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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. GARDEN NOTES MAKE CITY BEAUTIFUL "A more beautiful place to park and shop" will be a pri mary objective of city trading areas in the next decade in order to help offset the drift of trade toward suburbia, the American Association of Nur serymen predicts. Largely the plantings of colorful trees and shrubs in downtown areas will take on the complexion of New York City's "Salute the Seasons" crusade in which seasonal flowering plants, plus ever greens for winter color, beau tify the main retail and office building areas of the metropo lis. In this program, ever greens for "country green" color, tulips and daffodils for spring glory, plus magnolias, azaleas and many other flow ering plants and trees grace the city's streets. Extensive shade tree plantings supple ment these plantings to give lull flavor to the movement. Changing of the plants to follow the seasons is part of the plan. In the fall, colorful chrysanthemums brighten the big concrete urns used for the plantings along the shopping streets and wherever gardens cannot be planted because of space requirements. DON'T NEGLECT NATURE Overgrown, outmoded land scaping on the home property is an eyesore that reduces the value of land and homes in the immediate vicinty. Every one has seen this in neighbor hoods that have become run down due to lack of attention to the grounds. On the other hand, says the American Association of Nur serymen, homes in areas where the grounds are well landscaped not only maintain but increase their values in the real estate markets, and they provide better and more relaxed "garden living" for the family. Whole real estate developments or other resi dential areas can be upgraded or downgraded by the "looks" of the landscaping alone, a part of the quality of the home construction, it is said. Remodeling of landscaping is a key step in home improve ment. "People never before have realized this so much as today" say the nurserymen, "and it may be due in large part to the great surge of 'family garden living in re cent years." As families have begun to live on the whole property with garden - living rooms, they have realized more than ever the healthful ncss of living close to nature: and the need for and the joys of lovely plants of all kinds, Garden living is a wholesome trend that is expected to grow immensely in the coming years. A "Shakespeare Garden" is one designed to display all the plants mentioned by Shakespeare in his plays. Sev eral leading botanic gardens maintain such gardens, ac cording to the American Asso ciation of Nurserymen. anything but beautiful land scaping. The garden-living, or the play and dining areas should be screened off; at least some area of the proper ty should provide a delightful spot where the family can re lax amidst lovely surround ings of evergreen and decidu ous plant life, which provides (lowers, as well as "green walls." Two Ways Given There are two ways to at tain privacy on the property. The first is to plant a hedge. The second is to landscape in depth so that the view from outside is blocked off, while maintaining an "open" look. The latter easily is attained by planting specimen trees and shrubs at various loca tions in such a manner that each tends to complement the other in achieving privacy in the area desired, without be ing planted in a row like hedge. Your nurseryman can point out the shrubs which are best suitable for the purpose of pri vacy. Most nursery catalogs list various hedge plants as a group. . One precaution: If you wish privacy in winter as well as in summer, you should in clude evergreens, although some hedge materials which shed their leaves have such dense twig structure that they also afford a fairly consider able measure of privacy in winter. The first municipal rose gar den in America was establish ed at Elizabeth Park, Hart ford, Conn., in 1904, accord ing to the American Associa tion of Nurserymen. Today al most every large city and many smaller ones have their own public rose gardens, rang ing from a comparatively few to many thousands of roses, flnlnmhns. Ohio, for examrjle. listing some 35,000 rose bushes. PLANT FOR PRIVACY From time immemorial families have sought a fair measure of privacy in order to relax and play and live thnir lives as thev see fit whether in the company of close friends, or as a lamuy unit. Privacy becomes a very im portant need for the average family when homesites are close together. Fortunately it ran he achieved almost any where by planned planting of trees ana snruDS, says me American Association oi nur seryman. Trees and shrubs are both attractive and have the full approval of neighbors. They can block out a view of a property from any direction desired, without