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FOREST RANGE Tlicse came were ooservea The Brass in this
Thursday during the tour of Kogue River Na- and the tattle in
tional forest cattle ranges on the Dead Indian.
Tour Made of Range Lands;
Management Changes Likely
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fin Kent 11 and 12 a tour of
the Rogue River National forest Gates, Extension Range special
on ilie Applegate and Ashland ist; Earle Jossy, Jackson Coun
Ranger districts was made by i ty agent; Carroll Brown, forest
local stockmen, Forest officials, I supervisor; and other Rogue
and others. Purpose of the two- River National Forest officers,
j-.. in nhcnrvn rannn Siskivnus Viewed
conditions on the ground and'
discuss ways and means of in
creasing forage production, bet
ter livestock distribution, and
coordinating range use will) oth
er intersts.
In attendance were bureau ot
assistant regional lorcster in ,
charge of range management;
George Johnson, executive sec
retary, Oregon Cattlemen's as
sociation; members of public
lands committee, Oregon Cat-
Fall Weed Control
By RAY HUBBELL
Weed Control Supervisor
October and November are
two months when control meas
ures for next year's annual
grass and weeds should bo tak
en. These applications can be
applied to several crops and
past use has proved to be very
beneficial. Chemicals applied
are light rales of so-called steri
lant materials and should only
be used on crops tolerant to
these chemicals and at their
recommended rates.
Karmex diuron applied on es
tablished alfalfa stands at three
pounds of the 80 per cent mate
rial per acre in twenty to thir
ty gallons of water has worked
excellently for annual grass and
weed control. Equipment must
have good mechanical agitation
and be carefully calibrated.
Karmex is cleared for use on al
falfa used for forage if applied
at the above rate.
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land management personnel and olhrr areas. Treatment needs ot
representatives of local stock-1 other areas were discussed,
men associations; J. Herbert Some of the intensive manage
Stone, regional forester, U. S. ment practices agreed as needed
Forest Service; Avon Dcnham, ! were: fencing, grass seeding and
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The first day was spent ob-
serving range conditions in tne
Siskiyous. Areas of good stands
of grass showing little use were
observed indicating an oppor
tunity for changes in manage
ment fo lighten grazing use in
additional water acyeiupinem.,
Thn srennd rfnv was snont 00
ranges of the Dead Indian area.
Forage use and growth was ob
served in and around a fenced
area which provided exclusion of
Measure Due, Weed Expert Says
Simazine can also be used on
established alfalfa at V'z pounds
per acre in twenty to thirty gal
lons of water but has not been
cleared for use except on
stands grown only for seed pro
duction. MM'. Itooniniciiilcil
IPC. or C.I. PC. at four
pounds per acre in ten to twen
iy gallons of water can be bene
ficial for annual grass control
in alfalfa if grass is the major
problem. Costs are about the
same as when using Karmex
diuron.
The above named chemicals
can al.'.o be used for weed and
grass control in many of the
grasses grown for seed. Rates
should be checked very care
fully and only used on those
crops for which they are recom
mended, I P C. applied at six pounds
per acre in twenty gallons of
water on sugar beets grown for
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partn-Jl-r spot appeared good
good condition,
deer and livestock, and a plot
which excluded only the live
stock. Little Elk meadow, Big
Elk meadow, and the Short
Creek Burn were also observed.
Discussions were held at each
stop directed toward measures
anri management needed to in
crease production of the ranges
and protect otner resource val
ues. Tho tour was concluded with
short talks by agency officials
and representatives 01 muck
men's organizations. All were
in agreement as to the need for
research in tne neia 01 range
management and that specific
problems could best be solved
on the ground at the local level
through mutual cooperation and
effort. It was the consensus of
the group that the field tour was
of great value and should be re
peated each year.
seed can keep grasses from be-
! coming a problem.
I Karmex diuron and Simazine
has worked well when used
around grapes, strawberries and
canebcrries. Roses and certain
ornamentals have been kept
free of weeds by their use.
Check and read the label. This
mill assure vnu of where it can
be used and what rates can be
used safely. Good agitation is
'needed for these wetlaoie pow-
ders. Remember that Karmex
idiuron and Simazine are steri
I lant materials. At high rates or
if micannl inH the desired results
will not be achieved. Read and
follow the label recommenda
tions for good weed control.
CONVENTION OPENS
GEARI1ART -(UPI) - The
Oregon Association of Independ
ent Insurance Agents opened its
,15th annual convention here
Monday.
