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Many Things
To Many Folk
By LILXJE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
If you ran into Falls City while
touring the country in New En
land, you'd call it "Quaint" or
ven "picturesque".
If you are a member of the
Salem Garden Club or other gar
den clubs in Salem's area, you'd
know Falls City is the home of
Mildred Davis, who for the past
three years has captured sweep
stakes' prizes at the Salem Spring
Flower Shows.
If you are a mill worker, or
perhaps a logger,' Falls ' City
would mean the gateway to the
big Valsetz sawmill although
there is a fair sized mill at Falls
City itself.
If you are a fruit processor in
Salem, you'd think of Falls City
as the vicinity from which some
exceptionally fine berries have
arrived.
But if you are like the most of
us, Falls City, if you know it at
all, is a spot which sign boards,
directing you toward the coast at
Dallas, also tell you lies 10 miles
in the opposite direction.
This being "Be Kind to Tourist"
Week, we the farm photog
rapher and farm editor decided
to be kind to ourselves as tourists
of a bit . of neighboring commun
ity of which we knew little. We
didn't go out to learn the history
of the community or even what
makes it tick we just went out
to see what we could see as "tour
ists".
Prettr Homes at Dallas
Crossing through Dallas, which
Is always pleasant because of the
pretty homes particularly in the
entrance from the east an the
leaving from the southwest we
hit some rather pretty farming
communities, especially after we
' had gone a few miles.
Grain fields were looking good,
and there was considerable beef
cattle, also looking sleek and fat
If, we thought, only premium cat
tle, as the reports say, will be
making good prices toward the
end of summer, most of the Here-
fords, with & sprinkling of Angus,
which were grazing Tuesday be
tween Dallas and Falls City,
should bring fair returns to their
owners. Because of the rains of
which so many folk are complam
. ing, pastures are remaining good
for a longer time than usual, and
with good pastures come good
, , cattle. 4 .
Right off the bat at Falls City,
we -learned that you don't .have to
read about being nice to tourists
to be nice. Just by chance we
walked into a drug store we
should say The Drugstore for a
little information. We found Vir
gil Davis," who didn't know us
from Adam, metering out yards
of cotton prints, perfumes, films,
ice cream, candy bars, and elec
tric appliances to numerous
comers. Also he accepted a tele
phone bill payment, we noted.
In between customers, we did
a bit of chatting.
Along with other valley towns.
Falls City no longer has its own
"central office" for telephones.
The city it was incorporated in
1903 dials through Salem, as do
so many communities now. To ac
commodate local folk payments
are made at the Davis Drig store.
Good Berry Country t
We talked a bit about farming
the hillsides to the north of
the town were covered with berry
fields both cane and strawberry.
"While lumbering is our Num
ber 1 industry, farmers actually
do a lot to support the town,"
Davis said, as he told about the
many berries, orchards, cherries
that were grown in the Falls City
countryside, with practically all
sf the harvest going to one or
other of the Salem processing
plants.
It wasn't until we had talked a
while that we learned that Mil
dred Davis, whom all garden
showgoers at Salem know at least
by name, was Mrs. Virgil Davis.
"We just have three lots and
she gardens all over these," Davis
smiled, as he added that he be
lieved roses were her specialty
at least at this time of the year.
Later we called at the Davis
home, and finding no one. at
home, took the liberty to enjoy
for a minute between showers
a most attractive garden, one
from which we could well under
stand that prize winning arrange
meets could come.
Churches Double Taverns -
Wandering around town, we
eeunted two grocery stores, four
churches, .two very attractive
If you like mountain roads (as
above) then, before leaving the Falls City country, take a jaunt
greatest little lumber town. (Statesman Farm Photo.)
Trees Frame Falls City's Main Street
In some other section of the United
er pretty with many trees, relatives of which help support it, coming
(Statesman Farm Photo.)
schools a high and a grade ,a
variety store, a number of service
stations all busy servicing trucks
and a couple of taverns.
