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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1949)
f Tho Statesman, Salom, Oregon. Thursday. April 21, 1949 RED HILLS TOUR PLANNED f Pomona grange and has been ar A tour of th RH Hill vrviH ranged by Howard Wooden, Po mona . agricultural chairman. Po mona itself will ; meet Saturday, WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER News and Views of Farm and Garden By LILLIE L MADSEN ment station at Oregon City for Polk county farmers is scheduled for Saturday, April 30. The tour is sponsored by the Polk County April 23 at Tort Hill to complete plans for the tour. - j I ' -.T i t v I I Aeae Bergbel, of Um 4-H elebs, and Anthel Rlner. Marten ( county extension agent, ale with 4-H clubs, are shown her la the Wash ington Irrtnr building, SUrertaa, soaking final plana far the coun ty 4-H prtn shew to opes, there aext Monday. Mies Berghols U a recent addition to Um atari eeat- agenfe office. (Statesman Farm rnoto.) 4-H Spring Showg Open 4Fo Visitors (Sn story page I) "Better Living for a Better World" is the slogan of the 1949 i-H spring show which will be bld at Silverton April 25-29. The homemakers divisim la one of the big parts of the show and (hie will be held at rirat ChrU tUn church. Park and first street. All of the demonstrations re open to the public from 9 am. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and from 9 to noon on Friday. Leaders in charge are Mrs John Cg of Middle Grove and Mrs. Vernie Scott, Union "Hill. The cake baking content will be rld Tuesday forenoon with those siting part including Arlene Fess er. Shirley Mucken. Anita Wilde. :har!otte Kintz. Dorothy Dibola. immie Ebner, Larry Ebner. Joyce Craemer and Patty Warner all Of Mt. Angel, and Wayn? Feller ind Marie Drager. Cl-vsHale. Contestants Tuesday atternoon re (also in cake baking) Janice Biddall. Francis Finch. Hayes Ville?: Yvonne Goode, Shirley Page tnd Joanne Fabre, Middle Grove; lirline Haworth, Darlene Ha Wjrth. Delores Looney and Myr lene Franx, Talbot; Marion Brown, Suyton, Paul Thomas, CI werdale, nd Angela Karupecka, Aurora. Bread baking contests will be Eeld Wednesdayywith contestants include Janice Siddall, Francis mche, Hayes villa; Joyce Keunzi, tiddle Grove; Mauryne Nichols and Marele Bronson, Rlverdale; Drlene Haworth, Talbot Wednesday afte moon home I?monstrations will Include table r'tting and shirt Ironing. Pauline aalfeld and Theresa Dehler. friers; Arlene Fessler. Shirley mt'icken, Marcine Buchkolz and fLarian Rosno, teams. Mt. Angel. Health. Mrs.. Lillian Shaner. leed-ii- Mildred Part on and Patricia rundidge, team. Union Hill, nothing: Mrs. Alvin McLaughlin, eder, Wilma Parton and Glenda leelev, teams. Union Hill; Mrs. '. W. Neimi, leader. Roberta 'Home. Marilyn Pearson," Turner: .fr. C. E. Shidler, leader, and f ba Jean Smallwood. Prictlla )-jrham, Kay Shiller and Nancy e Rogers, Keizer. Thursday forenoon, soaking lemonstrations: leaders. Theresa fehler and Pauline Saalfeld; Don- Mae treaeeic. Marjory rioit, laxine Geek, Inez Donley, teams; eaders, Mrs. Vera Scottt and rilma Parton; and Gerald Darby, avid Parton. Gall Brundidxe, bert McLaughlin. Union Hill; ider, Mrs. G. SiddalL and teaxn. smce Siadaii, Betty sanara. m, HayesvUle; loader, Mrs. hn Cage, and team. Shirley e and Joanne Fabre. Middle rove;, leader. Mrs. George Potts. and teams, Shoron Vodder, Karon Dunham, Madeline Haworth, Do lores Dunham, Darlene Haworth nd Delores Looney, Talbot; Don a Wiederkehr, leaders, and Ro ns Sears and Ruth Hart, teams, Sidney:; Mrs. Van Wagner, leader, and Dawn Pierce, and Lora Lee Brown, team. Aumaville. Thursday afternoon, health, 8a bina' Morison, loader, Ronald Par ker, Melvin Archibold, team, Cloverdale; Zthal Ramus, leader, and Loretta Koraley and Delores Ostrim, team, Macleay; Pauline Saalfeld, leader, and Anita Wilde and Laura ScnmiU, team, Mt Angel. r Forestry, Mrs. Eldon Champ, leader, Noel Lesley and John Davis, team, Stayton; vitamin salad, Katherin Austin, leader, and Georgia Johnson and Beverly Farris. team, Roberts. Dollar din ner contest, Joyce Kuenzl, Mid dle Grove. FLAXSEED OOAL DOWN Flaxseed will be supported at $3.99 a bushel at Portland In 1949. The support price announced by the United States department of agriculture applies to flaxseed grown in 1949 and la based on 90 per cent of parity as of April 1, 1949. Flaxseed prices were sup ported at $8 a bushel in 1948, re sulting in a record crop of 52,322, 000 bushels. The goal this year is 3,029,000 acres, one third less than the planted acreage of last year. Farm Calendar April 21 Pacific Northwest Guernsey sals, Pacific Interna tional exposition building, Port land, 1 p.m. April 24 Marion County Jersey Cattle club. RNA hall, Quinaby. April 25-29 Marion County 4 H show, Silverton. April 29 Yamhill County Homemakers festival, McMinn vllle. May 2-3 California Ram Sale, Sacramento. May 7-8 Western Horse show, State fairgrounds, Salem. May 12-15 --Northwest Quarter Horse Breeders association, show, races, sale, Pendleton. May 16 Annual meeting Ore gon Cattlemen's association Pend leton. May 21 Oregon Guernsey Breeders Spring show. State fair grounds. May 27-21P Linn County Lamb show, Seio. June 3-4 Lebanon Strawberry festivaL June 4 Marion County Lamb show, Turner, i. June 13-17 Oregon State Grange convention, high school. Coos Bay. June 14-24 Conrallis. Juno 19 Marlon County Po mona grange, Waldo Hills Juno It Clackamas County Jersey snow, canby. xumt Deets. an. Juno 22 Oregon Baby Chlek association, Oregon State eollego. June x-july l rourta Annual Leadership Institute for Town and Country churches. Oregon State college, William, Teutsch general chairman. Juno 20 Linn county livestock judging tour. July 12 National Federation of Beekeepers association, Seattle. -4-H summer school. 