GARDEHIHG 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
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, 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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"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 !
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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.