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Newspaper Page TextGARDEHIHG TIPS Br DON BERRY County Extension Agenl POISON PROOF HOME January is a good month to "poison-proof" your home. Most home owners are very conscientious in keeping pes ticides out of the reach of children, but neglect some of the other common-place pois ons in the home. Some of the most common household hazards are cos metics, aspirin, barbiturates, bleach, turpentine, cleaning and sanitizing agents, along with the pesticides. The area under the kitchen sink is the source for 37 per cent of the child poisoning cases. Storing bleaches, lye and cleaning acids out of reach of the small child can be a real step toward preventing a tragedy. Making a regular check around: the house to see that all dangerous mate rials are well out of the reach of children . is important, along with teaching the child as soon as he is able to un derstand that certain areas or objects in the home are un safe. ORCHARD NOTES Us of primings: Every or chardist has a number of fruit trees to remove each year. A suggestion from Idaho says that the wood could be cut into fireplace lengths and sold. They further suggest that additional income might be made to the orchardist if the wood is cut to 16-inch and 18-inch lengths and tied into bundles 12-inches in diameter. It could then be sold through supermarkets and fruit stands. The bundles could be tied securely with wire and a binder twine han dle made so the customer could carry the bundle. Apple and pear wood is ex cellent for smoking meats as well as for fireplace use. This consumer pack might be a good project for the young sters. Rabbit Control: From Penn sylvania comes the word that common fungicide known at Thiram is a good rabbit re pellent. Although not highly poisonous' rabbits shun the material. You can also make good use of Thiram as a spray to control winter rabbit damage in ornamental trees and shrubs, nursery stock and young fruit trees. This ma terial is being made available in farm and garden stores un der the name of TAT - Rabbit and Deer Repellent, and Magic Circle Rabbit Repel 'lent. VEGETABLE NOTES Growers interested in ob taining asparagus plants this spring may contact the coun ty agent's office for plant grower names. When holding crowns for planting they should not be allowed to dry out nor devel This Week's Ik' t , By HIAWATHA ESTES Neither tremendous size nor high cost are prerequi sites for a convenient, com- . f ortable. minimum upkeep home. This is proven in this striking design for a three bedroom .and den home of only 1456 square feet. To simplify roof construc tion and to protect the slid ing glass doors from the sum mer sun, the patio has been completely roofed." The den, office, or fourth bedroom is accessible to the entry. With a through living room, less space is used for halls and you have, a view to both the front and rear. A dining ell is open to the liv ing room. The large sliding -glass doors in both the kit chen and living room add a tremendous visual expanse '11 ' " tiuim mi jmii -.T j. ,i. n . - yv- - - ; j FAT 10 I TT 5& , . r"7 BEDROOM , i T Jo J IS if to" ! - 0J ET, C t-1 r f 1 L ? J I II1 11 ' t lv 1 UVIN3 ROOM - . , V 0,nM PF1 Z rl k . li-- it 1456 8QUARE FEET jTV op decay. One year old crowns are best, but crowns two years old may be used if they are dug carefully so as not to damage the roots ex cessively. . LEAF SPRAY DUE Both fruiting and flowering peach varieties should be sprayed around Jan. 15 for peach leaf curl. This would apply- mainly to home garden peaches since fall sprays ap plied in the commercial or chards for peach blight ade quately control peach leaf curl. r- SONIC BOOM Sonic booms produced by shock waves from airplanes breaking the sound barrier could damage greenhouses. The Internal Revenue Serv ice has ruled that damage caused by sonic boom is de ductible as a casualty loss. Since the burden of proof rests upon the grower, pic tures and other information regarding the damage should be taken as proof where growers are interested in ob taining these deductions. . COMPOSTING NEWSPAPERS The University of Oregon has developed a method for composting newspapers which may be of interest to home owners. They dig a shallow pit as large as a newspaper fully opened. Newspapers are laid flat in the pit to a depth of two inches on top of which a double handful of 5-10-5 fertilizer is spread and cov ered with a thin layer of soil, The process is repeated until the pit is