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The Ctainncm. Salem Oregon, Thursday, February 7, 1$S1 Four of a Kind Beats Two Pair u quipjnntJpjcJn WILLAMETTE VALLEY Nows and Viows of Farm and Garden . -By LlLLlE L MADSEN FARM y f Him iii i Him ihiiiii.hu hi ji i . i.n i i.ii. in '- r7 DONALD QBAdrvpleta (toy photo) oxrired thiq week at the KnaseU Taatfest sheep ranch hero, and bo b la prouder of them than Kusell Jr. who hold two (at rixht) while hie father corrals the other pair. At center is the mother. Quads are the first Tantf est has seen In SO rears of sheep ranching-. His hla-prodclnf flock Is shown below. (Statesman Farm Photos.) Donald Quadruplet Lambs Thriving on Baby-food Diet By LILXJE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, Th Statesman DONALD When they come hi pairs. It's pretty good. When they come In triplets, it's very good. When they come in quad ruplets and are all strong and healthy, it's most remarkable. And most remarkable are the quadruplet lambs born Sunday at the Russell Tautfest farm a mile and a half north of hero. The four-year-old Romney moth er is most proud of her little flock and guards them carefully, al though there is considerable var iance in their appearance. One little white one in particular shows the Romney breeding of her mother. The others are more or loss of undecipherable parent age. But all four are very lively, romp around and over their moth er, nurse her and take on the auxiliary feeding which Mr. Taut fest gives them, with considerable gusto. "I'm not feeding them cow's milk," Mr. Tautfest explained, adding that he had lost a few this year by feeding cow's milk in in correct dosages. "It is very difficult to give a tiny lamb Just the right amount of cow's milk," the sheep owner said, "so I'm giving these real baby food and they seem to be thriving on it" The crop of lambs, so far, Is proving good on the Tautfest ranch. It has been averaging 180 per cent, and last year the season closed with an average slightly under 120 per cent of reproduc tion. Before the quadruplet lambs Peach Pruning Is Annual Job Pruning peaches is a yearly job requiring many small cuts on each tree. These cuts are more to save the strongest one-year-old wood and remove old, weak, or dead wood. The wood produced in 1951 will bear the peach crop in 1952. Knowing the fruiting habit of the peach helps the peach grower do a better Job of pruning. After he has selected three to five scaf fold branches for each tree, the grower's main pruning Job is to select the best one-year-old wood. This wood is about as thick as a lead pencil or a piece of chalk. It is sturdy enough to support the peach crop. Its vigor, as indi cated by its thickness, insures plenty of leaves, necessary to help manufacture food for use in the tree. The vigorous wood grows out and up from the scaffold branches. Annual pruning of peach trees also permits removal of peach mumies," from which the brown rot fungus is carried over to the new crop. These "murnies" or dried up peaches should be destroyed. Annual pruning is a necessary orchard management practice in peach plantings. When used with good soil fertility and pest con trol program, it is a means of maintaining the production of qua lity peaches, says D. R. Rasmus sen, Marion County horticulture gent - x ,.Zir- ----- arrived, there had been a set of triplets and a number pairs of twins. Only the yearling ewes were featuring singles this year, it appeared. "It's a lot in how you feed the ewes before they are bred," Mr. Tautfest stated. "This year I put them on green pasture before breeding time. They are produc ing very welL" His feeding program Is quite startling to many dry-land farm ers. "I used to dryland farm myself," the rancher explains. "I had a hard time to feed SO owes well on 40 acres. They nearly starved to death. Last year I ran 200 ewes on SO acres,, and this year I'm running 300 on 40 acres. The Tauuests are living on the place his father bought shortly after the turn of the century and the place on which the present owner was born. Sheep have been the main crop for at least 20 years. Four years ago Mr. Taut fest sank an eight-Inch 110 foot deep well and that is furnishing Irrigation for the entire place. Everything is planted Into ladino clover