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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY. MARCH S. 1983 Homemakers Rate Boneless Turkey Following Retail Market Testing Corvallis "Boneless" tur keys were a hit with most homemakers who tried them last Thanksgiving. The success of one of the newest products of the Ore gon turkey industry has been reported at the conclusion of a retail market test and con sumer acceptance survey con ducted by Oregon State uni versity marketing specialists. Of the 50 homemakers sur veyed, 41 said that they would buy boneless turkey again if it is available and 30 replied that they would serve turkey more often if they could buy it in this form. Although the Oregon tur key industry has been a lead er in developing boneless tur keys and has one of the better products for sale, boneless turkey has not generally been available in retail stores, re port Charles Fischer, poultry marketing specialist, and Mrs. Zelm'a Reigle Neugart, food marketing specialist. During the test, boneless turkey was sold in 11 Corval lis supermarkets. Consumers had a choice of two kinds. One was rolled like a log with light and dark meat mixed. The second was mold ed into the shape of a turkey, with light and dark meat sep arated as in the regular tur key. To suit individual taste dif ferences, most consumers said they liked to have the two meats separated. More than two-fifths of the homemakers surveyed bought boneless tur keys weighing less than six pounds. Like Flavor One of the things most liked about boneless turkey was the flavor. Convenience ease of preparation, carving and slicing were other plus factors mentioned, Mrs. Neu gart said. Of the 23 who had reheated their turkeys since the first roasting, 20 said the flavor was the same as when it was first served. GARDENING TIPS By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent Rose Pruning Now is the time to prune your garden hybrid tea roses. Proper pruning will improve the appearance of the bush and will stimulate the forma tion of quality blooms. The final form of a proper ly pruned hybrid tea rose bush is vase shaped with an open center. This form will allow good light penetration and air circulation through the bush. Also, it will be easi er to obtain a good spray cov erage with this form. Usually from three to five canes are left on the bush to form this vase shape. The number of canes left will depend on the vigor of the bush. The more vigorous the bush, the more canes left on the bush. First, remove all the leaf litter and mulch that is around the base of the bush. This will give you a better view of the bud-head and you can see if there are any basal breaks. A basal break is a new cane arising from the bud head or from a bud at the base of an old cane. These breaks will develop into strong vigorous canes and should be left on the bush. Remove any canes that arise beneath the bud-head. These are suckers which are infe rior in the quality of their STOCKMEN FEED PELLETS Your coarse or unpalatable roughage will make a baie for a modern balanced ration that you can feed with little labor and no wastage. The Increased meat or milk pro duced will give you maxi mum returns on a small cash Investment. MORTON MILLING CO. 500 Ross Lane, Medford flowers and they also rob the rest of the bush of its vigor. Pruning Next, prune out all dead, diseased, and injured wood, all weak growth and any canes growing in the center of the bush. When removing this growth, prune flush to the bud-head, a bud or a good cane. Do not leave any stubs on the bush. At this stage the bush should consist of strong healthy canes growing in a vase shape form with an open center. Since roses produce the best bloom on vigorously growing new wood, we now prune the remaining canes. If there is an abundance of canes, remove the old canes back to the bud-head. This will stimulate the growth of new canes. The exact height to prune the remaining canes will de pend upon the variety of the particular bush. Vigorous growers, such as Peace, are usually pruned back to a height of 30 to 36 inches. Less vigorous growers, such as Az tec, are pruned to 10 to 14 inches. The height to prune your particular varieties will be learned with experience. Don't hesitate to experiment. Be sure to cut the canes back to just above a bud. Rose Society Those interested in rose growing-can benefit greatly by joining the Medford Rose Society. This Society meets the fourth Monday of each month. At their meetings they discuss the many aspects of growing roses. Their next meeting is at 7:45 p.m., March 25, at the County Courthouse Auditorium. "How to Plant a Rose," "Selecting Old Garden Roses" and "Selecting Climb ers and Floribundas" are some of the subjects to be presented. The members will be glad to see you and will make you feel right at home. Dislikes mentioned in t h e survey included dryness, the fact that boneless birds can't be stuffed and no giblets. Two persons thought it wasn't as festive looking as a whole bird. Practically all the dislikes mentioned can