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PAGE BIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OK EG ON WEDNESDAY. JULY III, 1052 Management Effects Pasture Production ' ' The management of grazing Tule ' lake pastures may have greater ill ' fluence mxro production, feed qual ity and the botanical composition of a pasture than any of the other (actors associated with growth and development reports Ken Bagholt, Tulelake Farm Advisor. The im portance of grating management has been rtcoenlMd for years. Only recently has there been enough ex perimental evidence to support the Idea of controlling the natural grat ing babiis of livestock and to ue this method to improve value, to maintain a better pasture longer, and to attain more rapid weight gains or higher milk production at less cost. The Farm Advisor reports that mna Tulelake pastures may be over-grated" or "under-grated. By this he means that they may carry too many cattle or not enough cattle per acre. This Is also caused by not cross fencing pas tures but trying to grate one large Spray, Dust Allay Blight - Ttmelv application of sprays and dusts will prevent most of the damage caused by late blight of celery, according to Dr. E. K.. Vaughan. plant pathologist tor the Oregon State college experiment nation. . .- Consistently good results have been obtained In tests with ziram, trlbasic copper sulfate and Ortho cide 406. Dr. Vaughan has report ed in the current issue of Oregon Vegetable Digest, quarterly publi cation Issued by the OSC experi ment station. Fungicides to control celery blight should be applied during dry ' summer weather at 7 to 10-day intervals. Cost of such applications has proved small compared with the increased value of the celery crop. Crops harvested early can be sprayed at 14-day intervals with success. Celery blight Is caused by a fun gus which Is present in the soils of all major celery growing areas of Oregon, according to Dr. Vaughan It lives from one season to the next in decaying celery stocks and leaves and produces spores which are carried by wind and insects to new celery plants. The July issue of Oregon Vege table Digest also includes informa tion on new vegetable varieties and a study of cucumber mosaic virus. The picking operation is cited. by OSC scientists as one of the major ways is which cucumber mosaic virus is spread. In a test last year, picked rows had about 21 percent more diseased plants than those left unpicked. This makes it extremely Import ant, say the scientists, to keep to a minimum the amount of disease brought to the plant before pick ing. One way to accomplish this is to apply insecticides to control the insects which help spread the early infection. Pickers who have been working in diseased areas should wash their hands thoroughly ; before moving into healthy plant areas. acreage rather than dividing It Into several small pastures. Bagholt says any pasture which is going to seed should be clipped, otherwise It will become course and and tufty and the cattle will not receive enough food value from the pasture. Over grated pastures reach uie oiner extreme wnereoy mere is not sufficient feed to supply nu trients to the livestock and as a result the pastures become weak and do not produce maximum yicUs. Some valuable Information has been obtained by clipping studies of various pasture mixiuies. Treat ments consisted of cutting at fre quencies of two weeks, three weeks tour weeks, and five weeks. These studies have shown that ill yields are increased by less frequent clip pings, the five-week clippings yield ing (3 per cent more than two weeks clippings for the average ol all mixtures 13 less frequent cut ting favored legumes, more fre quent cutting encouraged the grass iji wnere autcn wnue clover, ai sike and alfalfa were used in the same mixture, the dutch white clo ver predominated the mixture with frequent cuttings while alfalfa pre dominated less frequent 141 the percent of protein, ash and other extract tfatl decreased as cutting intervals were spaced more widely and IS) crude fiber increased as cutting intervals were spaced more widely. Many farmers in the Tulelake basin are using gooa systems oi rotation and rotation grating with highly satisfactory results. MALCOLM irt.l Y. Jr. rn