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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. AUGUST 30. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. A 5 7 &&3?1 Valley Farm Tour Group See Agricultural Variety STEP DOWN - Ed Taylor, member of the the county's agricultural economy condensed Medford Chamber of Commerce farm tour in one morning's visit. Fruit, truck farming, held recently in Jackson county, steps off poultry and dairy operations were visited, the school bus at the Root brothers orchard Future tours will be held i requested and . north of Medford. Only a handful of people arrangements can be made, took the tour, which covered all phases of Rogue River Youth Takes Championship in Dairy David Strickland, Rogue River, took a grand and sen ior championship in dairy at, the recent Jackson county 4-H and FFA fair with his registered Guernsey senior cow. ,, Other senior and grand champions were Carol Foote, Central Point with her other Guernsey senior cow; Geor gia Hubbard, Antelope, with her registered Hoistein senior cow; Sue Higginbotham, Cen tral Point, with her other Hoi stein senior cow; Jerry Moore, Reese Creek, with his regist ered Jersey senior cow; Geor gia Hubbard, Antelope, with her senior other Jersey cow, Marilyn Deckelman, Evans Valley with her registered senior cow and entry in ad vanced dairy Hoistein and other breeds class. Junior champions were Danny Reter, Siskiyou, in junior heifer class; Kathy Lar son, Jacksonville, in senior heifer class; Georgia Hubbard, Antelope, in senior heifer class and in the registered Hoistein senior cow class; Cathv Leeler. Central Point, in the senior heifer calf class; Craig Lathrop, Central Point, in the senior heifer class; Diane Brewster, Applegate, in the senior heifer class; Mm . day Jacket, Talent, in senior - heifer calf class; and Paulette Anderson, Antelope, in the junior heifer calf class. DAIRY Registered Guernsey Senior Cow - David Strickland, Rogue River, flrst. Registered Guernsey Junior Cow - Elizabeth Clark, Griffin Creek, first; Zane Strickland, Rogue River, econd. Senior Heifer Donna Geren. An telope, first; Danny Retter. Siski you, second; Steven Geren, Ante lope, third. junior neiitrr &une on hmoi. Hntrup River, first. Junior Heifer Calf Danny Ret ter. Siskiyou, first. Production Cow and own calf Feppi Clark. Griffin Creek, first. Other Guernsey Senior Cow Carol Foote, Central Point, first; Marthanne Goodwin. Griffin Creek, second; Danny Retter. Siskiyou, third; Mary Ann Cantrall, Jack tnnvillP fourth- Richard Anderson. Antelope, iifth; Elizabeth Clark. Griffin Creek, sixth; Margaret S. Goodwin, Griffin CreeK, seventn, Junior Cow Donna Geren, Ante lope, first. Senior HpiOr Kathv J. Larson, Jacksonville, first; Stephen L. nark nriffin Creek, second: Rus sell Fields, Jacksonville, third; Lea Geren. Antelope, rourth. Junior Heifer Mary Cantrall, Jacksonville, first; Richard Ander son, Antelope, second: Janet Ren fro. Siskiyou, third; Lynn Merri man, Siskiyou, fourth. Senior Heifer Calf Carol Foote, Central Point first: Margaret Good- win. Griffin Creek, second; Richard Anderson. Antelope, third; Eliza beth Clark, Griffin Creek, fourth; Mnrv Ann Cantrall. Jacksonville, fifth: Stephen L. Clark. Griffin CrAflr eivth Junior Heifer Calf Susan Cor- nutt, Gold Hill, first; Richara An derson, Antelope, second: Marth anne Goodwin, Griffin Creek, third; EHznhPth Clark. Griffin Creek fourth; Mary Ann Cantrall. Jack sonville, fifth; Konam i names, Jacksonville, sixth; Karen Grubcr, Rfllpvifur pvpnth Production (Cow and own calft Carol Foote. Central Point, tinu; Marthanne Goodwin. Griffin Creek spennri- Richard Anderson. Ante lope, third; Mary Anne Cantrall, Jacksonville, fourth: Margaret S. Gnndwin On f fin Creek, fifth. Registered Hoistein (Senior Cow) Georgia HUDDara. nmeiope. msi Kay biepnenion, tteese wees, wt Registered Hoistein Junior Cow Georgia HUDDara, Anieiope, urn, Senior