Interim GroupState
Hold Joint Ag. Meeting
Salem -At joint meeting
Friday afternoon in Salem of
the legislative Interim com.
mlttee on agriculture and the
italu board of agriculture,
J. F. Short, recently appoint
ed director of agriculture,
spelled out pollclei he will
puraue In the state department
of agriculture.
The department, he said,
will continue to be adminis
tered on a non-partisan basis.
Staff and Internal policies will
be on the same non-partisan
level.
. He will, he said, expand
use of the "very capable"
state board of agriculture as
much as the members will
permit.
It will be his aim, Short de
clared, to maintain and In
crease the stature of the de
partment and to take steps to
increase its Importance and
benefits to the agriculture of
Oregon.
"But I don't want anyone
to think my program will in
any way conflict with the
work of Oregon State col
lege," he continued, "for Dean
Price and I know from past
experience that we can work
together and that there is
plenty of work for all of us."
He told the Interim commit
tee the department would of
fer any legislation it seeks
through that committee and
that he does not believe it is
the department's responsibili
ty to seek new or major
changes in laws,
"It is our responsibility, I
believe," Short said, "to keep
the laws we administer in step
with changed conditions." He
said any amendments propos
ed by the department would
be offered only after consul
tation with and advice of
trade, commodity and consum
er groups.
He further said his first
attention as director is to in
ternal and personnel prob
lems, certain areas of enforce
ment and to public relations,
and that next in order will be
overall problems, possible
needed legislation and budget
preparation.
Referring to 1959 legisla
tion which gave the director
power to reorganize the de
partment, he said studies
along this line will be a mat
ter of mechanics and a study
of a structure that will give
the most adequate service.
He said he will activate the
one sentence in 1959 depart
ment legislation "which has
the greatest potential for good
and possibly the greatest po
tential for confusion." This is
the authority to encourage
and work toward Jong-range
planning for the development
and promotion of the agricul
tural resources of the state. In
this, he also said, he will work
closely with the state college
to avoid conflicts in activities.
Livestock brand inspection,
the brucellosis program and
market development areas of
the department's work were
main items the Joint groups
considered in a two-hour ses
sion. Meeting alone for two hours
more in the afternoon, the
board heard further reports
from the director, set July as
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Its next meeting and adopted
a live-point recommendation
to encourage full continuance
of the brucellosis control pro
gram
The brucellosis recommen
dations embraced a more ade
quate enforcement of the
range testing program; the en
couragement of a long-time
calfhood vaccination program
the initiation of an informa
tional and educational pro
gram Jointly by the depart
ment and the college; and
some arrangement to test one
and two-cow dairy herds, In
eluding family cows, not test
ed under the milk ring test
In the morning session, the
board of agriculture adopted
a resolution offered by Ward
Spatz, Medford, commending
Frank McKennon, who retir
ed April 1 as director, for his
long and efficient service to
the department, Oregon agri
culture, and cooperation with
the board-
Short, who succeeded Mc
Kennon, also paid high tribute
to McKennon s services.
Otherwise the morning was
occupied with Short's report
of activities in the depart
ment,
He said that Dr. Roy H.
Peterson, Tillamook, presi
dent of the Oregon Veterin
ary Medical association and
the veterinarians' liaison com
mittee has requested a meet
ing with him next week to
discuss the position of the state
veterinarian in the animal di
vision organization.
Veterinarians Set Resolution
At its annual meeting the
veterinary association adopt
ed a resolution aimed at di
vorcing the state veterinarian
from the division of animal in
dustry and placing his opera
tions directly under the direc
tor of agriculture.
Short said he would ap
proach the discussions with
the veterinary committee
"with an open mind."
He reported a transfer of
shipping point Inspection su
pervisors at Ontario and Mil-ton-Freewater
will become ef
fective June 1.
With respect to' the division
of animal industry, he said his
preliminary reaction is favor
able to reorganization which
was started in March. He said
he will continue with his
study of internal organization
in this division and that it any
changes come from the study
they will be toward improve
ment of morale and efficiency.
