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Jackson SCD Field Trials Provide Basic Information By ROBERT LONZWAY Jackson SCD Vegetation is important! Nearly all the earth's land area is clothed with vegeta tion. Vegetation is In the form of trees, shrubs, grasses, le gumes and weeds. Vegetation provides people with nearly all their shelter, food and fi ber, either directly or in directly. The field trial pro gram in the Jackson soil con servation district is a con tinuing job concerned pri marily with conservation of Gardening Tips By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent The successful gardener realizes that the beauty of his 'garden is directly proportion al to the soil preparation. No amount of cultivation follow ing planting will replace good soil preparation. For this rea son he prepares his flower garden soil to a depth of 10 inches and his shrub and rose soil to 30 inches. Particularly important with the heavy soils of the valley is the timing of the prepara tion. Working the heavy soil while it is wet and sticky will destroy the granular structure and cause a hard, cloddy soil. Sandy soils are in good work- . able condition at an earlier Pruning Explained To Pear Growers By County Agent By CLIFFORD B. CORDY County Horticultural Agent The desirability of encour aging vigorous growth on young trees and then pruning the trees lightly was empha sized at a pear growers meet ing held Wednesday at the Redskin orchards. At the time trees are plant ed thoy should be headed back to 20 in. to 24 in. This, in most cases, is knee high. All side shoots should be cut back to a short stub unless they are as large or larger than a pencil in which case they can be cut back to about 10 in. " After the first year's growth three branches should be se lected for framework. These should preferably originate from the top three buds. These new shoots should be cut back enough to stiffen them so that they will not bend un der the weight of next year's growth. This cutting back will also cause them to branch. Remove Branches All branches not wanted for the permanent framework of the tree should be removed. From then on it is a mater of cutting back the branches de sired for permanent frame work to stiffin them and cause further branching. A few un desirable shoots should be re moved and the remainder should be left without prun ing. By doing this Bartletts can be brought into pretty fair production in 6 to 8 years and Anjous in 8 to 9 years. Good crops, of course, can not be produced until an ade quate sized tree is grown. As ELEPHANT BRAND FERTILIZER PAID FOR THIS CAR This is not an exaggeration. By the proper and effective use of Elephant Brand fertilizer thousands of farmers have been able to make the money for something they wanted, such as a new car or new farm machinery. With Elephant Brand fertilizer you grow bigger crops. Your cost of grow ing the crop is spread over more crop units (more bushels, bales, tons or pounds) so you grow each unit for less. Lower production cost per unit means you increase the difference between cost price and selling price that difference is your profit; Using Elephant Brand will mean more money for you in three ways: first, ELEPHANT BRAND PLUS VALUES A wide range of plant food ratios Uniform-iiied free Hewing pelletiied products All fcrtiliiers highly woter loluble Strong, wcother-reiirtant, non-slip bogs Extensive worehonse system for fait dealer service IT PAYS NimPMlLS 13-39Q water .-nuiui-n IBM lESfMORE CXCLUSIVC U f SALES AGENTS EOB ELEPHANT BRAND FEPTILIZCBS B ALFOUP GUTHRIE ft CO SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SEATTLE PORTLAND SPOKANE MINN grasses and legumes. Grasses and legumes are a lot like people. Some are tall, some short and some big and some small, as with people, management and treatment has a direct relationship to quality and quantity of pro duction. Studies Related Much has been learned and much is to be learned about management and treatment of grasses and legumes. Some of the things learned are: re lation of species, methods of esiaousnmem ana manage- date than the clay soils. A good test for soil readi ness is to mildly squeeze a handful of soil. If the soil crumbles when released, it is ready to prepare. If a muddy ball forms, delay working the soil. Preparation Explained Garden soil preparation con sists of improving the soil physical condition or tilth and the soil's fertility. The tilth must be improved prior to planting whereas the fertility can be satisfied by supplemen tal feedings. Tilth is best im proved by the incorporation of organic matter into the soil. Organic matter is supplied