Heifer Georgia Hubbard, Antelope, first. Junior Heifer Cecelia Fichtner, Central Point first. Senior Heifer Calf Clare Mar tin. Rogue River, first: Kay btcpn fnmn Hppcp Crpek second Junior Heifer Calf Georgia Hub bard. Antelope, first: Kay Stephen- Higginbotham, Central Point, first; Steven Geren. Antelone. second: Garry Cook, Talent, third; John Anhorn, Central Point, fourth. ! Junior Cow Blllv Ullom. Central Point, first; Bob Hubbard. Ante lone, second; Georgia Hubbard. An telope, third; Alice Kuitert, Apple gate, fourth; Jennie Kuitert, Apple gale, fifth; Gary Cook. Talent, sixth; Douglas Cook, Talent, seventh. Senior Heifer Sue Hieeinboth- am. Central Point, first; Dale Vaughn. Antelope, second; Laqueta Stephenson, Reese Creek, second; Carol Foote. Central Point, fourth; Tim Higginbotham, Central Point, mm. . Junior Heifer Jennie Kuitert. Applegate. first; Alice Kuitert, Ap plegate, second; Adrienne Brion, Applegate, tnira; Tracy iegier, Central Point, fourth: Steven Geren. Antelope, fifth. Senior Heifer Calf Cathy Leg ler. Central Point, first; Stanton Hall, Sains Valley, second; Marilyn Winingham. Appiegate. third; Cindy Bartley. Central Point, fourth; John Bush. Sams Valley, fifth. Junior Heiier Calf Georgia Hub bard. Antelope, first; Josca A. Leeu wenburgh. Antelope, second; John Anhorn, Central Point, third. Production (Cow and own calf) Steven Geren, Antelope, first; Georgia Hubbard, Antelope, sec ond; John Anhorn, Central Point, inira; uiuy uuom, i-entrai romi, fourth. Registered Jersey Senior Cow Jerry Moore. Reese Creek, first; Marilyn Lathrop, Central Point, second; Kathleen Frederick. Cen tral Point, third; Dennis Cornutt, Central Point, fourth. Junior Cow Greg Lathrop. Cen tral Point, first; Lanny Parsons, Rogue River, "second; Billy Retter, Siskiyou, third. Senior Heifer Craig Lathrop, Central Point, first; Michael Mat theisen. Reese Creek, second. Junior Heiier Lanny Parsons, Rogue River, first. Junior Heifer Calf Kathy Za pell. Talent, first; Billy Retter. Sis kiyou, second; Richard F. Botteer. Jacksonville, third; Lanny Parsons, Rogue River, fourth; Jerry Moore, itcesc creeK, nun; Steven btricK- ano, Koeue Kivcr. sixth: Dennis Cornutt, Central Point, seventh. Production (Cow and own calf) Dennis Cornutt, Central Point, first; Billy Retter, Siskiyou, second. utner jcrsev benior cow oeor- eia Hubbard. Antelope, first: Lanny arsons, kosuc Kiver. second: Karen jossy. Antelope, third: Linda bom ncr. Taient, tourtn; banay Brew ster, Applegate, fifth; Richard Botl ger, Jacksonville, sixth; Penny Fletcher. Siskiyou, seventh. junior Cow Kathleen Jrreder ck. Central Point, first; Stan Billings, bisKiyou, second; wayne rietcner, oeucview, tnira. benior Heifer Diane Brewster. Applegate, first; Susan Head, Ap plegate, second; Michael Matthei sen, Reese Creek, third; Sandy Brewster, Applegate, fourth. Junior Heifer Candy Gail, Rogue River, first; Martin Janssen, Applegate, second; Duke Janssen, Applegate, third; Dennis Phillips, Eagle Point, fourth; Les Geren, Antelope, fifth. benior Heifer calf L.inaa bom- mer, Talent, first; Diane Barton, Antelope, second; Diane Brewster, tnira; Don Henfro. bisKiyou. tourtn; Danny Barton, Antelope, fifth. Junior Heifer Calf Sandv Brewster, Applegate. first; Karen jossy, Ameiopc, secona; wary ner riott. Applegate, third. Production Cnw and own calf) Linda Sommer, Talent, first; Stan uiuinBs. biskivou. second negisterea All other benior tow Marilvn Deehelman. Evans Val ley, first, neeistered All Others Junior cow Aiariiyn ueckclman, tvans vai- ley, iirst; Sharon Downing, Appie. eate. second. junior Heifer Julie Ann bmim, Rogue River, first: Marilvn Decker man. Rogue, River, second. i senior Heifer Calf Minoy tiacK- ct. Talent, first. Junior Heifer Calf Maruyn Deckelman, Evans Valley, first. Production (Cow and own calfi Marilyn Deckelman, Evans Valley, first. Senior Heifer Calf John McDon ough. Sams