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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1961)
WW " 7 - ' . HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Orr. Tuesday, October 3, 1961 PAGE 7 Heel Fly Grubs Posing Problem For Cattle Of Klamath Basin r nl 1 i IT I -1 ni Lniu NEW LEARNERS Delighted at learning to use the sewing machine in the 4 H cloth ing project are Donna Barney (seated) and Wanda Morgan of Sprague River. Both girls are members of the Willing Workers 4-H Club, led by Mrs. Mildred Lahoda. The 4-H clothing project teaches grooming, care and selection of qarments, as well as construction. Countv Aqent photo 170 County Youngsters Acquire Clothing Skill About 170 Klamath County youngsters became more skilled at using the sewing machine last year as a result of enrolling in 4-H clothing projects, says Carol Armstrong, county 4-H agent. Besides learning sewing skills, club members learn how to care for their clothing, to be better groomed, and to buy fabric and sewing tools. Older girls also learn how to buy ready-to-wear garments wisely. Wardrobe plan ning is given a great deal of em phasis. Led by volunteer adult leaders. 4-H club members elect their own club officers and conduct their own business meetings. Clubs have a community service project dur- ing the year, too, which includes! anything from cleaning up vacant lots to making cookies for shutins. Four-H'ers have an opportunity to participate in the many com munity, county, and state activi ties, too. Fairs, camp, 4-H summer school, and 4-H club conference are a few of the available activi ties. Any youngster between t h e ages of 9 and 21 may join 4-H Club, which requires no dues or uniforms. Additional informa tion on the clothing and other projects may be obtained by contacting Miss Armstrong or Francis Skinner at the 4-H of fice in the Federal Building in Klamath Falls or by calling TU 4-8151. Adult leaders are still needed. and interested adults may also receive additional information at the above number. Farm Force Threatened Farming is only one of many problem areas of work feeling the impact of technological change, reports Mrs. Elvera Horrcll, Oregon State University1 Extension agricultural economist. She points out that the number of farmers and farm workers in the U.S. has been cut in half in tile past four decades. In the last 25 years, particularly, there has been a persistent shift of workers out of farming into other jobs. The employment pinch is felt when these "other jobs" face the same situation of needing fewer workers to get the job done. In railroad transportation, for instance, the need for workers a7 II if ir i I "1 I ED SEUS declined nearly 40 per cent from 1947 to 1959. In manufacturing, the I to attend the Modoc Range Bull Bull Sale Tips Noted Eleven of the 16 consignors to the Modoc County rate-ot-gain test have top gaining bulls on pasture, according to Norman N'ichols, farm adviser. Pasture gains( were calculated as the bulls were brought from pasture to the feed lot on t h e Weber Brothers Parker Creek ranch. Bulls gaining 2'? lbs. or m o r e per day were consigned by Dudley-Parker, Gazelle; Estes & Es tes, Burney; Frank Turner, Sat tley; and Lucky Hereford, Gil roy. These bulls represent the top 10 per cent of the consign ment. While gain is important it isn't everything, says Nichols. Com mercial cattlemen should also look the bulls over carefully to see if they have the right con formation for their herd. When calves or yearlings are sol d, they still should make an at tractive product. Without good conformation or uniformity they will not be as attractive to the buyer. Cattlemen looking for both good gain and conformation should plan employment peak was reached in 1!)43 and has never been attained since. Coal miners are another group facing widespread unem ployment. In industry, the number of white collar employes has risen, while the number of blue colar workers has dropped, especially in un ' skilled jobs. Looking to the future. Mrs. Hor. rell says it looks like the trend will continue. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that (or the next 10 years the most rapidly growing occupa tional groups will he professional and technical workers. They also foresee a substantial increase in clerical workers, skilled workers, and managerial or administrative personnel. On the other hand, no gain at all is looked for in unskilled la bor; and the odds favor a furtheri sharp decline in farm workers Sale Oct. IS at Cedarville. All bulls sold at this event will be rate-ot-gain tested under the same feed conditions. Bulls will be weighed and graded on Oct. 13 at the Weber Bros. Parker Creek Ranch, Al- turas Consignors to the sale in addi tion to those mentioned are Bar- tell Bros., Bieber; Floyd Bidwell, Casscl; L. W. Earnest, McArthur; Hat Creek Herefords, Hat Creek; Clyde Hill. Cedarville, W. S. Or- vis, Farmington; Frank Duncan, Casscl; L. W. Kramer & Son, Bieber: Randall Collis, Alturas; Hoy's Herefords. Weed; Tom Mer rill. Salinas: and Price Hereford Ranch. Cottonwood Ohio's soybean production of 31 million bushels places it sixth among states of the Union in such production. Barleymen Elect Seus President By J. D. VERTREES Most of us still remember the very serious heel fly problem we had in the Klamath Basin dur ing the past summer months. Dur ing July, the heel flies were es pecially bad, and cattle all over the Klamath country ran off val uable pounds, running in fear of the cattle grub. Perhaps even more serious is the work of the grub up through the tissues of the animals over! the next nine or 10 months' per iod. The egg is laid during the period of summer when the cat tle are running from fear of the fly. The egg soon hatches and the. worms travel up through the leg muscles and around through the interior of the animal, cmerg ing up through their backs in early spring. . As the grubs mature, they open holes in the hide so that air may be taken into the cysts of the grubs. The tact that grubs are damaging valuable meat as well as opening holes in the valuable portions of the. hide, causes many millions of dollars of loss annual ly in the United States. Klam ath County shares in this loss. New chemical developments over the past years have made control an economic possibility. Old treatments were merely stop gap treatments and were not high. ly ellcctive. New treatments, to day, are extremely effective if ap plied properly. One of the new svstemic sprays applied to cattle is highly effec tive, if done properly. Every fail ure of this spray which has been checked on by entomologists in the slate has resulted from faul ty spraying. Sprays go through the hair and thoroughly wet the skin of the animal. Most spraying is done when the outside hair coat of the animal is wet and the spray runs off and yet the skin is not thor oughly wetted. In addition lo thoroughly wetting the skin, the entire body of the animal must be sprayed, not just the back or the sides. When these thorough spraving practices have been followed, ex cellent grub control has resulted. rrices on new systemic sprays have been reduced drastically over the past year's period, making it more economical for livestock men to treat. Additional benefits result from the spraying and that is the con trol of lice. Lice start building up in the fall and reach a peak during late winter months. By the time louse damage is noticed on beet cattle in rebruary or March, we have already supported them with high priced feed costs. Parasites such as lice take a large toll in energy and weight gains and livestock demand more feed during the winter when they are covered heavily with those parasites. These same spray con trolling grubs will also control these lice for the winter period. Another treatment is a bolus which can be given internally to beef animals for the control of grubs. This is an effective meth od, although additional labor may be needed to treat each animal in dividually with boluses. Other newer treatments written up in national news articles as yet are not available in this part of the State. Some of these will be feed additives or a treatment of a wash down on the backs of the animals and in research have proved highly effective. These soon may be on the market in this area. Grub control and louse control will pay off if done properly. High pressure sprays ire csscn- tial, and covering the entire sur-! face of the animal is a must hny FT i n J f f 1 i. .