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MED70HB MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDTOHD, OrlEOOft Heavy Seeder Built by OSC For Pastures Corvallis-Ten new heavy- built from plans developed at Oregon State University for use in seeding range lands next fall. These are the first copies to be made of the OSC ma chine, according to Dean . Rooster. OSP nerlniltural n- gineer. Six of the new seed ers will ne used in Oregon, ground Prineville, Bums and Lakeview. The other four are for use in other states. The rugged Oregon press , seeder can be operated over rocks, brush, and rough range land. In 1959 the year OSC built its 12-row seeder the bureau of land management borrowed it for field seeding of 1,500 acres in southeast Oregon and northern Nevada. Seem to Like It "Apparently they liked it," Booster commented, "since six of the new ' seeders being built are for them." The OSC agricultural en gineering department built four different models of the seeder while they were de veloping it. The last two mod els are operative and are lo cated at the Squaw Butte branch of the OSC agricul tural experiment station. Plans for the seeder have been turned over to the inter agency range seeding equip ment committee for further testing and development. . A new OSC publication called "The Oregon Press Seeder," tells how the ma chine was developed, its op erating characteristics, where to obtain plans for it, and whom to contact about using the two OSC machines. Ore gon residents may obtain sin gle, free copies of the bulle tin from county extension of-' fices or from the OSC bulle tin clerk, Corvallis. Soil Stewardship Week Proclaimed By Gov. Hatfield Governor Mark Hatfield has urged that all Oregon cit izens honor agriculture and farm families during Soil Stewardship Week, May 7-14. "Not only during this week, but throughout the year, we should all honor the stewards of our soils, in whose capable hands has been placed a sa cred trust that of assuring that our great natural resourc es are so managed and utilized as to furnish benefits to fu ture, as well as present gen erations," Hatfield said. Soil Stewardship Week, a national observance, is con ducted in Oregon under the sponsorship of the Oregon As sociation of Soil Conservation Districts. Association president Elmer Peterson, Portland, said local observances have been plan ned throughout the state by soil conservation districts, in cluding celebration of Soil Stewarship Sunday, May 7, in many churches. "Even persons who own no land can be a strong influence in behalf of the prudent use of our soil and water re sources. The spirit of respon sible people at work, as evi denced by Oregon's Soil Con servation District activities, becomes most fruitful in terms of soil stewardship, through cooperation of all our citizens," Hatfield concluded. ARRIVES IN U.S. New York-(UPD-Prlnce Rai nier of Monaco has arrived to join his wife, Princess Grace, and their two children for a month's vacation at her mother's home In Philadelphia. State Ag Agency Protests Ham Salem-The federal depart ment of agriculture will hold a hearing in Portland at the U.S. courthouse, on May 11 on its "watered" ham order of Dec. 30. At this time the Oregon Department of Agriculture will enter a protest on the federal order, which allows 10 per cent added moisture in uncooked smoked hams and other smoked porks ship ped interstate. Dr. M. L. Houston, super visor of meat inspection for the Oregon department, says the federal order is directly opposed to Oregon laws for consumer protection which aim to prevent misbranding, mislabeling and adulteration. The federal regulation on moisture in hams was adopt ed without giving consumer groups an opportunity to pre sent their recommendations. ' The hearing in , Portland, one of five hearings over the country, opens up the ques tion so consumers and others interested may present their views. Meantime, the order continues in effect, with no requirement that the added water "pumped" into hams be shown on the label. In actual practice, Dr. Hous ton says the weight added to ham may be 13 per cent, in cluding 10 per cent water and 3 per cent curing salts. Irrigation Aid Tried By OSC To Help Farmers Corvallis-A scheme to help farmers use irrigation water more efficiently is being tried this spring by Oregon State College agricultural engineers and soil physicists. They've designed an evap oration pan to place in pas tures in early spring when the soil is still full of water from winter rains. If their scheme works as hoped