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"Farm safety is something we want to keep telling the people
so they get so sick and tired of it they want to throw us out,' a
representative of the state industrial accident commission said
to us the other day leaning over our desk near deadline time.
He almost proved his point completely.
Having already been through farm safety week sponsored
nationally by various farm organizations we felt there was no
need to go through the same song and dance all over again. But,
after this man told us that farm accidents make one of the main
factors for the increasing expenditures on accident settlements
by the commission, we could see repetition brief repetition
wouldn't hurt. We thumbed through the stack of signs, posters,
safety slogans and various other material he deposited on our
desk and set to work.
One prediction is that farm
nationally and stack up 11,500
business for the merry morticians, but not for the insurance com
panics and SIAC, and certainly
totals it is predicted 3,800 to
directly from farming activities.
As the SIAC man put it, farming is one of the major industries
ot tne state, second only to lumber, but unlike the lumber industry
does not have safety engineers always on hand to eliminate
hazards.
We are inclined to think a safe day starts at breakfast. Here
plans should be made for the day's farm activities. This is when
the farmer should think ahead to any hazardous operations which
might involve a little extra planning and caution. A well planned
day seldom results in accidents. From what we have observed,
a good farm operator is a safe operator.
Of course, with so many people in part-time farming too often
it means hustling to get the chores done with little time to plan
ahead, a hasty breakfast, to work in town, then back again for
some other chores before dinner, a few last minute details, then
back to bed to start the whole thing all over again. There is little
time to check equipment. Too often a forgotten lit cigarette may
dangle from the corner of the mouth or a pipe may still be smoul
dering while the farmer refuels a tractor, then boom!
So far, the fruit industry has had comparatively few accidents
considering the machinery used in packing houses and the high
ladders in constant use during the harvest season in the orchards.
Constant supervision is probably the answer. But, as more inex
perienced help enters the orchards due to the steady decrease of
domestic migratory tabor accidents could increase.
The well-planned and written
safety program for farm organizations published by the Stale
Industrial Accident commission has some good illustrations of
how farm accidents occur.
A portable elevator has the
second-story barn window, otherwise too high. The blocking slips,
uruises me anme oi one man near ine wneeis ana lilts and tosses
the second man 10 feet in the air. He falls into the convevor
scalping the right temple and
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bundle in the neck.
A farmer plowing the last round in a garden spot at dusk is
close to an orchard fence. Two fence posts with a barbed wire
top strand have cracked bases and lean toward the garden plot.
Barbed wire whips over the left fenderette and onto the left thigh
of the farmer. It prevents him from lifting a foot from the foot
rest and onto the clutch. Thick mud on gloves from a recent
cleaning of the moldboard hinder him from turning off the igni
tion. The left trouser leg is torn and thigh sawed nearly to the
bone by the barbed wire.
The same farmer should have had anti-tetanus shots, we
wonder if he did. In fact, since farmers work around materials
where a scratch could mean lockjaw they should all have anti
tetanus inoculations.
So much for farm safety, except for one question: How many
farmers can honestly say they never violate at least one safety
rule each day?
Cattle Outlook
Greatly Improved
CORVALLIS The competi
tive position of Oregon's grain
feeding cattle and hog indus
tries has improved during the
past year and present pros
pects indicate the improved pos
ition should continue during the
coming year, reports M. D.
Thomas, Oregon State univer
sity extension agricultural
economist.
Thomas makes his comments
in the new Oregon Farm and
Market Outlook circular just
published at OSU. Copies arc
available from county extension
offices or from the OSU Bulle
tin clerk, Corvallis.
Figures on prices received for
grains and livestock in Oregon
and the Great Plains area show
that Oregon cattle feeders and
hog raisers recently could buy
more local barely with money
received from their animals
than their corn-feeding Midwest
counterparts, Thomas said.
A year ago, and frcqeuently
in the past, corn and milo feed
ers in the Midwest had a big
price advantage over local pro
ducers, the economist noted.
The improvement in cattle
and swine could spread a year
from now to include poultrymen
and other potential wheat feed
ers in Oregon and the Pacific
Northwest if the price spread
between Pacific Northwest
wheat and Midwest grains
closes as much as now seems
likely. Thomas observed.
Changes
Changes tn competitive posi
tions stem primarily from high
er corn and milo prices cast of
the Rockies and lower wheat
and barley prices in the North
west during the past year, he
explained.
These lower prices have ad
versely affected incomes of the
region's cash grain growers.
