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Newspaper Page Textmm 1 1 . nri p - rvt. ilium I'lpim now tnmm f .. ... r y-' " Suit Dismissal Clears casta HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, September 17, 1963 PAGE 9 3,500 Range Acres Saved By Spray, Seed Technique LAKEV1EW Approximately 3,300 acres of sagebrush infested rangeland is rapidly becoming a valuable grass covered pasture The production of desirable grass- CUSTOM FERTILIZER SPREADING SERVICE COMPLETE LINE OF FERTILIZERS AND AG CHEMICALS Simplot Soilbuilders "A TAXPAYtNO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SPECIALIZING IN FERTILIZERS A AG CHEMICALS KLAMATH PALLS Tl malin mmi TULELAKE M7-I15I F t es on the sage covered range land was made possible through the development of a new range improvement practice known as the spray and seed technique. During the early spring of 1961, Bob Morehouse, manager of the View Point Ranch near Christ mas Valley, and Lake County Ex tension agents tackled the problem of producing livestock forage on 3,500 acres of desert rangeland near Lost Forest. At the Lime, the job looked pretty tough as the area was covered by a good thick stand of sagebrush and not much else except plenty of large bould ers. An acre of ground was produc ing less than 50 pounds of air dry forage per acre. This means it would have taken 32 acres to produce enough feed for one cow (or one month. View Point cows did not even use the area accord ing to .Morehouse, they were just driven back and forth across it to better ranges. A decision was made during (he fall to attempt a new method of ange improvement in the area. Since the area could not be plowed; i because of large rocks and severe wind erosion) a different; method of eliminating the mois ture sucking sagebrush and pre paring a seedbed has to be used. It was decided to spray the brush but still there was no source of grass. To increase desirable grass production, an improved grass had to be seeded. The best answer seemed to be to drill crested whealgrass right into the stand ing brush following spraying. During early Jun3 of 1961, 3.500 acres of the sagebrush was sprayed with 2 pounds of 2,i-D ester per acre. The same fall and during the winter, the entire area was seeded with crested wheat- grass using rangeland drills andl 1 H n m u R n is? K B R R E K K R n K Pi E R X t I tl If you've sworn off hauling and handling bagged fertilizers, you tan still use profit proven Simplot brand. How? In bulk. You can haul it home on your truck in bulk bins or have custom application service. Either way you save time and la bor. Simplot Fertilizers are all high analysis, dust free ond uniform ly pelleted. 0-45-0 16-20-0 11-48-0 16-48-0 Watch The Profits Grow With Simplot Fertilizers the Oregon Press Seeder. The en tire operation cost approximately $7.00 per acre. View Point (West Sacramento Enterprises! provided (he spray job, seed, and labor while the BLM provided the drills since (he project was a co-opera-live endeavor on BLM lands. Forage production response to the treatment has been very grati fying. As Frank Anderson, present manager of the View Point Ranch says, "it has turned a practically worthless piece of; range into usuable cow pasture that we can get a lot of use from." In August of 1962, the treated area was producing 72 pounds of air dry forage per acre com pared to 49 pounds on the un treated area. In other words it would have taken approximately 22 acres of the treated area to maintain a cow for one month if only one half the forage were used as is generally recommend ed, and 33 acres of the untreat ed area. During August 1963, the sprayed and seeded area pro duced 269 pounds of air dry for-! age per acre compared to 120; pounds in the untreated area. Six acres of the (reated area could; support a cow for one month while' it would take 19 acres of the un treated area. Prior lo the spraying and seed ing (rca(ment, (he 3,500 acres would have supported 315 cows for one month at the peak of its production. In 1963, only the second year afler (reatmen(, the 3.500 acres produced enough feed for 1.177 cows for one month. Of the forage produced in 1963, crest ed whealgrass accounted for 37 per cen( of (he (o(al forage pro duction. Squirreltail composed 33 per cent, and annual weeds the remaining 30 per cent. 4 Dressed Beeves Offer New Idea At Lake Sale Milk Law Enforcement FORESTS AND FORAGE These two vital segments of western economy, lumber and cattle, 90 hand-in-hand. This view was taken in the Woodlands Area managed for multiple use by the International Weed. Here, a cattleman tends a l-P land in picturesque Scott Valley area. Pacer Company herd of herefords Lumber, Cattle Raising Go Hand-In-Hand S3 PS B m LAKEVIEW - Bidders at the 1963 Rotary-sponsored 4-H and FFA Lives(ock Sale had an oppor tunity (0 get a good look at the meat on which (hey were bidding when this year's sale opened with the offering of four dressed beeves. The steers were offered "on the hook" as part of a trial program which had as its two fold objective, the determination of buyer acceptance of this meth od of selling, and the critical evaluation of the animals being offered for sale. Four animals are not enough for the kind of trial from which one may draw valid, general con clusions, but this little (rial did point up some significant (hings for consideration. Notable was the fact that none of the four steers could be criticized as being overly fat or "wastcy." When the red meat yield the amount of bone less, trimmed retail cuts from the round, loin, rib. and chuck was computed, it was determined that the dressed weight of each steer would be accounted for in these more valuable cuts. Measurement of, the fat thick ness over (he twelfth rib an in dication of the amount of fat de posited throughout the carcass- showed none of the steers to be ex cessively fat. Smaller than usual amounts of kidney and pelvic fat were furhter