HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SUNDAY, MAY 25, 195s f
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County Agfent Reports
Farm News Brtefed From The
County Agent Itadio Programs
By KAY O. I'ETKKSON
County Extension Agent '
Stilbcstrol hormone Implanted
under the skin of the ear of year
ling and older steers on good pas
ture will result in an extra 40
pounds of gain during the season.
Oregon State College trials con
ducted last summer show that
steers on pasture gained an extra
one fourth to one half pound per
day when implanted with 18 to
24 miligrams of stilbestrol. Trials
conducted in Klamath County two
vears ago gave similar results.
Yearling steers treated with the
hormone gained 43 pounds more
in 119 days than untreated cattle
grazing with the treated animals
In another test treated two-year-old
steers gained an extra 40
pounds in about 80 days.
Many stockmen have hesitated
to use the drug because of unde
sirable side effects. Kecent experi
ments indicate that lighter
of 18 to 24 milligrams per head
reduced these effects from the 30
to 36 milligrams most commonly
used in the past and give just as
good a boost in gains.
The assumption that cattle
' treated with stilbcstrol on pasture
would not make satisfactory gains
in the feed lot did not prove to
be true in the Oregon State Col
lege trials. Tney found that steers
treated on pasture and treated
ugain in the feed lot gained one
pound more than steers treated
for the first time ns they were
placed In the feed . lot. The re-
implanted steers also gained 20
pounds more than those that were
implanted on pasture but not given
ii second treatment in the feed
lot. The feed lot period was 70
days and the treated animals were
given 30 milligrams as they went
into the feed lot. The college be
lieves that at least 75 days should
elapse between treatments.
In these trials, animals treated
both on pasture and in the feed
lot gained 46 pounds more than
those treated only in the teed lot
Grass production on most ot our
dry range pasture lands can be
greatly increased by removing
sage and rabbit brush or by re-
sceding with adapted grasses.
Sage and rabbit brush requires
moisture, plant food and space
needed by grasses to make maxi
mum growth. Since livestock util
ize the grasses and leave the sage,
these plants have all the advan
tage so continue to grow and
spread thus continually reducing
the forage production on our
ranees.
Sage brush can be removed by
spraying with butylester of 2,4, D
at the rate of one to one and one
half pounds active ingredient per
acre for areas with big sage brush
only or three pounds per acre
where rabbit brush is prevalent
Timing of spraying is very im
portant. Sage brush can be most
effectively killed between the lime
sandbcrgs blue grass first starts
heading and the. time this grass
has lost half its green color.
Rabbit brush must have tnree
inches of new growth before a sat
isfactory kill can be secured from
spraying. Where there arc both
rabbit brush and sage brush thn
ing of sprays should be done when
the rabbit brush growth is ngnt
The county agents office is plan
ning a brush spraying trial and
should have more accurate data
for another year.
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Greece In Colour
NATURE'S BALANCE
In His infinite wisdom, the Su
preme Creator has apparently tied
together in hn unbroken line all
the creatures and resources of na
ture. If you examine closely the
tiny lichen as it cracks away the
surface ot hardest rock, and then
continue to search, it becomes ap
parent that the tall, forest trees
exist on rich soil because of the
inexorable effort of the lichen.
The link between the tiny plank
ton of the sea and the great
whales is also plain. Grass and
shrubs must serve as food to some
insects and animals, while these,
in turn, arc on the menu of still
other animals and insects. And
so the system of checks and bal
ances in a never ending cycle
continues to prevent disaster by
holding in healthy balance popula
tion and food, supply.
During my years at Uanchcria,
I worked steadily at clearing
land, first by horse power later
hy use of tractor. Willows and
alders growing in swampy land
had to be pulled, olten from
distance. Keeping Ihe team
tractor on lirm footing, 1 would
drag a long line out to the brush
and after hooking a choker around
the base, go back to my source
of power and make the pull, ihe
work was slow and tedious. Hook
a choker, make a pull: recover
the choker, make another hook up
CHEAPER LIVING SPACE
A full basement doubles usable
space in a home and costs only
M to IS per cent more than for
s bouse built on a slab. Archi
tects now are making basements
cheerful, bright and airy. Some
designers provide ample headroom
ko case an owner wishes to finish
at a playroom or other useful
The work was not so bad but
I found the yellow jackets loved
to make their nests in the loose
earth and humus around the brush.
Often when I walked back to re
cover the choker I would be met
by a fighting horde of mad jack
els. Honestly, I could not blame
them. It was like the dropping of
a bomb: their home had been de
stroyed and they sought revenge.
Hut it was simply a case of them
against me. And all nature being
as it is, each claimed justification.