-J , . f BLM, OSU Map Medusahead Attack TULELAKE Ed Seus, manager of Newell Grain Growers Asso ciation was elected president of the Board of Directors of the Western Barley Associates. Seus was elected president of this asso ciation at a meeting held in Port land, Ore., Sept. 8. This associa tion will serve all barley inter ests throughout the United States! in creating new uses for barley and developing and expanding for eign exports for U.S. grown bar ley. Also serving as directors of the association are Richard Pennell, grain exporter, Portland; J. D. Urquhart. country elevator opera. tor, Lind, Wash.; James Hill, Pendleton Grain Growers Associ ation, Pendleton; Robert McKee, barley farmer. Lammore, Calif.; Richard Crockett, barley and wheat grower, Langdon, N.D Ronald Pew, cereal farmer, Pen dleton, and Ray Teal, Corvallis, who will serve as treasurer tor the organization. Western Barley Associates was formed largely through the ef forts of Ray Teal, Oregon State Extension Service economist: Ken Baghott. Tulclake farm adviser Ken Farrell, University of Califor nia Extension economist, James G. Stearns, Ivan Kandra and oth er farmers and farm organizations. The association is a regional group with directors from North Dakota to the West Coast. This organization is interested in ex panding the sale of barley and other Iced grains produced in the United States. The association will soon be come a part of the U.S. Feed Grain Council and will fill a void in this national organization which has not had a direct represents tion from the Western States or from the feed barley industry pre viously. The move will affect lo cal farmers and grain dealers for the association is devoted to devel oping demand for barley and oth er feed grains. This in turn will help farmers and handlers obtain benefits for full production. Medusahead namesake of the snake-haired Greek goddess Me dusa is rearing its ugly head as probably the most serious new weed pest on Oregon rangelands. Plans to combat the weed were announced this week as a cooper ative program by the Bureau I of Land Management and Oregon State University agricultural ex periment station. BLM has granted OSU $10,000 a year for the next three years to conduct research to control the weed that has spread rapidly in the past few years in eastern Ore gon and parts ot Washington, Idaho, and California. Oregon findings should help oth er states combat spread of medu sahead, announced BLM officials who report infestations in North ern California and portions of the interior valley, the lower Snake River Valley of Idaho, and the Palpuse region of Washington and Idaho. Most serious infestations in Ore gon are now in Baker, Malheur, Lake and Grant counties. It is also a problem in Wasco County and is showing up in other Co lumbia Basin counties, reported C. E. Poulton, OSU range man agement scientist and supervisor of the project. Research is now underway at sites in Wasco and Baker coun ties. Robert B. Turner, OSU range management assistant, is con ducting the field studies in cooper ation with Poulton and W. R. Fur tick, OSU agronomist specializing i weed control research. Exploratory work during the past year with a $1,000 grant from BLM was conducted by Wal ter Gould, OSU agronomist, who will assist Turner with some phases of the study. Scientists on the project believe long-term success depends upon a combination of medusahead con trol, reseeding with desirable for age plants, followed with good range management practices, Poulton and Furtick soy that good range management is the ultimate key to reducing the me-! dusahead problem to a point where we can live with it. Medusahead an unpalatable. annual weedy grass is a threat to any deteriorated range. It has spread rapidly on cheatgrass range which is not a good com petitor with this weed. Experimental controls will in clude chemical treatment, burn ing, and tillage followed by range- seeding with such desirable plants as crested wheatgrass. The objec tive is to out-compete medusahead with good forages. Research on sites too steep or rocky for tillage will combine chemical spraying with careful control of the grazing season and amount of use by livestock to favor desirable plants over me dusahead. Poulton said. A native of the eastern Medi terranean region, medusahead was first noted in North America in 1879 near Roseburg. The next known collection was from Step toe Butte north of Colfax, Wash., In the intermountain region, medusahead was first labeled a serious problem north of Wciscr, Idaho, where it invaded a re peatedly - burned and heavily grazed cheatgrass range. Medusahead is a heavy pro ducer of seeds that may be car ried long distances by animals or wind. Idaho researchers attribute much of the rapid spread over1 large areas to small whirlwinds or "dust devils" common in the range country. The slender, tough stem of me dusahead to 8 inches tall in the range country is topped with large, onsuy seed head, it re mains green into mid-summer af ter cheatgrass has turned brown, However, the weed s summer green is misleading and it is highly unpalatable in the seed stage. The tough, bristly plant is high in silica. Because animals don't graze It, medusahead builds up a litter