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B MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1060 Elements of Good Lawn, Creation of Lawn Told By J. VERNON MARSHALL For Rogut Vallay Nurirymn and Grow.n Association July - The elements of a lawn, While the planting of trees and shrubs Is, perhaps, next In order after the grad ing and the drive and walks have been located, tne lawn comes next in Importance and consideration. What would all the trees, shrubbery and flowers on a place amount to If there were no lawn as a background.' to my mind, a fine sweep of turf is of the very first import ance. An open sweep of lawn, no matter how large or how small the grounds, is needed to go with the home itself. Plant the shrubs as thickly as you want to along the out skirts of a lot, or at tne front or rear, but have an open stretch of lawn somewhere. It helps give character to a place and supplies a proper setting for the planting you do. A lawn doesn't want to be dot ted with trees and shrubs: it wants to be open. Get away from the big center bed it geraniums or cannas in the main lawn: you can find other places for them if you look around enough, but don't cut up a sweep of green turf. The smaller the grounds, the more the lawn means and the less one can afford to sacrifice it for other purposes, a shrub bery border, or one with flow ers means nothing unless a lawn leads up to it. To Make Lawn How to make a lawn - In order to obtain a good lawn, you should start out with well drained and deeply worked soil. This, to my mind, is the most essential requirement. You can establish ultimately a good turf on the stiffest clay, but it takes time. This is true, to quite an extent, of almost any lawn on heavy or light soil. In most cases where a lawn has run out, it is usually the owner's fault. It takes proper attention to keep a lawn in good order. I don't care how rough a piece of land may be or how stiff the clay, with a little work and by handling the soil at the right time, when it is not too wet, nor too dry, you can obtain a fairly smooth surface, and lay the foundations for a good lawn without going to a lot of ex pense as in top dressing the whole area with top soil, manure and sand. I do not mean to say that this would be wrong if the owner wishes KEY to mite-free fruits PEARS should be protected from attack by mites. This job can be turned over to Kelthanb the extra-safe, easy-to-use miticide. An ideal 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 Kelthanb 4 percent dust is effective. You'll like the safety and long-residual action of Kelthanb I . . plus its ability to control all species of mites which (attack pears with a minimum number of applications, sk your supplier for Keithane now. : KWHANI U a tradtmrk, Keg. VS Pat. OS. and in principal firtign cwntriet. KEITH ANE to go to this expense, well and good. However, you can get along nicely otherwise and still have success. The deeper you can work the surface over the better for grass roots and the better will the soil retain moisture during hot summer months. In heavy soil, after it has been plowed, follow up with the disk, or pulverizer and a polcscraper or heavy planks to do the leveling. Follow with a good fertilizer, such as liquinox for lawns. Since this is a liquid, it is better to sow seeds first. Keeping lawns green throughout the summer is much easier, using Liquinox, or Lawn Groom. Water early in the morning or late after noons so that you will not burn the lawn. Also, apply a good crab grass killer through July when the seedling is starting to grow, when you have a good turf apply five pounds of amonia sulphate to 1,000 square feet at least once a year. Lawns need an abund- ance of nitrogen. Apply with spreader and water, in thoroughly, to avoid burning. Use Lawn Groom to keep down the broadleaf weeds. Care for the lawn and you will have a good lawn. Girl, 16, Missing From Hillcrest Salem - (UPD - A 16-year-old Portland girl from Hillcrest School for Girls disappeared Friday afternoon while, on leave from the institution to go shopping with her parents. Hillcrest authorities said Esther Munoz vanished in a Salem department store and her parents notified the insti tution at 3:50 p.m. The girl left with her par ents at 1 p.m. on a four hour pass. Officials said the girl was wearmg a yellow dress and is expecting a child in about two months. PLAYER PIANOS POPULAR Chicago -IUPD- Piano maker Wilton Syckes explained to day why player pianos are one of "the hottest selling items" at the National Asso ciation of Music Merchants meeting here. 