seeming to be WFA Board Holds Farm Tour Here The Western Farmers' as sociation board of directors areas help the board learn of Oregon for two days recently to make a survey of farming areas, learn of farm member needs and consider locations and facility requirements for their association. President M. F. Howley, Ferndale, Wash., indicated that these annual trips through Pacific Northwest Wash., "will be to study the area needs and existing WFA facilities. The board seemed pleased with development of WFA services in the Medford farm ing areas. "Our next stop, comment ed Assistant General Manager Russell Rathbone, Seattle, Wash.," will be to study the potential of this large, fertile farming district enabling the association to determine the extent of the investment re quired to provide permanent service facilities. The motorcade continued northward through Roseburg and Eugene. It visited the WFA s new quarters at Junc tion City, branch operations at Salem and Hillsboro and disbanded at Portland after inspecting the association's $2 million feed mill now under construction near Swan Island. GLASS REQUIREMENTS The U.S. auto industry uses 75 per cent of the total U.S, plate glass output. Forage Elements Affect Nutrition Of Cattle, Lambs Corvallis-A diet that lacks copper or has an excess of molybdenum can cause a seri ous nutritional disturbance In cattle and lambs, research of the Oregon State college agri cultural experiment station shows. Copper is necessary In for age crops so animals will utilize iron to form sufficient quantities of haemoglobin, the red pigment of the blood. An excess of molybdenum inter feres with the animals' use of copper. Dr. J. R. Haag, professor of agricultural chemistry, said fortunately excess molybden um levels appear largely to be confined to specific marshy grazing areas. Symptoms in cattle of this nutritional deficiency may in clude lack of thrift, discolored hair coats; scouring and brok en bones. When a black sheep has a copper deficiency, the color and crimp of the wool both disappear. Checked Copper This deficiency was uncov ered by checking the levels of copper in the animals blood and liver. The deficiency may be either a lack of copper, an excess of molybdenum or both. Some 1,500 pairs of blood and liver samples were studied in Oregon in order to obtain evidence of the impact of regional facts on this nutri tional deficiency. Different patterns of blood-liver rela tionships were found in As toria, Squaw Butte and Klam ath areas. The molybdenum content was found to be most potent in the more succulent, young forage crops. When hays ma ture, the molybdenum content goes down. No serious prob lems have been encountered in any feedstuffs entering the market. Molybdenum does not show any marked tendency to ac cumulate in eggs, meat or milk. Dr. Haag emphasized. To maintain the proper amount of copper in forage, copper may be applied as a fertilizer in some parts of the world. This method has not met with much success in Ore gon, Dr. Haag said. , Three ways the copper level can be increased in cattle or sheep is to mix it in the feed, put it in the salt, or, in an emergency, inject it into the animal. B MARKET NEWS Ftdtral-Sute Markrt News Service Bed Blufl Livestock Auction Report, Tuesday, Sept. 13, I960 CATTLE: Salable 850, Including around ISO calves. Slaughter cows active, steady lo strong; stocker and feeder classes only mod erateiy active, calves steady, yearlings unevenly steady to weak. Around 87 percent of supply stocker and feeder classes, remainder mainly slaughter cows. Supply mainly of northern California origin, with a few loads out of southern Oregon. Slaughter steers: 26 head lot average to high-Good 1054 lbs. $22.10. Slaughter cows; Few Individual low-Standard 830-1030 Has. $16.30 17.25, Individual and small lots Utility and Commercial 850-1300 lbs. $14.50-16.50, individual Cutter 513.00-14.50, Individual Canner 11.00-13.00, few Individual "shelly" Canners down to around $9.00 Slaughter bulls: Few individual Cutter and Utility 1300-1445 lbs. $16.10-18 75. Slaughter calves: Few individual Standard and Good 400-450 lbs, $19.25-21.5, individual 245 lbs. $23.60. 