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2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforo', Oregon, Thimday, January 8, Watering Important Growth Factor To Plants Being Raised Indoors By J. VERNON MARSHALL For Rogue Valley Nursery men and Growers and Oregon Association of Nurserymen. Well, we can't garden too well outside now can we? So let's grow a lew bouse plants. General cause for the fail ure to successfully grow pot plants in the home is improp er watering. Watering plants growing in pots requires careful-attention. The plants are entirely dependent upon the homemaker for the right amount of water encourage a healthy growth. When out in the open the roots have a chance to go down into the soil and look for moisture if necessary. A tender annual Grange Co-op Man To Teach Course Eagle Point - Keith Hocker- smith, field man for the Grange Co-op, will be the leading instructor for the adult farmer class on live stock feeding and nutrition which will be held at the Eagle Point Vocational Agri culture building beginning to day at 7:45 p.m. A tuition fee will include refreshments and a supple mental outline for the class which will meet Thursday evening: for ten weeks. Topics will include funda mentals of animal nutrition, use of feeding tables, rough ages, pellets and wafers, feed additives, calf raising, pas tures, parasites, and new equipment for best utilization of pastures, hay and silages. Instructors will include Dr. Eugene Hanawalt, C e n tr a 1 Point, veterinarian; Carl Jacobson, Medford, General Mills representative; County Agent Earle Jossy; Paul Wil son, Medford, of Alberi Mill ing co.; County Agent Gene Winters and Hockersmlth. This Week's Mm KDOOK t2il7 By HIAWATHA ESTES The real quality of this 2183 square foot home goes beyond the attractive exter ior. Artful planning has given it an unusually well organiz ed floor plan, especially suit able for a large family. The central hall makes each room accesible to the front entrance which features a double entry door. For quiet and privacy, the four bed rooms are secluded from the activity area of the home.. Big and airy, the master bedroom has its own wardrobe-dressing room and three quarter bath. Large ward robes provide plenty of closet and storage space in the other bedrooms" and extra closets open from the hall. The family bath has reces sed fiztures and doubles lav atories, set in a tiled vanity top .coiiDlec. Cabinets .below keep accessories and supplies . Is f . 11 I - ' w KOROOM . ' Hi it Jh fi ENTRY I FiT"! O BEDROOM PS-I U u v can .be iirtea ana it can De observed that its hair-like roots have grown right into a hard-rock-like clay soil. The same plant in a four-inch pot has no chance to do so. Keep Soil Fairy Moist With most plants grown by the average home-maker it is just a matter of keeping the soil fairly moist at all times. Also, when applying the wa ter the soil should be dis turbed as little as possible. You can tell when a plant needs water by shoving your fingers down into the soil. Ap pearance of the surface soil may be deceiving. Don't water soil that is wet nor ever let a plant suffer in soil that is dry. Letting plants stand in dry soil even oc casionally stunts their growth. Plants; which grow under glass in pots or a shallow bench with artifical watering are different from those in the open field. They can't stand a dry soil without showing bad effects. On the other hand,, poor drainage and allowing the water to remain in the soil too long will produce some bad effects, also. No plant loves water more than the Boston fern, for in stance. As long as there is plenty of drainage in the pot it can stand watering prac tically every day. However, it will soon die in a sour soil resulting from improper drainage. This also applies, to all other plants. Among flowering plants, geraniums are the gayest of house plants and are ideally suited to colonial furnishings. They do need a lot of sunlight and not too much heat. Close relatives are Gloxinias and African Violets and are for the window which does not receive direct sunlight. . Spring flowering bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths make a glorious display in doors, but need more handling Home For Living "mtm nii ' ' i 70'rO . 1 r KOROOM 10 1 13 LIVING ROOM 19 I 16 1 w tw ENTY K1TCH Wf- BEDROOM J 20 . N?