0 The Statoemanl Salem. Owqon. Thursday. August 7. 1947
Flax Growers
Not Throwing
In Sponge Yet
. By Ullie U Madsen
r rrm Editor. The SUlonun
Oregon's fiber flax industry fi
being battered from both aides,
tut its handlers havent thrown in
the sconce yet. says George
Schmidt, Mt. Angel, who in spite
tf hia youthful appearance, nai
mrmrn flax for' 13 and this
year has 60 acres of it on his
500 acre, farm.
The crop in the valley is goad
this year and Scnmici Deneves
that this will ive an overall aver
age of two tons to the acre and
some will go as high as four tons,
it va estimated at Mt. Angel this
week, where the entire city is
getting ready for the annual Ore
gon Flax Festival to open Friday
ight with the coronation of the
jueen, that there are between two
and three tnousana acres 01 na
in the county.
But considerable number, of
Willamette valley growers, and in
some cases, whole districts, have
quit flax in favor or other crops
that currently are paying better
with Jess hazard. The number of
dive ' processing plants in the
state is down to seven from! a
neak of 14 when the government
was begging for more and more
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UDerjiiax anu was
tor it. Now it appears, say flax
processors, to be of little coase
quence to the country as a whole
whether this domestic ! industry
survives or not.
American Way Tried
If the western Oregon fiber flax
in th fair
.of foreign competition, it will be
through the typical American
system Of mechanizing the process
of production and handling to
such an extent that the advantage
cl cheap labor abroad: can be
overcome. (
Among new processing ma
chines and methods completed Or
being studied by state and fed
eral agricultural engineers and
agronomists stationed at the tale
. college, are a sloping fed table
to scutching machines which rer
duces labor requirement 60 per
cent; an experimental dryer to use
artificial heat on rettcjd straw
instead of spreading it in the field,
and comb attachments to scutch
ers which increase the yield arid
improve the quality of fiber.
Studies seeking ways pi shor
ening the retting time are also
being conducted under a coordina-
MTU I TTTOi vis fa, VfA sun vj
Sill projects are cleared by a cen
tral committee representing M
agncies concerned. Both bacterial
- and chemical retting are! studied.
On the -production end, new
varieties are being developed to
combine high yield of fiber with
rust resistence, while weed coni
trol methods with chemicals are
being Improved. Close -cutting
mowers designed to eliminate
slower and more expensive pull
ers are also in process of dei
elopmtnl A machine that will
cut within a half inch of the
ground on smooth fields is prom
ised which will cover 20 acres
a day instead of the eight now
harvested by pullers.
Taw Gees ta Sags
For the present, the reasonably
efficient growers and processors
mw. (Clung vj immj nv
the aid of high price for flax
seed and a good market for all the
tow that is. produced. Plants us
ing the tow for upholstering and
in making rugs are taking al
Oregon s production and ev
shipping in some from Peru.
This market for tow may
permanent, but it is hardly- rea
sonable to expect flax seed prices
ta remain in the present guaran
teed high level. Thus it appears
that the industry her must be
ready with cheaper production it
it is to hold its share i of the
American market for J high grade
flax fiber. . . , ;
Because fiber flax isj grown
by only an infinitesimal percent
age of American farmers, any, call
lor protection is scarcely heard' in
Washington at all. There are dis
advantages as well as advantages
in growing a monopoly crop. Lack
of governmental protection is one
of the disadvantages. But the Ore
gon flax industry is trying, with
the aid of state and federal re
search, to furnish its own protect
tion through greater efficiency
which will lower cost of protec
tion. Flax Shaw Arranged
To prove that Oregon can pro
duce flax equal to any producd
lit Angel, one of the smaller com
munities, but one of the most co
operative in the state, is this week
staging its annual flax festival
hich will include more than
parade, program and carnival.
There will be an excellent display
of linen, flax fiber and flax seedL
The fiber is being judged as pari
of the festival. .
