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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Formni curc-cH Qoirdloini Seed Testing Given Speed-up Corvallis Faster seed test ing service for Oregon's multi- million dollar grass and le gume seed industry was an nounced this week by Oregon totate college agricultural ex penment station. A new quick test for "live seed," plus an increased staff ' of technicians, is expected to cut testing time during the peak September period, re ports Mrs. Louisa Jensen, technician in charge of the OSC seed laboratory. Tests for seed purity, form erly causing time lags up to four weeks, should be com pleted within two or three days this year with addition of six technicians, Mrs. Jen sen stated. Seed germination tests re quire one to four weeks, vary ing with types of seed. How ever, seed viability closely related to seed germination can be measured in one-day service with the' new quick test. While official seed certifi cation requires the longer germination test, Mrs. Jensen said the quick method should be valuable to both buyers and sellers wanting immediate information on percentage of "live seed." Key to the quick test is a colorless stain, tetrazolium, that turns red through chem ical reaction with enzymes in live seed of grasses, legumes. and vetches. It is effective even on dormant seed. The OSC laboratory, official state testing station for Ore gon, operates on a fee basis and conducts tests on 15,000 to 20,000 seed samples annually. An average American farm uses up to 100 per cent more electric current than it needed 15 years ago. ' This Week's Home for Modern Living Jf.f P T I O 3jv i-LJ I .f3 I KITCHEN '.If UVIW ROOM . c.u.iv du f IT II 20 1 14 FAMILY ROOM H iff 12,17 &Wg . 1 FjLtlA JEq hf Uses I " I j PLAN NO. 4605 60 SQUARE FEET ' i BY HIAWATHA ESTES Glass creates striking ef fects in this Contemporary home, relating the living areas to the outdoors. Sliding walls of glass unite the living room and family room to the full rear patio, and wide picture windows face the street in the living room and two of the four bedrooms. Other bedroom windows are high-set case ments that allow unbroken wall areas for the placement of furniture. The sleeping and activity areas in this 1860 square foot home are well separated from each other for quiet and pri vacy. The central hall chan nels movement to any room from either the front or rear entrance, without the need for Oregon, Thursday, Augutt 2T, 1958 CAMP FIRE DEMONSTRATION Faye Chapman, 13, and Steve Chapman, 11, both of the Sis-Q 4-H club give a demon stration of the proper way to build a campfire. The demon stration was one of many given at the 4-H and FFA county fair this week at the county fair grounds. Faye blows on the pile of wood to fan the flames as her brother waits expectantly. Milk Cows Drop In Corvallis The number of milk cows on Oregon farms has dropped to the lowest point on record and milk pro duction continues a downward trend, reports Oregon State college extension service. Oregon has 178,000 milk cows this summer, 2V2 per cent drop from last year and the smallest number in 23 years of record, according to Stephen C. Marks, OSC agri cultural economist. The re port is based on a . mid-sum mer inventory by the state crop reporting service. Milk production in Oregon last month dropped 2 million pounds below the same month a year ago,' Marks said. Hot weather throughout most of Oregon during the past month has also lowered u any room to be used as a walk-way. - Fireplaces add a hospitable touch to both the living room and family room. - Sliding doors can be closed to sep arate these two distinctive rooms when adults wish to entertain without interruption of children's activities. Yet when more room is needed for parties or large groups these double doors slide into the wall to merge the areas for easy entertaining. The half-wall serving bar over the kitchen cooking unit will make it easy to use the family room as a separate din ing room when entertaining. The master bedroom unit has its own big wardrobe dressing room and separate three-quarter bath. Plenty of .vu PRCS SW II I I BEDROOM - - I IK I 'A rf BEDROOM cBu Kfl id U H. Total Number - milk production, says Don E. Anderson, OSC dairy special ist. When temperatures are 80, degrees or higher, farmers are advised to provide animals with shade and make sure fresh drinking water is near. Pasture production has also dipped sharply during the hot weather. Supplemental