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0 0 C3 O CO O C3 O yEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1960 O A 7 r: . , L Ira SEED STALK Manager Sam Campbell of the West Coast Beet Seed company, Salem, holds a freshly cut stalk of beet leed. Seed stalks are four to six feet tall and contain thou sands of individual seeds. Similar stalks are raised in Jack ion county on a limited 80 acres, approximately. GARDENING TIP Local Sugar Beet Seed Yield Sets New Crop Record Here By DON BERRY County Extension Agent TREE WATERING Shrubs and trees, especially those which were planted dur ing the past year, should con tinue to be watered. Rain, like that which has come recently, can give us a sense of false security. It will be probably another month or two before the rains reach an accumulative amount so we can quit watering. Infrequent, deep watering It is impractical to try to control all insects working on the oaks but it appears that a spring spray applied about the middle of May will go a long way in controlling the early pests, thus giving the tree a better chance to develop growth and foliage before the pests begin to attack. Squirrels, too, often kill twigs and small branches while gnawing out borers. Oaks will not tolerate radical change. Cuts and dirt fills is preferred to more frequent around them will kill them light sprinklings. When wa tering trees and shrubs the toil should be thoroughly soaked to a depth up to sev eral feet depending upon how extensive the root system is. Additional watering would quickly. Ovcrwatering and driveways, etc., are also bad. Wherever fills are made trees are quickly killed, unless air circulation and drainage are provided In addition to all these, root probably not be necessary for rots too affect them, and old another week or two or long er. Mulching is often used to hold soil moisture and thus reduce the amount of water ing of trees and shrubs. Mate rials such as sawdust and peat moss, when applied over the area of the root system, can reduce the number of wa ter arjDlications to two or three soakings per year. age sometimes catches up with the oak trees. With all of their faults, however, many home owners still prefer the native oak as shade tree and are willing to put up with the pests in order to keep it in their yard SPIDER CONTROL If spiders are a problem use Chlordane or Dieldrin around the entrances to your home and in other areas' where cob webs are prevalent, as the end A bumper sugar beet har vest was raised by Jackson county farmers this year, ac cording to reports from local farmers and the Western Beet Sugar Producers. The record breaking har- U-est was completed two or mree weens ago Dy iochi aim Marion county farmers. Local farmers who raise the seed for Western Beet Sugar Produ cers estimate top yields per acre, were 4,000 pounds of clean seed and minimum yields were 3,500 pounds from approximately 80 acres in Jackson county. There was a period when local farmers raised no more than 3,000 pounds per acre, according to Otto Bohncrt, Central Point, one of the beet seed growers here. At one time Jackson county farmers raised 200 to 300 acres of beet seed. However in the last few years they have raised less than 100 acres. This is now a support crop and grown on a restrict ed allotment basis and on con tract. Local growers grow their best seed for a specific area and supply five or six of the largest refineries in the United States. Each area in Oregon growing the seed raises a particular strain. Local growers include Rog er von der Hellen, Bob Fields, Otto, John and Don Bohnert, Harry Dunn, all of the Cen tral Point area; Andy Stevens and Joe Dugan, both of the Talent-Phoenix area; Harlin Cantrall, Applegate, and Mrs. Dora Dorich, Jacksonville. Manager Sam Campbell of the West Coast Beet Seed company estimates this year's Oregon harvest at 4.1 million pounds, 900,000 pounds more than the last record harvest of 1058 The huge seed harvest will set a second record of a differ ent kind," Campbell said "This year we grew 41 dif ferent commercial varieties, an all-time high. The new high-yielding hybrids account ed for more than half of the total production." Campbell said the 1960 Ore gon crop was grown on 1,062 acres by about 80 growers on small plots ranging from 5 to 35 acres. To avoid cross-polli nation, individual varieties must be isolated from one an other in separate plots, many of them scattered miles apart, he pointed out. No Connection 