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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION Willamette Valley Will Become a Veritable Vale of Cashmere it V WHY IT IS BEST Michigan Farmers on Lake Manitou Isle Dedicate Land to Raising Rye SOUTH MANITOU ISLAND, May 5. (AP) This island of the northern great lakes, surrounded by the blue waters of Lake Michi gan, is the realm of rye. Here dwell George Hu tiler and his son Louis, the king and crown prince of . rye producers. Six times they have-won the rye cham pionship of the International hay and grain shows. Even the rye is "royal." Twelve miles from the mainland, South Manitou has no problem of inter pollination. The wind does not carry alien pollen to this home of the blue-blood strain, and all the farmers have agreed to plant only one kind of seed. Romantic circumstances have made South Manitou the pure-rye center of the western world. Twenty years ago J. A. Rosen, a young Russian, was a student at Michigan State college. He ob tined from near his native Riga a F.mall quantity of rye. It was planted by the late J. A. Spragg. plant breeder at the school, and a long series of selections, replant ings and watching began. When Dr. Spragg decided he had a high yielding grain, he sent it out to the best farmers of Michigan to be tried. The seed immediately responded to Michigan conditions and during the war a million acres were planted to ' Rosen" ry. Ten years ago Prof. J. F. Cox of the Michigan agricultural college visited the island, seeking a place where Rosen rye might be grown as an unadulterated Btrain. Farm ers accepted his proposal to plant the new variety and no other kind. E' WASHINGTON, May 5 (AP) --Fusarium conglutinans woll, commonly known as cabbage "yel lows." a parastic disease that con stantly harasses producers has been conquered by science. A treatise presented to the Na tional Academy or Sciences by J. Walker of the University of Wisconsin reveals that resistant lines of Cabbage have been de veloped by repeated mass selec tion of surviving plants. Cabbage that withstood disease on "infested soil was used for seed in a second planting. In each in stance the plant was self-pollinated. By successive selection of such seed, both a homozygous re sistant and a homozygous suscep tible line was obtained. Dr. Walker says that offsprings of the first generation, known as "F-l" hybrid progeny, obtained from crosses between resistant and susceptible parents, are complete ly resistant. The second genera tion, or "F-2" families, when grown in the field upon infested soil at a season most favorable for the disease in all cases segre gated at ratios approaching very close to .1 resistant to l suscep tible. Result prove the charac teristics of the resistant strains to predominate in trie offspring. Environmental factors, how ever, have an Important bearing on he mode of Inheritance and under various circumstances may result in a divergence from the general rule. Constant soil tem perature of about 24 degrees cen tigrade. Dr. Walker says, is the most favorable for the complete ROSEN mm SCIENCE COIIIERS G YELLOWS WIS GROWN IS INK NEW ! DWABF RACE IS VERY ATTRACTIVE ' THE STATELY DAHLIA SHOULD HAVE A PlACE 1H EVERY GkKr One of the most important bed ding plants for producing rich sheets of colors ',, introduced in many seasons is the new dwarf race of . single dahlias known as the Coltness hybrids. They grow 18 inches tall and start into bloom early in August from seed sown in the open ground on May 1 and remain a sheet of bloom until cut by frost." They fonm tubers exactly simi lar to the well known huge double dahlias and may be lifted and stor ed in much the same manner but they are so easily g$own from seed and blooms almost; as quickly as from tubers that it is hardly worth wliile to save the Hoots except to preserve a certain olor. They give a wonderful array of vivid reds ranging from brilli ant scarlet to velvety crimson blacks. There are some fine sal mon shaded and some fine yellow. The race has been greatly improv ed since its introduction a few seasons ago. The 5 first strains were not of uniform height and this spoiled their effectiveness for bedding for some plants would make a growth of three feet while others remained at 18 inches. The improved strains Rive a uni development of the disease and for th.e expression jof resistance. Cabbage grown very poorly in temperature above! 26 degrees, and since resistance in homozy gous plants is stable; up to and in cluding a constant ;soil tempera ture of 26, there is an opportun ity to combat the disease in, re gions and seasons Where cabbage is commercially successful. , Yellows causes a lateral warp ing or curling of the young stems and leaves and results in the death of the plant in from two weeks to a month. 