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WILLAMETTE VALLEY FARMER
Nows and Viows of Farm and Garden -By uuie l madsen
World Losing Battle Against
Hunger, UN Official Reports
BY LIIXIE L. MAD SEN
Farm Editor, The SUtteaman
FORTXAND The world la
four or five per cent worse off
bow than It was in 1938 to far
mm winning the battle against
banger la concerned. NorrU E.
Dodd, director-ieneral of tho
Food and Agricultural Organiz
ation of the United Nations, said
In an interview here Tuesday
alfht.
There were four of us all re
porters of agricultural events
sitting in at the interview, as
Dodd talked freely of bis work
as chief of the food and agrtcul
ture division in foreign lands.
He answered readily all ques
tions put to him, saying he was
(lad to tell the people of tho
work of the FAO.
Food production in the world
has Increased 9 per cent since
193 but mouths to eat It have
Increased IS per cent, he said.
When asked if he thought tho
production would catch up with
the ever increasing; population.
Dodd was rather optimistic.
"It can," he said, "when tho
underdeveloped countries are
taught to help themselves. It will
take time. It will take money,
but it will take more time and
patience than money."
U. S. CANT FEED ALL
The United States should ret
It out of its head that It alone
can feed the world, the food spe
cialist said, adding that "39 mil
lion dollars worth of our product
Is going into world trade chan
nels now. If we doubled that
Amount It would be a mere drop
In the backet of what is needed.
The only help, Dodd was con
vinced, was for the countries to
grow some of their own foods.
"Actually it isn't more food
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LIBERTY As many as 10,006 strawberry plants an hour can be set with this machine when the soil is
"Just right," operators report The soil was pretty loose in the Mercer-Emery field (above) at Liberty
where only 6,000 were being set an hour. Feeding the machine from the back are Norman Hurst and
Roy Mercer, and in front Gary House and James) Calkins while driving is Richard Harling. (States
man Farm Photo.)
Currant Fly
About Ready
To Start Work
Gooseberry and currant grow
ers, both commercial and home
garden, should be ready to apply
their first yellow currant fly
pray or dust by the end of this
week. Eggs from the yellow cur
rant fly hatch into larvae or
worms that make culls out of the
fruit, says County Extension
Agent D. L. Rasmussen.
Commercial growers can use
either lead arsenate or methoxy
chlor to kill the flies before they
lay their eggs under the skin of
the fruit. Lead arsenate can be
rased at the rate of 4 pounds in
100 gallons of water. If leaf spot
disease is a problem, the 4 pounds
ef lead arsenate can be added to
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that these countries need. It is
different kinds of food," he went
on In response to Questions. "In
some countries rice alone is the
people's entire diet. In others it
is wheat and in still others it is
corn. What they need to be
taught is to grow a variety of
foods for their health, to learn
to live under better conditions.'
No agricultural people want
charity if given an opportunity
to earn their own food, Dodd
continued, adding that "these
people, however, are tired of
being hungry, tired of being un
clothed and tired of sleeping on
dirt floors in mud huts."
One step In tho right direction,
the agricultural leader stated,
was to furnish the farmers in
these countries with better seed.
"Production could bo increased
at least 10 per cent If better seeds
were obtainable by the peoples
of the Far East," he explained.
When asked what he thought
of the so-called "communistic
stomach Dodd replied that in
China the communists had failed
"to deliver and so has our side."
MISSIONS EFFICIENT
Church missions and the mis
sionaries received a good send
off by Dodd.
"If the FAO, or any of the
other government agencies, could
be a thousandth as efficient as
the missions are, we'd get tho
work done." he said, as he told
how much better the living stan
dards were around each mission
no matter what the religion.
There was more food, fields were
cultivated better, and there was
more happiness and more peace,
he went on.
Dodd is here to fill a three -day
speaking engagement as
Strawberry Plants Quickly
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Bordeaux 8-8-100 (8 pounds cop
per sulphate, 8 pounds hydrated
lime, and 100 gallons of water).
The lead arsenate sprays should
be.appliedd at 7-10 day inter
vals at the rate of 150 gallons
per acre in mature plantings.
