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TUESDAY. Tractor Problems Highlight Course "Every tractor you buy is compromise," Mike Petri, of International Harvester, told approximately 30 persons at tending the farm machinery care and maintenance short course session Monday. 385 Cattle Sold At Midway Sale; Market Varied A total of 383 cattle were sold at the Midway auction Friday, according to Bill Bray owner-manager. The market was reported strong on stocker calves, steady on slaughter cattle and slow on feeder steers. Good to choice steer calves were in good demand. Sale top on five head of 378 pound steer calves was $33.40. Four head of 439 pound steers sold at $31,30, four head of 340 pound steers at $32.75. Other penlots and single steer calves sold from $29 to $32. Good calves veighing 450 to 500 pounds sold from $26 to $29.50. Good to choice heif er calves sold from $25 to $27.50. A pen of good polled heifer calves sold at $26.10. Other penlots of medium to good heifers went out at $24 to $26. A few good yearling steers sold from $24 to $25. Medium yearling steers sold for $21 to $23.30. Good yearling heifers weighing 500 to 600 pounds sold for $21 to $22.90 while medium grade heifers moved at $19 to $21. Holsteln steer calves sold from $23.50 to $25.25. Seven head of 640 pound yearlings went out at $21.50 and others sold from $20 to $22.50. Thirty-one head of Holstein stock er heifers weighing 450 to 600 pounds sold from $20.50 to $22. "The cow and calf market was strong with a large num ber in the sale," Bray com mented. A consignment of Angus cows and calves sold from $245 to $260 per pair. Here ford cows with calves sold from $200 to $239 per pair. Eight head of good springer Hereford cows sold for $212 per head. Other springers sold at $150 to $185. Slaughter bulls sold at $18. 40 to $19.20. Veal went out at $24 to $27.50. A few standard steers and heifers sold for $19 to $21. Young fat cows sold for $16 to $17.40. Utility cows sold for $14 to $13.75, cutters brought $12 to $14 and can ners $10 to $12. Gardening Tips By JOHN W. McLOUGHLIN County Extension Agent Garden Mulch A mulch is a material that is spread on the soil to con serve moisture, prevent weed growth and soil compaction, and to moderate extremes in temperature. Another quality of a mulch that comes into play in the home garden is Its appear ance. Thus we find products such as bark mulch, sawdust and peat moss being used in the home garden for a mulch. Use whatever material you find most satisfactory, but keep in mind the following points for best results. Apply the mulch material when the soil has warmed up. For an nuals or other plants being set out, apply the mulch when the plants are large enough so they will not be burled by the material. Peat moss often packs aft er a heavy rain or Irrigation. When it dries, a felted surface that sheds water develops. Therefore, keep peat moss loose and moist for best re sults. When sawdust, bark mulch or other wood products are plowed under or worked Into the soil, a temporary shortage of nitrogen usually occurs. To NOTICE Stockmen are invited to hear Dr. E. M. Gildow, Director of Research for Albers Milling Co. at Carnation Farms. Friday Mar. 1st Night JjjXJ 8:00 PM County Extension Auditorium Sponsored By . . . Jackson County Cattlemen's Assoc. and Cal.-Ore. Hereford Breeders Assoc. FEBRUARY 26. 1963 Petri explained the farmer must decide what features that tractor has which he needs and how the things it lacks may affect his opera tion. However, a tractor must be carefully maintained and op erated to meet the farmer's every day needs. Petri stress ed fundamentals of tractor op eration and maintenance which farmers know, but too often overlook. For instance, a farmer can save a gallon of gas an hour by keeping the tractor engine at the proper temperature. It also means more horsepower, Petri said. A cold engine is expensive and damaging. People who remark an en gine "doesn't burn oil" don't understand an engine's func tion, Petri said. For every gallon of fuel burned over a gallon of water is manufac tured as a by-product of the combustion. Petri cautioned farmers to leave space at the lop of the radiator for water heat to ex pand. This reduces danger of boiling over. Every tractor should be idled down, then shut off after working a heavy load, the field represen tative said. But allowing for too little water in the radia tor will expose the radiator tubes, draw air in and will not throw off the heat, he said. A temperature gauge doesn't reveal heal conditions in every part of the engine so should not be relied on too heavily, Petri reminded. A thermostat should be checked and not