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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1960)
Crater F FA Plans Given for Winter "Central Point -Crater Fu ture Farmers of America chapter currently is busy in carrying out a two phase work program, farming and leadership. Jim Frink and Dave Foote have submitted state farmer - applications for State Farmer degree. Only 2 per cent of the state membership may re ceive this honor. Applicants must be outstanding in super vised farming, active in lead ership, and have a good knowledge of technical and practical agriculture. Appli cations are due at the state vocational agriculture office in Salem in January and ap plicant interviews are sched uled for February. Boys passing the interview will receive the State Farmer degree and attend the state FFA convention in Pendle ton in March. Chapter Presi dent John Caster and Secre tary Don Ryan were awarded their state farmer degrees last year. Radio chairman Dennis Samples recently took a group of Crater FFA members to radio station KMED. There they taped and recorded five programs in the studio. These programs were heard over KMED each Sunday at 7:30 p jtk Five more programs will be taped this week. Crater FFA News-Bulletin Editor Larry Ryerson and his staff published their first edition of the agricultural news letter on Dec. 9. This publication consisted of con densed current articles from agricultural college bulletins and farm magazines. The chapter mails the bulletin to 150 Jackson county farm ers. Many of these farmers attended classes in adult ag riculture sponsored by the Crater vocational agriculture department. Eighteen Crater FFA mem bers have been attending par liamentary practice each Thursday evening. Assisting in coaching the group are Don Denning, Dave Foote and Pete Melsted. These chapter members were on the state champion team last year. The three boys are juniors and are ineligible for the team this year. The state FFA activi ties manual states that mem bers of the state winning team are not eligible for com petition for one year unless they are seniors. John Caster and Don Ryan were also on the team last year, but will compete again this year as they are senior students. The first parliamentary and pub lic speaking contest was held in Illinois Valley today with nine Rogue-Umpqua district chapters competing. OSC Mink Study Field Day Set Egg Producers Get Dividends Western Oregon farmers are currently sharing in a $467, 000 cash distribution being made by the Oregon Egg Pro ducers, it was reported. Interest checks totaling over $150,000 were mailed out before Christmas to the farmer members of the mar keting and purchasing coop erative. The additional $316,- 280 represents the value of the association's 1954 capital stock certificate issue that had been recalled at full face value, a spokesman said. ' The checks represent an in terest payment of 5 per cent on all outstanding association certificates. Medford Manager Grant Young reported the 1959 checks raised to 25 years the co-op's continuous record for making an annual interest distribution. He also stated that the association's board of directors have raised the interest rate on all capital certificates to 6 per cent ef fective Jan. 1, 1960. Retirement of the 1954 cer tificate issue continues a pol icy of regularly rotating cer tificate ownership so that the current membership provides the investment capital requir ed by the co-op. An earlier cash distribution of over $359,000 means that co-op members received a total 1954 patronage refund of $676,000, Young explained. Mosses Inhibit Bacteria Growth Washington-(Science Serv ice) - Antibiotics from com mon mosses may result from some studies reported by a team of Arizona State uni versity researchers. Three mosses collected lo cally were found to inhibit the growth of Micrococcus flavus. Streptococcus pyogen es, Candida albicans and Mi crococcus rubens, the scien tists said here in the journal Science. Somewhat less than one-half pound - 200 grams -of each kind of moss was mashed in a blender along with various solvents and the . extracts salvaged. Antibiotic activity varied, James A. McCleary, Paul S. Sypherd and David L. Walk ington pointed out. The ex tracts were not always effec tive against the same organ isms. There , is evidence that several antibiotic compounds may be involved since ex tracts of the same moss spe cies by different solvents gave different results. READING RATE St. Louis - Reading studies indicate that a seventh grade child should read about 230 words a minute: a high school student from 260-300 words; and a college