MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
TUESDAY. JUNE 19. 1962
A 7
Farmers Should
Plan Ahead
On Weed Control
By RAY HUBBELL
Jackson County Weed
Supervisor
Many of our perennial and
annual weeds are reaching
maturity.
This means nature will pro
vide seeds to continue our
weed problems in the future
unless something can be done
to prevent these plants from
producing viable seed. De
struction of these plants by
any means won't eliminate the
problem but it will surely
keep it from becoming any
worse. Cutting, discing, burn
Ing or spraying can, if done
soon, prevent these plants
from producing seed.
Now would also be an ex
cellent time to consider areas
for this fall or next spring's
weed control program. Areas
to consider may be fence lines,
ditches, lanes or around build
ings. If all growth is to be
kept down, the materials that
should be applied for this re
sult should be applied either
in the fall or early spring.
By making note of these
areas now when the problem
is evident and adopting the
correct control program next
year the problem will not
exist. This holds true not only
to controls of all growth on
certain areas but also areas
where selective sprays may be
required.
If this year's grain or hay
crop was or will be weed in
fested, it is too late to do
much about it now, but one
can rest assured if the prob
lem existed this year it will
surely be around next year
By making note of these fields
now and planning for next
year's control program or per
haps an after harvest treat
ment will be well awarded.
Mentioned before in this
column and important enough
to be mentioned again, hay
haulers and farmers hauling
hay from weed infested fields
can do themselves as well as
manv others a great injustice
by not cleaning their trucks
after each load. A Broom
should be standard equip
ment. Losses from weedy
plants in farm crops can be
much more costly than the
money spent on a broom and
time to clean your rig.
Black Disease
Threat to Sheep
(Editor's note - T h i I
animal health information
is presented as public
service by the Oregon Vet
erinary Medical association.
Questions on this and other
animal health topics may be
addressed to the OVMA.
1500 S.W. Taylor St., Port
land, Ore.)
With dryer months ap
proaching, Oregon -sheepmen
will be on the alert for out
breaks of Black Disease, a
heretofore mysterious disease
affecting Oregon sheep.
Veterinary research has
now discovered that the dis
ease is definitely associated
with liver fluke infestation.
Liver flukes are parasites
which utilize small fresh
water snails as intermediate
'hosts." The parasite is then
taken into the body of the
sheep in the food and does
considerable damage to the
animal's liver.
Produce Toxin
When this has occurred,
small, spore-bearing bacteria
are stirred up, grow rapidly
and produce a potent toxin
that kills the sheep.
Death comes suddenly with
out evidence of a struggle or
any previous sickness. It is
also characterized by a dark
bloodshot appearance of the
flesh surface of the pelt-hence
the name "black disease."
Control of snail infestation
of pastures and keeping sheep
out of low-lying pastures until
they dry off in the late spring
are possible preventive measures.
No satisfactory method of
treatment for the disease has
been found, but researchers
have developed an inexpen
sive commercially available,
one-dose vaccine.
When properly adminis
tered the vaccine produces a
good immunity against Black
disease.
Common Market countries
take about 20 per cent of our
total agricultural exports,
say Ohio State university ex
tension economists.
The use of milk on farms
where it is produced has de
clined more than 50 per cent
in the past 20 years.
Investigation
Provided for
Spray Damage
Pigeons Taught To
Work Assembly Line
New York-OIPD-Prof. Wil
liam W. Cummings of Colum
bia university has conducted
successful experiments which
showed pigeons could be used
as inspectors on assembly
lines.
He taught a pigeon to pick
out flaws in painting on small
parts. The pigeon was placed
in a cage where it observed
the parts through a small
transparent window. Next to
this window was a piece of
opaque glass. When a bad
part showed the bird pecked
the transparent glass and was
rewarded by a bit of food.
He pecked the opaque glass
he observed no defects.
Salem - If you think your
fruits or other crops are dam
aged by farm spray or dust
drift, the law controlling the
application of agricultural pes
ticides provides a way for the
state department of agricul
ture to investigate the matter.
