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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
TUESDAY. gjPTEMBER 13, 1969
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' INTERMEDIATE BEEF SHOWMAN Chip Buffington, 14
i of Medford, was named champion 4-H beef showman at the
Oregon state fair at Salem this year.
Fewer, But Bigger Farms
Revealed By State Census
Corvallis-Oregon has near
Iv 12.000 (ewer farms-but
bigger farms-than five years
ago. Economic pressures and
technoloeical changes are
given as reasons for the sharp
decline in numbers ana in
crease in size.
Stephen M. Marks, Oregon
State college extension agri
cultural economist, says larm
ers' attempts to maintain m
come in the price-cost squeeze
has boosted the average size
of Oregon farms to 507 acres
compared with 3B7 acres live
years ago.
This trend lo bigger farms
stems from addition ot acre
age by purchases of adjoining
FARM
NOTES
Washington - HOT - There
will be considerably more
beef available in 1961 than
this year, according to an ag
riculture department survey
of the livestock and meat sit
uation. The "more beef" situation
stems from the fact that there
will be about three million
-more cattle on farms and
; ranches on Jan. 1 than there
were a year ago.
:. The department said the
'.potential for slaughter In 1901
ris considerably greater than
"in I960. In tact, the depart
ment said, cattle numbers
now hivi progressed to a
nolnt where Increased market-
ings ot all classes are almost
- Inevitable.
- U. S. imports of livestock
"and meat products continued
:to decline in June.
Pork and lamb imports
were the only red meat Items
: which were above the June,
1059, level. Total red meal
w imports during the month
.were 35 per cent below last
;yoar, while variety meat im
'ports declined 23 per cent,
'imports of most other live
stock products also declined
"during June,
The January-June total of
' beef and veal Imports was 32
" per cent lower than during
: the same period last year,
: The agriculture department
:is stocking up for the school
lunch program. In recent
weeks it has purchased 11,
.214,000 pounds of frozen
, ground beef valued at $4,524,-
000 for the program.
farms and from a 2',i per
cent increase from new acre
age. Marks explained.
Preliminary figures from
Oregon's 1959 Census of Agri
culture show 42,573 farms-
33 per cent fewer than in the
peak year of 1935 when the
state had 64,828 farms,
Biggest decline in the past
five years came in the small
farm class of 10 to 50 acres
which showed a drop in num
bers of 31 per cent. However,
part-time farms In the 10 to
50-acre class still represent
nearly half the state s total
number of farms.
Farms of 50 to 100 acres
comprise about 16 per cent of
the total, and farms from 100
to 500 acres account for 27
per cent. Large farms, con
taining 500 acres or more,
make up 12 per cent of all
Oregon farms.
About three-fourths of Ore
gon farms are operated by full
owners, 19 per cent by part
owners, 7 per cent by ten
nis, and less than 1 per cent
operated by managers. The
proportion of tenants had
dropped from 8.2 per cent in
1054 to 7.2 per cent In 1959.
Other Changes Noted
Other changes saw a slight
increase In the average age
of the farm operators - now
51 years old compared with'
50 years in 1954. However,
tehre are 15 per cent fewer
operators 6? years of age or
over.
Final censtn data will hp
published by the Bureau of
the Census later this fall,
Marks said,
- CHIT CHAT-
y JOE COWLEY
Mill Tribune '-arm Editor
The public currently is paying more attention to agri
culture, its status and its nrnhl
forms being drawn up by the Democratic and Rniihiinin
,-": aim me recently released agricultural census.
. As revealed by the ag census of Jackson county the big
farms are getting bigger and the small farmer is either being
squeezed out or is going into part-time farming. Also, the
laige commercial grain farms are continu ne to d o un mnrp
am pluses, in jacKson county tew farms raise grain, only
163 in 1959, and this is used for livestock feed. But the
proDiem of surplus grain, particularly of wheat, affect?
everyone wno pays taxes and who eats.
