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VMLAMmE- VALLEY 'FARMER Mows and Viovs of Farm and Garden -Dy iiuis u AADS-l if i 4 . I T J L AY 7 v v : t' j" - 7 J J Elton Watts, Sllverton, will be lone man honored at the 4-H club leaden banquet Thursday night for hlv tor worked as a elnb leader five years. A number of men will receive one-year pins, however. Watts is pictured here with Henry Weimer, an eight-month boar which he Just received from Boise, Idaho. Watts Is widely known for his Chester Whites, having taken a Urge number of prizes at Oregon shows. (Farm rnoto for Ine statesman.) EBaimclh UGammlbDOnags By Lillie L. Madsen f rrm Editor, Th Statesman f I It takes time and patience but it's fun, says Elton Watts, who has been a 4-H club leader, in Marion county for five years and will re ceive a pin testifying to that fact tonight at the annual Marion county 4-H leaders banquet. Elton was born in Iowa but lived here and there sort of before he came to the Willamette valley in 1925. He liked it so well that he married a native, Claire Collard, (bora .out at what once was Parkersville) and settled down for life. i Elton and Claire bought themselves a 60-acre farm one owned by Chris LJchty and settled down to some serious crop raising. Not least serious was their fonr-child crop, Harold Is now 19 and Is taking of all things for a farm-reared lad business administration and accounting at the University of Oregon. How ard Is 15, goes to school at Sllverton and Is definitely Interested In farming. The lone girl in the family. Helen, Is 12, goes to school at Central Howell and the fact that she placed well In her showman ship at Pacific International Indicates that she, like Howard, Is In- -teres ted in farming. And Dick, the youngest one,ffihds it a com plete bore to pat in time at school when he could be home roaming - about on the farm. r t " . The Watts family has rented an additional 40 acres of land and is growing 35 acres of corn this year. The ranch 'rambler caught Elton out harvesting corn this week, and he indicated he might do some en tering in the Marion county corn show set for Central Howell on No vember 17. Otherwise the corn is grown for swine feed, as swine rais ing is the main project on the farm at the .moment. There are 100 pigs, big and small on the place. i i f ' " ! But another project is being added to the Watts farm. The 14 Jer sey cows are going into a grade A dairy as soon as possible. Work'on bringing the barn and dairy division up to grade A standards is al- Sniall Seed Prices Holding Steady There was little chance in the price situation for Oregon small seeds during the week ending No vember 7, the USD A reports. Al sike clover seed sales by growers slowed down during the week just ended.; Some sales were reported ly made in the Klamath Basin at 42 cents a pound for seed test ting -98-99. Most shippers' offers. however, were at 40 to 42 cent level. The relatively small amoun of seed that is left is in strong hands.: - . i ; : Highland bent grass seed prices remained about steady. A few sales by growers were reported within a range of 85 to 87 cents a pound for blue tag reed. Most of the shippers' offer were at 85 cents a pound. Uncertified seed sold from 82 to 85 cents, de pending upon the quality of the individual lot. mciais To Entertain 4-HLeaders More than one hundred Marlon county 4-H club leaders will be dinner guests of the Portland Gen eral Electric company at 7 p. m. Thursday, November 8, in the Capital room of the Senator hotel. Included in the group is Mrs. Arthur Weddle who will receive her 25-year pin as a leader in home making and health.. How ever, two other women have each served two years longer than she, Theresa Denier and Mrs. Harvy Evans, both of whom have com pleted their -27 years as 4-H duo leaders. . ' ' . --: Receiving 10-year pins are Mrs. Minnie Goode, Salem; Mrs. Lloyd Leach, Detroit, and Mrx. . A. Klein,, Aumsville. Helen . Keber and Eustelle Bauman, both of Mt. Angel will receive 15-year pins, and Mrs. Emma wolf ord of Sll verton, a 20-year pin. To Get 5-Year Pins One lone man, Elton Watts of Sliverton, along with 11 women will receive five-year pins. The feminine . members of this group are Gladys Burch, May Brown, Letty Genre and lone Macnamara of Salem; Gladys Claxton, Detroit; Patricia Connell, Mt. Angel; Mrs. A. H. Hennies and Mrs.Xoren Newkirk, Turner; Lois Ricnes and Selma Moser, Sllverton, and Mrs. Ben Stoner, Aurora. Ninety-six will be given one year pins. T. R. Hobart, iield representa tive of the U. S National bank, will award the pins. ' .Principal speaker for the eve ning ts Lester Kirkendall, . asso ciate professor of family relations. Oregon State college. Ruby Bun nell, secretary of the Marion County Tubercular and Health association will be toastmistress, and