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- Flaws and Viaws of Farm and Garden - ulue L MAOSCN
Closer Ties Between Farmers,
Labor Unions Seen at
That in union there is still strength was Indicated Wednesday
when the CIO, the AF of L, the state Grange and the Oregon Farmers
Union all came out for "a closer tie-up for work in legislature."
Representatives of the three former organizations appeared at the
Oregon State Farmers Uniom convention in its second day at the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars building. More than 300 Fanner Union dele
Ranch
Etamblings
'.v While visiting on the 1 S. Lor
ensen farm pear Dayton the other
day, the ranch rambler walked
down through the dairy barn and
looked at cows that had been in.
this herd a long time. One cow
in particular that had been with
the Lorenzens quite a spell 14
years was old Scott , Tiny Alice.
There were other cows in the herd
which had been there around 10
years. The cows that stay in the
herd a long time are the cows that
make the profit, Lorenzen ; states.
vlle has been testing first in Dairy
TI e r d Improvement a ssociation
. testing and later in official testing
and does not keep any cows that
are low in producing ability. The
average production in the Lorenzen
herd has been over 400 pounds
f fat per cow for a long time.
Studies of production costs, he
says, show that it takes two yean
on the average for a cow to pay
for her raising before she pays
profit to the owner. The average
- production life of a cow is about
four to five years. We gathered
from the conversation on the Lor
enzen farm, that it would be most
profitable to select replacements
from cows with longevity records.
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The Ranch-Rambler opines that
one of the busiest men in Marion
county this week has been Ron-
-. aid E. Jones, of Brooks, president
of the Oregon State Farm Union.
lie has presided at all sessions of
' the state convention which ends
its three day "sit" Thursday (to-
day). Ronald has done all but
brby sit which was left in tLe
: hands of the new nursery I estab
lished this year for the first time
as . a part of the convention. It
gave a lot of more time to some
mothers of youngsters. r .
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Three Canby FFA boys,! Galyn
'". tffler. Tom Pnnnrr nrf: Mrl
Nelson, each bought a polled Here
ford steer from the Santiam stock
- farm at Lebanon. The animals
were owned by the Vanderhoof
Farm at Woodlake, Calif,; which
has a sort of "sub livestock sta
tion" at Lebanon. .' - .
Bernard Sprauer and family are
, jicvr uwiicii ui an cj-acre
P3
farm up at Aumsvflle.
1 Fruit Tree Pruning
Demonstration Set j
Pruning young fruit trees will
be demonstrated by County Ex
tension Agent D. L. Rasmussen on
Tuesday, February 28, at the C.
G. Halvorson farm, route '1, Sil-
verton. Halvorson's place is about
" one mile from Silverton on the
Silverton-Marquam highway.
Rasmussen's demonstration will
begin at 1:30 pjn. It will feature
the selection of scaffold limbs off
peach, apple, pear, and ! prune
trees that were planted in the
spring of 1948.
Farm Calendar
Feb. 23 Final day of three-day
State Convention, Oregon Farmers
Unions Veterans of Foreign Wars
building, Salem. Election f of of
ficers. f. .
Feb. 24 Hop Growers confer
ence, 208 Memorial Union build
ing, OSC, 9:30 ajn.
Feb. 24 Fourth Annual Junior
Jersey sale. Fairgrounds, HiUs
boro. - -1
Feb, 27-2$ Dairy Manufactur
ers short course and annual con-
vention, Oregon State
college
campus.
March 1 Bred gilt sale, count
fairgrounds, Prineville. Sponsored
by Oregon Swine Growers asso
ciation. . '
March 1 Small Fruits meeting.
Dallas City hall, 10 ajn. j
March Mint Growers meet
ing, Salem.
March 2 Marion county straw
berry growers meeting, Mayflower
hall, 2135 Fairgrounds road, Sa
lem, 1:30 pjn. 1
March 4 Oregon Swine Grow
ers bred gilt sale, Klamath Falls.
March 4-12 National 4-H club
week. -
March f Marion County Live
stock association meeting, dinner.
1 pjn. Union Hill, Louis Hennles.
Turner, president .
March 23-25 State FFA con
Tention, La Grande.
April 1- Grand National Jun
ior, livestock Exposition, San
Francisco. i
April 4 Oregon Swine Breeders
ssociation market hog and carcass
how, Pacific International
grounds, Portland. 1.
