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o o o o o o TUESDAY. JUNE 7, I960 Three Factors Given For Gardening By Rogue Valley Nurserymen's Group By J. VERNON MARSHALL i which In ,,nnl (h ccnl7i . i .11 By J. VERNON MARSHALL Note for Rogue Valley nurserymen and Growers as Eociation. Now the weather has clear ed up ana all danger of frost is over, we should nlani garden, landscape our yards, hiiu Deauuiy our homes in general. There are plenty of annuals. perennials, trees an dshrubs. jviosi nurseries are growing them in containers now so they can be moved any time of the year without danger of loss. The cost of plants is very small in comparison to the pleasure you will gain by maintaining a well landscaped home. I would like to mention some facts that are very im portant this time of year, and as far as that goes, for the year around. I would like to talk about manures, fertilizers and soil drainage, the most important factors to success ful gardening. Fertilizers Important There is no subject In gar dening more deserving of con sideration and careful study than that of fertilizers and other forms of plan food. Lucky indeed is the gardener who keeps a couple of cows to supply him with ma nure. One can get along nice ly with cow manure alone without paying much atten tion to so-called commercial fertilizers or chemical salts as plant foods. With cow manure on hand .Whathor froch In Tin. .1.1 form, or well decomposed and mixed in with soil we hardly need spoil a single crop. Con ditions, however, have chang ed and are changing rapidly, and it seems almost as if the automobile had not only done away with the horse, but has driven the cows away, also. There are really more cows In the country than ever, only they are distributed different ly. The cost of manure, if bought, is almost prohibitive. Gradually some of us are be ginning to realize that we have to find substitutes with Dr. Leo J. announces the opening of The LITHIA PARK VETERINARY CLINIC 88 No. Main Street Ashland, Oregon MU 5-0541 f V Which to Ktinnlv tho PQepntinl plant foods, such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, one or tlie other of which if not all three is usually lacking in most soils. We are beginning to realize that we are in the dark about what the soil in our particuar section lacks in essential plant food requirements. Nor do we intelligently go about apply ing fertilizer. We look upon a bag of 2-12-1 fertilizer with Suspicion, just because it doesn't look like a yard of manure. We don't realize that the food values in that bag are far greater than what is actually available in that yard of manure. Drainage Required Now for drainage With the possible exception of aqua Farm Washington (UPD - The agri culture department predicts higher cash rents for both farms and pasture land this year in most north central states. These states are the na tion's big crop and livestock production area. They include Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. An economist, writing in "the Farm Cost Situation," reports rental rates for north central farms range from $17 to $20 per acre in the central corn belt to about $5 per acre in North Dakota and South Dakota. Interest Interest rates paid by farm ers rose sharply in 1959, and probably will continue at a high level during 1960, the department said. Interest rates in the central money markets rose to new heights in late 1959, but declinde ear ly in 1960 because of a level ing off in the demand for credit. van Dii FOR MITE-FREE TREES THMKT Here's proven protection for precious opple, peaches, nectarines, plums and pear crops. This outstanding Niagara development also provides: long Residual Control Extremely High Margin of Safety to Plant life Easy and Safe to Handle Contact Your Niagara Field Man, Today J. I. CYPHERS P.O. Bot 611 Medford SPrina 2-6279 polling Utti la FOOD MACHINERY AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION Niagara Chemical Division v , AHlHIIlil) ritlINO RICHMOND YAKIMA V . tlarn Otflcat MIDDklPORTi tics, all plants need drainage to do well. We often overlook this fact in the case of plants requiring moisture, and have them go back on us. Even the garden should be provided with proper drainage the same as the haspmpnt nf n dwelling, and the heavier the sudsoh, me more drainage is neessary in . order to keep things sweet. A few four inch drain tiles, with a covering of cinders and provided with a proper outlet will in a short time pay many times over for the cost of installation. All vegetables, flowers and shrub beds need drainage. You can not water daily without hav ing drainage to take the sur plus moisture away. The more vou water the more rirninnpp becomes necessary. Notes Wool Steady Department economists re ported that world wool prices were expected to remain