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4 ywriv M&iJmTHt A Thursday, April 23, 1959 OSC Dairy Herd Wins Honors For Guernseys Corvallis - An Oregon State College dairy herd at the John Jacob Astor branch experi ment station has won state honors for the Guernsey breed based on 1958 production rec ords released this week. Ail eight Oregon produc tion leaders in the 1958 Guernsey breed testing pro gram are from the Astoria sta tion supervised by H." B. Howell. Station herdsman Sidney Pryor manages the famed Tideland herd used for dairy research. The eight cows last year averaged more than 650 pounds butterfat and over 12,000 pounds milk with two milkings daily for 305 days. Only one animal 1 year and 8 months old - fell below 600 pounds butterfat or 11,000 pounds milk. State averages for 3,000 Guernseys on standard Dairy Herd Improvement associa tion testing are 390 pounds butterfat and 8,054 pounds of milk based on production for 305 days or less. Records of the Astor branch station herd were converted to the ani mal's mature production. Tied To Commercial Experimental work at. the branch station is tied closely to commercial dairy opera tions on the Oregon coast. Many Tideland animals not needed for research projects have been sold to dairymen throughout Oregon and the nation. Foundation for the herd was the famous Chicona lines established by A. L. Gile, Chinook, Wash. More than 20 years ago, Gile loaned the sta tion several of his outstanding herd sires for a period of nine years to help build the Tide land herd. Two years ago, the station's Tideland Lodestar's Annie, won U.S. hpnors as the high est producing senior . 3-year-old of the breed with 13,165 pounds of milk and 801 pounds of fat in 305 days with twice-daily milking. Howell believes the sta tion's pasture system of "daily rationing" played an impor tant part in the 1958 herd record. An electric wire fence across the pasture is moved twice a day to give cows ac cess to fresh grass every milk ing. Dairy research at the sta tion centers on animal nutri tion. Projects this year in clude testing of watered and pelleted feeds and continued research on mineral require ments for dairy cows. U.A.R. SEEKS LOAN Cairo - (UPD - United Arab Republic authorities and rep resentatives of the World Bank conferred today on de velopment projects planned by the U.A.R. have a Spring foil? y&yj Built to last for years and years Farm Store, 305 S. I itS",t f t J sL 'Ss474r '7' V V t VJK ii HEATERS AT WORK This picture taken last week at the Dunbar Carpenter ranch on Hillcrest rd. shows a heating scene. A haze of smoke surrounds the trees as these stack-type heaters warm one side of the orchard perimeter. Orchard P Sharon Coffman Named Month's 4-H Club Girl Miss Sharon Coffman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coffman, Old Stage rd., Cen tral Point, has been selected Outstanding 4-H Club Girl of the Month for Jackson coun ty. Sharon, a senior at Crater High School is a nine-year club member and is a charter member of Kandy Kids cook ing club where she is serving her third year as Junior Lead er. Her record includes 32 projects in cooking, freezing, canning, camp cookery, for estry, swine, beef and junior leadership. She has held the offices of president, vice-president, secretary, news report er, song lader and numerous chairmanships. She is present ly secretary of 4-H Empire Builders, the County 4-H Jun ior Leader group, and has been an active participant in its program for several years. Sharon's record in Home Economics projects has been especially outstanding. In 1957 she was awarded the Larry Shade trophy at out standing cooking club mem ber in the county. She has pre pared nearly 300 meals in ad dition to 923 individual dish es, 205 bakings of bread and has baked 60 cakes. Her ex hibits have received many blue awards both at county and state fairs and she has had several champion exhibits. In 1957, as County senior bread baking champion she repre sented the county in this con test at the state fair. She has won also trips as a member of judging teams representing Jackson County and was high individual in canning judging at State Fair. Other project awards have included scholar ships to 4-H club summer This and SAVE ON "TURF Safe as the Morning Dew New invention (U.S. Patent Pending) builds protein and needed stamina into grass. Turf Builder has all the advantages of traditional fertilizers, ' PLUS controlled feeding no dust, no odor nothing to attract flies, insects or vermin Turf Builder is power packed yet so light in weight that any one can handle a large bag with ease. For new grass or old. Turf Builder is the best buy for your fertilizer dollar. , SAVE $7.00 2 Bags (5,000 sq. ft.) Reg. Pric TURF BUILDER . . $8.95 1 No. 3518" SCOTT'S SPREADER $16.95 Fir SP 2-6701 typical orchard and Qcwrden school at Corvallis, Forestry Trophy and County medals in foods. Accomplished Demonstrator Sharon is an accomplished demonstrator. For five con secutive years she has been a county winner and has pre sented demonstrations at state fair in cooking, frozen foods and forestry. In 1956 she was a member of 'the champion special breads demonstration team at state fair and was awarded a $50 savings bond. She has also received the Ore gon Bee Keepers award and dairy foods medals on demon strations. At Crater high school Shar on's activities have included band, pep and dance bands, Girls' League, Comettes, 'GA.A. and F.H.A, speech and dramatics, 