1 4 The Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Thursday. Iun II, 1351
WILLAMETTEl VALLEY
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Nows and Views of Farm and Garden
Strawberry
Harvest Time
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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SAU7.1 MANCH
Or PORTLAND
Saturday
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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. -
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
Spraying must be done thorough
ly so that the foliage and stems
are covered. . f
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