What also interested us was
that in a city of 1,000 inhabitants
Mrs. Davis took census and we
were told this was the approxi
mate number of citizens there
were two very nice municipally
owned parks.! One of these, lying
alpng the creek which divides the
town, was equipped with tennis
court, picnic tables, stoves and
rest rooms. The other was yet in
the "wild."
While visiting around, we
learned that some 30 years ago,
Falls City had been larger than
now. It was then that a "huge"
sawmill, to quote one of the resi
dents, had been running at Falls
City. Later the "timber moved
back" and with it the sawmill,
opening up in the center of the
forested mountains and making
for itself a little town called Val
setz. A mill, putting out some
75,000 board feet a day, still re
mains in Falls City.
Never having been just certain
where Valsetz which draws jso
many valley workers was situ
ated, we took off in the direction
the sign told us to go 15 miles
away.
But for the timid driver, we'd
like to state right here, that
while the road is good so far as
road is concerned, it isn't very
wide.
Country is Wild
- For the driver more interested
in scenery than in road widths,
seldom in Oregon is more of
fered. The road takes you up and
up into the unsettled, real moun
tain and forest land of the coast
range.
Considerable of the mountain
sides have been logged off and
in many locations you will see
lovely new forests just a few
feet high growing again. In
other spots, selective logging has
been practiced, with strips of
large trees standing, between
which there are strips of logged
off country.
The ravines are deep, and cov
ered with lush growth. The banks
to the other side are steep and
also, for the most part, covered
with lush growth. For those mak
ing the trip within the next few
days there will be hundreds of
rhododendrons in bloom. In spots,
the whole mountain side is cov
ered with the pink native shrubs,
many more lovely, and certainly
much larger, than some we culti
vate soi carefully in our gardens.
Turnouts Provided
Along the road are numerous
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FAMIER UIIIOU CO-OP
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pictured at the left) and mountain'
States, tourist might term Falls
Gresham Sets Annual
Palomino Horse Show
GRESHAM A Palomino race
horse and an automobile will race
against each other over a quarter
mile track Sunday, July 19, at the
third annual All-Palomino show
at the Multnomah county fair
grouds at Gresham.
The horse-auto race will be a
rubber event determining an un
disputed champion after the draw
declared between the same two
contestants' at the first-annual
Palomino show two years ago.
The event is just one feature
of the annual show sponsored
each year by the Palomino Exhi
bitors of Oregon. The show be
gins at 9:30 a. m. with breeding
class competition and an after
noon packed with exciting per
formance classes begins at 2:30.
A total of 22 events have been
scheduled.
JERSEY FOLK TO MEET
Neal Miller, president of the
Oregon Jersey Cattle Club, has
called for an executive meeting
on his board of directors for Wed
nesday, July 8 at 11 a.m. at the
Senator HoteL Plans will be com
pleted for the annual picnic and
summer meeting to be held at
Yaquina Park, Newport, Aug. 9.
Charles A. Sprague, publisher of
the Oregon Statesman, will be the
speaker.
turnouts, both to provide cars for
passing space, because the road
isn't always wide enough for two
cars to pass abreast, and to stop
and look at the scenery at least
that was what we used the turn
outs for from time to time.
Also there are places it would
be nice to eat a picnic dinner pro
vided both food and drink were
brought along. These places are
not equipped for modern picnick
ing. And it is a trip that a Willam
ette Valley farmer, who has to
go between chore times, can
make in a day. Just one caution:
Start in time. While there are
but 13 miles to go from Falls
City to Valsetz, they are a long
13 miles. You dont make them at
70 or 75 miles an hour. You don't
even make them at 50 or 60 miles j
an hour average, you snouia
make some of them faster than
20 or 30 miles.
But we liked Falls City and the
road to Valsetz very much, prom
ising ourselves we'd return with
more time to spend than we had
this week. -
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scenery (as shewn to the right
over we nius vm vaueu, wejbi
City "quaint," but here it's a rath
Mgni oown into cne town liseii.
Farm
Calendar
July U 'Timber Carnival, Al
bany. July 3-4 30th annual Molalla
Buckeroo.
July 3-4 Yamhill County Sher
iffs Posse Shodeo, McMinnville.
