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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!
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think it should?
IF NOT, LET US CHECK ITI
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EVANS REFRIGERATION
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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
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with
MS
now one insecticide
controls the major
fruit insects...
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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.
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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.
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