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According to DHIA April Records
Cows owned bv filenn and
Eana Chase, Gold Hill, topped
the average butter fat produc
tion for April with 46.2
pounds, according to the Jack
on County Dairy Herd Im
provement association.
The 24 cow Chase herd
had three dry cows when
tested and produced 1,146
pound milk average for April.
Other top herds were Rogue
Val Holstein farm, Eagle
Point, 14 cows, one dry cow,
1,197 average milk produc
tion, and 45.0 average pounds
of butlerfat; Gilmah's Dairy
farm, Medford, 97 cows, 7
dry, 1.080, and 43.2; Agate
Dairy, Central Point, 20 cows,
none dry, 1,083, and 43.1;
Straus Brothers, Gold Hill,
127 cows, 17 dry, 1,039, and
43.1.
Biiterling Has Top Cow
R. R. Bitterling, Eagle
Point, had the top cow for the
month and placed two others
in the 10 top cows' list. Bit
terling's Friskie produced 2.
046 pounds of milk. 126.9
pounds of butterfat for 77
days in milking. Bitterling'i
Stale Farm Prices
Reported Steady
Compared To U.S.
Corvallis - Oregon farm
prices held steady in April,
in contrast to national farm
prices which moved up a
notch. However, farm prices
in the state still stand nearly
5 per cent above a year ago
and the highest for any April
since 1953, reported Mrs. El
vera Horrell, Oregon State
college economist.
The farm price index in the
state held unchanged. An up
turn in prices farmers re
ceived for their crops was off
set by a downturn in prices
they received for livestock
and livestock products, Mrs.
Horrell found as she studied
reports from the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Across the nation, farm
prices climbed as prices on
eggs, potatoes, hogs, corn, and
cotton turned upward. Only
partially offsetting these in
creases were lower prices on
milk, strawberries, oranges,
and some vegetables. As a re
sult, national farm prices
stand I per cent above April
1959.
Farmers' Costs Climb
Costs of things farmers use
also moved up during the
month to another new all
time high, Mrs. Horrell said.
The index of prices paid by
farmers for commodities and
services, including interest,
taxes, and farm wage rates,
rose nearly one per cent dur
ing the month ending April
15 to a level 1 per cent above
a year earlier.
With prices received and
prices paid by the nation's
farmers up the same amount
during April, farm product
purchasing power held un
changed last month.
This left the parity ratio
the government's yardstick
for measuring the relation
ship between prices received
and prices paid by farmers
at 80 last month, the same as
a month earlier but 2 points
below April of a year ago,
Mrs. Horrell added.
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Cow No. 58 produced 2.325
pounds of milk. 107 pounds of
butterfat for "0 days in milk
ing. Cow No. 55 produced 2 -
Soil Moisture
Study Grant
Given To OSC
Corvallis -A new research
tool that could help agricul
tural scientists solve some of
Oregon's irrigation and ferti
lization problems is being de
veloped at the Oregon State
college agricultural experi
ment station.
'the new project will try to
work out ways to keep con
stant amounts of moisture in
soil being used in irrigation
and plant-growth research, re
ports Dr. John W. Wolfe. OSC
agricultural engineer. The
project is being supported by
a S17.500 grant from the Na
tional Science foundation.
Agricultural scientists like
to keep everything that can
affect their experiments at a
set level, Wolte explained. At
present, however, experimen
tal plants have to be watered
at intervals, and the amount
of water in the soil around
the plants varies from day to
day.
Tries New Method
Wolfe has been experiment
ing with a method that uses a
stream of air to carry water
vapor into pots of soil. By
carefully regulating the flow
of air, temperature, and pres
sure, he found it was possible
to get the water vapor to con
dense onto soil particles.
The new research will try
to develop equipment and
techniques that will use this
method to supply moisture to
potted experimental plants at
the same rate they use it,
Wolfe said. This would give
agricultural research scien
tists a way to keep a constant
amount of moisture spread
uniformly through soil being
used in their experiments.
