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1 4 The Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Thursday. Iun II, 1351 WILLAMETTEl VALLEY ; ; ' . Nows and Views of Farm and Garden Strawberry Harvest Time at By LilUe L. Madsen Trm Editor. The Statesmaa It wont be . long now, straw berry growers, processor and pickers alike are remarking. The strawberry season, because of late firsts, and - early draughts, was late in starting but it will not be late in stopping. : ' This week sees the peak and avr the humo of the 1951 sea son, said Robert E. Shinn of the Willamette Valley Cherry grow ers Wednesday. The cherry rrowers also Drocess some berries. Ud at the Stayton Canning Company plant the peak is defi nitely here this week, F. Smith, manager said. Oon 5tt Per Cent All processing plants expect to be through with strawberries by July 1. The crop is only about 50 per cent of normal, growers and processors both agree. But qual ity is excellent although many cf the valley berries have been ams.lL Hill berries, however, have been of about normal size, but these, too, are winding up more rapidly than usual. Those who ex pect to get berries for their own S recessing had best do so before le end of the month. Even the last week is "plenty late" grow ls said Wednesday. Shinn said that cherry picking was now well underway. While the croD is somewhat spotted in tome ereas, it is excellent in the bills across the river irom a km. Here the trees hang heavily nd picking, the men and women on the ladders report, Is "pretty rood going. ValltT Yield Varies In some of the orchards In east Marion and Linn county, the crop Is not so good. Late frosts caught some of the blooms. How ever, a survey Wednesday show ed that around' Woodburn the crop, too, was quite fair. Like the strawberries, the cherries are of fine quality this year. Blackberries Die Quickly From Sprays The season Is here for con trolling blackberries with the chemical 2,4-5-T, county exten sion agents report. The best time to make applica tions of this control material is after the blackberry has fully leafed out. The leaves should be fully expanded and the lower ones cf a mature size before spraying begins. - Amounts Given Experiments conducted at Ore gon State college show that from four to six pounds of the parent acid, 2,4-5-T per acre, applied along about this time of year, will give good control on both large and small blackberry bushes. Since, it is often difficult to gauge the amount of water that will be required to spray the scattered patches of varying sized plants, tn. simplest method is to use about three pounds of the actual acid mixed with 100 gallons of water. Then spray to get the en tire foliage of the plant uniformly wet with a thin film. It is desirable to have equip ment that will deliver a sufficient volume of spray to. wet the plants rapidly such as a sprayer which will deliver four gallons of sol luuon per minute at pressures from 250 to 350 pounds. But small er sprayers will also do the Job, even tne tnree-gaiion hand spray' er. Care Mast Re Used It Is almost impossible to obtain a 100 per cent kill in one applies uon. usuaur mere will be a limited amount of new sprouts or regrowtft Irom treated plants. Aner treating now, the new growth that will occur should be fall-treated. This follow-up spray usually requires a very small amount of chemical per acre. -. There are certain precautions that should be observed when us ing this material, Wayne Roberts, Yamhill county extension agent. warned Wednesday: Most import ant is to remember that if you are spraying near susceptible plants that you do not want to kilL it is necessary to protect Such plants from the drift and vapors er the chemicals used. The first glass made by men was colored and- great difficulty was encountered when the attempt was made to make It clear. Buy Now!! 7 NORGE APPLIANCES fr GEORGE EV i f aa av ffKMitiftfiAi 4Pr ayswwsaaa Tcnr.$ 1 STAYTON No matter how nice the tain amount of assorting to 'be done.; A score of women work en these belts picking eat the discard berries.) At top left is Bess Shel ton, with Caroline Keidel at the right, both employed In the Stay ton Cannier company plant. Below, La Vet Doxler Is kept busy set tine up th boxes. The boxes are sealed before they leave the con veyor, from which they ge to the freexlng rooms. (Statesman Farm photos.)!; ; j . , :.!'''