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a' W r. W s& t il ' ' I .V : .' ': , .. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, November 5. 1963 PAGE-7 Top Western Angus Beef Cattle Displayed At Grand Exposition p WIN SPEECH HONORS Winners of the Soil and Water Conservation District 1963 area speech contest were selected last week in a meeting at the Olene Com munity Hall. Displaying their trophies are, left to right, Miss Lois Hobson, Merrill High School senior and second place winner; Miss Barbara Reid, Bonanza High School senior and first place winner, and Louis Glinkman, a KUHS senior and third place win ner. Other contestants included Nondice McFall, Bonanza; Eric Haskins, Merrill, and Jim Drew, KUHS. The first two place winners will compete in the semifinals in Ash land. Lloyd Gift, chairman of the Langell Valley Soil and Water Conservation District, was emcee at the speech contest. Local Feed Prices Govern Use Of High Concentrate Beef cattle usually gain faster on high concentrate rations, but whether or not this type of ra tion is economically practical depends on local feed prices. Two years of testing various high concentrate rations have shown that barley, milo and corn all produce good gains, ac cording to Oregon Stale Univer sity Agricultural Experiment Station researchers, E. N. Hoff man, superintendent of the Mal heur Experiment Station, and Dr. J. E. Oldficld, animal nu tritionist. In this particular test, steam rolled barley produced faster and cheaper gains than dry Anti-Mice Protection Developed OPEGON STATE UNIVERSI TY Douglas fir seeds can be protected from mice with a two per cent coating of a commer cial chemical, Endrin, and this may make it possible for wide areas of Oregon to be reforested economically by direct seeding, according to Hugh Black and Edward Hooven. mammalogists at the Oregon State University Forest Research Laboratory. Seed protection from rodents and birds is necessary in direct seeding. Douglas fir seeds coat ed with aluminum powder repel birds, but a concentration of one-half per cent active Endrin in the coating has led to only limited success in protection against mice. In tests from January to May of this year, seeds were coated with various adhesives and con centrations of Endrin, a chlori nated hydrocarbon frequently used as an insecticide, and test ed w ith deer mice. The 1963 study showed that all treated seeds were eaten freely when first offered, but two per cent or more of active Endrin in the coating repelled mice that survived after eating treated seed. Lower concentrations were not lethal to most mice and were slightly repellent after the first trial. In the tests, a mouse would be offered daily 50 seeds treat ed with one-half, one, two or five per cent active Endrin. Type of adhesive and degree of weathering were found not so important as concentration of Endrin. Germination was not lessened by increasing the concentration of Endrin to two per cent. Tests of germination with concentra tions greater than two per cent have not yet been conclusive, the researchers report. The study is continuing with test of ponderosa pine seed ex posed to chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels. Possible effects of the treat ments on germination of seeds and growth of seedlings also are being studied. VALLEY PUMP AND EQUIPMENT CO. COMPLETE PUMPING SERVICE ALL MAKES REPAIRED CALL TU 4-9776 N.w at Mirrill.Laka.iaw Jet. Ntil to John Do.ro rolled barley. However, Oldfield points out that quality of steam rolled and dry rolled bar ley varies considerably accord ing to local processing condi tions. The researchers say the tests demonstrate that high concen. trate feeding is practical when basic feeds and a simple pro tein supplement are readily available. Where grain is cheap, feeders can take advantage of rapid gains' produced on high concentrate rations. Where hay or other forages are cheap in relation to grain, it may pay to feed a conventional hay-grain ration. Four high concentrate rations and a typical hay-grain ration were fed in the test program. Typical experiments used four lots of 10 steers each. Each lot was fed a different high con centrate ration. The protein sup plement in each ration was fortified with 750 I. U. vitamin A per pound of food eaten. Cat tle were on feed for 145 days. Cattle fed a ration consisting of half barley and half beet pulp gained an average 2.9 pounds per day at a cost of 9 cents per pound, and consumed 8.07 pounds feed per pound gain. Another lot, fed 50 per cent dry rolled barley, 25 per cent beet pulp and 25 per cent ground car corn, gained 2.92 pounds per day at a cost of 19 2 cents per pound. They took 8.05 Panic Is Biggest Enemy In Disastrous Home Fire By FRANCES C. HAI.L County Extension Agrnt Oregonians need to clear the smoke from some of their ideas about home fires. Last year, fire cost $13 million on Oregon homes and farms. Charles Ross, Oregon Stale University extension forester, says that panic more often than fire contributes to death. People usually don't think rationally when frightened. To avoid panic, he suggests getting rid of potential fire haz ards and laying out some es cape routes in the home in case of fire. Practice drills are rec ommended to be sure each fam ily member is capable of taking routes mapped out. Recently nine members