which Is irrigated. The sheep are run on a pasture for four days and then removed to another pasture, while the first one freshens up under Irrigation. There Is a third pasture to carry them for its four days before they are returned to the first one again. Lambs Finish As Premium Last year, using this program, more than 80 per cent of the lambs sold went out as "tops", Mr. Taut fest said. Starting Nov. 1, the Bermuda-Gras Seed To Offer Competition The 1951 production of Bermuda-grass seed is estimated to be some two million pounds. This is a little less than the 1950 produc tion but is about one-fourth more than the average produced during the past five years. Bermuda-grass seed is not grown in Oregon but it does offer some competition to Oregon grown seeds. The seed is grown commer cially in Arizona and Southern California. FARM GIRLS WASHINGTON (INS) A group of social workers who met in Washington recently, decided that rural families should make life more attractive for their daughters if they want to keep the girls on the farm. At the confer ence sponsored by the Agriculture ATTENTION LOGGERS AND FARMERS LOGS WANTED S-Ft. 16-Ft. And Long Ungths At Top Price DimiOAND LUMBER CO. Fhon 1125 r Twmor, Oregon ewes have been on alfalfa hay as supplementary feed. They con sume approximately 13 bales of hay a day. "Since the first of November, I've fed 50 ton of nice alfalfa hay from Eastern Oregon," he said. "It's been running about $50 a ton, and then people wonder why It costs to raise sheep!" Pregnancy disease had been prevalent in the owes this year on the Tautfest ranch. Other sheepmen were reporting some trouble too, I had learned. In stop ping at various sheep farms. "It's because of lack of sugar," Mr. Tautfest said. "As soon as I started feeding them molasses, the trouble stopped. I put it In an old wash tub and let them help themselves. Some of them drink it up like water and wo have to watch these a bit, although none have become 111 on my place by eating it. Has Turkeys, Too "Some sheepmen prefer to put it in the grain, but I haven't been feeding grain. Some put it on the hay, which, I understand is also flood," Mr. Tautfest said as he ead us over to view the S00 little Beltsville White turkeys now In stalled in the brooder house. This is the secoond year that the Taut fests have raised these little fam ily fryers. They plan to add BOO each two weeks until approxi mately 8500 have been reached. "These little turkeys are much in demand," the sheepman said, adding that it was all the live stock besides the sheep, on the ranch. "We oven buy all the milk wo use." he explained. Silage to Be Scored, Feb. 21 Silage making season Is just around the corner and methods of making more palatable nutritious feed for next season will bo dis cussed at 1 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 21 in Salem. Silage feeders are invited to the Mayflower Hall in North Salem to have their silage samples graded and scored and also learn new sil age making methods. Extension Dairyman H. P. Ewalt and a committee of feeders will grade silage samples that feeders bring in. Department, it was reported that girls are deserting the farm in far greater numbers than their broth ers are. FarmBuying Power Down In Past Year Sliding prices and climbing costs have crowded the iarm par ity ratio back to the mid-October level, according to this week's USDA review. For the first time in three months, prices received by farm ers, nationally, showed a decline The index lost nearly 2 per cent during the past month. Lower prices for eggs, turkeys, cotton and cottonseed, most meat ani mals, and citrus fruit are pri marily responsible for the down turn. Higher prices for butterfat, chickens, veal calves, hay and rice only partly offset the decrease. Farm costs, on the other hand, forged ahead another three points during the month. Higher prices paid by farmers last month for feeder cattle, feed, and food, were only partly offset by lower prices of clothing and building mater ials. Add to that Increases in farm wage rates, taxes and interest payable on mortgages secured by farms real estate, and you have an over-all gain of 5 per cent in the parity index during the past 12 -month period. In other words, Elvera Horrell, state ex tension