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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, August 23, 1913
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Weed Control
Problem Under
Discussion
Authorities Slay Take
Up Problem Seriously
And Compell Control
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By LUUe L. Mdsea
Turn Editor, The Statesman
Farmers are looking with hor
ror on the inroads made by nox
ious weeds in fields, but In too
many instances all they are doing
is looking.
When asked why they do not do
something to control the weeds,
their reply is, truthfully enough,
"because the weeds along the
roadsides and highways, the rail
road right-of-ways and across the
neighbor's lence make it , look
pretty hopeless to try to control
those in our own fields."
"The time to get a noxious weed
under control is when that weed
first gets started," warns Frank
McKennon, chief of division of
plant industry, state department
of agriculture. "After it becomes
widespread, control is pretty dif
ficult." "But," he added, "good farm
ers will lick the weeds, and poor
farmers will be licked by them."
McKennon suggested chemical
control in small areas and clean
cultivation for larger areas. In
controlling Canada thistle, he said,
the idea used to be to allow no
green to show above the surface
of the soiL Now it has been found
that control can be had Just as
effectively when the growth is six
or seven days old.
Forming Districts '
McKennon pointed out the pos
sibility, provided by state legis
lation in 1941, of forming weed
control districts. N
Such districts can be formed
in two ways, he said. The county
court may declare the entire coun
ty a district; or, a group of at
least seven farmers constituting
majority of farm owners in a
district, may petition the court
for a special district for control
of specified noxious weeds. Upon
receipt of such a petition r the
court must declare the district
organized.
A weed inspector is then ap
pointed and he will have the right
to go on any property within that
district. Any person, firm, muni
cipality or reclamation district
within the weed control district is
required to eradicate or control
the weeds and in no case permit
specified weeds to go to seed. The
state highway commission is also
Included within the scope of the
law.
If the landowner or tenant fails
to destroy the weeds as ordered,
the weed inspector will have the
right to go on the land and de
stroy the weeds and seeds. Any
expense incurred becomes a lien
on the land and shall be collected
In the same way taxes are col
lected. Under some circumstances
farms infested can also be quar
antined. The county courts are author
ized to levy a tax to raise neces
sary funds for financing weed
control work by the county along
public highways and on county
land.
In looking over, the huge
patches of weeds in Marion
county, it might almost be a "be-
lleve it or not. for Ripley" when
it becomes known that all of
Marion county is included as a
weed control district and that
this is now. on the statute books.
County In a District
The AAA program provides
that payment for the control of i
Canada thistle and morning glory
by summer fallowing or chemi
cal weed control will be allowed
only in areas where an organized
weed control district bis been
established. Because of this Mar
ion county was made into such a
district. But no inspector has ever
been appointed or has any effort
been made to enforce the provis
ions of either eradicating or pre
vention of seed formation. But
here and there farmers are begin
ning to agitate for its enforce
ment Agitation and it wouldn't
need much as the statute is al
ready on the books may become
so strong the enforcement be
comes compulsory.
Bethel farmers union local has
taken steps for forming a special
tansy ragwort control district la
its area.
Lane county is a weed control
district for the prevention of seed
formation of Canada thistle and
here inspectors have been ap
pointed to tour the county at cer
tain times of the year to enforce
this seed formation law. The Lob
ster valley area in Benton county
f ormed a ! tansy ragwort control
district and actually eradicated
the weed, I am told.
Where weed control districts
really operate is In Eastern Ore-
son where the white top ana kus
lan knapweed, as' well as leafy
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Polk Prunes
Grower Price
Of $55 Basis
For Prunes
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An average grower price of $53
per ton for fresh prunes in Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho will
be used in constructing processors'
ceiling prices for their 1945 packs
of canned, frozen and preserved
fresh prunes, USDA and OPA an
nounced Wednesday. ! -
If average price paid by any
processor is lest than $33 per ton.
his ceiling prices for processed
prunes will be based only on ac
tual price paid. - . ,
P. Dean Anderson, field repre-
malady called "excessive trans- enave uiui, saw tnat to par
piration" has hit the Polk county ticlpate in USDA guaranty pur
prune orchards. Hot dry weather chase program tor canned prunes.
and insufficient root moisture I announced roarcn 20, canners must
combine to bring on this disease I P? for each purchasje of prunes
ror canning not less tnan price
announced today. Of canned
prunes required to be pet aside for
government purchase order WTO
22.8, 90 per cent come under guar
anty purchase program. Anderson
Malady
New Plan of lifting
Bales is Worked Out
Use of field balers creates
something of a problem in the
pickup of bales from the ground.
