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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
TUESDAY. JUNE 28. 1961
Sleeping Sickness Said
Serious Horse Disease
In the early days of the
motor buggy, the luckless
driver whose contraption hap
pened to break down on the
road, was advised, usually In
loud and scornful tones, to
"get a horse!"
Today's autos are a good
deal more reliable than they
were in those days - but an
increasing number of Orc
gonians seem to be listening
to that ' get a horse cry. A
recent horse census sets the
state's equine population at
about 100,000 - up some 30,
000 from a census made in
the fifties.
The same is true In other
western states where the
horse count is rising not only
because the west is tradition
ally the stronghold of the
horse but because more peo
ple are using more horses for
pleasure - racing, rodeos,
shows, trail rides, etc.
As the horse population in
creases, so does the potential
for various ailments of the
horse. One of the most serious
is equine encephalomyelitis,
commonly called sleeping
sickness or, less elegantly,
"blind staggers."
The disease is seen almost
exclusively between June and
November.
It is characterized by a sud
den onset with cerebral dam
age and usually high mor
tality. Sluggishness and
drowsiness are early symp
toms and as the disease prog
resses the sick animal stands
dejectedly, moves with an
awkward staggering gait,
stumbling blindly into ob
structions in its path. Whinny
ing and sensitiveness to the
slightest touch are common.
Virus Causes Disease
Veterinarians discovered in
1031 that the disease is caused
by a filterable virus. It is one
of the many animal ailments
which may also be transmit
ted to man and outbreaks in
humans have occurred in sev
eral regions of the U.S.
In the past it was thought
that mosquitoes might be a
carrier of the disease to
horses. The role of the mos
quito, however, has not been
definitely established and
evidence on this point is con
flicting. Pheasants, pigeons and
prairie chickens have been
found naturally infected and
can be a consistent reservoir
of the virus.
No specific antiviral agent
is presently available for
treatment, but horses can be
effectively immunized with
DON'T GAMBLE
with your
fruit profits
PEARS should be protected from attack by mites. This
job can now be turned over to an oxtrn-safe, easy-to-use
miticide called Kelthane. Last year, many orchards had
f ull-sciisnn control with only one application of Kelthane.
An ideal time to clean out a mite potential is in the first
cover spray. To clean out the tops of trees where spray
ri(.rs may not ivc Rood coverage, a Kelthane 3 percent
dust is ctVeclive. You'll like the safety and long-residual
action of Kelthane . . . plus its ability to control all species
of mites which attack pears with a minimum number of
applications. Ask your supplier for Kelthane now.
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KELTHANE
an intradermal vaccine; two
doses, seven to ten days apart
are preferable.
Control measures may in
clude every practical measure
to keep animals from exposure
to mosquitoes including drain
age of swamps, spraying of
ponds and lakes, screens on
stables and periodic spraying
with repellents and insecti
cides such as DDT.
Annual vaccinations arc
also recommended in those
areas where the disease is
prevalent.
(This article is prepared as
a public service by the Ore
gon Veterinary Medical Assn,
Questions on this and other
subjects of general interest
relating to animal health will
be answered in this column.
Please address inquiries to
farm editor, Mail Tribune.)
Seed Certification
Now Available
By EUGENE WINTERS
County Agent
Seed certification applica
tion forms will be mailed
soon to all known alfalfa seed
growers having stands eligible
to produce certified class or
better seed.
Completed application
forms should be returned to
the County Extension Office
by July 5. Field inspections
will begin about the middle
of July by one of the Ex
tension Seed Certification
Specialists from Oregon State
college.
Last week alfalfa seedling
inspections requested were)
compicica. nu ancud tumia
seeded this spring for certified
seed production are required
to have a seedling inspection
to meet the requirements of
the seed certification stand
ards. Certified alfalfa seed grow
ers not receiving seed certi
fication application forms or
having new seedlings to be
inspected should contact the
Jackson County Extension of
fice within the next few days.
Estimated production, ex
cluding melons, is 6 per cent
below last year while melon
production is 2 per cent above
1959. Major crops with sub
stantially smaller production
than last year are tomatoes,
lettuce, cantaloupes, onions,
cabbage, and broccoli.