'f'0' 11 Yes made in small batches v-"" snd shipped direct from 0Jy II producer td warehouse to S II otore. That means really rrTZX U freah margariae for you! ?,TJ5" SK1yfT H Ideal for cooking. Perfect V WSlAJff forsinliiig.Whynot Ye-rMIwrte 5T (I be sure? Bay Simnybank T 'fw7'- Lk it's guaranteMl frhl if ye dee I mt S rjV lawnyliiiiili tatto Jr AT TOU3 cw jv SAFEVAY STORE j Tansy Ragwort Best Killed During Spring April. May and June are espec ially timely months for control of a poisonous weed, tansy rag wort, which is making rapid head way in its spread from the coastal counties Into the Willamette val ley and southern Oregon. Following the blossom period, control steps arc more expensive and It is also more difficult to get an effective kill, states Rex Warren, Oregon State college ex tension farm crops specialist. Beforo blossom appearance, Warren recommends that tansy ragwort be sprayed with 2,4-D. He says research by the experi ment station has shown that spray applied at the rate of two pounds of active acid per acre will be effective. One application, how ever, is seldom enough. After an application this spring. Warren suggests spraying the same plot again next spring since many seeds will germinate in the mean time. Following the appearance of blossoms, 2,4-D spray Is not re commended. More expensive sod ium chlorate or atlacide applied at the rate of one pound per gal lon will be required to obtain a kill after the tansy ragwort plants flower. With both sprays, ap plication of enough to wet the entire plant is essential. The weed is poison to both cattle and horses, but the effect is cumulative rather than im mediately lethal. Symptoms in clude staggers and loss of flesh. Tansy ragwort is poisonous In hay as well as in pastures. Most animals will avoid the plant unless starved into eating it. Deaths usually occur in over crowded pastures or when feed is short. Tansy ragwort is spread main ly by wind-borne seed, according to Warren. Livestock and birds, meanwhile, also assist in its spread. The plant grows to a height of 18 to 36 inches. No seed stalk Is produced the first year, but in its second season It produces a seed stalk topped with small, yellow, daisy-like flowers which usually appear after July 1. The plant also has a distinctive purple stem. The Statesman's Farmer-of -the-Week Floyd Fox, jr., may bo young for the title but he is a top rate farm er for all that. Today, it is being announced by L. J. Allen, state director of 4-H FLOYD FOX. JR. Statesman Farmer of the Week club work, that Floyd is one of four Oregon club members to win a trip to Washington, D. C. for his outstanding club work in leader ship and projects in 1948. One week, all expenses paid, will be spent in the nation's capital. Last year, Floyd was runner-up in the state in the national meat animal production contest, second only to Chester Houston, also an Oregon youth, who was national winner. Floyd, who will be 18 on May 14, was born on the farm which is still his home. It lies in the fer tile hill country, southeast of Sil verton in the Victor Point area. His father, Floyd Fox, Jr., is one of the west's most widely known sheep men. His mother, Josephine Fox, a former teacher, is an ardent club leader and active in rural social life and improvement projects. A younger sister, Frances, 11, in terested very much in the outdoors, completes the immediate family. Outside of two projects in camp cookery, and four in health, Floyd's 27 completed 4-H projects have been livestock, with sheep predom inating. During the past three years he has also been a leader in sheep and beef club work. Floyd is now a senior in the Sil vcrton high school and during his high school years he has been prominent in Future Farmers of America work, in which he spe cializes In crop projects, featur ing largely planted pastures. He plans to go to Oregon State college next fall and he would like to continue his farming on the old Fox home place when he finishes college. Warning Sounded In DDT Spray Uses Because of danger to human heauth from DDT, recommenda tions on the use of the wonder in secticide are being modified. Sci entists have found that a trace of DDT from several sources may have an accumulative poisoning effect and are recommending that it not be used on dairy cows. In dairy barns, on crops fed to dairy cows, and on parts of food crops eaten by people. Replacing DDT will be methaxy chlor and pyrethrus-piperonyl bu tonxido combinations and rotenone. DDT may still be used safely