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The CZIGOll CTATZCMAIJ. Solaza. Orecoa. Thursday Morning, May 4, 1S5I
Gooseberries
Yield Good
Harvest
Grower Admits They
Take Care and Much ;
Cultivation
: By LILLE L. MADSEN .
Statesman Farm Editor
If yeu -jut-4i -in the -paper that
" ': we've never had a cooeeberry
- icrop .failure. -exerybodj'll ' be
- planting gooseberries,' said C. W,
Crabenhorst, who has grown
gooseberries for the past 12 yean,
sad says it's the truth that he has
- never had a crop failure in that
time, nor has he known anyone
else who has had a failure.
But," he added, as an after
thought, "they'll take 'em out
again, once they , try . harvesting
them." .v-,-.;;;. .
, However, unless gooseberry
fields are "taken care of from
the time they are set out until the
... time they are dug out,' to quote
i Mr. Grabenhorst, "you don't have
?i . very good yields." ,
We caught Mr. Crabenhorst
' and his son, C. W. Grabenhorst,
Jr., '"taking care" of their field.
They were, each with his own
horse and cultivator, working be-
tween .the rows. Following this
- there will be hoeing, much after
. ; the fashion of hops. But there
. . isn't nearly as much work with
the gooseberries as there are with
hops, the grower reported, adding
. . that, of course, gooseberries "don't
bring a $1 a pound."
'. Last year, Mr. Grabenhorst said
- he harvested 28 tons from an
; eight-acre field, and 24 tons from
another of the same sire. These
fields were five and six years old.
Growers paid 14 cents a pound
last year for picking, and expect
to pay about the same again this
'year. The 1943 price of 8 -cents
- a pound will probably also "carry
ever,", Mr. Grabenhorst thought
All of Mr. Grabenhorst's plants
are the Champion varieties. There
re other varieties than this, he
said, but they were not grown
, for commercial purposes. Goose
berries are "best planted in the
spring early. spring. The .first
- . spring following,' this grower 'cuts
-bis bushes "to mere stubs," to en
courage new shoots of wood,
! When; the bushes are two years
old, they usually yield a small
. crop., i Their good bearing years
start with their third year and
continue, with good care, to their
eighth when they begin, to taper
off again. . ' ;
; - Spraying is quite a 1 problem,
Mry Grabenorst reported, telling
. -that he had to pay a boy 75 cents
aa hour to drive the horse while
:';., he sprayed.' j; -' , , ;
in r ebruary or- early March, a
lime sulphur spray, .100 gallons to
the acre, is used. As soon as the
fruit lis set, Bordeaux is used to
control anthracnose. ,
- Mr. Grabenhorst said that in
the Pringle district, where he has
his 23 acres of berries, the growers
are hot so . much bothered with
wormy fruit as. they have been
elsewhere. Only once has he
found it necessary to spray with
the lead-arseriate-molasses spray
which controls these.- The root
borers, we gathered, did much
more damage, and as yet no par
ticular control! measures were be
ing used t6 fight this pest.
But: if plants are kept growing
healthily, if they are planted far
enough apart jto permit plenty of
air circulation, and if weeds are
kept out of the fields, gooseberry
bushes give a j good yield and , are
not "too hard ;to manage." 4
Willamette,
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V.aliey Farmer
Netcs andyieim ofi Farm and Garden
Consider the Soil"
4.
And Muse Grass Mixtures Best
Suited to Its Conditions J
. . By W. G..NIBLHR; , . ... .
In selecting: a mixture of grasses, it seems advisable to con
sider ' seriously the soil conditions under., which the grass is to
grow and with what weeds it is to compete. It is suggested that
the description of grasses be considered carefully before deciding
on a mixture. The following are a few general suggestions on
mixtures:' -I. :c ..:.
