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; - .: : PAfflTTfol 7Ts OnCGb:rSTATElAM felnriSwBfeg- Jnfr 11 1930 Mr. Uailelalns Camn, VaFley News efiitor of Tbe Oregon Statesman, is also la charge of the market news of this -paper. Each Svadsy sb write coaccrmieg- thm rrfcolfnrfc sew f Utarett ts Ttlley (unct ,Coatrib tiBt f Mrit ar Uviu. 7:r ; Markets - - Crops - - Farm Home - - Livestock! The DiTersified Interests of Willamette Valley , Fanners .7777 .-:Vr .fl'-.5?- 'V. ni' , o : -- 17 77 77 A7lf L : Edtor'.Note . vauey jgncmmmy: ana nus : wmia- - - i - r ! It I; PBjlilK Heavy Crops in California and Economic Dcprcs- J sion Held Causes. - - - "What next" seems to be tn question In regard to tbe prune market in tbe west. ' With, the Oregon and Washing ton crop estimated at 30,000 tons, or 10 per cent of a normal 'production growers might expect a good market during the coming season but other factors hare entered into the situation until the prospect is not so bright. California has a bumper crop this year and one of tbe. heaviest In years. Presenf estimates put the California yield at 234,000 ions. The heaviest crop in recent years was in ' 128 when it amounted to 220,000 tons. Cali fornia also has a very heavy peach crop. Ths California situation coup led with tbe general economic Re pression which has decreased buying of all commodities will no doubt tend to lower tbe price of dried prunes during the coming year. Carry Over la 1929 Another potent factor is that there vras a heavy carry over of the 1929 crop which had to be cleaned up at cost. The prune Bit nation has been the object of careful study on the part of local knvers but none venture to even guess at a price. "To even estim ate a nrice on the 1930 crop would be atourd at this time, said W. G. Fisher, local buyer. Some encouragement was felt when Paulas brothers entered rfGOLplVl r it ' - 1 ' --', - i"- i ,: t jTV:.: J. -WV? . - X- T "Ws M If . qKTw VvT Wf M"-''- .- ' ' '" RAISIN I IS Oregoa Glow Ht. Olgm, owned' by 8. J. MrKre of IndependesMe. She) prodacetl , pounds of fat and 13,122 pounds. of asuk la 805 days. . ' i ' Jerseys Owned ly S. J. - McKee at Independence Make Remarkable Marks By W. E CRAVEN INDEPENDENCE. July 12 Mr. and Mrs. S. J. UcKee are pround owners of 32 head of fine Jersey cattle.. They hare two cows that have Just completed a test for butterfat, making a very high record. A gold medal record has re cently been completed by Oregon Glow St. Olga No. SS4415, in which she produced 709.20 lbs. of fat' and 13,122 lbs. of milk in 305 days. St. Olga was started on this te3t at the age of seven years and and sales were reported however have now withdrawn and there is no indication as to when they will resume buying, In the meantime growers are making every eTfort to care fo the crop and -to tiuly methods of drying and packing in order to conform with the federal pure food laws. The crop is spotted throughout the Willamette valley and some districts I report almost a crop fallnre 'while others expect a heavy crop. ttiov I 'or the following ten months I This fine producers was with calf 21S days of the test qualifying for herd gold medal in class AAA. In making this splendid record St. Olga'a yield of fat was shown 55 lbs., per month, every month of the est, and five of these months was more than 75 lbs. per month. This test was com pleted June .12. 1930. The sire of Oregon Glow 6t Olga is Ula's Tormentor ' No. 195022 and her dam la Oregon Glow Brownie No. 477511. The other cow is St. . Mawes Lads Viola. She wdat to test at the age of eight years and made a test of 923 lbs. of butter fat. The Mc- Kee's are now milking 17 head of cows. OUTLOOK S1E FOR LIVESTOCK coarse and 20c for medium. Oregon hops, 1929 crop were going at 14-1 5c a pound. Italian prunes were still mov ing at 7-10c a pound, with pe tites quoted at 8 cents. BM B CAN BE JUKI 111 Green Pod Varieties Best Method of Avoiding Rust Is Explained . Cattle Steady, Hog Market Improved; Wheat Goes Down During Week PORTLAND, Ore., July 12. (AP) General livestock prices held fairly steady and unchanged i over last week as tbe market I turned the week here today.' Wheat had fallen off 1U cents from last week's close. All grades .of cattle held firm I but the run was limited. Good steers were 19. 