'If they can't do it them selves, and pump the music, people feel they might just as well have bought a phono graph.", Chemkali for Agriculturt ROHM HAAS COMPANY WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHIIADHPHI 5, PA. -CHIT By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor In some agricultural circles here a lot of action. So 11 is with a group of truck gardeners and a certain fruit stund operator. These fruit and vegetable growers, about nine of them, will have the fruit stand operator handle the wholesaling of their produce to seven large stores in the Medford area. This will be a kind of farmer's market in that the growers will bring their fruits and vegetables to this large fruit stand where It will be carefully examined, possible graded, and displayed in uniform quality for the buyers from the store to see. This will take care of the a processor or processors are freezing vegetables. Tentative plans are being worKca out now for at least freezing spinach, a high quality product raised in the valley. If current plans bear fruit, this can be expanded to other vegetables, and with some expanded acreage we could see a good, What haunened to the sour severely limited the apricot production this year, also cut down on the pie cherries. The largest producer in the area reports that he was frozen out. small acreages left. Bagley earlier this year had agreed ficient tonnage came in, but remaining sour cherry crop won t be worthwhile wis season Bagley Canning company cumbers this year, so plans to go into the pickle business a little more. Asked what he thought about possibilities of establishing a good strong little vegetable business here, the canning company representative said he would prefer grow ers to plant more fruit, particularly berries. He feels there is a good future for craneberrics here. The do "real well," he said. His company and the fresh fruit market could use a lot more than is produced locally, he indicated. RasDberries. boysenberries in short suDDly last week. We stores displayed some big, luscious strawberries Saturday. However, strawberries have Just about disappeared from the market. We had our first decent corn on the cob Sunday. For real eating enjoyment Golden Bantam variety to come on the market. The first loganberries of Portland wholesale market July 6. The berries sold slowly at mostly S2.25 to $2.50 per crate with a few as high as $2.75 - about the same as a year ago. Red and black rasp berries brought mostly $2.75 to $3. A few fine quality black raspberries sold as high as $3.25. We haven't seen any of these berries locally yet. Oreeon Drocessor prices on OSC market reports, are 14 cents a pound delivered to proc essing plant or receiving station. Grower prices on black raspberries have been reported variously at 20 cents for drying and 17 cents for freezing. Three plants have reported the end of strawberry processing. As of July 6, Marshalls were quoted at 14 cents, delivered with other type straw berries at 13 cents, OSC reported. According to California market reports, there won't be many boysenberries and blackberries imported into this area. The harvest is drawing Fresno areas, prime suppliers reached a oeak about July 1 the boysenberries are grown the blackberries in the coastal are sold to processors in that We had watermellon Sunday and you probably did, too. Melons represent the biggest push toward lower prices statewide and are now arriving on the market in volume, according to OSC market reports. Prices of truck crops skidded a fifth during the month, but are still a tenth above last year. A general survey of the extension agricultural economists show that most of Oregon's farm products moved lower in were higher prices on milk, milk cows, hogs, wool, and unchanged prices on oats. Nationally, prices received by farmers dropped 2 per cent at mid-June to a level per cent below mid-June 1959. Here, too, the decline was quite general as beef cattle, potatoes, eggs, and most truck crops moved down. Frpit prices on the other hand marked sub stantial gains. . Higher prices were noted lemons and limes. The index cent in June and is now 7 per 1959 crop of peaches and apples were both cleaned up in June at prices considerably above the end-of-the-season av erages last year. Apparently, remarks we pear picking school were not considered too far fetched by one prominent pear processor, anyway. This man feels anything which elevates the while. He feels a school might do that. He was thinking particularly of retired people in good health. Main prob lem with using school youngsters in the pear harvest is that school starts just when the harvest needs 'cm most, he remarked. It doesn't do any from school for a week or two because they feel left out as their friends start their school social life, etc. Apparently, a number of and work with teen-agers feel local agriculture can absorb more youthful' summertime help. A subcommittee of the Jackson county juvenile department advisory council is be ing formed to consider part-time jobs for youngsters. Agri culture will be one of their A young lawyer friend of penetrating analysis of various Blackstone band, feels he may the almost dead apple industry in the Rogue valley. He discovered that the current novelty of shrunken head rep licas are actually carved dried apples. Why couldn't Jackson county become the industry he wonde-ed? These