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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1960)
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. B Thursday, Jan. 21, 1960 Spray Programs Speech Topics At Meetings Here Spray programs to control various insects and diseases affecting fruit trees will be presented during the annual pear and peach - meetings scheduled for the Jackson county courthouse auditorium Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 25 and 26, according to Don Ber ry, county extension agent. A film on handling and storing in bulk bins will be shown prior to the pear meet ing at 10:30 ajn. Monday. -The regular question box will be held at 1:15 p.m. First talk will be given by :Dr. Louis G. Gentner, ento mologist, Southern Oregon Branch Experiment station, on new spray materials for insect control. Dr. John Higdon, research director, Bear Creek or chards, will talk on prepara tion of pear trees for early pruning by chemical defolia tion. Norman Dobie, OSC plant pathologist, will talk on re ducing fruit russet with chem ical fungicides. Recent developments in pear virus control will be re lated by Dr. John Milbrath, OSC plant pathologist: Chemical weed control around pears and apples will be explained by Lee Foster, Hood River county extension agent. Don Berry, county exten sion agent, Medford, will pre sent his annual spray pro gram. Panel Program Highlight Highlight of the peach pro gram. Tuesday will be a panel discussion on the future ior Rogue River valley stone fruits. On the panel are Lyle Kinney, Bear Creek orchards; Art Wilson, Velmart orchards, David L o w r y, Associated Fruit company. Lead-off speaker at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday will be Dobie, : OSC plant pathologist, speak ing on the fungicide testing program on stone fruits. Quentin B. Zielinski, OSC horticulturist, will talk on the newest peach varieties. Mil brath, OSC plant pathologist, will speak also on recent de velopments in stone fruit i ruses. R. "W. Every, OSC entomol ogist, will outline insect con trol problems in stone fruits and, new chemical use. Gent ner will talk on the peach twig borer outbreak. ; Berry will explain the new spray program for the Rogue valley orchards. Oregon Ranchers To See Hawaii Worden, Ore. - Dick and Betty Henzel of Worden, feed grain and cattle producers on their Tuiana Farms, will visit cattle ranches on the Feb. 8-20 Hawaiian Beef Cattle Tour. The tour, sponsored by Nelson R. Crow Publications, . publishers of Western Live stock Journal, focuses atten- tion on the importance of beef cattle production as an island industry. Many island ranches are being opened for the first time to such a tour- ing group. Cattlemen of the 50th state are joining with the Western . Livestock Journal in sponsor- vo tnnr through the wv in Cattlemen's Council of Ha waii and the Soil Conserva- . tion Districts of Hawaii. . Many island ranchers have sought to exchange produc tion ideas with mainland cattlemen. John Chohlis, Sacramento, Calif., Western Livestock Journal field editor, will con- duct the tour. The 250 cattlemen will visit Hawaiian Village hotel, Honolulu- Kualoa ranch, Kualoa, : Oahu; Pearl Harbor; Hawaii Meat company; Crow Bar ranch, Kauai; Princeville ranch, Kauai; Hawaiian Com mercial and Sugar company, Cattle ranch, Maui; Haleakala ranch, Makawo, Maui; Ulup- alakua ranch, Maui; Hilo Meat Cooperative; Hawaiian ranch company; McCandless ranch, Kona; Captain Cook - Coffee company; Dillingham ranch feed yard, which feeds coffee by-products; Puuwaa waa ranch; Kahua ranch; and the 5 world famed Parker ranch. First Come, First Served at Meal Time Arct Vioro Dallas-A poi"- gave birth to 10 puppies -five male and five female u:. . a feeding prob- wnicn leIAt feeding time, the mother dog nudles the females close pushes them aside and lets in the others. - About nine milUon U. S. children have vision trouble. mi CHAT By JOE COWLEY ' Mail Tribun Farm Editor "On a ledge overlooking the Aswan river last week President Gamal Abdel Nassar of the United Arab Republics jabbed at a red push button. With a flash and a roar, 11.5 tons of TNT exploded on the bank of the river." "Thus, with a mighty bang, the Egyptians finally got down to work on the long-debated, often despaired of Aswan high dam." Change the name of the river and this could be a descrip tion of a future event on the Rogue river. Actually this is a quotation from the current Newsweek article on the Aswan dam in Egypt. But, notice the similiarity in back history. Newsweek conies out with a definite statement on what the dam will do. "It will not only convert 2 million acres of desert into a thriving land of farms and factories, it will confirm Nasser's UAR as the uncontested economic and po litical leader of the Arab world." We don't know what will happen to the land around the Rogue basin when the dams on the Rogue are constructed. We do know that the proposed Rogue basin development when completed will bolster the valley's general economy and particularly the farm economy. So far, the proposal is moving along as rapidly as pos sible. When the full report