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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1928)
j THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION ma slugs ie OUT III FORCE NOW Garden sings remained active hater last' fall and are doing more damage at this time than in other J recent years. They are beat con I trolled in Oregon by the eombin I ation of a repellent and poison I bait, reports Don C. Mote, entom I ologist of the Oregon Agricultural I college. Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50 I sprayed on the plants and a poison I consisting of 1 part calcium arsen--V ate to 16 parts chopped lettuce ' scattered over infested area has proved effective in plant protec K tion and slug control. Dry, hot weather drives them into tempor. ary seclusion and checks their de predations. The gray garden slug, the green. house slug and the reticulated slug are the three important eco nomic species in Oregon. The gray garden slug is usually a deep mottled gray, greenish gray or pale ocherous flecked with brown or dark brown. The greenhouse slog is solid slaty gray with a whitish sole. The reticulated slug is variable, but is in general a deep bluish black above, shading to a lighter color, and often tinted with green toward the- sole. These pests are nocturnal in habit but they arc often active in the daytime during cloudy, wet weather. During the day they nor mally conceal themselves under wsste materials and in Tegetation or burrow in the ground. Lime, Salt, soot or any cheap powder placed around the edges of the greenhouse beds, garden crops, etc., is a temporary means of keeping them out under dry conditions this is not practicable under moist conditions. When the slag touches this substance it will wiggle into the material. This causes it to secrete slime abund antly and it soon exhausts itself and dies. 1 He Was Discharged for Dis abilities, But Makes His Homestead Pay LA JARA, Colo., Mar. 17. (AP James C. Pierson, a dis abled war veteran six years ago, is now the owner of a farm which he earns approximately $5,000 a year. Pierson was gassed while serv ing overseas and was discharged from the army in 1921 because of disabilities. He took up a home stead in the San Luis valley, but his health grew poorer and he ap pealed to the veterans bureau for aid. The bureau advanced him funds and sent him to Colorado Agricultural college, where he studied poultry raising and bee culture. When he returned to his farm he bought a few chickens and sev eral stands of bees. Although he had only seven acres he could cultivate, Pierson planted a large part of itto vege tables. Today Pierson is rated by the veterans bureau as a "success." The best results are obtained from the use of land plaster when it is applied early in the spring. The recommended rate of applica tion is 60 to 100 pounds on leg-! ume crops. The application may be doubled where the Tegume, es pecially alfalfa in irrigated sec tions, is known to respond to sul fur fertilizer. Discing before early spring plowing has little advantage unless there is, a heavy weed growth on the ground. Such a practice may DISABLED U EH mm OP ES HYBRID OATS MAV DEFEAT THE TUSAVE NEW YORK March 17 (AP) Investigations at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden indicate that the future oats crop of this country J may be a hybrid, a cross between the present best producing strains and the most successful smut-resisting types. Dr. George M. Reed, plant path ologist of the institution, has de veloped a few varieties which ap pear to be highly resistant, but their yield usually is unsatisfac tory. By crossing them with strains that ar good yielders,' al though susceptible, he obtained both resistance and p.roduction. Last year Dr. Reed grew more, than 100.000 individual oat plants in connection with his study of smut resistance. His paper on smut diseases recently was awarded the A. Creasy Morrison prize of the New York Academy of Sciences. One of Dr. Reed's most significant discoveries is the fact of the occur rences of specialized races of oats smuts, "families" of the disease which vary in their preference for different strains of oats and in their behavior under specific cir cumstances. Smut is known to almost every grain grower as a disease which converts the valuable -nels of the heads into a b' useless make the surface so stocky thai it will interfere with plowing be tween showers. Discing is advis able before late spring plowing to incorporate rubbish, save moisture and get rid of weeds that take up moisture and plant food neutri ents. D. A. WHITE & SONS Carry DR. KORINEK'S Veterinary Remedies and Minerals OIL-0-MATIC WHAT IS IT? .SEE THEO. M. BARR Phone 192 SM FARMERS VAST SUMS powder about the time of harvest. Dr. Reed says the annua toll of this diseases amount, to more than five percent of the nation's entire grain crop, and In individual cases a farmer may find 80 to 90 per cent of his grain destroyed. 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Bone meal works for six months and for this reason is one of the most valu able garden fertilizers. An " excellent stimulant to growth of the lawn in early spring is a thorough raking with a gar den rake, dragging out the dead grass ad stirring the soil. This Keep Tout Sfvaar fa Orfoa Bay Monamtnu Hmdt at Silto. Oraaoa CAPITAL MOKTrnxXTAL WOBKS J. C. Jonas a Co Proprietors 11 Kind of Moaamsntat Wark Factory and Office: JI10 S. Cam'U Oppeiita I. O. O. T. Camctary, Bos SI Phono 689 SalemOrogam Per Mile USED TRACTORS FOR SALE LAWN SUGGEST! "Where Quality Meets Confidence raking should precede the appli cation of fertilizer. Do not be in a hurry to make the first cutting of the lawn. Let the grass get a healthy start be fore the mower it run over it. A supply of high-grade grass seed should always be on hand to be applied at any time a thin spot In the lawn becomes apparent. It Is often necessary to dig out weeds such as dandelions and plantains. 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