Pastime Now !
Business for i
Silvertoii Man
Br Lilli I Madsen
Farm Editor. The Statesman,
Retiring isn't just sitting on a
bench to watch the world go by.
It's doing the things you've) al
ways wanted to do but thought
jrou hadn't time for.1 " j
That's what L B. Alfred j told
e Wednesday when I stopped at
his Silverton garden to see what
he was doing.; I had been Hear
ing about his "best sellers'! for
some time now. While it was still
early In the morning, Mr. Alfred
admitted he had been "at it quite
a spell.
"You see," he sagely pointed
out, "I don't have to get up at a
definite hour to get ready to be
at the store at am Now I get
up When I want " to go to work
when I want-f-6o I get up 'earlier
and work later. . People are fun
ny that way!"
Mr. Alfred,' who was 73 on his
last birthday anniversary, decided
a few months ago that it was time
to "stop work." He had really
planned on retiring two years
earlier but the war came on and
his ' help was; badly needed. He
H. L. Stiff company store. Ha
had been employed there since.
But Mr. Alfred was born in
Iowa where the corn grows tall.
He had always done a bit of fam
ily ; gardening in a vacant lot at
bis South Water street home. This
spring, when he had time, he in
creased his plantings, buying an
other vacant lot 100 by 130 feet
near his home. He planted at ran
dom, not thinking in terms of sell'
ing, he admitted. In June, he sold
$80 worth of vegetables. People
came to his home and "almost de
manded" potatoes, carrots and
cabbage. Cabbage is one of the
very "best Sellers," Mr. Alfred
smiled. : Carrots and corn are also
in great demand. Mr. Alfred has
made three plantings of carrots
and six of corn. Ha is now ex
perimenting with plantings, for
utumn gardening.
Mr. Alfred's three sons in the
service are interested in his gar
den ventures. They are asking
time to keep them posted on how
"tall the corn grows in Silver
ton." The oldest, Major Frank
Alfred writes of the gardens in
Asia. Lt. Col. Lee Alfred, wound
ed in action in the South Pacific,
writes of the garden in the local
ity of the hospital. The thircTsop,
Harold Alfred, chief pharmacist,
has just recently been transferred
to the naval hospital at Seattle.
Mr. Alfred is reading everything
he can find on gardening. Next
year, he says, he will plant with
more system.
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Linn county farmers can well
afford to use more phosphate fer
tilizer in the fall on cover crops,
annual legumes, perennial le
gumes and fall seeding of grass
mixtures including subterranean
clover in the opinion of O. .
MikeselLj county agricultural
agent. . - -f
Trials conducted the past sev
eral years in a number of Willam
ette Valley counties indicate that
fall applications are equal to .or
better than spring top dressings.
This is particularly true where
spring applications must be de
cayed because of wet ground or
weather. ..Spring applications of
phosphate are effective when done
at seeding time.
Mikesell states that Linn county
Is very fortunate in having ap
proximately 240 tons of 19 and
20- superphosphate on hand for
distribution to farmers who are
Derating in the AAA program.
The agent is suggesting that far
mers who are eligible for this ma
terial take it out of storage at an
early date and make use of lt this
fall and next spring. Details on
securing superphosphate may be
obtained at the county agricultur
al office.-.
In commenting upon the nitro
gen fertilizer situation j the agri
cultural agent says that alloca
tions for delivery to distributors
up until January 1, 1948, are down
as compared; to quantities for a
similar period the previous two
years. This I indicates that It Is
again going to be difficult for far
mers to secure all of toe nitrogen
fertilizers that they want. Mike
sell is suzsiesting that farmers
take delivery! on nitrogen fertiliz
ers at any time that supplies are
offered by dealers. i
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The first slaves to ; arrive In
AUtnw MUVKU
1619 a few 1 months before the
Mayflower landed the Pilgrims at
Plymouth. j ; '
A X a TamOQlAwn in
S-T-n-E-T-C-Il !
S-T-R-E-T-C-H
your supply of
this home-grown
sugar as far as
possible. It'a si
materiel of war.
Dont waste It.
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News and
When jou retire, yom have time to
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as he show ona of his big squash he raised after he "quit work."
Mr. Alfred's qalttiog werk means that he is spending long hears
fat Us twe gerdens, m a 190
194 by 90 foot lot The gardening, which was began as "just
llttta pastime" has become quite
Jersey Qub
Meets Sunday
Marion County Jersey Cattle
club meets Sunday, August 19 at
the Lewis Judson Salem farm.
There will be a no-host picnic at
1 p. m. followed by an afternoon
program.
M. G, Gunderson, president, re
ports he has a "half-way prom
ise" of a very entertaining speak
er but he wasn't "quite sure."
