Tht 0ETG0N STATESMAN, Scoesv CJrtgon, Ttursdoy Morning, Aajcst S3. 1913
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Ilemrilr Udcn trees and od Market eombiiM this rear U make peach grewlnc a profit Flctored abore
re Mr. ana Mrs. jess Ma this, propter VP eTerbardened limbs la the orchard, aa Important function
of the rehardlst. Much of tint crop oa the Mathis farm, eat the Portland hlfhwar. It sold orer
the counter of the roadside stand, and Mrs. Mathls Mrs easiness b eertalnlr rood this rear. Mr.
and Mrs. Mathls started rrowlnr peaches a beat IS rears are, now hare 20 acres. Improved Elbertas
and outer Yaneues are now beta sold. Several early peaches are done. Besides peaches the
Mathls hare 2 seres of mint. Just harrested and some melons and other track garden prodace.
ISMiesmaa pnou)
North Howell Farmer Speaks up
On Advantages of Small, Well
Cultivated Farms Over Larger
Tells How lie Makes Ample Profit
On Well Taken Care of Berrlei;
Less Labor Problems Daring War
By LIlUe L. Madsea
Farm Editor, The SUteiman
"If your farm lsnt too big for
thorough cultivation and modern
care," says A. B. Wlesner, "you
make more money with less
trouble. At least, I do."
Mr. Wiesner has cultivated both
large and small farms. He now
farms the place where he was
born, in North HowelL There are
but 32 acres in the farm and the
most of these are planted into
berries, which, he adds, have paid
well in recent rears. This spring
he took $483 from one-fourth, of
an acre of strawberries. There
.are 11 seres of boysenberries and
four of thorn! ess evergreens. Next
year there will be seven acres of
the evergreens. Ther average
about five ton to the acre, and
with berries the price .they have
been well, IS acres make a nice
little income, Wiesner admits.
For seven years, the Wiesners
experimented with the thornless
evergreen. Their present plant
ing was made four years . ago.
Three- more acres were planted
last year and will come into bear
ing next summer. .More will be
set out this fall,- Mr. Wiesner
thought. In a few years now
there9 may be some difficulty of
disposing of the fruit, but right
now there Isn't nearly enough to
supply the demand. The govern
ment is taking all the Wiesners
are producing this season. "
With the exception of picking,
almost all the labor in the field
is done by Wiesner himself. A
cover crop of No. 1 common vetch
is sown at the rate of 100 pounds
.;n acre. This is ploughed down
n early spring when it is 14
Inches high.' After that, until the
picking season, the fields ' are
gone over every two. weeks and
cultivated.
Wiesner warns against deep
cultivation only four, inches, he
says. There are too many feeder
roots removed if deeper cultiva
tion is used. The - cultivation
makes a dust mulch. No irriga
tion Is used on the thornless ever
greens. They are the most d rough
resistant of the cane berries, in
Wiesner's opinion.
Prunes Heavily
Wiesner leaves from seven to
IB canes on each hill but cuts
back the long runners.' By prun-
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A. E. Wiesner, North HoweU
'-, farmer. Broadly displays his
thornless evergreen blackber
ries. The pride is Justified, says
the farm editor. She has never
tasted sweeter berries or seen
larger ones in a field of anirri
gated blackberries. The patch
now betas' harvested Is fear
rears old. Another three-acre
patch will begin predaeiag ia
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ing back heavily, more and lafg-
er berries are obtained, he says.
A 93 per cent iure dusting
sulphur is used Just before the
plants bloom. Dusting must be
very thorough. Cutting after the
fruit is removed Is not deae un
til the leaves faU. The leaves are
a good mulch, Wiesner insists. In
some varieties, people fear dis
ease by letting the leaves of the
canes faU on the ground. But
there has been no trouble that
way with the thornless evergreen
the Wiesners state.
