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B. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1960 Local Herefords Go To Siskiyou Fair Yreka - Among Jackson county entrants in the Siski you county fair is a full line of Herefords from Reter Fruit company, Medford, and Seven Oaks Hereford ranch, Central Point, reported Ed Mathews, fair manager. All entries for the fair scheduled Aug. 19, 20 and 21 are closed, Mathews said. Morris L. Doty, Castle, Cal if., is expected to have a full line of Aberdeen-Angus beef animals entered. Clarence Dudley, Gazelle, Calif., and C. A. Grisson, while not en tering a full line will be com peting in most classes. In the dairy class, McColl's dairy farm, Redding, Calif., will show a full line of Hol steins as will Marion Brooks, Montague, Calif. William and Mary Leach, Redding, are bringing in Ayrshires to com pete in all classes, also. Since this is the first year the fair has been approved by the American Cutting Horse association, some of the top entries are expected to com pete. A parade of horses en tered in the cutting horse events will be held at 7:30 p.m., just before the rodeo. The name contest for the newly constructed community building on the fairgrounds is not closed until Sunday, Aug. 14. Prize is a Polaroid Land Camera. Mineral Exhibit! Set Mineral exhibits and dis plays plus the county gold ex hibit will be featured this year in the Arts and Crafts building. A joint committee of the Siskiyou County Rocks clubs Is handling the adminis tration of the building. The committee has planned an ex hibit of over 300 lineal feet of illuminated cases contain ing exhibits and displays of gems, minerals, jewelry and mixed collection. An ultra violet lighted booth will show a colorful collection of fluor escent minerals. A lapidary booth will show jewelry being made. Booths showing massive ore specimens, . Indian arti facts and fossils will line the outside walls. All individuals or business es which have Interesting col lections or materials for dis play arc urged to contact Lee or Lucille Paul by calling Victor 2-2031 in Yreka. Dis play materials can be handled up to Aug. 15. -A family type program is being featured at the fair this year. Events open Friday aft ernoon, Aug. 19, with a horse show followed by the barbe cue sponsored by the Yreka Chamber of Commerce Friday night. The rodeo is scheduled after the barbecue. The Yreka Chamber of Commerce fair parade is set for Saturday noon in Yreka Sandra Smith of Dunsmuir and her court of 11 Siskiyou county girls will be featured. Riding groups from all over the county will compete for the new traveling trophy this year. The stage show, "Sawdust and Spangles, " will be held Saturday afternoon at the fair grounds. The show will be re peated Saturday night with the traditional Drum and Bu gle Corps dance in the new community building. The stage show will be held on Saturday afternoon, also. The fair closes Sunday with the junior . livestock auction that night. -CHIT CHAT- By JOE COWLEY Miil, Tribune Farm Editor Federal reclamation projects produced a lot of cabbage last year both slangwise and literally, according to the rec ently issued report issued by the United States Department of Interior. Last year marked the 54th reclamation harvest and the first time such a harvest has exceeded one billion dollars. Bureau of reclamation figures show 81,973 acres of cabbage were raised on land under reclamation projects. There's a picture of a cabbage field on the report's cover to prove it. Total value of 54 years of reclamation harvests is $15.3 billion. And that's a lot of hay, too. Local fruit growers should be interested in one statement "Intensification is evident in the increasing proportions of vegetable and fruit acreages. In fact, when Reclamation Commissioner Floyd Dominy was here last week he predicted the additional irrigation water from the Talent project and the planned Rogue River Basin project will increase the pear acreage. This, Dominy explained, is only natural since the expensive irrigation water is mainly for the highest value crop in an area. Here it's pears. Craft Proposed For Mars Flight Seattle-rtlPJ-Mars Is within man's reach. That is what Philip Bono, a Boeing engineer, told an op ening session of the West Coast meeting of the Amer ican Austronautical Society Monday. Bono presented a concept ual design for a monstrous space craft which could land eight explorers on the neigh boring planet and bring them back to earth again. A space vehicle design spe cialist, Bono said the entire mission depends on one im portant factor - the develop ment of a 1.5 million-pound thrust hydrogen engine of a plug-nozzle type. Bono, who said the best time to make the trip would be in early May, 1971, when Earth would be at a relative position to Mars, proposed a craft weighing 8.3 million pounds and measuring 248 feet high and 82 feet wdie in launching