2 head Cull 300 lbs. $10.23. Stocker and feeder steers: Small lots Good and Choice 300-440 lb. calves $23.30-24.60, individuals and small lots Medium and Good 300-500 lbs. $22,00-23.30. individual Common and Medium calves $17.50-21.75. Small lots and individual Good and Choice 520-735 lb. yearlings $20.73-22.90. small lots and individual 760-950 lbs, $19.30-21.60, individual and small lots Common and Medium 550 950 lbs. $16.00-20.60 Stocker and feeder heifers: Individuals and small lots Medium and Good 300-450 lbs. $1900-21.10. Individuals and small lots Medium and Good 578-705 lb yearlings $18.00-20.00. HOGS: Salable 6. Supply insufficient to test market. SHEEP: Salable 19. bupply insufficient to test market, Paul H. Lehigh Federal-State Market News Service Oregon Cities League Schedules Convention Salem - OJPI) - The League of Oregon Cities will hold its 35th annual convention here Nov. 13-16. Theme will be "Oregon Cities in the Sixties." Long range developments in city government will be empha sized at the sessions. SHIPPING FUEL About half the Great lakes freighters burn coal as their operating fuel. County Hort Agent Sees Pear Decline In California Jackson County Horticul tural Agent Clifford B. Cordy is back after a recent two day tour of Central Califor nia orchards affected by pear tree decline. Over 100,000 trees there are affected by pear tree de cline, Cordy said. However, this figure was given follow ing a survey of pear orchards 1V4 months ago and is prob ably outdated now since the decline probably has increased rapidly since then, the coun ty agent explained. This is mainly a graft union disorder with some cultural decline also occurring. The latter seems to be the main prob lem in the Rogue valley, Cor dy explained further. Three months ago the California problem was not too serious, he said. People researching the Cal ifornia pear decline problem are in the same position as researchers were here at the start of their study, Cordy said. California scientists have not yet differentiated be tween the types of decline but merely refer to the prob lem as pear tree decline Main problem there is identi fication of root stocks plant ed throughout the orchards, the local county agent said. Cover Wide Area Chief pear producing dis tricts covered in the Califor nia tour were Santa Clara, Placerville, Sacramento, Lake and Mendocino. Fifty persons made the tour. Most of them were either fieldmen or coun ty agents, Cordy said. The tour also included the experi mental station at Davis, Calif. Cordy has been working with Prof. Henry Hartman, OSC horticulturist, to deter mine the cause qr causes of the pear decline problem in the Rogue valley. Tuesday, the state board of higher educa tion allocated $11,000 for con tinuation of the pear decline study here. The Jackson County Fruit Growers' league has contributed the bulk of the funds for the previous two years and is giving matching funds this year. Oriental Fruit Moth Slowed Down Salem - Entomologists and orchardists are gaining on the Oriental fruit moth situation in peach orchards in the Sa lem area. This year to Sept. 9, the state department of ag riculture survey entomologists found the pest in 9 orchards and backyard plantings, with 78 moths picked up in the bluck bucket traps placed in peach trees. Last year- 120 moths on 14 properties were found. The department has survey ed for the OFM each year since 1945. In 1956 it was first found in the Willamette valley in trees near Salem and Portland. None has been found in the Portland area in the last three years. Parasites were released in 1958 and 1959 to check the pest, the larvae of which damages the fruit. Crater FFA Sets Light Bulb Sale Central Point -The Crater Chapter of Future Farmers of America will conduct a light bulb sale Wednesday and Thursday nights through the Central Point residential areas. Chapter members will use sales profits to finance va rious chapter activities and to spend two delegates to the na tional FFA convention in Kansas City in November, ac cording to Don Denning, chap ter member. "Members visiting homes during the sale will be wear ing official blue FFA Jackets. They will be courteous and no high pressure sales tactics will be used," Denning said. "Boys selling the light bulbs will be doing so on a volun tary basis and all profits will go to the chapter." Portland - (UPII - Lightning moir nnt ctrilfO twlra in thp same place but robbers appar- -I- It ....1.1 4nJn.r eiUiy UU, JU11UC OM1U tUUdJ. Last Wednesday a gunman held up the United Finance Corp. in southeast Portland. ftflnnrln.r mnrninrf lltn nftlfH was held up again. Witnesses tnTH nnlire it anneared to be the same bandit. Split Pits Stop Medford Peaches In California Salem-About 80 per cent -much more than normal-of the early potatoes grown in Malheur county this year will go into fries, flakes, patties, hash browns and other con sumer package products, re ports the state department of agriculture. Pat Murphy, federal super visor for the cooperative shipping point inspection serv ice, says harvest of the Mal heur county red and white rose potato varieties was vir tually completed by Sept. 7. Potato shipments out of the Klamath basin started in a small way Aug. 31. The crop in this area, normally the largest potato district in the state, was hard hit by freeze Aug. 24. Estimates place the freeze loss at one-third of the crop. In central Oregon, po tato digging will begin around Sept. 15, Murphy says. Other