There has been no difficulty
in obtaining pickers. V Wiesner
claims he has the best in the
country. They - are - neighbors,
chiefly women and their chil
dren. Picking is arranged so that
there is an 4 occasional day for
doing the family washing and
rh)mmerel sit Joe Marsh
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Lawn Mowors
Prcvar Versus Postwar
W1H Curry lsnl falling for
those pictures of a postwar life
of ease. lie was sweating over
hl3 lawn mower the other day,
when somebody shows him pic
tures of a mower that runs un
der its own power. . i-
"Shacks," says TSTH, "I at
lawn mower that rives yea some
backtaDc and exercise. It gets
the old blood drealailag and
works vp a wonderful thirst
Then,"- TTCl adds wkn sost,
there's aothlag ia tho whoto
world that tastes as rood aa a
checrfal glass of beerT
FTom where I sit, there's a lot
of rood sense in what Wm says.
' A little honest effort never hurt
anybody. And there should be
more to our post-wax plana than
how to make life comfortable '
: and easy. . . 1 : . ..' '. - ;
Oatdoor work work yo da
with your hands and year back
oaght to be part of everybody's '
post-war plana. And o a hot
day, as Will says, there's always
that sparkling glass of beer aa a
reward!
baking. In that way the women
do not object to returning jear
after year. Quite a bit of money
is made picking berries and the
thornless evergreens are particu
larly nice to pick, Wiesner said.
The oldest pickers in the field are
Mr. and Mrs. C Z. McIUwain, 79,
now of Salem. The Mclllwains
formerly lived in the neighbor
hood but have moved to Salem.
They like to return to the prairie
for the berry season.
Picking is Good
Mrs. Andrew Smith, who lives
up the road a piece from the
Wiesner farm, is the "star" ad
ult picker. She is averaging 40
carriers a day and there are six
hallocks in a carrier. Donald
Dunn, another neighbor who is
but eight years old, picked 16
carriers in four hours one day
during this week.
Wiesner has farmed a number
of neighboring placet on the
Prairie. He has also been em
ployed at Salem at times. But,
he says, he is most, contented now,
back farming the old farm place.
Land doesn't wear out, he claims.
If it Is treated right. But land,
like other things, has to have
something put back Into it if it is
to continue to give.
During the war and the ac
companying teacher shortage,
Mrs. Wiesner has been teaching
the neighboring school. But her
inain Interest is In tho Improve
ment of the home place. This Is
one farm which will go to the
children in a better condition, so
far as fertility of soil Is concerned,
than It came to the parents.
Fertilizer In
Ample Amount
Phosphate Available
To Farmer for Winter
If Ordered Very Soon
The first supply of phosphate
ertilizer in four years is in pros
pect for. Oregon ' farmers if they
will take advantage of an oppor
tunity to order their supplies im
mediately and take delivery when
the material arrives, reports Art
King, extension soils specialist at
the state college.
A superphosphate manufactur
ing plant has recently been com
pleted In eastern Idaho which has
agreed to ship an almost unlimit
ed supply to Oregon for delivery
between now and January i. Af
ter that date the production from
this plant Is otherwise contracted.
Dealers and farmers throughout
the state win have to cooperate
promptly and fully if we are to
take i advantage of this 1 supply,
King says. Dealers will need to
order tho material Immediately,
and since storage space is limited,
farmers will need to purchase and
store their season's supply as soon
as It Is available.
King adds that the Idaho super
phosphate Is available at a favor
able price. Since this is the only
manufacturing plant in the area.
farmers who use the material will
have a definite price advantage
over any other phosphate that
might be available even should
production restrictions be lifted.
Transportation costs and a high
selling price would make any im
ported material more expensive.
It is thoroughly cured. King
says, ana win not "set up" to a
point where It cannot be spread
unless subject to outside moisture.
Farmers report they have found
f ran sad experience that this was
not true of the under-cured ma
terial available in the past few
seasons.
