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TUESDAY, Farm & 6 A Cherry Men Boost Mechanical Picking Berry Breeding CORVALUS Dr. John Ca rew, Head of the Department of Horticulture at Michigan Slate University, told stone fruit grow- ers during the 78th annual meet ing of the Oregon Horticultural Society that Michigan sour cher ry growers are linaing mat uie economies and convenience of . mechanical harvesting methods outweigh their disadvantages. According to Dr. Carew, 61 Michigan growers had the equipment needed to harvest cherries mechanically this sea son. Due to a poor crop year. 20 had no crop to harvest. But the remaining 41 growers, most- lv with one shaker and one frame each, harvested Vk mil' lion pounds of sour cherries, or about four per cent of the to tal crop, mechanically, Since the first commercial harvest with shakers in 1959, they've found that they can har vest cherries mecnamcany tor $30 to $40 a ton less than with hand picking, and generally get iruit of satisiactory quality. Sour cherries can be separa- ted satisfactorily from the tree with a mechanical shaker, and caught on frames. They can be transported from the orchard to the processor without damage to the fruit. Speed an Advantage Aside from cost, another ad vantage of mechanical harvest is the speed. Shakers can work an 18 to 24 hour day. One Mich igan grower, according to Ca rew, harvested 12 trees per hour with a shaker and catch ing frame. Put another way, this amounted to 1,000 pounds of cherries per hour, at a cost of less than one cent per pound. Many leaves, twigs, and cull cherries are shaken onto the catching frame, making for a sorting problem at the process ing plant. There is too much tree damage, and the fruit is bruised excessively in some cases. There is a need for im proved equipment. These prob lems are being attacked by In dividual growers, University re searchers, and the industry, ac cording to Carew. Yields from the heavily prun ed trees that were mechanically harvested Increased 12 per cent over the yield Irom the conven tionally pruned trees. Dr. Carew says this was due to the thinning and cleaning out of the weaker center branches, which were too limber for the cherries to shake off easily. Heavy pruning in creased the ease and speed of harvest. Use Water Tanks The bruising problem In Mich igan is partially solved by the current trend toward picking into water tanks and transport ing the cherries to the processor in water. Cherries moving to one particular processing plant are shaken from the trees onto picking frames, drop into wa ter containers, then into tank trucks from which they are (lumped Into water vats at the plant. From the vats, conveyors car ry the cherries Into large sort ing drums, where revolving met al "fingers" pick them up and allow an electronic sorter to scan them and reject all of the cherries with dark spots. This is done by using the degree ef liRht reflection through the cher ries as a guide to spot culls, which are shunted to one side. Ten of these electronic sort ers, which can sort cherries at the rate of more than 1,000 per minute, have eliminated the need for 30 to 35 women in this plant, said Dr. Carew. The cher ries are actually untouched by FARM Woodlot By RICHARD OLSON State Farm Forester One Wednesday, Nov. 13, the third forestry tour, sponsored by the Jackson County Farm For estry committee in Jackson County was held. Approximate ly 20 interested landowners at tended. The main topics of dis cussion were tree planting and Chrislmas tree culture. The weather co-operated to make it a very successful and pleasant tour. Tree planters will be glad to hear that order blanks for seed lings from Uie state forest nurs eries arc now available. For your order blank, contact your Mate forestry otfice or County Extension Office. In all, eighteen conifers and five broadlcaf species are avail able. These are: Conifers . . . Weslside Douglas Fir, Eastside Douglas Fir, Sierra Redwood, Rocky Mountain Juniper, Nor way Spruce, Port Orford and Incense Cedar, Chinese Arbor- vltae, Pondcrosa, Scotch, Lodge- pole, Shore, Austrian, Knob cone, Monterey and Sugar Pines, Grand, White, Noble and Shasta Firs. Broadleaves . . . NOVEMBER 26, 1963 Garden human hands, from tree to can, pointed out Dr. Carew. The Michigan State professor also discussed mechanical peach thinning. More than 1,000 acres of peaches were thinned me chanically this season in Mich igan, most of them with the same equipment used for har vesting cherries. One obvious advantage of me chanical thinning is the low cost. Dr. Carew said hand thin ning generally costs 75 cents to $1 per tree, pole thinning 25 to 50 cents a tree, while peach trees can be mechanically thinned for less than five cents per tree. One Michigan grower saved more than $6,000 by me chanical thinning, according to Carew. Problems encountered include unevenness of t h i n n i n g. Me chanical thinning should be fol lowed up by another hand thin ning. ' Tree Damage There is serious tree damage encountered with mechanical thinning, Dr. Carew said. He also said, however, that most growers who have used this method would rather bear the tree damage than go back to complete hand thinning, because of cost difference. Other research in Michigan stone fruit