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The Onrcr:? STATESJliAN Salga..Oicgron; Saaday .rornin; Jcsa 14, 1S31 PAGE EIGHT A Feature Page -of The Statesman (;:. on .; vt- Every Sunday IITECL Years of Experimenting ; I May be of Great .Value v . To Dairymen - Wait sweet clover pasture may soon become more man a aairy- f" man' dream , in -Benton. - count? mnA i western Oreson. At ' least; thtn lS years' ellorlatO m.b It a. realitr on the Oregon experiment station herd appar i entlr has reached the placed where success Is 'possible, according to HJU BchotB. associate asTonom- : 1st. ; ' ' ' " -. P-;'-Chief among the Ifeatures which. led dairymen of the west action to try time and again to grow this white- sweet ekTer is. proDawr, us ou- ity to produce abundant pasture during the summer months, with out Irrigation. If it could be grown, Schoth believes, It would go far toward filling the need of a summer pasture in the Willam ette vallev. where lack of sueh a i crop Is largely responsible fothe f high cost of producing nuuer- : fat. In addition, it is a gooa iu building crop. ... ! ,... , i. 1m Easter Oregon I Although it has - been grown In dairy sections of e a s t ern Oregon , repeated attempts by dairymen to grow it in the Willamette valley failed because of its unusual susceptibility- to stem rot, a. disease which attacks all legumes la western Oregon and Washington to a greater or : less extent. With . persistence, however, a smalt plot of sweet elover wa planted year after year on the Oregon experiment station I farm at Corvallis. Repeatedly, it flour ished abundantly the first year, 'only to succumb to stem rot dis ease the second year. T i- Finally, in 1521, while view ing the ruin of .another of these second year crops, one small plant was found unharmed. - It had resisted the stem rot disease. i Seed Saved . The seed from this plant was tared and planted. A few of the plants, from this seeding succumb ed to the stem rot disease; and the seed from the others was saved.r As the plant is a biennial, it produces seed only every sec ond year, and to date fire seed crops hare been harvested. The- last four plantings have shown no stem rot whatever. Last year, the progeny of that first plant produced 500 pounds of seed, enough for approximate-. 3 5 acres. Most of this is being portioned out to farmers in Ben ton, Clackamas, Lion, Lane, and Polk counties for trial under, varying conditions.. -.Some of It has also gone to experiment sta tions in Canada and; Washington for trial. In , exchange for .other, trial seed. - Five acres are growing on the experimental farm this year. This will be pastured this summer and tested for carrying capacity, ac cording to Schoth. Potato Profits d Depend Largely Upon Quality t . The profit which " Oregon'' po tato growers realize from their crop this year will depend ! con- ; siderably on their ability toi pro. ' - dnce a large percentage of I high . grade potatoes, keeping the - amount of lower grade or iio. 2 tubers down .to. a minimum,, says fE.'H, . JackmanT. extension spe- - ctalist in farm crops - at .Oregon State college. ; i Indications are for a large po tato acreage, this year, which will . mean a big crop and ow price if yields are- average, beleve Jackman. If this- is the -ease, he v"." ". Tiumberrtwts;wui be-worth only atoc. feed prices.; .-. In irrigated sections, Jackman points out. early and frequent application of water helps in ,, keeping down ihe percentage of : lew grade potatoes., while In non Irrigated regions conservation of moisture supply by planting - po tatoes on ground kept entirely free of plant growth since early spring gives the best results. In "the Utter ease,' cultivation is practiced only as -necessary to kill weed growth. .: 4 Careful digging practice are also Important In keeping down the number of number two tuber t caused by mechaneal . Injury. VlHDtS 1171, CMS BED At the state grange meeting at Bedford Mrs.- EHlen G. Lambert of Stayton grange No. '340, Stay ten, was appointed a member of ' the home, cronom lea., committee to take the 'place made vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Daisy . Bump.Mrs Lamberthaa keen a member ef the .grange over 27 years and Is a past master ' The following members from Marion county granges were dele gates to- the state grange conven tion at Medferd.' '- Mr. and Mrs. J. aV Van Cleave. Monitor grange, Mt. Angel; Mrs. Bearthriat and Mrs. B. L. Car others.. Wood burn grange. Wood- . burn; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer' D. Ceek, Brush College .grange. Sa lem j Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ed wards, Surprise grange. Turner," and J. A. and Mary Farr, Ankeny gauge. Jefferson. W. F. . GulTin, Surprise grange, was a visitor. OVER Mil fi e Paper Mulch Technique is L : New Here but Well Known To I Gardeners in Hawaii TOMATOES. , cucuMseos. i effwccH '- r- t' wist Uk oomaioh ,..,, f ..1..-. ,:.. . i . paper. 