This week Meier & Frank is
featuring a flax industry display
In its windows. The difplay show
flax in all its stages of processing
from ed to the finished article:
Th Mt. Angel flax plant supplied
the seed and fiber exhibit! and
Mrs. John Begin has loaned h'
loom with a partly woven towei,
There will be finished linen ar
ticles by Mri. Begin. Clara Duda,
Mrs. Ray Telfer and Minnie Webs,
all of Mt. Angel.
Young Grangers
Auxiliary Meets
UNION HILL The
Grangers auxiliary met
Young
at the!
grange hall Saturday night. Games
wore enjoyed and watermelons
were served. On August 24 the
group has planned a picnic at
Silver Falls State Park and a hike!
around the trails.
Mrs. Walter Marble, who has;
been visiting at the home of her:
aister and family, Mr and Mrs.!
Veray Scott, has returned to her
bom in Shelton, Wash.
illametle Valley tarmer
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Pictured above is a flax poller which will be nsed for Willamette Val
ley's flax fiber erop this year. While the flax puller is still used, a
new machine that will cut within a half Inch of the ground en
smooth fields is promised. This, it is said, will cover 20 acres a day
Instead of the eight now harvested by pullers such as this. The cut
ter Is only one of more efficient machines being studied by state and
federal men at the state college.
Oregon Corn Show
Revived This Year
Oregon will have a state corn
show this fall after a war-time
lapse in this type of competition.
The sixth annual Oregon state
corn show will be held in con
nection with the Pacific Interna
tional Livestock exposition in
Portland as a part of the land
products show.
Rex Warren, extension crops
specialist at the state college and
former Yamhill county agent, and
Dr. R. E. Fore, college professor
in farm crops, are co-chairmen.
Three divisions in the show
are being announced, an open
class division for adults, a 4-H
division and a Future Fanners
division. Approximately $1,000 in
premiums are offered. In addi
tion, permanent sweepstakes
trophy will be provided in mem
ory of the late Professor G. R.
Hyslop.
The show is financed by a
$2,300 appropriation by the state
legislature
Land Products Show
Adds New Division
A new division has been added
to the land products show at the
state fair this year. The section
will include materials gathered
from forest, field, orchard and
vegetable garden.
While garden flowers are not
to be used, snowberry, teasel, cat
tails, seedpod. mullein. Queen
Anne's Luce and like materials,
may be used. Mosses, interesting
rocks, cones, weathered woods,
are listed as valuable additions.
Leaves and grasses may be dip
ped in bleach to whiten, or in oil
stain to brown. Seed pods and
grasses may be dyed, gilded or
silvered. While materials may
be punched or supported by wires
or tying, exhibitors are urged not
Check this list of hand-picked highlights, specially low priced
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Jim Anderson, head of the Ore
gon Flax Festival which gets
underway at ML Angel Friday
night, takes a brief time off
from the festival offices to In
spect the harvest af flax at the
George Schmidt farm near ML
Angel.
to let the devices show in the en
tries. Pleasing arrangement, Mrs.
W. E. Knower of the land prod
ucts' division, reports, may in
clude three .types of materials:
the heaviest-appearing low, near
container; the painted and small
airy materials high, forming the
silhouette, and a transition ma
terial between these. She adds
that the same principals in this
display should be followed as in
making flower arrangements.
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Ranch
Rambling
By Rural Reporter
Oregon's state department of
.agriculture! has launched a cam
paign to convince Oregon farm
ers that they must improve the
quality of products to keep their
markets. Motorists along the
highways Can't but notice how
many more highway-shoppers
stop at stands where the fruit and
vegetables j are attractively dis-
piayea.
Ronald E. Jones, president of
the Oregon Farmers Union, says
farmers are too far removed from
contact with consumers to realize
the importance of Quality. He says
farmers shouldn't put even their
second quality products on the
market. !
1 Morton i Tompkins, master of
the state grange, believes quality
improvement can be stimulated
Ks rtrominm novmn f ap inulliv
products.
