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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1963)
7 " A v ...Ji -.' .. 3?l I . i . 1 v - a yWttiSsaiK-x-- - v,,.... ....... ' 14 A FEEDING ARRANGEMENT These views show the unique feeding arrangement at the Pope ranch. At left, the feed pens fan out in a circle around the feed mill, grain 1 1 ' ' 1...W..1M f.mmmsm storage and hay shed. In center, the Angus calves are grown out on chopped Alfalfa hay following weaning and then finished for market on ground grain and hay. Far Farm Adviser Offers Suggestions On General Combine Adjustments TULELAKE It is impossible to recommend specific combine adjustments for threshing malting barley which would apply to all makes and models of machines and would fit all harvesting con ditions, according to Ken Baghott, Tulelake farm adviser. However on the basis of field studies and available experimental data, the following general suggestions can be made: , Cylinder adjustmens Run the cylinder as slow as possible to get the grain out of the head. Excess cylinder speed will damage grain regardless of concave clearance. Cylinders with considerable end play in cylinder bearings, crooked or bent cylinders or concave teelh and damaged rasp bars will cause damage to the grain. Concave adjustment Concaves should not be set to take off all of (he awn or beard on kernels to increase test weight. Relation between concave clearance and cylinder speed is definite; the low-, cr the cylinder speed the closerl can be the clearance. Set spikel tooth concaves properly. Rasp bar does the best job when cylinder! and concave is set between and inches. Examine grain frequently as moisture conditions during the day change. Make necessary adjustments. Varying the concave clearance will usually take care of these changes throughout the harvest day. Sieve adjustments Adjust the sieves for the least possible re turn. A great deal of damage oc curs on machines that are run ning heavy return. A heavy re turn means that a lot of kernels are going through the cylinder a second time, thereby increasing the number of skinned kernels. A heavy return is often caused from sieves becoming clogged with a mat of beards. Wind blast-Use plenty of wind on the front of the sieves to keep1 a mat ot beards and chaff from forming on the sieves; keeping the sieves level or slightly high in; (he rear will also help separation. More barley is lost by using too little wind than by using too1 much. Conditions of straw and grain Some farmers thresh barley when Some Early Blight Found Under Irrigated Fields TULELAKE A survey of pota to fields of the Tulelake Basin, this week, by Dr. John G. McLean, extension potato specialists and Ken Baghott, Tulelake farm ad viser, disclosed that there was some early blight potato fields under sprinkler irrigation. Where potatoes were under sprinklers and planted back on the same land, the problem was more se vere. The disease was also more apparent on older, more mature plants. Under these conditions the spray Ina with Maneb or Zineb may be beneficial in delaying the develop ment of early blight. A few spots on the lower leaves of furrow ir rieated potatoes does not const! tute an epidemic, according to McLean. Spraying of fields where the vines are upright is ineffective since 90 per cent of the material will lodge on the upper part of the plant where the leaves are not susceptible to early Diignt. Early blight starts on the older, more mature leaves and progress es very slowly up the plant with maturity. In the absence of driv ing rain and humid conditions, early blight should not be a prob lem for several weeks under fur row irrigated conditions. Spraying will not be too effective for con trol until the plants are opened up and lodging. Continued warm weather ann wind is usually el- fective in preventing ; spid spread of the disease. If the weather conditions change in the next few weeks to high hu midity during the day, early blight can advance more rapidly on the mature plants. During a: late growing season early blight may actually help to mature the, plants. McLean and Baghott report that! no late blight was found in the area. However, any farmer who discovers a potato problem and suspects early or late blight should check with the Tulelake farm ad viser's office. Verticillium and Blackleg both will be more discernible as the season advances, according to Baghott. Neither of these diseases can be controlled by spray. they cannot thresh wheat or oats, Harvesting barley when straw and grain are too tough will result in loss of grain or in a high per centage of damaged kernels be cause it is necessary to run the cylinder speeds at higher revolu lions to prevent clogging. Thresh' ing good malting barlev when the grain and straw are tough may cause excess damage, thus chang ing the malting barley to a feed grade. 