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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1950)
THURSDAY, AUGUST I«. 1950 SOUTHERN OREGON NEWS REVIEW PAGI Experiments With Hormones and Weed Killers Hold Promise (or Orehardists Registration High For 4-H Fall Fair IIVL For Office Suppiloa Stationary — Job Southern Oregon News Review in spite of many counter at lly C B, Cordy, County Agent, Horticulturist The annual 4-H fall fair to be tractions, lust Sunday’s A.A.U.- It will only be u few duys now until the hustle und bustle of W Festival tea drew an attend held at the county fair grounds pear picking gets under wuy und the Intervening period Is filled ance of more than 150 A sur August 21 to 24 will be the big with n lot of worries for the fruit grower Anything which hap gest in the history of the event, prising number of men braved In Person pens to the fruit now will result in u permanent loss which can the social event a n d seemed according t o Rufus H. Cate, j not be made up for by thinning or uny other orchard practice. One none the worse for their exper MEDFORD county agent in charge of 4-H of these hazards is an uctuul loss of the fruit cither by nuturul ience. work. High School Stadium • • • by Roy DeMille dropping or by wind storm blowing it off Registrations are exceptional The inevitable curious pooch This is not the worry that It AVGUST 15 ly high, pointing t o a record used to be because we now have While it may cause a thinning tiiat dushes onto every football ASHLAND’S PREHISTORIC (»HAVE-YARD participation, Cate said. O v e r 8:00 p.m. available certain h o r m o n e s on the pear blosoms, it sprayed i field made his brief but startling OF THE MASTODON 130 head of dairy stock, 10 0 which will keep the peurs from I on toinuto blossoms it will cause appearance before the footlights 60 PHILIP MORRIS head oi of nogs, hogs, ou 60 neaa head ol of sheep sheer _ , , . . . . . . neaa loosening on the trees und even them to stay on and to produce und momentarily stole the show One of the world s largest prehistoric animals was unearthed and 100 head of beef cattle both STARS after they loosen it will cause fruits even though normal pol- from Rosalind, in “As You Like by Champion T Payne of Ashland in 1917. while digging a w e ll; market and breeding stock will thirty feet west of the house on his farm This happened near the I be shown them to grow tight to the spur lination is n o t accomplished. It" on Tuesday evening. In a brand new 3-hr show city limits at the south-east line within a stone's throw of highway ugain. Growers who have not T h e n we go to the other ex • • * Admission In addition to the livestock, 00 yet upplied their hormone spray treme and take a violent weed $1.20-61.80- S 2 40-93 00 A quartet of bold, bad men A good many thousands of years ago these historic mammoths w exhibits o f bees, to Burtletts should do so right killer such us 2,4-D and if used no doubt roamed the mountain slopes and the low lands of this pens of poultry and rabbits, All reserved seats on sale away. in proper concentrations it is of the "roaring 50’s" wearing mountain valley where Ashland stands today. forestry, crops and garden dis- at Puruckers in Medford very effective tor holding t h e t h e i r shooting irons, startled This certain spot is the only , ------------ plays, and h o m e economics Hormones Little Understood some of t h e Sunday evening fruits on than the regular fruit place where t h e s e mastodon po8ition exceeding not less than I demonstrations There are a large number of , . diners at the Plaza when they bones have been uncovered in , plant hormones and their action ' ro1’ lormo," h stalked in after the Jacksonville the upper Rogu. River valley e,even ieet ,n length and n in e)--------------------------------- Is us yet very little understood 1 Wood Killer Tricky 11 celebration. The Lane-Lindsay- The bones were well preserved inches at the base; bottom of 4 D r . Deg man, Superintendent DeMille exhibition even by the scientists who are of pioneers working full time with them. ut the Southern Oregon Experi in the-flesh, proved too realistic when found by Mr. Payne. They the foot, front and back, sixteen i were of mammoth size, and the twenty-two inches: from the The common hormone w h i c h ment station, has been working for a few timid tourists tusks were genuine ivory. There ground to the top of the should- we use for sticking pears on the with 2,4-D on pears and, while were also smaller hones found ers twelve to eighteen feet, all trees ut liar vest can bv used in his early experiments have in Geographical origin is easy to of what nature, it never could of which showed the enormous the spring on these same pear dicated that the material is quite trees for blossom thinning. As effective, it is very tricky to use spot at the festival performanc be found out. People came for size of the animals. ON CONSTRUCTION, REMODELING and miles, out of curiosity, to see their effects at that time ure und may cause considerable tree