13 Tha gteterrnfTn, Cclsnu Ora
Novs and Vfows
Apples In
Top Spofc
Up North
By LUlIe L. 3143 a
: Farm Editor. Tb Statesman
' There are 1,800,000 apple tree
In the state of Washington. That's
- what a little booklet banded me
In Wenatchee said. . ;i -
I have a . Jng they.are all be
tweea Yakima and the Canadian
line- In fact, they didn't atop at
the line, but went up beyond the
border up to Pt ton. We the
farm photographer and I had no
real business at Penticton. We
were at Yakima and Wenatchee to
visit relatives and help celebrate
wedding anni versr ries. u.
So at Ker eg we left the
highway, we were following and
drove, the extra nine miles to Pen
ticton. We weren't sorryj Aside
from findi.g out that the heavy
apple production did stop there,
we found a very neat, interesting
little town with nice auto, courts,
nice hotels, a lake at each end and
good food.
Ne Crumpets
. - Had we expected to get some
'strange' English food, we'd have
been disapp-inted. There were
no scones, no crumpets, but plen
ty of ham and eggs, steak, tomato
salad any of the things we d find
on a Salem restaurant menu.
Only, in spite of all the trees, no
apple pie. There was however, a
very fine apple "pudding," which
1 think weld have termed cobbler
here. . ' . . .
Apple picking in the apple area
. was just getting under way. Huge
stacks of apple boxes and ladders
were appearing along the roadside
and short distances In the orch
ards. The big apple packing plants
and there were scores of them
were steaming tip.
Youngsters of the apple district
aren't permitted to forget -what it
Is that makes their valley famous.
When picking reaches its peak
wnicn is early in October schools
are dismissed to give the students
a chance to give a hand to the in
' d us try. The "vacation" last ' for
two weeks. To provide for this,
- classes take up early August 27,
; this year; -Picking
An Art
In the Wenatchee area you dont
-J-Just go out and pick and apple and
put it into the pail with or with
out stems. Picking apples, we were
told, is an art. Even little pamph
let" and stories In the local papers.
. are published to tell how properly
to pick an apple. Warning is issued
new pickers not to overdo the
'--. lirst day or work." ; All pickers
were warned to keep "the. body
erect while picking and not to
reach too far for apples."
To speed up picking, the advice
continued, the pickers were "to
keep your eyes on your hands and
your hands in front of you, pick
with both hands and make every
. motion count, set ladders careful
. 1 and keep well balanced on the
ladders. ; - "
' ' Health and future usefulness of
the tree, too, was considered. Pick
ers were told to be careful to
"leave spurs on trees and stems on
apples. Spurs bear next year's
crop and apples minus stems are
culls."
Further' advice was to wear
shoes with "gripping soles"
We had? never been quite sure
that Oklahomans picked as many
things as they were given credit
for. But any doubt of the veracity
of such statements was wioed
away after our stay in Wenatcnee
and Yakima, For every one Ore-
J:on or California car (and we saw
ew California cars compared to
Oregon's), there must have been
' a dozen or more from Oklahoma.
Crop Good . - t j . .'
Trees were positively loaded
. with fruit Also trees were set ra
ther close together Judging by the
Elanting distance we employ here
i the Willamette valley. While
the vast majority of trees (and w
traveled 200 miles without getting
out of sight of apple trees) were
-: Bed Delicious, we noted a yellow
appled tree here and there
throughout the orchards. Stopping
to make Inquiry, we learned that
these were used to furnish proper
; polU -tion. iey must be good.
- We are sure tiat even bloom on
the tree developed into an apple
Each tree had from 10 to 20 props
placed under the limbs to support
the heavy load of fruit.'
The orchards themselves didn't
look so neat as those which we
are accustomed to seeing in our
own valley. But, we were told
when we complained slightly of
this that the great necessity for
Irrigation is the car.se.: Had we
come four weeks earlier, we would
have seen much neater orchards.