Thomas said, but added that
these adverse effects have been
partially or entirely offset by
payments lo those who partici
pated in 19S3 diversion pro
grams. For 19M, income - reducing
effects of prospective lower
wheat prices could b alleviated
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Farm Editor
accidents will continue to occur
to 12,000 fatalities. This is good
not for farm families. Of these
4,300 fatal accidents will come
booklet on a suezested farm
wheels blocked un to reach a
cheek, exposing the optic nerve
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in part or entirely through the
voluntary certificate plan re
cently introduced in the Senate
or through some other version
of the direct payment plan,
Thomas added.
Other proposed federal grain
legislation introduced since the
May 21 national wheat referen
dum would tend to price wheat
away from grain - feeders and
aims to limit wheat production
to domestic food uses and sub
sidized exports, he reported.
Recent and prospective chang
es in grain price relationships
reflect, to a considerable extent,
changes in federal grain pro
grams during the past 18
months, Thomas continued. Re
cent federal grain legislation,
administrative action and the
May 21 vote have combined to
improve the current situation
and outlook for Pacific North
west grain feeding industries.
Developments Important
These developments are im
portant to the region's grain
growers, the economist said, be
cause they Improve chances for
the Northwest to maintain and
develop feeding outlets for local
grains.
Continued over time, this
would favor use of much of the
region's good grain lands and
related resources to produce
more of the meat wanted by the
Pacific Coast's growing popula
tion, he pointed out.
Whether recent regional gams
in competitive position and pros
pects are retained will detvnd
considerably on three factors.
Thomas believes. These are:
1. Pacific Northwest grain
producers, feeders and allied in
dustry leaders recognizing their
common interests in relation
ships between grain prices here
and in the Great Plains.
2. Making their problems and
preferences known to federal
legislators and program admin
istrators, and
3. On congressional and ad
ministrative action, as long as
grain price levels and relation
ships are largely manageable
under federal grain programs
MEDFORD MAIL TKIBL'.N'E. MEDFORD, OREGON
Activities
By Local
Dorv Hart, nationally known
trainer of horses, was guest
speaker at the September meet
ing of the Jackson County
Horseman's association.
Hart, who spent most of his
life time in the circus also
answered questions on the many
years he devoted to "Training
Horses Under The Big Top."
Claude Sigman, Big Y Shop
ping center operator, who re
cently added his string of not
able Arabian horses to the val
ley's horse population told the
memoers ana guests oi tne
transportation of the animals
from Yakima, Wash., to Med
ford with the Shrine Patrol as
escort. Mr. and Mrs. John Bel
knap were on hand at the Big
Y Market to welcome the new
comers. "Cowboy Polo," the newest
Same to be cnndnrtpH hu
the JCHA has created such
a wide spread interest, tnat
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Mankin,
proprietors of the Westerner,
Medford, have offered to fur
nish all equipment needed for
the sport. It will be available
to anv and all nrrani7nH hnrco
groups in the valley, with no
cost. Arrangements to use the
equipment can be made by cal
ling The Westerner at 772-6436.
raraoc t'lanned
Jack Brown, chairman fnr
the trail committee, asks all
Dersons nlanninE in riHn in tha
Southern Oregon college Home
coming paraae, Nov. 2 to please
call him for information regard
ing riding habit, and other de
tails. John Belknao. president rnp.
ommended that Rrnwn Hi
the needs and plans of the JCHA
wnn uoD nayworth, Medford
parks and recreation director.
Belknao. also thantoH all mem
bers, who participated as judges
tor me recent 4-H Horse Show, j
Slim Hardin, Phoenix, reported ;
on his recent trip to eastern
Oregon for purchase of 4-H beef I
5iock. sum said some beef were !
bought for the projects next
year.
The Sept. 8 trail ride was a 1
success. Fifteen memlwrs nf I
the JCHA under the leadership
of Georee Mrllnn .larlfsnmnlln
Frontier Villiagc, made the trip,
ronowing tne ride the group
lunched at the Frontier Villiage.
The htllletin "Kpnno Tallr"
edited and published by Ted
Lnr stensen. ena'rman nf hp
activities and membership com
mittee has been well received j
by the membership. The club
voicn unanimously lor me
Tisane f
A complete stock of all seed grains:
Wheat, Oats, Barleys, Also Rye, Vetch, Peas,
Clovers, Alfalfas, Grasses and Pasture Mixes
All the recommended fertilizers:
Gypsum, Superphosphate, Sulphate of
Ammonia and the Nitrogen Mixes
Lawns:
Fall is the best time to plant a new lawn or
reseed an old one. We have everything you
need to plant a lawn including the best of
lawn grass seeds, fertilizers, rollers, spreaders,
and all garden tools.