rela tively steady at current levels into midsummer. This was based on the fact that world production and consumption were about in balance. The department predicted that the world production and con sumption of wool during 1960 would be at or above the rec ord levels of last season. The Foreign Agricultural Service said Argentina's ex po r t s of horsemeat rose sharply in 1959 with the Unit ed States becoming a buyer for the first time. U.S. pur chases of Argentine horse meat totaled 2,300,000 pounds last year and were expected to increase in 1960. Washington (UPD The Agri culture department said today farm production costs in 1960 were likely to be higher than the 26 billion dollars estimat ed for 1959. Economists noted in the de partment publication, "The Farm Cost Situation," that the average of prices paid for pro duction goods and services in April was slightly above that of a year earlier. This rise occurred despite lower prices for feed' and livestock, which comprised about 28 per cent of all production expenses in 1959. The use of production items from non-farm sources prob ably will continue to increase and prices of most of these items will be higher in 1960 than in 1959, the Department said. Wage Increase Wage rates of hired labor were expected to increase, al though total expenditures for hired labor might not change appreciably from those of 1959, when coupled with a drop in the number of hired hands. Interest payments and prop erty taxes will be up sharply, the Department said. Total ex penditures for livestock and feed might be lower. The prices of motor vehi cles, farm supplies and fertili zer were unchanged this War NW YORK It iuaa Lamb Pool Ready In Three Weeks Another lamb pool is ex pected in about three weeks here for Jackson county sheep- growers, according to County Agent Earle Jossy. Yesterday 277 lambs were shipped out by truck from Midway auction yards on Table Rock rd. to San Fran! Cisco. Pool price is $20.50 a hundred weight. They were weighed in at Midway with a 4 per cent shrink allowed and a cost of 25 cents per 100 pounds deducted for handling, bookkeeping, pooling and use of the yards and scales. This is as good as anyone has received locally for their lambs," Jossy commented. "The lamb market fell apart early this year. Last Wednesday sheepgrow- ers sold 2,500 fleeces to the wool pool for 51 V4 cents a pound. Klamath basin sheep at the same time were bring ing 46 cents a pound for their range wool. However, the range wool shrinks more since it is not as clean, it was ex plained. Dispute Continues On Owner of Barque Astoria-OIPD-The question of who owns the wrecked British barque Peter Iredale was up in the air again today. Court records revealed last week end that the late R. E. Hendricks had purchased at least a part of the vessel in 1917 for $25. Hendrick's son, Cliff, a re porter for the Oregon City Enterprise-Courier, has claim ed the vessel, saying it was left to him by his father. But Monday, a further search of records showed Hendricks apparently had sold the wreckage to a J. A. Moshor for $325, also in 1917. Clatsop county plans to re sist any efforts to remove the vessel for salvage. spring from last. Feed was down 2 per cent and feeder livestock down 4 per cent. Items for which prices were higher this spring than last, were motor supplies, up one per cent; farm machinery, up 4 per cent; building and fencing materials, up one per cent; seed, up 6 per cent; taxes, up 6 per cent; wage rates, up 5 per cent; farm real estate, up 3 per cent. Washington - (UPD - The in crease in the market value of farm real estate slowed no ticeably in 1959. After advancing 6 to 8 per cent in each of the three pre vious years, the increase in farm real estate values in the year ended March 1 was only per cent. Although on state reported decline in the latest 12- month period, increases were per cent or less in most of the corn belt, lake states, and northern plains. Values in creased more than the nation- 1 average in most of the Mountain and Pacific states and in New England. Washington - IUPD - The ag riculture department's current progress report on the nation- rural development pro gram notes an increase in community health improve ment work in many of the 200 participating counties. More than 30 examples of health improvement activity wore described in the depart ment bulletin "Health Im provement Through the Rural Development Program - Third Progress Report. 