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The Lodge
Chapter 4.
When Tony entered the Lodge
accompanied by Nat and Phil,
there were several of the
members in the great hall. A
couple of the women im
mediately rushed over to greet
the new arrival Nat performed
the introductions
“This is Tony, ladies. Tony,
I ’ll turn you over to Sally here
and she can show you around.’’
Tony turned to Nat, “Thank
you Nat, you’ve been very kind
and thoughtful.’’
N a t blushed and turned
away. He had been quite taken
with Tony from the moment he
first saw her. He felt he knew
the questions and doubts that
were going through her head
He hoped Sally would not be too
mysterious.
Sally was a short vivacious
woman She had arrived some
time ago together with her
husband, Vance. They were a
professional fishin g-w riting
team who had wandered into
the valley from Vermont’s
Battenkill river The pair were
as opposite as the poles. Sally of our being is so strong it
was an animated extrovert who supercedes any patterns newly
talked a lot to everybody, yet formed in others. Your pattern
of yourself, N a t, is your
never seemed a nuisance.
Vance, on the other hand, was strongest p a tte rn .” Vance
paused, thinking, ‘I wonder if I
definitely the strong silent type
who said little most of the time am helping or confusing Nat ’
Vance returned from his
unless it was important. Vance
thoughts
“ This is all my
had a peculiar philosophy about
theory, Nat. I can't prove it, nor
things that intrigued Nat.
do I have any great desire to
With Tony in Sally’s hands,
prove it. It explains this valley
Nat felt the need to talk with
to me in part, and the people in
somebody so he sought out
it, in part. I have told all this to
Vance. Something Vance had
you with the idea it might help
said about substance at break
you to adopt my theory, or to
fast that morning had been
lead you to a theory of your
going through his head all
own.”
afternoon. He nad noted in the
" I appreciate your telling me
walk up the Valley from the Hut
all this, Vance. It does sort of
to the Falls, that Phil did not
explain a few things.”
seem to be seeing the same
Both men sat silently for a
things he did. Nat would like to
time, before Nat spoke again.
get Vance talking about that.
“ By the way, Vance, we picked
He found Vance in the library
up a new member todav. A very
reading. “Hi Vance, can I
attractive lady. At least she
bother you a little.’’
“Sure Nat, something on
your mind?”
’ ♦ “ V ince, you stated at break
M«hst4h«e was
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state of mind, and then you shut
up and Hidn't say any more. I
Extension Agent
didn't think anything more
New technology is the
about it until around noon when
we passed a group of tall Black ingredient th at contributes
Cottonwoods up near the Falls. most to increasing productivity
I remarked to Phil how pretty and
efficien cy
of
our
industry
in
that grove of trees was. He a g ric u ltu ra l
answered by saying that he had Clackam as County. A day
always thought those Yellow never goes by that I do not have
Poplars
w ere
im a new idea or information
pressive. Vance, there wasn’t a crosses my desk that poten
tially may favorably affect the
Yellow Poplar in sight!”
“ Nat, you are slowly lear production of some h or
ning. I think I have learned ticultural crops.
A few years ago the idea of
rather fully. At least to my
satisfaction, I understand this drip (trickle) irrigation of field
valley. It all has to do with your grown crops began to receive
concept of substance. You have attention. Drip irrigation had
your idea of substance, but I ’ll been used in greenhouse crops
bet you can’t define it simply.” for many years but no one could
“ If I can feel it with my see a practical application to
hands, see it, hear it, smell it, field grown horticultural crops.
or taste it, I say it has sub Presently there are dozens of
stance, whatever it is,” said different tyjjes of nozzles and
water transmitting lines to fit
Nat.
“ And I d is a g re e ,” said practically any horticultural
Vance. “Science has relegated crop and the idea is being
everything; substance, energy, applied widely in field grown
and most importantly your horticultural crops.
Clackam as County sm all
brain; to electrical particles.
We cannot grasp an electrical fruits producers recently had
particle as substance in itself. an opportunity to meet with
Our thought processes are but M a rv in S hearer, OSU E x
Mectrical energy flows. Could it tension Irrig a tio n Specialist
not be that substance is just and view some of the new drip
what
these
e le c tric a l irrigation equipment in use.
discharges of ours desire it to D rip irrig a tio n is sim ply
be. Our body is a concept we another method of moving
have been trained to believe in water from a source to the
since birth. The aging process plant roots and requires good
is a process we have been management of the system in
taught. You will realize Nat, order for it to be effective. It is
that that will change here. Your perhaps the most efficient of
body will age no more, but you our methods of applying water,
will not change it into a younger but will not result in ex
one. You are too comfortable in tra o rd in a ry yield increases
it. You will not change your over present methods of
concept of the Lodge either as irrigation, assuming of course
it is already a comfort to you. that adequate water is being
But what you see in the Valley applied w ith your present
as a whole is what you want to system.