of a family lost their lives in a home fire. In their fright they couldn't find an exit. Yet, af ter the fire it was determined that each could have gotten out. Two small boys crawled into a closet thinking it was a door way to freedom. It is advisable that drills be ended at the same pre-arranged plave so everyone can easily be accounted for. At the assembly point, the rule is "once out stay out." Last year. Oregon had more than 12.000 fires that damaged dwellings. This really is a con servative estimate because the 12.000 fires were only those reported on insured properties. The OSU specialist lists two rules for controlling home fires. pounds of feed per pound gain. Cattle receiving a ration made up of 50 per cent steam rolled barley, 25 per cent beet pulp and 25 per cent ground ear corn topped the test with an av erage daily gain of 3.18 pounds at a cost of 18 cents per pound. It took 7.51 pounds of feed to put on each pound of gain. The ration for the fourth lot consisted of 25 per cent beet pulp, 25 per cent ground ear corn, and 50 per cent milo. They gained 2.92 pounds per day at a cost of 20.7 cents per pound, on 8.46 pounds of feed per pound of gain. A check lot of cattle fed an alfalfa hay and grain ration gained an average 2.76 pounds per day and required 9.39 pounds of feed to make a pound of gain, but Die gains cost only 17.4 cents per pound. Hoffman and Oldfield report two of the animals were affect ed by urinary calculi after eight weeks on feed. Salt was added as two per cent of the ration for all cattle on high concen trate diets, and no further cal culi was noted. Carcass grades on the test cattle were not as high as the live grades seemed to indicate. OSU researchers tentatively con cluded that lack of marbling might be due to the cattle put ting on rapid gains at a young age. Further studies are planned. Know the high potential risks then eliminate them. Causes are shown through accident statis tics: small children left unat tended near open fires, a con tainer of gasoline brought in doors, (triple the hazard if the container is glass i. spark-producing equipment operated near paint thinners, use of flammable hair sprays near flames, chil dren playing with matches, ov erheated or defective chimneys or flues, and electricity and de fective wiring. The careless smoker and user of matches just about always tops the fire causing list. One in four Oregon home fires last year was started in this way. Anoth er one-fourth resulted from igni tion of hot grease, oil, tar and petroleum products. The kitchen the soucc of many fat fires is the most dangerous room in the house. Healing systems stoves, fur naces, chimneys, and flues do not cause as many fires as they once did. Newer homes have chimney.' :;h flue liners, and many new homes are heated with electricity. Nevertheless, heating systems, as mentioned, ranked third as cause of home fires in Oregon last year. FARAD LOANS The PRUDENTIAL Way NEW SO yeor amortization plan with more 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. SVito interest. Very prompt service. No appraisal fee. BARNHISEL AGENCY 112 So. 8th St. Ph. TU 2-3461 -More than 20 leading Western herds of purebred Angus beef cattle exhibited some of their best animals at the recent Grand National Livestock Ex position in San Francisco. They paraded a total of 58 bulls and 54 heifers before tlie judge. Joe Keefauver of Joncsboro, Tonn., in a show dedicated to Frank Richards, of the American An gus Association, St. Joseph, Mo., who is retiring next month after 17 years of beef indus try leadership as secretary of the national Angus organization. Selected as senior and grand champion bull was Hoots Bar doliermere 30. shown by Hoots Angus Ranch at Grants Pass, Ore. The same herd won the reserve bull calf championship with Hoots Bardoliermere 70. and they captured first place in the gct-of-sire class on en tries sired by Hoots Bardolier mere. Gwerdcr Angus Ranch of Walnut Grove, Calif., won the calf championship and reserve grand championship of the bull show with GGO Bardoliermere 2, and Mr. George 27 CN was picked as the Junior champion bull. He was shown by Carl Nielsen of Middletown, Calif. 'Picked as the champion heif er calf was Pround Double Dia mond, an entry of Double Dia mond Ranch, Reno, .Nev., and Duncraggan Ranch, Sonoma. FB Studies Policy Meet Farm Bureau policy for the coming year will be decided at the annual convention of the general farm organization, Nov. 10-13 in Salem, according to Harold Beach, Oregon Farm Bu reau Federation president. Beach said over- 100 resolu tions have been presented by county Farm Bureau members for consideration by the voting delegates. Each resolution submitted by an individual must be sent to all county Farm Bureaus where it is voted on by the members in their regular meetings, Beach explained. The members then instruct their elected voting del egate how to vote on the con vention floor. Topics such as beer bottles J thrown into fields by passing motorists have brought on a resolution for more stringent lit ter laws. On wider subjects, taxes bring out the greatest array of ideas in resolution form. From Gil liam County comes one calling for tax appraisals to be made on the tine earning power of the property, such as deter mined by a loaning agency and the appraisal be made on a six year