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MAIL TRIIUNI, MriforJ, Or. Thursday, Jan. 28, 1960 County Stockmen To Attend, Enter Red Bluff Sale Red Bluff, Calif. -A num ber of Jackson county stock men are expected to visit and participate in the annual Red Bluff, Calif., bull sale, start ing Feb. 4, according to Charles F. Stover, sale head for the past 17 years. Those ranches consigning bulls at the sale from this general area include: Seven Oaks Hereford ranch, Central Point; Scotch Acres, Klamath Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Howell Cook, Ashland; Table Top Hereford ranch, Medford; Ar rowhead ranch, Medford; Field's Hereford ranch, Cen tral Point; and Malcolm Mc Carty, Medford. A total of 523 Red Bluff type " beef bulls have been consigned by 90 leading breeders in eight western states, Stover reported. They will be auctioned at the 19th annual Red Bluff sale to be held Feb. 4, 5, 6. The coming Tehama Coun ty cattlemen's event will see 400 service age horned and polled Herefords, 85 Angus and 41 Shorthorn bulls of fered through the sale ring at the Tehama County fair grounds. Events Given The three-day affair will feature inspection, showing, grading and sale of 25 loose pen lots of Hereford range bulls, tie pens and individuals of each breed plus top herd bull prospects. University of California record of performance grad ing under which each animal wM be given a rating by ex perts on the basis of sound ness and conformation, plus range usefulness will be fea tured, the sale chairman said. Buyers from six western states paid $326,181 for Here ford, Shorthorn and Angus bulls at the 1959 February sale. Some of the west's leading authorities on cattle will help run the annual sale, Stover said. Bill Owens, Red Bluff cat tleman who runs 1,200 Here ford cattle in California and Oregon, will head the sifting committee which will decide which animals are of sale quality. Others include Frank Rue, Marysville, who has large Angus holdings near Paskenta and Standish, and Joe Giambornia and King Jarvis, Red Bluff veterinar ians. The judging and grading committee is headed by Reu ben Albaugh, University of California livestock specialist; Harry Parker, San Luis Obis po; George Hunt, Millville and Harold Thurber, Bakers field. All are nationally know among livestock breeders and have judged at some of the leading auctions throughout the country. Experts Listed Breed consultants will be Fenton O'Connell of Gilroy, who has one of the largest and best herds of Angus in the West; T. B. Hawkins of Hollister, an extensive breed ed of Shorthorns and Dale Carithers of Mission San Jose, nationally know breeder of Herefords. Loose pen lots of range bulls will be judged by Roy Carmichael of Tehama coun ty; Cameron Cliff of Burns, Oregon and Abner McKenzie of Tehama county. Judging will start at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3. It will be followed that evening at 7 o'clock by a dinner it the fairgrounds where the members of the four commit tees will meet with consign ors and commercial cattlemen to discuss production and fi nancing of beef cattle. Among others who will as sist are Farm Advisors Lin Maxwell of Red Bluff and Jesse Bequette of Redding; Les Berry. University of Cali fornia range expert; Arch Bathurst, manager of the Dix on auction vard and assist ant manager of the Farm Bu reau Marketing Association of Stockton and Clare Myers, manager of the Lassen Farm Loan association of Red Blua, Ryegr jrass Growers Seek Commission Salem - Ryegrass seed growers have petitioned the state department of agricul ture to hold hearings on a proposed Oregon Ryegrass Growers Seed commission. A petition signed by 38 rye grass seed growers with the petition filing fee of $250 was received Jan. 22. The petitioners have 30 days in which to submit the remainder of the department's budget estimate of $1,350 to cover costs of conducting hearings, producer registra tions and a referendum, if held. Arizona has 13 million acres f public domain. 4A CHIT By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor The newspaper business if noted for handing out some impossible assignments. But We heard of one Tuesday which tops 'em all. "Go out and find out all you can about the lumber busi ness in southwest Oregon and northern California, where they ship their lumber and other pertinent information." This is the assignment an employee of the California board of equalization received from the top brass of his department. Purpose was to find out if California is receiving all the sales tax monies it should receive from sale of lumber from retail lumber yards. Figuring timber is a crop like any farm commodity is a crop, we naturally were interested. He claims that Oregon could raise enough money from a state sales tax to eliminate the