50-110.25; cows were 1 7.00-$ 7.50, and realers were moving at S10.00-fll.00, considered a narrow margin. The hog market was generally improved. Heavies. 250-290 lbs.. were $9.50-$10.75; lights, from 180-200 lbs., were $11.00-111:25; The fashion of serving "baby egetables which has developed a greater appreciation or many garden . products might well be extended to string f- beans. The baby bean is merely the string feeders and stockers were 811.00- beaa gathered when about nan i4.iw. the aize usnally used. The Mttle I Lambs, too, were unchanged. beans are very, tender and with- good to choice 90-pounders going out suspicion of strings which at s.&v-oo. may develop in the-mature bean. I A further drop In wheat These baby string beans are oft-brought the price of Big Bend en served under the French namej bluestem to $1.05 H. 8oft -white of haricots. - ' J and western white were 91 c, ' The green! pod Varieties are the "land hard winter, northern spring best for the "baby" bean crop and the seed should be planted nojr. This will enable you - to gather "baby" and mature podded string beans at the same -time. String beans can be planted well Into Oats and- western red. 8914c was unchanged at $27.00 There .was no change in hay prices. Based on buying price. i. o. d. . romana, quotations on newt' crops were: alfalfa $17.50: July with the certainty of a good. J clover $14; oat hay $14; oats and crop. It Is the best of follow crops vetch 814.. Other varieties :were for earlier vegetables as it is sure I vaUey timothy $20.56-$21; east- to produce. . em Oregon timothy $22. 50-$23. Beans like warm rich sou out straw was $7 a ton. you can plant them in almost any I There - was no change in but- sltuation except deep enaoe ana iter prices. Extras were 32 cents. gather a reasoably good crop of i Fresh extra eggs were unchanged Beans, tne crop increasing in pro- at Z4-Z5C portion to the favorabieness of tbe soil in which they are grown. There are at least a dozen kinds of green and wax pod string beans and all are excell ent. The Stringless Green Pod is the standard type in the green .varieties and planted in thous ands of gardens. The wax types show a greater variety in general planting, . gardeners having their preferences ; between the round and flatped- wax.. The planting -of string beans rn rows instead of bills is becoming a general practice, spacing the Individual plants about six inches TO BE STUDIED Federal Farm Board and Co-op Seek to Stabilize 1 Calif. Industry SAN FRANCISCO- (AP) i California has organized a co operative movement to rehabili tate the grape industry. Ia' a concerted drive on the bugbear "surplus", grape grow-: era hare enlisted banks, civie or ganisations, shipping concerns and railroads to aid their cause. - The -solid support given the California grape grower, who raises more than SO per cent of America's Juice and raisin grapes, looms In contrast te experience of some sections where business groups have been aligned in op position to- suest cooperative ef forts. To Purchase Crop Sparred by the federal -farm board's offer to purchase, under liberal terms, the 1930 crop sur plus regardless et Its size, the grape industry aought and re ceived financial backing from the state's strongest banks. Baling Ihis Is . Profitable to EM Workers et Lyons LYONS, Jaly l& A aniaber of new who were employees of tbe Hlakle Cor tints lumber till, are working la tHe saoutains gathering and bailing moss. There is general de mand for the prod act and prices are sach that It can be handled at a fair wage profit. ' The mill has been closed for sometime and most of the families have gone to fisd other work, which Is a difficult problem at present. Pasturing Clover as For Ydung is Held Best -Mettod . HELP CORN Farmers in Rickey District Jlave Various Methods Of Care MONMOUTH, July 12 A. H. Craven grew a five acre crop of alfalfa that yielded one and one half tons of hay to the acre at first cutting June 2. The seed bed was prepared in the fall of 1928 as for seeding red clover and with the. final work-over 