posal will provide the greatest benefit to all interests. This will cover irrigation, power," flood control, fishing and other recreation. "The thing we are most worried about now is that people will become pessimistic over the time it takes to complete the necessary paper work and get the proposal moving through Congress," one of the project backers said this week. Monday night a meeting on air pollution will be held in Medford. Fruitgrowers, anti-air pollution people and other interested persons will meet with representatives of the state air pollution authority. Purpose? To learn of the effect if any, of pesticide spray residues on us through-the air we breathe. As usual, we hope people won't become carried away. As we mentioned before we have seen the population of a small town in orchard country near panic when pesticide dusts formed a fiim on window ledges of homes adjacent to orchards. Then a series of public meetings and a compromise agree ment between the town's citizens and the fruitgrowers calm ed things down. We hope Monday's meeting , will correct considerable misunderstanding on the effects of pesticide residue on people. - An interesting and timely article appears on research done on this problem in the current issue of the News and Pesticide Review. The magazine is published by the Nation al Agricultural Chemicals associations. But, wait! The article is written by a doctor. In fact, by an assistant professor of industrial medicine, Kettering laboratory, College of Med icine, University of Cincinnati, Does that sound as if Mitchell R. Zavon, M.D., is in the pay of the chemical companies? "What rot, he's not!" to paraphrase the parody of the "Reluctant Dragon." Too often, we are afraid, the fruit industry here is thought of as a reluctant dragon-belching smoke and flame as it tries to wag its tail and make up to the people who would appear to destroy it. Dr. Zavon, in his article, States Public Health Service after it examined a large num ber ol persons exposed to lead arsenate in 1937 in the Wenatchee area. "No evidence was found that ill health was any more prevalent in that region than elsewhere nor that any cases of chronic disease had been caused or influenced by lead arsenate exposure," the report stated. Also one researcher reported in 1958 that he found no abnormalities in persons exposed for a long time to large doses of DDT. Another scientist fed a diet containing DDT to some human volunteers. This diet contained DDT in lar ger amounts than found in food dence of disease caused by exposure to the pesticide," the article stated. In plain language this means that no harmful pesticide residues have been found in milk and meat, that researchers haven't found accurate methods for testing residues for harmful effects, that those people who have swallowed pes ticides in milk and meat for a long time have shown no harmful results, and finally, many studies should be made with groups of humans over a long period to be most ac curate. . A wild rebel yell bounced barn at the Western States Angus Bonanza at Sacramento, calif, blim Hardin, that wheelin dealin man on auto row in Medford, had two bulls triple A graded and another dou ble A in the Angus bull show and sale. Triple A is the top grade and double A second from top. Hardin owns the Sil ver Bell Angus ranch near Phoenix. Hardin's, bulls also placed fifth and seventh in the junior yearling class. This was the first time Hardin had shown any animals in the show ring. Glenn Klein and his 4-H'ers should be proud because after watching them at the county fair year after year Hardin accumulated enough knowledge to give his natural flair for The auto salesman keeps the winter and works to 9 pjn. during spring and summer months selling cars. How he manages a ranch and develops top stock like those three Angus bulls is a mystery to every body. But he does it. He must have to stretch his long, lanky frame over a good many hard-working hours to carry two jobs successfully. Anyway as est moments of my life are when I married my wife, June, carried my first bull calf to the barn, and when my bulls rated tops in that Sacramento show!" Apparently some fruit growers and packing house op erators can't understand why they suddenly have to pay personal property taxes now on fruit in storage. The state tax commission ordered the inventory assessments against the stored pears and similar commodities. The county assessor's crew is constantly placing new property on the rolls. It takes time to seek it out. However, the packinghouse operator is better off than the businessman along Main st. The fruit reported Jan. 1 can be sold by May 1 and be removed from the tax rolls. With the businessman the inventory on the tax rolls Jan. 1 stays on the rolls. Farm Tips from the new Ford Farm Almanac-Time to start income tax records for the next year-1961-plug the leaks you found this year . . . Make a list of machine repairs and get started on it . . . Buy the grain you'll be needing; prices trend upward this month . . . Check-up on your heat lamps and brooders . . . Order seed now: get germination tests on homegrown seed ... Study your farm