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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1980 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDF0HD, ORE. 8 A Irrigation Systi em of One of the main problcmi In Oregon's water resource program Is "the growing need for an established system of financial Assistance In repay' ment of projects costs allocat ed to Irrigation," Harold T. Nelson, regional director of the bureau of reclamation, told members of the Oregon Reclamation Congress at Ba ker last we"ek. He listed The Dalles and Rogue River as projects re quiring assistance, also Ba GARDENING TIPS By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent FALL PLANTING Fall planting of trees and shrubs has the advantage over spring planting in that the root syslcm has a better chance of becoming establish ed before leaf growth begins. The same precautions should be taken with both fall and sarins' nlnnttne. Die each plant carefully so as to dis turb the root system as little as possible. Evergreen shrubs Country Editor Lauds Modern Trend in Farming "It seems that in America at this time we are more con cerned about man leaving the land than about land leaving the man," Giles French, edi tor of the Sherman County Journal, Moro, Ore., told the Oregon Reclamation Congress meeting at Bilker last week. French, editor of a weekly In the heart of Oregon's wheat country, is widely quoted throughout the state as an ed itorial writer. "Men have been leaving farms for nearly 200 years. It is not a sign of failure, but of success. It means that farming is keeping pace in efficiency, that one farmer can do the work of a dozen. And it means that we can still supply labor for industry from our own people," he added. Mitt at Deinitlon He called the family-size farm "a shibboleth used by practicing politicians that has no meaning." , "A farm that will support a family may vary from one acre to 10 thousand acres," he said, "and In any case it would depend on the size of the fam ily and of most importance on the management and labor and ingenuity of the family." "Some families would wax fut v.'hcre others would use up their credit and go on wel fare," the country editor not ed. "I do not like monopolies. There is a monopoly I am afraid of; that is the monop oly of government. There is no handy government police man to break that monopoly The only way a government monopoly can be broken Is by revolution and people stand for generations of abuse and subjection before they revolt . . . Government should be the agent of the people, prevent ing monopoly, not be the mo nopoly Itself." Turning to the topic of rec lamation, French sulci that as an advocate of profits he does not believe land should be ir rigated which will not pay the cost of the Improvements. Boysenberries Require Pruning By DAVE PASSON County Extension Agent Boysenberries and black berries should be pruned now, suggested Dave Passon, Jack son county extension agent. Old canes should be cut out as near the crown as pos sible in all cases. Once the old cones are removed, grow ers then have two choices. The new canes may be left on the ground through the win ter or the stronger canes may be selected and trained on the trellis Immediately. There are advantages to both methods, but full train ing Is preferred In most enscs, according to Passon. Training is easier In the fall while the cunes are lim ber and less damage is in flicted to the buds, spurs and the canes themselves. In ad dition, application of the necessary dormant sprays is easier and more satisfactory with the canes trained up. Canes trained up through the winter may, howevor, be slightly more susceptible to winter injury. There are a number of ways to train berry canes. The method used depends on the grower's trellis setup, the variety, and the grower's per sonal preference. Further details may be ob tained by calling or visiting the extension offices. : : Projects Need Financial ker. Merline and Illinois Val' ley divisions of the Rogue River basin. He said the pro posed basin account system would approach assistance on a regional rather than a proj-ect-by-project basis. A second problem facing reclamation, Nelson said, is the Inability within reclama tion law to meet increasing recreational use by providing enough facilities to meet the demand. Construction is now based on congressional proj- require a ball of earth around the roots when moved. Do not let the roots dry while trans planting. HHve the planting holes ready before you dig the plant. Dig the planting holes about 25 per cent wider and six inches deeper than the root spread. Enrich the bottom of the