average. The county voting delegates will meet for two days during the OFBF convention to thresh out differences in the resolu tions. The end result w ill be bal loting to determine the policy of the Oregon Farm Bureau for 1964. The meeting is open to all Interested parties. However, only voting delegates arc al lowed to vole on the resolutions. Ford Trucks Last Longer Hit FARM Sm yeur Farm . Truck Heerfqeerten BALSIGER MOTOR CO. tain at Ph. TU 4-1121 Calif., which later was selected as the grand champion of the show. Double Diamond Ranch also showed the reserve junior champion bull. Diamond Bar doliermere 114, and they won the junior got-of-sire class blue ribbon with entries sired by Dor-Mac's Bardoliermere 150. Junior and reserve grand champion heifer was Haystack Queen Mother 67, exhibited by Haystack Angus Ranch of Long mont, Colo. Js'usbaum Angus Ranch of Fairfield, Calif., showed t h e senior champion heifer, N u s baum's Queen -Motlier, and Ha cienda de los Reyes, Sclma, Calif., won the reserve senior championship with Hacienda Fall River Sale Ready The Fall River Big Valley Cattlemen's Association Is get ting all set for the Nov. 6 feed er sale and the Nov. 7 bull sale. These two sales will be held at the Inter Mountain Fair grounds. MeArthur. Calif., start ing at 1 p.m. on each day. The feeder sale to be held Wednesday. Nov. 6, will feature more than 2.600 head of feeder cattle consisting of 1.800 head of light calves. 300 head of re placement heifers and 400 head of light yearlings. The replace ment heifers will be both bred and open and of the highest quality. All the cattle in the sale will be sorted and sifted by Harvey McDougal, Collinsvillc. Calif., assisted by Jim Eliings from the University of California at Davis. A committee of cattle men will assist them. All crip pled cattle, lame cattle, lump- jaws, stags, etc., are sorted out and not sold. Cattle are sorted into uniform lots for their buy ers. These are the top quality cat tle of the Inter Mountain area. Cattlemen of the area are proud of these cattle for they arc the very best that are sold in the stale. George Brown Jr., chair man of the feeder sale com mittee, says that this is the big gest and best sale offered to date. A bull sale is to be held on Thursday. Nov. 7, featuring 63 head of bulls from the Inter Mountain area. The bulls will be on tlie fairgrounds four days ahead of sale time for prospec tive buyers to look over, and sec if they will fit the bill for their herds. LARGE SELECTION OF NATIONAL ADVERTISED BRANDS SAVE $$ at FLEET PRICES! DELUXE TRACTOR HEATER CABS it Drop-down windshield. Gap less detachable flops, it Extra protection, extra vision. M-10 Series. List $45.70. Fleet '32 $00 95 POTATO DIGGER CHAIN Fomout Broni At Low At DURONE PERMANENT ANTIFREEZE Elhyltnt Glycol IN CASE LOTS $ 39 RANCH WHOLESALE SUPPLY BUY ATTWB'T Bandy Burgess 151. The Haci enda herd also exhibited Elite of Hacienda 151 as live reserve senior champion bull and tliey were awarded the trophy f o r the best 10 head of Angus at the show. The reserve heifer calf cham pionship went to Island Acres Farm, Klamath Falls, on 1A Blackcap 2132, and the reserve junior championship of the heif er show went to Marden and Kcndra Wilbur of Davis, Calif., on Georgiana 51 CN. Cattlemen Meet Set Walt Schrock, president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Associa tion, has announced that Cush man Radebaugh will be t h e speaker at tlie opening session of 4he Oregon Caltelmen's As sociation's annual convention in Baker, Nov. 6. Radebaugh. who recently re turned from Australia, will open up the discussion on imports of foreign beef into this country which w ill be one of the hottest issues discussed at this annual meeting. Secretary of Agriculture Or ville Freeman will come in for a great deal of criticism for his statements to the press and for his discussion at Walla Walla to tlie effect that foreign im ports of beef have had no ef fect on cattle prices in this country. Cattlemen of Oregon are op posed to Secretary Freeman's statements for foreign imports have materially affected t h e cattle prices here this year. A determined effort will be made to curtail imports when they nave a detrimental cllcct on cattle prices paid to the Ameri can producers. 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Left to right with I A Blackcap 2132 are Joe Smith, owner; Dr. Herman Purdy of Penn State University, judge; Mrs. Joe Smith, and Bob Ryan, manager of Island Acres. Assets Of U.S. Farmers Increase To Record High WASHINGTON (UPI) - Agri culture Department economists report today that the total assets of American farmers rose to a record high of $216.5 billion this year. The assets figure is estimated for Jan. 1, 1963. It represents an increase of $8.5 billion over the assets of American agriculture on the same date in 1962. This was the ninth consecutive year in which farm assets have risen. The Agriculture Depart ment says most of the increase has been accounted for by the steadily rising value of farm land Between 1954 and 1963, the val uc of all farm assets, including land, rose more than one-third. Government economists point out that the increase came in spite i of the fact that net farm income last year was only 3 per cent above the 1954 figure. 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