removed since it serves a purpose, he said. The oil in air cleaners should be changed every 10 hours, Petri recommended. This keeps the air cleaners clear. Over 7,500 gallons of air is used per gallon of fuel consumed by the engine, Petri pointed out. Dirty cleaners and filters cause 75 per cent of tractor failures, Petri said. Excellent service Informa tion is available from the com pany mechanics and from the service manual given every new tractor owner, the IH representative said. Any oil is not the best oil, only that recommended in the service manual, Petri said. Follow Specifications Poor engine timing, over heating, water pump problems all can be avoided by follow ing factory specifications as given in the operator's man ual, Petri said. EHrlicr Monday, R. 11. Fcely, Mobil pil company, Portland, gave a talk on lubri cation of fRrm machinery. Mike Hubcr, Oregon Stale university, lectured on farm safety. rectify this, add one-half pound of ammonium sulfate for each bushel of sawdust. On a soil that is adequately fertilized each year, no addi tional fertilizer is necessary until the mulch is turned un der. Remember that leaves arc apt to pack and used as a mulch become soggy. Avoid using a leaf mulch around plunts with buscl leaves such as Primrose. Mulches close to plant stems encourage shallow root ing and active growth in Hint part of the plant till well aft er fall frosts occur. Keep the mulch away from the crown or stein of woody plants and most leafy plants. Juniper Care Junipers damaged by the twig blight should be sprayed when new growth slnrts In the spring. Juniper twig blight causes a yellowing and dying of the scale-like leaves and is followed by the death of ihc twig or brunch. These symptoms are often severe In the center of the plant where the branches join the trunk. Use a copper spray with a spreader slicker and repeat at two week Intervals. Three applications should give good control of this disease. FROM THE GROUND UP By BART tARTLETT Every farmer and rancher should establish on his prop erties some weed control plots. Such plots should be repre sentative of the area soil con ditions and be infested with the usual population of weeds that it is desirable to control. The control of noxious weeds by means of herbicides is ex pensive but, it is probably the only way that such pests can be economically controlled in an economy where manpower is becoming too expensive. Where properly used chemi cal weed control lends to eliminate all of the harmful effects of weeds on the eco nomic crop. At best mechani cal and labor control allows a certain amount of com po tion from the noxious weed species. It may be well to apply a lime sulfur or sulfur contain ing spray to young non-bearing fruit trees. This would be true even though good pest control could be obtained by delayed applications of other than sulfur bearing sprays. The benefit from sulfur will be gained from its role as a plant nutrient. Many plant ings of young trees arc on soils that have not been re ceiving either sulfur bearing fertilizers or sprays. The use of super phosphrate and am monia sulfate fertilizers under such conditions will also supply the plants or trees with nutritional sulfur. There are, however, ins'ances where the use of these fertilizers is not desirable. In such cases sulfur bearing sprays will be beneficial for more than pest control. Tax Problem Taxes arc an ever present problem to property owners and most other people. It seems that our present system of levying taxes has and will always have many inequities. The money for government must be raised even if il is questionable as to whether or not it Is all spent in a useful manner. It seems that a more fair manner of levying taxes would be on the energy that Is consumed in homes and by Industry. The gasoline tax is an example of such a tax. Electrical energy and such fuels as coal and the liquid gases (propane, etc.) are an example of taxable energy. There are many spray pro grams that any fanner can obtain and use. It is usually wiser and less confusing if one is selected for use and followed than if several dif ferent ones are used to some extent. If you are not being re searched, investigated, in spected, or reported on by some agency of government, you qualify as a much mal igned and neglected minority and should appeal for aid on the grounds of discrimination. Livestock Market Discussion Heard Montague - Morris Prather spoke on the Valley Livestock Marketing association to the Shasta Valley Farm center Tuesday evening. Feb. 19 at the Montague hall. John McMtirry, chairman, conducted the business por tion of the meeting which was well attended. Mills coming before