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Fcairinni Advice Given On Damping Off Br DON BERHY County Extension Agent Home gardeners seeding early spring vegetables and flowers in hot frames or greenhouses should take pre cautions against damping off. Damping off is caused by a soil fungi which will attack both sprouting seeds and the tiny seedlings as they emerge, thus reducing the stand. In fected seedlings show a browning on the stems, wilt, and fall over. This trouble is common in greenhouses, hot beds and even outdoors dur ing warm humid weather. Seed treatment is the best method of control. Materials like Arasan or Captan are available to home gardeners for treating their seed. A very small quantity, about as much as can be placed on the tip of a knife blade, added to seed packets and then shaken gentiy until seeds are coated, is the simplest method of treating. Where damping off has been a serious problem, addi tional Drotection is obtained by dusting the surface of the soil with Captan or Ferban, or drench with a solution made up using two level table snnnns of CaDtan or Ferbam in one gallon water, thorough ly soaking the soil at seeding time, and applying a second drench or dust as the young plants emerge. GETTING FIRST REACTOR Canoga Park, Calif. - (LTD - The first atomic energy reac tor for th Caribbean area will be sent this week to Ma va suez. Puerto Rico, for use in research. Atomic Inter national builders of the 10 watt reactor, announced Wed nesday it would be set up at the University of Puerto Rico. This Week's The four bedroom "home is becoming more and more pop ular because of today's large families. In addition to this number of bedrooms, a family room is almost a "must" when plan ning a new home. Now a third feature is being demanded by a large number of new home owners a separate dining room. This delightful home has been designed to satisfy all three of these preferences. Hand hewed cedar shakes have been specified for the roof. Stone is used on the chimney as well as three plant ers. The planters heights, widths and lengths have been varied to provide the maxi mum interest to the exterior design. A diamond design trellis has been located be tween the top of the planter next to the garage to match I riti fcilAttfcitMii rrr'TTtfltti'' fr-v " 1 --n-Mi --if-ir ri-iTi f'n- t vir "-rr- t l ' - .. .i. ...rr. -- W--T. f , r tjo4& . gr v V V patio i ' S O S it BEDROOM a S DIHHWS M Livms ROOM vf" 'jy""' r " "1 ' " 1 . 3 .'J . -J 6EOROOM , I 1 1 1 - J J 12,1,0 t - q.j j qoR, & CHE-FA-ILY BOOM I H-I U 1 ft fTPl Pftl ""pt t-tI Q --sO 2'4' -SQUARE FEET aod Goirdeo Student Teaches To Choose Central Point - To teach or not to teach has been the question facing a Future Far mers of America member and vocational agriculture student at Crater high school in Cen tral Point. Teacher and chapter advis or Ed Griggs helped the boy solve his dilemma by putting him to work teaching. Allen Barnes, chapter and FFA district president, taught agricultural mathematics in vocational agriculture a full semester. This helped him , to decide to go to Southern Ore trnn rnllpee in Ashland nexi y Cdl Willi a juaoiuic i-a to Oregon State college in the future where he will gain the necessary background for a vo-ag teacher. Barnes, an outstanding football player, has been in a quandry over whether to be a coach or tea cher. Now he may combine both careers. Many people don't really know whether they want to be teachers until they get out in the field and are given the opporunity to teach," vo-ag instructor Griggs said. So, Barnes was assigned to teach a unit of study in agri culture mathematics to the sophomore vo-ag class. He was responsible for prepara tion of the course teaching outline or lesson plan, for dis cipline and grading the pap ers. His teacher discussed with him the categories of agricul ture mathematics. He also ex plained, that from observa tion, he noticed many students learn mathematics by formu las. They work problems if they are set up for them. However in shop problems in cluding elementary mathema tics the same students are un able to use reflective think Home For Living the diamond paned windows. A large bay window has been included at the front bedroom wall to compliment the front elevation. A band sawed barge board has been used on the gable over the entry and a combination of horizontal sid ing and board and batts com plete the front exterior. If the wall space next to the dryer in the service is not required, a door may be lo cated here giving direct ac cess to the garage. The three-quarter bath off the service would be very handy in case a swimming pool is ever built in the rear yard. Another three-quarter bath has been provided for the master bedroom and the main bath offers twin lava tories and. a recessed water closet. All baths have pullman lavatories which will offer more than ample miscellane- Career ing to work out the basic problems. Young would-be teacher Barnes set up rules for solu tion of the problems, explain ed the rules, worked out dem onstrations and provided problems to be worked. His instruction covered feeding problems, fertilizer problems, agriculture volume problems, how much hay can be stored in a barn of a certain size, for instance; and land meas urement and land description problems. During the course, Griggs periodically discussed Barnes' problems and progress. Barnes received the state farmer degree in March of 1958, was a