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Virus Symptoms Verses C i egen State Corvail's-vS hen you come j f'jv.n with a v. us, certain ; symptoms -sore throat, head cine, runny nose, or rash make you aware of the infec tion. But when your prize dahlia, or any other plant gets a virus, symptoms often are not so obvious. When you get a virus, you can complain to your doctor. But a plant has no way of explaining where it aches. Vi rus infection have been com mon in plants for thousands of years. Some viruses pro duce no visual effect; others arc easy to detect. Dr. John Milbrath, Oregon Slate College plant patholo gist, is studying ways to de tect hidden viruses in plants, particularly fruit trees. He has developed a quick 16-week) test to discover disease-free trees for nursery stock. Earlier, it took two or more years to complete tests de tecting viruses in normal ap pearing trees. Virus symptoms in plants may include stunted growth, curled leaves, dead or yellow spots, underdeveloped fruit, low yield, or sometimes death. One pie cherry grower in Yamhill county reported that his virus-free trees produced as much fruit when they were four years old as infected trees produced during their seventh year. Potatoes Infected Nearly all potatoes are in fected with a virus, which is harmless to those who cat the vegetable, but which re duces crop yield about 20 per cent. The virus-infected potato displays no symptoms, but the same virus will damage to matoes. 1 tobacco mosaic vi rus also reaches the tomato, the combination of the two viruses will kill the tomato plant. Smoking is forbidden in greenhouses for tobacco mosaic is readily passed from the cigarette to the smoker's hands, and on to the plant. Another potato virus causes the tuber to grow above ground. At first thought this appears handy for the potato picker, but Milbrath hastened to explain that sunlight causes purple-green potatoes which aren't palatable. Another difference between plant viruses and human vi ruses is that people can take medicine, develop antibodies,, and recover. But once a plant becomes infected, the infec tion's there to stay. Sprays or other treatments can't cure it. Milbrath mentioned three ways to help prevent virus infection: (1) Be sure the plant doesn't have a virus when you buy it. (2) Control insects, for they carry viruses. (3) Get rid of infected plants before they transmit the virus to another plant. Viruses are fickle. A certain virus will affect one plant one way, another plant a different way. Sometimes a plant can carry a virus without symp toms but can transmit the virus to another plant that will become seriously affected. Dahlias Carry Virus The plant pathologist point ed out that most dahlias carry a virus which affects tomatoes, so it's foolish to try to grow these two plants in the same garden. You shouldn't grow cucumbers or beans near gladiolus either, he cautions. Glads carry viruses that will Special Price ONLY $C88- Parts & Labor Here's What We Will Do: tion guaranteed "Satisfaction or yourynoney back: C Reports prevent pole bean from I growing more than five or ! six inches tall, and will cause ; a cucumber to shrivel. Now that dwarf fruit trees are becoming popular, could viruses be put to practical use in dwarfing them? Milbrath says "no" since the virus would cause more harm than good. Viruses have been around for at least five centuries, but they're so tiny they weren't seen until about 1340 when an electron microscope was developed. An ordinary micro scope can't detect them. Evidence that viruses were present five centuries ago is found in paintings of that time. Fifteenth century artists often pairted tulips with varie gated flowers. Scientists have discovered that a virus causes this discoloration. It looks pretty, but eventually will dwarf or kill the plant. Now that scientists are find ing easier ways to delect plant viruses, some day they may come up with controlj too. Such a scientific breakthrough would do much to increase yields of many Oregon crops, Dr. Milbrath noted. Meetings Started For Cattlemen Salem - Slate and federal veterinarians are holding a series of meetings with east ern Oregon county cattlemen's associations, interested stock yard operators and others to explain new developments in the cull and dry cow trace back program. Particular emphasis at the series, arranged in coopera tion with county extension agents, .is the new program adopted upon recommenda tion of the State Board of Livestock Auction Markets. This board, an official ad visory unit to the state de partment of agriculture, has ecuuimcnued lagging aii cat tle moving through stockyards with dual-purpose identifica tion. The single tag, now on or der and to be distributed later this spring, will serve both as official identification In the Bang's program and as sale- yard identification. Meetings were held at Med ford, Klamath Falls, Lake view, Burns and Ontario the week of April 18-22: at Can yon City, Prineville and Mitchell, April 25-30; Lapine, and Baker, May 2. Other meetings scheduled: La Grande. May 3; Enterprise, May 4; Pendleton, May 5; Madras, May 9; Heppner, May 10; The Dalles, May 11; Moro, May 12. Assisting Dr. L. E. Boden weiser, state veterinarian, and Dr. A. G. Beagle, federal vet erinarian in charge in Oregon, with the scries are Dr. O. J. Halverson and Dr. Kenneth Erickson of the federal staff and Dr. M. R. Woulfe, assist ant state veterinarian. Washington - lUPIl - The De partment of Agriculture re ports fertilizer supplies for the year ended June 30 will be a record 8,085,000 tons of plant nutrients-nitrogen phos phate and potash. This is 5.2 per cent more than the ton nage on hand on June 30 a year ago. Table Model Radio SERVICE SPECIAL Replace all defective Tubes Clean and adjust Align and Tune Dm not