1 1- Capitol Bargain and Junk House 105-145 Center All Kinds of Junk I Bought and Sold Anything from a Needle ko a Steam Engine CASH PAID FOR RAGS, BOTTLES, BARREI-S. OLD PAPER, CARPETS. IRON, WOOL. PELTS. GRAPE ROOT, CHITTAM BARK, PEPPERMINT OIL. ETC. form height. . The seeds resemble those of zinnias and germinate in about ten days from planting. Cover with a quarter of an inch of soil and drop the seed half an inch apart to make the work of transplanting without shaking all the earth off the roots easy. They should be eighteen inches apart in the bed as they make sturdy well branched bushes. The fading blooms should be- kept picked as the bloom slackens if they are al lowed to ripen seeds. They form seeds much more readily than the larger types of dahlias. Give them a mellow soil fairly rich in full sun. In dry hot spells, they should be given a good soaking at least once a week. They make good stems considering theii dwarf size and have proved very popular material for bowls and shallow vases. The flowers re very regular in shape and have from five to seven petals, opening flat. The Coltness dahlias are a real addition to the list of garden an nuals of easy culture and are well worthy of a trial. They give some of the finest scarlets of their season. SPONTANEOUS FARM FINES ARE COSTLY (Continued from page 1) taneous combustion ranks fourth in the causes of fire, and is ex ceeded only by losses resulting from lightning, defective flues and heating apparatus, and matches and smoking." A slow oven is best for baked eggs or other dishes in which the eggs are the chief ingredient. ... A person who is very tired is apt to suffer from indigestion. Tel. 398 iUSTOMDBlK LUIS 13 Mill IMS LOSES ONLY S1S.000 HOUSTON. Tex. (AP) Mon ey may not have wings, but the Federal Land bank of Houston has trained all except $15,000 of $173. 000,000 lent to farmers' to fly back and roost on the bank's door steps. The low ratio of losses Is a rec ord among the 12 federal land banks in the United States. Finan ciers find more significance in the fact because the Houston bank is the second largest among the 12 in the volume of loans. Judge M. H. Gossett, president of the bank since its organization in 1917. attributes the small delin quency to observance of three tests of a loan; first ownership of .a substantial equity in the property which a prospective borrower of fers as security; second, the bor rower's character, and third, the value of the security itself. The $173,000,000 in loans went to 58,000 Texas farmers during the decade that the bank has op erated. There were foreclosures on only 4 2 mortgages. Unlike the oth er 11 banks, the Houston bank operates in only one state. His experience in the farm loan business has caused Judge Gossett to conclude that "a farmer is sel dom richer than the land he culti vates." Where late seeded barley in Oregon is likely to be short on eoils of medium production, a combine may be used for harvest ing. Seeding a bushel of barley and a bushel of oats per acre to-; gether will make a taller crop than can be handled with a bind er and makes a good feed crop for home use. says the O. A. C. exper iment station. c New ground each year for poul try will largely prevent icoccidiosis. round worms and tape worms. Oregon Pulp & Paper Co. Manufacturers of- BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made" Paper for Your Office Stationery We handle Cattle, Gate, King, Rock Spring. Coal ' and Gasco and Diamond Briquets Also coal specially designed for chicken brooder use. TELEPHONE 930 in Good Time NEW HIGH RECORDS OF OREGON JERSEYS (Continued from pace l- splendid records to her credit. I The dam of Poppy's George is Georgie's Grace 2nd. This cow I has been officially tested and she i has four daughters, all of whom i have very fine production records. 1 At the McKee Jersey stock farm i there is a herd of some 60 strong ly bred St. Mawes Jerseys which are largely responsible for mak ing farming succeseful there A Xew Class Record Sir Oxford's Edith, a purebred Jersey cow in the herd of C. L. Bush of Hoskins, Oregon, was started on an official production test when she was one year and eight months of age and in the following year she yielded 561.59 pounds of buttertat and 9264 pounds of milk, with calf. She thus won a silver medal. Her next test was started when she was three years and 11 months of age and in the 10 months she produc ed 741.77 pounds of butterfat and 12,788 pounds of milk. Her milk averaged 5.80 per cent butterfat for the test. She was with calf for 233 days of this time, thus winning a medal of merit and a silver medal, awaraea oy in American Jersey Cattle club. In addition to these two honors Ed ith also qualified for the senior three year old 305-day champion ship of Oregon. Formerly this championship was held by Gray mere Erdine. with her record of 724.26 pounds of butterfat and 10.732 pounds of milk, made in an official production test. It takes a good cow to establish, a new age class record in Oregon but Edith has done this with a comfortable margin to spare. Sir Oxford's Edith's sire is a gold medal bull, Undulata Prince's Sir Oxford. This bull has five register of merit daugh ters, and these splendid producers have won one medal of merit, two gold medals and six silver medals. The medal of merit daughter i Sir Oxford's Edth. Her dam is Lad's Independence Lassie. Every bedroom should be so ar ranged that it has cross-ventilation.