Caver Crop 'Sank j
Cultivation In the orchards must
cease early in August to protect
the fruit After that growth con
tinues and by picking time is as
heavy as our own cover crop is
the first of May when we disc it
. under. - - - ,
We were amazed at the amount
of irrigation in both Yakima and
. Wenatchee the two towns lie
about 100 miles -part. I dont
think we saw a dry lawn In eith
er city.' - - -: .
In the YaUma valley where
- there are 6,20 farms, there are
. 268,460 acres -under irrigation: The
average (Irrigated, farm runs up to
about 40 2 acres. Irrigation is con
stantly increasing too. There are
10,000 more acres under irrigation
: now than there were five, year
ago.
Fruit growing is tlso on the in
crease, crchardists told us. Form
er grazing land and wheat acres
re being turned into fruit acres.
Vf'e were surprised at the amount
cf grapes we noted. In the past
' Eve years, grape harvest has aris
en from 14,e:2,CC5 pounds to 21,-
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From time ia time we passed water holes inch aa this in the Okanagan country of British Colombia. The
cattle Aberdeen Anxos in this Instance graze up and down the hillsides and travel to the holes for
their drinks. (Farm photo for Tha Statesman). !
850,920 pounds In Yakima;: county
At every; hop meeting we have
attended here in the Willamette
valley, we have heard something
said about I hops In the: jYaHma
valley. But we didn't sea: is many
hop yards is wa expected) Some,
yes, but h4 too many. However,
we were tld that acreage had
Jumped from 8,490 to 12,740 in the
past five: yars, while harvested
funds went jCrom 14,755,871 to 17,
658,834. W read effect gof hop
marketing agreement into these
figures as acreage increased 38J
per cent I While production went
up by 19.34-the difference being
approximately that called tpon by
the agreement to be unhajrvested.
a similar situation to that found
hare. ; , . . .
Lata el Peppermint T
Too, we were surprised Im
mensely at the peppermint crop
in the Yakima valley. Somehow,
we thought peppermint was grown
chiefly only in western -Oregon
and Michigan. And here, Wa found
Yakima valley was producing
400,000 pounds this yearw-ecarce-ly
130,000 pounds of oil less than
Oregon. Growers were anticipat
ing approximately 1,0001 barrels
would be taken from the Yakima
acreage with oil valued at around
$2,400 a barrel not a bad crop to
have grown this year. j . i
We had Expected to see herd
upon herd 6f Hereford cattle all
over the farm area in this centra?
Washington! region. But the cattle
must have been off grazing else
where. Only an occasional herd
did we spot and then it was apt to
be Aberdeeti Angus as Hereiords.
The cattle we did spy were as fat
and sleek looking as those exhibit-
ed at the fair. While we noted
so- ie dairy animals pasturing on
irrigated greenery, most of the
beef cattle Were eating off dry lit
tle bunches of grass and seeming
to thrive upon them. f j
Both In Wenatchee and Yakima
the businesi! folk were greatly in
terested in &e surrounding farm--ing
county, it was, they said, their
bread and butter, j
Peaches Plestifal ' . j
In contrast to our own short
peach crop! here, peaches seemed
plentiful. Trees i.ere well loaded
the later Varieties, that is. But
we were told that prior to the dif
ficult winter! two years ago, there
were manylnore peach trees. A
large number had been winter
killed.- : ......ii:, ;v-4
But of I everything we; saw, ii
was the apple trees with their
heavy load if of i fruit vrhich im
pressed us irnost It Just didn't
seem possible that there could be
that many j apples anywhere or
being that many apples, that there
could be a market for them and
yet we were told, the "market is
err good.",; .
