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8 A TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1961 511 Cattle Sold MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON In Friday Sale 'Central Point-The Midway ' : Auction yard's regular Friday -"sale included Sll cattle. 11 ? yhogs and 28 sheep from 103 "consignors.. . The market waf uneven The sale was slower on feed' ; er cattle, about steady l)ghV stockers.- Cows were .-. about SO cents lower than last - week, according to Bill Bray, yard owner and manager, Included in the sale was ,;.70;eow dairy herd. The top v20 cows average $221.50 and the top SO cows carried " S106.36 average. ' ! . . ' "ThAco nrlnAa uAro nphlpv. ed only because it was an out standing herd with a line io " al ' reputation,"'' Bray com' -. mented. f-:-: ' 1 ' Stncker steer calves brought ' from $24 to 825,75. . Steers '. Weighing 450 to 550 pounds '. went out from 23 to S24.B0, The same type of cattle with ' horns . sold about a dollar lower.,', ' .; , Heifers Sell ", Heife r calves weighing Lorn 390 to 400 pounos som at $23 to $24.10. Heifers weighing 400 to 850 pounds brought $22 to $23. A pen of 42 head of 573 pound choice beifers brought $23. Most S50 to. 600 pound heifers sold at $21 to $22.70. 1 ' Holstein steers, a pen weigh ing ' 33S pound s, brought I2I.40. 400 to 500 pounds brought $18.50 to $20.50. Hoi- . giein: ieeaerj Drougni )ji.du 18.80: A pen of 19 Here ford cows sold for $162. ? it Hereford cows to 'titer' brought $15.30 to j0. Utility Holstein cows ' ..ght $18.40 to $16.20. Cut v-r ' cows brought $14 to $14.90. Canners sold at $11 to $13.70. A few fat steers sold from $21,10 to $23.20. Slaugh ter bulls brought $18.70 to $20.80. ': . "We expect the market to weaken now on feeder cattle and slaughter cows," Bray said. ." We, don't expect' any snarp drops but it is evident tnat the bloom is off the mar ) et ' u heavier supplies - of ' "e are moving to market ; .tlifornla." . . Oregon Farmers Alerted On New Grain Regulations Corvallis-Several thousand Oregon farmers who gre corn or grain sorghum 1959 or 1960 will need meet the requirements of the new emergency feed grain act signed into law recently to be eligible for support prices on ieea grains they'll grow in . i8l, according to Jens Terjeson, Pendleton, chairman of the Oregon State Agricul tural Stabilization and Con servation (ASC) Committee. The new ; law . applies to farmers who , grew any amount of corn or grain sor- gnum tor sileage or fodder, as well as for grain, Terjeson said. Tnese farmers will need to . put at least 20 per cent or their 1959 and 1960 aver age acres of corn and grain sorghum . into conservation uses to qualify for support prices ' on their 1961 corn grain, sorghum, barley, oats, and rye crops. In addition, these farmers will receive payments from the federal government that will, in most cases, be higher than the net income from these diverted acres if they were in production, Terjeson said Farmers who grew corn or gram sorghum the last two years but don't sign under the new voluntary program won't qualify for price sup ports on their feed grain. Terjeson emphasized.. Other farmers who- didn't grow corn or gram sorghum the last two years, but plant either of these crops this year, will also be ineligible, ne added, Automatically Eligible On the other hand, farm ers who didn't grow corn or gram sorghum in 1959 or 18PU, and don't plant either of these crops in, 1961, will automatically be eligible for support prices on all their barley, oats, and rye grown this year. - For diverting 20 per cent of their- corn and grain sorghum base acreage into conservation uses, farmers will receive negotiable certif icates that can be redeemed in .feed grains, or in cash of an amount equal to a certain amount of grain now in gov ernment storage, This pay ment will be at a rate equal to 00 per cent of the normal yield of the diverted acres times the support price In that county; v II a farmer wishes, he may corn and grain sorghum base. for a total diversion of up to 40 per cent. He will be paid at the rate of 60 per cent of i- e normal yield times the county support price for these additional diverted acres. National average support prices announced by the Sec- retary of Agriculture are: corn, $1.20 per bushel 42.86 SI tnn- arntn sncahiitv. $38,60 a ton: barley. S3 cents a Dusnei or $38.73 a ton; oats, $38.75 a ton; and rye, $36.42 a ton. County suDDort rates naven t been announced vet. but in Oregon they are us ually nigner than the national averages. May Request Advance At the time a farmer files his intention - to - participate iorm, ne may request his county ASC office for an ad vance payment of one-half his estimated total payment for taking part in the pro gram, xne rest . of his pay ment will then be made when performance on his farm has been .established. First step for corn and grain sorghum growers wish ing to take part in