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-CHIT CHAT-
By JOt COWLEY
Mill Tribune Firm Editor
"The whole problem is this the American people just
don't know how to appreciate good food," a local dairyman
told us.
"What I mean is people just don't know what is highest
quality food. That's the whole problem with American agri
culture," this dairyman told us during the dairyman's month
June dairy month.
We wonder if this isn't true? We have heard the same
complaint from dairymen, a small town baker, a fruit and
vegetable stand operator and from poultrymen. The key
seems to be public education. The public has to be taught
that it pays to buy and eat the best foods.
But to continue on our little survey "I used to sell a
lot of my home-made style bread, but the housewife wanted
something which would keep longer and was a little cheaper.
The good homemade type of bread soon dries out. Take
cake, for instance, it seems to pay to cut down some on the
ingredients and make it up by piling a lot of goopy frosting
on top."
Have you ever had a thick slab of homemade bread
with sweet, golden butter fresh from the churn? We have.
You can't beat it for taste and the satisfying solid feeling
it leaves in your stomach afterwards. Or, how about creamy
milk, fresh and cold from the spring house? A dairyman
friend of ours likes good hot milk with sugar added for
a stimulating drink when he wants something to drink
around the barn. He draws the milk fresh from the cow
off his pipeline, heats it and adds a teaspoon of sugar.
When was the last time you had a couple of good eggs
sizzling in the frying pan or a nice softboiled egg sprinkled
with salt and pepper? A good egg is the kind whose shell
isn't so thin its splinters all to bits if you give it a good clean,
sharp crack on the edge of, the frying pan or bowl. The
yoke, even when softboiled, stays firm, round and a good
orange-yellow color.
And a fruit stand operator tells us that people just don't
appreciate top quality vegetables and fruit. Just recently
he had lettuce fresh from the field with the juice still seep
ing out of it. People didn't recognize this as a sign of
freshness and wouldn't buy it. Yet when he sold "some
trash" with the rotting leaves cut away and at a much
cheaper price the people went for it. Once again price not
quality seems to be the determing factor.
TMs man had strnwborrieg
good c,uanty and five boxes for
the price to sell the same high
off. However, he got some berries of poor quality and was
able to drop his price back to five boxes for $1. He was
sold out in two hours.
Another example people will buy a No. 2 watermelon
for 50 cents rather than a No. 1 at 80 cents. The No. 2
weighs 13 pounds and the No. 1 16 pounds and of higher
quality. The difference is about 1 V2 cents per pound, which,
when you consider the size and quality doesn't really pay
you to buy the lower grade.
And, this may surprise you this fruit and produce man
freights fruit and produce from California and sells it for
a lower price than it is sold there. Bananas will sell for 17
cents a pound around Fresno,- Calif. Here he sells it for
2 pounds for 35 cents. Yet, he must add $3 per 100 pounds
to his cost in freight chrges.
"People just won't pay those higher prices for fruits
and vegetables here," he commented. "Yet they will pay
much higher rents and higher prices for many other re
tail goods than any place else on the coast and they seem
willing to work for much lower wages, here, too."
As you can tell, our friend is getting mighty discouraged
with business conditions here. He and his wife and two
boys altogether net only from $80 to $90 a week here work
ing 13 hour days. In northern California he has been offered
$200 a week to head a large produce section of a market.
"High as they are California taxes or better living condi
tions here can't make up the difference in take home pay,"
he pointed out.
When we dropped In to buy some of those wonderful
Bing cherries raised by a very few growers in the Rogue
valley, he waved his arm excitedly at the newspaper we had
and said, "Say did you see that story about the apricot crisis
down south? Boy, 1 tell you the fruit business has gone to h
this year!"
"Why the picker situation is something awful! My brother
and another fellow own a 50 acre apricot orchard down in
California. They hired two men to pick. That's all they
could get. And you know what they picked? Forty pounds
in two hours between them. Why a good picker should
oughta pick 200 pounds or five boxes an hour!"
"Boy, the employment situation is somethin' awful! It
sure is! I drove down past the U. S. Employment Service
and the men were lined up for two blocks to draw their
unemployment checks! My brother-in-law said it wasn't
worthwhile trying to pick the cots at this rate. It would
cost him $125 a ton to pick them and the cannery would
only give 'em $120 a ton if it was open! He decided just
to close the gate and turn the water in on 'cm!"