3 fx apaat. Plan i for Intensive Cropping With Paper Mulch Paper mulch gardening, brought to this country from the pine apple fields of Hawaii, is rapidly being developed to fit the needs of varied crops and cohdtlons. - For home gardeners , with lim ited space to devote to' vegetables paper mulch offers the following advantages: t Increased . yield, earlier harvest, and the elimina tion of. hard work in .cultivation. Strips of paper waterproofed with .asphalt come. In the stand ard widths of 18 and 3( inches. These are laid on the soil after it has been prepared and smoothed. Crops are grown either in holes which are made through the pa per, or in narrow rows of toil ex posed between the paper strips. The mulch has two effects on the soil beneath it: it raises the temperature and checks evapora tion.. It also prevents the growth of weeds and gives the desired crops a monopoly of the plant food in the soil. Experience with paper mulch In home gardens has shown the need in many localities where high winds are frequent 0f some method of holding the - paper down, other than ' the device of piling earth on its edges, which is the preferred method in com mercial plantings. The most sat isfactory fastening for small gar dens has ! een found to be placing stove9 wire, binder twine or laths along each edge of the paper strip, tying It down with wire staples every three or four feet DE MADE HERE OREGON STATE - COLLEGE. Corvallis, June 13 A successful process of manufacturing uregon white cherries into maraschino stock, recently announced .here by tho division of horticultural pro ducts of . the -experiment station, has now been published in detail in a new experiment station, bul letin Just off the press. It is en titled, "Bleaching and Dyeing Royal Ann Cherries for Mara schino or Fruit, Salad Use". That this commercial process. now made public for the first time for unrestricted use by the trade, will make possible a profitable outlet, for Oregon, white cherries is" the epinion : oT. ' the rresearch men. D. E, Bull is and E. H: Wio gand,"who have carried out the tests over . a-, period' of several years.. ;: - ' .v-'.'' ' - It, is pointed out that1 while the canning-trade is reluctant. to use the white cherries, this ' country annually. Imports; around .70,000 barrels of brined herries for the maraschino trade Last year some 10,000 barrels were brined kn Oregon to supply, part of this dfrr mand. ; v vr ' With ther- process fairly well es tablished a year ago. two can ning plants and one other organ ization tried the method out on a commercial - scale with -complete success. While It is known that some shipments of brined cherries were rejected, because' .of damage or. spoilage, those processed . ac cording to the system worked out here arrived in the east in excel lent condition.' ;" i -. Already many more fanner I s In Oregon are prepared to use the process this- year and thus afford. a greater market for j the white cnemes. arven;tne smaller ugnt V colored cherries, heretofore dis counted drastically in the trade, ace. suitable for . brining. Investi gations on. time of picking for brining show that best results are had It the harvesting Is dene Just before the cherries reach their fall maturity. J The new bulletin contains com plete directions for commercial processing of the cherries, in cluding bleaching. hardening, leaching and pitting, dyeing and flavoring. , , , . , MAY CROP HEAVY . ; ; HUBBARD. June 1 J Clover haying-Is In full swing here and a bumper crop is reported. Sev eral farmers, having filled their barns, are stacking the extra hayv v PROGRAM ENJOYED JEFFERSON. June 11 The Social Hour club sponsored a de- ugntrui evening, when a social aa given at the DeVaney-school j- nouso .on J une ; 3. An Interesting feature of the ' etenlnr was tb comedy; -"Chints CetUge," which waa given by the following cast: Margaret rDensmore, - Margaret Goin, Frances Coin. Melvtn Ep ley. James AshXord. Helen Epley. Margaret .Kelly At the close of the program Ice cream and candy ON VACATION BETHANY. Jase 13 Miss BU anca Jorgenson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jorgenson, has arrived at her horns here for the summer vacation. Miss Jorg enson has been teachiaa- at -Stan. wood. Washington, the past year and will return again next year. Minis Valley as shown in the Illustration. This holds the edges of the paper close. to the earth and further checks evaporation. : .: " ; With the need for cultivation eliminated, and" the moisture ' in the soft conserved, -paper mulch gardens are found capable of more Intensive, planting than, or dinary. The 18-inch width is used in small gardens, but instead of growing' crops In rows 18. inches apart,, the favored method is to sow drill crops In the soil ex posed between the rows of paper, and to plant hill crops in holes made in the center of the paper strips. This gives double the um ber of rows. . 