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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Fewer Farm Jobs Seen in Future by College Economist Salem Many young farm men who reach working age in the next few years won't be able to find work on a farm, Mrs. E'.vera Horrell, extension agri cultural economist at Oregon State college, has reported. She said a recent study by the U. S. department of agriculture shows a trend toward fewer and larger farms, with much of the work done quickly and efficient ly by machines. And with im proved methods increasing yields, fewer people are needed on farms to produce food and fiber for the nation's steadily growing population. Increasing Opportunity Agricultural specialists point out, however, that there is an increasing opportunity for off farm jobs related to agriculture. The USDA said colleges ex pect to supply 8,500 graduates in agriculture fields this year, but there are job openings for more than 15,000. Many oppor tunities for agriculture-related jobs also are said to exist for persons without college training While the trend .is toward fewer and larger farms, this does not mean family-type farms are 3oing out of the picture, Mrs Horrell said. In the fall of 1954, the census count of farms totaled about 4.8 million. Two out of every three of these farms were classified as commercial farms that pro vided the owner or operator with a full-time living from farming. And among the com mercial farms, 96 per cent were family operations. Spray Program Is Outlined in Circular Coryallis- A simplified spray program for controlling pests on apples and pears in the Willam ette valley is outlined in a cir cular published by the Oregon State college extension service. Easy- to-understand directions in the circular key spraying times to bud and flower devel opment on trees. The circular also contains information on kinds and rates of spray to use, pests or diseases each spray will control, and lists cautions nec essary when handling spray poi sons. The circular was prepared by the extension service in coopera tion with the OSC departments of entomology, plant pathology, and agricultural chemistry. Ore gon residents can get a copy of the circular, titled "Spray Pro gram for Apples and Pears in the Willamette Valley," from their local county extension of fice or from the bulletin ,clerk in Corvallis. , David Mack Elected President of FFA Central Point David v- Mack recently was elected president of the Crater High school chapter of the Future Farmers of Amerir ca. He replaces Bob Elden. Other new officers are--Lyl6 Bigham, v i c e -president; Bob Lichti, secretary; . George ; Gil- man, treasurer; Carl Vanderpool, reporter; Allen Barnes, sentinal and Bill White,' assistant treas urer. 4 The club is making prepara tions for its annual parent and son banquet to be held April 23. About 300 parents, sons and guests are expected to attend the banquet. Crater High's home economic and art departments are partici pating in the event on various committees. Your crop needs FREE FLOWING . SHELL Ammonium; Sulphate Call us for : IMMEDIATE delivery - ! V - - , - $ Your lal Fertilizer Doler l. g. McLaren & co. Distributors 1002 S. Central Pherw 2-6181 MAIL TRIBUNE Herd Improvement Group Names Top Cows in County The Jackson County Dairy Herd Improvement association has named the five top herds in the county for the month of March. Top herd in the county was owned by Grief and Nelson, con sisting of 26 cows, including one dry cow. Average milk produc tion was 822 pounds and average butterfat production was 39.3 pounds. - Other Top Herds Other top herds were owned by Birdseye Brothers, 80 cows, four dry cows, 778 pounds milk, 38.5 pounds butterfat; Chet Jen sen, 27 cows, three dry cows, 741 pounds milk, 38.4 pounds butter fat; J. E. Parsons, 45 cows, four dry cows, 671 pounds milk, 38.1 pounds butterfat; and R. L. and Blanche Wyant, 37 cows, six dry cows, 657 pounds milk, 37.1 pounds butterfat. The ten top cows in the coun try were No. 29, owned by Gil man's Dairy farm, 2,539 pounds milk, 93.9 pounds butterfat, 38 days in milkj No. 76, Gilman's Dairy farm, 1,770 pounds milk, 92 pounds butterfat, 66 days in milk; No. 12, Straus Brothers, 2,294 pounds milk, 91.8 pounds Ammonia Sample Testing Starts Salem Field testing of liquid ammonia samples at plants has been started by the state depart ment of agriculture. This will give plant operators and buyers a quick look at the nitrogen content of the product. At the same time, the depart ment will continue to bring of ficial samples into its laborator ies at Salem for chemical tests, J. D. Patterson, chief chemist and assistant chief of the foods and dairies, weights and mea sures division, said. The liquid and anhydrous (wa terless form) ammonia business in Oregon is one of the fastest growing in the fertilizer field, Patterson said. Last year sales of more than 5,000 tons of an hydrous ammonia and more than 26,000 tons of liquid ammonia were reported to the department by Oregon firms. At this point, only one con-; cern is manufacturing anhydrous ammonia in Oregon; the rest is shipped into the state. Several plants here are mixing the gase ous liquid to dilute it with water to the usable stage, usually a 20 per cent ammonia product. The field testing kit for plant checks on nitrogen content of the liquid ammonia offered for sale is carried regularly- by- A. W.