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Statesman, SoJem, Ore.. ' Thursdcrf ,' December 16. :1943'
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fietared hew sre Mrs. R. E. Stoat and her five-year-old son. Eddie,
who with Mr. Stoat are newcomers to Oregon's half-million dollar
holly industry. The Stoats, who have their holly ranch on the Croi
san road sooth of Salem, moved oat here last March and report they
are enjoyta greatly taking their first crop. Cutting-holly alone this
year will go better than $259,000 in the state. (Photo, by state de
partment of agriculture.)
Safe Theatment
Of Yule Trees
Avoids Tragedy
(See story Page 1)
Christmas trees which are to
be treated with ammonium sul
fate solution absorb more of the
solution if treated soon after
rutting.
But despite treatment, the tree
will not be absolutely fireproof,
Charles R. Ross, Oregon State
college extension' farm forestry
specialist, warned Wednesday in
discussing the dangers of home
fires from Christmas trees.
Ross suggests other points to
check on the Christmas tree are:
the tree electrical lighting sys
tem; location of the tree; wrap
pings and presents which may
ignite from contact with flame or
faulty electrical circuits.
. Ross also states that county
home demonstration agents have
information orr simple fireproof
lng formulas for making fabrics
LIN DOW COW RATES AGAIN
Signal Star Model 1500465, a
registered Jersey cow owned by
June Lindow, Independence has
completed a production record of
10,915 pounds milk and 679
pounds butterfat which has quali
fied her for the gold and silver
medal awards of the American
Jersey Cattle club. Star Model's
record was made in 305 day ac
tual Droduction at the age of two
! years and 11 months- She has
type by the American Jersey Cat
tie club with the high rating of
Good Plus.
TIME TO MAKE REPORTS
Farmers are reminded by their
county AAA offices that only a
few days remain to make con
servation reports of practices com
pleted in 1948. All reports are
due in the county office not later
than 15 days following closing
date which is December 31.
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rate the base of a tree.
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Red Raspberry
Production
Costs Vary
By Lillie L. Madsen
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Cost of producing raspberries in
western Oregon is 12.9 cents a
pound. Oblique-banded leaf rol
ler, which threatened to wreck the
raspberry industry five years ago,
can be controlled.
These conclusions are two results
of intensive and extensive experi
ments in raspberry culture carried
on at Oregon State college experi
ment station in recent years. Costs
of production for processing in the
Willamette valley is covered in a
new bulletin prepared by Gustav
W. Kuklman and D. Curtis Mum
ford. The war on the pet and dis
eases is covered by Joe Schuh and
Dr. Don C. Mote, in a separate
bulletin.
Raspberry culture is no small it
em in the Willamette valley. Of the
2,100 acres in Oregon 90 per cent
are grown here in the valley. Al
most an equal amount of black
raspberries, the "black caps" of
Oregon, are grown in the state.
Multnomah county leads all others
in amount produced, with Clacka
mas county, second. Marion county
rates fifth in numbers of acres of
red raspberries, with Linn county
third. The other high producing
county is Washington county. Yam
hill tops all others in acreage of
the black raspberries.
Cost Figured Per Acre
The cost of producing red rasp
berries in 1947 on 294 acres, yield
ing 4,705 pounds per acre, averag
ed $608.93 per acre and 12.9 cents
per pound reports Kuhlman and
Mumford. The two agree that cost
of production in 1948 was very
much the same. The cost includes
all items of expense in producing
and delivering the fruit to the can
nery door excepting the cost for
crates and ha Hocks. This cost is
omitted as canneries customarily
furnish growers with them.
The cost of man labor was $460
or 75 per cent of the total cost.
Pruning was the largest pre-har-vest
cost. All excepting four of the
38 red raspberry growers studied
in the valley, practiced one or more
methods of soil fertilization. Twen-ty-five'growers
applied commercial
fertilizers including limestone; 20
growers put in a cover crop, and
18 growers applied barnyard man
ure. Total cost of all fertilizer
materials averaged $19.72 per acre
or about two-fifths cent per pound
of berries produced.
Raspberry Land High
The value of the land producing
the red raspberries averaged $434
per acre. This value, says Kuhl
man, was estimated by the growers
from a conservative, long - term
standpoint. The average capital re
presented by the plantings over
the life of the stand was $186 per
acre, exclusive of the land value.
Cost of establishing per average
acre on 20 fields containing 68
acres averaged $371.84. On the bas
is of keeping a planting for a pe
riod of 10 crop years, the cost in
cluding interest, averaged $37.18
per crop year.
