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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1949)
I 1 o 5 , 1 1 Tbo 'Slateiman.' Salem,' Oregon. ThandxiT.' Aogvat 1 L 1MJ WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER il News and Views of Farm and Garden -By ULliE L madsen i I Nut Growers Start Annual Tour, Aug. 18 Annual summer tour of walnut end filbrt orchard soonsored by hm Nut Growers SooetT ci Ore son and Waineton has been set for A u curt 18, and 19. ifnasbeen announced Dyj the society secre tary. CJr Rawlincs. Corvatlis. Similar to last year's procram. the two-day tour will acajn be divided into a "walnut" and "fil bert" day. This arrangement. Rawlings explains, will allow rowers with either wolnuts or filberts to devote a full day to their own particular interest. Starting time both day has been announced for 9:15 a.m. Walnet Day First Assembly point for "walnut day." August 1. will be the A. L. Matthews orchard two miles northwest of Hopewell. Other walnut acreage to oe visited in ! elude those owned by L. A. Courtemanthe, C. T. Gardner. both ,near Hopewell: V.. L. Guild and Bert Wepster. near Bellevue. about five. .miles northeast of Sheridan. Itinerary for "filbert day" In cludes meeting at the Gordon Weygandf" and Ron orchard near Canby, where a specially built rod weedcr for clean cultivation. speed sprayer, new drier, port able filbert e'eaner and other equipment will be seen. Other tour stops include orchards own ed by Vcryl Mumpower. Carver; Earl Jones, JJoring; and Ed Ott. Milwaukie. Not Tourists to Picnic Persons attending the tour are asked to bring' their own lunches. The first day the group, will rat in the Amity city park. Lunch the - second day will be in Carver park. ; Purpose of the tour is to view nut insect control results, ferti lizer trials, equipment and man agement practices. Dr. B. G. Thompson, Oregon State college experiment station entomologist, wiir join in' the tour at the Wey gandt farm where he will explain the use of filbert moth traps for use. iri timing filbert moth emerg ence; He will also discuss results from DDT sprays, used for leaf roller .control. Walnuf girdle will be discussed at Bert Wepster's where Chinese walnut root stocks are being tried, Rawlings concludes. i t i - -A I'M,, 1 i i Ragwort Reported Found in Brush Creek Roadside Ben A. Newel, Marion county extension agent (livestock), will arrange for a weed session in late September to discuss a weed con trol area making it compulsory to prevent seed formation on tansy ragwort. First steps in this direction were taken at a meeting this week at which the 'control of the weed was discussed. It was pointed out that tausy ragwort is a serious threat to Marion county livestock and dairy producers. Some was noted this week grow ing on the east side of the Pudding river on the Silverton-Salem high- i n i i Way in the Brush Creek area. The : weed was in full bloom and grow ing heathily at the roadside. Many people do not recognize tansy ragwort yet, says Newell. It is, he adds, a short-lived peren nial making a small rosette plant the first year and producing seed the second. The weed, is in full bloom now with a large cluster of blight yellow blooms. Clackamas county now - has a county wide control area with 99 with .i.ntt ml mark hJ Im harvest a! at wheat ereo. Martin 8. Zimmerman ef New Hollas, Pa- as-1 per cent of the people behind it. ed his wiU U contrive this Ume-and-laber-saTtnc aarvester. By moanunx an uhmbc iwiacijin baler and u combine together, Zimmerman prod aeed a machine that, as shewn here, can eat wheat. separate grain frem chaff, bag the grain and aatemattcally U the wheat straw la bales all la assembly-Mae epersUen. 