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News and Views! of Farm and
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Farm Market
Nice Spot for
Farm Vacation
- By LHlIe I Madsen
Farm Editor, Tb gUUsman
Being farm editor. X lust na
turally co to farmers market!
Just like when I wat In San
Francisco, X went out to the Cow
Palace. I don't know why folks
always do those things, but they
do.
That's why I took some notes
on the Farmer's market while In
Los Angeles. I know if any of you
fanners, both men and women,
0 south this winter youH want
ts viiit the Farmers Market And
you wont be sorry. If it's color,
speaking either figuratively or
factually, you are looking for,
you couldn't find any more any
place than at the market.
Satmrday Is Geed Day
It used to be, folk down there
told me, the best time to go wai
between 10:30 and 11 o'clock In
tha mom In. But someone said
that some place In print and now
everyone goes there at that tune.
My advice is to choose the time
of day you like best There are
a lot of people at the market at
any time. .We tried different
hours on different days, and liked
Saturday afternoon as well
any. Maybe that's because that is
- the proper time for farmers to
go marketing.
Like most places you decide to
go to In Los Angeles, it is around
II miles from wherever you arc
when you decide to go. There is
plenty of public transportation to
the market but It is wisest to take
your own can The parking lots-
free to all visitors are part of
. the fun anyway. Another part of
the fun is that, you rub elbows
through groups of Los Angeles
housewives all mixed up with
movie stars. New York tourists
and visiting farmers. Another part
of the fun is you can't tell which
Is which in the market They are
all having the same kind of fun
you are and everybody smiles at
everybody else.
Dea't Take tee Many
It Is all right to take one , or
A. l a. m mamm
. iwo aiong, out aon i nu your car
with people. .There are so many
other . things at the market you'll
want to fill it with besides aU
the kinds of good things youH
want to eat and which will un
doubtediy. add to the room you
. will need in the car.
The Farmers Market Isn't some
thing that mushroomed into be
, Ing overnight It began back In
M 1M1, a year wtien the depression
covrea tne-rront pages.
Being Thanksgiving day, it 1
well to pause a bit and be thank
ful even for the depression. It
did give , birth to a lot of fine
Ideas, including the market
Roger Dahlhjelm was working
for a bakery. He kept the books
for four dollars a week and all
the pastry he could eat He was
born on a farm in Minnesota and
as a young fellow tried a lot of
different things which didn't suc
ceed very welL When the de
pression came along, he noticed
' that the farmers down the coun
tryside were as badly off as he.
A lot of them were trying to
keep going by operating roadside
stalls. Business was bad. House
wives didn't go out into the
country searching for the fresh
things they really liked best
Beck Joins Dahlhjelm !
That was when Dahlhjelm de
cided there should be a place
where the farmers and house
wives could get together in a nice
way ever the fresh vegetables. He
talked the Idea over with Fred
Beck, a friend of his in the ad
vertlsing business. There was no
thing unusual about this. Down In
Los Angeles, everybody talks
everything over with somebody.
it there is nobody to listen they
Jo Into Pershing Square and talk
; over out loud by themselves
until somebody does stop to lis
ten. That goes on until the po-
. uce oreax it up early in the morn
Inc. They call it a "aafetv out.
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But with Dahlhjelm It was dif
ferent He and Mr. Beck went to
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Farmers aad gardeners from threngbest the territory satreaadlng
fnrite fer the Farmers Market and this most be delivered early In
tewn sleeps. Pictured here Is a small groap ef growers delivering
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Thousands ef visitor! and snappers
dirMon ef the Farmers Market
to the extreme right early this
see Xarl Qlimore who owned a
big piece of land that was part
of the original Ranco La Brea
where oil had ruined ranching
and now! the oil wells were gone,
too. Mr. Gibnore liked the idea,
so went; along. Dahlhjelm could
use a corner of the piece of land
at West Third and Fairfax.
Farmers Need Convincing
The next thing was convincing
the farmers.! That be will admit
today, was!, the hardest thing.
Farmers I have to be thoroughly
convinced before they go along
with an: idea. But - finally even
that point was won. Dahlhjelm
had quite a bit of stuff in his 18
little canvass-covered stalls the
day he opened to the public in
July. 1934. i .
The first Winter proved sort of
tough, but for once Mr. Dahlhjelm
was doing something he believed
in. He made sure that' the eggs
were fresh s and the vegetables
were still damp from the morning
Irrigation. Pretty soon It was
spring and 1 everything was still
one. j i : .
Today; there are more than
hundred I stalls and ' shops. There
Is a milk bar, a- grocery store, a
Daroer snop and a beauty shop,
coffee stands, and: five bakery
places, home made Jams, Jellies
ana basket, a Spanish kitchen
famed for enchiladas and an Eng
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la Lee Angeles. The new Early American store opened In the section
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lish one for fish and chips. There
are 14 restaurants of ' various
sorts among the stalls of pota
toes, beets, candies and ' chintzes.
Some are under wooden cover,
more are under awnings.
