10 Tho ZkdHmah. Salon; Oxocjotu Thursday. Octobe 13,-1843
WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER
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News and Views of Farm and Garden -oyuiiiE L MAOSOf
Turkeys Take
Own Feed at
Less Cost
Turkeys pastured on alfalfa in
the summer and then allowed to
harvest seed of dwarf sunflowers
iri the fall were raised lor market
at substantially less cost than dry
lot fed turkeys in three-year ex
periments at the Umatilla branch
experiment station at Herrmston.
While the tests were conducted
on the sandy, irrigated soil com
mon to the Hermiston project, the
advantages of this type of turkey
feeding could probably be dupli
cated or approached on other soil
k.ii.vM rr. J. E. Parker,
head Of the poultry departmnet of
the state college experiment v
tion.
Feed saving under the plan of
v-x tr, a tnrkrvs harvest their own
forage after pasture ranged from
4.8 percent with soybeans to 12.4
percent with dwarf sunflowers.
rr.rcj in terms of 1000 tur
keys raised, this meant savings of
from $268 to I0H3 ior we
Land requirements for 1000 birds
averaged Just under nve acres,
in mAAitian to the feed saved
the method of having the turkeys
harvest their own pasture and
forage resulted in marked Im
provement in soil fertility, This
Improvement was measured ac
curately by running fertilizer
4ott nn land nastured with tur
keys as compared with land on
which turkeys were noi rangeo.
PutnrM are Varied
The experiments at Hermiston
were conducted' ty ur. u. n
Sherwood, assistant ooultry hus
bandman, and C. A. Larson, sup
erintendent of the brancn station.
The tests involved pastures of im
mature barley, two kinds of sweet
clover, and sweet sudan grass.
Forage crops included common
and dwarf sunflowers, corn, sor
hum and rtvh.ans.
Turkeys had difficulty harvest
ing the common sunflowers unless
they were broken over for them,
but with the dwarf hybrid var
iety. Advance, the turkeys had
little difficulty reaching the seed.
This variety was found to have
other advantages. Corn was Har
vested well but not soybeans.
Alfalfa w&a clearly urtrinr as
a pasture crop, with sudan grass
next, ine sweet ciover provea xo
be not very palatable to turkeys.
Red-Clover Seed
Production Down
Production of red-clover seed
this year is Indicated to bt 25
per cent smaller than last year
and IS per cent below the 1938-47
average, the crop reporting serv
ice reports. The 1849 crop is fore
cast at 1,363,600 bushels.
The decreased production of
red-clover seed this year is due
entirely to a reduction in acre
age. The second crop, as well as
the first, on thousands of acres
was cut for hay instead of for
seed because of' local shortages
I hay.
Wilklns Products
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for 80 years. ,
Huehold Supplies
Cosmetics
Human Minerals
flock Mineral
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Polk dub Year
Plans to Be Madfc
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Planning 4-H club work, for the
coming year will be I the main
theme at the regular meeting of
the Polk county 4-H local leaders
association, Tuesday night, Octo
ber 18. states S. B. Holt, presi
dent of the folk County 4-H
Local leaders association. The
meeting has been set ior 8 pjn.
in the county courf room in
Dallas. f
This Is to be a kjek-off for
reorganization of the old f-H
clubs and organization of new
clubs in Polk county.
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Fur Farming
Studies Taken
Up, Cqrvallis
Problems of bregon'i fur farm
ers will be investigated by the
Oregon State college agricultural
experiment station beginning in
November under a new research
program Just drawn up at a meet'
in of fur industry i-epresenta
tives and station officials on the
college campus. f
The first studies will deal with
the nutritional aspects of feeding
fish to mink and with- mink dis
eases. Mink were selected for the
initial research because these are
the principal fur farms animals of
Oregon. '
Fish Feeding Studied ;
Objectives of the feeding pro
ject including finding the nutrit
ional values of : the various Oregon
fishes, determining the amounts
of the various, kinds of fish that
can be used satisfactorily in an
economical feed in f program.
studying the effect of season of
catch, storage conditions and
handling treatment or the feed
value of fish, and checking the
kinds and amounts of materials
needed as supplements n the fish
diet t I
The station's experimental fur
farm south of Corvallis is being
readied to receive the jfirst group
of mink about December 1. Ap
proximately 50 dark mink will be
used in beginning phases of re
search, furnished by the Oregon
Fox and Mink Breeders associa
tion. . I
Fish and Game Help j
Cooperating in research will bsW
the departments of fish land ganfe.T
vetennary medicine and agricul
rural chemistry. Lee W. Kuhn,
assistant biologist in I fish and
game, is feeding project leader
with Phyllis Watt, graduate re
search assistant, as assistant lead
er. Dr. James F. Sullivan, re
search assistant in veterinary
medicine, will direct the mink
disease work.; Dr. J. H. Haag,
animal nutrition chemist will help
judge feeding trial results and will
make the necessary i chemical
anilysis of feeds used in the
trials. $
Representatives of the fur In
dustry who met with ftation of
ficials to draft research plans in
cluded c. A. Smith, Seaside, pres
ident of the Fox and Mink Breed
ers association; Gene Nadon, As
toria, association secretary; and
Robej H. Watt, Bay City. Harvey
nonne, aaiem, is the fourth mem
ber of the industry committee.
