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j" s ,aasrThj ...wa.:.,.,..,.,.,..-.....!: f.. .. nfnjri -"ir "T ' 1 f1 ii'nr ir " 1 1 r r i j v 2S 3 Cj'w t- V f- """W-T UWIHG OOB . KITCHEN 2 WO, 3720 garage M94 SOWAR E FEET 20.20 This Week's Br HIAWATHA ESTES Whether vour lot is wide or narrow or corner property, this ranch type home will fit your location handsomely. Al though originally meant for a 50 foot wide lot, the plan could be rotated 90 degrees for a wider frontage. Upturned gables add inter est to the lines of the shake root, to vary me texture 01 the materials on the exterior walls, board on board siding, horizontal siding and stucco have been used in conjunction with used brick planters. A large bay window adds inter est to the dining room ex terior wall. ' The center hall makes all areas accessible from the shel tered front entrance, In one corner of the living room is the big stone fire place. Large windows look County Agent Suggests Tips For Vegetables By CON BERRY County Extension Agent Now that warm growing weather may. be expected, a wide variety of seeds may be planted with less danger of the seed rotting in the ground or plants becoming stunted from lack of sunshine. Home gardeners who have not .already done so should also have their cool weather transplants set out. These transplant should include cabbage, cauliflower and swiss chard. Seeding of cool ! weather crops of turnips, let tuce, beets and spinach should be planted as soon as possible and growers may also get in the early corn varieties as well as the first plantings of potatoes. . Most of these crops should be planted in successions of ten days or two weeks in ord er to lengthen the harvest season. Early plantings of tur nips and beets should be planted thick, and thinnings . of the young plants may be pulled and cooked tops and all since there are more vita AMERICA'S BEST SELLING WEED IULLER ESTERON 99 I Here is effective control for even your toughest weeds! And ESTERON 99 actu ally costs less per acre than the tractor gasoline you use in spraying it. For small ' grains, corn, pastures, get Esteron 99 most farmers do! I ELTOTI'S FARM & I I 217 West Medford, Home For Living out on the front yard, and a wide, unbroken wall offers a good background for several furniture arrangements. A gracious feature, rare in many of today's small homes, is the separate dining room. Sliding doors to the living room can be left open when more space is needed for par-ties-or closed if the family prefers privacy. Ample cupboards and coun ter surfaces make the kitchen an efficient work center. A nook in one corner offers a well lighted place to serve quick family meals, and a pantry provides storage space for canned goods, trays and kitchen linens. Appliances are built in with the washer, dry er and broom closet installed in the service area. A door opens from the service to the side yard while another gives mins and minerals in the tops than the roots. Spinach will grow and pro duce until early summer, and picking ' leaves rather than pulling : entire plants will lengthen the season. Parsnips planted now will be ready for use in September and can be left in the ground all winter and used as needed. As with carrots the seed Is slow to germinate and both should be planted soon. Tents Suggested The most enthusiastic gar deners could set out early to matoes under tents. It should be remembered, however that this is always a gamble this early in the season. A couple of holes about .the size of a lead pencil should be put in the tents to permit ventila tion. Set early tomatoes fairly shallow and planting at a 45 degree angle to encourage the rooting of long stems is some times beneficial. For early celery one half to one dozen plants' is suffic ient for the home garden. Re moving celery leaves similar I I I GARDEN STORE I I I 6th Street Oregon direct access to the extra large double garage. . Double wardrobes line the dressing room off the master bedroom, and a pullman lava tory in the three-quarter bath has storage below for linens and accessories. A guest closet opens from the entry and the telephone table is just within the bed room hall. Other , closets are for linens and a centrally located forced air unit , and water heater. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at cost of $7.50 for the first set and $5 for each 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, Uorthridge. Calif. to rhubarb rather than the entire stock will increase the home garden use. All of the early garden crops should be planted as soon as the soil may be work ed. Undue delay would be detrimental to cool weather crops when their growing sea son is extended into the hot part of the summer. Lilac Blight Control Suggested Home owners are sometimes plagued with lilac blight dur ing wet springs, according to Don Berry, county agent. This disease is recognized by the dying back of the. buds, flower heads and new shoots, Berry said.. The disease gen erally attacks towards the -tips of the plant and then runs downwards to the larger stems and in severe cases al most