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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1963)
PAGE S HERALD AND Experiment Station Testing Drug To Eliminate Internal Parasites A new drug that could make quite a dent in the $500 million Joss the U.S. livestock industry suffers yearly because of inter nal parasites has been tested and found effective by Oregon State University Agricultural Experi ment Station. Dr. Stuart E. Knapp, OSU vet erinary parasitologist, has com pleted a series of tests confirm ing that Thibcnzolc is the best material on the market for con trolling internal parasites in sheep. He says lie- expects the Food and Drug Administration to approve the drug for cattle by the end of the year. Not only is Thibcnzolc more effective than commonly - used duces no undesirable side effects, penthothiazine, but it also pro- Fresh Produce Cartons Dropped By New Ruling Oregon will not have standard containers for fresh produce alt er July 25. Those container standards that still remained in effect in Oregon are repealed by an order issued this week by the Oregon Depart mcnt of Agriculture. However, this docs not mean that the department will not con tinue its check for decep tive weights and measures. Also, all labeling statutes, still apply. Gordon Schwalen, hearings offi-! cer for the hearing held June 24 at Salem to consider the propos als 'for repealing container stan dards and revision of grade stan dards for 35 fresh produce com modities, said the standards were repealed because they had be come obsolete and were no long er applicable to present packag ing and merchandising of fresh commodities. remember; when it comes to a truck, see Bob or Juck Trucks . are their business! JUCKELAND MOTORS. Ine ' Your International Daaler 11th ft Klam. Ph. 2-2581 n i FREE ERECTION ON GRAIN BINS When You Order 2 or More Bins During the Month of J.uly! Sjllll Look for the Butler trademark before you buy Duller quality grain bin. are pre-engineered to exact trig standards by the men who know (train ator.ge beat. They go up quickly - last longer. Thry give yo.. ,), afen, moat dependable storage you can buy. What's more . . . it, M5y , convert a Butler bin WT on farm drVing system If you decide to store AND dry your grain. It cost, little more to own the very beat. As your authorized local Butler dealer, well be happy to dls- tui your grain alorage need, vlth you. Ju,t give u, 4 call or .top by. There no obligation. Headquarters for ell Butler farm itructuret end equipment LOW DOWN PAYMENT 0 NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon and is safer because an accident al overdose is not as likely to harm the animal. However, because Thibcnzole is not always 100 per cent effective Knapp recommends using a com bination of the two. He says to use the best drug when most con trol is needed Thibenzole in tlic spring, followed up with pheno thiamine in lato fall or early win ter. The phenothiazine may kill any parasites missed by the Ihi benzoic. Alternating the two drugs may help to prevent parasites from building up resistance to either drug. Internal parasites affect horses and pigs as well as cows and sheep. Parasites sometimes kill the animal, but the loss is more often an economic one because the animals don't gain as they All of the grade standards for changes proposed in grade stan dards for 35 fresh produce com modities also have been adopted in orders issued by the depart ment. They become effective July 25.' !n most instayces the changes were made to bring Oregon grade standards In line with the present U.S. Department of Agriculture grade standards. Affected by the revisions in grades or container standards are: Apples, apricots, asparagus, snap boa;is, beets, b r u s s e 1 sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupes, bunched carrots, cauliflower, cel ery, sweet cherries, green corn, dewberries and blackberries, fil bert kernels, American eastern type bunch grapes, European type table grapes, lettuce, loganber ries, onions, onion sets, parsnips. peaches, pears (summer, fall and winter), fresh peas, fresh plums and prunes, raspberries, spinach plants, squash (fall and whiter), strawberries, rcsh tomatoes, wal nuts (in-shcll and shelled) and watermelons. In the case of filbert kernels there are no U.S. grade standards. The changes here arc for a clarification on whole and brok en meats and the definition ol foreign materials. Weaving Is known to have been one of the handicrafts o the Stone Age. Turaday, July f, 1963 should. Although Knapp gener ally uses sheep for testing, re sults can be applied to other am mals as well. Knapp pointed out that inter nal parasites increase as more pastures arc irrigated and more livestock raised in smaller areas. He explained that conditions for parasite development and survi val are best when temperature is above 65 degrees and ground moisture equals about two inches of rainfall. This occurs normally about two months a year; but when pastures are irrigated, con ditions are right for parasite grow th for