PAGE SIX ' - The OREGON STATESMAN. Sateia, Oregon, Sunday Morning, September 14, 1930 . Th e Vailey AMiticullkmvisi and His. Work Editor's Note lira. Madelain Callln, Valley Newt editor of The Oregon Statesman. U also In chars of tha market newa of thia paper. Each c.ni mhm iiH Maiwiiliif ttm irrienlrnT&l Markets - - Crops Farm Home - - Livestock The Diversified Interests of Willamette Valley Fanners -nw of Interest to vallty farmers. Contribe- tiont ex merit are ibtiico. Til INC p r JILIIIU I IIUILU mn Tn ponce PWl H U U U U N w ill V i Polk County Farmers Se cure Increased Yield on Drained Land Bv J. R. BECK DALLAS. Sept. 13 Thous ands of feet of tile hare been laid during the past two years on some of the most prominent farms of the county. Crops Just har rested off of these tiled lands showed that their owners hare profitedN great deal from this work. The laying of tile on many farms has been put off from time to time because of the difficulty in getting the tile put in properly. A little over a year ago Q. M Partridge, ttfe manufacturer of Monmouth, purchased a mechan ical ditch digger which greatly speeds up the work of laying the tile. Mr. Partridge has taken contracts with the. various farm ers for the installing of drainage systems on their farms, enabling them to get the work done both efficiently and cheaply. As a re sult, hundreds of thousands of feet hare been laid. ' Systems Large J. A. Campbell of Perrydale. B O. Fanning of Ballston and John B. Stump of Monmouth are three farmers who hare had large drainage systems Installed on their places in the past two years, Mr. Fanning having some 60,000 feet laid on his place and .Mr. Campbell putting in 15.000 and on the Stump place many thous ands of feet were also laid. Mr. Campbell reports that his 15.000 feet of tile cost him fl, 500 in the ground but this high cost was due to the need of put ting In a great deal of 12-inch tile to carry run-off water from adjoining farms. Fifty acres benefited from this tiling work. In commenting on the benefits from the tiling Mr Campbell stat ed that he never grew much of anything on fifteen acres of the 50 acre field and this past year he yot an excellent crop of fall grain. The wheat showed up the best in' the ground that was the poorest before drainage. "Even at the cost' of 115,000 It will pay me ten per cent on my investment this year," stated Mr. Campbell. Used 10 Years In another field Mr. Campbell has watched the benefits from tile drainage for ten years and Is firmly convinced that it pays. On his farm north of Rickreall, Webb Lewis put in 10,000 feet of tile two years ago' before Mr. Partridge got his machine. This is in a 40-acre field and was in stalled at a cost of 750. Mr. Lewis states that this tile com pletely reclaimed three acres for fall grain. ."It is difficult to estimate how much I am benefit ed but a good deal. I consider tiling an absolutely good invest ment," stated Mr. Lewis. Anoth er field on the Lewis place that has been tiled is changed over from a spring field to one that is suitable for fall seeding. More Being Installed "Just east of Derry station along the Hawthorn highway, F. E. Pence Is Installing the first unit of a yery complete drainage system on the Dr. Findley farm. Already some 25,000 feet of tile are in the ditches, ready to cover. This tiling project was outlined by the state college extension service last winter. Mr. Pence stated that on his place where it is necessary to put the tile so close together it is costing In the neighborhood of $40 an acre for the tile in .the ground. It is Mr. Pence's intention to put in drain tile on much of the front tier of fields along the highway but there is some doubt as to the success of tiling the ground that lays back next to Basket Slough because of the soil type. Almost without exception the tiling work is being done to change fields so that they can be used for fall seeded crops and for the seeding of red clover, which Is so necessary in the ro tation on Polk county farms to maintain their fertility. A little tile in some fields would dry up spots that would enable the own er to get on the field in almost any season of the year. These wet spots keep him from preparing the rest of the ground until they have dried out and that makes the other ground too late. Fruit Growers Seek Lower Rate YAKIMA, Sept. 13 In view of the prevailing low price of pears and apples, and the uncer tainty of the future market, par ticularly for pears, the Wenat