iMilk Protein
:Tesling Starts
In OSU Labs
Corvallis - Oregon has
started a new milk-testing
program that could someday
change the historical base for
pricing milk primarily on its
butterfat content.
' The program announced at
' Oregon State university will
provide a milk protein test,
first statewide program of its
-kind in the country, designed
to measure this key nutrition
al ingredient of milk.
While actual pricing of milk
on its protein rating is still
in the future, many leading
dairymen want to screen their
? herds for protein-production
ability in preparation for the
expected change, report OSU
dairy specialists. Preliminary
tests show considerable varia
tion between cows and with
in breeds in ability to produce
high protein milk.
"Dairy industry leaders and
researchers have recognized
. for some time that heavy em
phasis on butterfat as a price
base for milk has beer unreal
istic," explained J. Orville
Young, OSU dairy technolo
gist. Butterfat and other animal
fats have slipped drastically
in popularity among diet-conscious
American food shop
pers in recent years while
protein value of milk is re
ceiving more recognition.
Milk protein is rated as the
best natural protein and is
'used as the national standard
for 'measuring other protein
products.
Commends Dairymen
" Don E. Anderson, OSU ex
tension dairy specialist, com
mended Oregon dairymen for
"this progressive step that
gives our state a running start
in shaping up local herds to
meet the trend."
- Anderson and Young will
coordinate the testing pro
gram that will be conducted
through the Oregon Dairy
Herd Improvement Associa
tion and official test herds in
the state.
Expected adoption of pro
tein as a key factor in pricing
milk, along with present but
terfat ratings, should provide
a more equitable pay-out to
producers, the specialists
pointed out.
The change should also take
pressure off butterfat in the
milk price structure and per
mit more realistic pricing of
Abutter to meet competition, it
. was explained.
' Groundwork for the Oregon
"program began four years ago
when OSU researchers began
preliminary testing with four
dairy herds in Tillamook
county and at OSU. Methods
developed in the preliu-.iary
trials for testing protein and
solids-not-fat served as the
basis for the new statewide
testing service.
Tests also showed that cows
Have lnnemea aouuy iu piu
..duce high protein milk, thus
enabling dairymen to select
and breed animals for this
characteristic.
Anderson said dairymen
with herds enrolled in DHIA
or official test herds may ob
tain application forms and
details of the service from
county extension agents.
Protein tests will be made
only for cows also on test for
butterfat and solids-not-fat.
Total cost for the three tests
would run about 55 cents per
cow each month, although the
cost will vary among counties.
Herds can go on test as soon
tis arrangements are made
with local milk testers.
Spray Supervisor
From Libby Firm
Salem - J. J. Rozar, formerly-aericultural
research man
ager for Libby, McNeil & Lib
by at Sunnyvale, Calif., has
been named as supervisor of
the Oregon agricultural chem
ical applicators program and
is already on the job.
This announcement came
from the state department of
agriculture, Salem. Rozar
takes over the field work car
ried on until earlier this year
by Ray Kelso until he reached
state retirement age.
The 1961 legislature
brought the commercial appli
cation of all pesticides, includ
ing farm sprays and dusts, un
der state control. This broad
ened previous controls on ap
plicators of herbicides (chem
ical weed killers) only.
Americans have never been
fed so well for so little, de
spite the fact that there are
more people in the U.S. and
fewer farmers to feed them.
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Aquatic Weeds Bother,
Control Measures Given
By RAY HUBBELL
Jackson County Weed
Supervisor
Of the various weed prob
lems, water weeds, or aquatic
weeds are some of the most
troublesome.
Cut Out Program
On Public Affairs,
Cattlemen Urge
Spokane, Wash. IUPD - The
Washington Cattlemen's asso
ciation has adopted a resolu
tion opposing the Kennedy ad
ministration's farm bill, both
in principle and in its specific
provisions.
In a set of resolutions, the
association recently favored
less government control and
subsidy and encouraged sup
port of marketing and trans
portation facilities.
The organization favored
federal legislation requiring
the secretary of agriculture
to handle government-owned
feed grain stocks so process
ing would be equitable for
various feeding areas.