mechanization de scribed by Dr. Carew include efforts to develop equipment for mechanically shaking and catch ing apples. There has also been effort to find some means of chemically loosening cherries on the tree, to make harvesting easier, New clamps, which won't damage the trees so much, are also being Investigated. Dr. carew said that while there has not been much suc cess in developing a sweet cher ry harvester, it is inevitable that someone will eventually work out a method of mechan ically harvesting the sweet cher ries crop. . Strawberry Winter Injury Affected by CORVALLIS Experience with winter injury of strawberries as influenced by 1 space planting was related during a panel dis cussion before the small fruits section of the Oregon Horticul tural Society Thursday. Richard C. Holland, superin tendent of the Washington State Nursery at Bellingham, reported on work which the nursery start ed in 1957 as an evaluation of space planting over matted row and double space planting of strawberries. Space plantings were made of Northwest, Pudgot Beauty, Mar shall and Siletz varieties. Winter damage to Northwest has been considerable, while other varie ties showed only negligible dam age from freezing, he said. As high as 68 per cent of the North west plants were dead at the end of the first winter season. In the last five years, produc tion of Pudgct Beauty and Siletz matted row plantings averaged just over five tons per acre. Dur ing uie same period, the space planted polts yielded slightly over ten tons. However, he add ed, no appreciable advantage in space planted Marshalls, product-wise, over the matted row planting method was found. With the winter injury prob lem in mind plus the changing of equipment used, space plant ing has not been accepted to any degree In Northwest Washing ton, Holland said. The nursery is now working to find a possible solution to freeze Facts Black Locust, Caragana Chi- nese Elm, Russian Olive Honey Locust (Thornlcss). and Tree Orders Minimum orders are for 50 trees for $1. Thereafter, trees are sold in multiples of 50 trees at $12 to $15 per thousand for conifers and $10 to $12 for broad- leaves, Including shipping costs. Douglas Fir (Westslde), Pondcr osa and Lodgcpole Pine, and Noble Fir in amounts of 10,000 or more arc $9 to $12 per thou sand, purchaser paying ship ping costs. Limits per customer are generally higher than pre viously. Christmas tree buyers and sellers are becoming quite ac tive in this area. It you are a seller or buyer and wish to make some contacts write: P.O, Box 71, Medford or call 6t4- 1213 and leave your name and acmross and telephone num ber. Also the number and spe cies of trees wanted to buy or to be sold. Thought for the week: The real key to our future timber supply lies in the one-out-of- every ten American families who own small forests- Harvest Machines Now Stop Gap Aid In Orchards CORVALLIS - Most of the equipment being developed now represents "stop - gap" steps suitable for present orchards and is usable until orchards are redesigned to obtain maximum efficiency from mechanical aids to harvesting, according to Rob ert L. Stebbins, OSU extension horticulturist. He spoke during the recent Oregon Horticultural Society meeting in Corvallis. Some day, Stebbins said, pear and apple orchards will feature "fruiting walls" with close plantings within the row; great er use of growth controlling stocks, and pruning to maintain a continuous wall of bearing surface down the orchard row. Reviewing the different kinds of mechanical aids, Stebbins noted that most of them are oriented toward one man. In cluded in these are the Edwards Dyna-Soar, the Trump Girette, both of which lift the picker into the tree above a three-wheeled base and guides the fruit down the boom to a loader which places it in a bin. The Baerg Tree Farmer is very flexible and allows for many different picking positions. The Wish Basket is designed to fit over the grower's tractor. Stebbins also briefly reviewed mechanical aids which are be ing developed at the University of California including a lift which features a "swing seat" for the picker. Multi-man Platforms Two grower-made machines were designed for use by more than one picker at a time and both feature multi-man plat forms, the specialist said. The first was developed by C. King Benton Jr., Hood River. Mounted on a trailer, pickers standing on planks extended from the platform can harvest four trees at once. The platform is lifted on hydraulic rams to a height of 15 feet. The second was designed by Earl Fife, Visalia, Calif., which can handle six pickers at once working on two trees at a time. The pickers stand on catwalkers which move out from the base of the platform. Plant Space damage in the Northwest varie ty, for the past three years, plants have been covered with two or three inches of soil in late November or early Decem ber. This was removed in early iwarcn. ' However, he said, "no partic ular conclusions have been made as only one winter was severe enough to get any amount of winter damage." A grower's experience with Northwest double row planting was recounted by Roger Mad sen, Hillsboro, who planted ap proximately 14,500 plants per acre with 12-inch spacing be tween double rows, 18 inches be tween plants In each row and 48 inches from center of row to center of next row. One Year's Diimagc The 1962-63 winter was the only year damage was experi enced to any noticeable degree, he reported. The three year old field had considerable winter damage in weaker portions on more exposed areas. Only scat tered plants in healthy areas with good foliage had winter kill. Only isolated plants in the two year old field showed damage, Madsen reported. Disadvantages in picking were found to be tangled vines with overlapping of berries and the fact that berries were more eas ily missed. It was also more difficult and expensive to con trol runners. 