Farm & (garden
Eagle Point 4-H'er
Shares Dairy Honors
Denise Smith, of Granti
Pass and Ricky Anderson, of
Eagle Point, shared top hon
ors in the Rogue River Jersey
Cattle Junior Dairy show held
at the Medford fairgrounds
Saturday.
A member of the Roving
Herdsmen club, Denise top
ped a field of more than 75
judges as she scored 394 out
of a possible 400 points to be
the top judge of the show.
Ricky Anderson, a member
of the Antelope Dairy club of
Eagle Point, showed a Guern
sey cow to the championship
in the showmanship contest.
Competing against older club
members he demonstrated the
expert ability that Judge Ray
Kliever, of Oregon State col
lege, wanted in a- showman.
These two 4-H'ers were pre
sented trophies by the Rogue
River Jersey Cattle club on
which their names will be en
graved. The Reese Creek Renegades
won the pitch fork presented
by Cliff Moore to the club
which has the most club mem
bers with animals competing
in the show.
Demonstrations were given
by the following 4-H Club
members: Joyce Rogers, Rus
sell Ogle and Joe Storz of
Jerome Prairie Snappy, Dairy
ers, Josephine county, on clip
ping a dairy animal; Jack
Esp, Jerry Moore, Kay Steph
enson of Reese Creek Rene
gades, Jackson county, on
controlling cattle grubs; Mari
lyn Deckleman and Lanny
Parsons, Rogue River Dairy
fitting.
Top Judges Listed
Top ten judges in the judg
ing contest were: Denise
Smith of the Roving Herds
men, Josephine county; Shar
on Downing of Applegate
Dairy-A-Teers, Jackson coun
ty; Sandra Bird of Jerome
Prairie Snappy Dairyers, Jose
phine county; David Calloway
of Reese Creek Renegades,
Jackson county; Sandy Brew
ster of Applegate Dairy-A-Teers,
Jackson county; Joyce
Rogers of Jerome Prairie
Snappy Dairyers, Josephine
county; Allen Jones 6f Rogue
River dairy club, Jackson
county; Tim Palm of Eagle
Point dairy club, Jackson
county; Julie Bird of Jerome
Prairie Snappy Dairyers,
Josephine county; and Judy
Nelson of Griffin Creek dairy
club, Jackson county.
Showmanship results were:
SENIOR SHOWMANSHIP:
First, Zane Strickland, Rogue
River dairy club; second, Bill
Hubbard, Antelope dairy
club; third, Carolyn Tiegs,
Talent Milk-Pail Wranglers;
fourth, Marilyn Deckleman,
Rogue River dairy club; fifth,
Georgia Hubbard, Antelope
dairy club; sixth, David Car
ter, Rogue River dairy club;
seventh, Ron Grub, Reese
Creek Renegades, all of Jack
son county.
INTERMEDIATE SHOW-MANSHIP-First
Class: First,
Ricky Anderson, Antelope
dairy club; second, Lanny
Parsons, Rogue River dairy
club; third, Jerry Moore,
Reese Creek Renegades; four
th, Bobby Hubbard, Antelope
dairy club; fifth, Mary Ann
Cantrall, Ruch dairy club;
sixth, Allen Jones, Rogue
River dairy club, all of Jack
son county.
INTERMEDIATE SHOW
MANSHIP - Second Class:
First, David Strickland, Rogue
River dairy club, Jackson
county; second, Marthanne
Goodwin, Griffin Creek dairy
club, Jackson county; third,
Donna Law, Jerome Prairie
Snappy Dairyers, Josephine
county; fourth, Susie Carroll,
Eagle Point dairy club, Jack
son county; fifth, Paul Simon-
sen, Jerome Prairie Snappy
Dairyers, Josephine county;
sixth, Diane Brewster, Apple
gate Dairy-A-Teers, Jackson
county; seventh, Bonnie
Brantley, Griffin Creek dairy
club, Jackson county.
JUNIOR SHOWMANSHIP
- First Class: First place tied
by Candy Gail of Rogue
River dairy club and Richard
Bottger, of Ruch dairy club,
both of Jackson county; sec
ond, Mike Mattheisen of
Reese Creek Renegades, Jack
son county; and third, Timmy
Hoffman of Jerome Prairie
Snappy Dairyers, Josephine
county.