In other action, the associa
tion suggested that the agri
cultural extension service
"keep out of public affairs
education."
Resolution on WSU
The resolution urged the
WSU extension service con
fine its work to collecting and
disseminating factual infor
mation. The resolution said,
"entrance into public affairs
will defy its best efforts to
remain impartial and will re
sult in deterioration of the ex
tension service."
Jay A g n e w, Centralia,
Wash., was re-elected presi
dent and Robert Hensel, Wat
erville, was re-elected first
vice president.
Four regional vice presi
dents elected were John
Woodward, Loomis, Henry
Schnebly, Ellensburg, Wash.;
Dale Bly, Harrington, and
Bill Bennett, Oakville, Wash.
Mrs. Roland S a c k m a n,
Omak, Wash., was elected
president of the Cowbelles,
women's auxiliary of the cat
tlemen.
Bellingham, Wash., was se
lected as the site of the 1963
convention.
Strawberry Aphid
Control Urged
Corvallis - May is one of
the crucial months for con
trol of the strawberry aphid,
the insect that comes both
with and without wings and
that is responsible for the
spread of virus diseases in Or
egon strawberry fields.
Only the aphid spreads vi
rus diseases 10 Doin new
plants and fields as well as to
established plantings, point
out R. W. Every, extension en
tomologist, and I. C. Mac-
Swan, extension plant path
ologist at Oregon State uni
versity. Aphid control is an impor
tant factor in maintaining a
high level of production and
prolonging the life of straw
berry plants, the specialists
note, and a community - con
trol approach is the best meth
od. While an individual grow
er will benefit from control
measures in his own fields,
winged aphids are often air
borne to neighboring fields,
spreading disease as they go.
Dust Old and New Plants
The best way to fight
aphids is to spray or dust
both old and new plantings of
all strawberry varieties in the
spring when aphids begin to
reproduce, usually in early
May. Recommended chemical
applications for aphids will
also control other pests of
strawberries.
Critical periods for con
trol are May and June and
again in September and Octo
ber. The small, pale green
wingless adults winter in leaf
buds between the folds of
small leaves, reproducing both
winged and wingless young In
the spring. Since aphids some,
times build uo in the fall
plants should be examined in
September and October and if
aphids are found, a plant pro
tectant should be applied.
Beef cattle prefer loose salt
to block salt and so do many
ranchers. It takes energy and
calorics to stand and lick salt
blocks, energy and calories
that might better be used for
extra weight gains.
INSECT
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Most often nothing is done
to control this growth or only
limited control by removal of
the grown plants. Neither of
these methods will render the
growth conditions one likes to
see around- ponds, ditch or
stream banks. Chemical con
trol is, the only really satis
factory method of dealing
with such plants.
There are three major
classes of aquatic weed prob
lems, the first being the so-
called emergent plants or wat
erside vegetation such as the
various types of rushes and
cattails. Another class1 is one
that' grows on the surface of
the water, such as the water
lily or water cress, and filially
those that are submerged or
grow right In the water such
as parrot feather or elodea.
Control of cattails and
many of the other emergent
plants can be achieved by us
ing Amitrol T (a liquid) or
Amino Triazole (a wettable
powder) at the rate of ten
pounds plus one or two quarts
of 2,4-D L.V. Ester to 100 gal
lons of water. A spreader
sticker will increase the con
trol even further. Dalapon at
the rate of 20 pounds plus two
quarts of 2,4-D L.V. Ester
with a sticker will also give
good control. Both of the
above mixtures must be ap
plied to thoroughly wet the
plants.
For the water plant, parrot
feather, 2,4-D L.V. Ester used
at two pounds per 100 gallons
of water with six to eight
ounces of spreader sticker
will prove highly effective.
Apply Control Soon
For many of the submerged
water plants control can be
achieved if the specie is
known and the correct control
method used. Like all control
measures, they should be ap
plied before the problem gets
out of hand. Plants that
emerge from the bottom of a
pond naturally would require
different control measures
than one which germinates
only in the water.
