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TUESDAY, HEAVY PEACH CROP This close up pic- fruit. The picture was taken in Bear Creek's ture ol an Alamar peach tree shows how Airport orchard a short distance from Table ' heavily laden the branches are. These large, Rock rd. and not far from the Medford firm peaches make good canncrs and fresh airport. Peach Trees Suggested For Orchard Interplants By JOE COWLES Mail Tribunt Farm Editor Some horticulturists in the Rogue valley are suggesting peach trees be planted in place of large blocks of decline destroyed pear trees. These authorities believe Jackson county produces top quality peaches with good lo cal outlets through road-side fruit stands. This year, peach growers have an added mar ket In the Roseburg and Sa lem areas. The peach crop in 397 Cattle Sold At Midway Sale; Yearlings Higher A total of 107 consignors sold 397 cattle, 12 hogs and 34 sheep during the reular Friday, Aug. 31 sale at Mid way Auction yard, reported Bill Bray, owner-manager. Bray reported a very ac tive market with yearling sir fs and slaughter cows selling higher. Good to choice steer calves sold at $26 to $27.10. Medium to good calves brought' $2.1 to $26. A pen of 4B5 pound steers sold for $25.00. Good heifer calves sold for $24 to $25.10. Medium heifer calves sold for $23 to $24. A good run of yearling steers was reported. A pen of 14 head of 600 pound steers sold for $25,30, .. pen of 625 pound steers for $24.60. 16 head of 747 pound steers at $23.50, six head of 1.020 Angus steers at $24.20 and six head of 022 pound steers sold at $23. Medium Stetri Medium steers brought $21 to $23. Good yearling heifer brought $21 to $23.30. Med ium heifers sold for $10 to $20.90. Holslein steer calves pold for $21.50 to $22.75. Yearling Holstein steers sold for $10.00 to $20.20. A pen of 10 head of 1.007 pound steers sold for $10.50. A truck-load of heavy fat calves weighing 440 to 550 pounds sold from $23 to $26.50. Grass-fat heifer brought $21 to $22.30. Medium grass heifers sold for $19 to $20.50 Fat cows sold for $16 10 i to $17.70 or about a dollar local businesses which show higher than last week. U'ility I local peach orchards on a col cows brought $14 to $15 til) lorful map with directions on and cutters sold for $12 50 j luiw to gel there. This valley to $13.60. does not have to ship all of Fat hogs sold much high er, bringing $20.20 to $21.10. Lambs sold for $18 In one bunch and $18 10 in another. Services Joined To Save Money Salem - Abolition of the post of nursery superinten dent and promotion of Incum bent Harold J. Foster to ail assistant chief of the state de partment of agriculture plant division was announced today by O. K. Beals. assistant di rector of consumer and trade services. A. ..iun( .l.i..f t will be responsible for nursery beneficial " 'R- non-bear-and also tor all entomology rcv" 10 rt'lleve congested and plant pathology functions rown- 1'hl- Putting the of the department. This an a crotch as low as the tree can is closely related to the ' bl' budded to develop a corn nursery field and coordination Paralively low tree for easy of these services will result in P'eking. The lower crotch time and money savings This is the second promt tlon for Foster in less than 18 months. He stepped up to the nursery post on July 1, lint year, following retirement of : T S. Wieman. SEPTEMBER 4. 1962 (he Roseburg area was frozen out early this spring. Also fruit stand operators in the Salem area found they can buy their peaches cheaper here. The road-side vendors from both areas are buying orchard run or peaches placed loosely and not packed in boxes. Peaches have the added ad vantage of paying off much earlier than pears come Into bear In three to five years compared to seven for pear trees. Some authorities be lieve as more acreage goes into pear decline more acre age will be planted to peaches. Low per acre cost gives yet another advantage. Recommends Shift One fruit grower feels val ley producers should switch more from Barllett pears to peaches. 'The valley can't stand a lot of Bartletts," he said. "Cal ifornia is too heavy with Bart letts for us to compete. They can produce Bartletts in three to four years in California while It takes seven or eight here." The viilley is keyed to a late peach such as liale, Hiu and Alamar, according to John Higdon, it-search horticultur ist for Bear Creek. There are good market vacancies then, he noted. This is one of the biggest reasons a good, early peach is shipped out of here, he added. Such a good, early peach is the Gold Hush, Higdon rec ommended. This could be shipped to any market point In the country. It is reliable and satisfying. Another reason for little promotion of a good, early shipping peach is the present packing house tie-up with pears. Some shippers are ulanting peaches and one sweet cherries, but most of the shipping firms shy away from anything but pears. Un til some of them do, the num ber of early peaches shipped out of here will always be small. Has High Quality Ptach "Jackson county docs grow i a real, high quality peach and has good markets for it," Hig don said. Shipments have gone to I.os Angeles and Den ver, to Texas and Oklahoma. 