Such a method of supplying
moisture to experimental
plants could help agricultural
scientists develop better meth
ods of predicting and timing
irrigation needs, as well as
making possible expanded ba
sic research on how plants use
water to carry on their life
processes.
Governors Urged
To Form Council
Seatlle-OIPD - Western gov
ernors were urged Monday to
form an interstate council' to
promote greater industrial de
velopment. Washington Gov. Albert D.
Roscllini called for a western
council for economic develop
ment during his welcoming
remarks at the 1960 western
governor's conference open
ing session.
"Perhaps of all the factors
affecting the West, none binds
us more closely together than
our need for economic
growth," said the host gov
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in 48 days of milking. Cow
No. 57 produced 2.304 pounds
of milk. 96 8 pounds of butter
fat for 33 days in milking.
Other top ranking cows
and their owners are: Clover
lawn Guernsey Farm, Med
ford, Big Rose, 1,866 pounds
of milk, 93.3 pounds of butter
fat, for 34 days in milking;
Harry Dunn and Sons, Cen
tral Point. Holly Faye, 1.896
pounds of milk, 91.0 pounds of
butterfat, for 32 days in milk
ing. State's Hunting
Grounds Draw Vet
Salem-Oregon's attractions
to hunters induced Dr. Rich
ard W. Elliott to pull up roots
from his home town, Ypsi
lanti, Michigan, and come to
work for the state.
"I've been as far west as
Montana and British Colum
bia to hunt and have always
wanted to be in Oregon so I
could hunt here." he revealed
upon arrival in Salem.
Along with Dr. E. L. Reed
of Pensacola, Fla., Dr. Elliott
is a newcomer to the veteri
nary staff of the state depart
ment of agriculture.
Dr. Elliott, in private prac
tice 22 years in Ypsilanti af
ter graduation from Ontario
Veterinary College, will be
assigned later to a district as
assistant slate veterinarian in
animal disease control.
Dr. Reed, a Florida prac
titioner for 10 years and a
meat inspector during army
service, will shortly be as
signed as a district veterinary
meat inspector. He received
his DVM degree at the Au
burn, Alabama, veterinary
college.
Families of both men (El
liott's includes three children
and Reed's four) will arrive
in Oregon after schools close.
Woodland Meeting
Planned For Eugene
The newly formed Oregon
Small Woodland association
will hold its first meeting at
8 p.m., Wednesday, May 18,
in the courthouse annex in
Eugene, according to Duane
L. Hatoh, Lane county exten
sion agent.
Purpose of the newly form
ed association is chiefly to
study problems of manage
ment and improvement of
small forested tracts suitable
for tree farming.
Other purposes are dissem
ination 'of information on
establishment, growth, har
vesting and marketing of for
est crops produced, educating
and informing the landowners
and public regarding small
woodland management prob
lems and promoting protec
tion of growing trees and de
velopment of better forestry
methods and practices, to
serve as a forum in recom
mending problem solutions
and improving forest manage
ment, harvesting and market
ing, and to represent owners
of small woodlands before
legislative bo "-s and admin
istrative agencies.
"All owners of small wood
lands, from one to 5,000 acres
are invited to attend the first
general meeting and are
urged to become members,"
said Hatch. "A great need has.
been felt for such an associ
ation in which the smaller
owners will have representa
tion in legislative matters
such as timber taxation, and
for the general purpose of
furthering knowledge of prop
er forest management and
practices for smaller owners.'
The first meeting will be
devoted to a study and discus
sion of timber taxation, Hatch
said. This is most important
for those who will grow trees
for the future. A panel will
consist of Dean Ellis, chair
man of the state tax commis
sion, Paul Linlger, tax expert
of the industrial forestry as
sociation, and Verne Bron
son, of the new Small Wood
land association.
Eligibility Explained
Any owner of forest lands
from one acre to 5.000 acres
is eligible for voting mem
bership in the association.
