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4A Daily News – Saturday, September 7, 2013 Agriculture farm & ranch First fair after World War II 1,200 Calif. chickens to retire on the East Coast Among my mother's things was a 1946 Tehama County Fair premium list for the first fair after World War II, on September 27 -29th at the Tehama County Fair Grounds, one mile east of Red Bluff on Highway 99-E. With the 2013 fair only 19 days away, I thought this 67 year old premium list was interesting. Directors were U. B. Tyler, President; Frank Jelly, L. A. McDonald, R. M. Norvell, Sydney Watson, Fred C. Pugh, Foard Massie and Jim Hulse, with Sam Ayer, Manager and Geo. F. Blake, Secretary-Treasurer. Department ChairCourtesy photo men: Swine – Jerome Rolling Hills Casino is a major sponsor, and well as a participant with Edgar; Cattle and horsbeef appetizers at the State Theatre. Chef Hobart did not disclose his es– Sam E. Ayer; SheepE.V. Wing; FFA – J. recipe for Carpaccio of Beef. Neilsen; 4-H – D. cents. Light Horses had fee. Williams; Domestic Sci"Rhys Tappero, Olive The premium list had ence – Mrs. George classes for ThoroughArabians, check marks for grape, 4-H, had grand champiDoane; Domestic Arts – breds, Mrs. Mary Edgar; Com- Palominos, and Mor- plum, and peach juice, on beef and Doug Reed, 4-H, the cherries, Antelope mercial Exhibits – gans with $ 20 for first apricots, place, stallions and peaches, pears and reserve grand champion, Harry Hinkley. youngberries, mince- sold their animals for $1 "The Preface: This mares. Beef Cattle had class- meat, picalili relish. per pound to Diamond fair and 67 other California fairs in normal es for Herefords, Short- Jams were apricot, fig, International. A total of years offer as much as $ horns, Angus with $20 youngberry, cranberry, 39 beef animals went on peach and strawberry. the block for an average 2,000,000 annually in for first. The dairy show had Jellies were wild grape, of 44.4 cents per pound. prizes to men, women "Steve Carpenter, El classes for grape, youngberry, conand children R e g i s t e r e d cord and apricot, plus Camino 4-H, sold his who demongrand champion hog to Guernsey, Jer- peach and pear butters. strate the imagIn the baked goods Ponderosa Sky Ranch sey, Holstein, ination and the Milking Short- she entered baking pow- for $1.33 per pound and industry and horns, Brown der biscuits, white Pat Early, Los Molinos the "know Swiss and 2 muffins, angel food and FFA, sold the reserve how" to grow year old bulls prune cakes. Cookies grand champion to Diaand make betwere allowed were oatmeal, choco- mond National for 76 ter things. to be shown, as late, sugar, ice box and cents per pound. An "Display of well as 8 class- peanut butter. Divinity average of 69.5 cents this improved was paid for the 31 head es for females. and fudge confections. production creWearing apparel in of swine in the sale. There were ates in the fair Jean *** classes for the cotton included: dress, audience of Be sure to get your same breeds of suit, skirt, blouse, paja3,000,000 in non-registered mas, shorts, house coat. tickets for Downtown California a dairy cattle A rayon blouse, dress, Red Bluff Business desire to buy Assn. and Tehama Counfemales with a skirt, pajamas, slip. the things that I don't remember ty CattleWomen 4th $20 first place. The make better living. much Anne annual Beef 'N Brew at "Support money for horses, beef and dairy how this activity comes cattle had a $2 per head Willard-McNabb's pre- The Loft, The Gold mium check was, but we Exchange, Plum Crazy, through a 4% levy on entry fee. Swine division had did enjoy the car heater Red Bluff-Tehama Counpari mutual wagering at the State's thoroughbred classes for Berkshire, she had installed in the ty Chamber of Comtracks. After fixed Chester White, Duroc Ford sedan that winter merce, or www.statetheappropriations from Jerseys, Hampshires, and the years following. atreredbluff.com for $15 There was no art, presale. track taxes for agricul- Poland China, and SpotWe do appreciate and tural and government ted Poland-China. $15 photography, goats, rabpurposes, 40% of the for first, and $1 entry bits, or junior cooking want to recognize Walkin 1946. No animals for er Lithograph for the first balance goes for fee. Sheep division had a junior auction because printing of the tickets district and county fair premiums. Five percent classes for Registered there was none. The for this event. The vendors will be Corriedales, Hamp- same breeds of beef, goes to citrus fairs. "Of the remaining shires, Rambouillet, and dairy, swine and sheep in downtown 4-8 p.m. second balance, this is Suffolk rams and ewes, were available to 4-H on Sept. 21. Country artist Chad the distribution: 