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6 A- TUtbOAr. BLOODED STOCK - This carefully culled herd of Herefords are the breadwinner for Day Hereford ranch In Little Shasta near Montague, Calif. The blood line is N. H. R. Donald Dominoe 42nd breeding. Day will explain how the California Beef Cattle Im Siskiyou County Cattleman First To Use BCIA Prog ram Montague-Frank and Mar garet Day of the Day Here ford Ranch in Little Shasta near Montague are the first registred breeders in Siskiyou County to use the California Beef Cattle Improvement as sociation program and one of the few in the state to use it consistently. Their operation comprises 320 acres, nearly all under Irrigation. They credit their start in greater Improvement to the help given them by Sedg Nelson, Siskiyou County Farm advisor and Dan Peter son, 1 Shasta County ' Farm advisor. They helped cull out about half of their herd from 100 to SO good ones. Since' that beginning they have constantly and consis tently improved the quality, not only of the cows but of the herd bulls. Their blood line is N. H. R. Donald Domi noe 42nd Breeding. They are very well satisfied with the results and say .it works fine if applied with rtlllaenre Thev nri enthusi astic about It and plan to con tinue. They pride themselves on having over 95 per cent! . When Time and Labor Won't Permit Everyday Attention To Your Cattle . .'. PURINA RANGE BLOCKS Are Just What You Are Looking For Convenient 33'j lb. Size 36 Protein Contains Minerals end Silt No Bunki Required Economical SPECIAL Introductory one Block With Purchase Offer Good This Week Onlyl Quantity Discounts Do Not Apply. DLCtMBEH 11, 1982 yJk . of their own breeding in their heifers, with a complete record on each one. Frank Day, who was named for his grandfather, remenv bers from early childhood in Lewistown, Montana that he always wanted a ranch. His grandlather homestead' ed near Lewistown in 1859, established the . first . post office, the building still stands and Is commemorated as such Young Day got his start in cattle In 1922, when as a high school boy he cashed his war bonds and saving stamps, bought two registered calves. He still has the small note book in which he recorded the transaction. He recalls there was no ready market in Montana for the number of cattle in the numbers in which they were produced. The ranchers band ed together contracted a train, shipped their combined herds, rode on the' same freight trains, tended them on t h e way and took them either to Kansas City or Chicago. Upon arrival they had to be fin ished on corn and then sold to market. His father. George Day, FEED PURINA RANGE BLOCKS! To Feed Offer ence ritci. of 10 Blocks! r.'.MJMrH!! provement association! program worked for him when he talks to the Jackson County Stockmen's association Thursday night in the Central Point Grange hall. County Agent Earle Jossy . will explain how the Oregon system works.. following in his father's- foot steps, instilled in the young boy a desire for good stock, always getting the best he could, afford. George would often go to Iowa to purchase his stock of cows and horses. After a number of hard years many of the Montana ranchers went broke. Young Day's father was among the uniortunate, so the- bond' purchased heifers had to be sold, and he went to 'work for wages, for a time as a ranch baker. He still follows this avocation as . hobby wnen time permits. Frank Day did considerable traveling both before and aft er his marriage. Finally. down. They did so on two dif ferent ranches on the Oregon coast, there they began to ac quire their herd which they brought with them to Cali- fornia in 1950. First settling on a ranch between Gaulle and Weed and In 1953 they settled on their present hold ings. , Day feels confident that good cattle will always be in demand. "People will always eat meat, and will at all times buy the best they can afford," he states.. Mrs. Day helps with every phase of the enterprise.' She enjoys the bookkeeping which is 'an extensive effort, but .can help In the corral, too, whether day or night. , She has been known to nurse a weakened calf by the stove in the dining room on more than one occasion.. She isa charter member of the Siski you County Cowbelles, as well as many other fraternal and civic organizations. . . Mrs. Day's affiliations are with the . Montague Rotary, which he serves as' member ship chairman, the Elks Club of Yreka, Masonic and Shrine lodges Siskiyou County Cattle men and the Farm Bureau. Strawberry Plant Storage Discussed Corvallis - Freeze damage, the ability to differentiate be tween mature and young plants and disease carrying organisms within the plants themselves are all problems facing Oregon strawberry growers who plant an esti mated 45 million new plants each year, reported Oregon Slate university researchers. Dr. Ralph Garren Jr. and Harry Lagcrstcdt, both OSU