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Cal-Ore To Hold Ranch Tour
Saturday on Winter Feeding
The Cal-Ore Hereford as
sociation will hold its annual
winter ranch tour starting at
9:30 a.m. Saturday
The tour starts at Henry
Owens' ranch at Bigham rd.
and Corey rd. before crossing
Dry creek. Other stops will be
at the Darrell Stanley ranch
off Meridian rd., then to Mer-
ton Bradshaw's ranch above
Brownsboro, to Bill Bigham
ranch on Bigham rd., then to
the Albert Straus ranch on
the Sams Valley rd. The lunch
stop will be at the Stanley
ranch.
Purpose of the tour is to
show ranchers and other in
terested persons the different
Peaches Require
Dormant Spray
The dormant spray on
peaches should be applied as
soon as the weather permits,
according to Don Berry,
county extension agent.
This spray will control
scale, aphids and mite eggs as
well as aid in the control of
peach leaf curl and peach
blight.
Timing of dormant peach
sprays is critical since it
should be delayed long
enough to catch overwinter
ing aphis eggs as they hatch
but if delayed too long fails
to adequately control peach
leaf curl.
Commercial peach growers
are using 5 pounds of neutral
copper plus either 4 gallons of
dormant oil emulsion or 2
gallons of superior type oil
per 100 gallons of water. For
home orchardists V4 pound of
copper plus one pint of dor
mant oil for each 3 gallons of
water is recommended.
Be sure to spray trees
thoroughly.
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types of winter feeding used
and to give ranchers a pre
view of some of the young
bulls which will go to the Cal
Ore Hereford association sale
this next fall.
Farm Sales Good
Besides discussing the tour
during the Cal-Ore meeting
last Tuesday, cattlemen pres
ent reported they had held
some good farm sales of young
bulls and discussed the pos
sibility of forming a junior
Hereford association. Dick
Ireland recently bought some
young heifers in Texas which
caused a representative of
Carnation farms to visit this
area to inspect them. Ireland
said he found the heifers
while delivering some cattle
for another rancher. Texans
stress hospitality in selling
their stock, he noted.
During discussions of what
FARM
Woodlot Facts
By DICK OLSON
State Farm Forester
The big blow of October
caused excessive damage to
woodlands in certain areas.
If your land happened to be
hit hard by the wind, here is
good news for you. Federal
cost sharing may be approved
for the removal of wind-blown
debris (tree tops, limbs and
other wind deposited debris)
from woodland, including pil
ing and burning where neces
sary. Cost sharing is limited
to the clean-up operations re
quired after salvage opera
tions have been completed.
Federal cost share is 80 per
cent of the costs not to exceed
$50 per acre. Any one eligible
person may earn up to $1,500
with county ASC office ap
proval and up to $2,500 with
State ASC office approval.
Although this practice ap
plies more to the northern
part of our State, where the
wind damage was much great
er, it may be applicable to a
few cases in this area. If you
have further questions please
call your county A.S.C. office
or contact your farm forester.
Heavy concentrations of de
bris should be cleaned up be
cause of the insect problem
that could follow.
With fire season just around
the corner, the following
chemical analysis, proves to
be interesting.
Tree growth is the creation
of usable wood cellulose
through the slow natural
chemical known as photosyn
thesis. This process combines
carbon dioxide, water, and
the sun's heat and energy.
This is the process with which
management practices of the
tree farmer and the forester
are concerned.
Fire reverses this process
with astronomical speed and
reduces the wood again to its
simplest elements. In the first
case, energy is being fixed
slowly. In the second case, en
ergy is being released quickly
as the same process runs in
reverse.
The western Oregon small
tract optional tax statute per
mits owners of 1,000 acres or
less of forest land with tim
ber under 60 years, to have
their lands classified and tax
ed upon the basis of site or
productivity of the land. Ap
plications for coming under
this type of taxation must be
made prior to August, 1963 or
within one year after the ac
quisition of the property.
Small owners have been slow
to apply for the new classi
fication. If you desire more
information about the tax or
wish an application blank,
please contact your farm for
ester at the state forestry de
partment headquarters, at
5286 Table Rock rd., Central
Point, or write P.O. Box 71,
Medford, Ore.
Conservation is a state of
harmony between men and
land.