business sum mary; pick three ways to improve in 1960. During last Friday"s fruit league meeting Labor problems drew even more than the usual fire from growers and pack inghouse operators. We still think a well-organized and sup ervised group of teenagers could fill in the harvest season gaps. It's really surprising what teenagers can do if given half a chance. Perhaps Jackson county could have its own form of a Civilian Conservation Corps. Incidentally, we didn't realize how tough the fruit bus in ess has been lately until we observed a packinghouse op erator or peargrower park his car in front of the funeral parlor and walk across the street to the fruit league meeting Friday. There were plenty of other parking places. Why he chose that one we don't know. is completed the project pro Cincinnati, Ohio. tells of a report by the United residues. "He found no evi off the rafters of the show showmanship a winning boost. regular business hours during Slim put it-"The three happi State Farm Board Urges Market Work Salem The state board of agriculture, taking its first step in the new role in long range planning for Oregon agriculture, centered its at tention on market develop ment. The board, meeting in Sa lem Jan. 14, unanimously urged the need for more per sonnel and funds to carry on an enlarged market develop ment program in the state department of agriculture. The decision came on motion of R. A. Long, . Fort Rock cattleman. The need for funds will be carried to the 1961 legislature. Work of the de partment's market develop ment division, created in 1955, is still carried on by one man and his secretary. This was the first session of the board under the 1959 reorganization act, so mem bers were sworn in by Gov ernor Mark Hatfield. In other actions the board: 1. Elected Ernest Jernstedt, Carlton, chairman a post he had held the past few months.' 2. Drew lots for staggered terms with this 'result: Ward Spatz, Medford, 1 year; Joe Saito, Ontario, 2 years; Frank Tubbs, Adams, 3 years; Jern stedt, 4 years; Frank Rood, North Bend, 5 years; R. A. Long, Fort Rock, and Hubert F. Willoughby, Harrisburg, each 6 years. Future appoint ments will be for 6 years. 3. Agreed with Frank Mc Kennon, director of agricul ture, that no changes in de partment organization should Farm Washington -(UPD- An agri culture department advisory committee has recommended intensive research to develop new chemicals that do not leave harful residues in farm products. In addition to its recom mendation,' the department's deciduous fruit and tree nut research and marketing ad visory committee praised the agency for its recent activity on behalf of cranberry and poultry producers when ques tions were raised about the use of chemicals in the pro duction of cranberries and caponettes. In its annual research re view, the committee said the need for expanded studies of insects affecting these crops one of the most important in the farm research area. Washington 0IPD The agri culture department has select ed a team of federal and state cooperative extension work ers to visit the Far East and Australia to study foreign trade developments and agri cultural market requirements. The group will leave Jan. 29 and return March 7 after visiting Australia, Japan, In dia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong. Washington -4UPD- Congress has been told that restaurants will cutback use of lamb or buy only from big meat pack ers if the agriculture depart ment goes ahead with plans to suspend federal lamb grading. Thomas K. Power, general counsel of the National Res taurant association, made the preduction Wednesday at a house agriculture-, committee hearing. The suspension, now sched uled to go into force early next month, also was assailed by spokesmen for two con sumer groups and the nation's biggest farm organization. Louis A. Rozzoni, President of the California Farm Bu reau, protested on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He said meat packers who oppose federal grading of lamb were trying to pave the way for elimina- Grain Exports Noted For Large Increase Salem A substantial in crease in grain exports mov ing out of Oregon ports was recorded in 1959 over 1958, according to the calendar year report of the state depart ment of agriculture's grain in spectors. Last year, 59.8 million bush els of grain moved overeas from Portland and Astoria. This compares with 45.5 mil lion bushels in 1958. Bulk of the movement was out of Portland, into which terminals grain from a number of states funnelled for overseas ship ment. Tries for Water, But He Hits Oil Bowling Green, Ky.-W.C. j Dumbrowski went down 145 i feet looking for water and struck oil. State geologists said there probably wasn't enough oil to pay off commercially al though it was "a pretty good grade oil." They advised Dumbrotvski to sink another well and may be this time he'd hit water. be made at this time or with out careful study. Agreed also with the director "that we should keep an ppen mind and consider any suggestions offered for reorganization, particularly if they entail efficiency and reduced costs of operation". 