the pro gram is to visit their county ASC office and file an' inten- tion-to-participate form, Most information on the program and specific information on how it will' apply to each farm, is available at county ASC offices or from county extension agents. The emergency feed grain program was set ud so farm ers could voluntarily help stop the buildup of feed (train supplies that now are at an all-time high, according to Secretary of Agriculture Or- vllle L. Freeman. Ultimately, he feels the new program should save taxpayers around $500 million in storage costs. The new program also aims to help increase farm income, and assure homemakers fair and stable prices for meat, poultry, and dairy products by helping keep feed grain prices stable; 'J i a handful of salt on i f.ra and admire the . blue flames. - Done ','' will help clean also divert ai much as an .4 chimneys. additional 20 per cent of his Over the put 10 years, this coun ' tryhasgrownbyleapsand bounds. But have you been missing out on ' the investment opportunities re lated to that dynamic period? Today, millions of Americana are ' receiving extra income and so . enirOi bytavi8tingintheBecu- . itiai of aueeeatful companies. For ae America growa there : j i J U the possibility that your 11 k Investment will, too. At the J ft mom time, welcome dividend ehecka, in varying amounts, ean add to your current income. Harris, Upham A Co. would like J 11 to show how you, too, may enjoy M extra income by putting Idle funds , i.,,., to work In business and industry. 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Cordy this morn ing recommended that apple trees .be chemically thinned while in full bloom nnd two or three weeks after bloom. Thinning should be applied only to the apple varieties which set heavily such as the Jonathan and Yellow New town. Red Delicious should not be thinned, he advised.. For thinning use 23 to 1 13 pints of Elgetol or a half pound of DNOC 40 per cent to 100 gallons of water. Trees should be sprayed thor oughly to burn off a per centage of the blossoms and leaves which . make a real drain on the tree growth, Cordy directed. The amount of thinning accomplished de pends much on the weather before, during and after the thinninir. he said. A hormone spray should be used for thinning 14 to 18 days past full bloom, Cordy said. This Is a different meth od of thinning and does not burn the leaves, he explained. The fruit falls off gradually Some people use a -combina tion of both factors. i CHIT CHAT By JOI COWLEY , Mall Tribune 'arm Editor '" The following Is a reprint of an editorial which appeared In the Santa Rosa, Calif., Press Democrat on April 3. Santa Rosa is a large pear growing area and the industry there enjoys "a more favorable press than here," a local pear grower informed us. GOODBYE BRACEROS "Some far-reaching chanees in the law under which Mex. lean nationals make up shortables in domestic farm labor ai prevailing wages were proposed Deiore a house agricul ture subcommittee recently by Jerry H. Holleman, assistant secretary oi laoor. "One proposal would have the federal labor department fix a celling on every individual American farmer of the number of Mexican nationals that farmer could employ, Mr. Holleman frankly said that the purpose was to reduce the number of Mexicans employed. How anybody in Wash ington could fix such quotas when the farmers themselves cannot know from day to day how many domestic workers win taice a notion to snow up was not explained. "A second proposed amendment to the law would give the secretary of labor power to require any farmer who used araceros to provide for domestic workers workermen s compensation . . . free transportation, free housing, sub sistence when work is not available, written contracts, and worK guarantees. "There were still further proposals, but these give the general idea. ' "Anyone who knows the slightest thing about farming will recognize these proposals as completely unworkable. In deed, they create the suspicion that they are intended to be workable, but instead are intended to be so severe and im practical that no American farmer would use Braceros. The people attempting to organize domestic migratory . farm workers into unions have openly announced their desire to keep Braceros off American farms. "SINCE IT is a cold and proven fact that there simply are not enough Americans who will do "stoop labor" to harvest the nation's row-crops, it might not hurt to do a little speculating as to what would happen if the braceros were outlawed, .either directly or by subterfuge. "If needed labor was not allowed to go where the farm work is, chances are that the farm work would simply go where the labor was available. "By that, we mean that it is not at all fantastic to con template the development in the lush lands of Mexico of tremendous - new agriculture, supplying to the American market the fresh fruits and vegetables which