hole with compost or fer tilizer and cover with an inch of soil. A well drained loca tion Is desirable. Place the tree or shrub as near to the same depth as it was previously planted. Care fully spread the bare roots in a natural position. Sever any broken or bruised roots. Work the enriched topsoll around the roots so no air pockets are left. When the hole is half full, tamp the soil around the roots and fill the hole with water to settle the soil. When the hole is complete ly full again tamp and water the soil for settlement. Leave a slight depression or saucer around the tree to facilitate future watering. GALANTHUS Plant Galanthus (Snowdrop) bulbs in your garden to usher in next year's blooming sea son. Galanthus have drooping bell shaped white flowers with greenish stripes on the petals. Flower stalks are up to one foot high. The variety G. elwessli has a large flower and blooms earlier than the variety B nivalis. These plants are har dy and are planted outdoors without protection In the ear ly fall. Plant the bulbs three or four inches deep In a per manent location. Tney natur alize readily and will bloom each year without further at tention, G. elwessli docs well in a summer dry well drained slope. G, nivalis prefers a cool shaded moist location. Both varieties resent disturbances. LEAVES Besides being a source of fertilizer, leaves have the ad ditional benefit of loosening heavy soils. Leaves can be added directly to the garden bed or placed in the compost pile. Leaves are spread approxi mately six Inches deep over the garden area. Sprinkle about a pound of fertilizer to each ten feet to assist in the decomposition process. Spade the leaves into the garden soil or cover with soil to prevent them from blowing away. To compost leaves stack them In a pile. At each foot layer spread an Inch of ma nure or soil with V4 pound fertilizer to each square yard. Thoroughly soak each layer as It is completed. Leave the center of the compost pilo a little lower than tho edges so water, when added, will run into the pile rather than off of it. Keep the pile moist and turn the compost pile every three months to provide aera tion and to mix the materials throughout the pile. CLEAN-UP The removal of frost killed foliage will assist you in your Insect and disease control pro grams next season. Insects and diseases live over the winter on debris from infected plants. There fore, removed and dispose of all debris Do not place infect ed debrin on the compost pile. Standards Changed For Bee Colonies Salem - Oregon's standards for strength of colonics of bees used In commercial pol llnntlon of crops have been amended by administrative order, effective this month, according to the state depart ment of agriculture. The amended regulations correct two errors carried through printings since the standards were originally adopted In 1051. Current changes are in grade A requirements. They make the orchard colony re quirement (1) 3,000 square In ches of comb space of which 600 square Inches would be live brood and (2) also In or chard colonies puts the bee coverage of brood at six standard Hoffman frames of comb. In prior requirements bee coverage of brood had been the same, 10 frames, (or both field and orchard colonics. No change is made In B grades. Help ect authorization and under park service planning, he pointed out, listing several Oregon projects which are de veloping into considerable re creation centers. Local Men Named During the annual meeting Walt Hoffbuhr, Talent irriga tion district manager, was ap pointed chairman of the proj ect review committee for the reclamation congress, and his brother, Jack Hoffbuhr, Med ford irrigation district man ager, chairman of the public relations committee. Also at tending the meeting from Jackson county were Harold Sexton, manager of Rogue River Valley Irrigation dist rict, Albert Hellness, MID board member and Homer Moore, TID board member. Multiple use of water does not mean the end of agricul ture's water problems, but does mean agriculture can live with them, said Dr. E. N. Castle, associate professor of agricultual economics, OSC. Speaking on "What Is Wat er Worth," Castle said in ab sence of a market for water it requires thorough economic studies to provide the basis for putting water to work to its best use. He dismissed de velopment costs, incremental values, what people pay for water and relative uses as measures of water value. The rise of non-farm popu lation, the development of In dustrial use of water, the In crease of power development and the advent of recreation demand compels agriculture to become concerned with and support multiple use con