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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are repealed by an order issued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repealed because they had be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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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