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Maggot Problem Serious In Roque Valley Onions By DON BERRY County Horticultural Agent The onion maggot has been a problem with onion grow ers in this area for many years. In recent years it has become a serious pest and control measures are being taken' now by both the com mercial grower and home gardener to alleviate the sit uation. The maggots, which appear in the onions shortly after they begin emerging, are the result of eggs which are laid by flies. These flies over-winter in the ground and come out early in the spring to await the emergence of the onion plants. As soon as the plants appear through the soil, egg laying begins. Commercial control con sists of treating the seed at planting time as well as kill ing the flies after the onions emerge. After wetting the onion seed, tvo ounces of 50 per cent wettable powder are stirred in with each pound of seed and allowed to dry over night before planting. A slightly larger planter hole size is needed when using treated seed to get the correct amount of seed per acre. Application Time Set Just as the onions begin emerging the first dust appli cation for controlling the flies should-be applied. Ten per cent DDT dust has work ed well in this area and must be applied at ten day inter vals at least until mid-June. Since the maggot works in the root of the onion it is al most impossible to kill once Oakland Quads Said 'Doing Well' Oakland, Calif. (IP) Three girls and a boy born to the wife of a Piedmont plastic surgeon were "doing well" to day at Merritt hospital. The babies, born Wednes day to Mrs. Dorothy Hoskins, 38, were placed in incubators. The first baby, a girl, weighed 3 pounds 14 ounces; the second a girl, weighed 5 pounds 9 ounces; the boy weighed" 4 pounds 11 ounces; and the third girl, 4 pounds 6V2 ounces. Mrs. Hoskins is the wife of Dr. H. Dean Hoskins. They already have three daughters. Mrs. Hoskins knew in ad vance that she was to be the mother of quadruplets, but she did not expect them for an other month. established, therefore preven tion by treating the seed and killing the flies before they lay eggs is the only method of control. Home gardeners will usually get satisfactory con trol by applying one of the commercial soil dusts to the furrow after seeding and be fore covering the seed with soil. Where maggots have been a problem repeated dustings using DDT may be necessary as with the com mercial grower. Furrow treat ments using Endrin or Diazin on have been very promis ing in the Pacific Northwest but cannot be recommended until official registration is se cured. Parathion as a furrow and dust treatment is being used in the eastern part of the United States. Stale Vet Attends Iowa Course Salem Oregon's poultry industry will benefit from a two-week's poultry short course held at Iowa State col lege at Ames this month. Dr. L. E. Bodenweiser, the state department of agriculture's veterinarian poultry spec ialist, is attending the ad vanced technical session. Designed for state employes concerned with poultry dis eases, the course has been ar ranged by the USDA's agricul tural research service in co operation with Iowa State col lege. Representatives from 26 states are enrolled for the two-weeks' session. Dr. Bodenweiser will take part in advanced laboratory sessions covering latest diag nostic methods and take two field trips, as well as attend lectures on poultry manage ment and marketing. All known infectious diseases of poultry will be covered in the short course. CHOLERA SPREADS Calcutta, India PI The current cholera epidemic has claimed about 500 lives so far this year, authorities said to day. Inoculations are not keeping pace with the spread of the disease in densely populated areas, due mainly to the shortage of water. While usually cholera is lim ited to slum areas, this year it has spread into the middle class groups. BOOK PUBLISHER DIES Sands Point, N. Y. IIP) Walter J. Black, 64, New York book publisher, died Wednesday, Oppose Standards For Meal Checks; More Study Set Salem Two meetings dealing with meat inspection and a possible meat grading service particularly for smal ler plants were held in Salem last week as requested by the state department of agricul ture. At one session the Oregon meat marketing board took a look at operations of the state meat inspection program so far, and also at the standard of identity recently drawn up for hamburger. This" groups objected to the hamburger standard because it apparently does not allow certain specialty steaks to be sold under brand names per mitted by the federal govern ment for specialty products going interstate. Robert J. Steward, director