feed, especially grain, is now nec essary, Anderson states. He adds that a good fly-control program to ease irritation of cows might easily boost a cow's daily production by two or three pounds. There are more than 2,500, 000 acres of tree farms in the Douglas fir regions of the Pa cific northwest. light and ample .wardrobe space make the family bed rooms attractive and comfort able. Stucco and concrete block are suggested as low-cost ex terior materials, topped by a gleaming crushed rock roof. If desired, the garage could be attached to the front of the bedroom wing.' The entire plan can be rotated 90 degrees to fit a wider lot. Complete working drawing of the above plan cn be obtained at a cost of $7.30 for the first set and $5 for each additional set, when ordeied at the same "time. This plan will be available for a period of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for deliv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfac tion a ne home plan book. Homes for Living, may be purchased for $1. Send all orders for either plans for books to Hiawatha Estes, P.O. Box 407-7, Northridfe, Calif. Offer Changes In Egg Law For This State Salem The 1959 legisla ture may be asked to make some amendments to the Ore gon law establishing grades and standards for eggs. This developed recently when the egg law advisory committee to the state department of ag riculture approved several amendments. The advisory committee is appointed by t h e Oregon poiytry council and will take their recommendations to this' group for approval. . One of the major changes suggested is more liberal tolerances, which means movement toward the federal egg standards and the toler ances recently adopted by the state of Washington. The proposals also include a requirement that producers selling eggs off their premises should have a state permit. Such a permit is already re quired by wholesalers and iobbers. Requirements Explained Producers selling graded or ungraded eggs to the hold er of an egg dealer's permit would not themselves be re ouired to have a permit. Nei ther would a permit be re quired for sale to consumers of eggs previously candled as required by law. The price tag on the permit is $5. Under the proposed amend ments, the case fee in exist ence for a number of years would be continued. The com mittee also proposed adminis trative authoritv be given the director of aericulture to set case fees within certain lev els. For small sales, the com mittee suggested reports should ;be required on an an nual basis, rather than semi annual as now. Another new proposal will be to give authority to the department . to audit any egg dealer's books and records to determine whether the nroper case fees are being paid. A final suggestion of the committee would make it un lawful for any producer or egg dealer to place a grade and size label on eggs unless they were actually candled with facilities approved by the department. Seeks Removal of Turkey Ban Salem The state depart ment of agriculture is urging extra efforts on the part of the USDA's foreign agricul tural service to obtain a prompt . removal of Canada's ban on U.S. turkeys. In a letter to Gustave Bur- meister, assistant administrat or of the foreign agricultural service, the department's mar ket development chief, Paul T. Ro.well, pointed out that Canada has removed its ban on imports of fowl, including hens and roosters, but not turkeys. Rowell said, "We realize that Canada's ban on U. S. turkeys was coincidental with establishment of a turkey price support program there last year and that U.S. turkey producers as a whole have lost only about one pef cent of their market. However, with the loss of Oregon's mar ket for one out of every seven birds produced in our state, it becomes a matter of serious concern to a heavy impact on Oregon turkey growers." The department has pro tested this ban in behalf of Oregon turkey producers ever since it was put into effect by Canada in July of last year. Around 15 per cent of. Ore gon's turkey production has gone there, even under their regular 5 cents per pound im port duty. 4-H Horsemen Win Trip Awards Four 4-H horsemen won trips to the Oregon state fair with their demonstrations of "Recipe for Horsemanship" and "Horns Off" during the 4-H and FFA county fair. Winners were Penny Sam- pert and Marsha Watson, both of the West Side Horse club, and Romelle and Gary Fossen of Ruch. Red ribbon award Ann Carter, Ashland, and Nelda Chapman, Talent; Heather