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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1944)
'Farmer Boasts Fine Herefords - - Glen Slartin Finds .Time To Experiment in Grass On. Modern Farm By UIXIE L. MADSEN -Statesman Farm Editor 'A doctor's title In, the way of capital letters may not be attach ed to the rear end of a fanner's name,; and, the farmer may not have attended a four-year dieti- cian's school but il .he is going to make a competitive success of his livestock, he has to do some tall studying, and experimenting on his own. No longer can your cattle be raised on the nlan of i Todsv of (Uncle Tom's Cahin I ? fame. That is. if you intend to re- M tain either the cattle or the farm. At least, this Is the opinion of Glen Martin, Hereford '-t cattle breeder over near McCoy In Polk county. :"''' .. ; - i.. For six years, Mr." Martin has been an advocate of Alfalfa nu silage over corn ensilage. It, says If he, has a greater percentage of the necessary protein, the cattle find it more palatable, . and all round it has more food value. Now, in more recent years, Mr. Martin has been exDerimentins with various grasses as pasture feed. Perhaps most interesting of inese is nis planting ox creeping foxtail. ' . i The creeping foxtail seed was eon experimenting station, and the first seeding was made in September of 1942. That, how ever, was a dry fall, and seed ger mination was poor. Not until the spring of 1943, did the grass, take a hold j and ..begin creeping out Of the 17 acres seeded at that time, the 10 are very good, but on the other seven there is a sparse stand. On the whole acre age, growth continued in a ra ther discouraged manner, 'Martin added, until ammonium sulphate was given to the fields, then the grass "snapped out of it." r -" Mr. i Martin explains ' that the creeping foxtail is a wet-ground friend. In fact, the wetter the ground, the better. His grows on a swansn type oz xieta. wnere the soil remains damp the long : est, there . Martin has his best stand. ' The grass resembles, regular meadow foxtail, especially in seed "as it was when we saw it The seed is havested by ' hand, Mr. Martin says. But' he saw no reason other: than its , uneven ripening 'for Uris. Combines could catch it ' only, he- explained, it ripens so very unevenly.' However, picking - the grass seed by hand is a remun erative Job, according to Martin. ; : With this grass, as with other grasses, livestock is not interested hi uic seea ncaas. it snowa . De pastured before seed time. Even if it has gone to seed, the lower blades stay green, and cattle will reach down and nibble these off. Mr. Martin has also grown some hairy vetch for seed but says he has "laid off from much of this at nrtsinL because of weevil." We also saw the 10-acre canary grass field, making good growth. Fram July until November these 10 acres furnish much . pasture. In the winter months, this field is flooded over and it is not until mid-June that the water leaves the McCoy . : field. Mr. Martin showed us his field peas, telling in passing that the autumn planted peas escaped aphids, but that those planted in the spring could be completely taken by them."1 . Five acres of Royol Anne cher ries (not yet interesting) were also included in the crops of the 334- acre farm. t-:-:j::: :-,; : n . . . . . 1 L!. 1 . out sot. waruo wvcu ins icu pride and joy in farming to the last. The grass, he reported, was only means to an end Herefords being the end. Three years ago he began with a few registered Herefords, Today, he invites anyone who does not believe that beef cattle can be raised profitably in the Willamette valley, to come look at his 43 fat sleek looking animals. While feeding may be done little differently here than in the so-called range countries, Martin insisted it can be done as profit ably when one gets the hang of it His stock cattle has come chiefly from Mount Crest at Hilt Cali fornia: Flounce Rock at Prospect Oreeon. and from Rankin's - at Cambridge, Nebraska. - u ' All Martin's young stuff gets grain until it is two years'- old. Little calves are fed creep-feed until weaned at six weeks. Then they are started with whole oats, ground' oats, and finally shifted to barley. - v r.v' Mr: and Mrs. Martin and their two sons came to McCoy from .Whiteson in 1937 and purchased -. the farm on which they now live. A large, attractive house is shaded by a grove of deciduous trees. The two sons, 12 and 14, give no Indi ' cation of being members of the current youth-problem club whose theme is "nothing to do, no place to go." At the time we called, they were joyously riding tractor mnA havlnad. And Mr. Martin grinned as he pointed to the vege table garden. "Look at those rows," he said. 111- sure have to rib the- boys about how