1 Poultry will have to be meatier to qualify for U.S. Grade "A" after July when the department's revised stan dards for poultry go into ef fect. The revised standards call for a greater amount of flesh on the breast of "A' quality birds. New standards and grades for poultry parts also are pro vided so that shoppers can buy, for example, U.S. Grade 'A chicken or turkey legs. Other changes include use of loll" grade marks U.S. Grade A, B or C to individually graded, ready-to-eat poultry; new wholesale and procure ment grades; and redefinition of the standards, in part, so they will be applied more uni formly. The department and the American dairy industry again have set aside June as National Dairy Month. In do ing so, the Department noted that the industry was ceic brating something like 350 years of continues progress since the first 100 cows ar rived at the Jamestown Col ony. Dairying is a major source of income not only to farmers but to thousands of workers who haul milk Som farms to creameries, process it in milk plants and factories, and trans port it and sell it at homes, stotes, and restaurants. The Department's current statistics show that farm cash receipts from dairying repre sent 14 per cent of all receipts from farm juducti. . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. CHIT CHAT- By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor The last two weeks have the Rogue River valley. This year's first cutting is ton for alfalfa. Quality is not as good as expected. One farm er said the cool, wet spring weather held it back and allowed the weeds to grow as fast as the hay. Practically all of the first cutting of alfalfa is down and harvesters art; moving half way into the meadow hay which usually comes on a little later. This year's crop statewide is larger than usual. However, last year due to the short crop remain good and perhaps get Local berries are just beginning to come on the market. We noticed at one of the fruit stands strawberries from Cali fornia were selling for five operator said he was losing about 25 cents a crate, but was using it as a come on for his customers. Local berries are selling now for about 30 cents The Rogue Valley pear crop state hit by hail. The strawberry crop in the Albany-Lebanon area was hit by hail, also. However, despite this and the unseasonably wet weather there the area may have a bumper crop of strawberries, an area spokesman said. To the house wife, it may mean much lower strawberry prices if any of the berries are trucked into this area. It may put a squeeze on the local growers' prices, too. Growers in the Albany-Lebanon area see an unusually heavy set of berries on the rankly growing vines. The grow ers are hoping for gradual warming and clearing weather, or dry cool weather from now until the crop is harvested. This would permit several pickings, allowing the smaller berries to gain size while the larger ones, maturing first, were being picked. We have said many times that we thing teen-agers could be used more in the pear harvest to give the growers their desperately needed labor at picking time. While visiting with one of the local restaur;it proprietors and his wife, formerly of North Dakota, we learned they used to harvest potatoes when they were youngsters. In fact, the wife tells me, that it was the custom for Red River valley youngsters to earn spare cash by working in the potato harvest. They said there is no harder work than dragging the heavy baskets around and stooping over to dig Then we read in the May 18 issue of the Eugene Register Guard that the Lane County Chamber of Commerce has been asked to support a request by the Emerald Empire Growers' association that the opening of school next fall be postponed until after the pole bean harvest. The growers pointed out that in Lane county the farmers depend on 10,000 students from 9 to 18 years old to help pick. This matter was referred to the chamber's agriculture committee (which the Medford Chamber of Commerce does not yet have func tioning.) 1 Strawberry growers in the on school youngsters for harvest. These are organized into olatoons with mothers or interested adults acting as platoon leaders to recruit the kids and kids can make from $5 to $10 can make about $12 a day. tried here for pear-picking? The sour cherry deal looks good and Is getting better, The fruit came through the frost period well. Bagley Canning comrjanv over in Ashland vallev can nroduce. Newbry in Ashland, may handle some vear the vallev has 25 to 30 tions are that 5 to 10 additional acres will be planted. Best location is considered the heavy soil on Ashland hillsides which also puts them close to Farmers in the Phoenix with couriers. This has been a they report. One farmer reports some luck gassing them with the tractor. Costs are still squeezing hard. Rogue valley small farmers report high cost of spray materials and tractors work a special hardship. One farmer said he was pricing new tractors last week end. In 1944 his tractor cost $1,212. The same tractor now costs $3,750. Per haps the small farmers should pool equipment and spray rigs. That might help some. rim. cost the farmer does the cost