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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforrf, Of., Thursday. November 20. 1958 Jackson County Weed Work On Contract Basis In 1958 Salem The state depart ment of agriculture, in its second yearly round of the fight against ragweed, ap plied control measures to 10,200 infested acres in west ern Oregon during the 1958 spraying season. This included 812V4 acres in Marion county; 304 in Polk, 13 in Washington, 101 in Benton, 1,500 in Jackson, 6,576 in Josephine 18 in Lane, 30 in Yamhill, 20 in Multnomah, and 825 in Clackamas. Two of these counties had been reported ragweed-free last year-Mult- nomah and Yamhill. The first actual spraying this year was done in an area southeast of Salem on June 5. Because of cropping prac tices, all infestations in a county couldn't be treated during a continuous period. So George Moose, ragweed control supervisor, set up a rotation schedule whereby the opera tion alternated weekly between the northern and southern parts of west ern Oregon (the control area). This system allowed the crew and equipment to operate continuously and generally to cover the areas at some where near the optimum state of weed maturity. Continuous spraying fol ! lowed through Sept. 25 when all known infestations had received some treatment. Contract Basil Set Jackson county officials again in 1958 agreed to do the ragweed control work in their area on a contract basis. This, with two commercial contracts in Josephine county and two state-owned sprayers (an additional sprayer was purchased in late July when two new infestations were lo cated in Josephine county) made it possible to treat , all areas. Moose said a contract was also let in Marion county to hand pull ragweed in 6 acres of strawberries where spray ing would have damaged the crop. Surveys were conducted In many parts of western Ore- This Week's GARAGE 20 xl3 STORAGE Many couples planning for retirement find that homes being built today are too large for their needs. This 894 square foot home is meant for two. All rooms are large, light and airy, and the entire home is planned for easy care and low maintenance cost. The one-car garage could be en larged to accommodate - two cars if desired. The living room and dining area extends over 32 feet across the front and is lighted by windows on three sides. A big stone fireplace adds., a touch of genial warmth. The bedroom is cross-ventilated, with sliding windows set shoulder-high to allow am ple wall space for furniture underneath, A wide sliding- : ' v: m-f m mm": mmy:wmmmmj yV- J hook TT of ;r y -j e6xi6 rr XI i3xii wm j-u W NINO - LIVING ROOM i-J 329x14 til.. I ST0RA6E Mlf j , K- gon where infestations were suspected. The pollen count method was used in the Grants Pass, Cave Junction Sorghums Raise Grain Receipts In Portland Salem G rain sorghums shipped to Oregon from the midwest for storage increased Porland grain receipts to 11.1 million bushels in October up about 1.5 million bushels from September. This report comes from the state depart ment of agriculture. Export cargoes declined from 16 in September to 12 last month. T. Ralph Harry, grain division chief, noted that export sales were, being made in small lots last month many in lots of 100 tons or less. Harry said he had been ad vised that approximately 150 cars of grain sorphums are to be shipped to the Klamath basin for storage in buildings at the World War II Japanese detention camp. The grain will be inspected by the Mer rill office, which last month made 38 track inspections, 11 sample inspections, 94 inspec tions of outgoing cars and 45 truck inspections. Expects Large Movement Harry also reported there will be a large movement of export grain through the Port of Astoria soon this type of business has been in very short supply through Astoria the past year. In October the Astoria grain inspection of fice checked 467,822 bushels of incoming wheat. Grain shipped into Oregon from points east of the Rocky Mountains included 320 cars of Wheat from Montana, 726 cars of barley from Montana, two cars of oats from Iowa, 21 cars of corn from Nebras ka, Minnesota and Iowa and 916 cars of milo from Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. Home For Living .4. I 1 ::4rlfvV PLAN NO. 1602 894 SQUARE FEt panel wardrobe provides stor age for clothing, with draw ers below and a storage shelf above. The bath has a pullman lav atory and both tub and stall shower. A big linen closet oc cupies one end of the hall. A wide window lights the nook area in one corner of the spacious kitchen. Long counter surfaces, ample cup boards and built-in cooking units add to the efficiency of the work area. A wall heater has been lo cated to keep this compactly designed home at whatever temperature you desire dur ing the winter months. If pre ferred, a forced air unit may be located in the attic. Only a step from the kitch en door is the back entrance and Eugene areas. To make this type of sur vey, petroleum jelly-costed slides are exposed for 48 hours in a specially construct ed slide stand on a relatively high building where pollen could normally be expected in some quantities. The slides are stained and scanned by a technician who picks out the ragweed from other pollen grains and reports the nura ber present. Slides were exposed from Aug. 15 to Sept. 2 at the peak pollen season in the area. No ragweed grains were found on slides exposed in Grants Pass and Cave Junction which suggests that all the larger infestations have been located and ade quately treated. Moose