JUNIOR DAIRY SHOW
MANSHIP: First, Laqueta
Stephenson, of Reese Creek
Renegades, Jackson county;
second, Jo Ann Sweet of Jer
ome Prairie Snappy Dairyers,
Josephine county; third, Lu
cile Burk of Eagle Point dairy
club, Jackson county; fourth,
David Calloway, of Reese
Creek Renegades, Josephine
county.
Spray Directions
Given Orchardisis
The first cover spray for
the control of codling moth,
psylla, aphis and scab should
be completed on May 27, ac
cording to L. G. Gentner,
Entomologist Southern Oregon
experiment station, and C. B.
Cordy, county extension
agent.
On pears, with air blast
sprayers use 8 pounds DDT
plus 6 pounds Malathion or
three pounds Parathion per
acre. Add 7 pounds Ziram if
scab is present, they directed.
With horse rigs use 1V2
pounds DDT plus 1 pound
Malathion or one-half pound
Parathion per 100 gallons
Add IV2 pounds Ziram if scab
present.
On Bartletts add one-fourth
pound neutral copper per 100
gallons for blight control; on
apples, use 12 pounds ' DDT
plus 1 pound Parathion per
acre.
Add lVz to 2M ounces X-77
spreader per 100 gallons. In
the apple spray, a spreader is
essential at the higher dosage,
In those orchards where
blight has appeared in a
quantity, this cover spray
should be applied at once in
order to reduce insect popu
lations which are responsible
for the spread of the blight.
In home orchards, use one
heaping tablespoon of 50 per
cent DDT and one tablespoon
of Malathion to one gallon
water. In home orchards this
should be repeated each three
weeks until early August. Af
ter the first cover sprays if
aphis no longer are present,
the Malathion can be omitted.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
A Thursday, May 21, 1959
Twenty-Four Cattle
Reported As Strays
Salem Twenty-four beef
cattle, calves and one horse
are wandering about in
stranee nastures. either be
cause they took French leave
of their home grounds or be
cause someone coveted tnem.
Or maybe some of both.
Anvway, that's the number
nf missing animals reported
in the May Livestock Stray
ed or Stolen bulletin of the
state "department of agricul
Cal-Ore Tour Set
For Ranches Here
The Cal-Ore Hereford asso
ciation's annual ranch tour
will be held this Sunday, ac
cording to Earle Jossy, asso
ciation secretary.
Lunch will be served at
12:30 p.m. at the Earle Jossy
ranch on Crater Lake high
way and Antelope creek. The
meal will include the usual
thick barbecued steaks, po
tatoes, coffee and ice cream.
Ladies are asked to bring a
cake or salad and dishes for
their own groups.
The tour will start at the
J. W. Bigham ranch on Big
ham rd. at 10 ajn.; second
stop at E. M. Bigham ranch
at 10:30 ajn.; third stop, Bill
Wood ranch, Alta Vista rd.,
at 11 aon.; fourth stop, Don
Anderson ranch, Meridian rd.,
11:45 a.m.; fifth stop at the
Jossy place; sixth stop at the
Clinton Charley ranch at 2
p.m.; seventh stop at the Jess
Brothers ranch on Agate rd.,
at 2:30 p.m.; and eighth stop
at the Table Top Hereford
ranch, Table Rock rd., at 3
pjn.
Those persons unable to at
tend the tour are asked to
come to the barbecue, any
way, Jossy said.
State's Longest
Lawsuit Dropped
Portland -flJPD- One of 'the
longest cases in local Federal
Court history has been drop
ped after more than seven
years of litigation.
The case involved a patent
infringement suit brought by
Moist Cold Refrigeration com
pany. The firm sought S4 mil
lion damages from makers of
Admiral and Amana refriger
ators. It claimed infringe
ment of a patent for the new
common home refrigerator
which has a freezing compart
ment separate from the regu
lar cooling system.
The Moist Cold firm thus
dropped an appeal it had
filed. Federal Judge William
Mathes of Los Angeles, who
presided at the latest trial,
signed an order dismissing
the suit.
A jury in 1955 returned a
$2,100,000 verdict for Moist
Cold. Federal Judge Gus J.
Solomon set aside the verdict.
