Selection Of Seed Most
Vital Factor In Klamath
Basin Potato Production
Selection of potato seed is the
most important single factor de
termining profits in Klamath
basin potato production accord
ing to Walter Jendrzejewski,
assistant county agent.
Crop rotations, land prepara
tion, seed treatment, rate and
date of planting, fertilizers, pro
per water application, efficient
machinery for planting, cultiva
tion and digging and good stor
age and grading facilities are
factors which have been well
Leaf Roll
Increasing
In Oregon
Leaf roll, a dangerous virus
disease of potatoes, seems to be
on the increase in parts of Ore
gon. Growers are particularly
concerned and are attempting to
find seed free of this disease.
While leaf roll effects the
growth of vines and decreases
yields as well as quality during
the growing season, the main loss
comes from the development of
net necrosis or internal brown
ing in the tubers, making it diffi
cult to make grade as the brown
ing can -not be seen until the po
tatoes are cut. Where leaf roll
develops early; in the field, con
siderable, necrosis or. browning
develops, in the tubers to such
an. extent rthat . many cannot
make grade.- at digging- time.
Where the spread of this disease
is late in the season,;ldevelop
ment of browning seldom effects
the grade. Potatoes, however,
may show little evidence of the
disease because of its late devel
opment but still carry the dis
ease. They are not good , for
seed.
Frosts late in the season bring
about a condition of browning
that is particularly hard to de
tect from browning caused by
leaf roll. Browning caused by
freezing is' not a disease and
doesn't effect quality, of the
seed. Certain fungus causes dis
coloration in the stem end and
these too are seldom comparable
to. leaf roll and are generally
not tuber perpetuated.
Dwarfed Plants '
Seed potatoes containing leaf
roll produce dwarfed potato
plants with rolling and leathery
texture of the leaves
ease is spread
This dis-
from diseased
Slants to healthy plants by plant
ce or aphid's, therefore contin
ued, warm weather greatly in
creases insect population, there
by . increasing spread of the dis
ease, v Certain aphids are known
to be-carriers of the virus of leaf
roll,
A peculiar characteristic of
leaf roll is that tubers containing
th& disease when planted pro
duce tubers that do not have in
ternal browning, although the
tubers so . produced are very
mych smaller and many of them
unmarketable. However, potato
plants infected with- leaf roll bv
infects, passing- from an infected !
plant produce .tubers effected !
with internal browning and from !
tnese jpiants further current sea
son' spread takes place.
' Control
For control of this serious dis
ease, the Oregon Experiment sta
tion advises the following:
1. Use clean seed. ...
;2. Discard diseased tubers.
3. Rogue diseased plants. ..
4. Maintain an isolated seed
Plot.
'To the above might be added
dusting when an undue number
oi insects appear, particularly
where there may be a trace of
leaf roll inthe seed or in adja
cent fields." Rotenone has gen
erally been considered as the
best dusting material for aphid
control although it doesn't last as
wdll as other material when ap
plied to the,plant,. thereby caus
ing redusting. Nicotine sulphate
is more lasting, but seems to be
very difficult to obtain Experi
mental work with DDT doesn't
seem to be too conclusive as yet.
A complete checkup of the vari
ous Kinds of dust and methods of
application is being made by the
cotmty agent office, as it is an
ticipated that- considerable dust
ing may. be undertaken in 1946.
thought out by Klamath growers.
Growers, for the most part, fol
low sound practices in regard to
these production factors, Jen
drzejewski said.
As a general rule less atten
tion is given to seed selection or
seed production. In many cases
plantings are made with seed
carrying a high percentage of
yield reducing diseases.
A yield reduction of approxi
mately 10 sacks per acre is the
result of planting seed which
carries 10 milk mosaic Infec
ter tubers. Yield of an affected
plant is reduced about one-third.
The disease can be detected
only in growing plants where a
crinkling of leaves and a slight
yellowish mottling are determin
ing symptoms. Mild mosaic can
not be recognized in tubers. Mild
mosaic is the least serious yield
reducers of any disease occur
ring in Klamath potatoes.
Ten per cent leafroll infected
plants can be expected to cut
yields approximately 30 sacks
per acre and furnish the source
of current season infection to a
large part of the remaining in
itially healthy plants. Net necro
sis or "Internal browning" oc
curs in potatoes produced by po
tato plants infected with leaf
roll during .the growing season.
Leafroll can be discovered in
seed stock tubers. Any seed lot
in which leafroll discoloration
is discovered in more than one
per cent of the tubers is risky to
plant. In a year favorable to in
sect development wide current
season spread is certain to occur.
If cut seed is used and discol
ored tubers discarded much leaf
roll can be eliminated from this
planting.
Early roguing-" of "diseased
plants in commercial fields has
been suggested as a means of
preventing current season spread
and its attendant tuber discol
oration. Such roguing is possible
with the type of leafroll known
here in the past.
Another strain, however,
seems to have occurred. It ap
parently causes less discolora
tion in the tuber but cannot be
recognized in the plant for ap
proximately sixty days after
emergence. Plants are not affect
ed as seriously as with the type
of leafroll known here previ
ously. We would much rather ' tell
you that you are covered than
that. we are sorry. Insure, your
car and home with Hans Norland
now. 123 N. 6th St. -
Stromberg - Carlson Radios.
Derby's Music Co.
Farmers Warned
Not To Burn Ferns
CORVALLIS, Feb. 21 (P
Oregon State college officials
warned farmers today not to
start burning up ferns unless
they are going to plant grass on
the site.
Burning fern without subse
quent seeding only causes a
heavier crop of fern than ever,
D. D. Robinson, extension forest
er, reported.