4. Heard Walter Leth, state senator who authored the bill, explain that the three main purposes of the reorganiza tion bill are to assure a non political department (not more than four members from Lany one party); to permit an efficient operation through re moval of divisional fences; and to broaden the scope of the department's services. The legislature has1 laid the foun dation for some real good long-range thinking and plan ning for agriculture, and it's up to the board to make it work, Leth told the board. 5. Adopted two resolutions in line with similar ones passed last month by the California state board of ag riculture. One of these asks for satisfactory federal live stock and bird quarantine fa cilities to serve the Pacific area. The other-an outgrowth of the November cranberry turmoil asks that the fed eral food and drug adminis tration be required to an nounce analytical methods and their sensitivity upon which zero tolerances of food additives are based. 6. Decided to hold quarter ly meetings, with more fre quent sessions if specific problems arise. Notes tion also of federal grading of beef. Washington -(UPD- The "best chance of controlling de structive insect pests by non chemical means is through biological methods, according to the agriculture depart ment. Biological methods proved successful in a recent cam paign against the screwworm pest of livestock in the south east, the department said Fri day. The department said, how ever, that the biological agents discovered so far could not solve the pest-control problem. There are too many pests. Washington (UPD The gov ernment's weather and crop bulletin said today most win ter wheat acreage fared rela tively well this week. Major concern for the crop centered on the vulnerability of the plants to severe winter weather and winter erosion. Washington (LTD The Agri culture Department estimated Friday that a record 7,198,000 cattle and calves were on feed for market, in 26 feed ing states on Jan. 1. This was an increase of 9 per cent over a year ago and was up seasonally from the 5,001,000 on feed last Oct. 1. The number in the north central states on Jan. 1 to taled 4,911,000 up 5 per cent from a year ago. In the 11 western states, cattle on feed totaled 1,896, 000, up 16 per cent from a year ago. All western states except Montana, Idaho, and Utah showed increases. Cattle feeders reported that they expected to market 3,313,000 cattle and calves in January, February and March, or 13 per cent above the same period last year. Washington-flJPD - An agri culture department official said today the government soon will make its first pur chases of caponette chickens which had been treated with stilbestrol. He said the meat probably will be used as human food. The treated chickens were taken off the market volun tarily by producers and food dealers several weeks ago aft er the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said the birds contained residues of stilbestrol, a chemical which causes cancer in some laboratory animals. When the birds were with drawn from public sale, the Agriculture Department of announced it would buy them. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrewj at Court Phone SP 3-9068 at ' New Corn Driers Praised by OSC, Advantages Given Corvallis - If Oregon farm ers grow another record breaking corn crop in 196,0 a lot of them may top their lists of "equipment - I'd - like - to -have" with one of the new corn driers which keep the grain moving as it dries. - Dale Kirk,- Oregon State College agricultural engineer, pointed out that recirculating driers, which recently ap peared on the market, have several advantages over non circulating corn driers. By constantly moving the grain slowly through the dri er, the recirculating types give more uniform drying, which is highly desirable, Kirk said. A second advantage is that the additional wet grain placed above the columns to allow for shrinkage is dried evenly with the main batch. Can Handle More Corn . The new-type driers can handle more corn at a time too. They ' can dry corn in columns 24 - inches - or - more thick, compared to a maxim um of about 16 inches in non circulating driers. Since larger batches of corn can be loaded into the drier at one time, the. farmer won't have to load it so often. However, the new driers still need attention to be sure the corn is being distributed evenly as it recirculates. When it conies to moisture sampling, it is easier to get a true sample with the recir culating drier. Kirk experimented for two years with non-circulating corn driers having column thicknesses of 4, 8, 12 and 16 inches. He found these sizes all use "about the same amount of fuel and electrici ty to dry approximately the same amount of corn. Recircu lating driers have similiar fuel requirements. Kirk says recirculating dri ers may use more electricity in keeping the corn moving, but he feels the advantages more than offset this slight additional cost. WALLPAPER TRADE New York - About 166 mil lion rolls of wallpaper are produced in the U.S. annually CONCENTRATED BORASCU Concentrated Borascu A soil sterilant for weed control on ditch banks and fence rows. A