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Good Oregon
Sheep to Go
To California
Some of the finot Oregon yherp
wai be this year at the 27th
ssnual California ram sale to be
Wd at Gait, SurrarTx-nto county,
May 12 and 13. Rama and ewes
totaling 1919 will be auctioned off
during; the sale
Oregon producers who will en
ter are Broadmead Farms, Amity,
37 Hampfhirw Eugene F. Hub
bard, Corvallis, 40 Hampshire
and 42 Suffolk: from Salem. J.
J. Thompson, 11 Suffolk and, 4
Suffolk Crossbred; A. W. Bagley.
12 Corriedale; A, I. Eoff, 60
Hampshire, and D. P. MacCarthy
Sc Soaj-11 Hampshire: from Junc
tion City, Walter P. Huhhard, 62
Hampshire and 67 Suffolk, and
C N. Hubbard & Sons's Roseland
Farm. 82 HamDshires: Frank
Brown, jr., Carltjrt, 32 Hamp
shire: from Turner, Gath Bros.,
27 Hampshire and 30 Suf folks,
and Ahrens Bros- 10 Suffolk
and $ Bomneys: Glenn Cox, Philo-
math, 5 Suf folksy Floyd M. Ed
wards.. Albany, 3 Suffolk; Eldon
Riddel, Independence, 10 South
downs and 2 Romneyn.
Dispersal Sale Planned
; Fol lowing the ram rale there
mill be a di nerval sale of 293
purebred but unregistered year-
ln Hampshire ewe from the
famous Brownell flocks.
Six western state will be rep
resented in the sale: California,
Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming
and .Nevada. The annual Ram
sale U iponsored and managed
by the -California Wool Growers'
association.
At usual, Hampshire and Suf
folk will be the most numerous
but also represented will be Suf
1 o I k Crossbred. ; Southdowns,
Rambouillets, Corriedales, Rom
eldales, Romneys and Columbias.
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Livestock association about the crossbred sheep on his farm south
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Farm Calendar
May 8 Pea and hairy vetch grow
ers' meeting, McMinnville
chamber of commerce, 8 p.m.
May 9 Cherry fly fpray and
dusting meeting, county agent's
office, Salem post officers p.m.
Linn county cherry fly control
meeting, Albany court house,
8 p.m.
May 10 Marion county third
livestock tour, D. I St. John
farm,; Gervaif, S:30 a.m.
Col. Arthur W. Thompson of
Lincoln, .Nebraska, and Col. Nel
son Johnson of San Angelo, Tex
as, will be the auctioneers.
, AlfO entered from Oregon will
be Pal,! the Border collie from
the Ahrens Bros. farm. He will
compete in the California Dog
Trials. Pal has been many-times
winner in Oregon trials.
May 8-9-10 Linn county 4-H
fair, Albany high school. :
May 13 Grass silage equipment
field day, Glen Macy farm, Mc
Minnville. South Forty club. McMinnville
chamber of commerce, 8 pjnl
E. R. Jackman, speaker.
May 14 Grass silage meeting and
-demonstration, state fair
grounds, 10 a.m. j
May 16 Capital City Rabbit and
C a v e,y breeder association,
Dairy co-op, Salem, 8 p.m.
M. . P." Chapman, Corvallis,
speaker. , 5'
May 18 Marion County Jersey
cattle club meeting, Newt Da
vis, Woodburn. ,
May 20 Yamhill county South
Forty club field day, Corvallis.
May 24 Polk county spring lamb
and sheep dog trials, Mon-
- mouth fairgrounds.
May 26 Marion county spring
Jersey show, state fairgrounds.
May 27 Yamhill county Jersey
show, McMinnville.
May 27-28 4-H Fat Livestock
. show and sale, The Dalles. .
May 28 Clackamas county spring
Jersey show, Canby.
May 31 Linn county Fat Lamb
and Wool show, Scio, 10:30
a.m.
June 2-6 Oregon State Grange,
Bend.
June 4 Linn courfty tour, Ore
gon experiment station, 10 a.m.
. - Corvallis.
June 5-7 Strawberry festival,
Lebanon.
June 5-7 Eastern Oregon Live
stock show and sale, Union.
June 7 Marion county Fat Lamb
show, Turner.
Barley Good,
Hay Medium,
Alfalfa Scarce
By Llllle L. Madsen
farm Editor, The Statesman
Polk county farmers do more
than admire their beautiful hills
and valleys. They farm them. Any
Sunday driver, interested in view
ing some healthy farming, should
enjoy a trip through the roads
north from Rickreail toward Mc
Minnville and east from the high
way through the Oak Grove com-
Ununity.