.;, Farm Calendar June ti Final day: of an nual Pullorum testing and flock selection school, OSC. ' - ' - - June 2Z Oregon Poultry Im provement association, OSC June Z3 31st annual iiaDy Chick association, OSC June Z7-Z9 1 Fauna Nortn Northwest Fertilizer conference, OSC I I July 10-13 Oregon's fifth an nual leadership lnstitue for town and country caurchs, Corvallis. July 151 Marion County Jer sey Cattle club meeting. July 22-Z8 National Farm Safety Week. ? July 24 ? All American Come- dale show and sale, Greely.Colo. August 4 Willamette Valley 11th annual Purebred Ram and Ewe sale,! Albany, 10 a.m. August 14 Western Horse show, Silverton, $ p. m, August 5 Oregon Jersey Cat tle club annual picnic, Champoeg park. ' i ) August 1S-1Z . Mt. Angel Flax Festival ! t I August 17 Oregon Ram sale, Pendleton! Round-up Liivestoock sale pavilion. August 20-21 National Ram sale. Salt! Lake City, Utah. August 20-2$ Mult nomah County Fair, Gresham. August i 23-25 i Polk County Fair, Monmouth. I August: 21 - September. 1 Linn County Fair,' Albany. August 1 29 - September 1 Washington County fair, Hills- boro. r i I September 1-9 j Oregon State Fair, Salem. : New Applicators To Be Exhibited Two new type ! fertilizer appll cators will be displayed at the second annual Northwest FerUllx er conference at Oregon State col lege June 27, 28 and 29. One of the new implements is a sub-surface fertilizer appricator for sod crops. The other is a row crop band applicator. A feature of the three-day meet win be the banquet at which Dr. S. C. Vandecavey, president of the Soil Science Society of Ame rica will be the featured speaker, " Commercial use! of artificial Ice in the United States first surpass' ed natural ice In ;1941. oaceAai es ejenfjsfesB ajssas 1 FIRST f NATIONAL 1 (BANK r ; HOM2 APPLLVNCI LOAN FARMER 1 ' 1 ; . -By LllllE L madsen 1 1 strawberries are, there Is a cer 11' Statewide Poultry Council Formed Organization of a statewide poultry and turkey committee to make preparations for the 1952 economic outlook conference to be held! at Oregon State college has been announced. . This committee is one of 11 conference committees being or ganized. A Eugene hatchery oper ator! and egg broker, George M Petersen, will serve as general chairman of the combined poul try and turykey committee. W. H Schwedler, Portland is chairman for the turkey sub-committee. In addition to his duties as general chairman, Petersen will head the poultry group. Noel.Bennion, ex tension poultry specialist, is sec retary for the poultry commit tee. j "4 You Can Buy Home Appliances it With First National j Financing! Let First National help you buy that long ranted, long-needed home appliance NOW! J ' Pick out the home appliance of your choice. ..ask four dealer to finance it with a First National Home Appliance Loan. ..he'll do the rest. You'll find j our First National Home Appliance Loan easy to pay from regular income. ..low interest rates... convenient monthly payments. 1 AvoilobU el yovr Dilse',, a FREE BOOKIET giving dtottt Pirrt Notionoi Home Applionce leant. nn'npn Open 10 to I Including ! "IXTJ IUUD OREGON 70GI7HER St. Paul Man -Tops in Herd Imp rovement C L. Simmons In the St. Paul community topped all herd ave rages in the Marion County Dairy! Herd Improvement association this past month jwith 55.2 pounds of butterfat per cow in his six- Holstein cow herd. O. A. Parton of Woodburn was second with an average of 53.1 pounds of fat on 18 Jersey cows and I Harry Stewart of West Stayton was third with 51 2 on , seven Jer seys. I " There were many other good records, with Ray Davis of AumsvUle averaging 48.74 on his 24 cows and Mr. and Mrs.' Floyd Bates, Salem, ' recording 46.0 pounds on 25 registered Jerseys. Woodburn Claims Tops f In the larger herd groups. Neal Miller and Fred Davis of Wood- burn rated 45.9 pounds of fat for 33 Jerseys; Herb Coleman, Wood burn, 43.7 pounds on 51 Jerseys; H. C. Stuwe, 42.5 pounds on 16 Guernseys and Andrew Kehrli & Son, Woodburn, 42 pounds on 101 Jerseys. . NL F. Buyserie St Son of Wood- burn made 42 pounds on 74 Jer says and G. H. Martin, Aurora, 40.3 on 87 cows. Many of the good records went to Woodburn, with Buford Brown St Son, Woodburn, also copping a place In the top ranks with an average of 46.28 pounds on 37 Guernseys. -: - E. S. Coates St Son of Salem, with 50 cows averaged t 45.09; Torvend and Phillips, Silverton, 41.9 on 28 Jerseys, and Mr. and Mrs. Felix Muller, Jefferson, 42.9 on 22 cows. In 62 herds tested there were 1,805 cows, with 209 cows dry. The average, including the dry cows was 38.47 pounds of butterfat per cow. Tow- two-year-old cow was In Vandecouvering's herd of Hol steins at ML AngeL In 303 days, this cow produced 13,190 pounds of milk and 488 pounds of butter fat Phillips & Torvend, Silver ton, owned the top three-year old, a Jersey making 538 pounds of butterfat in 10 months. 