of the department, said the standard would be studied and efforts made to arrive at a method that would recog nize a good merchandising process and yet keep the pro duct within the limits of wholesomeness and truthful labeling. Consider Overtime Looking at meat inspection itself, the meat marketing board felt the slaughter-house operators should pay a larger share of inspectors' overtime wages. They also asked for study and possible licensing of farm custom slaughter op erations and mobile and itin erant slaughterers. The second meeting was at tended by a number of smal ler meat packers, and repre sentatives from the Oregon Meat Council, the livestock industry, Oregon state col lege and the department of ag riculture. The group asked Director Steward to take steps in the direction of some form of grading service which would benefit small packeers: (1) make an immediate survey of the 90 plants under state meat inspection to determine how many would be interested in a state grading program. (2) make cost estimates of such service, and (3) bring Dr. J. Beard, chief of the meat grad ing branch of the USDA's Ag ricultural Marketing service in Washington, D. C. to meet with Oregon packers to ex plore any possibilities of smal ler operators obtaining fed eral grading of their meats. This Week's Town, Country House :,r"-1 u: '' " ' r , - " ' ' "" KITCHEN L , I Y CL0 t4r- 12-6 8- ; I bath lUri JL J ; -... in kthj ' I BEDROOM "3 1 LIVING ROOM I0'I5' 16', 12' k - .... .1. ., , L , Jk rri-. V . "'-. . '. -; .: is -. . . , . " T - pi am wn Rcnn V- zJ7' sen sniiADr c-c-r-r A LA By HIAWATHA ESTES This attractive garage apartment could turn that expanse of back lawn into extra income for you. 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Bath and broom closet are off the hall. The well lighted kitchen has a convenient U-shaped work area, with built-in oven and surface cooking unit, lots of cupboards and counter top and a bright corner dining nook. . A booh to any family is the large storage and laundry room on the ground level. More storage space is pro vided by the large shelf across the back of the double ga rage, and there's also ample room for a home workshop at one side. This plan could easily be adapted to your lot at the beach, or in the mountains or desert. As a weekend cot tage the storge room could be finished and equipped with bunk beds for guests. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of $7.50 for the first set and S5 for each additional set, when ordered at the same time. This plan will be available for a period of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for delivery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satis faction a new home plan book. Tow and Country Homes, may be purchased for SI. Send all orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes. P.O. Box 404-T, Northridge, Calif. CHIT BUTTE FALLS Combined Services Held By JOE G. COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor We just finished reading an article about how the old reliable family cow has disappeared from what folksy writers often refer to as "the American scene." The author remarks wistfully that the family cow was a symbol of family life, the hub around which the rural life would revolve. This was the animal, the author indicates, which made the farmer boy stick fast to that old rule "early to bed and early to rise." In fact, he was so dang tired the boy with a cow to take care of couldn't do otherwise! This same writer points out how the higher bred dairy animal of today has crowded out the "ol' brindle cow" because of the demand for more efficient production. We don't believe farming is any less efficient in the' Rogue valley. The family cow seems to be fairly popular here. We hope to write more about ol' bossy's virtues in a later column. Directly or indirectly the old-fashioned type cow has had some influence with us. The high school we struggled through had a geometry and algebra teacher who had grown up milking cows. He used to remark as we fumbled with our theorems that he learned his by reciting them aloud while walking down to the milk-barn, during the milking, and while walking back again. All we can say is that cow or those cows he milked must have been the most geometry minded critters in this universe! We know of another cow which had a strong influence upon a sn part of the Boy Scouts of America. This particular bossy help a Scout patrol develop wind, muscular legs and patience. An enterprising Scout during a camp out had made some Jello. After it cooled during the crisp autumn night the only thing missing was the cream. Like magic there was a cow grazing in a nearby