'Although the U.S. beet sugar marketing quota has been raised considerably in re cent months because of the crisis in Cuba," Campbell said there probably is no connec tion between these events and both hybrid and open-polli nated form. As distinguished from multi-germ, monogerm has only a single seed ball, producing one sugar beet rather than the several plants springing from a multi-germ seed. Stands of monogerm beets require less hand labor than multi-germ beets, thus reducing costs substantially Inter estingly, monogerm seed was developed from a discovery in Oregon. A Russian refugee scientist who had found monogerm sugar beet plants in the USSR was brought to this country from Germany in 1948 and, after examining thousands of individual plants, he found a single monogerm plant in a seed field near Salem. It was a historic discovery and may, perhaps, be the single most important seed development in the history of the industry. The hybrid sugar beet plant is an even newer develop ment; like hybrid corn, it has increased yields 15 to 20 per cent, and Campbell believes that eventually all commer- fcial varieties will be hybri dized. The problem now is to convert present open-pollinat ed varieties to hybrids; this accounts for the large number of experimental varieties be ing raised in the Salem and Medford areas. The wide range of commercial varieties are needed to combat differ ent diseases, soil and climatic conditions in the various growing areas. MtiLTIOERM ! - - ; . v THRESHING SEED Grain thresher in field near Salem picks up sugar beet seed stalks for removal of seed. This year's crop set a new record for Oregon at 4.1 million pounds of seed. A similar operation was conducted in Jackson county two or three weeks ago. New Farm Bureau Officers Chosen at Recent Picnic Producers Should Keep. Unshorn Lamb Records By GENE WINTERS County Extension Agent Sheep producers who mar ket unshorn lambs this fall should maintain full records on their sales in order to make proper applications for pay ment next spring under the wool incentive program, ac cording to Jackson Agricul tural Stabilization and Con servation Committee Chair man Albert Straus. . Failure to keep full records in the past has prompted dif ficulties for producers in ob taining their unshorn lamb payments under the program, the chairman stated. The sales records for lambs sold must include the name of the buyer, his signature, and the number and liveweight of the lambs sold, plus the description "un shorn." Lamb feeders who buy lambs should also keep ac curate records of all their purchases of unshorn lambs. TWO BASIC TYPES Although Oregon produced 41 dif ferent varieties of sugar beet seed this year most of them were of two basic types, multigerm or monogerm. This com pares size of two seeds. Monogram contains only one seed ball; multigerm usually has several. Requirements Lessened For Farm Housing Loans Under a recent change in the eligibility requirements for farm housing loans, a farmer who owns a farm that will annually produce for sale or home use at least S400 worth of commodities may, if he meets other eligibility re quirements, be able to ob tain a farm housing loan. Previously, according to Eu gene Denney, Farmers Home administration county super visor for Josephine and Jack son counties, an applicant had to own a farm that would produce a substantial amount of the operator's income, Farm Housing loans are made by the Farmers Home administration and are used to construct and repair need ed farm houses and farm serv ice buildings. During the past and meet payments, when due, on his debts. Applications for this type of credit may be made at the county office of the Farm ers Home administration lo cated in the Manchel Build- in?. Grants Pass. STRAWBERRIES strnwhprrica in the home garden, as well as commercial of a dry summer season is the niantines. should be cared for peak spider population. jiiir,n(H, in th fall. Next If bitten bv a spider, pack L,,,, ovtranrHinnrv eppri nrn- year's crop is dependent upon the area in ice and call a doc- auction. We've got plenty of year, nine loans totaling $93, ih. pin Divpn nlanU the ore- tor immediately. Save the spi- Pti fn- nnlck exDansion of 600 have been advanced for utoii fall since the fruit buds der which caused the bite. the industry should it be re mode at that time. Black Widows are the only ouired. but basically the sugar To have a good set of fruit common poisonous biting spi- companies wanted