to the soil in the form of cover crops, manures, crop residues, lawn clippings, peat moss, leaves, straw and bark chips. Of these, manures and bark chips are best suited for gar den use in this area. Crop res idues, leaves and lawn clip pings are also good soil addi tives, but are best when used via the compost pile. Manures have long been used as soil improvers. They are high in organic matter and contain beneficial soil or ganisms. Cow manure is con sidered best for soil prepara tion. Since manures frequent ly contain weed seeds the ad dition of a sterilent is desire able. Spread the manure two to four inches deep and work it well into the soil. Fresh ma nure should be applied at lease eight weeks prior to planting. Poultry manure is very concentrated and precau tion should be used in its ap plication. Do not apply at a rate in excess of one pound per 10 square feet. . Use Bark Chips Bark chips will last about six years in the soil and blend well. The maximum size used for incorporation into the soil should be one-half inch. Lar ger sizes may be used for mulching. Additional nitrogen should be applied with the bark to insure a sufficient amount is present for decomposition. Fifteen pounds of actual nitro gen (50 pounds ammonium ni trate, 75 pounds ammonium sulfate) per ton is recommend ed the first year. Five pounds actual nitrogen should be ap plied the second and third years. The chips are spread two inches deep for each foot of depth of prepared soil, pruning is dwarfing, this ade quate sized tree will be pro duced sooner if pruned as lit tle as possible. It is much bet ter to obtain growth through careful cultural practices than by trying to stimulate it with excessive pruning. your better-grade crops bring higher prices; second, your bigger yields give you more to sell and third, you get a greater profit on each crop unit of whatever yoa grow. GET A BIGGER PROFIT "SLICE" COST -OJ y m WITHOUT FERTILIZER Think of this "pie" as the monoy you ct-L for every crop unit you grow. The darkened portion Is your profit. Fertilizer helps you get a bigger profit "slice". TO CHOOSE FROM THE (33.5-0-0) 1 16-20 0 1 11-48-0 16-A8-Q 23- I Elephant soluble - ERTILIZER Plflnucri INC.. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON. MEDFORD MAIL ment of established plantings. Some of the conservation methods used in field trials are alternate seeding, use of depth bands and fertilizer practices. Things learned from the trials are such things as seedbed prepara tion, seeding time and meth ods and, of most importance, the related merits of future grasses and legumes. Field trials in the Jackson SCD are a cooperative job in helping the cooperatbrs find the right grasses and legumes for high economical return plus establishment of soil and water conservation. Cooperat ing on these jobs are the experiment stations, county extension service and other agencies and organizations'. The species of seed and tech nical help is made available by the soil conservation service. Field planting trials in the Jackson SCD are big enough to determine such things as management, yield and qual ity of production. Field plant ing trials are part of the co operator's basic conservation plans to fill the needs of the land and treatment for pro tection and improvement. Plantings Reviewed A brief review of some field planting trials in Jack son SCD are: Hay and pasture plantings: Akara orchard grass, 2 acres, V. Hunt, Evans Valley; Greener grass, 18 acres, P. Shultz, Sams Valley; Harding and Lunal grass, 16 acres, B. Bitterling, Eagle Point; Latar orchard grass, 10 acres, L. James, Sams Valley; Cascade lotus, 30 acres, P. Nevins, Agate desert. Range seeding: Les Bonos lotus, 10 acres, G. Loftin, Beagle; Lana vetch, 30 acres, C. McCrae, Evans Valley; Rose clover and Blando Brome, 12 ares, M. Bradshaw, Little Butte; Lana vetch and tall oatgrass, 12 acres, J. Kon wiser, Yankee creek; Greener grass, eight acres, C. Moxley, Meridian road. Protective seeding: creep ing, red fescue, Ramsey can yon dam, Sams valley; streambank whealgrass, ditch pad, L. James; streambank wheatgrass, fill and spillway, E. Korner. Seed production: Greener grass, L. James. Range seeding: Los Banos lotus, I. Woolfolk, 15 acres; Harding grass, M. Bradshaw, 15 acres; Los Banos lotus, J, Konwiscr, 10 acres; Harding grass, C. Moxileg, 10 acres. Field planting trials in the Jackson SCD are big enough to determine things such as management, yield and qual ity of production. Field plan: ing trials are a part of co operators' basic conservation plans to fill the needs of the land and treatment for pro tection and improvement. Medical Care Plan