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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1952)
PAGE SIXTEEN HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 112 Spud Heat For Storage Talk Slated At Tule Most everyone who stores pota toes knows that they give oft a certain amount of heat. However. Just exactly how much heat Uicy Rive off is not loo wen unucraiooa gives oft heal equivalent lo I !f watt light bulb burning continuous ly. Thus the potatoes in a 30,000 sack storase would nioduce 29,000 watts of power. Since it lakes 1.0CKI Joint Spud Meet Set Tonight The following figures show us how , waus 0ni ,mo , uutie pua.se elec much heat Is produced by While inc m00r to develop one hoe Rose potatoes in storage under dtt- power, Uie heal produced bv these lerent temperatures. 20.000 sacks would develop the The source of dale Is the Do equivalent of about 39 horsepower, partment of Vreetable Crops, Um-1 One Ion of potatoes held at versity of California, Davis: i degrees Fahrenheit durmii Uie Ilrsl During the first week of sioraue week of storage will produce 18 under temperatures of 59 degrees, I watts, during the fourUi week of Fahrenheit each ton of potatoes storage 17 watts, and during the 1 12th week of storage aoout 10 watts. ; dotirees Fahrenheit potatoes are only developing about 133 watts per ton. The aevelopmem of this heat is Important from the stand point of constructing potato cellars, which in turn should be designed so that tins heat would be con served and help to counteract the cold trying to come through Uie walls during Uie winter, Thi i lust nna nrohlum whth A Joint meeting of Klamath and , wm be discussed on Aug. 27 when Tulelake potato growers has been I lnere will be an ten noase .or the slated for tonight at 8 in the Mer- pUrpoe of discussing ih experimen tal Recreation Hall to discuss ad-, ,al poIato storage at the Tulelake visability of further marketing con-1 Fieid station. The public is lnv:t trol regulations on Uus year s spuo , drop m al lly ,1mf Cur. crop. uig Uie day to see this storage and The marketing season still lies in to discuss any construction prob the future, and later acts by Uie lems they may have with the en marketing agreement control com-1 gineer who will be here from Uie mittee will utiliie the opinions and ' University. Ideas set forth tonight. The session was ordered by a motion passed in. a meeting of Growers from both sides of the state line last March. The control committee has since recommend ed several regulations to Uie De partment of Agriculture for action. They included a maturity regu lation allowing only "slightly skinned spuds for shipment thus and an inch and seven-eighths minimums on 6o. 1's.and 2's, ex cepting B's. PROPERTY CONFISCATED HONO KONO ( The Hankow Communist newspaper, Chang Chiang Daily, accuses Communist land reform officials of confiscating the properties of farmers whose lands Uie officials took for redis tribution. The Hankow paper says food stores, farm tools, livestock and clothing taken by the land re formers were either sold bv them I or held by Uie officials. u "TfT n& ; mm- . Mm aaMaWjlV'tV ' ftl- IsStMajiftliaff I Tl'ff Bud worm Mortality Said High After Forests Receive Spray Approximately M per cent of the spruce budworm caterplllara on 070,000 acres sprayed this year In the forests of Oregon and Wash ington were killed, according to U.S. Forest Service regional offi cials III Portland. Mortality was determined bv field counts mad by personnel of Ilia Portland For est Insect Laboratory. U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant quarantine. PROCURER Official'Procurer of the Beef for this year's 7th Annual Rotary Livestock Show and Sale Barbecue is Lawrence J. Morton, above, shown here looking over beof donated by the Johnson Livestock Company at the TP Packing Co. on the Old Midland Road. Horton, himself an outstanding Klamath beef producer, handled the procurement duties this year. DRIVERS TOO SMART ter drivers. "Once the dumb slu- VAvroiivm rnri. in a ! drnt Brasps the mechanics of drlv Vancouver, Canada Ml A ; lnB hf remfmb, them," he said. uriviiig iiisirucior ocre suggesica that "dumber persons" It's the brauiy ones that give us make be'.