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
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MEDFOBD
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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
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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
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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. This
should be around March 10
to 15."
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