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it " " i ? 31T....T .11 0 ' ; . - 10 The' Skrt mda; Salem. Oregon, Thursday; Icmuarr 24 1S53 Hop growers Since Gay 908 . ; r - - t INDEPENDENCE A total ef 115 la these tws men who cot tocether in dorln the week. D. P. McCarthy, left, started In the MoUlla area In 1895 and Jim R. Linn started three years earlier at Wood born. Both are now mixed up in the Independence hop rtowlnf deaL (Statesman Photo.) We enjoyed the hop meeting we got in on tho other day over at Independence. We recall very distinctly the time when hop meetings were not very friendly affairs it a couple of healthy arguments, this ': Interesting at the hop meeting were remarks' of those who were not too keen about the hop marketing agreement in its present form . . . "There are some of us," said one gentleman, "who don't want to grow 20 or 25 per cent of something no one wants and just let that amount hang on the vines. We'd like to sell all wo grow or not grow so much. Now it seems no matter a certain per cent has to hang on harvested then a certain amount of mulches or fertilizers. It just doesn t seem natural." ' And 'over at Silverton's hop meeting, they were just as em phatic about it. In fact, Fritz Stadeli, who is Quite a hop grower, said that "even the cannibals in Darkest Africa would know better than to grow something they knew they were going to let hang on the vines." But Paul Roweli, who is managing agent of the Hop Control Board, and who knows more about hops and hop marketing agree ments than most of the rest of us put together, says that "the agree ment wasp't set up to stop normal marketing and to take care of any Gene McCarthy, Independence, another chap who knows consid erable about hops, expressed the opinion that "the hop market agree ment couldn't be suspended under present conditions and hop growing go on successfully" . . . Gene, who is also widely known for his sheep, added, in an aside, that he almost wished all his hops were sheep at the moment. Hop growers haven't had too smooth sailing this past year, we gathered, but they were a pleasant bunch and we found they liked the product of their own production. We were rather interested in a talk made by Charles Swango at the Linn County Livestock meeting over at Lebanon daring the week. Charles is running some 400 ewes on 175 acres of irri gated pasture in Lane Connty. He said he made an early hay cat from the fields, then sheep-pastured them for a time, and later took a seed harvest from them. In this manner, he had averaged aa much as $290 per acre in some fields. He said he used 15 pounds of alts "escue seed, two pounds of Ladino clover and from six to eight pounds of red clover per acre for his pastures. We were to a strawberry meeting this week, too, but it was at a flax meeting that we heard Dean Earl Price, Oregon State College, sounding off, about strawberry varieties. He opined that if farmers don't change their strawberry varieties from Marshall to something a bit more disease resisUni they "are going broke." And he ; wasn't blaming the strawberry grower. He was talking about the buyers, whom, he claimed "are holding up the growers by not recognizing any other variety than Marshalls." Earl insisted there were some new varieties which are better in flavor, more disease resistant and just as fine processors, but growers were sold down the river with their "old Marshalls." At the strawberry meeting, where they talked some of fescue fields in relation to strawberries, we were Interested in Henry Hansen's discussion. Henry lives up toward really we should say up on top of the Sublimity area and has grown strawberries for ulte some time. He said he had grown fescue on a field from three to five years, ploughed that up and then put in strawberries. This, he said, had proved quite successful. He Is evidently of an experimental mind, for he said he now had an idea of trying to run turkeys for a year- on the sod, after he had taken off his fescue seed and before-he ploughed it up for strawberry planting. The speakers at the strawberry meeting seemed to be quite satis fied that spittle bug, strawberry root weevil and strawberry fruit worm could all be controlled and that most growers were following the suggested controls effectively. Which we were very pleased to hear. We never