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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1958)
SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE ELEVEN Grain ... (Continued from Page 10) much shorter distances to Port land. The freight on a ton of barley from Klamath Falls or Portland to Milwaukee is $25.54, ($1.2 per nunareaweigiiu. About 150,000 tons (3,000 carloads) are shipped east for malting each year. An equalization in rates is badly needed. There is no justification for different rates on different grains from different destinations. and the fight for equalization in freight rates must continue. It is felt that there would have been a shortage of local feed grain, particularly barley, except for the availability of over one million hundredweight of cull potatoes which feeders were taking for the hauling. Cull potatoes are taking a local market for about 11,000 tons ol feed grain. Hannchen barley supply is cleaned up. Wheat supplies will be moved. Oats would have been in sad shape except for the sup port program. Local storage is full of oals under government ban or purchase agreement. The oals sup ply on hand is of very good quality. Recent news releases indicate support prices for 1958 may be unchanged from those of 1957 which locally were $38.40 per ton for No. 2 barley, $4" per ton for No. 3 oats, $63.40 for No. 1 wheat and $41.80 for No. 2 rye. Restrictions in respect to noxious weeds in suoDorted feed grain crops should not penalize move ment for grinding or export. Oats are a much safer crop than barley for a good portion of Lower Klamath Lake and for other areas with similar frost risks. The recently released Park va riety of oats with a nursery record of 60 per cent higher yield than Markton is recommended. Park produced 8,800 pounds in a plant ing of 1.2 acres in the Tulelake area. Seed has been Increased In two sizable Klamath County plantings. Seed will be generally available in 1959 and it is expected that Park will replace the Over land variety. The short stemmed Winemas still are excellent for nurse crop use. Kanotas are sn excellent hay oat, being leafy but subject to rust. Overlands may be used for hay. The rank growing Shasta's are good for grain production on min eral soils and are particularly good for silage because of the heavy tonnage produced. Coarse straw makes them less desirable for hay. Among the wheat varieties Lemhi 53 is promising. This new variety produces like Lemhi but has rust resistance. Rust years cut Lemhi yields badly. Federation and Galgalos, two old time varieties are being re placed by Bart 46 which may in turn be replaced by Lemhi 53 if this variety holds up lo expecta tions. fn 1957, 4,000 acres of the coun ty's 12,000 acre wheat allotment was entered in the acreage re serve program. Greater partici pator! in the acreage reserve pro gram is expected lor lyw. Up to January 1, 1958, the con servation reserve part of the Soil Bank program in Klamath County totaled 17 contracts cover ing about 3,500 acres consisting largely of dry lands being seeded to grasses and legumes at $8 annual rental rales per acre. Amonff fertilizer materials, va rious forms of nitrogen have given best yield increases on mineral soils. Nitrogen also gives responses on whate muck soils. Availability of nitrogen fertilizers has made it possible to improve organic mat-OATS ter supplies by turning under large quantities of straw. On darker mucks of the Lower Lake annual applications of 40 pounds of P205 are advisable. The minor elements copper, zinc and manganese have given increases. On .hill soils sulfate forms of nitrogen should be tried unless sulfur is supplied to ether crops in the rotation. Broad general fertilizer recom mendations are helpful but for best results fertilizer programs must be tailored to individual soils and crop rotations on the ba sis of results from trial applica tions. Soil tests available through the County Agents office are help fu. in determining phosphate de ficiencies or reclamation programs for alkali areas. Disease uroblems include trou ble from foot rots in poorly drained aras or in wetter, cold er seasons. Barley and wheat arc particularly susceptible while oals are better able to survive under these conditions. Smut is not a problem. Adequate seed treating facilities and general use of treated seed has controlled smut very well. Ergot is found periodically in a limited number of outlying areas. Insect problems Include wire worms and cutworms. Lindane seed treatment has been effective in reducine wireworm damage. Al drin and Heptachlor seed treat ments at six ounces or tour ounces respectively per hundredweight are less expensive and equally elec tive. Aldrin is highly toxic and must be carefully handled. Toxaphene or DDT at two pounds ner acre have been effective against climbing cutworms, in cluding army worms. Other ma terials including Heptachlor are effective also but more expensive. Grasshoppers, once a major problem, have not been a serious problem in recent years except in scattered areas. Hoppers are ef fectively controlled with any of several insffdicides including tox aphene or aldrin at one and one half pounds and two thirds ounce per acre, respectively. Selective weed control with 2,4-D materials has licked the an nual weed problem in grain and has given considerable control of some of 'he perennial noxious weed including white top and morning glory ' Little progress has been ' made in controlling wild oats or quack grass. Guarding against introduc tion of wild oats and other weeds in seed grain is one helpful con trol practice. Quackgrass Is a major weed problem, particularly on lake bot tom lands. Control by summer flooding, keeping the weed com- (Continued on Page 4 Patted State t Orog. - Weah. 4 Idaho Prod. t Prod. Acreage 1,000 Held I toroago 1,000 Ort. Tear 1,00018 Tone Cwt. : l.OOO'e Toao nld 19l9-53 37,l0O 19,960 10.7 652 393 12.1 195k It0,600 22,55U 11.1 725 MS li.5 U55 39,200 2t,0l(9 12.3 658 fc3S . 13.3 1956 ' 33,700 18,611 11.1 t 615 U3U Uwl 1957 35,000 20,93U 12.0 i 661 158 13.9 united Stat inoo,.. . 12 a2! 22 2b2Z Production 19,960 22.55U 2l,0U9 18.6U' ,93U Cyo.Mrl" M 3'617 fcport. 825 313 W 265 Tata supply 't93 28'W8 faport. " 62 201 100 398 rood fc Industrial UN 586 9k 592 8..dFd 20.3U2 20,865 .k ToUlC "'3W 20,581 F Prio. 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