position. Washington - lUPI) -The Stale Department has blast ed as "discriminary seizure of remaining American-owned property in Cuba. It said a formal U.S. protest will be lodged in Havana. "These trends demonstrate that reclamation can and will go even further in fulfilling the nation's need for greater supplies of body-building fruits and vegetables," the report stated. "The per capita consumption of these protective foods has increased appreciably in recent years, but a size able portion of our people still are not getting standard diets in proteins, vitamin A and the three B vitamins thiamine, riboflavin and niacn. The increasing population and higher rate of consumption of fruits, vegetables and livestock products assure a continuing strong market for these strategic products of reclamation farms." ' Four new projects were added in 1959, bringing the loiai numoer lo Bd. reclamation projects now serve an irrigable area of more than 8 million acres, according to the annual report. Nearly a half million people make up u inn ai i , .... V r me iig uiuuaciiiu iarm lamiues on tnis land. Pointing up the recreation use of these reservoirs similar lo Howard Prairie, Hiatt and Emigrant in Jackson county, the report states that 23 million visitor davs wprp snpnf nn these reservoirs during 1959 for an increase of 17 per cent over 1958. Peak day attendance of visitors to the million. plus acres of water surface and to the various physical fea tures oi reclamation projects such as Grand Coulee and noover aam exceeded 500,000 persons. Incidentally, all other parts of the country, including the neighboring slate of Washington, are reporting they are running out oi space lor camping families. In a comnarativelv short time, Jackson county may be in the same predicament. Now is the time to jab the sharp pike pole of public opinion in the right direction. During 1959, 128,993 reclamation farms had fi 7QR 7R1 acres under irrigation. Fifty-two per cent of the irriMinrf area received full irrigation service. The remainder received supplemental and temporary irrigation. More crops were grown at higher prices, the report noted. Because of this condition several crop categories showed im proved gross returns. Also, that amount of acreage put in fruit trees increased 57 per cent compared to the total ir- ngiuea acreage increase ot 41 per cent. Modern way to STOP MITES i PEARS should be protected from attack by mites. This job can be turned over to K e lth a n e t he extra-safe, easy-to-use miticide. An ideal time to ilean out. a mite potential is in the first oover spray. To clean out the tops of trees where spray rigs may not give good cover age, a Kelthank 4 percent dust is effective. You'll like the safety and long-residual action of Keltuanb . . . plus its ability to control all species of mites which attack pears with a minimum number of applications. Ask your supplier for Kklthane now. Irrigation served mainly the small farmer in inso i other years. More intensive farming, which irrigation seems to be promoting, is done on the smaller farms Dnrino mso full-time farms served averaged 75 acres and made up 78 per cent of all reclamation farms. This tvnp nf Farm nnn- taincd 95 per cent of the irrigable land in farm and housed id per cent oi tne tarm population. Part-time farms served ay irrigation projects averaged 13 acres. City people also received their slurs nr h ,in. r reclamation projects. Deliveries of municipal and industrial water increased 13 per cent over the nrevimis vnr i rnh a total of 290 billion gallons, the report stated. More than 200 cities and other nonfarm units benefited directly from reclamation project water and covered a population of over 8 million persons, The bureau of reclamation is n nf iho r,., .,. . departments and bureaus which seems to be governed by a benefit to cost ratio. Cumulative value of the 54 reclamation ioT0eS.!n .recordud 10 dat0 P"ss"d $15.3 billion in value in , is uiuiusi live times tne tederal cost of all plant properly and equipment in reclamation projects. In case you wonder what Snmp nf lllPCP torme t-.inn Supplemental irrigation service land is irrigable land now receiving or to receive an additional or rp.rppni.iioH nn of irrigated water through works nr fni-iliiinc nf ih i,m. of rclclamatici. This is water which will be added to that i-ii-ivuu irom nonproject sources. Temporary irrigation s ice land Is that which receives water under temporary Production Costs Of Farm Products Hit New Peak Corvallis-Cost of producing farm products, highest in his tory last year, shows no signs of slackening its climb, re ports Mrs. Elvera Horrell, ex tension agricultural economist at Oregon State college. As a result, the cost-price squeeze has tightened its grip on farm ers in Oregon and over the nation. Farm production expenses have risen steadily the last six years, Mrs. Horrell found as she studied reports from