In another area. Short re
ported some sentiment to
move the Klamath district
shipping point office from
Klamath Falls to Merrill
where the department already
has a branch grain inspection
office. Since the office was es
tablished at Klamath Falls
years ago the heavy potato
production has shifted to the
Merrill area. If such a change
were made, it would cut in
spection costs,
The director Informed the
board that the department
will attend but will take no
position in the meeting Sat
urday afternoon of the agri
cultural Interim committee
with the Portland city milk
Inspection service. The city
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handles milk Inspections,
Board chairman Ernest
Jernstedt wanted to know
about coordination of work
between the department and
Oregon State college,
Both F. E. Price. OSC dean
of agriculture and ex-officio
member of the board, and
snort stated any problem
areas are Ironed out in con
ferences
"Basically, we stick to re
search," Dean Price told the
board In making particular
reference to determinations
in the agriculture chemical
field which has drawn so
much attention in recent
months.
Short said, and Price
agreed, a gray area exists in
which both agencies can do
helpful work without overlap
ping.
Short reported the depart
ment has recently received
commendations from officials
in other stales for its weights
ana measures activity.
College Guernsey
Wins U.S. Award
Corvallis - The Oregon
State College agricultural ex
periment station at Astoria
has been named a Gold Star
Guernsey Breeder for 1980 by
the American Guernsey Cat
tle club.
The OSC Guernsey herd,
managed by H. B. Howell, sta
tion superintendent since 1934
met all requirements for the
award during the past year.
special certificate will be
given OSC in recognition of
the award.
A production summary of
the herd showed 26 cows with
records averaging 11,239
pounds milk and 593 pounds
butterfat when milked twice
day during a 10-month test
period. Herds competing for
the award had to average
more than 10,300 pounds milk
or 800 pounds butterfat. The
herd's bred type classification
score, 84.4 per cent, was bet
ter than average for Guern
seys. For the past three years,
the herd's average production
has been 10,615 pounds milk
and 572 pounds butterfat.
Officials of the American
Guernsey Cattle club have
called the herd "one of the
outstanding land-grant college
herds in the U. S.," reports
H. P. Ewalt, OSC extension
dairy specialist.
The herd also had to meet
rigid health requirements to
win the Gold Star Guernsey
Breeder award, and the ap
plicant had to be an active
member of both a state Guern
sey association and the Amer
ican Guernsey Cattle club.
In adition to the outstand
ing dairy herd, a beef herd
of Hereford! is maintained
on the 150-acre John Jacob
Astor experiment station farm
about 4 miles east of Astoria.
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Ag Office Adds
Egg Inspector,
Drops Case Fee
Salem-Dual announcement
of the addition of a third egg
inspector and the Impending
one-half cent reduction in egg
Inspection fees came today
from the state department of
agriculture.
O. K. Beals, foods and
dairies division chief, said
George D. (Dan) Earle of
Brookings is already on the
job as egg inspector. Earle
brings to the state work 33
years of experience in egg
production, handling and mar
keting. He was branch man
ager at Eugene for the Oregon
Egg Producers for 22 years,
and then for 0 years Eugene
banch manager for the for
mer Northwest Poultry and
Dairy Products company.
Earle will work out of the
department's Portland branch
office, where the egg inspec
tion activity is directed.
The reduction in egg in
spection fees, from 3 .cents to
2'At cents per case, will be
retroactive to Jan. 1, I960,
Case tax fees from Jan. 1 to
July 1, this year, will be due
July 15 at the new 2V4-cent
rate. All permit holders have
a 200-case exemption for the
entire year.
Legislative Paves Way
The last legislature paved
the way for both develop
ments in amendments to the
state egg law. The amend
ments brought more of the
larger producers under the
state license and case fees and
allow the department to ad
just case fees as funds avail
able permit. Previously the
law established a 3-cent case
tax. This tax is the major
source of support for egg in
spections.
Beals says that the first six
months case tax under the
1030 egg amendments .indi
cates a $6000 annual increase
to the program funds. He an
ticipates some growth as more
producers "get into line" un
der the 1059 amendments. '.
These Increases, even with
the upcoming tax drop, and
the alight surplus under the
former program, should easily
provide the approximately
$7000 needed to maintain a
third Inspector the year
around.
New Lab Device
Speeds Up Work
For Agriculture
When the last legislature
gave the state deparment of
agriculture the green light to
buy a recording spectrophoto
meter, no one foresaw last
November's cranberry furore
-or the subsequent intense
focus on chemicals and resi
dues. J. D. Patterson, the depart
ment's chief chemist, merely
wanted the $10,000 instru
ment as part of the long
range program to keep the
laboratories in line with
chemical advances and usages.
Installed recently, the in
strument - which the chem
ists will tell you finger-prints
molecules - Is already receiv
ing a big play in the labora
tory. Some of the uses? To deter
mine the quantity of vitamins
In feeds, trace elements in
fertilizers, spray residues on
foods and the characteristics
of insecticides and other ma
terials offered for sale on the
Oregon markets.