There will be reports of the state
meeting at Corvallis last Sunday
which was attended by both Mr.
Gunderson and Mrs. J. Buyseri,
secretary.
Discussion of a proposed con
signment sale for the state is also
slated for Sunday. Reports last
Sunday at Corvallis showed that
both Washington and California
had done very well at their con
signment sales..
State Examines
Buttermakers
On August 20
The state examination for butter
makers will be held at the state
department of agriculture on Mon
day, August 20, all day starting
at 9 a. m. Cheese makers will
be examined, the following day.
Examinations embody written,
oral and technical forms. '
These examinations are in com
pliance with the state law as but
ter and cheese makers employed
in licensed plants must pass these
examinations. This is a part of
Oregon's quality improvement
program.
O. K. Beals, chief of foods and
dairies, announces the examining
board to Include E. L. Stack, dairy
superintendent for state division
of agriculture; Dr. G. H. Wilster,
representing the dairy manfactur-
ing department at the state col
lege; and Marvin Da vision of Red
mond, representing the dairy
manufacturing Industry,
Next to man,, raccoons are the
mammals most dangerous to bird
life on the Islands of the Louisi
ana coast. V
EMOY; BETTER
Hand
I BETTER TOO!
Come in at your
convenience or for an
appointment phone 8508
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Views of .Farm
de this, says I. B. Alfred. Silverion,
by 139 foot lot and the ether on ;a
a business venture. h
Iii Salem
Markets!
While hog receipts continue
light in comparison to , pre-war
days, this week there were 101
brought to Valley Packing com
pany compared to 77 a week ago,
John Mackie. Aberdeen. ! Scot
land, farmer, who is visiting the
valley, said this week that Scot
land was going back to increased
"pig raising" when me j war lis
really over. Salem packing hous
es are hoping the Willamette Val
ley will follow this shortly. li?gs
were . still . bringing top price l of
$15.45 this week j at the ! Valley
Packing Co. ; j ;j . U -'il
Saleable receipts of lambs and
ewes continued comparatively
heavy. Valley Packing officials
are still asking that farmers make
a date for their ; delivery ! before
hauling lambs to market. Lambs
received numbered 313, with S3
ewes and 29 yearlings. j ;
Not quite so many dairy type
cows are now being brought to
market as some few months ago,
It is presumed most of the cull
ing has been done. Veals are a lit
tle more numerous as a whole, al
though only 20 1 were r received
during the week ending August
14. "Beef steers and cows contin
ue very scarce. Only : 47 were
bought loeally this week by Val
ley; Packing Co. j p j j
It is known that with the in
crease of permanent pastures and
more irrigation in the valley, beef
cattle ranchers ara also increas
ing, but to date most of these are
doing one or both of two things
increasing: their own herds or
selling their surplus young to oth
ers who are starting out with a
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Prices this week in the beef
market remained the same with
Valley Packing Co. paying from
4 to 8 cents for J boners and cut
ters, to IVt cents or common
cows; 7 to. 8 ; for top dairy,
cows; 9 to 11 cents for beef type,
14 cents for veals and from 7 to 1
cents for bulls. ' ;- HI '&':"'
Consult Dr. E. E. Boxing
or Dr. S, A. 7heaief
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This consultation and. ex
amation will provide the
correct information regard-
insj your eyes.
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Ranch Raitiblings
By Rural Repot
During the past week . there
have been 950 bean pickers in the
U, S. Alderman 75-acre bean field
out near Dayton! Dusting from
airplane on later fields is going on
in the early ; morning and late
evening hours on the Alderman
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The C. A. Lynda farm two
miles from Pratum has been
bought by Harold Gwynn of route
in P0U0 county. He will take
possession September 1. The
Lynds are moving to a place In
Linn county. ; 1
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The reporter finds great inter
est in lotus major wherever she
goes. Because of . its spreading
habit and tolerance to a wide
range of soil conditions! along
with its other good qualities lo
tus major seems destined to be
come a crop of importance in
many parts of the United States
and in foreign countries. Seed
production may lift many a mort
gage in the - postwar era when
folk are looking for a; crop In
great demand and the seed of
which cannot be universally
grown. And another thing, farm
ers have babied and coddled lotus
major to obtain a stand many
times without success only to find
the best stands yet, broadcast in
fields of wheat by those foolish
enough or should one say, with
nerve enough to sow two-dollar-
pound seed in this manner.
More Butter
Last Year in
State Plants
; Oregon plants licensed to man
ufacture dairy products received
three per cent more; butterfat
(milk and cream) in 1944 than in
943. Receipts of whole milk foe
fluid use were up five per cent!
