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PAGE 4 D HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1953 LEAFfOLIi SHEAD FAT IE ill Valuing Percentage 9 of Infected t&& Dlagraa Shorn 100. Pint Farm Crops From Oregon Sold Outside Ouidooh TLoiM o o 7 . i nVv 0 0 o x A XAV z o 0 0 V Ns 0 0 0 0 'Sv 0 1, 2, 3, li k St leafnll Infection in Med, Circles of current season InfeotloBc X - Plants infected daring season Net necrosis in tubers 0 - Healthy plants remaining at harvest Fifty percent Infection or sore nay occur when poor seed is used Such crops are not etorable Hay not be marketable at harvest Seed carrying 1 leafroll generally produces 8 tor able crops LBS than U is safer. County Agfent Reports Farm News Briefed From The County Agent Radio Programs By WAI.T JENDKZEJEWSKI County Extension Agent The very important role of foun dation and certified potato seed growers in production of the com mercial potato crop is clearly shown in a graphic illustration of virus spread printed elsewhere in this column. The internal discoloration, net necrosis, or "browning" caused by current season infection of leaf roll virus continues to be a major problem in production of the rus set burbank variety. The amount of trouble from net necrosis varies from year to year with variation of growing sea son, with variation in aphid popu lations and with quality of seed pmniea. Experience proves that market r.ble crops enh be grown if one per cent or less of the seed pieces used arc infected. Some years some growers have gotten by with 2 infection in seed. However, as percentage of infec tion in seed increases over 1 the probability of producing an un marketable crop increases rapid ly. For the commercial grower use of good certified seed assures pro duction of a marketable crop. Pro tection of poor seed with aphid control sprays and roguing is far less certain and more expensive Effectiveness of aphid control decreases as percentnge of infect ed plants in the field is greater, (lood aphid control is very effec tive in helping seed growers pro duce better seed. Seed growers work with lots in which only trace or fractional percentages of virus infection are present, and their aphid control efforts are usually considerably more extensive. A commercial grower starting with three to five per cent infec tion who cuts his spread from SU per cent to 23 per cent has not accomplished much. A seed grower starting with one-tenth per cent infection accomplishes a great deal when his aphid control ami roguing hold spread to one -half of the ono per cent It would have been otherwise. Good seed growers apply aphid Control materials early before aphid populations get much of a (tart. Aphid control is indicate In seed fields when counts find more than one aphid per 100 leaves. A general practice in seed fields now is application of Demeton (bystox) at one-half to three - fourths pound- of actual toxicant per acre as soon as plants arc up and bcrore a six-inch height is reached. Some repeat with a sec ond Systox spray. Others follow up with Endrin by air at eight tenths of a pound per acre. Both materials are very good aphicides with a great deal of residual killing power. Diazinon, Dieldrin, Malathion, and Parathi- on are also used. Thiodan at one-half pound (one pound by air) is reported to have given good control in Washington State last year. Except for Malathion all these materials are highly toxic to man and must be used with aH rec ommended precautions. Generally, aphid populations start to build up rapidly after mid-July. For seed growers de laying control till mid-July is a mistake. The idea is to hold aphid population to a minimum until in fected plants in the field can be identified and removed. The trick is to rogue early as possible, to remove the sources of infection before aphids can get to them, If you give the aphids an open field till disease expression is good enough to permit roguing they'll have the virus spread before you rogue, and infected aphids which fall from rogued plants will carry the virus on. Unit planting, a method by which all pieces of each tuber are planted consecutively in the row, is another good seed produc tion practice which keeps all piec es of diseased tubers together in a group, reducing the areas of in fection, making identication easier and improving the roguing lob. Some seed growers unit at least a large enough planting for their own seed use. Some plant index pieces in greenhouse plantings and do much of their roguing before planting tune by discarding those tubers for which winter plants irom index pieces show disease. A few seed growers carry fam ily lines by selecting outstandinc hills for increase. Such increase must also be protected against vi ms and other disease infection. Much credit is due some seed grower somewhere for even the dubious quality of B's you may have acquired for seed use from some commercial lot one, two or three years out of certification. More than 200 million dollars are added to Oregon's economy each year by farm products shipped to out-of-state markets, according to Oregon State College agricultural economists. Out-of-state sales account for about .one out of every two dol lars taken In by Oregon farmers In the case of some specialty crops such as Oregon s IS million dol lar annual pear crop upwards of 90 per cent are sold outside the state. Crops witfi more than 90 p e r cent of- farm receipts from ship ments to outside markets include snap beans and strawberries, each grossing around 10 million dol lars a year. Other berries, filberts, penner- mini on, nops, cannery beets, green peas, cherries, prunes, and more than a dozen grass and le gume, seed crops are in the 90 per cent-plus groups highly de pendent on ouisiae markets. Wheat and cattle too the out side market list for dollar volume. More than three-fourths of the cash income for Oregon's 50 mil lion aouar annual wheat crop comes from outside the state, and one-fourth to one-half the 60 mil lion dollar yearly sales of cat tle and calves are out-of-state. The OSC economists say sales outside the state probably