through gopher damage to his crops. Since these litilp hcasfs. which mav be uglv enough to remind you of Uncle Louie, spend much of probably won t see them until cut. Their burrows also often cause breaks in irrigation ditches costing hundreds of dollars in repair work beside the crop loss caused by the flooding. How to get ria 01 tnese pesky creatures is related elsewhere on this page. Th nnnltrvmen of the area probably be firm from now on through to Oetober. Local egg outlets are paying 38 cents a dozen on double A extra large, 34 cents for mediums and 27 cents lor smaiis. iocaiiy, the double A, extra large went up a cent Friday. Checking the OSC bulletin steady market since prices paid Portland area egg producers at that period, ranch basis, ranged from 34 to 38Vi cents a dozen on double A extra large. Double A large sold at 32 to 36'4 cents, or 3 to 5 cents egg prices dropped to the lowest level in nearly 20 years. Grade A large traded in the 30 to 32 cent range, up 0 cents from a year earlier. Mediums cashed at 29 to 32V4 cents, or 6 to 7 cents above a year ago. Smalls brought 3 cents a dozen more than a year ago, ranging from 23 to 26 'A cents a dozen. Al Hart of Hart's hatchery terest in the turkey breeding meat are bringing good prices, he said. Excellent climate in the Rogue valley makes The over-increasing population is another incentive since people are eating more and more turkey on a year-round basis. The Central California markets In May showed a 2 to 3 cent steady price above a year However, the price may take a slight drop by fall since more of the big birds arc being raised for next fall's market, ac cording to agricultural economist Stephen C. Marks. We should have a much clearer national turkey picture by the end of this month since May and June are the last two big poult hatching months of the year. April's hatch of heavy poults was no larger than the same month last year, but this year's January-April hatch was 15 per cent larger. The light breed poult hatch was only half as large as a year earlier. NEED 220-100 AMP SERVICE LET SEARS ARRANGE INSTALLATION Includes! Service lot Ranee, Dryer and Het Weter Tank Up to 10 Feet lack. Plus I Circuits. O PHONE SP 3-6661 JFOR FREE ESTIMATES MEDFORD, ORE. been real haying weather for bringing not less than $25 a there is no carry over from last season so the price should better. boxes for $1. The fruit stand more. wasn't the only crop in the up the potatoes. Willamette valley also depend supervise tneir picKing. ine a day and the platoon leader Why can't the same thing be has agreed to can all that the Orchards packing company, also frozen pack In the future. This acres in sour cnerries. rreaic. where they will be processed, area report considerable trouble continual fight over the years, the small farmer, particularly not have to put up with Is their lives underground you alter your auaua roots are report the egg market will dated May 16 this shows a higher than a year ago. Ihcn is trying to work up more In- program. Both turkey eggs and the turkey Industry a natural, ago on new crop live turkeys, AS LOW AS $85oo Nothing Down, 3 Years To Pay On Sears Modernizing Credit Plan Western Europe Saw Danger of Communism in Harriman Early Fdllor's notr-: Prohablv other time in history have Ameri cans been as curious as they are today about Russia, its policies and Its people. And probably no livlnR Ameriran knows more about Rus sia than former New York (iov. Averell Harriman. who first visited tlie country in 18K9 and served as li. S. ambassador to the Soviet Un ion from 1943 to 11146. In a recently published book, "Peace with Russia?" (Simon and Schuster). Harriman tells of a six week. 18.000-nille tour through the country during which he had a scries of conversations with Nlklla Khrushchev and other Icadinc So viet officials. Some or the hijth llshts of the Harriman hook are contained In a series of three dis patches be-in distributed by United Press International, the first of which follows. By AVERELL HARRIMAN (Distributed by UPI) Even before Germany sur rendered it became clear to me that the outwardly friend ly relations of our wartime alliance were not going to survive the peace. I reported to the President, the secretary of state and other members of the cabinet Time Lack Cited In Lack of Bids On State Machines Portland -(UPD-Freeman Hol- mer, director of the Depart ment of Finance and Adminis tration, said Monday bids in choice of new data processing equipment were not asked for because of a shortage of time. Holmer appeared before the Legislative Interim Commit tee on Welfare, which was looking into lease of IBM mag netic tape equipment which will cost about $19,000 a month. The finance director said the responsibility was shared between his department and the welfare department, which