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By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune farm Editor
This is fair time for Jackson county.
It's the time when dad
his own breakfast since mother has already taken the kids
and their exhibits out to the fairgrounds. Dinner is late or
non-existent for 4-H and FFA families, probably a bite
grabbed from the fair refreshment stand. It's a time of hurry
up and wait, frustration, sometimes overlooked minor, but
important details, exultation or disappointment and work,
work, work.
The only thing the public
presentations and the various
ing fairgrounds south of Medford. They don t see the work
of the dedicated 4-H leaders
This culminates in the livestock, home-economics, forestry
and other exhibits. They don't see the work, time and care
expended on each animal or project which may not even
bring a fourth place ribbon. But it's all represented at the
fairgrounds this week.
Again we urge everyone
those who don't, to make a
county is producing in way of fairs. Something must be done
about the fairground space itself and soon! As one prom
inent 4-H leader put it: "They're gonna have to decide wheth
er this will be a fairgrounds or just a place to put county
buildings." One of the biggest mistakes made in the past
was putting the National Guard Armory smack-dab in the
middle. Then came the juvenile detention home. Now one
of the older fair buildings is being converted into a rehabil
itation center for the blind. Coming next is the public health
building.
Dedicated strictly to the activities of youth the annual
4-H and FFA fair attracts more youthful participants each
year; especially since 4-H programs now include city and
suburban youngsters.
The While City area has been suggested for a new fair
location since more acreage is available there. A member
of the county court remarked that one of the large ware
house buildings on the recent military surplus property
acquired by the county on Table Rock rd. might be used.
Proper location of a county fair is one of those things every
body talks about, but nobody does anything about.
Space is Just one of the factors to be considered. Others
are: possible shift to include a general open-class fair, fair
board leadership, financing and county or area support.
The popular refrain has been, "The public doesn't seem
to want an open class fair. We haven't heard any general
demand for one." Nobody demanded recreation facilities at
Howard Prairie or Emigrant, cither. But, anticipating their
use and the ring of cash registers from tourist business, the
county court provided such facilities.
And who says that county fairs don't bring more busi
ness into a county? Large numbers of people shop In Med
ford from Siskiyou and even Del Norte, California counties.
The Medford Chamber of
tourist spends approximately
doesn't this apply to transient
that a good, colorful entertaining fair might keep such shop.
pers here overnight making
one.
Furthermore, a fair should be the showcase of an area's
activities. This means that a general Jackson county fair
should include exhibits on the lumber industry, certainly
the fruit Industry. (What better means for the fruit growers
to show the importance of the fruit Industry to the economy
of the valley, hence their need for a reliable supply of
pickers?) other agricultural activities and recreation.
The fair should also Include historical exhibits produced
by the Southern Oregon Historical society and Siskiyou
Pioneer Sites foundation. A school science fair could be
worked in, too, to provide some fascinating and Instructive
exhibits. The science building at the Seattle World's fair has
attracted considerable acclaim from a number of Jackson
county visitors, so this latter section would seem a natural.
We have long thought that a Rogue Valley Food Prod
ucts exhibit or series of booths would be both colorful and
a valuable promotion for this area. This would include foods
prepared by the many naturalized citizens from foreign lands
now living in the valley.
This would be a fair to talk about long afterward and
more important it would be a fair everybody could anticipate
and enjoy. It would not smother the 4-H and FFA exhibits
and contests. It would draw more people to see them. In
fact, we would favor a junior fair board to run the youth
department.
Speaking of fair boards, the county court has been
talking about adding more people to the fair board, but as
yet, has done nothing about it. It has good men on the fair
board now, but they need more to expand the annual affair
to an open exhibit fair. The Oregon Fairs Association News
letter of July recommends consideration be given to a (air
director's experience, attitude, age and time availability.
County or area support certainly would he forthcoming
if a county fair would represent all economic activities in
the valley.
The Oregon Fair association also recommends an ex
tensive six-year Improvement program "to breath new life
Into the local county program, and to insure that fairs will
continually re-examine their position in the face of rapidly
changing conditions."
A report from the state legislature's Interim rommittce
on agriculture indicates that present stale allocations may
be curtailed.