iricludt) broken cui knobt. Just Day "Charge It" us ear a 30 day charge or tofee months to pay. A "p'cP! 501 ' ysA-f.m. vv Free cf Scab State Men Report Salem - Only one of the herds exposed to scab in the Baker county outbreak last January L still held under quarantine, according to the state and federal veterinar-1 ians' offices at Salem. All Baker county herds have been dipped and re leased. Tiie one remaining herd is in Umatilla county; this herd was trea'cd earlier but not under official super vision so arrangements have been made for retreatmcnt in the near future. (California still has an em bargo against beef cattle movement into that state from Baker and adjoining Union, Grant, Malheur and Wallowa counties. Entry may be made from anywhere else in Ore gon on an official health ex amination and veterinarian's certification.) Herds Quarantined Thirty-one herds of cattle were under quarantine for tu berculosis at the end of March, according to the federal-state animal disease monthly re port. Fifteen new reactors on 10 farms were found in March T. B. testing of roughly 12, 000 cattle in 511 herds. The March tests showed an inci dence of 13 100th of 1 per cent-a small percentage but sufficient to pinpoint the ne cessity for continual guard, says Dr. A. G. Beagle, in charge of federal veterinar ians in Oregon. The report shows white muscle disease in cattle and sheep was found in 11 herds in Jackson county and 10 herds in Klamath county in March. Also, two herds of cat tle in Tillamook county were dipped because of exposure to chorioptic mange and one goat in Clackamas county was quarantined for the same cause. This is a mild form of mange and one familiar to show exhibitors throughout the country. Leptospirosis tests conduct ed on 34 herds in Benton and Curry county disclosed seven reactors. On the brucellosis front, 10 counties are now entirely free of quarantined herds. As of April 22, 142 herds in the remaining counties were un der quarantine because one or more was found. This is a sub stantial reduction since last July. The turkey industry ac counted for $329,000,000 of farmers' cash receipts in 1959, according to the agriculture department. This return was 5 per cent above that of 1958, and was based on 1,379,000, 000 pounds of live weight of turkeys. The average farm price of turkeys last year was 23.9 cents per pound live weight, same as the average price re ceived in 1958. Prices during the first 10 months of 1959 averaged lower than a year earlier. They advanced in No vember and December. Turkeys raised In 1959 to taled 82.100.000 birds, 5 per cent more than the previous year. Statistics on canned and processed poultry in Febru ary indicate the use of these foods is going up. JACKiOH , 94M1 i GARDENING By DON BERRY Count Exttniion Agant PEACH TWIG BORERS Home gardeners as well as commercial orchardists should check their peace and aprico: trees for the presence of peach twig borer. This pest is now working in the twigs of new growth and is most "asily lo cated by finding wilted t'ps and leaves. At the base of these wilted twigs a small brownish worm will be found burrowing. Unless control measures are taken where peach twig borers are present a second generation will be produced and wormy fruit will result. Controls consist of spraving your trees thoroughly. In large sprayers use two pounds of DDT or Diazinon per 100 gallons. For home gardeners one tablespoon of Malathion plus one heaping tablespoon of DDT per 100 gallons should be used. Where severe infestations occur a second spray may be needed about three weeks prior to harvest to prevent worms from entering the fruit. APHID WARNING Spruce, especially the Col orado Blue Spruce, should be closely watched now for small, dull-green aphids. These aphids can devitalize spruce trees and kill them. This has happened in the other areas of Oregon in previous) years when infestations of spruce aphids were high. Either Diazinon, Lindane, or Malathion is recommended for controlling spruce aphids when they are present. Follow the general directions on the label of the container. PEACH LEAF CURL Many back yard peach growers are inquiring as to what may be done to control the peace leaf curl that is showing up now in their trees. This disease shows up as curled leaves which are yel low or reddish in color and somewhat thickened in tex ture. Since this is caused by a fungus disease that works in the winter time, nothing can be done to cure leaves which are already curled. Since these leaves will even tually drop and new leaves re place them the best current practice would be to apply sul fate of ammonia or other good commercial fertilizers to your peach trees to stimulate them to grow new leaves. Neutral copper sprays ap plied after harvest and again during the winter time are the best method of controlling this disease. Home orchard spray schedules covering this and other diseases of backyard fruit trees may be picked up at the county agent's office in the court house. WALNUT CARE Now is the time to prune or graft walnut trees. During the last half of April to the first of May is the recommend ed time for pruning or graft ing English Walnuts as they do not bleed at this time of the year. While this bleeding is not considered a serious detriment as far as pruning is concern ed, grafts put in during e bleeding period seldom grow While this rule of not bleed ing during this time of year is a general one, but not al- Farm Washington -(DPP- The ag riculture department has is sued a new edition of a food guide for families with young children. It is one of a series on food planning and buying for families of different ages and incomes. The guide, prepared by the department's Institute of Home Economics, offers week ly food plans that suggest amounts of 11 food groups to buy for a well-balanced diet. If farmers carry out their marketing intentions, beef supplies should become some what larger during April, May, and June than they were a year ago. Cattle feeders in 21 important livestock feeding states expect to market 53 per cent of the April 1 Inventory during the three-month per iod. If these intentioni ma terialize, marketings would be 19 per cent higher than during ! April-May-June, 1959. The 21 states Include 12 north central statei plui Penn sylvania, Oklahoma, Texas, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California. Broiler -type chlcki pro- I dueed by commercial hatch eries in March totaled 175. 