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8 The ' Statesman; Selena, ' Orec Tniirfcaxryi ' Fbroary 17, 1 948 Veteran Camp Adair Being Rehabilitated By Llllie L. Madsen Farm Editor. Tbe SUtemn Like many other veterans of wars. Camp Adair is on its way back. Also like some veterans, it Is going to take some time and considerable expense before it will have become completely re habilitatd. Portions of it may never become re-established in its old grooves. Parts of it will, even tually, be better. But there Is much worry and more work con nected with the rehabilitation. College Uses Portion The area contains 55,000 acres. Of these, 6,300 have been set aside for use for laboratory purposes far Oregon State college. Part of It will be used by the school of forestry for study in sustained timber yields and proper logging operations. Another Afart- of the 6.300 acres will be used in all probability by the school of agri culture, whose animal husbandry division is interested in land graz tag study. While many have had the Idea that the former owner or tenant had first choice in buying back his old farm, this is not so. First chance goes to government agen cies. Second choice is for the Re construction Finance corporation for small business; third, is state and local governments, with the former owner or tenant in fourth place, followed by veterans, the owner - operators and non-profit Institutions. However, all priorities senior to the former owner must file dur ing the first 10 days of the 90-day period allowed the former owner, thus the owner is in first place at the expiration of TO days. If est Land Back in Use Better than 50 per cent of the available acres have been bought back by the men Vho fanned them prior to the war. They paid practically the same price for the property, less damage done, that the government paid for it dur ing the war. Approximately 25 per cent went to veterans who . took advantage of their priority. The owner-operator bought at the same price as the veterans, and land not sold through these vari ous channels was then sold to the highest bidder. Some 280 acres stiU remain to be sold at the presentime. These have been advertised and made available to the former owners. The priority accorded them ex pires on March 14 and what land remains unsold after that date will be offered to veterans and owner -operators who have qualified for such sale. To qualify, a veteran or owner-operator must signify In writing his intention to purchase land prior to the close of the pri ority period. T. F. Whiteman. project manager, is in charge, leawels Are Out Because school districts no long er exist in the areaT most of the land formerly used for such pur poses has reverted to adjoining tracts. Likely no schools will ever be built on the area again. Most ef the school children go to Mon mouth, a few go to Corvallls. The state game commission has filed application for portion of the Camp Adair building area which the commission wishes to use a game reserve. However, this application is still going through channels and approval has not yet been received. There is little doubt, it is believed, but that the request will be granted eventu ally. The return of property to agri culture and other4 civilian life is being made through the Federal Farm Mortgage corporation, the deeding agency. Mr. Whiteman has been the project manager since the lands first opened up. A land office has been established in the little Adair Village which is now occupied chiefly by mar ried veterans who attend school at Oregon State college. ITnexploded Mines Found As the farm land has been sold a letter goes with it explaining HUnmblings Hens can't, as some folk seem to think, eat everything ; and thrive. ' Mr. ! and Mrs. Clarence Woelk of the Brush College area report losing 150 , laying hens when tfiey ate wheat which had been damp, then froze and then thawed. The rest of the laying flock was saved by disposing of the remaining wheat. A Ton of . Gold certificate has been awarded to Volunteer Stand ard uoia Bond 14Z10ZZ, a regis tered Jersey : cow owned by the John E. Liridows over at Inde pendence. This trim looking fe male produced 2,433 pounds of butterf at over a period of : four years. During this time her i pro duction averaged over 500 pounds of butterfat per year, two and half times the production of the average dairy cow in the United States. John; and Norma certainly know how to squeeze the butter- fat out of their herd. Only short spaces of time elapse between times of records made in their herd. -i :- - : In spite of quite high faluting sounding names attached to the bossies, ; the' Holsteins owned by Poepping Brothers, Mt. Angel, are down to earth when It comes to producing big records in their breed. Lady Chieftain Veeman gave out 603 pounds fat, 16,508 pounds milk at 8 years and 10 months of age; Rose Veeman Se lls Hartog, 560 butterfat, 15,164 milk, at 9 years and 9 months; Allfame: Pabst Katherine Wayne, 518 pounds fat, 13,954 milk at 4 years and 10 months. All were milked twice daily, the first two for 365 ; days and the latter for 292 days. ' Out of the J. B. Hamilton ranch, five miles east oi stayton on highway 222, the hens are trying to cut down the wrapping: ex penses by producing more mate rial in larger packages. One of the eggs weighed almost half a j pound, and measured 7 by 8 Inches. : Tne producer was a Rhode Island. HtV-f Ht's'; ',...:-' - , 4 . !,.: t - v vi"!, . vMtemeWe Galley ; - Far meir K Netvs and Views of Farm arid Garden- BT LXLXJE L.' MADSEN 4-,-"-r - t fe i. .