May $-19 Oregon state Cattle
man's association state convention,
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oil BumiEns
HIGH PRESSURE
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Thxirtday. February 23. JS50
Meeting
gates and members were in at
tendance. Jjames Marr, secretary of the
Oregon Federation of Labor, urg
es "reapportionment of the state
legislature, according to our con
stitution." Since 1910, he said, the
legislature has refused to carry
ut the dictates of the constitution
and added that "I have lost faith
In the kind of people who are sent
to the legislature." The federation
of labor bill, now being circulated,
he reported, will ask the board of
control to reapportion the state
and if its members refuse to do
this, the supreme court will be re
quested to.
Marr also expressed "deep dis
appointment that Lyle Thomas
had decided not to run for con
gress on the republican ticket
against Walter Norblad, who has
not served the best interests of
the people."
Morton Tompkins, master of the
state grange, and George Brown,
secretary to the Oregon CIO
council, urged working together
not only for reapportionment by
"people rather than by area" but
also for the defense of "our demo
cratic weapon, the inititative and
referendum, which is being
threatened."
Brown referred to the "balance
reapportionment plan" as "giving
lip service to apportionment but
actually maintaining the status
quo."
Work was begun on the Farmer
Union ' program for 1950 , at the
Wednesday afternoon session and
this will be completed Thursday
prior to the election of officers.
Committees also went to work
in special sessions Wednesday
with , a number of resolutions
drawn up . to be presented at the
Thursday sessions. One of these,
to be introduced by Harley Libby,
Jefferson, chairman of the board
of directors of the Oregon Fann
ers Union Health association, will
urge a "substantial increase in the
number of students enrolled in
the entrance classes of the Ore
gon medical and dental schools in
order that increased needs for
medical and dental services in
the rural area may be adequately
met" Number of entrants, it was
explained, are now restricted.
Another resolution will urge a
closer study of our educational
problems with the admonition
that "all problems in education
can not be solved through more
money." The committee on reso
lutions and education in preparing
their bit, stated that it "wasn't ob
jection to putting up the money,
but a desire for assurance that a
good job was being done for the
money spent" that prompted this
resolution in which some fear was
expressed that too much academic
study was replacing some needed
practical education.
A third resolution prepared
Wednesday for Thursday's pres
entation was that opposing any
diversion' of water to other states
so long as "thousands of acres of
undeveloped land in Oregon is in
need of water."
At the Farmer Union insurance
meeting, held, during the after
noon, totals of $95,000 automobile
and casualty insurance and of
$500,000 life insurance were re
ported. An increase in member
ship this past year was reported
at 325.
Lyle Thomas, state secretary,
and Mrs. Grace Moeller, youth
activity chairman of Washington
county, were named as delegates
to the national insurance conven
tion In Denver In early March.
Farm Dairy Prices
Slightly Down, 1950
Oregon farm prices for butter
fat, milk, and dairy cows show
little change as 1949 closed and
1950 started, reports of the USOA
released Wednesday, show. How
ever, prices received by Oregon
farmers - are definitely under a
year earlier. During the 30 day
period ending January 15, butter
fat prices in Oregon held un
changed, but are five cents a
pound under last January.
The wholesale price of milk to
Oregon fanners on January IS
is a nickel higher than a month
earlier. However, the price is 62
cents a 'hundredweight under a
year ago. Dairy cow prices In
Oregon after holding steady dur
ing the last four months of 1949,
dropped S3 a head ,at mid-January,
compared to a year ago on
January 15 dairy cow prices aver
aged $35 a head less to Oregon
producers. The average United
States price for dairr
ped only $12 a head during the
GftANGE DINNEE SUNDAY
r airfield The Fairfield
Grange will hold a no-host din
ner Sunday, February 28, at 130
pjn. in the Grange hall. The en
tire community is Invited. The
Grange will serve coffee.
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The first ef Its kind In the United' States Is this new one-story 4$ ly
240! foot beef cattle barn pictured here. The barn, one ef two new
nes built at the Oregon State college experiment station, will
Ewalt Tells
wHow" of Good
Feed Silage
More than one hundred farmers.
veterans and others brought 40
samples of silage for grading at
the recent silage forum held in
Mayflower hall, Salem. H. P.
Ewalt, Corvallis, Fred Davis,
Wood burn and George Kruse, Mt.