to build up buds, plants must have good der in Oregon and is not often their seed inventories with growth with as many leaves found since they prefer se- the new varieties. Production George Dewey, executive secretary of the Oregon Farm bureau, Salem, spoke on prob lems facing agriculture, re cently at the farm bureau picnic held on the Ed Taylor ranch, Table Rock rd. He expressed concern that the young generation of farm ers are not taking an active interest in the major changes occurring in agriculture to day. Evelyn Nye spoke on the financial side of education and briefly explained equal ization of taxes according to school districts. Ed Taylor, outgoing presi dent of the Jackson County Farm bureau, gave a short talk on the attributes of the organization and asked that more members take part the county program. New officers elected to serve starting in October arc; Robert Lytle, Ashland, presi dent; Ernest Radomskc, Gold Hill, vice president; W. R. Baglcy, Talent, voting dele gate, and Mrs. David Blair, Rogue River, women's chairman. Mrs. Grover Mulkey will continue to serve as secretary-treasurer. this purpose in Josephine and Jackson counties. Other eligibility require ments for farm housing loans remain unchanged. These re- This comes by eluded places away from the next year probably will be quirements are that the appli- as Dossible maintaining good growing conditions during September nd as long as the plants are ctively growing in the laii. LAWN SEEDS Home owners anticipating since these are the favored planting new lawns this fall hangouts 0f the Black Widow are encouragea ro preyoie spider. good Seed Deas ueioie jjioih lnn Tha aroa n hp. Tllanted should be leveled, tilled raked Extension Program thnrouehlv. rolled, ana re- raked. This working firms the seed hpd and encourages weed seeds to eerminate. By sprout- ins as many weed seeds as possible and then cleaning up the bed before planting, some reduction in the weed control r npppssarv in the new lawn id hp accomDlished. The best grasses for this area are Kentucky Bluegrass light. Care should be cxer- smaller. cised hovever in putting in addition to the 41 corn- hands in out of the way places merciai varieties of seed, such as gopher holes, back un- Campbell's growers and field der the wood pile or in cor- men produce seed for breed- ners of darkened outbuildings er's stocks and experimental Chosen For Award Oregon is one of five states in the nation chosen to receive a special award for its state wide extension service pro gram in agriculture. Charles A. Henderson, Kla math county extension agent, will represent Oregon county agents and Oregon State col lege extension service in re- .i ,lih the fine fescues, ceiving the award for extcn- Where full sun lawns are be- sion service's contributions to tn niantpH. Blucerass is tne Oregon agriculture. best grass. In the shades the Governor Mark O. Hatfield fpcpiip nre superior. will present the award Sept All around lawns may con- 21 at a luncneon in roruano tain a mixture of the two. Do honoring all Oregon county fcet tall In iate juiy or Au- not plant bent grasses or mix- agents. The awards program gust lhe staiks are cuti wn. ana luncneon win ue smw,sui ed bv the agriculture division of American Cyanamid com pany. purposes on 58 different loca lions, most of which are one- tenth or half-acre plots in tne farmers' backyards, More than 100 experimen tal hybrids alone were har vested from such locations, Campbell said. This seed is sent to sugar company labora tories and greenhouses for further testing and develop ment. Eventually it may go into production by West Coast which is owned by the na tion's eight largest beet sugar companies and operated coop cratively by them. The com panies operate in "nearly all of the 22 bee t-producing stales. Sugar beets for seed are planted in August and left in the ground until the following spring when they "bolt," send ing up seed stalks four to six cant lacks the resources need ed to obtain credit elsewhere, be a citizen of the United States, have sufficient in come from farm and other sources to pay farm operating and family living expenses Cannery Pear Prices Are Higher This Year In Southern Oregon, pear growers' price on all grades including culls is reported to average $96.50 per ton, de livered cannery, according to a recent U. S. Department of Agriculture bulletin. The article said that pear prices to growers on pears for processing are substantially higher than