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TUESDAY. FROM THE GROUND By (ART tARTLCn .The large quantity of water 'resulting from recent heavy rains have, in many instances. . proved the value of well placed ; winter drainage cwcnes or w ' rows. i Such temporary drainage sys . terns have a place in most agri. cultural soils whether or not it is orchard, row crop or meadow . land. The soils in this area are, as ' a general rule, easily saturated ' with water. The excess that re sults from fall and winter rains should be drained off by tern, porary drainage systems to pre- - vent swampy conditions that can often result in damages to eco nomic plants. Such drainage systems once in place should be checked occasionally to pre vent their stoppage by leaves or other debris. Leave Grass Long Where lawns will be heavily used by children and their pets during wet winter months, it is wise to have the lawn grasses rather long. Closely mowed lawns suffer more damage from trampling under wet conditions than do those that have a longer and more dense cover. Where the lawn soils are very light sandy or red clay types, it may be well to apply a light application of some complete fertilizer during the fall or win ter months. Such fertilizer can be an o-20-20 or 16-16-16 formulation. The first figure is of less im portance than the last two series of figures. Your fertilizer dealer can assist in this regard. Oak trees can be beautiful I Interested persons should see certain of the specimen trees growing by the road by Hill crest Orchards. There are many specimen trees at this place and not all . of them are oaks. The buckeye or horse-chestnut trees have now shed all their leaves as have i .any of the species of oak. "Good Oaks However, there are oaks that retain .their leaves and make a good display of fall color. These same oaks are not subject to the same diseases - and potho- ULlj mam When Time and Labor Won't Permit Everyday Attention To Your Cattle . . PURINA RANGE BLOCKS Are Just What You Are Looking For Convenient 33Vi lb. Size 36 Protein ' Contains Minerals and Salt No Bunk Required Economical To Feed SPECIAL Introductory Offer One Block With Purchase Offer Good Thit Week Onlyl Quantity Diicounli Do Not Apply NOVEMBER 19. 1963 Walnut Marketing Well Outlined Home and commercial walnut growers are interested in tne Federal Marketing Order No. 84 which regulates the sale of wal nuts, according to Don Berry, county extension agent. This Federal Marketing uraer provides that anyone who "handles" walnuts must have them inspected to determine that thev meet the minimum standard established under the marketing order except growers can sell without inspection up to 500 pounds of unshelled or 200 pounds of sneiied wainuis airecr. to actual consumers within the area of production. These direct sales may not exceed 500 pounds unshelled or 200 pounds shelled in any one market year. 11 you mail parcel post or express shipments, they may not exceed 10 pounds unshelled (or 4 pounds shelled) to any one consumer in any one calendar day. A walnut grower may also sell without inspection to a rec ognized "handler" of walnuts who complies with the walnut control board regulation prior to resale. No sales to retailers can be made unless walnuts are inspected. Inspections are made by the Federal-State Shipping Point In spection Service, 692 South Grane Street. Medford, at a cost of 6V4 cents per 100 pounds of in-shell walnuts and-or 15 cents per 100 pounds of shelled nuts with a minimum charge 01 $5.50. Most local growers with small productions prefer to sell their walnuts directly to the consum er through roadside stands or soliciting direct sales from their own property in order to avoid the cost and trouble of inspec tion. gens that attack the native oaks of this area. It is not too late to apply certain herbicide sprays for weed control during the coming growing season. Consult your seed or chemical dealer for ad vice and materials. Pruning is a timely topic these days, The absence of pruning labor is a problem, but may im prove as the growing season progresses. The winter meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural Soci ety will begin Wednesday. All Interested persons should attend as those old boys around the college really get dressed up for this one. It is the equivalent of a major holiday for them, so let's all go and get them re charged for another year. gamp FEED PURINA RANGE BLOCKS! FREE of 10 Blocks! 