1 7 c Dr. H. H. Scott head af the Uni versity mi I Illinois poultry de partment, who will be one of the featured . speakers during the 15th annual meeting of the ; Poultry Improvement associa tion at Corvallis Thursday, August lSv The Statesman's j ' , - j Farmer-of-the-Week CANBY RAM SALE AUG. IS The second annual Canby ram and ewe sale sponsored' by the .Clackamas county livestock asso ciation will be held at the fair grounds near Canby, Saturday, August 13, starting at 1 p.m., Don C. Walrod, association secretary, has announed. Only yearling and two-year old rams Vill be con signed and the number of ewes will be limited to two ewes for every ram consigned by any one breeder. Mrs, Antoinette Vanderveck is no "farmerette" in the sense of the phrase which came into popular use during the first world war She is a genuine ; farmer, she claims, and the claim is endorsed by her friends. She had been about a bit, too, between the time she was born in Stratton, Neb., and came to Mt. Angel 12 ears ago.' She was reared in Kansas and ; lived in St. Louis, Oregon for a few years. In St. Louis, Antoinette and her hu.band. who is now gone, hop- farmed and she still has 14 acres of hops on her 70-aere Mt. Angel farm. Besides hops she has 50 head of j registered Jersey cattle and some Cocker Spaniels. The' Spaniels are really her hobby she says, but she finds j herself talk-: ing about her Jerseys more than any one ther thing the farm pro duces. i She has reason to boast of her registered cattle, the herd sire of which won grand champion purple at the Clackamas' county fair at Canby in June. Just now she is awaiting a new herd sire from the Isle of Jersey; She doesn't do all her farming alone. There are now two sons to help. Bob and Wilber who are as interested in the : Jerseys as their mbther. of age; Ever May Walker Jose phine, owned by Albert J. Even, Forest Grove, which produced 691 pounds of butterfat, 20,499 pounds of milk in the 365 days, two daily milklngs at 4 years, 6 months of age, and Dairyfolks Princess Johanna Mead, owned by A. P. Ireland & Son, Forest Grove. This cow produced 370 pounds of but terfat and 18,341 pounds of milk in 365 days with two milkings daily at 4 years and 8 months. Farm Calendar X 2 if Newberg Berrian Canby ram and : -4 Tit Antoinette Venderveck The largest single iron mine in the world is the Hull-Rust-Ma-honing open pit mine in -.Minnesota.-.is'- 3'j miles long, one-h.ilf to one mile wide, and covers 1,275 acres. LICannellLi UlianiinllDD Snugs Robert E. Goetz, former . super intendent of Silverton schools and now clerk of the Hubbard school district. Is wondering whv he didn't quit all this "schooling business' and take to the fields years ago. He says he never felt better. During the war years he was with'the Portland education al system. His farm liesi near Wood burn and between row?, wine, chickens and farm rroos he says he manages to keep pretty busy. But he couldn't keep hi finger out of school affairs. Hub bard Just wouldn't let him. so there he is , clerk of that rather busy district. nuts. Nuts. NUTS, says the ranch rambler. Anyway she is bearing quite a bit about them this year with- a big crop- prom ised, a federal marketing agree ment hearing scheduled, and plans for handling the 1949 croo tinder way to say nothing of a two-da? nut tour scheduled for Yamhill and Clackamas counties on August 18 and 19. This is the first season .that a federal mar keting agreement on filberts has been considered! Provisions of the 1937 marketing act were only recently amended by congress to Include filberts, althoug the wil nut industry has operated under It for several years. More than 10,000 tons of filberts are ex- cted in Oregon and Washington lis season. This year's lamb crop in Oregon remains the smallest since records began in" 1924: The record crop was in 1931 when three and a half times as many lambs were raised as in 1949.; : The Oregon Polled Hereford as sociation in Salem plans to put on considerable "plosh" at its Monday night (August 15) meet ing. Two national directors of the American Polled Hereford .. ciation are expected ? to attend. These are Dick Iljbbard of Imb ler, a native Oreconien. and Fred Vanderhoof of Woodlake. Calif. Bob Sears, association i president asks breeders who arrive in Salem early 'enough to meet at the Sen ator Coffee shop for dinner. Sears is owner of the Circle S ranch south of Salem. I ;'' "We are tenting tonight" chief ly in the old nut i tree, should be the song of the caterpillars this year. ,BoJh they -and the apple leaf skeletonizers are at it again. If yoii don't believe it go out and look at your apple tree and, you'll note all that brownness of the leaves is not caused from dry winos. i uon Kasmussen. who is doing a good job in watching out for Marion county s; trees and bushes ' as extension : agent, sug gests ; spraying lead arsenate or DDT with sufficient' high pres sure to force the spray into the webbing of the protective tent around