Rode, Medford: Nikki Ham mond, Central Point and Jack Peek, Central Point; Dennis Cornutt, Gold Hill, and Susan Wright. Medford. White ribbon award Den nis Fisher, Medford: Lmda Sommer, Talent, and Daryl Zapell, Talent; Faye Chap-, man and Steve Chapman, both of Talent. Carnauba wax is used in the manufacture of shoe, floor and furniture polishes, phono graph records, electric insul ators, lubricating oil, sound film, soap and also candles. CHIT CHAT By JOE G. COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor This is county fair time. A time when the harvest is In and people take a little time to view what they and their neighbors have reaped from bountiful Mother Nature. While looking at what good, fertile soil has yielded it might be a good time also to check over practices' which have made the soil fertile enough for good crops. Proper use of the soil is not something developed In this modern age. What we know about the soil has been developed through generation after generation. Ancient people also used manure, lime and crop rotations with legumes to restore nitrogen to the soil. Pamphlets to show such practices now can be found in the county agent's office. However, the Romans had several pamphlets. One such instruction manual is known as Columella's "Hus bandry." It was used by at least 15 generations. It told of the amounts of material needed, proper time for farming operations and what combinations of practices were best for what kinds of soils. After Rome fell and up to the French Revolution farming practices like the old "home remedy" grew out of lore handed down from one generation to the next. How good such farming practices were could be seen by the numerous plagues and famines which cursed European civilization at that time.- At the same time the Moors, the great architects, engin eers, and scientists of the east who left us so many things also set up practical irrigation. The knowledge developed by one of these Moors was put into print. It came to southwest America with the Spaniards. r In the early 1800's Jethro Tull, an Englishman, gave the world the grain drill and cultivator. This made it easier to grow crops in rows and free of weeds. However, by fol lowing Tull's advice the farmers, until recently were over-cultivating. Then the two-field system: a switch from grain to fallow progressed to the "four-course" system. In this Norfolk system developed in Holland turnips were raised as the intertilled crop, followed by wheat and two years of clover or clover mixed grass. At times the second year of grass could be replaced by another year of grain. Clover helped keep, the soil fertile. This practice, too, often was overdone. Later it was learned what what soils. Meanwhile other scientists were trying to learn what made plants grow. A Frenchman in the 16th century thought manures and plant remains gave the salt back to the ground. Others carried on the experiments. Finally a French scientist set down a table of chemi cal elements. Plants and animals use oxygen and through respiration "burn" organic food. Another French soil scientist started experimenting in the He studied the soil by weighing it and making chemical analysis. Then a German chemist, Justus von Liebig, developed a comparatively simple theory. The crops increase or grow fewer according to the minerals plants get from manure. A number of American farmers about the mid-1800's took an interest in soil development. Work was done in the field during and after the Civil War. About 1890 more experiments were carried on in the field, following" the creation of land grant colleges. A number of experiment stations about 1900 were study ing soil management. Later F. H. King of the University of Wisconsin and Cyril G. Hopkins at the University of Illinois carried soil management further. King studied Chinese agri- culture and applied to American soil science what he learned from the peasants. Hopkins promoted the use of lime, finely ground, raw rock phosphate and clover. His writings were used by many farmers to improve greatly mid-western farming. Finally, Milton Whiteney, started more intensive investigations of the sou. Other scien tists picked up his work advanced science it is. Your milk bill may be higher if present negotiations by representatives of this state's dairy farmers are successful. As mentioned before, the long spell of hot, dry weather has been hard on pastures. For the men are now feeding hay in the summer. High labor costs