economist, reports, the farm buying power has gone down about five per cent in the past 12 months. Revolutionary Corn Growing Method Works A new system of growing corn that uses some of the most rev olutionary ideas ever advanced in agriculture is paying off with whopping profits on an Indiana farm. The February issue of Country Gentleman reports that last fall the system produced 125.5 bushels of corn to the acre on land that had not yielded more than 30 bushels to the acre for the last 10 years. Net profits per acre after deducting all expenses from labor through taxes was $103.18. Dr. George Scarseth, a disting uished agronomist and director of American Farm Research Asso ciation, developed the system for a run-down farm that he had just bought and wanted to pay for as quickly as possible. Heavy Fertilization Used He planted on May 24 with an experimental mulch planter; there was no plowing, disking or other soil preparation the crop simply was planted through a mulch of weeds and cornstalks. One kernel was dropped every 8 to 10 inches in 40-inch rows, giving a stand of 17,000 stalks per acre. The planter placed fer tilizer at two depths: (1) 300 pounds of 10-10-10 in a split band, three inches deep in the row to get the seedlings off to a fast start ahead of the weeds; (2) 800 pounds of 10-10-10 In a band nine inches deep to feed the corn as it grew. Weeds were controlled but not killed by two shallow disk culti vations. To bo certain there was plenty of nitrogen to grow both corn and weeds, the crop was side-dressed with 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate per acre, six inches deep a foot from one side of the row. This was done July 6, at the second and last cultiva tion. Production cost per aero was $85.07. Weeds Good Cover Crop Dr. Scarseth believes that weeds, fed enough nutrients so they won't rob the crop, can be almost as important as clover or grass in building fertility and preventing erosion. He plans to plant corn continuously, without any rota tion with soybeans or oats and legumes. Most legume rotations leave land bare over winter at least half the time, with the ground exposed to harmful ero sion. And with conventional plow ing ana clean cultivation corn land is bare in tha spring, when much erosion takes place. weeds did not hurt the corn yields because the corn plants. stimulated by plenty of plant food, outgrew and finally shaded out tno weeds. A thick stand of corn is needed to do the Job. The remains of Neanderthal man. who lived nvit i no nnn years ago, were first discovered in Germany. -SPECIAL Values to 50.00 NOW Shop. Mon. and FrU 9 A. M. to 8 P.M. Taes Wed Thsrt Sat, . 9 a. m. to f p. m. TOIPCiMS Aff u mm Farm Calendar Feb. 7-8 W estern Oregon Grange Lecturer's school, OSC. Feb. 7 Yamhill Dairy Herd Im provement Association, Fair Building, McMinnville, 1:15 p.m. Feb. 8 Yamhill Jersey Cattle Club, Frank Finnicum's Grand Is land, Oscar Hagg speaker, no-host luncheon. Feb. 8 Marion County Turkey meeting, Mayflower Hall, 1 p.m. Feb. 9 Oregon Jersey Cattle Club directors' meeting, Grants Pass, 8 p.m. Feb. 11-13 State PMA conven tion, Gearhart. Feb. 11 Yamhill-Polk Holstein Breeders Association, Fair Build ing, McMinnville, 12 noon. Feb. 12 Oak Grove Garden Club in Polk County, Topic: Prun ing and Spring Bulbs. Feb. 14 Brooks Garden Club, 1 p.m. Mrs. Dolly Ramp, hostess. F(fb. 15-16 Oregon Cattlemen's Association spring range bull show and sale, Ontario. Feb. 15 Stayton Garden Club at Home of Mrs. Louis Freres. Feb. 19-21 Oregon State Farm ers Union annual convention, Le gion Hall, Woodburn. Feb. 19 Marion-Polk irrigation meeting, 10 a.m. Mayflower Hall. Feb. 20 Lebanon Turkey Day. Feb. 21 Silage Day, Mayflower Hall, 1 p.m. Feb. 24-25 Second annual Ore gon Polled Association Show and Sale, State Fairgrounds, Salem. Feb. 27 Willamette Basin Pro ject, Salem. Feb. 29 Oregon Swine Growers Bred Gilt sale, Fairgrounds, Klam math Falls. Feb. 1-8 National 4-H Club Week. March 8 Pacific Rabbit Pro ducers Association, . second an nual convention, 10 a.m. May flower Hall. Feb. 15-18 Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association Convention, Coronado, Calif. March 19-20 Sheep Shearing School, Corvallis. March 24-26 State FFA Con vention, Corvallis. March 27-28 Stage Agricultur al