full. In about nine months it will become a rich black compost without turn ing, according to reports. Another method of com posting newspapers which re duces the composting time is to build the compost piles on the surface of the ground as above, but cover them with a polyethylene sheet instead of putting them in pits. Brand Inspection School Given Salem - A series of in- service training courses for Oregon's livestock brand in spectors will begin in mid January and be held through out the state, Fred Pope, chief of the state department of ag riculture's division of animal industry, announced Monday. Conducted by the Salem headquarters staff, the ses sions will cover laws, regula tions and inspection proce dures pertinent to this pro gram. It is our intention to hold these sessions quarterly," Pope said. First of the four-hour clin ics were held in Medford, Jan. 11 and Salem, Jan. 14. Others) Home for Living "fsS? ! actual living space to the house with the proper inter-relationship of indoor and outdoor areas. The corner sink is an add ed feature of the kitchen, and note how the door from the nook to the dining ell has been located so as to provide the maximum area in both these areas. Both baths have pullman lavatories and showers and are conveniently located to all rooms plus the outside of the house. In addition to the large wardrobe, there is a floor to ceiling storage closet in the master bedroom. The low gable roof is cov ered with heat reflecting col ored rock which, will guaran tee a cooler home during the hottest summer days. If de I and MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. B Thyrtday. Jn. 14, 1960 Local Man Takes Place on State Farm Board Salem-Only one new mem ber, Frank Rood, who oper ates a dairy at North Bend, will sit on the state board of agriculture as reconstituted under 1959 legislation, effec tive Jan. 1.' Governor Mark Hatfield re appointed six of the members and substituted Rood for Mrs. Kenneth Livingston, Portland housewife, who has served the past two years as consumer representative. The new law eliminates . consumer repre sentation as such. The first session of the "new" board was slated for to day at the state department of agriculture headquarters in Salem,, says Frank McKen- non. director of agriculture, To Draw Lots At that time, the members will draw lots for length of their board terms, ranging from one to six years. Two of the seven members will draw six year terms. They will also elect a chair man, a post held the last few months by Ernest Jernstedt of Carlton who was appoint ed to the board last May. All board members save Frank Tubbs of Adams, who is in New Delhi, India, were sworn in and received their commissions from Governor Hatfield at 11:30 a.m. The meeting was for 9 a.m. Tubbs has been in India to super vise the U.S. wheat exhibit at the World Agricultural Trade Fair, and is scheduled to return about Jan. 30. The reorganization law calls for a non-partisan board. The present membership in eludes four Republicans: Jernstedt, Rood, Frank Tubbs, and Joe S a i t o of Ontario. Democrats are: R. A. Long and Ward Spatz, originally appointed two years ago, and Hubert F. Willoughby, Harris burg. State Drops Costs On Fertilizer Work Salem - Fertilizer dealers can chalk up one decline in business costs. On Jan. 1 the state department of agricul ture reduced the inspection fee from 10 cents to 5 cents per ton on commercial ferti lizers sold in Oregon. O. K. Beals, division chief, said funds for the state work in this field built up faster than anticipated as result of increased usage. Hence the drop in inspection fees. No change was made in the 2 cents per ton inspection fee on lime and agricultural min erals. will be held at Pendleton, Jan. 18; Ontario, Jan. 20; and Redmond, Jan. 22. , SClli sired, your contractor can substitute other types of roof ing during construction. Painted concrete blocks are used for the chimney and im pressive planter. The front of the home is attractively finished in board on board siding. Aluminum casement windows are used throughout, All combine to give this de- sign a prestige-home look, Plans for a separate double garage are included. Complete working drawing of the above plan can be obtained at a cost of S7 jo for the first set, and S5 for each additional set, when ordered at the same time.. This plan will be available for a period oi iout monins trom this date. Please allow two weeks for driiv. 