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SUNDAY, JULY 13. 1058 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE 11 D V ,uw INTERESTING EFFECTS tn pafio design may be achieved with lumber from the western pine region. This attractive and practical patio for enjoyable outdoor living was con structed with squares formed by Douglas fir 2 by 4's nailed onto I by 4-inch cleats. The wood was treated with a pentachlorophenol preservative to provide resistance to decay. Note the use of wood in the board-'n'-batten siding, sunshade, picnic table, bar becue cart, and other furniture. Don't Forget Wood When You Design New Patio A palio is usually high on every homeowner's list of planned proj ects. It's in keeping with the trend toward making the outside of the house more comfortable so that more time can be spent there. Many people also use the patio as a means of giving their home an individual look. The idea is lo make the palio completely dif ferent Irom the neighbor's. In the search for new and dif ferent construction materials, one of the longstanding favorites wood is finding ever increasing favor for patios, the Western Pine Association reports. There are numerous advantages lo a properly designed wood patio. It is an easy way of providing an absolutely level and smooth sur face where there is none naturally. Built properly on a bed of sand, gravel, or cinders, it's ideal for an outdoor- living area where the ground tends to retain dampness. A wooden flooring dries quickly after a rain. With spaces left be tween boards the water runs off into the drainage bed beneath. This same leature makes the wood patio easy to keep clean. Popular species for outdoor con struction are straight - grained Douglas fir of the western pint region. Engelmann spruce, larch, lodgopolc pine, sugar pine, pon derosa pine, white fir. Idaho white pine, inland red cedar, and in tense cedar. The two cedars have a naturally strong resistance to decay, but any of the other west ern pine region species readily ac cepts preservatives. They are soft woods, easily worked with hand or power tools, putting a patio within the realm of the do-it-yourself enthusiast. When properlv treated with pen tachlorophenol preservatives, t h e wood will stand up well for many years lo come. There are numerous interesting patterns to be worked out. The patio may he constructed as a floor applied to a frame, with the lumber running in one direction or with sectiors running in alternate ways or in a herringbone pattern. Other possibilities are sections of planks or individual square or rec tangular sections that rest on n level bed and can be lifted up at will to clean out debris under neath. To construct a lift-out sectional floor, sod and dirt should be re moved to a depth of about six inches. This allows for a two-inch base of sand, gravel, or cinders and 2 by 4's on edge lor the fram ing of the patio. Before the base material is ap plied, the ground must be leveled. Then the base material should be spread evtnly and tamped down for a firm foundation. The square blocks can be made of short lengths of 2 by 4"s held together by 1 by 4-inch cleats. The pace between the 2 by 4"s should be no more than a quarter-inch in view of the narrow heels that are now in fashion for women. Another popular style wood patio consists of a frame of 2 by 4"s on' edge to form the outline. In side the frame at the bottom are nailed 2 by 2-inch strips, leaving a 2-inch lip inside the frame. Every 8 feel there should be an other 2 by 2 for transverse sup port. The 2 by 2's or 2 by 4's are nailed down to the transverse supports with the usual quarter inch spacing. No matter what pattern is de cided on. any lumber dealer will oiler advice on the appropriate .species from the western pine re gion to give the desired effect. Wheat Acres May Be Asked Farmers on Kind on which no wheat was seeded (or grain in any ot the years W.. 1US7 and liiSil and for which a lilSB wheat acre age allotment was not established, may apply for a 1!I5!1 wheat acre age allotment according to Karl Wilson, chairman of the Klamath Agricultural Stabilization and Con servation County Committee. The owner or operator of such a farm must apply in writing to his ASC County Committee by July 1, ih.h. Wilson staled, otherwise, a lli.W wheat acreage allotment will not be established for the (arm. Wilson further explained that 1138 wheat acreage on a farm which did not have a 1!I38 wheal acreage allotment does not qualify as wheat history acreage lor the purpose of establishing acreage al lotments. A 1959 old (arm wheat acreage allotment will not be es lahlished lor a farm without wheal history in 1 956 and I'i57. and on which wheat was planted for grain in 1958 without a l'.ioH wheat acreage allotment unless an ap plication is filed by July 1, 1U5II Blank application forms are avail able at the ASC counly oflice for use in tiling requests for allot ments. The total estimated cost of Ihe new San Francisco (iiants Base ball Stadium, including interest on bonds, is 17. a million dollars. r j . s-. 'v-v. a -y.- Smell Chicken Under Study Midget chickens that produce normal size eggs yet require less space and do the job with less eed are under study by Oregon Slate College poultiy scientists. Paul E. Bernier. poultry geneti cist, has a collection of six true Iwarf laving hens, little more than half the size of normal hens, that have matched the rest of the OSC I lock egg for egg during the past ?ar. Not only have the diminutive birds shown that it doesn't take 'big hen to lay a big egg, ' hut they can maintain their egg production on 35 per cent less teed estimates George II. Arscolt, poul try nutritionist. The midget strain ol White Leg horns weigh 2'i to 2:14 pounds com pared to 4 '4 lo 5 pounds for nor mal hens. Kxcept for size, the midgets are apparently normal in all respects. Dr. Hornier says the dwarfing is caused by true mu tation which insures that the strain can breed true. The OSC research team hopes this vear to slart intensive tarch trials with the midgets lo learn if Iheir yearly and lifetime production can be maintained at levels equal to present commercial strains. Midget chickens are not a nov llv. Dr. Bernier explains, and could occur in any llock. Genetic nature of dwarfness in chickens was first analyzed by Dr. K. B Unit of Cornell I'niversily. Nounallv. dwarl cniikens would be culled from llocks on the