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TUESDAY, JUNE 4. 19S3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Over 300 Attend Beef Tour Of Shasta Valley Ranches B JOE COWLEY Mail Tribun Farm Editor Yreka A large caravan of Jackson, Klamath and Jose phine county ranchers with the host Siskiyou county. Calif, ranchers drove the length of the Shasta valley Sunday to see some "real cow country." Jackson county ranchers discovered Shasta valley ranchers follow similar breed ing practices to their own, but must winter ther cows long er so feed more grain. The .Tarksnn county itockmen were Impressed with the roll ing hill grass lana wnicn varied from the dry land runup nf the Jiscs Kuch ranch in the Hornbrook area to the lush Irrigated pastures on tne Eldon Hoy place. The Shasta valley ranch ers graze their stock on a natural pasture of blue grass, white Dutch clover and tre foil. Improved pastures are of orchard grass, fescue, alsike clover and trefoil. They like pelleted hay because the cut tle waste less of it and make more gain for the amount fed. To Winter Calves "This is one of Ihe best ways to winter weaner calves - on straight pellets," Siski you County Farm Advisor Sedg Nelson said. "They will gain two pounds a day. Over the winter they will gain 215 pounds on pelleted hay. On long or bailed hay they will gain a half pound a day." There are about 350 ranch es In Siskiyou county ranging from 50 to 1,000 cattle per Strawberry Crop To Peak June 10 Gold Hill - The local straw berry season will get under way this week with the crop to peak out heavy from about June 10 to June 20, Waller Kasworm, Rogue River, sec retary of the Rogue River Valley Strawberry Growers association, has announced. The crop this year is con sidered fair, Kasworm added. Because of the few extreme ly warm days in May, the strawberries bloomed heavy at that time and will cause a shorter season. Those who want strawber ries for canning purposes should keep this in mind, he added, as when this peak is over few berries will be obtainable. About 95 per cent of (he strawberry crop comes from patches In the Ashland, Phoe nix, Talent and Rogue River districts, the officer stated. Only about a total of 25 to 30 acres in both Jackson and Josephine county furnish the local commercial strawberry crops, ho added. ranch. Most of these ranches are at least two generation outfits and some have sup ported four generations. These large, profitable ranch es are full time operations contrasted to the large num ber of part time ranches in Jackson county. They are large enough in the- Shasta valley to afford hired men and often support two generations at a time. This accounts for the impres sive number of young stock men which attended a winter stockmen's meeting to which we were invited. A fourth generation ranch er is Kuch who operates 5.000 acres which extends to the foot of the mountains. He grazes about 250 cows. The same family has been on this ranch for 100 years. The elder Kucha who homesteaded the ranch started with a commer cial herd which the fourth generation has continued, but has also branched out into purebred bulls. Kuch the elder rounded the Horn in a clipper ship. The woman who became his wife came in a covered waeon train. The two native Germans met in what is now Siskiyou county. The neat, well painted buildings and well-kept fences reflect the German passion for order linens. Leonard Shelley is one of the few polled Hereford breeders in Siskiyou county. He feeds his bulls on pelleted hay containing 15 per cent barley. He had one of the highest averages in last year's Cnl-Orc bull sale at the Jack son county fairgrounds. Shelley, In displaying his bulls, remarked he never has had a foundered animal. His heifers arc of good size and condition and never lose a pound when turned out on grass after wintering on grain and hay. Frank and Margaret Day be lieve In sharp culling, partic ularly of older cows in favor of heifers. Frank said he car ries a cull list with him and is constantly adding or sub tracting as he works his herd. They also believe strongly in tne California Herd Improve ment association and would like to sell the visiting ranch ers on the Oregon counter part. They feel Ihese two pro grams are much better than similar testing programs. The careful management and culling has proven out since the Days have bulls grading B4 to 03, had the highest selling horned animal at the last Cal-Orc sale and the top seller at the recent Lakcvlcw sale. Sal Backbone "You can also quote me on saying I think the Cal-Oic sale is a practical one for com mercial cattlemen In the way it Is managed and run." Jackson County Agent Earle Jossy was Introduced as the "backbone of the sale" uuriiiK the tour of the Day ranch. He was instrumental in bringing the sale back to the county after a lapse of a few years. The Eldon Hoy ranch is one of the oldest continual purebred Hereford outfits in the valley. He showed his vis itors a two year old bull weighing a ton. He is breed ing for size. Hoy used arti ficial insemination for two years while a bull was in jured. He breeds 120 cows a year. He feeds two pounds of grain to his heifers. Three hundred beef steaks were served over an outdoor barbeque as Bill Bigham, Eagle Point rancher, and Jos sy prepared fried potatoes. Salads and desserts were pro vided by ranchers' wives. A cold, swift wind plagued most of the tour. Special guests present were M. II. (Mac) McDonald, San Jose, Calif., American Here ford association field repre sentative covering California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Hawaii; also