Tree Planting Device Being Perfected
By Employee Of U. S. Forest Service
By CHARLES V. STANTON
Planting tree-seeds it a slow la
borious job by existing methods.
A new tool, now in process of
refinement, may greatly simplify
the task and reduce costs.
The tool, now developed to the
itace of a working model, is being
perfected by Wm. C. "Red" Slrat
ton. who came west from Detroit
in 1948 and "forgot to go back."
Stratton spent 26 years as a tool
and die maker in Detroit. During
the war he worked himself to the
point of physical breakdown mak
ing tools tor war production. In
1946. he needed a vacation. H e
came to the Pacific Coast. He
wanted no more of Detroit. H e
joined the U. 5. Forest service as
a man of all work. Kor three years
he has been at Big Camas ranger
station where he does everything
from razing and erecting buildings
and maintaining equipment to help
ing the cook.
Lad year Roy Silen, working at
the Pacific Northwest Experiment
station in Portland, had an idea for
a tree planter. He couldn't get
much further than an idea, how
ever, until "Red" Stratton came
along. "Red" took over at that
point. -
Products First Model
Working in the Portland shops,
be produced the first model. He
has been refining and improvin-j.
This winter he hopes to build an
other model incorporating refine
ments he has in mind.
Made of aluminum, the tool is
handled as a cane. It has a pistol
grip below which is a magazine
loaded with seed pellets. The pel
lets are fed by ratchet control
down a hollow tube. As the "cane"
is pushed against the ground, a
plunger drives the seed into the soil.
The tree seed is lirst encasea m
a clay shell. This shell is dis
solved by moisture, but protects '
the-seed 'against mice and other ro- t
dents until germination starts. ,
, One trouble with the tool as il
now stands is that the pellets with
which it it fed are not uniform in
size and shape. "Red" plans to
overcome this fault in two ways,
first, by an improved feed mech
anism, giving more latitude in
handling pellets of varying size,
and. second, by better pellet prep
aration. The tool also needs a larger
grounS bearing surface, as pene
tration now is too deep on light
toil.
Present .methods require seed
planting by hand. Sowin? pellets
from airplane has had only fair
success.
Will Increase Coverage
With the new tool, when per
fected, it .will be possible for the
planter to walk over an area shov
ing seeds into the ground wherever
desired without stooping. It will
make it easy to select spots where
seedlings will be shaded during tiie
early stages of growth. The acre
age one man can cover in a day's
time will be greatly increased.
Forest service ollicials are very
hopeful the invention will work.
"Red" Stratton isn't hopnig. He
"knows" it will work. He'll keep
imporving it until it performs the
way he wants it.
"And he is just the man who can
do it," says Bob Aufdeheide, su
pervisor of the Umpqua National
forest. " 'Red' is one of the
handiest men we have on the forest.
I don't know how we could get
along without him."
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TREE PLANTER INVENTED Wm. C. "Red" Stratton, forest
service employee ot Big Camas ranger station, is pictured above
with a working model of an invention which, when improved, it
expected to revolutionize tree planting. Seeds encased in clay
to form small pellets are loaded into the magazine of the tool
which, handled as a cane, forces a seed into the ground when
given a slight push by the operator. Stratton, a veteran
die maker, expects to perfect the tool during the coming winter
months.
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a "fraud practiced on the court" ! ison. Corvallis, were fined $10 each
and said "the entire transaction I on disorderly conduct chargev
Judge Puts Ban
On Wife Swapping
After Divorces
herein outlined is an egregious
insult to public decency.
The two Forks, Wash., truck
ers learned of the Judge's action i
when they appeared at the county
auditor's office to pick up mar
riage licenses applied for a few
minutes after the divorces were
granted last Friday.
They were told Judge Church
had ordered Ihe licenses not be is
sued and had issued an order va
cating the divorce decrees. The
judge said he acted after he had
learned of the couples' marriage
plans.
The divorces, neither of which
was contested, were granted on
complaints of the women that their
husbands were "cold and indiffer
ent." In granting the divorce. ' Judge
Church awarded tl.r0 a month ali
mony to each woman. Both cou
ples have three minor children,
and the judge gave the mother cus
tody in each case.
Philip And Elizabeth
May Visit United States
PORT ANGELES, Wash." (.T
There will be no wedding bells
for two logging truck drivers who
announced after their wives di
vorced them last week, that they
planned to marry -each other's OSC Gridde
"exes." - .. Draw Fines
superior Judge Mix murcn saia
"no" to the plans of Virgil T.
Rondeau, 26, to marry Elizabeth,
the ex-wife of his friend, William
A. Fraker, 31. Fraker had planned
to marry Elnora, Rondeau's for
mer spouse, - -
One of the husbands called Jud?e
Church later to appeal to him to
change his ruling, but the judge
refused to see them.
