MIND AY, JANUARY 22, 1956
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS in a variety of different frame give
a charming and personal feeling to the wall of ths delightful
Victorian sitting room. In planning an arrangement such as
this, cut out sheets of paper the same size at your framed
photographs and stick on wall with masking tape, thus you can
rearrange until you've achieved a balance that pleases before
you hammer a sing nail. If postibe select posts so that faces
turn toward the center of your grouping.
Chemicals Aid Farmers Rid
Land Of Tough Weed Pests
By HAROLD SCHIEFERSTEIN
COUNTY AGENT
Within recent years, great
strides have been made in the
development of chemicals that kill
weeds.
Such chemicals are called herbi
cides and are of several kinds
Some of these herbicides have
been developed for a specified pur
pose, others have a wider range
of usefulness. As yet, there is no
one universal weed killer or ma
terial that satisfactorily kills all
weeds in all situations, but we do
have a group of herbicides that
with proper use enables us to cope
with a good many of the weed
problems that now exist.
Herbicides are used in two
ways: foliage application, and soil
applications, and may be grouped
into three classes as: contact ma
terials, translocated materials and
soil stcrilants. Contact materials
Savape Named
To 4-H Post
ALTURAS Robert Savage has
been assigned as an additional ex
tension service man to the Modoc
Counly stnff. Announcement of the
appointment was made last week
by Wayne Weeks, director of the
agricultural extension service, in
a letter to Supervisor Brunei
Christensen.
Savage will be responsible for
the 4-H Club program' in the coun
ty, relieving Carl Rimbey of those
duties. Rimbey will devote the
extra time to stepping up his for
age crop work designed to Aid in
increasing production through
more efficient use of land and
waier resources
Modoc County, with three farm
advisers, will be in a position to
give more individual attention to
the major farm problems of the
area. Weeks stated.
Savage was transferred bv the
University of California to the
Modoc County office from Shasta
County where he has been for
three years in 4-H Club work, for
age crops and animal husbandry
A graduate of the Utah state Ag
ricultural College in 1951, he re
ceived his early schooling in Cali
fornia and is an Army veteran.
His wife and two children have
moved to Alturas with him.
include the clinitros and oils that
are used as foliage sprays usually
on the simple annuals and easier
to kill weeds.
They are often used selectively
to weed certain vegetable crops
and to some extent to clean out
irrigation ditches.
Trans-located materials Include
such materials as 2.4-D. 2.4.5-T,
MCP. etc. These are used as oil
or water solutions and are sprayed
on the foliage and carried by the
plant to the roots. They are more
effective on broad leaved plants
and because of this may be used
to control weeds in grain.
Heavier rates of 2,4-D and MCP
work well on a number of our
hard to kill perennial weeds when
applications are properly timed.
Two. 4,5-T Is designed to kill
brush and woody plants and Is
much used for this purpose as
well as to kill stumps. It is some
times used In combination with
2,4-D on certain types of brush.
Soil slerilnnts are the kind of
materials that are usually applied
to the soil and allowed to leach
Into the root zones of the plant.
Their use is limited to arers
where a bare spot will not be
objectional.
The residual effect of these ma
terials varies with the kind, the
amount and the type of soil they
were used on and are dependent
upon moisture to carry them to
the roots. The list of soil sterilants
includes such mater'als as socium
chlorate, borate chlorate mixtures,
CMU and others and are a very
useful group of chemicals.
Another chemical that aids in
killing weeds is called a wetting
agent. Nearly all plants have a
waxy leaf surface some to a
greater degree than others weed
killers must penetrate this wax
to become effective. Wetting agents
aid in penetration.
All herbicides do not need a
wetting agent. It is well to use
one with most water solutions of
the trans-located materials, hew
ever. Also, it is always well to
read the labels of any materials
one plans to use. Mistakes can
often be avoided in this way.
DRESSING UP THE KITCHEN is in fashion and rightfully so. for it's here that the homemaker
spends her time while the man of the house is at the office. Note how efficiently the working
centers are arranged in this home, and the abundance of daylight coming in through the huge
Thermopane window over the sink. The counter at the right has a convenient pass-through
to the dining area." Cabinets are natural birch and the floor is slate.
Pasture Pest
Advice Given
A method of eradicating wild
Iris or flags has been developed
by the Klamath County Agent's
office.
This method is being used suc
cessfully in the Fort Klamath area
to rid pastures of this pest, accord
ing to Harold Schieferstein, weed
specialist.
when wild iris becomes estab
lished in an Irrigated pasture, it
continues to spread, crowding out
all other plants until in time the
patches become large enough that
the carrying capacity of a pasture
is materially decreased. Stock do
not eat the iris and grasses. can
hardly compete with it.
Due to the stiff, erect and nar
row waxy leaf of the plant It is
difficult to wet with ordinary 2,
4-D sprays. However, when oil
was added to the solutions, the
results were better, schieferstein
said.
The following formula has been
giving good results: Into 50 gal
lons of water, mix one-half pint
dry household detergent to this
add five pints of 2,4-D amine con
centrate and two and one-half gal
lons of Diesel oil, agitate the mix
ture well and spray to wet, at
about 126 poulnds pressure. The 50
gallons should spray about 80
square reds of iris.
FLOORS
Rave money when building that
new home by using low-cost utility
grades of flat-grained hemlock or
fir flooring where linoleum, asphalt
tile, cork or wall-to-wall carpeting
will cover the entire floor surface,
Wood Floors Said
Easier On Feet f
When your feet get tired, you
get tired all over, a leading chir
opodist reports.
Dr. W. J. Stick el, executive sec
retary of the national association
of chiropodists, says housewives
can prevent much of their fool
trouble by having their homes
floored with wood.
Wood floors have give and resi
lience, so result in great foot com
fort all the year around, he says,
but especially m the hot stimivmr
months. Walking on wood cuts
down the danger of hypcrhidrosis
excessive perspiration often a
forerunner of athletes foot.
Popular-easy-on-the-feet softwood
flooring, like fir or west coast
hemlock, can be used under linol
eum, cork or tile or wall-to-wall
carpeting.
TREE TOPPING
Call
LAKESHORE GARDENS NURSERY
tmt teppinr. Irlmmlnf and taking
lree. kheerlnc evergreens and land
waplnr. Frail and flowering tree,
thrabi and evergreen. Phone 45M.
Drain Rock
Large or Small Loads
Cinders
For Slippery Driveways
Graham Bros.
Phone 5541
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The Qms fhase
Has been serving
the Klamath Basin
Since 1918!
There's no substitute for the experience
and skill of a trained craftsman!
Sure, times hove changed since the eorly
settlers hewed door jambs ond window fromes
from massive logs for their crude cobins . . .
ond the Gloss House hos kept poce with the
chonging times.
The pioneer's chief toots were the broad
oxe ond a pocket knife. The croftsmen ot
the Glass House use the latest in power tools
to turn out your orders quickly ond occurately.
But even modern equipment will not re
ploce the old fashioned skill ond pride in
work that is needed to give you the best
job possible. John S. Rondoll ond Loyal Lust,
owners of The Gloss House, hove many years
experience in their trode ond toke an individ
ual interest in eoch job they turn out.
For screen, storm doors, storm sash, doors,
window frames, furniture tops, sash of all
types, plote, crystol ond window glos:, mill
work or cabinet work, be sure to see John S.
Randoll or Loyal Lust ot The Glass House
. serving Klomoih since 1918!
ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN
The (Glass G-Oooase
215 North 11th
Phone 7477