straight they are." But there was no mistaking: both he and the boys would enjoy the Willamette -4- -it ft Ranch Ramblings By Rural Reporter : We found haying underway in able tonnage already housed, and many other haymakers look ing from from sky to haycock with that "will-it-or-won't-it- rain" gleam in their eye. Here and there, difficulty was experienced with vetch and oats, and even some clover, lodged by wind, and rain of the week previous. Marion and Clackamas counties . seem to have suffered the most from the forage crops being unable 1 to stand on their own. Over in Clackamas county, we also found a few last-minute corn plantings underway. Pheasants have been hungry this season, it would seem, from all reports. J. J. Inskeep, county agent over there, directed us to the farm of T. H. Ridings and son at Molalla. Tom aad his son "Red" prove what ground limestone can do in restoring wornout soils. Ridings is one of the oldtimers in the Mo lalla country. He saw wonderful crops after the land was first cleared and a general decline in yields -untiL he says, "That bot tom forty got so poor that we con sidered ten bushels of oats to the acre a good.yield." Now look at it he adds, "That Willamette vetch was high as the fence posts before the rain,, and the crop is so heavy that we may have difficulty with the harvest We applied two and a quarter tons of limestone per acre on that field last fait The nodules on the roots are as big as peas and num erous as flies at a hog pen." The 10,000 . tons of limestone used, annually in Clackamas coun ty could easily be increased to 50,000 tons if limestone were avail able in quantity when needed and at a reasonable price, Inskeep told us. I In Linn county, we found 'su gar beets heading for seed, pas tures excellent and ' chief inter est centering in strawberry and gooseberry picking. Aphids were reported damaging Vetch and field peas in Polk coun ty, and potato growers were busy dusting for the flee beetle on po tatoes. Marion county might this past week, be described as "picky." Everyone was busy picking and harvesting something : or other, Picking gooseberries and straw berries on the floor ranches was well underway, 'with some slow ing up noticed. Picking in the east hill farming sections was just getting underway. Lettuce was be ing harvested. Corn growers were shaking their heads over damage by pheasants, but were cultivating the roseaining plants. Walnuts we found set .Green beans between Turner and Stayton are backward but growers thought they would have an average yield. We found Henry Zorn, well- known Jersey breeder, putting up alfalfa and clover silage. He re ported finding it necessary to re inforce his corn silos for clover silage, because of the solid hea vy pack of the clover. Carver & Graham Over at Sil verton were boasting some new blood in their Hereford herd. The two had been at Montesano, Wash, where, although they claimed they were , "small fry" .when it came to paying such prices as the R. Jamison ranch paid for - Purity Domino 4th (which sold at $3100) PILES Hemorrhoids FUtuIa-TIssurt) And Other ECCTAL & COLON DwOHDZnS Qmlekry ever come wlthevt less f ttme- Ne ; h e spltalixajl lion. Noa opera-; ttve ; methods.-'K I ; Call teday for examuatiea e r write far free 1 descriptive beeklet. Dr. D. Ht7zih Clinic Chfre-Froctsletisi : Court A liberty t Salem, Cre. 1 NeiM -and J Views of . I 'i o GLEN MARTIN He Likes His Herefords - all the counties, with consider ! " ' . t - 111 y they did bring home three nice head. ; Included were Lady Be nign 30th 3519S72, a two year old bred by the Jamison Stock Ranch at Thorp, and Doris Domino B. 7th 2920709, bred by Jesse B. Brown at Browns town, Wash. With the latter came a bull calf bOrn March 20, The Silverton men paid $800 for Daris and her son, and S3 25 for Lady Benign. This brings the Silverton herd up to 33, with the 'two men shopping around at the Honeyman 'ranch this week. Summer School on Casualty list One more f war casualty this summer is the Oregon 4-H club summer school. War-time short ages in housing and lack of help on the state college campus made it necessary to cancel the plans for the 30th annual cluhf event according to H. C Seymour, state e'.m -I. T- ciuo ieaaer. IS TOM Stionej lor yictoxy with the great- I ' I . . . ; est Navy in the history of the world, ( the greatest Air Force, the Dest ecjuipped Army. You share Amer ica's glory j s s help to make it stronger by buying MORE Bonds and Stamps. Your (Country needs money now. The money you lend is -yours with interest whenyo need it- : . Slrong after the war, free from skyrocketing prices. Every, penny you put into7ar Stamps and Bonds helps to make America stronger. Buy an extra Bond now during the 5ti VTar loan. ' ' V . ' ' '. . V . -... "i r . ; 155 Nerth Libert TullwlFa Farm arid Garden 7J I Walter Smith Agriculture Head ' I " i - 1 , I waiter smitn or Aurora nas been named county chairman of j the George R. Hyslop agricultur-j al research memorial and expects to be able to announce the com- plete list of committee members soon, he announced this week. , . . .. . . . in p- ol i-wk movement of farmers and bust-1 nessmen connected with agricul ture to raise a -substantial fund to serve as a perpetual working me- f a' a.m '1 a w m w monmi to tne aie rroiessor xiy - lop of Oregon IState college, who devoted most of his life to the! betterment of Oregon crops. As soon as I the committee is completed plans will be carried out to see thai every fanner in Marion county j knows about the memorial fund; and has a chance to contribute to it any amount he may choose. Only the. income for the fund will be used to help finance ex perimental work in improvement of Oregon crops, thus continuing the work of Prof. Hyslop. The money will do double duty, says Smith, Is graduate students will be obtained to do ' as much of the work ai possible, hence they wul be helped in getting an edu cation in Oregon while they help "solve Oregon problems in the farm crops field, said Smith. STRANG fhene lit Feed Supplies nadequate . For livestock The state-wide program for re duction of livestock numbers on Oregon' farms in view of prospec tive feed supplies supplemented recently by war food administra tor : Marvin Jones, I according to Marion county agent, W. G. Nibler. "Despite the greatly increased feed production and the .Imports of all feed to supply the number of livestock we now have," says Jones, "it will ; be i necessary to adjust our livestock and poultry and feed supplies will be in the real interest of the livestock pro ducers themselves. They are the only ones who can accomplish it" This year's food production ob jectives for Oregon:; suggests he greatest reduction in beef cattle For three successive years, Oregon farmers have increased the num bers of beef cattle, dairy cattle and hogs, Nibler says, and current feed supplies are- not adequate to insure a sound feeding program. Few New TruAs To Be Released Organization wfli have r to be M M. suostuuteu iaxaety xor equipment insofar as new trucks are con- cerned, it is being pointed out by extension service spe- more M 000 new j wai be released this year, com I pared with 600,000 fin normal in ' only 22 percent 1 01 au uu new vtucju avauaoie went to rieujtun! Careful organization for wnaVimntn use of trucks during the heavy hauling seasons will be necessary to avoid loss of crops and livestock. 1 aj 9 rr;, Alow 8 0 Plant Late CaiTOtS Carl Joehnk, the Clackamas gardener, says now is a good time to plant late carrots and beets, which will mature about Septem ber 15. Chateney or Nantes car rots and Detroit dark red beets are good varieties, i Beets , can be planted : rather thick in rows and then thinned out for greens. .. f Carots should be grown in abundance so as to have some to store for winter. 1 fa mm JUL 1 OBSIRVI TRUI AMERICANISM BLACKLIST EiACK MARKETS.,. BUY AND SAVE ' WAR BOflDS... ; , ;fS: K; ; j - r'MZ 1 J tr::-j3 luumiiiiT t-inn nr7 M A u.ulJ by. 1:;: :.4 xo -rcvi 0 You'd better be watching that blackspot on the roses. Dust with dusting sulphur, spray with Bor- deaux or use one of the trade cure-aiis, neing carerui . to Duy only, from nrms whicn carry reu- - These workers can .assist Jn . re able products. Some cure-alls nev the great! shortage of man prove to be cure-nothings. ui tor the heavier true of work. Aphids are finding their way beneath ornamental tree foliage, ana on tips 014 otner growing things. Use a contact spray such u Black-leaf 40 and then be " actaally i contacte. Spraying it on the topside the foliage when It happens that the aphids are on me underneath side ggftu iiiuvii wet . vu Jaj uc ftuxv that the aphids are not going to crawl about snooping for the poi SOn. : :r i r If you haven't applied the cover spray of two ounces , of lead arseante tqj our gallons of water to your stray apple or, pear tree w., f mrv commercial growers did It a week r" " m Those slues are sure leaving alimv trail. Keen haitin them. Eventually you'll conquer. A bait with metaldehyde does the trick. slugs actually will rush around aner your poison u u contains this.. 1, - Watch the beans for signs of beetles. ; Calcium arsenate and H of 1 percent rotenone mixed with talc will control these just as it does on the potatoes. Cryolite may also be used. And watch that to mato plant The bettles are just as fond of the plant foliage as you are of the fruit Cut off the seed pods from the lilac now. Youll have - more and better blooms, next season. Strong Upward Onion Trend Onions are being pushed