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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or., FotrinrD Brighten Winter Days By Growing Bulbs Inside (Editor! note: This U the first in a series af article to be writ ten by a local nurseryman in association with Roxne Valley Nurserymen and Grower! and Oregon Association of Nursery men. An article is scheduled to appear on the farm pate once a month providing tips on growing plants, bulbs, trees and shrubs. J. VERNON MARSHALL For Rogue Valley Nurserymen For November, and to brighten your winter days, why not grow bulbs on your window sill? If you have never grown the hardier spring bulbs in pots, start with a few. Bulbs potted for the house must spend a cool weather period growing a set of roots to sup port flowers later on. The ideal temperature range for such root growth is be tween 34 and 40 degrees. Freezing will not harm root nor bulb, but bulbs should spend from six to eight weeks in a cool dark, protected place. Cover over in your garden or under sawdust. There the roots can develop while the top growth remains dormant. Then, when the bulbs are brought into warmth and light, the tops still start to grow. These bulbs may be brought in, starting from the middle of November, all through winter for house forc ing. The change of tempera ture, if it can be controlled, should be gradual 50 to 60 degrees for two or three weeks, after bringing them in doors; 60 degrees or higher, if necessary, to bring buds into flower. These bulbs will adjust themselves to a wide range of growing conditions indoors. For best flowering they must have at least three or four hours of direct sun. Also re member for indoor flowering, always buy top-size bulbs for This Week's There's a romantic story book tilt to the gables of this three bedroom home. Color ful used brick is used on the chimney as veneer on the garage and front bedroom wall. Board and batten com bine with horizontal siding for exterior contrast. The floor plan offers all the basici elements for grac ious family living and enter taining. The huge .fireplace in the living room is the focal point for furniture arrange ments. A partial wall, extend ing from the fireplace, marks the' division between the liv ing area to include the gar den. The separate dining room is returning to favor with many families today, keeping the noisa and clutter of table f II DINING 1 it- ' ' T BEDROOM V I HP- awaw asm LIVIM6 ROOM 6E PLAN NO. 3629 hlf 'zo 1751 SQUARE FEET MY "I I Thursday, November 27, 1931 amid Gardeon tulips, tacn will yield one large blossom. The same is true of hyacinths which can be bought in jumbo sizes. For good indoor culture, use the garden types. In tu lips they include Bartigon (red). Aristocrat (pink), Gold en Age (yellow), The Bishop (purple), Fantasy (pink), Orange Favorite (a good orange parrot tulip, and there are lots of good garden types in white. In hyacinths good colors are La Victoria (red), City of Har lem (yellow) Pink Pearl, and Innocence, which is a beauti ful creamy white. Among daffodil varieties King Alfred is "still one of the favorite yellow trumpets. Plant about three bulbs in six-inch pots. If you follow this proce dure, you may have flowers or green growing plants in the house all winter. Use ordinary garden soil, mix with peat Special Program Set at Local YMCA A special program of activi ties has been scheduled at the Young Men's Christian associ ation Friday, Nov. 28. Junior high basketball will be featured. Non-members and members may participate with one of the teams at the YMCA for a basketball tournament, which will begin at 9 a.m. and end at noon. Other gym activities will in clude grade school girls, 1 pjn.; grade school boys, 2:30 pjn. and high school boys, 4 p.m. Swim activities will include grade school, 11 p.m.; junior high, noon; grade school, 2 pjn. and high school, 3 p.m. Home for Living setting and clean-up away from guests. Corner windows catch both the side and gar den view", and wall areas are wide enough to accommodate bulky dining room cabinets. Double sliding doors can op en this attractive room to the living room or close it for pri vacy. Family snacks can be serv ed in the bright nook area of the kitchen. The service area includes' washer, dryer, broom closet and space for freezer or sewing machine. A back door to the garage is lo cated to the service entrance. The center hall, which unit es each area, is lined with closets. High sliding windows and large front and rear win dows keep the bedrooms light and airy. King-size wardrob Two Hereford Ranches Enter National Show Pendleton Two Medford Polled Hereford Ranches are among early entrants in the Feb. 28 thru March 3, 1959, Columbia Empire Polled Hereford association's Show- Sale Activity. The "National Polled Hereford show and sale