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RETIRED IN TIME - A pastured horse hauling a house to people and the horse watches strange goings-on by a rival means probably thinks he didn't retire a minute of transportation - a truck. The truck is too soon. (UPI) Brand Inspection Helps Locate Stock After Checking Six Auction Yards Salem - Brands are helpful in locating and identifying cattle that have strayed or been stolen. But, with the aid of Ore gon's brand inspection law, the livestock officers of the Oregon Department of Agri culture frequently prove all is not lost for lack of a brand. Cattle, like people, have traits and characteristics that help these policemen of the bovine kingdom in establish ing identity. Such was the case of an eight .- month - old white faced brindled bull with dis tinctive rings around his eyes; FROM THE GROUND UP By BART BARTLETI The budding of trees and shrubs can be continued for several weeks or until the bark of stock plants will no longer slip. The result will, of course, be a dormant bud and should not be forced into grow .un til next spring. It mayetell to break over the tops of stock plants that are being budded. If the tops are brok en over properly they will continue to live and will give a considerable amout of shade to the newly set bud. The question often arises as to how late during the grow ing season should a plant grower or farmer continue to apply fertilizer. In the first place fertilizers, as a term, is an all encompassing mis nomer. All materials that are referred to as fertilizers do not accomplish the same job for plant growers. In the sec ond place many plants should not receive any supplemental nutrition once they have reached a given stage of de velopment in their life cycle. At this time of year in the local area, very little fertiliz er or plant nutrients should be used on most economic crop plants. There are certain landscape plants, lawns, mead ows and hay crops that may benefit from supplemental nu trients at this time. . It is rather late now to apply nitrogen fertilizer to young fruit trees and get some growth and have the trees go dormant with wood that will stand low winter temperatures. The moderate temperatures of this season are causing most plants to remain vegetative and grow ing later than is normal for this area. Bart is greatly concerned over reports that indicate that our Oregon employment and charity service must be cur tailed somewhat because of a lack of manpower. It seems they are out of funds. Now perhaps they know how we taxpayers feel. We will miss our Chick Sales Sniffer as well as the Potable Water pest. This may even free some labor for farm use. Inspect young pear plant ings now for late fireblight infections. The red bartlett variety should receive special attention as fireblight infec tions are difficult to identify in this variety at this time. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial IndusWel Residential $) Metil Wosfc Stainless, Galvanlaeol end Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE 772-4440 little six - month - old black heifer answering to the name Officers Named For WOE Group Boulder, Colo.-The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) ap pointed new officers at the commission's annual meeting held recently in San Fran cisco. Dr. D e r m o nt W. Melick, Phoenix, Ariz., former com mission vice chairman, was appointed chairman and will replace Dr. Charles J. Arm strong, president of the Uni versity of Nevada, who has been WICHE chairman for the past year. Dr. WillarJ Wilson, secre tary of the University of Ha waii, was appointed to replace Dr. Melick as vice chairman. WICHE is active in inter state programs for student ex change. RATION Hay represents 38 per cent of the average milk cow ra tion and 60 per cent of the ration for beef and other cat tle, according to an article in the New Holland Grassland News. Of every $20 Americans spend on groceries, $1.50 to $2 goes for packaging, the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, of Susie; and their two Here ford heifer companions, who disappeared March 24 from the Arthur Gering pasture at rt. 2, box 145, Yamhill. After searching for the an imals the Gerings notified law enforcement officers. Tlie de partment's livestock officer, E. L. (Doc) Wright, was called in on the case March 30, when evidence at hand indicated that the quartet had not stray ed, but had been stolen. Check Marks Doc asked the Gerings for any markings or characteris tics that would identify the animals. Gering and his 14- year-old son, Lee, put their heads together and recalled that the little bull had the rings around his eyes and that in addition to being brindled with a white spot on his face he had a little black spot in the middle of the white and that Susie, who was some what of a pet, came atrotting when Lee called her name. On his check of livestock auction markets in Portland, Wright found the depart ment's brand inspector recall ed seeing the pair and that the other animals had been sold in the group. A look at the inspection records showed the four an imals had gone through the markets and the names of the buyers were found. Each had gone to a different place and all but one had been resold by the time Livestock Officer Wright, 'vho has been with s v H ' f , ' ". Jfrl A MEDFORD. OREGON Seed Research Work Corvallis - Oregon's impor-1 rently is supported by $61,000 , tance to the nation's seed in dustry was emphasized this week with announcement that by Sept. 1 the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture will move its research project on har vesting, cleaning and farm handling of small seeds from Clemson, S. C, to Corvallis and consolidate it with the one at Oregon State univer sity. The project at Corvallis cur- Gardening Tips By JOHN W. McLOUGHLIN County Agent Tomatoei Many of our garden toma toes have been affected by various types of spotting. The most common of these spots come under the names of cloudy spot, blossom-end rot and sunscald. Cloudy Spot Tomatoes affected with cloudy spot show irregular white to light yellow spots in the department in this capaci ty 15 years and before that spent 7V4 years with the Ore gon State Police, caught up with them. This was after checking six auction yards, one of them at Vancouver, Wash., and sifting through some 3,000 head of cattle sold at these auctions. Five days after Wright started his search