But don't pick up the tele
phone and call the depart
ment to voice your complaint.
Instead, because your claim
must be in writing, get one of
the new one-page application
forms available from the de
partment at Salem or Port
land, its shipping point of
fices or any county extension
agent's office.
The form is simple. Proper
ly filled out, it will contain
your name and address, the
damage you think has been
done and to what vegetation
and where and when, the
sprayer or duster you think
did it and by whom he was
hired.
The department will inves
tigate damage alleged, and if
any, the extent and nature.
The department's report will
be available to persons finan
cially interested, and the de
partment may, at the request
of persons financially interest
ed, undertake to mediate an
equitable settlement.
To Make Investigations
The department will make
investigations and perform
mediation services in all cases
involving licensed custom ap
plicators, or applicators work
ing for city, county or state
agencies.
When damage results from
actions of other than a cus
tom applicator, the state will
receive claim and make in
vestigation if the claimant
reimburses the department for
its services.
Citizens are advised to ask
persons claiming to be li
censed applicators (either air
or ground) to show their 1962
license. This is simply a pre
caution to protect liability in
surance. Those who may file reports
against licensed, state - agen
cy, city or county applicators
are reminded that this must
be done within 60 days from
occurrence of discovery of the
loss. Copies of the report must
be mailed to the applicator
and to the person for whom
he was working, as well as
to the State Department of
Agriculture, Salem 10, Oregon.
If the damage involves
growing crops, the report
needs to be filed before 50
per cent of the crop is harvested.
Acreage Figures
Needed for Grain
By ALBERT STRAUS
Chairman, Jackson County
A.S.C. Committee
Jackson county farmers
who harvested feed grains or
corn silage in 1959 or 1960
and have not reported such
acreages are asked to file
acreage figures of thees crops
with the A.S.C. office this
week, according to Albert
Straus, chairman of the Jack
son agriculture stabilization
and conservation committee.
The A.S.C. committee will
need all Jackson county farm
feed grain histories for 1959
and 1960 to allocate feed
grain bases fairly under the
proposed legislation before
Congress, Straus pointed out,
All known producers of bar
ley, oats, corn and sorghum
crops for grain or corn lor
silage who have not filed a
feed grain acreage report
have been sent post cards to
be completed, signed and
returned to the A.S.C. office,
the chairman said.
Those persons receiving
cards with no feed grain his
tory for 1959 or 1960 should
indicate on their cards, he
added. Farmers not receiving
cards and having not previ
ously reported but having pro
duced feed grains for those
years should file their acre
ages also.
Growers who have filed
feed grain acreages under the
present program were not sent
cards, the chairman said.
Pine Shoot Moth
Has Taken Wing
Salem-Almost two million
pine stocks in 257 Oregon
nurseries were checked be
tween April 1 and the end of
May without a single finding
of European pine shoot moth.
This information comes
from Harold Foster, super
visor of nursery service for
the state department of agri
culture. Nursery inspectors of
the department aided Foster
in the survey conducted in
licensed Oregon nurseries.
This work complemented
the April-May pine shoot
moth survey conducted in
179,664 business and residen
tial properties by the state
and federal forestry insect
and disease control crews. In
this survey, 185,382 ornamen
tal pine trees were examined,
mostly in the greater Port
land and Salem areas. Only
18 infested trees on three
separate home properties in
southeast Portland were
found; they were destroyed
immediately.
The 1962 surveys followed
discovery of pine shoot moth
in Oregon last year, when
Initial surveys were made. Re
sults this year lead all offi
cials involved to conclude
the danger mark is past with
respect to pine shoot moth in
this state - though they will
keep a watchful lookout.
Aluminum Stockpile
Growing Despite
Goal Long Passed
40 PERSONS DROWN
Warsaw -flJPD- Forty persons
mostly children, drowned in
Polish rivers and lakes over
the week end, it was an
nounced here Monday.