Paul W. Shepard of the First Na
tional bank's farm service, has
worked out an economical way
of hoisting bales from ground to
truck, using the tractive power
of the truck for lifting the bale.
Circulars describing the method
are available at the Salem branch
of tha bank.
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Prunes may not qualify this ,
year for sale to canneries and it
might be necessary to dry a large
proportion, W. C Leth, county
agent, said, Wednesday. A prune
While It is still la the experimental state, this eircular-saw brash cntteV, designed at Oregon State eol
lere has been attracting wide attention lately. K. G. Johnson, head ef the animal husbandry depart
ment. Is shown giving It a workout In cutting 'rose briars, oak grabs and ether brash. It Is expeeted
that It will prove highly useful to farmers la dealing pastures. The tractor snouted type, as shown
In the cat, has a five-foot saw that turns parallel with the surf see of the! ground where It can be
raised or lowered for high or .low cutting. It was designed to operate from a power takeoff but
that didn't work a well 1st this coon try for various reasons, chief of which Is that 1st thick; brash or
ever rough country the speed of the tractor most be slowed down toe much for the, saw speed. With
an extra engine mounted on the tractor to ran the saw, that trouble wu eliminated. With this it
Is possible to stop and saw down a tree a foot or more in diameter. Steel-wheeled tractors have to
be used with this machine as the stiff little stumps left will pnnctare rubber tires.
Harvest. Jobs
Wait for War
Plant Workers
Several thousand Jobs in the
Oregon harvest await recent in
dustrial war workers who have
finished their war plant jobs, J.
Ralph Beck, state extension serv
ice farm labor supervisor, said
Wednesday.
With the late summer and early
fall farm labor demands at their
peak, at least 9000 of these war
industry workers, especially men,
will be badly needed. Beck add
ed, Increased demands are alrea
dy being felt for additional work
ers for hops in the Willamette
valley. There are also prunes and
walnuts and filberts coming on.
Harvest work for even more
will be available if and when the
former war industry workers ap
ply for Jobs in great enough num
bers to replace Mexican workers
who have been brought into Ore
gon to assist with farm work.
"Just as fast as war wrokers
show a desire to take over the
Jobs now being done by Mexican
nationals, these Mexicans will be
repatriated and sent back to their
homes in Mexico," Beck ex
plained. Families without 'trailer houses
or other housing facilities can be
used in most of these harvest Jobs
only in limited numbers, except
for picking hops, Beck aaos.
While cabins, wood, light and wa
ter are available for families at
practically all of the Willamette
valley hop yards, on-farm living
quarters are extremely limited in
the other crop areas.
Linn-Benton Group
At Shelby Farm
Members of the Linn-Benton
Dairy Herd Improvement associ
ation and friends will gather at
the N. V. Shelby Ac Sons farm
near Knox Butte, Sunday, Aug
ust 20. A. R. Foster. Tangent, is
president
" The day's activities will in
elude the picnic dinner at 1 p. nv,
election of officers, talk on pro
duction testing by H. W. Ewalt of
Oregon State college and the In
spection of the Shelby herd of
purebred Jerseys.'
spurge threatened to get beyond
control.
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Second f Filbert 1 1
Spray Due Now
Due to the ' long emergency pe
riod Of the filbert moth, a second
spray or dust is suggested by Ben
A. Newell, assistant county ag
ent. Sprays or dusts will be most
effective if on or before August
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A thorough spray of three
pounds of lead arsenate in 100
gallons of water is the recom
mended spray. Particular atten
tion to the upper part of the tree
and under the sides of the leaves
is essential, as most larvae feed
ing takes place in those areas.