the caterpillars. A lead arsenate spray, will also control the apple leaf skeletonizers. Next year, warns Don, you just better follow a spray program during the entire growing season. Dam ace of t fa apple leaf skeletoniz ers is coruined to unsprayed trees. Seed Importations Large Past Season Imports of agricultural seeds during the past reason, ending June 30, totaled more than 100 mil lion pounds. This is the most ever imported in any 12-month period. It is around a third larger than the previous record ?et during the 1944-45 reason and about 60 per cent above the level of other re cent years. About a fifth of the total during the past season wts alfalfa teed coming mostly from Canada. Sweet clover accounted for better than a fourth of the seed imports. Other important seed crops showing sub stantial increases in entries tha pat season were smooth brome grass, alsike clover, red clover, fescue grasses, Dallis grass and created wheatgrass. Price of Average Dairy Cow Drops Grade cows in Oregon have been taking definite drops during the past six months, according to re ports received Tuesday from the USDA reporting service. The price drop in Oregon cows since January is $20 which is a heavier drop than for the nation as a whole. The mid-July average national price was S17 under the high price in January. The all-time high price for Oregon grade dairy cows was reached a year ago in July, August and September when the average price was reported at $190. The average price received by Oregon farmers for dairy cows in July- of this year was $160 against the national average price of $178. Aug. 13 Farmeroo. Aug. 13 ewe sale. Aug. 14 Marion County Po mona grange picnic, Coolidge and McClaine park, Silverton. Aug. 15 Oregon Polled Here ford Breeders meet in rs. Salem (j Chamber of Commerce rooms, 8 Auff. 15 Public hearing on handling filberts grown in Ore gon and Washington. Journal auditorium. Portland, 9:30. Aug., 17-20 Tillamook coun ty 'fair. Aug. 18-19 Nut Growers an nual summer tour. Aug. 18-20 I Oregon Poultry Improvement association, CorvaU lis. ' Aug. 19 Oregon ram sale, Pendleton. Aug. 19-20 Victoria, B. C. Horticultural society, silver an niversary. Aug. 21 State Fanners Union picnic, Champoeg, Jim Patton, speaker. Aug. 24-26 Marion county 4-H fall show, Salem. Aug. 25-27 Yamhill county fair, McMinnville Aug. 25-27 : Polk county fair. Monmouth. Aug. 29-Sept. 1 Linn county 4-H fair, Albany Aug. 31 -Sept. 3 Clackamas county fair, Canby. Sept. 1-3 Independence Hop Fiesta. Sept 5-11 Oregon state fair, Salem. Sept 17 Willamette valley soil conservation day, Shaw. Sept 20-21 Oregon Turkey Improvement association, Corval lis. Oct. 7 to 15 Pacific Interna tional Livestock exposition, Portland. Pendleton Rani, Ewe Sale to Draw Bidders August 19 Oregon's largest and oldest ram j and ewe sale, the 23rd annual Ore gon ram sale will be held in Pen dleton, August 19, starting at 10 ajn., the sponsoring Oregon Wool Growers association has announc ed through its secretary, Victor W. Johnson, Umatilla county extension agent Consignments from 19 top breed ers in the western states include 345 rams and two ewes represent ing nine breeds, Johnson states. Breeds to be offered include Rambbuillets, Lincoln-Rambouillet crossbreds; Columbia, Colu m b i a crossbreds; Corriedales, Lincoln, Suffolk, Suffolk-Hampshire cross breds and Hampshire. Sale sifting committee is com posed of Harry Lindgren, Corval lis; Harold Cohn, Heppner, and Dr. C. F. Haynes, sjate veterina rian, Salem. Earl O. Walters, Filer, Idaho, will be autioneer. Plans Being Made For Kiwanis Club , 4-H Fatstock Sale W. A. Vollstedt, Albany, will again head the bidders' contact committee for the Albany and Leb anon Kiwanis club sponsored 4-H club fat livestock auction sale to be held at Albany on Wednesday night August 31. The announce ment comes from O. E. Mikesell, chairman of the Albany Kiwanis club's agricultural committee. Har old Fisher, Albany, will serve as vice-chairman and A. J. Wilson a ill organize a similar committee for Lebanon. Other members of Vollstedt's committee are Roy Collins, Lowell Seaton, Glen Wilfert, Cliff Knod ell, Neal Craig, Chester Loe. Har old Arnett and Frank Za rones. Ed Fortmiller, Albany city judge, is chairman of the clerking com mittee and will be assisted by rep resentatives from the three Albany