singing will be led by Mrs. Anthol Riney. Mrs. Evans to Install . Mrs. Willow Evans will install the Local Leaders' association of f icers who include Mrs. George Durham, president; William Wil liams, vice president; Mrs. A. W. Katka, - secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Galen Siddall and Harold Bressler, members-at-large. Out-going officers are Mrs. Sid dall, president; Mrs. Durham, vice president; Mrs. Sam Drager, sec retary-treasurer: Mrs. Bressler and Mrs. Siddall, members-at- large. Arranging the banquet are Mrs. J. C. Mount, Mrs. A: W. Beardsley, Mrs Melvin DuRette, Mrs. John Cage and Mrs. Siddall. : Table floral arrangements i are to be furnished by Breithaupt's, Olson's, Shafer's, Flowers by Jary, Lutz, and the Flower Box, all Sa lem florists. ! ready underway. In rambling out through the country we find that farmers are pretty well satisfied with their fall work. The crops, they say, are better balanced this year. Weather has permitted putting in what the fanners thought best; Some years, weather prevents much fall owing, and farmers In the valley are forced to pui in spring crops whether they want to or not. This year. If spring Crops go Into the soil it la because the farmers want spring crops. They have had plenty of good weather in which to plant any fall crop they might . .wish to SOW. . : ' .. ' f '. . 1- , " I I The Linn County Livestock association, headed ; by Leonard Fors ter of Tangent, is planning two events for the winter. First of these will be the annual beef tour on Tuesday, November ! 20. Arranging the tour are Albert Julian of Lyons and John Rohwein fof Scio,and these two are planning stops at Mill City, Lyons and Sclo beef areas. The second event for the winter will be the annual meeting to be held in Lebanon on January 16. ' i f Don't get In a rush and go out to prune your fruit and nut trees this fall In order to save time next spring, county agents are reminding orehardists. If you feel you must do some pruning now then cut out a few branches on the more hardy and less valuable varieties. Fall pruning of fruit and nut trees may! result In severe, Injury from freezing, the horticulture specialists are reporting. You should delay your pruning until late winter or early spring to play safe. : . ; . P V j I : - Another thing you shouldn't be doing just to save time, is spray your perennial grasses with the new wonder spray uPC after Novem ber 10. This selective spray is used to control annual grasses in peren nial grass fields but it is very apt to reduce seriously seed yield in the cerennial fields u put on too late. ; I The county agents are pointing to several altaland chewings fes cue fields that were sprayed late last year and failed to set seed heads this year. v Speaking of grass seed, a report just came: across the ranch ram blers desk that Linn county ranks first among Oregon counties, in the production of certified Alta fescue seed. Linn county has 3,879 acres eligible for certification uus year. ; ? Second is Union county with 2,410 acres, and third is Marion county with 1.516 acres. .: i I ' Linn county also ranks first in the production of common ryegrass and certified perennial ryegrass seeas. ; ? -i After reading this report we feel sure that some of the other counties are going out to try to break Linn's record Turkey Exhibit Plans Going Ahead i Red! Dunning and his gang are going i to entertain the Pacific Coast Turkey Exhibitors this year at McMinnville, December 4-7, announces the board of directors of the: turkey association. Most of the features that have been carried out in the past will be a part, of the show again this year, board members also state Indications are too. that Nebrask an. turkeys will be exhibits this year. This is a large white variety of turkeys not too well known in this area. Rabbit Show Set At Albany, Nov. 17 - linn county rabbit breeders, both open class entrants and 4-H club members, will have an op portunity to exhibit their ani mals ' at . Linn-Benton Rabbit Breeders association's annual Sweepstakes show, scheduled for November 17 and 18 at the 4-H club fair building. Albany. E. H. Rudisill is general chair man of the show. He will be as sisted by Jimmy Monroe, Ed Can trell and Fred jV. McCown, show superintendents! All entries are due at the grounds at 10 a. m Saturday. November 17, with judging scheduled to start at 11 a. m. . i . A giant African land snail can eat a whole head of lettuce in night. . .i - ,. FEDEOttS ijD UMEIUtfS . AXD XtUT MEATS' ? Highest cash pric on delivery Ilcrris JRZil :m I?cc!zip3 Co. 4C3 I!oti Frost EL, Sales Tel 3-7CC3 November 8-f Soil Conserva tion meeting Salem, Marion hotel. November t Marion County local leaders dinner 7 pja, Sena tor hoteL - ' November 12-18 Agriculture Cooperative Council of Oregon, 30th annual meeting, Multnomah hoteL Portland. " - - November 12 Marion County Weed Control district meeting, 1 p Al, Mayflower halL , November IS Farm & darden Organic society," Salem Memorial hospital chapel, 8 pjn. u .' November 'IS Oregon Swine Growers association annual meet ing. Senator hoteL 10 ajn. i November IS Oregon Baby Chick association annual fall meet ing, Multnomah hoteL Portland. November 15-16 Oregon Recla mation Congress, Bend. -' T v- f. November. 