SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1955
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Shady Pine Rancher Uses
Year-Round Feed Lot Plan
Trying to set as much produc
tlon as possible out of a relatively
small acreage is the problem fac
ing this week's Farmer ol the
Week, Tommy Watters, who oper
ates a livestock feeding operation
at Shady Pine, just off Highway 97
north of Klamath Falls.
Watters, who has been concen
trating on cattle for a short time
after attempting to raise potatoes
on his land, found that the spuds
did not do very well, and that
the pasturage he raised would sup
port a relatively large number of
cattle, especially when supplement
ary feeding methods are used.
In an effort to even out the soft
spots in the market, Watters is
attempting to keep some stock in
the feed lot at all times. Then,
he says, he will have something
to sell at any time there is a good
opening.
At present, he Is running about
12S head of yearling steers, which
will soon be turned into the feed
lot. He anticipates that, because
they enter the lot in relatively
good shape after the supplemented
range diet, they will spend about
iOO days before being ready for
market.
In addilion to these animals, he
last week purchased 97 head of
just-weaned calves. These wcaners
will be ready for conversion into
club steaks beginning early next
summer, and will be sold during
the summer and early fall season.
Walters said that this is the
way he likes to operate. The
..teeri;, which will be available
Ihls winter, and the calves, which
will be ready for sale next sum
mer, will give him a continuous
supply of aulmal3 for aale. Other
growers, he says, tend to sell a
tingle crop of steers yearly, and
might get caught at a low spot
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in the market.
His system of feeding produces
good cattle. A recent shipment of
75 head to Portland graded all
good and choice.
He operates about 60 acres of
pasture, and supplements the
grass feed with grain spread on
the grass. In addition to this, he
grows oats for silage, which he
leeos from a bunker-type silo.
A native of Klamath County,
Watters has been intensively work
ing cattle for the past two or
three years he says that it
took a while to change over from
potatoes.
He said he went into cattle
rather than raising gram for sale
because he felt he could get more
money per year per acre from
cattle than at the low prices cur
rently being received for grain.
Watters1 land is at Shady Pine,
where he is restricted in expan
sion possibilities by Upper Klam
ath Lake and the highway on one
sjde. and high bluffs on the other.
So he must work to get more out
of what he has.
This, he said, has determined
his operating methods throughout.
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Tommy Watter$ was caught
by the photographer in the
middle of calf branding op
erations at hit cattle feed
ing ranch at Shady Pine, just
north of Klamath Falls. In
top photo, a calf, one of 97
head . purchased last week
from a Lakeview rancher,
bawls as Louis Givens ap
plies the hot branding iron
and Watters (left) checks
his ears. In the photo at the
left, Watters loads a hypo-'
dermic needle to inject a
triple vaccination into a new
ly purchased calf. The inoc
ulation will protect the 'calf
against shipping fever,
blackleg and njialignant ed
ema. The calves are run from
the pen into a "squeeze
; chute," which is arranged so
that it will squeeie the calf
to hold him steady while the
men work. The calf's neck is
in a yoke which holds it
steady in case medication
must be applied to eyes.
Watters injects all of his
calves with the triple shot,
and sickly looking calves also
receive a shot of penicillin.
In addition to the 97 calves
purchased last week, Wat
ters is presently running
about 125 head of yearling
steers, and attempts to keep
some animals in the feed lot
at all. times to spread his
sales over both strong and
weak markets.
School Bus
Law Defined
Complaints that some drivers
still disregard Oregon's school bus
stop law have been reaching the
secretary ol state s onice sines
schools opened this fall.
The secretary's traffic safety di
vision said school bus drivers are
plagued by motorists who merely
slow down and then proceed to
pass a bus stopped to load or un
load passengers.
Some school bus drivers also
shpre the blame for confusion over
the law. Secretary of State Earl
T. Newbry said. An occasional
school bus operator will wave a
driver past even though children
are leaving the bus.
The law, Newbry aaid, requires
drivers to stop when meeting or
overtaking a school bus stopped
to load or unload passengers on a
two-lane read. Where there are
three or more lanes, only thost
drivers moving In the same dlreC'
tions as the bus must stop.
Drivers cannot continue as long
as there are children leaving the
bus or crossing the road.
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Fair Share Chiefs Predict
Clean-Up Of Drive Target
Operation Fair Share leaders
were optimistic Sat'.irday that the
United Fund Red Cross target of
$129,627 could be met through
clean up ope.ations scheduled to
follow the Monday and Tuesday
report meetings at the Wmema
Hotel.
Following Friday's report meet
ing, divisions had reported an av
erage of about 61 per cent of their
;ndlvld'Jal targets. Ths divisions.
their targets and amounts reported
to date follow in that order.