did like to pick the hull off from a nice big strawberry and find a nice big worm feeding there when we had meant to do that ourselves. We never liked to go into our own little strawberry patch and wade around in spittle bug froth, and we were very opposed to the root weevils eating off tho roots of our strawberries, rhododen drons and primroses. " ' ' But to get back to the flax meeting (which we left a few asterisks () up the page) Dr. D. D. Hill, head of farm crops department, Oregon State College, urged flax farmers to grow their own seed for their flax fields. He said it wasn't necessary to Import seed from Canada for planting; that if Oregon farmers could keep their's clean, it would be just as good as that from the northern country. .The plant doctor almost sounded like an organic farmer, too. He insisted there was no substitute for organic matter tot make soil pro ductive, and, he added, "you can't supply it all out of a sack. But before he got through talking, we noted there was also a place for the plant foods which did come out of sacks. ATTENTION LOGGERS AND FARMERS LOGS WANTED -Ft. . 1-Ff. And Long length At Top Price ' : DUMLAND LUMBER CO. Phone) 1125 .! - 4 Turner, Oregon ' ' I ' L dfc e a wife S3 - fl;: yean of hopfrewinr U represented at the Independence hop meet wasn't too long ago. But, besides meeting went along smoothly. how little or how much we grow the vines if not harvested; or if bales of hops have to be used for marketing but to create orderly burdensome surplus. 1 1 WILLAMETTE VALLEY News and Views of MeMiiinville Livestock Meet Starts Monday Western Oregon Livestock As sociation officers will arrive in McMinnville Sunday to get set for the big convention which starts there Monday. Convention dates are Jan. 28-30. Archie Rickkola, president from Astoria, along with the secretary. H. A. LJndgren of Corvallis, have a busy three-day session outlined. Committees, they report, will work under the following titles: Predatory animal and game; swine production; livestock dis ease; range, pasture management and weed control: youth; mem bership and public relations, and marketing and resolutions. The opening session will take up at 10:30 Monday morning in the Lark Theater. The commit tee work will follow and take up the balance of the day. Banquet Tuesday Tuesday's program will con sist mainly of hearing speakers on many of the important sub jects that concern livestockmen. Meat price regulations will be dis cussed" by G. O. Stearns. The pro gram of the National Cattlemen's Association will be discussed by Harry Stearns of Eastern Oregon. Problems in the swine industry will be discussed by Charlie Evans of Independence. The 1952 Agricultural Confer ence will be discussed by Frank Ballard, associate director of Ore gen Extension Service. The convention banquet will be held Tuesday night in the fair building at McMinnville. Speak ers for this will be John Swarth out, head of the political science department, Oregon State Col lege. He will talk on the Western European Federation. The last day's program will be mainly committee reports and summing up the convention. Entertainment for Wives There will be entertainment provided for the wives and other women guests. The Western Oregon Livestock Association is made up of the 14 Willamette Valley and coast county livestock associations. All sessions are open to the public. This will be the 16th annual get together of the group. Committee heads include pas ture, range management and weed control, Arthur Johnson, Astoria; legislation and taxation, Charles Evans, Independence; predatory and game animals, Glen Martin, McCoy; youth, Paul Nelson, Al bany; resolutions, R. L. Jones, Clifrton; membership and public relations, Leonard Forster, Tan gent; marketing, Walter Fisher, Oregon City; livestock diseases, Alvin Hartley, Silverton, and swine production, Lyle McKin ley, Woodburn. CHERRY MEETING SLATED Insect and disease control will be discussed by three speakers at the Marion-Polk County Cherry Growers meeting In Salem Thurs day, Jan. 31, reports D. L. Ras mus sen, Salem, and N. John Han sen, Dallas, county agents in charge of arranging the program. Speakers will Include S. C. Jones, H. J. O'Reilly and A. P. Steeland, all from Oregon State College. GOO j , r - FREE pGFGQimcaODsed gOuGgCsg Enjoy the EXTRA prestige