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Tha OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. OrtgonI Thursday Morning. March 15. 1945
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Frank Bowers, one-time cartoonist, (left), Mm. H. IL Paxet, former school teacher; and Robert Riches.
all-time fanner, pictured at right, are three of the grandchildren who iitUl live on grandfather s land
donation 'claims., oat In the Waldo Hills. Mrs.
lion claim patents.
Paget' home place carries No. 1 of Oregon Jand dona-
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One of the many interestin4iIdValdo Hills farm houses which has stood the ears is this one built In
1SS1 by Ralph Geer. Doors anSWlndows were brought around the Horn: and were found to be too
small for casings. The pioneer oaVpenters then had to pot extra strips around to make the two match.
Homer Davenport, world famous cartoonist, one e lived there. It now stands vacant.
Waldo Hills Farms Still
Support Members of Old
Families; Crops Changed
I Fabulous Tales of Production of
i ! Middle of Century Recalled bv
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Descendants of Original Owners
By Lillie L. Madsen
Farm and Garden Editor
What was good enough for grandfather would have been good
enough for the grandchildren if grandfather had treated it right
Which in most! cases he didn't do, Waldo Hills farmers have learned.
These Waldo Hills farmers, in some instances grandchildren of
original settlers, claim grandfath
er's choice of location is certainly
good enough for them. There is
nothing in the line of farm scen
ery, they point out correctly, much
easier, to look at than the rolling
westward slopes of Waldo Hills.
But grandfather shouldn't have
grain-farmed his land to pieces,
and father shouldn't have follow
ed so closely in grandfather's foot
steps. - They should have learned
About crop rotation -nd erosion.
They should have thought of the
grandchildren. There are places
in the Hills whiclr would furnish
the state college perfect illustra
tions of what happens if the land
owner isn't interested in erosion
prevention. There are other acres
which were so run down, when
grandson took over, that he had
difficulty in raising 15 bushels of
wheat to an acre.
But in "grandfather's time tales
ct production were fabulous. The
Oregon Statesman, ever eager to
- report farmj progress, carried in
sn 1851 summer issue a story of
Ralph Geer bringing to the office
a -stool of wheat, the production
of one grain, comprising 257 stalks,
averaging 60 grains to the stalk,
making a total of 15,420 grains,':
" and in November of the same year,
the report was continued "Farmers
have harvested and a better one
never covered any ground every
thing wears the smile of prosper
ityin numerous instances the
snug log cabin is giving place to
tho more comely and convenient
. frame house." - ,
Bushels per acre also piled high
up to 125 or more.
"Grain Sash" Started
In Late '40s
From 1847 to 1855, covers the
big early settlement of Waldo
Hills Farmers hurried to clear
and plant little patches of ground
into wheat The patches grew
larger and larger ms the tales of
production grew in size, until al
most the entire Waldo Hills was
cne large waiving green of grain.
Wheat continued to be the staple
crop- for years, reaching through
grandfather's time, down to af
ter the first world w:ar. Perhaps
the first world war educational
bonus set the thought Perhaps
farmers who had made good op
wheat farming wanted their sons
to have advantages they had lack-ecf.-
Perhaps it was Just the rest
lessness of the times whatever
the cause, Waldo Hills farm boys
began, attending Oregon State col
lege 'and returning, to notice that
the old farm wasn't what she used
to be. Even the best of th,e Hills
farmeri were struggling to raise
30 j to 40 bushels of wheat to an
acre. So little by little the "good
fanners turned from wheat, grow
ing onjythe little they needed for
their farm. Today, perhaps more
grass than n7 one other cropis
,itmn. This Waldo Hills younger
fsnr-srs point out, has a number
of good points. It furnishes graz
ing, it chokes out Canada thistle,
it prevents erosion and it furnishes,
through seed, a cash crop each
year. -While
much of the acreages of
the pioneers of Waldo Hills have
passed ,to strangers, to later set
tlers and to relatives of the pio
neers, there are still some owned,
and even some tilled, by grand
children of the holders of the land
donation claims..
Land Claim No. 1
Still in Family
Mrs. H. H.. Paget and Mrs. J. C.