THIN OR FERNY HILlLAND : .' "
;i Mixture 1 ' p Mixture 2
Chewincs Fescue I Chewing rescue I
mm
Highland Bent Grass
Orchard Qraas S -Subterranean
Clover
Creeping Tted feacue 4
Orchard Grass
Subterranean Clover S
" LOGGED-OFF OR CULTIVATED HILL LAND
Mixture 1 Mixture 2 I - Mixture
Chewing Fescue 3
S
Orchard Grass 9
Perennial Rye Grots S
Creeping Red Fescue S
Subterranean Clover S
Alta Fescue) 10 $
Chewlngs Fescue 4
Perennial Bye Grass S
Subterranean Clover 3 1
Alta Fescue 7
Tall Oat Grass 5
Perennial Rye Grass 4
Chewinga Feacue 4
Subterranean Clover S
Mixture
Alta Feacue S '
Orchard Grass S
Perennial Rye Grass
Subterranean Clover
WELL-DRAINED VALLEY SOILS
1 Mixture 2 I
Alta Feacue S '
Orchard Graaa S
Chewinci Fescue 4
Subterranean Clover
, Mixture 3
Orchard Grass 7
TaU Oat Graaa 5
Perennial Rye Gress 9
Creeping Red Fescue 3
WHITE LAND AND
SWALE LAND
Alta Fescue 11 -
Perennial Rye Grass
Alsike Clover 3
Chewings fescue should not be
included in a mixture, for dairy
cows. Creeping red fescue may be
substituted for chewings in any
of the mixtures, particularly if
dairy cows are to be pastured. Use
plenty of fescue seed on thistle in
fested ground. Orchard grass,
creeping red fescue and chewings
fescue are the shade grasses. Or
chard grass and tall oat grass
will usually not stand up under
sheep grazing. Give some thought
to growing your own seed supply
of some of these grasses. An acre
or two harvested will seed a lot
of land. Some of these seeds are
hard to buy or are expensive but
can be grown at a low cost.:
Loose seed beds cause the great
est number of failures. A good
pasture mixture costs money and
the field is left down several years.
A good seed bed to get a good
stand is money well spent. Plow
soon enough to allow plenty of
time to cultivate and pack the
soil. I have yet to see a seed "bed
too firm. In too many cases the
best stand is 'in the wheel tracks,
showing the importance of pack
ing the soil.
Early fall seeding preferably on
summer fallow has given by far
the best stands. Next best is a late
spring seeding in May or June if
the seed bed is packed well enough
to prevent drying out February
and March seeding run the risk
SWAMP LAND
(Any one of the following)
Reed's Canary Grass 10
Meadow Foxtail IS
Seaside Bent Grass 5
May Day Observed
.Witli Gay Flowers
For Friendship j
UNIONVAjE Mrs. - Josephine
Jones and Mrs. Dora Hayes of
Whlteson were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Liauner and family.
Kenneth L. Montgomery of Den
ver, was a Sunday guest at the
same home. Mr. and Mrs. Launer
. accompanied j him to Portland
Sunday on a business trip.
Betty Jo Strawn was compli-
anented; on her birthday, April 30.
May day was observed Mon
day when tsuuty young people
, laden - wlthj lovely arm ben
cjuets Quietly Presented them to
elderly t Heads in the tradition
ally and antiquated method.
' Plans by patrons bf the district
for the last day of school, May 17,
when a picnic with athletic sports
win be held.
Townsend Club Holds
Communi ly Dinner
. DAYTON Twenty-eight mem
bers of 'the ay ton Townsend
'club attended the semi-monthly
meeting Monday at the Charles
W. Hsgan home.
A community dinner was
served. Fried Hettsmansperger,
tie president will be the next
test at his home.
tzn Ihrnca fcr Ccnzress
V,Vd rather be represented In
Ccnrfc3 by Dan Harmon, a
sound business man and farmer
who has had jyears of experience
i i foreign countries, than to be
"recen'sa cy a wise pouuuu ,
.O lacxs EGin pracucii ,u-
. 1 . - M M . hi.
nee ana trxwieaje oi
;iirs. A vets for Harmon Is-a
f: ? frc3 cr.tcrrrise, free f-
Iculiure and practical legislation.
of late frosts and are often quite
weedy.
The value of the seeding and
the yearf the crop is left in jus
tify seeding alone to insure the
stand. Cover seed about Y inch.