account for 75 to 90 per cent of the cash income from farm forest products a 15 million dollar yearly busi ness ano irom such crops as on ions, walnuts, sweet corn, and barley. Between half and three-fourths of the farm income originates out side the state for Oregon's 12 mil lion dollar potato harvest, the uve iiuiiiun aouar apple crop sheep and Iambs, wool, turkevs red clover seed, carrots, and caul- uiower. Soil Bank Aids Oregon Farmers WASHINGTON Wl 17i-u-fio Washington, Idaho and Oregon laiinera. received more wan 515, 000 each durine 1Qr7 in cnii hanir nrrpn cp rucurua nmm( a .. riculture Department tabulation anvws. Thev were nmnno 9 iv Iqmun. thrOUChotlt the UnitpH KtMne tuh received more than $10,000 under uie program. WflShinOtnn POKlnianlc ni,mKnKJ 20. more than half thp NnrthuMicf' e total, with Idaho having 15 and urcgon lo in me si5,uvu-pius cate gory. Tod recinient in th PnnWi. Northwest was S. A. Camp Farms vuinpany, unpen, loano, which re ceived $81,197.52 retiring 1,471.5 ui:rt;K irom wnMT nnrt Miinn nA duction. Martin Hereford Inc., Madras Oregon, was sprnnH in the. Nnrtt. wesi, receiving wja.vay.is on 2,486 County Farms, Prosser, Washing ton, ranked third with $56,519.64 mr 2,ou.3 acres ot wheat land. Other Washington and Oregon farm operations receiving more than $15,000 from soil hunt r,. ments during 1957 include: uregon: Kev Kmlhnn Prniwiqln on 232.70. Wheat. 585 acres- Tlimbin'e rarms inc., Bonanza, $20,399.62, wneal, 797 acres; Bafus Brothers, uecu, $20,158.60, heat 980 acres: Renner Ranch. Lakpvinw em run wheat, 500 acres; Larsell and Fleming, Maupm, $18,112.50. wheat, 690 acres: Ashbeck and t.npi.ini Frhn 17K;i HI .t,An 695 acres; W. E. Bruckert, Wasco', 5i,ib5, wneat, 517 acres; Frank Anriorcnti IfnnniMr eic- 1911.50, wheat, 526 acres; Lewi's Halvorscn, lone, $15,851, wheat, U4 acres. JIALF A DEAL TOLEDO. Ohio 11 Hale's Drue Store in suburban Sylvania caters to weak appetites, it sells half- sandwiches, half cups of coffee and nan pieces ot pie, all at half price, u the customers desire. I remember well my first meet ing with the black bear so clearly marked with a white spot on his breast. He was apparently a young fellow about 3 years of age. His hide was smooth, clean and black with that identifying white spot so plainly visible from in front. And it was from the front I first saw him. The sun had set and twilight had silenced so many sounds of day. I was walking toward the tight board and barbwire fence on the meadow s edge. Spot saw me first. He headed for a thornbrush patch to my right and he intended to get there very soon. Thinking he might tree if headed, I ran in front of him near the fence. The clumsy, waddling bear be comes a half flying ball of fur when really running. Spot s bind feet were away out in front and his front feet just as far behind at the peak of each leap. It was apparent he was going home. I stepped out of his path. He flashed by, into Rancheria Creek and out of sight in the brush be yond. , Rancheria was a meadow of many boggy spring areas. Each summer a cow or two would be lost in those places. That particu lar fall a heifer of about 500 pounds weight had gone down in a cleat, spring hole. A short dis tance away a cow of, perhaps 900 pounds drowned in a muddy bog. One day the heifer was partly pulled from the spring and a por tion of the front quarter was gone. in a tew days Uie entire carcass was missing. A short, time later, I noted the cow that had sunk in the bog until only the hip bones protruded, was pulled partly from the mud. Day by "day and piece by piece the .cow, too, disap peared. 1 wondered what had become of the bones. While searching through a swampy area nearby, I found Spot's secret place. He bad built a nest some five feet, across and packed down about six inches deep with swamp grass common ly referred to as rip gut. be cause of its rough, serrated edges. Around the edge of the nest were the polished, missing bones. I mar veled at the nest and the time and patience that must have gone into making it one mouthful of grass at a time. The next spring, Spot returned and spent a few weeks in harm less wandering about the place. Again, the next fall, he came and cleaned out the carcass of another cow. Following hibernation that winter he made another spring ap pearance. Always, there were hoes and tur keys, cows and calves roaming at win m'tne meadow. Not once did Spot cause any disturbance. He was content to clean up the dead carcasses, eat grubs, rodents, some grass and fleshy plants. I became attached to the shiny black fellow and looked forward to his appearances. As the seasons rolled by, I learned that he came down from the hills in the! early fall. His tracks appeared first on a little used woods road. And this was the sign I looked for. Also, in the spring he returned to the hills by the same route. Spot's last spring is burned into memory. He spent it the usual way, bothering no one. eatine some grubs, rodents and vegeta tion. One morning in lale spring orove away irom the cabin on the same wood road Spot used. Ly ing squarely in the middle if the road was a partly rotted log that had not been there before. 1 stopped to move it and noticed bear tracks in the dust. The log had been lying about 40 feet up IN TI1E CARDS CHIJI.A VISTA Talif m A savings and loan company gave away a prize at the opening of its 1WW nffio Th ninnA.. iv(.. --.. atas TV 1UUVI ia, Jane Money. I the hill, and old Spot had discov ered it was loaded with ants and ant grubs, a snack made to order for a healthv hlnrk- hoar Ha .,- ceeded-to lick up ants and grubs ana rou me log untu it stopped in the road and there be left it for me to move, ' Tt ! Ihtt li, cf BUuLuWa f saw of Spot. The succeeding fall i iuokcu in vain ior ine telltale fnnfnri nt hut lum oiuwaMul n,.t season several bear were killed in me area ana, even I, ate a bear steak given, me by a friend. I did not ttttt lhA hirlA T nrna afraid I to look. It might bear that clear, wnice marc on ine breast. . Farmers! Ranchers! Stockmen! , . SEE JUCK for Your Truck! 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