Presented Congress Washington - IUPII - Congress got the Kennedy administra tion's detailed proposals for medical care for the aged Monday. Following up his message on the larger subject of health and welfare. President Ken nedy today transmitted to the House and Senate proposed legislation to enact a SI bil lion yearly health program for elderly persons under social security. WITH FERTILIZER ELEPHANT BRAND LINE AMMONIUM SULPHATE(21 0 0) UREA (45-0-0) Bran mm A TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. S1e sy J TREE PLANTERS This group of Eagle Point Grange women spent all day recently at the C. C. Hoover home, on Gregory id. potting seedling Colorado Blue Spruce. This Oregon Dairies Increase Use Of Machinery Salem-Push-button farming is making the dairyman's lite much easier these days ac cording to statistics released by the state department of agriculture which show a con tinued increase in the use o mechanical equipment. Almost all dairies inspected by the Department were, re ported using farm tanks, pipe line milkers, or a combination pipeline milker and farm tank, stanchion and platform milking parlors and paved cowyards. The tanks and milkers take the place of the old-time hand milking and milk cans which took a great deal more time and was much less sanitary. Paved cowyards have also re duced the possibility of dirt or disease. A cow used to be led into a stall, through a muddy cowyard if it happen ed to be during the rainy season and milked by hand after which .the milk was car ried in buckets to larger con tainers to a milk house. Now the animal is conducted over a paved yard, into a shiny well-lighted milking parlor and, after a preliminary clcan- ir which is still done by ' . is milked automatically. Ti.e milk is sent through a pipeline, often partly trans parent, into a farm tank. Dairies Checked Dairies checked today by the Department show a total of 589 producers and producer-distributors using farm tanks as compared to 450 in 1956 and 570 in 1959. ' Pipeline milkers are used by 379 producers and producer-distributors while in 1956 there were 267 and in 1959, there were 347. Using combination tanks and milk lines are 331 producers and producer-distributors and in 1956 there were 177 while in 1959 there were 275. Stanchion parlors are used by 428 dairymen while in 1956 there were 437 using the con venience and in 19?9, there were 461. The stanchion is the only type of parlor to show a droo. This is because it is the older type of parlor and is being replaced by the new er raised-platform style of milking parlor. Platform Popular Elevated, platform-type par lors were being used bv 309 dairymen in 1960. by 276 in 1059 and by 327 in 1956. Paved cowyards were in use last year by 500 dairymen, in 1959 by 4i9 and in 1956 by 202. According to Kenneth E. Carl, assistant chief of dairy law enforcement for the de partment, dairies inspected by city officials showed similar increase in the use of mod ernized machinery in 1960, although statistics for earlier years are not available. Combined city-stale statis tics show thai farm tanks are used now by 1.177 fluid milk producers and producer-distributors. Combination tanks and pipelines are used by 516 producers and producer-dis tributors. Pipeline mi'kors are used by 592 dairymen. Using the slonciiion type, are 608 dairymen and using the raised platform type. 524. i Cowyards have been paved by j 92; nroriucers and producer-! distributors. i Cows are nol housed over night or fed roughage in these "milking parlors" as is the practice in the old fashioned dairy barns. Most dairymen have dispensed with the milk stool by having the cow come into a milking parlor on a raised platform so he can stand up while she is being milked. No more stoop or squat. ACCIDENT DAY Chicago - Accidents at rail road grade crossings occur most often on Sundays. CHIEF TREE MAN-C. C. Hoover, Gregory rd., recently held a tree polling party for Eagle Point Grangers at his home. After potting 350 Colorado Blue Spruce in one. day the Grangers distributed the trees to residents of Eagle Point and vicinity the next day. Hoover is shown Voiding a plant ing pot and seedling tree. E. P. Grange Members PromoJe Tree Planting Eagle Point - The Eagle Point area will "come up roses if C. C. (Charlie) Hoo ver and his Eagle Point Grange committee lias any thing to say about it. It is already "coming up" trees. Two years ago tile Grange distributed and acted as gen eral observer to the planting of 25.000 trees throughout tile county, but with main em phasis in the Eagle Point area. Last year they distributed and fostered the planting of 8,000 trees. Those