Meadows, first. Junior Heifer Calf Paulette An derson, Antelope, first. Other Milking Shorthorn (Junior Heifer Calf) , Sharon Downing. Applegate. first. SHOWMANSHIP Advanced Dairy (Jersey) oeor am, Central Point, second; Steven Geren, Antelope, third; John An horn, Antelope, fourth; Kay Steph enson. Reese Creek, fifth; John tiusn. Meadows, sixth: Jennie Kui tert, Applegate. seventh; Cecelia tichtner. Centra! Point, etehth Intermediate Dairy Jersey Jerry Moore, Reese Creek, first; Diane Brewster. Annleeate. second: Mich. ael Matthcisen. Reese Creek, third Richard J. Botteer. Jacksonville fourth; Marilyn Lathrop. Central ruiui, mm; fwainy z.apeil, Taient, sixth; Greg Lathrop, Central Point, seventh: Stan Bi hint's. KUkivnn eighth; Kathleen Frederick, Central r-uuii, ninm craiff L,atnroD. Cen. tral Point tenth? CnnHv nnii riniA Hill, eleventh; Martin Janssen, Ap plegate, twelfth; Duke Janssen, Applegate, thirteenth; Dennis Phil- upa, nt-ese treeK, lourteenth. Guernsey David Strickland, Rogue River, first; Carol Foote, Central Point pcnnri T)ioV,-,-,j a derson. Antelope, third; Margaret o. uuuuw ii, niinn i-reeK, tourth; Stephen L. Clark, Griffin Creek, fifth: Russell Field firifrtn rrMir sixth; Donna Geren. Antelope, sev- cimi. ouaaii ornuii, central foint, eigntn. Hnistcin and Other Breeds Bob Hubbard. Antelope, first; Cathy Leeler, Eagle Point, second; Billy vj.mm ifiuiHi x-uini. iniro; pau lette Anderson, Antelooe. fourth Gary Cook, Talent, fifth; Alice Kuilcrt. Applegate, sixth; Douglas .wi, at v i-iu n; nm tiigQiniJOiiiam. central Point, eighth; Adrienne Brion, Applegate. ninth; Tracv Leg Ier. Central Point, tenth; John Mc- wunougn, bams valley, eleventh Dairy All Breeds (Beginners, First Class) Mindy Hacket. Talent, first; Cindy Bartley. Central Point second: Susan Head. Applegate, "",u. ijeren, Antciopc, tourtn; Danny Barton. Antelope, fifth; Wayne Fletcher, Bcllcview. sixth; Karen Gruher. SUkivon nivflnih Stanton Hall, Sams Valley, eighth! Second Class Julie Ann Smith, "us mver, nrst; Billy Hetter, Sis kiyou, second; Don Renfro. Siski you. third; Marilyn Winingham. Ap. p eeate. fourth: Janet Renfro. Sis kiyou, fifth; Clare Martin. Rogue d ' c jHliue oiepnenson, u.0m vicen, Buvemn iatny j. car- son, Jacksonville, eighth; Josca ucuwenourgn. Antelope, ninth oteve btrickland, Rogue River, DAIRY GOATS . Ji"ne "attire Doe Betsy Jahn, Medford, first. Alpine Mature Doe Ron Smith, Medford. first. Doe Kid Betsy Jahn. Medford, first. Nubian Mature Doe Ron Smith, Medford, first; Janet Glidden, Med ford, second; Martha Humphrey, West Side, third. Doe Kid Ron Smith. Medford, IlFSl Janet Li dripn MnrtrnrH Ond: PhilHn Jnhn Mr.Hfr.rH thfrH Production (Doe and own kid) janei uiidden, Medford, first; Ron 0i i ii in, muu i ura , secona. baanen Mature nnn Phlllln wniiii, mcuiuiu, ursi; unarics Ulld- utn, meaiora, second; Ciary Morris, Lone Pine, third. Yearling Doe Charles Glidden, Medford. first. Doe Kid Martha Humphrey, "ia oiuk, nisi; ieui ri orris, mea ford, second: Kittv Whionle. Mrri ford, third; Charles Glidden. Med ford. fourth. Production (Doe and own kid Phillip Jahn. Medford. first; Charles Glidden, Medford. second; Gary Norris, Medford. third. Senior Showmanship Martha Humphrey, Medford. first. Intermediate Showmanship Phillip Jahn. Medford, first; Janet Glidden. Phoenix, second; Gary Norris. Medford, third. Junior Showmanship Ron Smith, Medford, first; Betsy Jahn, Med ford. second; Kitty Whipple, Med ford, third; Charles Glidden. Phoe nix, fourth; Leta Norris, Medford, fifth. Jla Hubbard, Antelope, first; Karen ossy. Antelope, second; Linda Sommer. Taient. third: Diane Bar ton, Antelope, fourth; Sandy Brew ster, Applegate. fifth. Advanced Dairy (Guernsey) Marthanne Goodwin. Griffin Creek, first; Zane Strickland. Rogue River, second; Elizabeth Clark, Griffin Creek, third; Denny Retter, Siski you, tourtn; Konaid Thomas, jbck sonville. fifth; Lynn Merriman, Sis