state income tax. This Calif ornian pays $216 property tax on his $16,000 market value home, $200 a year in Bales taxes and $19 a year in state income tax. California has a $2 billion budget while Oregon has a $328 to $330 million budget. Anyway we wish our friend luck in his as signment. He's promised to let us know how he makes out. We spent part of the time this week listening to the con demnation suit involving Lester Gilman's dairy farm. The state is taking a strip of land Which will cover both sides of Bear creek which runs through the Gilman farm. Appar ently the state completely overlooked the fact that the free way would cut. off irrigation access from the creek to the farm. One thing, though, since the federal government pays 90 per cent of the freeway cost and the state 10 per cent the federal government has a definite limit on the amount of money which can be spent on the project. This, of course, limits the amount of money available for condemnation. We understand anything over the federal limit has to come from the state's funds. We were out visiting Slim and June Hardin's ranch near Phoenix. Slim, as you will remember, had two purebred Angus bulls rate triple A at the Sacramento sale a couple of weeks ago. He has 23 head of Angus stock on his 15 acres. He has those animals so gentled like dogs. Even little Bit, our daughter, wasn't a bit afraid of those big black cows as they approached. Of course we kept a safe distance from the bulls. They did a little snortin' and pawin' the ground. But, no more than the politicians are doing these days. And like the politicians we imagine if they really got their horn into something there would be a lot of howlin' from the other party. We attended the pear and peach meetings this week and picked up a lot of good miscellaneous information at the sessions so ably emceed by agent. Don has been working with the vegetable growers, also, to help develop better markets for their produce such as corn. From the jokes Don tossed out to the crowd we think he has already developed a good home market for the latter. Only kidding. The While talking to Dave Lowry of Associate Fruit, Phoenix, we learned Dave thinks highly of the newer Idaho peach varieties. Dave says Idaho peaches have a good red and golden color' and almost silky skin. We thumbed through a pamphlet from the Idaho exten sion service and found that like mercial grower generally plants of the few leading peach varieties requiring a pollinizer. The Early Elberta is second in popularity now. It could be re placed by Redskin or Gold Medal. Gold Medal is one of the finest canning peaches, according to the Idaho people. One of the earliest good peaches is Redhaven and July Elberta. As in this area, Rio Oso peaches. Earlihale is an early ripening variety producing a J. H. Hale type of peach, well suited to shipping, according to the Idaho extension service. It ripens with Halehaven which is ripe two weeks before J. H. Hale. It is pollen- sterile. This yellow-fleshed freestone peach is a new variety introduced by the USDA and should be planted only on a trial basis. A brief report was given cherries. One grower reported now being tried in the valley experimentally is no lower than the previous year. He reported getting 6 cents a pound and picking costs at 3V cents a box. Their future in the val ley is anybody's guess, he said. They require little water, are easy to raise, sure-bearers, and don't crack or split from rain. Bagley canning company in Ashland processed them for the first time last year. He processed several tons and will need 50 tons next year to said. County Agent Berry suggested that sour cherry trees make good interplants or fillers The grower admitted there is a good commercial market for Best variety of the tart or both the commercial grower valley. Early Richmond ripens Montmorency, but is inferior to it in quality. English Morello ripens 10 days after Montmorency, but the yield is lower than Montmorency and the fruit is more acid. Meteor and Northstar can withstand hard winters. They are on a trial basiSj however. One peach grower noted that more lumber cutting in the lower hills has driven more deer down to the higher or chards. Gold Hill and Talent areas have been affected par ticularly, he noted. Best method is a spray dope called magic circle which repels the deer. Mothballs tied to the young trees work well until the deer get used to them. The east is demanding more ported. One packing house has found that the defuzzing process using camel hah brushes cleans and brightens the peaches. Fungicide can be introduced when they are being defuzzed and ensures better condition in transit. How many acres of pears last three years was one of the meeting this week in the county courthouse. Some 690 to 700 acres have been planted. age