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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