The new book, "Freedom to Farm," by Ezra Taft Benson
secretary of agriculture, Is particularly timely. This book
sketches briefly the U. S. agricultural history, tells how
the farm surplus problem started and crew and how it has
oeen aiiected by farm politics.
This book probably should be rear! frnm har-lr trt frnnl
The secretary of agriculture's oroDosals in t,n- .
are: (1) Relax or eliminate controls and gradually change
support prices. Supports should be based on what rnn.
sumers paid in recent years not on 1910 to 1914. (2) The
conservation reserve program should be expanded by 8 to
" million acres, u; i-ut more imaglnat on and vieor behind
the "Food for Peace" program. (4) Continue an aggressive,
imaginative research program. (5) Help the little farmer or
the rural dweller to increase his acreage or earn more off
nis larm.
Going back over his oronosals. Benson evnlnlnc thai
u.a. tarmers now produce more per man-hour than .the 1910
14 period on which current farm support Drices are based
A more current base would provide a year-to-year insurance
of more orderly marketing and the farmer would he nrn.
ducing for the consumer and not for the government. The
USDA head indicates that the conservation reserve is help
ing restore me economic balance of agriculture bv taking
land out of production. By going about this eraduallv It
...Ml . ! ,.. , , . . "
win nui ai-riuusiy eneci local economics, ne asserts.
Benson apparently strongly believes that the wav In a
ang ana a country s Heart is through the stomach. Bv ex.
porting agricultural surplus to foreign countries and usinir
part of the payment for helping the countries nrodure mn
rood, tne united states is helping to promote Dcace. the
secretary oi agriculture feels. Particularly interesting is his
commented wnne louring Kusslan farms that he. hopes Russia
will outproduce the United States agriculturally. "If vour
people find they can produce a rising standard of living
witnin ineir own boundaries through their own skills they
in dc less iiKciy to iook ior outside conquest," Benson told
Russian farmer.
More Gain Seen
In Plant Breeding
Work At OSC
However, Russia has a long wav to go before it rparhos
this goal. Over 40 per cent of the USSR total labor force
is working in agriculture and forestry. We have less than
10 per cent of our local labor force working in' aericulture.
The Russians have about one million tractors owned by the
stale. The United States has nearly 5 million owned by in
dividuals. We also have a million grain combines, nearly
750,000 mechanical cornpickers and about 600,000 pickup
balers. Few Soviet farms have electricity compared to 90
per cent in tne U.S.
Considering his fourth point. Benson noints out what
development of frozen juice concentrate's did for the citrus
Industry, development of plastics, new uses for fats and oils
and processed potato products. All these developments point
to neea ior continued research.
Revised FHA Regulations
Now Help Smaller Farmer
Washington -a'PD-The Farm
ers Home Administration has
revised its regulations to per
mit farmers who have regu
lar off-farm employmen to ob
tain farming and development
loans from the agency
Turkey Growers
lo Meet Sept. 16
'n Corvallis
Corvallis - Oregon turkey
growers will take a long, hard
look at the future of their
industry at their annual meet
ng in Corvallis Friday,' Sept,
IB.
The 21st annual meeting of
Ihe Oregon Turkey Improve
ment association will begin at
9:30 a.m. in Withycombe hall
on the Oregon Stale college
campus, reports Noel Ben
nion, OSC extension poultry
man and secretary of the as
sociation
Reporting on the present
turkey market situation and
taking a look at future pros
pects for the industry will be
Clement N. Thurnbeck, For
est Lake, Minn., president of
the National Turkey Federa
tion; and John W, Hough, edi
tor of Turkey World, Mount
Morris, III. Both have been
long-time leaders in the tur
key industry and have trav
eled widely the last year, Ben
nion said. They are in a posi
tion to tell Oregon turkey
growers about the future of
their industry, he pointed out.