1 , , Drill crops are those grown from seed sown In a continuous row. such as radishes, beets, car rots, parsnips, and-leaf lettuce. Hill crops are those where con siderable space it left between plants or groups of plants in the row. Examples are cabbages, staked t tomatoes, cauliflower, peppers, eggplants, .head lettuce, and melons and; cucumbers, though 'these vine crops are not adapted to such close planting.- By Intensive planting with : pa per mulch the area devoted to a vegetable garden for a given yield could be reduced one-half, and the work of maintaining it, after the paper is laid and the - seeds sown and the plants set out, would.be only a fraction of that necessary for the garden of the usual type. Frog Farm is To be Started v INDEPENDENCE. June 12. LeeHershbergerhas purchased a farm 14 acre tract, of land .near Canby. where, he is going to raise bullfrogs. on a commercial scale. Ponds will ' be constructed, i as running wate"r"fi6ws' through the place. ' . Mr. Hershberger has purchased several pairs of frogs and will add more later. . i These frogs are raised for ta ble purposes and are much larger than the common variety, weigh ing about 3H pounds when two years old. ; . Mr. Hershberger will continue to make his home In Indepen dence leaving some one to-care for this frog farm. . . ..V CROPS UXSATISPACTORY --"AURORA. June IS Early Crop conditions in this territory are unsatisfactory. The strawberry crop; is short and on account of color the growers are , being docked from 19 to 50 per cent. Cherries are also scarce and the price - unsatisfactory. Prospects for a fair yield of loganberries are ver$r good. Picking in gome yards is-expected to begin Mon day. v:. "..- 'z-- 's '.; - i EIGHTS. with b e H(Mp ie r - J.ALK to Chrysler owners and tliey'UtcU youthat . Chrysler cart are joyously 'different from other cars. 'Better looking.' Livelier in- power. Snappier in . - .pick-up Smoother at all speeds. 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Halt a crop means possibly 5 0. -vOO.COv .pounds, tfompared with list , yeara d.uaTter-croplr produc tion of 25,000,000 -pounds., and the . f nll-sixed bumper output of 112.000.009 pounds in 1929. Conditions vary.- widely In the different districts and even wlth- in the same locality,' due .'prob ably to ... the:- Irregular . weather conditions o recent months. Some orchards give indications of heavy production, while, others In the same "neighborhood - are al most barren. .; , . The north and south 'extremes Of . the districts show the lightest prospects. The 'central aectlon,' lying between Salem and Dallas, north to Portland Jias the bright est prospects. Douglas county and Clark county. Washington,, will have very light crops this season; according to present .Judications. This condition is an exact reversal of last year's situation, in which the central distrct had the lowest yields, with Douglas and . Clark ceuntiee approaching nearest normal production. , - - California , Uncertain - The. California prune situation la summarized in the May report of the department of agriculture as follows: . . ; Vlt la exceedingly difficult to prepare Information at this time that will-reasonably-well indicate the production" of prunes. This' la largely due to the fact that the Important prune counties of San ta Clara, Sonoma, Napa and-So-lana originally set - good . crops, i but are-unusually short of mois ture supply, which may result in a heavy drop before the maturity date is reached, - or of much small-sized fruit. The - state of California shows a condition of 62. which is made up of a large number of growers, well distrib uted in the Important producing areas. A year ago the condition was 73, which gradually increased to 82 at hartest time. Reports by county groups are as follows: North coast counties, 88; bay and central coast counties, 61; Sacramento Valley, 63; San Joa quin Valley 68; Sierra mountain counties, 82; and southern coun ties. 20. Heavy rainfall May 23 to 25; may Improve moisture condi tions slightly, with resultant im provement of condition. ... African Grass f - May be o f Value To Dairymen HOUSTON, Tex, (AP) A spe cies of African grass, grown to a height of 16 feet on the South Texas farm of E. W. Gruss, may aid the dairyman who no longer has the-open range to draw on for feeding.-' " ' - ; Gruss has experimented ' with the grass, called Napier, : for 12 years.' For years he was a United States government" " agricultural agent; With the aid of- the de partment - at - Washington . he ob tained, a number, of roots to be gin his work. . : As cow feed, he said, the large leaves are excellent. They contain 3.5 per cent protein and 14 per cent carbohydrates in the green state and 11.32 per cent protein and. 41: per cent carbohydrates when "cured. - -" . . 225. & SIXES a Gkr0fem sti ano BMGUS CUL1BE OFFERS PROBLEMS Age and sex of Plants are Important Factors in 1 ; 1 . Growing 7 V Editor's 'Note The following article recently published In - "Better Fruit" was written by . Charles E. IMirst and is reprinted here . because of the gen eral ' interest in asparagus as a possible- commercial cropv for this section ot tbs . WUlaatette valley. " s For years there, has been .dis cussion, among; growers . as to what age of asparagus plants will give the best results. 