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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MtUFORD, OREGON TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1963 r n I i I -A, 0 n I CROWD ATTENDS - Polly Pacific, Mrs. Bev Lyons, dem-, onstrated beef preperation at the recent beef cooking school r, , f C I f I sponsored by Pacific Power and Light company and the I 3P C ppH NfllPC Jackson County CowBelles. Approximately 200 men and JIQIG J JCvU JQICj women attended. Theme was "Around the World with an Oregon beef potroast." GARDENING TIPS By JOHN W. McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent Peach Spray Home orchardists should ap ply a dormant spray for the control of peach leaf curl and coryneum blight by March 1. Both of these diseases over winter on the twigs of the in fected tree. The leaf curl disease causes the leaves to curl, pucker and discolor in early spring. The blight disease causes small round, tan to purplish spots In the leaves. These spots of ten fall out and produce a shot hole effect. Tree Farm Tour Said Successful Approximately 20 persons including farmers, loggers and interested citizens attended the day-long tree farm tour Saturday sponsored by the Jackson county extension service and the state depart ment of forestry headquarters in Medford. At Butte Falls, the U.S. Forest Service demonstrated thinning and pruning prac tices and showed pre-com-mcrcial stands of timber in the Cat hill area. There brush had been cleared and trees planted. During a lunch stop in Shady Cove, Dick Olson, state farm forester for this area showed slides of Christmas tree culture. A stop at the Ed Tepper place at Shady Cove showed how forestry seed is pro cessed. The group made its final stop at Bog Sage's Christmas tree plantation near the Table Rock school. HE "PUT IT OFF!" & FREE HAIR CLINIC See Page 2A Leaf curl also attacks nec tarine and apricots. Coryneum blight also attacks apricots, almonds and to a lesser ex tent, cherries and prunes. A spray mixture contain ing two heaping tablespoons of neutral copper and one third pint of dormant oil per gallon of water is recommend ed. Complete coverage is re quired for good control. The dormant oil in this spray will help control scale, aphis and mites. European Elm Scale What was the condition of your elm tree last year? If it looked sick and the walks or garden furniture under it were sticky, there is a good possibility your tree was in fested with the European elm scale. This scale is about one fourth inch long, oval in shape, reddish brown in color and has a white cottony fringe around the edge of its body. Masses of these scales are usu ally evident on the underside of an infected tree in midsummer. For best control of this scale, spray now with a 4 per cent dormant oil spray. Control during the summer months consists of spraying with malathion at the rate of one tablespoon of the 57 per cent emulsion per gallon of water. Two applications at two week intervals may be necessary for heavy infesta tions during the summer. Berry Spray Spray should be applied be fore the end of the month to control the leaf and cane spot disease. This fungus affects trailing blackberries such as loganberry, youngberry, boy senberry, wild dewberry and cultivated selections of trail ing blackberries. This first of two sprays should be applied between November and February. The second spray is applied when the shoots are two inches long. Use one quart of liquid lime sulphur or one half pound of polysulphide to three gallons of water. Production expenses of U.S. farmers in 1960 were 26.4 billion dollars nearly four times as much as in 1940. SAMPLE BEEF - Mrs. William Bigham, Eagle Point, and Mrs. Leon Offenbacher, Applegate, officers of the Jackson County CowBelles, sampled some beef prepared at the recent beef cookery school, co-sponsored by the CowBelles and the Pacific Power and Light company in the extension service auditorium. To Europe Depend, On Quality Need Corvallis - Because Euro pean countries are especially conscious of the variety and purity of grass and legume seeds they buy, Oregon grow ers hoping to sell to the Euro pean Common Market must be able to supply quality seeds guaranteed to be variety true, according to Dr. J. Ritchie Cowan, head of farm crops at Oregon State university. While the export business in grass and legume seeds is not large compared to exports of some commodities, it does provide a significant outlet for U. S. grass and legume seed production. Last year it amounted to almost $11 mil lion. Cowan, who visited Greece, which receives Rogue Valley seed and Western Europe last spring, says he frequently is asked if European countries are interested in American varieties. He says they are under at least three circum stances: When they are short of seed of their own varieties. In years when weather dur ing harvest curtails their seed production. (Oregon's