Special Feature
A special feature of the day
will be a report on "What
Goes on Inside Russia," by
Dr. I. L. Kosin of Washington
t a t e university. -Kosin, a
poultry scientist at WSU, was
born in Russia and has just
returned from a six - weeks
study of the agricultural sit
uation in that country.
In the afternoon, the group
will be welcomed to the OSC
campus by Dr. A.. L. Strand,
OSC president. An analysis
the problems facing today s
rmers will be presented by
Maurine B. Neubergcr,
Portland.
An afternoon panel will-re
port what's new in turkey
breeder management. Panel
The new regulations go into
effect Oct. 1. Previously, ex
cept in rural development
counties, a farmer had to
spend most of his time farm
ing in ordi to qualify for a
loan.
The agriculture department
said that experience gained in
rural development counties
has shown that many farmers
regularly employed off the
farm can profitably use the
agency's credit facilities to in
crease the farm portions of
their total incomes.
The regulation which limits
assistance from obtaining the
maximum income from their
farms, and from taking ad
vantage of opportunities for
industrial and other off-farm
employment, the department
said.
Other Points Unchanged
Other eligibility require
ments remain unchanged. Ap
plicants must have sufficient
farm experience to carry on
sound farm operations, must
need credit, and be unable to
obtain needed financial assist
ance from other sources.
Credit will be extended to
operators of farms that are
family size or smaller. No
loan will be made unless
plan for the coming year's
farming operations shows that
income from the farm and
other sources will be large
enough to enable the farm
family to have a reasonable
standard, of living, pay debts,
and have an adequate reserve
for emergencies.
Loan funds may be used to
pay farm operating costs, pur
chase equipment and live
stock, pay farm development
costs, and refinance certain
debts. The interest rate is 2
per cent.
The Farmers Home Admin
istration supplies technical
farm and money management
assistance to each borrower.
: A rubber company has es
timated farmers will spend
$320 million for tires thio
year. This sum would include
tires for all vehicles used on
: the farm, Including passenger
cars.
i Based, on studies of the
"farm tire market, the average
.'large farm will spend $155
on tires, while the average
"small farm's expenditure will
J amount to $30 for tires. Farms
! rated medium in size will
'spend an average ot $68 on
tires.
. The company estimated
; about 2 million farm tractor
:and implement tires will be
.bought this year. This would
be four times as many as in
'1941 and twice the number
used in 1940.
' The agriculture department
'.reports that out of every 20
; apples consumed last year,
about 15 were eaten fresh
.three were eaten canned, as
.canned apples or apple sauce,
and two were used in the
form of canned Juice - and
frozen and dried apples.
' The heaviest npple-produc-
Ing stales in recent years have
been Washington, New York
'Michigan, Virginia, Califor
nia, Pennsylvania and West
: Virginia.
; The department has an
nounced It Intends to pur-
i chase ready to cook frozen
. turkeys for schools participat
ing in the national achool
lunch program. The turkeys
purchased will weigh from
16 lo 24 pounds, ready-to cook
weights.
The department has warned
poultry and egg producers
against re using containers
bearing USDA grade or In
section marks unless these
official luarks are obliterated.
.The law says Ihe containers
must not be re-used unless I
.the marks are destroyed, I
Corvallis - "More gain per
bite is the aim of a research
study now under way at the
Oregon Slate college agricul
tural station, where research
ers are working to develop
grasses thai have more food
value for animals.
Looking over a number of
nigh -yielding tall fescue
plants, OSC agricultural scien
tists started wondering if each
Individual fescue plant had as
much digestible food value as
other Individual plants. A lot
of forage isn't worth much if
animals can t digest and use
it, the scientists reasoned.
To find an answer to their
question, the scientists took
several individual tall fescue
plants and increased them
keeping each planting sepa
rate. When enough forage
from plants produced by each
"mother" plant was available,
the researches set up a care
fully-controlled feeding exper
iment, using sheep to measure
the digestibility of each fes
cue-plant group.
