The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 78

Former Prune Rig Harvests Tomatoes sufficient labor to pick the fruit Rhoades was not exactly a novice when it came to tomato harvesting either Last year in an emergency he had modified Creek Farms lands you go to see Bob Rhoades who happened to be one of the engineer mechanics working on the Halsey harvesters used in prunes and nuts That is what happened to Denny the past week week as he approached harvest without COLUSA Colusa Co So you have 500 acres of tomatoes to be harvested with no -bra-ceres in sight and not enough other pickers available The crop has to be harvested so what do you do? If you are Denny who leases 500 acres of the Butte Land Use Taxation Will Be Discussed By Cattlemen Land use taxation and the possibility of wartime wage and price controls will be featured subjects at the annual series of fall meetings of California Cattlemens Association leaders and Northern California county beef cattle groups The series of 12 meetings will get under way Sunday at a joint meeting with the Tri-County Cattle Association on the rodeo grounds in Taylorsville Plumas County starting at 10 am The subject of land use par- fw- ticularly recreation on private lands will be handled by John i' jfflW a Halsey tow-type harvester to work as a tomato harvester with fair results But this year more speed was required and less handling was essential Rhoades stripped a prune harvester down to the bare essentials and built an extension at right angles to the frame at the front where vines could be dumped on a conveyor belt Then he put seats along the frame for six sorters In the rear he set up still another extension which carried the sorted fruit out to a truck Over the weekend Rhoades took the machine to the Butte Creek Farms which adjoin Butte Creek at its entrance into the Sacramento River and put it to work while making adjustments Now the machine is working full time With a crew of 18 the harvester cleans up three rows at a time The average production with an untrained crew according to Denny was 18 bins an hour each bin weighing slightly over 1000 pounds At the cannery officials were enthusiastic because the harvester had blown away dust dirt extra leaves and pieces of vine The tomatoes are cleaner suffer less damage and less fruit is left on the ground Denny asserted He envisions increased production as the crew becomes familiar with the rather "crazy" looking equipment This emergency harvester built by Colusa mechanic Bob Rhoades picks clean tomatoes for Denny Rhoades built the unit from a prune harvester after Denny ran into a labor shortage Bee Photo WEEK'S FARM Potato Growers Sue Over Crop Damage Weber of Modoc County association president Wildlife Flan First Vice President Will Gill Jr of Madera County will present the views of the association on the California Fish and Wildlife Plan which will affect many cattlemen and their lands if carried out Gill also will comment on the possibility of wage and price controls stemming from the war in Viet Nam The prospect of increased taxes on agricultural lands due to enactment of the assessment reform bill AB 80 at the recent special session of the legislature will be discussed by Arlen Bean the association's research director and tax analyst Edgar Dick association secretary will review changing conditions in the cattle industry and some of the problems facing cattlemen Northern Schedule Other meetings on the schedule include: Fall River Big Valley ay 10 am Thousand Springs Ranch Glenburn Shasta County Modoc Tuesday 4 pm Kelley Ranch and Meat Co Al-turas Siskiyou Wednesday 9:30 am Smith Ranch 2 miles southeast of Dorris lunch at the Ralph Smith Ranch 4 miles south of Macdoel Shasta Thursday 10 am Murfey Ranch Shingletown Placer Nevada Saturday 9:30 am Rufus Lovett Ranch Lime Kiln Road near Grass Valley Sonoma Wednesday Sept 7 6:30 pm Black Forest Inn Santa Rosa Lake Session Lake Thursday Sept 8 10 am Haldan Ranch Clearlake Oaks Mendocino Friday Sept 9 10:30 am Rohrbough Ranch Covelo Humboldt Saturday Sept 10 10 am Fort Seward Ranch Alderpoint Glenn Colusa Saturday Sept 10 10 am Keegan Ranch Bear Valley Solano-Napa Sunday Sept 11 3 pm Dixon Fair ground Dixon ganization Committee leaders flew to Chicago to receive