are also affecting the increased milk producing costs. Of course, this demand for milk price increases isn't a sudden thing. It's something which has been developing as produc tion costs gradually increased. A recent dairy market review from Oregon State college shows that milk cows on Oregon farms are the smallest in number for 23 years. Milk production has resumed a down ward trend. Closer culling while cattle prices kept climbing is probably responsible, the experts explain. Probably much of that hamburger you bought in cheaper grades was from old milk cows. Fewer milk cows and poorer pasture conditions caused milk production to drop to 114 million pounds or 2 million pounds less than last year. Until June milk production in this state was on the increase. This picture has broadened out to include the entire country. July was the third month in a row that milk out put lagged, according to OSC economists. . Something else affecting the dairy herd and beef, too, Is that the outlook for Oregon's grain production dropped dur ing July. Continued hot, dry winds caused shriveling and shattering of unharvested grain, according to the Oregon crop and livestock reporting service. Strong winds on July 12 caused considerable loss to unharvested grains in the Colum bia river counties, also. Oregon's wheat crop was forecast at 28,060,000 bushels as of Aug. 1 compared with 26,788,000 bushels in 1957. Considering feed grains, barley yield prospects dropped from July estimate of 38.0 bushels to 36.0 on Aug. 1. Oats dropped from 37.0 bushels to 33.0 bushels. Hpwever, corn has improved to an estimated high yield of 72 bushels per acre. Rye production has hit a record high yield this year of 18.0 bushels per acre. Hay production is slightly down from last year about 2 per cent. Frequent rains during the cutting season inter fered. However, locally, Sams Valley area farmers report that the storms passed them as if they were on an island. Although a farmer friend strongly advises us to wait for about a month before buying out locker beef, we don't see much of a drop in beef prices, according to what the Oregon crop and livestock reporting service notes. Potato Nematode Seen In Oregon Dahlia Plants Salem Plan survey pathol ogists for the state depart ment of agriculture have dis covered the potato rot nema tode in dahlia tubers in three commercial plantings in Ore gon. Frank McKennon, chief of the department's division' of plant industry reports the first isolation was made early this year and the last in June. McKennon says investiga tions so far point to the fact that imported tubers are in volved in all cases. He says the department nas been working on this problem and that tubers from every com types of rotation was best for fields in the early 1800's chief of the bureau of soils, and carried it to the present first time in many years dairy mercial grower in the state have been processed in the department's laboratory in Salem. Oregon is one of the first states to carry out an ex tensive survey of the nema tode. - " The department is watching the situation closely and be lieves that all infestations have been found. It has noti fied U.S. Plant Quarantine of ficials ' and has advised Ore gon growers to examine espe cially any imported tubers very closely. The nematode has been con sidered a threat to the potato industry, sinct - it was first Coyote Declared Most Sought After Predatory Animal Salem Coyotes account ed for 60 per cent of all the predatory animals taken in Oregon during the last fiscal year reported M. E. Knicker bocker, chief of the state de partment of agriculture's di vision of animal industry, and Melvin E. Smith, district U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent. They point out that the fiscal year report of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and cooperating state agencies shows 7,951 predators were killed including 4,838 coyotes,: 2,830 bobcats, 281 bears and two mountain lions. In addition to these pred-' ators a secondary group of wild animals totaling 5,598 were taken by cooperative hunters working in 35 coun ties. This group included 627 foxes, 1,329 badgers, 547 skunks, 1,225 raccpons and 1,870 porcupines. About ' 12 per cent of the total predators were taken in Malheur county. At the other end of the scale only two animals both bears were killed in Polk county. Smith's annual summary points out that the coyote con itnues to be the most trouble some predator in the state and . ranges from the Pacific coast through the Cascades to Wallowa and Blue mountains. lie ados tnat- increasing human population and the coyote's ability to adapt to man's way of life makes con trol increasingly difficult. Like the coyote, the bobcat ranges throughout the state, This animal was responsible for the loss of a considerable number of lambs in both east ern and western Oregon last year. Hunters trapped 500 more bobcats than the year earlier. Principal damages caused by bears occurred on tree farms in western Oregon. though a limited amount of damages to sheep on summer ranges in the Blue mountain counties are charged to this animal. The poultry population in the Willamette valley is the greatest prey of the intro duced, fox. The 627 foxes tak en compares with 492 the pre vious year. Besides the state depart ment of agriculture, other agencies cooperating' in the predatory control program are the state game commis sion, the county courts, the bureau of land management, private timber companies and livestock associations. Field Day Set On Farm Pasture Three cows to the acre on ladino and alfalfa pasture, with no bloat is the pasture program being followed "this summer by Victor and Glenn Bifdseye, according to Earle Jossy, county extension agent. Ninety head of cattle have lived on about 30 acres of pasture all summer. Pasture is fed on a daily -rotation pro gram. The , forage grows for about" 25 days at which time it is six to eight inches high. The cows are turned into this in the morning, by night the ground is bare. The next day they get another patch. Dairymen, livestock grow ers and others who are inter ested are invited by the Birds eyes to see this operation. They, in cooperation with the Jackson c o u n t y extension service, will hold a field day Wednesday, August 27, start ing at 1:30 p.m. at the Elliot dairy ranch just north of Ross lane on the Central Point Jacksonville highway.' Most dairymen and live stock growers will find some thing they can use to increase production of their pastures in this field, session. found in the United States at Aberdeen, Idaho. More re cently an infestation was dis covered in a limited area in Wisconsin. It is now recognized that the potato rot nematode is the same species as found in bulb ous iris for many years. At least one western state has been allowing a one per cent tolerance in the iris without causing apparent harm or con cern to the industry. Department officials feel that Oregon dahlia stock may be cleaner than that in other states which have not carried out extensive survey work for the nematode. BRILL METAL WORKS ' Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Largest Rabbit Show Noted at County Fair Kathleen Badcock of Evans Valley had the Grand Cham pion exhibit in the rabbit di vision at the 4-H and F.F.A. fair being held at the fair grounds in Medford this week Competing in the largest Rabbit show held in the coun ty to date she had the top exhibit of over 100 cages of rabbits, according to Glenn Klein, county 4-H agent. Daryl Zapell of Talent was the top rabbit showman as she bested over 30 competi tors in the showmanship classes for rabbit exhibitors. The complete results in the rabbit show are as follows: New Zealand Senior Doe: 1 Margaret Stone, Evans Valley; 2 Barbara Wood, Evans Valley; 3 Tamara Mars, Evans ' Valley: 4 Linda Sommer, Talent: 5 Kath leen Badcock. Evans Valley; 6 Linda Stone, Evans Valley; 7 Jo Ann Wood, Evans Valley; 8 Woody Newman, Howard; 9 Daryl Zapell, Talent and 10 Patricia Hitson, Evans Valley. New Zealand, Senior Buck: 1 Charles Badcock, Evans Valley; 2 Joyce Josephson, West Side; 3 Betty Jo Howell, Talent; 4 Dean Sommer. Talent; 5 M a r g a r e t Stone, Evains Valley: 6 Anthony Glidden, Phoenix: 7 Larry Sorum. Southwest Medford; 8 John Even sizer, Evans VaUey. New Zealand. Intermediate Doe: 1 (grand champion) Kathleen Badcock. Evans Valley; 2 Gary Spires. Howard; 3 Charles Bad cock, Evans Valley; 4 John Even sizer. Evans Vallev: 5 Darvl Za- pell. Talent: 6-Robert Spirts, How- ara- 7 caroJe L.eon, lirmin creek; 8 Penny Anderson, Rogue River; 9 Keith Longie, Howard and 10 Anthony Glidden. Phoenix. New Zealand. Intermediate Buck: 1 Charles Badcock, Evans Valley; 2 Margaret Stone, Evans Valley; 3 Anthony Glidden. Phoenix. New Zealand Junior Doe: 1 Jo Ann Wood, Evans Valley; 2 Kath leen Badcock, Evans Vallev: 3 Daryl Zapell,. Talent; 4-Patricia Hitson. Evans Valley; 5 Charles Badcock. Evans Valley: 6 Bettv Jo Howell. Talent; 