4-H home econom ics agent for "Student Gov ernment" day and chairman of this year's Girls League Mother's Day Tea., Sharon has one brother and three sisters. Errol and Mar lena are active 4-H club mem bers. Shirley, 4V, and Dyan, 2V2, will probably be 4-Hers when they are old enough. Mrs. Coffman is a graduate of Central Point high school where she was editor of the school paper and Salutatorian of her graduating class. Mr. Coffman is an . experienced guide at House of Mystery where he is now employed. Sharon plans to attend Southern Oregon college to prepare for a career in home economics or for secretarial work. EDUCATOR DIES Belleville, N. J. (UPD Dr. Walter G. H. Ryan, 68, an educator, died Tuesday night. BUILDER! Both Now For ONLY $1890 Uptown Store 103 N. Bartlett SP 2-2460 Siimmei heating was more noticeable this year be cause of the longer periods of heating-some-times for 10 hours at a time and once for nine days in a row. (Photo by Bob Vroman, Mail Tribune Staff Photographer) Crater FFA Plans Parent-Son Event For April 30 Central Point - The Crater high school Future Farmers of America chapter will hold its eighth annual parent and son banquet at 7:30 p.m. April 30 in the Jiigh school gym nasium, according to Ed Griggs, vocational agriculture instructor and chapter advis or. Approximately 500 persons have been invited to attend, Griggs said. Guest speaker will be Adin Hester, national FFA president and winner of the 1956 national FFA public speaking contest. Hester, from the Canby, Ore., chapter, is also a past state president. Other speakers include Ed Manary, last year's state presi dent; Jim Ross, state treasur er; Kenneth Noteboom, presi dent of the Oregon State col lege collegiate FFA chapter and senior class president of OSC. Foundation Awards Listed Chapter foundation awards and their sponsors are: dairy award, Faber-Stratton insur ance company, Central Point; public speaking award, Cen tral Point Pharmacy; farm mechanics award, Deaver Tractor company, Medford; soil and water management award, Moore-Field company, Medford; farm electricity award, Faber's market, Cen tral Point; farm safety award, Grange Co-op, Central Point and chapter star farmer award, First National Bank of Oregon. As part of the entertain ment, Doris Owens, chapter sweetheart, will give several organ solos. The Crater chap ter parliamentary team con sisting of Don Denning, Dave Foote, Don Ryan, Nate Ban ary, John Caster and Pete Melsted will put on a demon stration. Progress reports will be given by John Caster, mas ter of ceremonies, Don Den ning, Dave Foote and Don Ryan. HOLDS IT WELL Ayr, Scotland-dTD-A three-year-old champion heifer that charged a crowd here Wednes day was given a fine old Scot tish remedy for the quieting of frightened cows - half a bottle of scotch whiskey. It didn't work. A veterinarian administered another sedative by 'needle. Consumption of butter in the U.S. averages about nine pounds per person per year as compared with 17 pounds prior to World War II. Contrary to their name, dry cells need moisture to pro duce current. MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING with FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE , n ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE FARM NOTES Washington (UPD The ag riculture department reports it expects 1959 net farm in come to be down Sl-billion from 1958. A three-way squeeze of fall ing prices, rising costs, and a drop in government farm pay ments was cited as the cause. If the prediction holds true, net farm income will skid to about $12,100,000,000 or 8 per cent below last year. Washington -(UPD A con gressional hearing is sched uled for April 30 to consider whether the government should intervene to beef up the depressed prices for eggs and broilers. Chairman Harold D. Cooley (D-N.C.) of the house agricul ture committee announced Tuesday that a subcommittee would noia the Hearing "on the ruinous price situation now prevailing in the poultry industry." Producer prices for eggs and broilers have skidded about 20 per cent below year earlier levels. Washington - (UPD - Agricul ture Department officials to day endorsed proposals to ease some state s restrictions on interstate movement of cattle from areas classed as modified-certified free of bru cellosis. The change in state rules was proposed recently by live stock regulatory officials of 13 North-Central states and deal with state regulations re quiring that breeding animals be blood-tested for brucellosis within 30 days to 12 months before interstate shipment. As a result, the Agriculture Department said, many beef cattle producers postpone blood testing until just before shipping time slowing up the campaign against brucel losis in some Western states. Washington -(UPD- The 1959 water supply outlook for 16 Western states is less favor able than a year ago, the ag riculture department reported today. It said prospects in the south and southwest portion of the area involved were poor, but were fair to good in the north portion. Washington - (UPD - Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) today proposed a new farm program under which more than 40 million acres of farm land would be taken out of production. Present government-owned surpluses would be frozen so they could not force market prices down, under Capehart's plan. Washington -(UPD Agricul ture Secretary Ezra Taft Ben son was reported today to have turned a cold shoulder to the new farm plan spon sored