3any of the older growera still ding Xa t the idea that two-year-old plant are best. They do" undoubtedly give a better stand ' and 'probably, a .bet ter crop la the first few years tif the patch, but all of the experi ment stations which have - eon ffucted testa on the matter, ao far Jb I know, assert, that one-year-old plants are the best. In. recent, years the sex ques tion in asparagus has also receiv ed a lot of consideration. It-now seems pretty well settled that the male 'plants will give better re sults than the females, and that the mortality la lees among male plants than among the females. Thus, a patch composed entirely' of male plants, .If it could.be se cured, would appear to ' be the better, - other things being - equal. Blooms Second Season - However, asparagus does , not bloom until the second season af ter planting the- seed, so that it is impossible to set the plants at one year , of age and also deter mine which are males , and which are females. The question' arises to whether it Is possible to rec oncile the two factors so as to re ceive the benefit of both. The Massachusetts Agricultur al Experiment station , suggested a couple of years ago that the seeds be planted In the late sum mer so that the plants , would be able to make a small . growth yet that season, then taken up, separ ated, -and set out one by one the following season. Plants handled this way will bloom the following season after planting the seed. The station authorities' reasoned that this method might give, the desired result. The Massachusetts station also stated that asparagus plants could be multiplied rather quick ly by division of the old crowns. In this way one could obtain male plants exclusively, and the su perior plants of a large patch could also be chosen. . 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RusselTs Garage O , Corvallis; .-' Pef f era Garage - " Dayton if; lis Oysters From As Palatable Vegetable oysters, so called, furnish an attractive vegetable for the menu when their prepar ation for the table ' is properly understood. The vegetable oyster, oyster plant, or, salsify with the parsnip and kale furnish three vegetables that may be gathered in the garden at any time during the winter. 'They are three vege tables that withstand anything in the way of freezes and their flavor is improved thereby. ' The vegetable oyster get T its name because when cooked Its flavor.' resembles that of the oy ster. It Is vegetable requiring a; long season of growth to de velop its roots ; which are not large even when grown, to the full extent of the plant's . capability. It thrives 'under the. same condi tion as ,the parsnip a light, rich solV without fresh manure, . The jwots are long and slender and selaom more than an .Inch in thickness. They, are at their best after having been frozen, and the season Is late winter and early spring. Seed should be sown early to give them a long growing sea sons --" - One of the reason ' that ' has caused this vegetable to lack pop ularity is Its unattractive and strong plant: Experienced grow ers are unanimous In stating that the' strongest plants, with thick roots, and crowns having not too many buds, will produce the best results. One of the best growers I have ever known states that he can N Increase the . productivity of a. patch throughout Its life 50 per een t by careful selection of the plant. . Plant Separated The matter of separation of the growing plants' also presents a problem. As the seeds . are sown, It is impossible to separate them so that no . two or more plants .will appear. In such cases the root and crowns 4will be In tertwined so that it will be Im possible to select the males from the females without digging them up. , x;: :-.J- . ...... 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They , should be thinned .to about 'four Inches apart, a the root do not need the rooni to develop required by parsnips or turnips. ' The soil should be deeply prepared, as the root makes good depth. ' ' Mammoth Sandwich Island Is one of the best varieties, making the most, sizeable roots and.'-most regular. jSome varieties show a tendency to make branching roots, the branches of which are so small ks to i make them use less. 1 -V . -'..'I T would bloom during the follow ing summjer and the female plants could be dug out a soon as dis covered. fYlV AVl SB WTAtllif ttSB-Wsfc ATCIW as as jvuy w vuiu v w wi male plants to plant In the per manent plantation. It Is an open question, In my opinion, whether the transplanting would not keep the plants ryoung" through the encouragement of new root growth and thus cause the plants to act -much as one-year-olds. 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