Sprays should be repeated after
any rain that may wash off the
poison.
Methoxychlor can be used at
the rate of 3 pounds 50 per cent
wettable powder in 100 gallons
of water. Methoxychlor can be
mixed with Bordeaux 8-8-100 if
a combination spray is used for
yellow currant fly and leaf spot
control. Interval between sprays
should average 10 days.
Dust Good
Some commercial growers have
reported good results from a dust
containing 5 per cent methoxy,-'
chlor, 15 per cent Copper A, and
80 per cent talc. "When applied
at the rate of 30-35 pounds per
acre at 7-day intervals, this dust
has controlled the yellow currant
fly and leaf spot disease. Grow
ers not having a leaf spot prob
lem can use a 5 per cent meth
oxychlor dust.
To date, no yellow currant flies
have been caught under two
cheesecloth - covered cages in C.
E. Bradley's gooseberry field near
Hubbard. VrKn the first flv is
caught, growt.s on the Marion
County agent's mailing list will
be advised to start their yellow
currant lly control program.
Those growers not wanting to
wait for a special spray or dust
can apply their first spray or
dust by the end of this week
Based on experience gained in
past years, this would be good
timing for the first application.
according to Rasmussen.
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Isaac HI lima n lecturer at Pacific
University. April 16, 17 and IS.
Be explained that this lecture
ship In the social sciences at Pa
cific University wi tesUbllshed
In 1945 by Dr. Alex L. Hillman
of New York in tribute to his
father.
The FAO director-general will
be honored at a no-host dinner
at Multnomah Hotel Thursday
at 6:30 p.m. After his lecture en
gagement, he plans to go to
Haines, Ore.. Saturday to visit
briefly at his ranch, before re
turning to Washington and again
to Rome.
LIKES OREGON
Dodd, who claims there Is
nothing like Eastern Oregon
farm land, rose from secretary
of the Baker County AAA com
mittee to his present position.
Headquarters of the FAO, first
in Washington, D.C is now in
Rome. There is a staff in Rome
of 750, with 274 in the Held
serving in 51 countries. Needed
now are 150 additional techni
cians, he said.
The United States' share In the
support of the AFO is one and a
quarter million dollars. Dodd
said, as he added that this "is
small In comparison to the costs
of either the Marshall Plan or
many other departments.'
As the Interview terminated,
Dodd added that "sooner or later
people will, learn that other
people without food will never
be peaceful people. A full stom
ach wins peace more quickly
than guns and costs less. The
United States can never hope to
feed the entire world, but we can
do much to help not only to
feed them, but to teach them to
feed themselves."
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Farm Calendai
April 19-20 Portland Garden
Clubs show, Civio Information
Center, Portland.
April 19-20 Oregon Primrose
Society show, Oregon Journal
Building, Portland.
April 20 Marion County Jer
sey Cattle Club. Andrew Kehrll,
miles east of St. Paul.
April 21-26 Oregon Products
Week.
April 21 Guernsey Breeders
banquet, Multnomah Hotel, 6 p.
m.
April 22 Guernsey sale. Pa
cific International Livestock Ex
position Building.
April 25-26 Benton County
Spring 4-H Fair, Corvallis High
School.
April 26 Linn County Exten
sion Homemakers' festival.
April 27 Mt. Angel Primrose
Show, St. Mary's dining hall.
April 28 Weed Spray tour,
1:30 p. m. Victor Point-Sublimity
area. J. J. Doerfler ranch and Zim
merman Bros. Farm.
April 28-29 California Ram
Sale, Sacramento.
May 7 Polk County Home
makers' Festival, Monmouth.
May 8-10 Linn County Spring
4-H Fair, Albany.
May 10-11 Salem Garden
Council Spring Show, Marion Ho
tel. May 12-14 Oregon Cattle
men's Association annual meeting,
Prineville.
May 17 Malheur County
Spring Jersey Show.
May 18 National 4-H Sunday.
May 20 Aberdeen Angus Sale,
Oregon State Fair Grounds.
May 23-25 Horse show Eu
gene. May 24 Washington County
Jersey Show.
