Tha OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning. May 9. 1948
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Rather Ride
Than Milk at
Chore Time
Sister, Brother Take
Cauter to Keep Fit;
Rhythm Important
Mrs. Wiggs ran Just take a back
wl for cabbage fame. 78-yejr -o!
Felix Comrtry s indicated a h?
told about his own cabbage patch
with an Amity, Polk county. ad
dress. Fifteen thousand dollars realiz
ed from on and a sixth rr over
a period of 25 years is- almost
shipyard wages with a lot more
fun and a lot less expense,
Comegys explained. There wasn't
even fertilizer put on the soil in
II that time, he added.
Even originally the Polk county
patch grew cabbage skunk
cabbage with cattails thrown
in for good measure. That was
bout the time the Lake Labish
drainage received so much, pub
licity. Comegys decided he'd have
his own little lake garden. He
cleared and drained the spot and
planted vegetables. Cabbage out
did itself. Thereafter it became a
cabbage patch. The fine solid
heads, grown from plants set out
In June and July., were 'peddled,"
Comegy tlL, at Salem. Most of
them, h add, went for kraut.
Figures entered conscientiously I
by Comegys, even before the j
years of income tax bookkeeping,
snowed that one year alone cab
bages had brought $870. and most
averaged between $500 and $700.
Never was there a failure. The
oil produces as much cabbage
today as it did when first opened.
Teteraa Take Over
"But I've retired from cabbage
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Packing Companies
Cover Inspector Cost
In Linn County
Gordon Schwalen. Salem, has
been appointed Linn county' dep
uty horticultural inspector, Frank
McKennon. chief of the division
of plant industry of the state de
partment of agriculture, has an
nounced. Schwalen will have headquar
ters in the county agricultural of
fice at Albany nd will be re
sponsible for the enforcement of
the cherry fruit fly control. He
will start his new duties by mak
ing a survey of the county to de
termine available spraying and
dusting equipment and locating
owners of cherry trees.
Expenses of the inspector are
being financed for 2 Vi months by
the Associated Frozen Food Pack
ers, Inc., of Albany, the Spencer
Packing company of Lebanon and
Roy Fitzwater, Lebanon.
Felix Comegys and his sister. Ida C. Doneen, think there Is a age
limit to riding- horseback. la fact, they Indicate, riding sort of keeps
the age limits away. The two, show here oa their horses, KesnJe and
Goldie. live on the land donation claim of their grandfathers near
Ballstoa, in Perk eoaaty.
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growing." Comegys said. "I plant
ed a cover crop there last year.
Bending up and down may be
good for the figure but it Isn't
convenient with arthritis."
I had noticed Comegys walked
with a stiff leg. It came on grad
ually five years ago, he explained
in passing.
"Now I've turned the cabbage
patch over to Phil for pin mon
ey." he smiled.
Phil, whose surname, it devel
oped, is Stiles, is a veteran of
South Pacific battles. He had
worked on farms In the neigh
borhood before the war. His job
had been kept open. He makes
his home with Orville Kurtz, a
neighbor, who farms the Comegys
land as well as his own, making
a sizeable ranch of 720 acres.
Felix t'omnryi and his sister.
Mrs. Ida ('. Doneen, live on a
combination of ancestral ranches
The main part was taken .as a
land claim by their paternal
grandfather. Jonathan C'omegysj.
in 1850. Two years later he died
and was bur ied on the farm wherf
Grangers Grow Social Crops
. that benefit
pXall Orcgcnians
I .iaH" as Hso if. jbs-.
his grave Is still tended by his
two grandchildren. Their father,
William, married a neighbor girl,
Lovina N. Ball, and continued to
farm the claim. Lovina's parents
were even earlier settlers, arriv
ing in 1848 and settling where the
community of Balls ton is now
situated. A portion of the Ball
ranch has been bought by the
Comegys.
Mrs. Doneen has not always
lived in Polk county. She taught
school and then married. For over
30 years she and her husband
ranched In eastern Washington,
where he was also in business.
Ten years ago when she was
widowed she returned to the old
homestead to help care for her
aged mother and keep house for
her brother who had never mar
ried. Likes Horse Raising
"Horse raising was my most
interesting ranching," Comegys
reminisces. "In the early days we
mostly grain farmed. But on June
21, 1907, I bought my first Clydes
dale from the Ladd and Reed
farm. In 1913 I furnished five
mares for the judging class at the
state college."
Showing at the stote fair high
lighted each year. Once, Comegys
recalls, he sold a mare for $600
at the fair. Many others were
sold down through the years at
slightly less.
I arrived at the Comegys ranch
around 3 pjn., jut in time to
see Mrs. Dorjeen and her 78 years
flip gaily on Golden Star, which
she dubs "poldie," and canter
happily about the rather large
barnyard. Biiother Felix was oon
at her kide pn Romie, a spirited !
pinto. i
"Doesn't that tire you?" I asked '
as she drew sharply up at my side.
"Oh. no," she answered rapid
ly, "not any more than riding in
a car. I like to ride in both a
car and on a horse. You have to
get the rhythm of the horse or
the car. Then you neVer get tired."
Mrs. Doneen uses has always
used, she says a : sidesaddle,
and has two black riding habits.
"Mine aren't quite long enough
to suit early styles," she laughed
as she; adjusted the skirt to cover
the stirrup.
However, I pointed out, it did
cover her ankles and shoes.
"But they used to hang down
at least two feet below. My moth
er's was very long," she protested,
adding guiltily, "the horse and I
got tangled in that much skirt,
so about 50 years ago we short
ened it some."
Dairying on the Comegys farm
is "out.''
"You have to be home at cer
tain times to milk when you have
cows." both explained in almost
one breath. "We like to go. Chick
ens can scratch for themselves.
But there is no way of getting
out of milking. Oh, in the old
days. sure, we had cows. Nobody
thought of farming without cows.
Now it is cheaper to buy the milk
than to raise it and an awful
lot easier. Besides, chore time is
an awfully good time to go riding.
It was chore time now. I am
sure that Ida and Felix felt
younger than I as I crawled into
the car and they, silhouetted
against the western sky, galloped
off down the lane to look at the
pastures.
( Helps build up resistance
a bb 4v a a oxm a a
mum mn
Whoa takes ragalarlyl
Ljrdl K. Pink-ham's Vaeetabto Com
pound mii mmi tbaa rcMvva
moatlUy pain when due to func
tional periodic disturbances. It also
rawvn buvui pnyiuf wtu, una. -
mnu, jittery reelings or sura
nature. Taken regularly Pink ham's
Compound helps build up resistance
against such monthly distress Pink
barn's Compound Is wort trying I
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C , . MORE THAN W YEARS AGO Oregon Grangers
Started a state-wioV moremcnt for improved standards
in the production, grading and marketing of farm
products. This resulted, in 1931, in a consolidation of
the various agricultural agencies under one jurisdio
tion the State Department of Agriculture.
I very one beneaced: farmers because they were
assured of more satisfactory returns for their invest
ment and labor; the puMic because they were assured of
quality and honest value in the products they bought.
Projects of this nature sre as ital a part of Grange
activities as better agriculture itself. That is why
28,000 progtlesMve farmers belong to the Oregon
State Grange j why membership continues to grow
why the Grange is a dominant force for social progress.
loforamouoa about tbe purpose
stad atxoatpuaheacat of tbe Ore
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