the U.S. department of agricul ture. And, these expenses seem likely to continue up war this year. Farmers may spend a little less for livestock and feed, and even total wages paid hired labor may be kept down by using less help. But no let down is looked for in prices of goods made by industry, and interest payments and property taxes are likely to be up sharply, Mrs. Horrell said. Get Same Money Meanwhile, farmers in Ore gon are getting about the same amount of monpv frnm sale of their products as last year, Mrs. Horrell also found, The state's farmers h a vp rp. ceived less from sales of live stock products so far this year uui more irom sales of crops. Nationally, receipts from sales of farm products the first half of this year were down one per cent from a year earlier. Prices are gen- eiauy lower, Mrs. Horrell said, but marketings to date have been a little heavier than a year ago. Putting all this together as of mid-June, prices received by farmers were 2VS per cent below a year earlier while prices paid by farmers were a little higher. This price-cost squeeze forced the parity ratio - me government s yardstick for measuring the relation ship between prices received to prices paid by farmers down 2 points below a vear ago but still higher than at tne start of this year. Incomewise. farm nnnnic also slid behind last year, in contrast to incomes of off farm people which picked up. At an average of $965 for each farm person, the net per-farm person income was down 7 per cent from 1958. The aver age income of the nonfarm person, at $2216 in 1959, was more than double that of the larm person. frr 1 BARBECUE EXPERT L. G. (Shy) Morthland prepared to slice into some tender beef which he barbecued for the recent Grange Festival at the Elks picnic grounds in the Central Point area. Approximately 1,000 persons attended the all day Grange Festival of which the barbecue was a part. GARDENING TIPS Crater Ag Instructor Tells Of Livestock Publication serv- ar- Whprp ftnoc thic trnHni:.. i n . is based on production and m-iee Information i, r . h, fnr. l.. i. , .......o, iiiujm upuraung personnel, local agricultural specialists and state-federal agricultural statisticians. ine tour new projects mentioned and now in oDnratinns are Little Wood river, Idaho; Solano, Calif., Santa Maria, Calif, and Ventura river, Calif. These four projects mean an addition of 51,820 irrigable acres. The Columbia basin project added 24,806 acres to Its service area in 1959, also. To show how huge one project can be and its far rpachinir effects The Missouri river basin project includes 12 sep arate irrigation units providing full supply service. Last week when the reclamation commissioner was first asked what the chief use of additional irrigation water would be in this area he said, "Why, my gosh, it looks to me as if it will be for new subdivisions!" The new report stales Hint about 2 per cent of the irrigable project land area was used tor uroan and suburban development and in dustrial sites. & Cltemicah jr Agriculturt ROHM HAAS COMPANY WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHIIAOEIPHIA S, FA. Keiihani u a treimarlc. Keg. US Pat. Ojf. tad in principal forrign muntrin. KELTHANE Bring water onto a land and you usually bring wealth. "The economic base that irrigation projects provide in the moisture-deficient areas creates expanding local business enterprises." And as this formerly dry land becomes wet ana green tne growing agricultural service area or town ex pands onto the irrigable land. And as these towns grow they attract additional industry and commerce. Some of these towns have grown into major cities judg ing by the cities receiving water from reclamation projects. These Include Salt Lake City, Provo, Phoenix, Yuma, El Paso, Ogrien, Greeley, Las Vagas, El Centro, Rapid City, Los Angeles. Klamath Falls, also receives project water. Largest of these city water customers is the metropolitan water district of southern California which includes 87 in corporated cities, including Los Angeles and San Diego. The population served by this municipal and industrial service was 8,138,500 in 1959. Chances are that the steak you had for dinner tonight came from an animal raised on reclamation land. Over 70 per cent of the irrigated lands are used for grain and forage. Little of the grain is milled since most of it is for livestock feed. Production of 2.7 million tons of grain on reclnmaton lands in 1959 was enough to produce 451 million pounds of high grade dressed beef, A lot of such feed also goes to dairy, poultry and lamb fattening operations. The housewife can find fresh fruit and vegetables oil her grocer's shelves the year around. Most of it comes from reclamation lands. In 1959 reclamation farmers produced nearly 10 billion pounds of vegetable crops. Vegetable crop ping used only 8 per cent of the Irrigated land but produced about one-fifth of the total