& .v. w mwr t-'", Z' i I - I The exterior ef this home, the eld DeArmend ranch house ea the Camp Adair site, has been restored. Only one door had been left by vandals when It was brought back following release from the gov ernment. All ether doors aad windows had bee taken. (Statesman Farm photo.) whom to notify in case of find lng any anti-tank practice type mines on the property, following which such missiles are disposed of by the U.S. corps of engi neers. However, practically all of the tillable land has now been plowed and while some unexploded mines have been found, no reports have been received. Mr. Whiteman told me this week, of any premature explosions. Even on the main traveled roads the motorist cannot fail to notice that the war came close to home. Former fine" farm homes are now lacking windows and doors. If the motorist stops for closer in Testlgaflon he will find that much ?.fSK& PORTLAND $1.05 ROUND TRIP , ; Pros Federal Tax DEPOT i74 N. Church St. Phone 2-2421 of the interior of the homes has been removed. Only a shell re mains and hot a very good shell. Plumbing Stolen Vandalism has been great in the Adair section, and vandalism was not done by members of the fighting forces, it is said. Civil ians entered the homes and rob bed them of everything remova ble and many things not believed removable. 1 Plumbing and j fur naces were- stolen. In many in stances fi hardwood floods, stair way railings were removed. We stopped at the old DeAr- mond home, one of the better known -farmsteads in the area prior to- the war. Mrs. John E. Sparks, who with her husband. is restoring the place, showed us how all the white oak flooring was gone; bricks and damper had been removed from the Urge liv ing room : nrepiace. only ; one door, that .in the basement, had been left, she said. Even the plas tering in the beautiful large colo nial house, had been ripped from the walls so that electrical wiring and plumbing pipes could be re moved. The bathroom was strip ped bare, and the vandals even dug up the turf in the formely well-kept lawn, and removed it in strips as professional garden ers do. t The Sparks, had acquired 253 acres from Mrs. Beatrice D- Armond who had bought back her old home when it became avail able. ; I : Dead Sheep ha Basement Across the fields to the south west, the former attractive Valen tin home Shad been treated no better. This is now owned by Ralph Kestor and la again attrac tive. But when the Kestors took it over, doors and windows were gone. It had been leased, as sheep pasture and sheep had been permitted to run rampant, some having died and been left in the basement. Few. if any houses, escaped similar fate. Where the land was needed I for i' army purposes, -the house had been removed by the government. But these are com pletely gone. At the present cost of building materials and labor, many owners expressed the belief it would be "considerable time" before houses wduld be plentiful on the area. A few are going up, but they are far between. Most of the land Is being - farmed by men living in nearby towns or in more recently established homes elsewhere, Ne Fences Left "We have put our money into the land. We can't afford to build," they say. "And we wont have to be on the places to tend livestock. It win be sometime, too, before livestock will be plen tiful here. Fencing has to T 11 km t h - ' I - i. -;- S T Pictured here is the stairway in the DeArmond entrance haU. The steps have been repaired bat it is noted the hand railing, removed by vandals, is still missing. This property was formerly part ef Camp Adair. (Statesman Farm photo.) 4 - . - ' ' i J ft- V . .. ... , 'i ' : ,' ' ,i j-.1' - ' - I,'- . i'-'Tv7 - , v- v. SIX. v ' ;: ' -y. Farm Calendar Feb. 18 Nutrition conference, Oregon Seed and Feed Growers association. Memorial Union Bldg., room 105, OSC campus. Feb. 18 Oregon Red Poll Cat tle club, annual meeting, 1 pjn., Salem Chamber of Commerce. Feb. 20 Marion County Jer sey Cattle club meeting, Keizer grange hall. Feb. 22 Farmers night. Sil verton Chamber of Commerce. Feb. 22-24 State convention Oregon Farmers Union, Maple wood grange, near Aurora. Feb. 23 Raspberry growers meeting, Stayton city hall, 1:30 pjn. Feb. 24 Marion County Live stock Breeders, Macleay grange hall, 7 p.m. dinner meeting. Feb. 25 Marion and Polk County Cherry and Peach Grow ers. Salem Chamber of Commerce, 1:30 p.m. Feb. 26 Third annual Junior Jersey sale, Washington county fairgrounds, Hillsboro. March 2 Oregon Swine Grow ers bred gilt sale. Crooked Finger Roundup grounds, Prineville, 