4-H NEWS BONANZA SHEPI1ERDS Our 4-H club had a swimming party on Aug. 5 at Malin. After swimming we had a potluck and many friends and parents attended. During the meeting we filled out the entry blanks and found out what class our lambs would show in. We also discussed our 4-H uniforms. Our next meeting will be at the home of Greg and Diane Williams. Danny Pedcrson, News Reporter. TRIPLE B BEEF The triple "B" Beef Club had picnic-swim, at Malin Park. We ate and then had our meet ing. President Paul Dearborn called it to order. Cathy Angel read the minutes. Then we dis cussed whether or not to get our shirts, for our new members, or to wait until next year. It was voted to wait until next year. Then Paul showed us how to keep our temporary and permanent rec ords in order. Then the meeting was adjourned and we all went swimming. Danice House, News Reporter. LAKEVIEW - Several thou-! sand acres of sagebrush land throughout Lake County are be ing attacked by an insect known tlie sagebrush moth reports Bill Moser, Lake County exten sion agent. What does this mean in terms of wildlife, livestock and range mangement programs in the fu ture? Right now no one knows for sure because no one knows how extensive the kill will be Moser says. However, the insect' MILLIONTH CARLOAD SALINAS, Calif. (UPII - The one-millionth carload of lettuce shipped from the Salinas Valley departed today for New York to 'be auctioned off, with the pro ceeds going to the American Red Cross. The first shipment of iced let tuce left the Salinas Valley in 1921. About 98 per cent of the world's insecticides are aDDhed on U.S. Ilands. I1M right, a closeup shows the feed conveyor pipe supported by two A-frames on wheels that run on a concrete track. Countv Aaent Photos Popes Try Unique Feeding Project With Six Feed Lots In Circle Plan HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, August 20, 1963 PAGE 1 Sagebrush Moth Attacking Wide Area In Lake County is certain to kill a lot of sage brush. The fact that some areas of sagebrush will be killed cer tainly points out the need for examining and evaluating the sit uation. Phil Unless, OSU, who is do ing wildlife habitat research at Silver Lake, feels the damage hay not be as great as some may feel. Certainly since sage brush is and always has been a part of our native environment, as has the sagebrush moth, it More College Attendance Urged For Rural Youth OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY; -More young people from the ru al areas of America should be going to college. And "individual genius" must not be lost or submerged in the large scale, team-type research programs underway in America today, the president ot the Amer ican Society of Animal Science emphaiszed this week at Oregon State University. Dr. L. E. Hanson of the Uni versity of Minnesota noted that only about half as many students are graduated each year as are needed to fill positions in agri culture and industries related to agriculture. For many of these employment opportunities, a rural background is a distinct asset, he observed. However, the percentage of stu dents going on to college from ural farm areas is about halt that from metropolitan areas. A 1961 Minnesota survey of high school youths showed that only 23 per cent of rural farm youths were intending to enroll in col lege, compared to 43 per cent for non-farm, non-metropolitan youths, and 56 per cent for met ropolitan youths, Hanson report ed. The net result is a terrible loss to the individual and society, Hanson insisted. He urged mem bers of the society to help stim ulate interest in higher education Law Can Trace Stock Without Brand Brands are helpful in locating and identifying cattle that have strayed or been stolen. But, with the aid of Oregon's brand inspection law. the live stock officers of the Oregon De- nartmcnt of Agriculture fre quently prove all is not lost for lack of a brand. Cattle, like people, have traits and characteristics that help these policemen of the bovine kingdom in establishing identity. Such was the case of an cight-month-old white faced brindled bull with distinctive rings around his eyes; a little six-month-old black heifer answering to the name of Susie; and their two Hereford heifer companions, which disappeared March 24 from the Arthur Gering pasture at Rtc. 2. Box 145-N. Yamhill. After searching for the ani mals the Gerings notified law en forcement officers. Tlic depart ment's livestock officer. E. L. ( Doc 1 Wright, was called in on the case March 30. when evi Ford Trucks Last Longer on Hit FARM Set your Ftrm Truck Httdqutrttn BALSIGER MOTOR CO. M..n .t t.r. ft-. TU 4-1121 dence at hand indicated that the quartet had not strayed, but had been stolen. Doc asked the Gerings for any markings or characteristics that would identify the animals. Ger ing and his 14-ycar-old son, Lee, put their heads together and re called that tlie little bull had the rings around his eyes and that in addition to being brindled with a white Spot on his face he had a little black spot in the middle of the white, and that Susie, who was somewhat of a pet came atrotting when Lee called her name. On his check of livestock auc tion markets in Portland Wright found the department's brand inspector recalled seeing the pair and that the other animals had been sold in tlie group. A look at the inspection rec ords showed the four animals had pone through the markets and the names of the buyers were found. Each had gone to a different place and all but one had been resold by the time Live stock Officer Wright, who has been with the department in this capacity 15 years and before that spent seven and a half years with the Oregon Slate Police, caught up with them. This was after checking six auction yards, one of them at Vancouver, Wash and sifting through some 3,000! head of cattle sold at these auctions. Five days after Wright started his search he had located all four animals and identified them The little brindled bull had gone to Orchards, Wash.; Susie went to La Centre, Wash.; one of the Hereford heifers was located south of Redmond. Ore., and the other at Powell Butte. Brand inspection records kept by the Department of Agricul ture had also given officers a clue as to whom the rustlers were that spirited the Gering cattle away. The next day after the cattle were located and identified Ray mond Robert Larson, 24, of Rte. Carlton, and George Robert Minor, 30, Rte. 2. Box 145, Yam hill, were arrested in Utah on an all points bulletin. Convicted July 22 at McMinn ville on the charge of stealing! the animals, Larson was given a three-year sentence by Judge Arlie G. Walker, and Minor was sentenced to five years in the Oregon State Penitentiary. All that remains now to close the case is the homecoming of the cattle. Only one has been re turned, but the others will be re turning to the Yamhill ranch, now that Larson and Minor have been convicted of the thelt. among farm youths. Hanson's address came at the end of the society's 55th annual meeting in Corvallis. It was the first time that the society h a tl met outside Chicago since 1920. Dr. Clair Terrill, U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture research worker at Bellsville, Md., was elected to succeed Hanson president. Research in America has grown tremendously in the past 10 years but "germs of problems" exist which could become serious "if we are not alert to them," Han son cautioned. Scientists arc most concerned about the possible loss of, or failure to recognize and develop, the individual genius in our large, highly-organized research projects that have sharply defined goals, he said. The system commonly used by agencies in granting funds to in dividual scientists instead of to the institutions in which they are staff members has had the effect in some cases of "eroding uni versity responsibility and shift ing faculty loyalty away from the institution and toward the agency," he also noted. Steps are being taken now which can restore balance and strengthen university responsibili ty and control over its activi ties, he indicated. More than 700 scicntsts from throughout the United States and Canada attended the national meeting. The Oregon Stale Unl versily Department of Animal Science was host. Dr. James Old field of OSU is sccrctary-trcasu- urcr of the 2.600-mcmber socie ty- would be unwise to think all the sagebrush is going to be de stroyed by the insect. Research indicates that there will always be sagebrush as part of the desert flora. However. Moser emphasizes, the insect is affecting enough acres of rangcland that the land managers and livestock operator will want to take a long and hard look at future management programs. The insect may be a "pennies from Heaven" range improvement machine which should be taken advantage of while the opportunity exists. What management factors should be considered? Since the moth is killing sagebrush by dc-l foliating it similar to spray pro grams, the same management! practices should prevail, lhe ac- Uy RAY O. PETERSEN The increase in feed barley pro duction in the Klamath Basin due to the constant decrease in the demand for malting barley here is stimulating interest m feeding more cattle. Randall Poe and his father, Le land, of Merrill have built a unique feed yard that further re duces the labor of feeding. Through a development of their own they have eliminated the au tomatic Iced wagon which a few years ago took much of the back breaking hand labor out of cattle feeding operations. When all features of the Pope feed lot have boon completed ap proximately 500 head of cattle can be fed with a little over one day of labor per week. At present the Popes' feeding set up consists of six lots in a three-quarter circle around a feed mill, grainery and hay shed. The mill where the grain and hay