AHA representa tive Ralph Cook, Medford; James Murphy, Walnut Creek, Calif., field representa tive for the Western Live stock Journal and a repre sentative of the Pacific Stockman. Eddie Meeker, Phoenix, Cal-Ore Hereford as sociation president, acted as master of ceremonies. Mrs. Day, who is recover ing from a recent heart at tack, presented a Hereford bull cake to Gary Beard, of Phoenix, for his Saturday birthday for coming the long est distance. Frank Day was chairman. Farm & Garden Chit Chat By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor The Mexican National pear picker problem it again on the launching pad this spring. However, this time local pear growers are upset with Congress which recently refused to extend Public Law 78 which would authorize use of Mexican Nationals in U. S. harvests in fields and orchards. The law expires this Sep tember which should not affect the Medford district pear narvest unless the season is unusually long. But it will hurt the next year. As we write this, the Jackson County Fruit Growers' League is meeting in a closed-door session In the Medford Pear Shippers' office on South Grape st. Since the pear industry is a private industry, private discussion of what growers should do about this problem seems logical on the surface. However, industry spokesmen have declared repeat edly whatever affects the pear industry also seriously af fects the community, hence it is also a community problem. So, we feel the news media should have been permitted to listen to such a vital conference. The Mexican National problem has been a continuing one for pear growers. The Rogue valley is a long ways from large metropolitan centers with plentiful labor supply. The season is short and only one crop is harvested. This valley is not like Hood River valley where labor finishes pear picking and moves into apples thus providing a longer sea son making it possible to attract more stabile labor. Tall ladders and heavy pear buckets require people used to this kind of work to keep the pears moving into the packing houses In steady streams. A breakdown in this processing chain means fewer packed pear boxes moving Into boxcars and smaller earnings for the local house-wife-packers who use this money for new stoves, refrigerators, etc. New Smithies Graduate From Farriers' Course Cash Receipts Up On Stock, Over '61 Corvallis - Oregon farmers counted higher cash receipts in 10112 with sulcs up on both livestock and crop products over 1981, reports Mrs. El vera Horrell, Oregon State university extension agricul tural economist. Preliminary estimates place Oregon's 19B2 cash receipts from farm marketings at ap proximately $430 million, up 4 per cent from 1961 and '.he second highest on record, she said. The total figure does not include direct govern ment payments to farmers. Last season's headlines illustrate the continual crisis the industry seems to find itself in: Winter damage noted in pears. Hail hits fruit in Talent area. Area fruit growers seek domestic labor. Policy on Mexicans in area said same. Hull storms may have hurt fruit. Candidates criticize ruling on nationals. Growers would welcome meeting with labor. Decision on Mexican labor reviewed. Labor situation hope ful. Statement prohibiting nationals as pickers said to be erroneous. Reter, Morse to confer on fruit labor. Pear of ficials discuss labor problems. One hot Saturday night in July we attended a special meeting In the Rogue Valley Country club when the outside temperature was slowly cooling off from a torrid 100 de grees and the temper temperature at the meeting was rising considerably higher. Growers and shippers in their snug suits and tight shoes had even tighter reins on their emotions as they listened to Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) slowly and skillfully beat the labor officials down to a reasonable rule level. As we turned to leave the prickly atmosphere a prominent shipper called us over and in thunderous tones declared: "If you reveal any of the confidences given tonight (re ferring to federal labor officials) in your story you will never be invited to one of these meetings again." We never am, out we never were. Lights Lure Insects Into Special Traps Salem - Insects like humuns arc lured by lights. This fascination for lights is lending many of them into light traps set by the Oregon department of agriculture. Entomologists with the plant Industry division of the department started placing the traps in March. They will be led out until late fall. We asked him if this would settle the Mexican National problem. Only for this season, he replied prophetically. Now growers are dealing with the agency which sets the law Congress, not the Labor department which administers it. Both are subject to political pressure. How effective the pear growers' pressure will be will soon be learned. Corvallis - (Special) - Nine new, modern day "smithies," graduates of a special far riers' short course at Ore gon State university, recent ly received their certificates to join the under - staffed sup Dly of horseshoers throughout the country. This was the second gradu ating class in a series of short courses started last tail by OSU under sponsorship of the Oregon Horsemen's as sociation. Classes run for 12 weeks and are limited to about 12 students - too few to make a dent in the demand for farriers but a step in the right direction. Oregon, alone needs an esti mated 500 farriers, says A. W. Oliver, OSU animal scientist in charge of the course. Faced with such a shortage, the horsemen's association