of plant ma terial that prevents seed of de suable plants from getting to the soil and germinating. Although medusahead is found on western Oregon rangcland, higher rainfall makes it possible to crowd it out with sub-clover and adapted range grasses, Poul ton explained. r V . A w A ' 'WW"' V"" ') v'!t! TOP FEMALE A senior yearling Hereford, bred by Norman and Lois Jacob of the Normandale Hereford Ranch of Merrill, NH Zato Ruperta 45, placed first in class and was named grand champion female of show at the recent California State Fair at' Sacramento. The winninq animal was sired by FRC Zato Heir 17. Normandale Ranch animals on the California show circuit this year have captured two or more champion ship ribbons at each showing. The state fair produced the largest number of animal entries in 10 years. Jacobs, at halter, will exhibit at Pacific International, Portland, and the Cow Palace in San Francisco. 1 Prices Drop On Broilers, Fryers; Extension Expert Offers Advice Prices on broiler fryers and tur keys have dropped to the lowest level in many years and are ex pected to be below average for the next several months. Joan Shipman. Oregon State University extension specialist, re ports that fryer prices are the lowest in 20 years. Prices on young turkeys have dropped as low as 27 cents a pound in some mar kets with the marketing of the largest crop ot turkeys in the na tion's history. Shoppers may be ahead, says Miss Shipman. to buy poultry and serve in weekly meals reservingl freezer space for other "specials" on meat. Poultry prices are ex pected lo stay low for many months ahead. When choosing between whole and cut-up birds, the spccialistl reminds shoppers to compare prices, consider convenience, fam. ily preferences, and cooking plans. Whole birds, generally, are priced! t to 8 cents a pound less than; cut-up broilers. If buying poultry for the frcez-! er, check for evidence of previous freezing, advises the specialist Usually birds labelled "Orcgoni grown" have not been previously frozen. If in doubt, ask the meat man. Any bird that has been thawed and has warmed to a tem perature of 40 degrees or higher should not be refrozen because there's risk of spoilage. Partially- Record Predaior Kill The report of the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife on predatory animal control show that two Klamath County trappers mode a record kill of coyotes and bobcats during the period July 23 to Aug. 19. During this period, Arthur Cooper, whose headquarters are at Shady Pine, north of Klamath Falls, has ta ken a total of 29 coyotes and nine bobcats, along with seven porcupines, 10 badger and two raccoons. William Stephens, with head quarters at Bonanza, during the same period took 23 coyotes, nine bobcats. 02 porcupines and 34 badger. This seems to be a record kill for anyone during re cent years. The total kill for Many Attend FFA Field Day TULELAKE The annual Future Farmer of America Field Day for the Alturas section, sponsored by the Tulelake FFA chapter on Sept. 25, brought chapter members from Yreka, McArthur, Alturas, B I g Valley and Surprise Valley. The sponsoring school does not partici pate in competition. Members competed in two divi sions, farm mechanics, including tractor driving, arc welding and tool identification, and livestock judging which includes beef, swine and sneep. Beef animals were provided by Norman Jacob of Merrill, the swine and sheep by Vern Hem-i street, FFA leader and the mem bers of the chapter. Jacobs was in charge of the beef competition, John O'Keefe, sheep and Earl Parsons, swine. High teams in the livestock di vision were Yreka, first with 1102 points; McArthur, second. 1070: Alturas, third, 1041; Big Valley, fourth with 994 and Surprise Val ley, fifth, 884 points. High individuals in livestock judging were Larry Rawlings. Yre ka; Jim Earnest, McArthur; Wayne Whatley, Yreka; Chad Oil-i ar, McArthur; Larry Giessncr. Ron Hollway, McArthur; Ronald Robustellini, Yreka. High individuals in tool identifi cation were Mike Grizel, Steve Ro din. Bill Mam, all of Alturas. In arc welding high scores went to Steve Rodin, Ronnie Schluter, Mike Crlvcl, Alturas: Ron An drews, John Joiner, Big Valley. Winners in the swine judging were Larry Giesner, Jim Earnest. McArthur; Mike Duncan, Big Val ley; beef, Larry Rawlings, David Caldwell, Yreka: Andy Olson, Mc Arthur: sheep, Eddie Echling. Mc Arthur, Jerry Geaney, Alturas, Donnie Crum, McArthur. Lunch was served by the Tulc lake Future Homemakers dfrcct ed by Mrs. Harry Mitchell. 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