of your own Personalized Checks... checks svitfa your name and address imprinted FREE. At The First National Bank of Portland you can open your regular checking account ANY DAY (except Sunday) 10 to 5, including Saturday.., and take advantage of the convenience of paying bills by mail with Person alized Checks. Check stubs become a permanent record of personal expenses ...cancelled checks your receipts! Avail yourself of this, and all other banking needs, at First National Bank of Portland, - E D Q8 '""I Farm and Garden 4-H Club Leaders Will Meet Jan. 26 At Keizer School Reiser schoolhouse will be headquarters, Saturday. Jan. 26, starting at 1:30 for all Marion County rural and city 4-H Club presidents, secretaries and news reporters for the officers' train ing meeting. Dr. Tom Poffenberger, family life specialist, Oregon State Col lege, will discuss "Parents and Child Relations with the 4-H leaders during the instruction period. Mrs. Agnes Booth, Marion County school superintendent, will be in charge of presidents and vice presidents' training. Club secretaries will meet with Miss Pauline Saalfeld of Mount Angel and Carolyn Sha ver, Information specialist, Ore gon State College, assisted by Winston Taylor, Oregon States man, who will head the instruc tion, for news reporters. At the close of the training meeting a number of trophies will be presented including the Mary Fulkerson clothing trophy, the George Eyre trophy for best swine project, the Chester Fred erickson Rabbit Special and the sheep. Jam and Jelly special awards for 195L New Seed Crop Possibilities Are Suggested Two new seed crop possibilities are Romack peas, and as yet an unnamed rust resistant common ryegrass variety from Argentina. H. sH. Rampton. United States Department of Agriculture agron omist, stationed at Oregon State College, describes Romack as a legume with more vigor and dis sease resistance in the South than Austrian Winter Field peas. The new variety was developed in Georgia, and has been sent here for seed increase, Mr. Rampton re ports. The southern states, Hampton adds, would use lots more common ryegrass if it were rust resistant, and the new Argentina import is expected to widen market oppor tunities there. A healthy future for certified Kenland red clover seed is being forecast by C. Garrison, USDA agronomist from Beltsville, Md who visited in the Willamette Val ley recently. He said ther is imme diate need for 13 million pounds of seed and the supply is not expect ed to reach 10 million pounds an nually before 1954. The crop is being recommend for planting in 29 southeastern states. Seed of two bromegrasses in de mand, Garrison adds, are Lincoln and Auchenback. Both are more desirable than the northern va riety, he says. . RD3GWAY CONFIDENT TOKYO (yF-Gen. Matthew B Ridgway told a group of visiting Filipino congressman and officers Wednesday that "if the Commu nists attack, U. N. forces will wipe out their concentrations to a man. TT CJ Afffl HAD, BACJEX F FARMER -By LILLIE L MADS EN Study Dormant Sprays Before Using, Advised The term "dormant spray" us ually means a spray applied to a deciduous type plant before the buds start to swell. Winter Is the only season that certain strong sprays can be applied for insect and disease control without injur ing the plants. - Liquid lime sulfur is one of the best materials for dormant sprays. In Western Oregon, it is commonly applied before the buds open, as a control for San Jose scale, cer tain species of spider mites, cer tain species of aphids, and moss For apples, pears, prunes, and cherries the usual lime sulfur dor' mant spray contains one gallon liquid lime surfur mixed with nine gallons of water. Good Rose Spray Lime sulfur is also the favorite dormant spray for rose growers Most growers use a 10 per cent lime sulfur spray or a little strong er. For roses, a mixture of one pint liquid lime sulfur and one. gallon of water makes a good dormant spray. This spray is ap plied in February before growth starts. Caneberry growers use lime sul fur as a clean-up spray for their plantings. It is recommended for control of leaf and cane spot, an thracuose, and certain other fungus diseases of caneberries. If used be fore the buds open, a 10 per cent lime sulfur spray is recommended for currants and gooseberries; lo ganberries, boysenberries, young