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Wiilametle.lValley Veirj and Views Oregon Rates . High in Bean Production By Lillle L. Madaee Tarm Editor. Ti Statesman With cherries harvested and the Salem, Cherry festival history. Willamette valley festival-minded folk have turned their attention to the Santiam Bean festival which got under way at Stayton Tues day night and will continue until Saturday midnight. It takes a lot of beans to make a festival and the United States has them. The national acreage of beans is close to 90,000 acres, with Oregon's 4,400 acres topping all other bean growing states in tonnage production per acre at an average of 5.2. California is sec ond with five tons and Indiana produces the nation's low at one half ton per acre. The 1946 yield In Oregon was 7.9 tons per acre, three times the national average. In 1929, only 800 acres were grown in Oregon, indicating an industry of comparatively rapid and steady growth. This year it Is estimated 12,000 bean pickers will be needed to harvest the immense crop. Picking will begin the first week in August A few scattering yards have made small pickings this week. Cost of Production Told Those who feel that beans in the green are costing too much should just take a look at the ac tual cost of production. Oregon pole bean growers used an aver age of 104 hours of man labor plus $21 In costs other than labor In producing a ton of ungraded beans last year, according to fig ures obtained in a cost-of-produc-tion study carried on by the farm crops department at the college experiment station. Cost of production averaged $104.60 per ton for the 67 growers surveyed in the Willamette val ley. The range was from a low of $87.50 per ton for the 10 lowest, to a high of $151.40 for the. 10 least efficient producers. Management Needed The study revealed that ood management as evidenced by the high yields and economical use of labor was the chief factor in low costs. High yields alone did not bring economical production if la bor costs, exclusive of picking, were excessive. The low cost producers had about average sized fields of around 10". acres, and obtained yields of about 10 tons per acre compared wiflh an over-all aver age of 7.9 tons of ungraded beans. The high cost producers had fields only about half average size and obtained yields of only five tons per acre. The efficient operators used 40 per cent less labor, ex cluding picking, than the high cost operators, , in producing twice as big yields. The average investment in farm property used in producing an acre of beans was $784, includ ing land valued at $431 per acre. Growers estimated that "normal value of the land would be about $211. Work Near for School Program At Salem Heights Bids on improvements to the Salem Heights school will be re ceived in the office of Architect Lyle Bartholomew up to Monday, August 9, it was announced Wed nesday by E. F. Carleton, school board clerk. Work is expected to start as soon as the contract is let. Contemplated improvements in clude two new classrooms, a li brary room, a new heating plant and additional playgrounds. FLAX PRIZES LARGE Prizes for Marion county flax growers in the Oregon Flax fes tival at Mt. -Angel Aug. 20-2tr will consist of ; a substantial amount of cash offered in 12 dif ferent classes. Prizes will also be offered for out -of -county flax, in which the Marion county growers may also, enter their product. NUT GROWERS... Get up to $100 a ton: mora; for your walnuts and! filberts! Grower-members who marketed through their own co-operative Northwest Nut Growers will average up to 5c a pound or $100 a ton more for walnuts and filberts than most growers who sold to cash buyers. This organization is confident that its members will continue to receive better earnings for many seasons to come. ;-v - .1 These vastly better returns were possible because Northwest Nut Growers is the sble organization in -this area making a national sales and advertising effort to develop and expand the market for filberts and walnuts. Get a larger check for your new crop of nuts. Join your co-op now be t:i!i,iuyjuHa capo caascsBaB I ! AMmr-ASTOM MVT WASMM6TOM MVT swnn Mirrcaowptt oawoMMWT caowtas, iwe tuciKt Wwrr saowas aspC aixmhit taowiai of Farm and Garden-V f Floyd Bates. Salem (left), president of the Oregon Jersey Cattle club, RL N. Tibbies, Independence (center), president of the Polk county club, and Jens Svinth, Grants Pass (formerly of Salem), secretary or the state club, look over the first issue of the Oregon Review a new publication to be issued quarterly to all members of the state club. The first issue came out Sunday In time for the annual Oregon Jersey Cattle club picnic held at Independence. (Farm Photo for The Statesman.) Farm Calendar July 29 Guernsey field day, Amity. ,-July 29-31 Stayton Bean festival. July 29-31 North Willam ette valley livestock and crops tour starting at Red Hills experi ment station, Oregon City. July 31 LinnBenton Guern sey field day at Lester Erb farm three miles east of Albany air port. Aug. 1 Silverton Pioneer picnic, Coolidge ':. & McClaine park, Silverton. Aug. t South Willamette valley livestock and crops tour, starting at Oregon State college. Aug. 3 Annual meeting of Oregon poultry Improvement as sociation, Benton hotel, Corvallis. Aug. 3 Hop and bean scale testing. Independence, 10 a.m. to t pjn., farm employment office. Aug. 4 Hop and bean scale testing, 10:30 to 11:30 am., St. Paul's bank; 1:30 to 3 p.m., Don ald Mercantile company; 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.. Wood burn Farmers Fire Relief association. Aug. 4-5 Pullorum testing and flock selecting school, pool try building, Corvallis. Aug. S Hop and bean scale testing. Mt. Anget, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., at Schwab's warehouse; 1:30 to 3 p.m., Buchannan Cellers Grain company, Canby. Aug. 7 Willamette valley purebred ram and ewe sale, Al bany, 9:30 p.m. Aug. 10 Yamhill home -extension units picnic at Lafayette locks. Aug. 14 Oregon ram sale, Pendleton, 10 a m. Aug. 14-15 White Salmon (Wash ), rodeo. Aug. 15 Oregon State Farm ers Union picnic, Champoeg, 11 a.m. Aug. 15 Marion County Jer sey Cattle club picnic, Champoeg, I p.m. Aug. 17 Lebanon herb tea. Aug. 18-21 Tillamook coun ty fair.; Aag. 20-22 Oregon Flax fes tival, Mt. Angel. Aug. 23-28 Multnomah coun ty fair, Gresham. Aug. ; 26-28 Polk county fair, Dallas. for the Pool close! saowas ItaaHOM Nvr caowsaa Farmer. ULUE L. MADSEN. " r Farms Record Nine Deaths By Accident If every Oregon farm family accepts the responsibility for the elimination of at ' least one haz ard per member this week, the national goal for National Farm Safety week the removal of 30,000,000 farm hazards will be ac complished, states, M. G. Huber, OSC extension agricultural en gineer. Nine fatalities of Oregon farm workers were reported to James E. Wiles, farm safety division of the state industrial accident com mission, during 1947. Not all farm workers in Oregon are covered by the workmen's compensation act, however, which the accident com mission administers. From the 10,474 accounts, re lating to farms carried during 1947, there were 1,792 accident claims filed by farm workers. Of these, 1,271 involved "time loss" representing 71 per cent of the claims filed. Included in the summary of the 1947 year is one death that oc curred in an orchard as the result of fall from a tree. The re maining cases were classified un der I "general farm," including a fall from a hay loft, struck by lightning, overturned tractor, burning, dragged to death by a team of horses, stabbed with pitch fork, crushed and car accident. Small hand tools, such as knives, axes, pitchforks and hoes account ed for much time lost in accidents resulting from their use. From the national standpoint farm work is not a particularly safe; occupation. Figures from the council indicate that 4,300 farm workers lost their lives in accidents last year. Approximately 300,000 farm workers were injured during the? same period. This was 200 fewer deaths and 20,000 fewer injuries than in 1946. None of these figures include accidents, that are considered "off the farm," Huber adds. - - ( . ' S - ' " V V ' -V. A IJEV7 Wheel Bases 131" - Standard and 2 Speed SALES & SERVICE, II7CL 370 If. J Thaam 1231 - ; - Soiam, Qroqon 1 New Alfalfa Believed Good In Valley Progress with a new alfalfa variety and in reclaiming old orchard soils poisoned by heavy accumulations of arsenate sprays were developments of more than local interest seen at the recent field day at the farm crops area of the Oregon branch experiment station near Talent. Harold H. White is now the agronomist in charge of the crops work at the station, working un der the general direction of Dr. E. S. Degman, superintendent of aD. branch experiment station work in the Medford area. The new variety, as yet un named, is referred to as French alfalfa since it was obtained by the USD A from France some years, ago and sent to Oregon where it was planted in 1937 among 21 varieties in plot tests on the tract. Starts Early It soon revealed superior char acteristics, including ability to start early growth, recover quick ly after cutting, and continue growth later in the fall. Stands lived longer, apparently because of resistance to nematode and disease attacks. Best plants from the test rows were selected out in 1941, since which time seed has been increas ed, partly on the station and partly in cooperation with local growers. Seed enough for release for general use is expected to be on hand by the fall of 1949. Grows In West Oreron Harry A. Schoth, federal agron omist at Oregon State college, believes the variety will prove superior to others now used in western Oregon and northern California. It may not be hardy enough for colder regions. A portion of the station tract formerly in orchard has failed to grow profitable crops until this year because of an accumulation of arsenate of lead amounting to 1600 pounds per acre in the top eight inches of soil. As sweet clover proved to be tolerant of the arsenic, it was grown fortwo years and plowed under last fall. Then 500 pounds of soil sulphur was added per acre. The poison was counter acted by this treatment so that excellent grain crops are growing on the land this year. A check plot left untreated and seeded at the same time consists mostly of weeds. Former Student Succeeds Teacher As Nut Specialist John H. Painter, a USDA spec ialist who had the lata C. E. Schuster as his major professor when studying horticulture at Oregon State college 24 years ago, has been appointed to suc ceed Professor Schuster as nut production specialist stationed at Oregon State college. Painter's official title, as was Schuster's, is h o r t i c ulturalist, USDA, division of fruit and vegetable crops and diseases. In practice he will carry on the work in nut production other than that concerned with disease control which continues with Dr. Paul W. Miller of the same division. Chief field of work for the new man will be with walnut and fil bert problems, though some at tention may be given to Chinese chestnuts, said R. S. Besse, act ing director of the experiment station, m announcing Painter's assignment to the cooperative work in this -state. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Painter came to Oregon State for graduate work in 1922 and obtained his master's degree two years later. He joined the USDA staff at once and has, for the past 10 years, been head of the research station in Cairo, Ga., devoted to study of the growth, production and disease of Tung nuts. These were introduc ed from China as the source of the world's best drying oils for paints, lacquers and other water proof materials. DELIVERY 155" - 171" - 195" Rear Axles (Timken) Ckmdk SL The Ranch Rambler sat listening to BUI Meier, an oldtime thresher in Polk county hills, tell of days gone by. Bill said he had a pretty nice outfit with cook wagon and all and it used to be fun to steam up at 4 a. m. and awaken the natives with the shrill call of the old steam whistle. Now Bin has a Jersey dairy out near: the prison annex. Farrol Qoble of Sitka-is going to farm the Calvin Mikkelson Clackamas county farm and Cal vin is definitely coming back to Marion county he : says. First you don't take care of them enough. Then you give them too much care. That's the way growing things are. In this case it is a blackcap planting. The name of the owner of the field is omit ted for fear of embarrasment. But the incident is so common, we were told, that it should be re peated. The leaves of the plants in question showed sun scald and yellowish color indicating lack of nitrogen although fertility of the land is high. Here is 'what hap pened. The plants were busy all spring establishing a feeder root system which extended from one row to the other. Weeds came along also as a late spring pre vented early cultivation. "I will get those weeds out good," said the owner. And he did, but he cultivated so deeply that feeder roots, which form at the surface of the soil, were pretty well de stroyed. Most of the moisture was lost as deeply as cultivator teeth penetrated the soil. This doesn't mean blackcap growers are not to cultivate at all, we were told, but they should not cultivate so late or so deeply as to destroy the feeder roots. Alfred Jensen, of near Silverton, who had an exceptionally fine crop of lambs early this spring being short just one of 200 per cent in crop had bad luck, this last week. He lost seven of his regis tered Suf folks. Alfred, being that kind of farmer, called on a veter inarian for help. The doctor pro nounced it pneumonia and thought that their susceptibility might be from lack of some mineral. The thought was that the mineral might be cobalt but no definite conclu sions have been reached yet. Over at Molalla, Steve Eyman believes in good green pasture as a means of saving lots of expen sive purchased concentrates for his turkeys. It works, he says, just the same as for the dairyman. Sug gestion was a first of September planting of common ryegrass and crimson clover fertilized with 200 pounds per acre of 16-20-0 am monium phosphate. When 16-20 is not available the suggestion is for 200 pounds of ammonium sulphate and 500 pounds of superphosphate. Planting for quick fall growth should be heavier than common with 20 pounds of ryegrass and 10 to 15 pounds of crimson clover per acre. PIE CHERRY TREES CROW There are going to be a lot of pies made over in Yoderville di rection. Perry Yoder Jias a very nice pie" cherry orchard. He ex presses pleasure at the growth his trees have made this year following a liberal application of barnyard manure. And the growth of red root in his orchard doesn't bother him a bit. He explains that when red root shows up it is a sign that the soil is building up. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is now more than 16 feet off slant. This Time of Year Some Places DOES YOURS? You Don't Have the Tools W e Do. j Lawn Sprinklers ...L.. - Hose Nozzles Lawn Sprinkler System- Rural Mail Boxes . Large Rural Mail Boxes KEIiTH LUMBER Front Court Cts. Changes Made In FFA Loan Program Told Recent congressional changes In the inspred mortgage program of the Farmers'" Home adminis tration. United State department of agriculture will broaden op portunities of farmers to obtain real estate credit An assured market for insured mortgages and an increase of one-half of 1 per cent in the interest rate are provided in amendments to the Bankhead Jones farm tenant act. approved June 19, B. W. Mc Veigh, supervisor in Marion county reports. Lenders who extend credit to eligible farmers for the purchase, enlargement or development of farms under the insured farm mortgage program may assign the mortgage to the government and receive payment in full at the end of a specified period es tablished by the government. The loan will carry an interest rate of 3 per cent and a 1 per cent insured mortgage charge. Repay ment of the loans is fully guar anteed by the government. The loans are limited to BO per cent of the borrowers total investment in the farm and are repayable over a 40-year period. The congress has appropriated $15,000,000 for direct farm own ership loans for the present fis cal year. Direct farm ownership loans are made by the FHA and can be made for 100 per cent to purchase, enlarge or improve a family type sized farm. In Mar ion and Polk counties no loan may exceed $12,000. The Salem office of the FHA is located at 460 N. High street, room 223, and it serves Marion and Polk counties. Jersey Sale Plans Begin to Take Shape Charles Adams, Artesia. Calif., one of the leading auctioneers of the country, will cry the Oregon Jersey sale to be held at Salem September 18, Floyd Bates, Sa lem, president of the Oregon" Jer sey Cattle club, reports. The state sales committee has already been at work selecting the 40 odd head of Jerseys to be sold. They selected only those between the ages of 10 months and seven years having produced records of 500 pounds butterfat or better on a 305 day basis and heifers from dams so qualifying. Homer Shelby, Albany, is sales committee chairman. Albany Fair Building Nearing Completion Although Linn county fair building is to be the scene ef the eighth annual Willamette valley purebred ram and ewe sale on Saturday, August 7, the building will not be formally dedicated un til the fall 4-H fair. Sept. 1-3. Installation of wiring and the water system is now in progress and will be finished before the sheep sale. The building is locat ed on a 10 acre tract just south of Albany's Waverly lake. All funds used in the building's con struction have come from reve nue derived from racing. The finished building will cost in ex cess of $30,000. LEBANON COW HIGH Highest producing herd in June in Linn County Dairy Herd Im provement association is owned by Ufford and Talley, Lebanon. Their herd of 17 Jerseys and Guernseys produced an average of 1028 pounds of milk and 46 pounds of butterfat per cow. SCYTHE BLADES $2.75 io $3.10 SCYTHE HANDLES GRASS HOOKS 65c io $1.10 True Temper pnuimiG SHEARS $2.00 up lathi noTrains- $18.75 ALSO . . 80c to $7.20 , - : 39c to 59c Heads ... 55c . ...$2.00 .1-. ...$6.25 BROWN O YARD I1S3 Salem. Poultry Meetings Outlined by L. Lee Association Hear! AH I poultrmen are invited to participate in th annual meetinf of the Oregon Poultry Improve ment t association in Corvallis on August 3, regardless of whether they are association members ac cording to an announcement! this week by Lloyd A. Lee, Salenj, Is sociation president. The meeting will be held at the Benton hotel, starting at 10 a. m. j Featured speaker will be C. T. Klein, extension poultryman jfrora the University of Massachusetts, nationally known authority on the afternoon program wiL'l be "Saving Labor on Poultry Farms and in Hatcheries." In the even ing, he will address the associa tion's annual banquet on thej sub ject of "Breeding for Meat! and Eggs. . j - Other program items include discusbion of fertility in chickens, by J4 E. Parker, OSC poultry head;; a flock improvement J pro gram by Paul Bernier, college poultry geneticist; a talk on mod ern trends in poultry production, by Fred Cockell, Mllwaukiej; and a report of the national plan conference, by Dr. C. E. Holmes, Milwaukie. j The association's annual business meeting and a tour of the college poultry plant and range will! com plete the session A pullorum testing and j flock selecting school for persons who expect to qualify as authorized testing and selecting agents under the Oregon poultry improvement plan will be held at the; OSC poultry building on August 4 and 5, reports to N. L. Bennion," exten sion poultryman. Lectures on Aug ust 4 will be followed by practi cal examinations and a written examination on August 9. Attend ance will be limited. I Demand for Turkeys Exceeds the Supply The ; number of turkeys raised this year Is down 20 per cent as compared with last year, Noel Bennion, extension poultryman. said at the recent turkey field day held at Corvallis. Oregon exports of poults will over be about one million and two million hatching eggs for 1948. The demand for jturkey hatching eggs and poults has ex ceeded; the supply this spring. The number of turkey i poults hatched . In Oregon was $3 per cent more than a year gb. The U. S. food industry filled about tO million cans in 1JM7. The Si Ml on my way to hpjp UCXr BftlWfNO Ofcon. TnnrsdCTT, July 23. 19137 Conservation WHdlif c Club Theme Sunday ! SILVFJrrOW, July 2aL-Cvnser-vation of soil, water and wild life In Oregon formed the j theme of the annual Izaak Walton league picnic held Sunday at Silver Falls state park and attended by repre sentatives of 11 dtfferent chapters besides the host chapter. Silver ton. Picnic arrangements were made by George M. Christ ason. Allen Cribble, president Of the local chapter and secretary pi the state organization, presided and introduced the varioiur speakers who included Merl J. Brown, Portland, state president, whd pre sented the subject of conservation and urged a more intensive sell ing program of this to the public. He stated great progress along this line had been made nationally as well as In the state. He also announced the state convention, September 17, 18 and 13 at Wald port . ! Jack Hayes, Florence ; Lake, member of the Southwestern Sportsmen's group, who had Just toured the state, told of what oth-'-er chapters were doing, !citing the work of John Day where deer brouses were being planted of ma hogany and Juniper because of the low growing habit v of branches. From Heppner, Hayes reported an over supply of deer which chapter members, working with the state game commission, were1; coralllng to take to sections where they were more scarce. f Don Brush, president of the Ore gon City chapter, and Delmer Schmitt, founder of that ''group, told of some of the problems of the group and Its controversies' with commercial fishermen. In stalling a proper fish ladder was one of the present worries, they . said. f ? Mert Folts, president of the Eu gene chapter and one of, 12 mem bers of the national executive board, talked on conservation of natural resources. O. K. DeWitt, Lyons, one of four vice-presidenU of the state chapter, believed ths league should stress soil conserva tion and preservation of 'water ta bles throughout the state as well as sportsmen's problems.!' It Is much more than Just a .sports men's group, he said. I ; Clarke Bachman, Silverton, state director, announced that places to hatch birds were still needed, and Lloyd Reinholdt, Sa lem, past state president and now a member of the national resolu tions committee, was also Intro duced. M Members were registered from Can by, Silverton, Pirkwood, Wash.. Oregon City, Portland, Sa lem, Lyons, Eugene, Sublimity, Kansas City, Mo, and Coyle, Okla. .i COMPANY. SALCMOKX OlllllMllIM ! a