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.
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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
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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
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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
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a lot of troublesome problems next spring and
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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.
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