The sheep were fed the for
age from each plant's produc
tion over a two-week period,
with the digestive progress of
each sheep chemically ana
lyzed and recorded. The sheep
were men fed forage from
another plant's production for
a two-week period. Result
the researchers now know for
sure that grass from one tall
fescue plant may be consider
ably . more digestible than
grass from another tall fes
cue plant.
Willi this new information,
the OSC plant breeding team,
headed by Dr. J. Ritchie
Cowan, head of the OSC farm
crops, department, has set up
anotner research project to
find out how digestibility of
forage in plants is inherited.
They will then try to breed di
gestibility, as well as nutritive
content and palatabllity, into
new high -yielding fescue
plants in the future.
The researchers are already
well along the road to new
lall fescue varieties, Cowan
noted.-They started several
years ago with over 18,000 In
dividual tall fescue plants in
their experiments, and have
now culled these down to 27
plants.
Plant breeding takes time.
Cowan emphasized, and added
that It will be at least several
years more before new tall
fescue varieties are developed.
But when they arc he hones
they will be highly digestible.
as well as high-yielding and
nutritious.
The small farmer needs additional vocational training lcader win be J- A' HarPer,
lo learn new skills and guidance in making the needed ad- OSC turkey scientist. Panel
Justment to part-time living off the farm. New--industry Is
riL-i.uuu to use tnese part-time larmers. This would be im
portant lo Jackson county since the recent ag census reveals
that 1,165 farmers worked off the farm. A total of 1,473
farmers reported they worked 100 or more davs off the
farm and 1,232 reported earning more monev from their
ou-iarm joos man irom tarm products sold. Benson emnhn.
su.es mat existing tarm price-support legislation does not help
uia small larmers. t
Farm Bureau Meets
At Valley View
Tht rijulu monthly
matting of tht Talent Cen
ter Farm Buraau will be
held at 8 o'clock tonight in
ihe Valley View school
house, according lo Chair
man E. E. Rasmusien.
Reclamation On
New Upswing
On USSR Lands
Livestock Prices
Show Variety
Of Market Trend
The small-scale,' part-time and residential farms have a
majority of the farm people but they raise only 10 per cent
oi tne tarm products sold. At the other end-of the economic
teeter-totter are the commercial farmers who represent onlv
40 per cent of the farm population yet raise 90 per cent of
tne tarm products sold, Benson points out In his book. As
our boss pointed out in his editorial, perhaps the farm should
be redefined to include rural residents who produce iust
enougn tor inemseives and lo peddle to their neighbors or
tne nearest fruit stand. This, he stated miglrt give the small
tarmcr more political recognition.
That's a resonable assumption. However, agricultural
experts pointed out that one reason the Brannan plan as
proposed by former Secretary of Agriculture Charles Bran
nan failed to get congressional approval was because the
small or low-income farmers lack political force. One-big
aim of tne proposed plan was to strengthen the small farmer.
Low Income farmers have no effective nressura erouos
The nation's big commercial farmers are highly organized
and have "skillful and aggressive representation1 in Wash
ington." Briefly, the Brannan plan proposed to extend in
come protection to farmers producing certain perishable
commodities, if would make direct federal cash payments
when their prices fell below a level set by his "income sup-
n,. rm.,l - ...
Getting back to Benson's hnnk h rlnln-i that npp,
wheat lire unreallstically set at the so-called narltv levels
of 1910-14. This, he argues, completely disregards present
day farming skills and technological advances. His predicltion
ior mio-summer came true, we do have enough wheat car
ried over to meet normal requirements for almost 2V4 vears.
ne predicted sa.auu million in federal funds will be tied
up In wheat due to this carry-over.
Benson also predicted it will cost the taxDavera over
$H billion for transportation, handling, storage, and In
terest just to hold the surpluses In 1960.
The crops receiving federal support money are wheat.
corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, and tobacco. The high support
prices nave driven cotton out of half the world market it
formerly had. The world's largest tobacco market is not
Wlnston-Salcm, N.C. but in Southern Rhodesia now, Benson
pointed out.