-'-i ---Tl- out of sight. A linen-storage closet has been located next to the lavatory. In the living room, the soft hued stonework of the fire place extends across most of the end wall. Floor-to-ceiling book shelves complete the set ting. Glass doors slide open to the sheltered patio from both the living room and fam ily room, to unite indoors and outdoors for summer relax ation, dining and entertain ing." The fireplace in the fam ily room could be built as a barbecue, if desired. The work area of this home would delight any homemak er. The kitchen is placed near the front door, yet it com mands a view of the three sides of the home, enabling mother to keep track of the children when they play out side. Built-in appliances and a spacious eating, area save time and steps in preparing than most other plants, them in the fall, bury Pot the pots in the garden for about two months, then start bring ing them inside for forcing from early January onward. Don't forget foliage plants, either. They need very little sunlight. This type includes Monstera, Cordatum or Per tussum, Philodendron, wax planty (Hoya) Sanservieria, Dieffenbachia, rubber plant, and ivy. Beef Promotion Meeting Set A meat promotion meeting sponsored by the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation will be held in the courthouse auditorium Thursday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. All persons interested in meat production will be wel come, County Agent Earle Jossy reported. The meeting, : planned by Howard Fujii, commodity di rector of the Oregon Farm Bureau, is designed to inform livestock producers of the na tionwide program for meat conducted by the National Livestock and Meat board; to discuss means of expanding local meat promotion; and to discuss methods of making promotion programs more ef fective. Richard J. Nolan, Denver, western representative for the National Livestock and Meat board, will explain its re search promotion and educa tion program. Representatives of Beef, Inc., statewide promotional group, and the Jackson Coun ty Cowbelles, -( will : explain their programs. Nine other meetings similar to the local one are planned in other Oregon districts, Jos sy said. i0 PLAN NO. 4604 i; 2183 SQUARE FEET and serving meals. The big service area is large enough for laundry equipment, freez er, and broom closet and the half-bath is handy to the fam ily room and play yard. The forced air heater has been located, in the garage but it could be placed in the closet next to the master bath or in the attic if desired. A rough shake roof, board and batten siding and exten sive stonework lend a hand craft charm to the rustic ex terior. . ... ,. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of fl.oO tor trie iltsi set ana S5 for each additional set. when ordered at the same time. This nlan will be available for a period cf four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for aeuv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfac tion, a new home plan book. Homes for Living may be purchas- ea tor si. Sena an oraers lor ei ther plans or books to Hiawatha Estes. P.O. Box 404-T, fiorthridge, cam. rT CD m PATIO .y. 1 m , n f FAMILY ROOM MPI CI It I 19 I -I --CHIT CHAT By JOI COWLEY ' Mail Tribune Farm Editor Two veteran farmers stood in the church vestibule earn estly talking last Sunday. It in and later joined in the "Y' know a young feller farming nowadays what with ery and all," one farmer was saying. ' "Tha's right! you just figure up all the machinery he's gonna need to run a farm, then total up the cost and you wonder how anybody gets started in farming these days," the other farmer agreed. "Yup, she's come a long ways from the time that I borrowed a team and plow from m'dad, rented a place and started farming." And we wondered right along with them. How can a young-farmer-to-be start raising crops on his own? So-o, we asked a few questions around. A vocational agriculture instructor, at one of the county high scools. said this is the problem that has worried educators for some time. However, it boils down to the old saw, '"When there's a will there's a way." But there are possibilities.. One popular means is to go into partnership with a farmer ready to re tire. It takes a little longer, but other-felfows work at another job either while farming or while saving up enough money to farm. And, of course, many , jobs related to farm ing exist. It used to be that vo-ag instructors aimed their instruction at getting the boy started in farming and training present farmers. Now, however, vo-ag teachers teach basic knowl edge and skills which can be used in the general field of agriculture. Not long ago a vo-ag instructor told us there is a bigger demand than can be filled for young men who can fill jobs in fields related to farming. Above all a boy with his eye on the future in agricul ture farmer or not should GET ALL THE EDUCA TION HE. CAN. A banker told us, a teacher told us, a businessman-farmer told us, and an agriculture expert "told us. Farming has become more of a science and business. And it must be run along those lines to be successful. College graduates are needed for 15,000 new agricultural jobs each year, according to a booklet published by the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities. What dqes education mean to you in dollars and cents? According to U. S. Census Bureau figures, eight years of schooling will produce a life income of $116 000, four years of high school $165,000, one to three years of college, $190,000 and four or more years of college up to $268,000. There are many doors to the wide field of agriculture. General headings are research, industry, business, education, communications, conservation, services and farming and ranching. Research alone has 12 classifications or job headings production, marketing, economics, agricultural engineering, equipment and utilities, processing, new uses and methods, new products, by-products, conservation, reclamation and rural sociology. There are several, facets to industry such as machinery and equipment, food processing, grain and seed processing, meat and poultry packing, fertilizer and lime, pesticides and herbicides, feed manufacturing, dairy processing, fats and oils, textiles and fibers, buildings and utilities and forest products. The business end of agriculture also known by the new name "agri-business" includes jobs under banking and credit, insurance, farm management, cooperative management, land appraisal, grading, packaging and labeling, marketing, stor age and warehousing, transportation, farm utilities, custom services, and private businesses. ;.' r.- The field of communications in agriculture is a broad one also and includes farm reporting, newspapers, market reporting, publications, magazines, photography, motion pictures, radio, recording, television, advertising, exhibiting, and training. ' Agricultural services are many and varied, They in clude such things as inspection and regulation, food and feed, seed and fertilizer, agricultural chemical, plant and animal quarantine, quality control and grading, organiza tion and foundations, agricultural technicians, agricultural consultant, agricultural statisticians, veterinarians, and for eign agricultural service. So much for how to get into agriculture. You decide you want to farm. So, you go to the bank and hunch over in your chair while a loan department man asks you questions and has you fill out a long form. You're on the "hot seat" because you think he is really giving you a going over. And you're right, he is. He wants to know how much you know about farming, about your general background, credit record and whether you are a good moral risk. Lending money has come a long ways from the time a banker would merely lean back in his swivel chair, run his fingers down his watch chain, fix the prospective bor rower with a piercing glance, ask a few sharp questions then refuse or grant the loan. Banks have a good record of successful lending to uphold. In fact, a local bank official tells us that bank net losses on loans are usually small. "About 99 point something, are honest people, anyway. That's what keeps us in business. You can't outfigure or outguess the few crooks, anyway." So you get the loan. Usual terms are one third down, half at the end of the first crop year and a second payment at the end of the second crop year. Much of the term ar rangement depends on the farm machinery and implement companies and results in many variations of financing terms. Some arrange payments on a basis of three crop years, we learned. Several loans are regularly made with the father sign ing for his son, but his son carrying the burden, a banker told. us. To borrow money a man must be of legal age. However, 4-H and FFA loans are the exception. These are straight loans of $200 to $300 used for a steer or crop. The idea is to teach the youngster how to borrow money and pay it back. "During the 15 to 20 years we have been making these loans we have lost only one," a local banker said. "That was when the old man ate the hog, so the boy didn't have anything with which to earn the money." Two things to consider, we angle and the lender's angle. How and when with any reason able assurance can the loan be paid back. This, of course, bars- acts of nature and any unforeseen events. A man must have "a little cushion" Otherwise, by the law of averages he is going to get clob bered. Like many other people the local banker also empha sises the need for as much schooling as possible for the future farmer. Farming is as much a business as accounting and law, we were told. A local banker cited a few statistics on people and busi nesses which all people in the money-lending business must keep tucked away in their craniums. An average of 9.2 out of of 100 corporations one is left at the end of 10 years. Out of every 400 top employees one is a potential employer. (This includes self-employment.) The latter figures were developed over the last 10 to 20 years by people in the business of personnel and lending money. The other figures were developed by the National Association of Manu facturers on records kept over "Twenty-three years ago when, I arrived in Medford' I made a walk from the Medford hotel to Bear creek," a looked interesting so we tuned conversation. just can't hardly get started in the high cost of farm machin