small shrunken heads could be dangled in car windshields like baby chocs, cloth dice and other articles are now. They would be much more effective when hung over the front door than quarantine signs in keeping out the mother-in-law. Modeled into the likeness it could even revolutionize the This would even provide method of harassing Republicans. Shrunken heads could be made into likenesses of Republican leaders, a voodoo ritual performed and pins stuck In each head. Instead of the "hex" the Demos might "put the nix on Nixon." In short, this would put center of the shrunken head industry. It would establish a new class of highly skilled artisans known as apple- carvers and another group known as apple-dryers. Two other beneficial results would be need to hike prices every few would be needed for the crowning glory of this new product. Also, cull apples or those dropping to the ground could be used, resulting in less waste CHAT a little talk leads to fresh fruit and vegetables, but still needed for canning or steady little side industry nere. cherry deal? The frost which There are only two or tnree canning company in Ashland to process sour cherries if suf it looks as if processing the reported a good supply of cu and nectarberries all seemed noticed one oi me large cnain we're waiting for the local the season arrived on the red raspberries, according to to a close in me Moaesio ana for some stores here, but in the coastal areas. BuiK oi in the Modesto-Fresno area- areas. Most of the two berries area. farm market as made by OSC June. The main exceptions on all kinds of fruit except of all fruits jumped 11 per cent above a year ago. The made on setting up a possible status of the picker is worth good to exempt young pickers people who are interested in targets. ours, who, makes a more things than others of the have an idea for reviving hub of a small shrunken head of known gangsters at large, criminal identification system. the Democrats with a new Medford on the map as the that barbers would no longer years since their sweepings to the applegrowers, How Can Government Serve New Rural United States? By GAYLORD P. GODWIN Unii.d Praas Intarnatlonal Waslitngton-Undorsecrotnry of Agriculture True D. Morse Is concerned with how gov crnmcnt can best serve the new rural America that Is emerging in the lOHO's. Ho Is especially concerned with a rapidly changing agrl culture and how the rural de velopment program (RDP) can help families in low Income rural areas better themselves, Morse is chairman of the na tional committee for RDP Morse recently character ized the new rural America by a recitation of these trends and facts: -There are now five non- farm persons for every three farm persons living in rural America. The number of rural resldences-in contrast to farms -will increase rapidly. -"Mixed Income" and "di versified income" areas will become 'more common. They win be more actively pro moted for the good of farm Moths May Aid In Controlling Tansy Ragwort Corvallls-An Oregon State college experiment designed to control the poisonous tansy ragwort weed looks like it's well on its way to success thanks to nearly 1,000 cooper ative cinnabar moths. The moths were released this spring on patches of tansy ragwort in Linn and Polk counties by the OSC entom ology department and local county extension agents. the moths obliged bv lav ing hundreds of eggs apiece. The eggs now have turned in to orange and black larvae which are hungrily eating the tansy ragwort plants. It s impossible to get an exact count of the larvae," Dr. Paul O. Ritcher said. But he saw at least 500 in a small area at the Linn county site, and is sure several thousand larvae must have emerged. Natural Enamy The cinnabar moth larva is a natural enemy of tansy rag wort, but doesn't like any useful plants. Entomoglogists In Oregon, Washington and California hope to control the weed by taking advantage of this characteristic. The weed is poisonous to cattle and horses, and is a vigorous grow er, crowding out more desir able plants. Ritcher and Robert W. Ev ery, extension entomologist, emphasize that Oregon's suc cess won't be clear until the moths have overwintered in the state, but the many larvae that have emerged are a good sign. A similar experiment start ed in California last year ap pears to be a success. Larvae produced last year overwin tered satisfactorily, and moths emerging this spring have re produced, thus making more larvae to feed on the weed. Oregon's original supply of cinnabar moths was furnished by J. K. Holloway, leader of parasite introduction investi gation for the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture's labora tory In Albany, Calif. The moth is a native of France. Courtesy Card Not Helpful to Driver Edison, N.J. - An errant motorist nonchantly admitted violating a traffic law. He strode to the bench and show ed the judge a courtesv card issued by the sheriff's office. The judge levied a $25 fine and confiscated the