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Beans Provide Fine Crop in Many Areas
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To torn people this may have
ten a pretty hot, dry summer.
To the bean puwm down
Aumsville West Stayton and
Jlsrion way, where water has
ten plentiful for irrigation, this
ttas been "Jut about rifihf.
That, at least, was what X was
told In the half dozen or more
lean yards I stopped to visit In
that area this week. In some, bean
picking was being completed. In
most, picking had passed the peak
-tcx the season.
Reason Faat Peak
Ernest Dozier at the Stayton
Canning company office, reported
that the bean season had defi
nitely passed its peak. Picking
will wind up altogether in the
next couple of weeks, he said.
Then corn would start. Process
ing prunes which also takes
Bickin them will begin right af
ter Labor day, in me 'aiajura
plant, Mr. Dozier said.
A total of 7,000 tons of beans
will h oacked at Stayton. The
corn crop looks very promising
and while the prune crop is good,
so far as number goes, the prunes
re small and there doesn't seem
to be much prospect of mem
plumping out this year, the can
ners state. Stayton hopes to get
upwards of 1,000 ton.
ExeeDUoiially Good"
.1 Kolstad, manager of the
Kolstad cannery at Silverton, said
the bean crop was "exceptionally
good" tins year. This, he said, re
ferred to both quantity and qual
ity. He expected to pack about
150.000 cases. The peak of the
season here was this week with
100 employed in the cannery but
picking, he expected, would con
tinue right up to the freeze. : .
Reports from Salem and other
Taller canneries processing beans
were running about the same. The
crop i is good both in quality and
quantity
(This has been a grand year
for bean picking, Jean Dar ley.
(Mrs. Herman Dar ley of Darters
Plantation) near Aumsville, said
Wednesday as picking was being
completed on their 65 acres. It
was, she said, the first year she
could remember going through a
. whole bean picking season with
out rain.
Yield Is Good
. More beans had been taken from
the 65 acres this year on the Dar
ley plantation than last year from
SO acres.
Mr. Darley has been trying a
heavy fertilizer program this year,
he said. In all, including the lime,
he had put 1,800 pounds of fer
tilizer to the acre on his bean
fields. This takes more water, too,
he added, but he believes it was
paying off. A bit over , 800 tons
of beans had been harvested from
the 65 acres. -
Picking win last to the middle
of next week probably, the Law
rence Clarks thought, on their
excellent-looking bean acreages
Z0 acres in au.
The Clarks, who live near Mar
lon, have bean-farmed for 10 years
and also grow mint on their 120
acres. Eighty bean pickers were
busy mere Tuesday when we
called, and the crop, the Clarks
thought, would ' average about 10
tons to the acre. They were fer
tilizing at the rate of about 1100
pounds (also including landplas-
ter) to the acre.
We stopped at other yards.
where we found the plants yel
lowing and the season looking as
If It might be ending a bit too pre
maturely. -Needed
Water Early
The answer, growers said, was
that they had not watered heav
ily enough in the beginning of
the dry season. It is difficult to
get enough water on the ground,
a few said, during such a dry
season. . . - .
Mr. Clark said he aimed to get
over the entire -fields with water
at least once a week. During the
extremely hot weather, he short
ened his week and brought the
water on again sooner. Each set
of the water sprinklers is three
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hours long, so that the ground Is
soaked "way to the. tips of the
roots?, he explained. f-'
The pickers we Interviewed
seemed quite happy with the pick
ing situation this year. Very; few
complained even of the heat. It
was better, most ! of them said,
than trying to pick in rain. Grow
ers, as whole, said it was fan
easy year" so far as picking trou
bles went Only in a few yards
were there any complaints of pick
er shortage. A few of the smaller
growers claimed that help short
age was spoiling their crop.
Dally! Pick Large if I
Good pickers were averaging
from! 350 to 400 pounds a day.
Early teenagers were picking as
much as 300 pounds a day on the
average. Quite a few were going
over the 600 pound mark daily.