11 not controlled, a real problem results in a wide heavy matted row, he stressed. He also found it more expen sive to control weeds, especially if they cannot be controlled chemically and also found plants and fertilizer more expensive. However, on the plus side, Madsvn reported higher produc tion per acre, a higher potcntlnl of production on limited acreage and a significant plant popula tion In a poor stand. Also describing his experi ences as a grower was Harvey Toftc, Canby. North Korea Charges Live Targets Used TOKYO (UP1) - The Com munist Central News Agency of North Korea charged in a broad cast todnv that nine South Ko reans killed last Thursday were used as live targets by U. . Army troops during rockot prac tice. U. S. Army sources announced the nine were killed while scav enging scrap metal from a firing range when a non-nuclear U. S. Army Honest John rocket ex ploded among them. FIKt.l) LOSSES More than 75 per cent of field losses of hay is through loss of nutritious leaves. To prevent leaf loss, hay should be raked while still tough enough to pre vent leaf shattering. Chit By JCE Mail Tribune As you will notice in the various stories elsewhere on this page, the Oregon Horticultural Society talks seem to be con tinuing the trend of the last two or three years: ever growing concern with the dwindling picker supply., greater studv of mechanization to get around that outer struggle to keep Mexican supply. Growers are increasingly concerned, too, over European Com mon Market developments as they affect exports of U. S. fruit. The increasing worry over taxation this year resulted in a resolu tion favoring a sales tax to ease the property tax burden. Speeches and panel discussions, as usual, bore on fruit tree diseases, higher and more uniform quality fruits. The small fruits (strawberries, raspberries and blackberries) section also focused on labor problems, developments in me chanical harvesting and better oi new varieties, as usual, marketing trends were thoroughly discussed in both sections. Malcolm B. Douglas, manager of the California Strawberry Advisory Board, told what his growers are doing to meet the labor supply problem. John Cavalero, Everett, Wash., indicated how some growers are whipping the situation. If labor won't come to them, they are going to the biggest supply of cheap labor Mexico. Small fruit and vegetable areas are increasing exten sively and rapidly in Mexico, he noted after a tour of such regions. There was some talk around Medford fruit circles not long ago that some local growers had pooled an investment in Mexican acreage, but we haven't heard any facts to back it up. One speaker emphasized that executives to represent the industry, to interest legislatures in its problems and participate in he indicated, is the only way our the Increasing competition for ments in the European common Market countries, and particu larly in France underscores this need. Incidentally, the Common Market threat is brought home when you learn recently, as we did, that Hood River couldn't get 10 carloads of quality pears country wanted only the very substantial loss of income to those growers. The Medford pear district has been fortunate in always having a few men .of the executive caliber mentioned above. Although still aggressively active for the pear industry here, these key men are getting on in years. Who will take their places? We haven't heard of anybody. In fact, the fruit industry may soon be like an army which had to lose to retirement both its key top sergeants such as the veteran orchard foremen and its generals such as veteran shippers. For the first time any local is acceptance by more and more industry veterans that there may not be a single pear tree standing in the Rogue valley in 10 years. Continued skilled leadership is the only thing that will at least slow down the trend to subdivisions. The preliminary results of scared industry people who attended the Hort Society meeting last week in Corvallis. Growers in the Rogue Valley have planted manv more pears trees than the Unless more side markets are will have a depressing effect on into production. Some kind of tie-in with a large processing plant still is not put of the picture for this valley. It will come. We still favor as an intermediate step some sort of farmer's market, but more on that later. , There have been some beautiful editorials written in the last four days on the death of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. We cannot hope to match these words. So, we will only say that his death has deeply affected both the great and humble. His persistent efforts toward integration will rank with the