60 pounds of landplaster to-the acre was added and well mixed Into the soil. Although this procedure for alfalfa Is not generally' ad vised or practiced, good results were obtained in -this instance for the little. plants were unusu ally thrifty and well colored. In sowing, one pound- of rape seed to 11 H pounds of alfalfa was used, as Mr. Craven planned to utilize the field for lamb pas ture. As soon as root growth was established, 25 head of spring lambs were turned into .the field where they were pastured until late in the tall. No lime was added to the seed oed at planting time, but was RICKEY, July -12 Though corn was planted later than usual m ti..i .4sma I this rear, owing to the late rain. of he,ederal TtoZZ oYur the few hot day. have been 7fry 1! t .. 9K M nf th mru) I OCaeilCiai nu corn looaing iiwrc-n.- outpnt most be signed tip In co- ood operation the growers have A very- few farmers still use launched a sign-up campaign the one horse cultivator to cnltl with the aid of state officials, the Tate corn but the majority use radio and civic groups. the two horse riding cultivator. The program of the grape men, which cultivates one row on both centralised in the California sides at a time, grape control board, is not cam- On the F. Durbin farm a three ouflagedV They hope to dominate horse cultivator Is used, which the grape industry to an extent cultivates two rows at a time. that. If necessary, fruit can be I In place of cultivating the corn ter tons to tbe acre, to be worked into the soil by the rain and freez ing and thawing of the ground. In the spring of 1930 land plas ter was again applied, 75 pounds to the acre being used. This alfalfa- grew to a height or Z4 to 30 inches and maintain ed g deep healthy green color. Mr. Craven feels convinced that this crop requires pasturing hack slowed to rot on the Tine rather when it first comes through the r"! "A" V? too much top growth at first; than be dumped in an over-sup-1 ground some farmers set their T SI HORSES in ply on the market with resultant breaking of prices. None to be Wasted It is not believed arbitrary lim itation of acreage or wastage of fruit will be necessary. Over a period of years the surplus ton nage has not exceeded an average of 300,000 tons, but an excess of 20 per cent has been found to break prices 50 per cent. The 1929 crop totaled about 1,761, 000 tons. Eventually, the grape execu- diso harrow 'so as to straddle the corn row and thoroughly disc the ground and then cultivate. One farmer in this community has experimented with a method of handling his corn ground that has proven quite succsrrTful, though at first thought it seems j as though his corn rows would he crramhled ; After getting his ground in j good shape he plants his corn ! ! about five Inches deep, which is a little deeper than ordinarily also that application of lime on the soil in early fall which na ture works into the bed, Is a val uable feature. Growth is now well established toward the' eee- ond crop. Rickey Cherries Are Harvested AMES, Iowa (AP) The dan- " iiicc, moiiiinvniicu iuui tUIU 13 UMOIWI, IDU (UVUl 1 Deck v.l .I-..! ll.,a by-products will care for this ex- after planting he works the ZZ" cess. In the meantime the under- ground thoroughly with a. spring disposing of the rreater part of writing by the farm board of A tooth harrow. The ground was fvT8! greater part of F.mvl? Aat?JT" . Jtff. IS! - Peking was hard this year ow Radio in Hen Houses Increases Egg Production RARNEGATA, X." J., (AP) Radio concerto ia the henhouses at 3 o'clock la the morning are Just something more that the hens on the poultry farm of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thornton, at Gunning Riv er, have grown to expect. Aad they show their ap preciation, the - Thorntons report, by laying more eggs. - "The neighbors all thought we were crazy at first, Thornton said today,' "but after we'd kept track awhile and found the hens really did lay more egss, tbey changed their minds. MI noticed they seemed more cheerful and alive if I went to the place whistling, go we pat loud speaker in the hrnhoose." ' The Thorntons - bad to make special arrange, went with a broadcasting