American farmers could no longer find the man-power to harvest. "Under the economics of agriculture what cannot be mar keted fresh is canned or frozen for later sale. Any large scale shift to Mexico of crops whose harvest cannot be mechanized would probably be followed by sizeable sections of the canning and freezing industries." (End of editorial): i This predicted shift of considerable vegetable and fruit growing to Mexico is not such a wild idea. Oregon State college reports that Mexico will have a larger strawberry acreage than Oregon this year. Increased competition is expected from that area, according to the OSC Food Proc essing Review dated April 15. However, local farm experts say that Mexico does not have sufficient acreage of the kind which would produce a large scale pear industry. "Few issues so important can generate so much heat and often so little light, are so much misunderstood by the general public, as that of farm labor," a California reporter wrote recently. "It is not one issue but a group of them, involving wages, housing, transportation, work opportunities and union organization, to mention some." Farm Incorporating Told In New OSC Booklet Out Corvallls-Corporat: n farm ing often regarded as "big business that will destroy the family farm" may actually supply the key to strengthen ing many family farm hold ings, say Oregon State college agricultural economists. Possible advantages of in corporation include protection of family investment, easier transfer of a farm to hpira and other benefits inherent in corporation structure. Oregon now has about 300 Incorporated farm-ranch busi nesses and interest in thl. juiui ui organization is on tne increase, report Grant E. Blanch, economist, and Deon W. Hubbard, research assist ant, OSC agricultural exneri. ment station. All 36 Oregon counties now nave corporation farms, a ma. jority of them created since 1945 with a sharp increase in recent years. Heaviest con centration of incoroorated farms in the state is in the northern Willamette .Valley and in Jackson, Klamath, Malheur, and Umatilla coun ties. ..." . . ....... Most of the incorporated farms are family farms and the trend isn't limited to larger family farms, Hubbard said. Nearly all types of agri culture are represented with livestock ranches forming the largest single group. Gives Both Sides Advantages and disadvant ages of incorporating as a tool for financial planning and management are set forth in a new OSC experiment sta tion bulletin. Don't Forget . All America Selections When you are looking through your seed catalog or going over the attractive dis plays of packets on the seed racks, look for the All-Amer ica Selections which bear the AAS emblem. They should do well for you wherever their kinds of flower or vegetables can be successfully grown for they are of the highest rec ommended varieties. , . The greatest satisfaction in gardening comes with the best and most dependable varieties and kinds ' to suit our needs and . taste. The thrill and pride in this greatest of all hobbies come with having the newest and finest of their kinds. Such are the new All America Selections. Oregon residents may ob tain free copies from local county extension agents from the OSC bulletin clerk, Corvallis. The title is "The Farm-Ranch Corporation.' Authors Hubbard and Blanch discuss how the cor poration is formed, how operates and is taxed, and various approaches to caDital- ization and credit structure of the corporation. Insurance and retirement programs available to the cor porate farm, legal require ments and costs for incorpo rating, and' procedures for dissolving a corporation are otner Key sections of the 30- page bulletin. Basic requirements for in corporating are simple. At least tnree persons 21 years oi age may form a corbora- tion and, on most coroorate farms in Oregon, these are members of the farm family, Value of incorporation in "holding together'1 family rarrns stems from a flexibil ity in transferring the farm to the next generation. Major Problem A major problem with un incorporated family farms comes, for example, when a farmer faces retirement with the prospect of physically di viding the farm among sev eral heirs. Such divisions are often too small to operate separately as economic units in this day of larger, mechan ized farms, the economists point out. ' Under a corporation plan however, one heir might op erate the farm with others retaining corporate shares that can be bought, traded, or given as gifts without legally disrupting or breaking up the farm business. Society as a whole is con cerned with . the social and economic losses incurred in the turnover of farms, Hub bard emphasized. The strug gle of recapitalization every generation, small uneconomic units, and Inadequate capital to meet techincal needs of modern agriculture are com mon problems of farm trans fers, he noted. The corporation can be a major tool for maintaining the family farm while per mitting some members of 'the: family to leave the farm with out losing their equity in farm property or withdraw ing needed capital, Hubbard explained.