event will be staged in Walla Walla, Wash. Miraflores ranch, owned by Vaughn and Beulah Key ser, have entered one Pen of one and one Pen of Two bulls in the pen bull show and sale. Ralph L. Cook ranches have entered 11 head, includ ing one for the national halt er , show only; nine "classic sale" entries; and one pen of one bull entry. Largest Polled Hereford consignment sale ever staged in America, and probably the largest all polled Hereford show to be held in 1959, the Columbia Empire event is Sponsored by Idaho, Oregon and Washington Breeders. More than 50 Breeder-Exhibitors from the CEPHA membership region are ex pected to participate, as well as numerous Polled Hereford Ranchers from outside the territory. The event will fea ture an open halter class show; a "Classic Sale" with 35 select females and 15 head sire prospects; a pen bull show; and a pen bull sale. Over 150 bulls will be sold in the pen bull Sale, combining numbers and quality with the commercial Rangeman-Buyer in mind. es offer plenty " of storage space for clothing. In the mas ter bedroom, double ward robes reach wall-to-wall on ei ther side of a built-in dressing table. The den-bedroom has three-quarter bath with stall shower, pullman lavatory and separate linen closet. A door to the service room makes this bath accessible to the work area and play yard. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of S7 j0 for the first set and $5 for each additional set, when ordered at the sarhe time. This plan will be available for a period of tour months from this date Please allow two weeks for deliv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfaction, a new home plan book. Homes for Living, may be purchased for SI. Send all orders for either plans or doors to Hiawatha tstes, r.u. Box 404-T. Northridge, Calif. --CHIT CHAT-- By JOE G. COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor Approximately 30 persons from Jackson county attended the annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Society on Nov. 20 and Nov. 21 at Oregon State college at Corvallis. The great majority of these were pear growers. We understand there would have been more if many of the vegetable growers in the area had gone. Topics in the vegetable crops section probably wouldn't draw much interest from local vegetable growers, but if more would start at tending they would have a hand in the program planning. Estimates of the number of vegetable growers in this area range from 35 ( or 50 to several hundred, all depending on your classification of vegetable growers, we suppose. The pear section was well represented. Some of the more interesting topics included a panel on pear tree decline, a progress report on controlled atmosphere storage research, changing problems in pest control, and quality trees for nursery planting. The talk on changing problems in pest control, the part presented by Louis Gentner, appears elsewhere on this page. We will try to summarize some of the main points of the other talks and have other of the more interesting talks pre sented later on this page. The problem of pear decline has been kept under wraps for some time as the research people probed here and there. Some of the finding which may help the pear growers and which are not yet conclusive were published this fall in a mimeographed sheet. Full attention was given to this problem in the apple and pear section when a panel discussed the problem. On the panel were C. B. Cordy, Jackson county hort icultural agent; Henry Hartman, OSC horticulturist; and R. C. Blake, USDA horticulturist, assigned to the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment Station; and L. P. Batjer, USDA horti culturist, Wena tehee, Wash. Professor Hartman has been working on the problem and investigating the orchards here. He said work in the field is not yet finished for the year. He and the local horticultur ists are attempting to gain time in the pear decline study by pushing their field work until weather forces them into the greenhouse. As Cliff Cordy has reiterated, there is no one simple ex planation for the problem. It consists of a complex of factors of which use of fertilizer and irrigation may be the most im portant. Other factors involved in this complex group may be root rots and root stocks. Some evidence indicates quick decline or collapse in pear trees may be cause.d by certain soil toxins, Cordy wrote in his published statement. A similar trouble has been found in citrus, avocado, apricot and walnut trees in California and has been attributed definitely to such toxic materials. These toxins or poisons consist essentially of nitrites and certain sulfur compounds. They are induced by soil organ isms in the presence of excessively high nitrogen, organic matter and lack of proper soil aeration caused