card. CANINE BUS FARE Poole, England - IUPH - A dog's life won't be half as good on municipal buses be ginning today, Transit author ities announced canine pass engers will be charged one half adult human fare. DAIRYMEN! Ill It your present milk cooling II HI equipment doing all you , think it should? IF NOT, LET US CHECK ITI HI Let our years of experience II HI pay off for youl II EVANS REFRIGERATION 1951 Wail Main Phona SP 3.7117 L J II' 'Jl and town people alike. -Farm families now receive about $1 out of each $3 of total Incoing from off-tiirm employment and other non farm sources. This Income from off-furm auurccs will grow rapidly and be actively promoted as a means for over coming low Incomes of both farm and non-farm rural people. Mora Non-Farm Work -An Increasing number of rural families have both funn ing and industrial or other non-farm employment. These mixed Income and diversified activities will continue to In crease rapidly. This will be especially true for small and low income farm families. -Some 2 million farms now produce more than 00 per cent of the farm products market ed. Of these farms, 1,290,000 produce about 79 per cent of the products marketed. And of theso latter, 583,000 farms account for more than 58 per cent of total marketings. The new census will indl cate movement in the direc tion of even more of the total production coming from smaller number of commercial family farms. -There will continue to be a declining need for farmers and farm workers. It is the only major occupational group for which the government forecasts less manpower do mand during the 10 years ahead, -New highways under con struction will put all America on "Main Street." Power, transportation, and communi' cations now serve all commit nities and areas. Milk, bread, and the daily paper are de livered along the country road in growing communities. -Rural communities are be ing remade. Farm and non- farm families, Including the people in small towns, vil lages, and suburban areas, in- Contest Stresses Safe Chemical Use Corvalis Cash prizes will be awarded to Oregon 4-H youths who do a skillful job of demonstrating safe use and handling of agricultural chem- lcals according to rules of a new contest. Cal Monroe, state 4-H ex tension agent at Oregon State college, reports that the Wes tern Agricultural Chemicals association is offering the first contest in thie area to Ore gon's 31,000 4-H club mem bers. Top demonstrators at county fairs will receive $5 each and a chance to compete for more cash at the state fair. The contest purpose Is to promote the safe use of chem ical pesticides, which Include all chemical sprays, dusts, and other poisons used to kill In sects, weeds, rodents and oth er pests. It also includes pesti cides used to control the growth of crop plants. Suggested d e m on s tratlon topics include safe handling and storage of poisonous chemicals, rodent control, use of right equipment when handling poisonous chemicals and reading labels. The WCAA will help fur nish 4-H members with dem onstration materials, and en courage cooperation from loc al stores. The growth of the agricul tural chemicals Industry since World War II has enabled saving of millions of lives and prevention of Illness, It was pointed out. Careless use of some of these pesticides have caused death, and crop loss, however. ESCAPE DEATH Pecatonica, III, - (UPD - Rus sell Sarver, 17, . and Susan Schmerce, 16, both of Durand, III., escaped with minor in juries Monday when the car in which they were riding crashed through a roadside railing, hung briefly In a tree top, somersaulted 200 feet down a cliff and landed up side down in a creek bed. crcaslngly work, piny, wor ship, mid study together. All this and much mure, Morse said, adds up lo n rap idly changing agriculture and a new rural America. Already there Is a "new opportunities piogram" under way, Morse said, to servo pri marily the low Income farm families and un even greater number of low Income non farm people. These, he said, have been largely forgotten or bypassed by government farm programs. Largor Farms Halpad Uu pointed out that Iho bll lions of dollars of price sun- ports largely go to the 2 mil lion larger farms. In fact, Morse said, fur more than one-halt of the billions being expended pay for products of just 1 million of the largest farms, In contrast, some 2,700,000 "little farmers, low produc tion farmers, mid other farm families had no specific pro gram for their needs before recent years. Industries and employment were highly con centrated In limited arens largely out of reach of under employed rural people. This Is what faces the new opportunities program of the Rural Development program according to Morse. He culled for "a hurd, sus tained drive to get decentral ization as our economy and Industries expand." lie said such decentraliza tion Is needed for defense, balanced economic growth, to get jobs within reach of un deremployed and low Income farm and rural non-farm peo ple, to