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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JULY .MO. tfir.2 Willamette Vetch Acreage Skids Down Oregon's certified Willamette vetch acreage Is on the skids ac' cording to late fiRiires compiled by J. W. Ross, Oregon Slittc Vol lege externum seed cerlillcation specialist. As recently as 1M6, about 57.000 seres were ceiimea. vcicn neia inspections this year are now con Dlcte and thev cover only 368 acres. A year sro, 390 acres passed field inspection. Prior to 1951, Inspected acreage had been averaging close to 3,000 acres annually. Whv has the acrense dropped? Lack ol a sulllciem premium for certified Willamette vetch due u the removal of the production ana marketing administration payment Is the cause, Ross believes. Crop losses from winter Injury, and dis ease and insect danuute also have caused some decline in grower in terest. The Willamette variety ts s conv mon vetch selection which at the time of its release was cnaracter ized bv winter hardiness a'l dis ease resistance. In cases of con tinuous vetch cropping, however, diseases have become so destruc tive that It is now difficult to grow with much success. ?et of all common vetches test ed at the OSC experiment station near Corvallis. Willamette still raiM mrwrior. Tnis is also true in the south where much seed has been sold In past years. Ross believes, the solution to vetch erower nroblems Is a Held rotation system where vetch Is grown only once in three or four years on the same field. During off years, volunteer plants must be eliminated. Following a system of this type, he adds would put com mon vetch seed production on a more sound oasis. Despite the set-back, the certifi cation specialist hopes growers will continue to certify a limited acre age of the improved common veicn in order that a high quality seed stock will be assurea Flies Drink Atomic Brew ' ISLINGTON. England (Jfl Some radioactive flies . are buzzing around here. They got that way because they were given a drink of brew distilled at the Harwell Atomic Research Laboratories. . : Scientists at the pest infestation laboratory at Slough are responsi ble for the condition of the flies. and the idea is to determine bow tar a fly lues. The insects are released here after the atomic brew snifter. Then flies are captured at vary, lnd distances, and a Ceiger count er spots those with the tell-tale atomic aroma on tneir Dreams. Greatest distance covered so far Is three miles.-But scientists are still hoping for a real cross-country champion. Farmers Get More. Money WASHINGTON -tfl Prices re ceived by farmers between June IS and July 15 rose' one per cent, mainly because of Increases they got for hogs, milk, eggs snd com mercial crops. The Agriculture Department, an nouncing this Tuesday said during the same Deriod prices dropped for beef cattle, potatoes, wheat cotton, calves and several other products. The Department's price index - went no three points to 295, well below the record 313 of February 1951. The Index of prices paid by farmers remained at 286. OSC Grad Heads X-Ray Concern BALTIMORE, Md. Wl H. D. Moreland, Oregon State College graduate, was named manager of the Westlnghouse Electric Corp oration's X-ray division, Wednes day. Sales, engineering, manufacture and other functions will be under his direction, F. W. Godsey, man ager of the firm's Baltimore divi sions, said. Moreland. born at Philomath. Ore.,, received his engineering de gree from OSC in 1930 and his science master in 1932. The follow ing year he joined the Westing house staff at Portland and has been with the firm since. . SCENES LIKE THIS ann'l ivu rnntmnn tkm Klamatk ftnnnt ,u l..