horticulturists, made their re port to the small fruits sec tion of the Oregon State Hor ticultural Society recently during the last day of its an nual meeting at OSU About a third of the state's 15,500 acres of strawberries are re planted each year. Dr. Garren said, at 9,000 plants per acre. Researchers some time ago determined that strawberry plants will store successfully at temperatures between 28 and 30 degree F. They are now working on other prob lems or areas where problems might arise, they reported. One of the main problems facing the Industry Is freeze damage to plants which oc cur before, they are dur. they noted. Freezing weakens vital plant tissues and the plant breaks down at low storage temperatures. Such plants also have low survival rates after planting METAL WORKS I apaw ssssa, as as L DRILL Commercial Industrial RetidonHal Sheet Matat Work Stainless, Galvanised and Copper Fabrication 228? West Main HON! 771-4440 Farm & Chit By JOI Mall Tribune The Dec. 2 flood did point for better drainage systems. With the deluge of water which streamed over some areas, drainage systems could not have carried It all off, but they would have helped, in the opinion of some observers. Those who worked that long, dark day to stem and rechannel flood waters noticed they followed their natural drainage channels In. spite of asphalt streets and houses which stood in their way. ' . . ' Harold Sexton, Rogue River Valley irrigation district manager, Is among the most Insistent backers that something be done about drainage. He introduced Resolution No. 17 at the recent annual meeting of the Oregon Reclamation Con gress here. ' ) 1 .'.:.,.", i ': , ' In Its modified form it points out that Industrial and resi dential development in the more populace Oregon counties has resulted in material changes in the run-off pattern of small natural drainages in certain areas. Interference with the natural pattern has had a "serious adverse effect ' on ad jacent properties, the resolution stated. . - ' '. Since such Industrial and residential developments in Ore gon will, continue to expand and compound drainage and flood problems,, the- Congress recommended that the 196J Oregon Legislature, adopt a resolution to appoint an interim legislative committee to study and- make recommendations. Such a committee would make cedures to be followed by various counties and agencies af fected to deal with drainage problems. ., The new Interstate freeway setting their drainage systems. Often this was not considered by the courts as a factor for consideration in reaching settle ments in condemnation suits. The storm' did point up the Im portance of these drainage patterns, It even showed that in one case, at. l?ast the, highway engineers had not provided sufficient drainage for the new freeway. The question arises whether or not houses should be built in a natural drainage channel. Perhaps drainage patterns should be charted much as 'you would chart the course of a stream. Certainly adequate underground drainage systems-tiling- should be legally required in every subdivision. -I If the drainage problem wasn't discussed at the Eagle Point meeting on the recent flood damage it should have been. We mention- it here because this important phase of water development was overshadowed what with all the dis cussion on recreation and Irrigation at the. recent Congress. One of the things which the lack of attendance at .the. Congress meeting. If a business man should be offered a free course on how to display his goods more attractively to draw more1 people, into his store, new business trends and how he could adopt- a major new sideline to make more profit, tunity. Here was a.major discussion, or series of dtrcussions on irrigation, the lifeblood of lated to reclamation projects and one of the best panel dis cussions of recreation vs. irrigation we have heard for a long time. Yet, very few people attended from the local area. Recreation is fast becoming and those farmers with land In begun to realize their potential. tion is detailed in a special USDA pamphlet. A western uni versity gives a short course on dude rancning ana more ana more meetings on natural resources include several discus sions on rural recreation. . The most recent of these of the National Association of districts. ! . The three day program recreational planning in the soil conservation program and movies and slides of local projects. The local cattlemen are putting on the pressure for better range Improvement projects, more of them and a more realis tic program of range allotments than the proposed cuts. They sent County Commissioner Ed Taylor to Las Vegas to repre sent them at the public lands conference there. They plan to send two cattlemen to the Portland meeting on the same subject sponsored by the Oregon Cattlemen'a association. Cherry, Prune Trees Corvallis . (Special) - The windstorm of Oct. 