HAWAIIAN NAMED
The appointment of -Dr. W. A.
Frazier, former head of the de
partment of vegetable! crops at
University of Hawaii; as .horti
culturist in charge of vegetable
crops for the Oregon I State col
lege agricultural experiment sta
tion, has been announced by W.
A. Sohoenfeld, dean and director
of agriculture. J
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Mrs. A. A. Greer of Salem has been playing hostess this week la the
International Livestock shew ta Portland. Mr. Geer was in charge
Marion eonnty for the 30th year. The replica of the Marlon county
of attention daring the week, Mrs. Geer reports. (Farm Photo for the
Guernsey Heifer
Sale to Be Held
Oct. 22, Salem
A fall sale of approximately 30
registered Guernsey heifers spon
sored by the Oregon Guernsey
Breeders association will be held
at the state fairground on the out
skirts of Salem on Saturday Octo
ber 22,. it -has been announced by
Ben Newell, Salem, who is in
charge of local sale arrangements.
One section of the sale will in
clude heifers on which bidding
will be limited to World War II
veterans. Others will be offered
for sale to 4-H club and FFA
members. The sale will replace
a spring junior sale which has
been held three years previously.
Top quality heifers have been
selected from herds from all parts
of the state by a sale committee
headed by L. E. Francis, Tilla
mook, chairman. Committeemen
contacted were Vernon Boeckman,
Sherwood; Cecil Johnson, Grants
Pass; Dick Lyon, Junction City:
Berb Howell. Astoria, and Lester
Erb, Albany.
Each of the animals selected by
the sale committee has : been
chosen for type, production and
pedigree arrangement Newell is
secretary of the Oregon Guernsey
Breeders association, the sale
sponsor.
HARMS TO MOTE
Mr. and Mrs. RoyrL. Harms,
wiaeiy Known breeders of Ches
ter White swine and Southdown.
Lincoln, Cotswold and Shropshire
sheep have moved, from Lone
Elder to the Needy district where
they have taken ownership of the
old Louis Kieling farm of 107
acres. They will sell their nine
acre farm in the Lone Elder dist
rict near Canby.
Conscientious, Dignified
Service .
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Farm Calendar
Oct. 14 Fitzgerald; Jersey sale,
Multnomah fairgrounds, G res ham.
11 a.m.
Oct. 14-15 Pacific International
dog show.
Oct. 15-18 Capital City Rabbit
Breeders association show.
Oct. 18 Marion County Jersey
Cattle club, Quinaby RNA hall,
Salem-St. Paul highway.
Oct 18 Polk county 4-H club
leaders association meeting, 8 p.m.
County Court, Dallas.
Oct 19 Marion County Po
mona, Waldo Hills, Canning con
test. Oct 20 McMinnville Farmers'
union, William Warmington, farm
home.
Oct 22 Guernsey Heifer sale.
State fairgrounds.
Oct. 31-Nov. 4 4-H club lead
ers tractor maintenance clinic,
OSC.
Nov. 5-12 National 4-H club
achievement week.
Nov. 6-8 Annual convention of
Oregon Wool Growers, Portland.
Nov. 14-15 Annual convention
of agricultural cooperative coun
cil of Oregon, Multnomah hotel,
Portland.
Nov. 15-17 Oregon farm bu
reau federation, Sacajawea hotel,
LaGrande.
Nov. 15-18 Pacific Coast Tur
key exhibit, McMinnville.
Nov. 17-18 Annual meeting of
Oregon state horticultural society,
tugene.
Nov. 17-18-19 15th annual
Bank of Albany Corn show, Al
bany.
Nov. 19 Marion County Corn
show, Central HowelL
Nov. 25-28 Clackamas county
corn show.
Dec. 8-10 Northwest Turkey
show, Roseburg.
Dec. 9-10 Eighth annual Ore
gon state corn show, Ontario.
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Marion county booth at the Pacific
ef booth arrangements this year for
court house has drawn a great deal
Statesman.)
Linn County Corn
Show Ainounced
The 15th annual Bank of Al
bany Corn show will be held in
the lobby of the Bank of Albany
on November-17-19, H. Joe Myers,
county extension agent has an
nounced.
This show is open to all 4-H
club members In Linn county who
have taken part in the 15th an
nual Linn county corn contest
sponsored Jointly by the Bank of
Albany, Heyman Campbell Farms,
ana rianey Hoskm.
Three varieties will be exhibit
ed in two exhibit classifications:
the varieties are Oregon 525, Ore
gon 100, and Oregon 355. The ex
hibit classification is based on
land class, being set up as fol
lows: contestants having soils of
the Chehalis, Newberg, and Wil
lamette series lying west of a
line drawn north and south
through Scio and Lebanon and
a section around Waterloo com
pete in the bottom land class.
OREGON
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Salem's Retail
Here aro More Splendid Opportunities for you to Make That Food Budget Accomplish More. Like Hundred, oj Salem
HoueowlTOft. You too Will Find Great Value at ThU Market. You RooDt Cannot Afford to Paw Up Tnooo 5artofft.