said. The results of the Eugene slide survey are not yet avail able. The Portland allergic clinic in cooperation with the American Academy of Aller gy is scanning all slides ex posed under the 1958 pro gram. Prior to the 1958 ragweed season the weed was not be lieved to be a serious agricul tural pest. But this year one infestation in Josephine coun ty caused the loss of a seven- acre oat crop - ragweed stood approximately six inches higher than the oats and out numbered the cereal plants eight to one. Approximately one acre was cut for silage and the rest of the crop plow ed down as the volume of green ragweed foliage pre vented the use of a combine in the field. Moose is now undertaking the same type of educational program he did in 1957 familiarizing as many people as possible with ragweed, its detrimental effects, control measures, infestation report ing and the difference - be tween ragweed and tansy ragwort. Last year he spoke and showed slides to approx imately 1600 persons, in addi tion to radio talks and a tel evision appearance. Theodore Dreiser's first novel was published in 1900. - - r--.1 - to the garage, where . washer and dryer are installed. A cor ner of the garage is set aside for workshop area, and a stor age shelf extends across the back wall. The attractive contempor ary exterior combines stucco and stone for a very pleasing effect. A stone planter adds a spot for greenery at the front of the garage. Complete working drawing thf ahflV nlan van tm nhtainPil S cost i-lf 7 5n far th first cot anH S5 for each additional set, when ordered at the same time. This plan will be available for a neriod of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for deliV erV If tho ohir, hnmA 1rue nnt entirely meet with your satisfac tion, a new nome plan door. Homes SI. Send ail orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes. P.O. "ving, may oe purcnaseo for box 40-t-T. Northridge, Calif. CHIT CHAT Bt JOE G. COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor We dropped in on an interesting person the other day. He is a hired-hand in one of the biggest corporations in the United States education. When you figure the costs of the plant in which he sweats to turn out a "finished product," the cost of the ma terials with which he works and other costs, this is not a bragging statement. Education is big business! Only trouble is the directors of this large corporation you parents, take so little interest in it. When we came into the classroom, it was 5:15 p.m. Every body else in town, except for a few fellow teachers, had either gone home or were preparing to. As this man sat on the edge of the classroom desk swinging his legs, he seemed to have all the time in the world. He did, too! After a quick dinner he was praparing for another four -to six hours piled on top of the standard eight hours a day. "My wife and I are working with the Cub Scouts, we are active in church and I belong to the Army Reserves. These activities interfere with on this work. Actually, I should spend 24 hours a day just on this job," the teacher commented. Recognize him yet? No? Well, you should! No, he's not a super citizen. There are hundreds like him. He's a teacher. In this case, he's a vocational agriculture teacher and Future Farmers of American chapter adviser. In Jackson county there are three such teachers - Nat Etzel at Eagle Point, Ed Griggs at Central Point, Since this is National Education Week we feel a few comments on these men and the work they do in teaching future farmers are appropriate. These men don't conform to any type. They may be short and stocky, lean and angular and big and husky like a college football tackle. They can be easy going and soft spoken, determined and persuasive, aggressive and fiery. They have just one idea. That is to turn out high school graduates who can either make their living at farming or can go on to college to use their high school learning as a solid base for tackling the more diffi cut phases of scientific farming. Achievements and results to measure and even more difficult to compare. One such vo-ag instructor may teach farming community, another the farms are small and comparatively poor and a third may work in an area where land than acres. i Farming in this last community may be more of the subsistence or part-time variety. The number of years each vo-ag department has been established makes a difference, also. Regardless of where he has his own set of problems. One of the big problems is and initiative by the pupils from the parents. This is a to understand for they eat, sleep and breathe agriculture. Each vo-ag teacher we have been lucky enough to know is interested in the work of the whole class and the progress of each of its parts the students. Hours are spent on week ine. advising and instructing supervised farm projects. Projects may be the raising of various livestock, crops, fruit, and truck garden crops. To give good advice to the budding farmer hard study in major sciences in college is required plus continual study on latest methods. Such study may involve experiments. Some of these ex periments may improve the future of Oregon agriculture. One such experiment or project became a joint FFA-4-H project in eastern Oregon. This is an annual fat-stock show- only the stock must have been tattenea on uregon wneax. Idea is to prove Oregon wheat can be used to fatten Oregon livestock economically. Snmplimp fhpsp vn-ae instructors mav droD into tech nical inhs in commercial fields and later return to teach vo-ag. This may