Tho OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning, April 4, 1948
PAGE SEVEN
Septic Tanks
Discussed by
Health Officer
There are many ready-made
eeptic tanks which are entirely
Inadequate .now being sold by
high pressure sales talk, said I.
G. Lermon. sanitary engineer for
tb Marion county department of
health Jn am interview .this week.
f "Tears of, ! experience."" Lermon
said, "have shown public health
authorities that the average fam
ily dwelling needs a septic tank
ef -about SOO gallons capacity.
The inside measurements of such
tank; would, correspond to a
rectangle three feet wide, six feet
l long and halve a liquid depth of
four feet
D till ml Car laaportant
"For proper operation of the
tank neither the inlet nor the out
let should be placed too near the
floor ' of the tank.. For the single
family unit the inlet and outlet
may consist of a single elbow or
. T-ahaped pipe , extending not
more than midway from the wa
ter line to the bottom of the tank.
"Extreme care should be taken
la the final disposal of the ef
' finest coming from the tank. It is
' rife with bacteria, some of which
may be harmful. For ordinary
. ; soil conditions, the usual practice
Is ta provide sufficient drain tile
ao that the effluent may be ab
sorbed in . the surrounding area.
In. any event, this liquid should
not be permitted to come to the
surface of .the, ground nor should
It be drained into road ditches or
streams.'
Health Considered
The county health departments
. can supply anyone with technical
fJaSatmaiiaa about the coostrwe
' tiea of prfrete-vewage disposal
system.! They are glad to give out
this information, says Dr. W. J.
' Stone, county health officer.
"Home owners who are. build
ing new houses are being con-.
' Iron ted wjth sewsge disposal
problems. Dr. Stone said, "these
people would save time and wor
ry as well as money If they con
1 suited our department of health.
We. want to de all' within our
, powir to make Marion county a
healthy place both tncity and
country in which to live."
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So Are Weevils
And Spittle Bugs
- The time of year is rolling
around when insect pesti and
diseases show up ia stra w berry
Held, says Ben A. Newell, assist
ant county agent. Root ' weevils
are the most damaging, he adds.
Two groups of root weevils work
on strawberries. One winters ov
er ae an adult and conies out m
March and early April and the
second ts. a grub now in the soil
and come out as an adult around
.picking time. Weevils come out
ewer such a long period that spe
cial care is needed to get con
trol. NewelTs recommendation for
control is thai each grower exam
ine his own planting now and if
weevils ' are found around the
base of the plant or the injury to
the leaves known as "ragging" is
present, a bait application should
be made at once. i
rreaared. Balis
, Use a commercial prepared bait
this year. Newell advises, a ma
terials for. home-made baits are
hard te get. A tablespoon 'u 1 of
bait placed In the crown or at the
side of each crown U mott effec-
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Ranch Ramblings
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Shown here is part of the hero
itage of the farm child the na
tive wild flowers from one's own
bit of woodland.
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From Oregon pioneer days
it 'has been the privilege of
farm child to gsther and bring
home to Mother the first blooms
from the woods. City children
frequently lack this privilege;
first, because neither they nor
their neighbors have . "woods;"
second, because they do not know
from past years under which
large fir trees the first lady slip
per (lower left) blooms; on which
bank of the stream the trillium
(lower right) comes out the
earliest, or on the edge of which
oak grove the Iambs' tongues
(uppei) Jmost sneak up on one,
they grow so fast once they get
started.
In the gsrden of many a farm
child, grows a little nest of lady
slippers which would have failed,
in another garden . because not.
enough leaf mold was 'brought
back, or perhaps, slug bait was
ot put out early enough and
slugs are so fond of lady slippers.
The farm child has learned from
experience that if trillium.i are
picked they do not bloom again
the next year and likely not even
the year following. So, oftly one
or two are picked from each
clump and net infrequently is the
bulb from the picked ' flower
brought home to be nursed back
in some shaded corner of the
home garden. Not for three years;
will, this bloom as . a rule, but
eventually quite a little; clump
will Show up.
The lambs' tongues fi which
mid-westerners usually call dog's
tooth violet when transplanted
grow remarkably large in the
home garden if given very good
drainage and a little mulching.
tive. One hundred pounds of bait
will treat from one to three
acres.
Spittle bugs will be hatching
out very soon too, and when
spittle masses are noticeable ap
ply a dust at once. The early in
jury to developing leaves and
fruit spurs Is often very serious.
Ro ten one of various strengths
is available this year. Either i
per cent or 1 per cent is best, 'and
50 to 60 pounds per acre applied
with a hooded duster will do the
job,.
Dust on a good day. If the
m
Him
. cr spreading land plaster because cf
gramd cosdilisas.
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Telephone 6981
weather continues bad, : second
application two weeks after the
first may be necessary.
A bulletin "Insect Pests and
Diseases of Strawberries in Ore
gon" is available at all the county
agents offices here in the : valley.
E. F. Hubbard, Corvallis, has
again been appointed as manager
of the Willamette valley purebred
ram sale. Other members of the
sale committee are Eldon Riddle
of Independence. Claude Steusloff
of Salem and O. E. Mikesell of
Albany. The date for the sale has
been tentatively set for August
10, with Bryant park, Albany,
again the location.
