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MAIL TRItUNI, M.dford, Or. Tywfir, April 26, 1e0 Caster Instructs Vo-Ag Students In Swine Raising By DELMAH SMITH t Crater FFA Reporter . Central Point-John Caster, president of the Crater Fu ture Farmers of America chapter is instructing Agri culture 1 students in begin ning swine production. John is considering a col lege course in agriculture edu cation and hopes this course will help him decide on his career for college next fall. , The fledgling instructor's -swins production course will be taught for two weeks. Fol lowing established teaching procedure in the Crater high vo-ag calsses, John has mim 'eographed course outlines for each student. He obtained his 'Information from the various 'agricultural reference books, experiment station bulletins and current agriculture pe riodicals. He typed his own stencils for the outlines later presented to 25 students. Caster will be master of 'ceremonies at the annual Cra 'ter parent and son banquet 'which will be held Thursday evening, April 28. Approxi ' mately 3450 guests are expect. ' ed to attend the banquet. Barnes Teaches Also Caster isn't the only stu dent teacher in Crater vo-ag classes. Last year Allen Barnes taught a class of Ag. 2 students a unit in agricul ture mathematics. Allen is currently enrolled at South ern Oregon college. He holds the state farmer degree and was last year's chapter presi dent. Former members of the Crater FFA enrolled in agri culture education at Oregon State college in Corvallls are Bob Eldon, Don Johnson, Ralph Simon and Mike Red mond. When they graduate these young men will be eli gible to accept positions as vo cational agriculture instruct ors In high school. Haymaking can now be a one-man operation, reports an implement company. The farm equipment maker says mechanical loading of bales in the field and moving them into storage with a new kind of elevator-conveyor system make it possible. Ha DON'T GAMBLE with your fruit profits : 'PEARS should bo protected from nttark by mites. This ; job can be turned over to Ivklthank the extra-safe, ; easy-to-use miticide. An idea! time to clean out a mite . potential is in the first cover spray. To clean out the tops of trees where spray rigs may not give good cover age, a Kelthank 4 percent dust is effective. You'll like tho safety and long-residual action of Kelthanb J. . . plus it ability to control all species of mites which attack pears with a minimum number of applications. 'Ask your supplier for Kelthanb now. ksiriMNI is a truJinurk, Rtf. VS Pal. OS in pnimpjj ,H,r.j, mmirin. KELTHANE Farm General Gardening Tips Outlined By Rogue Valley Nurserymen's Group By J. VERNON MARSHALL For Rogue Valley Nurserymen And Growers Association April-Spring is here for sure now, and us gardeners have to step lively in, order to keep up with things. With Easter out of the way, the orchard healing season about to an end (we hope) I would like to point out a few plants, and some of the cul ture, in the line of general gardening. It should be safe now to start setting out your gerani ums, providing you continue to listen to the frost warning, and cover if the key station temperature will be 32 de grees or less. For geraniums, make use of heavy soil. For best results feed regularly every month through growing season with a good organic food, such as liquinox. Feed leaves as well as roots and your plants will look better, and will bloom better. Now, is also the time to set out salvias, ageratum, Heliotrope, Lantanas, Abuti lon and others, also keeping the frost In mind. However, you will not have to worry about frost as far as petunias, snap dragons, and of course all the small perenials, are concerned. Now for some special fea tures in the small home gar den. Avoid having all sections of your garden look alike. Treat each section and plant ing differently from the oth ers. The result can be helped along considerably by what ever additional work has to be done after the grading, lawn, drive, walks and lot line plantings. Perenial and so-called naray flower borders add a great deal and I will take them up separately in articles to follow. A little formal gar den that can be laid out in almost endless variety of designs is always attractive. Then there is the rose garden and the water garden or pool which can be made quite a feature. The rear of your residence can often be made to look even better than the front and often is used more than any other part of the grounds. A few specimen conifers are almost always in place somewhere. Rustic or concrete ChtnimU for Agritullurt ROHM HAAS COMPANY WASHINGTON 10UARC, fHIUDHrHIA S, M, and Garden benches may be used. The rockery can be made in end less shapes to harmonize with the surroundings. An attrac tive garden from small plants flowers and vegetables alike, to large shrubs and trees gives a great feeling of sat isfaction. To keep your plants always looking well and doing well, start a fertilizing program, using a good organic feed. As 1 mentioned at the first of this article, feeding your plants each month, will be less costly, and the results will be much greater. While we are on the subject of plant ing, let me remind you of SOC Student To Germany ! 