Receipts of whole milk was off-'
set partly by a reduction of 15
per cent in receipts of cream. A
number of farmers who formerly!
sold cream changed to the sale of
whole milk during 1944 extending
the trend shown in recent years
toward sale of whole milk rather
than cream. Butter production in
1944 decreased nine per cent be
low a year earlier while American
cheese output increased 11 per
cent and evaporated milk produc-f
tion Increased 25 per cent, j
Total 1944 creamery butter pro-?
duction was j reported at 24,130,-
000 pounds or 2,417,000 pounds
less than was produced in 1943;
American cheddar cheese product
tion a m o u n ted to I 26,601,000
pounds, an increase of 2,568,000
pounds over! 1943. The 1944 out
put of soft cream cheese was
Stepped up 23 per cent above 1943
and totaled 1,379,000 pounds pro
duction of this type of Icheese wai
increased materially in 1943 but
very little had been produced in
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Those -with experience say that
lotus major seed shatters as badly
1 natry vetcn when ripe, it
should not be mowed a day too
early or a day too late. It appears
that about five acres is the limit
for any one combine to harvest In
one season unless soil conditions
vary enough to vary seed matur
ity in different fields. At any rate,
the difference in ripening will not
vary over a few days and com
bining is a very alow operation.
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The Pete Packard matted row
strawberry field in Clackamas
county Is making an experiment
in fertilization. The difference in
summer growth shows great fa
vor to the rows receiving a deep
application of complete commer
cial fertilizer last spring, as com
pared to rows receiving a surface
application of the same fertilizer
in the same amount, and the third
group receiving no fertilizer.
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These demonstration trials will
be continued this fall on the Har
old Bushue farm, the Oregon
Bulb farm and by Hammon Paul
son, who has a fertilizer applica
tor on his cultivator.
Last springs' application show
ed a decrease in labor in control
ling weeds and increased yield
over the old surface method of
applying commercial fertilizers as
well as saving in time and labor
incident to applying the fertilizer.
earlier years. Cottage cheese pro
duction was 2,204,000 pounds in
1944, representing a 13 per cent
decrease below the very large out
put of 1943.
Production of evaporated milk
was increased 23 per cent in 1944
and totaled 41,926,000 pounds. The
output J of sweetened, skimmed
condensed milk has been practic
ally eliminated in recent years
and amounted to 478,000 pounds
in 1944. Production of nonfat dry
milk solids for human food by
spray and roller process in 1944
totaled 6,617,000 pounds, 13 per
cent less than the 1943 output.
The largest percentage increase
shown for any product in 1944 was
dried Whole milk with an in
crease of 442 per cent The out
put of dried or powdered whey
increased 7 per cent in 1944, while
dried buttermilk and dried casln
was reduced. Ice cream produc
tion was reduced five per cent in
1944.
Army Vets Give
Calves Vaccine
United States army veterinar
ians are using American type
vaccine to clean up brucellosis in
Italian dairy herds. Wide spread
vaccination of Italian cattle is also
expected to curtail risk of human
undulant fever, as most of the
nation's milk 'supply is consumed
there without pasteurization.
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Shortage Fails
Harvests Half Acre by Hand
Where there's a will there's a
still works. Just how well it works Was demonstrated this week by
Mrs. E. M. English out on Cherry avenue. s
Mrs. English had a half an
Oregon Butter
Vitamins Up
Oregon creamery butter has an
average vitamin A content of 18,
533 international units per pound
compared with a national average
of around 3,000 units.
This slight variation favoring
Oregon is not so significant as the
facts developed in the study
showing a direct and almost Im
mediate relationship between the
feed cows eat and the vitamin A
content of the milk they give, says
J. R. Haag, agricultural chemist,
who conducted the Oregon phase
of the national study.
The vitamin A potency of milk
and butter depends upon the
quantity of carotine la the cow's
diet. Dr. Haag points - out. The
row's principal sources of caro
tine, from - which she manufac
tures vitamin A, are fresh green
pasture and good quality rough
age of other kinds. Properly
stored butter retains its A eon-
tent . I
The national study emphasized
the fact that hays cured in a way
to retain their green color are
rich in carotine and mat silage
made from corn or grass crops
lose very little carotine: during
storage. Carotine content depends
much on state of maturity at the
time the silage is put out.
Okinaxcan Kids
Organized Into
First 4H Club
Okinawa youngsters are getting
a taste of 4-H club work. Lt. (Jg)
Ralph Backstrom of St PauL
Minn., who formerly was associ
ated with 4-H club work at the
Minnesota college of agriculture,
is credited with organizing Okinf
awa's first 4-H club: He says the
children line up and an Okinawan
teacher lectures them on agricul
ture and gardening. Then they
take their hoes and march off to
the fields. j
Organization of !
