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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1953)
LAY, JANUARY 14, lnnu tlKnALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FAIXS, OltEGON PAGE KQm PI I Poe Valley Tests Show ' ' Ammonium Sulfate Uses wrlvs bu.hrln more of liamiuhen Iwrlry per sere Irom a 145 pound uppllcatlriil of niniiioiiluni ulln lr I rnpiirtecl lor irruiiaer irini on Art Hchnupps Poe Valley dry Intnl. 'Itio Hi lmiii trial In one o( srvrral rstalillslird Klmnaili County by throughout Dr. Al Hal- .1. kMtt li. natural question, re I few. n get la our ftowere, la Uw'bomffi. ana livestock:. Wr eurlous eboul ttiene leasee ueao mut h often UTM losses JNle their small alM, but ' them we arc eorloun msinly ao we cm rid ! pest aae lalereat ta tnam, it wrtea of aftwlat tnllhi Berstaad - Usees ataecla we II v. Many of thm , but aotne ol theni ;hilp to M as our dally autdy In aim's ere used pttnf esned -Man", to easy- ee tree of . whole bisect world Is' i, into many Individual I ad "orders", of which , jam . Othtra ara the butlarfllaa and moths. iee. eptuos, fraaahoi u "(any mora laaaer kind. klnda ara tberet This lan asked, as navar an timJ vary oest luesers irnwa mace ina by Ileum 100,000 and IO.MO,ooo aaa ara not known or H, of course. Evan the rfailflad bassets la oncer l umataa up to lJM.Ooo. noleflata .working all rid on IdenUlleatlon, no now many ara elseai ha USD fujuree that - M.000 known. species in nd tbara ara now one a rata of a. 000 to 7,ooo In addition there are I of miles and ticks In 7lrThosa woo study- such Ul us that hueota make 0 per cent ol all the ala In the world. Oddly tilths of the total are t America, north of Mrxi J k n.aW known kinds o( H f Im idi .onu.MO.mm uno.om.ixm lliri by mil. urn liiiluiialcly nlhrr Insula, i ulid.i, dlr.ruKe. uruUicr, iintl now, clii-mlrul ink" tlii-lr toll ol Hilt i ioillliilloii Call illnlloili ol npilKH I ; run rvru lilithrr. Home insects tnlte yriirs to grow i fioni the rKil to the adult. 'Hie ! i adulla Iny very lew euiin ton. Otlii-rs j llinwcvn. lay rutin contluuou ily, I with home li-mnlcs laying innuy j iiicjusbiius ol ruiis. some Iniccto ' give Dlrili lo living youuif. 'lliere I are cases where one riof will divide, then' divide, etc., etc , Willi 1.600 Individual will eome Irom j one run. This In a real iilorylli n-' lion ol the twin. J Many have neen Hie "Klnmnlli MldKe" and nome ol our gni.nK hopper outbreak In thin arcn. Who Cun more thnn entlmnte the num1 bern? We know they are a-nlronoml cal In alu. Urannbopper oulbrenkn In Mime arenn are numbered at UH. ooo.OOO (Mi per cubic mile. Koine uraivAland aludleft have nliown, by aanipltfiK Uie fcoil that utxrcu and mum tun up to iv era) hundred million per acre. Wlrewnrni Mudlen llnd that from three In twenty live million per arte Inlrnt nome ol the noil. How. evrr mnny livecln there are usual ly there are loo diirn many! Where could you llnd more vari ation thttn In the lunecl world. We llnd Mich extreme an the beauti ful Irridencenl btitlerfllen and the metallic rainbow hued beetlen. down to the lowly muuuot. We have mothn in nome counti len thnt mea.-iure over 5 Inchen w.ntr Lower Meat Prices Due To Drought I'lencnl lower meat piicea due partly lu the ralnlrna aummer and the Ioiiii dry fall that prevalltd over nearly the entire U. 8., ac cording lo M t'olen, exiennlon llvr .Uxk markellnj apcclallat, at Ore yon mate colleue. 'Hie ni.ecialKl explain that be- i'Hiie or Hie dry rondilloiu, perma iienl pimture developmeni wan llimted and Iced nuppllen were cur Inlled. At a renult. Ilventock pro ductrn hud to either nell or une Hie eunllnue or hay they had Marked. Kned prlcen wire already hluh and In nome arean unavailable no many niockmen nent their sheep or cattle to market. fn the winter wheat belt, where there In a new practice of unlng tall nown wheat an pantuie, drought conditions were no that the wheat wouldn't grow enough to be uied for imMuie. Without enough pas ture many producers were forced to M-ll thounandn of cattle and hheep. a result of these and other similar condlllonn an abnormally large number of nhe-p and cattle i have been