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 $1. Send all orders for either plans or books to Hiawatha Estes. P.O. box 404-T. Korthndge, Calif. JBTT7'1 JT" " '"1 X ' ' i . wrV - Events Listed in Jersey Cattle Club The American Jersey Cat tle club will meet this spring in Fresno, Calif., for its an nual convention, Mrs. Thom as Sawyer, told those attend ing the annual meeting of the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club Saturday. V - Mrs. Sawyer, whose hus band, Thomas Sawyer, is president of National All Jer sey, Inc., urged all members to attend. Convention head quarters will be the Hacienda hotel. Board meetings will be held in Modesto. Stanislaus and San Joaquin county Jer sey men will act as hosts. Sat urday and Sunday activities preceding the Fresno meet ings will include tours of Jer sey farms and establishments and a barbecue super Sunday afternoon. The Sawyers are nationally known Jersey breeders. Keith Hockersmith of Grange Cooperative will talk on how to raise calves during the March meeting of the Rogue River Jersey club. The talk will result from consid erable research by Hocker smith at the request of the local Jersey club, Delbert Mongold, Eagle Point, club president, said. The annual Oregon Jersey Cattle club picnic will be held in Jackson county this July, Mongold announced. A Jersey club queen contest will be part of the activities. Junior Jersey club mem bers honored during the an nual meeting and the honors received include: Sandra Bird, Grants Pass, Jersey club queen; Gary Daland, Grants Pass, grand champion 4-H Jersey at the Josephine coun ty fair; Denise Smith, cham pion judge, Junior Spring Dairy Show; Lanny, Parsons, Gold Hill, third place winner in National Junior jersey production contest, milk di vision and first place winner in the Oregon Jersey junior production contest. Other juniors honored in cluded: Rickie Anderson, Ea gle Point, champion showman in the Junior Spring Dairy show; Jack Esp, Eagle Point, Grand champion 4-H Jersey in the Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair; Tom Case Jr., Grants Pass, winner of the Fred Meyer All Jersey Calf award at the Oregon State fair in Salem. Award certificates were pre sented Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Mongold by the Oregon Jer sey Cattle club, also. The Mongolds' World's Record Pin Glory was honored for pro ducing over 6,000 pounds of butterfat in a lifetime record. During her lifetime she pro duced a total of 116,632 pounds of milk and 6,823 pounds of butterfat. Honored as a tested sire was Sparkling High Voltage of the Mongold herd whose 10 daughters av eraged 11,029 pounds of milk at 5.6 per cent butter fat or average 629 pounds of butter fat. Recognized as excellent sire bred by owner was the Mongold Sparkling High Volt age. The Mongold herd was honored also for holding a classification of over 85 per cent butterfat average. Actual herd average was 87.20 per cent. The Jersey heifer sale will be held at the same time as the annual meeting, Mongold reminded club members. "We want to make every effort to top all other sales," the club president said. "The western regional Jersey sale last year and the year before were the highest regional sales in the United States." To Back Sale Sawyer said the Western States Jersey organization will be backing the sale. Part of the money brought in from the calf sale, also to be held at Fresno State college, will be used for Jersey club youth activities throughout the Unit ed States, he added. The National All-Jersey or ganization will hire a field man to manage and promote Jersey milk sales for Wash ington, Oregon and Idaho, Sawyer said. So far 15 appli cations have been received. No one can use the words "All Jersey" in connection with dairy products unless they belong to the All Jersey organization, Sawyer said. All distributors and producers of Jersey, dairy products be come members through con tract and can use the trade name, Sawyer explained. This was worked out by an attorney who specializes in trade mark law. Formerly distributors operated under a franchise. A lengthy discussion was held on Jersey milk promo tion as tied to pure-bred Jer seys. Sawyer traced the de velopment of Jersey milk pro motion. He and Mongold dis cussed the pros and cons of restricting marketing promo tions to dairymen with a re Meet quired percentage of pure bred stock. The Jersey cow is tied to the sale of Jersey milk, Saw yer said. The small amount of money and manpower causes the promotional program to move slowly, he pointed out. ! .