he had lo cated all four animals and identified them. The little brindled bull had gone to Or chards, Wash.; Susie went to La Centre, Wash; one of the Hereford heifers was located south of Redmond, Ore., and the other at Powell Butte. Records Give Clue Brand inspection records kept by the department of ag riculture had also given offi cers a clue as to whom the rustlers were that spirited the Gering cattle away. The next day after the cat tle were located and identi fied, Raymond Robert Larson, 24, of Route 2, Carlton, and George Robert Minor, 30, Route 2, Box 145, Yamhill, were arrested in Utah on an all points bulletin. Convicted July 22 at Mc- Minnville on the charge of stealing the animals, Larson was given a three - year sen tence by Judge Arlie G. Walk er, and Minor was sentenced to five years in the Oregon State penitentiary. All that remains now to close the case is the home coming of the cattle. Only one has been returned, but the others will be returning to the Yamhill ranch, now that Larson and Minor have been convicted of the theft. Entertaining rently is supported by $61,000 annually from the USDA's ag ricultural research service. Consolidation of the work at Clemson with that at Cor vallis will strengthen seed re search in Oregon by adding about $23,000 annually to studies at OSU on small grass and legume seed harvesting and handling, reports Jesse E. Harmond, agricultural en gineer and investigations lead er for the USDA projects. the skin. The spots may be up to one-half inch in diameter and may be so numerous as to cover a considerable part of the fruit surface. When the tomato skin is peeled, glisten ing white masses of cells with a spongy texture are seen. The feeding punctures of stinkbugs cause cloudy spot. If the amount of injury war rants control, spray or dust with DDT on the foliage at regular intervals. Wait five days after spraying or dusting with DDT before harvesting any tomatoes. Blossom-End Rot Shrunken tissue at the blos som end of the tomato with a black leathery appearance indicates blossom-end rot. This condition appears most fre quently where the plants have grown under favorable condi tions in the early part of the season and then are allowed to dry out when the fruit is developing. Blossom-end rot may also develop when the small root lets are killed by a lack of aeration due to overwatering. The root system is so damaged that sufficient water cannot then be absorbed. This situ ation is common on the heavy soil in the valley. Even, regular watering and proper fertilization are neces sary to prevent injury from blossom-end rot. Sunscald Another common spot on tomatoes is caused by sun scald. This first appears as a yellow or white patch on the side of the fruit and later forms a large flattened gray ish white patch with a dry paperlike surface. This is most common when the tomatoes are exposed to the sun due to premature loss of foliage. A light covering over the plants during extremely hot weather will reduce the amount of injury-due to sun scald. Raspberries Spray the lower half of blackberry, loganberry and raspberry canes for control of the root borer with one quar ter pound of 50 per cent DDT to three gallons of water. Ap- idea: A bedroom extension phone Expanded At Oregon Moving to Corvallis Iromi ative state anrl federal Moving to Corvallis from Clemson will be J. K. Park, agricultural engineer, who has headed up studies there for 17 years. One of his notable achievements at Clemson was development of an inexpen sive combine attachment en abling farmers to harvest corn with a combine. Park will join USDA agri cultural engineers Leonard J. Klein and Norman R. Brand enburg in carrying on cooper- ply this spray now and around Sept. 10. The root borers appear in August and September as a beautiful thick bodied clear winged moth with a wing spread of about one inch and with four bright yellow bands across the abdomen. The females are often seen resting on the leaves where they de posit up to 150 reddish brown eggs on the under surface close to the edge. The larva hatch and move to the base of the cane where it hibernates in a cavity or crevice in the bark. In the spring the larva enter the crown and actively feed on the roots and canes. The sec ond winter is spent in the roots. Pupation is completed the following August and the adults emerge. The wilting and dying of the foliage is frequently the first indication of this moth. Preventive measures such as the destruction of dying canes and those showing evidence of borings and the eradication of wild brambles which may harbor the pest are also im portant in the control of this moth. $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ ative state and federal re search under the direction of Harmond. International Reputation The unit at OSU has gained an international reputation for work in the field of small seed handling and harvesting. Harmond reports many of the 700 visitors to the OSU lab oratory last year were from foreign countries. Much of the research at OSU in this area has been in developing of machines and methods to reduce seed har vesting and processing losses. For example, agricultural en gineers discovered that farm ers could increase their yield of crimson clover seed 75 per cent merely by harvesting at an earlier date. Similarly, an earlier har vest date plus use of a USDA OSU developed suction re claimer for shattered seed in creases yields of subclover seed about 60 per cent. Other noteworthy contribu tions of USDA researchers in this field include development of an electrostatic seed sep arator which separates seed from its contaminants; devel opment of a fluidized method of seed conveying and han dling in the processing plant without mixing and damage; and development of a method of microscopically measuring seed to 11000 of an inch at the rate of 12 seeds in 15 min utes for length, width and thickness. Among current projects are: development of a centrifugal pneumatic seed separator, dis covery of optimum moisture content for seed harvesting. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $ Cash For Back To School Needs! Get $25.00 $100.00 $300.00 or more for your Fall needs. Do your shopping with CASH and then have only one payment and one place to pay CALL TODAYI Medford's only home-owned, independent finance company. Stark Finance Co. Phone 773-1817 $ $ $ $ v TUESDAY. 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