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-1 . Ik BUS Pi T HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, April 23, 19ti3 PAGE H T fa: .. " Extra $246 Million Predicted If State Uses Feed Potential I Ufa Eil I A I '"' aW. ' ; n i-J ' -t PREPARING MEAL . Margy Stewart, left, and Janet Kerns, members of the Bakers 7, a 4-H food club, are shown making preparations for a dinner which the club served recently to parents and special guests. (County Agent Photo) 4-H NEWS VAQL'EROS HOUSE CLUB The meeting was called to or der by Linda Parisotto at the home of our leader, Mrs. Holi day. The minutes of the last meet ing were not read because the secretary was absent. Wayne Scott and his father, Ed Scott, and Jim Zellcr came down to show our club how to make braided reins. Mr. Scott and Mr. Zeller are leaders of the Wran glers Horse Club in Fort Klamath. Refreshments were served by Jan Holliday. Dave Howard, News Reporter HENLEY ROOTERS The Henley Rooters Swine Club met at the home of Ben Adair on March 29. We discussed possible places to buy our hogs. Several members' gave reports on various swine breeds. We planned a skat ing party which was held the fol lowing Sunday, March 31. The meeting was adjourned and refreshments were served. Scott Watters, News Reporter LANGELL VALLEY CHAMPS The Langell Valley Champs Swine Club held a food sale on April 13 at Bold's Store in Bo nanza. The club raised almost twenty dollars. The money will be added to the club treasury, to De used for club expenses and this vcar's community project. There are eight members in the club this year, and every one feels the sale was a huge suc cess. Lydia Rosandich, News Reporter JUNIPER JUMPERS MAUN The Malm Juniper Jumpers met at the home of Joyce and Jean Mullanix recently for the fourth meeting of the year. Mem bers voted on the type of shirts In he worn at the spring fair, and it was announced that Byron John son had offered a field to club members to use for training horses. They will use it to prac tice for the Play Day to be held in May. New members of the club are Beverly Duncan, Karen Mieka. and Sieve Rajnus. Following the business session, Joan Mullanix gave a demonstration of the fig ure eight with her horse. EAGER BEATERS The sixth meeting of the Eager Beaters was held April 2 at the home of .Mrs. Virginia Kent, lead er. During roll call we each told what different kitchen utensils were used for. We discussed making cookies and selling them for the new hospital fund. Alter the meeting we made Rice De light. Three people made one kind with bananas and two peo ple made it with pineapple. We each tasted the two kinds and then the leaders showed us how to clean off a table correctly. Linda Kent, News Reporter.1 MUSICAL MACHINES The fifth meeting of the Musi cal Machines was called to order by president Judy Hayees. We had our meeting and refreshments, then we talked about patterns and our practice garments. Our leader took our measurements so we could get our pattern, The meeting was adjourned by our president. Bakers 7 Serve Meal The Bakers 7, Henley 4-H foods club led by Mrs. Harold Campbell, recently hosted par ents and special guests at a Lob ster Newburg dinner. The dinner was prepared by the club mem bers as a special project m quantity cookery. In addition to lobster, the menu featured rice, almond - peas, tossed salad, rolls and angel pie Members of tile club include Connie Cunningham, Mary Drace, Dcbra Kennedy, Janet Kerns, Margy Stewart and Bonnie Beil. The dinner was served at the First Methodist Church. Oregon has the potential to pick up an extra $24fi million in annual state income if tho. cards fall right. That's the judgment of men who have taken a hard look at Oregon's capacity to boost its grain feeding industries in compe tition with other areas. Livestock and poultry feeding in Oregon now generates about $100 million a vcar m economic activity. Oregon's grain sources, coupled with West Coast market (or meat products, offer Ihe potential for this to jump to $346 million, according to a re port published by Oregon State University. Much depends upon federally managed grain programs- that have helped create circumstances now restricting opportunity for poultry and livestock feeding in the Pacific Northwest. Sales of government-held feed levels have tended to subsidize livestock and poultry feeders in that region. At tile same time, government export subsidies for I'acilic Northwest grains have helped maintain prices in this1 region above Ihe support level. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the situatiin presents what ap pears to be a conflict of interest between grain growers and grain feeders at least until the full situation is understood, the OSU report points out. Grain is a cash crop (or some ranchers who want to sell large volumes at "favorable" prices, Feed grains are a cost of doing business for livestock and poul try feeders who want to buy grains at prices "favorable" to them. Actually, grain growers and feeders in this area have long run, common interests that can be served by building a sound grain-feeding industry, the OSU slocks in the Midwest and Great study team believes. Plains at prices below support! Present federal grain programs Brush Spray Plans Noted Farm Real Estate Tax To Be Up 6.3 Per Cent Hljj storage! The