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-
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