the legislature were discussed. Of particular in terest was one which would require the minimum pay rate to man, woman or minor to be $1.5(1 per hour for any type of ranch work. Deadline for young people applying for the Farm Bureau scholarship is March 15. Young people must be mem bers of a Farm Bureau family and plan to study either any phase of agriculture or home economies. Blanks and fur ther information are available at the farm advisor's office in the court house Prather, who has been man ager of the Farm Bureau live stock marketing association for Siskiyou county for the past 19 years, spoke of the advantages of dealing with this group, who ship cattle both from Stockton and Red Bluff He KS., sr. ,-.;,;;;, i,f the history of the cattle busi ness in Shasta Valley. Being a member of a pioneer stock raising family and having spent most of his life here he spoke with Interest and authority on his subject, im m hers of the audience com mented. The nation's public school teachers this year will earn an average annual salary of $5. 733 - $-211 more than last school year, the National Edu rnHm, rtr.; --:tnn rrnorts. I MEDFOBD Chit By JOE Mail Tribune We haven't been following this doe deer hunt controversy very closely, but one thing we have learned in the last few days is that a large number pt deer are grazing on farm land. And this causes at least three problems: A deer manage ment problem because deer that get on posted land are not accessible to the general hunting public. A farmers' prob lem because some hunters disregard locked gates and "no hunting" signs if they think deer are on farm meadows. This results too often in shot livestock and damaged prop erty. And a law enforcement problem too few sheriff's officers and state police to run down farmers' complaints of shot livestock etc. We were examining some good looking calves this week out in the Camp White area. The rancher pointed to one which was limping along on three legs. "Shoulda knocked that one In the head and butchered It," he said. "But we kept hopln it would improve. A hunter shot it in the leg this fall." If someone put a bullet through a law office or a store the police would go all out to find the guilty party; espe cially if there were many such offices and stores shot at and if merchandise was damaged. Yet every year a number stock due to hunter carelessness and wanton disregard of private property rights. We understand one local lawyer got downright insulting when refused access this fall to some private farm land. This particular farmer says he loses one animal every year to a hunter's bullet, so who can blame him? That animal is just as valuable to the farmer as a rack of shoes, suits or dresses or part of a private law library. The local farmer or rancher is not getting adequate pro tection of his property, particularly during hunting seasons. And he won't until the state legislature wakes uo to the fact that using a gun is evcrv bit as dangerous as driving a car and requires licensing of shooters. Immediately certain sports clubs protest this would in terfere with the U.S. Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. But there's nothing in that Constitution which says a man has a right to go out and shoot up a fellow citizen's properly. Times have changed since the frontier days. It was a family custom to teach a son to handle a rifle safely and accurately. Family security depended upon it. A rifle was a precious article handed down from generation to genera tion and handled with respect and given to a young man after he had demonstrated he knew how to use it properly. Now anyone can buy a gun whether he knows how to use it or not. Hunters cannot control the small percentage who give the whole hunting fraternity a bad name so stricter reg ulations are needed as population increases. Resulting shrink age of gamclands puts more area where his carelessness stands more chance of endang ering others and their property as well as himself. Law enforcement officers have their hands full tracking down the numerous other complaints they receive daily to effectively control careless hunters. The local law enforce ment agencies arc traditionally understaffed. Perhaps a strong plea should be made to the county budget commit tee, for instance, to. raise sheriff's deputies' salaries to keep what efficient deputies they have and to allow money to hire more. Like air pollution controls voluntary cooperation ap parently is not enough. Recent comments from farmers from widely separated geographic areas in the valley reveal there arc plenty of deer feeding on private lands. tnc doe season naven t considered this, we saw some pas ture land