-u..i L.!.. TL!. !. ..:! L:. ...i -t IJ.I:. I . - - - , j vi.v, wwu.ii, 1 1 1 1 a a vgiui nvintiiu vui vi maim I and Tulelalte. Machines are McCormickt. Thai School Gets OSC Aid OREGON STATE COLLEGE The scope of Oregon Slate college's influence in shaping agricultural. forestry and technical programs in foreign nations may be extended through a cooperative arrangement with Kaesetsart university in Bang kok. Thailand. President A. L. Strand has announced. More than two dozen OSC staff members are now or have been assisting with technical programs in various countries on every con tinent of the globe. President Strand said E. L. Pot ter, professor emeritus of agricul tural economics, wut leave lor Bangkok about the middle of July to spend a month exploring the possibilities of Oregon State couege entering into a cooperative rela tionship with the south Asia univer sity. The program, including all preliminary phases, is sponsored and financed by the Mutual Se curity agency. Potter will prepare a report cov ering the present situation at Kaesetsart, make preliminary rec ommendations on current needs, assist to formulate a program that will enable the university to serve more adequately the people nf Thailand, and suggest how OSC may cooperate. If his recommendations are fav orable and are approved by OSC and the Mutual Security agency. the college would enter into a 30- month contract with the MSA to give technical assistance to Kaeset sart s rehabilitation and expansion. including advice and general as sistance m teaching, research and other general functions. Oregon State college would be expected, under the agreement, to luraisn through the MSA a cruet adviser and a number of specialists who may or may not be present members of the staff. Kaesetsart university 1 s in terested in most of the same fields as OSC, President Strand pointed out, with major schools In agri culture. -forestry: fisheries and co operative sciences, and supporting work in engineering ana home economics. Thailand, a country nearly as large as Texas with three times the Lone Star state s population. is about 90 percent dependent on agriculture. froi. rotter, a. memoer oi me college staff since 1908, retired in 1950 alter being bead of agricul tural economics since 1932. He previously had been head of the animal nusoanory department since 1927. Paint Blast Injures Man GRANTS Pass I An explo, sion in a paint shop here Tuesday critically Dtirnea can renry, 66, a janitor. His clothing was set ablaze by the blast which blew out most of the building's windows and set fire to the roof. He was scraping paint from the floor of the shop when the mishap occurred. Experiment Station Field Days Set Klamath's On Aug. 4 A tour of the Klamath Experi mental Station's test areas is slat ed for the annual field day set Aug. 4 by Sunt. Gene Gross, with three top agriculturalists due here from Corvallis to participate. Dean F. E. Price of the OSC's School of Agriculture, is to be here along with Dr. D. D. Hill, Farm Crops' Dept., and H. H. Rampton, USDA Man in charge of forage ex periments, Corvallis. The tour. Gross has announced, is to be entirely Informal, starting from the Experimental area west of the Klamath Falls airport at 1 p.m. Monday. The tour is to cover forage plot experiments including the us of lotus (Lotus cornlculatus.) a forage very similar to alfalfa and appar ently a good forage in this coun try. Strains of it have been under test for some time at the- "X" station here. Fertilizer treatment on barley and Overland Oats and other va rieties have been conducted by Dr. Al Halvorsen on muck trials near Worden. The tour will cover that portion of the experimental area also. The Field Day. held almost an nually since 1940, is open not only to farmers, but also to interested suburban residents and others. A drainage project on the station may prove of interest to suburban dwellers. Lodging experiments showing which varieties of cereals can, withstand wind and other lodging factors are to be exposed by Gross, who has noted resistance to lodging In certain cross-varieties of oats. Experiments on some 30 varieties of barley and 28 varieties of oats are being conducted at the Klam ath station, which gathers tip all varieties oiierea ana available and teats them for use in the Klamath country. Plots of experiments are scattered throughout the Klamath Basin, but this year s tour is to be held to the experimental areas at the airport and Worden. 