Butler trademark tells you so Butler quality grain bins Rive you the safest, most dependable storage you can buy. They're pre-enRineered that way by the men who know grain storage best. What's more, it's easy to convert a Butler bin into an on firm drying system, if you de cide to dry your own grain. Let us discuss your gmtn storage needs with you. Just give ut call or stop by. Heodquorfen for all Buffer form ifructurei and equpmenf BENNINGTON STEEL BUILDING CO. 505 Bryonr TU 4-3334 Thtw complete itoroee focil ihti (int. toundotion, trac tion, end equipment! can i be linenccd throujh ul ot FMA rarci . . . Term! o low oi I0' down ond to to 7 yrt. to pay. Alio con bo tinmced thru locol ASC offict. Farmer's Share Same As 1962 The farmer's share of the con sumer's farm food dollar in 1963 is expected to average 38 cents, the same as in 1961 and 1962, according to a review of the mar keting and transportation situation. Marketing charges, which in creased each year from 1951 to 1961, are expected to average the same in 1963 and in 1962. The department said labor and other operating costs of marketing firms probably will remain close to present level in the year ahead. Improvements in output per man- hour may keep unit labor costs from increasing, though employes hourly earnings continue to rise. Prices of containers and pack aging material, fuel, and other goods and services bought by marketing firms generally have been stable in recent years. The general level of transportation rates is unlikely to rise and may decline slightly in the year ahead. Retail store prices of farm (oods may average a little lower in 1963 than in 1962, if expectations as to unit marketing prices and slightly lower farmers' prices for food products are realized. LAKEVIEW Spring is here and with it the season for spraying sagebrush. Now is the time to make arrangements to have brush sprayed in May, says Bill Moser, Lake County exten sion agent. Several ranchers throughout the county have already started mak ing arrangements to have brush sprayed as a coordinated pro gram. By organizing now and mak ing early arrangements, ranchers are in a favorable position to get the job done at very reasonable costs, Moser emphasizes. Prices this year should be about $3 per acre for rabbit brush control, and $2.50 per acre for sagebrush con trol. Prices are primarily dependent on the number of acres involved and the topography of the area and the distance the plane will have to travel to the job. How ever, by making arrangements now and coordinating individual jobs, the price can be kept to a minimum. Ranchers are urged to contact their Lake County Extension Of fice for details. This can be an in vestment that will return up to 40 -per cent. Sagebrush spraying pays big dividends. DIRECT FROM FACTORY TO YOU! . Ranch Rite Buys! No Mildu CANVAS DAMS ' Treated for Highest Reii.tonco to Rot ond Mildewl 6x9 now S.20 7x10 now 6.95 7x12 now 8.30 9x12 now 10.45 9x15 now 12.95 NYLON DAMS Neopreno Coated, Sewn with Dacron Thread 6x9 now 9.35 7x10 now 12.10 7x12 now 14.55 912 now" 18.70 9x15 now 23.00 J. W. Kerns 734 So. 6th TU 4-4197 WASHINGTON (UPH - Farm real estate tax levies in 11)61 generally payable in early 1962 totaled $1,329,500,000, up 6.3 per cent from 1960 levies, according to the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service. The levies of 1962 are expected to increase to about 1,409,000.000. This would bring taxes per acre of farmland to $1.38 compared with $1.30 in 1961, and an average of about $1.06 in 1957-59. ERS said farm real estate tax levies comprised 6 per cent of lotal production expenses in 1960. In general, the proportion of lotal production expenses accounted for by farm real estate taxes has been rising since 1944. The 1961 percentage is the largest since 1951. These levies were California, $150.3 million; Illinois, $126.5 mil lion; and Iowa, $107.6 million. Taxes per acres of farm real estate in 1961 were higher than in 1960 in every stale except Rhode Island, which showed a small decrease. The greatest in crease, 59 per cent, was found in Alaska. Six other states showed increases of more than 10 per 4-H'ers Placed Local Displays LAKEVIEW To help tell the 4-H story during National 4-H Club! Week, seven 4-H clubs in the Lake- view area and one club in the Silver Lake area put some excel lent 4-H window displays in local stores, according to John Kiesow, extension agent. First prize went to the Swivel crs Leathercraft Club led by Mrs Stan Bonkowski. Their display was at the J. C. Penney Store. Second place went to the Thomas Creek Saddlites lor a display at Fetsch s. The Saddlites are led by Jim Ogle, Don Hotchkiss. Walt Lechmann Jr., Robert Weir Jr., Burton Chambers and Carroll Flick. Third place was awarded to the Knit ting Eight for a display at Amos Jewelry. The club is led by Joan Kiesow and Cccyl Colvin Prices of $3, $3 and $2 will be awarded to the three winning clubs by the 4-H Leaders Associa tion. cent. In 2D states the increase was from 5 to 10 per cent, and in 14 per cent it was less than 5 per cent. As in recent years, 1961 taxes per acre of larm real estate averaged highest m New Jersey at $10.16 and lowest in New Mex ico at 15 cents. In 16 states the1 average tax per acre was more than $2, in 13 states it was be tween $1 and $2, and in 21 states