crop revenue. Alfalfa seed, which is an important crop In the Roauo valley, produced 440 pounds to the acre on reclamation projects compared to the national average of 174 pounds. Painful Killing Thing of Past , For Many Hogs Who cares how you kill a P'g? , The answer, apparently, is: lots of people. It's a subject that gets them so stirred up that for years they've insisted there ought to be a law about it. And now there is. The new federal humane slaughter law, effective July 1, applies to most of the R5 million hogs expected to be slaughtered in the United States this year because it af fects all packers who sell meat to the government. Anesthesia, similar to that used with humans undergoing surgery, will be used in many plants to immobilize hogs and keep them unconscious for about four minutes, twice the time needed for slaughtering, reports Cardox Division of Chemetron Corporation, Chi cago, which supplies carbon dioxide to the packers. The method is gentle and in expensive, and eliminates bed lam in the plants and injuries to workers resulting from frightened animals fighting for their lives, according to the Animal Welfare Institute, a leading humane society that backed the law. The law also will regulate animal handling. Regulations on types of equipment to be used, construction of driving chutes, and training of hand ling personnel are expected to eliminate bruising and reduce panic among the animals. Central Point-A new book, "Practical Livestock Disease Control," came out this week in mimeographed form pub lished by Edward R. Griggs, Crater High school vocational agriculture instructor. The book is for use of stock men and vocational agricul ture students. So far 16 high school agricultural depart ments have purchased copies of the 70-page book. The book consists of chapters devoted to livestock diseases, use of veterinary instruments and tools, the nature of livestock diseases, immunity, vaccines and antiserums, modern medi cine, infectious diseases of livestock, nutritional diseases of livestock, method of diag nosing livestock diseases, re productive problems in live stock, a glossary of terms, and directory of common livestock and poultry diseases. As mentioned in the for ward to the book, purpose of the text is to assist the live stock owner and student in becoming aware of diseases which might prove hazardous to the well-being of livestock, to be able to recognize and prevent these diseases and, most of all, to assist the live stock owner in knowing when the services of a veterinarian should be obtained. No Substitute "It is meant in no way lo reduce the necessity of obtain ing professional veterinary services," according to the for ward. "It is felt that a stock man well informed on diseases will quickly recognize a dis ease in its beginning stages, thus enabling rapid defensive measures to become establish- J ed." i "Many times livestock or poultry will be afflicted by a critical ailment when the im mediate services of a veterin arian cannot be obtained In many cases a knowledge of medication and treatment will keep the animal alive until the veterinarian can arrive on the scene," Griggs stated. "An illustration of this fact could be the nutritional dis ease, milk fever. The treat ment for milk fever is to ad minister a calcium salt com pound into the bloodstream of the affected animal. This med icine is generally given into the jugular vein in an intra veinous shot. A cow suffering from milk fever will live only a few hours unless treatment is given," the vo-ag instructor said. "The owner of an animal suffering from milk fever should immediately phone a veterinarian. In most cases a veterinarian can be obtained in adequate time to save the animal. Sometimes, though, the veterinarian may be on another call. This text, in chapters four and six, will ex plain what can be done until a veterinarian does arrive," the author explained. Griggs pointed out further that the book is designed for livestock managers and both high school and adult stu dents. "The material has been gathered and written by a lay man for laymen." By DON BERRY CORN WORM CONTROL Sweet corn should be spray ed or dusted for control of corn ear worms as soon as the first silks form. Pest recom mendations have included DDT dusts applied to the silks and tassels either by hand or by dusting the entire field with an airplane duster. Up to three applications at three-day intervals are neces sary when treating entire fields. Where treatment made by hand each silk and tassel are treated soon after they appear. Food and drug tolerances prohibit the use of DDT on corn to be used for ensilage Stover from treated corn re ceiving late applications of DDT should not be fed. Dairy animals should not be fed DDT treated forage. Sevin has recently been cleared to re place the DDT on stands where the fodder and forage is to be fed to cattle. Sevin can be used up to seven days