c-uiivr Spud Checks Start Monday Inspections of Klamath county certified seed plots some 1200 acres of potatoes are slated to get underway starting Monday,-. the County Agent's office has an nounced. Agent Walter Jendrzejewski esti mated 700 acres of Netted Gems are to be inspected, and the rest White Rose. Names of the inspectors are not yet available. Hop Output Down 2 In Northwest PORTLAND HI The Depart, ment of Agriculture said Tuesday estimated hop production in the Pacific Coast states was two per cent under last year's crop but 27 per cent higher than average. The department estimated the crop in Oregon. Washington, Idaho and California on July 1 at 61,720. 000 pounds to be produced from 38. 800 acres. Oregon hops were forecast at 16,900,000 pounds, compared with 18.774,000 in 1951. This year's acreage is 13.000, some 1,900 un der a year ago. Washington's crop was estimated at 27 million pounds, only 387.000 pounds under last year's. The California estimate is 14.400.000 pounds, a slight drop from 1951. Idaho, however, has an estimat ed increase of 34 per cent in pro duction with the crop placed at 3,420,000 pounds. County FB Picnic Set Sunday The annual County-Wide Klam ath County Farm Bureau picnic is slated for Maltn's Community part Sunday starting at 1 p.m., according to Pres. Eber Kilpa trick. The time is officially standard time, he said. The picnic is under the direction of the. Associated Women of the Farm Bureau, with Mrs. Walter Enman at the head, Joe Chotard is in charge of Malin arrangements A highly competitive horseshoe contest between the county's sev eral centers. OSC Man Speaker Tit- t n n.rV.. -. . .- ' w . a. art, uu ui 111, Oregon State college poultry de- Hnninrui, win uo a icmurra cubation during the thirty-sixth an- ...... 1 ., U.lnh. ery federation convention in San rTancisco juiy a'j to Jo. tne pro gram committee has announced. TU lai-offst nf ncrlrtilturnl trarip expositions is being held on the west coast lor uie him time aim is expected to attract between 5.000 and 6,500 visitors. Among them will be a considerable num ber of Oregon poultry industry leaders. The convention was brought to San Francisco largely through ef forts of Ambrose Brownell. Mil waukie, now completing a term as president. . -i xrnPAn Ttartlnnd ooultrv V 1 , 1 1 1 ,.vl -V 1 - . - processor, will discuss 1952 turkey marxei prospect of the program which he shares with a Salt Lake City industry spokesman. Noel Bennlon. OSC ex tenion poultry specialist, is chair man of a panel discussing "Forces Directing Our Industry's Destiny. . ....... nnmn Avhihitnra at the nuiuuK w, . . convention which is being held In conjunction with tne western ruui trv congress are J. A. Hanson and c- o.iiic anrt the Master OUU, V.UI , ,-- - Supply corporation, Portland. The American Poultry ana Hatchery federation was organited in 1916 as the International Baby Chick association. Altnougn ine Oregon affiliate, the Oregon uaoy Chick association headed by Con rad Burmester, Portland, goes by the old name, a movement is on foot to make it correspond with the national's name which was changed a year ago. i in h APHF in. mnuuniMui, . eludes more than 5,000 commercial hatcherymen and breeders and represents about 75 percent of the nation's total annual output oi chicks, poults and Breeding stoca. The entire facilities of the San 11- iiriiinrium are re quired to handle the convention's educational sessions mu cjuuuu. Hopperman To Bagdad irrnrT itn? Cam Kmlth. head of the recent grasshopper control llgni ana an euiyiuyo i States Dept. of Agriculture, is go ing to Bagdad, Iran, for special work. . , Smith has Been worxing oui oi Sacramento, and plans to make his move probably near, the first of the year. Bull Service Whitefcce Reqitrered Hereford Yonr Plica r Mint Phone CECIL DREW 3924 Now Is The Time For PASTURE FERTILIZATION We hove in stock O SULPHATE of AMMONIA 21N O AMMONIUM NITRATE 33V2N O Super Phosphate 19 Also MIXED FERTILIZERS INCLUDING 16-20-0 See Simplot Soilbuilders For CLOVER and POTATO DUSTS o 5 and 10 . . . DDT DUST For . . INSECT CONTROL 5 and 10 . . . DDT DUST with . FROM 25 o 75 Sulphur for... INSECT and MILDEW CONTROL D-Fusal 4 . . . with 1 oil for . . POTATO DUSTING Soil, Water Conservation Book Topic An analysis