Washington (UPD - Congres
sional testimony showed Mon
day that the United States is
continuing to buy aluminum
for the national stockpile
even though one congressman
says it seems to be "coming
out of our ears."
Officials of the General
Services Administration told
an appropriations subcommit
tee that the stockpile already
was 730,000 tons over its goal
and no more aluminum was
needed.
But they said that under a
contract with the. Harvey
Aluminum Co. the govern
ment must buy aluminum
from the firm if it cannot sell
it in the private market.
Stored at The Dalles
This means, they said, that
the government probably will
have to buy another 102,000
short tons costing $47 million.
The government is storing the
excess aluminum right at Har
vey's plant in The Dalles,
Ore.
The contract, which ex
pires in November, 1964, was
one of several entered into
during the Korean conflict
and post-war period to boost
this country's aluminum pro
duction for defense purposes
and provide sufficient sup
plies for the stockpile in case
of emergency.
The testimony was taken
behind closed doors in Feb
ruary. It has just been made
public.
One congressman at the
hearing, Rep. John J. Rhodes
(R-Ariz.), said, "apparently
we have overdone it. It seems
we have aluminum coming
out of our ears now . . ."
GSA officials said the gov
ernment was trying to find
uses for the aluminum in the
foreign aid program and also
hoped to move some in the
domestic market when the
price picked up. Currently,
the price is down.
Dumping Suggested
Rep. Edward P. Boland ID
Mass.), suggested the govern
ment might "dv.mp" alumin
um on the market and thus
bring down the price even
further. Harvey sells the
aluminum to the government
at the market price at the
time of delivery. Boland said
his move would save millions
of dollars for the taxpayers.
GSA officials said they
could not do that under the
law but Boland disagreed.
Chairman Albert Thomas
(D-Tex.), supported Boland in
his view.
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Farm Bureau
Predicts Defeat
Of Turkey Order
Salem - Wiley Clowers,
president of the Oregon Farm
Bureau federation, predicts
that the proposed national
turkey marketing order
would not be favored by even
a majority of the turkey pro
ducers in Oregon.
However, he would venture
no guess as to now lurney
producers in the other states
would vote.
The proposed order must
be favored by two thirds of
the producers or by producer
accounting for two tniras or
the prodction before the Sec
retary can put the order into
effect. If approved the order
would limit the number of
birds a turkey producer could
sell.
Straw Vote
Clowers said he based his
prediction on the results of a
straw vote taken among Ore
gon turkey producers by the
Oregon Farm Bureau federa
tion. He said that of those who
had returned their ballots, 82
per cent were opposed to the
order and those who were op
posed represent 71 per cent
of the volume of the produc
tion. The Farm Bureau spokes
man said that department of
agriculture officials had indi
cated the results of the refer
endum would not be announc
ed on a state or county basis,
but the final decision was up
to the Secretary.
Clowers urged all turkey
producers who are eligible to
cast their votes at their coun
ty ASCS office between June
18 and 22, inclusive.
If a producer has any ques
tions about his eligibility, he
should check at his local
county ASCS office, Clowers
concluded.
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Caused By Worry
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you're losing hair fast as an
old shaggy dog maybe you
worrv and fret too much, a
University of Pennsylvania
researcher theorizes.
Dr.' Albert M. Kligman,
professor of dermatology at
the University's medical
school, told of a man and a
woman who lost their hair
from worry. He terms this
"telogen effluvium" - or the
shedding of "resting" hairs
The man was tried three
times for a murder but es
caped the hot seat each time
on legal technicalities. The
fourth time in court he was
convicted of first degree mur
der and shortly thereafter
began losing hair at a fast
rate.
He escaped the chair eight
weeks later on more legal
maneuvers and. by the time
he was pardoned, had grown
a main a beatnik would envy.
The woman, disturbed
about prospects Sf a serious
operation, worried herself out
of a head of hair, and finger
and toe nails as well, all of
which grew back after the
operation.
"Resting" hairs, Kligman
said, occur when 15,000 hairs
of a normal head have stopped
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