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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1955)
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955 THE SANDY POST Page 9 ♦« hmhhhhhhhhhhhhhmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwi A h n n f T k ft F a rm t w u u i &Í1U I d i l l i New Producer Tags Needed By Aug. 3 " , , n n ” 1111 y -,o^ » I»» ,J; County Agent ■»♦♦it 1 1 i-t-+ New producer tags for the ++++++♦+4 movement of carcasses of cattle, Announcement of release of a aged if sprayed before the plant calves, sheep and hogs will be new plant variety is always ex- has developed its first true leaf. I available in this count5* after citing news to the progressive Dinitro amine is the only chem August 3 from Sheriff Fred farmer who uses only the best. ical recommended for this pur Reaksecker. At the same time, new crops pose. Two quarts of dinitro This word comes from the may have certain geographic amine (1.5 pounds active ingre state department of agriculture limitations. dient) in 50 gallons of water per at Salem, which also says pro For instance, Oregon State acre is recommended. Use low ducers may get the free tags college recently announced rc pressures «30 to 40 pounds per from brand inspectors at live lease of a new silage corn, Ore- square inch). stock sales yards. 150. to replace Oregon 5-25. The Annual weeds, especially those Under 1955 amendments to the latter has long been a popular of the mustard family, are quite gasoline cowboy act which al variety for counties south of susceptible to this spray. Smart- ways has required producers to Clackamas county. It has not weed, wild buckwheat (black tag carcasses moved from premi- been well adapted here. Many- bindweed), chickweed, common ses where slaughtered—only one growers find Oregon 525 too late grounsel, and many other broad tag will be necessary. Tags to in maturing this far north. leaved weeds are’ easily killed move poultry and rabbit carcas- Clackamas county growers have, with dinitro amine in the seed I ses will not be needed after Aug consequently, stuck by Oregon ling stage of growth. Pigweed ust 3. 355. and lamb’s quarters are less su- The legislature also put distri Dr. R. E. Fore, Oregon State septible but are usually held in bution of these tags in the hands college corn breeder, points out check until the grasses and le of the department's brand in that the new Oregon 150 also has gumes can compete with them. spector* and others designated a later maturity date than Ore Corn spurry, wild carrot, dog by the department. “We hope," gon 355. Oure suggestion is that fennel, pineapple weed are us says M. E. Knickerbocker, animal Clackamas county growers use ually not killed by this spray. division chief, “to maintain the the new hybrid next spring in Some seedling species of peren same high level of identification small trial plantings only. And nial weeds may be controlled reached by the sheriffs of Ore then in comparison with 355. but those perennial weeds which gon in the many years they have Growers of ensilage corn can make regrowth from old roots handled these tags. In a few easily be mistaken with the mer and underground rootstocks are counties, producers will still be its of tall corn bearing little not killed by this spray. able to obtain tags through the grain. In well-eared corn silage, sheriff’s office.” SANDY— Corkum Construction company started building the the grain may constitute over and is the first unit of a complete school. The Corkum firm Fully stocked fir tree stands In readiness for the switch half the feed value and nearly need thinning even as young as new Sandy grade school unit here last week. The building is bid $115,000 for the job. Shown in this picture are A rt over, the department has distrib half the weight. 20 years—or fence post size. Few expected to be finished by December. There will be room for Grimm, construction foreman and Perry Dolph, the contrac uted an entirely new type of pro landowners have thinned such ducer tag. After August 3 the Many of the annual weeds young trees because markets for three class rooms in the building in addition to a boiler room tor's representative. (post Pix 103) old tags will not be recognized which infest the new pasture that size material are limited. by the state. planting can be controlled with Vernon Goode, small-forest a weed spray without damaging owner of Clackamas county, says forester, says the thinning in Cook last summer. We failed to grass and ciover seedings, ac that it pays to thin even if you vestment will reduce rotation find any bugs but there are sev age by ten years. Here is how cording to research completed by have to invest $25 per acre to do he eral other “plantings” to in figures: the Northwestern Washington it. He thinned a thick 23-year-old spect. Native Stand BRIGHTWOOD — Pvt. Roy experiment station. However, stand at a cost of $25.50 per acre Bill Ronayne has been trying Stevens recently returned to Fort Estimated yield at rotation age legume seedlings may be dam- this year. Goode, a consulting of 60 years is 43,000 board feet out different grasses to hold the Ord, California, following a short per acre, gross. soil from erosion following clear leave at home with his wife and Managed Stand cutting of timber. The idea is to son. Pvt. Stevens recently com Same yield at rotation age of protect the soil until trees take 50 years. pleted an eight week training Later thinnings at five-year in over again. Chewings fescue course. Wemme, Oregon Phone Rhododendron 462 tervals will yield a return. The seems to be one of the best His wife, the former Wilma initial thinning at age 23 is con erosion prevention. The big ques Haughtaling, plans to join her PROMPT / sidered quite important because tion is this, “Will the grass offer husband in California as soon as it affects the stand at a highly YEAR-ROUND too much competition for seed possible. responsive period. Goode has been pruning 25 to ling trees?” We have noted many DELIVERY 30 year old Douglas fir to a fine stands of naturally repro height of ten feet. The cost, at duced fir on old sod fields Dairy