slaUKhtcred. Tnlo has In turn punned retail meal prices down, saya Colen. vorson of the Klamath Esperlment Station. Barley production wan 31') busheln where no fertilizer wan used. Application of MS pound of ammonium aulfaie per acre boosted yield to 46'', bushels, A 12 pound application gave a 40 buihel yield, A 211 pound applies tlon gave a 42 bushel yield. Ap parently moisture supply was not sufficient to handle the heavier supply of nitrogen. The fertilizer in the Rchsupp trial was applied below Uie sur lace ol the sol). It Is recommended Hint applications of dry nitrogen fertiliser tn mineral soils be made are prior to plowing lor aprlng grain. The hlglierl yield ojia.nea was 40 bufheln where I4S pounds of ammonium sulfate. 2M pounds of super phosphate and 100 pounds of sunaie oi poissn were appneo. In thin trial, as In most trials on Klamath County mineral sou. greatest Increases In gram yields were due to nitrogen application. Additional Increases due to phos phate and potash were minor. On Klamath County lake bottom soils super phonphs'e has given good Increases In grain yields, The 12 bushel Increase In about 600 pounds of 84.10 barley. In creased kross return of 124-CO ' obtained. The 145 poundn of am monium sulfate cost about 15 00 It's a cane of a 500 percent re turn on money Invested In nitrogen ferli lier. With barley al W.00 hundred pounds the gross gsln due to nitrogen would be tit and re turn on money invested In fertilizer would be 300 per cent, with zoo per cent prolit. Tulelake Crop Groups Named TULKf.AKE Pres. Chsrlea Wlcsa of tlie Tulelake Growers As sociation has announced appoint ments to two more crop commis sions under his reorganizing of the growers. Clover and potato commodity de partments have already been named. On the grain commission: Chairman Don O. Potter. Ray mond R, Baker. Marlon r. Pal mer, Harry B. Rose. On the miscellaneous crops Commission:- Chairman William H. Powell, Dean O, Callaa, Erneit M. aay ana Irvin Long. WORLD'S tARGEST SEIUR AT10C riVTji:ti:i J SAVE MORE-BUY 100 TABlCTS.43t JACK M. SMITH, new field scout executive for the KUm. ath district. Boy Scoufi of America. Schooled at OSC and OTI, the 26-year-old ex Corvslit resident is married and has a baby boy. mala, and many other unbelievable forms. All Insects do not do us harm by destroying food, fiber, or making Hie unpleasant. The outstanding beneficial Insect Is the bee which not only supplies us with honey for food but helps un produce fruit and seed by pollenatlon. Other Im portant helpers are lhoe insects with a diet of mosquitoes and gnats which help us control these penis. 'Hie uneen pmrasltes and predators In the msecl world keep unwanted Insects Irom taking over our ex tslancc. Many helpers In the Insect world make Uln liveable. ' Because bugs and Insects are perhaps the most Intriguing of topics to many local people, there undoubtedly will be questions aris ing In the minds of local persons concerning them, how they can be i.pread. Home tropic becllea are so , controlled, what they look like, aim large Ihey sound like a bomber j from l.me to lime Ihone questions Hying low The oiher extremes will be answered In this column, show beetles small enough to ' Mall questions to the County crawl through the eye of a Miiall i Agenfa Office, care of The Bug needle. There are perfectly lormed I World. files which are onlv one hundredth I The Farm Page of the Herald AROUND TOWN ,nM NEWS i bast averse worked m that thsrs an about J.000 different kinds in , Borne states will have than others, mm to , e, or lepofTaphy There 1 1 .. a 10,000 nanntul or de- nds la V.8. - (part - of the ejtatstlon w many Inarldaul in i (Ivan are. This bnpos- ion can only ba bmted "i ipllnt a aqua reboot of " Micm sweepa with nets ; 'of crops, counuot the j ila smsU araa and j the aute of the sraa cov 1 Inaecta. ' Mass other i (weslbla to aattnsato Uie It of Isaac is ta siren i I '-'V- f.to at a rough tdaa U I ;oma hsblU of InsacU. ? ! - I is Ye treat powers of ' ' a. Wo hatto aaen the .' iron for houaafuea. If1 rt fliea atortad la the I aU young lived and all aorauuiy, uera would and News will publish Irom lime lo