Peggy VanVoelkenburg of Port
land,1, who has picked since! she
was 10 years old and she-is
now 14 in the Clark fields, was
hitting around 400 and better
daily,1 She liked to pick, she laid.
She was bom in Kansas, but 'had
lived In practically all the western
states. The family liked to travel.
The Willamette valley had been
a fine place, however, as lots of
opportunity was afforded to both
youngsters and adults to make- ex
tra money. But now, she added,
they thought it was time to move
on. She didn't know just where
she'd be attending high school this
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winter probably In either Ari
zona or southern' California "sort
of depends upon where Dad and
Mother find the best picking con
ditions," she sagely explained.
Here Leeal Folk Pick
While there were a number of
transient pickers in the yards we
stopped at, there seemed to be less
so than in many other years.
. "We have a lot more valley folk
picking this year than last," Mrs.
Clark said. :
The virus disease which caused
hundreds of thousands of dollars
damage to the Lane county bean
crop this year, and considerabe to
Marion county, has scarcely been
Briaht red paint, applied by Mrs.
Lawrence Clark, helps brighten
this attractive farm home near
Marlon. While beans didnt ex
actly build the entire house, Mrs.
Clark states, they did help re
model it. In the other phot are
three young folk who have been
racing for top place as pickers
in the Clark bean yards. From
left to right, are Joy Gardener of
Phoenix, Ariz, who picked 767
pounds in her top day; Glen
Lnndy, Sherwood, with 117
pounds as his top, and Lea WU-
kenson of Marion, who gathered
In 80S pounds for her hish. They
get three cents a pound for pick
ing, so "our wages arent toe
bad,' they say. (Statesman Farm
photo,)'
present kTlhe West Stayton area
this year.
A pair of Oregon State college
experts are attempting to trace the
cause of the virus disease. It ap
pears to affect only a new variety
of bean known as FM65S. Last
year this variety was badly hit in
the Aumsville-West Stayton area.
This year, the same variety U
grown with high production -and
no sign of the virus.
Frank P. McWharter and WTO
!am A. Frazier, the two college
men, said they believe the disease
bay be common bean mosaic, be
ing spread from one plant to an
other by aphids. So far they have
no explanation for the appearance
of the disease here last year -and
not this year, and at Eugene this
year while it wasn't troublesome
there last year.
Aagast 22 Second day of Mar
ion County 4-H fall show, state
fairgrounds.
August n-I5 Polk county fair.
Monmouth. - .
Aoxnsi 23-24 Annual Nut
Growers Society of Oregon , and
Washington tour, 9 ajn. L. R.
Maloney ranch, McMinnville.
Abvs !23-September J Pa
cific National Exhibition, Vancou
ver. B.C.I - v
Aamst 24 4-H fat stock auc
tion, 8 pin. state fairgrounds.
Aagast Z7-ZP Linn county fail
fair. Albany. i
August 29 Linn county 4-H tat
stock sale. Albany, 8 p m.
August 27-september z Farm
ers Union Camp at Smith Creek.
August 2 1-September 1 Wash-
mston counrywfair. Hillsboro.
August 29-September 1 Clack
amas county fair, i
August ! IB-September t--Cali
fornia state fair, ; Sacramento,
Calif. I
September I-t Oregon State
fair. Salem. ! , ;
September Holsteln Calf se
lection day, 11 ajn. state fair
grounds. I , -
September II 11th annual
Southern Oregon ram sale. Lake-
view. io am. '
i September 14 Oregon Turkey
Improvement - association annual
meeting. OSC -
September 15 Your Opportu
nity Jersey sale. Pacific Interna
tlonal Exposition grounds, North
Portland.
September 15-23 Western
Washington fair, Puyallup.
September 16 Clackamas
County Jersey Cattle club, Charles
Couche home. Sherwood.
September 24 2nd annual Mar
lon county Dairy Breeders asso
ciation, heifer sale. Consignments
from Washington, Yamhill, Linn,
Benton and Clackamas counties.