by Sen. Homer E. Cape hart (R-Ind). A spokesman for the secre tary said the Administration still is backing the price support-lowering program Ben son presented to Congress earlier this year. Washington -(UPD- Spokes men for lamb producers met with Agriculture Department officials today to complain about the federal grading system for lamb. They asked that grading be eliminated because it has been used to force production of lambs that are too fat, and to force market prices down. Washington -(UPD- The Agri culture Department predicted today that total cash receipts will rise for dairymen this year. But it made no forecast of an increase in net income. The report said the increase in cash receipts would come from sales of a record volume of dairy products. The report added that the cost of most production items except feed were likely to be higher this year. Washington (DPD The Agri- j culture Department announc-1 ed today an egg-buying pro-j Offers the great est future for your . herd High-index, prov ed sires used ex clusively for prompt, efficient service call . . . SP 2-4093 C. C. Williams gram to boost the sagging price level. The department said its new program will be in addi tion o f egg purchases for the school lunch program. That program was halted this week after purchases of S14 million worth of dried eggs since last Oct: 16. Washington -(CPD- The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) asked Congress Monday to re move existing ceilings on in terest for federal land bank bonds and loans. FCA Governor R. B. Tootel told the Senate agriculture committee his agency fears that its money sources might dry up without removal of a 5 per cent interest rate limit on its bonds. Washington -(UPD- Rep. Mer win Coad (D-Iowa) is prepar ing a new farm bill aimed at taking 35 per cent of every farm out of production. Under Coad's bill 10 per cent of each farmer's crop acreage would go into con servation crops with no gov ernment payments. Another 25 per cent would go into the same use, with payment to the farmer from government surplus crops. Washington -4UPD- An Agri culture Department official said today the department will have to review its lamb grading standards. The comment followed a conference Friday between department officials and spokesmen for lamb produc ers, meat packers, and retail ers. The main attack on grading came from the National Lamb Feeders association, the American Sheep Producers Council, and the National Wool Growers association. They protested grading holds down the price which packers can offer to producers. They also contended grad ing practices often vary from place to place, and that if grading isn't dropped, retail ers may soon move into the meat packing business. Washington -fllPD- The Agri culture Department reports that the nation seems to be turning over its butter making to the five states of Minne sota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Neb raska, and North Dakota. In 1958, these five states produces about two-thirds of the nation's butter compared with about 52 per cent 10 years ago. ME' S MONEY ... On 'the i n the Feed You may THINK that bulk feeding facilities on your farm will be costly, but we found that bulk facilities can be built into your present building at a very nominal cost. ' If you are not enjoying the many advantages of bulk feeding, just ask us to figure the savings for you. There is no obligation whatever. So just give us a call and we will be happy to come to your ranch and show you the benefits that result from using a bulk feed system. THE BEST IN FEEDS TOOI t 1 U i A r " Ti'fn Stt' 1 .i i " 1Fn. i : . - " JPPLY.-A HIGHWAY 99 Phone NO Plant Disease Handbook Ready Corvallis - Detailed infor mation on causes, symptoms, and controls for Oregon's more important plant diseases is listed in a new handbook published by the Oregon State College extension service. The 215-page handbook gives latest recommendations for controlling plant diseases in commercial and home or chards, field crops, fruit and vegetable crops, ornamentals, and specialty crops such as mint and hops. Fungicides are listed by both common and trade name and residue tolerances allow ed under the Miller Bill are given. Precautions for mixing and applying the fungicides are also given. Separate spray schedules for Hood River Valley, Wil lamette Valley, Jackson coun ty, and Wasco county orch ards, and for home orchards, are included. The handbook,' "Oregon Plant Disease Control Hand book," was prepared as a ref erence for county agents, com mercial spray applicators, and seed and garden supply stores and others interested in dis ease plant control. Copies are available from the OSC Coop Book Store, Memorial Union Building, Corvallis, for $2.50 per copy. Registry Closes For Seed Growers Salem - Approximately 50 per cent of the Highland bent grass seed growers in Oregon had registered by April 17 to vote in the referendum on creation of a commission for this crop. Deadline for growers to reg ister is April 30. Paul T. Rowell, market de velopment chief for the state d e p a r tment of agriculture, urges any grower who has not received registration blanks from the department to get in touch with him in Salem. Blanks are available also at the office cjf county extension agents in Albany, McMinn ville and Salem. The department has not yet set the time when growers will vote on whether or not they want a commission. 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