efforts of The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. His words, "Ask not what your country can do can do for the country," will be and many generations to come. Apple Shapes Study Under Way at OSU CORVALLIS Factors which i along either a polar or equator- influence the shape of apples are under investigation at Ore gon State University as re searchers attempt to find out what causes some apples to be flatter or more "pumpkin shaped" than others. Dr. M. N. Westwood, horticul turist with the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station, is conduct ing the study. Shape docs not influence apple quality, but con sumers have shown a prefer ence for elongated fruit. Dr. Westwood is experiment ing with various actors which influence the length - diameter ratio of Delicious apples in an attempt to find at what point, if any. action can be taken to alter the final shape of the fruit. The greater the ratio, the longer the apple. In general, where climate is constant, truit length parallels mat of tree growth, Dr. West wood has found, as the same growth mechanisms work in both stems and fruit. When tree shoots are short, apples tend to be shorter than those on long shoots. This results in dif ferences in shape among apples on the same tree. For Instance, the tree shoot springing from a terminal bud Is longer than one from a lat- ine nun. the apple coming from the "king" or center flow er in a blossom cluster is longer than one coming from a flower on the side of the cluster. Other Farotrs Rut other factors besides po- smon are at worn in nciermmg the Ilnnl snapc oi uie apple,! Dr. Westwood points out.! Growth hormones and climate ! me iu M-j u .-,( nini nc is examining The final shape of the apple aepenns id h imgc ocgree on tne way us cons enlarge, ur. Westwood has found that cell numbers in the apple arc more or less fixed four weeks after full bloom. Final shape is de termined not by the addition of cells, but whether cells enlarge MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Chat COWLEY Farm Editor problem, and perhaps a last Nationals for a steady labor duality fruit throueh develoDment U. S. horticulture needs skilled international conferences. This, horticulture will keep up with world markets. Recent develop into West Germany because that top quality pears. This means a observers can remember there Oregon's recent fruit tree census industry was actually aware of. found for pears, these new trees the market when they come for you, but ask only what you remembered by these generations lal axis. Now he is trying to find just what it is that causes cells to enlarge the way they do and how it is that auxin, a chemical mediator in cell growth, and other hormones cause cells to enlarge in one direction or the other. Climatic Effects The effects of climate on ap ples have long been known. Ap les grown in hot climates tend to be flatter than those from cooler areas, the researcher said, but what is not known is whether climate is an import ant factor in shaping fruit dur ing the entire growing season or just during a small part of it. Dr. Westwood is studying this aspect by checking Starking De licious apples grown in Corval lis, on the floor of the Rogue River Valley and at a higher elevation near Ashland. He found this year that Corvallis apples have a greater length diameter ratio than those from the other two areas. Fruit thinning, already a gen eral orchard practice, provides a mechanical means of chang ing fruit shape, but the qucs - tion remains just when is the best time to thin to produce King" and side blossoms pro duced large, relatively long fruit following heavy thinning curing tun oioom. rests this year are aimed at finding the dcsi time to thin to cttcct shape i nis year, some trees were thinned during full bloom, while others were thinned 30, 60 and 90 days after full bloom. The tests mav show if thinning can influence apple shape as long as ; m nays atlcr tun bloom, he said Previous belief has held that j shape was determined within three weeks after full bloom, SHARPEN KNIVES By keeping forage harvester knives sharp, farmers can get cleaner cut silage and more crop in the silo. OREGON ii y LI f f : ft t f fin & " p i 1 ' f , ' : 'j jty J HORTICULTURAL LEADERS New officers of the Oregon Horticultural Society were elected for the coming year at the society's 78th annual meeting at Oregon State Uni versity Nov. 20-22. In the rear row, from left: Dunbar Carpenter, Medford, third vice president; R. M. Ohling, Eugene, treasurer; R. L. Stebbins, OSU extension horticulturist, Medford Men New Officers; Hort- Society Event Briefed CORVALLIS - Paul Culbert son, Medford, was named Hor ticultural Socieiy president at the annual meeting in Corvallis last week. Cornelius Bateson, Salem, was made first vice president; Don Marsh, Hood River, second vice president; Dunbar Carpen ter, Medford, third vice presi dent. Don Root, Medford, was named trustee. Prof. Ernest H. Wiegand, Corvallis, founder and former head of the Oregon State Uni versity department of food sci named the 1963 recipient of the Hartman cup, presented an nually for outstanding service to the horticultural industry. The society went on record favoring a public vote on a "moderate realistic" sales tax to reduce the