Covering too deep often causes
failure, k '
Some commercial nitrogen fer
tilizer applied at seeding time will
help very much in getting a good
stand. Where there is a good stand
of legumes in a pasture, phosphate
and landplaster should be used.
Subterranean clover responds very
well to phosphate fertilizer. Barn
yard manure is a very good fer
tilizer for-spasture. Give the grass
a chance to get itself established. It
will pay hack this start many times
in bigger yields and longer life.
The leaves make the food that
makes fhe grass grow. Pastures
kept grfzed short Just -can't give
the yields of those moderately
grazed for given a rest period
throughlrotation grazing.
- (Mr. Nibler'i series of pasture ar
ticles will be completed next week.)
Daffodils Like Meal
scattering bonefneal over your
daffodil; bed, now that the plants
are through blooming, will bene
fit the growth of the bulb. Dig
ging bonemeal into the soil over
the daffodils in late fall will also
help keep the bulbs well fed and
the blooms large. -
Fertilizer Has
A Minn
The new ammonium nitrate fer
tilizer gives the gardener both a
"right now" and a "later! fertil
izer In that it contains 32 to 35
per cent of nitrogen, half of which
is in the nitrate form aa supplied
by, sodium nitrate, and the other
half La the ammonia form as sup
plied by ammonium sulpha & The
nitrate form is available quickly,
while the ammonia ' stays in the
Get your ground ready, weather soil for later use. ' l
permitting, for your snap beans.
If you have quite m bit of space
you might like to plant some sweet Agents Say to DllSt
VU1U 1UU HJUOW. UIUCU UU
the space, however, it doesn t pay.
Small gardens had best be devoted
to vegetables which produce more
prolifically. f
Plant a few gladiolus.
Pat some commercial fertilis
er along the rows of lettuce,
carrots and peas. Bat water It
Divide and, i transplant your j
primroses as soon as they finish!
blooming. ' If you find they are i
having trouble with their roots,
better set them in new ground.
Prune lilacs by cutting bouquets
with long stems.!
Bait religiously for cutworms,
slugs. Don't let one escape when
you see it If you: do you will soon
have many more. .
Our county agents are advising
dusting all corn seed with Semes
an Jr as protection against fun
gus diseases which ; attack newly
planted seeds and conf seedling?
aurmg uie perioas or cool, wea
ther. Six pounds of seed per acre
is considered a good planting rate
here in' the v 1 1 e 7 , and.' many
yields are reduced by raising more
than three stalks per hill or plant
ing; closer than 18 Inches in the
row. ' ; ' . , "
Mrs. Eva Wilcox
Dies in Lebanon
LEBANON Mrs. Eva Wilcox,
wife of Wilfred Wilcox, died Mon
day at the Lebanon hospital. Bur-
ial was Wednesday in the IOOFi
cemetery after services at two
o'clock in' the Howe chapel. .
Mrs. Wilcox was born in Ark
ansas 38 years ago and came here 1
from New Mexico two years ago.
Besides, her widower, three little
girls survive her, ages 12 and 9
years and 9 months months.
All Grow in V alley Vl - j
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Oregon's total gooseberry acre
age in 1943 was 550. This was all
in the Willamette valley. The 1944
acreage is estimated at about the
same. " 1 '
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Ranch Railing
By Rural Reporter
" Edging over into Benton coun
ty, we found 1 orchardists 1 worryj
ing for fear the rains had inter
fered seriously (with pollination of
cherries. - Pastures there, tike all
the sections we visited, were much
improved. , I - - j I - ' .
. Around Albany, gardeners were
observing, that; rain had delayed
land preparation for; seeding, fi
ber flax was up and pastures were
looking nice throughout Linn
county. : -X f: - 1 i ' -.