1 X tWti 'itotkitilKKHIIIIKRM&flBtWnnnB NANCY SHAVER Pn again. SOC Student in IFYE Program April 15, 1960 Aboard the Seven Seas Greentings from the Seven Seas: Here we are aboard the German ship, the Seven Seas bound for a seven months stay Farm Youth Exchange delegates of orientation in Washington, D.C. Now, we are on our way to live with farm families in different countries. I have been assigned to Germany and since this is a German ship, I am getting help ir, studying German. This year Oregon will have IFYE delegates. They are Ron Andcregg, Vernonia, delegate to Italy in June; M. Shirley Frakes, Bend, to Sweden in April; Jim McKinley, Adrian, to Jordan in September; and myself, Nancy Shaver, Molalla, to Germany. IFYE delegates live at ten host families in one foreign country. We each live as family member. I will share a collection of slides of Oregon people, scenery, animals, crops, and buildings such as my church, school and home. My busy recording my experiences which I will show through out Oregon when I return In December. How are IFYE delegates selected? Interested young people who are single, aged 20 to 30, application through the county also be interested in people and ing the language, geography, history, economics, and soci ology of the assigned country and the United States. The applications are studied by a committee of six persons at Oregon State college. They selected candidate's records are Washington, D.C. whose job it and assign the delegate a country. Lives on Farm I live on a farm in the Willamette Valley near Molalla. I've had 4-H projects of sheep years of cooking and sewing. IFYE delegate I was attending Southern Oregon college maj oring in elementary education. The International Farm Youth Exchange is a program involving delegates of countries on all continents. It is spon sored and supervised by the National 4-H Foundation, U. S. department of State, department of agriculture, and the Cooperative Extension Service. It is financed by 4-H clubs, young men and women's groups, rural organizations, service clubs, foundations, individuals, and business and industrial firms. In Oregon, the Bankers' association helps a great deal with IFYE program. This is a program to promote understanding between people, so 1 will be glad to give names and addresses of any clubs, families, or Individuals in the U.S. to similar groups or indviduals In Germany. If there are any ques tions that I might be able to answer, I would be glad to hear them. I can't promise a personal reply, I'll be kept busy, but I will try to put answers in my reports. You may write me In care of Herr Karl H. Gebbers, Postfach BML, Bonn 12, Germany. Sincerely, Nancy Shaver. Ryegrass Grower Salem - A referendum In which ryegrass growers will determine whether they want to form the Oregon Ryegrass Growers Seed Commission will be held May 2 through 14. The slate department of ag riculture called the referen dum and announces balloting will be by mail. Only grow ers who registered with the department in the 20-dny pe riod ending April 18 will be eligible to vote. Mailed ballots must be post marked not later than mid night Saturday. May 14. Or growers may deposit ballots during the referendum period with the county extension agents at Eugene. Albany, Sa lem, Corvallis, Dallas or Mc Minnville. All ballots will be mailed by May 2. Any registered grower who fails to get one should so advice Paul T. Row ell, market development chief for the state department of agriculture at Salem. Ryegrass growers petition-; cd the department last Janu ary to create a self-help com mission to advance their in- Hustrv. tlmirini! tullim-cd and; on basis of favorable cntl- i deciduous trees, shade, nut, fruit etc. They must be plant ed right away. They are now coming out of the dormant stages. To wait any longer may result in the tree loss Generally, the deadline for moving these trees is April 1. However, this season being cool and cloudy gives us little more time. Most of the nurseries now, are planting these dorman trees in boxes and cans, which will enable you to move them out of sea. son. However, for large shade tree with large roots, it is impractical to plant in con tainers. They must be moved while they are still dormant. En Route for IFYE Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of letters from Nancy Shaver, educa tion major at Southern Ore gon college in Ashland. She is visiting farm families in West Germany for seven months as part of the In national Farm Youth Ex change program. According to a pamphlet issued by IFY the program is a peo ple to people program. It grew from the desire of young people after World War II to make sure such destruction could never hap- in Europe. The International have just finished two weeks different times, with six and new slide camera is already with farm background make extension office. They must willing to spend time study interview the applicants. The studied by a committee in is to make the final decision and dairy animals and a few Until I began preparing as an Vole Set May 2 ment at four hearings the department decided to put the proposal to a grower vote. Virtually all the nation's ryegrass seed is produced in Oregon. Under the commission ap proach to marketing and crop position betterment, all grow ers support the program through a nominal lax levied against sales. The petition specified that nine producer members and 2 handler members should be appointed to the commis sion, if created, including 4 producer members and one handler member from Linn county, where at least 80 per cent ot the crop is produced. WEEDY Grain Fields? Coll RAYSPRAY SP 2-9J7 Education Plan On Ag Chemicals Backed by Dept. By GAYLORD P. GODWIN United Press International Washington - Some months