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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOURTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE li. MM Super-Phosphate Trebles Clover on Enman Place Br WALT JENDRZEJEW8KJ County Extension Agent Walter Enman la not a Mlssou rlan. He'a lrom Henley. But ha telleves In checking up on his arming practices to see whether ir oot they pay off. A rather conclusive demonstra tion of the value of super phos phate application to Alsike clover mi the Enman farm la shown In the accomanying photo. A 00 lb. per acre application of super phosphate In early April las trebled clover growth by early June. Plant growth In unfertilized por tions of the Held Is generally un latisfactory, "That fertilized clover la growing like It used to 10 or 11 rears ago," Eiunan said. "We've used a lot of sulphur on this place. It's not the sulphur in the super phosphate that is giving the Increased growth. 'About eight years ago we stopped growing potatoes. Our ro tation has been alsike clover and grain. When we grew potatoes we used 16-20 fertilizer. Our land was getting more phosphate than the potatoes used. The phosphate not used by the potato crop was left over for following crops. We grew good alsike clover then. "Our clover hasn't been doing as well the last few years so I thought I'd try some super phos phate and I left a check area to see how much good the phosphate would do." Enman decided on the 500 pound rate of application per acre after learning of experimental results which Indicate that low rates of super phosphate aplicatlon gen eraly prove unsatisfactory. The county agent's office recom mends super phosphate application at 300 to 400 pounds per acre. Not all soils respond to phos phate application as Enman's did. That fact is responsible for the great interest In soil testing. Soil testing service on a iree basis will be available to farmers when the new laboratory at uregon State College starts operation later this year, nr. Al Halvorson at the Klam ath Experiment Station has been correlating results of various soils tests with numerous trials estab lished throughout the county. This Experiment Station project was started over two years ago In anticipation of establishment oi soli testing service. Halvorson has found phosphate and potash tests to be fairly reli- aoie. itesuiis oi icsis mr luirogeu are less reliable. Results of his work show fairly hteh notash levels. There Is con siderable variation in phosphate and nitrogen levels. Halvorson says the best soil test is a small scale fertilizer trial. Soil tests are indications but response in the field is prooi, r I I A j J "if '.?w . 1 't-'VfrWi ' " ' f SUPER-PHOSPHATE can do wonders sometimes. Walter Eiunan. left, sits amid treated alsike clover in his field near Henley. Son Bob is right at the dividing line where treat ment was cut off. The difference between the treated and untreated clover included 10 inches heighth differential and a definite difference in thickness of growth. Fertilized portion will make a good clover yield, local agriculturalists report. Record Crop Forecast ByUSDA WASHINGTON W) A wheat crop of 1,326,157,000 bushels the second largest of record was forecast by the Agriculture Depart- : ment Tuesday. Crop of this size would be 83,157, 000 bushels more than the 1,293, 000,000 bushels indicated a month asm. It would comnare also with iast year's crop of 987,474,000 bush els, the ten-year average of i.um, 664,000 and the record of 1,367,186, 000 in 1047. It would exceed by far the gov ernment's production goal of 1, 150,000,000 bushels. The prospective crop was divid ed as follows: Winter wheat 1. 060,298,000 and spring wheat, 265, 859,000 bushels. The rye crop was forecast at 16,974,000 bushels compared with 34,410,000 last year and 28,095,000 for the ten-year average. The winter wneat crop was fore cast at 987,000,000 bushels a month ago and spring wheat at 307, 000,000 last year winter wheat to taled 645,469,000 bushels and spring wheat 342,005.000. The ten-year av erage is 799,977,000 for winter Wheat and 284,687,000 for spring. Other crop forecasts compared with last year and the ten-year average, respectively, included: Peaches, 69.365,000 bushels this year, 63,727,000 last year and 68, 186,000 for the ten-year average. Pears, 30.160.000 bushels, 30,028, 000 and 30,306,0. Cherries, 258,000 tons, 230,000, and 191,000. Apricots, 176,000 tons, 183,000 and 229.000. Production forecasts for corn, other grains and other crops will not be made until next month. The production of milk in May was reported at 12,049,000,000 j pounds compared with 10,129,000,000 I in April, 12,164,000.000 in May last year and 12,348,000,000 lor , the ten - year May average. Egg production in May was re ported at 5,983 000,000 compared with 6,191,000,000 in April, 6,881, 000,000, in May last year and 6,011. 000,000 for the ten-year may aver age. The Indicated yield of winter wheat was put at 20.8 bushels to the acre compared with 16.2 bush els last year and 17.7 for the ten year average. The indicated yield of rye was reported at 12.3 bushels compared with 12.4 last year and 12.1 for the ten - year average. The June 1 condition of several crops compared with a year ago and the ten-year June 1 average, respectively, Included: All spring wheat, 78 per cent of normal on June 1, 85 per cent year ago and 84 for the ten-year average; Durum wheat, 70, 85 and 84; oth er spring wheat, 76, 85 and 84; all hay, 87, 86 and 84; pasture, 88, 86 and 85; early potatoes, 83, 81 and 79. The indicated acreage for har vest, average yield per acre and production, respectively, of win ter wheat by states: Washington 2,446,000 29 and 71, 817,000; Oregon 804,000; 28 and 25, 312,000: California 665,000, 21 and 13,965,000. The Indicated acreage for har vest, the yield per acre and pro duction, respectively, of rye by states: Oregon 25,000, 13.5 and 338,000. The Indicated production of pears by states Included: Washington 5,238.000 bushels; .Oregon 6,520,000; California, 14, ' M4.000. Three Win Dairyman Trophies Three trophies were presented three Klamath Basin residents at Monday's Klamath County Dairy man's Association-Oregon Guernsey Cattle Club sponsored field day and judging school. More than 90 persons attended the affair, said one of the