Conference, OSC. April 7 Oregon State Holstein Association, 5th annual consign ment sale, fairgrounds, HiUsboro. New Market Outlets Basis Of Research Oregon's horticulturalists are casting about for fruit by-products as a means of expanding market outlets. A committee headed by Riddell Lage, Hood River, believes con centrated juices may offer some hope for widening Oregon fruit markets. The committee is busy preparing a preliminary report for the state agricultural confer ence scheduled March 27-29 at Oregon State College. Filbert Worm Studied Filbert worm control and black line in walnut rootstocks are rec ognized as serious nut production problems which deserve atten tion. Just what should be done to encourage development of new market outlets is on the confer ence agenda. A prune concentrate has been developed which looks promising and other segments of the Industry are exploring similar possibilities. In small fruits, fea sibility of concentrates Is being investigated by a special sub committee headed by Glen Schef fer, Boring. Other horticulture sub-committees and their chairmen are tree fruits, Robert Nunamaker, Hood River; and nuts, Gordon Good pasture, Leaburg. Horticultural crops completely processed and ready for shipment account for more than 20 per cent of Oregon's agricultural income. A late figure representing value was about one hundred and twen ty million dollars. The fact that most of the state horticultural out put is sold out-of-state creates a marketing problem. Shipping Cost High Transportation costs have been on the increase and in many in stances, producers have been hurt. An advantage of fruit concen trates, the committee emphasizes, is that a high value product will go to market in a comparatively small package. The committee Is also re-approaching acreages of various crops In line with present and future demands. The report is ex pected to carry suggested acre age increases or decreases of the major horticultural crops. GROUP- U12J In the Capitol Shopping Center Honey Prices, Production, Up During 1951 Prices received by the nation's beekeepers for honey sold in 1951 averaged 18 cents a pound. This was seven-tenths of a cent above the average price for the yar previous, and one cent above the 1949 price. Oregon producers averaged 15.1 cents a pound for their 1951 hon ey. This was also a little more than in 1949 and 1950, but well below prices received during the war years. Beeswax averaged growers a little over 50 cents a pound in the United States last year. Ore gon beekeepers received an aver age of 49 cents a pound for bees wax. Honey production in the nation was well above the 1950 year and the 1945-1949 average, USDA 1951 reports show. The nation's production last year totaled some 259 million pounds or a little over one-tenth more than in 1950. While there were fewer col onies in the country last year than the year previous, the yield jper colony averaged 464 cents a pound, the highest since 19414 Oregon's honey production this past year was also above 1950 by seven per cent an4 above the previous five-year average by four per cent. Production in Ore gon last year amounted to a little less than million pounds. The increase here in output was due to a larger number of colonies. The yield of 35 pounds per colony was the same average as in 1950. Oregon producers held more than one-third of their 1951 crop by late December. Irate Husband Found Dead fired a shotgun at his estranged wife Tiiesrfav missed anH Wan chasing her. Minutes later, after 1 ji . r i. sne naa xeiepnonea ponce, ne was dead. Mrs. Wafsnn said cha warn Pair ing for work at 6:30 a. m., when waLson, sming in a pa need car across the street fired at rier She ran between houses to a neigh- oor s. mere sne called police. They found Watson in a back yard, dead of a shotciin rila:t intn the heart. They said he could have stumbled and set tbe gun off acci dentally or he might have com mitted suicide. II iniioi 351 Stale Street Wo Have Lowered Pricea Budgot Accomplish More. Great Values At These Markets. uki A Half Ham Here, Means Just That We Do Not Take Out The Center Slices And At tempt To Sell The Ends At Ham Prices. hi Roasts Arm-Blade X-Iiib Roast . Prime Ribs Bodies. Beef Cubes Boneless From Government Graded, Pork Roast picnic. u. 35 Loin Roasts Lb. 45 Fresh Side ucmLb. 