Its efficiency is derived from
see. It doesn’t look the same to
any two of us. Certain places in the fact that all water which
it seem the same when we are enters the system is conveyed
there together These are the by plastic pipes and tubes to the
things that we have known of in exact point where the plant
the past so that the forming of roots use it most efficiently.
the substance in thought is Also you are usually wetting
easy. But two of us can be only the area where plant roots
together and see d iffe re n t are concentrated In crops such
things in the same place And a as tree fruits where plant
year from now, you will not see spacing may be 15 to 30 feet
the same things in the same between trees, only the areas
under the trees are wet and a
places that you saw today.”
“ Let me see if I understand considerable area between the
you," said Nat. “Do you mean rows remains dry. Thus less
there is really no such thing as water per acre may be used but
substance? That we are but not less water per tree
Growers who have heard that
bundles of electrical energy
with no form, and that all we drip irrigation is cheaper than
type
irrig a tio n
seem to see, feel or otherwise sp rin kler
sense is nothing but patterns in systems may be in for a sur
prise The coat naturally varies
this energy?”
"That is precisely what I between the different types of
mean. Nat We, ourselves, will nozzles and water cooveying
not be changeable in each systems used, and is also in
others eyes because the energy fluenced by row spacing of
e q u ip m e n t
The 1972-73 audit report for a u d io v is u a l
the Clackamas County IE D was re p a ire d ; special education
recently submitted to the Board programs; data processing;
of D irectors, according to and consultant services in the
Verne
A
Duncan,
IE D areas of curriculum planning,
finance,
c a re e r
superintendent Kent & Snow, school
the accounting firm responsible education, testing and outdoor
for the audit, congratulated the educaton, to name a few
a
tri-county
IE D staff on “good budgeting" Through
p u rc h a s in g
and improved internal controls c o o p e ra tiv e
over cash
receipts
and program, Clackamas County
schools may acquire school
disbursements.
IE D officials also announced supplies at a substantial
this week that the 1973-74 IE D savings due to a competitive
tax rate has decreased from bidding system . The IE D
$3 20 to $2 99 per $1,000 of handles the entire purchasing
assessed valuation The largest procedure, from ordering to
portion
($2.55)
of
the delivery.
The Clackamas County IE D
Clackamas County IE D levy is
used for the equalization fund offices are located at 1197 7th
which is distributed to the local St. in Oregon City and are open
school districts and used to to the public from 8 a m to 5
reduce their tax levies The p m weekdays.
remaining $.44 is used for the
IE D operation.
The Intermediate Education
District is the middle unit
between the Oregon Board of
Education and the school
Pvt. Rick L. Hottman, 19, son
d is tric ts of the county. It
of
Bobby L. Hottman, Rt, 1,
carries out certain functions
Sandy, com pleted a power
for the schools as required by
generation course at the U S.
state law, but exists prim arily
Army Engineer School, F t
to provide services to the local
Belvoir, Va.
schools. In most cases, these
The course is designed to
services result from request by
train personnel in the operation
the schools for program s,
and maintenance of hand and
specialized personnel or other
power tools, gasoline and diesel
he didn't help. “ OK Nat, I ’ll see projects which the schools - for
engines, and various electric
what I can do. I am sure Sally economic or other reasons -
generators. Students also
will be as intrigued as 1 am. could not individually offer
receive a working knowledge of
We ll fix it up.”
These
include
an
in
the installation, operation and
( To be continued
structional materials center
m aintenance
of
portable
from time to time)
where the schools may borrow
generating equipment.
films, records, tapes and have
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f *v t
seemed very attractive to me.
Her name is Tony. I turned her
over to Sally just before I came
in here looking for you. I had an
ulterior motive.”
“ Do you mean you weren’t
really interested in what I had
to say about substance?”
Nat was flustered. “ Oh no, I
don’t mean that. I was really
concerned about that too. It is
just that this seemed to be an
opportune time to get your aid
in another direction also. I ’d
like to get to know this Tony
better. Since it is your Sally
that has her in tow, it should be
easy for you to arrange a little
private dinner for the four of
us. It takes too long getting
acquainted in a crowd.”
Vance was amused. It had
been a long time since he had
watched love bloom from its
beginnines. N a t’s apparent
shyness could be an obstacle if
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IN C O R P O R A T E D
Mt. Hood Frwy. between Gresham and Sandy
Column Comments
crops. In an orchard crop
where row spacings are
perhaps 30 feet, the per acre
cost might be $150 while in a
vegetable field at close row
spacing the cost might exceed
$2,000 per acre.
Other factors to consider are
value of crops being grown,
cultural practices that may be
performed by drip irrigation,
amount of irrigation water
available, labor availability,
purity of water, topography of
area, etc. So you see, drip
irrigation is not as simple as it
first sounded. Drip systems
operate at relatively low water
pressures
and
therefore
require precise engineering for
each field and crop on your
farm. This will be especially
true in C lackam as County
because so many of the berry
fields and orchards ard planted
on sloping or rolling land.
Research efforts a re un
derway in Oregon to learn more
about the application of water
through drip systems on
various h o rtic u ltu ra l crops.
The
branch
exp erim ent
stations involved are located at
M edford, Hood R iv e r and
Aurora. Last year Dr. Lloyd
Martin, superintendent of the
North Willamette Experiment
Station at Aurora gathered
information from blackberries
grown under drip irrigation.
D r M artin also experimented
with a method of determining
how to schedule applications of
water through this system.
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