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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Those who watch the world
price on grain and the subsidy
payments can often come up with
a lidy profit by simply broker
ing the grain at the opportune
time.
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and second in the lightweight and
heavyweight Hampshire lambs
and first and second in the
heavyweight crossbrcds. Her hog
was in the second group in the
Berkshire Lightweights. Both
placed as a qualified sheep
showman to round out her group.
cnarles, 12, had a superior
Southdown lamb and superior
crossbred lamb. His crossbred
lambs were in the first group.
Charles had the reserve cham
pion Berkshire hog and was first
place willi his heavyweight Berk.
He also showed hogs in the sec
ond group.
The youngest member of this
family of champions, Althea, 11,
showed the reserve champion
whitefacc lamb and was first
with her heavyweight Dorset. She
had three superior group cross
bred lambs and a Berkshire hog
m the second group.
- The Modoc County team placed
third for best group of county
lambs competing with 18 counties
made up of Charles, Beth and :
Althea Baird and Robert Lewis"
of Tulelake. .
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