senior 300-350. Corvallis - New feeds for mink to lower ' production costs without harming pelt quality will be spotlighted at the seventh annual fur farm field day at Oregon State College Jan. 30. About 200 Oregon and Washington fur farmers are expected at ' the meeting scheduled to start at 9 a.m. in OSC's Withycombe Hall auditorium, reports- John Adair, superintendent of the OSC experimental fur farm. The fur growers will have a chance to look over results of experimental work aimed at replacing the more expen sive portions of present mink rations without lowering growth rate or pelt quality. More than 500 experimen tal pelts from this year's OSC mink crop will be on display during the day. These pelts have been graded by the Seat tle Fur Exchange, and will give fur growers a chance to see exactly how various ra tions and other experimental handling methods affect pelt quality. Guest speaker at the field day will be Dr. G. R. Hart sough of . the Great Lakes Marketing Association. Mil waukee, Wis. Hartsough will review and discuss the proj ects and research progress of the Mink Farmers Research Foundation. Progress on research aimed at preventing the "cotton fur" condition that appears occa sionally in the state also will be reported at the meeting. At the end of the day. Adair and other OSC staff members will conduct a tour of the OSC fur farm and other mink research facilities.' MAIL TRIBUNE, Msdferd. Or. C Thurtday, Jn. 14, I960 t Bee Colonies Checked by State Salem-Of more than 12,000 bee colonies inspected during 1959 by the state department of agriculture, 2.88 per cent were infected by American foulbrood, reports Ken Goe den, apiary supervisor. This compares with 2.07. per cent in 1958. American foulbrood was found in 350 colonies and European foulbrood in 84. The inspection program, formulated primarily to pro tect the Oregon bee industry against American foulbrood, lists 27,000 colonies in the state, 12,186 of which were inspected during the past year. The bacteria causing the highly contagious disease which destroys bees are ex tremely hard to destroy and for that reason any colonies infected are burned and bur ied below the plow line. An increase of 500 visits was made in 1959 over 1958 and in the course of these 1,205 inspections, 970 apiaries were checked with 15.05 per cent found infected with Am erican foulbrood. Funds available permitted inspection in 20 of Oregon's 36 counties. Largest percent age - 18.95 - found in any one county infected with the disease was located in Union county where 40 of 211 colo nies contained American foul brood. Next high percentage - 14.28 of the disease was reported in Grant county where one of seven colonies had it. Of 1,105 colonies checked in Benton county, only one contained foulbrood. In other counties: . 20 were spotted out of 1805 colonies in Jackson county; 44 out of 2,074 in Klamath; 94 of 1,666 in Marion; 56 of 905 in Polk; 40 of 211 in Union, and 16 of 178 in Wallowa. Negative Ions Produced Cheaply Cleveland, Ohio - (Science Service) - An easier, cheaper way to produce negative ions was discovered here when aluminum foil was exposed to ultraviolet light from germ icidal lamps. Drs. David G. Fleming and S. K. Guth of General Electric's Nela Park said the new system is "many times more efficient than the old in producing negative ions." In nature, negative ions are produced by rain, thun derstorms, cosmic rays, radio activity, ocean spray and ul tra violet radiation from the sun. The laboratory method knocks electrons loose from the aluminum foil under ul traviolet light radiation. The electrons combine with air molecules to become negative ions. State Makes List Of Fryer Growers Salem - Pursuant to a peti tion filed with the State De partment of Agriculture re questing a producer referen dum on elimination of the present Oregon Fryer com mission assessment, the de partment is developing a list of state fryer producers and the number produced by each during the past year, accord ing to Director Frank McKen non. .-' "The petition must include 20 per cent of all Oregon fry er and broiler producers," McKennon said, adding, "reg istration of producers and the referendum will follow promptly as soon as informa tion has been received and compiled." Under the commodity com mission act, producer regis trations are essential but no public hearing will be held prior to such a referendum. The petition would, in ef fect, do away with the com mission, inasmuch as the as sessment - averaging about one-half cent per bird . - is the commission's only source of revenue. 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