THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1955
THE SANDY POST
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New Producer Tags
Needed By Aug. 3
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New producer tags for the
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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
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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
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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
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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
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