kivou. sixth. Advanced Dairv Hoistein and ion Reese Creek, second. other Breeds Marilvn Deckelman, ? Other Hoistein Senior Cow Sue Rvue River, first; Sue Higginboth. July Low Month For Rail Traffic Salem-As is normal, July was a low month for Oregon's shipping point operations Only 200 cars of fruits and vegetables moved under grade inspection. Grade movement in July was at a complete standstill at packing houses in four of the eight districts. Malheur county's early po tatoes accounted for 56 per cent of the July movement. Hood River moved 17.7 cars of sweet cherries under inspec tion and the Portland district handled 66.5 cars, mostly po tatoes. Salem district's three car A completed the picture, By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor About 12 people took a com pressed agricultural tour of the county's agricultural lands recently and heard brief de scriptions of fruit growing, truck gardening, egg produc tion, beef and dairying. The chartered school bus took the group past Dunbar and Parsons' orchards as the first points of interest. Coun ty Horticultural Agent Clif ford B. Cordy explained that the wind machines the group saw in one of the orchards were not very effe ctive against frost. Last frost season frost hit trees right up to the base of the machine, he pointed out. The oil-burning orchard heat ers are the cheapest source of heat. Growers are convert ing gradually to the return- stack or less smoke produc ing heaters, but these cost $7 each and it takes roughly twice as many to heat an orchard as the old open pots. Fears, he pointed out, are a life-time investment. Point ing to an orchard on the Foot hills rd., he said it was new in 1885. Peaches are a com paratively short time invest ment he said pointing to a nearby peach orchard which was planted a few years ago and is now out of production. Pear trees in the old orchard are still producing, he point ed out. Peach trees produce in 3 to 5 years and pears in 10-15 years. Passing orchards m winch some of the trees appeared lifeless, the horticultural ag ent said they were affected by pear decline. This hits trees at random and may be due to a combination of fac tors. Specific cause or causes have not yet been deter mined, he noted. Oriental root stocks seem most susceptible. Reaching the 401 orchards, Cordy noted that most of pres ent pear orchards formerly supported apple orchards. Collar rot forced these trees out of production, he added. Pointing to the heavy black soil, Cordy said it is called Phoenix clay-adobe which con sists of 65 per cent of the soil around the foothills. This is good pear soil when it is deep enough, he noted. Unless it is at least three feet deep it is dificult to irrigate, he said. 10,000 Acres Producing The county has about 10,000 acres of pear production. Va riety changes have been made due to demands of the house wives. For instance, the How ell variety was one of the easier varieties to grow and seemed satisfactory as an all- around pear to everybody but the housewife who thought it was too tart. This shift from one variety to another is the reason for grafting new vari eties on root stock. This top work causes a five years loss in production, Cordy said. Bartletts must be out of storage by the first of No vember to hold their peak quality. The less plentiful va rieties of P. Barry and Nellis can remain in storage until June. Cordy noted that 401 or chard has planted a young ap ple orchard to satisfy the spe cial need of the gift box trade, Replying to questions, Cordy said that D'Anjous, the winter pear variety, are picked late in August or the first half of September. It must be re moved from storage in March for best quality fruit. The Red Bartlett was de veloped in Yakima from 1946 to 1948, Cordy noted in reply to another question. The Rogue valley is one of the few areas where it does "real good." During the last three years about a thousand