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CENTRAL POINT
Ph. 664-1261 or 773-4022
Planned
Horsemen
monthly issue to be continued.
All members are reminded to
send their notices on for sale
items, and local club activities
to the editor.
Sept. 29, the JCHA will con
duct a play-day at the Jackson
County Fairgrounds. Activities
will begin at 10 a.m., and will
continue throughout the day.
All members are invited to at
tend and may bring a guest.
Don't forget table service, and
a covered dish.
A film to be shown at the Oc
tober meeting is on Arabian
horses by Roy Johnson, of the
Gizzi Arabian ranch, Eagle
Point. These pictures were film
ed and edited by the Internation
al Arabian association, Bur
bank, Calif. In November, films
will be shown on Morgan horses,
December, on Tennessee Walk
ers, and in January the Appa
loosas. Produce Veteran
In Pear Bureau
O. B. "Bill" Williamson, vet
eran produce man, has been
named California Bay area and
Pacific Northwest merchandis
ing representative for the Ore
gon - Washington - California
Pear bureau, it was announced
by Dick Patterson, general man
ager, at Portland headquarters
this week.
Williamson replaces James
Webb, who resigned to accept
a position with the Apple Grow
ers association of Hood River,
Oregon.
The Pear bureau representa
tive had been employed by
W. M. Dickerson, San Francisco
producer brokers, and prior to
that by T. A. Burns, another
San Francisco firm. For five
years, he was produce manager
of the Uptown Market in Oak
land. Prior to moving to the west
coast a few years ago, William
son was in the produce business
at Houston, Tex., from 1935 to
1956. He was in business for
himself and managed produce
departments for Safeway and
Minyard chains in the Texas
city. He started in the produce
business 32 years ago.
Williamson, a native of Lime
stone county, Tex., is busy in
the Bay Area and is scheduled
to make his first trip to the
Pacific Northwest in his new
capacity later this fall.
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BEEF SHOWMANSHIP Ncal Brown. Sauvies Island, left, and
Kay Bever, Eagle Point, are shown as they received their awards
for 4-H beef showmanship at the Oregon State fair in Salem. They
were presented by Umatilla County Rancher Art Shumway repre
senting the Oregon Cattlemen's association.
Livestock
Have Varied
CORVALLIS Some improve
ment in prices from the August
level is in prospect for Oregon
slaughter steers later this year,
but odds are against sustained
price strength into 19;H, reports
Stephen C. Marks, Oregon State
University extension agricultu
ral economist.
Marks gives his views in the
new Oregon Farm and Market
Outlook circular. Copies of the
circular are available from
countv extension offices or from
the OSU bulletin clerk.
In the next five years, there
is no indication of a price bust,
assuming no widespread severe
drouth, but prices are more
likely to work gradually lower
than" higher as cattle numbers
continue to increase, Marks
notes.
Although consumers are ex
pected to have greater ability
and willingness to spend for
meat in the year ahead, pros
pects are that meat supplies
will remain large enough to off
set these price bolstering fac
tors, the economist added.
In both the short and long
term outlook, national market
supply of slaughter cattle and
beef will be the most influential
direct force on any change in
fed cattle prices. Changes in
supplies of competing meats
will exert a less direct influ
ence. Marks writes.
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While tolnl V. S. beef output
the rest of this year is expected
to stay above the last half of
19S2. some decline from the cur
rent large national supplies of
grain-fed beef is indicated lor
the lalter part of the fourth
quarter.
Thus, a moderate up-tiini in
prices for Oregon choir? s'a'.r'h
ler steers ar-p?ars lively, Marks
bcli"ves. Partly off-setting the
decline in beef supplies are
prospects for larger quantities oi
pork and poultry meat.
.Market prospects for tile fint
haif of 194 don't look so bricht,
Marks said, because an earlier
lag in western feediot place
ments was more than oif-srt hv
sharp increases in placemen's
in California. Arizona and Colo
rado durina July.
STOCKMEN
FEED PELLETS
Your course or unpalatable
roughage will make a base
for a moden balanced ration
th.it you can feed with little
labor and no wastaac. The
increased meat or mrik pro
duced will give you maxi
mum returns on a small cash
investment.
MORTON
MILLING CO.
500 Ross Lane, Medford
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