time features on Insects which r.liould be of Interest to most Klam ath folks. It is hoped It will stimu late some interest tn this normally unknown group of animals. of an mrh from head to tall. Borne waspn live thr'r life cycle In nide of eggs of other smsll Innecla. other than tho-.e liuecls W'hlch uormnlly feed on plnnta of other Insects, we have Uiese oddities: tlioso innecta which live in snow, flies' Isrvae living In (he brine of Ureal Ball Lake, other larvae which live In natural pools of IK' oleum. Insect lorms ex.slnllug the mud and wuter of 120 de gree hot spring, insects with a "diving lube" which extends up through w-aler or mud and given snbum na . vm rfundra ll not them a supply of fresh air. para- " sna emuiy earion io Beii..nS sites which live on aquatic ant CHOKED- GAS? THANK HEAVENS' Mott atUckl ir ri4 ndtftmn Whrn II inkwt tttkf aWtt.MrtN Uhtrtt. They rnnum th ruWit-etinc mrtlicint'a known to dorian for lh rIitf Uftuiirbsiif . N. V. Gtt Utlt-Anj te)di. 3M. mi J&t 'Buich ' cut and wrap your beef and pork for your locker And we still euro your homi ond bacttn SMOKEHOUSE 427 Market A. G. "lurch" Zweigort Klamath Falls Phont 700 I m. cau Z 6:30 Presented by First Federal Sarinat ram Klamath Bulls In Range Sale fieven Klamath County bulls hsve been consigned to the Oregon Cat tleman's Aakoc. Range bull sale at Ontario Feb. 13-14, according lo Henry Oerocr. Local consignors Include Oeln gem Reservation Ranch, Chlloquln. Ellis White. Ontario, is to be auctioneer, and Jidge Tippett of Enterprise. William K. Farrell of John Day and Mrs. Minnie May, Pendleton, will grade. Some 150 head of cattle, all qual ity range sires, have been con signed to the sale, Oerber announced. mi tsftos. Open Jan. 5 to March 1 Mold Board Slatting Disc Rolling ir Plow Share Hard Surfacing TULELAKE, CALIF. liMC Til At I Tkvrt't im) tint like Iht present ftt lnf.urHCe)! Puttinf it ff iit trauble. Call u nd we'll tM fl4 t help yoy pi en irm fttttti I your individual Mdf. IE General Insurance Associates Creyce fates, . Sab CeuManeker, Cerl Male THE KRENGEL Potato Harvester Made fix a sseetflcstleas drawn at the Caieentty at Idaho, these harvesters de Una naaelsSl a! They die the peUtees, seek away eke lease vases, shake elf the sett sad sear theea lata eeerrsyer equipped tracks far sacktag er ataag leese. A eeae ible system ef eenTeyera sad rabeer reners Sarrrsr the apeda late sad eat ef the tracks witheat Btraatag. TraeloT'Drswa . . .Self-raw ereS. ORDER NOW FOR DELIVERY BEFORE 1953 HARVEST Both the hamsters sad the track lees are battt ea order. Order years early eaeegh te laeere aeHTerr fee nest tali's harreat. ORDER DIRECT FROM KRENGEL MACHINE CO., Inc. 211 3rd Avenue So. Twin Farts, Ida. 4,000 SACKS A DAY at a cost of LESS THAN 14c A HUNDRED LIS. , FROM HILL TO CELLAR iMMB WINTER! .JUL-Dftd ilMJSWER: in l ii r GX2QH 3i (IBIS- UEgittEHT' Q 5J tt ' , . '. . . v an m rm fa m wm m J CojajajOga. rtaea li fke sag l eettr laa way e II titers. HOLT Form Detcn with any other doier; you'll know why HOLT '((Firm Dtitra ara the fattest telline of them ALL. HOLT PARM DOZERS FIT MOST POPULAR CRAWLER TRACTORS . 1tW TK njTTRTvsrs leV V UVAUJUIXiM kOr 1, fit tK OREG., LTD. K 7J4 South 6h Phont 4197 Klamath Fold, OrtfM A Message to All Tulelake Operators, Lessees, and Property Owners Members Of The Tulelake Growers Association Invite You To Join Them - You know some of their accomplishments Here are some of their aims : To establish an even stronger end mere beneficial labor program To assist you in all your farm problems. To establish a better and more profitable market for every crop produced here ' To further continue expansion of services to local agriculture further coordinate inspection services, and promote research en problems affecting barley, potatoes, onions, hay end misc. crept To promote the welfare of the entire basin To further protect your interests en problems arising out ef seed certification, picking and labor rates, PMA practices, workmens compensation, ins. freight rates, etc. Don't Ask Your Neighbors To Go It Alono Extend Your Support . . . Say "Yes" When You Are Invited To Become a Member
