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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 24, 1941)
News and Herald Farm Page April 24, 1041 PAGE TWENTY-TWO Dump Grounds for Diseased Potatoes In Control Effort Using tht County Spud Dump Grounds AAA BoosU Wheat Income Hil'.i '1W"-fi'l 'i"win L 16 PER CENT OREGON FARM OPU AT ON UP By WALTER JENDRZEJEWSKI, Asst. Co. Agent Establishment of county dump ground! in the Malln, Merrill and Henley districts Is another advancement In potato pest and disease control efforts. The dump grounds were set up for eelworm and ring-rot Infested potatoes. They aro not intend ed for ordinary culls which aro an asset on farms with live stock. Refuse, such as tin cans, etc., Is not to be left at the po tato dumps. Dump ground sites were se lected for ready accessibility and Isolation from crop land. Their locations are such ' that Infection of other crop land through irrigation and dralnago water Is impossible. Fcncos have been provided to guard against danger to livestock and prevent eelworm spread In this manner. Budgets would not permit fencing- at the Merrill dump at the present time but there Is good isolation at that point. Fills Need There hns long been a need for isolated ground to which cellar cleanings and rotted di seased potatoes might be taken. Without such locations, eelworm infested potatoes are hauled out according to the discretion of numerous potato growers and left to infect land in numerous different places. In order to prevent serious losses from ring rot It Is partlculorly Important to clean out cellars and disin fect them before cutting and handling seed for. the new crop. Although ring rot Is said not to live over In son, a pne 01 cci' lar cleanings might easily har bor countless numbers or these highly infectious bacteria. A pile of cellar cleanings might easily be the source ot initial or even serious infection of a seed lot otherwise free of ring rot. Any potatoes or cellar refuse hauled to the dump grounds should be well sacked to pre vent scattering along roads. This is particularly Important in the case of culls containing eelworm infected tubers. Eel worm potatoes should not be fed to livestock. Such feeding results In wholesale scattering of the nematode. Feeding to hogs after cooking destroys the worms which are in the pota toes. Eelworm or potato nematode Is a tiny worm which lives in aoll. It obtains its food by en tering plant roots and tubers. After its entry Into plant tis sue, the worm develops and eventually produces from BOO to 800 eggs. The eggs are lib erated when the greatly enlarg ed egg-bearing worm ruptures. As temperatures rise the eggs hatch into new worms which find new plant roots or tubers and repeat the process. The most favorable soil tempera tures for potato nematode de velopment are from 70 to 80 degrees. Under Klamath basin conditions, two broods are the rule. The first brood hatches and enters plant roots before potatoes set. The second brood enters growing tubers. On land known to be infested with eel worm, growers here hove In some seasons been successful. In holding down percentage of eel worm Infected tubers by light, frequent Irrigations, keeping the soil temperatures at around 63 degrees. Low soil temperatures make the first brood come lat er in the season and- in some seasons eliminates a? second brood. How To Identify Infected potatoes can be iden tified by a bumpy surface. Un der each of thj bumps a worm may be found. The roughness is due to starch deposits caused to be made at that part of the tuber by the irritation set up after the worm entered. Par ing away a part of skin over a rough spot will reveal an opaque or sometimes ullghtly discolored area in the center of which a worm may be found. The worms are very small and they are hard to isolate even when enlarged by egg forma tion and can be seen readily only with the aid of 'high pow ered lenses after isolation. Last year some infected po tatoes with no external rough ening were found. This was perhaps due to a third, brood or generation due to a long grow ing season, The third brood probably entered potatoes quite well grown and sufficient Ir ritation was not , present to Old at 40? Get Pep rKL NEW, YEARS' YOUNGER Tm 71. MOLD, to ihtirt4 run-down. But Ortrei pored I eouM et wp, 1 foijmct" tAm, Bfetw, Oounell HJulU, It. OSTRKX Ublrt fODUIn ton! itimultnti often nwlnd tiw jo VIMmlD Di. For men inr! women. A 7!