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i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thurtday, Jan. 7. 1960 Oregon Dairymen Plan Jan. 11-13 Annual Meeting Corvallis - The need for Oregon milk producers to sta bilize milk prices by forming larger bargaining groups or obtaining a federal milk mar keting order will be discuss ed at the 66th annual meeting of the Oregon Dairymen's as sociation, Jan: 11 to 13 at On tario. Dr. S. Kent Christensen, Oregon State agricultural economist, will bring dairy men up to date on marketing changes in the dairy industry affecting such things as the stability of prices to milk pro ducers. Secretary Harold Ewalt, OSC extension dairy special ist, says the meeting at the Moore hotel will run the ga mut of problems facing dairy men including a talk on milk sanitation and antibiotics by Dr. Paul Elliker, head of the OSC bacteriology depart ment. Elliker, who attended the International Dairy congress in London last summer and who spent six weeks helping set up a model milk plant in Spain, also will tell about milk products abroad. To Give National View The national dairy situa tion will be reported by R. E. Burleson, federal extension dairyman, Washington, D.C. Burleson also is scheduled to talk at Dairy Herd Improve ment association meetings in Marion county, Jan. 15, and Linn county, Jan. 16. Dairy herd improvement will be reviewed by Burleson and Don Anderson, OSC ex tension dairy specialist. Dick Hammond, manager of Farm ers Coop Creamery, Payette, Idaho, will tell how a cooper ative handles milk. Cecil Griggs, milk producer in southwestern Idaho, will speak on milk pooling. Don Thomas, Portland, exe cutive secretary of the Ore gon Dairy Products commis sion, will tell about the com mission's activities. Dairy feeding and man agement will be reported by a panel of leading dairymen, including Louis Wettstein, Ontario; Bertil Nelson, Bend; Stan Masten, Klamath Falls; Earl Faw, Vale; and Dr. I. R. Jones, OSC professor of dairy husbandry. Moderator will be Harry Sandquist, Malheur county extension agent. New System Used By Ditch Users Recently officials of the Nye Ditch User, Inc., of Pros pect turned water into a new ly constructed concrete ditch and pipeline system. The new works eleminates an open ditch which has not delivered water because of excess, seep age. The new ditch and pipe are part of a revised system of getting water into the group's canal system. The ditch and pipe takes an allotted flow from Mill Creek and dis charges it into COPCO's pow er canal leading to the Rogue river. At COPCO's , Prospect dam, a siphon is being instal led to take the allotted water into a pipeline leading to the group's canal. A suspended pipeline crossing over the Rogue river has been elim inated. Began Project Study The late Bruce Grieve of Prospect began study of the project several years ago. Agreement on the plan was signed this fall by COPCO officials and users of the Nye Group. Engineers of COPCO and the U. S. Soil Conserva- tion Service planned the de tails of the project. . Mr. V. L. Chapman is presi dent of the group. Dave Ne ville has been supervising the work. A local contractor, Mr. Robert O'Day, constructed the 850 ft. ditch, three structures, and laid 800 ft. of pipe. The. group is installing the siphon, pipeline, and measuring weir. The project provides domes tic and irrigation water for the farmland around Prospect. The Ross Mill also gets water for the mill pond and boiler. Washington - (CPU - The Agriculture department is testing prefabricated sheets of burlap coated witn asphalt as a "practical and long-lasting liner for irrigation canals The bests are under way near Logan, Utah. . Under Under p r s e n t irrigation practices, about two-thirds of all irrigation water is lost. About one-third of the water seeps away during convey ance, and another one-third is lost through run-off and deep absorption and into the soil. A department scientist said preliminary results of the Utah tests would not be known until the burlap has been tested a year or longer. --- CHIT GHAT By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor (Editor's Note: This is a reprint of a column published recently in the Walsh County Record of North Dakota.) UNCLE DAN SEZ The way things is working out it looks like we git more and more bad seasons in this county every year. We got the hurricane season, the tornado season, the polio season and the hay fever season, just to name a few. And one of our very bad seasons is gitting to be what we might call the "Item 4 Minus 3" season. Them brass hats in Washington figgers farmers the farmers git their income normal folks has to turn theirs I always start on mine the allow plenty of time fer prayer ing on this new jig-saw puzzle git a new answer ever time I tion to wrap up my Sunday in the bank, send it to em holding and for them to work it out. I'll add a note advis ing that if there's anything left over, I'd like to have my Sun day pants back. "Subtract item 4 from item 4 Line 9" or somepun, it says. much less Line 9. Ever year old motto I won at the county over my bed: "I will lay me down and bleed awhile and rise to fight again." Taxes is gitting to be a religion "amongst them folks we elect to public office. I see where the U.S. Tax Foundation says there's 151 difference taxes on a loaf of bread, 92 on a egg, 