cepts, he declared. Goals Given In creasing efficiency of production, increasing diets and lowering food costs were listed as goals of reclamation even though the tag of sur plus may be applied to agri culture generally, he con tinued. In concluding, he said there is little agreement in what is the best use of water, but agriculture has a stake in trying to find out. Irrigation projects have come to provide important flood control benefits, said Neil Meadowcroft, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers report section, Walla Walla, Wash. Flood control in 1936 be came a proper federal activ ity on navigable waters by legislation, amplified in 1058, he remarked. But these also fix local responsibility for rights-of-way. 'The proposed projects must be justified in that bene fits will exceed the costs, be the best means of accomplish ing the job, and will not have serious adverse effects," the engineer said. The congress public rela tions committee approved a report that there is definitely a sales Job necessary to con tinue to sell reclamation to the public. Increasing compe tition of other uses makes It necessary to get the facts to the public regarding the bene fits of the reclamation pro gram. The discussion suggested this could be accomplished by local districts working through newspapers and oth er media and by local schools and In attempting to work with the recreation groups to avoid conflicts In Issues. The report feels there is room for multiple-use of the resources developed. Department Hires New Veterinarians Salem - Three new veteri narians are working for the state department of agricul ture now. Dr. Robert John Day comes to Oregon from New Jersey. He is a graduate of the Uni-I vorsity of Pennsylvania school of veterinary medicine of State Teacher's college In the SRine state. Dr. Day had his own practice In New Jersey and in Pennsylvania and was a poultry inspector for the U. S. department of agricul ture marketing service in Washington, D. C. His wife and family have recently mov ed here with him. Dr. Gerald Arthur is a na tive of Ohio. Ho graduated from Ohio State university and has been in private prac tice. His wife and child are with him in Salem. Dr. Henry Hayes left a pri vate practice in his home state of California to come to Ore gon, with his wife and fam ily. He is a graduate of a uni versity in Auburn, Ala. Dr. Philip D. Cazicr has re cently taken over duties as the assistant federal veterina rian in charge of the animal disease eradication division. He served with the govern ment in several states, the last five years in Texas. A gradu ate of Kansas State univer sity, Dr. Cazier recently mov ed to Salem with his wife and four children. CHIT CHAT- By JOI COWLEY Mall Tribune- 'arm Editor Agriculture must be Identified as ruthless, cold-blooded big-business exploitation of people and the land. This statement was quoted from a manual of suggestions from a labor union staff man to Norman Smith, CaUfornia director of the AFL-CIO Agriculture Workers Organizing committee. This is the group which has been organ z ng arm help and picketing farm, i California this summer arm word?',!he ,alm w' ' try the warm, famUy farm idea and the Impression that the American farmer is the sturdy, independent cornerstone of our citizenry. Two naraffranhe ohnul IM. M 1 . :ra ' ' manual appeared in tne last edition of the Farm Journal. It "shook up" two small or chardists and farmers In the valley. After considerable over the fence and fireside talk, they came up with a re vised picker program. You may not agree. If you don't, we would like to hear some other proposals. Generally, these two fruitgrowers feel transient labor should receive the same guarantees and as good, If not bet ter, treatment than the Mexican Nationals which are brought in here each season. These two men have worked as crew foremen and on orchard "pick-up" trucks all over the val ley. They say good transient pickers can pick Just as well as Mexican Nationals. (Now that many large growers and packing house operators are growling and gnashing their teeth we will continue . . .) .General points of the program are: (1) provide a modern centrally located pickers' barracks, (2) higher and guaranteed wages, (3) stop labor from shifting from orchard to orchard (4) establish a large labor pool. The two orchardists suggested establishing a modern bar racks building on the county fairgrounds south of Medford. The interior would be of concrete with large windows high off the floor to provide plenty of light and ventilation with out allowing breakage. A cafeteria would serve food to single men. An adjacent trailer