This means that a fair will need community financial
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TUESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1962
Chat
gets up to find he has to cook
sees are the exhibits, ribbon
contests on the rapidly shrink
and parents the ycar-around
attending the fair, and even
frank appraisal of what this
Commerce says the average
$6 a day in an area. Why
shoppers? It stands to reason
two shopping days instead of
Field Crop Day
Set At Station
I
A held crops (ield day will'
be held al 9 a.m. Tuesday i
morning, Aug. 21 al the
Southern Oregon Branch ex-
pcriment station, according to! $23.10 1,1 $24. TO fat steers )
Supt. Harold While and Ag-jv-O SO i0 122 90 and grass !
ronomist John Yungen
j "This will be a look-see
I time for local farmers.'' White
I said. "Before we held this
field day In July at the peak
1 of the season. This year we
! are holding out laler so farm,
jcrs can see the end result of
our experiments.
The lour of the experiment
al plot will include field corn
and sweel corn, various forage
crops such as different varie
ties of alfalfa and grasses,
some Investigation work on
irrigating corn and forage
crops, some chemical residue
plots and such truck crops as
onions, tomatoes
An experimental double
cropping system will also he
examined. Station per.mmirl
have also been working wilh
di((erent varieties of sor
ghums, bush beans and a
small plot of safflower.
support. O and C funds can
industry and agriculture can
in a general fair. It could be
The OFA also suggests multiple use of fairgrounds and
buildings. Josephine county is doing this now. But it has
adequate grounds and buildings. Jackson county does not.
It needs room for home and garden shows, wrestling matches,
farm equipment displays, art and musical festivals, rock
hound shows, poultry and livestock shows.
An article in the current Farm Journal points out that
new county fairs are booming. It presents several ideas: go
cart races for dads and sons, bicycle races, egg-throwing
contests, tractor-pulling matches, pet shows, calf scrambles,
Swiss yodelers, photography shows and many others. The
author cautions that: "A fair ought to teach something, sure,
but it can educate itself out of existence. The best fairs
keep good entertainment uppermost."
And now for the kicker: "There are a number of fairs
which are presented by the extension service as 4-H and
FFA fairs; these are not considered balanced or representa
tive fairs. The management of the fair must be divorced
from the extension service, which service could be best em
ployed in 4-H promotion, without having to concern itself
with the fair as a whole," according to the Oregon Fairs
association.
Farm &
Grant Received
For Soil Study
Corvallis-A research proj
ect seeking knowledge that
will be useful in obtaining
better understanding and man
agement of soil resources has
been launched at Oregon
State University under a
grant from the U.S. Public
Health service.
Directing the research into
the "location of charge and
chemical properties of clays"
arc Dr. Moyle E. Harward
nd Dr. Tsun Tien Chao, both
soil scientists with the OSU
Agricultural Experiment sta
tion. Their work is being sup
ported by a three-year grant
of more than $40,000.
The chemical properties and
reactions of soil are influ
enced to a great extent by
the kind and amount of clay
minerals present, the scien
tists said.
The kinds of clay found in
soils play a major part In
the absorption and release of
plant nutrients, the absorption
and movement of fission prod
ucts and in the retention and
leaching of natural and syn
thetic organic compounds,
such as pesticides. The absorp
tion of these materials is of
420 Cattle Sold
At Midway Sale;
Market Steady
Ninety-nine consignors sold
420 cattle, 25 hogs and 38
sheep at the regular Friday
auction sale of the Midway
Auction yard on Aug. 10.
The market was reported
steady with the previous week
and very active on feeder
cattle.
Hereford steer calves at
good to choice sold for $25
to $26.70. Angus calves went
out at $25.25 to $26.25. Me
dium calves sold for $22 to
$24.50.
Good to choice heifer calves
sold for $23 to $25. Medium
quality calves sold for $20 to
$22.75.
A pen lot of 5(1 yearling
Hereford steers weighing 671
pounds sold for $23.70. A pen
of Angus Hereford crossbred
steers weighing 700 pounds
brought $23.90. A pen of 680
pound Angus steers sold for
$23.80 and a pen of 600
pound Hereford steers brought
$24.35. Oilier steers in the
6U0 to 700 pound class went
Irom $22 to $23.50.
A pen ot 37 Hereford heif
ers weighing 580 pounds sold
for $22.40. A pen of 610
pound heifers sold (or $22.50.
Others sold from $21 to $23.
10. Medium quality heifers
brought from $20 to $21.50
and dairy crossbred sold
Irom $17 to $10.50.