banks. Control, Can Be. Had for Black " i - - i Disease in Sheep Prevention rather than cure is the only effective control for black disease of sheep, according to Oregon-State college veterinarians who; are authors of an experiment station bulletin. No. 300, on this subject I While the bulletin is a reprint of one issued 10 years ago, its reissue- comes at a time when reports of losses from this disease are still common throughout reg ions' where flukes infested pas tures are used While the common name is not considered very satisfactory by veterinarians, it has gained popu lar usage because the inside of pelts from diseased sheep take on a dark or black appearance when removed. The organism causing the dis ease was discovered in work of the OSC experinert station and found to be definitely associated with liver fluke infestations. The trouble is sometimes confused with so-called hemorrhagic sep ticemia. Two methods of control are followed. One is to clean up the fluke infested pastures. The other more positive method is to make use of vaccines that are now avail able and which have been giving good -results in Oregon over the past five or six years. DeLoach. Leaves OSC For Washington D.C ; Dr. D. B. DeLoach, for many ;! years agricultural economist itVj the Oregon State college expert-! ment station, and only recently named head of the combined de partment of agricultural econo mics and farm management,' hat ' resigned to return to a position in Washington, D.C. where he spent the past year, while on leave.'' j ; ; Dr. Grant E. Blanch, wha hati been in the department since 1945, has been named acting chairman of the departn-ent pending selec-: tiop of a permanent head. ; ue- ch has been named to succeed E. Potter, who retired from administrative work, July I. The coyote now has expanded its territory from the west east to Ohio, and north to Alaska. CASH PAID i for full sewed (2 bushel) sacks of Green Fir Cones $2.50 per sack for sound Doug las Fir cones. $2.00 per sack for sound White Fir cones. Deliver to WOODSEED DRYER, south of 12th St Pacific Highway In tersection on Old Highway, also known as Sunnyside Road. Ev ery day between 8 a. m. and 6 p. m. Squirrels are cuHing now In many places, cones from log ging operations are OK if the trees were cut August 8th or later. You can select cone bear ing wood trees and make them yield double. Or you can hand pick cones from yard trees.j The season Is short sa da net delay! Eggs of ducks, geese, ostriches, plovers, alligators, cocrodiles, tur tles, penquins gulls, albatrosses and pelicans are all important parts of the diets of peoples in some part of the world. LaFOLLETT'S Golden Hale Peaches BEADY FOB CAIIUIIIG 2 00 Bushel Extra Fancy 10 Mile North on Wallace Road to Wheatland. Ferry. Also V Mile South of 4 Corner on Lancaster Drive. C. IL LaFOLLETT Come In and see the fascinating new frame Styles. Let our expert optometrists examine your eye. Stylet to Flatter Your Features Dr. K. B. Berts Optometrists Dr.'Smsa Baghea tit Cemrs AT BORXNO OmCAJL OIGNXITED C1XDIT S-C5M STATE COWS MAKE RECORDS i Among registered Holstein Friesian cows in Oregon whose recently completed production re cords were recorded by the Herd Improvement registry of the Hol-stein-Friesian association of America are Nuggett Korndyke Gelsche, owned by C. J. Berning, Mt AngeL which produced 706 pounds of butterfat, 19,750 pounds of milk in 365 days, two milkings daily at 3 years and 9 months Vest-Urn LIHITED SERVICE to LOS ANGELES 4 "LI.MITEDS" DAILY Direct. Through No Local Stops Air-Coodiriooed Coaches Space Reserved No Extra Fare ONI WAT . . . . . su.te lOUNBTlie .... 2S.M Taere Are Me twr faretf WOT . ii sen. si- 1 car a st. (sxf(ii0aE Appeal for Bean Pickers! Pickers Needed NOW .1 . . To Save This Year's Crop! O Camping Facilities O Within Driving Distance From Town Or will furnish transportation-each morning Tt-;-Remember . . . We Need Your Help! i FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE $. Cottage & Ferry Streets Phone 3-92SS " i Salem's Retail Packing Plant 351 State Street WHAT'S THE GOOD WORD IN HEAT? Why MIDGET, of Course - - It's the BUYWORD for good meat. tylDGEt MEATS will bring you real meal time pleasure at low cost. When you buy meat, SHOP THE MIDGET . . . You couldn't ask for better. 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