berries, and nectar berries; other trailing berry types including Cas cade, Pacific. Olallie. Santiam. and Chehalem; thornelss evergreen blackberries, and red and black raspberries. Discolor Woodwork Unfortunate for the home gar deners, lime sulfur discolors paint ed woodwork, brick ,and other ex terior finishes. Therefore, it should not be used on trees and shrubs planted close to houses, garages, fences, and other woodwork or building materials. A canvas or other covering will proteet wood-, work from the spray. No plant should be given a dor mant spray unless the operator knows what he is spraying for and knows that the dormant spray will not harm the plant. A 10 per cent lime sulfur and a four per cent oil emulsion spray are strong sprays. If carelessly used, on all plants, they will do more harm than good. If used as recommend ed, they will do a good job of pest control for the home gardener or commercial grower. BRED GILT SALE ANNOUNCED The seventh annual bred gilt sale of the Oregon Swine Growers Association will be held Satur 'ay, Feb. 2, at the State Fairgrounds. Lyle McKinley, Woodburn, sale committee chairman, reports that there will be 40 gilts of eight breeds consigned. The Middle Grove Associated Clubs will serve lunch at noon, Saturday, and CoL Earl Gillespie of Corvallis will cry the sale. Oak wilt attacks shade and ornamental oaks as well as those in forest stands. SALEM BRANCH OF POCTUIKO Dougl&sFir '"' Reported Cut Prematurely A trend toward premature clear cutting of 30 to 60-year second growth stands of Western Oregon timber is a problem being studied by a statewide farm forestry com mittee. Cash in the pocket today looks better than considerably more in come "tomorrow when the trees are mature, explains Glen Haw kins, Vemonia, the committee head. Second growth Douglas fir. Western Oregon's most important forest tree, is normally not ready for clear cutting before it is 70 fto 80 years of age qr older. Pressure from loggers is the rea son many woodland owners are selling these young stands, the committee members state. National consumption of lumber continues high while supply of available privately-owned timber is decreasing. The committee esti mates that the supply of available privately owned saw timber in the state may be vanishing at the rate of five billion board feet an nually. Annual cut, meanwhile, is about 10 billion board feet year. High Demand Continued high demand on one hand; decreasing supply on the other, has added impetus to the scramble for standing timber. Re sulting from this, stumpage prices for second growth timber have tripled n the past 10 years. Most serious obstacles standing in the way of increasing future timber production is brush en croachment. So-called "apple tree' alder alpng the coast, for ex ample, will take over entire hill sides of potentially high yield ing forest land. It is expensive to control, yet if allowed to grow, will produce neither sawlogs or pulp wood. Subcommittees and their chair men, working on these problems, are: Production, Bruce Starker, Corvallis; marketing. Ward Rich ardson, Fall City; education, Wil liam Tucker, Estacada, and East ern Oregon problems, Emil Muller, Helix. TO INCLUDE LAWYERS WASHINGTON (A) A bill to bring lawyers under the social security program of old age and survivors insurance was intro duced Tuesday by Sen. Lodge (R Mass.). 351 Stale SL Jiknni rw Mrrt. Mav Sell That Will Make You A MIDGET CUSTOMER. Our Meats MUWt I &AVUU. We UUOie LVLaiUAI rCUIm3 !W Pork Roasts Pork Steaks Loin Chops Centers Fresh IHIam We Are Sail "Beefing" SmalL Lean. Tender Cuts From Young Utility Beet little Waaie. Pol Roasls Rib Steaks Tender Swiss Steaks DOUBLE Klavonzeci These Delicious Hams Are Ot Meat for Littue Money. Side Bacon Medium Lean Side Bacon T Jowl Bacon um Midget Ground Meat Products Are Prepared From MEATS. No Adulteration. Sausage Pure Pork 450 Ground Beef Lean - lb. Liverwursl Tasty Ax 450 Smoked Links 630 T7HEII arm Calendar Jan. 25 Third annual Hop Growers Conference, Memorial Union, OSC - Jan. 25 Linn Soil Conserva tion District, annual meeting, city hall, Harris burg, 10 a. m. Jan. 25 Polk County Weed Control meeting, Dallas. Jan. 26 Marion County 4-H Club leaders training course, Keiz er School, 1:30 p. m. Jan. 26 Linn County Fair Board meeting, Albany courthouse. Jan. ti-30 