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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1952)
"Solon, 'Now. Watch f V 1 O'i - r'z ii i fr w"l i i -r- i mi in- tiW5 v'ie. It was the photographer who had to "watch the birdJe." and carefully, when the above picture was snapped. Pictured is Mrs. N. S. Wood, to 10 8. Church St, holding white canary, a reluctant model wno coomed around the room repeatedly before posin. (Statesman Photo). Salem Woman Finds Canary Raising an Interesting Hobby; Sells 1,000 in Seven Years By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor. The Statesman Ladies, if you're shopping around for a hobby, lend an ear to the story of Mrs. 7. S. Wood who has raised 1,000 canaries during the riast seven vears. That's a lot of birdseed, but it's the canaries sold for $50. Mrs. Wood does not claim to the valley. But when I first visited her in October there were 100 canaries in the "aviary" at her borne, near the new high school that is rising in South Salem. When I returned just before Christmas, all of the young sing ers had been sold. Only her sub stantial breeding stock remained, and those birds aren't for sale. Colorful Sight What a Colorful lot they are! White birds, green ones, cinna mon, bronze, yellow and the mot tied birds that are called "varie gated." But the hot item in the trade right now, says Mrs. Wood, is the pastel-hued "pink apricot" va riety. Mrs. Wood is assembling a breeding stock of pink apricots. They, are valued at $50 a pair, and to date the hens are as costly as the male singers. This is exceptional, for hens of I more than common varieties bring somewhat less than $5 on the av-! rage, while most male singers ranee on up to $25 in price. Like a cook guarding a prized recipe, Mrs. Wood does not dis close the source of her breeding stock. She states, however, that he specializes in Grossbacher rollers. Warble Softly Rollers are throat singers that warble a soft, melodious trilL Choppers, another popular variety. sing louder, "choppy notes. Mrs Wood considers rollers more pop talar. Mrs. Wood's aviary is a former bedroom one the second floor of Vher home. The 10 by 15 foot room is lined with conventional bird eages and two large flight cages One of the flight cases will ac commodate 75 birds. Sunlight floods the room on three sides. factor Mrs. Wood considers im portant. Mrs. Wood feeds her birds mixture of plain birdseed and black seeds called rape. The lat ter, she says, is their "bread and butter." For dessert they get bit of brightly-colored seed called Treat Nesting birds three or four times a year is recommended by Mrs. Wood. The gestation period Is brief and the baby canaries often arrive in large broods. Badiries in Demand While the canary business seems to be booming in the valley, airs. Wood admits that "budgies' the parakeet-type birds that can be taught to speak are the current rage. ("I could have sold a hun dred of them this year," she said.) Mrs. Wood is an enthusiastic member of Salem's recently or ganized Variety Bird Club which she said has approximately 20 members. Membership is restrict ed to persons who raise birds. Mrs. Mary Lewis of Keizer dis trict and Mrs. Blanche Isherwood FOR SALE Cutest little BRAND NEW home in Keizer Never been occupied, 2 B. It, living room, fireplace, hardwood floors throughout, forced air heat, kitchen very modern, bath. Possession be fore Christmas. Sacrifice price for quick !. Phono 4-3181, Evenings the Birdie9 hot chickenfeed. At least on of be the largest raiser of canaries in of West Salem are officers of the new club. While Mrs. Wood appears to have made quite a good thing out of raising canaries, she stresses that it is "just a hobby." The key to success, she believes, is "a real love for birds," so she thinks other interested persons should approach bird raising as just a hobby, too. Beef Cattlemen to Attend Nat'l Meet Oregon beef cattle producers! will bo among the leaders at the 56th annual convention of the American National Cattlemen's Association in Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 5-7. A large delegation, headed by President Harry Stearns, Prine- vuie, is expeciea irom ine active Oregon group and its affiliated county and local stock groups. The Oregon deleation will return in time to make reports at the West ern Oregon Livestock Association meeting to be held in Coquille on Jan. 19-21. Trvo Varieties of 'Mums ... y - . -, With gardes catalog season here, plants should consider the type some prefer the big ones at right; at left. (Garden Photo). , Everything for Your Vindow ELMER THE BLIND MAN Venetian BEnds, Drapes and Shades Traverse Rods Bamboo Drapes and Shades Cnlumbta Mitie Screens doth and Aluminum Awnings , Fireplace Screens and Accessories Chapmau Home Freezers Vertl Vertical Blinds Folding Doors Transparent Plastic Store Shades.. ; We Wash. Faint. Slat and Retape Venetiaa Blinds Free Estimates 11 Down Fay tlenthly M7I Center St (formerly West Salem) Phono 3-732S ; Questions - Question Whe n should wc prune our grapes? S. M. C Answer During their dormant season. February Is a eood time. Sometimes when they are pruned too early frost injures them slightly but it has to be a severe frost when they are dormant.