by water logging or flooding of the soil. Small amounts of these poisons are known to cause sudden and Severe injury to feeder roots, Cordy said. , The county horticulturist listed four main recommenda tions for slowing or halting the progress of quick decline. Apply no nitrogen fertilizers during the 1958-59 season, he directed. Discontinue the practice of applying extra nitro gen to trees that show symptoms of decline. Trees in decline cannot utilize nitrogen or other kinds of fertilizer. Do not plow under organic matter like cover crops, hay or manure. Leave these materials to decompose on the ground surface, Cordy suggested. Stop using flood irrigation. Standing water around the trees shuts off oxygen from the soil. Do not irrigate in early spring. Apply water only when inspection of the soil at the one to two foot level shows a need for it. Trees in any state of decline have badly damaged roots so should not be subjected to drought, Cordy pointed out. They should receive light but frequent irrigation during the dry season. Do all you , can to remove excess water during the rainy season. Put in ditches this fall to drain off surface water and do all you can to avoid high water tables. Dr. L. P. Batjer, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture experiment station at Wenatchee, Wash., approaches the problem from a single angle. He blames mainly root stock. Most of the 'decline was found on trees of Jap root stock with some found on French root stock. The problem appeared in Central Washington in 1950. It was observed then that trees were losing their vigor and not making growth, Dr. Batjer said. Research indicated the decline was caused in the root stock. Experiments in Washington has failed to uncover anything that will re habilitate the dying trees, he noted. Removal of the damaged trees and resetting the new ones is necessary, he suggested. Considerable loss in pear tonnage and tree loss had totalled about one million dollars in Wash ington, he added. The loss in Oregon has been about the same, it was reported. Dr. Blake, of the Southern .station, stated that a preliminary study of five orchards showed that four out of five orchards which had a consider able number of declining trees also had excessively high water tables. This is not conclusive proof, he emphasized, Further work is necessary. The Hartman Cup was presented Leroy Childs, one of the state's leading horticulturists and former superintendent of the Hood' River Branch Experiment Station. Ward Spatz, Medford, and member of the advisory board, had won the Pear growers who hear talks on atmosphere storage of fruit appeared enthusiastic, it was reported. George Jones, research horticulturist, Gerber Products company, Oakland, Calif., told of the use of commercial controlled atmosphere storage for California apples. He said the more California apple growers see of it, the better they like it. Local horticulturists say type of storage would have to The important thing to consider for it to get a premium price Jones said one California mosphere storage capacity this . Care in handling nursery stock was emphasized in the talk given by- Paul-Stark Jr., Stark Brothers Nursery, of Louisiana, Mo. Production of quality nursery stock is first dependent upon selection of superior parent trees of known performance, he said. Using apple trees as an example, he said, regular checks are given to trees that produce apples of desired color, size, form and quality. They are examined for production, free dom from harmful viruses and other transmissible diseases. Quality nursery stock is only produced on relatively fresh soil, Stark emphasized. This is soil that has not been in a nursery crop over two times during any 10-year period. Such nursery stock must receive regular and thorough spraying to keep a strong, vigorous foliage, the veteran nurseryman said. This builds heavy caliper and good stored food reserves which cushion the shock of transplanting to the orchard. Orchard planting should be dug carefully with special mechanical equipment to get just as much of the root system as is possible, he pointed out. These should be hauled to a storage building under cover, and held in storage under optimum conditions of humidity and temperature. I Oregon Branch experiment state department of agriculture cup in previous years. that any cost estimates on this be based on a per box expense is - is the fruit enough better on the market? concern is increasing its at summer. graded in a cool environment Continual For Effective Pest Control Changing problems in pest control should be of consid erable value and interest, En tomologist Louis G. Gentner told those attending the 73rd annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Society in Corvallis Friday. "More and more frequent ly