were told, are the borrower's in case something goes wrong. every 10 businesses fail. Out a 30-40 year span. Rogue Valley Pears Go Into New Fruit Drink A new product which fea tures another use of the Rogue Valley's famous pears was announced at a recent meeting of the Medford Pear Shippers Association. The product is a prepared fruit drink and combines the juice of pears and pineapples, according to Warren Bayliss, vice-president of the year in dustry group. Bayliss reported that the fruit drink was introduced nationally under the Del Monte label, but he predicted that other companies would probably feature a similar product in the near future. At least two vally super markets (The Big Y and The Groceteria) have obtained amounts of the pear-pineapple drink, and others plan to ord er supplies based on consumer demand. Initial public response to the product has been very good, Bayliss said. He noted that this new item, plus other product uses cf pears, are im portant to the economy of the pear industry, since they tend to expand the domestic con sumer market. Product research by pear industry supported groups and by Oregon State college specialists will eventually point the way to full product usage, Bayliss said, but for the present the local industry must continue to develop its market for fresh pears and promote the use of canned pear products. Farm Records Course Topic Central Point A course on farm records will start at Crater High school beginning at 8 p.m., Monday, Jan. 12, according to Ed Griggs, voca tional agriculture instructor. The course sponsored by the vocational argiculture de partment will consist of a two hour class each Monday night for 10 weeks. Lecture subjects will cover various factors on farm record keeping such as the accrual method, the cash method, op erational records and enter prise cost analysis. Several classes will be de voted also to federal and state income taxes. One night will feature federal lending agencies on farm credit. The following week the class will cover commercial lending agencies. Farm insurance will be discussed also one evening and will consist of general farm insurance and liability insurance. County taxes will be discussed during another evening. Registration fee is five dol lars per family for the 10 weeks course, Griggs said. For more information and pre-registration contact ' the Crater high school vocational agriculture department by calling NOrmandy 4-1103. Cave Junction Man To Appear on Panel Cave Junction Robert Marten of Cave Junction was scheduled to appear on a panel of leading dairymen and agriculturists during the 65th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's associa tion yesterday and today at Gearhart, Ore. The" meetings at the Gear hart hotel will run the gamut of problems facing dairymen. Discussion will include rec ommended changes in agricul tural laws slated for presenta tion at the next legislature, he said. ZOO PARADE New York-ftTD-Police were not too surprised when they found an eight-foot porpoise hanging from a lamppost on a Bronx corner one night. Earlier in the day, they had come across a nine-foot shark with its teeth removed on a nearby corner. local banker said. "Now when I make the same walk I can count on the fingers of one hand the businesses along the same route which are still here. Of course, some business owners have died, others have sold out. Business and finance are as fluid as human-nature and human nature is very fluid," the local banker summed up. Thing's ain't what they used to be. Particularly in the winter underwear department. Recently we observed an ad in a big city paper. Varieties included medium winter weight, fleece-lined, long, short sleeve styles, wool, spring needle ribbed drawers, ankle length, thermal, elastic waist drawers, to mention only a few. I guess nowadays folks have a choice. Used to be that only the. long-handled red-colored winter underwear was available. When a man sweated, he itched. Grandpa used to put on some impromptu dance numbers while he tried to get at that itchy spot on his back he couldn't quite reach. Now with electric dryers and alL these winter appen dages no longer are hung out on the line to freeze into interesting shapes to amuse ' the neighbor, kids. Also, no doubt, they used to serve a double purpose. If hung on the line near the corn patch the flapping arms and legs used to frighten away many a marauding crow. People in those days used to put this variety on in the fall and wear it through spring.. Some even wore them year around and some of the old timers still do, we are informed. Farm Kitchen Recipe Round-up Scheduled Minneapolis A farm kit chen recipe round-up design ed to help the farmer market his products more profitably will be sponsored by the Lar ro Feeds division of General Mills for two months starting Feb. 1, 1959. The national contest, the first of its kind open only to those