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
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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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