consisted of Gold en Weeping Willow, Chinese Elm, Redwood, incense cedar and some 16 varieties all told. This year the Grange is pro moting the planting of 30,000 trees. Hoover, as tree plant ing committee chairman plans to order vast quantities of roses next and distribute them throughout the Eagle Point area and perhaps through the rest of Jackson county. Were Windbreaks Most of the trees distrib uted the first two years were for windbreaks. The trees this year are mainly for landscap ing residential yards, public grounds and farmyards. Most of the trees now being dis tributed are six varieties of spruce. Bob Bitterling, Po mona Grange Master, V. E. Davies, of the Eagle Point Grange committee and Hoo ver did the actual tree dis tributing around Eagle Point. Current plans are In distrib ute 2.074 trees to the Girl Senilis of Jackson and Jose phine counties and the west ern part of Siskiyou county. Eagle Point schools will rc-c-eive 970 trees consisting of ' Arizona cypress and varieties 0f spruce. Dellenback's BUI , . , c ASKS Annual SeSSOflS Salem (UPIt Hep. John R. Dellcnbaelc (H-Medford) Mon- day put in a bill providing for annual sessions of the leg islature. It now meets once every two years, on the odd numbered year. Under his plan, the legisla ture meeting in even-nurnber- i ed years would consider only ' state government, revenue and : tax matters. The session meet- ing in odd - numbered years would consider all issues. His bill provides no length. Chicago - About 40 per cent of all fatal accidents uc cur during week ends. Grange tree planting project is one of the many public service projects being conduct ed by the active Grange. vl V 4 4.3 sfltf t r f 33. I Winnipeg - Flux can be grown successfully almost any place in Noiih America. IfFI St INCREASE YOUR FARM PROFIT BY USING WFA'S 'BEYOND THE FENCE-LINE' SERVICESI Official Says Disease Control Program Tops Salem-"Progress in Oregon on the brucellosis program is very excellent," said Dr. Don ald Miller, assistant director of the animal eradication divi sion of the United States De partment of Agriculture from Islington, D.C. Dr. Miller was a guest at the final sessions of the work conference held Feb. 1-2 for state and federal veterinary disease control officials at the stale department of agricul ture in Salem. These meetings were sponsored jointly with the office of the federal vet erinarian in charge in Ore gon. Dr. A. G. Beagle. During a brief interview Dr. Miller said, "We think that after counties and slates reach a modified, certified brucellosis status as Oregon has. and with a high level of calfhood vaccination, the market cattle testing program provides the best means for eventual eradication of brucel losis." He added that when these cattle are tested either at slaughterhouses or at the mar ket, the necessity for 95 per cent of on-tho-ranch testing of beef cattle is eliminated. Dr. Maurice Woulfc, SDA, had earlier said that ranch testing costs $1.10 as compared to a cost of 53 cents for vaccina tion at an auction yard. Speaking of the conference, Dr. Miller said, "it provides for uniformity and clarity of procedures, keeps participants belter informed on various activities so they can be more efficient on the job." Dr. Miller covers 16 western states working with veterinari ans in charge of preventive programs. Agenda for the two-day ses sion included a talk on "Status of Count 'ns," Dr. Philip Cazi er. assistant in charge of the USDA in Oregon; a talk on market cattle testing by Dr. Woulfe; a panel discussion on brucellosis rccrlifici'i'o" wi'h Drs. R. S. Russ, "oseburt, USDA: George Puis, Union, SDA; R. F. Mawrer, Ontario, USDA. State Veterinarian Dr. L. E. Bodenwciser sooke on relesting of infected herds, Slides were shown on scabies and the starling control pro gram. Speaking on various aspects of scabies were Drs. L. Dale Cherry and Kenneth! Erickson, Baker, USDA; and Carl Spencer, Ashland, SDA. Serving on a panel on scabies were Drs. Puis, Erickson, Spencer and Cherry. Dr. A. G. Beagle talked on the treatment of infected ani mals; Dr. Win. D. Pritchard, RMES FARM PROFIT WFA members realize greater profits because they use WFA's ever improving 'off the farm' services. ARE YOU A WFA member; WFA SERVES BEYOND YOUR FENCE-LINE . . . efficiently, effectively providing 'off-the-farm' services of marketing, purchasing, research, counseling and production financing to make Northwest Agriculture strong, secure and profitable. y This year, as in years past, thousands of WFA members throughout the Northwest have utilized WFA's profitable 'off-the-farm' services. 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