park and blocks of small family houses of the same basic construction as the barracks could serve transient families. Pickers like to have their housing near town where they can go for a beer or buy some of the things they need. Pres ent labor camp in the White City area is too far out. A sub-office of the employment service could be located in the center of the housing at the fair grounds, or if the bar racks would be in Medford, as part of the barracks. One of the two growers, who was a picking crew fore man last season, said transients come in on Front st. and have no way to get to the fairgrounds. It's too far to walk, he pointed out. During last season, orchardists and packing houses agreed not to hire off Front st. However, this proved impractical, so some began hiring off Front st. near the end of the season when the labor was harder to get. Construction of a centrally located labor camp near town might be financed with some of the money paid into the pear promotion program, the two growers suggested. "No sense in spending a lot of money for promoting pears you don't have," they pointed out. (Screams of anguish now irom omciais of tne fear "The fairgrounds is being as well finish the Job and do ana piciter, one ot tne growers said. Before picking starts, a packing shed superintendent, orchard owner and picking crew leader could survey the fruit crop and set a price, the two orchardists suggested. Orchards with a full crop would not require as high a pick ing price as one with a partial crop. An orchard with a partial crop is much harder to pick, the two men explained. Picking prices, depending on the crop, would be uniform to prevent playing one orchard or packing house against another. Current rates vary from 14 to 17 cents a box. This is not enough to support a family on, these farmers Insisted. Common practice among orchardists and packing houses Is to pay as little as possible for pickers, the two local or chardists pointed out The standard agreed price was dropped at the first of last season when growers saw they ' had a labor surplus. This was not fair, one of the orohardists re marked. Also, It doesn't really pay to undercut the picker, he pointed out. One or two ruined boxes of fruit here and there due to careless picking more than makes up for the low wages. Fair wages attract good pickers who more than justify the additional expenditure, one of the grower! said. Wages should be paid at the orchardists said. Pickers would prefer It. And many of them come In the first day hungry without any money to buy food. Central California pays off its labor dally so it must be workable even If it means more constant paper work, a grower pointed out. A daily pay schedule could be worked out easily, he added. Good transient pickers are ican crew on one point particularly, It was pointed out. The average Mexican crew tends Local orchardists who pay a same good crews back every "This farm labor committee In California is bound to work Its way up here next season or the season after," one of the two orchardists pointed out. "We'd better be ready for them by guaranteeing the picker better living condi tions and wages. A large pool of good pickers would be worth the extra money it takes. (Remember the pears which dropped off the trees the season before because not enough pickers could be obtained when they were vitally needed?) One of the two small orchardists we quoted has two acres in pears out of a total of 10 acres and three dairy cows. The other has 40 acres of orchard and operates on 300 to 400 acres of farm land, runs 100 head of cattle and owns two crawler tractors and three wheel tractors. These two farmers also believe the county should turn the 425 acres to be added at Howard Prairie recreation area into a youth camp. Here the youth from four or five southern Oregon counties might be taught a trade in me chanics or machinery. Part of their time could be spent on Improvement and repair work around the Howard Prai rie recreation area. A large farmhouse and barn and stables already In good condition on the property would provide plenty room. School teachers could be hired In the summer to supervise these youngsters. One of the two farmers has had some of the local Ju venile wards paroled to him. He said they have a natural mechanical bent, are hard workers and have turned out well. We attended the Democratic Farmers for Kennedy lunch eon meeting last week when Harold Edwards, treas urer of the .Western Wheat Growers Federation, spoke. It is the same kind of talk you will hear at any political meet ing when there are a number of farmers present. Facts pre sented were interesting, but