acres have been planted to pears, It will take about 10 years to catch up to the damage done by decline, he said Pointing out an abandoned orchard surrounded by other orchards, Cordy noted that that such an orchard attracts diseases and ' insects which spread to neighboring or chards. Cordy's office salv, aged damaged spray contain ers, from the burned Faber's feed store in Medford and a local orchardist bought it and applied it to the abandoned orchard, he said. In the mid 1930's 1,500 acres of pear or chard trees had to be cut down due to blight. Stopping at the Root Broth ers Indian Springs orchard Cordy noted that it represents an i nte g r a t e d operation Smaller orchards find that rising costs force them out and a packing house such as Myron Root and company finds it must own. orchards to ensure a steady supply of fruit. The Indian Springs or chard of 180 acres is one of several, totalling 650 acres, which the company owns. When tour members alight ed from the bus, Bob Root, a co-owner of the orchard pointed to equipment lined up near the road. He estimated total brand-new replacement costs for the equipment at V.1,875. This included $4,500 for a spray rig, $6,600 for a, D-2 tractor, $3,750 for a wheel tractor, $1,800 for a rear-end lift, $3,000 for a truck, $1,400 for a disc, $300 for a springtooth harrow, $250 for hand tools, $200 for ladders and $75 for picking buckets. This is the equipment which would be used in orchards of 85 acres or more, it was ex plained. Costs Outlined How much does it cost to produce, harvest, pack, store and sell a pear crop from one tree, plus other incidental costs? The Root brothers estimate costs of producing and har vesting a pear crop from one tree is $10, costs of packing, storing and selling $15 per tree. Production costs per tree in labor would include 70 cents for pruning; spraying, 12 cents; orchard heating, 28 cents; thinning, 24 cents; ir rigation, 12 cents; seeding, grubbing, etc., 75 cents; har vesting, $1.62, which brings the labor total to $3.82. Other costs include $1.06 for chem icals, 81 cents for orchard heating oil, 26 cents for trac tor fuel, 36 cents for equip ment repairs, 24 cents for ir rigation, eight cents for util ities, 18 cents for insurance, mostly on labor, 28 cents for taxes (mostly property taxes), 14 cents for soil conservation 69 cents for depreciation, $1.50 for interest on owner's investment, and owner's time, 57 cents. In the overall costs of pack ing, storage and selling an estimated $6.59 per tree is for cost of labor. Root noted that the Indian Springs orchard included such pear varieties as Bartlett, red Bartlett, D'Anjous, Bosc, Co mice, Nellis, and Packham's Triumph. Always experiment ing, like most of the pear in dustry here, the Root broth ers are using plastic pipe for their irrigation system. The group seemed very in terested in the Beebe farm in the Central Point area. This is a small family farm oper ated by father and son, Ken neth W. and Kenneth R. Bee- be. Interest was probably due to this being the type of farm operation many of the tour members had grown up in. As a county agent ex plained, the Beebes do the little things which keep their fruit and vegetables at peak quality. They use grass from Otto Bohnert's grass seed op eration for mulch around their trees. Individual tree records tell just what each is produc ing, how it was irrigated, fer tilized and sprayed. The Beebes have what fruit experts call one of the finest Cornice orchards in the valley. They have one acre in Cornice pears, four acres in peaches, four acres in apples and one acre in young Bartlett pears. They add a Triple 14 fer tilizer, plus nitrogen for bet ter color in their fruit. The good color to their pears and the rosy blush to their peaches is proof. Unlike many fruit growers, the Beebes don't have harvest labor problems. Tall Blackfect Indians come each year to pick. These meticulous