last week in which cattle had not been grazing for some time which had been chewed down by deer. One plan proposed locally some time ago was to extend free hunter damage insurance to farmers who would allow organization hunters to hunt their lands. Later it was learn ed this was not considered feasible by insurance companies so u never got past the taming Now California is about to It originated in the southwest plan. In California it is called Under this plan the landowners would apply to the Cali fornia equivalent of the state game commission for doe permits on their property and request a certain number. The commission would decide on the feasible number of permits after a property inspection. After buying the per mits the landowner could sell them to anyone. As one writer put it, "Suddenly the landowner possesses I n nmu nnH ninrlnlnMii crn,, urt.1 IKnm ...... .J ,u. .1 I. ' " ...... . -...,, b nii.i tuuai- ntcu W1C UUUK1I or wish to thin the herds competing with their livestock for range food have a cinch way of collecting." Hunting clubs could resell doe tags which they figure their original membership doesn't need and create associate memberships. So as the same writer so aptly put it, "Everybody gets fat except the deer and the unattached deer hunter." This plan does appeal to greedy human nature so has a big chance In passing In California where It since politically active southern Oregon draws heavily on California ideas due to the increasing migration from that state to this area Oregon may follow this plan some day. However, if it should prove practical in the golden state we will probably ignore it as we have such other things as the need for more intensive and more rapid planning development. Why discuss hunting problems now? Because it will be too late during hunting season. And besides the state legislature is in session. It is discussing all kinds of problem even Tom and Jerry's problem of cat control. FRANKLIN CUTTER West Main Pharmacy Retell Store "Where Prescriptions An Filled Up to Standard Nat Down to Price" f. IV, 135 W. Main, Cornor o' MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD. OREGON Chat COWLEY Farm Editor of valley farmers lose live hunters in each game populated Perhaps those who oppose stage. I propose a new voluntary plan. where it was called the Texas the "Potter Valley plan." is being proposed now. And VACCINES! MEDICINALS! INSTRUMENTS! And other supplies to keep your livestock and pet. healthy and well (roomed! G;m Ph. -'afcSSX Various Means Set For Noting 4-H Event Siskiyou County-4-H mem bers, leaders and parents of Siskiyou County will observe National 4-H Week, March 2 to 9, this year in a number of ways, reported Farm Advisor, Bill Ruddiman. In many towns in the coun ty, local clubs will have dis plays in store windows or other business houses explain ing and showing what 4-H'ers learn. Radio programs pre pared and produced by the 4-H members will be heard during the week over the radio stations of the county, and special news items will be prepared by some of the clubs for use in newspapers A number of service clubs and farm organizations have in vited 4-H members to appear before their groups and tell about their 4-H experiences and observance of the week. A new 4-H club in Horn brook has been added to the county's roster of 4-H clubs bringing the total number to Wild Land Income Subject of Talks Montague Farm Bureau members who attended the an nual Farm Bureau dinner to be held in Montague, March 2, in the Montague hall will hear a discussion of income possi bilities for privately owned wild lands of the county. Three University of Cali fornia agricultural Extension specialists will present an il lutrated talk on "Wild Land Reources A Sleeping Giant?" which will give sug gestions for developing sourc es of income from the little used wild lands of the county. James Gilligan and Ed Gil den, extension foresters from Berkeley and James Street, extension range improvement specialist from Davis will pre sent the program. Mrs. George Fiock of Mon tague is this year's general chairman of the dinner and will be assisted by Mrs. John McCurry, Mrs. H. L. Vidrick sen, Mrs. H. O. Chancy, Mrs. Ralph Leavers, Mrs. Charles Owen, Mrs. Charles Peckham and Mrs. Keith Whipple. Mrs. Roy Townley of Little Shasta will direct a selected group of actors from the Shasta Valley Farm center in a humorous skit. (Giraimg (C(IDip The Place To Go for All . . . FARM STEEL NEEDS Galvanized Iron 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 foot lengths, 27W wide (Covers a full 2'). Discount on 50 and 100 piece lots. Complete selection farm fences and gates. . 