not new-costs of the govern ment wheat surplus program, the effects of the soil bank on farm town merchants, etc. One thing, was interesting, though. We asked htm if the Democrats could give wholehearted support to both farmers and organized labor In view of the recent drive in Cali fornia to organize orchard labor. "The time Is soon coming when organized labor must be under the same type of controls as corporations," Edwards said. "But, there is no reason why labor and the farmer cannot walk down the same street side by side, both pros perous through adequate labor and farm programs." Bureau.) cut up anywav. We misht some good for the fruit grower end of each day, one of the better than the average Mex to skimp on filling the boxes. little more find they get the year, it was pointed out. Weed Conference Slated (or Salem; Growers Invited Corvallis-New ways to con trol costly weeds In vegetable and small fruit crops will be spotlighted at this year's an nual Oregon Weed conference, reports Rex Warren, exten sion crops specialist at Oregon State college. The ninth annual confer, ence will be held Nov. 15 and 16 In the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Salem, War ren said. The meeting will start at 10 a.m., and all grow ers, industry people, and oth ers Interested In new ways to control weeds are welcome to attend, he added. Phil Belike, Brooks, is president of the conference. First speaker will be J. D. Patterson, chemist for the state department of agricul ture. He will discuss chemical residues on crops, and tell how his office cooperates In the national program on resi dues. Other speakers will be Vir gil Freed, OSC agricutural chemist, who will outline ways farmers can make agri cultural chemicals their "cheapest hired hand;" and Claron Hesp, spray and equip ment dealer from Athena, who will tell how to save money by buying equipment that can be used in a variety of ways. Two panel presentations will discuss weed control in strawberries and small fruits, and in vegetable crops. A special report on new weed control chemicals and how to use them will also be pre sented at the conference. Rep resentatives from at least 10 major chemical companies will take turns discussing their newest herbicides. Other program topics in clude a progress report on ragweed , control by George Moose, state department of agriculture; how to control brush in forest areas by P. G. Lauterbach, W e y e rhaeuser company; weed control In fish ponds by Carl Bond, OSC; and a series of research reports by OSC scientists. Business meeting ot the conference will be held Wov. 16. More Information on the conference is available at local county extension offices, Warren said. Shipping Men Give Statistics Salem - During platform inspection at processing plants over 108,000,000 pounds of potatoes, onions and pears were inspected by the state department of agriculture in September. Ftdcrel-state grade inspec tions took care of 2129.7 car lots which contained apples, prunes, plums, filberts, garlic, parsnips, strawberries, corn, walnuts, and nectarines. About 20.5 enrs of brine-cherries were inspected. All districts reported favor able weather conditions dur ing the harvesting period. Apple producing areas need more cool weather for color. In the Hood River area, red varieties of apples are not coloring well but size Is about normal. Most orchards have been hit very hard by scab and more misshapen fruit has been noted than in former years. In the Milton - Free water area quality Is up to normal and a yield of about 30,000 boxes (some from Day ton, Wash.) will be processed In this district. The crop in the Willamette valley consists of the Danver variety and yield will be down about 30 percent from last year with an estimated 1500 cars compared to 2200 in 1959. Quality ranges from poor to average. All pears in the Medford area should have been packed by Oct. 8. The Cornice variety is showing fair quality and much better than other varie ties. Approximately 28,000, 000 pounds were inspected for processors. Bartletts have moved out fast and there Is some increased movement of Bosc and D'Anjou. In the Hood River area yield Is 15 per cent below esti mates and 20 per cent below last year. Quality is reported as the poorest ever noted in this area. Re-elect ROBERT LaViMI Pear Decline, Labor Society Features Pear decline and the labor problem will be two main topics which will draw a large number of fruit growers from Jackson county to the annual Oregon State Horticultural Society meeting Nov. 17 and 18 at the OSC campus in Cor vallls. Clifford B. Cordy. county horticultural agent, and Prof. Henry