In Polk county, farmers, ', too,
were complaining of . unfavorable
weather for pollination and of de
layed seeding; and over in Yam
hill county thefgrouhd is too wet
to be worked .-t'!-i 'X-l --f
- In our borne county; Marlon,
walnub were budding, frost land
pollination were both unfavorable
to pollination' but pastures - were
much improved. L ' "".) ;
', ' Oats ' and vetch were makln
good growth in Clackamas coun
ty, and corn was beginning to be
talked. We rounded up1. J. Ins
keep, Clackamas county agent
and made him? come across c with
some corn information. $aid Mr;
Inskeep In part: )
. "Aitnougn . we nave ample op
portunity for i seeding fall and
winter crops, f' I expect i that we
will seed 1 approximately 1 1,000
acres .of corn again this! year, as
growers are finding field corn to
be a profitable crop in addition to
its desirability as a cultivated
crop which is desirable in the ro
tation, as summer cultivation In
cidental ' to the culture 01 , corn
helps to clean the field of weeds.
Our acreage of corn would prob
ably be larger except for the fact
that we are short jon corn plant
ers and power cultivators." j! ; r
We ; Insisted on Mr. Inskeep
telling more about .this corn bus
iness. - ; j ' '-"Qta
Corn yields here, he said, com
pare favorably with those of the
midwest and 4(0 bushels an acre is
no longer considered, out of the
ordinary, ' Most of the corn grown
In Clackamas county la grown for
grain, although silo : filling is a
very important operation on dai
ry alarms throughout the county.
Introduction ; of improved varie
ties along . with the development
of power cultivators, are factors
responsible for these Increases of
acreage and production. Cultiva
tion of 50 acres of corn is a large
Job for a team of horses, but with
the new four-row tractor cultiva
tors, the care of 100 acres Is a sim
ple matter.
Mr. Inskeep reported that corn
was planted, from. April 20 to the
middle of June, as; sou and wea
ther. conditions : permit ;Wiscon
sin hybrid 355 and the new early
Oregon hybrid ' 100, Introduced by
the Oregon t experiment station
last year, are the most popular va
rieties for both grain and ensilage.
' Eureka Dent is a quick matur
ing,, high yielding Variety, devel
oped ' by Dr.; A,' H. Hume of the
South Dakota experiment station,
where Mr. Inskeep located it In
1936.4 It seems quite at home, he
i reports, in Clackamas county, and
it has revolutionized swine pro
duction in that county, for the use
of this variety makes the practice
of hogging corn in the field a
sound farm operation. Planted
prior to May 7; it may be expect
ed to be ready for hogzinavdown
about August 25. Growers cus4
tomarily broadcast two pounds t
rape to. the acre between the corn
rows at last cultivation. - . j
Mr. Inskeep told us that to elim
inate flea beetle damage to rape;
planting of this should be de
layed Until July 1. . . . ., -s ' ;
Six pounds of seed ' corn per
acre-to considered good plan
tn rat ' . : ' i
j Growing of corn for grain re
ceived its-emphasis in Clackamas
county from field corn variety
trials established in cooperation
with , the late Phil Wlegand of
Needy in 1836. Now some of the
larger growers raise from 50 to
100 acres of corn annually. Dan
Gingerich, Albert Eyman and son,
and Otto Lucht, all of whom, live
west of Molalla, grow between SQ
and 100 acres each year. -
Goat Are Profitable 1
Oregon has 106,000 goats, and
mohair clipped from these last
year averages four pounds a goat,
and sold at the rate of 45 cents
a pound. In other words Oregon's
goats brought a cash Income of
S 19 11,000 to Oregon breeders.
-' The boase leek, Semperrlvnm,
is one of the plants called hen-and-chickens,
because of the way
the offsets nestle close to the par
ent plant It has pink or red flow
ers. . No plant is easier 'to grow
provided the soil is not wet . '
War Changes Use
Of Plaster!
During norma!
times, farmers
use 70 to 100 pounds of ammoni
um phosphate per corn acre as
fertilizer, or 200 pounds of super
phosphate.; At the present time,
however, because of the fertilizer
scarcity, farmers who have plant
ers with fertilizer attachments
customarily use about 75 pounds
of land plaster per acre.
As soon as the hardy ehrysan.
themums start growing, the roots
may be divided and reset in new
ly prepared ground. "
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