is located is in the cen ter of a 120 foot circle. The pro cessed feed is blown through an eight-inch pipe from the mill to each self feeder. The pipe which is pivoted over the mill is moved from one pen to the next by wheels which support the middle and op- hay and grain built into tlie stur dy plank fences so that cattle from adjoining pens feed from a common feeder. Water at 70 de grees temperature is provided in tanks located next to a self feed er in every other fence so that on tank provides water for two lots. The hay is conveyed by a chain drag and the grain by auger to the Iced mill. A bank of electric switches in the mill controls all the operations of the feeding set up. The Popes' put tlieir Angus wea ner calves on chopped hay in No vember and bring them along as fast as possible on this feed un til March when they are placed on a finishing ration of barley, almond hulls and alfafa. When the feeding set up is completed there will be eight pens which will nearly complete the circle around the feed lot and feed storage. A scale soon will be installed which will be used to keep accurate rec ords on the progress of the cattle. State Vet Gives Okay To Horse Show At Fair There will bo a 4-H Club Horse Show at the 1963 Oregon State Fair. That's the word from Glenn Klein, Oregon State University state 4-11 agent, after receiving clearance from tlie stale veteri narian. The show had been in doubt until a few days ago because of the recent outbreak ot equine influenza in the state. tion of the moth in a sense is a free spray job. If plenty of do- nnsi,. .n(1 nf (hB ,rHHl nin This sirable grasses are present in device is mounted on two sets of areas wnere sagcDiusn is Deing wheels an(i mmcs in fi0 ,ool killed, the operator or land man- radius around tnc mill Thc ced ager may want 10 consider oe- is AroppeA rom lhe auger, into ueiui my iaMj (Hi iiiu muffs m seJf fcedci's allow desirable plants to fill in ', , , ,. , . the stand. On the other land, if, ',c, . ".V" Z TZ miuquaie perennial gi awscs are tests and tlie "Dad Potter" horse manship tryouts, Klein noted. 'A special trail horse class exhibi tion to increase the public's knowledge of these horses is planned, he added. Other spec ial events may be added later. Boys and girls participating In the 4-H horse events can bring their animals on the Salem fair grounds, Sept. 6 between 10 a.m. not present then a seeding pro gram using desirable improved grasses such as crested wheat grass may need to be considered Unless the areas affected by lhe moth are properly managed, the moth may be a serious detri ment to Lake County 8 range lands rather than a benefit Hearing Slated On Milk Rules Regulations proposed by the Oregon Department of Agricul ture to implement the Milk Sta bilization and Audit laws, will be considered at a hearing Wednes day, Aug. 28. The hearing is slated for 10 a.m, thc Conference Room of the Agriculture Building, Salem. Proposed regulations are con corned with auditing, market pool ing and equalization, distributor pooling, quotas, cooperative mar keting and fair trade practices. Copies of the proposed regula tions will be available from tlie Milk Audit and Stabilization Divi sion, Oregon Department of Agri culture, Salem, Oregon. Persons interested in submitting their views or testifying can write the department prior to the hearing or or appear at the hearing. nccs arc laid out in a square tiie length of each pen varies from 144 to 240 feet. There is a self feeder for both r FHA Members Hold Camp-out The Future Homemakers of America held a camp-out for all of the members July 30, 31, and Aug. 1 at Medicine Lake. The camp-out was planned at ii watermelon feed which was held on June 20, ut Malin Park. Those who attended had lots of fun cooking, sitting around thc campfirc singing, going on a scav enger hunt and swimming. Mrs. Frankic Workman and Mrs. Esther O'Kecfe chaperoned thc camp-out. REMEMBER1. when it comes to a truck, see Bob or Juck Trucks are their business! JUCKELAND MOTORS, Inc. Your International Dealer 11th & Klam. Ph. 2-2581 ATTENTION FARMERS! However, the number of cases and 1 p.m. No horses will be is declining and state officials accepted before 10 a.m. that day. feel that the show can now be Klein stressed. held, Klein said. It is hoped that all counties will be represented, even though several county 4-H noise shows were cancelled. Counties are being encouraged to reschedule their horse shows or to make some other arrangements by which their young men and women can be represented in the event, the state agent said. For tlie first time this year, the state 4-H Horse Show will be a regular part of the Oregon State Fair program. Horse shows are planned for bolh Friday and Sat urday nights, Sept. 6 and 7. Last year, 4-H horsemen held their statewide event the day before the fair opened. 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