The cost of red raspberry pro
duction per pound was 55 per cent
higher on the group of 13 plantings
with the highest cost than it was
on the group of 13 plantings with
the lowest cost. The respective fig
ures were 16.96 and 10.92 cents per
pound. The average size of the
plantings in the two groups was
quite similar. The big difference
lay in the average yield produced
per acre which was 2,948 pounds
for the high cost group, and 6,898
pounds for the low cost group. If
the yield is small, each pound of
berries must bear a larger share
of the overhead costs than if the
yield is large.
Plant Cost Told
The cost of plants figured $40.76
per acre. An average of 1537 plants
were set per acre. The price aver
aged $26 per thousand. The width
of rows varied from six feet to 10.
Nearly two-thirds of all plantings
studied were spaced either eight or
eight and a half feet between rows.
The spacing of the plants in the
row varied from two and a half to
6 feet. Nearly half of the plantings
were set three feet apart. Cuthbert
comprised two-thirds of the total
red raspberry acre studied. Other
varieties were Washington, New
berg, Willamette, Latham and Tay
lor. Pest Controlled
The oblique-banded leaf roller,
which threatened to wreck the en
tire industry unless controlled, is
common throughout the Willamette
valley, Dr. Mote states. Its chief
damage is caused by the habit of
the larvae in getting into the cups
of the raspberries from where they
are so difficult to dislodge that
they ruin the sale or use of the
fruit.
The adult moths, whose wings
are marked by oblique dark bands
as the name implies, fly mostly
at twilight. They hide on the under
side of leaves and when flushed,
dart quickly to another hiding
pice.
Parasites play an important role
in holding the insect in check un
der normal conditions. The entom
ologists found 29 different paras
ites of more effective parasites,
making a vicious cycle for the
berry grower.
Commercial raspberry growers
now follow a standard spray or
dusting schedule with DDT. ap
plied between May l and 15. As
most hibernating worms live over
an old canes, good cultural control
consists of removing and burning
the old canes not earlier than Nov
ember 1 nor later than March 1.
Cleaning up the raspberrv patch
during the winter months has be
come a -must" with those who
wish to grow good red raspberries.
Reimer Gets Pear
Development Medal
In recognition of his outstay
ing contributions to pear culture,
F. C. Reimer, former supevinten- '
dent of the southern Oregon
branch experiment sta';on. h :
been awarded the coveted Wilder
medal by the American Pomo
logical society at its tcc nt 100th
annual meeting in Yakima.
Pcofessor Reimer, who utntd
in 1947 after 36 years as he id of,
the branch station. developed!
blight resistant pear stock now j
used for nursery stock. He Iso!
developed methods of pear scab'
control and a pressure teter to!
determine best picking time for
pears. The award is given to
only one man each year.
Fiarm Crop
Virus Control
Must Be Had
Virus diseases must be control
led if Oregon specialty crops are
to continue, says Dr. Frank P. Mc
Whorter, plant pathologist at the
state experiment station. There is
a vital need for more fundamental
research in this line, he adds.
Dr. McWhorter, in discussing
Oregon's virus problem Wednes
day, cites the example of clover
which, except for ladino. is almost
sure to have an abundance of vir
us infected plants. Most clovers are
weakened by the yellow bean mos
aic virus which causes infected
plantings to age prematurely and
which frequently kills stands of
crimson and subterranean clover.
Fortunately plant viruses are not
infectious to animals, but they re
duce or at least change the plant
food available and thus change the
diet of animals that eat virus in
fected plants, Dr. McWhorter
points out. Practically no work has
been done on this aspect of the in
creasingly serious virus problem.
This is but one aspect of funda
mental research which Dr. Mc
Whorter says needs to be done on
virus control if its steady and some
times rapid inroads on Oregon
crops are to be halted.
The Oregon bulb industry, which
now includes the largest and most
successful planting of garden lilies
in the world, depends for its exist
ance on the control of lily and oth
er viruses. Rapid costs for presence
of bulb viruses have aided in suc
cessful control of these thus far,
McWhorter said.
Pea crop of the Umatilla county
area suffered tremendous losses
from virus this last season when at
least 10,000 acres were damaged
or ruined. The virus that did this
was present only as a trace in 1947,
which shows how rapidly these dis
eases develop, McWhorter pointed
out.
ami Calendar
Dec. 19 Marion County Jer
sey Cattle :- club, Hugh Harris
farm, Salem.
Jan. 25-26 Western Oregon
Livestock association. Astoria.
Jan. 29 Oregon Jersey Cattle
club annual meeting, Salem.