to the roots. . All affected parts of the plant should be pruned out as soon as any sign of the disease is noticed, he suggested. Prun ings should be burned. Fall and spring sprays of neutral coppers will help to reduce this problem. Best timing is before fall rains occur, however, applica tions in the spring and even after pruning out diseased parts will help reduce the dis ease. After the hotter weather approaches lilac blight is less likely to cause trouble. Phoenix Journalism Class Visits Paper ' Members of the journalism class of Phoenix High school visited the Mail Tribune plant Wednesday morning. They were Virginia Mar tin, Karen Golding, Dana Ha- laan, Jimmie Tilford, Gwen Birkland, Darlene Palmer, Lorene Stephenson, Frances Stout, Sharee Skipworth, El don Mitchell, Warren Bless ing, Duane Daniels, and Jim Floyd. They were accompan ied by the instructor, Mrs. Mabel Sims. Soil Productive Ability Good on Century Farms The productive ' ability of soils on Century Farms in Jackson County has not slow ed down over the years, re ported Gene Winters, Jackson j county extension agent. This is revealed by soil test reports received by the agent from soil samples taken on four of the nine farms in the county which received Cen tury Farm honors last year in the program . initiated by the Oregon Historical Society and the state department of agriculture. Two soil samples were tak en from each farm selected having areas of similar soil types, one sample bemg tak en from an area cropped over a long period of time and the other sample from an area cropped for a lesser period or not at all. Samples were tested at the Oregon state college soil test ing laboratory. The Northwest Plant Food association and the National Plant Food in stitute paid .the testing fees. At the George W. Dunn Century Farm on Neil creek near Ashland one sample was taken from a field which had been in orchard until about 1900 and since cropped in an alfalfa-grain rotation. A com parable sample was from an an area never cultivated. On this farm the soil became slightly more acid through cropping with a reduction of p. H. from 7.2 to 6.5. The amount of available phosphor ous and potassium was re duced, but is still within the medium levels for most crops' use. Organic matter content has dropped through the years of cropping from 5.59 per cent to 3.56 percent. Soil p. H. indicates of acidi ty or alkalinity. At p. H. 7.0 soil is neutral. As values de Egg Market Study Set For Overseas, Porter Informed The .U. S. Department of Agriculture's foreign agricul tural service has informed Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.) that it is cooperating with European representatives in a survey to learn the cur rent and potential markets for frozen and dried eggs. The . study will include in formation about the price com petition, especially from main land China, that theproducts face overseas. "The poultryman today suf fers from low prices and in adequate marketing facilities. Porter observed. . The department of agricul ture's report to Porter an swered an inquiry the repre sentative made on March 27, 1959. Porter wrote to Secre tary Ezra Taft Benson request ing information concerning certain fine egg product ex ports made by the Chinese People's Republic. He asked if it were true that the nation was "exporting egg products to Eastern Europe and South imoripan nnimtripc Department Replies The department's reply said "a preliminary "survey indi cates that mainland China con tinues to be the principal sup plier of egg products to most of these same countries (Unit ed Kingdom, West Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Nether lands, Austria and Belgium) and that there are" few Chi nese shipments to South America. The department noted "trade information indicates that Chi nese egg- .products vary in quality from fair to very good." The department said data "are not available on mainland China's exports" and that information was based on a detailed survey of data ob tained from the various im porting countries in 1955. It said a detailed survey cover ing the years of 1956, 1957 and possibly 1958 was planned. Porter said he was hopeful that the department study could incorporate the most re cent available information. He said he felt the fact that Red China was believed to be the third most important world egg exporter, ranking behind the Netherlands and Denmark, was not common knowledge. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 crease from p. H. 7.0 soil acidity increases. Soils of p. H. reading of 6.2 to 7.5 are prac tically neutral. Carter Farm Samples From the Anna Beeson Century Farm near Talent samples were taken from a pear orchard planted about 1930 being cropped to a grain- alfalfa rotation, and from a field cleared of native brush and trees in the late . 