7 Anthony Glid den, Phoenix: 8 Linda Sommw. Talent: 9 Dean Sommer, Talent Oregon Farm Second to Washington Corvallis Oregon farm workers receive . the second highest farm- wage rates in the U.S. topped only by Wash ington, according to an Ore gon State college extension economist Average hourly wage rate paid farm laborers recently in Oregon was $1.12 an hour compared with $1.20 in Wash ington and $1.06 in Califor nia. Connecticut, Rhode Is land and Massachusetts fol lowed the three highest Pa cific Coast states. These average wage rate figures compiled by the U.S. department of agriculture in clude all types of wages whether paid on a monthly, weekly, hourly or daily basis. If a house, garden produce, or board and room are in cluded in the farm wage, it is also totaled in the over-all composite rate. Oregon kept pace with the average IV2 percent net in crease in wage rates reported during the past year for the entire country and also ap proached Washington's 'wage level. While Washington rates 94 Warehousemen Licensed in State Salem Ninety-four ware housemen or firms and 192 grain warehouses were lic ensed in Oregon by the state department of agriculture, at the close of the fiscal year on June 30. The department reports that one application for a license was refused because require ments of the law were not met. John E. Wallin, warehouse inspector, reports that two warehouses in the Willamette valley have made repairs to buildings and premises to meet sanitation requirements of the law. Big Week-end m an IIVV m m m m mm b ' m DON'T, FORGET COKE! SIGN OF Bottled under authority of The Coca-Cola Company by COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. of MEDFORD and 10 Marvel Lichtenstein, Evans vaiiey. New Zealand, Junior Buck: 1 Jo Ann Food, Evans Vallev; 2 Linda Sommer, Talent: 3 Charlei Badcock. Evans Valley: 4 Linda Stone. Evans Valley; 5 Anthony Glidden, Phoenix; 6 Dean Som mer, Talent and 7 Woody New man. Howard. New Zealand, production, doe & litter: 1 Anthony Glidden, Phoe nix; 2 Joyce Josephson. West Side; 3 Daryl Zapell. Talent; 4 Jo Ann Wood. Rogue River. New Zealand, three fryers, iimi litter; 1 Joyce Josephson, West Side: 2 Anthony Glidden, Phoe nix: 3 Kathleen Badcock. Evans Valley; 4 Tamara Mars, Evans Valley; 5 Max E. Bruder. Central Point; 6 Mary Howell. Talent; 7 Susan McAllister. Meadows. Other heavy breeds, senior doet 1 Randy Bradshaw, Medford; 2 Joyce Josephson, West Side. Other heavy breeds, senior buck: 1 Marylee Lowry, Talent; 2 Jan et M. Glidden, Phoenix. Other heavy breeds, junior does 1 Penny Van de Kamp. Griffin Creek; 2 Janet Glidden. Phoenix; 3 Mary Lou Van de Kamp, Grif fin Creek. Other heavy breeds, Junior buck: 1 Marylee Lowry, Talent; 2 Penny Van de Kamp, Griffin Creek. Light breeds, senior doe: 1 Daryl Zapell. Talent. Light breeds, senior buck: 1 Lu cille Lowry. Talent; 2 Mary Lou Van de Kamp. Griffin Creek. Light breeds, junior buck: 1 Lu cille Lowry, Taient. RABBIT SHOWMANSHIP Beginning: 1 Carole Leon, Grtf rin Creek; 2 Linda Romanchuck, Griffin Creek; 3 Joyce Josephson. West Side: 4 Nancy L. Day, Tal ent: 5 Penny. Anderson. Evans Valley: 6 John Bradshaw. Grif fin Creek: 7 John Evensirer. Evans Valley; 8 Keith Longie,'. Medford; 9 Woody Newman, Medford; and 10 Anthony Glid den. Phoenix. Intermediate: 1 D a r y 1 Zapell, Talent: 2 K a t h 1 e e n Badcock. Evans Valley; 3 Linda Sommer, Talent; 4 Marvel Lichtenstein, Evans Valley; 5 Barbara Wood, Evans Valley; 6 Bett Jo Howell, Talent; 7 Linda Stone. Evans Val le; 8 Penny Van de Kamp. Grif- fin Creek; 9 Patricia Hitson, Evans Valle; and 10-Marylee Lowry, Talent. Advanced: 1 Lucille Lowry, Tal ent; 2 Charles Badcock, Evans Valley: 3 Jo Ann Wood. Evans Valley; and 4 Dean Sommer, Talent. Wages Rate remained almost the same, Oregon's increased almost two cents an hour. California wage rates went up about 1 13 percent while the en tire Pacific Coast region in creased less than one per cent. While farm wige ratas in creased for most of the coun try, they decreased in the midwest and the .southern section Kentucky, Missis sippi, Alabama and Tennes see reports reveal. Industry's competition for labor may be why East and West have been able to main tain steady wage, rates, be lieves Mrs. Elvera Horrell, OSC economist. Last year' business recession probably reduced the demand for farm workers, fewer people left the farm to go into industry, and some returned to the farm, she noted. 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