member of the parliamentary team during 1956 and 1957, member of the Crater football team. He was awarded the team sportsman ship award-. Barnes won the boys' Elks leadership ' schol arship for Jackson county. He has held FFA projects in swine, breeding beef and ex hibited grand champion fat hog at the fair during his sophomore year and last year. Commenting on the out come of the experiment, Griggs said - "He did an out standing job. The boys show ed him the respect normally given an adult teacher and he demonstrated his leadership ability. In the future, I would not hesitate to take another senior boy and give him the same opportunity." CUTS GASOLINE PRICE Rome-IUPD-The price of gaso line in Italy will be cut by 11.35 lire (slightly more than one cent) a gallon on May 15, the government said today. The decrease, the second this year, will put the price at 76 cents a gallon. ous storage below. The U-shaped kitchen fea tures built-in appliances, a large pantry and an extra long eating bar next to the cabinets between the kitchen and fam ily room. A large storage closet for dishes, linens and other items is located in the dining room, next to the fireplace. Notice the unusual amount of closets and wardrobes in this home. A built-in storage closet is lo cated in the front bedroom as well as a regular wardrobe. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of $7.50 for the first set and S3 for eifch additional set. when ordered at the same time. This plan will be available for a period of four months from this date. Please allow two weeks for deliv ery. If the above home does not entirely meet with your satisfac tion, a new home plan book. Homes for living, may be purchased for SI. Send all orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes, P. O. Box 404-F, Northridge, Calif. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Thursday, April 30, 1959 FARM NOTES Washington (LTD Rep. Steven B. Derounian (R-N.Y.) proposes legislation to put an immediate temporary halt to the government's multibillion dollar farm price support pro gram. Derounian's bill orders the secretary of agriculture to suspend all loan and purchase operations and any other ac tivities resulting in . further government investment in farm products until surplus stocks currently held are dis posed of. , I Washington (LTD The agri culture department said about half the total acreage retired from crop production under the conservation reserve of the soil bank is in the form of whole farms. Washington -OJPD-The Agri culture Department's month ly outlook digest today gave this thumbnail sketch of the agricultural situation: - Net income to farmers this year will be about $1 billion below the $13,100,000,- 000 rolled up in 1958. - Production expenses will climb in 1959 as they have in 18 of the last 20 years. - Income to farmers from non - farm sources probably will increase. Prices received by farm ers, now about five per cent below a year ago, are likely to stay under 1958 the rest of this year. - Supplies are heavy, stem ming from record production last year. Crop production this year could be heavy again. - Hog marketings are up sharply, dairy production will be above 1958 and a near record, poultry and egg pro duction are at a record rate, cattle numbers are increasing but marketings will stay at about last year's level. Pickup in agricultural ex ports is likely the last half of this year. Washington -(UPD- Spokes men for the nation's poultry industry have urged Congress to vote enough money to fi nance federal inspection of all poultry plants. Harold M. Williams of Chi cago, president of the Insti tute of American poultry in dustries, told a Senate Agri cultural Appropriations sub committee Tuesday that the federal inspection program was not being carried out "fully and fairly." Williams said the industry was not in a position to say exactly how much should be appropriated for inspection costs in the fiscal year. Washington -(UPD The Export-Import Bank of Wash ington has extended a credit of $600,000 to Honduras to finance the purchase of 1,000 head of purebred beef and dairy cattle in the United States. Washington -(UPD- Sen. Her man E. Talmadeg (D-Ga.) has introduced a bill to force the government to pay the pre vailing retail price for milk it buys for federal installa tions. Talmadge told the Senate Wednesday that milk pro ducers are placed under a "severe and unfair financial hardshop" by the present sys tem under which the govern ment takes bids for its milk supplies. He said distributors bid for the milk contracts, then "dictate a price to the producer on a 'take it or leave it' basis." Washington -(UPD-The Farm Bureau Federation has told Congress it opposes a plan to make long-term food loans to underdeveloped nations. A Farm Bureau spokesman said plans of this kind would make foreign' . countries de pend more and more on help from our government, and less and less on the normal commercial market. Washington (UPD Stocks of feed grains, wheat, and soy beans on April 1 set new records, the agriculture de partment reports. The department said wheat stocks of 1,600,000,000 bush els were 17 per cent above the previous high. Sorghum grain stocks of 613,000,000 bushels were up 44 per cent, and soy bean stocks of 323,000,000 bushels were 26 per cent above the previous record. Corn stocks of 3,000,000, 000 bushels were seven per cent above the record level of one year ago. Washington -OB- Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son has urged all citizens and organizations to observe Soil Stewardship week, May 3-11. EX-GOVERNOR DIES Gibraltar - (UPD - Gen. Sir Kenneth Anderson, 67, who served as governor of Gibral tar from 1947-52, died Wed nesday, i CHIT CHAT By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor An old high school history teacher used to tell us a study, of the past often provides a glimpse of the future. We thought this appropriate when visiting this week tne Century Farm of George W. Dunn, rented by his son, George Edward Dunn. The younger Dunn follows what might be called diversi fied farming on his 300 acres which includes some alfalfa, meadow hay and grain. His 110 "grade Hereford" cows, calves and registered bulls range up "on the hill" - in" the Howard Prairie area. Recreation is fast crowding out range land, Dunn pointed out. Tourist camp near the fresh water springs used by cattle, and their dogs drive the cattle away. It won't be long before no government range land is left, the veteran farmer noted. Other things noted during our visit s trends in modern agriculture were more specializing, more dependency on George W. Dunn House town stores for things formerly raised on the farm to feed the family - eggs, fresh vegetables, fruits, perhaps even milk and butter, elimination of raising some crops by government controls and perhaps a much The farm developed by grandfather Patrick Dunn from a donation land claim in 1851 has one of the oldest water rights in the state - 1852. Patrick Dunn came from. Ireland to Philadelphia and eventually made his way to the spot where he established his homestead, by way of California nd mining in Jacksonville area Donation land claims were bounds system. This resulted measurement still gives the ache come tax assessment time. Dunn pointed a calloused the farm from across "old family used to grow plenty year the harvest from the hill Portland. That was before the to take the wheat out and plant Once 200 to 300 turkeys spread their wings and strutted over the Dunn farm. However, larger producers who could specialize could ship the birds into the valley cheaper and the Dunns and others who raised turkeys as part of their farm enterprise found it didn't pay. "Besides those birds whould go through a grain field and knot up the grain which made it darn near impossible to harvest," Dunn remarked; The Dunns have a small flock of chickens for fresh eggs and an occasional Sunday chicken dinner. Fresh - vegetables grow in a garden in the back of the house. But, Dunn is the first to admit that home-produced eggs and vegetables are luxury items since they could probably be purchased for less money in town. Dunn likes to mix in a little shorthorn stock with his cows. The cows give more milk and the calves come bigger than the Hereford calves, he said. The first cross is often better than the straight breed, the farmer noted. Dunn sells weaner calves. There was a time when those on the Century Farm milked 60 or 70 cows. Milk was skimmed by hand and separated in Ashland. The skimmed milk was used for hogs and calves. Then, too, when Dunn was a youngster, the farm produced all the family could eat. A 90-year-old weeping provides shade and coolness for lawn which forms a broad green carpet to the comfortable, well-worn house. Dunn and his brother were born in the front bedroom soon after the doctor had rattled up to the farm in his buggy. The wood, 1860. The original home on cabin on one corner of the The broad front porch running the width of the house shows many scuffs and boot marks from the time the field weary men would tilf the chairs back and open their shirts to the cool evening breezes. Those were the days when the men would get up at 4 or 5 a.m. to feed the horses, then spend 10 hours in the field, come back to milk the cows and feed the horses again. Dunn remembers the time when he and his two brothers attended the old . training school which was part of the normal school. Horse drawn school buses would pick the children up. As a member of the Ashland school board for 10 years, Dunn has seen many changes in education. Signs of the changing times show in the work being done on expanding the Emigrant reservoir four miles away from the Dunn farm. There a reservoir of 8,000 acre feet is being expanded to 40,000 acre feet. The dam is being raised 85 feet to an overall height of 190 feet. The reservoir water will be raised 75 feet. Merit Employment Topic for Forum Salem-Five personnel spe-t cialists will conduct a round- table on merit employment at the Intergroup Relations Forum in Portland May 9. Labor Commission Norman O. Nilsen said the morning round-table on personnel problems will be an innova tion in the forum which is held annually under the aus pices of the bureau of labor civil rights division and the civil rights advisory commit tee. ' E. Shelton Hill, industrial relations director of the Port land Urban League, will act as moderator. Practices of re cruiting and promoting em ployees to 'provide equal op portunity for persons of all races, creeds and ancestry will be evaluated by the table. Another discussion feature will be a general quiz session covering all racial and relig ious discrimination, accord ing to Mark A. Smith, state closer tie with nearby towns. for a year. measured by the metes and in odd shapes and such pioneer county assessor's office head finger to a steep hillside