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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1949)
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1949 PACE EIGHTEEN Su Jou B 'ffs HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ! -1 i v. r 'V.i.M't',-,' SNUG ROUND BALES now dot many of the Klomoth bosin hoy fields where squore-cornered oblong boles cured in the sun lost hoying. All the loose hoy in the windrow is scooped up by the round baling machine, compressed into o neat, tight bundle and tossed aside. J In' -id-- . . i i , 1 " f i " -1 ROTO-IALER WORKS PRACTICALLY ALONE Only one mon on a rx.ot can bale o field of hoy in short order making the bales round instead cff square with the use of a ma chine recently introduced in the Klamath basin. Melvin Fiegi, Poe valley rancher, is the mon on the tractor. Crowd Turns Out For Booth Park Farm Bureau Picnic One hundred tod SO perrons In cluding children attended the Joint picnic Saturday In Booth park tor Klamath and Lake county (arm bureaus and heard Phil Hitchcock and Henry Seraon talk. Hitchcock compared the recent rapid advances In technoloer and lack of corresponding development In a sens of , responsibility. H e pointed out problems Including rackateen brought to Omron vith the swift Increase In the state's population and said that it Is up to the ordinary citizens to check these problems before they get too big. "If people continue to be indif ferent they win hare corruption. bought legislators and so forth."i he said and emphasized the need to choose public officials with care and then stand by and continue to support them while they are in of fice. Semon said state legislatures pay tor services with public money, these services Insisted upon by the public and the public should know hew much ii is wiUir-s to spend for them. Herbert Stover, president of the Lake county farm bureau intro duced oflicers from his county as well as Fred Rueck. director of reg ion 3, who Introduced Klamath county officers and the main speak er. Following potluck luncheon, sup ervised by Roy Kerr of Lake county, Mrs. Elmer Wllhsms of Lake county led group sinc.ng. A special audience-participation show was emceed by Hitchcock assisted by Mrs. Howard Holllday in a spe cial skit and Semon led some male voices in song. Associated farm women of both counties held a joint session called by Regional Director Mrs. Lee Hol iday mho explained the work of Klamath county farm women in promoting support and research work on multiple sclerosis. Lake county women will hold a further meeting to discuss advlsibiltty of joining Klamath in this effort. DDT Residue Hot Fatal While DDT residues are not as acutely poisonous to humans as many other common spray materi als, care is necessary with vege tables to see that residues left are kept low to avoid any danger from daily consumption. Dr. R. H. Robinson, chemist, and Leon Ter- rtere. research assistant, explain tnia in an os c. experiment sta HOTELS OSBURN HOLLAND El GENE. ORE. MEDFOKD Thoroughly Modern Mr sin. I g Csnig S J garlv rrs-rttr tlon circular of information. "DDT Residue Problems on Vegetables." DDT a t proper concentrations and under approved methods des cribed in the circular may be used safely on practically a 1 1 garden crops except spinach, lettuce and similar leafy vegetables. With broc coli and tomatoes no late applica tions are recommended. With beans no applications after pods ara three Inches long are recommended ex cept where processing will remove residues. VYarid s Oddest 8ho A flat block of wood, with a large knob which slips between the first and second toes, la the oddest shoe in the world. It la commonly worn in India. Round Hay Bales Lead To Argument Farmers r hnvlna quite bit to y for and gainst binditiR hay Into round ball. Mum artiu ment aitatnt seems to be the trouble in ucknn. and nome pre paration Is definitely required to facilitate this. Argument tor tne ivund bales Include the word that dmrymfn are paying more tor round than square bales; agriculture college com mend the round for retaining more of the allalfa leaves vhich contain vitamuu; one man on a tractor can handle the baling for the en tire crop alone uh the round ba ler. Weeds and &agebruAh In the fteld can be handled with the round ba ler right m with the hay. suck ing arrangements should be made first, then neat windows left for the baler to scoop the hay troru. A field where the round baler has been used looks like a vacuum cleaner hu been run over it. by the lack or debris left. Round bales are tied with heavy twine In three places by the baler which scoops the loo hay off the ground as it is pulled by a trac tor, driven by one man. It winds the hay Ug h Uy in a "bobbin " shape, ties u and ejects It. Twine la less expensive than baling wire. Round bales can be made any slse and weight by adjusting the machine. A popular size Is 18-33 inches in diameter, three feet long and 1-5 pounds in weight. Geary brothers started using the roto-baJer year and liked It so well they got another this year. The Geary ranch ' la the largest small seed producer In the world and alter the seed Is cured and thrashed the roto-baler la set up in a stationary position next the thrasher and operated with a pow , er unit, especially attached for this purpose. iFour-H Nowsi SMS W.. k. The 4-H tucking Needle Knit ting club of Merrill had a picnic for Its last meeting at Moore park. Friday, July I. There are 14 girls in the club. II girls went to the picnic and 10 girls have finished their work. ESTHER BEABLEY News reporter Want Ads phoned to ml before 11:30 a. m. appear the same day! Ag Station Field Day Set For August 1 Everyone Imrirsied in the pro gress of farm crop expermienta is Invited to attend the field day at the Agriculture Kxerliiiriit station, 1:30 p.m.. Monday, Aumil I. The soils work program ill be especially featured this year for the first time at the aiuiunl field day. Dr. Alfred llalvnraon is work ing on the soils extrrimrnis for the station and promiftra some In teresting test re.iulta to show visitor.