Wheat, cotton and corn make up 85 per cent of the gov
ernment's surplus crop inventory. However, these crops
produce only about 17 per- cent of the total cash farm in
come. This price. support program is aimed at the large com
mercial farmers. For instance, 90 per cent of the wheat
support payments go to 40 per cent of the farms.-
And the surplus problem Is likely to get worse than
better. "We are not using our current knowledge of farm
technology to the full," Benson pointed out. Also, efficiency
in farming has been increasing twice what manufacturing has
achieved In recent years.
This 'n Thai
September Is the time lo give cattle (lie new systcmlcs
for grub control, to make corn silage, put pullets into the
laying house.
Some fruit growers In Jackson county are Just beginning
to experiment with dwarf fruit trees. However, England is
developing outstanding semi-dwarf apple orchards. Heavy
early yields, lower management costs and an increase of
28 to 32 trees per acre are possible with these rootstocks.
Eighty per cent of the commercial orchards In England under
25 years old are of M2. a semi-dwarfing stock, according
to the Farm Almtnac. Trees are staked for the first eight
or nine years.
Next time you think you are working long hours drive
by the home of an orchard foreman about dinner time.
If you pass about 8 p.m. chances are he is just getting home
or hasn't yet left his work. One typical foreman works from
6 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week during the fruit harvest
which last about two months. Otherwise he works only
8Vi hour he told us dutiaf I visit.
members Include Kosin,
Thurnbeck, Hough, and Wally
Sawiell of Molalla. I
A special tea for the turkey
growers auxiliary and other
ladies attending the confer
ence will be held during the
afternoon session. The annual
association banquet will be
held at 5:30 p.m. in the Ben
ton hotel. All turkey growers
and allied industry represent
atives are welcome to attend
all sessions.
Shorthorn Trophy
Presented Anhorn
John Anhorn, 18, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Anhorn,
Central Point won the Ore
gon Shorthorn association's
trophy at last week's Oregon
State fair in Salem.
The trophy was presented
young Anhorn for having the
best Shorthorn female at the
state fair. This is the first
time in. several years that
Jackson county 4-H clubs
have taken a championship in
the Shorthorn class at the
state fair. John has been In
Jackson county 4-H for eight
years. .
Police Keeping
Vigil at Bedside
Ottawa - HJPD - Police kept
vigil at the bedside of a
seriously wounded Italian Im
migrant early, today In hopes
he would recover to throw
light on a wild domestic gun-
battle that left four members
of his household dead.
Bruno Madalcna. 34, was
reported by civic hospital au
thorities as "slightly im
proved" but still in serious
condition. He lay near death
Monday with his arms and
right side shattered by shot
gun blasts.
Police tried lo reconstruct
the scene In Madalena's mod
est two-story house early Mon
day when his wife Elena, 23,
her parents Guiscppa and
Santa Sacllotto, both 50 and a
boarder Johannes Abom,
about 35, were killed In a
fusillade of shots from a rifle,
i shotgun and a pistol.
Four children, two of the
Madalcnas' and two of the
Sacllotto's were in the house
at the time but were not
harmed. Police, however,
were unable to get a coherent
account of what happened
from them.
PRESIDENT DIES
Urbana, lll.-OTI-Dr. Arthur
Cutis Willard, 82. president
emeritus of the University of
Illinois, died Monday.
Corvallis - Oregon market
prospects are better for hogs
than for cattle and sheep in
the year ahead, but the long-
term outlook remains favor
able for all parts of the state's
meat animal industry, say
Oregon. State college econo
mists,
Record large beef supplies
now In the making throughout
the country point to gradual
declines in beef prices for the
next three or four years.
Supply of bef per person in
the U. S. next year appears
certain to pass the 1956 rec
ord of 85.4 pounds, reports
M. D. Thomas, OSC extension
agricultural economist. How
ever, beef prices in 1961 are
not likely to drop as low as
in 1956, the economist ex
plains. Less pork on the mar
ket, plus willingness and abil
ity of food buyers to spend
more money for beef in re
cent years, will probably keep
prices above 1956 levels.
