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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON FARM Vegetable Outlook Given; Bush Beans Set Record iWoodlot Facts On Packaa TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1962 Oleo Hearing Sef Corvallis - Oregon's vegeta ble tonnage for processing promises to be bigger, but most vegetable crops lor the fresh market are in smaller supply than last year, reports S. C. Marks, extension agri cultural economist at Oregon Stste university. !inap bean growers arc now harvesting a crop which may reach 125.300 tons, nearly 27 per cent of the national pro duction and a record amount, Marks said. -At the same time, the sea son's first estimate for sweet corn for processing in Oregon points to 124,600 tons, one per cent more than last year and also a new record. The state's green pea crop for processing, estimated at f4.000 tons, may have yielded 16 per rent more tonnage than in 1961. but would still be Emergency Fund Unspent Total Salem - The stale emergen cy board will have 840,000 more than it anticipated large ly because of cold weather in late May. J. F. Short, director of the state department of ag riculture, has advised Emer gency Board Chairman, Sen. Harry D. Boivin, that none of its S'10,000 earmarked for grasshopper destruction was used. Short stated that in mid May ranchers in Harney coun ty and the Department decid ed to handle the grasshopper problem differently than orig inally planned. The ranchers agreed to furnish all labor which, in the end, amounted to S5.314.00; the county agreed to furnish gas, oil and drivers for spray trucks, an end total of S877.91; and the state agreed to furnish diesel and insecticide, a final cost of S3. 045.30. Harney County Cosl The entire Harney county program cost S9.237.21. The State Deportment of Agriculture, working for the first time under a lump sum appropriation granted by the 1961 Legislature, was able to pay its third of the operation without tapping the emergen cy appropriation, Director Shorty explained. In Grant county adverse "ive her conditions resulted in a high percentage of nymph kill an early July survey re vealed. Consequently no con trol program was conducted in that county. In his report to the emer gency board, Director Short pointed out that surveys this summer did indicate that a serious infestation could de velop next year. nearly a fourth less than the record year of 1956. More Carrots Vegetable output for the fresh market this summer and fall indicates less sweet corn, cabbage, cantaloupes, melons ' and tomatoes, but substantial ly more carrots, the econo mist noted. i Acreage of jweet corn for ) the fresh market is the same I as in 1961, but yields are down. Reduced acreage and ; the prospect of lighter yields ! is the story on early fall cab i base, he continued. Waler j melon production in Oregon, I forecast at 234,000 hundrcd ; weight, is down 12 per cent from last year, due to less acreage and lower yields. ! Cantaloupe tonnage, at 19,- 000 hundredweight, looks to j be only slightly smaller than i last year. Tomato tonnage, at 62.000 hundredweight, would be a tenth below 1961. pri marily due to smaller acre age. Marks explained. Carrots are the exception in Oregon's vegetable produc tion for fresh market. If the 850,000 hundredweight carrot crop materializes, it would be nearly a tenth above 1961 and ".'ell above average, he point ed out. Increased yields on moderately more acres ac count for the increase. 8 If lit nut in ! .i , 1 rjj Salem - If the public ap- the woods and see a man with s ug8CStioPto be prl a sack pursuing a squirrel he P is not trying to bag a g ay : agnclliu,re a. a hear- digger He is jus gat tann seed the same as the squirrel. I ' . But for a different reason, j Sarmc falc,s wl bp ' The squirrel uses the seed 'or Bnu "ljV, zcs o spe future food but man uses it ; c"' cinis. for future trees; trees that are ' These weights would be -,..,.:.,,) ll hnnWreri f.'u'SC whldl CUStOUl has CS- l"ulkJu ' Inlil ith.iH - nnn.ni,Pll, r,r,,,,-, Weight 'rm Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate 1962) of; wood products used by man; Neither Jelly nor Fish I room or an opened umbrella About the only thing jelly-1 without a handle. The body, fish have in common with look somelhin one-half pound, one pound, j fish is that they both live in tratispariM-it. having a delib- movement in , which does j like jelly, Edmund E. Hass As the old growth timber Z I" j