10,001 rounds of Milk i In four-year-olds, another Sil verton father-son combination was high, with H. A. Barnes St Sons owning a cow producing 10.001 pounds of milk and 573.7 pounds of butterfat. i High record completed in the past month was an aged Holstein cow in the George Kruse'herd at Mt. AngeL She produced 1 17,220 pounds of milk and 836.3 pounds of butterfat. ' FERTILIZER MEET TO DRAW Willamette valley farmers and warehousemen will have a vital interest in the Northwest Fer tilizer Conference at Corvallis, June 28-29. Such subjects as fer tilizer placement, time of applica tion and amounts to use per acre, as well as the supply outlook, will make up the program. The fertilizer session starts at 8:30 a.m, next Thursday in the -Memorial Union ballroom on the OSC cam PUS. I FRONT LINE BATHTUBS WITH THE - FIRST MARINE DFVISION IN KOREA-ifP-Mar ines on the central Korea front have come up with a new gim mick in the pursuit of cleanliness, Weary of bathing out of their hel mets, members of a marine recon naissance company used an un exploded napalm bomb td good advantage. The bomb an aircraft belly tank filled with Jellied gaso line was disarmed, sawed hori zontally in half, scrubbed and filled with water. The result: A bathtub more adequate than helmet i SAU7.1 MANCH Or PORTLAND Saturday '' j ' ''' ' Over at Silverton the Silver Creek Soil - conservation district has a new : hydraulic scoop and all the men of the district are having a fine time. ; . ;; - ' First one of ' the 'cooperators" (that's the folk in "the . soil con servation district) to use the gad get was Eldon Wilgus, living about two miles ! north of Victor . Point school. Eldon is building an earth- fill dam to store irrigation water and is using the scoop behind his tractor to move the earth. He says this new affair is doing a much beter job of packing the dam fill than does his "cat" and dozer. V ' . The dam itself is about 10 feet in height and about 150 feet long. Engineering assistance was furn ished by soil conservation service technicians working with the Sil ver Creek district Water from the pond will be used to Irrigate strawberries - and a small acreage o summer pasture. - . -i Anytime may be lambing time at the Alfred Jensen ranch in the Bush creek district west of. Sil verton. A Sufolk ewe which lamb ed in December brought another one in this week. Alfred said he could scarcely believe his ears when he heard the blatting of a tiny lamb in his flock. He didn't he added, know that any of his ewes were expecting. At the price of lamb this season, Alfred says he hopes twice-lambing . will be repeated, i . More than one Marion county farmer Is j wishing this week he handn't been "too busy" to serve as secretary for the Oregon Swine Growers association .Ben A. New ell, who manages to carry on quite a considerable number of jobs at one time, now boasts four little pigs, presented to him Sunday at the. Swine Growers picnic at Champoeg. Along with pigs came feeder coin. . The swine growers know that! you do not raise four pigs to locker size without a con siderable expenditure and they didn't want to pay Ben for his services as secretary by putting him out for a lot of feed. Even more happy about the pigs than Ben. Is his son, ; Rex, who "man- ages' the ! 10-acre Newell ranch (along with the help of Mrs. Newell) While Ben is cotlnty agenting in Marion county. I Now is the time to be getting that piece! of ground ready for fall planting, members of the Men's Garden club .of Salem re port. To demonstrate-the thought the men are working at their Vic tory Garden spot in Bush's pas ture each Saturday starting at 1 p. m. Anyone interested is wel come to ask them questions about better ways of gardening. Jerry Dyrud and'his high school band never fail to arise to an oc casion. After marching a mile from Silverton -to the ..Valley Farmers Co-op open house for the new grain j elevator Saturday, the youngsters still had plenty of wind left to blow out "Old Mc Donald Had a Farm." Needless to say, the band received a big hand i r - When It comes to vegetable gar dening, Don L. Rasmussen, who is Marion county agent as well as official adviser for vegetable gar dening in the Men's Garden club of Salem, knows the answers. Don says to use shallow cultivation and thorough Irrigation if you want really good , vegetables. He also says that space used for early ma turing vegetables can be replant to fall and winter crops to good advantage. 