11 can compete with the Yak ima peach, the horticulturist noted. Some peach growers feel County Agent Don Berry has good idea in distributing place-mats to restaurants and I its peaches. Sales at orchards and fruit stands eliminate packaging and cold storage costs. 'he Airport orchard off Ta ! . ble Hock id. and near the Medford airport is an illustra tion of lligdon's theories. Peach trees are pruned to a strong outside framework to prevent undue losses f r o m breaking limbs. But, he is ', - areliil not In orune heaw use heavy nitrogen fertiliza tion and late cultivation to bring on winter injury, too late maturing fruit with poor color and quality and exces sively large and coarse The Bear Creek horticul turist also feels a little sum- l""'K sometimes with low shade is a weed- preventative. loo. It I g d o n pointed out Temporary ties with burlap j and later permanent ties witii ', wires 2'j feet higher than the first ties keep the trees to- gether so limbs don't split off. The Bear Creek orchard crew also uses a sprinkler which can be turned low to irrigate under the low limbs. A cap ball with a hole in it can he adjusted easily. One disadvantage to peach es Is picking time is a crisis time. Three days is the only picking margin allowed for the highly perishable fruit. Pears have a 10 day margin. This year most valley peach trees have fruit on almost every twig. These trees at the Airport orchard are produc ing a fourth crop on three year wood. Higdon rated each tree at four boxes. J. H. Hale and Hale Havens have a long exposed blossom pistole. Bear Creek crews pro tect this delicate, but vital pollinizalion organ by keep ing the night early spring temperatures to at least 28 de grees. The self-pollinating species such as Dixie Red, Dixie Gems, Gold Rush. Improved Elberta, Elbertas, Rio Oso all pollinate before the pistole be comes exposed. Higdon follows such uncon ventional practices as not ir rigating the third year and fertilizing only as he sees the trees need it. Fertilization us ually amounts to two ounces of ammonia sulphate per tree per year. Most horticulturists prefer to follow a regular fertilization schedule or make a ler.f analysis as a check. Higdon, who was educated in the South Carolina and Michi gan peach country, says he can tell merely by looking at the tree. Other authorities point out this is a gamble on orchard management practices and weather coinciding Just right. However, they all agree good soil is the fundamental key to a good orchard. The Airport orchard, like many successful orchards in the valley, is carefully graded and levelled to make for easier and more efficient irrigation. California is the leading peach producing state with a total of 32.740.000 bushels, both clingstone and freestone, or 11,022.000 bushels of free stone and 21.718.000 bushels of clingstone varieties. Michi gan follows with 3.270,000 bushels and Oregon 744.000 bushels. China was the first home of the peach. Spaniards brought it to America. Fifty years aft er Cortez it was commonly grown In Mexico. County Agent in Graduate Study CS o i . f Wlm v it, i'o 1 1 n(y c x tension ajjont in field crops and .soils, has been m anted a years leave of absence ef fective Sept. 1, according to C. U. Cordy, chairman of the Jackson county extension staff. Winters, during the coming school year will do graduate work in soils and crops at the University of California at Davis, and will retu .1 to Jackson county Sept. 1, tt)fi;t, Cordy said. Gene Lear, associate direc tor of the Oregon State Uni versity Cooperative Extension service, announced today that t.erl CS. Wilcox. Junction City, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Jack son county extension staff, Sept. IS. The new agmt is a grad uate of Utah State university in (arm crops and has a master's degree in farm crops and soils from Oregon State university. Me is married and has four children. Now he is work unit con scrvationiM with the Soil Conservation Service at Junc tion City. WELL DISTRIBUTED A Bear Creek Orchard employee spreads