- Cole, department fertilizer specialist. ;. Feeder Lambs To Clean Fields Urged? ..'-Champaign, 111. U.PJ--A uni: versity scientist s"ays corrifieid income can be increased by $30 an acre, if feeder . lambs are used to clean the fields'. ..' E. E. Hatfield, animal scientist at the University of Illinois, con ducted an experiment in which he placed vaccinated, western lambs in a cornfield in August. in ' four weeks each - lamb had gained approximately .six pounds. t - fr-, V ! Harvestin er was easier: because the lambs ate most of the foliage rwithin reach and the' field was nearly free -of :weeBs and lower corn leaves, Hatfield said. The lambs stayed three more weeks in the field after picking, and gained an . additional eight or nine pounds, each.- . Hatfield estimated the total weight gained by the lambs was worth an average of $31.80 an acre. Thunder. April 11. 1957 butterfat, 34 days in milk; Nic- kellette, Richard and Elizabeth Westerberg, 1,395 pounds milk, 83.7 pounds butterfat, 61 days in milk. Other Top Cowi No. 14, Straus Brothers, 1,764 pounds milk, 82.9 pounds butter Group to Leave 4 For San Francisco Nine Jackson county 4-H club members will leave for San Francisco tomorrow to partici pate in the Grand National Jun ior Livestock exposition at Cow Palace next week. Leaving Jackson county at 6:30 ajn. Friday will be Leon Small, route 3, box 240, Med ford; John James, route 1, box 436, Talent; Dale Smith, route 2, box 661, Central Point; Bill Hernlein, route 1, box 129, Ash and; Susan Wright, 3321 Jack sonville highway, Medford; Carol von der Hellen, route 1, box 501, Central Point; Judy Bradshaw, Lake Creek; Jo Anna Malloroy, route 1, box 93-H, Eagle Point; and Charles El more, box 15, Applegate. Cleo Small, Ashland, and County 4-H Agent Glenn Klein will accompany the group. . The group will return home on Thursday, April 18. Land Sale Opens Ownership Query Mispillion Light, Del. U.R) The routine sale of a piece of public land has revealed that practically all of this southern Delaware fishing community is owned by the state although property owners have been pay ing improvement -taxes to the county for years. The case began when the tiign- way Department put up for sale a parcel of land along Cedar Creek. Although the land is muddy, C. V. Wilkerson, of Mil ford, paid $4,000 for it. Then .it developed that lorn Robinson, a Negro fisherman, used the land as a fishing boat harbor and had erected a small house on it. He paid county taxes and believed he owned the land. Although Wilkerson said that if anyone dispossessed Robinson it would have to be the High way Department, protests from other Mispillion Light settlers caused an investigation. And of ficials came up with the news that 17 parcels of land, consti tuting almost the entire settle ment, are state property and the people who live on them are squatters. - . The state is trying to figure a way out of the dilemma. As a sort of postscript, it was discovered during the investiga tionthat one man, J. Simpson Sti'le, has been paying county taxes' ".-for improvements since 1949 but the Highway Depart ment" can't, discover where his improvements ace or, for that matter, where J. Simpson Stille is. - Interest in Tree, Farming Grows Fast Chicago (U.R) Interest in tree, farming; a movement that started only 16 years ago, is growing fast, the American For est Products Industries says. All over the country, land owners arewaking up to the fact that money really grows on trees. The firm said tree farming produces cash income, better wa tersheds and more game, and behind the increasing interest in good forestry lies the basic stimulant of good markets for wood products. Forty-four states now partici pate in a voluntary, industry operated American Tree Farm System of growing timber as a crop on taxpaying timberlands, the firm said. The program en rolled more than four million acres during the past year. The AFPI said there, are 4, 461,274 "small" woodlot own ers whose holdings are under 500 acres. They hold 61 per cent of the nation's commercial for est land. "Each year they take to mar ket and sell $700 million worth of sawlogs, pulpwood, posts, turpentine, Christmas trees, maple syrup and other forest products," AFPI said. "The farmer who has paid little or no attention to his wood lot might well look into the ad vantages of forest management" it added. WORTH HIS WEIGHT Rib Lake, Wis. (U.R) Auc tion goers decided that state Senator Clifford W. Krueger was worth more than a penny a pound when he put himself on the auction block to raise funds for landscaping the vil lage grounds. Krueger, who weighs 432 pounds, sold for 4.58. IPoinnn) amid Goirdeini fat, 40 days in milk; No. 21, Straus Brothers, 1,618 pounds milk, 80.9 pounds butterfat, 32 days in milk; No. 78, Straus Brothers, 1,837 pounds milk, 80.8 pounds butterfat, 28 days in milk. Felicia, Lewis and Ruth Clark, Proposed Fumigation Questioned by State