Holstein steer calves sold
(or $10 to $21. A pen lot ot
575 pound
$20.50 and
steers sold tor
no to R00 pound I
steers $10 to $10 00. Two
steers weighing 1.265 pounds
each sold (or $19.70.
! Choice veal at 350 to 500
pounds sold (nr $23 to $25.50.
.slaughter bulls brought $10
$ 'l
Grain Ftd Stetrs
Grain ted steers sold (or i
fat heifers $19 to $22.40
Fat cows sold (or $15 to j owners and landholders, it
$16 40. utility cows brought j could be a good thing. How
$14 to $15. cullers $2 to $13 - ever, each politician should
90. canners $8 to $11 80. j be suspected of doing what is
Sows sold for $13.70 to j best for himself first and the
$14.35, weaner pigs $8 to $12 People can share what's led.
per head and (eeder pigs at j The way zoning stands now
70 to 80 pounds sold (or $15
to $18 per head.
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be stretched only so far. Local
provide such support if included
charged off to advertising.
Garden
Interest to the Public Health
Service, they explain.
In their project, the scien
tists are interested in the rela
tionship of structure to prop
erties of clays, chief of which
is the electric charge that de
termines the ability of clay to
absorb organic compounds
and to fix such chemicals as
potassium in the soil.
At present, literature is
contradictory on whether the
location of the charge or its
density is the dominant fea
ture associated with such
properties. The OSU men
hope to clarify the cause and
effect relationship between
structural features of clays
and their properties. This
clarification also has impor
tant implications for clay
mineral identification in soils.
The scientists are now work
ing with relatively pure clays
in their efforts to establish
general principles, obtaining
clay samples from through
out the world for this pur
pose. After the principles
have been established, they
plan to extend their work to
include the more complex
clay mixtures which occur in
some of the soils of Oregon.
FROM
THE
GROUND
UP
By BART BARTLETT
The harvest of early ripen
ing varieties of fruits has pro
gressed locally to peaches. The
Red Haven and Gold Rush
peaches have been ready for
consumers for several days
now.
Red Haven is about the
earliest ripening peach that
has any quality and is the
only one grown locally in any
quantity. It will be followed
in rapid succession by varie
ties that improve in quality as
the season progresses.
Some local plums may be
available in small quantities
at this time. Apples for cook
ing will be available shortly.
Despite an air of grower
pessimism and some very hot
weather, nil pear varieties
seem to be increasing in size
to the extent that pear sizes
should be normal for the area.
It is expected that Hartlett
Pears in some orchards may
be nearer early picking ma
turity than is generally real
ized. This impression was
gained from the appearance
of some Bartletts as seen
from the roadway. They have
a "finished" appearance that
shows just at early maturity.
Deer may become destruc
uve in orchards or fields that
are near woodlands. It may
be well to secure some deer
repcllant and apply it before
damage occurs.
Zoning
Zoning of rural areas of
Jackson County seems to be
in the plans of certain county !
officials. If a small amount
of zoning could be accomplish
ed without the dreamers and
politicians becoming the lords
land masters of the rural home-
Industrial and
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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
384 Cattle Sold
At Rogue Yard;
Horse Sale Good
Phoenix-The Rogue Valley
Auction, Inc., sold 384 head
of cattle at its regular Satur
day, Aug. 11 sale.
Manager Bob Bever report
ed the market very active on
all classes of cattle. Feeder
cattle mostly sold 50 cents to
$1.50 higher.
Baby calves sold at steady
prices with whiteface calves
selling at $35 to $45 per head.
Holsteins sold $31 to $37 per
head. Mixed calves brought
$20 to $31 and Jersey and
Guernsey calves sold at $7 to
$15 per head.
Several pen lots of light
weaner steer calves sold at
$27 to $27.85 per hundred
weight with one pen lot of
350 calves sellin gat $27.85
per hundredweight.
Heifer calves sold at 50
cents to one dollar higher
than week before. One pen lot
of 430 pound weaner heifers
sold at $24.50 per hundred
weight. Yearling steers sold
at higher prices with steers in
the 600 to 750 pound class
bringing $23.70 to $24.20 per
hundredweight. Light year
ling steers in the 450 to 550
pound class sold at $24.75 to
$25.75 per hundredweight.
Yearling heifers were also
higher with 600 to 700 pound
heifers scl.ing at $21.50 to
$22.70 per hundredweight.