William Conniff, attorney for the
wives, added a new note to the
case. He said the women advised
him that the decision to re-marry
was not made until alter the di
vorces had been granted; that it
was not planned ahead of time as
a spouse-swapping arrangement.
The judge issued a memo
randum opinion selling aside di
vorces granted last week. The
opinion termed the couples' plans
I.ONDOM . Princess Eliza
beth and Prince Philip will visit
the United Stales if they are in
vited after their tour of Canada
in October, responsible sources
said.
, Two Pals
For Bad Conduct
De LAKE. Ore. (JP Charged
with conducting himself in a "Vio
lent, riotous and disorderly man
ner," Sam Baker. Oregon State
college football player, was fined
$25 here Tuesday.
City Judg Arnold Earnshaw sus
pended a 30-day sentence.
Baker's companions. Lloyd L.
Fry. Coquille, and Dewey D. Mad-
William E. Van Dvke. appliance
store proprietor, signed the com
plaint against Baker.
Glenn C. Ashwill said a noise
about 3 a.m. awakened him at his
home near the slore. He said he
saw a man kicking the front door
of Van Dyke's slore. Ashwill said
he fired three warning shots after
he found a man identified as
Baker sitting in his tar.
Deer, Elk Herds
Plentiful. Due
To Mild Winter
Game agent who have just com
pleted a survey of deer and elk
populations on eastern Oregon
ranges report an excellent carry
over of breeding slock on all big
game ranges.
Systematic checks of the major
deer and elk wintering areas this
spring revealed very light mortal
ity. This high survival is attributed
to a mild open w inter.
Some game herds remain static
while others show definite in
creases. An average of 12 deer
per mile was noted in 2,200 miles
sampled on 52 major mule deer
winter ranges. Ths figure com
pares favorably with samplings
made for the past six years.
Eastern Oregon elk populations
were checked by airplane in March
and April when the elk were con
centrated on open ridges to feed
on new grass growth. 1'his aerial
cnecK oi 728 miles snowed an av
erage of 3.4 elk per mile of es-i
tablished route as compared with
2.4 elk per mile in 193V.
Robert Mace, big game chief re
porting in the June issue of the
Game commission bulletin, says,'
"The high survival of deer aug
mented by this year's fawn crop
will result in deer surpluses on
many eastern Oregon ranges next
winter. All surplices should
harvested this fall when the
mals are in prime condition, be
cause experience indicates that na
ture will remove excess popula
tions through malnutrition if
sportsmen fail to do so."
Came Birds Thriving
Both waterfowl and upland birds
will have a greater food supply
this winter due to the extensive
spring planting recently c o m
pieteo by the habitat improvement
division of the Oregon Game com
mission. Although not as sepctacular as
the work of game farms and trout
hatcheries, the establishment of
winter foods for game animals,
fur bearers, waterfowl and upland
birds is of the greatest impor
tance. For several years the habi
tat improvement division has been
carefully testing various plants to
supply more abundant game foods.
Before any plantings are made a
check is made with the county
agents so that no undersirable
species will be introduced.
For the 1951 irrigation season in
Oregon, Game commission fish
way and screen crews will have
5oo rotary fish screens in action
to prevent trout and salmon from
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lows, Junior chamber of commerce parade award chairman, to
Mrs. Craig Dilhman, general chairman of Epiilon Sigma Alpha
Float committee. Representing Beta Gamma, Beta lota end
Alpha Chi chapters, Mrs. Dishman accepted the non-commercial
division first priit award of $75 and the grand sweepstakes award
check for $100. The presentation marked the third consecutive
year that Epsilon Sijtna Alpha has captured the grand priie.
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ending up as fertilizer in fields
and pastures.
The Rogue basin, at a cost of
a quarter million, is the most com
pletely screened area in the state.
There are years of work ahead of
screening crews
is compiled.
before the task
The National Geographic Society
says the chariot was the first not
able relinement of the cart.
Convention Talk
Given To Kiwanis
A report of his trip to the Ki
wanis International convention,
held at SL Louis, Mo., recently,
was given by N. O. Johnson at
the weekly Kiwanis meeting Tues
day noon in the Hotel Umpqua.
Johnson said he, his wife and
son joined other Kiwenians who
occupied three cars from the Pa
cific Northwest, and at Denver an
entire train of Kiwanians from the
west was made up. They passed
through floods in Kansas and found
the temperature at 86 degrees ex
tremely hot in St. Louis.
He discussed various phases of
Ihe convention, which was at
tended hy 3600 delegates and an ap
proximate 12.000 total Kiwanians.
Theme of the convention was
"Freedom Is Not Free."
W. T. Lemon, assistant cashier
of the head office of the V. S.
National bank, who is accompny
Ing the Oregon Historical caravan,
spoke on the caravan. He told how
the plan was conceived and of
the work that went into its plan
ning. He also discussed the var
ious exhibits.
. He especially urged that Ore
gonians take more pride in their
slate and that they display the
state flag.
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