-. Oene OroM. station Mitermtrnd ent. will be host with lUlvorson to the farmers and special visitors. Dr. R. K Stephenson, soil srirn tis Dr. D Hill, farm crops de partment and Hank Rampton. I'SDA anronoml.it In 4-11 Investiga tions, all from Corvallis. New allalfa varieties Including the Talent from Medtord. Atlantic variety developed 111 the east. Buf falo developed In the mid-west and the Ksngrr. which Is not new in trials bin relatively new here will aU be featured in the field day lou.. Cereal trials UI also be point ed up. including winter, fall and spring wheat and some Increased plantings of promising spring oat varieties. Wild Plums Easy To Grow Wild plums can be grown on the home ranch with little trouble farmers say, and if you are will ing to wait a little for fruit you dont even need to graft on peach trunks! Friends of the Wlllard Duncan. Henley ranchers, had dumped wild plum pita when they were canning last year and covered them with earth and mulch so as not to at tract flies. This year a fine crop of seedlings sprang up. The Dun cans took a share of them and planted a row about M yards long on their ranch near Btukel moun tain. The little trees art flourishing and will be thinned later. There are some older wild plum trees which are already bearing In the nest field so there should be no trouble with pollination from varied species. The new plants are in a fenced area so danger of wild ani mals Is cut down alihough the wild foothills are Just across the road piece. Phones Merrill IS!; Klamath Falls S424 or S4?( I Jjrf '(Buich' cut and wrap your beef and pork for your locker And we still cure your hams and bacon SMOKE HOUSE A. O. "Botch" Zwelgars XT Market Klamath falls rtaane 1M$ Now available again . . . our owj original OLD charter 6 year old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey... Distilled by Old Charter Bottled by Old Charter Shipped straight to Oregon from Old Charter's Louisville Distillery 'vUs, '.'. "N Tlie uhiskev that didn't ivalch SACKED GRAIN STORAGE FOR RENT Registered Public Grain Warehouse. Contact Tulelake Growers Association Golden Hotel Bldg., Tulelake, Calif. Phone 2711 w"V I ... 4p dOCk! KENTUCKY'S FINEST STRAIGHT BOURBON OLD CHARTER STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY .THIS WHISKEY IS 6 YEARS OLD 86PR00F-BERNHEIM DISTILLING COMPANY, INC. , LOUISVILLE, KY. TOP QUALITY LETTUCE grown In juburbon district of Klomoth falls is marketed locally. This heolthy crop of lettuce was produced on three quarters of on acre of land ot Wiord ond Shasta way. Three women did the work of plontmg, cultivating, irrigating and har vesting the crop and ot the end of the season they will split the profits. Jo Pickering, ona of the partners, is checking firmness of heads for cutting. Her copartners are Mrs. Rosia Croy and Mildred Scott. WheatAcreage Allotment Set OmtDii rutmrri are bMn? axknl to nw lint nior tlmn M4.B91 mcir of wheat durtri the 1950 crop jre.tr That fiiurc h Omum whrat acrragf aHnlnient for th IBM rnp yrar. ami rfprraenu a .0J prrreii. cul frtim th uul irrdrd arrrair bousril on a tour-year prrttMl, enO ljl in 194ft. aa luurrd under PM A record prwrtlure. accordinf to K Harvey Millrr, chairman, state P.MA conimiHr. The aciriitre rut! -bark for exam ple, will alfri-t Oregon number ore wheat (trod iir .tig cmintv, lima till i. hke thu: The t'nmtUU rountv l!.M allotment Is 244 WW acre. Tlie fniir-yrar uual arreaite wax 103. M4 atre.v other couhi'ei will take correspond.!. arrrttite cuu. No market. n quotaa will co Into ellect for the 1.'0 wheat crop rear, according to the announcement made revenilr br iSe, retary of At nrulture Char lea Hrannait. Next year will are the tint wheal allot ment In el I ret .nice Imj when both allotment and quota were tn force. In lfHJ, quota were tu pended because of the war emer fence. While the Oregon allotment U mailer than an? planted acreage tince I4J. It la Mill higher than pre-war Acreage which in 1939 wax 37.000 acres and In 1M3. under quota, waa 700.000 acres, accord ing to B. A. C record. 'Everything OK For Americans1' MOSCOW iv A Human writer. Tlaiting Part, aays he can rrcog num an American at once. "They mt at their rale table," wrote Poliorat'k? in Ixveatia, "in cftrele attitude, aim out putting their feet on the table, in accord ance with their habit. They )k over the women paMnc br a a hore dealer look over horie Ev er thing la permLuible for them" Hornless Cattle Work Rewarded WHISIKK CITY. !u tAt C. Clover, vocntlottal agriculture inntrurtor In the WetMter Ctty M-hmtU, ha gained nationwide at tentat! for hia work with hornless cattle. Clover spent more Umn four year drvelopmg a herd of Ouern- ; aey cattle which are hornleia. He m named ft director of the re- j centlv-formed National Polled Cat- tie Promotion club. He now ha a herd of Iff polled cattle, all depen dent of hu original slock. PUMICE TILE h Mirtlll, ! F' ..!. rr-S.rl. ( .,, tml IM .If.M.tb Tlmm Aluminum Windows tjuld hral W alrrpruullng (iol4 hral riasirr Itun Nra Him fumlr Mura l"sl"l- Klamoth Pumice Til Co. rrraianral as lbs rrmid. Ifcte fla.na fhns Ski ' X " . .1 Fill your heating oil tank now btfor th Fall rush Don't forprt llut OIJ Min Winirr it asiiinf juit t ftgt er lo sair on )our tslmJir. 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