1 Hand hoeing or me chanical cultivation should be just deep enough, to cut off the weeds without damaging too many feed r rMtMrl-- MeiHrWifc'iiO-v 0 7.1 GEED IB er roots of the nearby vegetables. Shallow hoeing means a depth of to 1 inch. And you don't sprink le a vegetable garden just to set tle the dust When irrigating have a trowel or some other imple ment handy so that you can turn over, a little esoil to see 11 the water really penetrates to the root zone. . 1 - ' Don adds that transplants of peppers, cabbage, celery and other vegetables are still available in many stores. , - Don also says the prune crop in the Willamette valley area is looking "pretty . fair"- this year. Certainly much better than last year. However, when it came to questions about price we couldn't pin Don down. His guess was that it would be some place between $20 and $125 a ton. We are sure that will hit it somewhere. In fact, we rather think, from what we hear by rambling arouqd, that it might be in the neighborhood of $50 to $60. But don't call us names if it doesn't come out that way. PI Livestock Judges Named By W. A. Holt A number of judges for the 41st annual Pacific International Live stock exposition, scheduled for October 8 to 13 at Portland, have been named, Walter A. Holt man ager, reported this week. Included are beef cattle: Aberdeen-Angus, judging," October 9, John B. ; Brown, Rose Hill, la.; Hereford, judging October 7, Har ry barker of ban Luis Obispo, Calif.; Shorthorn, judging, Octo ber 10, J. Charles Yule, Calgary, Canada, j ' . Dual purpose cattle: Milking Shorthorns, judging October 9, Richard V. Keim, Nampa, Idaho. Dairy Breeds: Ayrshires, judg ing, October 10, F. B. Wolberg, Corvallis: Holstein and Brown Swiss, judging October 9 and 10, G. E. Gordon, Berkeley. Cal Jer sey and Guernsey classes, judging October 8 and 9, H. H. Kildee, Ames, Iowa. , Milk goats! Frank Ecker. Mo desto, Cal.; Angora goats, Leon ard McCaleb, Monmouth. Sheep division: Alex McKenzie of Stillwater, Okla., and Claude Steusloff ; of Salem. Hog divisions: Guy McReynolds of Ashland, Neb. Halter horse division: Preston Dyer, Pomona, Cal., Arabians; Ward Wells, Oswego, Palominos and Tennessee Walkers, and Perry Cotton of Visaha, Cal., quarter horses. raraTBaBTaaammmTa. 351 STATE MIDGET. MARKETS 611 NO. CAPITOL a--TaB---TaTaTaTaaB. GOOD MEAT NEWS I I LOWER PRICES on BEEF and PORK. No Llmitsl Extra Help to' Serve You. Como and Get It. Beef Roast, Arm and Blade Swiss Steaks, Tenderized . T-Bone Steaks j i . . . . . Round Steak . I i. . . . . . Boneless Top Sirloin . . . GRAIN. FED PIG PORK ' I : - r ' . ' . - . ... - The Small Tender Kind with that Chkken-like texture and flavor. Loin Chops, Centers v . ..... Pork Steak, Small Lean . . . . . Pork Roasts, Picnics . . . . . . . Pork Loins, Whole . . ... . . . If you have a Locker or Freezer, it may be to your advantage to stock'up. We cannot guar antee these values beyond this week. ? Sides 8-10 lb. average Sides 10-12 average . Jowl Bacon, Pure Lard . . ... Sliced Liver Pork . . Sausage, Pure Pork . Bologna, Tasty Rings . Liver Sausage . . Polish Rings . ... . VVeineirs, Skinless . . Picnic Hams ShankTess MIDGIET Our Capitol Street Market Is Open until 7 P.M. Fri AAARKETT aY an Saturdays until 19 P.M. Closed Sunday t. PMA Office-' Sets Support Prices for '51 Marlon county production and market administration office has announced a list of support prices effective in Marion county for the 1951 crop. Crimson' clover and oats show a slight increase in support price, while barley, common rye grass and common vetch show a decrease. - - - . r - The. national average for hairy vetch is 14.70 cents a pound. The Marion county rate has not yet been established. However, it is expected to be 14.50 cents as it was last year.-The Marion coun ty wheat support - price has not yet been established but is ex--pected to be somewhat higher than last year's price cf $2.06 per bush el. - Barley Is listed-at $1.25 a bush el; oats at 81 cenjts; flax seed at $2.73: commonh and Willamette vetch at 6 cents a, pound; crimson clover at ' 6 Vi cents a pound and rye grass at 6.75 -cents a pound. KILL POISON OAK NOW Summer months are the best In which to destroy poison oak and ivy. At this time it year, the plants are ' growing vigorously, which means that they are more suscept ible to sprays containing such materials as 2,4-5-T brush killer. 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