Shipping Point
Annual Meeting
In Hood River
Salem-K!ey officials of the
federal-state shipping point in
spection service in Oregon
will meet in Hood River May
8-8 for their annual super
visors' conference, announces
Frank McKennon, director of
the state department of agri
culture. The conference will be in
eharge of W. L. Close, federal
marketing man stationed with
the department, and Hugh
Taylor, the department's plant
division chief. McKennon will
alos be present from Salem.
The U.S.D.A. fresh prod
ucts Inspection branch west
ern area supervisor at San
Francisco, M. C. Erickson, and
his assistant, Edgar Johnson,
will take part in the program.
Other out-of-state people com
ing are Wilson Kellogg, federal-state
supervisor in Idaho,
and Stanley I. Trenhaile, com
missioner of the Idaho depart
ment of agriculture.
Warren Cyrus, recently ap
pointed supervisor at Hood
River, will be conference host.
Supervisors of the eight
Oregon shipping point inspec
tion districts who are respon
sible for correct grade deter
minations on about 40,000
carloads of produce inspected
yearly at shipping points-will
review their work and indi
cate prospects for this year.
Air Sprayers Given
More Wheat Work
Salem Eastern Oregon
wheat farmers are relying
more and more on aerial
spraying to kill weeds, reports
Ray Kelso, herbicide control
supervisor for the state de
partment of agriculture.
He says his is evident in the
increased number of air ope
rators licensed to apply chem
ical, week killers. At mid
April, the department had li
censed 105 air farm sprayers
compared with 85 last year.
The number of ground opera
tors licensed, 160, holds
steady with drop outs cancel
ling new applicators.
Most of the licensed spray
ers work east of the moun
tains and most of the ground
operators work on the west
ern side.
ASC Suggests
Filing Now
All county sheep growers
are reminded to file an appli
cation under the federal wool
incentive program by April 30
in the Jackson county Agri
cultural Stabilization and
Conservation, office at the
courthouse, according to Don
Nichols, ASC committee
chairman.
"If you have sold wool or
unshorn lambs since April 1,
1958, chances are you have
earned a payment under the
incentive program," Nichols
said.
The applications are to
cover wool and unshorn
lambs marketed not later
than March 31, 1959. If there
is any detail of a sale which
is not completed until after
that date, the transaction
goes over into 1959 market
ings and will be eligible for
payment in 1960, Nichols ad
vised. The program for 1959 will
be similar to that during the
past year. The incentive price
will continue at 62 cents per
pound. The plan is aimed at
encouraging the best possible
job of marketing by wool
growers. The farmer earns a
higher incentive payment by
getting a higher price for his
wool, Nichols explained.
Lamb List Seen
As Market Idea
A list of available lambs
will be kept at the county
agent's office for prospective
buyers, it was decided at
Monday's meeting of county
sheep growers.
Whenever sufficient lambs
are available buyers would
be notified. The buyers would
then visit the farms and mark
the lambs they wish to buy.
The lambs would be as
sembled at a central place
and shipped. The program
worked well in Klamath
county, according : to County
Agent Earle Jossy.
Cards have been mailed to
the sheep-growers who were
not able to attend the meet
ing in the county extension
office. Growers are asked to
indicate if they want to par
ticipate in the program, the
number of lambs to be sold
this year, the number which
weigh over 90 pounds now,
any neighbors who might be
interested in the program.
State to Sell
KolsteinsOn
Saturday, May 3
Salem-The state of Oregon
will hold a Dublic auction
Saturday, May 2, to dispose
of 50 Holstein cows and heif
ers from the Eastern Oregon
State hospital herd at Pendle
ton. The sale is the second held
within a year in line with the
sweeping changes inaugurated
last year to produce greater
efficiency in operation of the
larm program at state institutions.
Approximately two - thirds
of the Holsteins are Dure-
breds and about the same pro
portion are heifers.
The sale will be held in the
livestock pavilion at the state
fairgrounds in Salem, starting
at 12 o'clock noon. Animals
will be available for inspec
tion from 9 a.m. until 5 D.m.
the day before and from 9
a.m. the day of the sale.