25% - plus classes for Ram- and FFA. 4-H and Future Bushnell will be at Cone Calif. Polytechnic Col- bouillets and all other lege; 32% - Univ. of white face crossbred Homemakers of Ameri- Kimball Plaza from 6 to Calif., 42% - Capital types in the Range ca did have a sewing 7 p.m. before catching red-eye" to outlay for fairs. This is Sheep by purebred sire division. My sister Mar- "the for his ilyn and I were in first Nashville the "why" and "how" of division. Feature exhibits were phase 4H entering a appearance on Ameriyour fair. " Notice: Upon recom- at least 100 square feet, scarf and laundry bag can Country Star on the mendation of the for county, community, where we had learned to 23rd. From 5 to 8 p.m. is National Sanitary Live- organization with $10 sew a straight line on the tasting of the 66 stock Association we entry fee and $200 first the sewing machine. craft beers from 17 *** have cancelled our Poul- place. There was a clipping breweries in 33 different One Family Farm try Department this year in order to help control Feature Exhibit rules from July 28, 1969 and businesses, plus the the spreading of the were: All products "The Junior Fat Stock many beef appetizers. Vic Woolery and his entered in the "one fam- sale saw the highest Newcastle disease. ily farm," must have price of the day go to crew will be preparing been produced in 1946 Jack Hawker, Los Moli- the tri-tip wraps, and the by the exhibitor or nos FFA for his grand celebrity pourers will be members of his family champion lamb. River serving the cups of Sieron land farmed by the Lakes Estates paid ra Nevada craft beer at exhibitor. Exhibit space $4.80 per pound. The Cone Kimball Plaza was 5 feet by 5 feet, and reserve grand champion while Cottonwood Band lamb by Marlin Oney, will play for dancing 7first was $30. Domestic Science Bend-Jelly 4-H went for 10 p.m. and Arts was where my $2 per pound to DiaJean Barton can be mother entered items for mond National. There at a $3 first, $2 second and were 108 lambs sold reached $1 third with no entry with an average of 83.4 jbarton2013@gmail.com. SACRAMENTO (AP) — Their egg-laying days behind them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retirement on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages and have plenty of room to spread their wings. The Sacramento Bee reports that an anonymous $50,000 donation is funding Operation Chicken Airlift, which will send the hens on a cross-country cargo flight to upstate New York on Wednesday evening. From there the white Leghorn chickens will be ferried to different sanctuaries. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary in New York, where 200 of the birds will end up, is providing perches, grass and even a wooded area where they can roam. Laying hens are generally too lean for human consumption and are usually slaughtered after they stop providing eggs. Nebraska profs developing drone to collect water LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A team led by Nebraska university scientists has won a federal grant to further develop aerial drones that could hover over and sample water from lakes, ponds and streams that people can't easily reach. The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant of more than $956,000 will fund the work headed by Carrick Detweiler and Sebastian Elbaum, who are professors of computer science and engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They're working with experts from the University of California, Berkeley. ''Water is a critical resource but scientists often cannot sample an area of study often enough or soon enough after a major rainfall or related event,'' Detweiler said in a university news release. ''Our basic idea is to create a UAV (an unmanned aerial vehicle) that can be located near a study area, can fly out over the body of water as needed, dip a hose down to a certain depth and pump samples into a collection reservoir,'' he said. Elbaum said water scientists usually must haul equipment, boats and people to collect samples. ''With this type of collection vehicle, you could bring it to a test area and collect samples quickly with just a few people,'' Elbaum said. Detweiler, Elbaum and their research team have already developed a drone that can collect and carry three samples. They'll use the USDA money to perfect algorithms to improve its safety and reliability. They're using a UNL indoor laboratory to test their prototype, but they hope to gain a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration to test the drone outdoors. So far it can remain airborne for about 20 minutes. Barton If you're tired of potholes and dusty roads The HOW ABOUT CHIP SEAL! 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