out the limbs of an Alamar peach tree in the Airport orchard to show how both the inside and outside sections of the tree are heavily hung with peaches. Bear Creek crews prune to a sturdy outside framework of limbs to prevent limb splitting and to open up the inner sections of the tree to fruit growth. The trees also have low crotches so the low overhanging limbs will slow weed growth. It also makes for a lower tree, easier to pick. Farm & Government Action Hurts Stockmen Corvallis - The Pacific Northwest produces more than enough grain to supply Its livestock feeding industry, but high prices, influenced by government action, are threatening the industry. That is the word from Ore- Sheep Promotion Ballots in Mail; Vote Due Sept. 21 By ALBERT STRAUS A.S.C. Commille Chairman Ballots for voting in the referendum on the lamb and wool promotion and market development program will be mailed between Sept. 4 and 7 to producers in Jackson Coun ty, Albert Straus, chairman, agricultural stabilization and conservation county commit tee, announced today. The reterendum will deter mine whether or not deduc tions will continue to be made from producer payments earn ed under the wool incentive program. Funds collected are used by the American Sheep Producers Council to carry out a program of advertising, promotion, and related activi ties under an agreement with the secretary of agriculture. Such an agreement has been in effect since the 1055 marketing year. It was ap proved by producers voting in 1055 and 1050 refcrendums. If approved in the September referendum, the agreement will be extended for four more years. Producers having two thirds of the volume of pro duction represented by votes in the referendum must ap prove if the agreement is to be extended. Consideration will also be given to the num ber of votes cast for and against the agreement by in dividual producers. Deductions Deductions from wool and lamb payments under the new agreement would not exceed 1 cent per pound for shorn wool and 5 cents per hundred weight for unshorn lambs. De ductions at these rates have been made from payments for each previous marketing year since 1055. Producers may vote in the referendum during the period I Sept. 10 through Sept. 21. The period of voting will last tor two weeks in order to en courage participation in the referendum by as large a I number of sheep producers as possible Preliminary refer-, j endum results will be an- nounced laic in September j Producers who are eligible to vote in the referendum are I all those who have owned j sheep or lambs, six months of j age or older, for any one period of at least 30 days since Jan. 1. 1002. F.ach producer I will report the number uf sheep and lambs on his ballot. ! Chairman Straus urges any i producer who believes he is eligible to vole and who docs not receive a ballot by Sept. 10 to gel in touch with the I ASCS county otfiee. To be counted, the ballots must be received by the office not later than Sept. 21 Pet Alligator Bock In Tub After Trip F.xeter. M l. '1TI' - Albert, the three legged Alligator, was back in his wash tub today several pounds heavier. Albert, the pet of John l.ogue. 10. of Columbus. Ohio, disappeared last July while Logue vacationed here The j 'gator emerged from a swamp onto a road Sunday, stopped traffic and brought to the scene police and Losue with, a forked stick to reclaim his pet. I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Garden gon State university econo mists who have been studying the situation which has been forcing Northwest livestock and poultry feeders to pay nearly $15 a ton more for feed grain than feeders in the Mid west. The study shows that in the Northwest, barley, chief locally-grown feed grain since 1054, is being exported in suf ficient quantities to reduce supplies. The government does not have adequate stocks of barley, corn or milo in the region to keep market prices below support levels. On the other hand, the gov ernment has large stocks of corn and grain sorghum (milo) available in the Midwest. In order to encourage farmers to participate in feed grain pro grams, these government own ed stocks are being sold at market prices below the sup port level. Pay More As a result, Oregon and Northwest livestock and poul try feeders are paying consid erably more per ton for their feed. Tbis makes it hard for them to compete, despite the fact that the area is self-sufficient in feed except for a small amount of corn and milo used by poultry feeders, pointed out Harold F. Hol lands and Marion Thomas, OSU agricultural economists. Government action, not the lack of locally