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WILLAMETTE VALLEY
Nows and Viows of Farm and Garden . -By LlLLlE L MADSEN
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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Wo Have Lowered Pricea
Budgot Accomplish More.
Great Values At These Markets.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Capitol
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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:
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