owning or living on a farm or ranch, will offer $17, 000 in prizes for the best recipes prepared from farm products in seven categories: chicken, turkey, dairy pro ducts, pork, egg, beef and lamb. There will be a $1,000 first prize for the winning recipe in each of the seven categories plus a two-day, all-expenses- paid trip for two to Minne- Animal Industry Meet To Stress Feed Efficiency Corvallis Ways to feed livestock and poultry more efficiently in today's highly mechanized agriculture will bp spotlighted at the 17th an nual Animal Industry confer ence, scheduled Jan. 29 and 30 on the Oregon State Col lege campus. . The annual conference, co sponsored by the Oregon Feed and Seed Dealers as sociation and OSC, will exam ine ways to tie supplements in prepared feeds to total energy level of thefeed rath er than body weight of indi vidual animals, reports Dr, J. E. Oldfield, OSC animal husbandman who is program chairman. Need for this technique is a rather logical outgrowth of the development automation into animal agriculture, the program committee pointed out. Individual feeding is be coming increasingly i difficult as larger and . larger herds and flocks are handled by farmers, it was explained. Out-of-state speakers at the two-day conference will in elude Dr. Fred Hill, poultry nutritionist at Cornell Uni versity, and Dr. A. J. Wood, animal nutritionist at the Uni versity of British Columbia. Dr. C. A. Bottoroff of the American Cyanamid compa ny, Pearl River, N.Y., will outline future trends of re search in the feed industry, and discuss recent develop ments in poultry and turkey diseases. OSC staff members will al so present papers at the con ference, reporting on research at the OSC agricultural ex periment station. All interested persons are welcome to attend conference sessions, Oldfield said. Meet ings will be held in Withy combe auditorium at OSC. Afoms Suggested For Farm Land Los Angeles (UPD Two UCLA scientists have sug gested development of a portable atomic reactor for sterilizing farm land. Drs. Amos Norman and Samuel G. Wildman said such a' device, could destroy and prevent reproduction of fun gi, insect larva and weed seeds which greatly reduce agricultural yield. They said the reactor would irradiate the soil to a depth of about 6 inches and cover ground at the rate of 6 miles an hour. FARM FATALITIES New York -(UPD- Accidents take about 13,000 lives each year on U.S. farms, according to the Metropolitan Life In surance Co. Machinery is in volved in more than a third of the fatal injuries, while drowning-with many of the victims under 5-is the second most frequent cause of farm deaths. The average American fam ily owned $8,300 worth of life insurance in 1957. apolis July 23-24 to visit Gen eral .Mills' Betty Crocker kitchens and attend the" city's summer festival, The Aqua- tennial. . Expect Many Recipes General Mills and Betty Crocker feel farm homemak- ers everywhere have recipes every other American home- maker ought to know about," explained D. H. McVey, vice president and general man ager of the Larro Feeds di vision. This recipe round-up will give some examples of farm product-farm kitchen cookery to share with millions of other homemakers throughout the country. "At the same time we hope t will serve as a much de served salute to the farm wife end emphasize to rural peo ple the part that processors of farm products are playing to help the. farmer sell a lot of the things he produces." The food preparation de mands on the Zxi million farm wives are considerable, McVey pointed out, when you consider that besides being responsible for the regular three meals a day, they: 1) feed unexpected guests like county agents, cattle- buyers and veterinarians more than once a week. 2) feed an average of seven guests a week. 3) take food to community parties or suppers an average of 15 times a year. In view of all this the farm homemaker has every right to be jealous of her reputation as a good cook," McVey commended. Prises Listed In addition to the seven $1,000 first prizes, there will be cash awards of $500, $250 and $100 for the recipes judged second, third and fourth best in each of the categories." Seven hundred Betty Crock er Picture Cookbooks will be awarded for the. next best 100 recipes in each category. Everyone who enters will receive a citation from Btty Crocker recognizing her par ticipation in the campaign to help promote the products of the American farm. Entry blanks are available at most feed dealers. They also can be obtained by writ ing Larro Feeds, Dept. 1080, 623 Marquette ave., Minne apolis, Minn., on or before March 15, 1959 Pink Eye Leading Cattle Disease Salem Shipping fever, pink eye, and brucellosis, con tinued to bead the list of cat tle diseases reported in No vember to the State Depart ment of Agriculture by prac ticing veterinarians. Totals for 1958, up to and including the . November, re port, showed 