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! iAft California from Oregon
mjst be dipped according to
approved methods and under
l supervision. A jjrmit must
; be obtained from California
authorizing movement except
for fat ttle destinei for im
: mediate slaughter -within 10
.Qflays affer entry. Ho uermit
; is required Ibr theae. Also,
; another permit is required
; and certification from an au
J thomed veterinarian, ehoving
; freedom fflbm eceb.
5 i For sheep, permit muit be
: obtained from CKfonia and
5eC a bpy jnlPilon with each
t shipment. hfi germit muet be
j approved prior to tny entry
agd must shovathe number,
; exa$t point of origin and k
; act terminal goint. JCe 4ivtj-
sions are allowed.
t Rabies, vaccination is re
! quired for all flos prfor to
: California ntr.
Brucellosis and tuberculosis
health certificates must ac
company dairy cattle, even
those from certified accredit
ed areas. All dairy female cat
tle entering California must
be official vaccinates on and
after Jan. 2, 1961, and must
bear proper identification and
carry health certificate with
shipment.
California has a quarantine
against peach wart, also. This
affects shipments of planting
stock- though California will
now accept planting stock if it
is fumigated.
California also prohibits
entry of fruit tree stock which
has certain parasitic nema
todes. Last year, California
rejected considerable Oregon
fruit tree stock under this reg
ulation. California has had a quar
antine against the cherry fruit
fly which is present in Ore
gon commercial growing
areas. However, California
will now permit Oregon fresh
cherries to come across the
line if they are fumigated un
der prescribed conditions. So
far no fumigation chambers
have been constructed to han
dle small lots such as tourists
would carry in.
California has had a citrus
whitefly quarantine for many
years under which restricted
plants include all species and
varieties of citrus. This i
eludes citron, grapefruit, lem-
one, limes, oranges, pum
melos, tangerines, etc.
Covers All Slates
This quarantine is effec
tive against all states except
Arizona. Oregon has no white-
fly so this quarantine presents
no problems. However, any of
the restricted items entering
the state from Oregon must be
accompanied by an official
whitefly certificate issued by
any of the state department of
agriculture nursery inspectors
lourists and uregon resi
dents wishing to take small
quantities of Oregon fruit or
vegetables into California will
have no difficulty (except for
fresh cherries which must be
fumigated under prescribed
conditions) in getting them
through border stations if
they are of good quality and
free from worm holes.
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'CHIT "CHAT
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor - !
Saturday night we enjoyed another part of old fashioned
country living. We went on a coon hunt.
We pulled up in front of a friend's house about 8:30 p.m.
Plans for the all-night hunt were outlined . as we gulped
down some coffee. Then the four floppy-eared hounds were
broufe'it up from the barn, all eagerly yapping for the hunt
to start. We all grabbed our lights, put the dogs in back of
the car and took off. It was cloudy and a recent rain prom
ised good clear tracks and sharp scent for the dogs. On
nights of a full moon, we were told, coonhunters have to
wait until after midnight to start.
Soon two of us gingerly swung- our legs over a barbed
wire fence, inched down a rocky river bank with a miner
type hat light and flashlight streaming white paths of
light ahead of us. Bending over we found one faint hand
print of a coon, then a large sharp paw print in tne mua.
Using the kind of logic best known to coonhunters we
decided to save this spot until last and hunt through a tree
covered area near a field farther up the road. This was
known as a good coon area and promised at least some
adventure. It sure did!
Marketing Order Said Beneficial To Dairy Industry
After tramping along for about an hour watching the
dog3 zigzagging back in forth in front of .us, then circling
back, one big hound gave full cry. "Good ol' Idaho, he musta
got onto one for sure! Go get 'em you dawgs!" Soon all of
the dogs were making that hoarse half bark, half howl which
marks the real hound dowg.
By now each dog with his head down had circled
to the river bank, then back up through the trees and brush.
They were about 100 yards ahead of us when all of the yaps
seemed to converge into one spot. "By golly they got one
for sure now!" Then we all ran up where all four dogs
seemed to be ripping and tearing at a dark shape on the
ground. Then "Phewee! A skunk! Them d..... dawgs got
them a skunk! Git outta there. Go on beat it. Leave it alone!
My gawd my ol' lady is surely gonna give me h when
I come home tonight!"
