January, 1975 €GRICULTURE·F009) American Association of Nurserymen Inc. 230 Southern Bldg. 15th and H Streets;,N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 General education publications as well as detailed nursery landscape information. Energy conservation through planing shade. Nice free brochure on energy conservation called "It Depends on You." Ask for publications list. Emerald Dairy Goat Association Findrack Station Rt. 1, Box 501 High Pass Road Junction City, Ore. 97448 Newsletter, with articles, commercial ads and classifieds from dairy goat raisers in Oregon. $3/yr. subscription. Council for Agriculture, Science & Technology Astronomy Department Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50010 515-294-2036 Many published reports, including "Energy and Agriculture," submitted to Congress Nov. 26, 1973; also a V<!luable "Directory of Environmental Scientists in Agriculture," Nov. 1972 ($3). Also publish a newsletter reporting on developments in technology, science and agriculture. Corporate Secrecy: Agribusiness U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock No. 5270-0178, $2.25 (or GPO bookstore) Hearings before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business, U.S. Senate. A 500page report. Testimony, newspaper clippings, studies, articles. Index to Groups and Individuals Interested in Food Production and Farming (Wa., Or., Ida., B. Columbia) OPEN, N.W. Network Box 692 Port Townsend, Wn. 98368 Fifty cents and a large self-stamped envelope. Over 100 producers and interested exchangers. Along with the as yet unfinished Agricultural Conference Director, makes a large information base for alternative forms of agriculture in the Northwest. (See also Jaybird, under Agriculture) Jaybird Information P.O. Box 554 Republic, Wn. 99166 A listing of people involved in marketing sessions, Agricultural Conference. Over 200, includes some people not at conference. Co-ops, organic farmers, warehouses, trucks. Send donation AND be two-way about it. Homesteading Class Antioch College West Rt. 1, Box 28A Winters, Ca. 95694 80-acre organic farm; students farm some ~ours, other times take classes in alternative energy, soil analysis, pest management. Michael Dillion of Athens, Georgia, has a 27-foot tower which holds 230 tomato plants, which he figures provides the equivalent of 175 feet of conventional row space. A 10-foot tower produced 1230 pounds of tomatoes in 1971. The tower is filled with compost, etc. and has a water/nutrient system in the core. Acres, U.S.A. -a voice for Eco-Agriculture 10227 East 61st St. Raytown, Missouri 6413 3 (C. C.) $5.50 a year. Research and news, some politics, even pyramid power. Lots of how-to things. John H. Cejka, the farmer-scientist interviewed in Acres U.S.A. last month, is telling farmers to till the soil this fall. Come spring there may not be time. Reason-heavy rains, very wet weeks in many areas. Cejka's firm, Cyclomatic Enginee-ring, P. 0. Box 382, Glenview, Illinois 60025, pinpoints super-wet areas. Organic Waste. A report by the Bureau of Mines in 1970 stated ''A significant part of the energy demand of the nation can be obtained by converting nearly every kind of organic solid waste to a lowsulfur oil.'' A refuse plant at Rosenheim, Germany serves 14 towns. Paris turns 1.6 million tons of refuse annually into steam to produce power. Other European cities are doing the same. Fertilizer from waste would be better. Energy rates better than landfill~ ACRES U.S.A. Page 3 Pacific Northwest Seed Bank/Network c/o Baruch, Regional Coordinator 1155 N.E. 7th Corvallis, Or. 97330 "We are concerned that the socialeconomic structure of the United States and the world is becoming increasingly unstable, creating potential problems in obtaining food seeds from outside our region." Banking, trading, accessing information about growth, use and storage of seeds. Factors form on request-for exchange purposes. Wanting feedback about needs/structure of the bank. Old Fashioned Recipe Book Carla Emery Kendrick, Idaho 83 5 3 7 Living room mimeographer. 1974. $9.95 plus 42i postage. 640 variously colored mimeographed sheets, 3-hole punched, ready for a notebook. As well as good recipes, there's information about root cellars, drying, home remedies, dictionary of antique cookbook words, butchering, crackers, soapmaking, blankets, even biography and pictures of Carla and her family. Good index. Forestry as Agriculture Source/Bibliography Oregon has several tax options which lower running yearly taxes in favor of a higher harvest tax. We just got "reforestation" or "Fee (yearly) and Yield (harvest)" classification, which means we pay 10 cents/acre-for the trees that are on it, no matter how much or little they're worth. When we cut them we will have to pay 12~% to the State. The land itself is also subject to tax, but apparently it is exempt from school taxes. continued next page
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