1920's and since in forage crops. On this farm both the orchard and pasture have the same reaction with a p.H. of 6.6. The supply of available phos phorous and potassium in the orchard was reduced from that of the pasture,' but was still at a level adequate for crops having a high require ment for these essential plant' nutrients. The organic matter of the land cropped the most had ropped slightly from 3.31 per cent to 2.51 per cent. Soil samples from the Frank Dean Century Farm on the Old Stage rd. were taken from a field cropped continuously for many years, mostly to grain and now in alfalfa, and from a part of the same field which was established to wal nut trees in 1913. The p. H. in the alfalfa is 6.5 compared to 6.9 in the orchard. The phosphorous levels are still high, with some reduction in the field. The level of potas sium is still adequate for many crops, but for optimum M. M. "Hug" Huggins, a resident of this area for more than ten years, knows the problems of farmers in this valley. He is a Vast president and chairman of the board of the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, former campaign, and publicity chairman of the United Medford Crusade, former chairman of . Jackson County Radio Free Europe and Oil Industry committees and past president of this county's Oregon State Alumni Asso ciation. Hug Huggins is currently active in Oregon State Col lege affairs; is a member of the O.S.C.' intercollegiate ath letic board, and director of both the college alumni and the Dad's club. legume growth supplemental potassium would .be recom mended. Annual grain crop ping with resulting erosion on this hill field showed a re duction of organic matter to 1.17 per cent in the orchard. Thompson Farm Tested The fourth Century Farm where soil tests were taken was Chavner Thompson's on old Highway 99 east of Gold Hill. One sample was taken from a field continuously cropped to corn, grain and peas, and alfalfa. The com parable sample was taken from an unimproved pasture still in native grass, brush and trees. The prH. of the cropped field dropped slight ly from 7.1 to 6.8. The phos phorous levels are lower but still ample for most crop re quirements. Potassium was re duced in comparison with the uncropped field, yet the level is still high enough that no potassium fertilizer recom mendations would be made at this time for the present crop. The slight increase in soil acidity as indicated by the p.H. is to be expected from cropping use. All the samples tested showed a still favorable soil reaction for the produc tion of crops. The phosphorous and patassium test results best indicate the inherent ability of the soil to make more of these necessary plant nutri ents available for crop use. Cv3S)&dD """"" First Spray Due For Walnut Trees The first spray is due now for commercial walnut orch ards which have had a prob lem with walnut blight, Ore gon State college reports. Walnut blight attacks both the nuts and the young twigs, causing black spots on the shell and shriveled meats along with a dieback of the smaller twigs and branches. Growers who have had a problem with this in the past should apply either a Bor deaux 4-2-100 plus a pint of summer oil, or Copper A, 2 pounds per 100 gallon water, plus a spreader sticker, OSC advised. The trees should be thoroughly wet clear to the tops. Willamette valley growers have used a special dust mix ture which contains copper and sulfur. These could be ob tained through local suppli ers on special order. The num ber of applications varies with the rainfall. Generally three sprays are necessary for good control, OSC suggested. While walnut blight is oft en found in back yard walnut trees it is seldom serious enough to offset the expense of the repeated sprays neces sary for its control. The King ranch in Texas does not have any barbed wire or nails in its fences be cause they might harm the coats of the Santa Gertrudis cattle. The fencing is tied to fenceposts with wire. 11. 1.1. "HUG" HUGGINS, flEY'MOBIL FARM AGENT IN ROGUE VALLEY FMl COMMUNITY The General Petroleum Corporation has appointed Hug Huggins MOBIL FARM AGENT to serve the Rogue Valley farm community with a complete line of MOBIL products. Northwest farmers have been using' MOBIL gasoline and fuels, MOB1LOIL, DELVAC oils and MOBIL gear oils and greases, as well as other fine MOBIL products for over a quarter century. PERSONAL SERVICE CREDIT, OF COURSE You'll get prompt and personal service, dealing with a neighbor. MOBIL FARM AGENT Hug Huggins offers competitive prices on these known products at time of delivery. Credit, will, of course; be available. as near as your telephone SPring 2-6705 936 S. Central Avenue Medford, Oregon This year, the nation's buy ers of music records are ex pected to boost sales to an all time high of about 300 mil lion disks, of which more than 98 per cent will be "non-breakable." 1 f r 1 u 1 -r-.-- Here's top quality, mild and mellow Kentucky bourbon. A real value at this modest price. Try h. No bourbon tastes better none is in better taste. CANADA DRY BOURBON 1 (EKTUCtf STRAIGHT 80U8SQI IH1SKH. 88 PROOF-CANADA KT CORPORATION ISM TOO. L I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. C Thursday, May 7, 1959 A" Florida has 14 deep water ports, more than any other state in the TLS. We rest our case on your first taste fifth $490 pint f2 OURS