This sounds mighty like some peargrowers I know. The
fruit stand operator was referring to the story out of San
Francisco date-lined Friday, June 24. It said, "Faced with
millions of dollars In crop losses by next week, apricot grow
ers called on both cannery operators and the Teamsters
union yesterday to return to work on an interim basis."
The appeal was made by the California Farm Bureau
Federation president as the strike entered its seventh day.
The Job affected some 60 Northern California cannrics. Cali
fornia has an estimated $10
Friday losses were reported by ranchers in the Winters area
of Yolo county, where apricots ripen several weeks early.
"Stnte Department of Agriculture spokesmen said a wind
storm Monday dropped a large portion of the Winters crop to
the ground. The Council of California Growers estimated
losses already amount to $1 million."
The packing houses or canneries here didn't close, but
otherwise it sounds similar to what happened in the Rogue
valley last pear harvest season doesn't it?
What happened there. Teamster cannery workers, about
60.000 went on strike June 16 at the peak of the canning sea
son. The union had stood pat on demands for a 25-ccnt an
hour wage increase and fringe benefit Improvements. Em
ployers have offered a 4 per cent package increase.
Note' At his writing, a San Francisco newspaper an
nounced (hat the strike by some 60,000 cannery workers was
settled early Sunday after a 17-hour bargaining session. The
strike threatened northern California's $10 million apricot
crop. Cannery workers were expected to return to work
today.
Elected New Head 01 4-H Foundation
Corvullis - Marion T. Wea
thcrfnrd of Arlington has
been elected president of the
'Oregon 4-H Club Foundation.
A prominent Eastern Oregon
rancher, Wcatherford has long
been active in educational
) programs for young people in
the state.
He succeeds R. L. Clark.
Portland, member ol the
of high qualUy for sale of
$1. Later on he had to raise
quality. His sales dropped
million crop this year, As of
board of trustees of the foun
dation. Elected vice president at
the organizational meeting in
Portland was Herman Oliver,
John Day. L. B. Stavcr, U.S.
National Bank, Portland, was
named treasurer; and Burton
Hutton. State 4-H club lead
er, Oregon State college, was
elected secretary.
Reseeded Lands
In Ashland Burn
Producing Grass
The big problem now in
the reseeded private lands of
the Ashland burn is need for
fencing so it can be properly
grazed in the near future,
according to Harry Martin,
ASC office manager.
The Jackson county agricul
tural conservation and stabili
zation committee worked with
County Agents Eugene Win
ters and Earle Jossy to seed
939 acres owned by 15 land
owners. The grass is now 8
to 12 inches high. It was in
spected in May by the two
county agents and last week
by William Mulkey, of the
state ASC office.
The fire which crackled
through brush and trees in the
Ashland area last August act
ually did the landowners a
favor. It destroyed consider
able brush and some trees
which made it possible to seed
the 939 acres to grass. Now
it will provide cattle feed
and prevent erosioi. in a sec
tion which showed a number
of gullies.
Permission Obtained
To seed this land under
the agricultural conservation
program, permission for the
special practices project had
to be obtained from the Wash
ington, D.C. headquarters of
ASC through the state office.
Then the two county agents
worked out a careful seeding
program. Grass -varieties had
to be found which would de
velop the best pasture in the
soil type of the area.
Then Bill Rosenbaum
sprayed the seed over the
soil from his chartered air
plane. The 10,330 pounds in
cluded a mixture of timothy,
perennial rye grass and sub
clover. The land was seeded
in three parts - first 467 acres,
a second 467 acres and the last
piece of 160 acres. Seeding
started in September and fin
ished in October.
Total cost was $3.55 per
acre with the federal govern
ment paying $2.84 an acre
on a cost share basis. Since
this was a special practices
project the government paid
80 per cent.
The landowners are Gail S.
Brewer, McKenzie McCul
lough, Betabelle Carter, G. H.
Billings, James Delsman, W,
H. Kneebone, H. T. Haber
man, A. L. Knight, Pearl R.