. specialists leu us mat mere arej
now 300 different kinds oi fleas
to worry about. The flea census
was cited ; in the current Journal
of the American Veterinary Medi
cal Association. They are a health
menace to livestock and poultry.
Washington State college poul
try husbandry men advise chang
ing chickens to white wheat which
can either be kept in hoppers or
fed three times daily to the ex
tent of all the chickens will eat at
f'each feeding, when the birds are
from four to eight weeks.old. The
birds should be' encouraged to
roost at the end of the fourth
week.
Crimson clover seed yield this
year has been low in the Will
amette valley. Seedmen report
their purity tests are very good
but germination tests are poor.
The - government is offering to
purchase crimson cloverseed this
year at a base price of 111.50 per
hundredweight of 98 per cent
pure seed of 85 per cent germin
ation. Much local seed has been
found to be below the required
germination test.
Willamette Valley ,
In Barley Contest
Clackamas county is interested
in the Pacific northwest 1947 bar
ley contest and its cash awards
totaling $2,000 to be held at the
Pacific International Livestock
show this- autumn, says Hollis
Ottaway. Clackamas assistant
county agent.
The contest, jointly sponsored
by the Great Western Malting
company and the Oregon and
Washington Brewers Institutes,
Inc., offers a first prize of $250
for two-row barley from each of
three Oregon and Washington
geographical districts. Another
$250 first prize will be given for
the best six-row barley entered
from Oregon, Washington and
Idaho.
The Willamette valley is one of
the areas designated, and each
contestant must have grown at
least 10 acres of barley and sub
mit a minimum of 100 pounds for
judging.
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OSC Station
Staff Changed
Several changes in the OSC ex
pciiment station staff have been
announced by R. S. Besse, regu
lar assistant director and acting
director this summer during the
absence of William A. Schoenfeld,
dean and director of agriculture.
R. W. Henderson, associate ag
ronogist and professor of farm
crops for the past year, has been
added to the administrative staff
as assistant to the director. Rob
ert M. Alexander, who has been
administrative assistant, has also
been made an assistant to the
director.
SJeady increase in the scope
of work of the station, including
establishment of new branch sta
tions, has made necessary expan
sion of the administrative staff,
said Besse.
Arland R. Meade, who recent
ly obtained his masters degree in
agricultural journalism at Univer
sity of Wisconsin, has been named
experiment station editor.
Harold H. White, associate ag
ricultural economist in the exten
sion service, has been appointed
associate agronomist in charge of
crop research at the Southern
Oregon branch experiment station.
He has been on the extension
staff since 1931.
Shorthorn Sale Set
For September, Salem
Thirty-three head of cows and
heifers have been chosen from the
state's best herds for the Oregon
Milking Shorthorn Breeders' asso
ciation sale to be held at the State
Fairgrounds at Salem on Septem
ber 5.
Members of the association, who
plan to make the sale one of the
top annual events for their organi
zation are consigning only ani
mals that may be used as the
foundation for new milking Short
horn herds, or for improvement
of herds already established. The
consignments were all. f elected by
W. E. Dixon, milking Shorthorn
fieldman with the help of the as
sociation's sale committee.
Members of the committee in
clude Norman Gail ' and Veltie
Biles of Gold Hill, and Jack
Swanson of Lebanon.
Burritt B. Allen of Ravenna,
Ohio, livestock auctioneer, will
cry the sale.
Lyons Santiam Valley grange
met at the hall Krii;iy evening,
with Elmer Taylor.' master, pre
siding. It was voted to use $100
for the festival to be held Sep
tember 20. It was also voted to
give $50 for the new parsonage
being built at the Methodist
church. There will be a special
meeting Friday evening August
8 with N. John Hansen, Viola
Hansen of Albany and Mrs. Con
stance Hampton of Salem, 4-H
club leaders. Anyone interested
in 4-H club work is a.-ked to at
tend. FURNACES
We have been manufacturing furnaces for more than 30
years. The Pacific is designed and built to provide an inside
summer climate no matter what the weather conditions out
side. Men prefer the Pacific because it is efficient and econ
omical; women like it because it is clean and requires only
minimum attention.