is in Bartletts and red Bartletts. ' What is happening to pear decline? One grower reported he may have checked it by installing a tile drainage line and watching his irrigation more carefully. Some of his trees hit by decline this year showed a short growth of 8 to 12 inches and the trees formerly in decline had livelier fruit buds than in the last three years. Another grower noted "real promising results in a couple of blocks." Fertilizer recommendations other than in decline orchards. Rates are about the same Don't put the dosage on all at once, growers recommend. Bulk bins have been easier handling and cheaper han dling. One problem is dumping them. Pickers like them once they get used to them, one pear grower noted. A pack ing house operator and grower said his bin pears were shipped directly to the cannery. Blemishes to pears from handling in bins vary, he noted. He said he would like to use them and keep on using bins especially for cannery pears. Lee Foster, Hooc River county extension agent, said the Apple Growers association there has noted some injury in its experimentations. Growers, however, are enthusiastic in their use for pears and apples. Considerable moving is done in bulk bins for pears and apples in the Hood River area, he said. - - ' NAVY DAY Washington-Celebration of Navy day was originally spon sored by the Navy league of the United States -in 1922. c HAT that they follow him around I Don Berry, county extension jokes were pretty good. our growers the Idaho com mostly J. H. Hale. It is one Dixired. This is followed by Gem is one of the best late at the peach meeting on sour that the price for this fruit stay with them, the grower in pear and peach orchards. still an opportunity to develop Rogue valley sour cherries. pie cherry is Montmorency for and the home gardener in this about a week earlier than defuzzed peaches, it was re have been planted during the questions asked at the pear About 65 per cent of this acre have not changed this" year WATER ROUTES Amsterdam - Holland has about 2,000 miles of canals and about 3,000 miles of navi gable rivers and channels. Rogue Valley Peaches Said To Have Promising Future Rogue valley peaches do have a promising future but certain things must be done to bolster the market and Various factors should be con sidered, members of a panel noted during this week's peach meeting in the county courthouse. Panel members were Lyle Kinney, Bear Creek Orchards; Art Wilson, Velmart Or chards; and David Lowry, As sociated Fruit. Kinney urged growers to "do a little modifying" in tree care. Generally, the local trend is to overprune. Low heading the trees is of in creasing local interest, he said. Don't over care' for peaches. Irrigate sparingly and "leave them go for sev eral years" with moderate care. Limiting factors for valley peaches might be that the neighboring states Of Califor nia and Washington can pro duce a cheaper product. Young Orchards Needed Young productive orchards are needed to expand the market, Kinney noted. Rio February Meeting To Plan Convention A meeting will be held early in February to plan for the Oregon Cattlemen's asso ciation's convention sched uled for Medford this fall, Armin Richter, immediate past president of the Jackson County Stockmen's associa tion, told the association's board last Thursday. Richter said he would meet with Medford Chamber of Commerce officials and area businessmen. He appealed "for lots of help." Under new business, direc tor Raphael Gardner reported Sen. Richard Neuberger CD Ore.) has introduced a bill in Congress to prohibit all forms of poisoning and trapping of predatory animals except for one humane type of trap. This is so constructed that most cattlemen feel the coyote wouldn't be caught in it any way, Gardener said. The leg islative committee was in structed to learn what they could about the bill, to write or wire Senator Neuberger Fryer Men Set Registration On Amendment Salem - Oregon fryer pro ducers will have between Feb. 1 and 23 to register to vote in a referendum on elim ination of the fryer commis sion assessment. Frank McKennon, director of the state department of ag riculture, advises that forms will be mailed to all produc ers before Feb. 1. Growers not receiving forms at that time should advise him or ob tain one at the department headquarters in Salem. Only producers who regis ter in February will be en titled to vote in the referen dum, which will be called as soon as possible after Feb. 23. Petition While the petition upon which the referendum will be held calls for elimination of the assessment on sales, more will be at stake than the grower contribution, McKen non points out. The basic ques tion is: should the commission continue to function? With no grower contributions, the com mission will have no funds for