be overcome, the specialists point out. Dry ness was most likely caused by overcooking, because re search conducted at OSU shows that the recommended temperature for whole tur keys is too high for boneless turkey. Retailers were also compli mentary about boneless tur key and all 11 stores planned to carry the item through the Christmas holidays. Several indicated plans to carry it in limited quantity throughout the year. All meat retailers, Fischer noted, indicated that they be lieve boneless turkey is an item with "considerable po tential" and one that could develop in popularity as bone less ham has done. The survey indicates good acceptance of the product if available in sizes desired by consumers, the specialists re port. However, they stress, introduction of boneless tur key on the retail market should be accompanied by an educational and promotional program to make consumers aware of it and how it should be prepared. Woodlot Tour Set For Saturday "Forest Management" and "Growing Christmas Trees for Profit" will be observed and discussed on the Jackson county farm forestry commit tee tour next Saturday, March 9, according to Earle Jossy, county extension agent. The tour will leave the Jackson County Extension of fice at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Tour stops will include bureau of land management forests on Poor Man's creek to observe tree planting by machine, also thinning, prun ing and removing weed trees on established stands. Lunch will be at the Tally Ho restaurant in Talent. Dur ing the lunch hour Gary Sander, Oregon state univer sity extension forester, will show slides and discuss Christ mas tree growing. A private forestry project owned and operated by Wil liam Hust on Wagner creek will be visited in the after noon. Hust has a Christmas tree plantation as well as a commercial timber tract. Anyone interested will be welcome on this tour. CHANGE OF LUCK Blackburn, England - (DPB -Mrs. Alice Renshaw didn't have enough money to buy coal so she decided to chop up an old chair for fuel. While she was chopping, a roll of bills totalling $1,166 fell out of the upholstery. Super service for supermarket items over Union Pacific. e automated rail J SPOKANE fl TACOUA jjjr I The savings and convenience you en joy at your supermarket or other stores the salesand profitsforthe merchant, manufacturer, processor or grower are made possible by today's distribu tion methods. In one form or another, thousands of everyday Items go to marketeverydaytheautomatedraway. Union Pacific is an important link in the nation's distribution system. Electroni cally controlled traffic and communica tions help move the products of In dustry and agriculture to market and to you. When you (hip. be specific, route Union Pacific. Call 773-538S Travel related In the Domeliner "City of Portland.' Superb meals freshly prepared. Liberal baggage allow ance. Money-saving Family Fares. Convenient schedules. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD FROM THE GROUND UP By (ART BARTLETT Recent weather has been such that many farmers and ranchers feel that the spring season is advanced and that as a result they are late in their schedule of accomplish ments. This can be both good and bad depending upon how fast certain operations can be accomplished now that there is favorable weather for out door activities. Dormant sprays of lime sul fur and oil should be made as soon as possible. If these sprays are made too late, some shock or effect on normal growth of the sprayed plants may occur. Where the regu lar dormant or delayed dor mant of lime sulfur and oil cannot be put on with a de gree of safety, growers should consider a spray of a phos phate and oil. The agricul tural chemical salesman can supply advice in this instance. Low night temperatures at this time of year are of con cern to the fruit growers. The season being as advanced as it is as compared to normal will find many orchardists in a rush to complete pruning, put out heating oil and ac complish their spraying. The limiting factor in these oper ations is the lack of adequate labor. Our welfare state has tended to reduce the supply of labor to the point that many growers are desperate for labor. The logging and lumber in dustries gave in to labor de mands for pay increases un til many of the small opera tors were forced to close shop. The published reason was that Canadian lumber could be bought at a cheaper rate. We wonder which lumber is the cheapest when a laree portion of our labor is out of jobs and the creative tax payer must utimately support mem. now labor and man agement are at fault when costs of production are al lowed to get out of line with wholesale and retail market values of the finished or semi finished product. New Commissioner We have a new countv commissioner. He ran for elec tion on his business ability. His first publicity in office is in connection with a pronosal to remodel the courthouse in order to house more county employees. In recent times about 15 employees have been moved from the court house to