-rw oli DOCTOR writ; "It tfa to mW.b ft p'"ti, look It BiTMlf. Remittal Arui n iu -i-ri,i ftOd.tr for 200. flttft VOttr DM Mn ttila weans Am w SiaiSWer fsef "efrer 40"feMew Par st Whllmtn Orel snd all etlwr mod drug storkl, cause heavier local starch de posits. Usually growers shy away from land that Is known to bo Infested. Infested land can bo cleaned up by clean cultivation for two years. The eradication may not bo complete but for practical commercial potato growing, the eradication may bo considered complete. The principle of eradication by clean cultivation Is starvation. Cruln crops may be planted If weeds are kept out. Of all plants, only grain crops and grasses are not suscrptlblo to nema tode. The value of dump grounds In ring rot control will be ap parent to growers own re of the very Infectious nuluro of tho causative bacteria. Tho Infec tious nature of Pseudomunns sepcdonlca Is largely duo to its rapidity of growth and inultt plication. I lie bacteria are very numerous. There aro tcenv ing millions of them in a sin gle Infected potato. Only ono Is necessary to Infect a seed piece. If the cut or broken surface of a soed potato comes in con' tact with articles on which ring rot bacteria are present, a plant from the seed piece Is extreme ly likely to produce a ring rot infected crop. Tho articles may be knives, cutting table, grud Ing table, sucks, cellar floor ur bin surface, and planters. Pick er-plantcrs arc especially In strumental In spread, since Spikes may bo Infected and each seed piece recel-es a fresh pick Injury. Thorough cellar ami equip ment cleun-up and disinfection is essential to control ring rot A cleaned up cellar may be His Infected with a formaldehyde solution made up with one pint formalin to 20 gallons of wa tcr. The formalin solution ii best for tools and equipment A copper sulfate (bluestone) so lution of ono pound to 10 gol Ions of water is a good cellar spray. A pile of cellar refuse by the door lakes a lot of effective ness away from disinfection In side. Bacteria aro carried back Into the cellar every tlmo It Is entered. Feed value of good eelworm free culls Is an asset every po tato grower should capitalize on by including a livestock enter prise. . Potatoes are equal to corn silago In feed value and are three times si good as man gels. Dumpgrounds were not set up for dumping valuable live stock feed. They arc a disease and pest control measure. Po tatoes dyed under the feed di version program are not to be hauled to dumps. Feed diver sion payments are made for feeding No. 2s or better to live stock. Feed diversion potatoes which cannot be fed in the near future may be processed for fu ture use by ensiling or drying. The season of the year is at hand when creamery operators and dairymen who haul their own milk and cream should give careful attention to coverage of the truck used for this purpose The state department of agricul ture dairy division warns that it will require full compliance with the state regulation cover ing this matter. 'Several types of coverage are practical. The department makes no specific requirement as to type of covering. 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Neither tho national nor state situation, however, warrants expansion In permanent new housing, accord ing to Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wl.knrd and the Oregon poultry spuclallsts Eggs have been included among a fow foods such is dairy products, pork, and chick ens for meat, tho production o. which Is to be encouraged for the next two years These foods will bo needed in incrcascc amounts In this country as In dustrial payrolls are stepped up, and they uro the easiest foods to export under the present pro gram of American aid to na tions resisting aggression: whilo corn Is the feed expect ed to be used in greatest volume in carrying out this program, wheat will receive tho benefit throughout the western states DEAFNESS If you hear, but do not understand conversa tions, contact Mr. William J. Wilson, Sonotona Representative, at tht Hotel Elk, April 24, 25, and 26th. 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April 24 (P) Oregon will assist in tho nation wide campaign to increnso egg production to meet Increased domestic and foreign demand, OSC poultry department offi cials said Wednesday. Extension men ol tho college havo advlstd poultrymen to (111 present housing facilities to capacity and feed enough to In sure full production this year. There Is but ono objective, and that Is to defeat aggression. Samuel R. Fuller Jr., offlco of production management. 4 0 ground No. 3 near Malln. The control efforts. PORTLAND. Ore., April 24 (AP) Bettor bread, now possi ble through restoration of vita mins In flour, will make bigger men, G. C. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minn., said Tuesday. "Tho government Is encour aging us to produce this flour, (or It is oiu very decided con tribution made to the de(cnsc program in bringing bettor mi trltlon to the masses o( people in a basic food, ho said. 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