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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1949)
THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1949 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACE TWENTY-THREI OparoHont Wothr Med ford Pear Growers Experiment With Hail That -old battle man vereu Mother Nature hae a nrw twlel to day. Aa you know, nian can and dura produce arllflotal rain, It'a all dunt from Ui cockpit or an airplane not by waving a atlik or muttering myalrrloua uicanlatlona. But by a proceaa a almple at feeding chick ena. But lnatrad of throwing out train, the pilot apreacta dry Ire on rain brarlm rlouda. Chanmnf cloud lempcraturea brought about by Ilia falling dry lea thru producra rain. It you can make rain artificially why not make anow fall? Or pre vent hall? Why NotT That'a what prar growera, chip per and other Ir the Medford dla trlrt are alteniptlng to do. They have been at H arvrral mnntlu now In the (amoua hogue river valley flrat hall prevention. Now they will toon be atarllng anow making experiment - all done artificially. It'a not ao ( wllh aa It may aound preventing hall and making anow, eaperially when you remember that Medlurd la fanwua lor It peara. The whole Idea of hall prevention. Aha experimenter Bay, la aimed f to make hall lad elaewhere than on t fender young prara. Bereuae Juat one dent from a halbione and what might have become a drllclou pear on your nreakfaal table la Juat another worthleaa cull. Hall I Ml In 1048, hall damage coat Rogue river valley pear growera a half. million dullara. Maybe It waa the hall prevention work maybe It waan't but ltla year there waa no hall dam.ire. And the area re receive an average of nine hall making thunder alorma a year. Trouble ahuilrra In the Mrdford hall and anow experlrmenu are two former navy Mini Harvey Hran dan and Eugene Konaer. When the hall alarm waa aoundrd thla paat aummer, they took off akyward In two war turpiu alrplanra. Their plan waa to need trouble- aome, hall inuklni thundrr-hrada before they reuched dangeroua, Ice forming height. In the work at Med ford, the two pilot do not una dry Ice but a auitance of their own which they keep mum about. Clouda were aeeded to make the hall fall on area other than agricultural. Or the rumulua type cloudr. that pro duce hall were caught at low alti tudra where aeedlng produced harm lew rain rather than hall. Now, during the winter moiithi, the weather control pilot art going to make anow artificially. But auc ceaa or failure of the artificial anow making experiment depend on whether or not the anow can be placed where it will do lbue river valley fruit growera aome good. And that'a In a waterahrd that drain In to Irrigation reaervolra. Area rhnaen I a rectangle eight by 10 mllea aquare that lira aome 30 mllea aoutnwrat of Mt. Pitt. There, the two pilot. Brartau and Kooarr, hop to build up the anow fall that auppllea aummer Irrigation water from the Rogue river valley. They'll do It of courae, by aeedlng clouda that might othcrwlae paaa on over the area and drop their water-laden Minw eliewhrre. At any rale thou are (he plana for opera tion weather control at Medford. Only time will tell If the exprri menu prove aurreanful. Tulelake Growers Meet TUI.ELAKE The Tulrlake Grow, era, In annual teuton Monday, elected Iwo new member to the txerd of director, elected a vice prealdent, propoaed and adopted major amendment to by-law and decided to operate the labor camp at Newell again next year on a full- year leaae twal. Wheat Yields Increased by Chemicals On a commercial frrtlllxrr teat on j tummrr fallow fall aeedrd Oalgalo i wheat conducted on the Bob Binder ranch near Nrw Pine creek, am monltim aulphate Increased yield. On thu rate tent plot to pound per acre Increased the yield 4MB pounda. Jark Haya, farm advlaor, report , that after all coal were deducted the net gain by the una of the ni trate fertilizer war 116 per acre. Other ralea of application were uaed but the 90 pound rate gave the greateat net gain In value In another teat on the mm ranch on native mradow hay, ammonium aulphate waa the only feillllzer that allowed4 reaulla. I The camp ha been operated In the paat on a quarterly contract The meeting waa held In the American Legion hall with Prealdent Bam Anderaon prealdlng. Under one amendment tlie new prealdent who will tucceed Ander aon will be elected by the board rather than by aaaembly. To Jate the board haa not met for that de cision. Vice Prealdent Btan Buckingham, 1M7 home auader, la the new vlce-prraldent. Edgar Oaborne waa reelected aecre Ury. Dan Crawford Sr. and Bert Jr hnaon replace Clark Penaler and Eldon Laraon a director. Holdovera on the board are Wil liam Kandra, Ivan Roae, Ed Duckett 1 and Marvin Thoma. 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