September 24 Farm Labor
meeting,! Labor Temple.
October 30-31 National Con
vocation of Churches in town and
country, ' - First Baptist church,
Portland.
November 12-14 Agriculture
Cooperative Council , of Oregon,
30th annual meeting, Multnomah
hoteL Portland.
November 15-16 Oregon Rec
lamation Congress. Bend.
November 29-30 Oregon State
Horticulture Society, annual meet
ing. OSC.
December 1 Oregon Jersey
Cattle club annual meeting, Sa
lem. j
Keizer Filbert
Drier Will Be
Eyed on Tour
A new filbert drier will be in
spected during a stop scheduled on
the annual summer orchard tour
sponsored by the Nut Growers So
ciety of Oregon and Washington
on Thursday and Friday of this
week. C y - :": .
The new installation is located
on the Arthur Oldenburg filbert
orchard in the Keizer district north
of Salem.
Slrawberry.PIants
Need Irrigation Now .
Where Irrigation Is possible,
strawberry fields will respond to
an application of water now, in
order that normal bud develop
ment for next year's crop may take
place, Willamette valley county
agents are advising. .
Without adequate moisture, now,
bud development takes place at a
slower rate, increasing in rapidity
as fall rains moisten the ground.
However, with moisture supplied
now, larger bud set may be ob
tained. This " also holds true Of
rhododendrons, azaleas and lilacs.
BREEDERS OFFER HEIFER
Oregon Guernsey breeders will
award the! 25th consecutive pure'
bred heifer as a 4-H breed specia
award at the state fair this year.
reports L. J. Allen, state 4-H club
leader. This years heifer will be
Tour assembly point at 9 am
Thursday, is the Lee R. Maloney
walnut orchard on the northwest
outskirts of McMinnville. Filbert
and walnut orchards will be vis
ited each day. Besides the Maloney
orchard, the Beaver Island walnut
acreage will be visited in Yamhill
county. Here, on overflow land,
walnut trees are managed in lawn
grass sod, and the grass is clipped
periodically with a tractor-drawn,
heavy-duty mower.
Streets of heavy pruning on
walnut trees after severe frost
damage will be shown Thursday
afternoon when the tour stops at
the Charles McNary walnut or
chard, also north of Salem. A com
parison between pruned and un
pruned trees will be shown by
Mike Crowther, farm manager.
The second day the group will
assemble at 9 am. at the R. E.
Kerr orchard at 2020 River road
between Junction City and Eu
gene. One of the outstanding wal
nut orchards to be visited that
day is that owned by Homer
Chase, Eugene.
Fertilizer Trials
For Strawberries
Are Underway
Heavy applications of phosphate
fertilizer placed in a band at tune
of planting strawberries have giv-
ton experiment station Karl Bauer,
en best results at western Washing
soil scientist and recent visitor to
the Willamette valley, states.
Applications of 300 pounds of
actual phosphoric acid placed In
bands four to five inches deep and
about seven to eight inches apart
are being used consistently by
strawberry growers in the Puyai
lup, Bauer says.
In addition to heavy phosphat
ing, annual applications of 100
pounds of ammonium nitrate and
potash bearing fertilizers are used
for the first year or two.!
donated by Ben and Phalen Nelson
of Medford.
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It is quite natural,' in a country
of progressive farmers, to have
frequent inquiries relative to new
plants which might be useful nere.
Certain Hew plants might.be good.
some not adaptable, and others
might become weeds.
Take, for instance, Serecia. There
has bees some Inquiry about this.
Serecia is the perennial strain of
lespedeza. It is used very success
fully in cotton belt states as a hay
and pasture crop. It resembles al
falfa to some extent but grows on
land unadapted to alfalfa.
Many plants useful in the cotton
belt are also useful here, but Sere
cia is not one
grow here, but
of these. It will
the yield Is rather
low, and the "plant grows woody
and is not well liked by livestock
in the area.