9. MALCOLM EPLET, Jr. Farm Editor RAIN KILLS 1 ' -TOKYO I One person is dead and 10 are missing as a result of heavy rains Tuesday night on Southern Honshu, largest of the Japanese Islands. Kyodo News Agency said about 3,000 homes and 1,087 acres of farmland were flooded. Guernseys Make Records PETERBOROUGH, N.H. L. L. Lombard, Retedale Guernseys, Klamath Falls, Oregon, is the own er of three registered Guernseys that have recently compiled Herd Improvement Registry production records according to a report from The American Guernsey Cattle Club. Having been milked for 311 days, Kingmere Marian, a junior 3 year old, produced 9.831 pounds of milk and 545 pounds of butterfat. Land o' Dreams Melba, a junior 4-year-old. produced 10.221 pounds of milk and 510 pounds of butter fat, having been milked for 305 days. Having been milked for 277 days, Skyloft Victory Belle, a 6 year-old, produced 9,755 pounds of milk and 487 pounds of butterfat. "Marian" was sired by Cloverhlll Katy's Master, that has 2 daugh ters in the Performance Register, while "Melba" was sired by Mc Donald Farms May King, that has 37 sons and daughters in the Per formance Register. "Victory Belle" was sired by Western Glow Gover nor, that has 19 sons and daugh ters In the Performance Register of The American Guernsey Cattle Club. ' These records were supervised by the Oregon State College. Farm Reports On Disease. Pests Needed Because the nation's welfare de pends upon farm produce, farmers must be constantly alert to signs oi piant ana animal disease ana insect damage, warns J. R. Beck, assistant director of extension at Oregon State college. This Is an Important part of the agricultural mobilization program directed by Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, he points out. "If you spot disease or insect damage among your crops, report it immediately to your county agent," urges Beck. "Give him a sample of the Insect or diseased or Injured plant as soon as possible. Do not send ' these samples to anyone other than the agent. Car rying or shipping them around the country may spread the trouble." "Report suspicious symptoms of any livestock or poultry disease Im mediately to the nearest veteri narian. Samples of material from diseased animals should not be re moved. Bring the vet to the animal rather than take the animal to the vet to lessen danger of spreading the disease." ' Hans Norland Fire Insurance 627 Pine St. TUNE-UP (LABOR) $4.95 DUGAN & MEST 522 Se. Oh CERTIFIED SCALE WEIGHT 60,000 Pound Capacity " " 20-Ton Howe Scale License No. 281 : ."DRIVE IN AND WEIGH YOUR Scrap Iron . Grain Hay Coal Loqi ' Freiqhf Beef Sheep Hogs , Trucks (for licenses) Friendly, Courteous Service SESSLER, INC. 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Crater Lake Machinery Co. 1410 S. 6th Ph. 2-2544 I lEnnrjrztnP I 1 M-1 Tjyfl 7 .'ty Tulelake's This Friday Tile Tulclake Farm Advbors field tour will be held Frtdav, Aug ust 1, at a.m., according to Ken Bachott, Tulelake Farm Advisor. Interested farmers should meet at the Farm Advisor's office at a.m. where thev will visit various exper imental plots throughout the Tule lake basin. Farmers will have the oonorlunl- ty to see soil sterilisation plots where various chemicals have been applied to dltchbanks for weed con trol: barley fertilization, compar ing NHS DBS anri immnni biiWaIj.' the use of aulfarlc acid to reclaim alkali soil; various cultivation prac tices of barlev fields. If time al lows, an alfalfa seed production plot will be observed: barley fer tilisation trials on alkali soil will oe ooserved comparlnit various kinds and rale of fertilizer. MARGAKKT IS GENEVA GENEVA. Switzerland 11 Mar aaret Truman arrived In Geneva Irom Parln Tuesday for a three dav vlmi to Switzerland and tiny, nrlchborlnR Llchteiuteln. I'H Wdrkers Back On Job M1I.WAUK1K W'l- KlKhly em. plnyivi ul llin liileiimlluiml lliuvoh. tcr Co. tutrix ili'pul worn buck on the JnU Tiljv.ilny, I'litlliiu a 47-tlny iti'ike fur liliihi'r wne. 'I'lii- iMinpiuiy hlfmt'il u thine-yeur riiiilinit with lli UIO Aillumolillo Worker.-; Union itruvuiinii for nil Iniiiii-iliiitp cml hourly pay boonl, minimi w 11110 iiitrnip ul 4 itenta nil hour, a nml of llvliln waits ail Jiinlinrnl cliiime ami merit pay liooMtrt. DIVIDEND POKTI.ANIi I Iron Flroinnn Miiiiuliutuiiiiu (,'iiiimuiiv director MoihIuv volrtl a nimrterlv dividend ut In crnta u nhure. The illvlilriul. payable dept. 2, la for atiHikholili'ia ut record Auk. II. HOW CAN YOU LOSE Can your fruit, vi-nrtaulri. meat, or llll In tin cans, Our r.uiiirry la IlKhl and airy, with oil iiiixlptn equipment. 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