.The Linn county fat lamb and
wool show at Scio is being re
newed this year after a four-year
lapse. The date has been set for
Saturday, May Z5.
E. Kellerhals, sr., has sold his
30-acre ranch near Silverton and
has bought a home in Silverton.
He says he is going to watch the
other fellow farm for a while.
O. E. Mikesell, county agent in
Linn, sent the rural reporter no
tice that ground squirrel control
barley is now available at many
points in the county. The mater
ial, Mikesell says, is prepared by
the state college extension serv
ice in cooperation with .the U. S.
fish and wildlife service. Places
where it can be had at Albany
include the Albany Feed and
Seed, Murphy's Seed store, Kel
ly's Feed-and Seed, and M. Sen
ders or Co. At Lebanon it is ob
tainable at Lebanon Feed and
Seed and the Valley Feed and
Seed. Santiam Feed store" has it
at. Sweet Home, and Brownsville
Feed and Seed store at Browns
ville. Harrisburg lists Smith's
Produce; Halsey, O. W. Frum
Seed and Grain; Shedd, Thomp
son's Flouring mill; Tangent,
Grange Oil company.
Remember, these places are
just for Linn county, Marion,
Yamhill, Clackamas' and Polk
have their own stations.
Deer aren't "little dears" up
around Scotts Mills these days.
More than one grower reports
that he (and she) has set out
scores of back wreaking . rows of
strawberry plants one day, only
to return the next to find that
deer had undone all the work.
Never, say strawberry planters
in this area, have deer been so
pestiferous as this year, and nev
er before hare growers wanted
so badly to set out additional
strawberry plants. They were
told -to put in electric fences but,
the growers report, the deer have
undoubtedly changed the well
known "Don't Fence Me In'! to
"You Can't Fence Me Out," as
they sail gracefully over the tops
of any ordinary electric fence
designed to keep cattle in or out.
Growing Gertifietl
Not a Simple Job j
The increased interest in certi
fied strawberry plant production
is very evident this spring. Plants
that have been dug from certified
fields recently are being sought
widely by many buyers.
Growers who wish to certify
plants this year in Marion county
are being . reminded to file I an
application by May . Late ap
plications will not be accepted.
Forms- and rules are also avail
able at the county agent's office.
Ben Newell, assistant Marion
county agent, reminds growers
that entering plants for certifi
cation is one thing and complet
ing . the job i another. At last
three inspections are made of
fields by representatives of Ore
gon State college and plants must
have less than S ; per cent virus
disease at an inspection and less
than I per cent on the final in
spection to make them blue tag
plants. "1
Marcus Vetter, well known
commercial sheep shearer and
farmer of Elliot Prairie, over the
line in Clackamas county, has
just returned from a trip to Mon
tana and the Dakotas with seven
head of Columbia sheep from the
famous Ernest White band of
Kalispel, Mont. Marcus reports
that Ernest White sold one Co
lumbia ram last fall for $1500
and that he weighed 305 pounds
a lot of mutton in one package,
Marcus said.
The weather man, apparently,
doesn't agree with our column on
the time for gardening. But even
tually spring will get here. In
some sections it has arrived in
spite of the weather man. Green
onions from home gardens were
being gaten in both' Salem and
Silverton this past week. What I
started out to tell, however, was
that cutworms and slugs rather
like the rainy weather. They get
lots of early licks in, because
gardeners fail to realize the pests
are here even if rpring isn't. Bait
put out now will kill the slugs
and cutworms before any dam
age is done," and also, before a lot
of new slues and cutworms have
been hatched. In this day of
scarcity, don't try to mix your
own baits. Buy the ready made
materials at the seed stores.
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offering three attractive methods of marketing hreeder turkevs.
UI11CT A-present net cash price of 31.2c per lb. for prime hen tur-
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to change as the market dictates.' K
Birds can be pooled with a 22.2c net cash advance on
hens and 20.2c net cash advance on toms tf grower de
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TPUyPf 1 We have-a storage plan which might be very attractive to
;; growers interested in marketing their own birds.
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A committee of 1 the Union Hill
grange, with Floyi Fox as chair
man, has' been working on the
advisability of a weedr control
district for St. Johnswort. I
Seed produced! in the Union
Hill-Sublimity are was original
ly noted for its freedom from St:
Johnswort but in recent' years
records from the state t college
seed laboratory and the exper
ience of private seed companies
show an increasing number of
bent grass seed lots having St.
Johnswort seed. . I
A number of control ; methods
are being considered, with W. G.
Nibler, Marion county agent, giv
ing information i on the best
nethods. j
foot boom for-spraying of weeds
was. bought separately,- together
with additional hose and extra
gun. The jcost of the complete out
fit was approximately $550. Cost
of the sprayer will be met by mon
ey takeni in from custom work in
spraying
trees.
both weeds and fruit
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St johnswort, 'alias goa tweed.
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for seed and pasture was dis
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Hill grange hall during the week.
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