Dusting is I very satisfactory if
done in the f early morning. Use
40 pounds of 140 per cent lead ar
senate if dust is used. More thor
ough; protection may be obtained
if the spray or dust is applied by
traveling through the orchard, in
the opposite! direction from the
way the first application was put
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Sheepmen Will
lleellal Show ;
On Angus! 27 j
Bryant park, Albany will be
headquarters for sheepmen on
Monday, August 27, when 110
head of purebred rams and ewes
are offered at public auction. The
sale starts at 9:30 a. m. with Rom
enys, Lincoln and Corriedales
being sold during the morning and
Shropshire, Suffolks, Southdowns
and Hampshires in the afternoon.
Buyers are assured of quality
animals as two sifting committees
will have passed on the soundness
of quality of each individual. Reg
istration papers are furnished for
all animals, regardless of the
price paid. Col. Earl O.t Walter of
Filer, Idaho, will be the auction'
eer, and will be assisted in the
ring by Eddie Ahrens of Turner,
and Ray Reynolds of Corvallis.
State Freeing ;
Nursery ! Stock
From Diseases
Another step in the program to
provide nursery stock free from
sap-carried diseases to fruit grow
ers has been taken with the se
lection and labeling of 144 cherry
trees approved for cion and bud
wood. The; trees have been in
spec ted and! kept under observa
tion by plant pathologists at the
state college and passed ; as free
from serious virus diseases. ;
This if part of a cooperative
program announced about a year
ago and participated in by com
mercial nurseryman, the state de
partment of agriculture and the
state college. First attention is
being given to stone fruits, includ
ing peaches apricots, prunes and
plums, in addition to cherries.
All peach 'stock in western Or
egon, so far as now known, is
free from rirus diseases except
for peach wort! Peach trees are
inspected to see that none show
ing any of .this disease are used
for -bud wood. j
Each tree' passed by inspectors
under this project is permanently
marked with a tree code and reg
istered. This indicates that it is
not. free of disease but is true to
the variety j named.
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which causes the Juice rnd sugar
of the fruit to ooze out into small
nodules of wax on the surface.
When cut the cells of the fruit
are darkened and damaged, mak
ing the fruit unfit for canning.
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a h( uu grower prices are at proces-
lr increase the nM-emtin f fruit I VWB' lcva,iu
affected. Only cool days will curb d bdx upon customary
the MMisuirht the. rUmm procedures and tolerances for de-
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uevu invuei prune ana peacn
growers to srivs consideration to
applying sulphur dust for the con- J Grange, Union Give
iroi oi orown rot in many peacn I o m m 1? J
orchards, Leth said, the growers dUpport to federal
a control Cron Insurance
Support of the federal all-risk
crop insurance program for 1948
is urged by I Morton Tompkins,
master of the Oregon State
Grange, and ! by Ronald. Jones,
president of the Oregon Farmers
union.
In a letter , to all subordinate
and Pomona ; grange I masters,
Tompkins said: "I feel strongly
that all grangers should be inter
ested in seeing to it that the crop
insurance program succeeds. If
the program on wheat is success
ful, we can look forward to the
day when weather, insects, fire.
disease and flood are removed
from the hazards of farming,
Pointing out that crop insur
ance Is a part of the Farmers
Union national agricultural pro
gram, Jones,! in a letter to the
presidents of jail locals, declared:
If we ever Want crop insurance
now is our chance to get behind
this program; and make! it work
while we have government sup
port" He also stressed the self
sustaining mutual aspects of the
program.
Both , granges and union locals
were urged by their state leaders
to undertake sales agencies for
federal crop j insurance wherever
possible. Such arrangements are
being made in a number of coun
ties. ".' . I
Closing date for applying for
insurance on fall' sown wheat is
September 30
In Salem
Markets :
Lamb growers need no longer
make appointments for delivery
of their lambs, said Ted Cham
bers, president of the valley
Packing plant, Wednesday. Lambs
are being taken as received and
are! being shipped out, chiefly to
California. The price remains the
cents being paid for
top; lambs. Because of the two
days which the plant was closed
to observe V-day, only 180 lambs
were received for tha week end
ing Tuesday. A total of 43 ewes
and six whethers were also re
ceived, and eight yearlings.