Whether you burn oil, wood, sawdust or coal, you can in
sure the winter health of your family by installing a Pacific
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She's a good party-lino neighbor, too
Yes, whether it's a matter of sharing flowers... or a pet
recipe or a party line, neighborliness is simply being
thoughtful and considerate of others. These days, to pro
Tide telephone service to more people, there are more party
lines than ever before. When you share a line, you can earn
genuine appreciation from your telephone neighbors by
remembering-- ':? I V
Five Golden Rules for party-line neighbors
Space your colli instead of making an extended $erie$ of
them... and talk only as long as necessary.
yours is an emergency call, and the line is in use, explain
the circumstances to the person using the line.
If you are calling from a dial telephone, always make cer
tain the UneHs clear before you dial.
9 Ask your youngsters not to monopolize the telephone.
Replace tlie receiver properly when you finish your call.
Thank you!
The Pccific Telephone end Telegraph Company
74 State Kt., Salem
Form Calendar
Aug. 8-10 Oregon Flax Festi
val, Mt. Angel.
Aug. 9 Willamette valley pure
bred ram and ewe sale, Albany.
Aug. 11-12 Flock selection and
pullorum testing school for chick
en breeders, Corvallis.
Aug. 13-16 Tillamook county
fair.
Aug. 13-14 Nut tour days in
Willamette valley, with filberts
visited around Forest Grove, first
day, and walnuts at Dundee, Aug
ust 14.
Aug. 16 Oregon ram sale, Pen
dleton, 10 a.m.
Aug. 17 Oregon State Farmers
Union picnic, Champoeg.
Aug. 17 Marion county Jersey
Cattle club, William Vogt farm,
Salem, route 6.
Aug. 18-24 Multnomah coun
ty fair, Gresham.
Aug. 18 Marion County Guern
sey Breeders association.
Aug. 20 Closing dale for dairy
entries in Oregon State fair.
Aug. 23 Northwest D u r o c
Breeders association sale, Gresh
am. Aug. 24-26 National ram sale,
Salt Lake City.
Aug. 24-26 Oregon Flying
Farmers convention, Corvallis.
Aug. 25-Sept. 1 Pacific Na
tional Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C.
Aug. 26-29 Clackamas county
fair, Canby.
Aug. 27-29 Linn and Marlon
counties, 4-H fall shows, at Al
bany and Salem.
Aug. 28-30 Washington county
fair, Hillsboro.
Sept. 1-7 Oregon state fair.
Sept. 5 Milking Shorthorn
Consignment sale, Salem.
Sept. 8 Southern Oregon ram
sale, Lakeview.
Sept. 10-14 Pendleton Round
up. Sept. 16-17 Annual meeting
Oregon Turkey Improvement as
sociation, Salem.
Sept 20 Santiam r V a 1 1 e y
grange fair.
Sept. ,20 4-H and FFA fat
stock show and sale, Pendleton,
8 p.m.
Sept. 25 Oregon Jersey Cattle
club consignmnet sale.
Oct. 3-11 Pacific International
Livestock show, Portland.
Monitor Man Brings
Hark Columbia Sheep
Marcus Vetter of Monitor re
cently returned from the Dakotas
and Montana where he bought
additions for his band of purebred
Columbia sheep. Included in the
purchases were five ewes sired
by Silver, and a 13 month old
Columbia ram. The ram was
bought at Candu, N. D., and
weighed 235 pounds. It also was
sired by Silver, a government
ram which sired both the grand
champion ewe and ram thown at
the National Columbia show at
Minot, N. D.
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Nuts Are Heating
Newberg Building
It's all in a nutshell the way
the Oregon Nut Growers, Inc., of
Newberg is heating its packing
plant
Decision was reached that some
thing should be done with the
thousands of pounds of walnut and
filbert shells thrown away each
year.
Something was done. The
plant's hest now comes from these
shells and culls instead . of oil,
which was previously burned.
An Iron Fireman bin-feeding
stoker, a standard unit except for
minor variations, was installed
Plant Superintendent R. I: Par
ker reports that heavy oil ; con
tent of the nuts makes them ex
ceptionally good heat producers,
and he can get 60 pounds of steam
from a cold burner in an hour.
The saving in fuel will pay for
the stoker within a year, Parker
said, adding that . "we are now
heating the entire plant instead
of only part as we did before."
Fern Control Viewed
On Rutherford Farm
An interesting study in fern
control can be observed on the
Russel Rutherford farm " near
Canby. It is seen that where live
stock is allowed to pasture a new
seeding of alta fescue and sub
terranean clover on recently clear
ed land the fern is kept down to
a minimum.
On the other side of the fence
from the Rutherford pastures,
where stock did not have access
to the pasture, this weed was
actually crowding but (the fescue
and clover. This would indicate
then that the new seedings of
permanent pasture on new land
where fern is certain to crop up,
pasturing should be necessary to
keep the weed under control. The
pasturing should' be done as soon
as the pasture is well enough
along to prevent damage' to fu
ture growth. For most seasons
this would be approximately two
months.
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Two annual Oregon ram sale
are scheduled for August, the first
being the annual Willamette Val
ley purebred ram and ewe sale
sale at Pendleton, August 10.
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stud and rangel rams and some
ewes of ten breeds - Suf folks,
Hampshire. RomneyV, Lincoln,
Corned ales, Southdowfs, Shrop
shlres, Columbia,. Dorsets, ant
Cheviots. o
For the Pendleton sale 373 se
lected rams are listed, nearly 109
more than last year when 22
were sold. Sixteen leading breed
era have consigned rams, reports
Vic Johnson, Umatilla county
agent and secretary of the sale.
Breeds include Suffolk, Hamp-
shire, Suffolk - Hampshire cross
breds, RambouilletsH Crossbred
RambouUlet and Lincolns. Col
onel Earl W. Walter, famous live
stock anctinneor nf Tir THahsi
will cry both sales, v
Oregon Turkey Mali
Made Vice President
W. T. Geurts, Colton, has been
elected western vice-president of
the National Turkey Federation to
represent the 11 western states.
Geurts, a hatcheryman and
turkey grower, has been acUve tn
the state and national "turkey or
ganizations. Other Oregon dele
gates 10 me nauonai meeting in
Cleveland, just ended, were Bill
Chase of Aurora and W. A.
Schwedler, of Portland.
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FLAX FESTIVAL
August 8-10
Mt Angel, Oregon '
SHAKESPEAREAN
FESTIVAL
August 8-16
Chautauqua Shell, -
LithiaPark,
Ashland, Oregon
This is the world s only out
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ANNUAL
OMAK STAMPEDE
August 9, 10 -Omsk,
Washutgto
TILLAMOOK
COUNTY FAIR
August 13-16
Tillamook, Oregon
Governor Earl Saell, of
Oregon, will officiate at the
Fair's opening, two miles
cast of Tillamook on Higb
wsy 6. fxlti m'
WAR BONNET
ROUND-UP
August 13-16
Idaho Falls, MaW
DAHLIA PARADE'
FLOWER SHOW 5s.
August 13 v.
Seaside, Orefpo
VAN-QATTA
CELEBRATION
August 13-17 ...
Vancouver, Washington , -This
5-day shindig features'
big Hudson Bay histori
cal pageant and clssskti
music events.
Question: What part of
your car takes the biggest
beating during hot rummer,
driving? Answer: Your4
front wheel bearing. Fail,
ure of a wheel bearing can
mean a serious accident'
yet they and you ara
protected by only twO
ounces Of correct lubricaat
For proper servicingof
these vital bearings, see
your friendly Richfield
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