for, evapora tion from the pans will equal moisture extracted from the soil, reports Dr. John W. Wolfe, agricultural engineer at the OSC agricultural ex periment station. Eight-inch-deep pans full of water are being placed around an OSC dairy pasture this month. (The pans are protect ed from animals with a wire mesh cover.) When filled, the pans will hold the same amount of water as is avail able to plants in the top three feet of soil. A mark is made on the pans about four inches below the topThe Irrigator -is . instruct ed to irrigate with rotating sprinklers when the water level drops to this mark. Indicates Excess If too much water is ap plied and the pans run over, excess water will be wasted. This is also what happens in the soil, because any excess runs off the surface or perco lates down below the root zone when field capacity is reached. If the pans do not fill dur ing an irrigation, each inch not filled will correspond to an inch deficit in the soil moisture reservoir. The soil moisture deficit cannot be observed on the surface be cause it will occur at a lower depth, Wolfe explained. If ttye water level In the pans (and therefore in the soil) gets below the four-inch mark, the plants will begin to suf fer and their growth rate will be reduced. If the pans ever become empty, the grass will be in serious danger of per manent wilt for the season. It might take several weeks to recover after irrigation. Wolfe reports that it's taken four years of testing to design a pan with evapora tion equal to the rate of con sumptive use of water by pasture. TUISDAT. MAT 1. 1961 EW IVERSON CLIMATIZED(PAINT)C OATINGSMADEJUST RIGHTFORORE GONWEATHER Now Available At IVERSON PAINTS HOME DECORATING CENTRE SP 3-7072 4th St. & Bartlett Medford WATCH FOR GRAND OPENINCI . Poison Dose Recommended for Gray Diggers By EUGENE WINTERS County Agent The most economical and satisfactory method of con trolling Douglas ground squir rels or gray digger squirrels is the use of poison. The gray digger appears In February or early March and remains active until October or November. This long' pe riod of activity and that it habitually stores food to last through the winter makes it a destructive pest. The young usually are born in April and average about eight in number. So far as known only one littor is pro duced, but this is a fourfold annual Increase which could result in an extremely high population buildup in a mat ter of two or three years. The season for control is different from other ground squirrels In Oregon and for best results a poison bait should be scattered any time the gray digger is active. Bait Available Poison bait is readily avail able through commercial sources such as feed, seed and garden stores. The bait is a mixture primarily of bar ley or oats and strychnine with a sticker to hold the poison to the grain kernel. A formula for preparing poison bait is available from the County Extension office. Most persons prefer to use ready mixed bait. Considerable bait has been wasted by being placed in piles cr thrown down the holes. The bait should be scattered out a teaspoonful to a place along squirrel trails and about the holes. The squirrel will then hunt it up. Properly scattered there will be no hazard to livestock for they will not pick up enough to harm them. This year a cooperative gray digger control program has been arranged with Jack son county, the Fish and Wild life Service and the Jackson county extension service co operating. Poison bait will be scattered on publicly owned lands infested with ground squirrels and being adjacent to crop lands. An effort will be made to treat public lands bordering that of private op erators who are poisoning their own squirrels. Vets' Division Gets Assistant . ; Salem-Elidon F. .' Cross of Halsey has assumed new duties as administrative as sistant for the veterinary ser vices division of the State De partment of Agriculture, an nounces J. F. Short, depart ment director. . Cross will handle fiscal and business management func tions for the veterinary divi sion. The division handles the largest department programs supported by general funds of the state. These include the state meat inspection pro gram. V Cross will work directly with the state veterinarian, Dr. L. E. Bodenweiser. The Halsey man comes with an ideal background of busi ness and livestock farming. The past five years Cross has operated about 600 farm acres grains, owned by him and his devoted to field seeds and two brothers, plus about 100 acres of his own which is used for beef and dairy cattle. For many years Cross was as sociated with a seed and grain warehouse at Halsey, serving from 1940 until it was sold in 1955 as manager and presi dent of the corporation. Homemade Cannons Recall Civil War Banks, Ore.