15 - Marion1 county Livestock association, Washington Irving building. 8 vjbl. SilVerton. November. 17 Marion County Corn show; Central HowelL . November 17-18 Linn County Rabbit show, Albany. ' November 18 Rabbit i show. Salem. ' November 28-30 Oregon Farm Bureau Federation convention. Senator hotel, Salem. : ' November 28 Oregon Turkey Improvement association outlook meeting, Mayflower halL Salem, 8 p.m. ' November 28-30 Western For estry and Conservation association, 42nd annual meeting, Multnomah hotel, Portland. I November 29-30 Oregon State Horticultural society meeting, OSC. K ' i ! gon State Corn show, Canby. November 30-DeCember 1 Ore gon State Beekeepers' association annual meeting, Baker. , ! December 1 Oregon Jersey Cat tle club meetmg, annual election December 3 Oregon Wool Growers association, Portland. December 4-7. Pacific Coast Turkey show, McMinnville. i December 4-7 - National Wool Growers association meeting, Port land. ; :" :l : i .. .. . December 8 Marion County Dairy Breeders association, Salem, senator hotel, 10 ajn. r December 6 Oregon Guernsey Breeders annual meeting, Senator hotel, Salem. : ; December 7-8 Second annual meeting of Oregon Rural Health council, OSC. f 4 December 20-21 Nut Growers society of Oregon and Washington, 37th annual meeting, Multnomah hotel, Portland.; V k'ruit lirrowers AmnigeBig .29 Adding Ragweed To Weed Control Program Talked i ! Weeds and Weed control dis tricts will be on the program Monday, November 12 at the May flower Hail in saiem at l p. m. Weed district inspector, Jake Neufeldt, and extension crops spe cialist, Rex Warren, will review 1951 activities in weed control and hear recommendations for the dis trict's operation in 1952. r Tansy Ragwort and Gorse are now the designated weeds, : and weed committee chairman, Arno Spranger, of Salem, says tax payers attending the meeting may want to consider addition of rag weed or other bcthersome plants to control program. Farm Prices: Now Rising ! An abrupt halt has been called to the downward trend in farm prices, the USDA report i issued Wednesday shows. The national index not only halted in its down ward trend. but made an! about face and started up. - Production costs, however, also climbed back to the recent record high. Average prices received bv farmers, nationally, advanced two per cent from mid-September to mid-October, the first increase in farmers' prices since last Febru ary. All commodities, of 1 course, did not share in the advance. Dairy and cotton products were leading contributors to the in crease, while cattle, fruit, poultry corn and wool were among those showing price declines during this period. - . . ! Higher prices "tor feed,' feeder livestock, automobiles, and trucks upped farm operating costs with farm wage rates also slightly high er this month. i Event Nov The 1951 meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural society on No vember, 29-30 promises to be one of the outstanding meetings dur ing the 66-year history of the organization,' says D. L. Rasmus sen, Marion county horticultural agents ; - ' : . .- Under the leadershin of Presi dent Ward - Spatz and Program Chairman Paul J. Skinner, both of Medford, the society will pre sent a varied program of inter ast to . growers and processors from the major horticultural crop pro ducing areas of Oregon. The convention will be held in Corvallis and all sessions will be held' at" the Memorial : Union building on Oregon State college campus. The November 29 session will start with registration at 8 m. and on Friday, November 30, the opening session is set for 9 a. m. The afternoon program each day will be divided into four group meetings: Pears and ap ples, small fruits, stone fruits and vegetables. acn sections pro gram will include discussions on subjects requested by growers, processors and others Interested in the horticultural industry. According to Skinner, the No vember 29-30 meeting should be or particular interest to horucul tural crop growers. . ."In these times, the grower must stay abreast of changing conch tions and improved practices It is too easy for a grower to be come so involved in his own op eration that he does not have time to find out what the other fellow is doing," Rasmussen states. New Lotus Free - - . From Cattle Bloat Granger lotus is a new variety of lotus