Agriculture Official Salem Proposed fumigation as a tighter import regulation aimed at all Oriental fruit moth host plants and materials shipped into British Columbia has been questioned by Frank McKennon, plant division chief and acting director of the Oregon depart ment of agriculture. McKennon's observation is made in a letter to W. D. Tou zeau, oficer in charge at Van couver, B. C, of the Plant Pro tection division. It follows Tou zeau's advice that fumigation probably will be required by June 1 on all shipments of hosts to .the Oriental fruit moth. This would mean on practically all fruits and host plants shipped there from Oregon. Host plants Weeds and Herbicides By RAY HUBBELL County Weed Control Supervisor It is not unusual to find an operator of a spray rig who has no idea of the amount of 2'4D or total gallonage of spray ma terial being applied per acre. As a general rule, a known quantity of 2-4D is being added for each 100 gallons or so of water, but the area being cov ered is unknown. If one pound of parent acid of 2-4D is needed for this particular job, the necessary, steps should be taken to insure application v of this quantity of material per acre. In the calibration of spray equipment, it is known that the quantity applied per acre will depend on the rate of' speed of the vehicle, the length of the boom, the number and size of the nozzles and the pressure at which the spray is delivered. The following steps will give the answer: Formula Suggested 1. Divide the length of the boom in feet (width of area cov ered with spray) into the num ber of square feet (43,560) in an acre. Here is an example. 43,560 sq. ft. per acre oyer 22-ft. boom equals 1,980 ft. (The distance the rig must travel in covering an acre.) 2. Fill the tank with water and drive the equipment 1,980 feet, at the speed per hour with all nozzles open and the water being delivered at the pressure to be used on the job. 3. Refill the tank by hand or in such manner as will permit determining the amount of water required. This is the amount of spray material which your spray rig applies per acre when oper ated at that speed and pressure. Make Adjustments With the information devel oped in this trial run, the neces sary adjustments can be made in either the speed of the equip ment, pressure, or size of nozzle to get the desired gallonage per acr. The equipment should then be tested again with the spray solution you are going to use. To this quantity of water, you should add the quantity of par ent acid of 2-4D you wish ap plied per acre. Parent acids of 2-4D formulations will vary from 2 to 4 pounds per gallon. This makes it important to know the material being used. Recalibration of the equip ment several times per season with constant use is necessary. This is because the wear on nozzles and other equipment will effect the delivery rate. Density of certain chemicals will also require the equipment being calebrated to their use. Portable Snow Sled Aids Conservation Men Madison, Wis. (U.R) Con servation men in northern Wis consin have a portable snow sled pushed by a. propeller to get into the back woods which are usually covered by . deep snow. The machine can be towed in a trailer until .roads are no long er passable and removed easily for cruising into deer yards for survey purposes. R. B. Hovind, a game manage ment supervisor, said the sled is "a little noisy, a little breezy and not very heavy on brakes, but otherwise a helpful tool." The public feeding industry has become the third largest re tail business in the U.S. and it does an annual volume of more 1,460 pounds milk, 77.4 pounds butterfat, 68 days in milk; No.34 1, Dale and Harriet Young, 1,618 pounds milk, 76 pounds butter fat, 66 days in milk; and Claudia, R. L. and Blanche Wyant, 1,079 pounds milk, 75.5 pounds butter fat, 206 days in milk. include the nursery stock of peaches, plums, apricots, apples and pears and flowering forms of fruits. Free of Pests Up to this point, Oregon has shipped fruits into British Col umbia on the department of ag riculture certification that they were from districts free of this pest. Oregon shippers are not pre pared to fumigate and the pro cedures would be costly. Be cause of this, McKennon talked by telephone this week to learn what was behind the fumigation order. Touzeau told him, Mc Kennon said, that it is the re sult of an infestation of Orien tal fruit moth introduced into British Columbia by fruit ship ped from the Yakima, Wash., area. He learned the Washington shipment was fumigated. "If this is the situation," Mc Kennon has written : Touzeau, "you are cutting off shipments coming under- regulations that have to date caused you no dif ficulty and channelling every thing through procedure (fumi gation) that has failed." He urged that British Colum bia modify its order. He suggest ed tightening up fumigation schedules and supervision from infested areas . and continued free area certification from at least those states which main tain a program of systemetic sur veys for plant pests. Regulations Effective McKennon pointed out that if the new British Columbia regu lations become effective practi cally all host