last year. This re flects the smaller crop. The average price in Northern Oregon was reported to be $86.50 per ton. AWARDS DONATED Silver awards given at the recent 4-H style review were donated by the Jackson Coun ty Home Extension Alumni committee. Colleen Franek, food preservation award and Carol McDowell, home living award, were the recipients. Feeder Sale Date Set By County Stockmen Oct. 18 has been let at the date for the first feeder sale by the snla committee for the Jackson County Stockmen's association. Sales will be limited to beef breeds. No dairy or half breeds will be allowed. Sale will be at the Midway Auction Yard, including dates of purchases and the number and - live weight when purchased.: Ade quate records must be main tained by producers in ordoT for them to certify to the ac curacy of the information contained in payment appli cations. Inadequate reporting of lamb purchases on payment applications has presented problems in administering the wool program. . Payments Made Lamb payments are made only on lambs that have never been shorn to encourage the customary practice of selllm lambs with the wool on. Lamb payments are made to pro ducers who have owned lambs 30 days or more. The pay ments are based on the wool incentive payment. The amount paid to each producer is based on the weight gain of lambs during the period of his ownership. Full information is necessary so that each producer can ho given his proper share of the payment on a lot of lambs. . Records should be kept in a safe place at home or they may be filed at the county ASC office for safekeeping. While the final date for mak ing applications under the wool program for the I960 marketing year is not until April 30, 1961, applications may be submitted any time between now and then, Blue Tongue Booklet Issued Corvalus - Blue tongue, a serious virus disease of sheep, has broken out recently in the Pacific Northwest. Symptoms of the disease, diagnosis, treatment, and vac cination are discussed in bulletin just published by Oregon Slate College Exten sion Service. Free copies of the bulletin "Blue Tongue Disease of Sheep" may be ob tained from local county ex tension agents or by writing the OSC bulletin clerk, Cor- vail is. Blue tongue Is a warm weather disease carried from sheep to sheep by flying in sects. Main symptoms, in ad dition to a blue tongue, in clude sluggishness, loss of ap petite, and high temperature. A bluish red band develops along the upper edge of the hooves. The virus, itself, seldom kills sheep but it weakens their resistance to other dis eases. Deaths arc usually due to complicating pneumonia. The bulletin stresses the Im portance of a clinical diag nosis by a veterinarian. De tailed suggestions are includ ed in the four-page illustrated bulletin V ,N , 'V 1, . Y r NINE LIVES supposedly belong only to pussy cats. But telephone people have found other things can have extra lives, too like the boxes new phones are delivered in. are installed and use them over and ? over. Every re-use saves 8c the cost of a new box. Multiplied thousands of times a month, even small sav- , ings like this help us give you more for your telephone dollar. We keep these boxes after phones We work to make your telephone dollar go further in Oregon () Pacific Telephone Northwest tures containing bent grasses Wal1v as thcv are hard to maintain. TPBMITES Trmite oroblcms often show up in the fall since this the swarming season.. If you suspect termites, bring sever al specimens in to xne cuumy agents office lor aeicniiin Ahove all. don't get pan icky but check into your prob lem carefully. There are several good bul- iiin. nvnilahlp to the exten sion office on termite control. Also, we would be glad to dis cuss your problems wun you. OAK TREE TROUBLES This past season has shown more oak tree troubles than usual. Dead twigs which are often found in the oak trees miv be caused by insects .,M.h hnrp into them. in oHHltlon oak trees are af fected by numerous insects In cluding aphids, scale, leaf rol iprs. lpaf hoopers and especial ly ih. aaU making wasps. The sticky material found drip ping from the trees is general ly oscnrintpd with either the aphids, scale or some types of drowed and sun-cured for about two weeks. A grain threshing machine picks up the stalks and removes the seed. At the Salem plant it is weighed, cleaned and bagged for shipment to sugar compa nies which further process it. 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