Hartman, OSC horti culturist, and nationally rec ognized authority on pear de cline, are scheduled to speak Ralph Cook Named Show Official Ralph Cook, Medford area stockman and cattle breeder, will be judge of a special beef cattle show scheduled with a sale Dec. 17 in the Pacific In ternational Livestock area in Portland, according to Don Robinson, president of the Oregon Polled Hereford Breeders' association. Forty selected bulls and heifers have been entered and will be displayed several days before the official show. This will be the first association sponsored event in Portland, Robinson said. The regular annual show is held at Red mond each February. Plant Industry Chief Honored Salem-Hugh Taylor, chief of the plant industry division of the state department of ag riculture, has been named to a special sub-committee to the uniform quarantine commit tee of the western plant board. The committee will investi gate and study possible quar antine action on the European pine shoot moth, a serious pest to ornamental pines and for est pines. The U. S. depart ment of agriculture has been requested to investigate the possibilities of a federal quar antine. In a letter to the deputy administrator of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, ARS, Taylor expressed the opinion that federal, domestic and for eign quarantines be instigated. Taylor also suggested that, since the Northwest states are primarily interested, hearings on such quarantines should be held in Portland. Oregon has issued an order for complete destruction of all host material of the Eu ropean pine shoot moth which was discovered in one Port land nursery. Adjacent prop erty has been surveyed with negative results. Information and recommen dations about the pine shoot moth problem have been sent by Taylor to meetings this month of the National Plant Board and the National Asso ciation of Nurserymen. Bangs Tags Given. By State Ag Dept. Oregon c a t tl e owners should become familiar with two tags. Both are used in the Bang's trace-back pro gram to give the county of or igin credit on brucellosis re certificatlon when cattle are slaughtered here or in anoth er state. The oval or upper tag is needed for all cows three years or over shipped out of Oregon to slaughter. Farm ers and ranchers should get this tag from brand inspect ors, department area veter inarians, or the federal or state veterinarian office In the state department of agri culture headquarters, Salem. The tags are free, with glue supplied. The upper tag should be placed on animals Just behind the shoulder by the owner when animals are shipped direct to another state. The lower tag is the Ore gon tag used in the market cattle slaughter program and is applied at auction yards In Oregon. The upper or interstate tag is white with red and black printing. The lower tag is or ange with black lettering. On both tags the key number 92 indicates Oregon. On the low er tag, the two key letters, as PN, identify the auction yard and the big numbers, as 999, identify the animal through brand inspection. DUNCAN (Democrat) Slate Representative "Mr. Economy" of our State Legislature Duncan for Lee. Comm. W. Spare, Chm., 1036 Reddy Are., Medford, On on a pear decline panel, on Thursday, Nov. 17. Also scheduled to participate are one or two speakers from Cali fornia and one or two speak ers from Washington, not yet named. ' Speakers are yet to be ar ranged for'Thursday's panel on farm labor. However, they may be similar to those speak ing on a panel scheduled for the small fruits section on Thursday. This panel in cludes Joe Bianco, agricul tural editor, the Oregonian, moderator; John Zuckerman, Council of California Grow ers, Stockton, Calif.; Louis Kralnock, Agricultural Work ers Organizing committee, Stockton, Calif. Oihtr Talks Also scheduled for the apples and pears section are, tentatively; pear scald experi ments, Elmer Hansen, OSC horticulturist; pear nectar re search, W. A. Sistrunk, OSC food technology department; Bartlett pears, report on in creased plantings In Willam ette valley, Don Rasmussen, county agent, Salem; pesticide residues and regulations, Jus tus C. Ward, chief, pesticides regulation branch, plant pest control division, Washington, D.C. Bulk handling of stone fruits, a panel, Is expected to be one of the main features of Thursday's stone fruits sec tion. Moderator Is Mike Huber, OSC agricultural en gineer; Don Langmo, OSC agricultural economist; George Jones, Gerber Pro ducts horticulturist; Al Ran dall, United Growers man ager; and Jack Stiles, Polk county grower. Other Thursday talks are: horticultural practices as af fected by mechanical harvest