operation. The question is whether the growers really want a self help program to promote their industry. McKennon urged every broiler grower in the state to get his name and amount of production on the registry books. He added that regardless of the outcome, he felt it is important that every grower vote in the secret bal lot. New Milk Samplers Licensed For State Salem - The state depart ment of agriculture has li censed 132 milk farm tank truck drivers to draw official milk samples for laboratory analyses at Salem. Licensing of truck drivers for this purpose reduces trav el costs in the fluid milk sani tation program. The licensing followed instruction courses held earlier this winter at five state centers. All but three of the applicants ap pearing at the schools are now licensed. A contract has been award ed by the Maritime Adminis tration for the design of a 600 passenger hydrofoil liner and a boat builder is offering a stock eight foot hydrofoil pram. Oso Gems over the years have usually brought a fair price. "It's surprising there are not more peaches on the mar ket because of excellent cli matic conditions here for them. Also, they can grow on wide variety of soils, but not on sticky wet soils (heavy clay soils)," he said. Many fine peach varieties are raised here and the val ley does and Can produce the best quelity peaches in the world, the Bear Creek Or chards man said. Greatest fu ture markets would be New York, Philadelphia, or Chi cago. More demand will come on the west coast as the popu lation moves west, he pre dicted. , Certainly some expansion of local peach production by good growers is in order. Lowry noted that an indus try to be justified it must make money. Hales have been an expen sive variety to produce, but comes on the market after the California peaches, so have market acceptance, Lowry added. He suggested of their opinions, and make the stockmen aware of the situation. Plan Better Law James C. Miller Jr., report ed for the brand inspection and theft committee. This group is working to develop a better Oregon brand law, he said. Director Wallace Ragsdale reported one of his cows re turned from his range with an auction tag in her ear and that she still had the ident ification tag which Wallace uses. He had not sold her, he said. Brand inspection should be tightened at the auction yards, Ragsdale said. Guy Hughes, Medford, dis trict supervisor of theft and brand inspection, said he be lieved there would never be good brand inspection until it is done at the -point of ori-gin-inspecttion of the cattle before they leave the ranch. Blotched brands are another problem, he said. It cost $50 to $60 in a state man's wages and mileage to identfy one animal in the county this year because her brand could not be read, he said. Hughes introduced the new county brand inspector. His name is Jerry Schwinler. His phone is SPring 2-9655 and he lives at 538 Franquette ave., Medford. Schwinler is married, has a family and has worked in brand inspection for three years in the Eugene area. President Jack Reid said he had learned at the Port land meeting of the Beef Council the brand inspectors are collecting the 10 cents per head voluntary fee for beef promotion. The directors went on record approving and sponsoring the Beef Council and recommended that the association members support it. Expenses Paid Richter said expenses of the speaker who spoke in Medford on the proposed 23rd amendment were paid by a few individual contributions and the stockmen will not have to bear any of the ex pense. Director John Bowman re ported the bureau of recla mation has put 200 new cross ings in the Howard Prairie ditch to assist sheep and cat tle crossing the ditch. How ever, the crossings are too near the water and cattle or deer with horns fall in and hang up against the crossings. The taxation committee re ported the State Forestry Pa trol will hold a hearing about the middle of March on the fire patrol budget. New committee chairmen appointed include Collier Buffington, to head the new ly organized public relations and publicity committee; Ed Meeker, membership commit tee, Bud Jess, legislative committee. Two other com mittees appointed and told to elect their chairmen are taxation-Garth Flint, John Boh- nert, Ralph Cook, John Black, John Bowman and Terry Houk; and sales and market ing committee - Al Straus, Fritz Offenbacher, Gordon Stanley, Henry Owens and Bud Nevin. Committee chairmen will ing to serve another term are J. C. Miller Jr., chairman of the brand inspection commit tee and Wallace Ragsdale of the sanitary committee. Other committee chairmen were not present or asked to be re lieved of their duties. Sue Meeker is the new Cowbelles representative to the board. In answer to her question she was informed there are no strings attached to the $100 provided by the association for beef promo tion mixed shipments of peaches and pears and sending truck lots to the southwest and mid west where markets are de veloping. This is a new trend in California, he explained. "Generally, valley peach prices are beaten down," he pointed out. "We need to get better organized saleswise. Now the near neonle have good organized sales outlets and cooperation. Need More Fruit Wilson noted that no de crease in production or keep ing it at the present level would boost peach prices. It's a case of a handful versus a carload like other areas can produce, he said. Production must be built up to create a market demand. J. H. Hale and Red Haven have brought very good re turns, he pointed out. All trees over 20 years old should be replaced. The Rio Oso Gems extend the season. The Almar is a good new variety, has good size, good color and picks well. "I don't know of any peach which can outsell the Rogue River Valley Hale when pick ed at the right peak of ma turity. However, they should be precooled as soon as they are picked. Too often local peaches are picked too green or too ripe," Wilson pointed out. We can continue to ship mature, high colored fruit to distant markets, but we should carefully examine each pack." Expanded production would mean more investment in farm machinery, in packing house and cold storage ex pansion, Wilson said. During the question period, Kinney remarked that with the J. H. Hale variety grow ers "have to do too many right things." This variety was all right up to 1951 when handled under conditions ex isting then. The newer Forty- Niner is a better peach, will serve a better purpose and make more money, he pre dicted. Answering another ques tion, Kinney said the time of the small peach grower is not past yet. The right va riety, carefully grown on 10 to 15 acres can bring a "real fine money crop.' Lowry noted that use of cold storage has pushed the peach season further and further back. Peaches can't be stored too long and keep a high quality, he said. Ground Hog Dinner Planned by Grange Eagle Poinl-The Eagle Point Grange will hold its famous annual Groundhog dinner from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, a Grange spokesman announced. Everyone is invited 10 attend this , annual pioneer type dinner of 'ground groundhog" (pork sausage) and all the fixins. IRRIGATED AREA About 90 per cent of Neva da's farm land is irrigated. Farm Washington - (UPD - The ag riculture department's current statistical summary shows the farmer's share of the consum er's food dollar dropped to 37 cents in November to the lowest point in 25 years. The farmer's share in 1934 was 34 cents. In 1932 and 1933, it was only 32 cents. Washington - (UPD - Agricul ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson says he will try again to get agreement on revised lamb grading standards. Benson attempted to put new lamb and mutton grading standards into operation last summer, but the various groups could not agree on them and Benson suspended them. Washington - (UPD - Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr. (D N.J.) has introduced two bills aimed at helping the families of migrant farm workers. One measure would author ize spending about two mil lion dollars a year on subsi dies " for educating migrant workers' children. The second bill would authorize $250,000 to educate whole migrant fam ilies in the use of modern living equipment. Houston, Tex. -(DPD- A gov ernment banker said today interest rates were likely to remain "relatively high for some time to come." Fred W. Gilmore, director of the Farm Credit adminis tration's land bank service, expressed this view at a stock holders' meeting of the fed eral land bank of Houston. He said unparalled demands for credit from all segments of the economy was the chief cause of higher interest rates, including those charged farm ers. Agriculture Thumbnail Washington -UPD- The agri culture department this week released these thumbnail sketches of the agricultural outlook for various commod ities: i Hogs-Downturn in produc tion planned by farmers is ex pected to push prices' next spring above a year earlier, and they are likely to stay higher the rest of 1960. How ever, winter marketings are likely to be larger and prices lower than last winter. Corn Producers apparent ly intend to market less corn through hogs and put more under loan in 1959-60 than last season. The great bulk of Fruit Industry Short Course Set Here Feb. 17-18 Corvallis - Members of the Northwest fruit industry will meet in Medford Feb. 17 and 18 to discuss ways to get fruit, especially pears, to mar ket in first-class shape. Main purpose of the 11th annual Northwest Perishable Loss Prevention short course is for growers, shippers and dealers to study reduction of losses