chee, Yakima and Hood River Traffic associations have joined In their attempt to obtain an emergency export rate of 11.00 per hundred on apples and $1.20 per hundred on pears. Requests have been presented to 15 rail roads, including the Great Nor thern. This hoped for special rate is to be in effect for this season only, and applies to fruit destined for foreign shipment only. The traffic association's export committee is now taking up with steamship companies operating out of Puget Sound, the Question of space, temperatures, and ser- Tice. Most of the apples and pears from this state' are now being ex ported by way of Pacific Coast Ports, which is an argument In favor of a reduction la east-bound rates of fruit intended for for eign market. A horse trail has been com pleted -to the summit of Mt, Whit aey, in California. 14.49C feet above sea level. -vt'sJ A REAL ARISTOCRAT I IT. f ":: -iv I W i Hi I . t r ' v.- & (i i Imported Eagle's Double Boy, champion Jersey bull, owned by M. O Gnnderson of Silverton. Imported Eagle's Double Boy Winning National Fame in SILVERTON, Sept. 13. A re cent issue of The Jersey Bulletin and Dairy World, a nationally read magazine in the Jersey world published at Indianapolis, Indiana, ' carried a story of Im ported Eagle's Double Boy, the splendid herd sire of the M. G. Gunderson Jersey herd at Silver ton. The article gives the following Information: "Few sires leave their marks so Imprinted In the herd of their -home countries as Improted Eagle's Double Boy, who celebrated his eighth birth day on August 11, 1930. is doing in the Jersey herds of Marion county, Oregon. Sire of Winner "Where there even a vestige of the human about Double Boy, we fear that he would spend his de clining years In boasting about the ribbons and and his descandants have taken, are taking and will undoubtedly take for years to come. For Double Boy, himself a I champion winner, has sired me grand champions, besides any ! number of lesser fry. This Is a record that any ancestor may well be proud of. We also feel quite certain that he would like to tell how his sons have proved so pop ular that 22 of them are being used by Marlon county breeders as her sires. Few sires can boast of more. "Imported Eagle's Double Boy was bred by T. W. Avril In St. Queen on the Island of Jersey. Messers. West and Reid Imported him in 1923, and sold him at auc tion the same year, M. G. Gunder son of Silverton bidding him in. That same autumn. Double Boy began to show his stuff by placing first In the senior calf ring at the Oregon State fair and second at the Pacific International show at Portland. A year later he placed nrst as senior yearling and took the Junior championship at the Portland show. "Double Boy's sons began to come in ior riDDons at Oregon shows in 1925. Eagle'? Spotted Boy has more than strutted his stuff in Oregon rings. He appear ed before the public for the first time in 1925 and took the Junior champion ribbon of the Marion county group at the Oregon spring shows. A year later he followed suit at both the spring shows and the Oregon State Fair. In 1927 he capped the climax by being twice grand champion in one month at the Oregon State fair and the SI1- BUDD MYSTERY t JSltj? I r S ft 1 li v 4 41 ? ft Jersey World Flax Yields 153 Tons on 50 Acres 4 AURORA, Sept. 18. There are two farmers who are not complaining about production, or low prices. Homer and Harry Fredrick sen of the Needy district, are satisfied with 1S3 tons of flax, taken from a 60 acre field. They have their own pun ins; machine, and have re cently Invested in a herd of 20 fine Jersey cows. rerton community fair. Prizes are won "Eagle's Buster Boy and Eag le's Rlnda Lad have both been winners of the grand champion prizes at the Oregon spring Jersey shows, and in the 1930 Marion eounty ring of the spring shows, his sons carried away both the grand champion ribbons and the reserve champion ribbon, the first going to Lad's Lady Rinda's Ea gle now owned by Samuel Tor vend, and the second to Eagle's Eminent Progress, pwned by Vic tor Madsen. "Lest we are thought Mid-Victorian, let us hasten to say that all the honors for Imported Eag le's Double Boy have not been won by sons. The feminine ele ment quite in keeping with the day is also doing its bit. Eagle's Pollyanna has been twice Junior champion and once grand cham pion in Oregon shows. Others have taken firsts. While few "figures and facts" are obtain able from official records because of the lack