indications of this fact. Dressing percentages of (he four steers ranged from 60.2 per cent (0 63.2 per cent, and the size of the rib eye the rib s(eak varied from 12.3 square inches to 14.0 square inches. Rib eye mus cles of this size are indicative of good muscle development through out the animal; a fact which; helps lo account for the good yield of boneless, trimmed red meat. U; J.. SIMPLOT CO. & Pocotello, Idaho r: I 'Mi I 1 1 WEED Herds of big white faced Herefords have been at "home on the range" in Interna tional Paper's Weed, Calif., Wood lands Area since the early 1900s. Forest products and livestock are two of the main industries in Northern California's Siskiyou County. I-P's Weed Woodlands Area has some excellent range for graz ing, and it is an important use there in the company's multiple use forest management program. Through continuing lease agree ments with the company, a num ber of cattlemen annually run their beef in the Grass Lake, Klamath River, and Scott Valley portions of the tree farm. There are approximately 900 head of Herefords munching con tentedly on I-P's timber grass lands at present under these reg ular leases. Many more cattle graze part time on company tree farm areas that intermingle with U.S. National Forest lands. "The company works closely with the Forest Service in graz ing management," reports War ren Goldsmith, Weed Woodlands Area manager. "We have a co operative agreement for grazing in areas that are a checker board of I-P - National Forest land ownership. "We also coor dinate our range season's opening and closing with the Forest Serv ice's grazing dates in the high country. HAME NEW BISHOP WASHINGTON (UPI) ,- The Rev. Paul Moore Jr., dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Indian apolis, Ind., since 1957, has been elected suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington The Rev. Mr. Moore, a 43-year old native of Morristown, N. J., was elected at a special diocesan convention Monday. He will serve as suffragan to Bishop William F. Crcighton. The beef move up usually in early July to the high country, where the grass stays green (lirough (he heat of the summer. Although catfle drives are scarce today, they still take place in (lie vicinity of the Weed wood lands. Sizable herds pass through Scott Valley on l-P land, en route from spring grazing at low er elevations (about 4,000 feet to greener pastures in the cool mountain meadows (7.000 feel). Siskiyou County ranchers de pend on both private and Forest Service lands for their summer grazing. And summer grazing is vital to the livestock industry, The range program also bene- Early obstacles to full enforce ment of the 1963 milk stabiliza tion act were removed Sept. 3 when a suit brought by Oregon Milk, Inc., Bend, was dismissed in Marion County Circuit Court. The dismissal followed stipu lations filed by all parties to the suit, including defendants State Department of Agriculture, Ore gon Milk Producers and Tilla mook Cheese and Dairy Associ ation. The latter two dairy groups had joined the department in de fending legality of the law. Oregon Milk, Inc., purchases milk from both Oregon and Wash ington producers. , Immediately upon its filing of Uie suit on, Aug. 2, Circuit Judge George Duncan, Salem, allowed a temporary in- Potato Men Plan Meet fits I-P. Annual grazing revenues help pay taxes and administration of (lie Weed Woodlands Area. Grazing assists as a woods fire prevention measure, because the cattle crop off tall grass that would be a fire hazard later in (he season. international Paper s range program in (lie Weed Woodlands Area is helping to insure the fu ture, economically, for many ci(i zens of Siskiyou County. Cattle grazing Is one of the many uses and activities taking place on International Paper's woodlands . . . woodlands man aged for multiple use at work doing more than one job at a time. By WALT JENDRZEJEWSKI Basin potato growers will meet at the Merrill Recreation Hall Thursday evening, Sept. 19, at 7:30. The joint meeting of Klamath, Butte Valley and Tulelake potato growers is scneauiea primarily to discuss potato marketing or der size and grade regulation for (he 1963 crop. It has become practice for the Potato Marketing Order Control Committe to delay meeting for the purpose of recommending reg ulations until grower meetings have been held in all producing areas. A meeting of the Oregon - Cali fornia Potato Committee which administers Marketing Order 947 (applicable here) is scheduled at Gresham, Ore., beginning at 9:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 23. (junction against the department's enforcement of the act. The temporary resurainina or der was released on hearing Aug. 9 out the court enjoined the de partment from collecting fees on Washington milk purchased by Oregon Milk, Inc., and ordered any audit fees collected to be held in trust until such time as the suit could be tried, The trial never came off be cause of the stipulation to d i s miss. This final order was made without prejudice to any p a r t y to the suit and without assessment of costs against either side. The stipulation dissolved the injunc tion order of Aug. 9, thus freeing the stabilization act of any court action at this time. The stipulation is an aftermath of the State Department of Agri culture's hearing on Aug. 28 in Salem when proposed regulations under the new milk law were un der discussion. At the hearing, K. W. Sawyer, milk audit and stabilization divi sion chief for SDA, proposed that out-of-state producers and their handlers enter into voluntary privileges under the Oregon law. Without such a contract between the two parties, Sawyer suggest ed that Oregon handlers main tain a separate pool for the out-of-state milk they purchase. Ford Trucks Last Longer 11 the FARM S your Perm Trgck Heee'eeerNri BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main l. Ph. 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