station to get masie at 3 a. m. Borer Resistant Corn Is Sought MONROE, Mich. (AP) -Twenty-four hundred plots of -corn at the Michigan state college experi ment station represent man s ef forts this year to find a type of corn of high yield and quality that wUl resist attacks of the Eu ropean corn borer. Farm crops specialists in four years of experiment have con quered their main objective. In Maize Amargo, a South American strain, they have found a type of corn that will resist the borer. The pest never has attacked tbe strain since thetexperiment start ed. The second objective to find a resistant strain of high yield and quality may take several years more tn tests and trials. Of DISPLAY Bank of Woodburn Has In teresting Exhibit of Jer sey Awards WOODBURN, July 12 Seven cups, besides between 30 and 40 ribbons indicating first, second and third place winners and photographs of prize winning Jerseys owned by Jersey breeders in Marion 'county, are on display in tbe window of the Bank of Woodburn. All the prizes on dis play are those won this year. The. two largest cups, put up by the Marion County Bankers association must be won for three consecutive years before the enps are the permanent pos session of the winners. Both cups were won permanently this year. The enfr for the grand champion bull went to Samuel Torrend of Silrerton and the one for grand champion cow to Frank Kucnstlng, who lives six Gnnderson et Sllverton, and Fred miles north of Woodburn. Other cups were won by M. O. Rorden and C. J. Stupfel. ProminentHead Of Lodge Work Is Aurora Guest AURORA, July 12. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Castner of Portland, were guests at the Sadler home this week. Mrs. Castner is well know throughout the state, hav ing served as president of the State Federation of Women's clubs, past worthy matron of Eastern Star, and is now secre tary of the Daughters of the Nile. ger of young grass past, Iowa the grape control board to bal-j ground destroys all the weeds state college recommends tnaiianee supply and demand so a farmers keep their work horses I satisfactory price may be matn- on pasture at night from now un-1 taJLned. til winter. They do better work and keep la better health, it is contended, if i allowed to run free where they may roll and stretch, and less feed and labor is required la car ing for them. Money advanced by the gov ernment and banks will be re turned by funds derived from the' deduction of $1.50 a ton on fresh grapes and , 15.25 on dried grapes. Wasps Raised to Fight Destructive Peach Moth Pest G E D R 6 1 A PEACHES and gives the corn a chance to n through -herore a new crop of weeds can grow. Owing to being planted deeper in order that it would not be pulled up by the spring tooth harrow it tok a little longer for the corn to come through the ground, bat in a short time It was taller than corn planted earlier on other farms and the ground was in better shape and much more free of weeds. ing to the number of cherries cracked by the late rains and prices low so neither pickers nor growers are as wealthy as in a normal year. Owing to the numtftr of crack ed cherries and the low price. In one orchard the cherries were left on the trees as the owner did not think it would pay him to have them picked. WASHINGTON, (AP) A horde of tiny wasps Is being raised by the department of agri culture to wage war on the orien tal peach moth, enemy of Ameri can orchards. This : fly-like wasp, which for years has. subsisted on. another American insect pest, the straw- berry leaf roller,- has been found TMEIT t-5 pples MDENSTER, Germany (AP) This city will same one of Its new . thoroughfares "Steuben strasse" in honor of the 200th anniversary of General Friedrlch von Steuben, hero of the Ameri can Steuben society, are to come here for a celebration'. Oregon Pulp and Paper Company ' Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GLASSINE GREASEPROOF TISSUE Support Oregon Products Specify "Salem Made" Paper for Your Office Stationery - FORT 'VALLEY, Ga., (AP)-r- Land which five years ago sup-i The following radiogram has ported one of the finest peach or-1 teen received by the department charts of the Fort Valley belt fbf commerce, from the tariffs dt tnis season proaucea a oumper i vision in Washington, v. c, wheat crop. - 'Acting Commercial .' Attache 1 inroads of peach disease and 1 Renshaw. London, cables as fol other enemies - of Georgia oc-iows: Order dated June 21 Issued ehirria rut down nroductlTeness. 