facing Highway 99" saying there the of wheat in earlier days. One filled two railroad cars for government paid the farmer the land to grass. willow tree, gnarled with age one large corner of the front frame structure was built in the place was a squatter's log farm. civil rights administrator. Mil ton D. Goldsmith, chairman of the civil rights advisory committee, will head- the workshop considering ques tions from forum participants. The conference will convene at 9:30 a.m. at Portland State college. The forum theme, "Our Concern for Human Rights in Oregon," also will be developed in a program of speeches. All sessions are open to the public. HERE'S A SWITCH Des Moines, Iowa-dTD-State tax officials reported today they had received S5 from an Iowa woman in payment of a SI. 69 income tax bill, with a note saying "every Iowan ought to be willing to pay at least 55." SHE FOLDS QUICK Tallahassee, Fla. -(UPD- Mar garet Folds Quick is in county jail on a charge of public drunkenness. New Chemical Now Designed For Corn Weeds Corvallis-A new chemical that does an outstanding job of controlling annual weeds and quackgrass in cornfields is now available to farmers, according to W. R. Furtick, wee d-control researcher at Oregon State College. The new chemical, named atrazine, passed 2-year field tests at the OSC agricultural experiment station with fly ing colors, Furtick reports. Other tests by the OSC depart ment of agricultural chem istry found a complete ab sence of chemical residue from atrazine in corn, and it has now been cleared by the U,S. department of agricul ture for use on corn. Atrazine is closely related to simizan, a chemical current ly used for weed control in corn. However, the new chem ical has several advantages over simizan and similar weed- control chemicals, Furtick said. Atrazine is more -effec tive in killing more kinds of annual weeds. And, since it is taken up by weeds through both roots and leaves, it can be used as a pre-emergent or post-emergent spray. More Water Soluble The new chemical is more water soluble than simizan, which means it needs less moisture to get into the soil where weed seeds are germ inating. Its higher water solu- bility also helps it leave soils sooner, so there's less chance of killing cover or other crops planted after corn is harvest ed. For corn fields with annual weeds other than barnyard millet (often called water- grass), Furtick recommends 3 pounds of 50 per cent wet table atrazine powder in 15 or more gallons of water per acre, where the entire field surface is to be sprayed. Spraying costs can be low ered by spraying just "bands" above con rows, he added. Spray is mixed in the same concentration, but the amount applied to each acre will de pend on width of the band. To control barnyard millet or quackgrass in corn fields, Furtick suggests 4 pounds of 50 per cent wettable atrazine powder in 15 or more gallons of water per acre. Areas where rains are scarce and irrigation isn't used will get better results if atrazine is applied after weeds have come up, Furtick advised. Wait until corn leaves have just fully unroll ed. Spraying at this time won't hurt corn, he added. Cost of spraying with atra zine will be only slightly higher than with similar weed-control chemical now used by farmers in their corn fields, Furtick said. Seed and chemical-supply stores have been obtaining stocks of the spray, and it should now be avaialbable anywhere in the state, he added. More information on use of the new spray can be obtain ed at county extension offices. Thistle Control Given By Agent Spravine star thistlp nnw with a weed herbicide will control this unsightly, mois ture and forage robbing weed. said Gene Winters, Jackson county extension agent. Good results have been ob tained spot spraying the plant prior to flowering with a solution of one pound of 2,4-D ester m fifty gallons of water per acre. Star thistle is the yellow flowered weed seen in dry land pastures, vacant lots and the lower hills. Last year's dead plants are now about 2V'2 feet tall with whitened stems and narrow sharply pointed leaves. The new plants may be found at the base of the old plants. Care should be taken with the spray material, says Win ters. Desirable broad leaved plants may be damaged by 2,4-D,. with the ester form voltile enough to cause dan ger to sensitive plants. AUTHOR DIES New York -(UPD- Dr. Martin G. Vorhaus, 63, author of "Adam's Rib" and other books with medical subjects, died Wednesday. PRIMATE DIES Stockholm -(UPD- The pri mate of Sweden's Established Lutheran Church from 1950 58, former Archbishop Yngve T. Brilioth, 67, died Monday. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Tips Given in Gardens In Sprinq Time By J. VERNON MARSHALL For Rogue Valley Nurserymen and Growers Association and Oregon Association of Nurserymen Spring is here for sure now and gardeners have to step lively to keep up with things. With Easter out of the way, the orchard heating season about to end (we hope) I would like to point out a few plants and some of the culture in general gardening. v It should be safe now to start setting out geraniums, providing you continue to listen to the frost warnings and cover them if the key station temperature will be 32 degrees or less. For geran iums, make use of heavy soil, and for best results feed regu lar every month good organic food such as Liquinox through the growing season. This will feed the leaves as well as roots