pick ers fill the. boxes just as the Beebes want them and will refill them if the owners are not satisfied. During a season the Beebes say they have few culls. Each tree will produce about 19 boxes. Try Dwarf Fruit Trees The Beebes are also experi menting with dwarf fruit trees. Dave Lowry, veteran fruit grower and operator of Associated Fruit company, pointed out that it's , easier to get pickers for the smaller fruit trees since the fruit is within easy reach. He esti mates that dwarfs can be picked for a third less En route to Sams Valley and the Korner poultry farm, County Agent Earle Jossy noted that the county has 12,471 head of steers, 21,181 head of dairy cattle, 10,606 sheep and lambs and 5,092 swine. Big reason that this county doesn't have more cat tle is that feed shipped here costs $5 a ton more than it does in Portland. Now there are 46 Grade A dairy pro ducers in the Medford-Ash- land milk shed. Ten years ago there were about 110, Jossy said. Dairy cows have de creased from 23,573 to 21,181 in five years. The county's population has doubled but the sale of milk has not gone up at all Jossy noted. One reason for this is that a lot of dried milk is used. Any increase in milk police has however, gone mostly to labor and distribu tion costs. Passing the Table Top Here ford ranch, Jossy noted that most of Uie valley's beef is marketed out as weancr calves. Because of the com partively high price of feed here compared to major beef producing areas it does not pay to raise fat calves. The tour made a brief stop at the Elmer Korner farm in Sams Valley where 7,200 lay ing hens produce eggs for the Jackson county market. This farm is also a family opera tion. Korner and his wife, Ann, do almost all of the work with some hired help as needed. We visited the Korner farm about a year ago and were told then he planned to ex pand and that his son, John, hoped to establish his own poultry operation on the same 40 acres. This was when the egg market had hit a new low, but Korner believed with a tight, efficient, quality egg operation he could ride out the storm. He has done that and his optimism has born fruit. The price of double A large eggs climbed nine or 10 cents this summer. Three new poultry buildings are in operation now. Foggers under the tin roofs keep the birds cool and help keep egg production up Lights go on at night in the hen houses to stretch out the egg production day. The lay ers sit up in wire cages with droppings falling to the litter underneath. This provides for both sanitation and ease of operation since a tractor with attachment can scrape up the litter into a nile. Even the chicken manure is used-it's sold to Lester James, Sams Valley dairy farmer. The Korner operation is a complete one as the brooding house, egg handling and stor age and miscellaneous stor age sheds show. Two large grain storage tanks make it possible for Korner to buy his feed in large quantities and at a price advantage. He doesn t believe in fancy feeds thinking that the extra cost doesn't produce a correspond ing extra profit. They figure their cost and profit ratios carefully and can tell you such things as the year around average percentage of lay, counting all chickens on the ranch, is close to 70 per cent. They won't keep any hens whose production drops be low 55 per cent and seldom keep layers longer than 12 months. It cost them about 33 cents to produce a dozen eggs. Final stop was at the Lester James ranch in Sams Valley as an example of conserva tion farming. By carefully squeezing every ounce of pro duction from his soil conserva tion practices James has stretched the original 30 acres to 93 acres. Twenty-six are irrigated pasture with 21 acres of alfalfa and grass seeded for hay crop this fall. Irrigation comes from three reservoirs with a surface area of 24 acres holding 161 acre feet of water for irrigation. All water is stored from win ter and early