
for their choice.
Miss von der Hellen has
Phoenix Youth
Top Speaker In
District Contest
Phoenix-Leon Small, Phoe
nix, won the Rogue-Umpqua
Future Farmers of America
district public speaking con
test held at Phoenix commu
nity center last Thursday.
Title of Small's speech
was, "Consequences of Care
lessness," a talk on farm safe
ty. Second place went to Don
Denning, Crater chapter, Cen
tral Point; third place, to Jim
Ross, Marshfield chapter, Coos
Bay; fourth, Bill Hubbard,
Eagle Point and fifth Mike
Burnett, Illinois Valley.
Illinois Valley placed first
in the parliamentary proced
ure contest, Crater chapter
second, Grants Pass, third,
Phoenix fourth and Eagle
Point, fifth.
Semi-Finals Announced .
First and second place
speakers and the first and
second place parliamentary
team will meet in a state
semi-final contest to be held
at Cratei- high school at 1
p.m., Feb. 26. These two
speakers and parliamentary
procedure teams of Illinois
Valley and Crater high school
will compete against repre
sentatives of the upper Wil
lamette valley district repre
sentatives Central Linn and
Harrisburg-schools located be
tween Albany and Eifgene.
From this contest a first place
speaker and first place par
liamentary team will go to the
state contest in Corvallis in
March. '
Members of the Crater par
liamentary procedure team
are John Caster, chairman,
Pete Melsted, Don Denning,
Nate Banry, Don Rayan, and
Dave Foote. Jim Frink arfd
Mike Redman are alternates.
Crater also has a second team
of 12 freshmen and sopho
more boys.
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A. E. Stevens Phoenix
Oliver H. Roundrree Williams
Wm. C Higinbotham Central Point
Albert L. Straus Gold Hill
4-H Member
been in the county 4-H pro
gram for six years and during
that time has been to the Cow
Palace and to the Pacific In
ternational Exhibition in Port
land where her Hereford cow
was rated choice. She also
made showman in the San
Francisco event. She was on
the beef judging team from
Jackson county which placed
second at the state fair, won
a citizenship award in 4-H,
took championships in bread,
sponge-cake and in cooking
demonstrations.
Freezing is the newest of
her three projects of beef,
cooking and freezing. She has
only had this project a year,
she said.
Carol hopes to use money
earned from the sale of her
six Herefords to help put her
through Oregon State college.
There she will major in either
home-economics or teaching,
she said. She doesn't know
which.
Meanwhile through her beef
project she is interesting her
father, Roger von der Hellen
in raising beef. During the
summer she helps him on the
60-acre truck farm. Actually,
she would like to major in
animal husbandry at Oregon
State, but then girls don't take
such studies, Carol twinkled.
Epidemic Reported
On Poultry Disease
Salem - Epidemic propor
tions of infectious bronchits,
a highly transmissible disease
of poultry, were today report
ed in Marion, Washington,
and Yamhill counties by Dr.
L. E. Bodenweiser, state vet
erinarian with the state de
partment of agriculture, who
blamed "bootleg vaccines."
Dr. Bodenweiser further
warned that no one, whether
in possession of a permit for
purchase or not, can buy the
vaccine from any source other
than the state department of
agriculture which supervises
sale and distrbution.
Iowa is one of the major
corn states, but it also pro
duces about a million tons of
bituminous coal a year.
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