nearly six months. In another phase of his con tinuing research, Knapp found good evidence that feedlot own crs need not routinely treat all sheep for internal parasites when they come into the feedlot. He's looking for an accurate wav to determine the level of parasite infestation in live animals. This information is needed to help sheep .growers and feeders de cide when and how to treat tor parasites. The scientist pointed out the need to study the problem in various areas of the state be cause environmental conditions differ from place to place, as do types of internal parasites. So far, he has tested came ana sheep in Douglas County, north eastern Oregon and from sever al areas in the Willamette Valley. Tips Given On Battle Of Chiggers WASHINGTON UPI - The chioeer season is under way. A large section of the United Stales is affected. Start of the chiggcr season co incided with release by the Agri culture Department of leaflet No. 403 entitled: "Chiggers: How to Fight Them." If you want or need a copy, ask the department or your congressman. The leaflet should enjoy wide circulation, because chiggers are a problem both to human beings and wildlife. They frequent such places as parks, picnic grounds, golf courses, lawns and especial ly low, damp places where vege tation is rank berry patches, or chards, woodlands and margins of lakes and streams. The depart ment said the pest occurs in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Penn sylvania. and in all states farther outh. The agency added that lliev are especially troublesome in the South. Chiggcr Season In southern Florida and south ern Texas, chiggers may be pres ent throughout the year. In other states, the chiggcr season begins in May, June, or July and lasts until September or the first frost. Department entomologists who prepared the leaflet plunged into the problem created by chiggers immediately after identifying them as "red bugs, making up a family of mites." "Chiggcr bites cause intense itching and small, reddish welts on the skin, the entomologists said. "You may notice these symptoms in the summer after working in the garden, walking in the woods or fields, picking ber ries, or mowing the lawn. The entomologists intimated that chiggers overlook nothing or no 0110. Victims and they are legion will bear this out. The Symptoms The entomologists said the symptoms and there are victims who believe that word hardly de scribes a chiggcr bite "may be your only way of knowing that you have been in an Infested place, because chiggers are so small that most persons cannot see them without a magnifying glass. The entomologists advise a per son to use a repellent before going Into an area known to be infested. But if a foray is made into an infested area without knowing it, the resulting itching can be reduced by bathing and applying an antiseptic and a local anesthetic lo the welts. Things to do after a chipfter bite, the scientists said, include a bath as soon as possible, using lots of easy-to-latlier soap. Next, they said, apply a dab of anti septic to each of the w'clts. his aids in preventing infection. Formers! Loggers! Bulk Gasoline Competitive Prices and S&H Green Stamps TANKS AVAILABLE Cliff Yaden's SERVICE 2560 So. eth TU 2-7201 OPEN 24 HOURS 1 HA . LkifJU WOOL SALES Elmer Cook, left, president of the Surprise Valley Wool Pool, and Prank Arreche, night, incoming president, prepare to weigh-in the first ship ment of this year's wool sale to the Pacific Wool Grower, of Portland. The wool pool will ship SO, 000 pounds of wool sold at $5 1 .25 for ewe fleeces. Administration Plans No Wheat Legislation By SU6AN K. POLLOCK United Press International The administration decided last week to give farmers what it feels they want no new wheat legislation. A strong "no vote in the May wheat referendum, and only a trickle of letters from individual farmers, indicated to the govern ment that farmers wanted to make a go of it alone. We have received very little mail from individual farmers re garding new legislation and no mail that would indicate a con solidution of farmer opinion on what sort of bill may be need ed," Rep. Graham Purcell (D- Tex.), chairman of the Housei subcommittee on wheat, said. Agricultural Secretary Orville, L. Freeman, in dismissing all hopes or fears of fresh legisla- Milk Checks To Be Less Grade A milk producers in the state will find an additional one cent per hundredweight deducted from the milk checks they re ceive for milk delivered to han dlers after the lirst of this month. The Oregon Department of Ag riculture has issued an adminis trative order setting the deduction at l'j cents per hundredweight effective July 1, 1M3. The first Handler ol the milk is respon sible to the .department for the deduction. The order was issued following a hearing June 24 in Salem. Producers of grade A milk have been paying one-half cent per hundredweight for support of the milk audit program, which is tinder the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The Increusc of one cent will bd used for increased