7n ft :1 CRATES OF ONIONS Two Central Point area high school youths stacked onions at the Seven Oaks ranch, north of Central Point, this fall. These will be warehoused by John Tariffs Only Solution For Fighting Import By CHARLOTTE DAVIS Mail Tribune Correspondent SISKIYOU COUNTY - "Tar iffs are the only solution to combat the threat of import beef," is the conclusion drawn by Harvey McDougal who spoke to some 225 Siskiyou county cattlemen, their wives and guests at their annual dinner meeting at Winema Hall at the Siskiyou County Fairgrounds, Friday evening, Nov. 15. Howard Beck, president of Siskiyou County Cattlemen's Association, conducted the formal portion of the session, which included introductions and presentations. Past "Cattle men of the Year" present in cluded Clarence Dudley for 1958, Brice "Bud" Long, 1960, Earl Fiock, 1961 and Charles Hammond, 1962. Honored Mrs. A. B. Hoy, pioneer woman in the cattle business, was awarded the honor of being "Mom of the Year" of the Siski you Cowbells, the presentation being made by Mrs. Ed Hart, the president. Doug Jenner, Etna, Future Farmers of America member, received from the Hereford Breeders Association, a leather scroll lor having the best Here ford exhibit at the Siskiyou County Fair. From the S.C.C.A., the C. A. Grissom Ranch, Edge wood, received the award for the best pen of feeder steers at the fair; Jim Taylor, Big Springs, for the best pen of feed er Hellers, and Muart Ham mond, Weed, for the best pen oi replacement hellers, Junior past president of S.C.C.A., Win Valentine, was given a belt buckle for his job as chairman. Ed Hart and his committee were thanked for ar ranging the dinner meeting. Blair smith, Montague, state director from Siskiyou county, urged all who could to attend the state convention of Califor nia Cattleman Association in Bakersfield, Dec. 5, 6 and 7 to do so. Louis Hessig, past president of S.C.C.A., in introducing the guest speaker Harvey Mc Dougal, commercial feed lot operator from Colllnsville. men tioned that he Is a past president of CCA. and Cattle Feeders' Association, he is vice president of National Cattlemen Associa tion and acts on many advisory boards. In 1954 McDougal was State of California "Cattleman of the Year" and often judges in leading shows throughout the nation, having done so for Sis kiyou County two different years. "Foreign Imports of Beet was the topic of the subject of McDougal's address. Ho clean ed his material from a trip he took in the company of his wife and seven other couples, three of them from California, to New Zealand and Australia, this p.ist summer, stopping enroute in the Fiji Islands and Hawaii. More Cattle Than People The group noted that New Zealand, about the size of Colo rado, has a population of 2V4 million people and has 7,4 million cattle. "II is one of the greatest pastures of the world, carrying one-half head of cnttle per acre the year around," Mc Dougal said. "Sheep and cattle are handled on the same range. Cattle utilize the lush top grass while the sheep do the closer cropping. A great deal of wool and lambs aro exported to lCng lund as well as quantities of boned beef all over the world 240 million pounds having been shipped to the United States last year. Grass fut cattle at l.ooo pounds are exported from this country, much of it going to the Hawaiian Islands, where in spite of shipping expense meat can be sold 10 cents under local prices." In Australia the U.s. group met with the beef board at Syd ney and took a 12 day tour in the north of the continent, which is as large as the United States, but has few railroads and Imid ly any roads, making transpor if JJ Bohnert and tation poor. McDougal related that the Sir William Gunn ranch in Queensland, consisting of some 10,000 acres had been pur chased for $3 per acre. "The brush is cleared with tractors, then burned and the land seed' ed to grass," he said. "In five years time top feed is pro duced, at $25 cost per acre. It requires two to carry one cow." McDougal said a 2-year-old steer weighing 1,000 pounds is fed only on grass. "The income pays off the investment in five years or less. Many million acres are still available. Tne average yearly rainfall is 25 inches. The cost of a cow is $50 and the overhead is $100, very much cheaper than here," he said. Scales are not available in many places, therefore cattle are often sold by the head at auctions. A top steer is sold at 10 to 12 cents per pound and then goes through the boning operation, for export. Bulls bring a higher price than here wnen tney go to tne noning op erations. Sanitation is not al ways good, but seems to be satisfactory in the killing plants. "In the interior, which is dessert country, a whole section can be leased for $1.50 per sec tion. In one area visited, the travelers saw a fence which ran 90 miles in a straight line. Wa ter is usually 16 miles away. Losses are heavy, due to the rugged condition of the country. One ranch was said to contain 4 million acres and rains come but once a year. The spring temperature is often 104 de grees. Ranchers there do not worry greatly about their heavy losses, as the build-up is rapid, partly due to low prices." Huge