ago, the Agriculture depart ment called for "an intensi fied education program" to insure the proper use of chemicals in foods. This education program was mentioned in Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra Taft Benson's "Chemicals and Food" state ment Jan. 14 in which he said the food supply in the United States is the "safest, cleanest, and most wholesome in the world." He added that the department "intends to continue and Intensify its ef forts to insure that American consumers get the food they need and want, in adequate quantities at a reasonable price, and that these foods continue to meet the highest standard of nutritional qual ity and wholesomeness. It strongly endorses the safe use of carefully tested chemicals as required to maintain the excellence, variety, and econ omy of the foods we eat." The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) promptly be gan work on the education program. Already ARS has published three leaflets deal ing with chemicals in foods. Leaflets Have Theme The central theme in each leaflet is, "it pays to use chem icals safely." This department axion is followed by the ad monition, "always read and follow instructions on the label." Department Leaflet No. 470 was addressed to "Mr. Field Crops Producer." No. 471 to "Mr. Fruits and Vegetable Producer." No. 472 bore the salutation, "Mr. Livestock Producer." "As a modern farmer, you count on pesticides and oth er farm chemicals to aid in your operations," the depart ment said to the field crops farmer. "These chemicals benefit both you and your customers by helping to as sure the high quality-and adequate quantity-of the na tion's food and feed supplies. Then followed the state ment that "chemicals cut costs by reducing losses and by increasing production ef ficiency." Without a protective spray or dust, a growing crop can be wiped out by insects or dis ease, the department said. Even a crop in storage often is not safe without protective chemicals. "By using chemical weed killers you can sometimes eliminate the need for more costly farming operations, such as hand hoeing of cotton or cultivation of corn," the department advised. The leaflet to the fruit and vegetable producer was sim ilar to that for field crop farmers. The message to the livestock producer advised that "avoid ing harmful residues in ani mals you raise is your respon sibility." Restriction Off On Vaccine Salem - The state rUnart.. ment of agriculture has re moved Its restrictions nn the use by Oregon poultrymen of live virus infectious bronchi tis vaccine and has also amended its regulation nn dairy products plants. Both orders Became effective April 13. Under the vaccina nrHnr written approval from the de partment is no longer needed for the use or sale of this vaccine. The reoeal was cupffestprl by the department's poultry advisory committee which points out, among other things, that policing of vac cine Importations is Impossi ble without burdensome and wasteful exDense. It also doubted the legality of pre venting an owner from pro tecting his flocks against so universal a poultry disease, j ine changes In dairy plant j regulations are in line with l recent amendments to the ! fluid milk code. Copies of the orders are available from the slate dcoartment of ecfri. culture, Salem. : Stole Inspected MILK Gallon You Pickup GREGORY PHONI ROAD TA 6-f 22i isd try nrm MARKET NEWS Red Bluff Livestock Auction Report, Tuesday, April 19, I960 CATTLE: Salable 923. including 12u pair itock cows with calves at side. Balance of supply chiefly slaughter cows and stocker and feeder steers and calves. Compared last Tusday: stocker and feeder classes fully steady slaughter cows steady to weak, easiness confined to Canner and Cutter grades. SlaughLr cows: Few head youthful Commercial and odd Standard grade 118 60-19.10; Utility and low-Commercial 119 50-18 00; Cutter to low-Utility S14. 10-16. 10. Canncrs 12 00-13.60, occasional "sheila" and kinds in doubtful health $10.60-11.80. SUuihter calves: Few head Good 270-370 lbs. S25.10-23.70, couple Utility S14.23-1S.90. Stocker and feeder steers: Good and Choice 360-930 lbs $29.00-30 00, Including 33 head 930 lbs. at $29 .50: one head lot 587 lbs. $27 00. and 10 head 808 lbs. $25.70; Medium to mostly Good 430-675 lbs. $23.10-27.10; scattered head 780-1130 lbs. $23 80-24 40; Common stockers and calves 18 23-20.73. Including 12 head 565 lb. Holsteins at $18.90. Stocker and feeder heifers: Few lots mostly Good 225-371 lbs. $26.10 27.10. 8 at $85.00 per head; few Medium $23.40-23.10, Common 490 685 lbs., $18.10-21.00. Stock cows: Medium to mostly Good cows with calves at side $107.00-236.00 per set, Medium $165.00-181.00 per set. Common $137.50-159.00. One 11 head lot Medium and Good 800 lb. stock cows $15.60 per cwt. Veal calves: (Prices by head): scattered head in Cull and Utility flesh S9.00-26.0O. HOGS: Salable 8. Receipts too small to test trend. Six head Good 48 lbs. feeder pigs $18.60. 