property tax bur den, particularly on agricultural land. A second resolution asked that the "no residue" registra tion be clearly defined in terms Garden Tips By JOHN McLOUGHLIN County Agent Now that gardening activities are slowing down you have the time to inspect the shade trees on your property. Shade trees are a major at traction to most property and should not be neglected. Some trees, if neglected, can become, or are, so defective that they are a definite hazard to life and property. A check list of possible de fects in trees and of conditions that may adversely affect their health in the future should in clude the following: Large dead branches, cavities in the trunk or major limbs, split branch crotches, decaying branch stubs, broken and hanging branches, decay of heartwood at the base of the trunk, wounds on the trunk or large limbs and narrow V-shaped branch crotches. Also remember, trench ing near trees for the installa tion of underground utility lines or soil drainage can adversely affect the health of the tree. Many of these defects are readily seen. One commonly seen defect that is the result of improper pruning is stubbing. Stubbing is seen in the upper part of the tree where there are long dead branch stubs. From such stubs wood decay organ isms can easily become estab lished in the tree. Heartwood Decay A defect that is difficult to de tect is the decay of heartwood in the central portion of the trunk at the ground line. When this condition exists, the entire weight of the tree is supported by a dangerously thin shell of living wood tissue. Often there are external signs of this condi tion. Often it can be determined only by taking trunk borings. The leveling of property al most always results with more soil around some trees on that property. This filling around trees often escapes notice by prospective home buyers, espe cially if a lawn is established over the tilled area. The amount of soil that can be placed on the ground a tree is growing on without adversely affecting the tree depends on the tvpe ot soil, type ol tree previous and past cultural con ditions plus other intangible fac tors. Anyway, whenever the depth of soil is changed around a tree the chances ot adversely affecting the tree are great. Do you like trees on your property? If you do, take care of the trees vou have and plant new ones with characteristics that fulfill your desires. NEED MORE WATER Cows need more water per unit of body weight than other farm animals. A cow producing 80 pounds of mild a day may drink as much as 300 pounds of i water. I of the method of residue analy sis at the time registration is granted. This year's voluntary fruit tree census reveals Jackson county has 433,930 Bartlett pear trees compared to the 1959 agri cultural census total of 305,172, for an increase of 128,758 trees. Winter pear trees totaled 491, 345 compared to the census count of 387,645, or an increase of 103,700 trees. Commodities with only minor influence will bear the brunt of anv agricultural tariff cuts under the administration's trade expansion program, according to Dr. G. Burton Wood, head ot the OSU agricultural economics department. Many Pacific Northwest crops fit into this category. If the importation of Mexi can Nationalist as supplemen tal farm workers under provi sions of Public Law 78 is end ed, the losses to industries al lied to strawberry production alone could amount to more than $30 mililon, according to Malcolm B. Douglas, manager of the California Strawberry Ad visory Board at Santa Clara. Dr. John Carew, chairman of the department of horticulture, Michigan State university, stressed that "advances in the production and marketing of fruits and vegetables in coun tries outside our own are oc curing with blinding speed. We shall not be able to ignore them. We owe it to ourselves to anticipate them." "The housewife doesn't want to buy just food. She wants and demands maid service, too and this must come out of her food dollars and the processor must provide this service," said Roy Moser, OSU food technologist. Most of the fruit harvesting equipment being developed now is usable until orchards are re designed to obtain maximum ef ficiency from mechanical aids to harvesting, according to Rob ert L. Stebbins, OSU extension horticulturist. Mechanical Harvesting Michigan sour cherry grow ers are finding economies and convenience of mechanical har vesting methods outweigh their disadvantages, said Dr. John Carew, head horticulturist, Mi chian State University. Increasing the number of spray applications can reduce mildew intection and increase yields, reported Dr. Norman Dobie, OSU plant pathologist. With the winter injury prob lem in mind plus the changing of equipment used, space plant ing has not been accepted to any degree by Northwest Wash ington strawberry growers, ac cording to Richard C. Holland, Washington State Nursery su perintendent, Bellingham, Wash. Third party grading is an as surance that an impartial in spector will be establishing grade, according to M. D. Mur phy, Salem, federal supervisor. The value of the virus-free program for tree fruits initiated by OSU in 1944 is recognized to day by both nurseryman and or chardist and is contributing to the success of each, said Dr. J. A. Milbrath, OSU plant