May 24 Clackamas County
Spring Lamb and Wool Show,
Canby.
May 25-27 Pacific Seedmen's
Association, Hungton Hotel, Pasa
dena. May 26 Marion County Jer
sey Show.
May 30-51 Clackamas Coun
ty Jersey Show and sale, Canby.
May 31 Linn County Fat
Lamb and Wool Show, Scio.
June 2-4 Oregon Wheat
Growers' League and Junior Fat
Stock Show and Sale. Tho Dalles.
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SWEGLE -A. L Eoff with a few of his hlghclass rams which are gomg to the California Ram Sale April
28-29 at Sacramento. Eoff has been consigning to the sale for 27 years and will leave Monday for Sa
cramento. (Statesman Farm Photo.)
Corn Trials
Get Attention
From Growers
While corn prices may not climb
as high as predicted some months
ago, those in the know report that
they will be good. The slight de
crease in earlier predicted prices
is due to the cut-back in swine
which is greater than expected.
Many sows and gilts are being sold
for slaughter this spring because
of the rapid decline in hog prices
this past year. While this will
mean higher prices for the hog
breeder who stays in, it will mean
slightly less for the raiser of hog
feeds such as corn.
Swine growers in the valley are
being urged to grow their own
feed corn this year if at all pos
sible. In connection with this, R.
E. Fore of Oregon State College,
who is widely known in the cen
tral valley area for his work at
corn shows, has assisted in prepar
ing a new bulletin on hybrid field
corn. Rapid advances, he reports,
have been made in recent years
in the breeding of new, improved
corn hybrids and in certain cul
tural practices used in growing
corn.
Choose Right Hybrid
It is essential that growers pro
ducing corn for grain select hy
brids of the proper maturity range.
Adapted hybrids will mature
grain, even in the Willamette Val
ley, although the moisture con
tent at harvest may be too high
for safe storage without artificial
drying methods.
Corn is mature at approximate
ly 40 per cent moisture as the
translocation of starches and oth
er materials to the corn kernels is
stopped at this point. Corn har
vested with 40 per cent moisture
and properly dried is equal in
both quality and feed value to
grain harvested with lower mois
tures. Grain having above 40 per
cent moisture will not be equal
quality even after drying. Hence
growers should select hybrids that
can be harvested with less than
40 per cent moisture.
Willamette valley corn seldom
runs below 35 per cent to 40 per
cent moisture at harvest, due to
rainy fall weather. Hence Wil
lamette Valley corn usually should
be dried artifically. Many types
of driers have been used success
fully, although the use of portable
driers appears to be increasing at
present. These dryers are rela
tively inexpensive and can also
be used for drying hay and other
crops. Drying costs of less than
$10 per ton have been reported
by growers. The agricultural en
gineering department, Oregon
State College, has reported fuel
cost of as low as $3.08 per ton
of corn dried with a portable
drier.
Small differences in yield be
tween hybrids do not necessarily
indicate that one hybrid is super
ior to another, Fore reports. The
hybrids in each trial made during
the past year by the state college,
were planted in randomized order
and each was replicated four to
six times. Although all strains
were handled the same, in so far
as this is possible. Some fluctua
tions are bound to occur, due to
soil variations and other uncon
trollable factors.
Trials Made In Valley
Two of the trials were conduct
ed in the Willamette Valley: At
Corvallis and Oregon City.
Corn trials at Corvallis were
grown on fertile river bottom soil
of the Chehalis series. This land
for several years has been in a
corn-sugar beet seed rotation.
Abruzzi rye has been seeded each
year following the corn and fol
lowing the sugar beet seed crop
as a cover and green manure crop
to maintain the organic content
of the soil. In 1950, 100 pounds
of treble superphosphate and 100
pounds of ammonium sulfate
were broadcast before plowing
and the corn was side dressed with
200 pounds of ammonium sulfate
when approximately one foot
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Early Spray
Termed Best
For Ragwort
Tansy ragwort plants spray
ed before June first will be
most easily killed. Marion
County Weed Inspector Jake
Neufeldt says 2,4-D applied
from now till the weeds start
to bud at the rate of 3 to 4
pounds of 2,4-D acid per acre
is best. For small areas where
a 3 gallon sprayer is used add
one cup of 50 per cent 2,4-D
acid solution to each sprayer
full.