-. Putting E. Lea Marsh,! American Jersey Cattle club ' president on the All - Jersey board has boosted the pro gram. Sawyer said. He . has shown considerable interest and thought in an All-Jersey effort. The board, at Marsh's suggestion, has resolved to ap point a committee to study a voluntary contribution pro posal and to come up with a plan. Contributions to a pro motion program might be made by cow or byeach 100 pounds of milk produced, Sawyer explained. Discusses Program Discussing the Jersey milk promotion program Sawyer said it does not draw a line between purebred milk pro ducers and those with grade herds. The All -Jersey board wants to build a demand for milk from purebred Jerseys, Sawyer pointed out. The cur rent suggested program is to require those in the Jersey milk promotion program , to add 5 per cent purebred stock each year. Eventually this will be increased to 50 per cent and perhaps even to 100 per cent. The AH-Jersey board stud ied breeding programs for various livestock in the Unit ed States in setting up the recommended requirement. Milk promotion and Jersey breed promotion should be tied together, Sawyer said. .He emphasized that the national board is letting the state or ganizations set their own re quirements. An even balance should be kept between no re strictions and the 100 per cent purebred herd argued for by some Florida members. Mongold suggested that the program requirements be made flexible according to the number of Jersey pro ducers and the milk market demands in each area. Grade Jersey herd owners are need ed to boost , the program and should not be driven out, he emphasized. Dairymen are more apt to buy . purebred cattle if allowed into an asso ciation to "rub ..shoulders" with the purebred people rath er than to be isolated. Forcing people to; buy Crater Schedules Adults Course Central Point - Two adult agriculture classes get under way next week in Crater, high school vocational agriculture department, announced Ed Griggs, vo-ag instructor. The first is a crops and soils science class which be gins Monday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m. The class will be held each Monday for 10 weeks. Guest instructors include ex perts in their fields, Griggs said. Course material will in clude basic soils needs, fer tilizers, pastures, hay and silage, seed crops, row crops, weed sprays and insecticides. Refreshments and films are included on the program. The second course is farm electricity scheduled for Wed nesday, Jan.'20?.;at 7:30, pan. The classes will be held each Wednesday for 10 .weeks. Material will cover phases of electricity which will help farm operators and home owners, Griggs explained. The classes will include in struction in both building wiring and electric -motors. Those persons wishing more information may -call Ed Griggs or Bill MacFarlane, vo cational agriculture instruc tors, at the Crater ag depart ment, NOrmandy 4-1103, Cen tral Point. MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING WITH FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE For more return from your family cows breed to - our proved sires. Faster Growing Beef ' - x Better Replacement Heifers . CALL SP 2-4093 C. C. William . ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE "cheap purebred stock" does n't help promote the breed either, another club member pointed out. It also takes awhile for a new member to learn what makes good pure bred stock : and should not rush ;out to buy purebred cattle before he can make a wise purchase, it was agreed. Farm Prices Hold Steady in State, Down For U. S. Corvallis - Prices received by farmers in Oregon and over the nation edged down ward at the close of the year, but Oregon prices remained one per cent higher than a year ago in contrast to nation al prices which were down 7 per cent. Lower price tags on meat animals and milk led the slight downward trend in farm prices in the state, re ported Mrs. Elvera Horrell, extension agricultural econo mist at Oregon State college. Studying U.S. department of agriculture reports, she found price drops for these same commodities, along with low er prices on cotton and to bacco, combined to push the national average lower. Partly offsetting these low er December prices received by farmers were higher prices on most vegetables, broilers, and turkeys, Mrs. Horrell said. While prices received by farmers slid a little, prices paid by farmers remained steady. There was no change