of an official testing association in Marion county, in variable Individual records are showing Double Boy's daughters as higher testers and better pro ducers than are their mothers. Long line of Champions "But when we Jook at what came before Imported Eagle's Double Boy, we are not so sur prised at what is coming after. His sire was Golden Maid's Doub le and his dam was' Brampton Sybil Lass. Sybil's Gamboge 3rd was his grandsire and Sybil's Gamboge was one of his great grandsires. Others of his ancestors are Gamboge's Oxford Gem, No ble of Oaklands, Gamboge Ox ford Sybil, General Cowslip and Imported Golden Maid's Prince." NEAR SOLUTION I o may solva a nyitery that had xM0m-J Vr-".i 1 i ij -1 'V MEN WILL EXHIBIT! IRK Rare Pieces of Handwork Being Sent to Oregon State Fair Spun, dyed, and woven by hand, that is the history f a large bed spread entered in the textile ex hibit of the Oregon state fair by a Bcotts Mills woman. The spread is the property of Mrs. Igna Myers and is one of the most unique and beautiful pieces thus far to be received at the fair offices, according to Mrs. El la S. Wilson, secretary of the state fair board. The bedspread Is made 1 n squared design of two sha4es of red, black, and a shading of gray. Scores of attractive entries al ready have been received for the textile exhibit, Mrs. Wilson said today. Two outstanding exhibits have been provided by Charles Pratt of Philadelphia, who has entered a eilk patchwork quilt requiring more than 1,500 hours in its manufacture, and by Mrs. J. P. Leaman of Woodburn, who has sent a bedspread, hand made of crochefTflllet, valued at more than $500. Seven states already are rep resented by entries into this di vision alone, it was revealed. Ap proximately $800 in prizes are offered. STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - The summer's drought has been beneficial to dairymen, be lieves. Dr. P. H. Stephens of the agricultural economics depart ment a( Oklahoma A. and M. college. "With sluggish business condi tions reducing the demand for dairy products, an lnto-storage movement would follow, hurting prices of these commodities for years." he says. "With the number of dairy cattle Increasing, and the amount of milk produced per cow also growing larger, the stage was set for a large over production of dairy products this fall, similar to the conditions now being experienced by meat producers." ELLS' EWE IS IT MONMOUTH, Sept. 13. Wil liam Riddell and Sons exhibit of Lincoln sheep at the California state fair at Sacramento won. for them champion ewe of that breed, and a majority of the other prizes offered. C. H. Da vidson of Halsey, won champion ship on his Lincoln ram. In the Cotswold entries C. Lo rence and Son of Monmouth scored heavily, winning cham pionship On ewe and many other first prizes. C. H. Davidson of Halsey was awarded second place on Cots wold ram lamb. AH of these sheep were exhibited by Walter Hubbard of Monroe, 'Oregon, who has a large show string of various breeds of eheep and An gora goats from the Willamette valley on a California circuit. Woman Conducts Tour by Airplane To Boost Legumes CLARKSVTLLE, Tenn. (AP) Airplane advertising has reached the farm in Tennessee. Led by a woman, president of the Montgomery County Lespe deza association, pioneers in the growth of the giant types of that legume sent a plane on a three day tour of Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. - Mrs. P. A. Meriweather, pres ident of the farm association since its organization three years ago, headed the plane party of five. Speeches were made at stopping places and two radio broadcasts were made. Kobe and Korean lespedeza, becoming important crops in Montgomery county, were spon sored in this section by the ex tension department of the Uni versity of Tennessee. These va rieties yielded 250 pounds of seed at 30 cents a pound from 2.000 acres in 1929, giving the growers a $75,000 cash income. This year the county Increased its acreage by more than 5,000. Two tons of hay to the acre and a seed production of from 300 to 500 pounds are not un common. The plant is similar to alfalfa in protein content and ni trogen left in the soil. Trend to Increase Price Spred Seep More complaint than ever is heard about the spread between producer and consumer. At the same time the trend of the times is not to decrease but to lncrase the spread. Thus we note a statement about the marketing of potatoes. It says that the packaging of potatoes is growing. Small hags made of cotton, bur lap, or other fiber, and also pa per eartons, are used. The bags Of cartons usually contain IB or Din DEUED 1 10 DID PI Careful Cultivation and Excellent Soil Of L a b i s h Region Combine to Yield 700 Carloads of Onions By VALMER KLAMPE LABISH CENTER. Sept. 13 Many people are unaware of the fact that within ten miles of Sa lem is a district where land val ues have increased within the last 25 years from $5 to $1500 an acre. Nevertheless this is true, and the district is the Lake Lablsh or Labish Center region, lying north and east of Salem. 