as sumption that performance would not nieasuie up. r our ol tne pres- tnl group of OSC midgets were supplied by Oregon pultrymen. the iber two showed up in tne use llock. Now that the trend is away from dual-purpose chickens lor both egg and meat production, the midget may have a place, say the scien tists. Birds bred especially for meat production now leae little salvage value lor worn out laying hens. Dr. Bernier isn't worried nhoul the little birds coming nut on Ihe short end of Ihe poultry flock "pecking order." They adjust "so cially" lo bigger birds "or at least they're smart enough to know how to avoid conllicl," he explain d. ANTKJIES DKFINKD Rug dealers define antique Ori ental rugs as those which have been in actual use in the coun tries in which they were woen lor 50 years or moie. Latest Study Shows The Steelhead Trout To Be A Wide-Trcveled Sportsman United Press International SACRAMKNTO, tUPl A good; thrase to describe the Steelheadj trout, one of California s leading! game lish, is this: I The nomad wanderers of the fish world." It's not original. Tint descrip tion comes from the California Kish ind Game Department in a report on a report. The second report is one now under preparation by biologists ol the Federal Fish and Wildlife Serv ice's Bureau of Commercial Fish eries on the wanderings of the steelhead. California's department discuss es the report in a monthly publi cation and says that sleelhead range over much of the North Pac ific Ocean in an area larger than (be United States. They have been taken south of (lie Aleutian chain, in Ihe mid Pacific Ocean and 150 miles from Kamchatka Peninsula. Soviet ter ritory. Research biologist Bobert Y. i'ing last year participated in the salmon high seas studies and is cooperating with Clilford JT Burn er, assistant chief of Pacilic salm on investigations, in preparing a scientific paper for publication on distribution of the steelhead. To find out the facts, the biolo ists went fishing, which is a nice way to do reserach. to help find out the home stream of the reds. pinks, kings, chums and silvers taken in the high seas. They caught sleelhead too, a total of 2ni. The department says that before this the steelhead s ocean hideout was not known. 'Previously, one of the least known aspects of the sleelhead was the ocean phvisc of its life cycle," the publication says, "the sleel- head's stream distribution from Alaska to Central California is well known. "It was not known whether the hsh spent their ocean lime on Ihe continental shelf, the shallow sea immediately oil the coast or range far into the Pacific. But biologists sort of had the idea that the shallow sea was the answer. Now they know it isn't. There's plenty of proof. American aren't Ihe only ones tn have tnken steelhead on the high seas. Biologists of Canada and J;. pan did too. In l!)n6, as an example, (wo Can adian research vessels look 32 steel bead along with 943 salmon and Japanese scientists reported the fish as far west as 150 miles east ol the Kui ile Islands in Kiissimi territory. . Parenthetically, the department s.-ys that it is not known if Ihe steelbeuds taken close to Soviet borders were born in America or not. Although no sleelhead were found in the Bering Sea near Alaska and the Soviet Union. Ting said that's no proof they aren't swimming that far. "We only sample from May to Ortober with Ihe greatest fishing el fort in Julv and AugusU-nnd we dnn't know Iheir distribution the rest of the year." he said. During the 1!56 and 1957 seasons. chartered salmon investigations covered about two million square miles. Thai area is wider than th Comment BUSINESS FORMS Designed Especially to Fit Your Heeds Letterheods Envelopes m Cordt Invoices Statements Checks All types of Snap Out Forms GUIDE PRINTING CO. 1205 Klomoth Ave. United States. Now a little about the sive of ihe steelhead. Ting said ihey varied from 10 to 37 inches long with an average length of 24 inches with in the ranue commonly reported lor adult steelhead. Weights varied from a half pound to 1 4 1 1? pounds and the aver age was 7' pounds for fe males and five lor males. Once Ihey were captured, the sleelhead really got the treatment but good. The scientists look weight and length measurements, scales were sampled lor age de terminations and sexes were noted. Also, the researchers took stom ach analyses In determine Ihe food preferences. The scale analysis during three years disclosed that the steelhead spent from one lo four years in fresh water before heading to sea to grow the big- gest. The ocean sludy isn't the only one on 'his game fish underway by iny means. At Bonneville Dam on Ihe Col umbia River, where lish' run hrough fish ladders of various sizes, gradients and designs at the Wildlife Service rishway labora tory, it was noted Unit steelhead can swim through much faster wa- 'er than salmon. Ibis goes up lo Id feet per second. The salmon have stopped before that. Also. Ihe Honneville workers found out that sleelhead prefer darkened fishways lo lighted ones and Ihey move very rapidly in Ihe darkened fishways. In Oregon, a fish commission lield research station near Astoria tagged sleelhead when they came hack the second lime, this proved lillle that wasn't already known but it was inleresling lhal the bi ologists were able to tag Ihe fish a second lime, ll's no secret that steelhead sometimes, spawn more than once. Farm Employe Number High The number of persons working on farms during the week of May 111-24 was 14 pef cent higher than a month earlier and two per cent higher than a year earlier, Ihe Crop Reporting Board announced today. Increases from late April to May were larger than usual lor bolh farm family workers and hired workers. The number of hired workers jumped 30 per cent during Ihe month to a (olal of 2.0ftt.(l(i0. Hired workers constituted almost one fourth of the lotal farm labor force of 8,3;i).0OO persons during the survey week. The nation's farmers were providing employ ment for 10 per cent more hired workers lhan in May 1!)57. The supply of workers available for farm labor continued to be in bet ter balance wilh demand than usu al lor this lime of year, and re ported shortages were mostly lo cal. The number of farm family workers increased by slightly more lhan a hall million persons during the month, but the 11511 lo lal was si ill one per cent below the 1!57 level for the same date. Phone TU 4-5373