By now the stench was so bad that it almost made us
vomit. The dogs were rolling in the muddy fields, one or
two, the leader, pawing at their eyes. Then they ran up to
us panting for sympathy. Cursing them we scattered like
quail.
"Well, guess ever' dawg has to learn some time. That
should teach 'em!" It did! It wasn't long before they were
after another one. This second skunk, probably the mate
of the first one, had his scent gun zeroed in, however, and
was able to fend the dogs off until the hunters could come
running up and drive the hounds off. With its plume-like
tail waving triumphantly aloft the little black animal with
a whfte stripe down its back marched sedately into the
brush and out of sight.
Then there was a third skunk, left in a mangled mess
on the ground, and one or two of the dogs were burying
their noses in river mud. A hunter's boot sent another hound
splashing into the river. Others were pushed in after it.
Soon we were all riding home with the car window wide
open. The end of an unprofitable, but ... well interesting
hunt.
Now, let's switch to another kind of hunt the hunt to
put more money in the wallet. It seems every so often
members of a certain industry get together and try to figure
some way to either get out of a hole or keep out of it. We
sat in on such a meeting Friday night. Members of the
Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association
(always want to switch conservation into conversation, and
there's always plenty, of the latter) heard of how many
Oregon log haulers are having a tough time to even meet
the payments on their trucks. -.
One complaint aired was that truckers too often are de
layed in the loading operation in the woods. A logger has
to make three or four trips to the mill each day to come
out even, we heard. A delay in loading, at scaling station,
or at the mill can cut down on the number of trips per day.
One member o4he lumber industry Saturday made two
suggestions to hehS truckers. A load of logs could be, pulled
out of the woods on a trailer where the truck would meet
it. The logs could be quickly lifted in a cradle arrangement
onto the truck. Also, at the loading depot the logs could be
scaled and weighed by a bonded, private operator to meet
both government and mill requirements. While this is being
done the truck is being serviced; tires checked, engine gas
sed, etc. So the. truck is properly loaded, not overloaded and
several operations are combined in one spot, all saving time
and money to the trucker.
Trees producing lumber are a crop. too. However, those
who harvest them seem to have their own perculiar problems,
different from those of the farm crop harvesters. Our lum
ber industry friend, however, was emphatic that the industry
on the whole didn't want as much -government regulation
as the farmer now has.
"Do you hear of many dairymen making money these
days?" our friend asked. "Of course not. They have all kinds
fo government regulation-quotas and that kind of stuff. May
be this means tougher competition without regulation
but the industry is doing all right and it seems the natural
order of things." -
Another interesting thing about the lumber industry is
its public relations or attitude toward news coverage of its
activities. The way it was explained to us the pear industry
is just about where the lumber industry was a few years
aog, public relations wise. ;'"
As our friend remarked, "We used to hug our business
right up close. We wouldn't let anybody see what was going
on inside. But what the heck? We finally realized our com
peiitors would find out what we were doing anyway. So
why try to hide it?"
How effective is the lumber industry's public relations
program? A question will answer it. Which has to work the
hardest to prove it is doing the best it can to reduce air
pollution? The pear industry or the lumber industry? But the
pear industry has greatly improved its public relations and
the public's understanding of its problems.
This improved public relations program, funny as it
may seem, wasn't brought about by the big pear industry
leaders. They did introduce many new wrinkles in handling
and processing pears, but better public relations hasn't been
one of them. No, this closer cooperation with the press and
public was fostered, fretted over and hammered out through
Medford Girl Buys
Ayrshire Heifer
Mindy Jane Hackett, Med
ford, recently made an initial
purchase of one registered
Ayrshire heifer from Ed. Cal
lenius, Sumas, Wash., accord
ing to the Ayrshire Breeders'
association Secretary, David
Gibson Jr., of Brandon, Vt.
The transaction was record
ed in the National Office of
thp Avrshirp ' 'Rrpprfprs asso-
! ciation, where complete regis
try records on all purebred
Ayrshires in' the United States
have been maintained since
1875. Because of their ability
to produce an abundance of
4 per cent milk economically,
the Ayrshire breed continues
to become increasingly popu
lar with dairyman throughout
the country, Gibson said.
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Las Vegas, Nev. - Federal
milk marketing orders are
necessary to provide an or
derly flow and adequate sup
ply of milk for consumers and
classified pricing for produc
ers, A. L. Mc Williams, gen
eral manager, Pure Milk asso
ciation, Chicago, told the
western regional meeting of
the National Milk Producers
Federation here today.