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UARQUAM The Kosltor fire
department was called to the Har
vey Jackjnjffarra for a trash Ere
on a sUanpiihst was siirposed to
have burned- out It had been
plowed around so there : was no
real danger,: ,... J---';-:-. ,
- Dy ULLIE L tAADZiU
each ather ia fae Wenatchee valley.
at srens ax picture. (Farm phot lor
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351 Etaie Cfreet
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The Weaiher Cools. Most Everyone Enjoys Eating Meat
The Midget Markets Offer .Value Thai Will Stretch Your
Budget Here Ther Are, Look Them Over, f, 1
foil DoosS
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Farm Editor
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Trees ara heavily loaded with
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Big Heifer
Sale, Sept. 24
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i Twenty-eight : Dairy Breeders
associaUan heifers .and cows are
scheduled i for auction at the -state
fairgrounds, Salem, Monday, Sep
tember 24 at 12w0 p.rn. Marion
County D iiry Breeders association
president I Vernon Hepler, Canby,
says animals from two other coun
ty groups will be included this
year. Auctioneer Ben Sudtell will
handle this second annual asso
ciation sale.:.j4 t
I Twelve Jerseys from association
sires nave been consiged. -W. T.
Putman, Jr, Hillsbpro, has three
In the sale- Jim Daugherty, Wood
burn, consigned two, one is the
granddaughter of his Cherry cow
that topped the Dairy Herd Im
provement association records for
several years. Silas Torvend and
Jim Phillips of Silvertoo have a
fine - Jersey calf and Lawrence
and Robins, Aurora are offering a
registered calf from Oregon Price
less Benjamin. Vernon Hepler,
Canby has two entries and Oscar
pverlund, Silvertony Paul Cham
bers, Corvallis. and ML A. Crip-
per. Forest Grove, each one Jersey.
Joe Rice of Silverton has a Febru
ary calf entered from J-18.
Guernseys j Second Ilirh -
Nine Guernseys will be headed
by two third calf cows from G-59,
Commander of Prarie Bloom. R. L.
Freeburg, Woodburn, has consign
ed the cows. Paul Mann, Silverton,
has two bred heifers entered, one
to be fresh by sale time, Septem
ber 24.: i5 h' "-u -
Lelaad Kocher. Hubbard, and
Howard - Klopfenstein. ; Silverton,
each have bred" Guernsey heifers
Consigned, Oscar Strand, Silverton,
two and Carl Swanson, Colton,
Oregon. . D H. Gordener, Canby,
entered a-G-68, Tideland Arbitra
tor calf that freshens in January.
Holsteins Offered -
L Seven nicely " bred ; Holsteins
ve come in 1 this year. George
Kruse, president of the Mt Angel
Creamery has listed two registered
&olstein heifers. Walter Von Flue
and Sons, Silverton are sending a
welt grown animal, and Edward
Freudenthol, Hilkboro, has con
iigned two yearlings - and ' two
calves. j '
I' Extension dairyman. Harold
Ewalt assisted the sifting commit
tee and reported the animals to be
pt high quality. Several will be
registered animals. , , -I
Catalogues are available' from
ill Williams, 803 Oak st, Silver-
ton..". ii. , r
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September 2-22 Marion Coun
ty Fair, Woodburn. :
September 21 J- Second annual
Marion County Dairy Breeders
association heifer sale, Salem. -
September 24 1 Farm Labor
meeting. Labor1 -Temple, Salem.
September -tt I v Strawberry
Growers meeting, Corvallis, 10
a. m j j : r
October C-1S Pacific Interna
tional Livestock Exposition, Korth
Portland. . ,j .. 1 . - . , -
October 20 -S- Oregon Jersey
Heifer sale, Malheur county.; -i
October 3-Sl National convo
cation of churches in town and
country. First .Baptist church
Portland. j. i . .
; November 15-18- Oregon Recla
mation congress. Bend. ,
: November 2C-D ectnber 1
Farm Bureau lederation conven
tion. Senator hotel, Salem.
; November 2$-$ Oregon State
horticultural society meetingrosc.
! t December l-Oregon Jersey Cat
tle club meetidjgSalem. ;
December JJ Oregon Wool
Growers association, Portland.
! December 47 Pacific Coast
Turkey- Show, fttf cMinnville.
December 4
National Wool
Growers associ
land.
tion meeting, Port-
Fall Peach!
Spray
Time Now
t Hand
! Fall sprays
to, control peach
spray, or Ca
ornia
blight on
peaches are nqw in order, county
extension agents r are reporting.
Sprays are recommended for use
as soon as peaches are harvested.