John J. Inskeep, county agent in
Clackamas county, is an experi
menter if there lever was one. John
got himself interested in bent grass
seed. Oregon, he says, grows prac
tically all the pent grass used in
the United States and Oregon's an
nual production! is decreasing. And
this decrease tomes ; right along
with the increasing demand. John
says. He adds tjhat there are num
erous old bent grass fields around
George. Springwater. Highland and
along the South End road, south of
Oregon City. Hie suggests top dres
sing some of these fields with
about 300 pounds, of ammonium
nitrate early in October and har
vesting for seed next year Just to
see what goes on. And, he believes,
it might go oh rather nicely, at
that, so far as! profit to the owner
of the field is concerned.
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Whilwe were ramblinf about
in Clackamas county, we neara a
lot about L. B. Merrill's Willam
ette raspberry yield. He took seven
ions oi wuiameues irom mree ac
res on his Carus farm this year.
and with norrdal rainfall he thinks
he would have had from 15 to 18
tons. i :
This makes us shudder but rag
weed has beeh spreading rapidly
in recent yeaj-s. Inspections here
and there reveal constant new out
croppings of jthe hayfever weed.
Unless you have lived in ragweed
hayfever sections or know intimat
ely someone vho has, you have no
conception of I the severity of the
STmDtoms. The Ranch Rambler has
a friend In Texas who knows she
is going to start sneezing come a
certain day in late August or early
September 1 1 don't recall the ex
act day, but she does. Life for her
was miserable" for about six weeks.
She took to spending the six weeks
here in the Willamette valley. And
then, when here last year, she
learned that We had the hayfever
weed coming In. This year she has
air conditioned her borne and will
remain there.
She is just bne of scores of oth
era, who spent the hayfever season
In Oregon.
Allergists know just when so
vere symptoms are about to appear
from tests showing pollen content
in the air. Nor are cities exempt.
Thousands upon thousands of eas
tern dwellers migrate to Canada,
north of the pollen belt or to the.
Atlantic coast during the' hay fever
seasons. f
So far. we havent had enough .
pollen concentration here to causa
very much hay fever. When the
time comes it will be too late to
rid the country of the pest, and
coasiai resort owners may expect -to
multiply their basiness, ;
For 10 years, John Inskeep, who
comes from a hayfever area in
West Virginia, has beeh talking
about finding ragweed here in the '
Willamette valley. But folk have
been indifferent. They are still in
different, although quite large
areas of the weed have been found
this year. It will be difficult to
effect a "control program iintil rag- -weed
bay fever becomes preval
ent Then it will be too late ; , .
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Handling silage for cows can In
volve considerable worki but Roy
Zimmer, a Canby dairyman, is
planning to eliminate a good part
of it. A suage conveyor used in
Roy's feeding bunk is expected to
lighten the work. A new silage
bunk connecting the two' silos al
ready has been completed by Roy.
Equipment Is on hand for complet
ing the conveyor system'; that will '
move the silage from the silos. All
you have to do with this Improve
ment is ,to throw the grass ? and
legumes out of the silos, Roy says.
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It just might be that the 85 wom
en who attended the picnic a few
days ago at Alderman farms, Day
ton, to welcome BagedaJ Rasheed -of
Cairo, Egypt, learned almost as
much as Bageda whose sole pur
pose there was to learn. But Bag
eda was keenly interested' in the
home extension group which plan
ned the meeting. Of her; country,
Bageda said that her people need
ed a greater knowledge, of good
nutrition. Each year such dietary
diseases as pellagra take their tolls
on the population there. I
"We have much need; for such
educational programs as home ex
tension worker she said, i , .
She said also the country her
was beautiful and regretted that
the Egyptians, too, couldn't do a
much to beautify their homeland,
but "we need the water fand land
space for money producing prod-.
ucts, she added. I '
Bageda is traveling through Can
ada and the United States under ;
the department of labor. Food pro
may be common bean mosaic, be
cause of Egypt's need for modern
food handling methods. 3
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