we find problems relating to the control of a certain pest have changed and estab lished control practices no longer are satisfactory," Gent ner pointed out. This, he explained, means that control measures for a certain pest cannot be worked out and the project dropped. An example of this is the control of the two-spotted spi der mite on pear trees in the Medford area. In the early 1930's seasonal control of this pest was obtained by one ap plication df a spray containing 1 per cent of light-medium summer oil during the first- week in July. All stages of the insect's life cycle, including eggs, were controlled. How ever, there was no residual effect. Then the mite popula tion In the Medford area was low and little reinfestation oc curred after the spray was ap plied. Liitrr the mite population ut'i'iune lurgcr and the mites migrated to pear trees from other hnoU over a longer period during the summer. Then it became necessary to make two and three applica tions of oil and even then control was not satisfactory. About 1944 a dinitro spray called DN-111 was put into use. This material had a resi dual life of about a week. After two or three applica tions it was possible to obtain good control at first, but by 1947 or 1948 some growers failed to get satisfactory con trol even after five applica Phoenix FFA Group Young, Progressive The youngest Future Farm ers of America chapter in Jackson county is in Phoenix high school. Of the 41 members, 29 of them have projects. Eventual aim is for 100 per cent of the chapter to have supervised farming project, according to Jack Dube, vocational agri culture instructor and chap ter adviser. Within the chapter there are six beef projects, three sheep projects, nine swine projects, five crop projects, three poultry projects, three rabbit projects, one with bees, two dairy projects and one orchard project. The chapter is gradually building up the livestock it owns. These include 14 head of registered Suffolk sheep, one registered Hereford Heif er, and one registered Berk shire gilt. This represents an investment of $10,000 for the chapter. Chapter members own 16 beef, 30 sheep, 16 swine, 63 acres of crop land, 40 chick ens, 17 rabbits, seven hives of bees, four dairy animals and seven pear trees. The c o m p a ratively new chapter has a full slate of activities scheduled for this year. These are headed by the Rogue Umpqua District FFA parliamentary procedure and public speaking contest to be held in Phoenix high school on Jan. 15. Phoenix FFA will host the nine schools in the district which includes such schools as Roseburg, Marsh field, Illinois Valley, Myrtle Point, Pacific, Grants Pass, Eagle Point, Crater and Phoenix. Future Plans Listed Future plans' include mak ing a food baskets to be dis tributed to needy families on Thanksgiving and Christmas, participation in the public speaking and parliamentary contest in Phoenix Jan. 15, entrance in the district skills contest at Marshf ield high school, Coos Bay, on Feb. 7, woodcutting and Christmas tree sales as chapter money raising projects. Farm Bureau Sets Membership Drive A series of meetings are to be held in Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties in pre paration for the annual Farm Bureau membership drive, a Farm Bureau spokesman said. The drive is scheduled to start in January. The first of these meetings was held Nov. 21 at the Oregon Inn in Grants Pass. Dates, times and places of future meetings will be an nounced later, it was reported. Attending the meetings from Jackson county was Or ganization Director Maurice E. Davies, Eagle Point; Archie Ferns, Ashland; and David Blair, Rogue River. They met with the directors of Jose phine and Douglas county and Etate Organization Director Cliff Wright, Salem. Research Needed tions. In 1948 parathion was first used. This had a residual life of about three weeks and was considered excellent in con trol. At the same time non phosphate materials like Di mite and K1875 (Ovtran) were being tested. Each year more materials became available, such as EPN 300 and Diazin on, organic material with long-lasting residual, effect, and a non-phosphate material later known as Aramite. Research workers and growers were pleased with the control obtained with the many materials then avail able. However, ' in 1954, six years after parathion was first used, the two-spotted mites in the experiment sta tion plots could no be con trolled by parathion or by any other of the organic phos phate materials used. Since these materials could not be relied on, it was ne cessary to use only non-phosphate materials for mite con trol. During recent years Oro tran has failed to give satis factory control. Dimite has permitted the build-up of Eu ropean red mites late in the season. 