during handling, says Dr. S. B. Apple, head of the Oregon State college depart ment of horticulture. Meeting sessions will be at the Rogue Valley Country club. Tours are planned the first afternoon to the Load ing Service company and to Harry and David's Bear Creek orchards to view the destina tion condition of a mechani cal compartmentized refriger ator car from Florida and to see storage houses and basket weaving operations. To Review Refrigerators Use and potential of me chanical refrigeration will be reviewed by R. F. McKee, Pa cific Fruit Express company, San Francisco. Iain MacSwan, OSC extension plant patholo gist, will report on work un der way by OSC to combat pear storage rot by treating the fruit with chemicals and A. M. Fielding, superinten dent, Trans - continental Freight bureau, San Francis co, will talk on origin and destination findings in main taining quality. G. W. Jones, horticulturist for Gerber Products company, Oakland, Calif., will discuss handling Bartlett pears in bulk bins. Elmer Hanson, OSC horti culturist, problems encoun tered in controlled atmos phere storage and handling of pears: and W. F. Durham U.S. Public Health Service, Wenatchee, Wash., health haz ards in the use of pesticides. The much - discussed prob lem of pear decline will be the topic of a panel discussion moderated by T. A. Merrill, chairman of Washington State university's horticulture de partment. The short course is a joint project of OSC, WSU, Univer sity of Idaho, and the Ameri can Railway Development as sociation. Notes Washington-fllPD-The Agri cultural Marketing Service (AMS) is attempting to de termine what happens when industry moves to the coun try. The agency is making a spe cial survey for the rural de velopment program in select ed rural areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Iowa, Utah, and Ohio. Deputy administrator Nathan Koffsky said the spe cial research project already has turned up some signifi cant findings. Koffsky said rural people who obtain jobs in the new factories moving into their area are much younger than average residents of employ able age. And the average fac tory worker in the areas un der study is about 30 years old, compared with an aver age of 50 years for heads of farm families in the same area. Industry increases the in come of many rural people, Koffsky added. The living standard of those who find jobs in the new plants has gone up at a faster rate than that of other rural residents. Incomes of plant workers equal, and in many cases ex ceed, incomes of average fam ilies in the same community. About one in four plant workers in the areas studied operate farms, he said, but their farms usually are small er than the average in the community because they us ually reduce their farming Op erations. There are an estimated 29, 900 supermarkets in the U. S. which do 68 per cent of all the retail grocery business. Eighty-four per cent of these supermarkets use newspapers regularly for their advertis- Jing. Department Outlook for corn last season was under a loan rate of $1.06 per bushel. The rate this year is $1.12. Cattle Record number of cattle on feed in 26 states at beginning of year indicates that prices this winter and spring will continue below last year. Eggs-Low prices over the last year are likely' to lead to a reduction in the hatch of flock replacement chicks this spring. Hatchings of replace ment chicks in recent months have been well below a year earlier. If reduction contin ues, egg production next fall is likely to be under a year earlier. Such a prospect would encourage operations and strengthen prices this spring. Thus, some recovery in egg prices is likely as 1960 progresses. Broilers - Marketings through February are likely to be below a year ago. But in recent weeks settings of eggs for broilers have risen above a year earlier for first time in eight months. Turkeys - Prices, at highest in three years, probably will remain relatively high until about mid-year. Improvement in turkey prices last vear House Plants Need Particular By J. VERNON MARSHALL January - The month to really enjoy house plants-they bring beauty into your home, require less care than you think, but how much care do house plants require? In actual time and effort, they require very little. Per haps only minutes a week. What they do require, is reg ular care, plus a fairly con genial environment. Particu larly as regards light. Before I get into the proper environment for the various plants, I would like to touch slightly on "watering plants indoors." This is the general cause for failing to successful ly grow pot plants in the home. Watering plants in pots requires careful attention. The plants are entirely de pendent upon you for the right amount necessary to en courage healthy growth. When out in the open