"If we'd had this instru
ment when the cranberry
scare broke, we'd turned out
laboratory reports much,
much faster than we did," Pat
terson says.
Advantage Given
That's one of the advan
tages of the recording device
-It'll do in minutes what took
days before. And, because It
writes Its own story on charts
as It works, the Information
Is not only permanent but
accurate.
The department has used
an earlier model for years -a
hand one, because the curve
which told the story was plot
ted from point to point by
hand.
The next major Investment
for the chemical laboratories
- also approved by the last
legislature - is an infra red
spectrophotometer. When this
is added It will solve another
barrier which has limited the
department 'a laboratory
work. Infra red has applica
tion for determinations In
food, feed and sprays which
cannot be done by conven
tional methods.
Liquid fertilizers are be
coming more popular and ere
a good source of plant nutri
ents, say soil experts. How
ever, since both liquid and
dry fertilizers generally do an
equally good Job. cost and
ease of handling are key fac
tors In determining which
t.vpe to use.
Farm
Information Given Eqqmen
On Independent Organization
A number of egg producer-
distributors attended the in
formal meeting in the Jackson
county extension agent's of
fice last week to discuss the
new Independent Egg Distri
butors, Inc. recently formed
In Oregon.
L. N. Surles, Medford area
egg producer, and director
for the new state organization
Farm
By GAYLORD P. GODWIN
Washington - (UPD-The 1960
winter wheat crop has taken
giant .strides in the direction
followed by most of Its prede
cessors in recent years - to
ward a bigger wheat surplus
The agriculture depart
ments April crop suppary es
timated the fall-planted crop
will total 976,957,000 bushels.
This Is 51,000,000 bushels
above the Dec. 1 forecast,
nearly 6 per cent more than
the 1BS9 crop, and 17 per cent
above average. If the esti
mated crop materializes, it
will be the fifth largest of
record.
The monthly report on farm
labor shows 5,994,000 persons
were at work on farms during
the survey week of March 20-
26. This was 8 per cent less
than In the 1959 survey week
and marks a new low for
March.
The Foreign Agricultural
Service (FAS) reports the
Guatemalan government has
established new meat inspec
tion regulations in order to
export beef to the United
States. Formal approval by
the Agriculture Department is
necessary before . shipments
can begin.
FAS said the wholesale
price of carcass beef In Guat
emala City has been averag
ing 21 or 22 cents per pound.
Apple pomace containing
DDT or the residue of certain
other pesticides is not suitable
as feed for dairy animals and
may not be suitable as feed for
meat animals, according to
the agriculture department.
Investigations have shown
that pesticides of long residual
effect, when properly used to
control apple pests, may leave
residues which are within
safe tolerances on fresh apples
but are concentrated many
times in the pomace.
The use of such pomace in
animal rations may result in
the production of milk con
taining small amounts of DDT
or other pesticides. There is
no tolerance for DDT or any
other pesticide in milk. Meat
animals fed pomace for ex
tended periods may accumu
late residues In their fat In
excess of acceptable levels.
Apple pomace is the by
product of apple processing
for cider or vinegar.
U.S. farm exports In 1959
totaled $3,950,000,000, up 2
per cent from the $3,854,000,-
000 In 1958. Export volume
was larger by 6 per cent.
There were gains In exports of
vegetable oils and oilseed
feed grains, wheat and wheat
flour, rice, animals and ani
mal products, and vegetables.
Declines were mostly in cot
ton, but also occurred in to
bacco and fruits.
Instant sweet potatoes are
on the way to the dinner table.
Agricultural Research Service
scientists already have made
Instant sweet potatoes in the
laboratory, but two major
problems must be solved be
fore packages of the vege
tables reach food store shelves
In bulk. These problems are
process engineering and flavor
stabilization.
Washington (CPU A House
Democrat has charged the
Farmers Home Administra
tion with "dragging its feet"
at a time when hard-pressed
farmers have the greatest
need for federal loans.
The Farmers Home Admin
istration helps farmers fi
nance homes, farm land pur
chases and farm operations.
Its overall loan program
budget for next fiscal year,
starting July 1, calls for $203,
349.000. compared with cur
rent estimated spending this
year of $251,385,000. Congress
gave the agency $279,044,615
last fiscal year.
Washington - (ITP-The agri
culture department will ask
hog producers - probably this
week - to vaccinate their anl-
male against cholera.
