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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1958)
SUNDAY, JANUARY 2ft 1958 -ifiRALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THREE ; . A? :V-isi' SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Ezra Taft Benson gives a wave and a confident smile after defending his new farm program which has the support of the administration. The program, which is under fire on Capitol Hill, calls for lower ing of minimum pxiceaupports on basic commodities. Work Benches Easy To Build County Agfent Reports Farm News Driefed From The County Agent Itadio Programs If you're a "do-it-yourself" fan who has thought about construct ing your own work bench, this is the right time of year to get started. The bench requires few materi als and can be assembled and finished quickly with one or two power tools and several hand tools. Choose a spot in either your basement or your garage, prefer ably a corner in which you can establish your do-it-yourself head quarters. Check the lighting situation care fully. Hook up a- light directly above the spot where the table will stand. This light should be wired independently of the gener al room wiring system. In case of a fuse blow-out, you won't have to grope around in the dark. Plan on a power outlet on either the right-hand side of the table or on the wall at that side, Natu rally, if you're left-handed place these outlets on the left-hand side. An old t a b 1 e converts readily into the basic framework of a work bench. Use one that has sturdy legs. If the underpinning is wobbly, brace the legs solidly. You'll need plenty of work and storage space for your projects and your tools. This calls for a table top at least 30 inches deep and about 50 inches wide. A inch sheet of plywood fills the need well if no other top is avail able. Position the new top on the ta ble. Allow at least 2 inches of overhang for clamp-on attach ments like vises. By J. D. VERTKEES This time of the winter is one of the best for applying soil steril ants. Most of the recommended materials can be used at various times of the year, but these win ter conditions seem to be Hie eas iest and most effective, for good soil sterilization. Soil sterilants need moisture to take them down to the root zone and with our winter snows and the spring rains, this job is done for us. Weed control by killing the soils permanently has several good uses around the farm and home, which cannot be done ef fectively by other means. One good use is for fire prevention around buildings. A fire strip of clean soil will safeguard much property and also make the area much neater in appearance. Fence rows can be cleaned up and main tained to cut down the spread of weeds which often start in fence rows and spread to crops in the field. Many tunics, weedy irriga tion ditches seriously cut the ef fective flow of water, causing a loss of water and irrigation time; chemical cleaning and control of ditchbank weeds can be effective ly done. Roadways and driveways can be permanently cleaned with these chemical sterilants. Anoth er popular use of these chemicals has been the permanent control ot spots of noxious weeds in crop land. Treated areas usually come back in productivity within a few years as the chemicals leach out of the sou. Several good chemicals are on the market and they each have some advantages and disadvan tages. Lets look at the character istics and uses of some of them. CMU, known as the Telvar com pounds of which there are two, is a nonvolatile, noncorrosive, non flammable, relative insoluble pow der. Although higher in cost per pound, the rates per acre make it economical to use. Rates in gen eral vary from 20 to 80 pounds per acre depending on the soil mois ture and soil structure. CMU be ing fairly insoluble remains most ly in the top few inches of soils and will not leach down to the tan roots of the deep rooted weeds. This makes it very valuable for maintenance of weed free areas where the annual weeds and grasses are the problems. CMU has been demonstrated to not be the most effective for deeprooted perennial weeds in most types of soils. Periodic cleanup with this sterilant is very effective. Chlorate-Borate chemicals are used either alone or in combina tions. Chlorate as a straight IMMIGRANT. A privileged character is this Aphidoletes Thompsoni, who figuratively wears a "Don't Swat Me" label. The slceoter is one of 1,800 imported from Czecho slovakia and colonized in Oregon and Washington to com bat the balsam wooly aphid which causes gout-like swell ings in silver fir. This unusual close-up photo of one of the mosquitoes in flight was taken by the Pacific Northwest Forest and Ranger Experiment Station. chemical Is a fire hazard under some conditions. It is a soluble material and effectively controls deep rooted weeds as it leaches into the root zone. Being fairly low in price, the rates of three or four pounds per square rod al lows its wide usage. Borates also are soluble and move into the root zones deep in the soil, and have the advantage of being non poisonous and nonflammable. However, it takes a much great er rate of these chemicals to give good control is most cases. Manufacturers have combined the two chemicals, chlorates and borates for safe, efficient and eco nomical soil sterilants. The addi tion of the borate will minimize the fire hazard of the chlorates while they in turn will increase the ef fectiveness of the borates. Kates oi three to six pounds per square rod give good sterilization in most soil conditions. These ma terials will leach down and get the deep rooted weeds. However, with the soil moisture leaching the chemical downwards, it will soon leave an unprotected area at the surface where the annual weeds will return. Manufacturers have also gone further and combined the chlor ates, for deep rooted kill, the bor ates for safqnoss from fire haz ard, and the CMU compounds for annual weed control on the sur face of the soils. These three com pounds are combined in mixed trade name products. Various combinations are produced by dif ferent manufacturers and are rec ommended at different rates for different problems. In general, chlorates, borates and CMU compounds are not ef fective in peat soils with high or ganic content. Peat soils prevent the .action of these sterilants. Highly alkaline soils also cut down the effectiveness of these chemicals- and they must be used at much higher rates. Several new chemicals are on the market which will, in some cases, replace these older, but still efficient sterilants. Such materials as d a 1 a p o n, radapon and simi zin have specific uses. Since they are still new, all application pos sibilities are not known yet and the cost is high under some condi tions. Willi increased usage, more will be known regarding the ef fectiveness and probably a reduc tion in cost will result in the future Materials, such as simizin, will vary tremendously in results de pending upon the soil types pres ent. Dry application of the chlorates. borates, and CMU is the easiest and -most rapid method ot appli cation. Spread by hand or with a mechanical spreader, effort should be made to cover the area as evenly as possible. These materi als can also be mixed with water for even application. Chlorates borate mixtures will dissolve at the rate of about three or four pounds per gallon of water. CMU must be mixed at the rate ot one pouna in three or four gallons of water since it is insoluble. Rates recom mended for each chemical are vsually found on the containers for application in solution. Dry application taking advantage of rainfall and snow to send the chemicals into the root zone is still the easiest and most eco nomical method. 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