325 cases of an- aplasmosis in 115 herds in spected; 141 cases of leptospi rosis in 54 herds; 2,094 brucel losis infected cattle from 668 herds; 78 cases of bacterial hemoglobinurea in 50 herds; 65 cases of blackleg in 47 herds and many cases of hem oglobin septicemia and infec tious keratitis (pink eye). In poultry, the state veter inarian's accumulative report shows 51 cases of cholera for 1958, and 39 cases of salmon ellosis. : A general occurence of an thrax, infectious keratitis, and ovine ecthyma was re ported in sheep herds for the year. In swine, 242 cases of erysipelas were reported in 39 herds; 110 influenza in fections in 16 herds; 93 cases of enteritis in 10 herds, and lesser assorted diseases for the year to date. The heavy fall reports of shipping fever and brucellosis are reflected in increased movements of cattle and therefore not unusual, accord ing to Dr. L. E. Bodenweiser, acting state veterinarian. Forty-two cases of encephal omyelitis in horses have been reported to date for 1958. Tanks Association To Hold Meeting The fifth annual meeting of Southern Oregon Farm Tanks Inc., will be held Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Gold Hill Grange hall at noon. Grange ladies will serve dinner, according to Edwin Hayes, Eagle Point, secretary treasurer. Glenn Chase is chairman. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metjl Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Predicts Low April-September Rogue Volume Portland - Streamflow will be low in the Rogue-Umpqua this coming April - September season unless storms during the rest of the winter begin producing heavy snowfall, ac cording to a report released today by W. T. Frost, snow survey supervisor for U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and Oregon Agricultural Experi ment station. Irrigators served from di rect streamflow will be effect ed the most. Reservoir storage is good, he said. Snow course measurements indicate one of the lowest Jan. 1 readings on record. Rogue-Umpqua snow courses are only 16 per cent of the Jan. I normal water content, Frost, reported. In a normal year, 37 per cent of the moun tain snow - pack is on the ground by January 1. This year only 4 per cent has ac cumulated. Fish Lake. Fourmile Lake and Hiatt Praire hold well above average water supplies amounting to 250 per cent normal, Frost said. Emigrant is nearly empty for construc tion purposes. Flow of the Rogue at Gold Ray was below normal in De cember at 58 per cent, it was noted. Its flow since October was 78 per cent normal. The flow of the Umpqua at Elkton for October through Decem ber was 56 per cent normal. The state-wide outlook for Oregon's 1959 water supply. as of this early winter date, is not good, Frost said. How ever, reservoired water sup plies are excellent with most reservoirs holding well above average amounts. The moun tain snow - pack averages a new record low according to current snow surveys. The next report on snow surveys and water supply conditions will be issued on Feb. 8, 1959. 1959 Farm Income Might Slip Some, But Hopes High Corvallis Oregon farm in come in 1959 may slip a little from the 1958 level but should be higher than in most other recent years, reports M. D. Thomas, Oregon State college agricultural extension ecoom ist. Despite some weak spots in Oreogn agriculture during the past year, total farm income for 1958 is expected to top $400 million. Final tally may place it third highest on rec ord, exceeded only by 1951 and 1952. Meanwhile, farmers costs have risen and may go up a little more in 1959, Thomas explains. Reduced support price level on wheat, coupled with large supplies and lower prices for pork and poultry products in the year ahead, are cited as key reasons for probable in come decline in 19-59. . Among the brighter spots are cattle and sheep which are expected to hold the siz able price gains made in 1958. Lamb prices usually follow beef trends, the economist states. Returns from wool holst ered by continued incentive payments seem likely to im prove during the next 12 months as maufacturers clear inventories of woolen goods and rebuild supplies of raw materials. Seed market prospects are especially encouraging for growers of ryegrass, vetch, and forage crop seeds. Lawn grass seed, especially bent grass, is plentiful and mar ket prospects are less promis ing. Oregon's two main veg etable crops snap beans and peas are in good supply posi tion. Plantings and prices of processing vegetables aren't likely to change much in 1959, Thomas says. Potato prices during the first half of 1959 are expected to be lower than a year earlier but may do a little better in the second half. Onions are likely to be overplanted in 1959 in response to improved prices this winter. 1 HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Avauaoie , at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrewi at Court Phone SP 3-9068