For effective control, spray
early. County Extension Agent
Ben A. Newell recommends
that you read the label on spray
containers. Usually the 40 to
60 per cent 2,4-D solutions are
cheaper than 10 or 20 per cent
solutions. Which ever percent
age is used be sure to add
enough to make 3 to 4 pounds
of 2,4-D acid per acre.
Tansy plants hoed off or
pulled last year, still are heav
ily infested this year. Best re
sults came in 1951 from an
early spring spray and a late
fall spray.
high. These applications supplied
45 pounds of P205 and 60 pounds
of nitrogen. The field was irri
gated twice with a sprinkler ir
rigation system.
During the 1951 season, 100
pounds of the treble superphos
phate and the same of ammonium
nitrate were broadcast and plowed
under. The corn was side dressed
when approximately 18 inches
high with 200 pounds of ammon
ium nitrate. These plots were ir
rigated three times during the
growing season. Planting dates
were May 9 and 10, in 1950 and
May 3 and 4, in 1951. Harvest
was started each year around Oc
tober 15.1n the two-year tests
Oregon 525 produced 97 bushels
per acre; Wisconsin 341A, 90.4
bushels and Wisconsin 341, 82.9
bushels. In one year tests (1951)
Wisconsin 701 A was the highest
producer with 128 bushels. Ore
gon 525 made 108 bushels. Lowest
of the 15 varieties grown in the
experimental plots was Wisconsin
255, with 77 bushels per acre.
Oregon 355 made 90.2 bushels.
The second valley experiment
was made on the Red Soils Ex
perimental area farm near Oregon
City' on an Olympic series soil.
The crops were planted May 20
in 1950. A side dressing of 140
pounds of ammophos 16-20 was
applied. Plots were planted in the
spring of 1951 but were not har
vested as the corn was almost a
total failure because of the ex
ceptionally dry season. No irriga
tion was used.
Yields for the 1950 Red Soils
plats were very low, Wisconsin
1445 being highest with 61.1 bush
els. Wisconsin 341A made 56 bush
els and Oregon 525 50.7 bushels.
Farm Clean-up
Time at Hand
A spring clean up of farm lots
and yards will add many hours
of enjoyment to farm living and
save dollars for Marion County
folks.
Each year American farm fam
ilies lose 3500 lives and 100 mil
lion dollars worth of property by
fire Much of this loss can be
stopped by cleaning up junk and
trash in buildings and cleaning
up weeds and grass around the
yards. Keep fire fighting equip
ment in working order.
The loss of 18,000 farm work
ers and Injury of another 1 Vt mil
lion from farm accidents could
greatly be reduced by a thorough
spring clean up and repair around
the farm.
Come 1
I Guernsey Event
Scheduled for
North Portland
Oregon and Washington Guern
sey Breeders stage their annual
Northwest Classic sale at the Pa
cific International grounds in
Portland on April 22. Oregon's
sale committee chairman and
president of Oregon Guernsey
Breeders, Dick Lyon of Junction
City, reports a top group of con
signments. Jack Robinson of Lodi. Calif..
I is sale manager.
j A Guernsey breeders' banquet
! ana directors meeting are sohed- :
! uled for Monday evening, April j
21 at the Multnomah Hotel in'
j Portland. The Association Secre-
! tary Ben A. Newell of Salem says
all breeders or folk interested in
Guernseys are welcome.
New Sheep Branding
Paint Now on Market
A scourable sheep brand paint
has been developed by George L.
Comte of the PMA Denver Wool
Laboratory, and is now available
in three colors: Red, green and
black.
Use of these scourable brand
ing paints will result in a larger
check in the wool grower's pock
et, since much smaller portions
of the scoured fleece will have to
be graded down because of sub
stances which cannot be removed
in the scouring process.
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Acklin's Bootery
Anita Shop
Arbuckles
Barb's Sporting Goods
Bishop's
Bob Callahan Int.
Brown's, Jewelers &
Opticians
Capital Drug Store
Commonwealth Inc.