Moist Cold appealed and the
case was set for a new trial,
held in January. The jury
this time found for Admiral
Crop Land Put
In Grass Cover
Nearly 1,732 acres of land
on 31 Jackson county farms
have been retired from crop
production under terms of
soil bank contracts, accord
ing to Don Nichols, Ashland
rancher and chairman of the
Jackson county agriculture
stabilization and conservation
committee.
Almost three out of four
acres are being established to
permanent grass and legume
cover for the period of the
contract, usually five years,
which cannot be grazed or
harvested.
Ninety-two acres are being
planted to forest tree species
under a 10-year contract.
Eight acres have been estab
lished in wildlife cover and
one acre has been flooded to
form a pond for aquatic birds.
The total annual payment
for the County is $22,205.95
with an average of $12.85 per
acre being paid to keep out
of production.
Most of the participation
in the County has been from
farmers wishing to retire or
farmers with outside jobs who
have been unable to rent their
lands satisfactorily. A few
farm operators are placing
land in the conservation re
serve to insure some annual
income while they are declar
ing war with weed herbicides
on troublesome annual and
perennial weeds.
Mole Trapping
Gets Explanation
A good mole is a dead mole
this time of year especially
if his pelt is tacked on a
board, according to Andy S.
Landforce, Oregon State col
lege wildlife specialist.
When properly set, a scis
sor -type trap is one of the
most effective for catching
the western mole, he advised,
This trap takes the animal
without damaging its pelt, and
the set trap is safe from
children and livestock.
Directions for use of the
scissor-jaw trap are given in
extension bulletin' No. 629,
titled "Controlling -Rodents
and Other Small Animal
Pests in Oregon." Copies are
available at county extension
offices.
A mound of soil emerging
from a lawn, garden, or pas
ture is a sign that a mole is
searching for food. The molg's
main diet is worms and in
sects. His normal home paths
are in holes 8 to 10 inches
underground. However, moles
forage for their food in looser
soil, especially in flower
beds, gardens, or well-man
aged pastures.
The young usually are born
m April and May, and this
is the time when most dam
age from moles appears. It's
also the time when a mole
trap can be most effective in
preventing mole damage.
Pelts can be sold to any
major fur dealer. The dense
black fur is used for various
fur garments.
Flowering Bulbs
Need Good Care
Spring flowering bulbs will
bloom well again next year
and in succeeding years if
given good care now, exten
sion agents report.
After, blooming, the flowers
should be cut off when they
fade to prevent seed forma
tion. Seed development takes
stored food from the bulbs,
it was explained.
The leaves should never be
cut. These green leaves build
next year's bulbs. Removing
any part of the leaves before
they die down -naturally re
duces the ability of the bulbs
to produce good flowers next
year, county agents said.
It is best not to dig bulbs
until the tops have died down.
They should then be dug only
if they become crowded and
produce a few small flowers
or need to be moved. Annual
digging is not usually advis
able.
Further information on
bulbs is contained in the U.S
Department o f Agriculture
leaflet, "Spring-Flowering
Bulb s," or "Floriculture
pamphlet for local gardeners,
both available at the Jackson
County . Extension office in
the County Courthouse in
Medford.
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
All men are created free and equal, according to the U.S.
Constitution. Farmers would like to add that all men have a
right to make a fair and honest profit.
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Nobody will know you are hurt unless you yell, a doctor
once told us. And the farmers have been yelling for some
time how. Their voices have been megaphoned by various
organizations they have formed through the years political
parties, Granges, farm bureaus and lately, cooperatives.
Recently the dairymen hit the news with a regional co
operative which covers southwest Washington, Oregon and
northern California. This is to ease the cost-price squeeze
pressure on the dairy farmer. It is aimed chiefly at eliminat
ing volume price discount abuse through under-the-table deal
ings by some milk producers to some distributors. Dairymen
hope this form of a self-help program will eliminate the need
for possible future government regulations or controls.
Generally, the dairyman is faced with three alternatives,
means of stabilizing his price picture. These include a federal
order, state order, and a bargaining cooperative. A federal
order is a form of milk marketing regulation issued by the
secretary of agriculture under the terms of the Agricultural
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. A state order is a form of
marketing regulation issued by a state milk control agency.