-1 the trouble." Spud Day Slated At Tulelake This year the University of Cat Itoiiiiu field Stii:ou at 'luleiake is holding a potato day instead of the usual general field dav as con tiiuied in uie past ..oar . Yms will take place In September ac cording to B. J. Hoyle who Ik In charge of the Tulelake Field Sta tion. The rtact date will be an nounced later. A sumnmiy of the important po tato experiments conducted during the past 11 e vears will be pre sented. This will include a sum mary of the fertllUer experiments from liianv parts of the bastn. an up-to-date review of what Is known about Stem-end Browning, and tor sue quality as affected bv differ ent fertilizers. Also on display will be manv Interesting comparisons of potatoes grown on different types of soli and with different fertilizers. Other factors affecting potatoes will be discussed. Samples of a novelty potato which has a blue skin and a blue flesh as well as one with a vellow flesh will be distributed to growers wno may desire them. Cooperating federal. Hale, anil private aaeiulea In this ciiuilniiiiig pnOecl. the largest aerial spiav nut lob ever undertaken In this country, are honrlul that the big gest part of the joj is br'ini.i ihein, Although the amount f work atlll 10 be none la uneeua n. pivkuii iii illratloiis are that a relallvclv ainiill mailt It y of work needs lo be done iii wm. Large-scale snraving of Infested ureas on Hits nioleel was begun in IIUII to protect Duimlavflr. the moat valuable Umber tree In the Western Unltt-d Suites, and while Hr from the budworm caterpillars xhtrh kill trees bv devouring the needles. The acreare spraved dur ing June and Julv this venr brings i he fotir-vear total to almost 3 mil lion acres. Spraving has been done under the adinitilstrutlve dtii'ctlnu of the ; Forest Service mid the Slate Fur I ester's olflce at Salmi III accord, lance with technical advice on spiav methods, lime of spiavinu, and choice of Insecticides fiunixhrri bv i the Forest Insect Laboratory, The : C'lvll Aeronautlrs Ailiuininlratioil stationed one man at each of the eight mountain airstrips during soraylng operations to Insure safe flvlmr practices and aatl-fuctorv condition of snrav tihines. The stale lot Washington cooperated wtih prl- vale agencies in the soravinv? of privately owned areas In Washington. Cost of the proleel has ranued from II to 51.24 per aore. This vear's program cost allululv over $1 per acre which Is also the ap proximate per-acre cost of previ. ous years. Forest Service offi cials estimated n minimum loss of $.160 million would have oc curred If spravluq had not ben undertaken and In addition the insect-killed areas would have constituted a tremendous fire hnsard. The entire npray pr 'gram to date lias cost lesa than 13 milium dollar". Actual spraying wan done hv con tractors who successfully bid on the lob. Many Ivpea uf single and multi-engine pliHica converted for I spraying were used. The smallest I plane carried about 100 gallon nf j Insecticide and the lai'Hotl, about M.OoO gallons, or liom about 800 to 8,000 pounds, respectively, A mixture of fuel oil. solvent, laud I 1)T at the rate of one pound uf IJD't to one gallon nl lurl oil solvent was useu lo eliminate the budworm. One gallon of this in secticide covers an acre of Umber. The lethal mtxlllle waa spraved at an average elevation of 200 fret ubove the tree topa lo Insure reach ing tree lollatte: the wind move ment had lo be less than 8 miles tier hour and the temperature not more than tin Fahrenheit. Within 2t hours lollowlnu spraving, a ma unity of the budworm caterpillars were drod. Hpravlug builwonn. Infested nreus Is hluhlv liar.ardoiis work, as Is all types of aerial anraylng. Despite Iha luot that all precautions wera taken to penult only planea III best condition lo do the work and til allow only Pilots with extensive ex perience to participate, one pilot was klllen till year. iuirYr represents considerable Improve nienl over the record of prevloin years: two pilots were killed In 1IIM anil seven In lUflO. Larqeit piano stock In thll part of th Wait Knabe Kimball Wurlitzei Othor Leodinq Mokt Plonoi Low Pricca. Low Ttrmi Rant a Plono Ront and Apply Plan Louis R, Mann Piano Co. 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