made known its needs. The rapidly approaching legal deadline for welfare efforts to recover be' payments for recipients from legally re sponsible relatives made It necessary to proceed without calling for bids. Exceptions Told Some committee members reviewed state regulations which they said called for bids for any purchases above $1,000. Holmer said there were exceptions when only one supplier can meet the re quirements of the state, and that it was true in this case. Holmer said addition magnetic tape to replace the punch card system to the IBM machines at welfare makes for relatively easier and min or changes and that it will be in operation in July. He said Remington Rand could not have been in operation before October. Ray Field, management con sultant overseeing the busi ness machines' use for wel fare, estimated that $240,000 would have been lost if the installation had been de layed as much as four months. SPEAKING FOR MODERN OIL Htvi ... 'While I Pay the Bills, We'll Stick to Oil Heat! I'm wearing the money we saved on fuel bills last winter. A new suit for mc, a spring coat for the wife . . , that's the kind of savings we've made by switching to oil heat. And, if you're the kind who likes solid comfort, I say join me You'll go for a heating plant that makes it T-shirt weather all winter long. Oil heat costs far less than any other modern hoating system. Ask your heating oil dealer for proof I In MEDFORD, the finest homes use modern oil heat... for safety for dependability for economy for comfort that the outward thrust of communism was not dead and that we might well have to face an ideological war against an antagonist just as vigorous and dangerous as Nazism or fascism. In April, 1945, I cabled Washington; "We must real ize that the Soviet program is the establishment of totalitar ianism ending personal liber ty and democracy as we know and respect it." During one of my talks with (the late premier Josef) Stalin he told me he expected communism to flourish in "the cesspools of capitalism." The economic dislocations of liberated Western Europe were creating just such dan gerous conditions even be fore the war ended. Concepts Promoted Referring to these areas, I wired Washington on April 4: "The Communist party or its associates everywhere are us ing economic difficulties in areas under our responsibili ties to promote Soviet con cepts and policies and to un derline the influence of the Western Allies. The only hope Plant Burglarized Twice on Week End Dover, Del. (UPD - A small manufacturing plant was broken into twice in one week end - the second time by thieves who apparently didn't know that others had been there first. Police said robbers broke a window and attempted un successfully to burn and bat ter a safe open. They left their tools behind. After police investigated this incident, a door was broken open and a quantity of equipment and merchan dise was taken. of (You don't hove to be rich to enoyl f RICH BOURttOVl 1 )F'mmZmzj fi old fi S' aJt l-i if . I Vr-' Jg C4. 145 I VT 1 Vss-v Old Quaker 1 A BARREL Ot QUALITY IN EVERY BOTTLE -J V siuiski minion mnti it hoof ou of stopping Soviet penetration is the development of sound economic conditions." I recommended specifically that in addition to the relief program of UNRRA "we should through such economic aid as we can give to our western allies, including Greece as well as Italy, ; re establish a reasonable life for th' people of these countries." In April of 1945 I had cabled from Moscow to Wash ington information Stalin had given me about his ambitious plans for Russian industrial expansion. The plan, I re ported, would take 15 or 20 years during which, among other things, Russian steel production capacity was to be tripled from pre-war level. We now know that these plans were not daydreams. , Both Stalin and (Premier Nikita) Khrushchev had pushed the program with the greatest vig- and the steel capacity of which I wrote has already been tripled - in 14 years. ; New Kind of Threat , ,. This industrial expansion has raised a new kind of threat to the non-Communist world. While Stalin planned to exploit "the cesspools of capitalism" to expand com munism, Khrushchev now be lieves that the success of his industrial expansion with Im proved living standards will give him a new, powerful weapon to further Commu nist revolution. In one of my recent talks with him he said frankly, "We can demonstrate the advan tages of our system and set an example to other countries which they will have to fol low." " This concept of Communist expansion by example, Khru shchev implied, will be par ticularly effective in the .un derdeveloped countries im patient to leap from a primi tive agrarian community to a self - sustaining industrial state. : Code 14SC quaiii tismiint to,i.wiiciiui.,in.