2 head 125 lbs. Sli.co. SHEF.I'; Salable 13. Individual Choice spring slaughter lambs $2100; 12 head lot Utility and Good fresh shorn slaughter ewes $3.60. Water Losses Eased By Lining By BOB LONZWAY Work Unit Conservationist Water losses from 20 per cent to 80 per cent are com mon in many irrigation ditches and canals in this area. These losses have long been a problem with farmers and groups of farmers. The Sams Valley-Beagle Soil Conserva tion district with technical help from the U. S. Soil Con servation Service has suggest ed lining ditches as a solu tion. Lining with concrete has given the best results. Con crete lining has been applied as either gunite, shotcrete, or hand-placed, placed with ful lerform or has taken the shape of a pipe. The success of any lining has been and will be the base preparation and construction control. Each job should be evaluated as to the type of lining to use for a conserva tion practice of quality for successful performance. Each method of lining has definite merits depending upon the site problems encountered. Cast Important The initial cast is very im portant in determining a sys tem of lining to install equal ly important and more so, over a period of time in the maintenance required and the expected life span of the job. Conservation practices are eligible for federal cost share from the ASC. In general, a cost share of 50 per cent of the cost is made on eligible i HIGHWAY 99 Phona NO GRANGE UMI ' fif"" ... " I . - i grange go-op SUPPLY ASSOCIATION Ditches practices to farmers and ranchers. The Sams Valley - Beagle Soil Conservation district or ganized in 1951. It covers, roughly, the northern half of Jackson county. The primary goals of the district are soil, water and plant conservation practices with farmers, ranch ers and woodland owners in the district. The annual district report for 1959 points out help on 375 individual conservation practices and six operation plans with groups was ap plied with help from the Soil Conservation Service. Medusa-Head Rye Threatening Range Salem - Medusa-head rye grass, a weed of range lands, poses an increasing threat to eastern Oregon range lands, reports George Moose, assist ant plant chief, state depart ment of agriculture. He says the history of this weed pest in neighboring Ida-ho-where it spread from one acre to nearly a million acres of land in 16 years-should serve as an impetus for con trol studies in Oregon. Moose says several agen cies and groups, including the Bureau of Land Manage ment, the county extension agents, and county weed con trol supervisors have report ed increasing infestations in Oregon's range country. For All The Newest and Best In Farm Chemicals for Weed and Pest Control New! Control i I ) IN CENTRAL POINT 4-1261 or SP 3-4022 mm iX Dairy Industry Rebounds After 5-Year Decline Corvallis-Oregon's dairy in dustry appears to be on the rebound after five years of declining milk production, re ports Stephen C. Marks, ex tension agricultural economist at Oregon State College. Milk production in the state turned upward the second hakf of 1959, but not enough to keep the annual total from falling slightly behind that of the previous year, Marks found as he studied reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. As a result, last year's output of milk ended 6 million pounds below that of 1958. This year, however, Ore gon's milk flow is running 4 per cent above that produced during the first quarter of 1959, Marks said. And last month's output increased at a faster rate than last year and topped that of March, 1959, by fully 4 per cent. This change in milk produc tion apparently reflects the increase in number of milk cows reported in the state last year, Marks added. Production of manufactur ed dairy products is also on the upswing in the state, Marks found. During January, the latest month for which information is available, out puts of creamery butter, cheese, ar.d ice cream were ail larger than a year earlier. Oregon's dairy factories pro duced 13 per cent more Amer ican cheese, churned 7 per cent more butter, and turned out 2 per cent more ice cream. Meanwhile, prices received by Oregon dairymen for all milk sold wholesale last month went down about a nickel from that of February -but farmers still received 20 cents more per hundred pounds than in March of last year. This price advantage was partially offset in the Wil lamette Valley, and perhaps in other areas, by higher costs for alfalfa hay. National milk production was also reported on the up swing. Total March produc tion was up 1 per cent over that of February, and only unfavorable weather in the major dairy regions prevented a more pronounced gain, Marks said. co Selective Woori in Legumes' Now you con control many broodleaf weeds In legume, (grown for sood) ...Including alfalfa, red clover, birdsfoot trefoil, aliike and ladino clover) also poai. Butoxono hoi boon widoly feil.d and proved highly effective. Butoxono Is applied as a ipray in seedling or establiihed crops. Chock n P )l3xon todayl WE MAINTAIN COMPLETE stocks of farm and Garden Chemicals for Weed and Pest Control for all types of crops and garden use. If you have a problem on weed or pest control call on us . . . the best and most complete stocks are available together with sound, practical advice on these problems. B AND WATER STS. Athland ML) Albany Plant To Cur Down Odor Albany-ltlPD-Western Kraft Corp. said today It would in stall new equipment at its Albany pulp and paper mill to cut down the odor. Officials said the new equipment should be In full operation in early July. It will bring Western Kraft's odor control investment at the Al bany plant to $250,000. Modern Artificial Breeding with FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE SAME LOW PRICE IN EFFECT FOR YEARS! Sires that have proved their worth by their off spring. The technical know-how of a large and progres sive organization. C. C. Williams CALL . . . SP 2-4093 ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE S- IN ASHLAND 5-4021 " , mm