of Oregon's soil and water conservation and use has been made by a committee from the Oregon State college agricul tural slutf and findings and recom mendations have been published In a 75-page bulletin which is avail' able at county extension offices or uy writing direct to the college. The committee, headed by J. R. Beck, assistant director of the ex tension service, details lis report under two broad phases: first, they discuss soil and water conservation during the past century of Oregon agricultural aevciopmeni; and, second, propose a soil and water conservation and use program for Oregon. In the latter, the state is divided into four districts coastal, aoutli- ern uregon, Willamette valley and eastern Oregon. Discussed are such Items as sand dunes, stream bank erosion, drainage, soil surveys, ferllllier needs, rotations, farm forestry, al kali, cloud seeding, hill pastures, Irrigation, and watershed cover. The committee says man-caused erosion is present in each of the state's 36 counties. It is most noticeable, however, on non-irrigated eastern Oregon cropland, on hill croplands of western Oregon and on land disturbed by logging operations throughout the state. Known improved practices for minimizing erosion need to be adapted to 1,800,000 acres, the committee believes. "' Potential Irrigation of 700.000 ad ditional - acres in the state la largely dependent on three factors: storage, distribution, and efficient use of abundant water supplies. Drainage, to permit sound crop ping and maximum land use, is needed on 830.000 acres. The com mittee also points out that some present crop rotations are mark edly deficient from the basic prin ciple oi sound sou management. Nearly all soil not in perennial grass, tney say, would benefit from Improved practices. Use of nitrogen ts expected to increase tenfold In the next 10 to 30 years and 180.000 tons of lime stone are now needed each year. About 18.000,000 acres of publlcally owned grazing land passed its peak productivity about 1903. 1 Tule Adds Half-Million Sack Capacity for Spuds Tl'LELAKE-A rapacity of 600.-1 000 aaeks la being aiKird to the Klamath Hasin a over-all total mi lato storage here in the Tulrlnka area. A total of 14 cellars are bring built at the present In this Im mediate area, all new ones. Noilli Fir Fungus Reports Under Study An expert on tree diseases. Dr. J. 8. Boyce of Yale university, haa come to the Oregon forest products laboratory tilts aummer to collect and edit four yeara research re ports on Pomes pinl, a devastating tree-decaying fungus. This fungus has gained wide In roads into Oregon's Douglaa fir for ests. According to preliminary re ports, Pontes pint was found in t to 0 per cenl of nearly W0 Doug las fir trees located in 14 research stands. A professor of forest pathology, Dr. Boyce's purpose in compiling this new Information is two-loid. Tabulation and Interpretation of all the research on this problem atnee IB48 will present more accurnte ways to estimate the amount ol decay In a particular group of trees. More exacting estimates will re sult in better timber utilisation and make for leva financial risk to lum ber operators. It will also show Uie relation of Internal decay to a stand of timber so It can be determined what ages and on what locations the timber should be cut to reduce losses. Older stands are more apt to carry this fungus. Dr. Boyce said. Spores of this fungus are carried by wind and usually gain entry Into a tree through the stubs of once-existing lower branches. The spores travel to the heartwood, causing decay up and down the inner tree trunk. Conks, external tell-tale, black ish upper-surfaced knobs of from a to 10 Inches broad, which appear in later development, make It pos sible to estimate the average fun gus damage cf a particular stand of trees. Fomes plnl research was a co operative project of aeveral slate, federal and private agencies, in cluding the Oregon forest products laboratory and the Oregon State college school of forestry. Bruce Wagg, research division of the state board of forestry, directed the fun gus project since 1951. Dr. Boyce did the first Investiga tions on this decay In Douglas fir when he was with the USDA divi sion of forest pathqloey in Port land from 1920 to 1928. He