TUESDAY.
FROM
THE
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.The large quantity of water
'resulting from recent heavy
rains have, in many instances.
. proved the value of well placed
; winter drainage cwcnes or w
' rows.
i Such temporary drainage sys
. terns have a place in most agri.
cultural soils whether or not it
is orchard, row crop or meadow
. land.
The soils in this area are, as
' a general rule, easily saturated
' with water. The excess that re
sults from fall and winter rains
should be drained off by tern,
porary drainage systems to pre-
- vent swampy conditions that can
often result in damages to eco
nomic plants. Such drainage
systems once in place should
be checked occasionally to pre
vent their stoppage by leaves
or other debris.
Leave Grass Long
Where lawns will be heavily
used by children and their pets
during wet winter months, it is
wise to have the lawn grasses
rather long. Closely mowed
lawns suffer more damage from
trampling under wet conditions
than do those that have a longer
and more dense cover.
Where the lawn soils are very
light sandy or red clay types,
it may be well to apply a light
application of some complete
fertilizer during the fall or win
ter months.
Such fertilizer can be an o-20-20
or 16-16-16 formulation.
The first figure is of less im
portance than the last two series
of figures. Your fertilizer dealer
can assist in this regard.
Oak trees can be beautiful I
Interested persons should see
certain of the specimen trees
growing by the road by Hill
crest Orchards.
There are many specimen
trees at this place and not all
. of them are oaks. The buckeye
or horse-chestnut trees have now
shed all their leaves as have
i .any of the species of oak.
"Good Oaks
However, there are oaks that
retain .their leaves and make a
good display of fall color. These
same oaks are not subject to
the same diseases - and potho-
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NOVEMBER 19. 1963
Walnut Marketing
Well Outlined
Home and commercial walnut
growers are interested in tne
Federal Marketing Order No. 84
which regulates the sale of wal
nuts, according to Don Berry,
county extension agent.
This Federal Marketing uraer
provides that anyone who
"handles" walnuts must have
them inspected to determine
that thev meet the minimum
standard established under the
marketing order except growers
can sell without inspection up to
500 pounds of unshelled or 200
pounds of sneiied wainuis airecr.
to actual consumers within the
area of production. These direct
sales may not exceed 500 pounds
unshelled or 200 pounds shelled
in any one market year. 11 you
mail parcel post or express
shipments, they may not exceed
10 pounds unshelled (or 4 pounds
shelled) to any one consumer
in any one calendar day.
A walnut grower may also
sell without inspection to a rec
ognized "handler" of walnuts
who complies with the walnut
control board regulation prior
to resale. No sales to retailers
can be made unless walnuts are
inspected.
Inspections are made by the
Federal-State Shipping Point In
spection Service, 692 South
Grane Street. Medford, at a cost
of 6V4 cents per 100 pounds of
in-shell walnuts and-or 15 cents
per 100 pounds of shelled nuts
with a minimum charge 01 $5.50.
Most local growers with small
productions prefer to sell their
walnuts directly to the consum
er through roadside stands or
soliciting direct sales from their
own property in order to avoid
the cost and trouble of inspec
tion. gens that attack the native oaks
of this area.
It is not too late to apply
certain herbicide sprays for
weed control during the coming
growing season. Consult your
seed or chemical dealer for ad
vice and materials.
Pruning is a timely topic these
days, The absence of pruning
labor is a problem, but may im
prove as the growing season
progresses.
The winter meeting of the
Oregon State Horticultural Soci
ety will begin Wednesday. All
Interested persons should attend
as those old boys around the
college really get dressed up
for this one. It is the equivalent
of a major holiday for them, so
let's all go and get them re
charged for another year.