Ranch Described "At the King Ranch, 600 miles from the closest neighbor, 4 million acres have been de veloped for water and fenced In the last five years. Thev can handle 28,000 cattle and plan to increase to 75,000 soon. They can produce a four - year - old steer for $25 and get it to mar ket for another $25. Most of the native cattle are of shorthorn foundation for the past 100 years. Sanla Gertrudis are being tried." "The hospitality of the ranch ers was outstanding to the travelers. They being 19 in number, and there being no ho tel accommodations to be found, IRELAND HEREFORD RANCH Female PRODUCTION SALE 60 HEAD SELLING Wed., Nov. 20. ..1:30 P.M. JACKSON COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS Cowbelle's Serving Lunch Featuring the Service of Our New Bull O O Del MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. - .. .. at- Don Bradshaw and gradually shipped out during the winter to the San Francisco area where the onions have con sistently topped the market. Now Beef the ranches were able to make them comfortable in all in stances. In many cases supplies are obtained only twice a year." "By American standards, they found the meat in the arid coun try to be quite tough and in edible. In some areas in Cen tral Australia it may not rain for as long as three years. When the grass gets sparse, cat tle will eat the leaves from the trees, if they can find any." "Children in these sparsely settled areas are taught bv radio and mail and doctor's ad vice in many cases is sought Dy radio. McDougal said that in meetine with the Meat Board in Aus tralia, they obtained no relief from the situation. This coun try is attempting to develop an Asian market for their low price meats, which may help in the solution of the problem. The U. S. group felt that the New Zealand cattlemen were not quite as willing to cooper ate as mose oi Australia, as they are exporting 80 per cent of their meat to the U.S. Threat Seen McDougal said the United States beef men are not asking for government help, other than using meat in school lunches. He feels, however, that Aus tralia may be a serious threat to the welfare of our market, since they have such a great potential and can produce at such low cost. In a few in stances oats is green-chooDed and fed as a supplement and in another case on a sewage farm, where the clear sewage is DumD- ed to the fields, 30 tons of hav can be produced to an acre and 4 steers can be pastured on one acre of this land. He said that Australia now has 18 million cattle and their potential is unlimited. He furth er added that Argentina is a still further threat to the U.S. market. If their beef is ever imported here, we are sunk, he said. Planes can be used to im port it from there. McDougal and his committee men have attempted to meet with Agriculture Secretary Or ville Freeman, but thus far have not been able to work out a solution, agreeable to the U.S. meat enterprise. He feels that a protective tariff is of utmost im portance. 4 A filf..' Mesa 32 MEDFORO, OREGON Skilled People Needed For Raising Quality Onions By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Farm Editor CENTRAL POINT Raising onions like the production of other specialty crops here in the Rogue Valley requires people with know-how. This has been emphasized re peatedly by county extension agents and growers. This is the big concern of those who would like to expand truck gardening in the valley which produces top quality products in onions. mellons, tomatoes, sweet corn, potatoes and spinach. There just aren't enough good grow ers to go around. The problem of enough good growers becomes acute when you consider the large acreage which will be put under irriga tion water for the first time with the advent of the Rogue Basin project and the additional water to be provided other acreage. The rapidly rising taxes on property plus irrigation charges mane it necessary lor the far mer to get a high return in dollars from each acre under protection. Only a good grower can do this. The Harry Dunn family on Grant Road are among the lit tle group of expert growers closely associated with Otto Bohnert, the leading local ex pert in specialty crops. Roger Von der Hellen, John Bohnert, Arnold Bohnert, Wilton White, and others. The majority of these people are easing out of vegetables to raise grass seed which requires far less labor and has a steadier market. "You have to have a market. You gotta know what you are doing. Also, you have to have enough money to do it right," a local onion grower said. One thing about onions vou can market them all year with out overloading the market at any particular time. Rogue Valley onions, as growers Don Bradshaw and John Bohnert nave noted have a high demand for their top quality. Some may go north to the Portland mar ket, but most of them