Crouch, Glen P. Kelts, George
H. and Jule Erickson, E. C.
Preston estate, A. M. and A.
Brook, Don E. Hunter and
L. H. Johnson.
Slaughter Cattle
Require Back Tag
Identification
Salem - The state depart
ment of agriculture announc
ed today that by mid -July
blood sampling of all eligible
cattle sold to slaughterers in
Oregon and of all eligible
cattle sold for slaughter out
of the state will be put into
effect.
At that time, a new system
of identifying cattle sold
through auction yards in Ore
gon will be inaugurated. Un
der this, all auction yards will
use coded tags, orange in col
or. The only thing which
might hold up the mid-July
target date to start the pro
gram would be delay in re
ceiving the new orange tags
from the manufacturer.
The new tag will serve a
dual purpose. The symbol on
it will identify the auction
yard; through brand inspec
tion, the tag will also identify
the owner of the animal and
the county of origin. The new
tags will be applied at the
auction yard and will replace
the present hip tag which
identified only the individual
animal.
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DIANE MANSON
Josephine Dairy Princess
Josephine Dairy
Princess Visits
Vivacious 20-year-old Diane
Manson, Grants Pass, is a
dairy princess who not only
promotes dairy products with
a winning smile, but knows
how to hand-milk a cow.
She should! This Josephine
county dairy princess had a
dairy 4-H project for about
six years, she said. Her Guern
sey cow was grand champion
for five years straight at the
Josephine county fair. She
was grand champion show
man at the same fair.
Although she does not now
live on a farm her parents
did have one. Her father is
contract milk hauler for
Southern Oregon Milk Pro
ducers association through
which the southern Oregon
Grade A dairymen ship their
milk.
Among her other accom
plishments, Miss Manson was
graduated from Grants Pass
High school in 1958. She is
also Cave Queen in Grants
Pass. When she isn't a prin
cess or queen of this or that
the charming brunette works
at the Grants Pass branch of
the First National Bank of
Oregon.
Jackson county did not
have a June Dairy Month
princess for this year so Miss
Manson included this county
in her busy itinery. She ap
peared recently at the cook
ing school, or Foodarama, at
the Craterian theater in Med
ford, an event sponsored by
KYJC radio station.
Miss Manson meets all
qualifications for a dairy
princess: poise, speaking abil
ity, natural beauty and prop
er weight to height ratio -especially
the latter. She is
a living breathing example
that consuming dairy prod
ucts does not put on weight.
Oregon Really
Top Lily State
Salem - Once an Oregon
booster, always one.
At least that's the way it
is with C. G. Anderson, for
mer Oregon department of
agriculture man now living
in Proctor, Minn.
In the Oregon work An
derson became familiar with
the Easter lily industry here
So it was too much for him
when a Minnesota nursery,
man, quoted in a feature ar
ticle on Easter lilies in a Min
nesota daily, credited the
s t at e of Washington with
growing "practically all the
lily bulbs."
Anderson sent a copy of
the article to J. S. Wieman,
superintendent of the bureau
of nursery service, state de
partment of agriculture.
"We're glad to see Wash
ington mentioned -- but of
course Oregon has a consid
erably larger lily acreage,"
comments Wieman.
The Oregon department fig
ures Easter lily acreage in this
state at 250 acres, which is
way ahead of second place
California. Add the acreage
of lilies of garden varieties,
and Oregon shoots up to about
450 acres of all lilies.
Wheel Trenchers
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Graders
Back Hoes
Farmland Values Continue
Upward Climb in Spring
Corvallis - Oregon farm
land values continued to move
upward this spring to a level
nearly 5 per cent above a year
ago, reports Mrs. Elvera Hor
rell, extension agricultural
economist at Oregon State
college.
On March 1 of this year,
the per-acre value of farm
lands in the state, with im-
Label, Grade
Regulations Now
Apply to Turkeys
Salem-Beginning July 11,
the state department of agri
culture will start statewide
checks on all whole turkeys
sold in Oregon for compli
ance with grade labeling.
This announcement by Dr.
M. L. Houston, supervisor of
meat inspection, follows state
adoption of turkey grade and
labeling regulations under the
turkey law.
