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TUalBDAY. JULY 26. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. B 3 High Premiums Set For Siskiyou Fair Yri'ku, Cullf.- i UuhcHl hull j vidua I premiums In thu Hlulu will bo uffured at thu Slnlil you county fiilr Aiiu. II), 20 and 21, uratrdliiK to Fiilr , MmiiiKur Kd Miilhuwa. All entries for the vnrloua cluaaua cluau on Auu. 5, hu added. Entry bluiika and pre mium booka miiy be obtulucd at tho fnlrurmiiida, Yreku, or (rom tho Yruku Chamber of Commerce, hu mild. Caul) uwunIh will toln I 227. An Indlvldiuil exhibitor may win u total o $1110 In thu beet dlvliilon by vntcrlnii 20 anlinula In nil eluaaea. In this dlvliilon alonu prizes loliil SU.IillO, thu fair ninnattvr auld. In thu aunlor beef and dairy dlvlalona, cnah awarda exceed ' 10,000. Some other cliiaalflcHttuiis and cash awarda are feature ' exhibits: $2,810; aurlculture " horticulture, $1,200; floricul ture, $1,171; and home eco nomics $2,1)75, "There la no limit to thu number of onirics an Individ ual can make In thla lair. "Knell can enter as many clnaaea aa he wishes and ua many aucllona under each , class," Mnlhews said. Ho inld no exhibitor can , win more than two cash wards In any one section. Under thla rule only, a bus , band, wife and children under 21 ahull bo considered a one exhibitor. Two new features will muke thu fair events easier to ee by tho falrKoor, Math ews said. An entrance ond . exit haa been provided to fa cilitate tho traffic flow Into and off the (ulriirounds. Kit trance is from Knlrifroumla ' rd. ond Into the parkinil lot. A new cement brlditc at the " opposite end carries traffic off the fairgrounds and onto " the hlkhway near tho Ft. ' Jones rd. Thla prevents a trnf flc Jam coming and KoiiiK. ho explained. Another Improvement Is the now community bulIdhiK ad 1 Jacent to the aria and miner als. bulldliiK. This new build ' Inn will house the Chamber '' of Commerce barbecue Friday night, the American Leillon Drum and Bugle Corps dance on Saturday night. A enfe- ' torla in the building will ' serve complete meals during other times. When the fair is not in acasion the building will be available for meetings of all kinds. It offers facilities for conventions, large ban. (inula and dance on n rental basin. 'Hieso a io but two of the many now fair features, Math ews cnocluded, Chemical Care Needed on Farm To Guard Family That aon you planned to take over your orchard or farm may never do so If you nre careless with pesticides. A container Is stored In the tool room or barn shelf un marked within easy reach of young hands. In Just a minute or lesa, the future hopes of your family aro destroyed along with tho youngster who swallowed tho deadly chem icals. Or, perhaps the shed door Is left unlocked for Just a few minutes ond a toddler stumbles In. A few minutes of care and thought are worth preventing a lifetime of sor row and regret, tho National Safety council points out. Here are a few simple rules: read the label on each pesticide container before each use, store agricultural chemicals In original labeled containers, apply agricultural chemicals as directed and dls jmso of empty containers safe ly. Chomlcall Changs Why rend the label ench time? Because chemical na ture of pesticides and their uses vary greatly. You should refresh your mind each time on tho material's specific uses. Agricultural chemicals should be kept out of reach of children, pets and Irrespon sible people. Chemicals can not be properly Identified un less they aro in originally labeled containers. Lock pesti cides In a shed or cupboard away from feed and seed. The chemicals should be applied only to crops as speci fied and at the times speci fied in label Instructions. Last year's problem with cranberry sprays is an exam ple of problems when the in structions are disregarded. Empty pesticide containers should be burled or carted away to the city dump so children or pets don't get the few grains of chemical in variably left In each can. DON'T GAMBLE with your fruit profits PEARS should bo protected from attack by mites. This job can now be turned over to on extra-safe, easy-to-use milicide called Kklthane. Last year, many orchards had full-season control with only one application of Kei.thane. An ideal time to clean out a mite potential is in the first cover spray. To clean out the tops of trees whore spray rigs may not give good coverage, a Keltiiane 3 percent dust is effective. You'll like tho safely and long-residual action of Kei.thane . . . plus its ability to control all species of mites which attack pears with a minimum number of applications. Ask your supplier for Kelthane now. Chrmicali for Agriculttirt ROHM S HAAS COMPANY WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHIIADttPNIA 5, PA, t' KUTHNi is tradeiaar, Kef. US. flit. Of. anil in frincipal Mf mntHn. iKELTHANE -CHIT CHAT- By JO! COWLEY Mill Tclbuna Farm Editor Hocently wo have heard oulto a few arguments about how tho Intercsta of rural people aro so different from those of tho so-called city folks. It seems to us If anything tics between city and country are getting stronger all the time. In fact, moat of those living in our little town work In