Owners of more than 5,000
acres of forest land whose In
terests and problems are pri
marily those of concern to
Wakefield Drapery
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Saturday, Day 21
Search Still On
For Historical
Century Farms
Salem - The Oregon Histor
ical Society and the state de
partment of agriculture are
conducting their third annual
Century Farm program this
year. This will honor a new
crop of families whose contin
uous Oregon farming activity
extends back to 1860 or ear
lier. The program will climax
with an assist from the Ore
gon State fair and the award
ceremonies on the fairgrounds
Tuesday, Sept. 6. Plans for
the final celebration were
made recently at a conference
of leaders of the three organ
izations. Two years ago, the program
found 354 Oregon families
with century or better farm
ing records; last year, 44 Cen
tury Farmers were enrolled.
Of the 398 so far. only three
farms are east of the Cascades.
The sponsors are hopeful that
this year will see some entries
from other eastern Oregon
counties.
The lag in representation
from east of the mountains is
natural for, as every school
child will recount, the early
migrations to Oregon concen
trated in the western part of
the state - particularly in the
Willamette valley.
Blank Available
Application blanks for Cen
tury Farm honors are avail
able in the offices of county
judges who again are being in
vited to make the final deter
mination of eligibility. Their
cooperation has been a decid
ed asset to the program, inas
much as the county judges
have at their command the
records of farm ownerships
from the beginning.
All applications will be sub
mitted to the state department
of agriculture for preliminary
screening and then relayed to
the county judges. All 1960
applications for Century Farm
honors must be in the hands
of the department at Salem on
or before July 5.
small owners may be admit
ted to vot'ng membership
upon special application and
approval by the board of di
rectors. Any persons not owning
forest land but interested in
the objectives of the associ
ation may become a support
ing member by making appli
cation and payment of such
dues as the board may estab
lish. Any person, firm, or cor
poration not eligible for vot
ing membership but owning
forest land or interested in
furthering the objectives of
the association may become a
supporting member upon ap
proval of the board and pay
ment of dues or contributions
to further the aims and ob
jectives of the association,
Hatch explained.
Grain Export
Continues Heavy
Salem - Slightly more' than
600 carloads of wheat and bar
ley from Montana rolled into
Portland terminals in April
to swell Oregon grain receipts
to 9.5 million bushels. A short
hundred cars of other grains
from states east of the Rocky
mountains also moved in by
rail.
Truck and barge movement
of grain, respectively one and
two millionbushels, were at
about the same levels as in
March.
Export shipments for April
surpassed 7.5 million bushels,
or roughly 80 per cent of the
arrivals, according to the rec
ords of T. Ralph Harry, grain
inspection division chief for
the state department of agri
culture. On a ship basis, the
export loadings accounted for
about full cargoes. This brings
the total export from Oregon
since the first of the year to
83 cargoes.
Inspections at branch points
-Pendleton, Astoria and Merrill-were
mixed, with Astoria
movement down and in
creases in the other two.
Modern gasoline has suf
ficient energy to propel an
automobile 450 miles to the
gallon it power losses by
friction and wind resistance
could somehow be eliminated.
7:20 pm. Medford High
School Aadltorium
Farm
Washington - L PI. - An Ag
ricultur?.! Research or vice
study shows that life insur
ance companies hold a larger
share of farm mortgages than
any institutional lender.
ARS faid that as of Jan. 1.
1959. farm mortgages owned
by life insurance companies
amounted $2,661,00U,OOU.
This represented 23 6 per cent
of the outstanding farm
mortgage debt.
Agriculture Secretary Era
T. Benson has called atten
tion to National Soil Steward
ship Week, May 22 to 2(1. and
urged participation of all cit
izens because of th import
ance of soil and water re
sources to the nation s wel
fare. Soil Stewardship Week,
sponsored by the National As
sociation of Soil Conservation
Districts and various national
church organizations, begins
on Rural Life Sunday, May
22, and continues through the
next Sunday.