Common cattle are selling
well at this time, Bever re
ported. Steers are bringing
the highest prices for some
time. Mixed steers in the 600
to 750 pound class are selling
at $20.50 to $21.50 per hun
dredweight. Common heifers are also
selling better at this time
with 600 to 700 pound com
mon heifers selling at $17.50
to $19.50 per hundredweight.
Slaughter cows are selling
at steady prices on good fat
cows, but the thin cows are
under pressure and are selling
lower, the auction yard man
ager noted.
Grass fat steers and heifers
are selling well. Fat steers in
the 800 to 950 pound class
sold at $22 to $23.10.
One consignment of grass
fat heifers from a local ranch
this week sold at 50 cents to
one dollar higher than any
time this summer. These heif
ers weighing 780 to unit
pounds sold at $22.60 to
$23.20 per hundredweight.
I would like to thank all
the people who turned out for
the horse sale. We sold ii
head of good horses for Gene
Lowery and had a real good
sale," Bever commented.
"The top horse in the sale
went to Elmer Hopkins of
Ashland. This was a quarter
horse type mare and sold for
$540. Also, in the higher sell
ing class was one three-year-
old filly quarterhorse type
sold to Bob Miller of Green
Springs farm for $510. Bob
also bought one cutting horse,
one o( the most well broken
horses in the sale. Twenty
two head of horses averaged
$338 per head."
lawns and the shrubs growing j
on them an application of
fertilizer. Lawn grasses feed j
heavily because the frequent !
mowing keeps them growing '
all season as compared to the I
same grasses that when not !
mowed produce a crop of i
seed and then for relatively I
long periods docs not grow.
The frequent heavy watering j
of lawns also tends to leach j
large quantities of nutrients i
deep within the soil and out j
of reach of the shallow grass
roots.
Ladders, trucks, tractors, i
picking bags and any other !
equipment that will be needed
in the pear harvest should j
be made ready for use - time
is growing short.
The local livestock markets
were very active this past
week. It is somewhat surpris
ing to see the prices of almost
all types of cattle remain at j
such high levels so late in .
the season. This may, in part,
be due to the excellent condi
tion o( the cattle thai are i
ottered for sale. It was learn- '
eH from some of the Call- i
fornia cattlemen that local
cattle are in better condition
than many of their California
cattle. It was also stated that
the market prices were higher
here than in California.
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FARM
Woodlot Facts
By DICK OLSON
Stat Farm Fortsler
Usually at this time of the
year, people are troubled to
see forest trees dying.
Sometimes it occurs single
ly but more often it occurs
in small patches. Both of these
cases are noticed by the gen
eral public as well as timber
owners themselves. The indi
vidual who is hit hard, per
haps the hardest, is the city
home-owner with a small lot,
who loses his Douglas fir or
Ponderosa pine shade tree due
to insects.
Numerous requests for in
formation about how insects
kill trees are received by the
Farm Foresters office. The
county agent and the U. S.
Forest service also receive
many calls about this matter.
For this reason, the week's
"Farm Forest Facts" is about
one of the area's worst insect
tree killers and its control.
This year's most dreaded in
sect tree killer is the Western
pine beetle (Dendroctonus
Brevicomis). The Western pine
beetle attacks and breeds pri
marily in Ponderosa pine.
In an examination of a dy
ing ponderosa pine tree, the
real killers, the western pine
beetles, often escape detection
because they are concealed
within the outer corky bark
or have completed their de
velopment and emerged. The
large grubs or beetles com
monly found between theibark
and wood of these trees are
of other species and of only
secondary importance.
The western pine beetle at
tacks only the main trunks of
trees with bark sufficiently
thick to protect its various
stages through its develop
ment. It does not breed in
limbs or small tops, and sel
dom attacks trees under six
inches in diameter. The nee
dles of infested trees fade rap
idly and progressively from
green through the yellows to
a red and then to reddish
brown. They die from the
center of the needle cluster
outward and usually from the
top of the tree downward
The third year afier attack,
about 80 per cent of the nee
dles drop from the tree, and
after the fifth year practically
all the needles have been lost.
Whether a tree has been
attacked by the western pine
beetle can best be determined
by examining the bark of a
suspected tree. If the tree has
been attacked, small amounts
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of fine yellow reddish borings
will be lodged in the crevices
of the bark or deposited on
the ground around the base of
the tree. Around, or closing
the point of entrance of a pair
of beetles will usually be
found pink or red pitch in the
form of a small tube, about
the size of a quarter. Trees
lacking vigor will have incon
spicuous "pitch tubes" or none
at all. The real evidence of
a devastating attack by this
insect can be found by remov
ing a section of bark. If a
maze of criss-crossed tunnels,
tightly packed with reddish
borings, is found winding
through the cambrium layer,
and bark the tree is doomed.