raised $1,600 to remodel the old OSU horse barn for instruc tion and to buy such perma nent equipment as anvils and forges. Not Limited To State Obviously, the need for far riers is not limited to Ore gon with its more than 100, 000 horses. A big percentage of students represented the states of California, Colorado, Texas, Washington, and Ore gon with only two enrolled from the host state. Short - course enrollment is full for next fall's session, starting Sept. 30, and is also filled for another course next winter. The waiting list in cludes persons from as far away as North Carolina, and Oliver says he will build the list as long as interest con tinues. Tuition doesn't come cheap - $200 registration fee pi, is living costs for 12 weeks -but rewards may also be high for this once lowly trade now turned into a semi-profession.' "Good-farriers can equal in comes of many college grad uates trained in the better known professions," Oliver points out. Instructor for the course is a Springfield, Oregon farrier, C. A. Dickinson, who instruct ed in horseshoeing for the cavalry during World War II and who is an authority on corrective or pathological shoeing. He is assisted by staff members of OSU departments of animal science and veter inary medicine. Course work includes study in the anatomy and physiology of the horse's feet and legs. State Consumes Large Quantity Of Raw Milk Corvallis - Oregonians pur- I cnasea an average oi .it pints of milk per day for consumption in 1962 and 5.23 per cent of that milk was raw milk. These are some of the sta tistics compiled by the Oregon depart ment of agriculture from figures gathered the past year from licensed producer distributors and distributors. The consumpsion figure does not include the milk used on the farm where it is pro duced. The latest national figures available on non-farm milk consumption were for 1961 when the estimated per capita consumption per day was set at .78 pints. The state exported more pasteurized milk than it im ported last year but these fig ures were reversed in the raw milk for pasteurization. Export figures for the year were 41,080,033 pounds pas teurized milk and 21,988,326 of raw milk for pasteuriza tion. Imports Large Amount The state imported 110,272, 189 pounds of raw milk for pasteurization and 20,749,494 pounds of pasteurized milk. The largest per cent of the imports of raw milk for pas teurization went into the Port land area and the largest per cent of pasteurized milk for export was from the Portland area. The import figure was 99,313,653 pounds and the pas teurized export 33,196,5251 pounds. Washington received the biggest share of both the raw milk for pasteurization and the pasteurized milk that was exported from Oregon. The raw milk for pasteurization figure was 13,230,520 pounds and the pasteurized figure 38, 097,625. Exports to other states were: Idaho, 8,757,806 pounds of raw milk for pasteuriza tion and 1,520,225 pounds of pasteurized milk; and Cali- GARDENING TIPS By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent Spray cherry trees now for the control of the cherry fruit fly. This is the insect that pro duces the white worms that are found in cherries when picked later in the season. The adult fly is a little smaller than the common house fly and has brownish black wings. It feeds on the surface of the leaves and fruit. The female fly cuts small slits in the cherry fruit and depos its eggs in these slits Use one heaping tablespoon of methoxychlor to a gallon of water. Add one tablespoon of malathion to a gallon of water when aphids are a prob lem. Repeat this spray every ten days until seven days prior to harvest. Diazinon may be substitut ed for the methoxychlor-mal-athion combination a the rate of one heaping tablespoon to a gallon of water. Do nut apply diazinon closer than ten days before harvest. Tuberose Begonias When planting tuberose be gonias, remember that they are one - way facing plants and should be set with the leaves pointing towards the observation area. Tuberose begonias are very showy plants and often make other flowering plants look dull when used in a com bination planting. They are most effective against a back ground of shrubs, in combina tion with ferns or in wooden containers and brick faced raised beds. Since begonias like a well drained moist soil, mix peat moss, leaf mold, manure, bark or other forms of organic mat ter into the bod. Keep the soil moist, but not soggy. Overfertilization will pro duce leggy plant growth. Hold fertilization until the plants are mature or until hunger signs are seen (leaves will ba pale green and cup upwards). Protect the begonias from slugs with metalehyde baits and keep the planting free of debris. Flea Beetles Flea beetles are frequent and se rious pests in see dbeds and newly transplanted vege tables such as tomatoes, pep- pers and cucumbers. Injury to plant foliage may be suf ficient to cause the death of these plants and creates pus si ble disease infection areas. The beetle eats very small, round or irregular holes through or into the leaf. The plant takes on the appearanca that it was peppered with fina shot. Many types of flea beetles are found in the garden. In general, they are about 116 inh to one eighth inch long with enlarged hind legs and jump vigorously when dis turbed. Spraying or dusting with DDT will give control of the flea beetles. fornia 1,462,183 pounds pas teurized milk. Washington also imported more raw milk for pasteuri zation to Oregon in 1962 than any other state, with their imports at 107,368,157 pounds. Other states importing raw milk