New Shop Added
For sometime 21 shops had been
grouped In the Farmers Dell. Now
there are 22. A new one opened
the day we were there. It used to
be that anything you'd want for
modern living almost could
be found at the Farmers Market
Now it has gone back Into his
tory, too. An old American store
was added. I saw things there that
haven't seen anywhere else ex
cepting on my grandfather's farm
in Wisconsin where he settled In
147 and where evenrthlnc ever
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Best in Hydraulic Farm Tools
Farmers are really going for hydraulic
ally operated machines and John
Deere, as usual, Ii out ahead with the
exclusive dual hydraulic POWR-TROl.
It's the nearest thing yet to completely
automatic operation of drawn and in
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Lee Anxeles grow vegetables
the morning while the rest ef the
the goods.
day t enter the Fanners' Dell
used was kept by family who
came after.
There are even lemonade, apple
pie and Oregon cheese in the
market. The cheese stall Is some
thing beyond description. Its pro
ducts came from everywhere. At
the All-States honey shop I saw
honey from Albany and Newberg
as well as from every other state
in the union.
The list goes on and on, there';
a post office, a telegraph station,
and the market even takes in
washing. At the bird shops every
one visits a bit with the parrot
which answers to "Alice.
But in the beginning the Farm
ers Market was exactly what the
name implies a market place
where the farmers and growers
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Brucellosis Most
Costly Malady of
Cattle, Says Muth
No cattle disease in the United
States is more important from an,
economic viewpoint than brucel
losis, reports Dr. O. H. Muth,
state college veterinarian, j
In cattle, the veterinarian! says,
the disease is caused by si bac
terium. Brucella abortus. Related
bacteria cause a similar disease
in goats and hogs. However, the
latter are not commonly affected
in Oregon. i
Either of the three organisms
will infect humans, causing un-
dulant fever. j
The act of aborting is the only
easily recognized disease symp
tom. Dr. Muth states the time of
incubation between infection and
the period when animals react to
tests may vary from 14 to 100
days. The blood agglutination
test now commonly used, is the
only reliable method for diag
nosing the disease.
"Vaccination of calves between
the ages of five and eight months
results in considerable protection
to a high percentage of calves,"
the veterinarian points out "Such
vaccination, . however, does not
give complete and lasting immun
ity to the animals as does the
vaccination of calves for black
leg, or the vaccination of pigs for
hog cholera. . ;
'Evidence has accumulated dur
ing the past several years Which
reveals the .limitation of calfhood
vaccination. It has been found
that vaccination does not always
protect against severe exposure
and that the immunity acquired
diminishes after the first year,"
he adds. !
Clackamas Show
Plans Completed
ine uacxamas county ; corn
show is being held at the fair
grounds at Canby, Saturday, No
vember zeth. All 10-ear exhibits
for this show must be in! by 4
p.m. Friday, November 25, since
the Judges, Dr. R. E. Fore and
Rex Warren, from Oregon! State
college, will make the placihgs of
the exhibits Friday night I
The corn show will be ooen to
the public all day Saturday, with
ine judging contests starting at
10 ajn. Sixty-seven entries in the
vielrf mntxt will Ha nn rflmliv
as will sixteen varieties of hybrid
neia corn grown on the Red Hills
soils experiment farm. Another
main feature will be an exhibit
put on by hybrid seed corn grow
ers outlining the history of the
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proaucuon ox nyona seea corn.
Corn machinery will be on dis
play, motion pictures will be
shown, and a program is planned
for the noon hour. Lunch is being
served at the fairgrounds by one
oi the 4-H club units. '
DHIA Production
Records Due
Top DHIA production records
will be released Thursday, De
cember 1, when Marion County
Dairymen hold their annual test
ing association meeting at May
flower hall. Salem, reports Fred
Davis, Woodburn, president. Time
nas been set lor 10:30 ajn.
A round table discussion of
grass silage by a- group of ex
perienced dairymen will ' be a
feature. George Fulenwider, Carl
ton, a member of the state! board
of agriculture, will talk on the
work of the Oregon Dairy Pro
ducts commission. H. P. Zwalt,
extension dairyman from Oregon
State college, will speak on "Herd
Sire Selection.
brought the things they produced
and offered them directly to the
shoppers. ;
ThoM in-the-know tell me that's
how most markets started any
way. Wherever farmers i made
good was a good place for the
butcher, the baker and the elec
tric light equipment manufactur
er to follow. !
Lifts . . Lowers . Regulates
Integral and Drawn
Equipment
At a touch of your hand the John Deere
POWR-TROL hydraulic system controls
drawn implements through an easily
attached remote cylinder integral
equipment from the rockshafts. You
raise and lower plow bottoms, grain
drill openers, mower cutter bars, com
bine platforms . . . angle and straight
en disk harrow gangs . . . instantly
change working angle, depth or height
without slowing down. Well be glad to
demonstrate the hydraulic POWR
TROL on new John Deere tractors. A
limited number of changeovers for pre
sent machines are available too. Ask us.
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Farvk Calendar
Nov. 23 Silverton Hills
grange ZOth anniversary, Benna
Beck special guest.