-fflPD-Rudy W. Marek of Banks tested his home-made cannons Sunday in honor of the Civil War Centennial. Battery A of the Oregon Volunteer Artillery fired tb-- guns. The battery included Col. Walter F. Sargent, Ore gon National Guard, repre senting Gov. Mark Hatfield. Marek spent two years mak ing the 1,800 pound cannon from 1861 specifications from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. "Capt. Marek called for a bag of powder from the pow der boy. Cans of cement were used as projectiles. The guns went off with a splendid roar and the pro jectiles hurled 200 yards. A window in his house 60 yards away shattered from the con cussion. s WRONG NUMBER Pittsburgh -(UPB- Attorney J. Norman Davis made a tele phone call to Lewlsburg, Pa., but got a wrong number. He was dumbfounded when the voice on the other end an swered, "Lewlsburg Peniten tiary - Reservations." How To Win Award On Horticulture If you happen to have the knack of organizing and get ting people together, you are Just the person to start a com munity beautifying program. There's a slight bit of work Involved, but if you are civic- minded and concerned with the appearance of the commu nity in which you and your family live and work, you 11 find all your efforts in im proving the situation more than rewarding to yourself, They'll be an inspiration to others also. The National Garden bu reau is here to help you by supplying a comprehensive blueprint on community beau tification. There is also a 15 minute film which can be made available. Just write the bureau at 124 East 38th st., New York City. In order to add impetus to all community programs started, the Popular Garden ing magazine is offering gar dening certificates of merit to groups conducting such a program who wish to give recognition and awards to participants of the project. Write to Popular Gardening, 530 Fifth ave., Newk York City, giving them the details of your community improve ment program. They will do the rest. Farmland Values Now Leveled Off OSC Points Out f!nrvnllis-Farmland values in Oregon leveled off last fall, ending the steady upward plimh nf th nnct fiv vpar reports Mrs. Elvera Horrell, extension agricultural econo mist at Oregon State College. In Nnvpmhpr thp TTKF1A Agricultural Research Service (Arcs; piaceci tne index on Oregon's farmlands, with im provements, at 160 per cent oi tne 194-49 average, Mrs. Horrell said. This was the same as the .Tnlv 1QRH inripv but nearly 3 per cent above .NovemDer issa. The national farmland in dex also leveled off during the July to November, 1960 period at a level less than one per cent above November. 1959. During the last half of 1960. farmland values in 41 states either held practically unchanged or rose just a lit tle. Decreases of 2 per cent or more showed up in the other nine states, mostly in the cen tral part oi tne country. The biggest dip-5 per cent -tame in Iowa, and the sharn- est rise-4 per cent-came in man, Mrs. Horrell found. Market Weaker Land-value reporters gener ally agreed that the market for farmland was weaker last fall than a year earlier, the ARS report noted. Fewer farms changed hands, demand was slower, and prospective buyers seemed more inclined to resist prices being asked. Land dealers in most areas Said thev had more farinc listed, but made fewer sales. xney also reported less de mand for nonfarm uses. When asked to eive an opinion as to the trend of fu ture land values, more of the reporters than last year thought prices would cn down. The ARS attrihiiteri the general leveling of farmland values to a readjustment in tne unusual relationship be tween farmland values and farm income. In Oreenn Mrs Horrell noted that farmland value per acre increased nearly 60 per cent from 1950 to 1959, while taxes levied on farm real estate rose 40 per cent and realized net in come from farming dropped 15 per cent. DIEM INAUGURATED aaigon - (UPD - President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam has taken nHIco tnr a second five-year term with a pledge to battle the "Com munist imperialism" which has terrorized the country and turned parts of it into a no man's land. Ten Schools Participate In Music Contest-Festival Ten southern Oregon High schools participated in the Southern Oregon high school music contest-festival held last week end at Hedrick Junior High school. Plaques