A bargaining cooperative is an association of producers to
negotiate prices for member producers.
Federal milk orders set minimum prices to be paid farm
ers. They developed from attempts by farmer cooperatives to
establish "orderly marketing" of fluid milk. Classified pric
ing under this program allows one price for bottled or car
toned milk and a lower price for that which goes into manu
factured dairy products.
A federal milk order provides accurate statistical infor
mation about supplies and demand for milk available. Pur
chase terms for milk are spelled out. This helps provide a
smoothly functioning marketing system to give both buyer
and seller confidence.
Milk handling must affect interstate commerce before
milk sales in a certain area can come under a federal order.
A federal milK order is issued only after a public hearing;
a recommended decision, a -final decision approved by the
secretary of agriculture; and the approval by producers of
the order in the form proposed by the secretary," according
to agricultural experts. Approval of the proposed order must
be by a two-thirds majority or by dairy farmers who supply
two-thirds of the milk sold in the designated marketmg area.
Formula pricing plans are used to help level off the milk
marketing. These formulas may be based on feed and labor
costs, changes in per capita purchasing incomes and changes
in the general level of wholesale prices of communities in a
certain area.
Federal orders do not substitute for producer cooperatives.
Cooperatives send representatives to hearings. Program costs
are financed by so much per hundredweight according to the
volume of milk in the market and services provided by the
milk market administrator's office.
"Do nots" for these programs are:
They do not guarantee a given price level, do not set
resale prices, do not guarantee farmers a buyer, do not control
production or prohibit the marketing of milk from any pro
duction area and do not establish or enforce sanitary standards.
State milk control laws were developed for the same
reason as the federal orders. Forty-two states including neigh
boring California now have them. How the laws are adminis
tered and programs are financed varies from state to state,
General powers given state milk control programs are:
Fixing the minimum producer prices, fixing of resale prices,
regulation of milk weighing and testing, licensing of dealers,
bonding of dealers to protect producer payments, requiring
records and periodic reports from handlers, and auditing or
inspecting dealers records.
Department Tells
Of Seven Dairy Acts
(Editors' note: Consumers,
farmers and industry allied
to agriculture all have vary
ing interests in the numer
ous 1959 legislative changes
in laws administered by the
state department of agricul
ture. This article on dairy
legislation is the first of a
series by the state depart
ment of agriculture brief
ing these changes.)
Salem-Most of the changes
contained in seven 1959 laws
relating to the dairy sanita
tion program of the state de
partment of agriculture are
of a "housekeeping" nature,
designed to clarify or strength
en the dairy code.
While the old dairy breed
labeling law affecting All
Jersey, All-Guernsey or other
breed names was repealed,
consumers may be assured
they still have protection
for straight breed milk if so
labeled. The department will
handle infringements under
misbranding provisions of the
Oregon food law.
An amendment to the fluid
milk law tightens the defi
nition of milk to prevent sub
stitutions which could have
crawled in under the old one;
Ballots Mailed Out
For Bent Seed Vote
Salem -Ballot forms were
mailed May 18 to 269 pro
ducers who registered bv
April 30 for the Hiehland
bentgrass seed growers' com
modity commission referen
dum, according to Paul T.
Rowell of the state depart
ment of agriculture.
The grower vote will be
conducted by mail between
May 20 and June 1.
Trail Student Named
To Honor Society
Corvallis - Stephen E. Hoag
of Trail has been selected for
membership in the Oregon
State college chapter of
Thanes, service honor society
for sophomore men.
Fifty-three freshmen have
been named to the honorary
for next year. Hoag is major
ing in engineering. Selection
is based on scholarship and
leadership in campus affairs
Only one student is named
from each living group.
AEC Granls College Funds for Testing
it also makes legal, for sale
in Oregon only fluid milk
products for which the de
partment establishes a stand
ard of identity following pub-
he hearing. A companion act
removed the definition of
milk from the Oregon food
law, as the definition in the
fluid milk law accomplishes
the same purpose.
Costs of taking samples to
determine butterfat and bac
terial compliance will be re
duced under two companion
laws. One permits the depart
ment to license (after state
examination) drivers of farm
milk tanks to draw official
samples for laboratory analy
ses. The other law m this
duo will permit the depart
ment to regulate the fre
quency of farm sampling for
butterfat.