United Nations to
Up Food Standard
United States Joined the food
and agriculture organization of
the United Nations, effective July
21. Our financial contribution for
the first full year- is $1,250,000
The FAO will act as a: clearing
house for better ways of produ
cing and distributing food, and
attempts to raise the eating stan
dards of the world.
Hit by Fires
Several fires in the Pacific coast
area, labor vacations, and strikes
in various sections of the country
have contributed to a shortage of
lumber stocks. Supplies of hard
wood flooring, shingles, softwood
and plywood are very scarce.
USDA reports this week.
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way, may sound pretty trite but It
acre of wheat growing for chicken
feed. The wheat was ready to be
harvested. No combine could be
expected (these are Mrs. English's
own words) to come Into town to
cut ft half acrt of grain.
II decided to cut lt with a
scythe Mrs. "English continued,
"but it dldnt work so good. Then
I f thought I'd pull It Thai was
better, but it was slow. I went to
the farm labor office and got three
Mexicans. Together the four of us
pulled and, tied Into bundles the
wheat in four hours.'
Mrs. English explained aha had
already cut the binder twine into
regular lengths. The bundles were
neatly and securely tied and Just
as ' neatly shocked. The Mexicans
were paid 73 cents an hour.
1 Later neighbors will haul the
grain, with car and trailor, from
the little field to the chicken house.
Here it will be cone-stacked and
covered with a piece of canvas.
The chickens will do their own
threshing as the bundles wQl.be
placed in the chicken pens as they
are needed for feed. .--
i Mrs. English came to her present
home 38 years ago with Mr. Eng
lish. Sixteen years ago he died.
There was tome mortgage on the
place, she tells but there Is none
now. Mrs. English gardens raises
filberts, berries and chickens.
I It isn't so much what you make
as what you are able to save, says
Mrs. . English. There is nothing,
she says, that goes to waste on her
five and a half acres. Limbs brok
en or injured from trees on her
Uttle place are cut up into wood
for the stoves. The waste in trees
and in wood in general was es
pecially regretted by Mrs. English.
A fir, reaching some 30 feet to
ward the sky, was, when it was
a foot high, the' first Christmas
tree for the Englishes on their
Cherry ave, home. The English
children got it out of the woods
themselves. It was planted In a
soap box and later planted out to
the lawn where it has grown since.
A few limbs were broken off this
past year and these, Mrs. English
cut up into stove wood.
Mrs. English, who was .71 last
April, insists that work keeps one
young. She gets up with the dawn.
rests a bit during the warmer
part of the day and works again
in the cooler part of the evening.
) American consumers spent al
most seven billion dollars more
for goods and services in 1944
thasi In 1943.
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Wards Vitalized
Motor Oil
Lengthens Engino Life
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Some Markets
Still Small
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Of Lambs Smaller Tbaxt
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Decline in prices for fat lambs.
following the withdrawal of j the
lamb subsidy payments to slaugh
terers, was generally less than: the
compensating subsidy payments to
be made to the farmer, effective
August f . ; 1 j
: The bulk of the Eastern Oregon
feeder lambs is reported contract
ed and wiH go mostly to central
Idaho and Washington feed lots.
Some will go to the midwest, par
ticularly Iowa, to be finished, .
Midwestern grass cattle mar
kets were still reporting unseason
ably small receipts of grass cat
tle during the week ended August
9. The total of all cattle arriv
ing at 12 principal markets con
tinued somewhat smaller than the
same period of last year. Receipts
of calves and sheep were substan-
tiallv cmallnr than VMr nroviruia
with hogs down to 41 per cent of
last year.
Mohair buying in Texas contin
ued moderately active at 52 Vi to
58 cents for adult mohair and 20
cents more for kid hair. Trading
in domestic wools continued very
slow on the Boston market with
buying limited to immediate re
quirements. I
Generally firm markets . have
prevailed for grains and feed-
stuffs so far this season. Feed
grain markets have not been es
pecially active. Demand for com
mercial feeds tuffs has been very
strong in relation to offerings.
with prices held firmly at the
maximum ceilings. Some of the
nation's principal hay markets de
veloped a weaker tone recently.
Prices at Portland remained nom
inally unchanged last week. Very
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uiut irauuig woa uudi, m uucii
were inactive and growers , were
not pressing supplies on the mar
ket' ' I
: A strong demand during !the
week ended August 4 was report
ed for chewing' fescue grass; for
seed for Immediate shipment
Austrian winter pea prices also
reflected good demand. Other
wise, trading was about steady on
Oregon's principal eeed crops that
are now being harvested and pre
pared for shipment
More Butter This Year
Setrasida of creamery butter for
the government for August ( has
been reduced to 20 per cent al
though it was originally scheduled
to be 30 per cent The reduction
as made possible because the army
has arranged to buy some butter
In Denmark for feeding tha sol
diers in that vicinity.
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