Nov. 26 Clackamas County
Corn Showl Canby.
Nov. 30 r Oregon DHIA test
ers conference, Corvallis.
Dec. 1 Marion county annual
DHIA meeting, Mayflower hall,
Salem, 10 i.m.
Dec. 6-Id Northwest Turkey
Show, Roseburg.
Dec. 7 Marion County Dairy
Breeders annual meeting, Silver
ton, 10 a.m.
Dec. 8 aad 9 Annual meet
ing of Nut Growers society of
Oregon and Washington, Port
land, i
Dec. 9 aid 10 Annual Ore
gon State corn show, Ontario.
Dec. 9 4 Marion County Live
stock association annual meeting
and dinnerj 7 p.m. Silverton Hills
community halL
Dec. 9 4 Annual meeting Ore
gon Purebred Sheep Breeders as
sociation, 1;30, Benton hotel, Cor
vallis, Dec. H i Oregon Guernsney
Breeders association, Osborn ho
tel, Eugene;
Jan. 9-11!- Oregon Seed Grow
ers League, Multnomah hotel,
Portland. I
Jan. 23-23 56th annual con
vention of Oregon Dairymen's as
sociation, Eugene. -
Jan. 30-Feb. 1 Western Ore
gon Livestock association, cor
vallis. 1
Nut Production
Costs in State
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Studied at OSC
Filbert and walnut production
costs and practices will be studied
by the Oregon State college agri
cultural experiment station this
winter in an attempt to help grow
ers reduce (costs and increase ef
ficiency of production.
The project, requested by nut
growers and processors, will start
about December 1. Dr. G- W.
Kuhlman, agricultural economist,
will be project leader.
Cost records for at least 1Q0 rep
resentative jorcnaras wiu be gain
ered and analyzed - to determine
the cost of production, under var
ious Oregon conditions. These
figures can; then be used by in
dividual growers as a basis for
judging the efficiency of their op
erations and Tor improving farm
fing practices, Dr. Kuhlman points
out Industry can use the data
to chart the position of nut grow
ers in varied market situations.
Dr. Kuhlman and the late Carl
E. Schuster made a study of nut
production costs in the early 1930's
when most jof the Oregon orchards
were still young and such things
as costs en establishment were
fundamental.
The study this winter will bring
the findings up to date and will
check the effects of various items
connected with mature orchards
such as fertilizing, thinning, spray
ing and "bjianxi" or shrivels on
the cost off production.
Oregon j Apples May
Cross South Border
Those who are accustomed to
stop at the; California line to fin
isn up tneir apples before con
fiscation, will no longer have to
do this. They can now take Ore
gon grown! fruits, vegetables and
nuts into- the Golden state with
out dangei of confiscation and
delay. J
California sun nas rigid re
strictions relative to transports
lion of njursery products, and
cherries are on the forbidden list
because of; danger of transporta
tion of cherry fruit flies. Too,
citrus fruits may not be taken in.
Further Information may be had
K Asalllna aFvavtlr HVeMMAfi jiK(n
ve,uMi afs eaausk savsiusvts vitict
of the division of plant industry,
state department of agriculture,
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Continued improvement of per
manent pastures and increase of
livestock enterprises to best utilize
pasture was recommended by the
Polk county livestock advisory
committee at its fall meeting, re
ports N. John Hansen, county ex
tension agent.
Wiley Gardner, Dallas, was
elected chairman for 1950, suc
ceding Ronald Hogg, Salem.
Harry Lindgren, animal hus
bandry specialist and O. B. Hardy,
livestock marketing specialist, both
of the Oregon State college exten
sion service attended the meeting.
Production of high quality pas
tures by the use of grass and
legume mixtures and the applica
tion of nitrogen and phosphate
fertilizers will provide greater net
profits from livestock enterprises,
the committee stated.
With tf reported 20.000 sheep in
Polk county in 1949, the committee
recommended an increase to 30,000
in the next few years.
Opportunities for Increased
swine production are provided by
improved pastures, which will
save one-fourth to one-third the
amount of grain needed to pro
duce a 200 pound hog.
in light of price trends, the com
mittee felt that increased sheeD
and swine production would prove
more profitable than increasing
beet cattle production at this time,
Operators are encouraged to
market livestock as it is ready,
rawer than selling all at once-
The "topping exit" of market live
stock has proved profitable to
many Polk county livestock men,
me committee stated.
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Geographers Schedule
Columbia Basin Talks
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A series I of dinner meetings
dealing with Columbia basin rf
sources and problems . has been
arranged by jthe Oregon State Col
lege Georgraphers association.
The four monthly meetings In the
Memorial Union building here
will be open to off -campus teach
ers and others interested as well
as to local students and faculty.
Information bearing on the pros
and sons of a Columbia Valley
authority will be stressed at the
meetings, announces Dr. J, Gran
ville Jensenj head of the college
geography staff. i f .
The meetings will be held the
evenings of December 1, January
12, February 2 and March 2 with
representatives of the Interior de
partment, army engineers, artd
U.S. department of agriculture s
speakers. I '11
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