- Farm & Garden Missouri Plants Stopped in State Salem - The state depart ment of agriculture has re jected a shipment from Mis souri of 2,000 small Scotch pine liner plants. The department refused to let the nursery stock be plant ed in Oregon because it orig inated in a European pine shoot moth infested nursery in Missouri. The shipper is being given the option of having the plants returned to him or having them destroyed here.' Oregon now has a quaran tine against all or parts of 18 states to protect Oregon's ornamental and commercial pines against the European pine shoot moth. Under the quarantine, infested material coming into Oregon from" any of the regulated areas may be destroyed or returned to me point oi origin, Washington counties from which entry of pine tree stock will be prohibited are King, Mason, Pierce and Spokane. The value of pine forests in Oregon runs into billions of dollars. Should the pine shoot moth become a menace and attack these forests, it would virtually make all pina seedlings unfit for lumber. The moth stunts and deforms tree growth. t Qjounfy.. Spirited ing Spi field with tfwersatififyf Ask it to do any tilling job, ' and get a positive answerl Most versatile tiller in U.S. Features positive i action reverse. Rugged construction, husky engine. Terms, tool : ONLY $15495 GRANGE CO OP SUPPLY ASSOCIATION Hwy. 99 in Central Point-Ph. NO 4-1261 or SP 3-4022 421 A Street in Ashland-Ph. MU 9-6281 Four Jersey Cows Complete Records Four Jackson county Jer sey cows have completed of ficial production records late ly giving them cow power in dex ratings, according to the American Jersey Cattle club. This rating Indicates how many times their bo'dy weight in milk they have produced during their recent lactation. J. E. Parsons, Gold Hill, reports that his Observer Worth Cream cow produced 12,889 pounds of milk, 630 pounds of fat, on test for 303 days to receive an index rating of 13.5. W. D. Mongold, Eagle Point, reports his three cows. La Pine Sparkling Gloria, La Pine Standard Glzclle and La Pine Standard Garden earned index ratings of 12, J4.o ana io.4, respectively. "These records are further proof that a dairy cow does not have to be big to be most efficient and profitable," the jersey club stated. To sum up-both labor and growers have been busy plan ning for 1061 since the first clash last year. The Agricul tural Workers Organizing Committee fought over the lettuce harvest in the Imperial valley the past few weeks. As paragus and apricots are next on the list. v This same California writer points out that "what the public thinks" is often the deciding factor as to whether and how farm labor should be organized. In California both labor and agriculture have been sizing up public opinion. California farmers are going all out to educate the public to their point of view. ' In this area only half-hearted attempts have been made to form a favorable public opinion. And these have been strictly from the defensive point of view. If anything was accomplished, it was quickly overcome by the actions of what we would call the "untouchables" of the local pear Industry. ' . 1 "Untouchables" because none of the industry's nice guys and it has many-do anything about these people. Repeatedly we have heard the statement, "Oh, but he doesn't really speak for the pear Industry." . But "he" and the other "un touchables," sometimes talk before the state legislature, con fer with the agricultural people at Oregon State college and are found in official positions and committees which repre sent the Industry. - So, we and the general public can only conclude that these few do speak for the entire Industry and they act and talk the way they do because the entire pear industry wants them to act and talk that way. No? Then why isn't some thing done about It? . , These are some of the things which have caused some raised eyebrows from the general public and some profane language from various quarters: Pressure and friction caused by one group became so Intense that one official of an agri cultural type agency became seriously ill, and still is. A popular state legislator was so angry over the complete lack of appreciation shown for favors done the pear industry it's doubtful if the pear people receive any others from this particular man. 3 CLEAN ORCHARD IN AN EPIDEMIC SCAB YEAR Hood River Valley grower kept growing fruit free of ; scab with CYPREX 65-W fungicide and says, . : 'Wo pin-point scab in storage on CYPREX-sprayed fruit" Also, a veteran of 30 years' service in one of the local packing houses was curtly dismissed the other day. We have been 'told not all of the packinghouse directors favored this kind of action. People who publicly oppose stream and air pollution