Farms are large in this region,
running from a couple hundred
acres up to close to 1,000. Any
thing, less than 100 acres is "a
mighty little place." As a whole,
farm homes are well kept here and
in many instances sons are living
on and managing the farms once
owned and managed by their
fathers. Frequent father-son farm
ing partnerships were noted. t
Rowlands Grain Farm
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Bob Hamilton, progressive Polk
county farmer, was caught in
the act of resetting hi fence.
The Iron posts, eight-feet long,
are 13 years old. Four feet of
the post go In the ground. The
corner or anchor- posts are of
cedar, fully ten Inches across
and also planted four feet down
to assure firmness. If yon have
any stock, a good fence I half
the battle won, says Hamilton.
(Statesman farm photo K
S. Rowland and Dennis Rowland
farms. The father, Dennis, was at
home setting out some gladioli
bulbs a job he said he could
not become enthusiastic about
"but the womenfolk got to have
their flowers." He was glad, he
said, for the opportunity to show
us the warehouse about which
we asked. This stores from 12,000
to 14,000 bushels of grain. Mod
ern machinery, he added, saves a
"lot of backaches." The Rowlands
farm 850 acres, mostly grain.
Over the hills to the west of
the Rowland farms are the Ham
ilton Brothers, Bob and Frank,
living on the farm their late
father, C. J. Hamilton, bought in
1919. Something over 700 acres
form the farming enterprise on
Meadowdrain Farm. Barley, oats,
wheat, vetch and clover are the
principal crops. Barley makes a
pretty good nurse crop for alsike
clover, Bob said, as he showed
us over the richly growing fields.
Bees Needed
Last year, he went on, he
planted two bushels of barley and
seven pounds of clover to the
acre in a 43 acre field. It was
late. May 17, when the barley
went in. and 100 pounds of am
monium nitrate went in with it.
Because of the lateness in planting
only three-fourths of a ton of
barley to the acre was harvested,
and the clover field is showing
a No. 1 stand. Bees are assisting
in polination and. Bob said, if
they continue their work, the
seed crop will be excellent.
"Farmers are going to have to
cultivate more bees," Bob believ
ed. "Every farmer will have to
have his own hives or make
friends with an apiarist," he add
ed. Barley, we found as we travel
ed on, is being seeded heavily
this year. Seeding started the last
few days of April. It will likely
continue to May 15, with the
heaviest seeding the next seven
days. A very large acreage of bar
ley Is being seeded with ammon
ium sulphate, the fertilizer pro
duced at the Salem alumina plant.
Most farmers, like the Hamil
tons, are using it at the rate of
100 pounds per acre However,
this varies from less than that to
as high as 200 pounds per acre
by some operators.
Hamilton said he feared that
con&tant use of the ammonium
sulphate would tend to create an
acid condition. He likes best am
monium nitrate.
Hay Acreage Small
The hay situation is not good
from a standpoint of the num
ber of acres that are in prospect
for cutting. However, with a
heavy infestation of aphis in Aus
trian peas or in the various
vetches also planted for seed,
these might readily be cut for
hay instead. There appears to be
a serious shortage of baling wire
in prospect. Farmers said that if
this is true it will, of course,
affect crops harvested as hay.
Many added that if the baling
wire situation continues trops
now planned for hay. wifL be J
left for seed.
We wound up at the county!
agents office in Dallas. Waiter
Leth, county agent, remarked
there were two very definite in
terests in the heavy seeding of
barley. First, in seeding for pos
sible sale for certified Hannchen
barley seed, and second, possi
bility of a strong brewing barley
market.
Need More Legumes
Leth regretted the definite loss
in acreage of alfalfa and red clov
er. He laid it to the war years
and their development of high
prices in cash crops. Actually, he
said, farmers may be a little too
strong on soil depleting types of
crops and not strong enough on
soil building crops for the best r
possible balance in the over-all
agricultural program.
There is no advanced price yet
for barley, he said. However, he
thought many growers were hop
ing to get as high a price as last
year,' which in general was from
$60 to $70 a ton. In his opinion,
this was expecting quite a little
and would depend greatly on
what barley production is in the,
other larger, barley producing
areas cf the country.
Leth went on to say that hay:
never brings as much money to
growers as they think.
"Good clover or alfalfa hay
actually contains $12 to $15 worth,
of fertility value that leaves the
farm when the hay is sold. These
figures are conservative," he said.
"Hence the net value of hay
when the cost of baling is con-'
sidered, may be between $5 and
$10 actual net gain as a result of
such a sale, whereas the fertility
value of grains and seeds is ex
tremely low by comparison. I have
heard it said that there ought to
be a law passed against farmers
selling legume hay off their
farms. Of course that would be
impractical, but it does Illustrate
how important it is in the interest
of soil fertility to feed hay sup
plies on the farms where they
are produced."
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