Klamath Basin
Co-Op Elects
New Officers
TULELAKE, Feb. 21 The
Klamath Basin Cooperative, at
the annual meeting here Mon
day, elected Jack Marshall of
Olene, Karl Dehlinger of Henley,
Jess Smith of Olene, S. F. Perry
and Albert Larson of Tulelake
to serve as a board of directors.
Larson was the only member
of the new group to be reelected.
Hold-over members of the
board are George Frey and
Webb Staunton of Tulelake. Re
tiring members are Earl Mnck
and Rex High of Henley. The
new board meets Friday at 2
p. m. at the Tulelake Cooperative
store to elect a permanent chair
man. C. T. Haggerty, manager of
the local business, outlined ob
jectives for this year including
the development of petroleum
products, hardware sales, chem
icals for weed eradication, live
stock and poultry feed lines and
sales on barley and alsike clover
for seed. Other speakers were
Bert Wilcox, field man for
Pacific Supply of Klamath Falls;
Don Gillespie, manager of Pa
cific Supply, and Homer Smith,
manager of the Lakeview Co
operative. The entire board of directors
from here, including Haggerty,
with V. G. RienmilTer, Charles
Snyder, manager of the Klam
ath Falls Cooperative Feed
store, Sam Enman, Percy Dixon
of Henley, Earl Mack and Fred
McMurphy, Tulelake, will attend
the annual meeting of Pacific
Supply at Walla Walla, Wash.,
March 4 and 5.
Dairymen
Rap Price
Controls
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (iP)
Organized dairy farmers leveled
their guns at the administration's
farm price control policies today,
contending they imperil future
milk production.
The National Cooperative Milk
Producers federation, at a special
meeting attended by 175 dele
gates from various parts of the
country, adopted a resolution
calling for an end to price con
trol and government food sub
sidies.
The resolution, to be laid be
fore the house banking commit
tee which is considering legisla
tion to extend price control an
other year beyond June 80, as
serted that rising costs of pro
duction are forcing "wholesale
disposal of dairy herds and are
rapidly drying up the nation's
milk supply."
Presenti Case
The federation laid its case be
fore more than 100 lawmakers at
a dinner lost night.
John Brandt, of Minneapolis,
president of the federation, told
the gathering that the country
faces an "acute shortage" of but
ter and other dairy products.
"The present situation with
resDect to shortages of dairy
products and black markets," he
saici, is tne result oi improper
application of price controls and
rationing. Butter is a good exam
ple of the chaos caused by price
controls that do not apply across
the board. Butter has been con
trolled out of existence except in
the black market."-
Brandt referred to the fact that
cream which competes with
butter for the farmers' butterfat
production is not subject to
price control.
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Dairy Association
Elects Officers
CORVALLIS. Fob. 21 (W)
The Oregon Dairy Munufacturcrs
association elected E. L. Rooser,
Albany, as president to succeed
N. A. Peters, Portlnnd, at con
cluding sessions of their meeting
hero last night.
Other officers: Jack Wright;
McMtnnvillo, vice president;
F. F. Moser, Corvnllls, treasurer;
Dr. G. H. Witter, Oregon Slate
college secretary, and Roy
Stout, Oregon State college, as
sistant secretary. N. A. Peters
was named to the board of direc
tors. Farm Crop
Goals Drop
Recommended national farm
production goals for 1046 as an
nounced November 30 culled for
358 million acres of farm crops.
This is less than the 1943 goal,
but Si million acres more than
was actually planted during
1945.
Sugar beets showed tho great
est percentage increaso amount
ing to 31 per cent. Continental
sugar cane showed 8 per cent in
crease indicating effort being
made to Increase sugar produc
tion. Potatoes showed a recom
mended decrease of 16 per cent
from the 1945 planted acreage
along with recommended in
creases for sugar producing
crops. Priority is also given on
any imported labor for sugar
beets. This might be worth some
consideration in the Klamath
basin, particularly on these soils
adapted to production of sugar
beets.
Stromberg -Carlson Radios.
Dorby's Music Co.
Slaughterers
Told To Obey
OPA Ceilings
PORTLAND. Oro., Feb. 21 VP)
Five Oregon saughlcrcrs weru
under injunction today to obey
Ol'A price regulations with
which tlicy said they wore un
able to comply.
Federal Juugo Claude McCol
loch declared that tho price con
trol act forced htm to issue un
injunction, "even though it is
known ut tho time of issuance
that non-willful vloliitlons uro
bound to occur."
Attorneys for tho packing
firms told, tho court they had
puld market prices for cattle,
varying from day to day, and
admitted the monthly average
was above that allowable on the
quality of slaughtered beef ob
tained after grading. They said
they were "helpless to prevent"
the violation.
In signing the order, asked
by tho OPA, Judge McColloch
declared tho court whs in "llio
strange situation, previously un
known to our law of being com
pelled to treat as valid a regula
tion, "even though they know
it to be Invalid."
He said the case should bo
carried to tho supremo court to
determine whether tho "courts
have becomo mere rubber stamps
for executive action."
Four Portland firms and
Harry Levy, Midget market,
Salem, were listed as defendants.
Thursday, Feb. 31. 1048
Man Perishes In
Rooming House Fire
ABERDEEN, Fob. 21 '!) Ono
man was killed and nine other
managed to osi'itpu flames whlvli
quickly consumed a threo-story,
frame rooming house, used by
old-age pensioners hero last
night. The victim, In whoso
room tho firo originated about
11:30 p. in. was Klner Anderson,
45. wlio has no known relatives.
Julia C. Allen, tho proprietress,
and others attempted to rescuo
Anderson, but wero thwarted by
tho raging flumes.
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