es. Natives of the west coast ar the In re assembling the h u g e bones which were on display rather unpredictable they a r e | injury. In many cases the injury rive fully equipped with blank- for a period of time at the Pro bones they showed that the early REPAIRING MATERIAL. not used commercially as blos ; does not show up the same year ! ets while mid-westerners come vost store in Ashland mastadon m u s t have looked som thinners because of the de the muterial is used but the fol ' i n naively thin summer gar much like a giraffe with a short One place the bones w e r e neck and heavy body, not un gree of thinning can not be reg lowing spring when the trees ments. Oregon outdoor evenings found at a depth of four feet like an elephant. leaf out the leaves are v e r y can only fool strangers. ulated. and at another place about ten small and twisted Mr. u Payne’s father came to INVESTIGATE THE deep. The hole was made 10 One big advantage in the use FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, feet x l l feet square, giving a better , the valley m 1866 when Champ- of 2,4-D is tiiat it can be upplied SCIENTIST His chance to work “ and not break 'ion was but a small boy. a month or two before harvest Pioneer Avenue, South. father took up land across Bear the bones in digging the sticky and it will continue to be effec Sunday morning service at 11 mud away. It took patience, " eek ne*5 5 oxy * nn tive clear through harvest. O'clock. time and skill to preserve these tnere w,th 1118 ^ther until he A related weed killer which Subject: "Soul.” was a grown man and then mar is also used as a tree hormone is Golden Text: Lamentations 3: bones. When they came in con ried Miss Stella Wells. Later he tact with the air, a liquid was I 2,4,5 T T h i s is the material 24 The Lord is My portion saith bought his present ranch. They i which is so effective in killing my soul; therefore will I hope in used to penetrate the bones and lived in Ashland for a couple of preserve them. In the early pio blackberries a n d other woody Him. years while their house was be neer days when the stock would ing. built, and in 1912 moved to plants W h e n this hormone is Sunday School at 0:30 a.m. sprayed on in very dilute solu Wednesday evening meeting, venture too far in on this quag the ranch, which they h a v e M0NUME1 tion is causes an early ripening which includes testimonies o f mire, they would make no ef made their permanent home. APPLIES TO of fruits with some possible in Christian Science healing, i s fort to escape from the mud, Marble. Granita, Bronae Mr. Payne raised a family of and the cowpunehers have sav tensification of color. held at 8 o’clock. yix children, two boys and four E x tra L e tte r in g A v a ila b le ed a good many head of stock I would like to make it very Reading Room open d a i l y a good saddle horse and a girls, Homer, Clark, Maple, Ann, BURNS AGENCY clear that the usage of any of from 2 to 5 p.m. except Sundays with la-iat rope. These cattle would Margie and Elizabeth. these materials except the stand- and holidays. On tha P la ta " The children are all married venure in too far, to lick t h e mineral salty taste that was in now and Mr. and Mrs. Payne FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST (Christian Church) Sacond and the mud and to eat the green are still enjoying good health, vegetation that grew in t h e They have now retired f r o m B Straats. quagmire. the hard work it took to run the Earl F. Downing, Minister Mammals Also Craved Salt ranch- and are taking time for Bible School, 9:45 a.m. Your Friendly Yards The prehistoric animals crav- happiness of life in their Picnic following church ser ed the salt the saYne way the do- old days. They are among the . . . for FUN! vice. Ashland Telephone MSI 165 C Street mestic animals did, but in those ear'y pioneers of the commun- Morning Service, 11 00 a.m. ity who should be recognized as days they didn't have the cow- Sermon: "Let your Light S o faithful citizens. Shine." Anthem by t h e choir, punchers to drop a lariat over their heads and saddle horses Doris Renzema, director. to pull them otrt. Christian Endeavor: 7 p.m. . . . for HEALTH! 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Prac Up According to Report tical usage may grow o u t of ASHLAND The general farm price level these tests but on the other hand the materials are very danger turned upward in April a n d ous and, because of their plant May, checking a downtrend that killing abilities, it may never be began in January 1948, accord 30 FIRST STREET JACK EATON. Mgr. ing to a report on the general practical to use them agricultural situation just issued by the extension service at Ore gon State college. By mid-June this year t h e Oregon general farm price level stood at 127 per cent of the 1940-1949 average. When your doorbell rings at night you don't hove to shiver and quiver Record consumer b u y i n g power coupled w i t h govern and wonder what's outside. 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