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been used by Aaron Burr in
his duel with Alexander
Hamilton is on display at the
old Capitol building in Frank
fort, Ky.
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makes a good organization led
by Eddie Meeker, president,
frequency of meetings, active
participation by a majority of
members and strong leader
ship were stressed.
Classroom Phase
01 FFA Program
Aids Farmer, Too
Editor's note: This is one
of a series of articles writ
ten by Tocational agricul
ture and FFA students to
highlight National FFA
week which was celebrated
by FFA chapters through
out the U. S. last week.
By JEFF KEEFE
Eagle Point FFA
The classroom phase of the
vocational agriculture pro
gram covers that phase of ag
riculture study related to the
area of the local community.
This study is conducted in
the classroom as well as out
in the field for high school
freshmen, sophomores, juniors
and seniors.
In Jackson county every
year there are also classes of
fered to the citizens of the
community by the depart
ments of vocational agricul
ture who wish to improve
their proficiency in farming.
These classes are called adult
classes.
The freshman course cen
ters around the use of the
project book in which a stu
dent learns to keep the rec
ords of his supervised farming
program. A thorough study in
all four years is given in
enterprise accounting so a stu
dent knows which enterprise
is profitable and which one is
marginal. In addition to this
he studies livestock produc
tion and crop production.
In the following three years
in high school we specialize
in specific phases of agricul
ture production. More detail
ed study of livestock produc
tion is given around nutrition,
diseases, marketing, genetics,
and many other phases of
good farm livestock manage
ment. In crop production we
learn the use of fertilizers,
irrigation, weeds, forage pro
duction, and usually many
field trips are planned, and
often a specialist in this par
ticular field may be a guest
speaker to one of our classes.
In our upper class studies
we tend to spend more time
on farm management and pre
paring for the days after high
school. Although our course
is designed for training farm
ers I feel that it is a very fine
course giving you training for
any occupation. Especially
when we hear the statistics
that 40 per cent of the work
ing population of the United
States in connected directly or
indirectly with agriculture.
'Stream' Study
Made at OSU
Corvallis Animals and
plants 1 i v I n g in artificial
"streams are being studied
by Oregon State university
scientists in an effort to gain
greater knowledge of energy
relationships among organ
isms living in aquatic communities.
The National Science Foun
dation is supporting the proj
ect. It has just announced a
$31,600 grant to continue for
the next three years the work
headed by Dr. Charles E. War
ren, associate professor of
fisheries, and Dr. Harry K.
Phinncy, professor of botany.
Assisting them are Gerald E.
Davis, instructor in fisheries,
and David C. Mclntire, re
search assistant in botany.
The long-term project uti
lizes trough - like artificial
"streams" at OSU's Oak
Creek laboratory near Corval
lis. By using the artificial
"streams," scientists can con
trol such factors as water ve
locity and temperature, light,
and nutrient levels to simu
late various stream conditions,
Dr. Warren explained.
In the "streams," scientists
produce a simple plant com
munity consisting mainly of
algae and then superimpose
a "simplified'' animal commu
nity on top of the plants.
Early Treatment
Needed (or Weeds
Of Some Varieties
By RAY HUBBELL
Weed Control Supervisor
Most weeds are more easily
controlled when they are
small. Some grow and ma
ture so rapidly that one has
to plan to put control meas
ures in effect to take advan
tage of this fact. If let go the
problem increases as does the
cost for control.
There are several of these
weeds in the valley which
are easily controlled by this
early treatment. One of these
is poison hemlock, a biennial
plant, mistakenly called wild
carrot, Queen Anne's lace or
wild parsnip. Poison hemlock,
as the name implies, is a poi
sonous plant. Mature plants
will grow 10 feet tall, have
fern-like leaves resembling
carrot plants, as do t h e flow
ers although somewhat larger.
Purple spotted portions gen
erally appear on the lower
stems and are used as a mark
of identification.
Early Treatment
Teasel, another biennial
plant that will respond to this
early treatment can be readi
ly identified by the seed pods
on last year's stalks. Although
not paisonous its growth and
not poisonous its growth and
sirable.
These two weeds at this
date are small. Both are sus
ceptible to sprays of 2,4-D.
One and a half gallons per
100 gallons of water with a
spreader sticker will kill all
the plants that are present.
Repeated sprays will be need
ed for complete control.