produced feed grains, is chiefly responsible for the current price spread, the biggest of recent years, these economists believe. Production of barley and corn in the Northwest has in creased from about 700,000 Ions in 105U to about l'.s mil lion tons in each of the years since then. Little more than a million tons of all grains are used annually for feed in this region. Thus, without including wheat, grain production in the Pacific Northwest is more than adequate to meet re quirements of an expanding livestock and poultry feeding industry, it was explained. In addition, Northwest stor age facilities are adequate. All barley, wheat and oats grow ers can comply with govern ment programs if they desire to benefit from support prices. Hollands and Thomas noted. There is also storage available for substantial amounts of grain produced elsewhere in the U.S. As the price of barley climbs under demand from countries where it is used for food as well as feed. Pacific Northwest livestock feeders are reminded of a similar pat tern lor wheat, which was used as the chief feed grain until priced out of the market during World War 11. Can Avoid Problem Although national stocks of feed grains are huge and ex porting is one way of helping to reduce them, the econo mists believe that steps can be taken to avoid penalizing the Northwest segment of the feeding industry through the administration of government grain programs While the Pacific North west is a logical area from which to export grains, it is also the logical area to be come the chief meat produc ing rcqion for the west coast, which docs not now produce enough iiiki to satisfy de mand, the economists empha size In addition, the economists point out that the livestock feeding industry has operated with relatively little govern ment aid. wlnle grain produc ers, willingly or not. have had government price supports, export programs and other assistance These have tended to make feeders pay more for feed th;n they would have paid without such programs. I'nless some relief is given the Norihwest feeder indus try. Hollands and Thomas he lirve that its future is in seri ous jeopardy. Chit Chat y JOI COWLEY Mail Tribunt Frm Editor The U. S. fruit industry seems to be making some head way toward removal of overseas restrictions against fruit imports according to a recent memorandum by George W. Ball, issued to a group of U, S. Senators concerned with the problem. He reaffirms his intentions to get France, as the hard core of resistance, to remove restrictions on apples and pears and on other items where the European Economic Community (Common Market) has given the United States tariff conces sions. He again declares the United States will resort to Article XXIII (the formal complaints procedure) of the Gen eral Agreement on Trade and Tariffs. Thus, if France fails to remove its illegal restrictions, the United States can with draw "compensatory benefits." This means that if France still refuses to drop the barriers to importation of pears, for instance, the U. S. can set similar restrictions on importa tion of French wines or Renault cars. "The United States government has made formal requests under Article XXIII to France for elimination of restrictions," Ball stated in his memorandum. "We intend to pursue the matter further until a satisfactory conclusion is reached." And, "The United States will continue to seek improved access for apples and pears and for other fruit products still subject to restriction in the United Kingdom, Norway, Den mark, Sweden and Austria," Ball declared further. This action is a fairly broad one since it includes dried peaches, processed prunes in packages of less than 50 kilos, dried apples and pears, mixtures with prunes, frozen fruit with sugar, canned fruits, grape juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, apple and pear juice, other fruit juices, fruit juice mix tures (citrus fruit and pineapple) and other juice mixtures (mainly citrus). Pacific Coast fruit shippers are concerned now mainly with non-tariff barriers. By non-tariff barriers or restrictions we mean these: Until recently Florida oranges with an arti ficial skin coloring were barred. A 50 kilo package dried prunes is the limit in package size set by France. Requiring such a large unwieldy package has the same effect as barring dried prune imports. Although France is the hard core of resistance to lifting fruit import restrictions, of course, other countries are in volved, too. Pacific Coast fruit shippers, in particular, have been ap prehensive over admittance of the United Kingdom to the Common Market. They have been