Depending upon the situa
tion, herbicides may be placed
in the water by surface or
subsurface sprays from the
bank or boat, by broadcasting
crystals, granules, or pellets
from bank or boat, or by
dragging sacks of chemicals
behind boats.
When ponds or waterways
have been treated for weed
control, it is important to al
low time for the chemical to
dissipate before the water is
used either for irrigation or
as a source of water for farm
animals. In running streams
the chemical will usually dis
sipate within 24 to 48 hours,
but in ponds a longer period
will be required. The rate of
application must also be con
sidered. The label on the con
tainer will give explicit in
structions, both on the use of
the chemical and the precau
tions to observe while using
it. Follow these for results
you wish to obtain, you II
find it costs less for better
control.
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture has full manag
erial responsibility for 186
million acres of forest and
grassland now nationally
owned.
The largest single category
of land in the U.S. is forest
land. About 773 million acres,
or 34 per cent of the total
area of the 50 states, is forest.
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OSU Specialist
To Study Markets
In Caribbean
Corvallis - Roland Groder,
Oregon State university ex
tension fruit and vegetable
marketing specialist, has been
named to a six-man team of
federal and state cooperative
extension workers that will
study market possibilities in
the Caribbean area for the
U.S. Department of Agricul
ture. The team will conduct a
first hand study of the possi
bilities of expanding the mar
ket for U.S. farm products in
the area and will develop dis
cussion material for urban
and rural people and profes
sional agricultural workers
throughout the nation upon
return.
The team will leave about
June 15 and return in late
July. It hopes to gain informa
tion to help U.S. farmers and
professional agricultural
workers improve their under
standing of foreign food and
fiber neds, problems of ex
port marketing, and basic
facts underlying a successful
U.S. foreign trade policy.
Visits are scheduled to Bra
zil, Venezuela, Colombia,
Mexico, Nicaragua and Trini
dad. Primary emphasis will
be placed on cash market po
tentials for U.S. agricultural
commodities in such develop
ing countries as Haiti, Vene
zuela, Brazil and Mexico.
One of Four Groups
Groder's team is one of four
extension groups which will
visit major world areas to
conduct marketing studies for
the USDA. The other .teams
will visit countries in Africa,
the Middle East, and Europe
and South Asia. The studies
are carried on by the USDA
with U.S. agricultural inter
ests to maintain and expand
foreign markets for ' farm
products.
Information gained from
the study tours will be used
to help meet the need of far
mers and others to be fully
informed regarding the im
portance of foreign agricul
tural markets which last year
took the production of one out
of every six harvested Amer
ican acres.
Observations made abroad
will enable the groups to sup
ply information farmers and
agricultural exporters need
regarding products foreign
consumers want most, the
varieties that best meet those
desires, and harvesting, pack
aging and marketing methods
that best facilitate foreign
sales.
Other members of the group
include George M. Beal, ex
tension economist, New Mex
ico State university; W. Y.
Fowler, extension economist,
New Mexico State university;
H. W. Herbison, marketing
economist, North Dakota
State university; Verle R.
Houghaboom, extension econ
omist in farm management.
University of Vermont; and
A. G. Kevorkian, agricultural
economist, sugar and tropical
products division, Foreign Ag
ricultural Service.
A staff member of the For
eign Agricultural Service fa
miliar with the area and its
agricultural trade problems
will accompany them.
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OSU Researchers
To Measure Flavor
On Dried Milk
Corvallis - Oregon State
university scientists have re
ceived a $23,100 grant to de
sign a method for measuring
flavor in whole dried milk
a new creamy product that re.
sembles fresh whole milk.
Only water is removed from
this new milk powder; all sol
id milkfat, proteins and non
fat solids remain, explains
Mrs. Lois Sather, food tech
nologist who heads up the
study.
Eight OSU experts will
compare various whole milk
powders with whole fluid
milk particularly for. flavor.
Their reactions will be com
pared with those of a least
120 OSU student milk drink
ers who will be asked to score
their preferences for various
whole milk powders.