Angel, graded the samples. ,
After a two hour discussion of
the samples and silage in general
Ewalt made a four point summary
to include:
1. Cut grass and legumes in the
early bloom stage. The majority
of samples would have made bet
ter feed if cut from three to seven
days earlier.
2. Do a good job of cutting. Cut
short, add molasses, from 30 to
80 pounds per ton and tramp well,
especially on top of the silo.
3. Crops that would make poor
hay make fairly good silage when
cut in the immature stages. In
other words, more total dry mat
ter will be consumed as silage than
as poor hay.
4. Cut when the crop has 83 to
70 per cent moisture.
Marion County Extension Agent
Ben A. Newell, who arranged the
meeting, brought out several points
on use of silage for beef cattle and
sheep.
Sheep are making good use of
grass . and legume silage. Ewe's
are eating up to eight pounds per
day with free choice hay. Beef
cattle make gains of 10 to 25 per
cent better on grass silage than on
dry hay. Usually grain can be cut
down about one-third when feed
ing beef with comparable gains.
Beef' cattle will consume only
40 to 50 pounds of grass silage a
day while dairy cows are taking
100 pounds or more in some herds.
George Kruse, ML Angel, report
ed 110 pounds per cow each day in
his Holstein herd. Many Jersey
and Guernsey cows are eating 80
pounds or more.
Gross silages will average two
and one-half to three per cent di
gestible protein while corn is us
ually one per cent or less. Dairy
cows require about one and one
half pounds of digestible protein
a day to maintain her body. This
means that 150 pounds of corn
silage would supply her require
ments or 60 to 80 pounds of grass
silage.
The value of silage is often in
question and Newell suggests the
following thumb rule to follow.
Good grass or legume silage is
worth one-third as much as good
alfalfa hay. Cannery and field
corn silage is worth one-fourth to
one-fifth what good alfalfa is.
Junior Jersey Sale
Slated at Hillsboro
Twenty-two animals including
calves, bred heifers and produc
ing cows have been consigned to
the fourth annual Junior Jersey
sale which will be held at the
Washington county fairgrounds,
Hillsboro, Saturday, February 25,
starting at 1 pjn the sale com
mittee headed by Fred Knox,
Gaston, has announced. All bid
ding will be restricted to 4-H and
FFA members."
A limit of two animals to any
one buyer has been seL accord
ing to Joe Cox, Washington coun
ty extension agent, who serves as
secretary of his county Jersey
cattle club. The sale is being held
in cooperation with other county
Jersey cattle clubs in the"state.
The sale committee Includes Neal
Miller, Woodburn; L. S. Lorenzen.
Dayton; Marvin Pangborn, Tilla
mook; Man eel, Melott, V. D. Fos
ter, and J. B. Thomas, all of
Hillsboro.
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Foreign Mint Oil
Markets Recovering
Large exports of mint oil have
helped to support the market in
recent months.
Foreign markets for mint oil
made a striking recovery during
1949. This probably accounts; to a
considerable extent for the
strength in the market since har
vest. j
Nearly 600,000 pounds were
shipped out during the first ten
months. This is twice the rather
small shipments during 1948, and
somewhat more than in any other
calendar year. Assuming that
shipments in November and De
cember continued at about the
same rate as in the preceding ten
months of the year, the total for
1949 would be around 700,000
pounds. However, exports in 1 1948
were small and the average for
1948 and 1949 would not greatly
exceed the average for prewar
years.
Watts, Silverton!
Topped La Grande
Swine Sale I
A Marion county swine grower
topped the Oregon Swine Grow
ers gilt sale in La Grande this
week. Elton Watts, Silverton,! sold
a growthy Chester White gilt for
$145 to Ben L. Robinson of Imb
ler. Second high animal was a
Berkshire from the Oregon State
college herd. She was purchased
by Cecil DeLong, 4-H club boy
from La Grande. !
The thirty eight girls, of the
eight breeds sold, averaged
$90.75. Harry L. Wells of Island
City took home eight of the ani
mals to run on wheat stubble and
use low quality grain. I
Elmer Stangel of Wilsonville
sold the top Yorkshire for! $110
to Ralph Baum of Caldwell,
Idaho. Grady Romans of Vale top
ped Durocs at $110. Buyer was
Elwyn Bingham of Alice 1, Ore. A
Poland China from Leonard For
ster of Tangent brought $105 for
top in that breed. Ray Fuller of
Alicel was the buyer.