during December in any of the production, living, inter est, taxes, or wage rate items paid by farm families, Mrs Horrell. found. Farm costs in 1959 were more stable than in any year since 1940, Mrs. Horrell not ed. At the close of the year, the parity index-the govern ment's official yardstick of farm costs-stood only one per cent above December, 1958. However, the parity index remained stable only because of a lot of balancing in indi vidual items, Mrs. ' Horrell added. For instance, in family living items, higher prices on used cars counterbalanced lower average food and cloth ing prices. And among produc tion items, higher price tags on motor vehicles were off set by lower prices on feeder livestock, building materials, and farm supplies. With prices received by farmers slipping only a little, and prices paid by farmers holding steady, the purchas ing power of farm . products held unchanged last month The parity ratio-the govern ment's yardstick for measur ing the relationship between prices received and prices paid by farmers-stood at 77 in December. This is the same parity ra tio as in November, but 6 points below December, 1958 and 23 points below the level set by Congress as a "fair" exchange rate, Mrs. Horrell pointed out. December Estray Bulletin Lists 31 Salem-Of 31 cattle report ed missing in December from Oregon ranches, 11 are from the. Burns area and seven from Hermiston, the latest estray bulletin by the state department of agriculture in dicates. The department's livestock officers and brand inspectors as well as sheriffs' offices and state police have been given . descriptions of the animals. v Lower California extends foe a length of 810 miles. Farm Chemicals Usage Session Is February 11 Salem-Four hundred per sons are expected to attend a one-day conference on use of agricultural chemicals at Ore gon State College Thursday, Feb. 11, under joint sponsor ship of the college and the state department of agricul ture. The session will open at 9:30 a.m. in the Home Eco nomics building. The conference is an out growth of recent develop ments in the spray residue field and will attempt to bring present knowledge on the subject into focus for Oregon people. Originally designed for ground and air applicators of farm sprays and dusts, the Feb.; 11 session has been ex panded to include representa tives of county courts, gar den clubs, processors, chemi cal companies, county agents, and farm, labor and consumer organizations. Urged to Attend Anyone interested in using, selling or handling chemical pesticides is particularly urged to attend. F. E. Price, dean of agriculture at the college, and Frank McKen- non, director of agriculture, will chairman the morning and afternoon session, respec tively. Virgil Freed of the state col lege staff will keynote the session with an opening ad dress on "The Importance of Chemicals to Agriculture" Other speakers will discuss pesticides from the stand points of industry, govern mental regulations and public health. State and federal laws re- 1 a t i n g to all agricultural chemicals, clearance under the federal regulations and la ta e 1 i n g requirements will highlight the afternoon pro gram. SAYS SOVIETS AHEAD Memphis, Tenn. -flJPD-Army rocket expert Wernher von Braun said Tuesday night "we may expect to hear a Slavic- accented voice coming from a space vehicle one of these days" because: "The Russians started earlier. They built larger rocket . engines than our military program re quired." GROW BIG FRUIT TREE PROFITS EVEN IN ACID SOIL You can do it with Viking ShipCalcium Nitrate Acid soil can rob you of fruit tree profits three ways. 1. It can slow the conversion of am monie nitrogen to usable nitrate forms. Even with heavy applications of am nionic nitrogen fertilizer, 'fruit trees can actually starve. I 2. Because of low calcium, acid soil is susceptible to compaction and puddling. Feeder roots may become water-logged and die. 3. Excess acidity can cause the forma tion of toxic chemicals highly dangerous to living tree roots. Viking Ship Calcium Nitrate can help you fight these acid-soil dangers. The fast-acting nitrate nitrogen in Viking Ship is available without conver Use the fertilizer that fights soil acidity ! Viking Ship Calcium Nitrate ' -. v " ... Distributed by WILSON & GEO. MEYER & CO., San Francisco Portland Seattle -Yakima Farm Washington -UPD- The Ag riculture Department has esti mated that there were 4,140, 000 sheep and lambs on feed for market on Jan. 1, 7 per cent