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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1958 Nebraska Gunners Down 700,000 Ducks LINCOLN, Neb. A game harvest survey completed by the State Game, horestation and Parks Com mission indicates that Nebraska hunters bagged 700,000 ducks, al most half of which were mallards, during llie last hunting season. Gunners also harvested 12,500 geese. ' In Curacao and Aruba, islands hi the Netherlands West Indies, the flourishing cactus plants keep animals out of the yards. Gates are cut through the needles and thorns to admit humans. Ford Trucks Last Longer on the FARM See your Farm Truck Headquarters BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main at Eip. Ph. TU 4-3121 Now Is the Time to Immunize Your Stock Vaccine), Medicinal and Supplies for CaHla, Horses, Shaap Hog and Poultry Our LIVESTOCK DEPARTMENT it dasigntd to Save and Serva. Phenothiazine Drench Your One Stop Shopping Center Wa Giva HVC Green Stomp MERRILL PHARMACY Merrill, Ore. Ph. 2451 Tree Growers Slate Meet Snow and north winds seem far removed from the Oregon scene. but one group has already started tnc count-down for the yule season. Christmas tree growers of Ore gon and Washington have an nounced their first annual "Trade Fair" in Portland, September 26 and 27. to display tree snmnles and draw marketing agreements wiin major west coast buyers. Sponsored by the Northwest Christmas Tree Association, the fair will be staged at the Mult nomah Hotel, reports Gary Sand er, Oregon State College forest products marketing specialist. a critical problem in the Christ mas tree business has been the arranging of contacts between buy ers and growers, especially the small operators, says Sander. The trade fair is the first opportunity growers have had to display prod ucts to a large eroun of buvers. Christmas tree wholesalers from Oregon. California, and Washing- ion win attend the two-day fair. Also scheduled is an association business meeting including a dis cussion of capital gains taxes and special taxes affecting tree grow ers. Sander says growers wanting to reserve tree display space should contact James Gibbons, 2028 S. W, Canby Street, Portland. Currin's Hetdmarttrs Far Veterinarian Supplies ana) Medicines a FvaruMricui far Animal Health! CURRIN'S far Druas Ph. TU 2-347S 9tk t Main There's c. CHEVY TRUCK To Help You Do YOUR JOB D'ugan & Mest CHEVROLET 410 So. 6th TU 4-3101 'Fower-Angisng' Saves Time I Saves Work I Doubles Output I 1 and Only CASE -TERR ATRAC has Itl Just move a lever and this sensational new dozer blade angles HYDRAUL1CALLY with out stopping the tractor. No more wrestling a heavy blade Into position . . . no time wasted barking-up empty after each pass. Fast power-angling easily doubles output on grading, backfilling and windrowing jobs. What's more, with the new 80 and 100 HP Case TerraTrac crawlers you get power-boosting torque-converter drive and counter-rotating power-shift transmission, that permits fnst.3G0 spin-turns within the track- j, length of the machine, c A S CT! o free dtmcnihalhn on your obi Vtt& '"" ' SAIIJ stivics " ar-a Coll for EAGLE EQUIPMENT CO. 7209 So. 6th Ph. TU 4-4S51 $" "si- A ' .it WlSiisJ HTTl. SOME IDEAS OF THE BIGNESS of the country is gained from this picture of a rider crossing a long slope on the second day of this year's Modoc Tribe Ride. The trails wind up through the Warner's opening up new and magnificent vistas of timber and meadow and revealing many lovely fishing streams at the foot of the big basins. .... m. ?i fe'E- -' 4 n Wil A LINE OF RIDERS pause on fop of a ridge to let their horses have a breather while they look over some of the spectacular country lying below them. This picture was taken on the second day of the 1959 Modoc Tribe Ride as the party was circling the Pine Creek Basin on its way to Mill Creek Meadows and the permanent camp. Farmer Census Shows Few Under 35 High cost of operating a modern farm is pushing the age brack ets upward for Oregon farmers. Oregon now has the smallest proportion of farm operators under 35 years of age and the largest percentage over 65 years of any census year dating back to W20, says D. Curtis Mumford, Oregon State College agricultural economist. The report, based on the 1054 lederal census ot agriculture. shows that while the average age of Oregon farmers has changed little in the past two decades, there are fewer "young" farmers. That times have changed since an ambitious young man with a plow and good team of horses could break into farming is em- Dhasized hv ttw fart thnf nti one per cent of all Oregon farm ers were under 25 years of age in 1J04. At 'the nthpp nrt if thA arm scale, 17 per cent ol Oregon's armers were en years or older at the last census. Average age of farm operators in Oregon i: Ftf A vaare Whll. slightly higher than the 49.7 age ior isou. h is similar to the 1945 and 1940 figures nf Mi l 'unit i; 'years, respectively. Little or no change in the state average coupled with a decline in percentage of young farmers has resulted in a marked "bunching up" around the 50 year average. Twenty five per cent of all Oregon farmers are in the age group of 45 to 54 years, and 88 per cent are at least 35 years old. Jefferson County rates the dis tinction of having Oregon's young est farm operators average age, 45.3 years. Multnomah has the old est 52.4 years. - Youngest average ages are in eastern Oregon. Of the state's