dry granular material. Now is the ideal time to clean up those weedy ditch banks and fence rows. PAX CRABGRASS KILLER Pax Crabgrass Killer. Easy to apply with a spreader, a 20-lb. bag covers 1,000 sq. ft. Don't wait! Timing is the most important factor in controlling this pest. And now is the timel 1 . Ay I j rt! .HIGHWAY 99 " Phone NO Crater FFA Group Makes Soil Study By D ELMER SMITH Crater Chapter Reporter Central Point Crater Future Farmers of America chapter believes our soils are the basic foundation of our American farm life. These soils must be studied, man aged and treated with re spect. The Crater FFA members use the following to fulfill their activity goals in soils: classroom study and instruc tion, supervised farming, community service and lead ership. In classroom instruc tion the agriculture 2 mem bers study soil structure, cap abilities and judging. A team of boys from the second year class competes each year in the district FFA soil judging contest. The agriculture three class . re ceives a unit of instruction on soil fertility. The boys learn how each type of plant utili zes the various soil nutrients. They learn by experience how to test soil for nitrogen, phosphorous, potash and lime content. They conclude their study by learning various commercial soil fertilizers, the cost of capabilities. The senior students are learning proper plowing methods from assistant in- structure William McFarlans for actual practice. Later these Ag. 4 . members will study fertilizer mathematics so that they can decide the most economical way to appy needed fertilizers. The Crater Future Farmers use their home supervised farming programs as a labora tory to carry on practices learned in class. Under the leadership of tractor and chapter farm chairman Lee- Roy Chastain, the Crater boys have leveled a 5-acre piece of chapter land with a land plane. The land has been seeded to Velvon barley and fertilized with ammo phos j fertilizer. The members also; leveled three pieces of land for school district 6. One of these was fertilized and seed ed to lawn. In community service, the Crater FFA members, along with other Southern Oregon chapters, cooperate with the extension service in taking soil samples for those farmers wishing the service. The samples are then sent to Ore Here Are a Few That Should Be Used NOW! r GRANGE v MIS IN CENTRAL POINT 4-1261 or SP 3-4022 gon tate college for a com plete soil test to find if nu trients are needed. The mem bers have tested soil also for various farmers using chap ter soil testing equipment. Under the leadership pro gram, Dave Foote and Dave Redmond of Crater entered the Jackson county soil con servation district speaking contest. Foote placed first and Redmond second. Dave Foote went on to place third in the state contest. N Crater FFA president John Caster placed first in the Rogue-Umpqua district FFA public speaking contest at Cave Junction, Jan. 14. John spoke on saving our fertile soil from highways and vari ous other uses for the future. John elaborated on the fact that future generations would need every bit of soil to feed the increasing population of the world. The Crater vocational agri culture department is cur rently sponsoring an adult, class on crops and soils science Monday nights at 8 o'clock RAIL LINKS Helsinki - Railways of Fin land are linked to those of Sweden and Soviet Russia. MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING WITH FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE "BEEF UP" Your Income! Use our performance tested sires! Seven beef breeds to choose from CALL SP 2-4093 C. C. Williams ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE BORDEAUX MIXTURE Bordeaux Mixture with spreader sticker for dor mant spraying of Peaches, Apricots, Rose Bushes, and Shrubs. Use now, this will prevent a lot of troublesome problems next spring and summer. T GRANGE CO-OP The place to go for all your farm steel needs A complete stock on hand of: GALVANIZED IRON STEEL POSTS BARB WIRE FENCING You don't have to be a MEMBER Jo trade here and SAVE! (SI MM! B AND WATER STS. Ashland MU Sheep Foot Rot Check Advised Corvallis-While . sheep are set up for tagging during the next few weeks, check for foot rot and trim their feet, suggested Dr. Dean H. Smith, Oregon State College veterin arian. He urges isolating any sheep suspected of having foot rot before the new lamb crop arrives. To recognize foot rot, look for the shell of the hoof sep arating from the softer living tissue beneath, a foul odor, and lameness. Any, or all, of these symptoms may indicate foot rot. Individual tretament of in fected sheep is necessary for a thorough job. First, trim all infected tissue. Cut away enough to expose every spot of infection, even if it is nec essary to remove nearly all the hoof. " Don't be tenderhearted about trimming, Dr. Smith emphasizes. Second, hold each foot for three minutes in a bath of copper sulfate, formalin, or one of several other commer cial preparations. County ex tension agents will supply de tails on the foot bath. Even non-infected sheep should be run through a foot bath as a precaution. rvn uv IN ASHLAND 5-4021