explain the super-salesmanship of one vo-ag instructor. He not only sells vo-ag to his students but to who lets an ear twitch in his direction. Another vo-ag instructor may go on to ther agricultural exDeriments near the breaking point in organizing and re-organizing an experiment station. These men are the teachers of the future farmers advisers to the old ones and salesmen for their trade. They sew the seed of education only hoping that occasionally one may sprout in fertile soil. Emerson wrote, "If you would learn to write 'tis in the street you must learn it." To para phrase this, if you would write of farming it is from the farmer you must learn it. Such men as these vo-ag instruc tors are among our best teachers. Fertilizer Shows Mixed Promise Corvallis Molybdenum fer tilizers may increase crop yields under some conditions in Oregon but also may be toxic to livestock under other conditions, reported a team of Oregon State college agricul tural experiment station sci entists. OSC scientists this week completed an intensive sum mary of molybdenum re search results in Oregon and elsewhere in an attempt to point out the possible advan tages and disadvantages of the chemical under different con ditions. Applications of small amounts of molybdenum have increased legume yields on some acid soils in Oregon and hold considerable promise once science has nailed down proper methods of using it without posing hazards to live stock that eat the forage. Standard practice for boosting legume crop yields on such soil has been through liming. OSC findings and judgments on the molybdenum problem are summarized in a new pub lication issued this week by the agricultural experiment station and now available from local county extension service offices. Copies may also be obtained from the Oregon State college bulletin clerk, Corvallis. Contributing Groups Listed Contributing to the report are representatives of the OSC departments of soils, ag ricultural chemistry, dairy an animal husbandry, farm crops, and veterinary medi cine. The fine line between crop response and livestock toxic ity is pointed up in the fact that application of a few ounces of molybdenum fertil izer per acre may shift molyb denum content of forage over into the danger zone. Reactions of both plants and the time I would like to spend and Jack Dube in Phoenix. of their teaching is difficult in a "wealthier" more active may teach in an area where is measured by lots rather teaches each vo-ag instructor indifference a lack of drive and just plain lack of interest difficult thing for these men ends and after school inspect- the future farmers in their teach in college, conduct fur and finally strain nis nean animals to molybdenum are keyed to a variety of complex conditions soil acidity, avail able molybdenum, sulfur, phosphorus, iron and manga nese and copper in the soil, and molybdenum, copper and sulfate sulfur in the feed. The publication sets forth advan tages and disadvantages of the chemical in a detailed "ques tion and , answer" section. Farmers interested in using molybdenum are advised to first study these questions and consult .with their county agent. NASDA Requests Five-Year Census Salem The National As sociation of State Depart ments of Agriculture has gone on record as urging the reten tion of the five-year census of agriculture in the United States, reports Robert J. Stew ard of the Oregon department. In its resolution, the associ ation said the five-year cen sus is the only source of cur rently useful local or county data on agriculture, both for farmers and for industry. The industrious stainless steel craftsmen at Tsubame, Niigata-Ken, have turned from the making of flatware to golf clubs now that the ex porters have imposed a "vol untary ceiling on the table ware that can be processed in the northern Japanese community. This is the result of American import restrict ions on Japanese silverware. The lumbering industry leads all other types of man ufacturing enterprises in Mis sissippi despite the fact that it also leads all other states in the production of long staple cotton. Microbes Seen As Soil Crop By Scientist Corvallis - What's the soil's primary crop? Microbes, says an Oregon State college scientist, who has won the 1958 OSC camp us research award for his work with soil micro-organisms. Dr. W. B. Bollen points out that the millions of minute micro-organisms in soil are the essential key to soil de velopment and fertility. They 'unlock" the potential fertil ity of organic matter and min erals and make it available for plant use, with benefits that must be measured in mil lions of dollars. Some 100,000 million mi croorganisms - bacteria, ac tinomyces. molds, aleae and protozoa are found in an acre of soil sliced to a depth of 7 inches, Bollen explains. Their dry weight would ap proximate 1,000 pounds. Add to these a half ton of earth worms (or some 2 to 10 million) per acre and you get an idea of the mass of living organisms in fertile soil, he continued. Example Given Best example perhaps of the value of the microbes is the nitrogen fixing root-no dule bacteria of leguminous plants, according to Bollen. An Idaho soil technologist re cently estimated that if the ni trogen fixed by legumes in that state in one year were to be purchased in the form of commercial fertilizer it would cost the farmers more than $16 million. Nitrogen may ex ceed 100 pounds per acre in a good growing season. Higher plants and micro-organisms grow in close rela tionship and are mutually de pendent in many ways, Bol len