be came director of the Northeastern forest experiment station of the U.S. forest service in 1928. Since 1929, he has been associated with Yale university. of (he atnle line there is quite) a lut ol revuiiipiiiK of older cellarn. Total Klamatli Hiisln rapacity It. estimated at-about 1.000.000 (Ml stu'ks in form storage, and 1.5IH1, 000 1M1 aiicka III terminal atorauo, Hill snnaiiiiia Is Imllriiiu four cellars at Newell with if tutiil rapacity of IJO.tMHl Barks; A. K. Hutchinson and Milton Ilium are biilltllug one of tiH.OOOsuik capa city atljnrenl to the Archcr-Dun-Irls elevator: Hub Jours Is build ing nil addition on to a cellar built last year, this onn Inigrr and Willi a rapacity of 15,000 sacks; Walt Reynolds la building olio ol 16,1)00 sack capacity near the stnicline; Luther and Johnson are building one to hold 6(.(kHI aarka; Vegetable Day Aug. 5 Vegetable rrons research at Ore gon State college will be explained at ihe second annual field day Aug ust 6. The prngruin will begin at 1:30 p.m. IAST at the OSC vege table crops larni. Varietal trials and breeding re search will be dU'Ussrd aluug with reports on weed ami Insect con trols and ferlllKer experiments, ac cording to Dr. W. A. Frailer, hor tlculturn.il In rhargs of vegetable crops research. B ''&.'. V'5 UmmatmauiMtmimaamn t rem tmi paimhamo toaoia, and Kay Baikal, racrr and loath Kw 12 bales a time. Suck over 20 feet high. Cuts tout coata. Fas al tractor, GARRISON FARM EQUIPMENT CO. Merrill-Lokeview Jet. Ph. 7312 Pat McCulluuiih Is building one I llcn.iun lur the t'cllar-bulltll for 10,000 aucka III Coppink Bay, and Hill Hulks has one going up with H.OHO-suck aipuclly 111 llio Jap lliinlcils. Ivan Rose la icpintrtlly building I ainaiirr our. IIM boom la llio Increased acreage lif potatoes In Una area, more than hoi Hi of the Hue. Iiullcatlona am Unit (lie ai'irutio on either aula of II, tinla iiiih 1m ahmit linlnlii-'tfl. I Willi alight favor la Oregon. f v ' . . .-rrSJfWe,r.j'1 F'Vti I, ' . i ?are Deposits For Leavei! 411 Reports irom ROTO-IAlIt owniri uy thit wcither-resistatit rolled bslei contain mora leaves. Livestock cut rolled hiy better because it is soft, sweet and retains its natural color, Here are some of the things farmers wanted to know: Would rolled biles rtilly shed showers?, Would they handlo mid transport easily? Would livestock eat them without waste, fed whole or, unrolled? Could straw for bedding be rolled out without shaking? - i The.ROTO-tAUR his answered "yes" to each of these questions, satisfying firmer every-, where. Stop in and ask us for free booklet on rolled biles ind the ROTO-BAlf R. ' l aeio-uin h AK1,-OMlaMi HWiwtri, f( PLUS CIMIMERS V mirs mo Slavics ,.,. B mttmmr'm. e3 ta t CMC TRUCKS FAIRBANKS MORSE POMONA PUMPI 77 South 7th Phene 7771 HARVEST AT PEAK PENDLETON Ml The Uma tilla County wheat harvest now Is al Its peak. The harvest is ex pected to be completed about July 26. Prospects are for a siz able crop. r with. . Mi2iLn m Either way you uit if, you'rt sure it's applied scientifically... by experts who know local soil conditions m NITROGATION SERVICE Your distributor meters Shell NH (Agricultural Ammonia) from cylinders directly into the irrigation water. From his experience with local crops, he knows exactly how much ammonia to apply. Then the nitrogen-rich ammonia, in ihe proper concentration, it distributed evenly by tha water. . . soaks with the water into the soil where it immediately begins to feed the growing plants. NITROJECTION SERVICE This is a direct soil-injection of Shell NH3, made with special equipment supplied by your Shell distributor. Again, from his local .experience, he knows the proper depth to which the ammonia should be injected, and the exact amount to be applied. As a result, the nitrogrm-rich ammonia goes where it will do the crop the most good. BIG TRACTOR NEWS from your John Deere Dealer ON SATURDAY, JULY 19, we will announce an entirely new line of general-purpose tractors sue cessors to the famous John Deere Models "A" and "B." By far the greatest values ever offered by John Deere, these new tractors feature major engineering advancements and a host of improvements that step up tractor performance in many different ways. 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