The department will recom
mend a high rate of vaccina
tion, control over movement
of diseased hogs, cooking of
garbage fed to swine, and dis
infecting of Vehicles and
premises used by infected ani
mals. Goods to be plentiful in
May include milk and dairy
products, canned freestone
peaches, cranberry products,
vegetables fats and oils, and
scallops.
and Garden
explained Thursday night that
this is a non-profit, voluntary,
workable association designed
tor all of Oregon's independ
ent egg producers, distribu
tors. He said he is primarily
concentrating on the larger
producer - distributors now,
but that the oganization
would include all independ
ent egg producers in the state.
All those desiring further in-
Notes
Washington - (UPD-The agri
culture department estimates
about two-thirds of the non
farm population now gets its
milk supply from farmers who
operate In areas covered by
federal milk marketing or
ders. The orders assure dairy
farmers of a minimum price
for their product.
The federal orders do not
regulate retail prices of milk,
but they do assure consumers
who live In the regulated
areas a steady, dependable
milk supply which minimizes
the possibility of wide swings
in prices.
As of March I, federal milk
marketing orders were operat
ing in 79 marketing areas.
Four years ago, there were 64
marketing orders covering a
little more than 40 per cent
of the nonfarm population.
Farmers tnemselves Initiate
the orders through public
hearings. The orders set up
minimum prices, based on sup
ply and demand and other ec
onomic conditions. These
minimum prices must be paid
by handlers to the dairy farm
ers. Washington - (UPD-The isola
tion of certain meat' flavors
by Agricultural Research
Service scientists may have
an important bearing on space
travel.
Aroma-bearing materials in
beef and pork recently were
isolated by ARS scientists.
Eventually the materials may
be used to enhance the flavor
or certain meat cuts or to im
part flavor to food concen
trates being developed for
space travelers.
The chairman of the Re
publican National committee
predicts his party will make
a comeback in mldwestern
farm areas this year.
Sen. Thurston B. Morton (R-
Ky.) attacked the Democratic
farm record. He declared that
Democrats this year were re
viving the Brannan "subsidy"
plan and he charged that a
farm bill sponsored by many
House Democrats would make
virtual serfs of American
farmers.
The Agriculture Depart
ment reported Wednesday
that butter consumption drop
ped to a new all-time low of
eight pounds per person in
1959.
Margarine consumption, on
the other hand, rose to an
all-time high of more than
nine pounds per person last
year.
Washington - (UPD - The Ag
riculture ' Department said to
day net farm income - a po
tent election-year issue-was
more than seven per cent be
low the 1959 level In January
and February.
The drop in cash receipts
was due mainly to lower farm
prices. The department re
ported that farm prices rose
about one per cent in Janu
ary and February. But In
mid-February they still were
about four per cent below a
year earlier.
Congress is preparing to
reonen the old fight to break
down local regulations which
have the effect of keeping
midwestcm milk out of major
markets in some other sec
tions of the country.
A House Commerce Sub
committee has scheduled a
three-dav hearing on the issue
beginning April 26. The sub-
committee will consider a na
tional milk sanitation bill
sponsored by tiep. Lester R.
Johnson (D-Wls.).
Former Rep. Clifford Hope
(R-Kan.), one-time chairman i
of the House agriculture com
mittee said he might confer
with Vice President Richard
M. Nixon about farm policy, j
But he said he did not plan
to Ret Involved in partisan
politics.
There have been reports re
cently that Nixon was asking
Hope's advice on the develop
ment of a new Republican
farm policy for the 1960 cam
paign.
Labor Secretary James P.
Mitchell apparently has aban
doned his plans to ask Con
gress this year for a minimum
wage law for farm workers.
United Press International
has learned this decision ap
parently was the result of a
trade between the lobor and
agriculture departments.
formation or wishing to join
may send a card or letter to
the Mall Tribune farm editor
and It will be redirected to
the proper channels.
Independent Egg Distribu
tors is completely controlled
by a board of directors elec
ted from the general member
ship and is administered by
a general manager having
centralized office to serve its
members. Present manager is
Ivan C. Hoyer, with offices at
252 Sixth St., Cottage Grove,
Oregon.
Will Assist Producers
The new statewide organ
ization will assist the pro
ducer, or producer-distributor
with marketing problems,
carry on an intensive, year
around, consumer informa
tion, education and promo
tion campaign with service
rendered to the participating
member. This will be scaled
in direct proportion to the
investment made by each in
the association's operating
program, Surles explained
One big, vital service this
new Organization will per
form will be to distribute up-
to-date information on egg
markets to all producers or
producer-distributors, Surles
emphasized.