Mcdford. Many of them go to Mcdford churches, too. But, we who live In our little town like it hero mainly because It la neighborly. Somebody becomes ill a neighbor woman can bo seen going down tho street with a hot dish. Ono of the kids becomes 111 or has an accident a neighbor takes him to tho hospital or doctor If no transportation is available. Somebody dies and a neighbor calls her minister to console the family. It's the town custom. "Actually wo have no family ties here," a girl remarked recently. "But tho neighbors arc so much better to us than oven our own relatives we would hale to leave." "The night of dad's funeral we came homo on a cold win ter night to find the lights on, a fire in the stove, food on tho table and flowers around the llvlngroom. That's the kind of tiling which means a lot." Small town people aro tho original "do-it-yourselfers." Teen-agers and adults need a recreation center so they get together and build one. Annual festivals and bazaars raise money to keep It going. Now tho people in our town are busy laying a new floor in. the community hall so they can have aquarc-danclng, basketball and other activities in the winter and spring months. Two or three people have done most of the work with a number of people helping occas ionally. So small town life is good, wholesome, satisfying and certainly nothing to belittle. Pcar-picklng starts on a small scale Aug. 8. Then will start the annual scramble for sufficient pickers to harvest the crop.. Prospects so far Indicate the growers will have to tangle with red tape flowing from the regional office of the Mexicans. They emphasize, however, that cooperation from the local employment servlco office is excellent, and the local office reports fewer migrant workers making the fruit circuit tills year. Some year growers say get a guaranteed In advance sup ply of Mexican Nationals. They arc steady and efficient pickers and are used to the work. Another pear man says elevate the status of the picker, establish a picking school similar to packing school and through steady promotion get local people on a steady picking basis. Retired people might be able to do the work.. Others say their hearts won't stand it. Use more teen-agers, somebody outside the industry says. Pcargrowcrs say teen-age help is in school at the season's peak when needed most. Also, they have little interest in the monotonous, comparatively low paying work. Another person, also out of the Industry, suggests floodlighting the orchards and letting office workers who want to "moon light" pickup a few extra bucks. But perhaps State Sen. John Hure, Washington county, has the best suggestion. As presented to the state legislative Interim committee on agriculture - creation of a labor depot for Mexican Nationals in Oregon. This would make these workers more available to growers. He also suggested changes In the present federal contract with Mexico to pro rate transportation costs among employers of Mexican labor. This would even the costs regardless of transportation distance. The interim committee has Instructed its executive sec retary to write the Oregon congressional delegation request- ing action on thta suggestion of a labor depot, also, the changes in the contract. This is on election year, growers, so now is the time to make your requests. In making his suggestion, Senator Hare pointed out the additional cost to Oregon farmers for transporting Mexican laborers from the California border thus putting a greater burden of Oregon growers when competing with California produce. Just for tho record. Washington county agriculture con sists of 20 per cent dairying, 15 per cent poultry, 35 per cent horticulture and 30 per cent miscellaneous. Recent increase in horticulture there has been heavy. During the same session they discussed the problem of local agricultural workers leaving employers during harvest season when they have' reached the $150 exemption limit for withholding Oregon income tax. This low exemption causes floating from employer to employer. The interim committee on taxation will be asked to consider recommend ing an increase of the amount of wage exemption before tax is withheld from $150 to $200 to the next legislature. While some large farm groups were clamoring for subsi dies the cattlemen have remained aloof for which we have long admired them. During the western frontier period cat tlemen had to rely on themselves and developed that spirit of self-reliance and Independence. So the statement of the American National Cattlemen's association to the plaUorm committee of Republican and Democratic parties is interesting. Briefly the association's recommendations are: no system of production and marketing controls for the cattle industry, reasonable inventives and protection against unforeseeable and uncontrollable conditions, correction of tendencies of farm programs not directly touching the cattle industry to become a threat and burden to cattlemen such as shifting problems of price-supported crops onto the feed grains or expanding acreage of grazing lands on a subsidized basis, and general economic policies to ensure reasonably full employ. mcnt and production throughout the nation and