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CRATES OF ONIONS Two Central Point
area high school youths stacked onions at
the Seven Oaks ranch, north of Central Point,
this fall. These will be warehoused by John
Tariffs Only Solution
For Fighting Import
By CHARLOTTE DAVIS
Mail Tribune Correspondent
SISKIYOU COUNTY - "Tar
iffs are the only solution to
combat the threat of import
beef," is the conclusion drawn
by Harvey McDougal who spoke
to some 225 Siskiyou county
cattlemen, their wives and
guests at their annual dinner
meeting at Winema Hall at the
Siskiyou County Fairgrounds,
Friday evening, Nov. 15.
Howard Beck, president of
Siskiyou County Cattlemen's
Association, conducted the
formal portion of the session,
which included introductions
and presentations. Past "Cattle
men of the Year" present in
cluded Clarence Dudley for
1958, Brice "Bud" Long, 1960,
Earl Fiock, 1961 and Charles
Hammond, 1962.
Honored
Mrs. A. B. Hoy, pioneer
woman in the cattle business,
was awarded the honor of being
"Mom of the Year" of the Siski
you Cowbells, the presentation
being made by Mrs. Ed Hart,
the president.
Doug Jenner, Etna, Future
Farmers of America member,
received from the Hereford
Breeders Association, a leather
scroll lor having the best Here
ford exhibit at the Siskiyou
County Fair. From the S.C.C.A.,
the C. A. Grissom Ranch, Edge
wood, received the award for
the best pen of feeder steers at
the fair; Jim Taylor, Big
Springs, for the best pen of feed
er Hellers, and Muart Ham
mond, Weed, for the best pen
oi replacement hellers,
Junior past president of
S.C.C.A., Win Valentine, was
given a belt buckle for his job
as chairman. Ed Hart and his
committee were thanked for ar
ranging the dinner meeting.
Blair smith, Montague, state
director from Siskiyou county,
urged all who could to attend
the state convention of Califor
nia Cattleman Association in
Bakersfield, Dec. 5, 6 and 7
to do so.
Louis Hessig, past president
of S.C.C.A., in introducing the
guest speaker Harvey Mc
Dougal, commercial feed lot
operator from Colllnsville. men
tioned that he Is a past president
of CCA. and Cattle Feeders'
Association, he is vice president
of National Cattlemen Associa
tion and acts on many advisory
boards. In 1954 McDougal was
State of California "Cattleman
of the Year" and often judges
in leading shows throughout the
nation, having done so for Sis
kiyou County two different
years.
"Foreign Imports of Beet
was the topic of the subject of
McDougal's address. Ho clean
ed his material from a trip he
took in the company of his wife
and seven other couples, three
of them from California, to New
Zealand and Australia, this p.ist
summer, stopping enroute in the
Fiji Islands and Hawaii.
More Cattle Than People
The group noted that New
Zealand, about the size of Colo
rado, has a population of 2V4
million people and has 7,4
million cattle. "II is one of the
greatest pastures of the world,
carrying one-half head of cnttle
per acre the year around," Mc
Dougal said. "Sheep and cattle
are handled on the same range.
Cattle utilize the lush top grass
while the sheep do the closer
cropping. A great deal of wool
and lambs aro exported to lCng
lund as well as quantities of
boned beef all over the world
240 million pounds having been
shipped to the United States
last year. Grass fut cattle at
l.ooo pounds are exported from
this country, much of it going
to the Hawaiian Islands, where
in spite of shipping expense
meat can be sold 10 cents under
local prices."
In Australia the U.s. group
met with the beef board at Syd
ney and took a 12 day tour in
the north of the continent, which
is as large as the United States,
but has few railroads and Imid
ly any roads, making transpor
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tation poor. McDougal related
that the Sir William Gunn ranch
in Queensland, consisting of
some 10,000 acres had been pur
chased for $3 per acre. "The
brush is cleared with tractors,
then burned and the land seed'
ed to grass," he said. "In five
years time top feed is pro
duced, at $25 cost per acre. It
requires two to carry one cow."
McDougal said a 2-year-old
steer weighing 1,000 pounds is
fed only on grass. "The income
pays off the investment in five
years or less. Many million
acres are still available. Tne
average yearly rainfall is 25
inches. The cost of a cow is $50
and the overhead is $100, very
much cheaper than here," he
said.