Will Reduce Inspections
The sampling changes will
reduce dairy inspection travel
about 35,000 miles annually.
Before advent of the bulk
milk tank on farms, the de
partment sampled milkv in the
10-gallon cans as they were
delivered to processing plants.
The bulk tank, however, made
it necessary for the inspector
to travel to the farm to draw
the sample.
Another change in milk leg
islation permits the depart
ment to check city milk in
spection services every two
years instead of annually.
Also in the dairy field are
changes to the ice cream
(frozen desserts) law. These
raise fees to meet the in
creased costs of sampling,
weighing, checking labels and
laboratory controls. A whole
sale, or combined wholesale
and retail, operation will pay
$20 for the first freezer head
and $10 for additional ones
used; retailers only will pay
$10 for the first and $2.50
for each additional freezer
head
The previous maximum of
$50 for wholesale frozen des
sert manufacturers and $25
for retailers is removed. Li
censes will be on a straight
count basis.
The department had 59
wholesale and 370 retail froz
en dessert operations licensed
at the. beginning of the year
All laws mentioned in this
article will become effective
Aug. 5
Corvallis - The Atomic En
ergy commission has granted
Oregon State college $13,550
for testing and instrumenta
tion of the college cyclotron
in preparation for fundamen
tal research programs.
The OSC cyclotron was
built by staff members and
students in the physics de
partment for campus research
and teaching purposes. It and
one at University of Washing
ton are the only two such in
struments in the Northwest.
The $13,550 will be used to
ready the cyclotron for, and
support, basic research in nu
clear physics and such re
lated science fields as chem
istry, medicine, and biology,
according to Dr. E. A. Yunker,
chairman of the physics department.
FOR
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dise made of the very finest mate
rial by quality manufacturers and
telling at the lowest possible
prices.
Bridles, Halters
(leather & rope)
Bits, Curb or Straight -
Saddle Blankets
Lariats
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Calf Muzzles
(all types)
Saddle Girths and Straps
Saddle Bags
Spurs and Boots
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Stake Chains
Cow Hobbles
Curry Combs and Brushes
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A bargaining cooperative is similar to the organization
recently formed for the southwest Washington, Oregon and
northern California area. Actually, dairymen do not want the
government in their business. They feel, by themselves, they
can best maintain a more flexible progam to keep up with
the changing economic picture and can do it at no cost to
the taxpayer. ' -
The attitude of the dairymen as a national group is best
expressed by resolutions adopted during the annual conven
tion of the National Milk Producers Federation in Boston on
Nov. 19, 1958.
Main planks of policy are - a producer-financed operated
stabilization program for dairying to be paid for by each
dairyman according to his production, cooperation with the
National Grange committee, price butter at terminal markets,
maintain high butter standards, dispose of butter scoring less
than 90 on a bid and acceptance basis for butter oil, use loans
and purchases to support dairy prices, compute manufactur
ing milk parity equivalent formula upon prices paid fariners
for manufacturing milk and prices paid for all wholesale
milk for any year since July 1, and enforcement of reason
able and realistic standards for milk and dairy products.
What happens to the dairy industry is important to the
consumer since the average consumer spends 17 cents of every
dollar for dairy products. The dairy industry is important
also to the state since Oregon farmers received $46,262,000
income to rank second, next to meat animals and wool re
ceipts. Payroll dollars for dairy products places the industry
at the top of the list with $17,089,000 received in 1956.
Odds and ends department The Jackson county 4-H
clubs still need three teams to round out their wagon train.
This unique covered wagon trip to 4-H summer school in
Corvallis will leave the county in June. This worthwhile
project will give the young people actual experience w;th
pioneer lure and deserves the support of everyone.
The Cow Belles grossed $94 from their recent cake sale
at the Midway auction. The funds are earmarked for beef
promotion work. Don't forget the Cal-Ore Hereford ranch
tour Sunday. It starts at the J. W. Bigham ranch on Bigham
rd. at 10 a.m.
WIPE OUT
QUACK GRASS
WITH DOWPON
Keep grass from creeping
into your best land. Simply
sprinkle or spray DOWPON
on your thickest grass and
watch it wither away. Kills
roots tool
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