1 v- n to be the parasitic foe of the .0 . took ont the tree I v t.. t...t. .t "1 The wasps, however, are not abundant, says Dr. A. L. .Qaaln- tance of the department, because they have been kept down by the limited food supply afforded by the strawberry leaf roller. . At- the Ri vert on, N. J experi mental station of the department. and turned to wheat growing. The 75 acres produced . 35 bushels to the acre with one var lety of wheat,' and 20 bushels with another variety. The -farm I 111 . plant 1.500 acre? r of wheat ext-year.. Wool was unchanged at 16-2 2c for eastern Oregon grade; 16c for chards all over the country. effort is -being made to raise nun-j T4, yj 1 dreds of thousands of. the insects i til Jif?r treOpie to oe turnea loose in peacn or-i j; T-- XI L A ULUCl iVl pests act prohibiting importation j Into United Kingdom of raw ap ples from United States between July 5 and November 15 each year unless each consignment ac-1 companled by certificate, issued by department of agriculture in spector certirying tnat appies are of United $tates fancy and United States No. 1 for barreled apples and extra fancy for boxed apples.'! Proof.Vegetable Is Excellent for All Season Greens - It's Swiss CKa&d HichesJteunion Marketing Unit Buys Warehouse Swiss chard is one of the fool proof vegetables, like spinach in its certainty to produce. It. is the apart. Greater production for the crop for "greens as It starts in space used Is obtained ' by the j to production as the snlnach yields to hot .weather - and goes -out of business. Chard is the Ideal greens for the city garden because of thw targe output from small space. - ' it is a beet that Is so busy mak- ' method an dtke work of hillijag - an Is reduced 'to a minimum eom- pared with .: the old-fashionea - method and the .work of hilling It is a simple matter te draw the soil up along, the row or to turn I ij,r top $ doesn't get time to make It up with a wheel hoe. - - - root to-speak" of. It la also jot , -t Kust AvoHiea ..Ifalr complexion whUe the beet la wit is well known, .that , beana ruddj. The old-fashioned way of . should not be worked when.wet-nslng chardwas to pall up the wiin aew , or rain, voniacc wiia . the Tines at. this time . promotes rust and Is the cause of the dis figured pods so frequently seen entire plant when gathering it for the liable, f The -modern and ' im proved way Is to cut the leaves and, let the plant keep on produe- la some frome gardens where this i ing, which it will do most obllg- precaution is eimer nei unoer-1 ingly. ;. . - . stood or forgotten.- ? Don't walk j ; A cut and come again tynehas . through the bean-patch .when the been originated which is notable Tines are wet IX you aon t want to l for Its replacement efficiency spoil a lot of pods, i ? c - (when its leaves are cut. Chard can go in as early as tbe -rest of the beet tribe. Like them it cannot be sown very thickly as each seed Is a bunch of .seeds In fact.; It should be ! thinned to two Inches ' apgrt and as the planti erowd each oth er, they eaa be pulled to leave them six inches apart Ttor per manent cutting. - - fe -; t AlittUKA, - unr z uoraiee rreena.- thA thlrV nMt midrib UcAllister-who lives t Rpokane, I and stems mar" ba ' served aenar- Wah.v and Donald McAllister f (ately cooked like asparagus: .They -Alameda, CaI.- stopped 4o yisit a have a rery delicate flavor prepar- lew days witn tneir protner rranKied. la this .manner. vc;, ;;:iv. XiBAiUBter. - Tfiey are crurautt to i if la your garden DiaanlBr you Aletaeda-when JIlsi McAllister Ifjnd you neglected to prorlde for wiU remain a few' months the la follow erop yon can plant Swiss fuest cf aer.brcUer,.