or 308,000 fewer than one year ago. Sheep and lambs on feed in the 11 Western states totaled 1,383,000, 6 per cent less than on Jan. 1, 1959. Decreases were registered in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexi co, Utah, and Nevada. . In Colorado, the main feed ing state, there were 555,000 head on feed Jan. 1, 3 per cent more than a year earlier. Washington -UPD-The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) said today four more produc tion credit associations achieved complete farmer ownership in 1959. The associations which achieved this goal in 1959 were at Cape, Va., Greens- burg, Kan., Chandler, Okla., and Chickasha, Okla. Washington -(11- The Ag riculture Department estimat ed today that winter vege table production would be 9 per cent above last year and 7 per cent above average. Supplies of cabbage, car rots, lettuce, cucumbers, snap beans, cauliflower, eggplant, and broccoli were expected to be larger than a year earlier. Significantly smaller amounts of celery, tomatoes, green peppers, and spinach were in prospect. Washington CUPD The Ag riculture Department predict ed today that hog prices dur ing the last half of 1960 would be above a year earlier and for the whole year probably would average a little higher than in 1959. "Hog production is turning downward," the department said in its publication "The Livestock r and Meat Situa tion." "The 1959 fall crop was up only 2 per cent and an 11 per cent reduction is in pros pect for the 1960 spring crop Consumers will pay less for pork and probably a little less for beef this winter than during the same period last year, the department said. Re tail pork prices likely will be above year-earlier levels in late 1960, but beef will con tinue at or a little below 1959 prices. Washington -(UPD- The gov ernment purchased 620,842,- Notes 765 pounds of surplus dairy products in the , first 10 months of the dairy market ing year, the agriculture de partment reported. This was 8 per cent below the volume of purchases in the corresponding period a year ago. Department officials said this indicated that pro duction of dairy products . butter, cheese, and non-fat dry milk - has been mora nearly in line with demand. Washington -4UPD- The Ag riculture Department says New Jersey cranberry grow ers may seek federal emer gency loans to tide over tha next crop year. The department reports many New Jersey cranberry growers have suffered serious losses because of inability to market their 1959 crops. Washington - IUPD - Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Ben son said today the five-nation wheat utilization committee's study of food requirements in the Far East could help the area's economic development. The wheat utilization com mittee grew out of discussions here last spring among repre sentatives of five principal wheat exporting nations which explored the possibili ties of using surplus food to bolster world peace. The idea was advanced by President Eisenhower in his "food for peace" message last January. Washington HJPD The Agri culture Department said Tues- day the National School Lunch Program is becoming an increasingly important market for foods. The program currently is " serving more than 12-million children from coast to coast, through 61,000 schools. Dur ing the 1958-59 school year, local food buying in these schools amounted to about $510,000,000 and the total lor the current school year is ex pected to be up by five to 10 per cent over last year. SWITCHES SIGNALS Los . Aangeles .-(UPD Attor ney Paul Augustine Jr. Tues day advised his client, Robert H. Gebhart, 34, to switch his plea from innocent to no con test. He had been charged with smuggling parrots from Mexico after police learned the parrots' conversation con sisted of "Buenos dias, senor." sion. Unlike amnionic forms, nitrate ni trogen is not trapped in upper soil layers. It moves with water to the root zone where it can go to work immediately to give trees a vigorous start, help them set big crops. Viking Ship also provides 20 water soluble calcium that helps counteract soil acidity. By improving soil structure,, it helps prevent compaction, so that tree roots can forage easily for nourishment. And Viking Ship is easy to apply. It can be spread evenly or metered accu-' rately in irrigation water; it dissolves quickly; it leaves no residue. Ask your fertfl izer dealer for complete informa tion about Viking Ship Calcium Nitrate. Equivalent to 28 lime expressed as calcium oxide.