support of the milk audit program and adminis (ration of the new Milk Stabiliza tion Act, administration of which was delegated to the Department of Agriculture by the legislature. mW mm mm. Mb Bah m WmM mm LUBIWL.AI L SAVE ON PARTS W1 .LUBRIPLATE LUBRICANTS ttinf from lrt ItthtfM ftuiiU trt th han4i g i . Mrh n in 1 i nam itk Lwbi tctt bti for our ttty nf?d. ASK US FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS tion, outlined alternative pro grams for the 19B4 wheat crop. In his analysis he figured the ex isting wheat and feed grain laws. The first alternative would be to divert an estimated 24 million feed grain acres and continue to drawdown feed grain stocks. The resulting firmness in the feed grain market would in turn pro vide support for wheat as a. part of the total feed grain economy. A second would be to provide slightly higher diversion payment1 rates under the feed grain pro gram and to require that feed grain farmers with wheat acre age keep the bread grain within the allotted bounds in order to qualify for the feed grain pro gram. The final possibility, the one which Freeman is said to favor,! would be similar to the second plan with the added feature that farmers involved in the feed grain program would be allowed to substitute wheat on feed grain acres and teed grains on wheat ucres. The decision to forget about wheat legislation may come as a surprise to such observers as "Broomhall,". the London grain paper, which said early last week: 'They (the farmeisi rejected the plan and responsibility now lies on the government either to introduce new legislation or let the income of American wheat growers sink $700 million below the 1962 returns." Many market authorities feel that farmers won't sutler to this extent as many growers will place their 13U3 crops under gov ernment loan and benefit from the high payments. The way things stand now, farmers who plant within their allotments next year will be elig ible lor price support. The sup port level will be around $1.25 a bushel, which is 50 per cent of the $2.51 parity. Farmers won't be penalized for planting excess acreage, but may receive a cut in their future allotments. Ambergris is obtained from the sperm whale. aa at a - m LUDnlUAN I b REPLACEMENTS Replacing machine parts can cost you real money for both parts and labor. By reducing wear. Ll'BRl ri.ATE lubricants defi nitely reduce parts re placements bihI the down time of machinery re quired for repairs. Fur thermore by reducing; friction I.rBRirUTK Lu bricants reduce power consumption. Their use will save you money. j Milk Hearings Study Price Structure; Hear Pleas To Hold $5.86 Per Hundred In Salem and Eugene hearings (June 24-25) under the new milk stabilization law producers urged the State Department of Agricul ture to hold the line at $5.86 per1 hundred. This is the price that prevailed unitl Medo-Land Cream ery and carnation cut back to $5.50 on June 1. All but three distributors ar gued for the $5.50 minimum. Rob iert A. Fish of Echo Spring Dai- ry at Eugene and Mt. Angel Co- oparative Creamery recommend ed $5.80. Daniel R. Kilgore, Red- ii.ond, suggested $5.40. These figures were for class I milk, based en four per cent but terfat. For the first time, the state is also hearing testimony on a price for class 2 milk. This is the sur plus share of grade A milk and is utilized in ice cream, butter. cheese and other manufactured dairy products. Distributors talked $3 for class 2 milk. Kenneth W. Sawyer is conduct ing the hearings as .milk stabiliza tion and audit chief for the State! Department of Agriculture. He reminded both hearings that the new law obligates the department to establish prices that will main tain a stable market and be fair to producers, processors and con-, sumers. The law calls for set-: ting prices only at the producer! level. Several producer spokesmen, in cluding D. P. Shoup as manager of Oregon Milk Producers; inject ed a new angle on the $5.50 price talk. They said they would be satisfied with this figure if it were based on 3.5 per cent milk,! as in most of the country where marketing orders prevail. This . would be virtually the mase as $5.86 on a four per cent fat basis, taking into considera tion a seven or 7V4 . cent fat dif ferential. Producers would put $3 for class 2 milk on a 3.5 per! cent basis also. Producers maintained that more Process Being Tested For Removing Fallout WASHINGTON UPI - The government today announced a1 consumer-research study to test a new process for removing nuclear fallout 'from milk on a commer cial scale. The announcement from the Agriculture Department and the Department of Health. Education and Welfare said an ion-exchange process tor removing radioactive strontium 90 from milk will be tested on a commercial scale by the Producers Creamery Co., a FARM The PRUDENTIAL Way NEW SO yeor amortization plan with mare liberal appraisals and lower annual pay ments on farms or ranches with gravity, sprink ler or well irrigation in Klamath, Lake, Modoc and Siskiyou Counties. 