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TTytSfcrtman, SoUau Oregon. .Thursday., ?alf 1.V.1M . WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER j News and Views of Farm and Garden -By LILLIE l. madsen In Pasture Feeds Running Low Reports Show fir LilHe I.. Mdn Fsm Edl'or. Ti e 5'emn Oregon ranges, showin? the tf-f,-t, f a dry ear. wert in third lowest cnnditrrm on record July 1, th U. S. dcpaitment of agricul ture stated in its weekly report rl.-'d Wednesday. Mnv of the hillside aril lower .vatitns in eastern Oregon hve ren bnirnt beyond help and f.imm'er range hai n181!""1 srvi.-h earlier ,lian u3uar- Tht. ptpetts for fall grazing at pres sor are not very favorable, with rm needed immediately to lm pru f the outlook A. a result tempH of rattle June at the Nortti Poftiana . nirt were largest Tor uo mouui c"eral years. Juna receipts fneiriv nae nan vnj UK v i'b most of th. steeri 1 metered grading ojt at tha !.. -ei end of th medium ?rade. rtittht-i heavy maiketin of half W U!e is apt to result from th drying up of pat'iie. field r(vtteis are indicating Hr Demand Slow White hay- prices have held irv.tly unchanged in th north- -( d iring tiie past wek. de mtrvl is lepoited vetv slow Th t -X i nip tutting of aiulr'i is ll wlonc at Klamath Fall Har-v'-fii: the snond crop of alfalfa . fDc;'cd to cot under way at H-it m-Vierv. ater thi vvrk i Poiiiand. alfdlfs iwv ?rad- X !' S 2 ' better quoted V- hiodav at 29 50 to $31 a ton It r i , 'oad the Willamette valley the . i op is reported at about "h"" noma!. Much buying of ai; i'm hay has already been done m ! i( e dairy and cattlemen here piung $.15 a ton this week for t! t iv laid down at their barns. Winter Decreased Crop , Mm h gram and some clover p'' tinEs intended for hay froze rvr last winter. Some fields re (n' "d are giving very light pro ) t ions. Hay harvest is being r eoleted her and grain and r! "t hay in the Willamette val ire quoted at $17 to $21 a ton bi'-d in the stack at the farm. Pictures in the Willamette val-I-v Air drying rapidly with sheep cattle being unloaded from th " where irrigation U not -ulable. With grain and grass a.--t now being harvested, some b -In. Marion county farmers said V "dneKday, would be available l' turning the livestock, in on V '.. However; irrigation has b'.-i increased quite considerably r- H'f valley in recent years. ( ii.iles Nanrieman. Who has f '-d Ins 72 acies between Sa l.fi and Aumsville for 27 wars, tl:c hay ( -rop i-f very poor thi cai barely 30 pec cent of on' iii tl He has alieadv lyxight C''!idiM ah!e alfalfa hay from e-isi-ip WashiiiBton for his nexl Ss,io 'cediMK I'olk f-H Cliihhers PI ami in" Tours t'-sinution in Judging fitting at I showing of livestock will be gi -n to Polk .county 4-H club rt-mi)eis on t'Ao tours to be held ! vanous farnis in Polk county tht, week The first tour for the northern p- I of the county is to be held Th m day, July 14, starting at the I.'ie Stewart farm located two m !s north of McCoy Junction o highway 89W. Work at' the 8'"vvait farm will start at 9 am. i"h instruction in dairy animals. On this tour flub member will els teceive help In swine, sheep n beef animals. The scheduled tour for clubs in th southern half of Polk county to he held Friday. July 15, be g' n-n at a m. at the Joe ft '4''i farm lrn-ated three miles n th. one mile east of Mon m "1th t'luh members will re-r-'i help in swine and dairy eoifrial.s at the Rogers farm. Dur-j n tfie day they will aUi have aManee with beef an.$ sheep "unals. f I) While Louis Hermies. The Statesman Farmer of the Week, was born in Iowa, noted for iU hogs and corn, he doesn't raise either hogs or corn but concen trates on sheep. But Louis was only eight years old when he was brought west by. his parents Ad during the years , he has lived in the nest he has heard much more about sheep than hogs, he says. Of course, he married -n Ore gon girl, Gertrude Anderson of Shedd, and the two have now lived on their 360 acre ranch near Turner, where they have 100 breeding ewes, for 10 years. While the sheep have been raised mostly just for "wool and lamb chops," Louis and Gertrude are now going in a bit for show Charles Nsnnemaai (pictured at lower left) saya that he like to haul his hay with horses, and he is har vesting 12 erea this year fer his Z8-cow dairy herd. Assisting him are (on the load) a neighbor. Char les Germont; his hi, Frances Nanneman, and hi g rmadson, Dennis Foster. At his side Is another son, Carl. (Statesman Farm fhoU). Fattening Aids For Thin Lainbi Are Suggested important. For control of worms, Lindgren suggests that one part of phenothiazine be mixed wif) parts salt. I 10 get Plant Legumes Is Feeder lambs that did not fat while with their mothers may ! Urged !' Miller Western Livestock Men Announce 1950 Meeting require an eictra gram ration to make market weight, especially if they are now on poor pasture, Harry Lindgren, OSC animal hus bandry specialist, states. Lambs that fall into this cate gory are now weaned, weigh 75 pounds or less and are too thin to market. The question is, how to get those extra pounds of gain to bring the Iamb up to 90 pounds or so? ' Lindgren saya lambs will fatten naturally on good pasture, but much forage; during July does not qualify as "good." In such cases, he recommends a supple mental whole grain ration such as barley. Whole barley is selling at about $50 por ton. Any other gains which - can be bought at comparable prices, the specialist adds, will also prove satisfactory. Lambs need to gain from one third to one-half a pound a day to reach market weight efficient- v. Sudan grass Is a good source of pasture