ing, by George Jones; Brown rot in 1960 by Norman Dobie, OSC plant pathologist; me chanical harvest of sour cher ries, movie narrated by Wayne Roberts, Yamhill coun ty agent; and marketing of fresh stove fruits, by Roland Groder, OSC marketing spe cialist. Financial Panel A panel on financial aids and programs for the grower at Thursday's general session, and before the sectional meet ings is also expected to be a feature of the meeting. Erwin Patton, Production Credit association, Medford, Is one of the speakers. Other speak ers are Louis C. Chestnut, vice president, federal land bank, Spokane, Wash.; Rex Gibson, vice president, U.S. National bank. Salem; and Walter L. White, loan officer, Farmers Home Administra tion. Thursday's vegetable sec tion will include: soil and leaf analysis, movement of mois ture in soils, a film; varieties and strains of bush and pole snap beans, mechanical har vesting of snap beans, a panel; new ideas about sprink ler Irrigation; new vegetable crops processing; problems In insect control, a panel. Stolen. Strayed Animals Listed Salem - Reported lost, strayed or stolen to the divi sion of animal industry of the state department of agricul ture this month were three bulls, eight steers, and two quarter horses. Missing from the Rogue River range is a two year Shorthorn bull with no horns, blackish with a redish strip on his back and no brand. But his ear is marked. Portland owners report the loss of a four to five year old bull with a branded left hip, between Spring dale and Ames. From Enterprise comes re port of the loss of six steers, some possibly Holsteln, brand ed on the right hip and, near Wallowa, the loss of two steers is reported. The last have a left hip brand. 3rd Annual Purebred Ewe Sale Sponsors Oregon Purebred Sheep Breeders Ass'n SATURDAY, NOV. 5 Polk County Fairgrounds Va Mile S. Rickreall, Ore., on Highway 99W 160 Head Bred Yearling and 30 Head Open Ewe Lambs Continuous Sale Starting 10 A.M. ORDER OF SALE Dorset, Romney, Lincoln, Corriadale, Columbia, Cheviot, Hampshire, Southdown, Suffolk, Shropshir AUCTIONEER Howard Brown, Woodland, Calif. For further information contact N. John Hansen, County Extension Agent, Box 348, Dallas, Oregon Bulletin Analyzes Production Costs Corvallls - Results of a 10 year study on the cost of pro ducing apples and pears in Oregon's Hood River valley are reported In a new bulletin published by the Oregon Stata college agricultural experi. ment station. The new bulletin Is based on a study of records kept by about 20 Hood River orchard ists each year over a 10-year period. For this information, OSC agricultural economists analyzed the costs involved in apple, winter pear, and Bart lett pear production to the point of delivery to the pack ing house door. Titled, "Cost of Producing Apples and Pears In the Hood River Valley," the new bulle tin uses tables, graphs, and charts to analyze the factors affecting costs of production. Sections in the bulletin also examine the more important factors responsible for eco nomical production of apples and pears in the area, and de termine the relative profit ableness of apples, winter pears, and Bartletts produced by the growers in the study. Another section of the bulle tin helps readers estimata yearly cost of producing ap ples, winter pears, or Bartletts under present production con ditions and practices. The bulletin was written by OSC agricultural economists D. Curtis Mumford, Arthur E. Irish, and Warren J. Green, Oregon residents can obtain a free copy at their county ex tension office, or from tha OSC bulletin clerk, Corvallis. Cost of the publication will ba 20 cents per copy to out-of-state requests. Fall Grain Export From Portland Down Salem - Grains broughl n to Portland in September Ho not measure up to the amr it of grain brought in Aug"it, according to report from "'e division of grain inspectior of the state department of ag riculture. Total bushels brought in ;came to 5.5 million for Sep tember. Truck receipts show ed a large drop and there wis a somewhat smaller drop in barge movement. Expnrt shipments increased to ap proximately 17 full cargoes. About 4.3 million bushels of wheat were brought in and over 1.000,000 bushels of bar ley . Corn and milo ran around 66,000 bushels, oats, 23,000 and rye, 6,000. ELECT GERALD J. SCANNELL DEMOCRAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY Present Chief Deputy District Attorney Former Wasco County Deputy District Attorney Member Oregon State Bar, Jackson County Bar Association Medford Lionl Club YMCA Board of Director! Scannall for Dist. Attorney Comm., Mary Margaret Mullen, Sec, Campbell Rd Medford, Ore. K