pasture. Scram bling through the barbed-wire fence the boys swarmed down upon the cow. Finally after a tiring chase around the pasture several times the now not-too-docile cow was cornered in a fence corner. Strong young hands managed to squeeze a few drops into a cooking pot. Then the kicking cow was turned loose. t The group hastily broke camp the next morning when the boys saw an irate farmer striding down the field toward them. We are afraid ol' bossy was dry for at least few days after her frightening experience. No, the family cow hasn't disappeared from the country as some eastern writers might believe. However, we do wonder about the old plow horse. What has happened to this animal of all work? The horse which used to plow the field during the work-day, carry the farmer's kids across the fields for a joy ride and pull the family carriage to church on Sunday. That is, if the farmer couldn't afford a high-stepping trotter. And many of them couldn't. That's why Justin Morgan, a New Englander, developed the Morgan horse breeding a chunky, fast, durable piece of horse flesh with considerable high-born Arabian horse blood. Yes, the old plow horse had a firm grip on the affections of the whole family. The farmer could rely on her to lean into her harness and pull the sharp plow as it ripped through the soil. Mother knew her. children were perfectly safe astride old horse's broad but bony back on a slow jog around the field. It also pulled the farm wagon on its milk and egg route. The same horse drew the family carriage to Sunday prayer meeting. It was probably on this Sabbath jog to the meetin' house that the farmer probably decided he needed a little faster horse, but one that could do the heavy farm work, too. Farmer Brown down the road a piece didn't make racing much fun with his faster horse. Yes, the old plow horse must be disappearing. When a farmer hitches up a team and swings around his field, all horses straining together that's news. Even a big city paper may carry a picture and a short story about it. Not so many years ago this wouldn't have rated a line in the small town weekly. Team plowing contests also rate a good play in the big metropolitan papers' feature pages. Not so long ago this event was just part of the activities of the average county fair. ' Yes, the plow horse the farmer's old reliable aide, seems doomed to extinction. ' Finally, those farmers raising beef might bear in mind this old national Scottish proverb: "Poor folk seek meat for their stamacks and rich folk stomacks for their meat." McLEOD Women Attend Meeting By CAROLINE L. HARDING McLeod Women ,from the Prospect TLions Auxiliary who attended the spring board meeting in Sutherlin, Ore., Wednesday, April 9, were Mrs. Lowell Ash, Mrs. George Hubbard, Mrs. John Gartman, Mrs. Vic Chapman, Mrs. Darwin Bevins, Mrs. Bob Lund and Mrs. Harry Harding. ' . Hr. and Mrs. Rod Perry and children spent the1 Easter weekend visiting Rod's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Perry in Sweet Home, Ore. Grange Notes Pomona Grange A rehearsal of the Memor ial Service drill team has been called by Chaplain Hattie Hendrickson of Jack son County Pomona Grange. It is to be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, April 20, in the Phoe nix Grange hall. Mrs. Hen drickson asks that all chap lains of Granges having mem bers to be honored attend this rehearsal, or arrange to have a representative there in their place. Rehearsal will start prompt ly to enable members of the team to attend the mortgage burning ceremonies at Bell view Grange that same after noon. Mrs. Melvin Lattie, Secretary. U. S. margarine production bettered butter by 39 million pounds last year. Estimated consumption was 8.6 pounds of margarine per person last year, compared with 7.b pounds of butter. Boise API A sudden slackening in snowfall in the Columbia Basin during the latter part of February has resulted in a sharply reduced forecast of stream flow in the Columbia river at The Dalles, Ore. Jean Messecar and Carol Scott were in the junior play at the Eagle Point high school. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cush man and children from Trini dad, Calif., spent Easter Sun day visiting with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cush-man. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowe and family of Medford spent Easter Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hume and family on Big Butte creek. The Rev. and Mrs. Walter Hutchins and family of Fort Jones, Calif., were dinner guests at the Robert Sander son home recently. Lowell Ash of Union Creek is in a local hospital getting medical care for a skin infec tion. - Mrs. Roy Vaughn was host ess to a luncheon at her home April 10 for the HEC with Mrs. Hazel Ulrich and Mrs. Mary Boothby as co-hostesses. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Vic Chap man Thursday, May 8. , Mr. and Mrs. U. R. Wagler have gone to Three Rivers, Canada, for the graduation of their son, Clarence, from the Prairie Bible school. Mrs. Ed Cushman accompanied them as her daughter, Elizabeth, is also graduating. , BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2237 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 ' By MARY J. HARRIS Butte . Falls The Assembly of God church and the Com munity Bibie church held combined Easter sunrise serv ices at the Assembly of God church at 6 a.m. the sunrise service pro gram was presented by the Reverend Leslie Martin, As sembly of God church. The program included the sunrise sermon by the Rev. Howard Simmonds, of the Community Bible church and several num bers were sung by the choir of the Community Bible church. The choir was under the direction of Dean Boggan and accompanied by Mrs. Roger Harris. Regular Sunday school and church services were held in both churches. An Easter egg hunt went off as scheduled at the city park at 8 a.m. Easter Sunday. Children were divided into three age groups, one through four, five through eight and nine through 12. .Among those receiving prizes at the early morning festivities were Paul and Jerry Conley, Billy, Jess, and Debbie Rodgers, David Fer guson and Danay Edmondson. Bunny's helpers ' this year were the Butte Falls Lions club and auxiliary. The Sunday school begin ners class of the Commurity Bible church held their Easter party at the church Friday afternoon, April 4. Regular teacher of this class and host ess for the afternoon was Mrs. Charles Ferguson. Children attending the party were Jimmy and Janet Hanaford, Steven Lindley, Tracy Malloy, Terry Ellis, Judy Chambers, Jackie Ellis, Corrine and Russell Dunlap, Greg Joffillee, Susan and Conrad Perkins, Barbara Finch, Ralph and Pam Wiese, Doris Burton, Mark Crammer, David Ferguson, Vanessa Fa cey, Barbara Boggan, Debbie Rodgers and Pam and Roger Harris. Mothers attending were Mrs. Ed Malloy, Mrs. Randall Perkins, Mrs. Ralph Wiese, Mrs. Doug Finch, Mrs. Dave Hanaford, Mrs. Burrell Facey, Mrs. Bill Rodgers and Mrs. Duane Burton. The children decorated the eggs they had brought from home and iced cookies as part of the afternoon's entertainment. Friends from Seattle, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Manley Mills and sons, Jerry and Dick, re cently spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cathey. Easter guests in the home of the Elga Abbotts were Mr. and Mrs. William (Red) Hartlerode and daughter, Su san, of Ashland and Mr. and Mrs. Al Hartlerode of Butte Falls. The Rev. and Mrs. Howard Simmonds and family are now residing in the Albert Hoffman home in Butte Falls. The Albert Hoffmanns have moved to their ranch on the Cobleigh road, several miles below Butte Falls. Virgil Conley recently spent several days in the Rogue Valley hospital but has now returned to his t job . with Medco. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, April 17, 1959 IA Portland Monkey Captured in Net Portland (W There was monkey business in southeast Portland Wednesday after noon the real thing. Olga, a tame monkey own ed by 16-year-old Kyle Knut son, had escaped Tuesday. It was seen eating from a gar bage can Wednesday. As peo ple gathered around the mon key became frightened and took off. A chase followed during which Larry McCarten, a Mrs. Norman Caldwell - of White City. The Junior Class of the Butte Falls High School will present "Little Fugitive" as the movie of the week Thurs day evening, April 17. The movie tells the story of a small boy who ran away to Coney Island. Journal reporter, was nipped on the ankle. Two firemen finally managed to throw a net over the monkey after chasing it into a garage from where it went into the attic of a home. - The monkey was back with its owner Wednesday night. Castillo de San Marcos, at St. Augustine, Fla., was be gun by the Spanish in 1672, completed in 1756. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Til 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Dear Annabelle... IDLE ROOMER By Nufade Annie Guests in the Bill Harris home Easter Sunday were Mrs. Vern Helbig and son, Donny, of Grants Pass and the Roger Harris family of Butte Falls. Recent visitors in the Page Stauffer home were Mr. and FEHC 1 Prefabricated 8' long patio panels Fast, simple, easy lo install. For yard, garden, pool, or play enclosures Attractive designs and prices. 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