the fairgrounds. In spite of this, the-county gov ernment still needs space for employees. This should be ex plained more fully to the peo ple of Jackson county. Pastures should receive an application of nitrogen ferti lizer about now. It's early for vegetable gardening. Such plants will do better and fruit as early if their planting is delayed for awhile yet. 48ClttleSold At Midway Yard; Some Sell Lower A total of 487 cattle were sold at the Midway Auction yard during its regular Fri day, March 1 sale, according to Bill Bray, owner-manager. Prices were a little lower on stock calves after the pre vious high prices. Bray noted. Feeder cattle over 600 pounds were slow, but cows and calves were the highest sell ing this year. Good to choice steer calves weighing 320 to 360 pounds sold at $30 to $31.20. Good calves weighing 380 to 450 pounds brought $25 to $29.40. Good heifer calves went out at $24 to $28.40. Medium heifer calves sold at $22 to $24.- Good yearling steers weigh ing 550 to 600 pounds sold at $22.50 to $25.10. Steers weighing 600 to 800 pounds sold at $22 to $23.50. Good and choice yearling heifers went out at $20 to $22.80. Holstein steer calves sold from $23 to $26.25. Holsteins weighing 400 to 500 pounds sold at $22.50 to $24.25. Tops Sale A pen of four fancy Here ford cows with two calves on the ground topped the sale at $280 per head. Five older cows with calves sold for $260 per pair. These were from the Chester Wendt ranch. Other pairs sold from $185 to $225 per pair. Slaughter bulls sold for $18 to $19.20 Fat cows sold for $16 to $17.50. Heavy utility cows went out at $19 to $16.40. Cutter cows sold for S13 to $14.80 and canners sold for $10 to 12.50. There are now over 19 mil lion dairy cows In the U.S about one for every Americans. nine Agent Explains Seedling Checks To Local Growers Alfalfa seed growers with 1963 alfalfa seedings are re minded that seedling inspec tions should be applied for be fore or immediately after seeding according to Bert Wilcox, county extension agent. One of the requirements of the Oregon alfalfa seed certi fication standards is that al falfa to be taken for seed must have been inspected and passed in the seedling stage, and at blossom time. The blos som time inspection must be applied for by July 1st each year seed is produced. Har vesting before inspection for feits certification. Talent and Lahontan al falfa varieties are harvested for seed in Jackson county under the seed certification program. Talent alfalfa seed classes eligible for planting are breeder, foundation or registered. Only breeder or foundation classes of Lahon tan are eligible. Land when planted must be free from volunteer alfalfa. Foundation fields must be free of alfalfa for at least four years, registered for three years, and certified for two years. With registered and certified the time inter val may be omitted if the previous crop was of the same variety and met Foundation or Registered requirements. Alfalfa field Inspections are made by Oregon State univer sity extension seed certifica tion specialists. Blowdown Topic of Farm Forestry Meeting March 13 Woodland farmers wonder-; ing how to make the most of blowdown from the Oct. 12 storm will find many of the answers at the third annual meeting of the Small Wood lands association, Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m., Harris Hall, Eugene, reported W. G. Nash, Creswell, president. "Woodland Salvage" is the apt theme of the meeting-the first general session of the small woodland owners since the Oct. 12 storm that caused some $4 million damage to Lane county timber. Henry Davies, Lane Exten sion forester, will moderate the panel discussion keyed to "Salvage". Panel members will report on surveying the problem, reporting loss on in come tax reports, and market ing the salvage. Panel Members Panel members will be Tom Cochran, Eugene, represen tative of Industrial Forestry association; Richard F. Smith, consulting forester. Woodland Management, Inc., and Deloss Johnson, internal revenue agent. Woodland owners are ad vised to come with questions: "We anticipate many ques tions will be asked and are setting aside ample time on the program for the question answer period," Nash said. The Small Woodlands asso ciation, organized in 1960, is open to all "small" woodland owners, Nash said. In Lane county, these "small" owners (with timber holdings from one acre to 5,000 acres in size) account for 380,000 acres. Membership in the associa tion is statewide. Officers are Ambulance Attendant Breaks Ankle in Fall Madras, Ore. - - Steve Pence, 27, a volunteer ambu lance attendant, wound up in the hospital himself Sunday night . Pence was on a call from Madras to Redmond when the ambulance door fell open. He tried to grab it and fell out suffering a broken right ankle. YOU Can Still AHIohSdioaltMama-iovllalto ' iHi'"k linieli ! '"" OM ,our "Iulckl'' i 1 ,1 fYtt PVMWta. toiily, ot horn in ipart tlm.. Tok.' 'rtlfiiyHj 1 1 1 H i LwITfiYtTI en,y "M" veu natd for D,pimo-. 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