water. Although the jellyfish erate grace of stands of the Pacific North-! p ,... , comes in a wide assortment I the water. ren,,l:,linn hn-o hion cilnntiof sizes and colors, tllCie IS I I FROM Til groksid ' bp west are depleted, the need for starting a new crop of trees for the future becomes more and more important. Logging creates about 200.000 acres of new clear cut areas each year in the Pacific Northwest. Fire denudes thou sands of acres each year. Al though nature has provided J for ample and prompt restock- j ing, this does not often occur. j In most cases, we cannot af- i ford to wait for nature to do . this, and artificial reforcsta-1 tion through planting or seed- j ing is necessary. j More than half a million I bushels of seed cones are col- j lected each year, providing a source of income for thou sands of people. Many folks have found that cone collect ing provides an enjoyable week end diversion in the woods and a chance to earn extra cash at the same time on standards of weight for but one flavor. Their range either product. Which may ; of size is terrific, from liny be one reason for the 13-' ones no larger than a pinhead ounce weight packages of ; lo some that may measure margarine appcarin.' on the ! seven feet across, market and which resemble ; Someone, sometime or other the usual pound package. The hearing will be in the department headquarter?. 158 1 2th st., N.E.. Salem, at 10 o'clock standard time. Inter ested persons unable to at tend may submit views in writing prior to the hearing. If the department's propo sals prevail, at the nearing, the 13-ounce packages of olco would be ruled off the Ore gon market. who must have possessed a flare for the ridiculous, called the jellyfish "the medusae," because the long streamer-like appendages on the underside of the creature suggested the locks of the Gorgon, the one ancient mythology pictured as a "headful of snakes." To most people the jelly-, fish looks more like a mush- CV7 Service Exam Listed for Officer Civil service examinations Experienced cone collectors re nt,w on "r medical of- Jin i,n 1IHI III U1U r (Utctlllrt I'd III UUU YclfcV.n mump,, imv cone collecting season Important Service f Vam lunnMn'i ,,11 VtSOi? a baker to YLjJT P3ve 1m driveway! WE'RE HAVING ' a SPECIAL SLIDE-MOVIE PROJECTORS SCREENS irm i'JBSOH' ROGUE CAMERA 613 E. Main 773-4288 The CREDIT BUREAU 15 NOW AUDITING ACCOUNTS for the next RED&00Z3 Ycu make your own rating by the ay Vou Pav Your bil'5. Pay promptly and make a good rating. A Slow Paid Bill looks be'tcr than a Slow Bill that s still owing. Fsy to-n today! C3E0IT BUREAU cf Bedford By BART BARTLETT This week will be the last week of the Bartlelt pear har vest in this area. Looking back on the season which began as early as Aug. 15 it is obvious that the sea son was fairly normal as far as the period from start to finish is concerned, j Certainly some rather ripe fruit is being harvested this i near the end of the season, but ! this is not unusual. It seems j that if the entire valley crop j is taken into account that (sizes were smaller than nor mal. ! This faclor must be con : sidered in its proper perspec- tivc before il can be said that this was a year when Bartlelt j sizes were predestined by un favorable growing conditions. A more realistic approach seems to be that some growers did not thin heavily enough and ended the season wilh an unusual amount of small fruit. This error in judgment is be ing compounded by picking and attempting to market such small pears. The worst fruit that is of fered for sale often tends lo set the price for the best fruit instead of being a salvage operation! 10 Days For Peaches The valley peach crop which consists of rather late varieties is being harvested j now in quantity. This harvest I will extend for another 10 days and offers a real oppor- i (unity for girls and boys and I women (o earn some cash. The peaches will be of good size and of excellent quality if the ! present weal her holds for the ! harvest period. If very cool nights occur Again both the sizes and quality of our peach crop will be lowered. Tomatoes react to weather conditions very much the same as do peaches. Whe.i the nights are marked by very low temperatures, tomato fruils grow well, but ripen very slowly. The lomalo crop for the valley is late this year but will be of excellent qual ity for slicing or canning. The winter pear harvest : will begin soon. There is I nothing known to man that I ripens the