Western Oregon Livestock Association annual meeting. McMinnville. Jan. 26 North Marion Coun ty Soil Conservation District hear ings: St. Paul Community Hall, 1:30 p. m.; Woodburn City HalL 130 p. m. Jan. 31 Marion-Polk County Cherry Grocers Association meet ing, 1:30 Mayflower HalL Feb. 2 Bred Gilt Sale, state fairgrounds. Feb. 5 Farmers' discussion meeting, Woodburn City Hall, 10 a. m. Feb. 6 Farmers discussion meeting. Foresters Hall, Sublimity, 10 a. m. Feb. f Clackamas County Livestock Association meeting, Warner Grange HalL New Era. Feb. 7-8 Western Oregon Grange Lecturer's SchooL OSC. Feb. 11-13 Oregon PMA con vention, Gearhart. Feb. 13 Linn County Dairy Herd Improvement Association As sociation annual meeting. River side Community Hall, Albany, 10:30 a. m. Feb. 15-16 Oregon Cattle men's Association. Spring Range Bull Show and Sale, Ontario. Feb. 16-23 National FFA week. Feb. 19-21 Oregon Statt Farmers Union annual convention. i Legion Hall, Woodburn. Feb. 26 Lebanon Turkey Day. Support Deadline Set for Jan. 31 Earl Johnson, secretary of the Marion County Production - Mar keting Administration committee. is reminding growers that Jan. 31 is the final date that price support coverage may be obtained for the 1951 crop gram and clover. For grains, the support rates per bushel are: Wheat, $2.25; barley, $1.25, and oats, $0.81. For clovers the rates per pound are: Ordinary red, 35 cents; certified red, 40 cents; alsike, 25 cents and Ladino, $1.25. n n, WHAT WE SAY You The First Time. Bui It Is GRAIII-FED PIG PORK With That Chicken-Like Texture And Flavor. Fresh Side Sail Pork ib. 450 lb. Cubed lb. HSoasi Lea of Pork Whole or Half BEEF BEEF BEEF 55 ! Round Sleak e lb. 650 1 Cube Sleak 750 I Beef Cubes SMOKED CURED I IE ATS Fresh From Our Smokehouse. imams Whole or The Talk Of Salem. Skin And 35? Squares Jb. 45 1 Lard i 25? i Bacon suced Jb. STRETCHERS Polish Rings Bologna Rings Head Cheese Little Links YOD SEE IT HI QUH OUR CAPITOL STREET MARKET IS OPEN UNTIL IJ- ? FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS UNTIL 9 P. M-CLOSEI SUNDAYS . On Hay Curing Being Offered Farmers who are faced each year with serious losses i in nay feed value because of leaching, bleaching and leaf - shattering in field curing, will find a practical solution to their problem in artU fiscial hay drying, according to Dale E. Kirk, assistant agricul tural engineer for the Oregon State College experiment station. Kirk is author of a new bulle tin Just published by the: station, It's called "Hay Drying la Ore gon' and is based on results of 10 years research on hay drying methods by experiment station sci entists. - - -.It. Climatic conditions in m a n y parts of Oregon make it Impossi ble to cure hay in the field; with out loss of leaves and color, Kirk points out. High quality hay must be cut at the right state of matur ity and cured to preserve tho leaves and bright green color. The new bulletin discusses vari ous types of drying systems and contains numerous illustrations to aid understanding. Copies may be obtained free by Wn the coun ty extension offices. i i it 7 Butter and Chse Makers to Take' ;-- . 4 ' Exams in March t 4 Licensing examinations for but ter and cheese makers 'will be given Monday and Tuesday, March 24-25, at Corvallis, the State De partment of Agriculture has an nounced, t . The semi-annual tests are in charge of A. E Widby, dairy spe cialist with the department, and will be administered In-the new Dairy Industries Building; at Ore gon State College. ? Persons Intending to take part were asked to advise the depart ment by March 3. i CONSERVATION HEAMNGS The desirability and necessity for a North Marion County Soil Con servation District will be' discuss ed at public hearings in St. Paul and Woodburn, Wednesday, Jan. 30, reports Hollis Ottaway, Marion County Extension agent, j First of the hearings will be aU the St. Paul Community HalL starting at 1:30 p-iiL, and the second fat the Woodburn City Hall, beginning at 7:30 pjn. t t 611 No. i Capuol I f i Your Experience With Them Are HEALTH BUILDERS And UttAAUIl.h Cutlets 65? Jb. 790 b.750 650 Jb. Hall Lb. Surplus Fat Removed. .A Lot 170 jb, 15? Pure Jb. "V f'f Selected Cuts Of INSPECTED -if 430 Jb. jb.i5? ib. 55? n AD, ITS SO f i S - i Tie btmk nW day OPEN 10 TO 5 SIX DAYS A WTO for LETS KXZD OCTGOW TOCfTTCr