Two more sales are scheduled
for March first at Prineville and
March third at Klamath Falls, ac
cording to Ben A. Newell, Salem,
secretary of the Oregon Swine
Growers.
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Fertilizer Use
Increased on
Oregon Farms
Use of commercial fertilizer has
increased more than five times in
the state during the past 10 years,
says Arthur S. King, Oregon State
college extension soil conservation
specialist, who adds that the rapid
increase in commercial fertilizer
use appears likely to continue if
farmers are to hold their own
against plant food losses.
He points to a report by the
Production and Marketing admin
istration which states that Oregon
farmers used slightly less than
4,000 tons of commercial plant
food annually as recently as 1939.
During a 12-month period ending
in July, 1948, more than 20,000
tons were spread.
King emphasizes that these fig
ures indicate actual amounts of
plant food nitrogen, phosphor
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fertilizers contain a considerable
percentage of inert material, the
specialist estimates Oregon's an
nual fertilizer purchases at up
wards of 100,000 tons annually.
Lime and landplaster are not in
cluded. Field crops seed, grain, pas
ture, and Jiay account for the
greatest increase in fertilizer use.
Oregon farmers now use more fer
tilizer for these field crops than
ony other western state. Increased
use rates, however, on intensively
cultivated crops have also added
to the total tonnage figure.
In 1939, King says, commercial
fertilizers were providing only one
and one-half pounds of plant food
per Oregon crop land acre. Ten
years later, increased use was pro
viding eight pounds. Despite this
increase, King declares that it is
scarcely enough now to keep up
with natural plant food losses by
leaching upder good fanning con
ditions.' It represents only a min
ute fraction of the plant food re
moved by crops harvested each
year.
Thus, King predicts that much
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Patton Says
(Story also on page 1.)
No one likes restrictions, James
G. Patton, National Farmers Union
president, told his audience at
Waller hall Wednesday nighL a
meeting to which the public was
especially invited. "We'd all like
to go back to the time without
restrictions, the time of free home
steaded land only there , isn't
ny more free land," he continued
s he explained "that regimenta
tion was upon us whether we like
them; or not. They are something
we blame onto the government."
But the government is not to
blame for all of them, he said, ad
ding that "I remember seeing a
lot of farmers who were regimen
ted by something besides govern
ment in 1932."
This, he said was an age of
atomic energy, of airplanes and
planned programs.
"Even competition .that is plan
ned and provided," he said, "is
better than continuously cutting
labor hours and lessening product
ion," as he urged decentralization
of industry, support of the CVA
program, making patents avail
able, and providing adequate
credit as means to "free up" in
dustry. In foreign policy, Patton said
we were "pikers." We thought in
terms of protection when we
should think more in terms of ex
pansion. Patton was introduced Wednes
day night by Ronald Jones, state
president, who, in turn, was in
troduced by Gus Schlicker, pres
ident of the Marion county union,
greater use will be made of com
mercial fertilizers in the future
as Oregon farmers find it neces
sary to recoup soil fertility losses.
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Earlier in' the day, Patton ad
dressed both the Farm Union and
the . Farmer Union insurance ses
sions at VFW hall.
Here he urged building agri
culture on an integration line. Ag
riculture competes against , itself
too often, he stated. No other in
dustry would so separate its mar
keting and distribution, and its
purchasing of raw materials, he
pointed ouL
Governor Douglas McKay, the
only outside speaker to be heard
at the 1949 convention, spoke
briefly at the Wednesday morning
session on the problems of Oregon
agriculture. He urged a program
that would provide for proper
grading; proper labeling and prop
er promotion of Oregon farm pro
ducts as well as further fabrica
tion of lumber and processing of
foods. The filbert industry, he
said, was set back, largely through
lack of proper promotion.
"If filberts were shelled and put
into cellophane bags and sold like
Planters Peanuts," he said, "Ore
gon couldn't grow enough to sup
ply the demand."
SnEEP PRODUCTS DOWN
Lamb and sheep prices averaged
a slight advance to Oregon farm
ers during the past 30 days. Sheep
stepped up the most, and aver
aged 50 cents higher while lambs
strengthened about 15 cents a
hundredweight on the average.
But lamb prices are about 80
cents a hundredweight under a
year ago, while the farm value
of sheep is equal to prices 12
months earlier. Wool prices have
remained unchanged during the
past four months. The value is
also the same as a year ago.
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