afraid the British Com monwealth countries would be brought in at the same time and their Commonwealth preferential trade barriers allow ed to stand. This would mean a trade-wall within a trade-wall and make it harder than ever to get pears and apples into England, a major importer of such. Now, the under secretary of the state department says entry of the United Kingdom (if and when it occurs) may lead the way to remove discriminatory trade treatment by the United Kingdom against the United States and in favor of other suppliers. It may also result in the removal of pres ent quantitative import restrictions against imports from the dollar area (such as the U. S.) although the U. K. probably will still favor British West Indian fruit. The state department is moving ahead on other fronts, too, according to Ball's memorandum. It has requested an advance commitment that the Federal Republic of Germany will liberalize imports of apples and pears and other prod ucts when the German GATT waiver expires this November. Germany has been notified, also, that it will oppose illegal application of import restrictions on products on which the EEC has given the United States tariff concessions. Apples, pears and canned and dried fruits are included. Not so firm is Ball's statement that the United States "will repeat earlier efforts to get Belgium to admit apples and pears before the expiration of the waiver which now permits application of seasonal import controls on apples and pears." This waiver expires Dec. 31, 1062. The U. S. will oppose its extension, Ball declared. Accomplished so far is removal of import controls on fresh apples and pears by the Netherlands in July, 1960 and remov al of restrictions by Italy, a fruit exporter, in December, 1960. There are still some major corrections in the fruit trade problems left undone. Other western European countries re strict entry of fresh apples and pears by halting imports un til the marketing of domestic fruit is assured. At first glance, this seems a fair and liberal policy. But, U. S. fruit snippers are not notified of the barriers being lifted until it is too late to get their highly perishable products enroute to Eu rope. Also, the western European policy of protecting domes tic fruit is not flexible enough to allow U. S. fruit in earlier during crop-shortage periods. This is particularly important when the U. S. fruit ship pers could get a higher price for their fruit during a Euro pean fruit shortage period. And when it could compensate for a poor U. S. market price. The fruit size is not so important in Europe as it is in the U. S. so smaller, but high quality pears, for instance, have more consumer demand than they would in this country. U. S. representatives have proposed to the EEC commis sion that the common external tariff for the member coun tries be set at 15 per cent after England joins. The authority of the proposed Trade Expansion Act is needed to back up plans for a further tariff reduction, Ball asserts. The U. S. representatives also propose that Commonwealth trade preferences or barriers be gradually reduced to nothing after the United Kingdom enters the Common Market. Fruit shippers feel they should be included in any trade negotiations affecting them. Ball said in his memorandum this is impossible and not practical. However, he does recommend that a representative of the fruit industry be in Geneva dur ing the GATT sessions and conferences to act as unofficial technical adviser. This could be done at the 20th GATT session scheduled to convene in Geneva on Oct. 22. he stated. The joker in this deck is this statement in Ball's memo randum: "But, while we feel it would be improper for rep resentatives of specific commodity interests to participate in the decisions made in the course of negotiations - or even to be advised in specific terms as to the nature of the offers to be made by our negotiators in the course of the nego tiations - this does not rule out the desirability of having i available the best possible technical advice to our deleca ; tions." j Our question is this: How can a representative or repre sentatives of the fruit industry be effective advisers unless ! they know the specific trade terms proposed? It reads like an attempt to appease the fruit Industry and at the same time I prevent any possible pressure being applied by the industry , during the negotiation period. In other words, the fruit industry would be like a man about to be operated on without knowing what is going to be removed; his tonsils or his leg "Several years ago flax was grown out at the old Talent agronomy station