Washington apple crop as quickly as do the first few days of D'Anjou pear har vest in this area. ; Wheat Referendum Set To Determine Quota Wheat farmers will vote in a referendum Aug. 30 to de cide whether marketing quo ta? will apply for the 19H3 crop, according in a newslet ter from the Orcein Wheal Growers league. The law directs that acre age allotments are to be used each year, but at least two thirds of the referendum votes must favor quotas if they are to be in effect, according lo tiie announcement. If marketing quotas are not approved there will he n't marketing quoia pcnaltv for ovcrplan'ing the allotment Price support would be avail able at SI 21 per bushel to those planting within the acreage allotment No pric: support would be available to j producers planting in execs of the allotment. ficcr in the Pi I Zone. The position is under the llie main purpose oi , emplovment is in fodcrat hos article is to make the genera j pUals on b()lll lnp Atla,ltic public, as well as the small and pacific sidcs o tne 20ne, woodland owner, aware of this , Aridilional injormalion mav important service performed . bp obtninod by writing to the by a few. . ' Central Employment office, Cone collectors fine, that it . Drawcr 2008, Ealboa Heights, pays 10 gei complete miu..""-1 canal zone. Announcements tion from cone dealers or their buying agents before they start to pick. These contacts are important to -the picker to determine current prices and types of cones that are in demand. By finding out where to pick, what to pick, and how to test cones for re quired ripeness and seed qual ity, they avoid the possibility of collecting cones that they cannot sell. Cone buyers are sometimes able to direct pick ers to heavier cone producing areas and advise them who to contact for permission to take cones. Nature usually produces heavy cone crops over a wide area at three to five year in tervals. During other years, the crop is spotty with com plete failure in some areas, Crop failures arc most likely to occur the year before or the year after a bumper cone year. So far it looks like a spotty cone crop year in the Rogue valley area. Tree seed dealers buy large quantities of cones during good cone years and accumulate suf ficient seed to supply demands through several lean years. Besides being easier to gather during bumper crop years, cones produced at this time contain a greater number of sound seed and fewer seed eating insects. The cone collecting season lasts for only a few months during late summer and early fall. Cones must be gathered before the cones dry out and the scales open. The brown open cones, which are scat tered about under the trees or still attached lo the branches are old cones and do not contain seed. Cones at lower elevations in Southern Oregon are now ripening. The ripening season gradually ex tends from lower to higher elevations. Cone picking should stop when Douglas-Fir, Pine, Spruce. Cedar and Hem lock cones start to open and shed their seed. In the case of Noble Fir. Grand Fir, Con color Fir and other true Firs, the entire cone will begin to break apart and shed both cone scales and seeds. Collecting Methods There are several methods also are available from L. B. Nelson, civil service examiner at the Mcdford post office. Hold Everything! NOW YOU KNOW Fire-walking, in which re ligious followers walk over coals or healed stones, still is practiced in Bulgaria, Trini dad, India, Japan, Tahiti, and other lands, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Mamas and Papas j What isn't so readily evi I dent is that there are both mama and papa jellyfish, and ' mama lays eggs. Jellyfish , have little or no personality or character, but they do j possess a nervous system, a mouth and a certain degree of desire to keep moving through the water. During the , daytime they prefer to swim 1 on or near the surface, but at night they submerge. On I moonlight nights they gambol I on the surface; perhaps they ! think the sun is shining, i They have no shell or skele j ton, and become a shapeless mass u removed from the water. About 98 per cent of their total weight is water. They have but little time to swim or eat, for they only live about a year: even the big seven fool ones attain their size in a short time. Some start out in life and practically waste their time, short lives in company with 1 bright china saucers of vari as even at death they have ; many brothers and sisters, ous colors depending on tha only attained the size of a . u,i,i., j. -j , , . dot at the end of a Drintcd i Afler ha,chil,8 ,rom the individual species; some red, sentence 1 slri"s ot et!gs' ,he litlle ones' ' blue' purPle' or 'cmon-yellow. ' '. being more or less flat and but they are all jellyfish and They Swim dished, arc stacked atop one i all one flavor; but certainly There are many varieties . another resembling a pile of I not fish or jelly either, found in nearly any ocean. They appear mostly when Ihe water is quiet. When the sur face is lashed by wind and wave, these frail creatures sink into the depths . The swimming is an undulating motion, a sort of pulsating j opening and closing of the outer rim of the body. Al though it looks awkward, the j jellyfish can actually go i about where il desires. Underneath the umbrclla- like body are long streamer j like tentacles, often armed I with stinging cells. These cells stun small fish or other mar i ine organisms on w-hich the jellyfish feeds. f On the underside Is the mouth, fringed with frills. J Baby jellyfish start their 1111111 100 "t, gum tifuttal spii.ls 80 proof, I nl ernati una I Dislillenej Co., L A Vice-President PACIFIC NORTHWEST CO. Investment Securities Since 1921 302-3 FLUHRER BLDG. Central and Main Phone 773-7319 Q Telephone 773-7319 to consult with Mr. Hass on invest ment and retirement programs using the securities of utilities, banks, insurance, industrial, and Mutual Fund shares. Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Aberdeen, Bellmgham, Yakima, Wenatchee, Walla Walla and Boise. m ACIF1C NORTHWEST COMPANY In vest men t S icurities Members: Midwest Slock Exchange Correspondents of . . . KIDDER, PEABODY and COMPANY Members: New York Stock Exchange Everybody loves delightful, different potholders ideal for gifts, showers, bazaar. Bonanza! Eight gay, clever potholders some just 2 pieces, plus binding. Rooster is double holder. Pattern 71f5: transfers; directions. THIRTY - KIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for lsl-class mailing. Send to Alice Brooks, care of Medford Mail Tribune Neecllecraft Dept.. P.O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. 19K3's Biggest Ncedlecnift Show stars smocked acces soriesit's our new Nccdle- ufed for collecting cones. One craft Catalog! Plus over 2(10 of these methods is picking j ircsn-u,-you designs to knit, from standing trees. Best cone , crochet, sew. weave, embroi nicking trees are y o u n g. I r. quill. Plus free pattern. healthy, well - formed and j Scnd2Sc now! heavily laden Willi cones. , Cone picking equipment in- quiremcnts. Large quantities eludes: (11 Hook with 5-foot can be collected from under long handle, (2) safety bc'l, 1 trees or from caches without i.'ti gloves, (4) Solvent, '5) : depriving them of necessary picking bag or bucket, (fi) food (6) serviceable burlap gunny j The future for cine collect sacks, (7) old work clothing, j ing looks good, ."oresl tree (8) first aid kil. If) cone test- nurseries require thousands of ing knife. Another method of gather ing cones is picking from felled trees in logging, 1-ind clearing, or road building operations. I have heard of pounds of seed to grow plant ing stock for private and ; public plantings. In addition, thousands of pounds of seed j arf Ireated with a rodent re- ' pellent and scattered system- a? BiiS'dsrs Supply LI: cares wborc tho cones wto alically over nonstocked lands worth mnrr thnn the logs. The : from helicopters. It seo-.ns third mrthnd of obUiirvng ' Ih-Tt a strong demand for for-eonr-s is from squirrel cuttings est. tree seed will continue and caches. Squirrel caches for many years, are much more difficult to j fir.,; than freshly cut cones scattered over the ground. Squirrels usually cut cones early in the morning a"d then $pend the remainder of the day hiding their cones in a number of caches. Squirrels locate their caches in moist, shady spots such as over hanging banks near streams or under an old moss covered log Don't feel too sorry for the squirrels because ex perienced woodsmen have ob served they cut. far more eon1 than they need for food r?- QUALITY BLOCKS Chimneys Concrete PHONE 773-457S 727 MeAndrtwi liB jiiii iipB liw f""''jr i i ill,1 FJK" vffv : i From perpetual Weyerhaeuser tree farms . . . Man-made panels to serve your building needs Man-made panels are among the most versatile and useful materials to emerge from forest products research in recent years. 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