for fattening lambs, Lind gren states, provided it has not headed out. Freedom from parasite is also More protein and less starch 1 the food production pattern shap ing up in the U. S. department of agriculture croj adjustment pro gram for 1950, according to ,E. Harvey Miller, chairman of the Oregon production and market ing committee. He points out that with huge crops of wheat and corn In pros pect for 1949 and with- the ware houses filled with cotton, there is a need to shift some 30 million acres from the production of these and similar crops. If this acreage is used for the production of bar ley, oats or grain sorghums or commercial vegetables, it will only add to the surpluses in these crops. To avoid trouble, about the only use for most of this land la to put it into grass and legumes. This will mean putting some of, the land that was plowed out of grass back Into grass. Sod waa broken to meet demands of war and post-war famine conditions in Europe but now there is a need to get some of this land back into sod. More grass and legumes are needed in corn and cotton rotations. Th Linn and- Benton county livestock associations will serve as co-hosts for the annual meeting of the Western Oregon Livestock association in Cor.vallis January 30. 31 and February 1, 1950, it has been announced Jointly by association president Charles Ev- i plains. ans, Independence, and Harry , ' Lindgren. secretary-treasurer, an djSperial Meeting aillllldl liuauanui aiiciiiai, ; g JOT I TlllaV Lindgren says the forthcoming session will be the first time the group has scheduled a three-day annual meeting. Previously, all have been two-day affairs. The added day, the specialist points out, was scheduled to broaden the association's speaker program. Representatives of the Linn and Benton county livestock associa tions met recently to make plans for the annual affair. They have announced tentative arrange ments for a night horse show as well as demonstration work at OSC. Fourteen western Oregon county associations including ap proximately 700 members now make up the Western Oregon Livestock association. Good Results Had From Farm Treating Save your most smut-free wheat for seed, clean it, then treat it no matter what its variety is the suggestion to wheat ranchers from two Oregon State college ix tension specialists. Rex Warren nd A. P. Steeruand. In outlining a smut control pro gram, Warren, a farm crops spec ialist, declares that New Improv ed Ceresan, Ceresan M, copper carbonate or basic copper are ef fective seed treatments. The pro blem with the latter two cop per carbonate and basic; copper is usually one of mechanical fail ure in not being thoroughly mix ed with seed wheat. Both agents rely solely on contact to kill smut spores. Prrmii Produrta ftoAd Ceresan products, meanwhile, j stuff- They have 20 head of reg are doublv effective. Thev have tered Columbias whuh they line a fumigation action throueh the ! ver-v much. They expect formation of a tras as well as he- i crease this division of their ing deadly to smut by direct con- j tact. ! Steenland says extra seed treat ed' with Ceresan last fall and not , planted will still germinate and j produce a crop. Ieft-over Cere san treated seed is best planted at a rate about 20 percent heav ier than f'-esh treated wheat to make up for a germination drop, the plant pathology specialist aids. Wheat treated with either New Improved Ceresan or by the slurry method using Ceresan M willx not show any appreciable germination decline if sown with in six weeks after treatment. Treat All Varieties Cleaning is recommended for all wheat to be seeded as added insurance that smut balls and foreign matter will be removed, the specialists point out. Treating is recommended for all wheat ' varieties to be seeded including the smut resistant varieties simi i lar to Rex. j A common error in using Cer ' esan Is not allowing 24 hours to i elapse between seed treatment j and drilling. This time allowance j is required to get full benefit from . the Ceresan gas. Steenland ex- Tfc Statesman's . Farmer-of-tho-Week to in- pro- ject, they say. Fitting right in with the sheep project is the grass seed It is this, says lui. which makes farming interesting these days. He has 25 acres of rye grass from which he expects to take seed this year. While Louis says baseball games by radio or the bleach ers - is his hobby, those who know1- him rather well wonder. Wfi;Aiier an. ixuis has done quite a Dii wnn aogs ana it isn t in the races, either. The Henmes dogs and their ability to work hae long been the envy of many sheep men. He has three Border In a wolfs tracks,' the two rear tracks of each group of four foot prints are made by the forefeet, and the two tracks in front are made by the hind feet, and crickets. - ' 'j I II ' , ;sp' '- .. v. u v-v A V --, Louis Hennies ! Watch Mint Fields For Flea Beetles Mint growers are being ad vised by County Extension Agent O. E. Mikesell to wateh their fields for the presence lot mint jflea beetles, as heavy infpstationa do serious iniurv. '. I Recommended control measures are a 90 per cent cryolite dust or a 5 per cent DDT dust applied at the rate of 23 to 38 pounda per acre. Best results, says Mike sell, are obtained If the ijusts are -applied soon after the first bee tles appear no wind. and when Hhere la The striped skunk Mps farm ers by destroying mice and dig ging out beetles and their larva. Collies on his ranch at th pres ent time. These are trained to work with the sheep and are, as Gertrude puts it, "almost a part of th family." Jam Jelly Pjil W GHOWS!! 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