'Aramite and Chlorobenzi Iate have given good control but both have produced con siderable fruit injury at times," the entmologist said Kelthane, which was re leased for use this year, and Tedion which may be avail able commercially next year have given excellent control with long-lasting effect." "Even Kelthane has caused some fruit spotting this year under the slow drying condi tions," Gentner said. "With rumors of resistance to some of those newer materials, we are wondering what our next step will be." ' Phoenix chapter has had a busy schedule already this year. The chapter was active m the county fair in August, participated in the officer leadership meeting at Crater high school, Central Point, on Sept. 13 picked corn for a money-making project, held a Greenhand initiation on Oct. 30 for initiation of new members, cut wood at Ander son creek for raising money, and held a skating party on Nov. 6 Leon Small, chapter rep resentative, won second place in the soil conservation speech contest on Nov. 6 at Crater high school. He and Bill Rasmussen were chapter delegates to the national con vention in Kansas 'City on Oct. 11 to 19. Chapter officers for 1958- 59 are Leon Small, president; Jack Hoffbuhr, vice presi dent; Bill Rasmussen, secre tary; Roger Kelso, treasurer; Gerald Sloper, reporter, and Dean Sommer, sentinal Bangs' Control Program Said On Schedule Salem Oregon's brucellosis (Bang's) eradication program is "on schedule" toward the statewide accreditation date of June, 1959, Dr. A. G. Beagle, in charge of federal veterin arians, reported this week. A total of 27 counties and the Warm Springs Indian res ervation have met the re quired tests to date while one county is within one herd of clearing the disease-free hur dle and eight counties remain to be completed, state depart ment of agriculture records show. "In order to prevent the spread of disease from infect ed herds, quarantines are be ing placed upon such herds with special limitations on the sale of animals from that herd into other herds", Dr. Beagle said. Quarantines Enforced Steers, spayed heifers, and calf vaccinates under 30 months of age are not limited by the quarantine. Other ani mals may be sold direct to slaughter and records kept available of such sales. Quar antines will be strictly en forced for th protection of the clean herds. One hundred per cent vac cination of all calves is urged, Dr. Beagle emphasized, ad ding, "Buyers are preferring vaccinated calves because of the facility with which they may be moved to other areas." Brucellosis of animals is transmittable to humans as undulant fever and causes ser ious, long-lasting illness in most humans affected; while the human death rate is low, the incidence of physical in capacitation of a chronic na ture is highland often remains with the affected person for life. Codling moth control is vet another example, the entomo logist illustrated. Arsenate of lead was used to control this pest in the experiment station Bartlett pears in 1946. A Calyx and five 'cover sprays were used, he said. Experi ment station personnel har vested 35.3 per cent wormy fruit. In the adjoining rows which received four cover sprays of DDT onlv 0.2 tier cent wormy fruit was found. Many growers will remem ber the arsenate of lead days when codline moth became more and more resistant The material had to be fortified with spreaders and stickers and even stove oil and other materials had to be added," the entomologist said. "Even then the codling moth larvae seemed to enter the fruit rieht through the lead arsenate spots just before harvest. This was when the fruit skin was becoming tender." j Spraying with some brands of lead arsenate resulted in 30 per cent wormy fruit, Cent ner reported. With other brands only 3 per cent and per cent wormv fruit wa harvested. This informati on could not be published by the experiment station because station personnel are not tier- mitted to use trade names. Gentner explained. Some progress was beine made with substitute mater ials such as cryolite and mi cronized phenothiazine when DDT became available. This material far excelled anv other materials tested and has been used for 10 years. Develops DDT Resistance However, in some areas codling moth ' has developed resistance to DDT already. Now testing of new substitut es has already beeun to be prepared for any moth out break in this area, Gentner said. Of the newer materials tested, Sevin, Guthion, Eth ion (Nialate) and Trithion gave control ranging from better than 99 ner cent to 100 per cent. Control with Diazin- on was somewhat poorer than this. Gentner said. In the Medford area DDT is giving excellent control yet, he said, but no guarantee is made on how long this will continue. Pear psylla has shown re sistance to organic phosphate materials like malathion and parathion but not yet in the Medford