Conrad Bruce & Co.,
Investments
Cooke's Stationery
Commercial Insurance Agy.
K. L Elfstrom Co.
Tho Fashionette
Ulamblings
Jens Svinth, one-time vocation
al instructor in the Salem High
School, manages to keep himself
very much out of his Salem office
which be established some months
ago and which bears an American
Jersey Cattle Club lettering. Jens
was made fieldman for that cat
tle breed some months ago. Among
his recent visits were trips to Mal
heur and to Lincoln Counties. In
Malheur he paid visits to a num
ber of new Jersey breeders. In
Lincoln County he visited the most
recently formed Oregon Jersey
Cattle Club that of Lincoln
County.
Charley Kneiss, Silverton, is re
joicing over the water flow he
has received from his newly drill
ed well. He went down 169 feet
12 inches wide to get irrigation
for his pasture. He has both dairy
and beef cattle. He is getting 500
gallons per minute. Marty Bros.,
of Portland were the successful
water-reachers.
Marcus Walmpach, Mt. Angel, Is
boasting a heavy producer in Nug
get Celsche Dorothy, a registered
Holstein-Friesian. She made 418
pounds of butterfat from 11,405
pounds of milk in a 208-day pro
duction period. She was milked
two times daily and was 4 years
and 7 months when she started
out on her test period.
One is always hearing some
thing about the "little woman" be
ing superstitious. Well, the other
day while sitting in our car at a
strawberry planting demonstra
tion we had the opportunity to
listen in on some of the super
stitions of men although most of
these were prefaced with "I
heards" and "someone told me
sos."
Floyd Bates, whom we always
consider among the most factual
and rational of men, was repeat
ing that he'd "heard" it said that
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. the dark q the moon And Ed
; Zanhow was riht there to back
Floyd up.
Ted Rustvold up Monitor way!
has 20 ewes whicH produced 40
lambs, which would not be a bad'
idea for all sheep raisers. It does-
n"t cost as much to feed 20 ewes ,
over the year as it does to feed !
30 ewes, and 30 ewes producing
40 lambs is considered a pretty
good return.
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W. P. Fuller Paint Co.
General Finance Co. A
Roy Simmons Inc.
Hoffman's Meat Market
Hogg Bros.
Alex Jones
Jack Jills
Jewel Box Jewelers
Johnson's m
Kay's
Tho Kitchen Centre
Klasic Photo Shop
Little French Shop
The Man's Shop
Marion Feed A Seed
Morris Optical
Urges Everyone
To Plant Garden
. K. Ralph Clark extension
horticulturist, has this to. cay
about spring gardening: "tVe"
do not anticipate tho develop
ment of any great rarden ram .
palgn In Oregon tbls year bat
we do want to enconrage every .
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plant vegetable xarden. Tho
food Is needed and Is better If
raised close to "the place w hero
it is to be used, . i, f
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grow, yon will . enjoy raising .
garden. No division of agricul
ture makes return aav faster
for tbe effort exerted than doe
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Farmers Adopt ; ;
List of Objectives
ror toming lear
Six objectives were adopted by
the Linn County - Agricultural,
Planning Council at its ' annual
spring meeting held in Albany
recently, reports Albert , Julian,
Lyons, chairmhan. , : , ! " - "
These are: Improve ' Bangs J
disease and tuberculin testing"
prpgram; con duct - educational .
campaigns On tanzy ragwort and?
wild garlic control; ; endeavor to :
get compulsory cherry fruit fly
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disposal program; organize a farm -forestry
committee, and encour
age corps of engineers construe-:
tion of small reservoir; for irri-
gation and construction ;of Green
Peter and White Bridge! dams.,
Additional members of the.
council are Robert Irish, Shedd;
Merle Manning, Brownsville; Mrs. .
R. W. Schmidt, Albany; Hubert
Willoughby, Harrisburg; j E. II.
Murphy, Albany; Mrs. Jess Pe
terson, Lebanon; Gerald . Deter-
frLwy t rr nfiiniiPQ t b rn varrvo nn
ing, Harrisburg
Ryals, Albany.
and Gordon
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