Washington -il'Pli-The Rural
Electrification Administration
is in the midst of a week-long
observance of its silver anni
versary. Exhibits denoting the suc
cess of this 25-, ear-old gov
ernment lending agency fill
the big patio of the agricul
ture department's administra
tion building.
There is the model of an all
electric home, in which heat is
supplied by electricity. Also,
there is the model of the first
atomic power plant to be built
on an REA-financed system.
And there is ample evidence
showing how electricity has
been brought to rural com
munities since the REA was
established by executive or
der on May 11, 1935.
The agriculture department
said in response to questions
about the status of 2.4-D for
the control of weeds, there
has been no withdrawl of its
registrations for uses of this
chemical.
The chemical has been used
widely for weed control for
many years. Registrations
given under provisions of the
federal insecticide, fungicide.,
and rodenticide for the use of
2,4-D are supported by broad
experience and research con
ducted by public and private
institutions, the department
said.
It added that the labels for
registered products contain
instructions and adequate pre
cautions for use to protect the
public. As in the case of other
agricultural chemicals, the de
partment said, studies are be
ing continued on the use of
2,4-D for the control of weeds
in pastures, forage, and field
crops.
Washington-(UPIl-The Agri
culture Department said to
day the farm share of the
consumer's dollar rose one
cent lo a total of 38 cenls
in the first quarter of 1960.
This was the first increase
in the quarterly average since
the January - March, 1958.
Even with the increase, the
farm share of the food dollar
in the first quarter still was
one cent below a year ago.
From the first quarter of
1958 to the fourth quarter of
1959, the farm share dropped
from 42 cents to 37 cents, de
clining in nearly every quar
ter.
The farm share of the food
dollar is based on the money
spent for domestic farm foods.
Washington-IUPD-The Ag
riculture Department predict
ed today retail food prices
will rise seasonally in the near
future, but probably will av
erage close to those of a year
ae.
Toiil supplies of fond will
be about as large this spring
as they were a year ago, the
department said in its pub
lication. The National Food
Situation."
The demand for food will
continue strong.
The department predicted
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consumers will have a little
rr.rc1 r.:r r. the fev
months than in mid-1959, in
cluding more beef and lamb,
hut less pork. Last summer
pork supplies were unusually
large for the time of year.
Washington-ilPt- The Agri
culture Department said to
day U.S. farm exports moved
overseas at a record rate in
quantity and at a near-record
rale in value during the
first nine months of fiscal
year liltiO.
Agricultural exports for the
July-March period totaled S3,
40tl.0llo.0ti0 in the current fis
cal year. This was 21 per cent
above the $2,800,000,000 val-!
ne in the corresponding per
iod a year earlier and only 6
per cent short of the record
S3.60(l,0(HI.0OO in the July
March. 195(1-57. Quantity of
exports was 25 per cent larger
in the period this year over
a year earlier.
Precipitation
April precipitation and run
off failed to improve material
ly the I960 water outlook in
me rann siaies, accornmg
to Floyd E. Dominy, commis -
sioner of the bureau of recla-
mation. He said many recla
mation projects will be forced
to draw on cyclical or hold
over water stored from previ
ous years to bring crops to
maturity.
"Very heavy depletions of
holdover storage are in pros
pect in the Pacific Northwest
region, where the May 1 field
reports describe the outlook
as only fair," Dummy said.
"Precipitation duripg the
last third of April consider
ably reduced irrigation re
quirements in California Cen
tral Valley, but the regional
director continues to predict
a second dry season and ad
ditional drawdown of cyclical
storage in that area."
For other regions of the
West, Dominy said, the water
outlook ranged from good,
good to fair, poor, and excel
lent. More Producers
Need Egg Permit
Salem - Producer compli
ance with the new egg dealer
permit feature of the Oregon
egg law is falling short of
field findings which in
spectors continue to uncover
The slate department of
agriculture once again urges
producers who sell eggs to re
tailers, eating houses or food
manufacturers to apply for
the stale permit or license.
It is available either through
the Salem headquarters or
Portland brnach office.