weather is more generally favorable for seed production than is most of Europe's weather). When rapidly growing pop ulation forces European coun tries to devote their agricul tural acres to production of crops for food and feed for livestock rather than seed. Alternatives As an alternative to buying American varieties, some European countries have va rieties developed by their plant breeders increased in the U. S. Cowan predicts more of this type of seed export business with Europe. For the past eight years, Oregon has supplied Greece with the Talent variety of al falfa. However, Cowan says he expects Greece's use of this variety to be replaced in the future by one of that country's own varieties as their breeding programs yield new and better adapted va rieties. He says more research needs to be done in determ ining whether varieties of many forage crops can be de veloped in one area and mul tiplied in another without any major change in genetic composition. mm "What Prices! 1960 CHEVROLET IMPALLA 4 Dr. HT, V-8, Automatic, CI 070 flft R&H, A Real Buy LEA RAMBLER Fifth and Bartlett Phone 772-6185 r3 Soviet Engineers Arrive in Havana Miami, Fla. - IUPI) - Four So viet naval engineers have ar rived in Cuba to oversee the construction of Russia's "fish ing port" on Havana Bay, Radio Havana reported Mon day night. Plans for the port's con struction were announced be fore the Cuban crisis last fall. Refugee sources said it prob ably would be used as a base for Soviet submarines. Building the Rogue Valley 0 ir Phone ik I 773 7555 J 4 684-1217 J J i i '. . with . . . LININGER'S Ready-Mix Concrete Concrete Pipe Crushed Rock Equipment Rentals k m 555 m m Leaf Culler Bee Propagation Told By County Agent By BERT G. WILCOX County Extension Agent "Propagation of the Leaf Cutter Bee for Alfalfa Seed Production" is the title of Ag ricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 586, recently re leased from Oregon State university in Corvallis. The leaf-cutter bee has proved a valuable alfalfa pol linator in the Northwest where it appears to prefer alfalfa to most other crops. Spring emergence of over wintering bees can be con trolled permitting a grower to correlate bee' emergence with peak alfalfa bloom. Leaf-cutter bees have been observed constructing nests in a wide variety of situa tions. They prefer to use nest ing holes that closely approxi mate their own size. Nests have been taken from nail holes, hollow rubber and metal tubing, stems of pithy plants from which pith has been removed, cracks in boards, under and between shingles on sides of buildings. Man-made nests can be built from milk straws of various sizes, or from corrugated cardboard, and boards in which holes have been bored. Adults emerge in opposite sequence to that in which they were laid in each testing tube. The bee in the last cell formed in any tunnel is first to emerge. The second last egg to have been laid yields the second bee, and so on to the bottom of the tube. Under optimal conditions where the nesting site is par tially exposed to sun, there are two generations per year. However, when nests are lo cated in a shaded place where temperatures remain cool, the species will have only one generation. Adult activity tapers off rapidly toward the end of Au gust, but the second genera tion will continue into early October. Flight range of the adult fe male is limited where there is an excessive amount of forage available. When alfalfa is in peak bloom, it is doubtful that even in the most popu lous resting site females will range further than 250 yards. Because of the limited range of this species, it is ne cessary to set nesting sites about the edge and possibly throughout fields. Shortly be fore bee emergence, domi ciles containing overwinter ing larvae should be placed in their permanent site, and five to 10 times the number of occupied nesting tunnels provided for expansion. The leaf-cutter bee is ex tremely susceptible to most insecticides used in control of alfalfa insect pests. Of the common materials used for lygus control in the Pacific Northwest, DDT and Toxa phene have given the least mortality if applied at the right time. Since relatively little is known at tiiis time about the toxicity of various chemicals to this species, the grower is cautioned against the exten sive application of materials that have not as yet been tested. For more detailed informa tion on the leaf-cutter bee, contact the County Extension office. Boston -il'PIt- Thieves dou bled the indignities for the law. They broke into the Suf folk county courthouse Mon day and stole S350 from a safe in the probation department. West Berlin Vote Said Significant Washington - (UFI) - The State Department Monday called the West Berlin mu niciple election results an overwhelming vote of free dom" against the Commu nists. State Department press of ficer Lincoln White said "We think particularly