"Without federal orders,
classified pricing would be
torn apart at the seams and
the quality attained over two
generations would be destroy
ed," he stated. "The mobility
of milk across market lines
and cut-rate pricing of Grade
A milk otherwise used for
manufacturing are threats to
quality and the pricing sys
tem which supports it."
The growth of the federal
milk marketing order pro
gram is sufficient testimony
to its value to producers and
to the general public, McWil
liams asserted. Since it is not
a cure-all scheme, he found it
not surprising that there are
some real promlems associ
ated with the marketing of
milk in light of today's com
petitive characteristics of the
industry.
Two Big Problems
"Two problems most, dis
turbing to producer groups
are the level of the Class I
price, and inter-market price
considerations," he continued.
"The midwest prices, for in
stance, have been lower than
justified by any standards of
equity, and are the. result of
the volumes of milk available
for manufacturing uses in the
area. The lowest midwest
prices have made it impossi
ble for producer groups to
seek satisfactory . returns in
County Youngsters
Join Cattle Club
Three Jackson county resi
dents have been accepted re
cently for junior membership
in the American Guernsey
Cattle club, according to news
received from the Peterbor
ough, N.H. headquarters.
Those qualifying were Zane
Strickland, Rogue River,
Donna and Stephen Geren,
Eagle Point.
By qualifying each will re
ceive a membership certifi
cate and be able to register
a Guernsey at the low mem
ber rate. The junior member
ship will be in effect until
each new member reaches 21
years of age, a club spokes
man explained.
Membership requirements'
are that young people must
be individual owners of one
or more purebred Guernseys,
at least one of the animals
must be registered or become
registered at the time the
youngsters apply for member
ship. Such applications must
be endorsed by a state 4-H
club leader, county 4-H club
agent, county extension agent,
vocational agricultural in
structor or an adult member
of the AGCC.
many fist pounding sessions by a few independent but
prominent operators.
Yes, we have fumbled the ball in the past and may do it
in the future. It will take a lot of consistent, hard, painstaking
work on behalf of the few disciples in the pear industry and
the press before the majority are firmly converted. And
everytime there is a mistake, no matter who makes it, those
with the short tempers and loud voices will want to crucify
somebody and drop the whole better relations program.
Public relations, after all, is made up of many things
television, radio and press, yes, but also word of mouth,
genuine understanding, smiles and an occasional belly laugh.
It's intangible. But you can hear, see, smell, feel and taste
it. It's as real as the cold meal sitting on the table while a
reporter patiently listens to a peargrower pour out his bitter
ness and complaints over the telephone. It takes guts for the
few promoters of this better relations program to stand up
against their critics and "I-told-y-ou-so's," but the results
will be worthwhile.
In fact, the program has shown considerable improvement
already. And it's been due mainly to the pear industry
pioneers that people are aware of the high cost of converting
smudge pots, the seriousness of pear decline and the need
for more research money.
most other sections of the
country, including the south
west. "If the Chicago formula,
for example, were revised to
relate milk prices to signifi
cant economic indicators, as
well as to the support price
level for manufacturing milk,
the result would be increased
returns to producers over a
wide area of the United
States. It would not, of course,
remove the necessity of align
ing prices properly from mar
ket to market to avoid an
artificial incentive to replace
nearby milk with milk from
other markets. Under today's
economy, the pricing of Class
I milk in any market must
be considered in the light of
prevailing prices in other
areas where alternative sup
plies are available.
"For this reason, the pric
ing of milk is taking on na
tional characteristics, and in
dividual cooperatives can no
longer seek solution to their
pricing problems on a single
market basis."
COURT ROOM PROCEDUCE
London - (UPD - Things are
getting slightly out of hand
in London's high court. Tip
staff bailiff Wilfred Cham
bers told spectators Monday
they must not talk, laugh, eat,
knit, climb over seats - or
throw things at the judges.
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AAIL TRIBUNE, Medforfl", Or.
. Tuesday, March 29, 1960
Herd Name Registered
To Eagle Point Man
, Brattleboro, Vt.-A. R. Mc
Donald, Eagle Point, has been
given exclusive use of the
name "Spear L" as a herd
name in registering purebred
Holstein-Friesian cattie.
This prefix name is grant
ed and will be recorded by
The Holstein Friesian Asso
ciation of America. It will be
used in naming all animals
bred by A. R. McDonald.
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