In the beef market, the demand
have already started
program for brown
with wettable or dusting sulphur.
. Sulphur dust should be applied
during warm weather periods in
order to be effective and is cheap
er to apply than spray. Only the
real fine dusting sulphur should
be used.
, Leth suggests that the prune
growers consider making two ap
plications, one immediately and
one in ten days or two weeks.
Peach growers should give their
crops the same, treatment, only
starting much earlier and making
applications at ten-day to two-
week intervals.
Amity Ram Celt
Top Price at
Pendleton Sale
Prices paid for nearly 300 rams
at the 19th annual Oregon ram
sale held Friday at Pendleton un
der the ; auspices of the Oregon
Wool Growers' association were
not as high generally as in for
mer years.
Top ram of the sale was Suf
folk buck sold by Dave Wadell of
Amity to Jim R. Hewitt for $175
Wadell also sold one other Suf
folk buck for over $100, this one
going to H. E. Noah, who bid
$103. ;
High Hampshire was sold by
A. L Eoff of Salem to Gaylor
Madison. High Suffolk Hamp
shire crossbred was $92 with Eoff
selling a pen of five to Vern Pear
son.
remains much greater than tha
supply, and the beeves killed are
sold in the valley. Besides the
beet animals bought from local
farmers, three carloads were
bought by the local company at
Enterprise.' Bought from farmers
were IS veals, S3 beef cows, 23
dairy cows, four heifers, seven
bulls and one steer.
Hogs, to quota Mr. Chambers,
"remain the more than scarce ar
ticle. Either the ceiling will have
to be raised or the feed prices
lowered if tha buying public is to
have pork." Only 48 were re
ceived at Valley Pack during the
week
Eggs remain 'scarce in Salem
markets too, with all sizes raising
one cent to the producer today.
Urge Growers to
File Applications
For Prune Pickers
Prune growers are being urged
to 'file applications for a definite
number of workers at once. The
available supply of labor seems
considerably short in harvest
fields, county agents report. An
allotment of prisoners of war has
been made to the valley but be
cause of army regulations per
taining to their use, housing, and
control. It has been possible to lo
cate them only in a few of the
large hop yards. They cannot be
used In small units and are there
fore nojt available for prune har
vest help. The number received.
however, will help the all-over
labor situation by making that
many more workers available for
other growers.
County Dairy
Business is
, 4
Worth Million
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Dairy manufacturers paid $L
23433 to Marion county dairy
farmers during 1944, figures just
compiled at tha state department
of agriculture show; Farmers
sold 40568.900 pounds of milk to
the manufacturers of dairy prod
ucts. J ' I ' '. --
Besides this $188,017 was paid
to farmert for 4,775,050 pounds of
whole mux for fluid use. .
Creamery butter manufactured
in Marion county tha past year
was 3,897,369 pounds as compar
ed to 380,788 in Linn county. Lina
county farmers ; sold 33,078,089
pounds of whole milk to manufac
turers for $1,194,156. 1 1
A total of 114,643 gallons of lea
cream were also made by whole
sale and retail manufacturers in
Marion county during the year.
Tillamook county made almost
one half of all cheese made in tha
state with the cheese county's to
tal output given at 10,08264
pounds. Coos county made 7,984,
329 pounds with Marion county
at 1,116,414 pounds, and giving
promise of crawling up closer to
ward the top in coming years.
Prune Growers i
Will Meet at
Cof C, August 29
There will be a Joint meeting
for Marlon and Polk county prune
growers at the Salem chamber of
commerce rooms at 8 o'clock,
Wednesday, August 29. W. E.
Kimsey, state labor commissioner.
has called the meeting as a hear
ing to discuss prune harvest labor
rates..
Mr. Kimsey held similar meet
ings two years ago and growers
have ! requested, because of the
success of these, to have such a
program again this year.
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