corniculatus released this year by' Oregon State college ex periment station. H. A. Schoth, senior agronomist at the college, states that reports on its per formance are extremely favor able. It has rapid and vigorous seedling development. Indications are that it may outlive ladino and produce as much palatable forage unaer tne same conditions. mere nas never been a case of livestock bloat reported on cultivated lotus. It can be grown for seed in several areas in Ore gon but is especially well adapted to the Willamette valley. Since the seeds are small, it would be difficult to separate from alsike, white, ladino and strawberry clover. For that reason it should not be grown where it could mix with these clovers, Schoth reports, owners. ThiaScrap Will Pay Out, Says Newell as Farm organizations, community dubs, other rural groups, and in dividuals can make their Christ mas money this yeaf by getting in the scrap, says Ben A. Newell, Marion county agricultural agent. Scrap metal, needed for defense well as for civilian building and equipment, is a "Cinderella find" on many farms, he adds. Prices range from $20 a ton on scrap iron and steel,' ana siu for tin which includes old car bodies and fenders. Practically all the steel made in the northwest comes from scrap, Newell ex plains. The Oregon Rolling Mills in Portland use 10.000 tons a month. Newell suggests . searching the home ' junk piles, fence corners and machine sheds, and clean up all the metal not in use or that probably will never be used for welding or xepair of farm machines. Such scrap .heaps might fur nish ' play ground equipment for rural schools. It might paint the grange hall or roof the play shed or even buy the winter's fuel for the church, Newell said,-as ne urged farmers to clean up junk from the home grounds. Oregon Swine Breeders Plan Meet at Salem Swine breeders from through out the state, are invited' to the annual Oregon Swine Growers as sociation meeting to be held at the . Senator hotel, Salem, Tues day, November 13, at 10 a. m.. reports Ben A. Newell, associa tion secretary. . ..Provided for program numbers are a panel discussion or breed' ers' feeding management and dis ease problems, discussion on the Oregon State college swine re search ' program by Professor James Oldfield and election of of ficers. . ; . - Valley Farm store manager, Don Schmidt, ' will show the Purina film, "A Trip Through a Pig Fac tory.' and a report on market de mands for carcass type and bred gilt sales will be made. Hog numbers are the lowest in 80 ; "years - in Oregon, says Mr, Newell. They are now 60 per cent below the 1944 peak and Oregon is a heavy importation state for pork and pork products, he adds. President George- Kraus of Sil verton reminds breeders that the organization is one for commer cial breeders as well as purebred Jrchanlistsf Losing Trees From Diseas A' Walnut growers are reDortlnc considerable blackline disease showing up in their ' orchards again this year. In visiting! around the" countryside, several iwalnut orchards where trees are dead and aying, nave been noted. iWavna Roberts, county extension agent in xammii county reports. He adds that about 80 per cent of this la due to the blackline di a. He describes blackline 1 disease as a non-parasitic disorder with no satisfactory control that will save affected trees. . - , In the early stages, blackline la indicated by short and i slender , shoot growth along with dropping of part or all of the leaves. As a rule suckers from the black wal nut root stock appear at the same' time or shortly afterwards. Tho affected tree will usually die in rrom two to nve yean after it first starts showing symptoms cf the disease. i - The decline and death1 of the tree is caused by the development or a aark brown layer; of non- conductive callous tissue at th graft union.; The layer eventually - encircles tne tree ana- breaks tho ? union between the black walnut root stock and the Persion scion. This results In death of the- tree. Here in the Pacific northwest Roberts states, only the Franquette variety grafted on the Hinds black walnut' root stock or on a hybrid between. Hinds and soma lather species of blacL walnut has so far been affected. The disorder oc curs not only in the crown grafted trees, but also in the limb grafted trees as well.. . ! ; . Mr. Roberts said this week that some of the propagators are turn ing back to using Persion walnut seedlings of the Franquette variety instead of black walnuts! to get away from this trouble. While this practice sholud prevent the black line disease, It is well to remem ber, says Mr. Roberts, that Persian walnut root is very susceptible to mushroom root rot and should bo planted on land that is free from' the fungus causing this disease. 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