material of Orien tal fruit moth originating in the United States will have to be fumigated. He said he does not know any 100 per cent protec tion except an absolute embargo of all hosts and that an embargo could possibly be evaded. He added that 'Oregon has been carrying on a survey (for this pest for several years and that he believes the detection program will uncover ' any in festation in its early stages. Light infestations of this fruit moth were found in two sections of Oregon last year. These Ore gon infestations are now under close surveillance and a program of eradication will be carried on at those places this year. "We recognize your right to take whatever measures you feel are justified to protect your selves from an introduction of a very serious pest. We offer these observations only in the friendliest spirit," McKennon wrote the Canadian plant offi cial. BLM Offers Used Vehicles for Sale Portland Portland area of fice of the bureau of land man agement has called for bids on used vehicles, typewriters, and other equipment to be sold at a several points in Washington, Oregon and California. The vehicles include passenger automobiles, sedan deliveries, station wagons, and other type trucks. The vehicles may be in spected by contacting BLM of ficers at Spokane, Wash.; Baker, Burns, Eugene, Lakeview, Med ford, Roseburg, and Salem, Ore., and Bakersfield, Sacramento, and Susanville, Calif. The bureau is offering for sale 19 standard desk model type writers, and two cameras at the interior building in Portland and typewriters and other office machines at Burns and Salem. The Sacramento office of the bureau has custody of two used geiger counters for sale. The Portland equipment may be inspected by contacting Harry Larkins,- BLM, room 730, in terior building, Portland. Bids will be opened on the vehicles at 2 p.m., April 29, in the Portland area office, and on the typewriters and other equip ment at 2 p.m. May 6, according to R. L. Whitney, area property and supply officer. ' " EVIDENCE OF TORNADO'S FORCE A. H. Kyle stands beside bis shattered truck, which was carried through a grocery warehouse at Tupelo, Miss., by a tornado that struck Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. The twisters returned to the southland for the third time in as many weeks as about a dozen hedge-hopping tornadoes ripped through the three states. HORNBROOK Visit in Southern Oregon BY MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mrs. Min nie Bloomingcamp spent the week end visiting her daughter, Mrs. Marge Snyder and chil dren, Karen and Victor, in Med ford. She also visited in Central Point with another daughter and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wyatt and sons, Stephen and Paul. Mrs. Oliver Frick of Canyon vill spent last week visiting at the home of her husband's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chap man. Higher Oil-Protein Corn Developed Champaign, 111'. U.R) The University of Illinois College of Agriculture says it has come up with a new "higher oil-higher protein" corn. The new strain of corn also has 10 to 11 per cent of protein instead of the usual eight or nine per cent and six to seven per cent of oil as against the nor mal four to five per cent. The new corn had proved prac tical for livestock and is slowly becoming available from some corn breeders, the university ex perts said. "However, creep - fed lambs seem to prefer the regular corn when offered a choice of it or the higher oil-higher protein strain," they added. But in all trials with every thing being equal except the kind of corn being fed the lambs fed the new corn in a "creep" ration gained an aver age of seven per cent better than those receiving the same- ration with regular corn. "And the amount of feed re quired to produce a pound of flesh averaged six per cent low er for the new corn than for the regular type," the experts added. No significant differences were found between the carcasses of lambs fed the new strain and those fed regular corn, they noted. Cut Flower Growers Are Fooling Plants Davis, Calif. (U.R) Cut-flower growers in California are fool ing the plants with artificial light. - Because of University of Cali fornia research, the growers are manipulating the day's length either to hasten or delay flower ing. Specific flowers being hood winked include chrysanthe mums, poinsettias, China asters and Shasta daisies. Anton M. Kofranek, ' UCLA plant physiologist said such flow ers as the chrysanthemums and poinsettias are "short-day" plants, normally flowering in the fall . when daylight hours are short. "If a grower wants to flower a few acres of mums for Christ mas," said Kofranek, "he plants his crop later in summer, and then artificially lights his field at night from about August until September or October. Some growers flower their mums ahead of the regular season. They do this by covering the mums with black cloth from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. in the summer months." Don 't Miss .... YOUR HOME THEATER Tonite at 7 - KBES-TV ' Southern Oregon Operation Home Improvement An Intercommunity Effort to Better Our Living Mr. and Mrs. Warren