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.
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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-
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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
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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.
Export grain loadings slow
ed to nine cargoes, down six
cargoes from July this year
and off just about half from
August last year. . :
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