FRESH PICNIC LEAN CUTS DAINTY LEAN .
Pork Moast IPork Steak Loin Chops
From Grain Fd LittU Porkers. With That Tender, Chicken-like
Boiling
Beef
Boneless Rump
Steak .
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Seed Grbwing
Costs Figured
Net returns per1 acre to Willam
ette valley growers of chewings
and alta fescue and of highland
bent grass averaged almost the
same in 1948, but all far outstrip
ped the acre returns from pren
nial and common rye grass, ac
cording to results of cost-of-pro-ducuon
studies just, published by
the Oregon State college experi
ment station.
On poorly drained valley soils.
for example, alta fescue in solid
stands averaged $32 net per acre
while common rye grass averaged
$15 and perennial rye grass $11.
This was in spite of the fact that
cost per pound for production of
alta was about twice that of the
rye grasses.
Even so the men of the agricul
tural economics department who
made the studies do not expect
alta fescue to 'replace the rye
grasses, since stands are usually
more difficult to establish, there
is wider variation in returns, and
since a steady market for the rye
grasses exists year after year.
On hill sous alta fescue in solid
stands gave an average return of
$71 per acre compared with $60
for highland bent grass and $56
for chewings fescue. Average
yields were 322, 164 and 252
pounds per acre respectively.
Nine fields of alta fescue grown
in rows and cultivated averaged,
for all soils, 626 pounds of seed
per acre. Although the. net cost
of production per pound under
these conditions was 9.6 cents
compared with 7.6 in the solid
stands, the higher yields made the
net return per acre $136 compar
ed with an average of $57 for solid
stands on all soil types.
USX MEETING SET
Jack Swanson, Lebanon, presi
dent of the Linn County Livestock
association has announced that
the group will meet for its an
nual session in Albany, January
6. Directors of the Linn associa
tion in addition to Swanson, are
Len Forster of Tangent; Hubert
Wjilloughby of Harrisburg, Albert
Julian of Lyons, and George
Sandner of Scio. O. , E. Mikesell,
Albany, is the secretary.
Members having all other soils
series, or having soils of the above
series lying east of the boundary
line compete in the upland class.
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TTHEn 'YOU SEE IT
The Statesman's
Farmer - of
Mary Elizabeth Leabo was
chosen this week's Statesman
Farmer because of her work with
purebred Jerseys. Mrs. Leabo
herself owns - and operates Echo
Hills Jersey fiarm near Independ
ence, i B. P. jLeabo, her husband
who is a mechanic, "just isn't
particularly interested" in farm
ing she says, but he will look over
the place to see what is going oh.
Mrs. Leabo was born on a farm
in Kansas and lived there until
12 years old when her family left
the farm. She came to Portland
in 1903, where she raised her
three ions none of them to . be
farmers and later when the chil
dren were all gone she found she
had to have something to keep
her mind occupied so she Just
bought a Jersey farm.
Echo Hill is the former L. A.
Hulbert ranch. There are now
more than 40 head of registered
animals, including 11 heifers
which will freshen before spring.
The 115 acres are used chiefly
to furnish feed for the cattle.
Mrs. Leabo has been enjoying
the Pacific International this
week, where Betty Jean Vogt of
Salem is in charge of Mrs. Leabo
entry, as well as entries from the
Eagle's Nest herd owned by Neal
Miller and Fred Davis of Wood
burn. Mrs. Leabo, an attractive small
woman, admits she does not do
her own milking. She does have
a herdsman. But just the same,
she adds, she knows her cattle
and enjoys them a great deal.
CHURCH SOCIETY TO MEET
SltVERTON The Esther Cir
cle of the Women's Society for
Christian service of the Methodist
church will meet Thursday, Octo
ber 13 at 8 pjn. at the home of
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Grodrian, at
135 Cherry street
WANTED
Old or Second Growth
LOGS
TOP PRICES PAY WIEKIY
WEST SALEM LUMBER CO.
Rt. 1, Box 39, Salem - Phone 3-9393 - Ive., 2-1134
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Texture and Flare.
beef values
Lean Beef Cubes
Beef Boasts
Tasty Bologna .
FLAVOR AND TENDERNESS.
demand for theso deUdou. hams.
whole or half
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Nitrogen on Grass ?
Aid to More Pasture !
Add a 40-pound-to-the-acre ap
plication of available nitrogen th If
fall on alta fescue, chewings fes
cue, perennial ryegrass and other
perennial grasses to be cut for;
seed, and reap the benefit next
year at harvest.
The result of the nitrogen ; ap
plications will be Increased seed
yields as well as additional growth
yet this fall which will provide
more fall pasturing, according to
Leroy Warner, Oregon State col
lege extension soil specialist.
Stimulated growth will also! re-
duce thinning from winter injury,
he adds. Forty pounds of avail
able nitrogen is contained In 20
pounds of ammonium sulphate,
150 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
or 250 pounds of 16-20. ' . '
351 State St.
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It taxes our capacity to koop
Like rresniy racea r run
in vanory.
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