2 p.m. March 5-13 National 4-H club week. March 15 Marion county poultry meeting, Salem Chamber of Commerce. April 4 Second annual Ore gon Holstein sale. Pacific Interna tional, Portland, 11 ajn. ' Mint Supply Large Enough For Demands Growers tempted by high pep-; permint oil prices of recent years; to jump into the business and ex pand acreage now, easily could! find themselves disappointed by) returns. The supply of mint oil has ap-; parently caught up with demand,; the market has weakened and costs of production are still high. The 1948 crop of peppermint and spearmint was the largest ever produced in the United States.; Most of the supply is used to flavor candy and gum. Domestic manufacture of these items is lev eling off. Considerable mint oil has been exported in the past, but foreign stocks have apparent ly been replenished as exports dropped sharply during 1948. ; Market prospects for most of Oregon's perennial crops in 1949 are fair to good, a report issued by the U. S. department of agri culture, shows. This situation is expected to continue so long as employment and incomes are high, or until supplies change mater- ially. Changes in the size of crops, both domestic and foreign, are likely to have more effect on the market situation than changes in demand for most perennials in 1949, and perhaps for a few years beyond. Market prospects for most of the state's fruits, nuts, hops and peppermint are classed as fair: while most of the perennial seed crops and some of the berries are placed in good groups. Production of deciduous fruits, particularly apples and pears, will probably be larger in 1949 than in 1948. The domestic crop of tree nuts will probably be smaller than the record 1948 crop, but foreign supplies are a continuing threat in the nut situation. Although carry-over of frozen berries is ex pected to be larger, the new crop of berries for processing is not likely to be as large as last year unless the weather is again better than average. Attention Farmers Now la the time to have your FLOW SHEARS SHARPENED Jorgensen-Stelnke's 543 Ferry St. More Nitrogen Suggested for Pasture Crops Application of commercial fer tilizer to legumes, grass and grain, which have been damaged some what by this winter's cold 'will usually help somewhat in coun teracting the injurious effect if applied as soon as possible, ac cording to D. D. Hill, head of the farm crops department at Oregon State college. A nitrogen fertilizer is recom mended for grain and grass crops at a rate to supply 20 to 40 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Legumes will require land plaster at the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per acre. Both are to be applied as soon as soil conditions will permit. Crimson Clover Killed Reports received by -the farm crops department indicate that common rye grass has had a 25 to 40 per cent kill while Willam ette common .vetch has been set back to an undetermined degree. Crimson clover in Western Ore gon has apparently been com pletely winter killed. Crops on poorly drained low land have i r r. - been hurt , worse' thani those' on well drained soE ' f Advances Grazing Date Pastures containing legumes' will profit by applications which will supply up to 20 pounds of nitrogen per acre while grass pastures will need 40 pounds or more. Application mayadvance the spring grazing date as: much as two weeks provided they are not harmed by too early pastur ing. i Such early fertilizing applica tions will be particularly benefi cial this year, because the root growth has been damaged so gen erally by frost heaving while total root development has been re duced by rather low temperatures. Dr. Hill also points out that crops getting such fertilizer will be more likely to compete success fully with weeds, although even so growers may find it necessary to do more than normal spraying for weed control this year.; Income Tax Belarus Made out by ; Consultant !(' J. 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The state parliamentary contest will be held Wednesdsy evening, March SI. The state public speak ing contest and talent night are planned for the following night. April 1. Chapters wishing to enter the talent night competition are start requested to send their entries in from scratch. There ere no poles to the state office by March 1. and no fencine left." I And In only a few instances are RED POLL CLUB PLANS MEET there barns or other necessary livestock buildings. But come the spring of 1949, the fields will again be green on the former;; Camp Adair. The rows .and rows of war dummies. the hurdles : and the barb wire barricades are being removed from no man's land as Oregon's biggest industry swings into ac tion again on former war fields. Kehne wain, secretary, is an nouncing the annual meeting of the Oregon Red Poll Cattle club for Friday. February 18 at 1 o'clock at the Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms. He reports everyone is welcome even u noi a member. 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