area, Gentner report ed. Other phosphate materials like Delnav, Diazinon, Guth ion and Trithion also show good control. Non-phosphate materials such as Sevin, Di eldrin and ToxaDhene rive ex cellent control and Endrin has promise.. These materials are effective over a longer period than the organic phosphates, Gentner pointed out. Control failure may be due to factors other than material effectiveness, spray pattern or timing the entomoiogst indi cated. In one experimental tract at the station pear trees on oriental roots stocks revealed considerable chlorosis last year. Most of the trees showed a decline condition this year. However, those on French stock developed normally. A row on French stock and the adjoining one ' on oriental stock both received an appli cation of a combination of Se vin and Kelthane in the last two cover sprays and at the same time. "At harvest time the D'Anjou trees on French stock had a low. mite population and very little blackening of foliage. While the trees in the adjoining row on oriental stock all carried heavy mite populations, had much black ening of the foliage and con siderable defoliation," Gent ner said. "Some time after the harvest some of the heavily infested trees were completely without leaves and those on the French stock showed prac tically no defoliation. Here we have an example of decline condition in trees apparently causing a lack of control." Another factor may be be cause the nitro'gen factor frac tion of available food is latered thus allowing an in crease in reproduction rate. Drift from 2,4-D sprays for killing roadside weeds has distorted pear tree foliage. This resulted also in a much heavier build-up of two-spotted mite and much heavier defoliation on -the 2,4-D af fected trees even several rows distant. This would in dicate that a similar reaction occurs with mites ' as with other insects, Gentner point ed out. Mr. Staffer's "Magic Couch" with the Stauffer Hem Reducing Plan is available to you Phone SP 2-9260, ask for Virginia Wickersham Milk Sanitarians Slate Refresher Course af OSC Salem - With 500 of Ore gon's state inspected grade "A" milk producers now stor ing milk in bulk on the farms in lieu of shipping directly to market in the familiar 10-gal-lon tanks, new problems have arisen for the state depart ment of agriculture which keeps a protective eye on the milk flow. These problems of regula tion and inspection, together with other phases of the in dustry, will be discussed at the seventh armual milk sani- . tarians short course which will.be held Dec. 1-2 at Ore gon State college, Corvallis. The two-day program will be conducted by the state de partment of agriculture and Oregon State college with the cooperation of the Oregon As sociation of Milk Sanitarians. O. K. Beals, agricultural de partment foods and dairies division chief, will chairman the session. Pipeline Milkers Talked The construction and instal lation of pipeline milkers will aso draw attention during the short course which is expect ed to attract milk plant field- men, dairy equipment suppli ers, government officials and interested public. Department and college of ficials who will discuss repec- tive phases of the program in clude: Dr. E. A. Day, irradia tion sterilization of dairy pro ducts; A. E. TesdaL farm tank sediment committee report; V. N. Simmons, 3A standards committee report; Dr. Gerald E. Korzan, featured speaker of the Oregon Association of Milk Sanitarians. . J. Orville Young will chair man the Tuesday sessions at which K. E. Carl will discuss department of agriculture en forcement policy, and Roy Stein will give the committee report on farm tanking samp ling. Guest speakers will be Rob ert Mather, Babson Bros, sale manager, Chicago; C. E. Laughlin, Western Dairy Equipment, . Portland; Law rence J. 'Christensen, Dairy Co-op. Assn., Portland and Donald B. Patton, Oregon State Board of Health. California Couple Buys Huge Ranch Kerby-The Q-Bar-X ranch, owned by L. A. Johnson, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Warrne Ridinger of Lincoln, Calif., it was reported here. The price was said to have been in excess of $200,000, making it one of the largest rural real estate transactions in this area for many years. The Ridingers plan to re side on the ranch, which has 1,500 acres along the Illinois river. The transaction was handled by the Herried Real Estate firm in Medford, and the Ridingers were represent ed by the legal firm of Van Dyke, Dellenback and Mc Goodwin, also of Medford. The 2,000 acre ranch in cludes an owner's residence of 10 rooms (seven family bed rooms, four baths), ranch buildings such as the fore man's house, tenant cottage, shingle cottage, garage, ma chine shed, petroleum supply building, hay and feed barn. 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