- Question What causes my Af rican violet buds to wither and die after they are formed and al most ready to bloom? E.G. Answer Do you use gas? A small leak, one tha t you might even fail to notice, will cause buds to die and foliage to look sick. Ask the- gas company for inspection. Otherwise, it could be lack of moisture, low humidity, a too heavy soil, a draft. The plants need constant moisture but never soggy soil. Pot must be well-drained. There should be sufficient light also. - ' Question What is wrong with holly leaves enclosed? Trees are five years old and this discolora tion is getting worse annually. R. C. D. Answer Looks like a fungus which will occasionaly effect holly. Pick off diseased foliage, gather up and burn any which may have fallen from the trees. Rains will scatter spores of fungus. Ap ply bordeaux mixture, dormant strength during the winter and this spring when new growth starts use a good copper compound spray to protect the new foliage. Question We had a lot of trou ble with our hollyhocks this past year. They all turned brown, the leaves shriveled and fell off. We have them growing against a picket fence where we have had hollyhocks growing for 10 years and usually they have been lovely. We like to have them growing in exactly that spot for sentimental reasons, but our garden friends tell us it is impossible once they have become diseased. We are now ordering some new seed. Is there anything we can do to grow hollyhocks in this same location? Could it be that our plants were just too old and that was the rea son? Please help us as soon as possible. Would it matter what kind of seed we got? D. E. Answer Are you trying to tell me that you had the same plants growing in this one location for 10 years? If you did, they must have done exceedingly well. Buy good seed from a reliable house. I haven't heard of a rust-resistant variety in hollyhocks, not one that is truly resistant. You really shouldn't plant the flowers in the same location in which the dis eased plants were growing, but if you must have them there, you will need to give them some spe cial attention. In the first place, pick up and burn every vestige of the old plants leaves, stocks, seeds. Then dig up the soil deep ly and fully on the first sunny day. Dust it with bordeaux and let it be until spring planting time. After you have set out the plants and as they start to grow, dust them every week or 10 days with a bordeaux, or one of the new green fungicides containing copper, throughout the growing season. ... If you follow this pro cedure religiously you might have good hollyhocks against your pick' et fence. Question Got a box of nico iris rhizomes for Christmas. Should persons ordering chrysantheinvm suitable for their gardes others like the small - - Answers we bury these in sawdust until spring, or plant now? Our soil isn't heavy and not too soggy. J.C.C Answer Td get them into the ground if you can do so without packing it. As you say your soi is on the light side, rather than the heavy,' this should be able to be done on a nice January day (some times we have them). Be careful you da not set too deeply, and it might be well to spread considerable- sand oyer the planting at this time. Some of this may be removed later in the season. Question I want an honest an swer! Do you really think it pays to try to save poinsettias over from one season to the next? I've never had any luck and it just seems a waste of time, and yet I hate to throw them away. But truly, I've never had one grow and bloom for me. Dou you know of anyone who has outside of greenhouse men? D.l. . Answer Tsch! I always TRY to give an honest answer ... so in this case, I'd say that for you, it probably wouldn't pay. However, I have seen some gardeners keep their poinsettias over and do beautiful job of producing blooms again the next spring but it isn't easy and one must have the pati ence of Job. If you do not have that kind of garden patience, then just enjoy your blooms now and throw the plant in the garbage when the brackets have yellowed and fallen and forget about it until" someone gives you another- plant next year. And now, as we are finishing the old year, I want to say how very much I have appreciated the many cards and letters I have received from so many of you, not only during the holiday season, but throughout the entire year. This is just between us but there are tunes when one wonders if anyone reads the stuff one writes and then such a flood of nice cards and notes as I received this holiday season well it makes much for me toward the very Happy New Year I'm wishing you all. Question Have a row of black caps in my back yard here in Sa lem. The canes are very long and ungainly. Should I cut them back now? Will it hurt them? S. S. Answer D. L. Rasmussen, Mari on County agent, says to leave them alone, adding that fall topped canes often die back se verely in the winter's cold. Eldriedge District to Discuss Consolidation Stut'sman News Serrte Eldriedge School District 60 will meet at the Eldriedge School Monday at 8 p. m. to discuss pro posed consolidation of Buena Crest, Mission Bottom,. Clear Lake, Eldreldge and Waconda Schools. . The meeting, which will be pre sided over by Mrs. Stanley Mich- alek, chairman of the school board, is open to all interested persons. Clackamas County had more farms, as defined by the 1950 U. S. census of agriculture, than any other Oregon county. The Clack amas figure at the 1950 count was 6,090 farms, with the average size 52.8 acres. Marion County with 5,013 was second in farm num bers with an average of 77.7 acres. Wheeler County had only 189 farms but the average size was 4,335.4 acres. Results on test plots of the Santa Rita experimental range in Ari zona show that range -land cleared and seeded to a mixture of adapted grasses will produce eight times more grass than the open range. Garden Calendar Jan. I Salem Garden Club, Jan. 14 Mt Angel Garden Club. Jan. IS Stayton Garden Club. Sawing Salem and VWnity as TFuneral Dlrsdors for 24 Yean Convenient location, S. Commercial street; bus tin; direct routr , to ce meteries ; no cross traffic. New modern building seating up to 300. Services within your means. 