On DHIA Tests
William L. Reaean. who
will be sales manager repre
senting the State Department
oi finance and Administra
tion, says the cows have been
on DHIA tests for at least 12
years. The most recent test.
shows an average production
of between 10,000 and 11,000
pounds of milk per cow.
Blood lines reDresented in.
elude two well-known in Ore
gon, Carnation and Hallrose.
and some new blood lines
from Michigan secured bv the
Oregon Dairy Breeders asso
ciation. The animals have
been Bang's and T.B. tested
and the younger stock has
been calfhood vaccinated.
The animals offered in this
sale represent about half the
hospital herd and some of the
highest producers; the other
cows have been brought to
Salem to be added to the in
stitution herd.
Jens Svinth, Salem, will
read the pedigrees at the sale
and Roy Benson, Hillsboro,
will be the chief auctioneer.
Any dairyman wanting a
catalogue should write to the
State Property Control Sec
tion, 1965 Taft St., N. E., Sa
lem. .
CHIT CHAT--
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
This season's extensive orchard heating has made. many
of the county's residents sharply aware of the smoke and
soot from the heaters and the growers even more conscious
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Orchardists object to the term "smudging" since it is
the heat and not the smoke which protects the fruit trees.
Also, they point out this same smoke which other people
complain of forces them to heat as much as 1V hours
longer in the morning since the sun's rays cannot penetrate
the early morning smoke to start warming the orchards.
It costs the valley orchardists an estimated total of
$15,000 an hour to heat their orchards. Costs per acre hour
for operating the heaters is estimated at a minimum cost of
$4, according to local orchardists. Orchard heating has
become particularly noticeable with heating periods extend
ing through nine days straight and as long as 10 hours a
day.
However, orchardists find it necessary to protect a $11
million pear industry perhaps $15 million in all fruit
crops. Next to lumber, fruit is considered Jackson county's
largest industry in dollar volume.
Meanwhile, housewives complain of the smoke and soot
which drifts through open windows at night, soils curtains
and clothing. Motorists and outdoor enthusiasts complain
of the thick black fog which temporarily reduces visibility
and blots out southern Oregon's scenic beauty. Distraught
housewives write letters to editors as well as school teachers
who twist one of Shakespeare's well-known lines to "How
now black cow?"
Orchardists point out that a slight freeze can mean not
only partial crop loss but can result in downgrading the
rest of the crop from frost marking or excessive russeting.
Uniformly high grade fruit is the only kind that puts money
in the orchardists' pockets, it was pointed out. Even with
a total crop loss the farmer still has the same expenses to
meet (with the possible exception of picking and packing
costs.) A 10 per cent fruit loss can mean over a million
dollar loss to the area, the fruit growers argue. This is
money brought in from the outside to bolster the valley
economy, they point out.
Possibly only the people in the fruit industry realize
it, but last week was a critical period for fruit growers.
As the temperatures dropped rapidly growers were ap
proaching a situation similar to the freeze of 1954 when
they suffered a 60 per cent crop loss. "We were bordering
on disaster every night," one fruit shipper emphasized.
Since heating can be considered only from the stand
point of the individual grower to give a true picture, a 10
per cent crop loss for the Rogue valley might mean a 100
per cent loss to some individuals. .
The local pear industry has requested Oregon State
college to intensify its continuing research on finding a more
efficient and less smoke producing means to protect the
fruit trees from frost.
This same research is continuing locally. One fruit ship
per has been experimenting since 1954 with burning "solid
fuel" in orchard heaters to reduce smoke. Presto-Logs are
being experimented with in special open pots. However,
some oil must be kept available during critical periods since
Presto-Logs will only burn for Wz hours. This shipper and
fruit grower has been gradually putting more acreage under
this type of heating. Other growers have been experimenting
with this fuel, also.
This Week's Home for Living
Growers are just as anxious as the townspeople to find
a cheaper more efficient type of heating process. A cheaper
means of heating would mean from 2,000 to 3,000 additional
acres could be protected by orchard heating, an orchardist
insists.
