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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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At Crater Finance you may
borrow for any worth
while purpose on your
FURNITURE - AUTO
SALARY
"and repay in monthly In-
stallments. You may
choose the terms most suit
able to you up to 24
months.
Loam may be paid in jd
vance or in full at any lima.
Crater Finance
CORPORATION
135 Pine Street
Central Point
Phone NO 4-1273
Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. .
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