the roots have a chance to go down into the soil and look for moisture if necessary and they usually do it. You can lift a tender annual and find that its hair-like roots have grown right into a hard, rock like clay soil and wonder how it was possible. That same plant in a 4-inch pot has no chance to do so. It is absolute ly dependent on someone to supply the moisture neces sary. The roots are confined within the little pot. Keep Soil Moist Now, with most plants grown by the average home maker it is just a matter cf keeping the soil fairly moist at all times and, when apply ing the water, of disturbing the plants as little as possible. You can tell when plants grown in pots are in want of water by examining them. Get your fingers down into the soil and find out its exact conditions: you cannot tell by surface appearance. Don't water soil that is wet nor ever let a plant suffer in soil that is dry. To let soil in pots dry out is wrong. The plants suf fer every time you do it. You stunt their growth. Plants which have grown under glass in pots or in a shallow bench with artificial watering are different from those in the open field and can't stand a dry soil without showing bad effects. On the other hand, if you have poor drainage and the water you apply remains in the soil too long, you will get the same bad effects. Take a Boston Fern. No plant loves water more and as long as you have plenty of drainage in the pot it can stand watering practically every day. But in MODERN ARTIFICIAL BREEDING WITH FROZEN FROM AMERICAN Provide the depend able means of in creasing the value of your dairy herd. Every Sire PROVED Great! CALL SP 2-4093 C. C. Williams ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE Releases Commodities came in face of a record crop. This is likely to result in in creased production this year. Milk - Production in 1959 was in a closer balance with commercial demand at sup port prices than in any of the six previous years. Output de clined slightly from 1958 and total demand was steady. Prices were above support rates by a larger margin and for a longer period than at any time since 1952. Feed Feed grain prices in mid-December averaged 4 per cent below a year earlier. Probably will continue a lit tle lower the first half of this year. Fruit Fewer apples and pears but more grapes re mained to be marketed after Jan. 1 than last year. Supplies also are smaller for grape fruit and tangerines, about the same for winter oranges, larger for lemons. Fresh Vegetables-A winter crop 9 per cent above last year is in prospect. Showing increases over last year are cabbage, carrots, lettuce, cu cumbers, snap beans, cauli flower, eggplant, and brocco li. Declining are celery, toma toes, green peppers, and spin ach. Attention a sour soil resulting from im proper drainage, it will soon go. This really holds good with all other plants. Another good practice, keep house plants always fresh and active, is to use a fog-like spray on the foliage every morning. Leaf fertilizer, such as Liquinox, or Rapid Gro, may also be applied this way. Plants growing under glass or outside get sufficient mois ture for the foliage from the air and humidity in the green houses, this, they do not get in a house under a solid roof. Watch your plants for dam aging pests, and use a spray, such as "Raid," this being non-poisonous, and can be used safely in the home around foods. Brand Check Rise Noted By State Salem - Livestock brand inspections made in 1959 reached 895,053, second high est in the history of this state program. The record still rests with the 921,351 brands inspected in 1956, according to the state department of ag riculture. Last year's inspections were roughly 23,000 more than in 1958. Brand inspection, a wide activity, was performed last year on 349,010 animals at auction markets; 69,273 at slaughter plants; 139,028 at posted yards; and 337,742 at points or origin. "With economies and the increased inspections the past year, the brand inspection fund is coming out of the red faster than anticipated," Fred Pope, chief of the division of animal industry, said. He added that if as many inspections are made in 1960 as last year, the account will be in the black by the end of this year. Brand inspection of live stock, about 95 per cent of the operation in 1959 was on cattle, is part of a three pronged program to identify livestock and prevent thefts. Other phases are brand re cording and theft investiga tion. It took Thomas Jefferson five days to travel by public transportation from Philadel phia to Baltimore. A modern bus can do it in 3Vi hours. Last year more Americans traveled than ever before, and to capture their share of the travel market, bus lires in vested over S2 million in newspaper advertising. SEME BREEDERS' SERVICE It! Vi IT Bfc- V wont" J I