Seifert and children, Peggy and Mike, were in Redding over the week end visiting his mother. They also visited the Reverend and Mrs. Allen Sowards and family at Center Valley. Mr. Sowards was pastor of the Hornbrook Methodist church a few years ago. Bob Luttrell became ill Sun day morning and was taken to Siskiyou County General hospi tal in Yreka where he is still a patient. COPCO NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Morrie Chappel and sons are spending a few days at Monterey, Calif., visi ting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilson and children spent last week end visiting friends at Minncrville, Calif., in Trinity County. The Pinochle Club met Wed nesday at the home of Mrs. Mike Friday. Mrs. Ed Crandall won high score, and Mrs. Thurman Turner, low. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Rohl and children of Redding spent last week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rohl, at Fall Creek. A welcome is being extended to the new apprentice at Copco, John A. Shepherd, who is liv ing at Fall Creek. Mrs. Shepard is employed as a telephone op erator in Medford. A PHONY STORY? Clifton, N. J. (U.R) Magis trate John Celentano freed Mi chael Kopis of Passiac of a drunk driving charge upon hear ing Kopis' account of an acci dent Jan. 4. Kopis said that af ter his car struck a bus, he en tered a tavern to telephone po lice, found the phone busy, took several drinks to steady his nerves, and then was examined by a physician who found evi dence of alcohol. Question: fWe Answer: PROTECT YOUR FRUIT Use THE NEW ANTIBIOTIC 1. Available as dust or liquid 2. Increases yields 3. Safe to plants 4. Easy and economical to use Also Controls Walnut Blight Unlike the common fungicides, PHYTOMYCIN gives the grower a product that is specific for the control of blight caused by bacteria such as fire blight and walnut blight. PHYTOMYCIN not only protects the crop but also may eradicate the infectious agent under certain conditions. OLIN MATHIESON CHEMICAL CORPORATION Insecticide Sales Dept. ' Fresno, Calif. Baltimore, MJ. Distributed by: PACOAST CHEMICAL COMPANY Carmichael, Calif.. Telephone Sacramento Wabash 2-4508 Write for descriptive pamphlets Colombia Starts Massive Program Of Road Building Bogota (U.R) Colombia is embarked on a massive program involving 6,000 miles of roads and an investment of $400,000, 000. It's all keyed to a 1960 com pletion date and the country's economic boom. Colombia in 1956 spent more than $102,000,000 on its road improvement projects and will spend an equal amount through each of the next three years. It tops its neighbor, Venezuela, by some 10 millions, and is far ahead of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in its 1956 road-building efforts. The importance of Colombia's current program lies in the fact that completion of its projects will virtually eliminate most of the last "missing links" in the long-planned Pan American Highway. American motorists lone have travelled through most of Mexi co and several of the Central American countries. At the South American end, Venezuela has virtually completed its ma jor contributions to the inter continental highway while oth er major segments have been built in Chile, Ecuador and else where. Domestically, Colombia has been hampered for centuries by an inadequate internal commun ications system. Its major north south highways, now construct ed or to be built, are those par alleling the Andean range and run from the Caribbean coast on the north to the Ecuadorian border on the Pacific coast to the south. These are the major links Co lombia is adding to the Pan Am erican highway system. But it needs these improvements for its own economic progress as well. Construction crews are at work at many locations, some times at elevations of 10,000 feet or higher in the Andes. Bo gota, the capital, sits atop an 8,000 foot level and from here highways fan out in many direc tions to Manizales and Me dellin to the west and to Call toward the south. These are the routes over which Colombia is moving much of its industrial output, textiles, footwear, metal products and other items coming from its fac tories. More than 50 of them. American affiliates, are located in the Cali area alone. . Steel production at the Paz del Rio plant, one of the largest in South America, also de pends on transportation via highways. Oil production, now being expanded, is largely cen tered at refineries at Barranca Bermeja, on the Magdalena Riv er, and Mississippi River type sternwheelers carry some of this petroleum output. Other freight is moved by steamers over thi river to ports on the Caribbean. Program Offered To Ease Mechanic Lack Madjson, Wis U.R) A new program to give mechanically minded high school students an. opportunity to get needed train ing in automotive repair has been designed to relieve the shortage of auto mechanics. The National Standard Parts Association is sponsoring a pro gram that will increase automo tive instruction in schools. There is a present shortage of about 100,000 auto mechanics to service the 61,000,000 motor ve hicles on the nation's highways. Blight? Phytomycin!