on beef cattle and sheep. In poultry and bos; houses, an root crops, on non-food crops, and on food crops before the edible part has develop ed, or ii protected by pod or husk, A clear-cut demonstration of the value of correct phosphate placement is to be found on Jack Headrick's farm Just off Highland road. Last fall Jack applied TV A high grade phosphate to a spring planting of red clover. On ad joining strips he made surface and sub-surface applications. No clover remains in check strips, nor where the fertilizer was u-sed as a top dressing, but a perfect stand "remains where phosphate was placed in bands three inches under the surface. Results are so striking that it will be worth while for neighbors to drop in for a look. Now you buy worms by the quart if you should happen to want norne. You pay $2 per quart, too. Elmer Pagh, Canby, will give added information. Worms are the bait used in controlling moles in the current rodent control cam paign taking place in the Canby area. Control crews are using about one quart of worms to each 40 acres covered. They are treated with sodium fluoroacetate. a very deadly poison, before they arc used. John Lienhart of Woodburn, Mrs. A. Vandergeck, Mt. Angel, and Rex Rose. Monitor, all have topped the 4o pound butterfat record this past month. John made it 40.7 pounds of butterfat. Rex made 48, and Mrs. Vanderbeck, 51.3. John Painter of Corvallls warns that suckers remaining on filbert trees will sap strength from the tree and have a bearing on yields. Removing the soil from around the base of the tree Is recom mended, so that suckers can be pulled or cut off at the point of origin. At the same time, one can rub off all buds that are showing. MEAT PRODUCTION L'PFED Meat production Is expected to increase seasonably soon, prob ably faster than last year, the U. S. department of agriculture reported this week. In each of the remaining quarters of 1949, more meat probably will be pro duced than in the same 1948 per iods. Chief factor in this outlook for a higher level of meat output compared with last year are the increasing numbers of hogs raised and the greater grain feeding of cattle. MORE MOISTURE NEEDED Nitrogen fertilizers can still be applied to pastures to give increas ed yields on both dry and irrigat ed fields, Ben A. Newell, county extension agent, reports. Irrigated pastures need to bo kept moist rather than to allow them to dry and then try to bring them back. Irrigating in the spring rain Isn't as far off as it may seem, adds Newell. SUE A TTCAL LIVE PIG W4-IO PUf A VACUUM CLEANEB, CLEAN 5 UEB 4JOU5E, $UOP$ FOP HER FAVORITE OOD AND 13UN5 A QUIZ 5WOW ATI in met FRIDAY, April 22, 9 a. m.-9 p. ra. riARIOIJ FEED & SEED 228 Ferry Street Phono 3-6858 SPONSORED BY: I1AM0II FEED & SEED KEIZER FEED & SEED COME EARLY- STAY ALL DAY Broodiness Not Wanted In Laying Flocks Broodiness, an inherited char acteristic in laying hens, l a prob lem that normally reduces egg production during the spring months, but Noel Bennion, Ore gon State college extension spec ialist, believes there is no reason for undue alarm, because many high producing strains are also faced with it. Broody hens, Bennion adds, do not lay in that period but may otherwise be good producers dur ing a large portion of the year, rymen contact Bennion each year In the past, however, some poul and express anxiety over finding a few broody hens in their flocks. Rather than condemn the flock on the appearance of a few birds. Bennion suggests gauging per formance on over-all egg produc tion. Broody hens are usually "brok en up" and returned to lay by removing them from laying house nests and confining them in a separate broody coop. Bennion suggests equipping the broody coop with a slat or wire bottom. He recommends that broody hens be continued on a well-balanced ration consisting of laying mash and scratch grain. Broody hens may be leg band ed or have their tails clipped in order that they may be easily Identified. Then, if they persist in going broody, they csn be cull ed from the flock. Family records and progeny testing may be used to eliminate brodiness in breeding flocks, Ben nion states. Where hatching eggs are produced from a non-trap nested flock, broody hens are best culled or marked and eliminated as breeders. Some poultrymen who keep birds In conventional laying houses have a section or battery of 12 to 15 cages to handle broody hens. Equipment of this type Is normally located in the feed room. It may also be used to hold culls or in jured birds. Vhy qo NORTH to travel EAST ? HAMMAN STAGES r35tjfy?3lr jSmm mi!tJ So Your Local Bus Agent Grass Silo Making To Be Demonstrated Grass silage-making time isn't far away and silo building time is here, says Ben A. Newell, Marion county livestock extension agent. A demonstration of how to build a wood stave silo will be held Ap ril 28 and 27 at the Paul Johnson farm about one mile above Lyons on the North Santlam highway. The demonstration will be un der the supervision of M. O. Hu ber, extension agricultural engi neer from Corvallls, and K. W. Priest, Linn county agent from Albany. 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