were awarded by the judges to outstanding bands, choirs and orchestras both in the junior high con test held last week in Ash land and for the high school event Saturday. Plaques for the junior high school contest went to the Ashland Junior High school band, directed by Frank Ken ney; the Klamath Falls Strings, directed by Hans Gippo; and the Briscoe School chorus, Ashland, directed by Mrs. Herbert Cecil. Plaques for Saturday event were awarded to the Medford High School choir, directed by Lynn Sjolund; the Klam ath Falls orchestra, directed by Dale Hallack, and to the Medford High School Senior Symphony band, directed by I. A. Minck. John Drysdale was chair man of the event with mem bers of the vocal and instru mental staff of the Medford system assisting him. Points by two school groups participating were Senior Symphony band, perfect score, 36 points; Choir, 35 points; Girls Glee chorus, 33; Orchestra, 34, all Medford; Orchestra, 32; Choir, 31; Band 32; and Girls Glee chorus, 25, Personnel Staff Winema Forest District rangers on the Wi nema National forest have re cently opened new offices at Chemult and Klamath agency from which to direct manage ment of the Winema National forest, with headquarters in Klamath Falls. The Chemult offices are lo cated in the Community club building on the north edge of town. Supervisor Smith stated that these are temporary quar ters for the coming season. Forest service personnel at Chemult include District Ranger Doug Shaw, formerly assistant ranger on the Klam ath district of the Rogue Riv er, and Assistant Ranger Ken neth Eversole, who comes from the Blue River district of the Willamette National forest. The Chiloquln district head quarters is presently located at Klamath agency with of fices in a former administra tion building. Personnel on tr.a Chiloquln district include Ranger Homer Faulkner,, As sistant Ranger Ed Harshman, and Fire Control Officer Clarence Jennings. Faulkner was previously assistant ranger on the Ft. Rock di trict of the Deschutes. Harsh- man comes from the Rogue River National forest at Med ford. Jennings moves to Klamath Falls from the Blue River district of the Willam ette. Opening of these new of fices marks another step in organization of the Winema National forest, i Mission Team To Appear at Church A General Mission Inter pretation team Will be at the First Presbyterian church Wednesday, May 3, to explain how the church operates, not only to foreign countries, but in the many missions In this continent. Speakers will be the Rev. Raymond N o 1 1, described by the Saturday Evening Post as the pastor oi tne Big Horn Basin" and the Rev. Ralph D. Winter, Presbyte rian, fraternal worker In Guatemala. The. Rev. Burton Alvis will speak on Christian education and Dr. Dwlght Russell, Portland, Synod offi cer, will also talk about missions. The talks are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. and will be pre ceded at 6:30 p.m. by a fam ily night dinner. Announcing... $100 Cash Bonus, plus the Free Range, will be given to the winner of the drawing, if that person has bought a Monarch Range already, this year.! Still time to Register, In Ashland, Siskiyou Electric (formerly East Side Electric), RANGE STORE 130 E. Main SP 2-2022 Former location of Lawrence's Jeweler all Klamath Falls. Others were Ashland hand. 25; Ashland Girls chorus, 24, and St. Mary'u Marion choir, Medford, 30. Schools nartlclDatlnir In ad dition to those named were Roseburg, Canyonville, Lake view, Sutherlin, Riddle, Sa cred Heart of Klamath Falls. During the contest-festival the Southern Oregon Music Educators held an elertinn nf officers at the directors' lunch eon in the Medford hotel. Frank Kenney, Ashland, was elected president. Others elected were Jack Mahoney, niaaie, vice president; Mrs. Herbert Cecil, Ashland. It decided to hold the snln and ensemble contest next year In Ashland and the jun ior high contest-festival in Medford. No location was se lected for the hiBh sohnnl event, (0sS Sacramento-San Francisco Kite) o,k.,nd ai F27 Prp Je,$ ff7Yjfiy Twice Daily Service UJOR W "Fast growing with the West' WED. & THURS. FREE! 40 Valuable PRIZES will be given during store hours both days. Be on handl J I Tuberous Begonias Reg. 25c, 2 for 45c now. 3 ' 99c GLADS Cl.50or$159 Butterfly GLADS 7 Colors, Reg. 12c Ea. Special 1099c BUGGETA Get those snails and slubs with BUGETTA, pelleted for easy use. No arsonate. 39c - 79c Economy Size $1.79 Can't Beat 'Em SPRINKLERS Buy Several at This Price $I9 35-Fi. 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