Herds Show $1.50 per hour, was approximate throughout the county, but chew ly 12 cents per tree. He pruned Splendid Records only vigorous, fast growing trees ings fescue might offer too much competition. Bill is watching this Clean, Convenient, Automatic Oil Heat and looks forward to harvesting In County Tests some of them within 20 years situation closely. . No Waste — Burn Entirely with a minimum diameter inside The Oregon state game com SANDY-—Two dairy herds in bark of 18 inches. Using a price mission seeded a trial cutover Time-Saving Comfort — Without Work premium of $10 per M on 210 area to lotus major on top, across this section of Clackamas county board feet per tree, and deduct the river from Fish creek. Lotus qualified for the county honor ing costs, he sees a profit per major, the commission finds, roll by producing 40 or more STOVE OIL, FURNACE OIL AND DIESEL OIL tree of $1.10 for this work. makes excellent deer feed in the pounds of butterfat during June WE ALSO SELL ICE CREAM, ICE, SAND, GRAVEL, He did not prune to the 17 coast range. Inspection of the it Is shown in the monthly re foot height at this time; how seeding shows amazingly good port of County Agent Hugh Ca CEMENT, CRUSHED ROCK AND ROAD OIL. ever, costs for the higher prun stands. These plants should throw ton. ing he estimates at 26 cents per a lot of seed this summer. Just A herd of 12 cows owned by Ask About Our Payment Plan tree. Trees will be pruned to 17 what a concentration of deer on Dr. J. B. Harrison of Eagle feet in later stages. a small feed area might do to Creek produced 49 pounds, while seedling firs is still another prob the Meier dairy of Boring, with Although Oregon tops all other lem. 52 cows, produced 43.1 pounds. states In the amount of wood in In individual records a regis Its forests, we are not one of the tered Jersey owned by Mr. and larger producers of pulpwood. Mrs. Arno'Scheller of Colton pro Yet the national use of pulpwood duced 75.2 pounds. A registered will zoom, according to an ex brown Swiss owned by the Mei haustive analysis prepared for er dairy farm produced 97 Weyerhaeuser Timber company pounds, and a grade Brown Swiss toy the Standford Reasearch In- from the Meier herd produced situte. Pulpwood use is expected 88 pounds. Three registered Hol- to grow from 26.50 million cords steins on the Dr. Harrison farm in 1952 to 48.8 million cords in SANDY— The rotary screen at Eagle Creek produced 81.5, WE DELIVER 1975. Products made from pulp installation on the Marmot dam 75,6 and 93 pounds, respectively. wood are paper, box boards, and power diversion on the Sandy A registered Holstein owned by 290 NW 10th Dr. MOhawk 5-2186 building boards (insulating board river is credited with saving the Sun Valley dairy of Boring and hard board). more than 15,000 downstream produced 75.1 pounds. During the same 23 year per migrant fish from entering the iod, lumber consumption will rise diversion during the last only 10 per cent. Plywood and dam • veneer will soar from 3.3 billion month, according to a release square feet to 7.5 billion square by the state game commission The tally on the migrants feet. Plywood plants have been mul showed that 193 cutthroat, 3,804 tiplying in Oregon. One way or marked hatchery-reared s t e e l another, more pulpwood will be head, 7,422 wild steelhead and used in Oregon. We simply have 3,584 salmon were saved at Mar too much wood to miss the out mot. standing trend. A strong pulp The screen at Marmot is one wood market, because it can use of seven rotary screen installa M O haw k 5-5490 147 E . P o w e ll small trees, doubles the inter tions checking stations on five est in farm forestry. Oregon streams where more than 22,400 trout, steelhead and Remember the disastrous fires salmon were tallied through the W ill you get what you on the LaDee flats above Estaca bypass traps prevented from en da in 1929 and 1939? This area tering irrigation and power div was immediately planted by the ersion canals this past month, want out o f life ? You «‘an U. S. Forestry service. At least acording to word from the state game commission. a portion was hand planted and read the answer in your other portions reproduced natur At the present, the Oregon ally. game commission has in opera Regardless of how it was ac tion on irrigation and power di Having^ hank passbook. A complished. this area of former version canals more than 1,000 desolation now presents a beauti rotary screens which prevent ful stand of fir timber. We had ' fish life from entering and be steadily growing savings the pleasure of looking it over coming lost to the angler. At 20 with district ranger pill Ronayne, of these screen installations, account is a sure sign that Estacada, recently. He is Justly checking stations are maintained BEFORE AUTO TROUBLES proud of this second growth area by the commission where records and says it is only a matter now are kept of both upstream and STOP YOU. GET A you know where you’ re of preventing another disastrous downstream migrant fish. Last fire. year these 20 stations recorded CHECK-UP NOW! Real purpose of this visit was a total of 89.235 trout, steelhead, going . . . and are already to inspect a “planting” of Mam and salmon which were prevent Don't let car trouble catch up ath weed beetles released “on the ed from entering Irrigation and well nn your way! burn” by extension agent Clive power diversions. with you on the road Beat it to SOUND OFF for STOVE -«tm itU iB -F U R N A C E OIL OIL Greenwood Truck Line Inc. .(¡ASCO BRIQUETS Anywhere From Sandy To Government Camp COAL PRES-TO-LOGS Standard Heating Oils Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal Work SPRAYS INSECTICIDES WEEDKILLERS Rotary Screen Gets Credit For Savings Gresham Seed & Feed Pipe, Valves and Fittings Oil Burners - Pumps - Furnaces W ILL YOU GET W HAT YOU WANT Peterson Plumbing OUT OF And Heating Company LIFE? î X AUTO TROUBLES the punch by having us check your car regularly W e'll find GALLO TO D A Y/ and fix those little "bugs" before they can grow big and costly' F IN I C A L IF O R N IA \[AsrK eem? 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