116 on a man's suit, and around 600 on a house. And when they run out of regular taxes they come up with a "temporary" tax fer some emergency. When the emergency is over they just make the tax permanent and hike it a little. It's got so I never ask the ask about the tax. I figger that if I can pay the tax they'll credit me for the balance. A feller that runs a grocery store over in town told me the other day he had to hire three clerks, two to wait on the trade and one to keep books for the Guvernment. From the looks of things right now, Mister Editor, I figger ulcers is in fer a good, long run in tiiis country. A feller said onct that whenever three business men git together in this country, sooner and one is president, one is vice-president and one is treas urer. And it looks to me like ever time we elect three candi dates to office, one turns out to be the tax collector, one as sistant tax collector, and one Well. I got to. quit now Item 3. It's a funny thing to me that when we owe Uncle Sam money he's got to have it right away, but he'll wait 30 year for England to pay him. Nurseryman Tells Care of Fuchsias By J. VERNON MARSHALL For.. Rogue Valley Nursery men and Growers Association Tips on growing fuchsias I am now starting fuchsias in our greenhounse, by cuttings, and would like to pass on a few tips to my readers, that enjoy growing Fuchsias from the beginning. New introductions are cre ated by cross pollinations. This painstaking task .some times takes years of work to find the new variety the orig inator is looking for. After the new introductions are found they are increased by cuttings. Tip cuttings are the best. Take a cutting about 3 or 4 inches long, cutting just under the leaf joint. Cut off the bottom set of leaves near their base. Insert the cut tings about 1-inch in good coarse sand. Keen it moist and warm. In about 10 days to two weeks the cuttings should be rooted. Some varieties root very easily, while others are extremely difficult to root. After the cutting is rooted it should be placed in a small pot, 2Vi inch size, planted in mild light humus soil. Again it should be kept moist and warm for fast growth. In a month or so, this cut ting should be placed in a 4- inch pot. The soil for this should be V peat moss, k leaf mold, Vi. compost with a little sand, and Vi garden loam. After a month or so these can be fertilized with a good well balanced fertilizer according to the directions, such as Liquinox or Rapid Gro, which should be followed ed most carefully. Feed often, as the weather warms. The fuchsias should be fertilized every week to 10 days, using fertilizer as I mentioned above. As too strong a solu tion can cause burn. Protect From Insects Like anything really lovely put in the garden. Fuchsias must have a pest or two. Aphids, white fly, strawberry root weevil and red spider are a few that like to bother them. A good soil insecticide fungicide dust should be used when preparing the soil to prevent the strawberry root is a little dumb, so they make tax reports in a month afore in. first week in January so's to and meditation. I been work for three straight days and I figger it out. I got a good no suit and that nine dollars I got and tell 'em this is what I m 3, then carry it to Schedule I can't even find Schedule A, about this time I git out that fair, dust it off and hang it price of nothing no more, just or later they form a company tax inspector. and git back to Item 4 Minus weevil. We find Botano, a very good control, also insects on the leaves may be con trolled by this same dust. If you prefer wet sprays, use Malathion. One disease that has plag ued the fuchsias in late years has been called "blight" by most of the growers. This dis ease travels fast during warm weather. Sometimes it strikes only one limb and other times it will kill the entire plant. The best way to avert this is to keep the plants well ven tilated, not too wet, well spaced, and' clean of dead leaves and blooms. Dusting with an all-purpose insecticide-fungcide dust will prevent the so-called "Blight". Water carefully during the warmer days of summer. Fuchsias will need much more water than they did earlier in the season. However, they should be watered only when they need it and not at any regular time. Some plants, those with the most foliage, require more water than others. Occasion ally a plant will "drown". This is caused from over wa tering or poor drainage. If a plant is wilted, when the temperature is below 80 de grees, and the soil is extreme ly 'moist, you are probably over-watering. If this condi tion continues over a 3 or 4 day period the plant will probably die. If the "drown ed" fuchsias are caught the first day or so and water stop ped for several days to give the soil a chance to dry out, the plant has a good chance to survive. Washington (UPD The agriculture research service has begun a full-scale insect attack against -tansy rag wort, a toxic weed that has invaded California, Oregon, and Washington coastal areas. Larvae of the cinnabar moth tyria jacobaeae were released last June in four West Coast areas heavily in fested with the weed. ' Scientists believe the moth will emerge next spring at the time the tansy ragwort weeds are starting to form flower buds. ..... -X fiV GTNa lliillW 2 m. - . -.'