Many times I was forced to re
treat and leave the choker until
night had fallen. Under cover of
darkness and chill night air 1
would go back, recover the choker
and destroy the jackets and nest
with fire.
Once 1 had several nests located
and planned to destroy them be
fore attempting to pull tne nrusn.
Upon going by one morning, I
found one nest destroyed. Nothing
remained no live jackets, no
grubs, no honey: nothing but a
few bits of paper Irom which
I he walls of the nests were made
check disclosed all tlic nests
destroyed. 1 was at a loss to
understand just what had oc
curred. I remembered the killing
of jackets by Ihe bald hornet and
thought, perhaps. Wakan Tonka
had sent me another friend.
Days and nights passed. Finally
I saw my benefactor: a fine
striped skunk! And here I learned
Ihe skunk loved those yellow jack
ets. their grubs and their honey
Upon finding a nest he simply
dug in and ate the whole family
A feeling ot warmth and friend
liness came over me tor my
striped ally and I realized he filled
a place in nature's line of checks
and balances. And to this day 1
look for the finer traits of the
scented animal and have found
him to possess many characteris
tics friendly and- beneficial to
man.
THE GREEK EXPERIENCE.
By C. M. Bowra, 64 pages of photo
graphs. World. $6. GREECE IN
COLOUR. Introduction by Lord
Kinross, text by C. Kerenyl, 57
photographs by R. G. Hoegler. McGraw-Hill.
$20. ASIA MINOR. In
troduction by Maxim Osward, 168
photographs. Morrow. $10.
'A belief in the special worth of
man, says Bowra in the tirst 01
these books, was the key to the
magnificent civilization ot the
Greeks, the incomparable trail
blazers to the western world.
The other two books are mainly
pictures. They show eastern Medi
terranean lands in their lasting
and their transient aspects: The
brilliant light, the dazzling blue sky
and sea, and the splendid sharp
architectural profile; the tumbled
pillar, the weathered marble, the
mosaic and the figured vase; and
the peasant plowman, the fisher
man mending nets, tne camel driv
er and cobbler.. They begin in antl
quity and come down to our time.
Bowra considers specifically, the
precise four to five centuries and
the precise place which provide a
background for much of the others
Greece from Homer to the fall of
Athens in 404 B.C. He defines and
judges the Greek essence, the char
acter, the experience in terms
of not only philosophy, poetry and
sculpture, but also law, religion,
science and politics.
Their land was a challenge, beau
tiful, but by no mean-, a soft
mother nature, stingily yielding
only a sparse livelihood lis chief
quality is its light and here lies
the emphasis in Greece in col
our," where the brief text sum
mons such eloquent witnesses as
Holderlein, Rilke, Goethe, Burck
hardt and Hofmannsthal
The Greeks were first to open
many paths to knowledge; they
pioneered in astronomy, trigono
metry, anthropology, ano Knew
about an atom, if not the atom.
Above all they believed in deeds
as well as words; they trusted their
emotions as wlell as their minds;
they got the most out of, and put
the most into, life on earth with
little worry about a hereafter. Im
mersing us in the great ancient
land, Bowra makes the "Greek ex
perience" a vivid, enthralling ex
perience for us, too.
"Greece in Colour" is the Greece
to be seen today, the people, the
olive, the ruined temple set in lone
ly splendor on some promontory.
"Asia Minor" is a rich mixture
of Hittite, Roman, Christian, Sara
cen, Turk and, particularly along
the Aegean, Greek.
ATTENTION ESPERANTISTS
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Wl Fran
cis E. Helmuth is listed in the
phone directory as Delegito Esper
anto. He is the local man for the
international language called Es
peranto and lists himself that way
in case any Esperantists come to
town looking for their delegito.
During the historic Berlin air
lift, Allied planes ferried 2,325,500
tons of food and fuel to the city
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the moon.
It's your first night out and
you're hungry. You'd like a good
r.ieal. Steak, say, and some apple
pie for dessert.
You can have them.
But you'll squeeze the steak out
of a toothpaste tube.
You 11 sip the apple pie through
a straw.
And you'll have to keep a gas
tronomic eye on colored pictures
to remind you what food looks
like on earth.
That's the report from a food
chain foundation in Cincinnati as
the result of an informal study of
the predicted situation.
Aboard a space ship, every
pound of cargo is significant," says
foundation director G. r. Garnatz.
"Food will have to be as light
and compact as possible.
It will have to be mashed, pack
ed in tubes or cans and fed to
space travelers under pressure. Af
ter all, there won't be any grav
ity to keep it on the spoons.
But what about the tantalizing
food pictures?
A study of long-range bomber
crews during World War II show
ed that good nutrition can be pro
vided in compact form.
But, says Garnatz, if you
don't put in some eye appeal, the
individual is not going to have the
will to eat.
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