Lamb Prices Dropping
Lamb prices are headed
down along with beef. Slaugh
ter lambs and steers at Port
land have been bringing about
$3 a hundredweight less than
last summer.
Oregon hog prices, now in
a seasonal decline should be
followed by a rise this winter
to levels possibly above recent
July peaks, the economist be
lieves. By next summer,
swine breeding stock should
be higher and some of the
highest market hog prices
could be past for awhile,
Thomas adds.
Taking a longer look at
market prospects for Oregon
livestock, the economist
points out that local cattle
and hog raisers are located
near the west coast's "fastest
growing group of highly paid
meat eaters" in the country.
Oregon, Washington and
California populations have
increased more than one-third
in the past decade and the
gain is expected to continue
nearly as fast in the next 10
years. Per capita income also
has increased rapidly and is
well above average.
Detailed discussion of Ore
gon's livestock outlook is in
cluded in the current issue
of the Oregon Farm and Mar
ket Outlook circular publish
ed by OSC extension service.
Also Included are reports on
seed crops, grain, and hay and
the general economic outlook.
Free copies are available at
county extension offices.
Washington-fflPD-The Soviet
Union apparently has revived
a land reclamation plan of
the early 1950's in its efforts
to surpass the United States
in agricultural production.
The seven-year plan to out
produce the United States by
1965 was based primarily on
an increase in yields. When
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
announced the plan in 1958,
it was believed Russian farm
ers had about completed an
earlier plan of getting more
land into cultivation by plow
ing up virgin soils which had
been used for centuries for
grazing purposes. Apparently
they had not-or perhaps their
political leaders decreed they
had not.
The Foreign Agricultural
Service, culling reports from
the Soviet press, has learned
that reclamation is operating
in a big way in the "new
lands" area of Kazakhstan
and Siberia, and also in the
European section of the So
viet Union.
In Kazakhstan 3,088,750
acres of virgin land have been
plowed this year and more
acres were being plowed early
in August, FAS said. Else
where, in the Rostov area in
the heart of the Soviet winter
wheat belt, the area sown to
corn and small grains is to
be expanded by plowing 494,-
zuu acres of virgin land plus
123,550 acres of meadow. In
one region of the Ukraine
494,200 acres of land were
to be drained and reclaimed
by 1965. In this area soils
are infertile, have poor mois
ture retentive ability, and re
quire heavy annual fertilization.
Under the "new lands" pro
gram, the Soviets added some
93 million acres to cultivation
tn 1954-56. Some smaller in
creases since have brought
the total tillable land to an
estimated 501.4 million acres.
ihe so-called "new lands"
are located in the sub-humid
and semi-arid zones of Asiatic
USSR, east of the Volga
River and the Ural Mountains.
Now the nlower-UDDers are
diminishing pasture and nat
ural meadowland in parts of
ine uKraine and the North
Caucasus.
Despite its tremendous total
of 5.5 billion acres, the Soviet
Union has only about 530 mil
lion acres of tillable land com
pared with 475 million in the
United States. Much of the So
viet Union is not suited for
farming. About 75 per cent
oi tne total land mass enn,
sists of deserts, mountains
swamps, tundra, and forests
Court Records
ASHLANn MltMirinii r.n..n
Robert n Nlrhnl. ...
. io suspended.
DIe E. Truax. failure to heed
top sign. S5.
Andrew D. Wardlnskl. leavlni
motor running while vehicle un-
Nell L. CrAfn vlnla,lAM i i
rule. $20.
Lawrence E. Tolliver. failure to
heed atop lipn. S.v
Doyle M. Benion, failure to heed
traffic light. S5.
Rita L. Mackay, no operator'a
license, 10.
William J. Carton franalnnt
der Influence of Intoxicating bev
eragea while on a public street.