-: chard and be prorUU with - Spokane Woman ZOfrVimWith: f Gervais Brothet ' - ,1"; TURNER, - July -12. irfr. and Mrs. W. T. .Riches - and .Mr. and Mrs. v Wallace s Riches and spa, Wallace Gordon, drove to - Silyer ton - Sunday to . attend the family reunion of the descendants ' of George and Charles Riches, who as early pioneers settled lh the Waldo Hills. .The family picnic was held in the Coolldge and M- Claln park. . .. . - - - - Miss Helen. Feets had for her house guest during the. week Miss Freda Marsh of Portland.: - r; - Rev. Graiious Back IttmEast ; vi LouiSbhjnlll MOSCOW. Ida. With a - fed eral farm board loan ot 125,000. as first ' payment, the . . Latah Grant Growers, Inc. local unit ot the. National Co-operative M a r j I keting setup, has purchased a warehouse from the Moscow El evator company. The price was j announced yesterday at 150,000. The purchase includes facilities for handling approximately 125,- 000 bushels. The balance will be I paid off In the form of preferred certificates. . - . : -'The purchase Is the first of what Is proposed to be a string ot warehouses owned or leased by the marketing unit. T J .ITS . . : ' . , gervais. July ii v. h. d nven Kunninsi ju. Uranus ana son, Artnur, arm-i flL-AT 1U ed by motor Thursday afternoon! .- POr OCilOOl JOD family went early in. May, Rer. GraflOQi as delegate to the Gen eral Assembly of the Presbyterian churcb,4nd the family to yisit rel atives at their old ' home. Soon after their arrival the older son. - - . 2 . i r ' 7 r--. - , thoroughly cleaned aad taken to the frain tank. ... ';" ; . ' - - r . The track: 'drives up 4h hlg ' auger sluices out th load In a miouitud-a-Aalf en the co. '- good yielder. The greens provide a good substitute for spinach tor I Louis, was taken very 11U and Is the babies when - the latter la out I not yet able to make the trip At QeryaisVote Headed for Ihebi from this dean-clipped swath as soon" as UJs swept on the gmooth-ninning draper Of a terpillar . eumbine. ' Headed; for the big-diameter cylinder that threshes home. ' Mrs. Grafious remained la Ohio with him. Louis la lmproT lng, - bat ,-' it . wUl be some " time yet before be will be sbls to trtT- VI KMVH, . . . . i," - While it 'Will grown under most adverse cirtumstaneesTv rich toil and. good cultij,aUon do' wonders la preducing ' heavy foliage and massive- stems and - midribs. ' A type, known aa-the Lyon is not KUSfOS IXOBKASKS CASHING able for -the extra -heavy charae- -.MOSCOW, : i ( AP) v soviet ter of these' stems' and -ribs. : In Russia is "going into the tanning preparing chard for the - table it industry this year da a big scale. is-flaest flavored w-en not over- The new. production program 4n eeekea.-: cooked -a ntil ft la .mere eludes the "preparation - ot - S 1 5 m 'iiut lutTuiv-ieiu i wvy,vw anB - cow ving GERVAIS, Jaly 12 The an nual school election .for District No. 1, Gervais Union -high, will be held next Tuesday afternoon from 2 to t e'cloek. One director is to be elected to succeed J. I." filiven whose term expires. Mr Bliren la a' candidate to succeed himself. ; The high school Is forgT iar ahead and has one ot the lowest per capita' cost per pupil In the 'country.- r.'O'---.'. f-;.f r 11 -- f t ths grain and linmediately separates . ninertenths cf Z PORTLAND it and delirers lt.into the .grairt carrier. ' c Headed for the bin there's -where your - grain s crops y go-1 : through the years, when they're trusted to a ,'terpfflart Cbm". bine ' 1 ' "' - - " '.4 r -' ; Tea may , inspect this combine at Salem or Portland. ' LG2GEns & ccrrnAcTons : r.iAciii::ffiY-co. V 315 E. RIadiscn SALEM 345 Center MORE GRAIN WITH COMEIXE U AMES,- Xowa; (OP) Small grain rdlnartly 1 cut with a binder before It U fully ripe to 20 i nrerent ' shattertnr ' B nainr T1U . it etea : more . true . et the 0 a M 9 1 crss: cf fruiU and tcss- I coabiat, sayi the Iowa ajrlcultnr-1 -stems than ot the green portion ot I tails, fl.000.09e cans " of fresh i al exnerimeat atauoau it u m I - the leaves. Stems should be boU-lneats and S4.000.000 cans -et) left in the field-10 days longer.---' : ed until teacr and then served; "lire3errA ateata, -Ittereasiaf the yield;" ' - TV j-- llien; throj2 the flow ef strair nd chaff must goV-to.be kicked and picked beaten and tossed anul whirled and bounced--kept ta aTebiistaiit7 - : !' si' it. -V- I 5 i vr . i J ..-1 . 1 y-. 1