380.000, down 4 per cent from March, 1959. Production of 'eg-type chicks In March to taled 72 '82.000, down 38 per cent from the tame month last year. The production of egg- type tfcicki for the flraf three months of I960 totaled 14, 8115.000, compered to 218.073, 004 during lit Mnt period in ll)5 decvetM of ST rer cent. PrsducUon f broiler' tvne cH4r ifom IthaKth piOnlb ahowed an increase of ' "5 1 BPS lira ways the case, it is a good idea to snip off a small twig the size of your thumb and wait an hour or so to check and see if it drips. LAWN CARE The best control for mush rooms, toadstools, and puff balls in lawns is to provide good growing conditions for llie grass. A good lawn fertil ity program and regular mow ing to help provide such grow ing conditions and a vigorous lawn belter competes and in terferes with their growth. If they are not too numerous thc.-c growths can be individ ually picked and destroyed. Since mushrooms, puffballs, and toadstools are the fruit ing or seeding bodies of the fungi they represent, picking them helps reduce their spreading. These growths are occasion ally associated with a turf disease such as fairy ring. In these cases controlling the dis ease is the solution to the problems. The presence of mushrooms, puffballs, and toadstools indi cates a high level of organic matter in the soil. They feed almost exclusively on organic matter. Lawn clippings, organic fer tilizers, and matting and thatching of the turf tend to contribute to the problem. Annual close mowing helps by removing excess organic mat ter above the soil surface. Since they feed on organic matter and not on the grass, mushrooms, puffballs, and toadstools are more unsightly than harmful. WEED KILLERS Many lawn weeds arc effec tively controlled with "weed killers" in the spring when they arc growing rapidly. A combination of 2.4-D and 2.4,5-T, sold as "lawn weed killer" by garden supply stores, kills a variety of broad leaf weeds. Dandelion, false dandelion, buckhorn and com mon plantain, and other "easy to kill" weeds arc readily con trolled with this combination. Even some of the more dif ficult lawn weeds are affected by this same weed killer to varying degrees. Such weeds include duckweed, the wild clovers, white clover, veroni ca, yarrow, and dog fennel. Using a spreader-sticker with the weed killer often gives better results on these more difficult pests. Specialized herbicides are becoming more important in lawn weed control. Endothal rates higli in ridding lawns of veronica or speedwell, wild clovers, and annual bluegrass. 2,4,5 -TP, sometimes called Silvex, is one of the best con trols for chickweed. Most difficult to control are the weedy grasses. Few, if any, weed killers have much effect on ryegrass, velvet grass, and quackgrass which are commonly found in lawns. Preventing them in newly seeded lawns and digging or pulling them from established lawns seems to give best con trol. A lawn properly cared for and growing vigorously re sists weed infestations. Ade quate fertilization and proper mowing and watering are among the best lawn weed control practices. Notes 2 per cent over production In the same period of 1959. Washington -IUPH- The Agri culture Department said today total supplies of feed grains and other feed concentrates in 1960-61 may rise to a new record high, if early spring prospects materialize. Farmers are planning a slightly smaller acreage of feed grains and with a normal growing season, production would be a little under last year's record crop of 168 mil lion tons. But the carryover of feed grains in 1960-61 is expected to be some 10 mil lion tons larger than the 68 million ton surplus a year ago. The department! agricul ture research policy commit tee has called for expanded research on food and human nutrition. The committee's recommen dation envisions greater knowledge about nutrients In food, food quality, consump tion of foods, U.S. dietary lev els, and factori In nutrition It is aimed at "improving the future well-being of all citi zens." Washington -UPl- The For eign Agricultural Service said today agricultural area of i:ru'iiay, Chile, and Argen tina have been hit hard by drought. FAS said that althnugh about 110,000 tone of feed grains are scheduled Vt he purchaied by L'ruguay from the United Sutu undef the surplus disposal law, ddi- 1'iunal feet! grain Import! may toe .weeded. ,-o 'Chiie. a hard htt by drought cwtiifo reduced 199- sariuniraeTittatA: ' auMilj Mil aiaf I Bi'ioat'iti f w iljfM tor 'xsr'zrTJT'l . J ! A- -oy.r-n i ! "ti kitchen fo" . ' WF 1 BtOROOM Hi IS .IB IIVM HOOII - DUINO i pip "t jKfi "? 2 BE0SOOH PLAN NO. 1454 SQUARE FEET This Week's affected fruit output and pas ture conditions. Washington -MPI- The agri culture department said de tailed snow runoff forecasts issued by the Soil Conserva tion Service showed a rever sal of the pattern of recent years in the prospective sup ply for the I960 summer water-using season. The report, compiled on the basis of April 1 snow meas urements, showed a relative ly better outlook for New Mexico and Arizona, with normal or better runoff also expected in Colorado. 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