5'a interest. Very prompt service. No appraisal fee. BARNH1SEL AGENCY 112 So. 8th St. Ph. TU 2-3461 dairies would be forced lo the: wall unless the price is set at their figure. They pointed to con tinued increases in cost of pro duction in the face of lower milk prices than they received several years ago. One producer said he had a $4,000 net return last year in a $100,000 investment in his dairy. But T. L. Goodwin, Roseburg's Umpqua Dairy Products, and oth er distributors stated cost of pro duction is no longer the control! ing factor in the highly competi tive milk business. Distributors generally empha sized the need to consider prices in oilier states. Some said they had offers to buy milk in out side states at prices even under $5.50 per hundred pounds. But W. F. Penney, representing the Northwest Dairymen's Asso ciation of Seattle, had a 'different view on out-of-state milk, nc! said (1) a Puget Sound produc er (now under federal orders) would, if he sold in Oregon, be giving up his secure base "for market with possibly less se curity" and (2 that the price! would have to be equal or higher than the current blend price, plus transportation, to influence a change of markets. The first two hearings unani mously approved the depart ment s proposal A for designat ing market areas. This would place Curry County in one area Wallowa. Baker, Maiheur, Har ney, Grant and Union counties in another market: and the re mainder of the stale in one large market area. The Salem hearing tile only one where poundage assessment testimony was considered fa vored the lVa-cents per hundred proposed by the state. This is a quarter cent under the maximum permitted and will cover com bined stabilization and audit pro grams. I No reports were available at this mailing from the last two dairy cooperative at Leban on, Mo. The firm will determine the commercial feasibility of the strontium 90 removal and work out details for its operation on a large industrial scale. The pro cess was developed to the pilot plant stage at the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md., as a cooperative project of the Agriculture Department, the Public Health Service and the1 Atomic Energy Commission. I L 0ANS WHAT'S AS MUCH FUN AS, THE CIIRCUS AND HAPPENS EVERY DAY? JC f5 1 hearings, at Gold Beach and Ba ker. Sawyer has 30 days from hear ing date to announce his decisions. If no referendum is requested within 45 days after the market areas are created, the depart- Supplies Of Expected To Supplies of broilers during the remainder of 1963 mil oe larg er than the same period last vear. but about the same quan tity of eggs and turkeys will be available to consumers. This is the word from C. M. Fischer, Oregon State Universi ty extension poultry marketing specialist. Fischer makes his ob servations in the Oregon Farm and Market Outlook circular just published by OSU and available to county extension offices. An expansion in broiler pro duction is in the making with the May output of broiler chicks the largest output for any month on record and up seven per cent from May; 1962, he noted. The number of eggs in incubators June' 1 indicates the June hatch will be larger than the same monlh last year and the largest on record for th-Jt month. The larger chick production will soon show up in larger broil er slaughter, Fischer said, and prices are likely to drop below last year's levels for a while. Unless checked, expansion in chick production could result in over-production and much lower VALLEY PUMP AND EQUIPMENT CO. COMPLETE PUMPING SERVICE ALL MAKES REPAIRED Now at Mtrrlll-Laktviaw Jet. ff-Tin irMl "I'm oft to Klamath Tractor to buy some good farm , machinery!" See us for HAYING EQUIPMENT! New Holland Baler! Now Holland Windrowers, Heiston Windrowers, Owotonna Windroweri. Used Balers, Used Windrowers, Used Mowers, Used Rakes Klamath Tractor 8 Implement Co. II 5616 So. 6th if I 9 , Service Jy LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE! It's an exciting new word-ancU picture puzzle that teaches while it entertains! Watch for it! DAILY in the ket pools in each market area. Under a market pool producers' payout on quota milk will be equalized that is. each producer will share and share alike on quo ta milk. ment will proceed to set up mar- Broilers Be Larger prices in late summer and early fall, he warned. The number of layers in flocks, the early hatches and the long term uptrend in the rate of lay indicate that egg supplies for the remainder of this year will be approximately the same as in the last half of 1962, he said. Most of the prospective increase in turkey production this yepr may be offset by smaller cold storage holdings. Holdings on June 1 were 11 per cent sma"er tnan on the same date last year, Fisch er reported. Ford Trucks Last Longer en tht FARM Sa your Farm Truck Hdquortri BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main at lio. Ph. TU 4-3121 CALL TU 4-9776 Naxt lo John Daare Ph. 2-5525 jQXfj After the Sale em m D-enninGTon Moty & Van Dyke Stool Building Co. 638 Klamath Ave. 50S9 Bryant Ave. TU 4-3334