Many different agencies and companies have been work
ing on this research project. One of the local lumber com
panies is working on production of a "fire-log" which
could be used for orchard heating. These logs must have
protective coverings or wrappings for the weather as they
are stacked in the orchards. Conducting this research have
been the-state forest products laboratory, Pittsburg Plate
Glass company, Shell Oil company, Bemis Bag company,
Portco, manufacturer of bags and polyethylene coverings,
Kay Paper Products and Fluhrers Bakery here in Medford.
Fluhrers' has been cooperating with a fruit shipper in
producing a paper wrapping which could be rolled around
fire-logs or Presto:Logs for protective covering, then burned
with the log.
We were curious as to the regulations on orchard heat
ing in the Los Angeles county area. A booklet of regulations
issued by the Los Angeles Pollution Control District lists
13 approved types of orchard heaters. Many of these are
now in use in the local orchards although growers know
they cannot heat trees as efficiently under local conditions
as with the old-fashioned open pots or what the Los Angeles
people call the Hamilton Bread Pan.
Orchardists explain that the high ceilings of this area
contrast to the comparatively low ceilings of the Los Angeles
district. There the more modern types of heaters such as the
return-stack can heat more efficiently than here. The com
parison is similar to high and low-ceilinged rooms. The tall
thin stacks of the less-smoke producing heaters tend to shoot
the heat straight up faster than the lower burning open
pots or pots with sliding covers or even log burning pots
which even drop the heat to the ground. The lower the
heat can be kept around the trees, naturally the better the
trees can be warmed against frost. However, these lower-
burning heaters except for those burning the Presto-Logs
produce more smoke. And there's the problem.
"Of the bowl-type heaters treated, the Lazy-Flame heat
ers were the least effective at small inversions while the
jumbo cone and seven-inch exchange heaters appeared to be
the best," according to a report from the California agri
cultural experiment station. "About one-third to one-half
of the energy radiated from a heater strikes the trees; the
remainder goes to the sky or to the ground. Part of the
heat radiated to the ground is useful in heating air contact
ing the warmed soil."
The use of a large number of small fires gives better
distribution of heat than a fewer number of heaters at
higher burning rates, these researchers have found. "A high
radiant output is especially desirable from border heaters
because the outside trees may then be heated directly by
radiation without the need for warming all of the inflowing
cold air before it enters the orchard.
Wind-machines have been , effective in southern Cali
fornia with comparatively low ceilings but do little good
here, as pointed out previously. Also, in the square corners
of an orchard the heaters must do the entire lob, the uni
versity of California agricultural scientists point out. The
wind-machines as used in southern California are mounted
on high steel towers reaching above the orchards. The
machines, themselves, resemble huge airplane-like propel
lars attached to V-8 motors.
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Thursday, April 23, 19S9 A
Poetry Anthology
Planned at College
Corvallis-A Centennial an
thology of the best works of
Oregon's professional poets
will be published as "Oregon
Signatures" and will be edited
by three Oregon State college
English professors.
The book is sponsored by
the Oregon Centennial com
mission, Oregon State college
and the College Press. It will
be edited by R. D. Brown,
Thomas Kranldas and aFith
Norris.
Poets contributing to the
anthology are those who have
"excited national and interna
tional interest in their work,"
Brown said. Their poems have
appeared in such periodicals
as Atlantic, Harpers and Sat
urday Review.
Robert Huck and Nelson
Sandgren, OSC art professors,
have contributed illustrations
and have designed the format
of the volume.
Ashland Dog Owners
Reminded of Law
Ashland-Dog owners" here
who allow their pets to run
at large are breaking a city
ordinance, Justice of the
Peace .L. Peers Wilmeth, re
minded Ashland residents this
week.
He mentioned that the law
requires the confining of male
dogs during April, May, June,
and July, while it is illegal
for female dogs to be at large
at any time unless accompa
nied by their owners.
Wilmeth said that violators 1
of the ordinance may be fined
up to $200 andor sentenced
to a maximum of 30 days in
jaiL Several citations were
reported to have already been
issued violators.
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