Contractors. $5400. $2996.30:
department stores. SI, 600. $4,
098.70: farm equipment. 42.300.
$1,953.48: finance. $7,900, $4,589.50:
foods, S6.8O0, $2,652: furniture.
$1,900. $1,553; fuels, $2,500. (1.820.-
State Vets
Visit Klamath
State Department heads of Span
ish American War Veterans paid
official visits Octobe- 26-26 to the
Ksrbert Applejate Cr.mp No. ?5
and Uie auxiliary. No. 14. USWV.
Headquarters for the meeting were
at tne home ol Mr. and Mrs. John
Simmon?.
Present were Commander B. P.
Boland and Mrs.- Boland, Port
land; department president, Millie
Schwieterlng and Fred Schwleter-
ing, Eugene: department aid.
Mary Harding, Astoria.
Open house on the afternoon of
the opening day was followed by
a business meeting apd banquet .it
a local cafe.
State officers pertinent Informs-
tion on legislative consideration
;hat effects widows pensions and
benefits on hospitalisation for
veterans of the Spanish - Ameri
can War. Reports were also heard
on the national encampment held
recently In Long. Beach. There
were some changes made at the
meeting on use of the American
nag and the ritual. New rituals
are to be distributed soon.
T. M. Bieler. commander of the
loyal camp and Mrs. Stella D.
Meyers, president of the auxiliary
commended the department offi
cers and urged mother visit dur
ing the coming year.
Over The
Garden Gate
MERRILL
By Mary l.ou Swisher
Tne Lost River Garden Club met
at the home of Dorothy West
Tuesday afternoon. October 26.
with Marjorie Hodges co-hostess.
and nine members present.
There was round-table discus
sion on fall planting and fall
flowers. A project to clean the
flower beds soon, at the recrea
tion hall was discussed. Also plans
are for a cleanup meeting again
in May,-
The door prize was won by
Dorothy Kandra , for her dry ar
rangement. There will be no meetings in
November or December. In Jan
uary, a polluck luncheon will be
held at 1 p.m. at the home of
June Orem with Virginia Pope,
co-hostess. Movie films on the
1955 Rose Festival In Portland and
the 1954 Pasadena Rose Parade
will be shown and each member
is to bring a guest.
Klamath Falls, Ph. 2 -
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50. hotels and restaurants, $J,0C0,
f 1,910.
Laundries, $950, $385; lumber.
$36,500, 115, 935.50: building ma
terials, $3,300. $i motor trades.
$5,400, $3,675: personal and profea-
t-lonal, S9.a00. $4,526.50;- printers
and publishers. $3,700, $3,706.50;
public employes. $3,200, $1,148.
Recreation, $2,600, $1,414: city
schools, $3,500, $3,941.48- county
schools. 1.100. $1,349: OTI. $2,500.
52.792.71: utilities. $4,200, $3,126.60;
transportation, $7,100. $6,596.30;
miscellaneous, $550, $357.20; resi
dential and air force, $5,000, $1,
906: county. $18,000, $6,106.65.
In the 'county, Poe Valley, Olene
and Pine Orove lead with 93 per
rent of their joint target or $1,000.
Bly has $750 or 85 per cent; Wo
cus Algoma and Shady Pine, $500
or 60 per oent and Henley and
Midland have reported $1,150 or
49 uer cent.
Other county communities and
their targets are Ollchrlsi and
Crescent, $3,000; Chemult, $250;
Fort Klamath. Crater Lake and
West Side. $1,000; Chtloumn, Klam
ath Agency, Modoc Point and
Sprague River, $1,350; Keno and
W o r d e n. $1,000; Bonanza and
Dairy, Jl.MO; Langell Valley. $500;
Beatty. $100; Malln. $3,000 and
Merrill. $3,000.
Reports are expected from most
county communities Monday, ac
cording to Wing Commander Bob
Beach.
Paisley Resident
Claimed By Death
LAKEVIEW Walter Harris, 76,
who has lived . In Paisley the last
eight years, died October 26 at the
Lakeview Hospital.
Harris, who was known as "Big
Chief," was born July 16, 1(80 in
Indian Territory, Oklahoma. No
survivors are known.
On Monday, Harris fell and cut
his head at Paisley and was
brought to the Lakeview Hospital
by the Lake County disaster car.
The Ousley - Osterman Mortur
ary conducted burial services at
the Odd Fellows Cemetery on Oc
tober 27.
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the Klemeth Falls Lions Club. Jones is pictured above with two charmers whom he calls his
"country cousins." Performances will be at 5:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Featured in the two-hour
show are Singer Helen Grayco and the City Slickers.
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