Currie, daughters of King L. Hib
bard, still live on small acreages
of their grandfather's,. King Hib-
bard, land donation ' claim, and
this claim was the first certificate
to land in Oregon takenunder the
donation act of 1850. Hibbard was
a native of Ontario and came to
Waldo Hills in 1847. He settled
on his claim in the Hills, April ,
1, 1848. And m spite of the day,
his granddaughters state, he wasn't
fooling. He stayed on that claim
a long, long time.
"Grandfather Hibbard, Mrs.
Paget told me this week when I
found her gardening on the spot
where the pioneer house had stood,
"had the usual 640 acres. He was
chiefly a stock and grain farmer.
He raised wheat, and nis wheat
went largely into'his cattle which
in turn went into Oregon Ctiy for
market. My father was born here."
- But the third generation of Hib
bards were not fanners. Much
of the acreage was sold. Today,
only the two Hibbard sisters are
living on any part of the old claim.
Mrs, Paget has 40 acres, and raises
mostly filbirts. Across the rural
road from the Paget home, stands
the Currie home. Mr. Currie, a
retired salesman, and Mrs. Currie
also raise nuts and a few sheep.
A couple of miles from the Hib
bard farm, on the south corner
of Garden Road and the Stayton
highway, lay the old Ralph Geer
donation claim. . Geer was first
last and always a farmer. In
14J48, he sold his farm in Knox
county, Illinois, and a year later
came to Waldo Hills and settled
on the farm of which 400 ' acres
are still owned by two grandsons,
Fruit Trees Sold "
From Geer Nursery
While one does not associate
fruit with Waldo Hilla farming in
1845, Geer -had visions of huge or
chards in that section. . In 1851,
recordssKow, Geer, at his "Fruit
Farm Nursery," had 8000 apple
and 1000 pear trees "in all 60 va
rieties. His November, 1851, cat
alogue showed 42 varieties of ap
ples, 15 of pears, five of peaches
and six of cherries. On the old
Geer farm today, still stand a few
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Co. l Agent Is ?
Believer in Use
Certified Seed?
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j Use of only certified seed pota
toes is much more important than
seed potato treatment In avoiding
crop;; losses and disappointment.
This lis I advice from the Marion
bounty fgent W. G. Nibler. It is
especially, he Jiddsaimed at Vic
tory gardeners who are rjot f ex
perienced planters of the soilJ
j Inffaft, Nibler continues, home
gardeners may well -omit potato
seed treatment entirely and in any
event they are advised not to at
tempt the use of cumbersome,
tedious and poisonous corrosive
sublimate treatment that commer
cial growers use forcontrol of po
tato ;scab and rhizootonia. j S
Certified seed potatoes' have
beeri grown carefully from dis
ease-free seed and have been in
spected :regularly during the grcjw-
mg season to eliminate diseased
hills,; Such diseases as mosaic and
wilt which reduce "yieds to pric
ticaHy' nothing are carried in the
seed; potato itself and cannot be
detected by looking at the :sed,
Nibler explains. While treatment
may aid the appearance of the re
sulting crop i by controlling . scab,
the treatment will .have no effect
on the worst diseases from a :yield
standpoint i ' . ' i f
Potatoes may be planted in the
home garden as soon las the soil
warms up arid is dry' enough :to
spade Six or weight .inches ideep
without puddling. Early varieties
suggested for, home gardeners are
Bliss Triumph, Irish Cobbler,
Early ,Rose, Earliest! of All and
White v RoseV' Late varieties in
clude Burbank, Netted Gem and
Katahdin. '? k. n"l
Nibler recommends; that i each
seed piece have at leist one eye,
weigh one and a half to two oun
ces and be as blocky in' shape as
possible. Cut seed potatoes may
be. prnkled : with land plaster.
The should not be exposed, to di
rect j sunlight: for any . length of
time and the cut seed never treat
ed wtih corrosive sublimate,
j Potatoes in the home garden are
usually- planted three' to five
inches ideep, although' early i pota
toes may be planted slightly more
shalow than late varieties. : :
..Cascade' Nam- Given;
lSTew. KlierFlax: to Be ? t
Released for Production
;t A new4 Variety .of .fiber ;fl4x,'
named the ;Cascade,': las rbeen re
leased for'.ield..pBoduction ; to in
crease seed! It. is exoectedito .be
available inf 1946 for planting part
of Oregon . commercial - acreage.