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Bfamblings
Hop Production Still
Below Pre-war Days
The 1948 production hops in
reporting counties which before
the war accounted for more than
90 per cent of the world's total
is now indicated at approximately
117.3 million pounds according to
the United States Department of
Agriculture's office of foreign ag
ricultural relations.
Some recovery from wartime
lows is reported in several of the
important producing areas in cen
tral Europe, but the estimated har
vest in that area is still about 40
per cent under the prewar average.
Mohair Raisers Wage
War Against Misuse
A campaign to end misuse of
the. term "mohair" in upholstery
fabrics and other products con
taining little or no mohair was
put into motion at the annual con
vention of the Texas Sheep and
Gort Rrisers acsocialion.
Te pi opened campaign includes
applir ., jf, n to ihe Federal Trade
commission for rules governing
the. use of the word mohair ", no
lifiei.iir;n to better business bu
reaus of the 'gross deceptions'
practiced upon the public, and
drastic legal action against of
fenders. C hemical analyses will be made
of upholstery fabrics, draperies
and other household products la
belled as being mohair or con
taining mohair, and where these
analvses indicate deception through
absence of the fiber or use of
only a small percentage, legal ac
tion for fraud will be undertaken.
John Gale, owner and operator
of Gay moor Farm, Canby, has en
larged hjs barn to house his entire
herd of Jerseys. John expects to
be milking 30 head in his new
milking parlor before long and
that, together with his retail route,
is guaranteed to keep him busy.
Marion County Jersey Cattle
club members will gather Sunday
at the home of Hugh Harris which
lies to the! east of Highway 99
about three miles south of Salem.
The dinner will be no-host and
served at 1 o'clock.
Paul Vouingman over in Yam
hill county not too far from Mc
Minnville has quite a pasture pro
gram. He runs dairy cattle, beef
cattle, hogs, and chickens on alta
fescue pastures almost the year
around. Most of Paul's pastures
have subterranian clover seeded
in the alta fescue. He said that
he had pastured 11 head of cat
tle for six weeks on slightly more
than an acre of alta and sub last
spring.
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After last weekend's corn show
at at Canby (up on the map, and
down on the terrain) former mid
westerners need not longer keep
saying 'but you oueht to see the
corn back in Iowa." John C. Burt
ner, news director at Oregon State
college, refers to the big yields
as having reached "astronomicnl
peaks." The 139.8 bushels, while
not the mot ever yielded to an
acre, is not bad even in Iowa. This
was grown by George Mbeller of
Ontario ,for the annual Oregon
Yield contest.
But it took Marion county's own
Dan A. Steffen to head the adult
corn shuckejrs of Oregon. Dan got
out 16 pounds and 14'i ounces of i
corn in three minutes. Corn shows
in Oregon have usually been held
earlier at least in recent years ,
and the late show, which most '
corn growers have been begging '
for, proved one of the finest Ore
gon ever had.
Clackamas Cloiinty
Guernsey Men Elect
L. L. Ramgay, Carver, was
elected president of the Clacka
mas County Guernsey herd for
1949 with directors to include
John Headrick. Beaver Creek; Ed
win Ridder, Shefwood. and Paul
Houston, Oregon City.
Gustov Selander, Sherwood,
was elected as a director on the
state association, representing the
Clackamas county club. Mr, Se
lander who has been active in
the state Guernsey club, . is a
newcomer to Clackamas county,
having recently moved into the
Sherwood area from Corvallis.
The Selanders fine herd of Guern
seys are on herd imtvement and
Dairy Herd Improvement asso
ciation test.
Robert Douglas, Ttnorn In peone!
Scotland, was a student of fruit
chemistry and in 1912 was able
to extract and prepare commer
cially the fruit ingredient pectin,
which makes fruit juices jell.
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Linn County Elects -1949
Ag Committee
George L. Koos of Tangent was
elected president of the Linn
County AAA committee for 1949
at this week's annual meeting of
the Linn County Agricultural
Conservation association. The
meeting was held in Albany.
Others elected were Ed Rus
sell, Sweet Home, vice chairman,
and Victor Lyon. Scio. third mem
ber of the committee. Gerald Det
eiing of Harrisburg and Glen
Lsom. Brownsville, were elected
as alternates to fill possible vac-1
ancies that may occur in the
county committee during 1949.
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At Personal, you select
the loaa plan most con
venient. Every detail of
the loan is made your way
wherever possible. Em
ployer and friends not no
tified. ;
Phone or visit Personal's
YES manager. Mr. Gal
linger today.
LOANS $25 to $300 on
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