it was less than $1. Variations among states in av erage tax per acre retlect dil- ferences in the value of farmland and the relative value of improve ment, as well as the role givenl to the property tax in state-local fiscal systems. Thus, in Connecti cut!, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, where taxes peri acre average highest, the property tax occupies a relatively impor tant place in the tax structure In addition, agriculture in these states is characterized by small intensively operated farms hav ing high values per acre and large average investments in improvements. now require much of Oregon's grain land to lie idle. Future net returns to local grain growers might be about the same as at present, and even larger under certain conditions, if more acres of grain were planted and "mar keted" through livestock and poul try feeding, the report indicates. OSU staff members in animal and poultry sciences, farm crops,1 and agricultural economics com piled tlie report, "Grain Feeding Opportunities and Problems in Oregon." Oregon residents may obtain copies from local county extension offices or from the Bulle tin Clerk, Oregon State University, Corvallis. The report points out the snow- baling effect on economic ac tivity that could result from an expanded feeding industry. For example, cattle feeding in Oregon in 1961 generated about $53 million in economic activity. Of this amount, an estimated $3'4 million was paid as wages and salaries in meat packing plants. However, had the cattle feed ing industry operated at full po tential, it would have generated some $250 million at retail. Rough ly $16'j million would have been paid in wages and salaries in Oregon packing plants. Had Oregon's pork industry pro duced enough meat for local mar ket needs in 1961, it would have generated about $62 million at re tail compared to ils actual fig ure of $17 million. Oregon's broiler industry gen crated an estimated $144 million of income at retail in 1961 but could have hit $23 million had the state's producers supplied the lo cal market demand. And present opportunities bare ly scratch the surface of long- range potential, based on expect ed population increases on the West Coasl by 1975, the report explains. The Pacific Coast is expected to have a deficit of more than two million head of cattle and calves in 1965 and a four and one third million deficit by 1975. Hea vy deficits are also predicted for pork, sheep and lambs, and broil era by 1975. Lt ... ,' ..if.- M I ' li'-i-'itiii 4riWiniiiiti nn " r i " " U ,mimlmrmmtmm im timtmmtrmmdm FAMILY OF WINNERS Modoc County's family of winners at the Junior Interna tional Livestock Show at the San Francisco Cow Palace is shown here. Standing, left to rght, Beth Baird and Charles Baird. Kneeling, same order, Althea and Bill. Cnarles is a Herald and News carrier in Alturas. Family Of Young Showmen Represent Modoc At Show ALTURAS Modoc County was well represented at the recent Junior Livestock Show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco by a family of young showmen. The sons and daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Al Baird of Alturas went to the show with their sheep and swine to bring home an impres sive array of first place ribbons and championships. Bill, 15, representing Ihe Al turas FFA group, showed a cham pion Suffolk sheep and had first place in the heavyweight division and second place with a light weight sulfolk. He was in I h e first group with his Berkshire lightweight hog. He also showed a Berkshire hog in the second group. To top this lung list of top showing stock, Bill was third in showmanship among all the FFA showmen at the show. Beth, 14. showed the reserve champion Hampshire lamb in the 4-H division. She also had a first Exporf Subsidy Details Explained By Specialist By SCOTT LAMB An article by marketing spe cialist S. C. Marks, Oregon State University, in the Nov. 15 issue of the Oregon Farmer explains in some detail the use of export subsidies by the United States to help other nations subsidize their farmers. Here is how it works according to Marks: The Japanese government re cently raised its guaranteed price lo producers for wheat from $3.02 to $3.18 per bushel. The Japanese government offsets its losses in buying and selling domestic wheat and barley by making profits on Imported wheat. Marks states an example Northwestern white wheat now costs the Japanese $1.62 per bush el at Portland. This includes a U.S. export subsidy of 52 cents, the market price being $2.14. With shipping and handling cosls added, the Japanese government has a total investment of about $1.90 per bushel tied up in this wheat. Thus the Japanese govern ment can come out quile well selling the wheat on their bol stered markets. This reminds us of the cat and rat farm story often used to show the errors of logic in such an eco nomic program. The farmer raised cats and rats, fed the rats to the cats, skinned the cals and fed the cat carcasses lo the rats, realizing a fine profit on the skins (and no overhead). It should be pointed out in all fairness to Japan that they are not the only country to make mon ey off U.S. export subsidies. It is quite a common practice with individual speculators making a good thing of it also. 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