help depressed areas, to relieve strangling conges tion on highways and in cities, and to permit more families to enjoy suburban and coun try living. He culled for new develop ment agents or leaders differ ing from the type of the usual fnrm demonstration or exten sion agent. He should be a new type with different re sponsibilities, Morse said. The new agent, Morse said, should work with and through existing organizations, agen cies, nnd groups. He said with the new oppor tunities rural development agents must have broad Inter ests, and be able to sec every potential of the pcoplo and of the areas they serve. "To them a dollar of new income should be equally at tractive regardless of whether it comes from industry or oth er businesses, forests, tourists, recreation, or f a r m 1 n g," Morse said. Simplify insect ..'- "i'," with MS now one insecticide controls the major fruit insects... i Effective gats even the tough ones Sale one of the safer phosphate Insecticides Versatile-may be used on most fruit Raildua tolaranca ol 0.75 ppm on many fruit crops -recommondatlons permit application! rolatlvoly cloie to harvott. i(n omaiHATona at eat msicmmu EIGY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS tmm m thmmi ei tiw miii mvar nms, Armt.y, n.A Farm Washington- llll'U -Tim agrl culture department today pro dieted a continued trend to ward fewer and larger farms In the United Slates. Department economists said Ihe number of commercial limns during the 11154-75 pe riod would shrink 211 per cent. This Is the sumo rate at which the number of farms declined between 1IKI5 and 11)54. Be tween 11)54 and 11)51), the number of farms dropped 15 per conl. During the 1U:1554 period the average acreage per farm increased mora Hum one-half. The economists mild this same rale would prevail through 11)75. The reason for this unprece dented Increase In tho size of farms and the continuing de cline In the total number Is tho technological revolution with Its improved efficiency, the department said. The department discussed the fewor-farms-iuure-acrcuge situation In a background statement about fiirm real es tate sales, 4-H Lamb Show in Gold Hill July 13 The annual Gold Hill 4-H Lamb show has been sched uled for Wednesday, July 13, at the Cold Hill city park, according to Glenn Klein, Jackson County 4-11 club agent. Sponsored by the Gold Hill Livestock club under the lead ership of Norman Gail, the Lamb show provides special training in sheep judging and sheep showmanship for Inter ested young people. Trophies for the top Judge and the top showman will no presented by the Gold Hill Lions club. The Judging con test wll start at 10 a.m. with showmanship to follow. Lunch will be available at the show grounds, Klein stated. 4-H'ers, F.F.A. members and the pub lic are Invited to attend. FOR SATELLITE NATIONS New York-ltlPB-Riidlo Free Europe said Monday its team of four broadcasters hud begun producing in Los An geles dully programs of the Democratic National Conven tion. It said the programs were being transmitted by short wave radio to RFE In Munich, Germany, for transmission be hind the Iron Curtain In the Czesh, Slovak, Polish, Hun garian. Bulgarian and Ro manian languages. on FRUIT... Notes Washington -lill'll - The agrl culture department sulci toduy supplies of meiil for elvlllim consumption during the next few months would uveriigu below those of n your earlier at relatively stable retail prices. Economists writing lit tho department's publication, "The LIvcHlnek and Meat Situation," said beef consump tion this summer was expect ed to be up a little from last summer, with better grades providing most of the In crease. A little more lamb also probably will be avalliiblu but Iheso Increases likely will bo more Hum offset by re duced pork supplies. During the next few months, the department said, retail beef prices probably will remain 'relatively stable. Retail supplies of the better grades of beef cuts will bu ample and some Increase is likely in the Intermediate and lower grades. California outranked all other states In receipts for all farm products, but Iowa led In livestock and meal animals. The value of the 11)511 crop grown on bureau of reclama tion projects was a record $12 billion, up $120 million front the previous high In 11)511. The bureau said price ii ported crops grown on recla mation projects In the 17 western stales constituted only' a tiny portion of tho crops In surplus supply. The crops produced on rec lamation projects Included grain and (orage, fresh fruit.1 and vegetables, dry edlblo beans, sugar beets, hops, Int, quality cotton, seeds, nuts, and other high-value products, tho bureau said. The average er nere crop value on reclamation projects reached an all-time high In lt)5D of $1H4.23. The total Irrlgnblo servlco area of reclamation projects now Is 8,004,383 acres, Includ ing a net addition of 44,741 acres In 1050. Blackberry Problem? Cell RAYSPRAY SP 2-9279 1 rr, V control t 4 s a c T I c I o . i W' J'