The general manager will
use the results of PENB re
search and existing promo
tional materials for regional
and local situations and will
also help individual produc
ers with their promotion pro
grams. A weekly exchange on
markets will coordinate sur
plus and egg shortages on a
regional basis. Organization
of pool cars and unloading in
transit arrangements will
secure freight savings for
members on carton purchases.
Use of printed cartons will be
encouraged.
The seal of quality will be
the focal point for association
promotions, Surles said. The
seal will be used by members
agreeing to rigid production
standards.
Other objects of the pro
gram will be inception of a
voluntary, sound, egg price
controls and safeguards and
protection of member inter
ests through a sound legis
lative program. Also, better
relationships between eggmen
through a mutual exchange
of information, ideas and de
velopments in markets, in
meetings and by official pub
lications will be fostered.
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Etzel to Attend
Vo-Ag Meeting
FiioIa Pnint - Nut Etzel
Faffln Pnint. hieh school vo
cational agriculture Instructor
and F A aaviser win anena
th rofflnnftt trtfftlntf of the
National Vocational Argicul-
ture Teachers' association in
Salt Lake City Saturday.
Etzel is vice president of the
Oregon vocational Agricul
tural Teachers association.
Etzel will leave Eagle Point
Thursday and fly from Med-fni-rl
in nnitip Irinhn where he
will meet Norm Koopman,
La Grande vo-ag teacher, and
president of the ovata. to
oothpr the turn men will drive
to Salt Lake city for the re
gional executive meeting of
the 11 western states.
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being held primarily to plan
for the national convention
scheduled in Los Angeles in
naKemhni. Tn fffppt. this Will
be an all-vocational associa
tion meeting. It will be com
posed of ag teachers, trade
nH industrial educators
home-economics teachers and
Griggs Attends
Symbiot Meeting
fontml Point - EH Grieas.
vocational agriculture lnstruc
Inr at Prntfr hieh school, at
tended the seventh annual
Symbiot banquet at Oregon
Technical Institute, Klamath
Falls, Saturday, April 9.
Svmbiots are those who
have taken agriculture at
OTI. Griggs was initiated as
an honorary Symbiot during
th afternoon meeting and
received a cane bearing the
Symbiot insignia at tne Dan
quet that evening.
PrinciDal sneaker at the
hnnmiet was Tir M E. Ens-
minger, head of animal hus
bandry, Washington State
university. Dr. .Ensmlnger Is
a noted livestock authority
and has written many agri
culture books. The various
vo-ag departments in the
county have some of Dr. Ens
minger's books In their , li
braries. Dr. Ensmlnger with Griggs
and 19 other men were named
hnnorarv members of Svm
biots. Almond Gelss it head
of the agriculture department
at OTI.
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distributive education instruc
tors. Each will have their own
separate group meetings,
Etzel said.
Discussion
Items for discussion at the
Salt Lake meeting in plan
ning for the Los Angeles con
vention will be publicity and
regional displays, member
ship (Oregon has 100 per cent
membership), dues, with somo
talk of raising dues, calendar
events such as conferences
and dates, exchange of ideas
from state news editors, pro
grams of work and the state
constitution of each state,
state officer orientation and
duties, officer's handbook and
feasibility of re-editing it and
bringing It up to date.
To Introduce Paper
Etzel said he would also
take with him a copy of "Yel
low Dog" OVATA publica
tion edited by Ed Griggs,
Crater high school vocational
agriculture teacher. This pub
lication has received consider
able favorable comment from
vo-ag teachers of this and
other states. -
Meanwhile, the Eagle Point
FFA chapter is planning an
annual parent-son banquet
for 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 10,
in the Eagle Point grade
school gymnasium. The pro
gram will Include awards and
foundation awards plus the .
Safeway ' initial Greenhand
award. Honorary chapter
farmer degrees will be con
ferred on several adults in the
community, Dennti Wood,
state FFA pesident, will be
guest speaker.
Wood was state FFA Pub
lic speech contest winner and
will give a speech in Salt
Lake City Monday when the
western regional FFA speak
er will be selected to compete
in the national FFA conven- .
tion in Kansas City. Oregon
has always placed first or sec
ond in the regional. Last year ;
it placed second and the pre
vious year was first in the
western regional contest and .
won the national public
st. Etzel said.
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