8 he land is the famous beaver- dam once thought practically worthless, and the specialized crop wbhlch brought about such enormous transformation in val ues is onions. While other dis tricts in other states produce more, none excel the Labish dis trict's crop of Oregon Yellow Danvers in uniform excellence of keeping qualities and acre yield. Causative factors which have brought about such unusual dis tinction may be found in the soil, the climate, fertilizers, and seed selection. Care is Exact The culture methods as prac- ih.u gy growers utrs are uum interesting and exact. Preparations for a good seed bed are started in the fall or very early in the spring, depending upon the exact nature and loca tion of the soil. If the land is new and has a tendency to clod dlness, plowing in the fall will tend to reduce this condition. However, since the beaverdam is usually flooded several times during the winter and spring, many growers prefer not to plow in the fall In order to prevent excessive washing. After plow ing, the ground is thoroughly worked, in fact every device is employed to secure a finely, packed seed bed. One of the Important steps in the ground preparations is the application of fertlizers. With an Intensified crop like onions which In the growing stage use up a great deal of plant food both the ground and the crop produced thereon would soon de teriorate in quality without the annual use of fertilisers. Both commercial fertilisers and ani mal excrements are used, super phosphate and potash being the most common of the former. Be sides Increasing the size of the onion they also add greatly to the keeping qualities by produc ing a bulb much firmer in tex ture. Planted in March The ground being ready, the onion seed is planted in March or the forepart of April. Prac tically all growers here raise their own seed so that by care ful selection the good qualities of the strain may be increased. The seed is drilled in rows 14 Inches apart, and for this pur pose the power planter is rapid ly supplanting the hand drill. From 2 to 3 pounds of seed the exact amount will depend upon the size and test of the seed, as well as the personal de sires of the grower. After the onions are up they are hoed and weeded alternately from three to five times during 25 pounds. And this costs money, Just as it does to wrap apples and peach es seperately or to tie asparagus with baby ribbon. But the pub lic demands such service and will have it. It is wasted breath to condemn the spread. It is here to stay, and will grow steadily larger. Idle men Given Free Ride Away From Las Vegas LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) A free ride to Los Angeles or Salt Lake City for unemployed men is given by Las Vegas every so often. The citizens' committee orders a truck when the idle become too numerous on the street, load the men intq it and carry them, with a meal enroute to one of the larger cities More than a dozen men a day apply for work at Boulder dam. MAKES GOOD SEED BED SOUTH BEND, Wash. Rye and vetch sown as a green man ure crop and turned under late in the spring makes an excellent seed bed as well as maintaining the fertility of the soil, says Vey J. Valentine, county agent. H. Freeborough, Seaview, who used this system last fall had some of the best nursery stock in the county this spring. PULLETS COST 92 CENTS BELLING HAM. Wash. Five- month-old pullets, raised on the W. S. C. formula cost 92 cents per bird, according to figures submitted to the county agent's office. The 1300 chicks cost $208, fuel and feed cost $381.75, and the cash returns from the cickerels came to $95.89. The cash cost of the remaining 545 pullets was $493.86. Moving Storing Crating Larmer Transfer & . Storage Telephone 3131 ' We also handle Fuel OA and Coal JacVs Beanstalk Had Nothing on These Bean Rows ' HOUSTON, Tex. (A P) The beanstalk that Jack climbed has nothing on the