"Advance warning of regu
lar checks on turkey grades
and labels is issued to give
all concerned an opportunity
to clear their shelves of any
unlabeled birds," Dr. Hous
ton explains.
The Oregon turkey grades
follow rather closely those
established by the federal gov
ernment. The top quality
birds will draw the A grade
label, with B and C grades
also wholesome birds.
Under the turkey law and
regulations, only birds of A,
B, or C grades may be sold,
exposed, displayed or offered
for sale in Oregon. Grading
may be done by any official
agency. Grading performed
by the state meat inspection
service will be on a full cost
basis to the individual or firm
requesting the service and
graders will be paid by the
department.
All ready-to-cook turkeys
sold in Oregon must be grade
labeled and those state in
spected must also show on
the label the true name, the
name and address of the
packer or distributor, the net
weight, the plant number
where inspected.
The only exceptions from
turkey grades and labels are:
1. A farmer may sell, dis
play, expose or offer for sale
ungraded and unlabeled tur
keys if the sale is made direct
to consumers.
2. Turkeys may be sold or
fruit growers
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provements, stood 2 per cent
higher than last November
and nearly 5 per cent above
March 1959, Mrs. Horrell
found as she studied reports
from the USDA agricultural
research service.
Grazing land values increas
ed the most during the year,
registering an 8 per cent
jump, - Mrs. Horrell noted.
Irrigated land in the state
was up 5 percent and dry
farmland up 3 per cent.
Rate of farm sales stayed
about the same as the pre
vious year, Mrs. Horrell said.
About 67 out of each 1000
farms in the state changed
hands. Voluntary, sales and
trades made up about 52 of
these, foreclosures 5, and oth
er sales 10.
Total Market Value
Total market value of farm
real estate in Oregon is now
estimated at around $2 bil
lion, Mrs. Horrell also found.
This is close to $100 million
over the previous year, for an
increase of about 5 per cent.
Average value per acre of
this farmland was estimated
at $97.64. And while this was
an increase over the previous
year, the average value of
farmlands in Oregon is still
below the estimated national
value per acre.
Nationally, farmland values
increased only 3 per cent last
year, in contrast to advances
of 6 to 8 per cent yearly dur
ing the 1956-58 period. Al
though all regions reported
smaller increases, the slow
down was most pronounced
in the Corn Belt, Lake States,
and Northern Plains.
What's ahead? Many of
those engaged in handling
farm real estate over the na
tion look for a further slow
down in the rate of increase
in farmland values. Those re
porting from the eastern and
western Corn Belt 1 Kk for
the greatest slowdown, with
the cotton and California
specialty crops area most op
timistic for larger increases.
Keep cows away from new
pastures for two hours before
milking. Weeds in early pas
tures may result in an objec
tionable flavor in the milk.
hauled to a cannery, proces
sing or similar business and
not be subjected to the grad
ing and labeling requirement
unless they are thereafter
sold for human consumption
as an uncooked or unproces
sed whole turkey.
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Vets' Group Gives
Official Support 1
To Salem Shift
Portland - The executive
board of the Oregon Veteri
nary Medical association,
meeting in Portland, June 20,
gave enthusiastic endorsement
to the recently announced re
organization in the diseasa
control and meat inspection
programs of the state depart
ment of agriculture. r
Stressing the public health,
and public protection bene
fits of the changes, the OVMA
board predicted that the move
would lead to better adminis
tration of both meat inspec
tion and disease control activi
ties in the department.
The shift, announced by
James Short, state director of
agriculture, places the state
veterinarian's office directly
under the supervision of the
agricultural director rather
than the division of animal in
dustry. "T h e veterinary profes
sion," said Dr. Roy Peterson,
Tillamook, OVMA president,
"pledges its wholehearted sup
port in helping to make this
new program work in the best
interests of the livestock in
dustry and the general public.
Oregon now joins 44 other
states in adopting this prog
ressive pattern of administra
tion. "We feel confident that the
supervision of meat inspec
tion and disease control by
those qualified to understand
and administer the scientific
and technical details of these
programs can only result in
greater protection of the pub
lic health."
Reductions are partly off
set by increases in such im
portant crops as watermelons;
green peppers, sweet corn;
and snap beans. Expected
strawberry production is 7
per cent smaller than last
year.
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