12 caused tremendous damage to exist ing Oregon prune, ' walnut, filbert and cherry orchards, but it also created an oppor tunity for the prune industry to rebuild on a sound basis with young orchards. . However, the planting of too many young prune or chards could lead to more years of poor prices, com mented R. L. Stebbins, Ore gon State University exten sion tree fruits specia1' t, as Mr. Dairyman... .We tarry t COMPLETE UNI of Dairy Feeds te fit yeur needs. Use the ens that fits . your feeding program for jreatost prafili -WA Dairy , 11, 14 er 1e WFA't research program tests til ingredients. Through actual feeding experiments, WFA feeds are properly formulated of the highest quality ingredients WFA FEEDS ARE MADE TO PRO DUCE PROFITS FOR YOU ON THE FARM! So. us for leaver Chemicals I Mast Inflations slsel 773-8239 MDrOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD. OREGON Garden COWUY ' : , . turn Editor out one thing - the Vital need : ; ' ' ' ' ' . recommendations as to pro cut through many farms up disappointed us the most was he would jump at the oppor local farming, of recreavlon re a major business in this area reservoir areas haven't yet The farmer's part In recrea , ',;' -. .. .,'.' ;( is the Pacific area convention Soil and Water. Conservation ', ..,'' Ghat included workshop sessions on Storm Hit he reviewed storm damage Friday for the stone fruits section of the Oregon Horti cultural Society meeting at OSU. Storm damage was. expe rienced all the way from Cali fornia to Washington, but the Willamette valley was the hardest hit, with walnut, prune and filbert orchards devastated. Pie cherry grow ers also suffered serious losses, but sweet cher.-y, pear and peach trees survived with relatively little damage. r 17 W. 4th ABiaCIATIOM( Serious Disease Hits Cherry Trees In Three States Corvallis-First report on what appears to be a serious new disease in Oregon com mercial cherry orchards was made recently to the stone fruit section of the Oregon State ' Horticultural Society meeting at Oregon State uni versity. Dr. J. A.. Milbrath, OSU plant pathologist, reported the disease appeared in 16 or chards in three different areas during the 1962 season. It was first reported in one or chard In 1961. -. The mysterious ailment shows up suddenly in or- chards and stricken trees bear little, if any, fruit after pro ducing apparently .. normal crops the year before, the re searcher said. The disease hits only certain trees in an or chard, with a "sick" tree hav ing perfectly healthy neigh bors as yet unaffected. ' Washington Hit ' There have been reports on a similar disease hitting cherry trees in Washington and Montana, he told the group. Claims have . been made of stopping the disease by adding boron to the soil around the affected tree, but Dr. Milbrath. believes that the "pattern and development does not follow that of a de ficiency disease," Dr. Milbrath expresied con cern that the disease may also infect other tree fruits and even nut trees, as such trees next to affected orchards have similar symptoms. Because the course of the disease suggests a virus in fection problem, inoculation trials have been started by OSU on an Isolation plot at The Dalles and in campus greenhouses, with Dr. O. C. Compton, OSU horticulturist, and J. F. Reynolds, OSU plant pathologist, cooperating in making soil and virus tests. Other work being done in the Willamette valley in cludes the addition of boron to the soil as well as zinc in a few cases. "Unless a satisfactory con trol, such as boron, is found immediately, this could be the most devastating disease ever to affect a tree- fruit crop," he warned. (Giraim Still the Only at the Grange Co-op do you have available the full time services of a college trained Nutritionist. , This is a personalized service to meet the needs of local ranchers for prompt and expert help with nutritional problems. This is a free service for all ranchers in this area. Just another of the many advantages of doing your trading with, the Grange Co-op. For fast, friendly service, locally owned, locally controlled. A local market for your grain, and de voted to serving your needs. Highway 99 CENTRAL POINT Phone 664-1261 or 773-4022 Horticultural Men Adopt Resolutions Corvallis - The Oregon Hor ticultural Society during Its re cent meeting in Corvallis adopted nine resolutions. three of them dealing with ex port markets. The society ' went on rec ord opposing reduction of all protective measures now in effect which safeguard Ore gon's apple and pear industry and other horticultural prod ucts from imports of like prod ucts grown at lower costs in foreign countries. . The society also urged U.S. officials to utilize all their power and authority to over come "unjustifiable" restric tions imposed by certain Eu ropean nations on the import ing of American fruits and fruit products. They urged that all appropriate