go south to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Southern Oregon Branch Experiment Station is constant ly working with new onion va rieties. The station has 30 dif ferent onion selections this year. Three are named varie ties, 27 have experiment station numbers and 10 have Oregon State university numbers. Some of the seed for these plants FOR BETTER FEEDING EFFICIENCY THIS WINTER USE GRANGE CO-OP We have the correct feed for every feeding need poultry and livestock. ROGUE RANGE CUBES-A hay stretcher at a low price. ROGUE FATTENING RATION A finishing feed for one or a feed lot full. Many Other Special Feeds Let us know your problem-we can help with our free NUTRI TION SERVICES. REMEMBER: You don't have to be a member to trade here and SAVE. Highway 99 CENTRAL POINT Ph. 664-1261 or 773-4022 come from commercial compa nies, others from the United States Department of Agricul ture. Almost all are hybrid types through a system of crossbreeding. Most vegetable and seed crops come from hy brid plants, station Agronomist John xungen noted. A thousand 50 pound sacks to the acre, field run, is consid ered good. Local growers get 1,200 to 1,400 sacks per acre, according to Yungen. A Sweet Spanish variety, Colorado 6, is the old standby, with Fiesta and Treasure becoming more popular. The experiment station keeps them in storage about five or six months. Then it grades, weighs and sizes the various onion varieties to see which store best. "Marketing onions is an orderly procedure," according to County Agent Don Berry. Growers don't overload the market. It's a specialty crop which requires a lot of detail work and handling." Due to the cold spring and late planting the onions didn't size as large as in other years, according to Central Point Onion Grower Dick Dunn. But, the yield this year was good, about the highest he can re member. Two to three inch onions was considered good. Sandy and granite sou is con loin the BIG switch to DATSUN AMERICA'S FASTEST GROWING IMPORT PICKUP Mhtn "iMdid with utrn" in- eluding WSW Tim, Hter, Vinyl Intthar plus 1 12 monthi12,000 mfl warranty. -I . UL : i U 1 1 -ii't W si.- (Gfl'aiimge sidered best for onions, al though some growers have raised good stands on the Beef Carcass Work Explained by OSU CORVALLIS - Use of an im portant new tool in the continu ing effort by the Oregon cattle industry to produce beef that is tailored to fit changing needs of the meat trade as well as consumer preference is illus trated in a new Oregon State University extension bulletin. The bulletin was prepared by Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the De partment of Animal Science at Oregon State, and John H. Lan ders and W. Dean Frischknecht, OSU extension animal science specialists. It describes the re suits of the beef carcass evalu ation contest held at the 1962 Pacific International Livestock Exposition in Portland. The bulletin explains the im portance of the carcass contest in relation to current trends in meat merchandising. It details the grades, yields, and cut-out values of the carcasses entered in the contest. Oregon residents may obtain free copies of "Beef Carcass Evaluation Contest" from coun ty extension offices or the OSU Bulletin Clerk. r "Paid less. Cut operating costs Vi- Big 6' x 4'8" bed carries up to 2000 lbs. Handles like a compact, with a powerful engine plus 4-spced transmission. Gas economy up to 31 mpg. Try Datsun , . it's in a class by itself I" ? 1 fi50 ' VWM del. COM IN FOR STEVENS 505 North GRANGE CO-OP CENTRAL POINT CodDp 421 A Street ASHLAND Phone 482-2143 sticky soil. Experts generally agree that a lot more onions could be grown in the valley if there were only the growers to do it. The Dunns have about nine acres planted to onions. Prior to harvest they use a V blade to slice off the roots. High school youngsters crate them after they are windrowed, two rows together to dry partially. Fur ther drying is done in the huge storage house. Those onions containing more moisture are stacked in a drying room con taining a large fan and heat ing plant. Local women and Dunns run the sorting machine which uses a moving belt to drop onions through different size mesh screens. This can be done all winter long as the need to crate or sack arises. The Dunns sell onions locally and ship also. The three pound cello pack of broiler onions has proven popu lar. Sacks themselves most l'V cents, but they consider the cost well worth it. STOCKMEN FEED PELLETS Your coarse or unpalatable roughage will make a base for a modern balanced ration that you can feed with little labor and no wastage. The increased meat or milk pro duced will give you maxi mum returns on a small cash investment. MORTON MILLING CO. 500 Ross Lane, Medford A TEST DRIVE TOOHI AUTO SALES Central Avenue FEEDS - for all . 1 . 111,11 'Jl"J.lltk. J J