3 days in jail.
SENIOR BEEF SHOWMAN Ron Anderson, 17, of Eagla
Point, was named chamipon' 4-H senior beef showman at
the Oregon state fair at Salem this year.
Wocus Type Tops
Barley Yields Here
By EUGENE WINTERS
County Extension Agent
Wocus barley was the high
est yielding fall-seeded barley
at the Southern Oregon ex
periment station this year, ac
cording to John Yungen, sta
tion agronomist.
Other high yielding barleys
were Belford, Cascade and
Velvon
Thirteen named and num
bered varieties were seeded
Nov. 5, 1959, at rates of 100
pounds per acre. The fertil
izer program consisted of ap
plying 40 pounds of actual
nitrogen and 30 pounds of
available phosphorus per acre
at seeding time. '
Wocus, a Boneville type.
six-rowed, smooth bearded,
stiff-strawed barley, was de
veloped in the Klamath basin
for the peat soils there. Wocus
was the most popular variety
grown in Jackson county this
year. Wocus is one of the
earlier maturing varieties and
has produced excellent yields
of quality barley in most of
the county s barley producing
sections.
Belford, a hooded type, six-
row barley, was the second
highest yielding fall-seeded
barley in the Station trials,
It is mid-season in maturity
nd medium tall in height
with a relatively weak straw
Belford is a good hay barley,
The earliest maturing bar
ley and third in yield was
Cascade, a popular variety in
the Willamette Valley area.
Cascade is a six-rowed, rough
beared, weak-strawed variety
and a true winter barley.
Velvon, one of the more
popular varieties in the coun
ty was fourth in yield at the
Station with slightly over one
ton yield per acre. This six
rowed, smooth bearded bar
ley is a fairly early maturing
variety having a weak straw.
White winter and Bonne
ville barleys were next in
yields in this year's trials
but have been over several
False Distress
Signals Charged
Portland - (UPD - Samuel
Sprague, 39, Brookings, Mon
day was bound over to a fed
eral grand jury on a com
plaint by the federal commu
nications commission of send
ing false distress signals.
The FCC charged the sig
nals were sent from a boat
tied up at Coos Bay and that
they confused the Coast
Guard which was looking for
a ship in trouble off the Ore
gon coast last February,
Sprague was released on his
own recognizance.
years testing the varieties
recommended for fall seed
ing. Fall seedings of grain
should be made in preference
to spring seedings whenever
possible for higher yields. The
increasing occurrence of cer
eal yellow dwarf in Jackson
county with the possibilities
of epidemic proportions like
that found in the Willamette
valley point to the need for
fall seeding as a control mea
sure. The aphids which trans
mit this disease from the wild
perennial grasses alone road-
sides and fence rows are usual
ly dormant when the young
winter grain is in the suscept
ible stage.
Nitrogen is the main plant
nutrient limiting yields of
grain crops in the county.
The amount of nitrogen to
apply is dependent upon the
field's cropping history. No
nitrogen may be necessary
the first year following al
falfa or clover pasture where
there has been a good growth
of legumes. Early spring
growth will determine the
need for a spring application
of nitrogen.
It is suggested that for fall
grains following a cereal crop
that fifteen to twenty pounds
of actual nitrogen per acre be
worked in the seedbed just
prior to seeding. An early
spring follow-up application
the latter part of February or
the first part of March of
twenty to thirty pounds actual
nitrogen per acre is suggested.
Under conditions of adequate
irrigation water where a
heavy crop of straw has been
plowed down prior to seed
ing the early spring applica
tion could be increased to
thirty to forty pounds of act
ual nitrogen.
Phosphorus and potassium
applications should be based
upon a soil test report.
Cereal crops will respond
to applications of sulfur. If
sulfur has not been included
in the previous year's fertili
zer program it is recommend
ed that ten to twenty pounds
of sulfur per acre be applied.
Sulfur can generally be in
cluded in one of the fertilizer
materials.
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