These are the egg galleries
constructed by the adult bee
tles. A few beetles cannot kill a
tree. It has been estimated
that a concentration of 12
pairs of beetles per square
foot of bark surface or about
6,100 beetles, are required to
kill an average sized Ponder
osa pine. It has been estimat
ed further, that enough new
beetles are produced in a sin
gle infested tree to kill five
other trees of the same size.
When the beetles alight on
the trunk of a tree, they seek
crevices in the bark and bore
small holes directly into the
cambium layer. If they en
counter too copious a flow of
sap or pitch, they may be
drowned or "pitched out."
However if the flow of sap
is weak, the beetles are able
to continue their boring
through the cambium or vital
growing layer of the tree.
During the summer months, it
takes only about 14 days for
the beetle to kill an average
sized ponderosa pine.
The adult western pine bee
tle is brown to black, cylin
drical, rather stout, and is
from. one-eighth to one-fourth
of an inch long. In Ponderosa
pine trees of this area, eggs
laid in trees attacked during
June and July develop into
beetles by August and Sep
tember. During September
and October, these new adults
attack and kill other trees, in
which they and their progeny
pass the winter in the egg,
larval, or beetle stage. Thus,
'.wo sels of trees are killed
annually in this area.
Control of this pest has
been and still is very difficult.
Once a Ponderosa pine tree
has been successfully attacked
by the insect, there is no
known method by which it
can be saved. The best natural
control, birds especially
woodpeckers devour vast
quantities of immature bee
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tles. These birds in search of
food, may nearly strip an in
fested tree of its bark. The
best direct control method is
to fall and burn infected trees
and spray the surrounding
trees with Thiodan. This is
a chemical that is still being
tested, but looks very promis
ing. Trunks of the trees should
be sprayed heavily as far up
as a power sprayer will reach.
In cases of acreage greater
than five or 10, aerial spray
ing may be the only answer.
Spraying should be done in
early June and again in Sep
tember. The most promising method
of combating the Western pine
beetle is improved forest man
agement practices. Thinning
of stagnated stands and sani
tation logging are two of
these practices. A healthy fast
growing tree or stand of trees
is the best insurance against
beetle attack.
Garden Tips
Leaf Scorch
The leaves on my trees are
turning brown. What should
I spray them with? This ques
tion is often asked at the
county extension office.
In many cases the browning
of leaves is due to environ
mental conditions. These con
ditions cause a water defi
ciency in the leaves. When
this happens, brown spots
form in the leaves and we
have a condition known as
leaf scorch.
Leaf scorch can be caused
by shallow soils, poor soils,
high temperatures, strong
winds and a number of other
conditions. The signs of leaf
scorch vary on different
plants, but the most common
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sign is the leaves turning
brown around the edges and
between the veins.
The thin-leaved species of
trees that have very little wax
on their leaves are most prone
to leaf scorch. Maple, dog
wood, horsechestnut, 1 i n den
and beech are commonly af
fected. Among the maples, the
Japanese Red Maple is mora
susceptible to leaf scorch, be
cause of the thinness and red
color of its leaves. Red leaves
absorb more heat from the
sun than green leaves. This
results in a great amount of
evaporation of water from the
leaves and a great demand (or
water from the leaf area.
Broad Leaves Suffer
Broad leaved evergreens,
such as rhododendrons, laurel
and azaleas will also suffer
from leaf scorch as a result of
drying winds during the win
ter months when the soil is
frozen. When water In the
soil is not available, the leaves
brown and die in a character
istic pattern with the leaf
edges and tips drying first.
On rhododendrons, we may
find scorch making itself evi
dent as two long brown areas
running parallel with and on
either side of the central vein
on the leaf. This scorch de
velops when the rhododen
dron leaf is curled up during
low temperatures, allowing
evaporation damage to occur
only on the long, narrow ex
posed section of the leaf.
The narrow leaved ever
greens, such as pine, spruce,
and fir, show leaf scorch by
a brown discoloration of the
needle tips. The more severe
the scorch, the farther down
the needle the browning oc
curs. This type may result
from either hot dry weather
in summer or from high
winds during cold weather.
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