so the plant will look better and bloom better. Time io Set Out Plants Now is the time also to set out Salvias, Ageratum, Helio trope, Lantanas, Abutilon and others. The frost should be kept in mind, also. However, you will not have to worry about the frost for petunias, snap dragons and with all small perennials. Now, for some special fea tures in the small home gar den - Avoid having all garden sections looking alike. Treat Picking Garden Location Said Important Factor By DON BERRY County Extension Agent Picking a good spot for your garden is as important as buying good seed and giv ing it good care. -. A garden site that is level, Backrubber Stops Horn Fly Pest Corvallis-An Oregon State College research team has come up with an inexpensive, highly effective way to use rotenone for controlling horn flies in dairy cattle. R. L. Goulding, assistant professor of entomology, and L. T. Hargett, graduate stud ent, prepared backrubbers containing rotenone dust. They made them by draping a chain wrapped with three bur lap bags across a cattle walk. Each bag contained one pound of 5 per cent rotenone dust. In testing backrubbers on farms in the Willamette Val ley last year, they found rotenone dust gives good con trol for five or six weeks and leaves no toxic residue in milk. Goulding stressed the. im portance of locating backrub bers where cattle have to use them. In the OSC tests they were placed in the doorway of the milking parlor so each animal would get a small amount of dust twice daily. Untreated herds averaged 100 or more flies per cow throughout the season, com pared to 10 or fewer flies per cow in treated herds. Fly Resistance Studied at OSC Corvallis-An Oregon State college agricultural chemistry research team is on the track of determining how DDT kills houseflies. Their findings may lead to a possible break through into the reasons in sects develop resistance to in secticides. The researchers have found a critical area where DDT acts in . the fly's respiratory process for generating en ergy, and feel they are com ing closer to pinpointing the exact reaction affected by the insecticide. Work is being done by Dr. LeMar F. Rem mert, associate chemist; Dr. Charles R. Heisler, assistant chemist; and Charles T. Gregg, research assistant. MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING with FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE 0 R -AAV. ' iL$ " I ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE Planning each section and planting dif ferently from the others. The result can be helped consider ably by whatever additional work has to be done after the grading, lawn, drive, walks and lot line plantings have been completed. Perennial and so-called hardy flower borders add a great deal. I will take these up in articles to follow. A little formal garden that can be laid out in an almost endless variety of designs is always attractive. Then there is the rose garden and the water garden or pool which can be made quite a feature. The rear of your residence can be made often to look even better than the front and is often used more than any other part of the grounds. A few specimen conifers are almost always in place somewhere, rustic or concrete benches may be used. The rockery can be made in end less shapes to harmonize with the surroundings. An attac tive garden from small plants, flowers and vegetables alike, to large shrubs and trees is always a great feeling of satis faction, and, to keep your plants always looking well and doing well, start a fertiliz ing program, using a good organic feed, as I mentioned at the first of this article, feed ing your plants each month will be less costly and the re sults will be much greater. well drained and in a sunny spot with rich, deep sandy loam soil, free of rocks, is most desirable, however since this is not possible with most home gardeners there are a few things every gardener should look for in planning the location of -the garden spot. Most important is good drainage. Often times vegetables will drown out if allowed to stand too long in water or very wet soil. Carrots are especial ly susceptible to drowning and too much moisture in, badly drained areas deprive plant roots of ir and nutri ents needed for healthy devel opment. Draining wet spots before preparing soil is also of benefit and the presence of green scum on the soil surface is one of the indica tions of excessive moisture. Where gardeners are unable to drain properly otherwise, planting on ridges will help. Another important ingred ient is plenty of sunshine. Di rect sunlight for at least six hours a day is a must for leafy crops like lettuce, spin ach, chard and kale. Others, like tomatoes, egg plants and peppers, will need , more. Trees not only give excessive shade but their roots compete for moisture and plant foods. One more important con sideration in choosing a lo cation is a good source of wa ter. City water or irrigation water will afford protection against summer droughts, but in some local areas the deep er wells are salty which is detrimental to garden plants. Generally speaking, a soil that is well drained and pro duces rank growths of weeds and grass will also produce good vegetables. 1 HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrewt at Court Phone SP 3-9068 C in. . . . Offers PROGENY Beef Bulls Meeting the Requirema of the Performance Registry International Greater "Profit-Potenti SP 2-4093 J C. C. Williams 3