are called "nuts" and "Idiots" by the "untouch ables." (With strict pollution regulations well on the way, this is bound to make a hit with the general public and be of tremendous help to the pear industry.) I it t. II X" 1 1 lw DOWPON ... Kills i Problem grasses choke out crops, reduce yields, make extra I cultivating workl Clean up your fields with Dowpon. It's I more economical . . . more effective . . . kills grasses, roots ' and all . . . reduces regrowth problems. Will not injure grazing livestock if accidentally eaten. Apply in spring or fall before J iimmg, or u a selective spray, or as spot treatment on certain J crops. Come in for your fret sample. Enough Dowpon to spray 225 q. ft. of problem grass. Company ALRER'S FEED A. EADM CIIDDIV J - " - w riiTi tWI I to I 330 North Fir SP 3-4303 As we said, we have a lot of liking and respect for many, many people-most of them-in the ranks of fruitgrowers and packers. It's a tough business, a huge gamble all the. way and it takes guts and brains to stick with it and squeeze out a profit as each year brings more and more problems, But it's time the rank and file industry members showed some more of this courage and cleaned house. Spray Programs Bulletin Out Corvallis-Latcst recommen dations for spray programs to control diseases and Insect pests in commercial apple, pear, and stone fruit orchards are given in two new circu lars published by the Oregon State college cooperative ex tension service. The new circulars give in formation on kinds and rates of sprays to use, pests and diseases each spray will con trol, and lists cautions neces sary when handling spray poisons. Tlme-of-spraying rec ommendations are keyed to bud and flower development on trees as well as to time of year. The circulars are aimed only at commercial fruit growers, since' sprays recom mended are hard to apply or too dangerous for home or chards. Tables in the circu lars give residue tolerances established by the Federal Food and Drug administra tion. . POISON OAK BOTHER YOU? WORRY NO MORE Us RAH Poiion Oak Lotion. Satisfaction Guar antced, it your Favorltt Drug Store. Scab infection was worse in the Hood River Valley last year than in many seasons. Growers faced a serious threat to apples and pears, because weather was favorable to scab development through the season, v Many growers in the Hood River Valley whipped their scab problem through the amazing performance of cyprex 65-W fungicide. . ' One of these orchardists was Mr. Bob O. Tallman, with 38 acres in apples and pears. He says, "1960 was an epidemic scab year" But not for him. He burned out scab on his fruit by putting on three applications of cyprex, pink, full bloom and cover. "In 1960, thanks to cyprex, I found only two scabby pears in my two rows that had been worst hit by scab infection the previous year. My orchard is commer cially clean, thanks to cyprex. "There was no pin-point scab in storage on cyprex sprayed fruit. Fruit without cyprex had pin-point;' Mr. Tallman says. Why cyprex can stop scab even under conditions ' ' that favor the disease Authorities have called cyprex the most important fungicide developed in its field in the past 60 years. 19 ?iy a II H x ,1 1 I JIM t . v. -wy, I - Ax i S1- ' Bob O. Tallman has SS acres in apples and pears which h keeps protected with CYPREX. i It is a new and unique fungicide that actually combines both of the important properties a scab control material can have. It is an outstanding protectant. . .with eradicant action even at pound per 100 gallons. At of a pound, the dosage used in the Northwest, cypres is a full-fledged eradicant with a back action (or kick back) of from-36 to 48 hours from the . beginning of a scab rain. Used as a protectant, cyprex puts a tough fungicide barrier on the surface of the leaf. Because of built-in spreader-sticker action, it disperses and covers and sticks. A rather remarkable feature of CYPREX is its property of redistribu tion. Without leaving the original foli age unprotected, some cyprex will splash f ram leaf to leaf during a rain, extending control to new growth. Because of its local-systemic action, cyprex protects the entire leaf. Sprayed on an under surface, it pene trates the leaf, goes through and pro tects the upper surface as well. cyprex as an eradicant application utilizes all the above properties. It spreads and sticks and penetrates to burn out established scab before it gets a foothold... killing spores that have germinated and started into the I leaf. cyprex is a remarkable scab control material, and its combination of . vantages made the difference between a fair crop and a good one for many growers last season, cyprex can not, however, perform miracles. It does not eliminate the need for reasonable timing, good coverage and sound orchard practice. Consult your local agricultural authorities for further information. 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