. .,-. mmm INSPECT STRUCTURE - T. C. Cunning- trict, stand at ham and Dave Neville of the Nye Ditch, new concrete Users, Inc.; and Robert Lonzway, of the creek. Sams Valley-Beagle Soil Conservation dis- State Livestock Prospects Bright Corvallis Oregon's live stock market prospects for 1960 have been brightened considerably by the USDA pig crop report released this week, according to Marion D. Thomas, Oregon State college extension agricultural econo mist. Prices of cattle, sheep and hogs all now seem likely to be higher than expected ear lier. This latest survey of farm ers' intentions reveals plans for a sharp cut in the number of sows to be farrowed dur ing the next five months. The national total will be down 12 per cent from last spring if farmers stay by their present plans. The prospective cut appar ently stems from low hog prices in 1959 plus an oppor tunity to secure price-support ing loans on corn and other feed grains. Any decrease in farrowing during the next six months will be reflected in the supply of pork reaching the nation's markets during the last half of. 1960. For the next few months supplies of pork are expected to continue large as the number of hogs now on farms is about the same as a year ago. Many of these may be fed to heavier weights in view of the prospect for re duced supplies and higher prices later in the year. Higher hog and pork prices should bolster 1960 cattle and sheep prices too, although some decline in cattle may occur anyway as marketings increase from expansion in herds that has taken place in the past two years. Grange News Gold Hill Grange The annual Christmas party of the Gold Hill Grange was held, recently at the Grange hall. Thirty-four members at tended. Gifts were exchnged by members. The exchange was under the direction of the lecturer's committee. In addition to the gift ex change, the program also in cluded singing carols, a Bible reading by Chaplain Nona Waite, . a musical number by Evelyn Jones and her son, Billie, games conducted by Leona Jinks, and a quiz game conducted by Dorothy Eskew. Refreshments were served following the program. Birth days occuring in December were recognized, including Bob Cook's 82nd birthday. Portland-dlPD- Stockholders of Howard-Cooper Corpora tion of Oregon and Howard Cooper Corporation have au thorized a merger, according to R. F. Cooper, president. MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING WITH FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE Competition fer the market is very real among livestock. Offspring from our proved bulls face this competition bestl CALL SP 2-4093 C. C. Williams ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE V Farm Crops To Work in Corvallis-Dr. D. D. Hill, re tired head of the Oregon State college farm crops depart ment, will leave early in Jan uary to take charge of the New Delhi, India, office of Western Wheat associates, formed by wheat commissions and wheat growers associa tions in Oregon, Washington and Idaho for market promo tion and development. Hill will be in India for two years directing wheat market ing and development for the Northwest organization. Mrs. Hill will accompany him. Western Wheat associates is carrying on a vigorous mar ket development program that began in 1949 in the Far East and Middle East. In ad dition to New Delhi, offices are maintained in Japan and Pakistan. Cooperating with the Northwest group is the Great Plains Wheat Market Development association. A 1952 OSC graduate, Joe Spiruta, formerly of Albany, is now in charge of the New Delhi office. He will work in Ceylon, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand after Hill's arrival in India. The U.S. Miller's Na tional federation will cooper ate in work in those coun tries. Activities Listed Various promotion and mar keting activities are conduct ed by the organization. It has coop erated in sponsoring trade fairs in New Delhi, Cal cutta, and Madras, India, with another fair scheduled to be gin in February in Bombay. It also conducts baker's training schools; prints and distributes recipes using wheat; samples and tests all wheat shipments into India; promotes exchange of agricul tural missions; and currently is developing a kitchen -bus demonstration project with wheat and assisting in train ing grain storage specialists for the government of India. Western Wheat associates is contracting with the Foreign Agricultural service, U.S. de partment of agriculture, to obtain foreign currencies to finance the market develop ment activities. Hill, who retired from the college staff in July follow ing 32 years service, is inter nationally known as a seed and farm crops specialist and is credited with helping de velop Oregon into one of the world's leading seed produc tion areas. He has worked closely with the Oregon Wheat commission since it was formed in 1947, serving as the OSC representative to the group. Last year, Hill was techni cal leader for a Middle East country seed conference at Ankara, Turkey. It was one of three such meetings held in various parts of the world under sponsorship of the state department's Inter national Cooperation administration. 