Scales are not available in
many places, therefore cattle
are often sold by the head at
auctions. A top steer is sold at
10 to 12 cents per pound and
then goes through the boning
operation, for export. Bulls
bring a higher price than here
wnen tney go to tne noning op
erations. Sanitation is not al
ways good, but seems to be
satisfactory in the killing
plants.
"In the interior, which is
dessert country, a whole section
can be leased for $1.50 per sec
tion. In one area visited, the
travelers saw a fence which ran
90 miles in a straight line. Wa
ter is usually 16 miles away.
Losses are heavy, due to the
rugged condition of the country.
One ranch was said to contain
4 million acres and rains come
but once a year. The spring
temperature is often 104 de
grees. Ranchers there do not
worry greatly about their heavy
losses, as the build-up is rapid,
partly due to low prices."
Huge Ranch Described
"At the King Ranch, 600
miles from the closest neighbor,
4 million acres have been de
veloped for water and fenced
In the last five years. Thev can
handle 28,000 cattle and plan
to increase to 75,000 soon. They
can produce a four - year - old
steer for $25 and get it to mar
ket for another $25. Most of the
native cattle are of shorthorn
foundation for the past 100
years. Sanla Gertrudis are
being tried."
"The hospitality of the ranch
ers was outstanding to the
travelers. They being 19 in
number, and there being no ho
tel accommodations to be found,
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Don Bradshaw
and gradually
shipped out during the winter to the San
Francisco area where the onions have con
sistently topped the market.
Now
Beef
the ranches were able to make
them comfortable in all in
stances. In many cases supplies
are obtained only twice a year."
"By American standards, they
found the meat in the arid coun
try to be quite tough and in
edible. In some areas in Cen
tral Australia it may not rain
for as long as three years.
When the grass gets sparse, cat
tle will eat the leaves from the
trees, if they can find any."
"Children in these sparsely
settled areas are taught bv
radio and mail and doctor's ad
vice in many cases is sought
Dy radio.
McDougal said that in meetine
with the Meat Board in Aus
tralia, they obtained no relief
from the situation. This coun
try is attempting to develop an
Asian market for their low
price meats, which may help
in the solution of the problem.
The U. S. group felt that the
New Zealand cattlemen were
not quite as willing to cooper
ate as mose oi Australia, as they
are exporting 80 per cent of
their meat to the U.S.
Threat Seen
McDougal said the United
States beef men are not asking
for government help, other than
using meat in school lunches.
He feels, however, that Aus
tralia may be a serious threat
to the welfare of our market,
since they have such a great
potential and can produce at
such low cost. In a few in
stances oats is green-chooDed
and fed as a supplement and in
another case on a sewage farm,
where the clear sewage is DumD-
ed to the fields, 30 tons of hav
can be produced to an acre and
4 steers can be pastured on one
acre of this land.
He said that Australia now
has 18 million cattle and their
potential is unlimited. He furth
er added that Argentina is a
still further threat to the U.S.
market. If their beef is ever
imported here, we are sunk, he
said. Planes can be used to im
port it from there.
McDougal and his committee
men have attempted to meet
with Agriculture Secretary Or
ville Freeman, but thus far have
not been able to work out a
solution, agreeable to the U.S.
meat enterprise. He feels that a
protective tariff is of utmost im
portance.
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MEDFORO, OREGON
Skilled People Needed
For Raising Quality Onions
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
CENTRAL POINT Raising
onions like the production of
other specialty crops here in
the Rogue Valley requires
people with know-how.
This has been emphasized re
peatedly by county extension
agents and growers. This is the
big concern of those who would
like to expand truck gardening
in the valley which produces
top quality products in onions.
mellons, tomatoes, sweet corn,
potatoes and spinach. There
just aren't enough good grow
ers to go around.
The problem of enough good
growers becomes acute when
you consider the large acreage
which will be put under irriga
tion water for the first time
with the advent of the Rogue
Basin project and the additional
water to be provided other
acreage.