now nationally as a food expected to be produced in unusual abundance in the early summer, according to an announcement by the ww food administration received by the OSC extension service. "Both the Texas and California crops of early type onions are unusually large this year. The Texas crop is expected to exceed 1,160,000 hundred-pound sacks, compared with 889,000 sacks last year. Pi i v 111 JJ iHJui -nil ' yirrcnycArirrri Li "3 . . jjJIJlJL 'j nnmnenno inn. 701 chsmnoffifici&jiioB c rc'-i fAVC-rn il .'tvnir.r:! tvniT txrj-zzr ir.it llexican Leber ; , J -. Mexican labor may be available for heavy afield work from July 13 to August 20 from the Salem la bor camp, according to W. G. Nib ler, county agent if present plans can be-carried out It should , be understood, said Nibler, that this is dependent upon ; the planned schedule for importation of Mexi I cans which may be changed. Mexi cans assisting in cherry picking will complete . this ' work . about July 15 and it is honed they can be Tetamed at ; to be 'used by farmers ih the hay. grain, seed and flax harvests from ijuiy is to Auzust 20. v . j Farmers .interested in ; this labor should place their orders imme- mtttr at the farm labor emDloy- ment mce, 301 ChemekeU street numher needed will stained in the . camp. These worker m har- nt hnv ,. ! d other where ablebodied 1 1 - , .r- j j -j - , r ; Following August 20 the Jltxi cans will again 1 be employed In harvest of seasonal crops such as hops, onions and vegetables, these Mexican workers will in no way great need for local , ay. People in harvest of the Marion eoun bean crop, since it is not expected they will be used in the r. 01 f1 I ' , . .- . '-V; j Borax AppUcatlOU increases Yield Of Alfalfa Hay: Application of borax or ; boric add to alfalfa fields where yel lowtop has become noticeable fol- I lowing dry weather, may be made immediately after removing the first crop, says Dr. W. L. Powers, head of the soils department at Oregon State college. Application of granular borax can be made with a cyclone seeder. - In four-year trials, the average increase from an application of 40 pounds an acre of borax has been 1 tons more alfalfa hay a year, Powers reports. Use of up to 60 pounds an acre in experience has been profitable where it was evenly; spread. If desired, 50 pounds of borax may be mixed with an equal amount of gypsum and then applied with a landplas ter spreader, d Thtt use of borax in areas where it is needed not only increases yield but also increases chloro- phill and vitamin A content of the hay and. promotes, branching and longevity of alfalfa. uman pacific j Cr.TFLOYXS' I r 1 P 1 II L kj-i awi 1 -. 1 7heat Pliatlns Again This Yc:ar I,' The national wheat "goal for 1943 will be approximately fha same as the acreage planted this , year.- according to R. B. Taylor. -. chairman ' of the Oregon AAA yi m wwfc 'i j .... y ' The department of agriculture said the goal is based on the esti- : mated requirements .for use for the: 19.43-48 year and on prelim inary J estimates from , all, -wheat- ; producing states as to their , war- . time "capacity for. wheat produc tion. .- 4 -9 i. The national wheat goal is now being submitted to the- states, along with suggestions for estab lishing individual state goals ac- cording to local determination of capacity and crop balance. The final state coals will not be de- - termined for about a month. Taylor estimates. New Diseases of Suckling Calves : A hitherto unidentified disease of suckling calves which causes lesions , which' resemble.' those in lambs suffering from pulpy kid ney disease has been causing losses In . several Oregon coun ties, reports O. H. Muth, asso ciate veterinarian of the .college experiment station.. . . Dr. Muth' has been Investigat ing the disease, which has ap peared mostly in beef herds. The disease - strikes suddenly in calves from two to six weeks old. Death occurs after only a short Alness, sometimes a few hours. Principal symptoms are that ani mals fall to follow mothers and will not nurse, rate of breathing is j increased, and the calves go down, struggle on the ground,' and die. ; ' 1 Some Red Tape Being Cut Buying nitrate fertilizers and sodium chlorate for killing weeds has been simplified through the issuance by the bureau of mines of; a "general purchaser's order" which exempts farmers from lia bility under the federal explos ives act in connection with pur chase or use of these materials. . Art King, extension, sous spe cialist says the new order will straighten out confusion in some counties where dealers had re fused to handle these materials because of the red tape involved. Farm customers need not obtain licenses, but dealers must still hive a license and keep record of quantities sold. inn -r r2 n fa: