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if 1 1 i 14 Tho Statesman, Salem, Orogon, Thursday' February 14, 1952 WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER News and'Views of Farm and Garden -By UUIE L. MADSEN Waldo Hills Men Whip Up Some Biscuits Scotts Mills Officers of Polk County Farmers9 Co-op Association And Mehama To Be Hosts Two farm meetings of general interest are scheduled for two different places in Marion County this coming week. On Monday, Feb. 18, all farm ers in tne scotts mlus area are invited to attend an agricultural discussion meeting to be held at the Odd Fellows Hall in Scotts Mills. The meeting has been set ' f I t . (7S: , jr" " f rs . ' f f - ? ; for 7:30 p. m. niuwiiiu.u.junut wit, jpt v . - t ! ' 4 s x w ' v. ' f . .-- : . ' J;.-. ;::; . " V lC x . -v. s -i 5 71 $i:t$l ; l . 1 1 i-' 'r J - -: "r VsiiJr fc I r l?J ;w 5 rs- - ;Ti- , - n,rM On Wednesday, Feb. 20 at : p. m., iarmers in tne fa ami am vai ley area are invited to meet at the Women's Club House in Me hama. At both meetings the discussion will take somewhat the form of a round-table witn tne county agents on hand to answer ques tions. Ben A. Newell will report on livestock, dairy and poultry work. D. L. Rasmussen will take care of the horticultural items and Hollis Ottaway will handle the crops, certification, fertilizer. irrigation, and weed and rodent control topics. Ranch fftamblings WALDO HILLS That the Roe men ean cook was proved at the dinner at the Waldo Hills Community Club where the men prepared the food for 75 women. Here are Waldo Rue, left, and Ferd Knc mik. ins; the biscuits which melted in the mouth once the women got ahold of them. (Farm Photo for The Statesman.) Sweet Peas Coming Back To Star in Home Gardens Sweet peas, once the most popular annual flowers in this country, crown in almost every garden, are making a strong come-back. Va- hot weather are in part responsi- V-:: :' .v.?:. : I Spencer Sweet Peas rieties which bloom early and resist ble. Better methods of growing help a great deal, also. It used to be advised, and still is by many, that seed o'f sweet peas should be sown at the bot tom of a trench six inches deep, covered lightly with soil and al lowed to grow, the trench being filled in as the plants grew. Now many growers advise mak ing a drill only l1 inches deep in which to sow the seeds. This is said to avoid plenty of trouble from poor drainage and disease. Fall sowing, once, too, thought the "only method," is changing. A number of experts of today do not advise this for places other than the south, but stress, instead, the importance of sowing early in the spring. Sweet peas and garden peas are first cousins. They are cool weath er plants by nature, and give their best yields before the weather gets really hot. This makes early flow ering vital in sections where spring i a brief interval between freez ing and perspiring. While spring is a long season here in the Willam ette Valley, it is still advisable to get the seed in as early as possible. When the old-fashioned grandiflora type of sweet peas was made obsolete by the larger and more beautiful Spencer waived strain, it was found that the newer type was so much later in flowering that our dry summer cut its harvest short. www It has taken some time to change this, but there are few problems which modern plant breeders do not seem to solve. This one was solv ed some years ago. More and more gardeners are learning that now there are available strains of spencer sweet peas which bloom early, resist dry weather, so that a long season of beautiful flowers is possi ble from seed sown in the early spring. Porous garden soil, as fertile as you have, will give best results. As soon as the plants are three inches high, brush or other climbing medium, should be provided for the vines, and by the time tne vines have grown to six inches, wire supports, well anchored, should be in place Regular watering is essential after the spring rains end. The soil should be soaked at least every week, oftener if necessary, to prevent drying out. A liquid plant food, rich in nitrogen, should be applied everv two weeks, eaual to an ounce of sulphate of ammonia for 10 feet of row. A mulch of manure, lawn clippings or similar material will help retain the moisture in the sou and prolong the Cowering sea son. Sweet peas are legumes, and secrete nitrogen from the air. They benefit if the seeds are inoculated with a bacterial cutrure sold for that purpose, but they will grow nicely without this. Farm Woodlot To Be Theme At Mayflower Farm woodlot management from planting to marketing, will be dis cussed at a forestry meeting to be held in Mayflower Hall, Salem, Tuesday, Feb. 26, starting at 1:30 p. m. Gene Hanneman, state farm forester, and Hollis Ottaway, Marion County extension agent, are arranging tne meeting. Marketing farm woodlots will re one of tne top discussions of tne meeting, Hanneman states. Many farmers with small hold ings have been making inquiries as to best methods of disposing of these. Various outlets for small logs, pulp, stud mill operations, Swedish gang saws and small mills will be discussed. Ottaway states that all owners of timber, whether the forest be small or large, are invited to at tend the meeting. Yocum Will Talk on Pond Construction Marion and Polk counties will team up Tuesday, Feb. 19 at May flower Hall in Salem to discuss farm pond construction. The meeting will begin at 10 a. m. and O. C. Yocum of the Yocum Construction Company, McMinn ville, will tell how best to make a farm pond. Many new farm ponds have been constructed in recent years for irrigation. Whether the pond be for irrigation or other pur poses, the dam will need to meet certain reauirements. reports Hoi li Ottawav. county agent who is arranging the meeting. Actual usage of water, includ ing the quantity of water needed for maximum results, will be re viewed by Ralph H. Browns combe, engineering specialist. Soils Conservation Service, Al bany. Floyd Miller of the Port land General Electric -Company, Oregon City, will talk on prob lems relative to obtaining elec tricity for irrigation purposes. Arthur S. King, soil conserva tion specialist, Oregon State Col lege, will also be present to dis cuss fertilizers, irrigation layouts, and response of farm crops to irrigation. The Gulf of California is among the finest fishing grounds in the world. Polk County Leaders Will Meet Thursday RICKREALL Polk County 4-H Club leaders will hold their annual banquet at the Rickreall Grange Hall Thursday night, Feb 14, starting at 7:30. Leader's achievement certifi cates and pins will be awarded to the leaders and assistant lead ers who led 4-H clubs in 1951. ine program lor the evening will include a speaker and the in stallation of the 1952 4-H Club Leaders Association officers. Gross Says Early Silage Cut Best Louie H. Gross, Yamhill County agent, is urging farmers of his area to get the grass silage equipment in shape so that come mid-May, .cutting grass silage can start in good form. "Better results will be obtained by putting the silage in early and even though the crop may still be growing, most crops will make a re growth when cut that early in the season," he said. Gross also pointed to George Zimmerman of Yamhill, who has successfully fed his beef cattle on grass silage made from clover and grass combined. The silage has been running 9.73 per cent pro tein. Gross says. Oregon Hop Yield Boost Being Studied Whether sprinkler irrigation will answer one of the state's hop com petitive difficulties is a oroblem being studied by a statewide com mittee which Joseph Serres, wooaourn, neads. Serres explains that the Oregon average yields are well below those of principal competing states, mainly Washington and California. With rising production costs, this places Oregon growers at a de cided disadvantage. The hop committee is a sub group1 under an over-all crop com mittee headed by Paulen Kase berg of Wasco. Hops produced in Umatilla. Mai heur and Josephine Counties are grown on level land where it is possible to irrigate and increase yields with gravity irrigation. In the Willamette Valley, however, mucn nop land is uneven and roll ing, making it impossible to use gravity methods. Low angle ground sprinkler systems as well as sprin klers set on trellis wires are be ing tried with coniderable upward effect on yields, the committee notes. While Oregon's average yield per acre last year was 1,260 pounds on 14,900 acres, Washington had 1,790 pounds per acre; Idaho 1,695, and California, 1,530. In addition to Serres. members or tne subcommittee studying hop farmers voted in one accord that production and marketing prob lems are F. A. Christie, Grants Pass: R. J. Corbett, Ontario: How ard Eismann, Salem; F. W. Lucht, Mt. Angel, and H. H. Withrow, Indeoendence. G. H. Horner, Ore gon state college, serves as secre tary. With outlet restricted almost ex clusively to brewing, over-production is another problem facing the industry. Under provisions of a market agreement in force, 26 per cent of the 1951 crop was not sub ject to sale. This is the time of year, if you drive through the country, you just naturally notice sheep big sheep and little sheep. The sheep men are noticing them, too, and are sort of wondering just what is happening to their little world which looked so very shiny a year ago. Roy Ward, manager of the wool co-op got to wondering so much he is now back in Wash ington, D. C, trying to find out. We rather surmise, from re leases which come flapping around, that the support will be set at 57 cents. Farmers who have watched the wool markets for a number of years, say they expect to see the buying price settle some place between 60 and 70 cents. California s market is in the process of being established now, and that, somehow, seems to set the pace for the rest of us. Still on the subject of lambs: There seem to be a lot of them quite a few twins, some triplets and even a couple of sets of, quad- duplets. The reports, too, are that the lambs are somewhat Digger at birth this year than in some seasons. Last week we reported quadruplets at Donald. This week we hear a ewe at tne r rea not- tinger ranch at Sublimity did it, too. If we continue roinr to these so-called "community" meetings we are Just naturally roing to have to get a bigger size. One of the best we went to recently was (we hate to admit it) pre pared by a group of men. The Waldo Hills Community Club men prepared the dinner for the women of the community. What we mean is really prepar ed it. The women didn't have a thing to do but come and eat and criticize. After the former they didn't even do the latter. This is Leap Year, and our sug gestion would be that the girls oat hunting should look over the Waldo Hills. Those men really can cook. We sat across table from Ivan Steward. Salem seed man, the other day and listened to some sage remarks about cattle. We were rather interested as we had heard other cattlemen making the same remarks. Ivan is a farmer at heart, and he has his fingers pretty much on the pulse of the thing, although he always says he doesn't know much about it. In fact he prefaced his remarks by 'It seems to a greenhorn like me, that you can't keep feeder cattle through the winter unless you got plenty of cheap silage. Otherwise best to sell them out at 200 pounds." We were kind of shocked, while sitting at one farmers' co op meeting this week and in a dairy community too to hear farm woman back of us say that "batter is 90 cents a pound. We don't bay it, we buy mar garine." "How much do you have to pay for that?" asked her seat- neirhbor. We paid 28 cents at oar store yesterday," was the answer. Of coarse that isn't batter we sell milk ," was the rather doubtful reply. "So do we, bat we tarn around and bay margarine. And we tell our kids it's better." We dont find this the rale at a farm meeting bat it should n't happen at all, we rather thought. Us farmers got to stick together, is our opinion. WW We liked the meeting better where a group of more than 500 RICKREALL Officers of the Polk County Farmers' Co-on Aasoeia tion did some of their business Tuesday daring the dinner hour. seated, from lert, are waiter Steele, manager; Claude Larklns, pres ident; Vera Osborn and Henry B. Hildebrand, directors; Emll Marx, vice-president; G. L. GOson, director, and Peter Gores, manager of the Marion County Co-op at ML AngeL (Farm Photo for The States- ) Farm Calendar Feb. 14 Polk County 4-H Club Leaders meeting, Rickreall, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 15-16 Oregon Cattleman s Association spring range bull show and sale, Ontario. Feb. 16-23 National FFA Week. Feb. 17 Marion County Jersey Cattle Club, D. C. Brock home, Salem. Feb. 18-23 Rose Plant ing Week, Willamette Valley. Feb 18 Farm meeting, Jbcotts Mills Odd Fellow Hall, 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19-21 Oregon State Farm ers Union annual convention, Le gion Hall, Woodbum. Feb. 19 Polk-Marion irrigation meeting, 10 a.m. Mayflower Hall, Salem. Feb. 20 Lebanon Turkey Day. Feb. 20 Santiam Valley farm meeting, Mehama Woman s Club house, 1 p.m. Feb. 20 Tree pruning demon stration, E. A. Anderson farm west of Newberg. Feb. 21 Silage Day, Mayflower Hall, 1 p.m. Feb. 24-25 Second annual Ore gon Foiled Hereford Association show and sale, State Fairgrounds, Salem. Show 1:30 p.m., Feb. 24; sale, 12 noon, Feb. 25. Feb. 26 Farm forestry meeting, Mayflower Hall, Salem, 1:30 pjn. Feb. 27 Willamette Basin Pro ject, Salem, 309 State Capitol building. Feb. 27 Oregon Swine Growers bred gilt sale, fairgrounds, Prine-ville. Feb. 29 Oregon Swine Growers bred gilt sale, fairgrounds, Klam ath Falls. March 1-9 National 4-H club week. March 8 Production calf sale, 40 head, Marchon Hereford Farm, E. Lewis owner, Aumsville. March 10 Pacific Rabbit Pro ducers Association second annual convention, 10 a. m., Mayflower Hall. March 15-18 Pacific Dairy and Poultry Association Convention, Coronado, Calif. March 17-18 Sheep Shearing school, Redmond. March 19-29 Sheep shearing school, Corvallis. March 24-26 State FFA con vention, Corvallis. March 27-29 State Agricultur al Conference, OSC. March 28-29 Oregon Camellia Society Show, Meier & Frank, Portland. National Hereford Show Set, Portland A national Hereford Show will headline the events of the 42nd annual Pacific International Live stock Exposition, Walter A. Holt, general exposition manager, an nounced Wednesday. Exposition dates have been set for Oct. 4-11. Choice specimens of the Here ford breed of beef cattle will com pete for a record $15,000 in pre mium money during the show. Leading show herds from Here ford establishments over the West ern states will be interested In the show, which will be one rf the major events on the National Hereford calendar" this year. MEMBERS TO MEET Members of the Clackamas County Guernsey Cattle Club will meet at 2 p. m., Friday, Feb. 15, in the Oregon City Chamber of Commerce building. Paul Hous ton, recently elected president of the club, will take over the lead ership at this meeting. JERSEY FOLK TO MEET The Marion Countv Jersev Cat. tie Club will meet at the home or Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brock, 4345 Center St.. 4 miles east of Salem ounaay, tea 17. A no-hosr din ner will be served at 1 o'clock fol lowed by the business meeting. An important item to be discussed win be plans for the annual Spring Show. Salem, Ore. Is the Pacific North west's largest fruit and vegetable canning center with 12 packing plants that turn out over five mil lion cases a year. food editors of Willamette Valley newspapers should be asked to give butter an even break with margarine. Margarine manufac turers have been pushing their product through recipes. The farmers are asking that "Or but ter" should be added when that type of shortening is called for. - And then there Is John Gale of Canby who will tell you that there Is 11 cents worth of vita mins la each quart of milk be sides calcium and a lot of ether things yen can ret and pay fancy prices for at the drug stores. While certified Marshall, straw berry plants are said to be plenti ful this year, growers who want to set them out should be placing their orders, says O. E. MikeselL Linn County agent. He adds that strawberry growers are quite a few, too. The average price for certified plants this year: seems to be $18 per 1,000, down $4 from last year. All the county agents. we understand, have names ox certified strawberry growers on file in their offices. : While rambling around down in Linn County we found that the farm women were taking a hand in things there. Mrs. W. W. Abra ham of Shedd, chairman of the county farm home and rural life committee, is going to act as chair man at a meeting set for the courthouse at Albany, Friday, Feb. 15, 1:30 p. m. when garbage dis posal in the county will be up for a-thorough airing. The meet ing is open to the Linn County public. Fred Webber, as well as Mike Mikesell, county agent, will also take part in the discussion. Doug Chambers of Salem's Val ley Packing Company plant, got up to Clackamas County the other day and had a chance to tell the livestock association there what he was thinking. It was that "20 times as many sheep could be taken care of in the Estacada area as there are now." He also said that it pays to try for twins. They are, he admitted, "slightly-harder to care for," but "it can be done under valley conditions." He didn't believe that irriga tion for sheep pastures was as im portant as for some other classes of livestock. If lambs are not fat by July 4, Doug advised shearing and worm ing them. 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