605 S. Commercial St. Hop Marketing Agreement to End On July 1, 1953 The secretary of agriculture has announced mat the hop market ing agreement and order will be terminated on July 1, 1953, Paul T. Rowell, managing agent for the Hop Control Board, reported Sat urday. TJSDA said that in the referen dum termination was favored by 52 per cent of those voting in No vember, representing about 58 per cent of the 1952 production. Bal lots were received from about 77 per cent of all eligible growers. representing about 94 per cent of the total quantity of hops pro duced this year in Oregon, Cali fornia, Washington and Idaho. Ballots favoring termination thus were cast by 40 per cent of all eligible hop growers who produced 55 per cent of the 1952 crop in the area covered by the agree ment. New Jaycee Project Aids 12 Families Statesman News Servies WOODBURN "Sympathy for Santa Claus" was the feeling of a tired group of Jaycees here this week as they wound up what they hope will be the first of many an nual Christmas-basket programs for needy families in the North Marion County area. The Jaycees undertook the job of providing baskets and toys for all families not "adopted by other Woodburn organizations. Mem bers said the need for baskets and the response of the community both "greatly exceeded" expecta tions. Twelve families were provided with food for a big Christmas din ner and many toys for all children The Jaycees started the pro ject in place of the Christmas lighting contest sponsored in past years. Community residents were asked to help as the project ex panded. Many new toys were pro vided, while used toys were re paired at MacLaren School for Boys. The Seventh grade Art Club at Washington School contributed a large box of new toys. Plans for a similar project next Christmas already are being made. Farm Conservation Deadline Set Wed. The final date for farmers to request approval for 1953 agricul tural conservation program prac tices Is Dec. 31, W. M. Tate, chair man of the Marion County pro duction and marketing adminis tration committee, reported Sat urday. Each farmer who needs assist ance for practices to restore or maintain fertility, conserve water, or prevent erosion on his farm should so inform his PMA com munity committeeman by the end of this month. LEAVES FOR PASO ROBLES SILVERTON Mrs. Allan Swan- son (Dorothy Thompson) has left for Paso Robles, Calif., to join her husband who has eight more weeks of special training at Camp Rob erts. Mrs. Swartson. a daughter of the Norris Thompsons, has been living in Portland recently. WANTED! ALSO FILBERT MEATS Highest Cash Prieea on Delivery Dorris Klorfein Packing Co. 460 Norih Front St., SiLm Td. 3-7633 , 0 V Virgil T. Goldes VIRGIL T. 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(() Valley Briefs Silverton Tha Silver Creek Soli Conservation District will hold Its annual meeting Wednesday, Jan. 7, at the KP Hall. The meeting will follow a 6:30 pjn. dinner which Silverton Grange will serve. Dr. L. Cheney, head of Oregon State Col lege soils department, will speak. Four Corners Regular meet ing of Four Corners Womans Club has been postponed to 8 p.m. Wed nesday, Jan. 8, because of the holi days. Sweet HomeA two-weeks re vival service will start Jan. 18 at the Church of Christ here. The Rev. Elery Parrish, McMinnville, will be the evangelist. DeVere Penhollow will be song leader. Silverton Past president's par ley of Delbert Reeves Auxiliary will be held Monday night at the Ralph Francis home, reports Mrs Ernest L. Starr. A 6:30 no-host supper will be served. Vietor Point A baby girl, who has been named Pamela Ann, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd T. Fox Jr. at a Portland nospitai. urana parents are. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nelson. Newberg, and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd T. Fox Sr.. Victor Point. Also a great grandmother. Mrs. Carri TownsencL who lives here. Grace GO. Phono 4-2257 & Goldes plan distinguish this "Young America House," design C-l by Vlctot Newsfeature). Too much or indiscriminate use of lime 'will cause an iron defi ciency and iron deficiency will cause yellowing of the foliage (not the autumn yellowing). Pre Inventory Offerings Yo Villi Close January 6th fo fake Inventory Meanwhile we offer you a 10 discount on our already low price for the following Items purchased before that, date: 3-4-5 In. Aluminum Irrigation Pipe 6-8-10-12 ft. Aluminum Sheeting Aluminum Gutter and Supplies Barb and Woven Wire v Steel Fence Posts Water Pumps Electric Wire and Supplies Deep Freezers Electric Portable & Wall Heaters Wheel Barrows Lawn Mowers You will be surprised on your total savings COME INI Oregon Farmer's Union Co-Op, Salem, 343 N. 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