the AFL-CIO charter that names the merged unions the "United Farm Workers Organizing Committee" Cesar Chavez NFWA director and Larry It-liong Delano AWOC head received the charter PIPE THIEF NAPA An industrious thief dug up several hundred feet of water pipe on the St Helena Napa County ranch of Tiegel About 850 feet of galvanized pipe was taken from the ranch along Highway 29 COTTON DIP WASHINGTON The Census Bureau reported that 124970 bales of cotton had been ginned rom this year's crop through August 15 This compares with 455526 bales ginned to the same date last £2L HYDRAULIC JACK REPAIRING Jock Kits Industrial rocking ill Stock come through with $85 billion in foreign aid COTTON VOTE MEMPHIS Tenn American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles Shuman predicted cotton growers would refuse to take part in the $1 per bale cotton research and promotion program because "the government will supervise the program" DELANO FIESTA DELANO Kern Co Between 2500 and 4000 persons drank 9500 cans of beer in Delano's Cecil Park during a farm worker rally sponsored by the Teamsters Union Einar Mohn union vice president told the crowd the Teamsters are determined to build a strong unit of agriculturl workers nationally LABOR FIGHTS DELANO Kern Co The AFL-CIO charged that Teamsters organizers beat two AFL-CIO farm workers Robert Edmunds was reportedly attacked in the men's room at a dance and Eleio Medina was reported attacked in his car on the Sierra Vista Ranch UNION CHARTER DELANO Kern Co National Farmer Workers Association-Agriculture Workers Or KLAMATH FALLS Ore -The Klamath County Extension Service and the Klamath Drainage District were charged with damage to seed potato crops on lower Klamath Lake estimated to be worth $250000 Ranchers Don Lyons Lawrence Cheyne and Dale West charged that since ditch banks were sprayed to eradicate Canadian thistle adjacent fields-failed to grow crops HORSE BAN LONDON Government officials refused to allow 30 Australia bound cattle horses into British quarantine as required by Australian import regulations for fear the horses caught swamp fever from flies while their ship docked at Le Havre France for 36 hours Dave Briggs son of Willows Glenn County rancher Earl Briggs is a partner in the $47000 venture INDIA PLAN NEW DELHI India A sweeping $316 billion plan designed to boost agricultural production and industry over the next five years was unveiled by India To make the plan work Prime Minister In-d i a Gandhi's government hopes Western nations particularly the United States will Chevron V-Packinaj Cups O-Rings Back-Up Rings CAL HYDRAULIC REPAIRS l4Vi Street In Alley Sacramento California year CHANNEL Covers The Farm Scene 12:15 PM Monday threap Friday Aetion reports by tha McCletchy Broadcasting Farm Staff from Sacramento- and Stockton Studios Color film coverage of field activities Weather tnd market reports TODAY IN AGRICULTURE Price Hearings Provide Economic Lessons SPECIAL FEATURE Filmed highlight of crop and livestock displays at California State Fair 4:30 AM Saturdays VOICE OF AGRICULTURE He pointed to continuing high slaughter levels which he says reflects liquidation as graphic evidence that stockmen cannot continue to operate at a loss or to receive meager returns for their labor risk and investment "When the consumer fully understands this there is no limit to the supply a prosperous cattle industry can provide" Guthrie said ESTES PARK Colo John Guthrie a Porterville Tulare County rancher and feeder has told the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association that consumers are getting "lessons on basic economics" from the recent flurry of hearings and investigations on food prices Guthrie added "Consumers are being reminded that it costs more and more money to raise process and distribute food And consumers are learning that when supply balances with demand they will have to pay for these costs instead of the basic producers who have been absorbing the costs for years" Guthrie said stockmen need better economic incentives to enable them to assume new and larger risks and to adapt new techniques and practices to continue producing beef ESORcHANNtL-flS McCtafchy BroacJcMtirtg THE SACRAMENTO BEE FRIDAY AUGUST 26 1966 Page CL6 Sacramento California.