before harvest for forage and has a 25 ppm tolerance estab lished for this use. Three to four pounds of Sevin 50 wettable powder in 100 gallons of water is recommended for treating one acre. Applications like DDT at three-day intervals com mencing as first silks appear. Sevin is the only material cleared for use on fields of corn to be used for either human consumption or for animal feeding. While good corn ear worm control may be obtained by using Sevin, it is noted local ly that where this material has been used spider mite populations have increased markedly. This could occur especially on fields where flood irrigation is practiced. Sprinkler irrigation would help to reduce mite populations. GARDEN PROBLEMS Each year we have consid erable complaints of rots showing up on the blossom end of the tomato. These black spots which occur oppo site the stem end are due to irregular waterings. Tomatoes need regular watering during the dry summer months to grow high quality fruit. Also, the fruit of tomatoes has a high water content and re quires considerable moisture to mature properly. Where ex cessive drought occurs leaf curling and rolling will also appear. Where the blossom end rot is occurring anything to help maintain uniform soil mois ture conditions will help re duce this problem. Mulches of black polyethylene plastic or organic materials such as saw dust or grass clippings will help, along with the regular even water applications. Soft Rot on Corn A num ber of growers are complain ing of their corn stalks rotting and falling over. This condi tion is known as "bacterial soft rot" and occurs during hot periods where frequent showers occur or the growers use overhead sprinkling. Infection usually initiates at the axils of the leaves or other points where moisture collects and stands in the stalk. This trouble cannot be cured but prevention In part can be obtained by spraying the plants with fixed or neu tral copper. Where prevalent it would be wise for the home gardener or grower to go through and cut out the rot ting stalks. ELM LEAF BEETLE A large number of orna mental Elm trees are being de foliated by the Elm Leaf Bee tle. Since this past has several generations a year, all stages of the bugs will occur on the trees simultaneously. As the caterpillars mature they come down the trunks in great numbers and home own ers feel that by killing these migrating larvae control can be obtained. This has not been the case because these larvae are extremely hard to kill with any pesticide and be cause these larvae coming out of the ground will fly back up into the tree. The best control, then, would be a thorough spraying of the Elm trees in order to clean up all stages, using a combination of DDT plus Ma-lathion. While late defoliation will not ordinarily kill a tree, re peated defoliations for seve ral years can seriously dam age and may even kill Elm trees. Blackberry Problem? Gall... RAYSPRAY SP 2-9279 Blue Lake Beans In School Lunches Corvallis - School children across the nation may get a taste of Oregon's famed Blue Lake green beans next win ter, reports Stephen C. Marks, Oregon State college exten sion agricultural economist. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans . to buy green beans canned in 1960 for the Na tional school lunch program. Since Oregon leads the nation in snap bean production, chances are many of the school lunch beans will come from this state, Marks point ed out. Oregon's current forecast of 87,600 tons of green beans is the second largest in the state's history. Marks also mentioned that i the Veterans' administration ! is planning to buy green beans from the 1960 frozen pack - another marketing on- i portunity for green bean pro duccrs and packers. Although Oregon's bean fields are producing fewer ! beans per acre this year than ! last, more acres are devoted to beans. Overall the state is I expecting a 5 per cent greater tonnage than last year. AUGUST INVENTORY A Main st. merchant who might be reading this probably remarks so what? So crop production from these irrigated farms in 1959 provided a market for more than S3 14 million worth of product of industry and technical services in 1959. These goods came from every state and carried the impact of irrigation farming to all business sectors of the country. Business in local lumber yards and hardware stores by reclamation farmers amounted to $22.7 million throughout the 17 western states. Other business transactions between these irrigation farmers and merchants in irrigation com munities amounted to more than $100 million for nonfarm products and services. These figures more than anything else point out why ' everything should be done to hasten development of the proposed Rogue basin project. Businesswise this is a pretty big and Juicy pie which has yet to be popped into the con- grcssional oven. 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