Encouraged by the success
of instant nonfat dry milk de
veloped during the war, work
was started on a dry whole
milk that reconstitutes in
stantly and can be stored two
to three months on the kitch
en shelf. As soon as certain
problems are overcome in
in manufacture and storage,
whole dried milk will prob
ably be available to consum
ers, says Mrs. Sather.
Flavor Changes
One of the problems noted
by USDA scientists is that
whole milk flavor changes
during storage. When fresh,
dried whole milk is as tasty as
fluid milk. But the fresh
taste doesn't last. Milk devel.
ops off-flavors and begins to
stale 9 to 12 weeks at room
temperature. It retains fresh
flavor somewhat longer, how
ever, when stored in the re
frigerator, says Mrs. Sather.
Development of whole dried
milk could supplement fluid
milk and enrich diets of many
families here and abroad.
OSU dairy- specialists say it
could also provide a new put-
let for surplus supplies of
whole fluid milk particularly
in major midwest dairying
states.
As a side project, OSU
workers will also run some
flavor studies on canned con
densed milk. Lyle Calvin,
OSU statistician, will assist
Mrs. Sather in the two-year
study.
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New Barley Type
Has Still Straw
High Grain Yield
Corvallis - A new high
yielding, stiff strawed spring
barley has been released by
Oregon State university for ir
rigated areas of the Snake
River valley of Oregon.
Named "Vale" after the
Malheur county seat, the new
variety has out-yielded other
leading feed barleys over the
past six years at OSU's Mal
heur Branch Experiment Sta
tion. However, its major ad
vantage is improved straw
strength to stand up under
heavy yields on the higher
producing irrigated lands in
the area.
Vale will be recommended
to replace Bonneville, present
leader on irrigated soils in the
area, stated F. E. Price, direc
tor of OSU Agricultural Ex
periment station.
The new variety is a six
row, white, smooth awned
barley with a semi club
head. It was developed at the
Utah State Agricultural Ex
periment Station by R. W.
Woodward, USDA Agricultur
al Research Service, from a
cross of a Glossy field hybrid
with a Velvon - Wisconsin
cross. The selection was then
sent to experiment stations in
the Rocky Mountain region
for testing and has been on
trial at the Malheur station
since 1955.
E. N. Hoffman, Malheur
branch station superintendent,
said 4,000 pounds of seed
enough to seed about 35 acres
was distributed this spring
for further increase.
Average yield of Vale at
the branch station from 1955
through 1961 was 109 bushels
per acre compared to 102 for
Bonneville and 95 for Trebi.
Test weight of Vale is com
parable to Trebl and slightly
better than Bonneville. It is
similar to Bonneville in
threshing characteristics.
Superior straw strength of
Vale gave it marked advan
tage over other varieties in
standing up under heavy
yields, winds, wet soils and
combinations of conditions
that cause lodging.
Vale did not lodge during
five of the seven test years
and averaged only 3 per cent
lodging for all years compar
ed to more than 14 per cent
for Bonneville and nearly 33
per cent for Trebi. Average
neaaing date for Vale was
May 31, a few days earlier
than the average for Bonne
ville and abouth three days
later than Trebi.
If a calf is old enough to
eat hay or grain, he's old
enough to need additional
salt - either mixed in feed or
offered separately.
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Best Vegetable
Varieties Listed
Corvallis - Home vegetable
gardeners will be happier
with their results and have
fewer problems if they will
plant recommended varieties
in their summer gardens, re
ports A. A. Duncan, Oregon
State university extension
vegetable production special
ist. A new leaflet, entitled
"Fresh Market and Home
Vegetable Varieties for 1962,"
has just been published for
Oregon. It is now available
from county extension offices
as an aid to both the commer
cial grower who produces for
fresh market and the home
gardener.
The publication covers veg
etable crops grown in all parts
of the state, tells recommend
ed varieties to plant for the
best results, and gives hints
as to which varieties are best
suited for storing in freezers.
It ' also lists new varieties
which are being introduced on
the market as well as includ
ing notations on altitude and
the length of the growing sea
son.
Too often, the home garden
er is not taking advantage of
the new varieties which have
been developed through re
search to give more satisfac
tory yields and quality, Dun
can noted. The result is dis-
ppointment with the garden.
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