Seeds lying in the ground may
exist until conditions are cor
rect for germination. Ditch
and creek banks or along
fences, where the ground is
not cultivated or worked to
bring new seeds to the sur
face, control can be achieved
by preventing these plants
from maturing and producing
seeds.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1963
Moles, Gophers
Big Problem
To Area Gardens
"Moles and Gopher Con
trol" is the title of Extension
Bulletin 804 recently releas
ed by Oregon State universi
ty, and is available at the
County Agent's office, accord
ing to Bert G. Wilcox, coun
ty extension agent.
Moles and gophers are mo
bile weeds that cause major
economic damage to pastures
and hayfields in this area.
Identifying the problem
moles or gophers is the
first step in their control. The
key to identification is t h e
mound. The mole mound is
somewhat conical in shape
and not much over a foot in
diameter. The hole is not evi
dent when you look at the
mound. Push the soil aside
and you will find it under the
center of the mound. The go
pher mound fans out from a
hole near one edge of the
mound. This hole remains
plugged while the gopher is
in his runway system. The
gopher mound is relatively
flat, compared to the mole
mound, and varies from
about one to three feet in
diameter. Soil in a gopher
mound is usually quite fine.
Moles come to the surface
occasionally, mainly at night,
to search for food, water and
nesting material. Migrations
may occur overland also.
A gopher may spend its en
tire life within 100 to 200
yards of its birth place, or
may travel as much as a mile.
Effective Control
Moles and gophers can be
controled most effectively by
poison baiting, trapping and
shooting.
Chemicals used in poison
ing moles should be odorless
and tasteless. Thallium sul
fate, strychnine or arsenic
compounds are some chemi
cals that fulfill this require
ment. Sixteen quarts of carrots,
parsnips, or sweet potatoes
cut into 'SxVax'i inch pieces
and dusted with one ounce of
strychnine (alkaloid) is an ef
fective poisonous bait in con
trolling the white toothed
pocket gopher of this area.
Pilot Inspection Set for Rabbits
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Salem - To aid in keeping
farmers and other interested
informed of pending legisla
tion relating to the state de
partment of agriculture. Di
rector J. F. Short lists this
group of bills introduced dur
ing the first two weeks of
February:
SB IS would repeal need to
notarize inspection fee reports
required of dealers in ferti
lizers, limes and agricultural
minerals. (Requested by the
department.)
S 103 would remove license
requirements for mobile
slaughter plants, prohibit sale
of uninspected meat in retail
markets and require non-processing
slaughterers to sell
only inspected meat. The first
hearing on this developed con
cern both for and against.
SB 156 would establish a
pilot inspection program on
poultry and rabbit slaughter
for the two years ending July
1, 1965, to determine neces
sity and cost of statewide
compulsory inspection.
HB 1239 on agricultural
marketing would prohibit any
dealer in agricultural commo
dities from specified unfair
marketing practices and
STOCKMEN
FEED PELLETS
Your coane or unpalatable
roughage will make a bate
for a modern balanced ration
that yeu can feed with little
labor and no wattage. The
Increased meat or milk pro
duced will five you maxi
mum returni en a amall cath
investment.
MORTON
MILLING CO.
500 Ross lane, Medford
would be administered by
SDA.
HB 1303 would require the
director of agriculture to sub
mit a report to the 1965 Legis
lature on a interstate compact
providing for regulation of
production and marketing of
agricultural commodities.
HB 1341 would amend the
egg law to require licensing
of chicken and turkey hatch
eries and inspection to deter
mine that eggs which have
been Incubated do not enter
market channels. (Aimed at
incubator rejects and pro
hibits entry into Oregon of
egg meats unless processed in
USDA-inspected plants or are
from states that prohibit in
cubator rejects.)
HB 1346 would provide
machinery for state marketing
orders on agricultural com
modities, with SDA to admin
ister the act.
HB 1376 is a milk stabiliza
tion act which would license
milk handlers, establish mini
mum prices to be paid at the
producer level, provide a
method of equalization and
establish quotas for Indi
vidual dairymen.
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TAKE YOUR
INCOME TAX
REFUND IN U.
SAVINGS BOND
For the first time, you can take
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E United States Savings Bonds.
All you have to do is check a box
on your 1962 tax return.
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U. S. Savings Bonds. Full details are in the instruction form.
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