With the release of this : new va
riety a ptpjjram of seed certifica
tion for fifer flax, first of it kind
in the Unitjed States, 'will be un
dertaken by the state college ex
tension service. ?- !
Desirable characteristics found
in the nevfjvariety aos exception
ally high yield of straw and fibert
good percentage ofiber in straw.
immunity to rust, resistance to
wilt and tall growth habit- , I,,.
: Release of .this new Variety
comes at a jtime.when the flax in
dustry in Oregon is seeking means
by whichi jto reduce production
costs to meet . exnected . bostwaf
conditions;; Ml indications so far.
reports Chet Otis, assistant ' spe-
cialist in the college farm Jcrops,
are that tHls -neW'varietyJiis far
superior to Riga, Concurrent and
Martin, varieties now most com
monly used! ' - ' : -f "
Thirty pounds of Cascade has
been turned over to Washington
County Flax Growers association
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Markets
Farfev "-.
In: the Salem Market
: Imbs; $13.50 ewes: 4
cents; -cows, - beef r type. 8 - to :12
cents; dairy type,' 5 to 9' cents;
veal, 1 2 to 14 cents; hbgs$i5.75:
.; G.. W.';Ray;' who has 1eeriwith
the Valley Packing company for
a number of .years, is now the
buyer at the plant In that ca--pacity
he is taking the I plae of
Claude Steunsloff, who is devpting"
his time to other interests, f
.,' Ray reports that hogs and lambs,
with emphasis on hogs, continue
short.' Beef is not yet plentiful,
but not far below normal as s the
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Bulletins
'" Marchj 18 at the Louis! Mc
Allister home at Jefferson ,f the
Marion, fcourity' Jersey. Cattle! club
"March meeting ' No-host luncheon
at noon. .,; i -jv
- March! 22 ;Pplk county flivei
"stock; growers' meet at the Dallas
city hall, at 8 p. m. j I '
hog supply. . - 1 ' " I
to .be sown under conditions to
produce ; the maximum seed iyield
this year. !
Experts; Tell o;
yuautrleece
While-' good pare will not change
a poor quality "pf fleece into "one
of ;high: quality,'tie lvalue of a'ny i
clip can be increased by superior
preparation, : H. A.' Lindgren, live-'
stock; specialist reports. '. Prepara--tioh
of the wool for sail involves
tying of fleeces, sorting, packing
the .wool Lin bags and lettering
each bag with a description of the
contents. . ;;
Some of the points emphasized
in preparing wool for market in
clude: ".keep fleeces- on clean
floors, use branding paint as spar
ingly as possible," tie each fleece
securely . with paper twine " with
flesh end of the staple showing
and with as much of the shoulder
and side wool; on the s outside as
possible. ; Wool tied with binder
twine is 'discounted 10 j cents per
pound. Take all tags and. stained
pieces out. of the fleeceaj- and pack
with sweepings in a separate bag.
Pack separately , wools , containing
burs: or foxtail orjother vegetable
defects. to avoid flowering the
Value of the entire lot as niuch as
three cents per pound. ."iPack ewe,
yearling and ram fleeces sepa
rately and request separate ap
praisals on each. Dry wet fleeces
before packing to avoid ; mold,
stains, and weakened fibers. "
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Records in Pack of ?
Registered Cases i-
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i Gross sales for the Eugene' Fruit
Growers' association in 1944 teD-
ped all. records in the history of
the ; 3T-year-old cooperative, ! regis
tering J $4,85,760.61 on a pack of
1,40?,8?8 cases. Its annual imeet-
mg was neio; dunng .the l past
weelc I Reports also revealed the
membership at 1752. !
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CatitelSale Planned
By; Nash Brothers 1
Norman and Merritt Nash 'of Sa
fer are planning a registered JFer-
seyf sale for? April 10. The two
men came to Salem from' Coos
Bay aoout two years ago. Particu
lars of the sale have not yet been
completed, but it is understood the
herd will be cut down at least
35 head. There stilt will feel 30
head Jof milk cows left; on the farm
on tba Turner-Salem road. - ?
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