and feas ible steps be taken to obtain reasonable opportunities for the U.S. to export fruit and fruit products. The society also suggested the government take steps to assure the continuance of the historical apple and pear market in the United King dom, even If that nation joins the European Common Mar ket. ' Negotiations should be di rected toward assuring the common tarriff of the Euro pean Economic Community reflect the . traditional U.K. low tarriff history if the Unit ed Kingdom . joins the Com mon Market, the society rec ommended. . , The society went on rec ord to assist in establishing an agricultural wing of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland. The society also went on record favoring a new building for the State Department of Ag riculture and urging that mon ey be allocated for it as soon as the necessary funds are available. A resolution addressed to the Columbia Broadcasting System and members of the Federal Communications Com mission asking that the up coming CBS documentary be factual and not "sensational" about the use of agricultural chemicals was approved. The society also asked the Portland offices of the Crop Reporting Service to make a complete survey of all West ern Oregon counties and Hnod River and Wasco counties to determine the number of new fruit and nut tree plantings Best Place for Farmers ami Ranchers To Trade (Kirairage made' in the last five years. Featured speaker during a morning session was Sen. Wayne L. Morse, who spoke on the implications of the 1962 trade expansion act in relation to Pacific Northwest horticultural products. Passed primarily to meet the competition presented by the European Common Mar ket, the act gives the Presi dent the power to negotiate the reduction of tariffs by as much as 50 per cent in ex change for lowering reduc tions by other countries. Together, the United States and Common Market coun tries account for over half of the combined total of world export and import trade and for 45 per cent of the world agricultural trade. The U. S. is the world's largest exporter of agricultur al products and second only to the United Kingdom as an importer, he noted. Agriculture amounts for about one-fourth of the total U.S. exports and he continued, "it is needless . to say that American farmers require these outlets for their abun dant production and as one element of income. For peo ple in other lands, our agri culture provides a significant source for food and clothing.',' The Pacific Northwest ex ported agricultural products valued at $181 million in fis cal year 1961, with $68.1 million from Oregon and the rest from Washington. Ex ports showed $136.3 million in field crops; $25.3 million in fruits and nuts; $4.9 million in vegetables and $14.5 million in livestock and livestock products. Horticultural products of the Pacific Northwest may face serious problems because of the rise of the Common Market. For a number of products, including some fruits and vegetables such as produced in this area, the out look is reasonably good. But, he explained, as the Common Market tariffs against outside nations be come effective, ' "our fruit growers will face more seri ous threats, primarily from Italian fruits." Many European nations maintain seasonal embargoes and restrictions on apples and pears which, in recent years, have limited U.S. shipments. "Conceivably," he stated, (CaDdDlp REMEMBER ... You don't have to be a MEMBER to trade here and SAVE. - '.- rf"-s i; ' ; Ut -It-- -' j A ' GRANGE )i Co(IDp 421 A Street ASHLAND Phone 482-2143 "the Common Market agricul tural policy could shelter ait agricultural industry of some nine million small farms which would be sub-divided into inefficient, scattered lo cations. While advantageous to welding an agricultural un ion, such a policy could be a definite disadvantage if main tained after such an econom ic union is achieved. "Consumers in Common Market countries could thus be required to pay higher prices and U.S. producers would suffer from reduced exports." Pesticide Course Planned For OSU Salem - Some 360 Oregon licensed chemical applicators will have an opportunity soon to do some cramming for their 1963 state examinations, which will cover the wide field of pesticides. While attendance is not compulsory, an i n t e n sive school for pesticide applica tors will be held Dec. 17-19 in Withycombe hall on the Oregon State university camt pus, announced J. D. Patter son who is in charge of pesti cide programs for the state department of agriculture. Keynoting the three-day course will be the address of Dr. G. F. MacLeod, Fresnoi California, Niagara Chemical Division, on "What's Ahead in the Chemical Industry." STOCKMEN FEED PELLETS ' Your caaiu or unpalstakla roughage will make a baat for a modern balanced ration that you can feed with little labor and no wattage. 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