beans raised by Fowler. Mc Daniel of Mitchell county, In this case, however, it's the length of the rows rather than the stalk's height. McDaniel has two fields containing 280 acres, all planted in pinto beans. There are only six rows in the fields, but three of them each are aproximate ly 180 miles long, while the other three each are 72 miles long. They are, it should be ex plained, planted in circles. j tne growing season, depending o course upon the weather and freedom of soil from weeds. Most of this work must necessarily be done by band since the rows are so close together. Wheel hoes and scuttle hoes have been de veloped for this purpose and then crews go through the fields pull ing out the weeds in the rows. Weeds grow as luxuriantly as other crops on the beaverdam and so a great deal of labor is required to keep the fields free from them. Every precaution is taken to prevent weeds from go ing to seed either on the onion land or on surrounding land. Pests Are Many Happy indeed would it be for the grower if there were no in sect pests or plant dteeaBes to combat, but such is not the case, and among the list of yield re ducers we find cut worms, mag gots, smut, blight, and thrip. For most of these protective measures have been developed. A poison bran mixture composed of bran, molasses, and Paris green scattered, throughout the fields will control cut worms. A weak formaldehyde solution sprayed on the seed as it is planted will reduce smut mater ially. But the onion maggot has been more difficult to control; experiments conducted by field men from O. S. C. during the past several years have been un fruitful. A large number of sprays were developed, but none proved practical. Two years ago two growers, the Weinman brothers, Ed and Frank, working on the theory that the maggots hatch from eggs laid by a fly, developed a fly catcher, which, though not en tirely satisfactory, is the best de vice known here at present. The maggot fly is unlike. the house flv In iltot If um.l.a -1 are pushed across the fields the flleg are caught as they fly up. Early morning is the most ad vantageous time for the use of the fly trap. No Control Fonnd Little or nothing can be done to combat blight and thrip. The onion tops become dry and brown prematurely when they are blighted and since it is through the top that the plant utilizes both oxygen and nitrogen from the air, the bulbs make lit tle or no growth afterwards. Heavy fogs In the early morbning followed by a hot day as well as hot weather immediately follow ing a rain will produce this con dition. A sulphur dust applica tion is thought to be beneficial, although only a very few growers use this. Thrip Is a venr small Insert which cause new ton shnnta t spring up from the center of the duids wnen they become infest ed with them. The neck of th onion consequently widens and Decomes rigid, the onion then DEED DUYEEIO We boy all kinds ef Clover Seeds, Vetches. Ete, Also, tint class Gray Oats Suitable for Seed CLEANING The very latest type ef . machinery that saves all the good seed Xm will always find we pay the highest markeTVices D. A.Whito and Oops Rune 160 61 state fit Salem. Ore, During 1930 being termed a "thick neck." A good rain will wash most of the insects from the tops, however. When the onions become ripe, the tops fall over to the ground and begin to dry. Harvest then begins: the onions are pulled and piled in rows, the usual num ber of rows thrown together be ing three or six. After laying in the fields several weeks, curing, the onions are hauled to the storage houses where they are kept until they are sold. The last step in preparing them for the market is topping and sort ing'. Up until two years ago all onion toppers here were run by gasoline engines, but since elec tric power became available then many growers have replaced the gas engines with the more re liable electric motor. Several of the toppers were constructed by industrial arts students at Salem high school. Improvements Many Necessity has always been the mother of invention and each successive demand has brought forth some improved device or practice. Fly traps and power planters with attachments for the use of formaldehyde have already been mentioned. Eleva tors designed to raise crates of onions to top shelves of the on ion, houses made their appear ance this summer. The usual topping machine produces a deaf ening noise when in operation. Features designed by H. F. Hanes, onion foreman on the Hayes