I Phygon. three-fourths nound to
J00 gallon of water,- is the best
pray .to use for. this control, the
agents state. For home garden
spraying, use pn-third ounce of
Phygon to eath -tWo gallons of
Water.
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fievr Marsliall Berry
Subject of Meeting
I Strawberry growers and proces
sors will hear about a new virus
free Marshall strawberry plant at
a state wide meeting Thursday,
September 27, at Oregon State col
lege. The meeting has been set for
the. Memorial)! Union building,
Starting at 10 it. m. vf -
To.be discussed with plant and
berry growers,! as well as proces
sors, will be foundation stock "pro
duction, new standards for cer
tification as well as cultural in
formation. - k .
The Marshall has been the old
stand-by in th$ state's strawberry
processing industry. - ,
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nydra-MaUa Drivm
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Time to Plant
Aiimial Cover
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Annual cover crops are recom
ended for western Oregon fruit
nd nut orchards md cane berry
lanungs. These crops should be
ded early in the 11 and knock
down or disked under early in
spring.- : ..
Fall cover crops use In the Wil-
mette valley include Willamette
etch, ;hairy vetch, crimson .do-,
erj Austrian winter field peas.
winter grains. A combination
of a legume and a grain is sug
gested for the , averase "- farm.
V.ereWetch and grain are used,
at least 100 pounds seed should be
deeded per acre. A suggested com
bination is 35 to 50 pounds of Wil
lamette vetch and 60 to 70 pounds
Of winte.! oats or barley.
Where vetch is used alone, the
suggested rate per acre is "5 to 80
pounds. . ;
On depleted upland soils, win
tier rye at the rate of 90 to 100
pounds per acre will usually grow
where other grains may not give
flood stands. The main objection
to rye as a cover crop is thai the
riank growth may be hard to knoc
down during, a rainy spring sea
son.: , i " '
Drilling is suggested for. the lar
ger seeded legumes and grains.
Howeve. some farmers report
good stands by broadcasting the
seed and then disking or harrow-
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Nitrogen fertilizers are recom
mended for use with fall - cover
crop seeding. Up to 40 pounds av
ailable nitrogen per acre is a safe
rater that will help fall growth ' of
the cover crop without forcing of
th i trees or berry plants. Ammon
ium; sulphate at the rate of 200
pounds per acre or 16-20 at 200
to 250 pounds per acre are the
highest rates suggested for fall
cover crops. - i
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Are Ilicli Proc!iicer?3-
Foir Boring Folk !
-Registered twin ;Jersfy heifers
owned by .Mr. and Mrs. Ml C Ma
lar, Boring, are alike in mdke ways
than just j appearance;, j f
The twin heifersj riarcje4 "Star'
and -No-Star,? becsusj f their
markings, j have just tcfnpleted
their first laeationl fl-o-Star"
produced 655.7 pounds of butter
fat In 10,627 pounosiof kn!k, and
"Star- produced 2i;i pounds of
butterfat in 10,i89 pounds 'pt milk.
Both lactations Were imadd in 305
days, and being twins, the! heifers
were both i th ree vea and one
month. ! , ; ' r '
The M Jars have been ffetruent
exhibitors at the Oregon state fair
at Salem as well as thtTClaickamas
county fair at Canby, j
Milk Output
Costs Triplet!
In 20
Years
While
Iretail milk pricH in the
past 20
years have only
doubled.
milk production costs i arf three
times as high as they were! in that
period. Feed costs atone: fer 100
pounds of milk produced j are bet
ter than two and one-half times
as much today as ; they H ere la
10?ft . H i; . . I 5 . . 1 i
Feed stilt takes the hlggest slice
(46 cents) of the dairyman's cost
dollar. Labor, which' figured 23
cents out of each. tost dollar 20
years ago,! now ; figures ?Q cents.
Cost of the cow herself is six times
more today thn it was in 11932.-
These figures were reloaded this
week byjD, Curtis MurnfOrrt, Ore
gon State college agricultural
economist I who h&$ Studied rec
ords, taken from 60! Willamette-
valley, dairy farms I let 1 recent
months. I !i s I ; f Ll i
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