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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1953
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THE LAVA BEDS MUSEUM i. a cool retreat while visiting the Lava Beds and is filled
with interesting historical data. Here Danny Kettler and Raich Walker get the low-
down from. Ranger George Hepburn.
Hay Wafer
Use Outlined
New "hay wafers" for dairy
cows are compared with baled and
pelleted hay in a publication just
issued by Oregon State College Ag
ricultural experiment station.
Hetearch by Dr. I: R. Jones,
OSC dairy scientist, and Benja
min F. Magillr dairy technologist,
is reported in detail in the lllus
trated 10-page booklet.
Chopped alfalfa compressed into
a wafer combines the advantages
of easy-to-handle pelleted hay and
the feed value of high-quality loose
or baled hay, the researcher ex
plains. Title of the booklet is "Baled,
Wafered, and Pelleted Hay." Cop
ies may be obtained from county
extension agents or the Oregon
Male .College bulletin clerk, Corval-
Students Get
New Course
A course in watershed manage
ment was offered this year for the
first time to seniors in the School
of Forestry at Oregon State Col
lege. The effect of sound forest
management in protecting water
shed values has gained increasing
recognition among rorvsters. James
Krygier was the instructor. ... A
report on 36 forestry schools
around the country indicates that
some 3C5 scholarships valued at
over $264,000 . are available to
students. Of this number, 170 ore
industry-sponsored. Other industry
grants also finance special re
search projects. . . . Communist
China claims to have succeeded
in extracting synthetic petroleum
from the turpentine of pine
trees. . . . The industry-sponsored
Tree Farm program to grow tim
ber as a crop on privately owned
forest land is nearing four million
acres in Oregon. Well over 100.000
acres of timberland have been en
rolled in the program so far this
year, bringing total Tree Farm
acreage in Oregon to approximate
ly 3.'.itl5.000 acres.
Weather Aids In
Fattening Cattle
Tests show that cattle gain con
siderably faster when kept cool.
University of California and USD A
researchers say cattle kept in wire
corrals will gain faster than those
kept in wooden pens, this is be
cause wire fences do not radiate
as much heat and have a greater
air circulation.
At the University's Imperial Val
ley Field Station, the cooler cattle
gained ne.nrlv a half nnunri- n n r
day more than those kept in wood-1
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SHADY SPOTS along the roads are welcome in the hot
weather at the Lava Beds. These bull pines, sprouting
from seemingly almost solid rock, are a familiar sight
along the many roads and trails.
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A FAMILIAR SIGHT to duck and goose hunters in the
area is this big sign on the Tulelake Reserve at the en
trance to the public shooting area. The wildfowl reserve
is adjacent to the Lava Beds National Monument and an
interesting sidelight ot a visit there.
Feeder Lamb Sales Prove
Popular Over Oregon Now
Producer-sponsored feeder lamb
sales are proving popular in Ore
gon with three of the new "grad
ing and pooling" auctions sched
uled this summer, reports W. Y.
Fowler, Oregon State College live
stock marketing specialist.
Auctions sponsored by county
livestock associations are slated
July 14 at Myrtle Point, July 23
at torvallis, and August 18 at
Enterprise. .
Purpose of the association-
sponsored sales is to provide buy
ers with more uniform lots of
feeder lambs ior pasture and dry-
lot feeding. Lambs will be sorted,
graded, and pooled into lots of
more uniform quality man are
usually available from individual
flocks.
Farm Safety
Week To Be
Held July 20-26
Prevention of farm and home ac
cidents which kill about 100 farm
residents in Oregon each year will
be stressed during national Farm
Safety Week, July 20 to 26.
The governor's committee on
farm safety, representing public
and private agencies and dedicat
ed to make life safer in Ore
gon, points out that farming takes
more deaths from accidents than
any other major industry. Home
accidents take an even worse toll.
Nearly 4,600 persons are injured
in local home accidents each year.
Carelessness in use of machin
ery, drownings, misuse of fire
arms, falls, electric currents, ani
mals, insects and burns are cit
ed as main accident causes.
The governor's committee is ap
pealing to local professional organ
izations, such as vocational agri
culture departments, the soil con
servation service, county extension
agents, stale forestry, welfare, and
agriculture departments to adopt
year-around safety programs.
William C. Smith, director of
farm programs, KOAC, Oregon
State College, is chairman of lo
cal farm safety week observances.
Fowler says this method of sell
ing is gaining rapidly in populari
ty and is profitable to both buyers
and sellers. Buyers are willing to
nan imra for lamh fit SUctl SfllPR
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since it reduces their expenses for
"beating-the-brush" to find what
they want, the ' specialist explains.
It will be the second year for
the Myrtle Point and Corvallis
sales that last year auctioned a
Ainl nf A Ufl Inmhs Average nrices
for these lambs were better than
the local "going price," rowler
said. "
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prise begins this year under spon
sorship ot me waiiowa v-oumy
Stockgrowers Association with Har
vey Foster, Enterprise rancher, as
sale chairman.
The Coos. County Livestock As
sociation, sponsor of the Myrtle
Point sale, recently installed new
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the county fairgrounds to handle
the large feeder-lamb consignment
expected July 14, reports Hollis
Mast. Coquille, association presi
dent
Benton County Livestock Asso
ciation, headed by Ed Albertsen,
Philomath, will sponsor the .Cor
vallis sale.
Red Fescue
Group Named
ReanDnintment nt throa nriainal
mpmhprc nt thn Phowintre a n A
Creeping Red Fescue Commission
for new three-year terms was an
nounced recently by Governor
riuime5.
Pnntinnprl rm thn rKimmiooinn
which promotes and regulates the
fescue grass seed industry in Ore
gon through collections from grow
ers and handlers, were Carey
Strome of .Innrlinn Pitv anri .1 n
Stanley of La Grande, both Demo
crats, ana KODcrt f . White of Sal
em, a Republican.
Both Strome arid Stanley are
grower members of thp wan
member commission. White is a
nandicr member. The new terms
of the three extend to June 30,
19B1.
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