45 Sliced Ham CENTER CUT 79 LB Ground Beef Sausage Pur. Polish Rings Livemursi I Our Ground Meats Are Prepared From Fresh, Clean Inspected Cuts. A Trifle Ilhcr? But Worth It. Useless to I'ay jnore ncusjcy ao ray mm. OUR CAPITOL STREET MARKET IS OPEN FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS UNTIL The above photo shows how plant seed flat box. inn vva. xvfv ijM.xj uavi jljkj MrxsY i . I ; 17 1. a. TVT 1 ni jLnougn 10 If you plan to start flower or vegetable seeds indoors this spring, before it is safe to sow them in the garden, don't pave the way to failure by usin& inadequate equip ment. Seeds can be sprouted on a moist piece of blotting paper, but they will not grow into plants without sufficient soil, or soil sub stitute, to allow their roots to de velop without crowding. Too small a seed box may be a little better than the blotting paper; it will sprout the seeds, but cannot pro vide them with nourishment for growth. A stout wooden box which holds at least two inches of soil is ade quate. The standard "flat" used for the purpose is sold knock down in sizes from 14 by 21 in ches to 15 by 24 inches. These are easily put together by driving a few nails, and will grow plants to garden size without check. To fill them, porous soil is re quired, or a substitute. Vermicu lite and sphagnum moss are good substitutes, but neither has any nourishment for the plants. Food must be provided as soon as the plants have developed true leaves, otherwise the plants will die. Soil will nourish the plants with out chemical feeding and many amateurs prefer it for this reason. If you did not bring some of your best garden top soil into shelter last fall, then dig It during the first dry-lsh day and allow to dry out gradually in a garage or base ment. If permitted to dry too fast, it may form clods which are very difficult to break up. When dried slowly, good soil will crumble and can be mixed with sand and hum us. A mixture of one-third top soil, one-third sharp sand and one-third peat moss or humus, will make a good soil for flats. These three in gredients should be well mixed and passed through a sieve to get ORIGINATORS OF LOW PRICES GOOD HEAT IIEVS Again. Hero Aro Splendid Opporrunitioa To Mako That Food Like Hundreds Of Salem Housewives, You Too, Will Find mm: Full Whole Or Half Round Steal: Rib Steaks Cube Steaks . Lb. 59 Lb. 75 Lb. 65 Sirloin Young, Utility And Commercial Pork Steak . Center Chops Cube Cutlets Sliced Bacon DOUBLE SMOKE 490 LB. Lb. 630 Lb. 450 490 u, 450 Wieners CLOSED SUIIMYS bands may bo placed In a standard r nourisn jrmnis r all lumps out. When you fill the flats, put the lumps in the bottom. iuiu uiujr uie luje&h suit :vu VJy, i Light may be a limiting factor when a seed box is kept in a win dow of your home. A south win, dow that gets the full sun, unshad ed by trees and neighboring build' ings, will usually, be 'sufficient,. With other exposures artificial light, which has been proved to serve the purpose, can easily bo j l . i s: . : l box, and let it burn all night.' A" 40-watt fluorescent lamp can bo ' hung a foot above the box, but a' tungsten lamp should be -high enough so that it does -not bring the temnerature of the box hlcher than 65 degrees at night. f . . j' if i Valley Irrigation Meeting Set, Salem ; A joint Marion-Polk County Ir rigation meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 19, at tho" Mayflower HaH, Salem, .report N." John Hansen and Hollis Ottaway,' county extension agents In tho two counties. " t The meeting will include:' dis cussion by Ralph. H. Brpwnscome,' engineering specialist. Soil Con servation Service; O. C.Yocum of the O. C. Yocum Construction, Company, McMinnville; Floyd Miller, Portland General Electrio Company, Oregon City,;; and A. S. King, conservation specialist, Ore gon State College. I Topics on the program includo water usage, fertilization along with irrigation, electrical problem connected with irrigation and dam construction. There wiU be ; timo for questions concerning individ ual Irrigation problems. 1 611 No. Capitol ib. 65f Lb. Boneless Lb. Beef. Lean And Tender. I 45 u. 55 650 .Lb. Bacon Jowl NICE TO SUCE 23 uJ Liiile Links k 550 Smoked Links ib. 53 Bologna Rings ib.4S 55: 3. UNTIL 7 P. M. 9 P.M.