spring runoff. Two of the ponds are stocked with warm water fish. Additional irrigation from the proposed Rogue basin project may irrigate the rest of the 93 acres and make it possible for James to raise fruit or vegetables or both, he said. Grade A milk for the local market is produced by 30 head of Guernsey and Hol- steins. E2 PEAR ORCHARD - Bob Root, foreground, Neil, had to scrape it off in big globs. Those with arm oulstretcher, points out the Root on the tour sponsored by the Chamber saw Brothers orchard operation north of Med- some of the pear tree varieties on the 85- ford. Tour members tramped through the acre orchard, the irrigation system and the big sticky mud and some, like Medford equipment used to work the orchard. Chamber of Commerce Manager Don Mc- Blackberry Problem? Gall... HAYSPRAY SP 2-9279 INSPECT PRODUCE - Members of the looking fruit and vegetables were examined Medford Chamber of Commerce farm tour by tour members, who saw this small family were photographed recently as they inspect- fruit and produce operation. The Beebes are ed the Beebe family's produce stand. In the gradually getting out of the .vegetable foreground is Gerald Latham, Chamber business since they claim it is too hard work president. Row on row of the tempting for the small profit receives. Economic Changes Predicted By SID HOLLINGS WORTH Mail Tribune Correspondent Berkeley, Calif.-The parade of scientific agricultural ad vancement may be halted by curtailment of education as well as research in various colleges dealing extensively with this subject. This is the view of Dr. Bur ton Wood, head of the depart ment of agricultural eco nomics at Oregon State col lege, Corvallis, as expressed in the closing address of the recent 32nd annual conference of the American Institute of Cooperation at the University of California. Dr. Wood spoke of the work being done for agricul ture at Oregon Slate collcge: which may be affected by drastic reduction in attention to problems dealing with the growing and marketing of crops. A somewhat gloomy fore cast was painted by Dr. Wood. He quoted the Biblical ac count of David, who went forth to battle with the Phil listines with five smooth stones. Briefly his five points were: 1. In 10 years the Pacific coast region will have to feed another 15 million or more people, forming the largest, hungriest and highest paid group of consumers anywhere near us. 2. The pressure of abundant harvest will tend to keep gov ernment at the controls. Farmers are beginning to real ize if they can not sell their output to advantage, they should not produce It. 3. Consumers do not care whether farmers make any money or not. Farmers must realize their real competition comes from themselves. 4. Cooperatives can no long er effectively or economically serve all farmers. They must "grade" their producers just as they grade their products. Changes in cooperative struc ture and procedure are in order. 5. Public relations for agri culture will get worse before It gets better. Many citizens feel farming Is a subsidized Industry and that if it were not for government, the farm er today could not survive. F. R. Wilcox, general man ager of Sunkist Growers, Los Angeles, who shared the plat form with Dr. Wood, present ed a more hopeful view of the Sixties. He called attention to the fact that the least of the "cul prits" contributing to high, food prices is the producer, whose take home pay has dropped from 50 to 40 cents or lower. 11 ON A SPARK OIL HEATER For Your Old Heater During August Wt Will Allow You ... TRADE IN YOUR OLD HEATER $20. Mil KENNEDY FUEL OIL 922 Boardman At Kennel Phone SP 3-5896 C. C. Williami ROGUE VALLEY PROVED SIRE SERVICE Proved efficiency of feed conversion ... the inheritance for profit- can be yours in your next generation of dairy or beef cattle. Modern Artificial Breeding with FROZEN SEMEN FROM AMERICAN BREEDERS' SERVICE CALL... SP 2-4093