near the city of Talent." Whi'e said '"However, the price was so low tin the flax seed that we dropped it Now the general market situation for oil ;cds has improved enough that we feel now we should take an other look. This includes Sal flower, soy beans, flax etc." BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stamltts. Gjlvjnitcd and Copper Fabrication 22S7 West Main fHONI 771-4440 Feeder Sale Dates Set by Stockmen Approximately 2,900 head ford association's range ready of cattle, about the same as bull sale, last year, are expected for j Last year's calves were consignment during the series j bought by both Oregon and of feeder sales at the Rogue California buyers in truck Valley auction, according to load lots. Steers sold as high Bob Bevcr, yard manager. ! as $26 and heifers 23.50. The sales, sponsoed by the ! Yearlings brought as high as Jackson County Stockmen's $23.50 for steers and heifers association, are scheduled for ($21.50. Oct. 10, Nov. 20 and Dec. 4. strict Sifting Oct. is the Cal.-Ore. Here- j A s(rict (ifting committea Pit Virus MnilV K II V I l "" ' " - Hits Local Pears Stonv Dit virus in pears is as bad this year as it v as in the peak year of 1953, County Agent Don Berry said following a survey the last few weeks. This is primarily a disease of Bosc pears which can be transmitted in bud wood. These things the local agri cultural scientists know. But they do not know ex actly what spreads it. This disease makes the pears knar ly and wrinkled on the out side with little pits making them unfit for consumption. Dr. O. J. Milbrath, OSU plant pathologist, is conducting an extensive research program to aetermine the causes and possible cures. He docs recommend grow ers start with a clean wood free of stony pit and graft in stony-pit resistant limbs. This will enable a grower to stay in the pear business since this disease spreads rlowly. Researchers have noted the spread is very slow in local orchards. Trees infected in 1953, however, still have the disease, Berry said. 1 showed they were well pleas The Southern Oregon jed with the condition of Branch Experiment station will put in two acres of flax this fall in cooperation with (the farm crops division of I Oregon State university. This will be for weed control, Su perintendent Harold White said. " WWWUW.W.W!. r r.m.mt-1. i tiff 4 iL Ui V New RUELENE 2 5 E Just POUR ON! Kills cattle grubs, lice, hornflies, for 7 cwt! Now Ul both common and northern grubs, hce and hornfl.es the easy ay. with Ri l l im ' 2JE Pour-On Cattle Insecticide A product of I he Dow Chemical Company, it's proved most effective used on a hull -million head in 1961 alone! low con Only it a hundred bodyweichi; no run-off or waste, foil 1 reals more animals per hour than spravinp; simpler. Suft A single application kills grubs, lice, ho'rnflics. Aiiumit Kach animal gels exact dose: one ounce per cwt fey Just mix wiih water, apply. No unusual handling prob lems, no marking treated animals, no cold-weather hazards jm ' l Remember You Do Not Have to Be Member To Shop Har and Sava! ' 7 SUPPLY ASSOCIATION HIGHWAY 99 IN CENTRAL POINT Phone 664-1261 or 773-4022 421 "A" STREET IN ASHLAND Phone 482-2143 makes sure only top quality Hereford and Angus yearlings and calves enter the auction ring. A lot of buyer interest is expected since the market looks a little better now than last year. Twenty-three out of town buyers attended the 1 first sale held last year. Dur- ing the last sale of tc year. 17 buyers purchased 1,040 cattle in one hour, 20 min utes. Sizeable penlots are an ticipated for this year, and no singles. Bever reminded prospec tive consigners that they don't have to be yard stock holders to sell cattle in any sale. The sale is open to anyone who wants to con sign good quality cattle. Sale charges will be S2 a head with one dollar going to the stockmen's association and the other for yard expenses. Last year the auction yard spent $3,000 for improve ments such as connecting alley-ways and pens plus a new corral. Now, according to a conservative estimate, the yard can handle 1.500 head of cattle. The feeders come primarily from Jack son and Josephine counties. Buyers come from as, far south as El Centra, Calif., and also out of Klami'lh coun ty. A follow-up survey of buy ers from last year's sales ; calves and yearlings, Bever said. "We had no sick cattle or other related troubles. They were good country fresh cat tle which came right off pas tures and range country," Bever noted. "TV Kt if t J 4 & $ f: A V risrt uirrtK: Huy handy half- specially calibrated Pour-On dipper ol no extra tost.' A St'I. W-57' j u .huh; wur