said. Bacteria and molds in the soil use plant and ani mal residues as food and are active in transforming them to humus and available plant nutrients. They are also re sponsible for a gradual liber ation of available food for the plant from the insoluble soil minerals and from "un available" or locked-up fertil izer materials. In supplying nutrients, the soil may be considered as a table at which the soil organ- ilillililllilll Mow with KHIfc (Sato rtte (snn (u!m Ground spraying with ORTHO'Endrin is the most effective -most economical method for control of orchard mice. Up until now, tne control of orchard mice has been an expensive, timensirming task. Previously used control measures such as hand-baiting, and the use of wire mesh screen, required costly hard labor and were not always effective. Now, ground spray with ORTHO Endrin gives you a sure, efficient method of control. For complete information on the con trol of orchard mice, call your nearest ORTHO Fieldman. Farm & Stale Vet Now On Nation-Wide Committees Salem-Dr. L, E. Bodenwei ser, veterinarian in charge of the state department of agri culture's disease control and meat inspection programs, was appointed to the U.S. Livestock Sanitary associa tion s committee on transmis sible diseases of poultry and sheep diseases, at the associa tion's meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., this month. The association's executive committee approved the west ern states' agreement regard ing movement of cattle from certified brucellosis-free areas to other states without test ing. Bodenweiser said this agreement will be subject, to complete certification of coun ties and eventually of states, and will be subject to existing regulations of the various states. However, where pres ent regulations prohibit free movement of this type, imme diate steps will be taken to develop, a uniform program, he added. The association's executive committee rejected the ac ceptance of brucellosis certi fication solely by 100 per cent vaccination, but said that this would be accepted if tied in with slaughter bleeding and saleyard testing. Industry will be represent ed on the executive council of the USLSA as a result of a resolution passed at the meet ing. The resolution provides that no more than eight in dustry representatives will become members of the exe cutive committee, limited to a maximum of two from each of the four U.S. Extension areas. These representatives will be chosen by industry in each area and each member will have a vote. isms and plant roots feed, he noted. For good plant growth therefor, fertilizer and soil management practices must be aimed at building up the soil in organic matter as well as in mineral nutrients. Such procedure feeds the soil first, then the crop. iiltlillillll APPLE GROWERS ki orchard ORtW Endnn Garden Turkey Men Plan Marketing Talks Corvallis - Oregon turkey producers will seek an answer to the riddle of tomorrow's markets at their 18th annual fall outlook meeting to be held in Salem Nov. 28. The meeting, scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.. in the Mar ion hotel, will probe the gen eral business outlook for the coming year, check local and national markets for dressed turkeys and for "breeding stock and eggs, and discuss ways to stay in the turkey business, according to Noel Bennion, extension poultrv- man at Oregon State college. The meeting will be opened by Cliff Wrolstad, Molalla. president of the Oreeon Tur key Improvement association which sponsors the annual meeting. First speaker will be T. S. Prideaux, Portland, vice president of the loan depart ment of the U.S. National bank. Prideaux will review the general business outlook and discuss ways turkey pro ducers can obtain loans. To Talk Turkev Trends uenmon will then report on trends in turkey production costs and prices in the state. His report will also cover re sults of a survey in other stat es of labor income per bird, poultry and egg prices, and methods of financing. Final feature of the evening meeting will be a panel dis cussion on future market and development possibilities for the turkey industry. Taking part wm De Tice Schroeder, Milwaukie turkey producer; Mrs. Virginia Menefee. Yam- mil turkey grower; George Renan, Portland, sales man ager for Oreeon Turkev Growers: Walt Schwedler. Portland, turkey producer ana vice president oi the Na tional Turkey federation: and Bob Walker, Amity, Silver a alls Processing plant. All turkey growers and al lied industry representatives are invited to tne meeting Bennion emphasized. Minnesota celebrated the 100th anniversary as a state May 11, 1958. trap; mice m rtte firtsSis&s iim OTP Helping the World Grow Better California Spray-Chemical Corp. A wbiiJdty f California Ch leal Co. PorHjnd, In this area call Bangs Disease Work Continues Salem Daring October 1909 herds containing 13,027 cattle were blood tested for brucellosis in Oregon and an other 1931 dairy herds came under the milk ring program. Thirty-two reactors were disclosed by blood testing for a percentage of a little more than one-half of one per cent. The milk ring test disclosed 26 suspicious herds which were subsequently blood test ed. Nearly one-third of the Diood tests were administered at slaughterhouses or sale- yards. Calf vaccination was con ducted in 572 herds contain ing 3,530 calves mostly in Coos, Harney, Jefferson, Mal heur, Tillamook, Umatilla and Wallowa counties. During October 542 herds containing 4,022 cattle were tested for tuberculosis! 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