Dairymen Leave
On Observation
Trip to South
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Ross of ML
Angel and Homer. Shelby of Al
bany are leaving late this week
for tho southern states to look
over the outstanding , Jerseys of
the country. One of their desti
nations is the W. S. Sparrow and
the Wallace McMonnus ranch in
Perry, Fla. The group plans to
return with some new blood for
their already fine blooded Jersey
herd. ,
Peak Readied on
Prisoner Help
The peak number of 2058 Ger
man prisoners of war was reached
this week when SSI were asigned
from Camp Adair for a week to
help meet a critical situation in
the Willamette valley bean fields,
and an additional 500 began pick
ing hops in the Salem-Independ
ence area. .
The prisoners have been used In
Marion, Yamhill, Folic, Jackson
and Malheur counties harvesting
beans, pears, potatoes, onion seed,
lettuce seed, hops and corn as well
as cultivating sugar beets and on
Ranch Ramblings
By Rural Reporter- I
If it weren't just for the tiros
now, the rural reporter could
ramble quite a bit with this extra
gasoline. " Even as it is the re
porter gets around Quite a bit
mora than' was possible when tt
little tickets were in demand.
During the past week, the re
porter was shocked to see how
much grain was unharvested right
here in the Willamette valley be
cause of too much Canada thistle.
Every few miles, I ran across a
patch of grain left standing in
the field more thistle than grain.
The thought that. Frank McKen-
non of the state department of
agriculture, recently expressed.
kept running through my mind:
The weeds will lick the poor
farmer; the food farmer will lick
the weeds." I realized that dur
ing the . war-time period, when
food production Is the all-Important
issue, there might not bo so
much time for weed-killing.' But
now, when the war is over, may
be some "good" farmers will show
up again or have time to become
"active." Anyway, not even ra
pidly grown foods . can be pro
duced on some of the fields.' Un
less some manufacturer can find
a use for Canada thistle, or un
less the Willamette valley farmer
is going to take time out for its
control farming wont be looking
so good here.
see
Canada thistle lsnt the only
tough weed to battle here in the
valley. Those of you who are in
terested in the beauty of Queen
Anne's lace can find a very well
filled field Just a few miles out
oa the Silverton road. To the
farmer, this is just wild carrot
and is one of Oregon's worst
weed pests.
Arthur Biles Is one of Marion
county's new land owners. He
bought the Mary Mack .ranch
which he-has been farming In
the North Santiam district for
sometime.
e.o y. -
Both In Clackamas and Mar
lon county I found a few ex
periments of the early maturing
varieties of tomatoes, the Chat
tara. New Hampshire Victor and
Bison. While the Chatham looks
particularly promising, the whole
story cannot be told until the
end of the season. Some fear that
the early-fruited varieties may
damage because of lack of mois
ture. However, the Chatham and
Bisoon have set much earlier than
the common varieties grown heretofore.
Fattening Lambs
Subject of Talk .
At Ram Sale -
" Fattening thin lambs and get
ting; ia under the subsidy pay
ments was quite the ringside talk
at the Willamette valley ram and
ewe sale at Albany early this
week,
Ben A. Newell, Marion county
assistant county agent, who was
helping about the ring at the show
and sale, said that any sheep
grower who had ample and satis
factory feed would find it to his
advantage to fatten all his thin
lambs. ., : ; 4-
Growers in Marion county,, ha
added,, bave found it possible to
fatten their healthy lambs on Su
dan grass pasture plus one pound
of grain per head daily. Grains
suitable for this are whole wheat
or barley, in his opinion. Care
must be taken In pasturing su-dan"
grass after cool weather starts aa
there is some danger after frosts
occur. Healthy feeder Iambs can
be fattened in the dry lot where '
alfalfa or good quality clover hay
is available.
' Experienced growers find that
It Is advisable to' shear lambs to
be fattened. In warm weather the
lambs will benefit en farm pas- '
ture if shade is provided, while
for winter feeding a shed shelter .
Is advisable. In either case shear
ing is best, Newell says. h . :
Lambs that are heavily parasi
tized( will not fatten unless they
have been' treated. Healthy lambs
either oa pasture or on dry lot
feeding can be expected to gain
from one-third to one-half pound
a head dally. .
Under present conditions. New
eH cautioned, it is advisable to
attempt feeding, only where am
ple feeds of good3 quality are avail-"
able on the farm. .
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