4 K 4 2T the intake structure where a ditch takes water from Mill - Specialist New Delhi Following the meeting in Turkey, he conferred with seed leaders and agricultural officials in Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Pakistan, India, Iran and Ceylon at the invitation of these nations. A year ago, Hill accepted a similar four -month ICA as signment to South Central American countries arid was instrumental in helping form a perment seed development organization for that area. Hill is co-author of a book on "Grassland Seeds" that is used around the world as a reference on seed production, processing, and certification. Washingon (DPI) The Agri culture department reports that all but 10 million dol lars of the 88 million dollars loaned to western stockmen for drought relief has been repaid. The special livestock loan program was authorized back in 1953 when drought had thousands of western stock men on the ropes. :' , Here vXrc 4 - " OndDdDuD IPmaDEDlIKETrS We Are Recommending for WDiWDM FJEIEDD PELLETED MILO This has been ground and pelleted but is still the lowest priced grain. In feeding value it is close to corn and this a try for cattle, hogs, and sheep. T RANGE CUBES These can be fed in the hay manger or on hard ground. The size we make requires the animals to chew each one and not bo a "Man ger Boss." ; jf till . GO-OP supplv assoohat HIGHWAY 99 Phone NO Old Year For Soil District Planning and applying con servation practices were strong points- in the 1959 op- ertion, according to Elwood Abbott, board chairman for the Sams Valley-Beagle Soil Conservation district. The board was active in directing the conservation program and had a well-attended annual meeting at the start of the year, 12 monthly meetings and two special meetings; one in Grants Pass and the other in Salem, Ab bott noted. Noted during the conserva tion operation ' were two group jobs; Table Rock and Nye water users. These groups planned and applied over $40,000 worth of con servation practices benefitting about 60 landowners and af fecting over 10,000 acres of land. The Table Rock group was headed by E. H. Taylor, Table Rock rd. and the Nye water users by V. E. Chapman, Pros- pect. Cooperating with the groups were California Ore gon Power company, Jackson county court and the county roads department. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service was responsible for the tech-1 nical share of the operation ! and the Jackson county Agri- j cultural and Stabilization committee the cost - sharing available to the groups. In planning the function with individual farmers and ranch ers, 20 basic plans and five revised basic plans were de veloped. This brought the to tal to 100 basic plans for the year with nearly 400 coopera tors in the district for the year, Abbott stated. Practices Given Included in the year's ap plied practices were conserva tion cropping systems on 12, 000 acres, pasture planting on 1,100 acres, land leveling on 900 acres and five irrigation reservoirs with storage of 450 acre feet of water. Over 300 farmers and ranchers were assisted during the year with their individual conser vation programs. In the relations phase of the operations, George Loftin, of Beagle and Ed Hays of Eagle Point, were recognized as men of the year. An all-day tour in July was arranged for by Jim Gates and Bill Jess, both of Eagle Point, and better than barley. Give IN CENTRAL POINT 4-1261 or SP 3-4022 fij& r ' Lester James, of Sams Valley. The Southern Oregon Area SCS meeting was attended by six supervisors and the state SCD meeting by two super visors. Field planting trials were recognized by the board in 1959. The International Har vester company cooperating with : the SCD provided a range drill for field trials at the Curtis McRae, George Loftin ranches. Work on new dry-land grasses and legumes was started. The project's aim was to extend the season for use and to increase the pro ductivity on the range land in the soil conservation dis trict. "The outlook for 1960 is excellent," "Abbott forecast. "The district can progress from the foundation set in previous.years." Washington -(UPD- The Ag riculture department says that construction began on more than 100 small water shed projects during 1959. CLnnounccaa 'Everybody's Saying it V You'll want to read it'! presented by . ... . . InJunr. t TIRE EXCHANGE 1600 North Riverside A SPECIAL MIX Cottonseed, salt and Vitamin A to supplement meadow and grass hays which are low in pro tein and Vitamin A. Cattle feeders ara getting excellent results with this feed. MOLASSES A high carbohydrate feed to supplement hay for cattle and sheep. Feed it free choice err in limited amounts. Put it on hay, in a trough, or in self feeders. IH1IEMIEMI1E5IEIHI You don't have to be a MEMBER to trade here and SAVE! B AND WATER STS. IN ASHLAND Ashland MU 5-4021 High School Students Set Library Buzzing Marion, O. The library in downtown Marion was buzz ing recently. Six high school students took a hive from a nearby.' bee farm and, under cover of darkness, threw it in the open window of the library The six were caught the next morning by policemen, three of whom had angry red welts which gave them a per sonal interest in the case. Student Firemen Extinguish Blaze Durant, Okla. - Volunteer firemen took advantage of an early opportunity to impress their teacher with what they had learned in a special course in firefighting. They were listening to a lecture by Lt. George Myers, when the alarm sounded. After the blaze at a restau rant was extinguished, Myers said his "students'' did an ex cellent job. PHONE SPring 2-4806 Tire Dealer uDQSS rvn uvl a