"Our egg inspectors are still
finding eggs in retail stores
that have on the cartons
names of producers who do
not have a stale egg dealer
permit," reports W. E. Up
shaw, Portland branch man
ager in charge of the egg en
forcement program.
The producer is exempt
from the license if his sales
are lal made to consumers or
to licensed dealers. Some re
tailers are so licensed; if a
licensed retailer buys from
producers upgraded eggs and
grades and labels them, the
producer is exempt from the
license.
So far, the department has
simply notified producers of
violations to gain cooperation.
"The idea of going to court
to gain compliance with this
law is unpleasant and it is
our hope that producers who
have not done so will apply
for the permit," Upshaw says.
Man Found Guilty
By Klamath Jury I
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Michael Joseph of manslaugh
ter in connection with the fa-!
tal shooting Sept. 20 of Okicj
Richards on a ranch near
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Garden Notes
ELM LEAF BEETLES
Home gardeners who have
had trouble in past years with
soon.
These pests first become
noticeable lo the home gard -
oner when the leaves start
turning brown and the tree
takes on a sickly appearance.
Trouble starts when the black
and yellow
striped
emerge from the ground in
the spring and start feeding
on the leaves. Soon clusters
of bright yellow eggs appear
on the undersides of the leaves
and hatch into greenish yel
low worms which cat the
green portion off the leaf
leaving only a clear iilainent.
Later in the summer the
home owner may notice the
adult beetles crawling down
the tree trunk and gathering
in clusters at the base of the
tree. Since there are several
broods a year, damage starts
early and continues until fail
frost.
Control for elm leaf beellcs
consists of spraying the tree
with two pounds DDT and
two pounds of Malathinn per
100 gallons of water. Orriin-
: anly one spray containing
i these materials annliert riur
j ing the first part of May will
prevent serious beetle dam-
age to elms for the remainder
of the season. Occasionally
where infestations are severe
a second spray is needed. This
should be applied only if a
buildup of beetles is noted.
OAK LEAF MINOR
Home owners who have had
trouble with oak leaf minor
should spray for the control
of this pest as soon as possible.
While oaks are particularly
susceptible to attack by leaf
minor which causes leaves to
turn brown and fall during
the summertime. Trees which
are severely affected by this
pest take on an overall sickly i
appearance and partially de
foliate, i
A combination spray using
Malathion plus DDT is used
for controlling oak leaf minor, i
aphids and other pesls on
oaks at this time of year. Four i
pounds each of DDT and Mal
athion per 100 gallons of wa
ter should be used and the
trees sprayed thoroughly.
NIXON APPOINTS AIDE
Washington-luril-Vice Prcs-1
ident Richard M. Nixon has
appointed Stanley E. McCnf-
frye, Berkeley, Calif., as his
executive assistant. McCaf
frey, vice president of the
University of California, is a
boyhood friend of Nixon.
One woman out of six over
the age of 25 will have enter
ed college classrooms by 1980,
against only one in eight In
1850.
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helped design the atomic
hniiih, has been appointed the
first scientific attache to the
United States embassy in Mos-
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sian parents two years after
they came to the United
Slates, speaks Russian fluent
ly. He is awaiting credentials
beetles'10 leave June 7 for his two-
month assignment in the So
viet Union.
At least one member has
health insurance in about 73
per cent of all American families.
Thanks,
To all the many friends of the
Medford Y.M.C.A., who gave
so generously of their time and
possessions for the 1960 "Y"
Auction.
The use of these funds will be
directed towards extending our
youth programs.
Due to your enthusiastic sup
port the 1960 Auction was the
most successful of the 10 year
history.
Sincere Appreciation,
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preme Court refused Monday
to reconsider its decision up.
holding the espionage convic
tion of Col. Rudolf Ivanovich
Abel, Soviet spy who cloaked
his activities by posing as a
Brooklyn photographer.
In a brief order, the court
refused to change Its 5-4 rul
ing March 28 that Abel must
continue to serve his 30-year
sentence in Atlanta for his spy
activities on behalf of Russia,
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