stability of the general price level. The association explained that cattlemen, like other sellors in the market, would be happy to receive higher prices. However, experience has taught that artificial prices and controls are Inseparable. It Is a recognized fact that any business with widely fluc tuating conditions of supply, weather, etc., cannot put away in good years enough to offset entirely the losses or lack of adequate Income during poor years. The nation's fiscal policy should include provisions for averaging incomes for tax purposes over a span of years to provide funds to carry out normal business. "The cattle industry long has avoided Interference with farm programs and policy questions not generally considered to concern cattlemen directly," the association wrote. "But In recent years, we have observed a disturbing tendency for many farm programs not touching directly upon the cattle Industry to become a threat' and a burden to cattle men. We deplore these tendencies and Insist they be cor rected. MARKET NEWS fieri lltuff I.lvritork Auction Kriiorl. Tuesday. July 19. Ifltift CATTLK: SAlnhln M0, IncluriiiiR around 150 cnlvos, Around 03 per cent of supply Mocker nnd feeder clnssen, rcmnlndcr mitlnly ulauRhltT cown. Auction Active, slnuKhter cows fully stonily to strong; Blocker and fond or clfiMi'K mnlnly sternly. Supply mainly of northern California origin, incuming a inw iohus irom me cohsiju nrcn HlniiRhtrr cows: Individual and munll loin Utility and Commercial DIM-iano llii. 9in.O0-l7.no, sevcrnl Individual Standard 7(10-1)33 lbs, 17.7n-in.flO, lndlv!dunl Gamier and Cutler $1 l.OO-tfi.OO. Sis lighter hull! Individual Cutter And Commercial 1325-1010 lbs. SUimhtrr rnlvrs: Individual Good and Choice lbs. $23.30- 34.00, Individual Utility and Standard 300-450 lb. $10.(10-33.75. Storkcr and feeder ulcers: Small loin and Individual Medium and Good 300-513 Hi. calvca $23.00-25.00, numerous Individual Common nnd Medium calves 17 00-23.00. Smalt lots nnd Individual Medium nnd Good 510-075 lh. yrnrllnffs $1? 2. 50-24. 50, nmnll lots and Individual 700-020 lh. S 2 1.00-2,1,70, individual Common nnd Medium 900-800 lbs. $1500-22.00. Blocker and feeder heifers: Individual and am nil lota Medium nnd Good .100-450 lh. calves $21.00-23.25, Individual Common and Medium calves $15.00-21.00. Couple lotn Good 510-520 lb, yearling $21.50. iiuwh: naianm es. auppiy mnimy teener pica; marKei aooui iicany. Feeder pin: Small lota Good 70-130 lb. S17.30-in.00. 8IIKKP: Salable 14. Supply Insufficient to teat market. Pmil fl. Lehigh, Fedcrnl-Slata Marktt Now Servlca Local Sour Cherry Crop Finishes Up; Interest Grows While the local aour cherry harvest Is pretty well com pleted, Willamette v a 1 le y picking la still under way. Recent Information indi cates the prices to growers in the Willamette Valley were posted at VA cents per pound delivered at the processing plant for Montmorency sour cherries. That is cents more than last year's opening price and equals the 10(10 grower price pouted in Mich igan which is the largest sour cherry growing slate in the union, producing about 23 of the Nation's total. Due to heavy frost the lo cal crop was light and the Baglcy. cannery in Ashland which has been processing did not feel sufficient cher ries were available to open the plant. Local interest is growing In. sour cherry pro duction and as the acreage is increased these can be marketed through available canning and freezing interests. This is one of the few horti culture crops that has been grown locally without irriga tion and hay have possibili ties on some of the deeper dry land soils. Local sour 'herries are of very good quality and will stand more frost than many competing horticultural crops. Out of 110,000 tons pro duced nationally the six west ern states will produce about 7.000 tons'this year. This total equals about 8 per cent below the 10-yoar average for the United States. However prices are not materially higher since there is quite a heavy carryover of canned red sour cherries from heavy crops two years previous. Ragweed Acreage Seen In Josephine Sulem - Two sizeable new ragweed Infestations, one on a combined 330 acres, have come to tight in the Illinois Valley area of Josephine coun ty so far this year. Both arc not far from Cave Junction and one finding is on land plowed for the first time in many years. This word comes from Max Brown, ragweed field repre sentative with the state de partment of agriculture at Sa lem. Brown has spent consid erable time directing the Jo sephine county work, where Delmer Youdc and Lloyd Lar scn of Grants Pass are oper ating the state ragweed spray trucks. Brown says for all of west cm Oregon, including the lo cal areas, the ragweed con trol work is this season in the best shape since controls started in 1957. Two spray trucks, with operator and helper, have been working since May 15 and three since the first of June. Using Inspectors The department has been using some of its shipping point inspectors, Including Harold Clement of Medford, as helper this year. This has made it possible to put three spray outfits in the field al most from the outset. Besides department crews, the Jack son county ragweed