The rapidly rising taxes on
property plus irrigation charges
mane it necessary lor the far
mer to get a high return in
dollars from each acre under
protection. Only a good
grower can do this.
The Harry Dunn family on
Grant Road are among the lit
tle group of expert growers
closely associated with Otto
Bohnert, the leading local ex
pert in specialty crops. Roger
Von der Hellen, John Bohnert,
Arnold Bohnert, Wilton White,
and others. The majority of
these people are easing out of
vegetables to raise grass seed
which requires far less labor
and has a steadier market.
"You have to have a market.
You gotta know what you are
doing. Also, you have to have
enough money to do it right,"
a local onion grower said.
One thing about onions vou
can market them all year with
out overloading the market at
any particular time. Rogue
Valley onions, as growers Don
Bradshaw and John Bohnert
nave noted have a high demand
for their top quality. Some may
go north to the Portland mar
ket, but most of them go south
to San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
The Southern Oregon Branch
Experiment Station is constant
ly working with new onion va
rieties. The station has 30 dif
ferent onion selections this
year. Three are named varie
ties, 27 have experiment station
numbers and 10 have Oregon
State university numbers. Some
of the seed for these plants
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come from commercial compa
nies, others from the United
States Department of Agricul
ture. Almost all are hybrid
types through a system of
crossbreeding. Most vegetable
and seed crops come from hy
brid plants, station Agronomist
John xungen noted.
A thousand 50 pound sacks to
the acre, field run, is consid
ered good. Local growers get
1,200 to 1,400 sacks per acre,
according to Yungen. A Sweet
Spanish variety, Colorado 6, is
the old standby, with Fiesta and
Treasure becoming more
popular.
The experiment station keeps
them in storage about five or
six months. Then it grades,
weighs and sizes the various
onion varieties to see which
store best.
"Marketing onions is an
orderly procedure," according
to County Agent Don Berry.
Growers don't overload the
market. It's a specialty crop
which requires a lot of detail
work and handling."
Due to the cold spring and
late planting the onions didn't
size as large as in other years,
according to Central Point
Onion Grower Dick Dunn. But,
the yield this year was good,
about the highest he can re
member. Two to three inch
onions was considered good.
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Beef Carcass Work
Explained by OSU
CORVALLIS - Use of an im
portant new tool in the continu
ing effort by the Oregon cattle
industry to produce beef that is
tailored to fit changing needs
of the meat trade as well as
consumer preference is illus
trated in a new Oregon State
University extension bulletin.
The bulletin was prepared by
Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the De
partment of Animal Science at
Oregon State, and John H. Lan
ders and W. Dean Frischknecht,
OSU extension animal science
specialists. It describes the re
suits of the beef carcass evalu
ation contest held at the 1962
Pacific International Livestock
Exposition in Portland.
The bulletin explains the im
portance of the carcass contest
in relation to current trends in
meat merchandising. It details
the grades, yields, and cut-out
values of the carcasses entered
in the contest.
Oregon residents may obtain
free copies of "Beef Carcass
Evaluation Contest" from coun
ty extension offices or the OSU
Bulletin Clerk.
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sticky soil. Experts generally
agree that a lot more onions
could be grown in the valley
if there were only the growers
to do it.
The Dunns have about nine
acres planted to onions. Prior to
harvest they use a V blade to
slice off the roots. High school
youngsters crate them after
they are windrowed, two rows
together to dry partially. Fur
ther drying is done in the huge
storage house. Those onions
containing more moisture are
stacked in a drying room con
taining a large fan and heat
ing plant.
Local women and Dunns run
the sorting machine which uses
a moving belt to drop onions
through different size mesh
screens. This can be done all
winter long as the need to
crate or sack arises. The Dunns
sell onions locally and ship also.
The three pound cello pack of
broiler onions has proven popu
lar. Sacks themselves most l'V
cents, but they consider the cost
well worth it.
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