for pasteurization were: Idaho, 1,300,495 pounds and California 1,603,537. Idaho topped other states in volume of pasteurized milk imported into Oregon. That state imported 9,372,284 pounds. Washington imported 8,515,841 pounds and Califor nia 2,861,369 pounds. Pine Shoot Moih Hunt Completed Salem - The annual hunt for pines infested with tha European Pine Shoot Moth has been made by crews (rom the Oregon department of ag riculture and the Oregon state forestry department. All nurseries in the slata will be checked by depart ment of agriculture nursery inspectors and entomologists, who will have the assistance of the U.S. Department of Ag riculture. State forestry department men made door to door checks of the residential areas in Portland and the surround ing area. This is the only place in the state where tha moth has been found in or namental pines in residential areas. They also made checks in the Salem area. The moth was first found in the state in September, 1960, when it was located in nursery stock in a nursery in the Portland area. All of the stock was destroyed. Unfortunately, Ray Reter, the fruit industry's straight shooting peacemaker is now in Europe dealing with fruit export problems, another big thorn in the industry's side. From what we have seen nobody can excel him in hard line negotiating. Get rid of livestock parasites See me for Eileen Stock Spray or Dip Here's the sure way o get rid of the pests that bothor your livestocks ORTHO Kleen Stock. Use it to control lice, ticks, horn flies, stable flies and mosquitoes. You can use Kleen Stock as either a spray or a dip, depending on your needs. We recommend it for use on cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and horses. It leaves an even deposit on the hide for protection, and if you're using it as a dip, every animal entering the tank gets the same effective treatment. Kleen Stock won't break or settle out on standing In the water. Kleen Stock is also a good, effective spray for barns, poultry houses and other outbuildings. No mixing just dilute with water to use. See me today for ORTHO Kleen Stock Spray or Dip. Elton's Farm & Garden Store 4ih I Fir, Mtdlerd Grange Co-Op Supply Ass'n. Hoy 99, C.ntnl Point 421 A St., AtMind Monarch Seed & Feed Go. 10th t S. Fit, M.dtord 6th B.rtl.ri, M.dt.rd Putman Bros., Locker & Feed Store (gl Point, Or. T.M. Reg U S. P.I Off : Onho on All Chmic.l, Red Direction. nd Caution. Btlo't Um lOHTHOJ wcy or vif4 Thai opponents would seek to kick out the Bracero law could be seen last August. Then the house of representatives voted $1,540 million for carrying out compliance of the law but the senate cut It back to $1,049 million. Finally a com promise set it at $1,344 million. j The Mexican labor program was developed during World Wur II to assure planting and harvesting of vital food and fiber. It has been controversial ever since. It is ironical that two war-originated programs, this and the wheat support program, should be voted down within days of each other. But, as we said, the handwriting was on the wall, and in dications are that the local fruit industry knew it. Congress from slates using the Bracero program say do mestic farm workers who really want to work are not de prived of Jobs. Not enough people want to do the stoop and tree picking labor. Opponents say the program depresses the wage scale for domestics. Last August, too, the hassle was over the labor depart ment ruling that Braccros should be limited to 210 days a year in U.S. harvests. Exceptions were made for growers who might face hardships by losing their nationals, it was stated. The fact remains that growers would prefer not to use , Mexican Nationals if they could get by without it. Detailed I records have lo be kept. Transportation to and from Mexico must be paid. We still feci that teams of high school boys ! could be employed with teachers or other trained youth directors as leaders. This, however, would not solve the problem when school opens in the fall and the winter pears remain to be picked. HAYING TIME We have the best in high qua lity HOLLAND TWINES. A large stock of hay salt always on hand. Beef Pulp for Making a Superior Silage GRANGE CO-OP Locally Owned Locally Controlled and operated sole ly for the benefit of local ranchers and farmers. Al ways quality prod ucts and reason able prices. Mobile Slaughter Plants On Increase Salem - Mobile slaughter units licensed by the Oregon department of agriculture did almost four times as much business in 1SUI2 as in I960, the first year they were li censed by the department. The seven units licensed In IfltiO slaughtered 824 head of cuttle. The following year nine units were licensed to operate and the slaughter fig ure whs 1.787 head. In 1C62 Ihe department licensed 12 units. The total slaughter fig ure for that year was 3.246 head. Strawberry W evils Hurt Berry Industry Corvallis - Controls for strawberry root weevils, which annually cause thou sands of dollars damage to Oregon strawberry plantings, are told in a new Oregon state university bulletin. The extension service cir cular was prepared by R. G. Rosenstiel, entomologist whit the OSU agricultural experi ment station, and R. V. tv ery. OSU extension service entomologist. Copies may be obtained from county exten sion offices or from the OSU Bulletin Clerk. Corvallis. Subscribers To report improper oc non delivery of the Mul Tnbun in MrttU'M. phon? 7.J-SU1; Ah iiiui call at 4I Brule it. or phon 4R--JVJ, Yrtka, phon Victory a.a! twfort 6 4. p nv datlv ami 10 30 a m Sundav. 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