pathologist. The only reason for orchard intercropping is added Income during Uie early life of the orchard. Management deter mines the success or failure of an intercropping program, ac cording to D. L. Rasmussen, Marion county extension agent and panel moderator. STOCKMEN FEED PELLETS Your coarse or unpalatable roughage will nuke 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 MIUING CO. 500 Rom lane, Medford secretary. Seated, from left: William Vollmer Jr., Parkdale, immediate past president and new society trustee; Paul Culbertson, Med ford, president, and Don Marsh, Hood River, second vice president. Not shown is Cornelius Bateson, Salem, new first vice president, and Don Root, Medford, new society trustee. Tissue analysis is becoming one of the most important tools used by fruit growers and sci entists to solve the increasing plant nutrition problems in west coast orchards, said D. C. Al derman, University of Califor nia extension pomologist. Although it is possible to con trol some phases of the bac terial canker disease, the can ker phase still hasn't been satis factorily controlled after 50 years' research, said Dr. H. Ronald Cameron, OSU plant pathologist. A simple inexpensive way to increase root development on strawberry plants is by dipping them in a solution of Indolebu tyric acid and Kinetin before planting, said Dr. Ralph Gar ren, OSU horticulturist, in speaking on strawberry and caneberry variety improvement work. Definite red stele resistance in greenhouse tests has been found in nine or 10 selections of strawberries in recent years, but, with one possible excep tion, none will be acceptable commercially, noted George Waldo, USDA horticulturist at OSU. Blackberry yields in 1961 and 1962 showed a strong advan tage for training immediately after harvest in comparison to training in February, the nor mal practice, according to Dr. R. M. Bullock, horticulturist and superintendent of OSU's North Willamette Experiment Station at Aurora. calves on the MONEY in It costs a lot of money to keep a cow. A lot of that money is lost if she fails to settle or drops small, weak calves that die or develop into"tail-enders." BIG CROPS of husky calves are a must, if a fellow is going to make money ranching. This is especially true when the price of cattle is off. Your range needs help. It takes more than grass alone to give your cows what they need to grow and drop the kind of calves that will bring top prices next fall. PURINA RANGE CHECKERS have proved their worth in research tests and on thousands of ranches. This favorite range supplement has what it takes. Cattle love Checkers, do well on them. Cows stay up in good shape at calving . time, have lots of milk for the calves, too. Feed for big calf crops the Purina Way. Purina Range Checkers can help you keep your operation on the profit side of the ledger. COME IN. We'll visit about Purina Range Checkers and profitable ranch management. Make it soon! Your Sfor with (he Checker- board' Sign All Wool Sales Must Wind tip By Year's End All details of marketlns either- wool or lambs will have In ha completed not later than Dec. 31 to receive payments lor the 1963 marketing year, Albert Straus, Chairman, Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation Com mittee, pointed out today. - Marketings comnleted after Dec. 31, 1963, will be eligible for payments tor the 1964 market ing year. As announced hv the IT s Department of Agrciulture in uctooer, iwz, tne iw market ing year under the wool pay ment Droeram has been shnri. ened to the nine month period trom April l tnrougn Dec. 31, 1963, to shift the wool marketing year to a calendar-year basis. Therefore, if anv Dart of a sale of Iambs or wool is not settled by Dec. 31, the sale will not be considered as one taking Dlace in the 19H3 mnrketintf year. This means that all the iniormauon neeaea to complete the sales documents and show the net sales proceeds for wool has to be determined and avail able by Dec. 31 to be eligible for wool program payments for the current (1963) marketing year. Under program regula tions, wool is not marketed until title has passed to the buyer, the wool has been delivered to the buyer either physically or through documents which trans fer control to the buyer, and all the information (price per pound, weight, yieid, etc.) need ed to determine the buyer's total purchase price is available. Payments Scheduled Payments for the 1963 market ing year will likely begin in April of next year, after the program payment rates are de termined, based on the average prices received by producers for shorn wool sold in the nine month period from April through December, 1963. Payments for the 1964 marketing year on mar ketings taking place or com pleted after Dec. 31, 1963, will be made in the spring of 1965. Wool producers may file ap plications for payment for the 1963 marketing year with ASCS county offices up until Jan. 31, 1964. Americans To Bring Korean Orphans Home SEOUL, Korea (UPI) - Fifty four American couples will leave here Friday for the United States with 83 adopted Korean children. The couples arrived at Seoul Monday. The mass adoption was ar ranged by Harry Holt of Cres well, who operates an orphan age in Seoul. ground are like the BANK fl RIGHT ID RIGHT vio right :ro-mixid