work is under contract to Ray Hubbell of Medford. Present indications, Brown reports, are that all known in-festations-both In this area and in other western Oregon counties - will be treated be fore the pollen stage. This Is the "vicious" or allergy time for ragweed and the imme diate period to which the con trol program is directed year ly. Ragweed usually reaches the pollen stage In mid-August. The control program will continue pretty much full force until mid-September, with cleanup and rechecking probably until Oct. 1. Along with the spray pro gram, the department is con tinuing the many pollen sta tions set up last year primari ly for grains of ragweed pol len and spores of wheat stem rust. Also, Brown is pulling soil samples to study the "popula tion" of ragweed seeds, if any, in areas where the infes tation has not appeared. Rag weed seed may lie dormant in soils (or many years until the soil is disturbed and it is for this reason - to discover the potential-that the soil studies are being made. Brown is not too optimistic for early eradication of rag. weed after looking at some of his seed findings in the soil studies. Last week he picked up some soils with 48 seeds per square foot. This week, and at least next, all state equipnent will be massed in Josephine coun ty. Besides those already men tioned, manning the spray trucks are Noel Brown, Sa lem; Dale Duncan, Klamath Falls and Elza Collins, Prine-ville. Deaths Increase In Irrigation Although irrigation Is an Important aid to agriculture In this area and in others there has been a startling In crease in fatalities, according to the National Safety coun cil. One sunny Monday after noon, June 27, to be exact, an 11-year-old Gold Hill youngster narrowly escaped downing in an irrigation flume. Last summer in t h e Phoenix area a small child fell into a ditch running through town and did drown. So, small children must be educated to stay away from ditches, reservoirs and canals. Sturdy fences help, but it takes the continual watchful ness of parents to be effective. Ramps or escape devices are needed along the canal. Warning signs also help prevent accidents. These signs should be appealing ant) avoid threatening language. Electrocution also occurs at Irrigation facilities. Never nl low portable pipe to como In contact with electrical power lines. Irrigation pipes are con ductors of electricity. Never allow water from sprinkler Irrigation system to contact power line. Prevent water from collect ing near the pump, Keep the pump motors re paired. JAYNE STILL WAITING Santa Monica, Calif, IUPD -Actress Jayne Mansfield re mained in St. John's hospital today awaiting birth of her third child. The blonde actress has been in the hospital ainca Friday when she was taken there after it appeared her child would be born one month early. Gilman's Herd Tops DHIA Check Oilman's dairy farm, Med ford, led the five top herds under test for June, accord ing to the Jackson County Dairy Herd improvement as sociation. Gilman's had 87 cows un der test, 12 dry, average milk 066 pounds and average but tcrfat production 59.6 pounds. The herd owned by Glenn and Edna Chase, Gold Hill, ranked second with a butter fat average of 39 pounds. Twenty-one Chase cows were under test with 14.72 per cent of the herd dry and average milk 1,090 pounds. (IBM cal culation is based on percent age of herd dry.) Fourth was Agate Dairy, Central Point, with 38.1 pounds of buttcrfat, 20 cows under test, one dry cow, and 949 pounds of milk. Fourth was the herd own ed by Cliff and Velma Moore, Eagle Point, 20 cows under test, 10.81 per cent of the herd dry, and 779 pound milk average. Chet Jensen herd. Rogue River, produced 35.5 pounds of butterfat, with 28 cows tested, five dry and 750 pounds of milk. The honor roll for individ ual cows will not be reported In the future because this Information is not available for herds on machine calcu lation, the DHIA reported. Land Appraisal Study Approved Portland (UPD - The building committee of the state board of higher education Monday approved authority for a land appraisal study with an eye toward expanding Portland State college. PSC President Branford Millar told the committee that a science building and physi cal education facilities are needed. A tentative list of improve ments to be submitted to the 1961 legislature includes a $2.3 million science building. Chancellor John Richards has tentatively listed $1.7 mil lion for land acquisition and construction of a physical ed ucation building as a 1963-65 capital improvement propos al. But Millar and members of his staff presented argu ments to support a plea for earlier action. The college would be ex tended westward from the south park blocks. Blackberry Problem? Gall . . . RAYSPRAY SP 2-9279 NOW! For Your Convenience ... We Carry a Selection of . VETERINARIAN M SUPPLIES Si Come in and Check With (I lit Mil Us for Your Needs V) MhW MEDFORD ' MM I PHARMACY .tr,'g CUT Tmamays bust . m aw wvyin iu uii rurmvrs uj 1110 iisieu ibqu hopes that it may save a life or prevent an accident. This message is brought to dealers in hopes that it may s JULY 24-30 BIG Y FEED & SEED 1948 N. 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