2 and 4 point barb wire. All kinds of steel fencing and poultry netting. Steel Posts 5' to 7' Galvanized Steel Gates S end 6 panel 10' to 16'. FOR All THE BEST IN FEEDS, TOO in f wmU) L mm Snnpply AssocnaitiD)nii Hiahwjtv CENTRAL POINT hona 664-1261 or 773-4022 IS. Approximately 4S0 Sis kiyou County boys and girls are members of the fifteen clubs and 140 adults are serv ing as their volunteer lead ers, training them in the arts, skills and science of agricul ture and home making. The 4-H program is sponsored by the University of California Agricultural Extension Serv ice and is administered by the Farm Advisor's Office. This year the 4-H'ers are saluting the organization's "pioneers" of the county. In the 1920's, the 4-H program was started in Siskiyou Coun ty by 4-H Specialists from the University of California at Berkeley. An Etna high school teacher. Professor R. E. Wixom, supervised the clubs locally in those days. Many Siskiyou county residents re count with pleasure their as sociation with these first 4-H clubs in the county. Only a few of these were still in ex istance when M. V. Maxwell, the first farm advisor in Sis kiyou county arrived in 1933. These served as the nucleus of the present program. Many of these 4-H "pio neers" are parents of present members, and are leaders in the 4-H clubs which replaced the clubs they belonged to. One of them, Joe Eller of Grenada, who belonged to the Etna 4-H club as a boy, is now the president of the County 4-H Club Council, an organization of the county leaders. Eller is the electric project leader in the Grenada Club and his whole family is in 4-H. His wife Donna, is a home economics leader in the Grenada Club, and is chair man of the county-wide 4-H Home Economics Advisory Committee and his three chil dren are all 4-H members. Phoenix High Student Semifinalist in Event Phoenix - Miss Laura Grif fith, Phoenix High school. has placed as one of the three in the semifinals, which was held Feb. 22 in Portland, in the Voice of Democracy con test sponsored by the VFW She has been invited to the finals which will be held in Portland March 2. If she rhould be a winner in Ore gon, she will go to Washing ton, D.C., for national judging March 31 to April 2. i ; ! ' I (Kimimge 93 Dormant Spray Effective In Two Weeks, Agent Says The dormant spray on pears may be applied any time now that weather and soil condi tions permit, according to Dr. C. B. Cordy, county horticul tural agent. "Delaying another week would give better psylla con trol as they are not yet all out of their protected winter quarters." both Cordy and Dr. Peter Westigard, Southern Oregon Experiment station entomoligst, pointed out. In air blast sprayers use 10 gallons of dormant oil or five gallons of superior oil plus 12 gallons of liquid lime surfur or 18 pounds of poly sulphide per acre. Another effective combination is 10 gallons of dormant oil or five gallons of superior oil plus either five pounds of para thion or 3V4 pounds of 50 per diazlnon or five pounds of trithion per acre, the two scientists pointed out. For Hose Rigs For hose rigs use two gal lons of dormant oil or five gallons of superior oil plus three gallons of liquid lime sulfur or five pounds of poly sulphide per 100 gallons or use oil plus one pound of parathion or three fourths pound of 50 per cent diazinon or one pound of trithion per 100 gallons, they recommend ed. Cattlemen Meet In Montague Hall Montague - The Siskiyou County Cattlemen association will meet on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mon tague hall. Beef cattle disease problems will be outlined by Dr. Ernest Chastain of the University of California staff. His talk will be augmented with slides. A question and answer period will follow the talk. All Siskiyou county cattle men are encouraged to attend. Refresh ments will be served. GOES ON TRIAL Portland - (UPB - Former State Sen. William Grenfell went on trial in Circuit Court today on a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an acci dent. The charge grew out of a two-car accident here last October in which a man was killed. REMEMBER... You don't have to be a MEMBER to trade here and SAVE. GRANGE CO-OP n i (CnflDp 421 A Street ASHLAND Phone 482-2143 Emulsified or water sus pensions of thephospha tea may be used in place of the powders. Observe cautions on the label when using para, thion, diazinon or trithion, Cordy and Westigard suggest, ed. "This spray is an important one and the trees must be thoroughly wet with it in or der to be effective," Cordy and Westigard said. "It should be completed before the bud scales at the base of the bios, som buds loosen and fall. 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