Labish Farms, and incor porated on toppers built for Hayes this summer will eliminate much of the unnecessary sound. The practice of damming up main drainage ditches during the dry summer months inaugurated by a grower a year ago is be coming more popular as its ad vantages become apparent, -and only recently two concrete dams have been constructed on the Hayes holdings. Yield is Heavy The yield this year is excel lent; conservative . estimates Place the crop average of the district to be over a carload to the acre. The district yield may then be estimated to be about 700 cars of 30,000 lbs. each. Al most 200 acres more onions were grown here this year over last. Price Very Low The first car lot to leave the district was topped on Wednes day, August 27. Quite a num ber of car load lots have been sold since that date; many grow ers not having sufficient storage room. The price offered by buyers at the first of the season was 76c cwt., but at the present time only 65c Is being offered. This is considerably lower than opening sales of the past two years when $1 and $2 were of fered growers. At the present price growers sustain a heavy loss on each car. Whether or not the onions are graded to pass U. S. government Inspection is the personal option of each in dividual buyer. At the present time no reduction in acreage for next year is contemplated. (DHOEGSODI STATE Salem, September 22-28 Don't fail to visit this great state fair; thousands of prize horses, cattle, sheep and swine; boys and girls in club work demonstrations; many county dis plays; big exhibits of fruits, flowers and vegetables, auto show, six-night horse show and scores of other educa tional attractions hare been planned. Thrilling "vaudeville entertainment daily and dancing every evening. 7. BIG DAYS - Oregoni er Pap Manufacturers of BOND LEDGER GCASSINE GREASEPROOF - TISSUE V Support Oregon Product PtdfyftSpzlt f0r your Ofnc Stationery MORE ilGAT! PLIED 111 POLK 43 Farmers now Have Per mits With More to File DALLAS, Sept. 13. Polk county farmers are filing appli cations for irrigation permits very rapidly, according to Coun ty Agent J. R. Beck, who has been helping in making out these applications. Mr. Beck visited the state engineer's ofifce recent ly and compiled a record of all of the Polk county permits. This shows that 43 farmers have per mits to Irrigate 1,972 acres from the several streams and lakes of the county. Louis Lachmuud has a permit to Irrigate the largest acreage by pumping water from Humbug lake near the McLaughlin estate in the Independence district. This' permit entitles him to irri gate 600 acres most of which Is in hops. Another large permit is that held by the E. C. Horst company which is also largely for hops. The Zielesch farm at Parker, has a permit for one of the lar gest acreages in the county. Their project contemplates pump ing water from the Luckiamute river for 120 acres, much of which will be in pasture and al falfa. " t While there are a few permfts dating back 15 years or more, most of them have been issued in the last three years and in case of all of the rivers except the Willamette they have mostly been issued during the current year. On Mill creek in the western part of the county three farmers have permits to irrigate 54i acres while on Salt creek be tween Dallas and Ballston three other farmers have permits to irrigate 141 acres. The Luckia mute and its several branches is one of the best sources of irriga tion water in the sounty and 12 farmers have permits to Irrigate 506 acres. Along the Rickreall from Dal las to Eola eight farmers have permits to Irrigate 129 acres, much of which is in the Immedi ate vicinity of Dallas and is for the purpose of irrigating small fruit. The other 17 permits are from various lakes or sloughs and rivers of the county mostly direct tributaries to the Willam ette river. During the past few days Mr. Beck has given help to seveml farmers in the Grande Ronde country, who are figuring on Ir rigating by pumping water from the upper reaches of the Yamhill river. The Interest of other districts in the Irrigation devel opment here In Polk county has been quite marked and Just re cently Mr. Beck has been asked to prepare material for a stoT In Oregon Business, the publi cation of the state chamber ft ment in Polk county, commerce, on irrigation develop- Alabama received $2,615,424 of federal aid funds for highway Improvements during the fiscal year ending June 30. I BIG MGHQ Pulp and any Comp