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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
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Apple Thinning
Sprays Suggested
County Horticultural Agent
Clifford B. 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.
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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.
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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.)
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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. .
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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.
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Bob O. Tallman has SS acres in apples
and pears which h keeps protected
with CYPREX.
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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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