developments in shipping point districts: Peaches Refused Peach growers in the Med ford area encountered some difficulties when California refused to accept peaches be cause of split pits. California standards, which are tougher than the federal peach grades which govern the Oregon in spections, will not permit en try of any package of peaches which contains over 5 per cent of any one defect. Split pits in some of the Oregon peach shipments couldn't make this tolerance. The apple harvest starting around Oct. 1, now looks to be 80 to 00 per cent of a nor mal crop, with lower demand than last year from export markets. Through August, 14 car loads of prunes moved from the new orchards in the Mil ton - Freewater area. This year's crop is the forerunner of new commercial production replacing the large plantings wiped out in the 1955 freeze Farm Notes Washington (UPD An agri culture department study has pinpointed three basic causes of economic disuess in rural areas. Economists B. T. Inman and J. H. Southern. found many persons in such areas without training for anything except the lowest-paying kind of work. The investigators also said too many persons would not or could not borrow the mon ey needed for modern farm ing. They found some busi nesses and industries reluct ant to hire older workers, Ne groes and Spanish-Americans. Inman and Southern based their findings on research in rural areas of Florida, New Mexico, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. The exuerts recommended that rural re-development pro grams include better general education and vocational training for vnuntr nennln They urged rural communi ties to try to attract new in dustries through special in ducements such as reduced taxes or free buildings. The Agricultural Marketing Service says a flavor impove ment program has helped in crease milk sales In Vermont. Retail and home delivery sales of fluid milk in Vermont have increased 11 per cent since the flavor improvement program began several years ago. The marketing service does not claim the flavor program is responsible for all of the gain. But it points out that the increase came during a period when there was only a slight gain in population. prices may be leading to low er prices for dairy products, too . Agriculture department economists pointed out recent ly that in recent years dairy production has been tied closely to beef prices. When beef prices go up, dairymen sell off their low producing cows, and milk production drops. When beef prices come down, more dairy cows remain on the farm. The department reports that during the past year while beef prices have been falling, the decline in dairy cow num bers has been the smalle st since 1954. Beef prices were expected to continue heading down for the next few years. which might halt the decline in dairy cows numbers alto gether. With dairy cow numbers relatively stable, milk produc tion will go up. The average cow's production has been rising two per cent a year in recent years. Rising pro duction may lead to lower milk prices. President Eisenhower signed a bill extending the Mexican labor program for six months to the end of 1961. The extension will allow the Labor Department to make plans for bringing Mex ican farm workers into this country next season. But it also means that Mexican la bor will be an issue in the next Congress. A steady decline in beef SWIMMING POOLS Low Cost-Gunite Type From $2,400.00 20 YEAR'S EXPERIENCE IN Pool Construction and Water Filtration -Off Season Offer- Wt plac h Kructur In this Pall and complttt tht pool ntxt Spring . . allowing tht ownar t!ma to lindicapt, lance and plact dtcklng. Partial Payment Thli Ytar . Bal- - - anca Ntxt Spring Upon Completion. NORTHWEST SWIMMING POOL CO. 1822'2 W. MAIN ST. Phone SP 3-4340 SP 3-5664 Evenings ,rWV. Dogs Found Not Cop's Best Friend Atlanta Police dogt are not necessarily a cop's best friend. Chip, one of the Atlanta police department's canine detectives, cornered a burg lary suspect In a restaurant Monday, but just licked him on the shoulder. Storm, another police dog, lunged at the suspect after he was arrested, miss ed, and bit Patrolman J. R. Watkins in the leg. Grain Unloads Up, Exports Decline Salem-Nearly nine million bushels of grain were unload ed at Portland during August, according to state department of agriculture inspection re ports. This is about S million bushels more than In July, but 4 million bushels less than a year ago. Wheat accounted for 7. million bushels of the grain receipts last month. Of special interest in the wheat picture is the state report that only four-tenth of 1 per cent (0.4) of the wheat received at Port 1 a n d terminals contained smut. This is the lowest per centage of smut recorded in many months. 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