HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1958
Brucellosis Regulation
Modification Outlined
PAGE FOUR
Vaccinates under 30 months of
age in beef cattle', and vaccinates
under 24 months of age in dairy
cattle may now be removed from
a herd quarantined for brucello
sis in both range and dairy areas,
according to an administrative or
der of the State Department of
Agriculture.
This change in the department's
regulations came as a result of
conferences with cattlemen from
the Klamath County area, who
maintained that the former regu
lation, which allowed vaccinated
calves under 18 months of age to
Property Tax
Change Urged
Gerald Delering, president of
the Oregon Farm Bureau Feder
ation, in a speech to the Linn
County Farm Bureau membership
meeting, said the Oregon Farm
Bureau is strongly in favor of a
broadened tax base to supplement
the present properly tax in Ore
gon. Said Detering, "At the time
Oregon's property tax system was
inaugurated it was reasonably
fair. Today the property tax sys
tem penalizes those who must
own property to earn a living.
The Oregon Farm Bureau leader
said farm people in particular
hear a disproportionate share of
the county property lax.
Compared to neighboring slates,
Oregon ranks number one in lax
revenue taken through property
tax. Based on full valuation, Ore
gon received $1.90 per $100 valua
tion while Washington draws only
63 cents from property tax on Ihc
same basis.
Making a direct coniDarison, a
Washington farmer with a farm
valued at $50,000 would pay ap
proximately $:I15 in properly taxes.
The Oregon farmer, under the
same conditions, would be charged
$T.45.
Detering pointed out that own
ership of properly has long since
failed to indicate ability to pay.
Said the farm bureau president,
"efforts Inward better enforce
ment, fairer equalization of as
sessments arc commendable: how
ever, it should be emphasized that
no amount of legislation and ad
ministrative patch work will ever
make the property tax an equit
able tax. This is particularly true
when it alone is the primary
source of lax revenue in the
county."
The Oregon Farm Bureau Fed
eration believes that the property
tax must be replaced as the pri
mary source of county revenue
and that a broadened tax base
should be adopted," Detering told
(he l.inn County meeting.
be removed, was too strict. After
investigation, department experts
decided that the rule could be
changed without risking the effec
tiveness of the program.
Don Parker, assistant atlorney
general with the Oregon State De
partment of Agriculture, said that
this order points up the advan
tages of a flexible brucellosis law.
The 1957 Legislature authorized
the department to adopt and issue
regulations necessary for enabling
the slate and the various enmities
to become modified certified bru
cellosis free areas, and to main
tain that status. The regulations
adopted by Oregon's Department
of Agriculture must be in line with
minimum federal standards.
If the regulations had been a
part of the state law, Parker con
tinued, it would have been impos
sible to change them until the next
time the Legislature meets. The
attorney added that the depart
ment welcomes talks with cattle
men about their ideas for improv
ing the program.
Another important change con
tained in the administrative order
concerns brucellosis suspects ori
ginating from brucellosis-infected
herds that are moved to or sold
through a stockyard or livestock
auction market. Tiie new regula
tion stipulates these animals must
be sold only . for slaughter and
moved directly to a slaughtering
establishment that has federal,
state or municipal meat inspection.
This section was added to Ore
gon's rules because the department
naa received reports that some
out-of-state sellers are bringing
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THE ANNUAL meeting of the Klamath Basin Grade A Milk Producers Association was
held at the fairgrounds Tuesday and reports were heard from subcommittees. Lester
Adams, manager of the Oregon Milk Producers Association, reported on the activities of
that group during the past year and R, Frank Tucker, manager of the Klamath County
Chamber of Commerce, spoke on recent expansion in this county and what it means to
the dairy industry. Shown above, left to right, are Lawrence Geraghty, president, Tucker,
Adams and George Reiling who was reelected to succeed himself as a member of the
board of directors for a three year term.
Truckers Haul Molasses Now
Increased use of molusses in
hit . .. y, n 111 1 111 J VJtJl a litis
rtirnllncic cucnnnlc mln flroniii in 1 ... f
o. . TVoi " " " lDeei! accompanied by chang,
an attempt to sell them
The administrative order, signed
January 13. also declares that own
ers of cattle herds must use the
official veterinarian in their area
for vaccination and testing for oru
cellosis and tuberculosis. However,
with the approval of the depart
ment, the owner may use another
official veterinarian of his choice,
provided he pays the cost of the
required testing and vaccinations.
The order states that this re
quirement is necessary in order to
achieve the most efficient and eco
nomical use of the tax funds whii'h
have been appropriated to cany
out the program in Oregon.
DEVELOPED VACCINE
One of the first effective vac
cines for protection against whoop
ing cough was developed and
standardized in Michigan State
Health Department laboratories.
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methods of transporting it.
cording to a report issued by the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Tank trucks are used more than
before to deliver molasses from
rauroaos, irom walerborne car
riers, and from seaport teminals
directly to users.
Rapid development of tank
truck deliveries, making molas
ses available in small quantities
to feeders and feed mixers in the
Middle West, was accompanied by
almost a hundredfold expansion of
molasses shipments by water up
the Mississippi River from 104!) to
1054, the report shows. Much of
this molasses then was delivered
to the users by truck, now general
ly regarded as the principal meth
od for transporting molasses for
feed.
Previously, railway tank-car de
liveries had necessitated shipments
so large that farmers and small
feed mixers usually could not af
ford to buy in the large quanti
ties shipped.
Costs of transporting molasses
are such that tank trucks can
readily compete with railroads at
distances under 250 miles, the re
port says. The services that tank
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trucks can provide are particu
larly important to livestock feed
ers with less than 100 head of live
stock and to mixed-feed mills
producing less than 2,500 tons of
feed a year. i
Marketing researchers say that
the molasses industry is con-i
fronted with problems of finding!
ways to service scattered users I
and to overcome dissatisfaction of
users with present methods of
measuring both quantity and qual- j
ity. Tank-truck carriers must ob-
tain return loads to reduce the
cost of "deadhead returns." An
other problem of the tank-truck
carriers is the variation in high-'
way weight regulations. Railroads!
need to find ways of improving i
their services to consumers, par
ticularly by delivering smaller :
quantities and by better schedul
ing of deliveries.
This study of the transportation
of molasses from 1949 to 1954 was
made by the Marketing Research
Division of the Agricultural Mar
keting Service. A copy of the re
portMarketing Research Report
No. 149, "Transportation in Mar-'
keting Molasses for Feed" may
be obtained from the Office of In
formation, U.S. Department of Ag
riculture, Washington 25, D.C.
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