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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1931)
The OREGON STATES51AN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning. June 23. 1931 spoiled iwriw BE PUT TO USE Clover or Alfalfa is Valuable Fertilizer Says Expert; Recently ; DALLAS; '. Jun 2 T Farmer who' were unfortunate enoagh. ts bar alfalfa and clover hay rain ed by .ft rain of the past two weeks, should not consider It a total loss, according- to J, R. Beck, county agent. He advtsea that It can be used to good advantage as fertiliser In fields and orchards. A ton of. alfalfa or clover being equal to a ton of good barnyard manure. It rota readily and la high in nitrogen and other ma terials. . - It should be scattered rather thinly on the fields or through the orchard, so that It can be worked into the- soil later. Or if a- place is not. now available it can be stacked In some conven ient " place for dlstributioa this falU - . ; - ' ' J . r The warm -rainy weather has also been responsible for the ap pearance of brown rot in many of the orchards and unelis measures are taken at once the prune crop Will be spoiled by picking time. - Brown rot can be largely pre vented by a apray of either sul fur dust or a wettable non-caustic aulfur spray according to Mr. Beck and should be. applied again three or four" weeks -before pick ing time. Full direction for dust ing or spraying nifb secured front the office of the county agent. Butler Favors Debt Vacation . MEDIA. Pa.. June 57 (AP) Major General Smedley D. Butler, today approved President. Hoov ers war aeDt moratorium pro posal as ''worth trying at least". Addressing the - graduating class of the "Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades. Gen eral Butler said ho would "cancel the whole works". If It 1 would help the present situation. f OPPOSE RATE BOOST , : CHICAGO, June 27 (AP) C. A. . Sandberg, transportation director of the American farm bureau federation, said today the federation would oppose vig orously the -proposed 15 per cent Increase In freight rates asked by the .railroads. . Ford Sponsors Farm to v I Cure Farmer's Troubles i i - ft' v - -'V . n Employs L. .-..:-, : ... Oh ' .' 3 1 " 1 " 1 m'mm' m Far -7. it A- h it flHAPfY 'J FoSD fi x-:-::- ' SI DETROIT, Mich. Juno it "Pity the poor farmer" is a phrase that may very soon come to be regarded as misrepresenta tive as some of the historic bon mots applied to the "Tin Lizzie" of happy memory. Henry Ford, tho genius who put America a-wheel and made the pedestrian a precarious insur ance risk, has taken hold of the farm problem in just the same manner as he treated the auto mobile industry, and if his exper iments are as successful as be hopes, the bugaboo, "farm re lief will no more be the stumb ling block on campaign plat forms. Mr. Ford has t out to put farming on a paying basis and with this end in view has estab lished a 3.000 acre "agriculture laboratory" in Lenawee county in southern Michigan. There he has taken his first step In applying the principles of Industry " to farming by putting Into effect an eight-hour day. for farmers and farm laborers with a minimum wage of 5 a day. ; Ford believes that the solu tion of the farmer's problem Ilea in increased efficiency and the discovery of new markets for farm products. For many years he has conducted experiments of his model farm at Dearborn and this work will go forward on a mucn larger scale in the new project at Lenawee cfounty. Ce of his pet theories is that one of the major problems - of business and Industry today is to correlate manufacture and farm ing. He believes that many by products of the farm can be of use to industry, thus widening the farmer's market and enab ling him to be a bigger buyer of Industry's manufactures. As aa example. Ford chemist havo shown that there la possibility of the hulls of buckwheat being used a fuel in tho factories and tho ashes therefrom going back to tho farm for fertilizer. 'But what about the winter?'' say the sceptics. "Can Mr. Ford afford to pay his laborers tho minimum, of If per eight-hour day while they are laid off la those months iwhen farming is Impossible?" , That Is also provided for In the plan. SmalL industrial, plants are to be constructed where the tillers of the soil may work during the perods. when work on the land Is closed to them. One such plant la already la course of construction at Rawaonvllle,.iu Wayne county, for the manufacture of textiles. It is Ford's belief that - many ! such plants dotting :tho countryside and glTing employment to farm era and farm , laborers in winter would benefit ' both . farmer ' and manufacturer, . " .. ' ... : . " : ; Many of the' foremost econom ists of the country are of the opinion that the experiment In agriculture may lead to' Changes in farming as revolutionary as the changes Mr, Ford brought about in industry when he put into ef fect tho principle of . higher wages and shorter hours as a means at making the worker a larger con sumer of the goods he helped to produce. . - ; ; One thing Js sure, if Ford's experiment results in the emanci pation of the farm laborer" from the sunrise to . sunset working hours,-he will havo won tho grat itude of a million horny-handed sons of the soil and who can say that tho experiment has been In vain? . Midget Robber Gets Life Term CHICAGO. Juno "27 (AP) Willie Doody, the midget robber and killer, faces-the prospect of pending the rest of his life in prison. . - - - , He was sentenced' to life im prisonment Friday by Judge John Prystalskt for the murder on May. 25. Hit, of Charles Levy, police chief of suburban Berwyn. 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This is a plant known as New Zealand spinach although It is no relation to spin ach, doesn't look like it and does not taste like it. It has an Indi vidual and characteristle flavor much liked; by some and not so much relished by others. It is not well known although grown for many years by some gardeners. This plant botanloally Is Tetra gonia expanse, th expansa part of it relating to its expansive hab it of growth. It is of indetermin ate branchiae habit, keeping on branching and each branch (fur nishing; leaves' for greens. These leaves are small, fleshy and trian gular la shape and it continues to grow and Increase all during the summer months. It Is an excellent plant for poor soil as it does not require the rich fare of the true spinach 'and its season is much longer, lasting for weeks. The seed should not be planted until well into May when tho soil is warm and it needs plenty of room. The plants should be given two feet each way in which to expand. A few plants will' give sufficient material lor a liberal supply of greens. Those who like Its flavor like it very much. Tou cant tell until you try it. For early fall the modern de- en TO- BE HEAVY QUE AURORA, June 27 Three boxes of fancy early June peaches were placed upon the market here Wednesday. They were of excep tionally fine quality and were grown on the Ctrl Eiler peach or chard, which is located down P ' the Willamette river la Clackamas county. Land following the stream in that location is particu larly adapted to peach culture. The orchards are separately owned by Gird and Charles Eiler and are the largest in 1'lackamas county. During thepeach season and especially on Sunday, there Is a constant stream of cars go ing and coming on a road which Is used only by the Eiler families. The peach crop for the coming season gives every indication of being a large one, and of especial ly high quality. Hales Karly vari ety, grown by Gird Eiler was dam aged by the recent rains and the grower took quite a loss. velopment of cookery has discov ered another material for greens. This is curly endive whose hand some white curled hearts are so attractive on exhibition, but which as salad material never quite live up to their handsome appearance. Some of our foreign population take these handsome white heads and boll them as greens and they are very palpa table cooked like dandelion greens and hsvlng a somewhat similar although milder flavor. But tor all summer greens of quality, the Swiss chard is by long odds the most liberal produ cer and the best quality mater ial. No garden should be without a row of swiss chard. A few plants will go a long way If the leaves are cut. It isn't necessary to pull up the entire plant as is so often done. This merely cuts down the production. , Nearly 15.000 square miles of fertile soli in Nebraska is sebject to erosion. 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