outstanding dairy days ever held here. Winning the junior trophy was Mike Geragbty, a junior at Mer rill high school. Clyde M. Horsley. an agriculture student at OTI. took home the in termediate trophy for persons aged 18-30, and Rav Hobson. local dairy man and milk producer, nabbed the senior trophy. The trophies will be rotating, and the winner must win thee consecu tive times in i order to keep the trophies. Trophies were presented by the dairyman's association. Yellow Dwarf And Aphids Associated The spread of yellow dwarf di sease in cereals is closely tied in with population and movement of aphids that transmit the disease. So reports Farm Advisor Ken Bag hott on the basis of work done by University of California agrono mists. Damaging epidemics of yellow dwarf in such crops as barley, wheat, and oats are likely to occur only in those years when climatic conditions favor the build-un of aphids on wild grasses and at the I same time force a delay in the planting of grain. Conditions were right for the disease this past year. However, during this year when early plantings were possible, the disease has not been so important. A number of grasses such as wild oat, bromes, fescues, and wild barley have been found sus ceptible and undoubtedly are im portant In perpetuating the disease irom year to year. Aphid control as a means of re ducing the disease damage in a ' favorable year does not seem to be economically feasible. Resistant varieties offer the only means of positive control, and further work : Is being done by the College of Agriculture along these lines. OSC Readies 400 Papers OREGON STATE COLLEGE More than 400 scientific papers will be presented at 33rd annual meet ing of the Pacific division of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science at Oregon State college June 16 to 21, ac cording to Dr. H. P. Hansen, OSC graduate school dean, chairman oi the local arrangements committee. The annual meeting will bring from 800 to 1000 of the leading scientists from all western states to the campus. It will be the largest scientific meeting ever held in Oregon. Eighteen different societies as sociated or affiliated with the AAAS will hold meetings during the week. Largest of these will probably be the Pacific northwest meeting of the American Chemical societv Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21. Seventy-four papers will be given before the chemists. Seventy papers have been sched uled before meetings of the Ameri can Phytopathological society, 47 before sessions of the western sec tion American Society of Plant Pathologists and 40 before western section American Society for Hor ticultural Science. Emphases will be placed on basic research in relation to agriculture and forestry. In addition to papers relating to these subjects, numer ous field trips and tours to the OSC experimental farms and plots, forest lands and the new food technology and animal sciences buildings will be tied in with the general theme. General sessions will be held In the College Playhouse Tuesday morning and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights) These, as well as technical meetings, will be open to the general public. Heading the Pacific division of the AAAS is Dr. H. A. Spoehr, Stanford university plant patholo gist. Dr. Kirtley F. Mather of Harvard university, retiring pres ident of the national organization East Oregon Field Day On Today New tillage Implements Undergo ing test bv the Pendleton branch experiment station was to be dem onstrated at the station's annual field day todav Superintendent Mer rill M. Oveson has announced. The field dav. according to Ove son. was to include visits to the three pilot farms included in the Columbia basin soil erosion pro lect as well as the station tour. One of the new pieces of tlllngr eouipment to be seen is a modified rotary hoe which can be used as a treader. It has not vet been re leased for sale by Its manufacturer. The King. Jim Hill, and S. C. Crow pilot farms were to be visit ed during the morning. At the Crow farm, the tour fea tured a comparison of turning back dps vines at two rates 2.800 nnd 5.600 pounds dry weight basis tier acre. Also to be shown was rate of seeding trials with three varie ties of wheat using two tvpes of drill Tillage practices are being com pared on the King farm. At the Hill farm, visitors will have an op portunity to see wheat growing on a vanctv oi oinerem uunge plots. Wheat fertilizer trials are also being carried out and ex periments are underway with an nual trooping. During the portion of the field day held at the station, visitors will have an opportunity to view work underway in the cereal nursery and to see crop rotation trials. visitors. As an Interesting sidelight, the guest scientists will be able to ob serve In action some 2000 Oregon 4-H club boys and girls and their leaders who will be on the campus for their annual 10-day summer t will be among the distinguished school June 17 to 27. cut and wrap your beef and pork for your locker And we still cure) your hams and bacon SMOKE HOUSE 427 Market A. G. "Butch" Zweigart Klamath Falls Phone 7060 ff(fjl5) DUSTING SPRAYING SEEDING DEPENDABLE "AIR" APPLICATION On homesteads where there are susceptible crops near by . . we recommend ground spraying. FARMERS AIR SERVICE "Patronize Your Local Operators" '- ,,. . -, ,, .A , . . iillTHMI 2! Phone 8422 Earl Liston, Owner Cowmen To Meet Tuesday The Klamnlh Countv Cattleman's Association disease control com mittee will inert Tuesday at 10 a in. iDSTi In the VYIiienin hotel, with a host of lop veteiiniuluiis xiid disease experts slated lu par ticipate. The session was cnllrd bv Pres. Oerry West of the association to discuss Klamath s cnlllo dlsoaoo problems. Among those plniuilng to attend from out of town are R. R. Younce, suite velerimiriun: Walter K. Tills- tlcwuitc. nssl.siuut veterinarian In charge of the Portland olflco of the bureau of animal Industry; Dr. O. H. Muth. research veterinar ian. OSC: and Dr. J. It tlnag. research animal nutritionist. OSC. luvitiittons have also been sent local veterinarians. West announce Clipping Affects Livestock Oood maiujcmcnt of the graalng of livestock on Irrigated pastures can have much Influence on the value of auch pasturos. 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