significant the overwhelming vote of freedom demonstrated by the fact that the socalled Social ist Unity, or Communist par ty, dropped from 1.9 per cent four years ago to a negligible 1.3 per cent Monday." Variety of Bills Affect Farming Salem - To keep interested persons abreast any legisla tion which involves the state department of agriculture, Di rector J. F. Short calls atten tion to bills introduced and which are not department sponsored bills. Previously he announced the housekeeping measures which the department itself required by introduced. Bills not sponsored by the department but bearing upon its programs introduced through January 31 follow: HB 1082 which would ex tend until July 1, 1965 author ity to the department to con duct an experimental brand inspection program to supple ment the present law. (First hearing on this, held Jan. 31, brought approval from the Oregon Cattlemen's associa tion, the livestock advisory committee, the Gilliam coun ty stockgrowers association and opposition from the Wheeler county stockgrowers association and individual stockgrowers from Wheeler county.) HB 1096 would require wild animal trappers to check their traps every 24 hours. This would have a bearing upon the predatory animal pro gram conducted throughout the state cooperatively by the federal, state and county governments. HB 1110 would close secondary highway 270 (Lake of Woods) to livestock from west of Klamath Falls to the Jackson county line, HB 1133, the cooperative bargaining bill, would estab lish the right of producers of all agricultural products, except milk, timber and tim ber products, to engage in co operative bargaining. The bill outlines unfair trade prac tices, provides penalties for violation and triple damages up to $5000 to injured pro ducers. Administration would be in the SDA. HB 1153, requested by the Oregon State Beekeepers as sociation, would permit the department to seize bees un der certain conditions and would otherwise strengthen the state apiary law. HB 1159. introduced at the request of the Oregon Forest Protective Association, the Northwest Forest Pest Action Council and the Oregon Nur serymen's association, would appropriate $21,500 to the SDA for indemnities to com mercial and private owners whose pines were destroyed in the pine shoot moth control program the past biennium. HB 1195 is a humane slaughter bill with a Janu ary 1, 1964, effective date. This is somewhat similar to the general law enacted in 1961 but would place admin istration in the state depart ment of agriculture. Citizens who wish to see copies of bills should contact or write to their representa tives or senators. They should watch communication media for dates of hearings before legislative committees, or ask their legislators to advise them. Grass Growth Gauge Suggested Corvallis - If cattle could read, it wonlH hp pasv tnw a rancher to measure how much his range grass grows each year. He could simDlv Dnst "kppn off the grass" signs in cer tain areas, and then compare growth in these nnsturi nn. grazed areas with growth in grazed areas. But since cattle can't read and couldn't be expected to obey the signs, Dillard H. Gates, Oregon State Univers ity extension ranee manner. ment specialist, suggests the following way to gauge grass growtn. Fence and Compare Fence off a small portion of the range from erarine livestock. Then compare the amount of grass inside the gauge to that outside to see at a glance how much forage has been produced and how much has been eaten. Gates mentioned that even ranchers who see their grass every day may be surprised by what they see In such a grass gauge. He recommends construct ing a grass gauge of heavy woven wire or concrete rein forcing mesh. He says it can be made simply by setting four posts into the ernnnrl where the gauge is to be lo cated and stretching woven wire around them. The gauge should be moved each year so the current year's growth is not affected by the past year's non-use. Cattle Rustling Case Now Closed Salem - One of the largest cattle rustling cases in the 31. year annals of the state de. partment of agriculture live stock theft investigations was closed Dec. 20 when Melvilla Derrick Kelley, Prairie City, entered the state penitentiary. The day before he pleaded guilty to two counts of live. stock larceny and was sen tenced by Circuit Judge Ed ward H. Howell, Canyon City, to two 8-year concurrent terms in prison. Kelley, 39, admitted steal ing 213 head of cattle from three neighboring ranches since Aug. 1, 1961. Strangely enough, none of the owners had reported the animals missing, as far as department records show. Cut sudangrass for hay from heading to early bloom stage, forage experts advise. Any crop that can be made into hay can also be made into silage. SECRETARIAL SERVICE Shorthand dictation, typing, legal experience. 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