July 3-5 St Paul Rodeo, St.
PauL
July Polk-Yamhill Helstein
Club meeting.
July 8 Polk County Farmers
Union, Peedee School.
July 9 Labish Meadow Gar
deners annual picnic, home of G.
C. Zenger.
July 9 No-host dinner in hon
or of 30 visiting European agri
cultural engineers, Senator Hotel,
7 p.m.
July 24 Roy Hobson and L. L.
Lombard Guernsey Sale, 10:30
a.m., state fairgrounds.
July 29-Aug. 1 Santiam Bean
Festival, Stayton.
Ang. 1 Willamette Valley Ram
Sale, Albany.
Aug. 9 Oregon Jersey Cattle
Club state picnic, Yaquina State
Park, Newport.
Aug. 17 Oregon Ram Sale,
Pendleton.
Aug. 31 Southern Oregon Ram
Sale, Lakeview.
Sept 5-12 Oregon State Fair,
Salem.
Sept. 11 Oregon Turkey Im
provement Association annual
meeting, Withycombe Hall, Cor
vallis. Sept 17-la Northwest Christ
mas ' Tree meeting. Vocational
High School, Tacoma.
Sept 28-27 Early English
Chrysanthemum show, Mount
Scott Community HalL Portland.
AG EMPLOYE VACATIONS
Miss Genevieve Morgan, in
charge of public relations for the
Oregon State Department of Ag
riculture, left Wednesday for a
three week's vacation into Can
ada. Destination was the Lake
Louise and Banff country.
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By Rural Reporter
With June dairy month very
much on the wane, Willamette
Valley cows scurried about to
bring in a few more records
which have been aclaimed by
their registry breed offices 'as
outstanding
A registered Guernsey cow,
Bonneville Loire, owned by J. By -
ford Brown of Woodburn, pro
duced 8,000 pounds of milk and
420 pounds of butterfat on 610
milkings on 'test at the age of
three years. Loire is the daughter
of the Guernsey sire. Chicona
Norwyn, that has one on and
five daughters in! the Perform
ance Register of the American
Guernsey Cattle Club. If you are
up on your dairy breeds and pro
duction, you'll realize that's im
portant If you aren't you'd bet
ter just skip this and the next
couple of paragraphs, too.
Three registered Jersey cows
owned by Hex Ross, Mt Angel,
have received special recognition
for their outstanding production
records made on Herd Improve
ment Registery test
The cows and their official rec
ords are: Crowning Designer's
Tiny Maide 10,409 pounds of
milk with 632 pounds of butter
fat at the age of three years and
seven months; Crowning Design
er's Daisy, 8,532 pounds of milk
with 528 pounds of butterfat at
the age of 3 years and 4 months;
and Crowning Designer's Side
step, 9539 pounds Of milk with
543 pounds of butterfat at the
age of eight years and one month.
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And just to finish up the dairy
month in good shape, Lindow Jer
sey Farm at Independence made
some nice sales. Included were
a heifer, Lindow's September
Sprite, which went to Harlan
Thomas, a FFA lad at Beaver; an
other heifer, Sybil Wild Quince
apd a bull, Signal Welcome Scott
"were sold to another FFA youth,
Kenneth E. Evans of, Joseph. A
couple of others went to Gerard,
Ohio; two heifers went to Belling
ham, Wash. A third senior herd
sire, June Volunteer Successor,
went to Tri-State Breeders Co-op
at Westby, Wis., and a couple
went to other Oregon herds.
Marlin Fox, one of Oregon's
most widely known Jersey men,
ii showing slow improvement at
the Silverton Hospital. He suf
fered a series of heart attacks
and for a time his life was dis
paired of, but this week he has
been showing some improvement.
Sally just moved into the hospi
tal, too, staying with Marlin day
and night until the worst was
over. Besides , Sally there were
three nurses giving Marlin clock
around care.
Some of the county winners in
the "Grass is Gold" contest will
be announced at the 13th annual
Willamette Valley Ram Sale to
be held in Albany on August 1.
Included is the Linn County win
ner, says Hubert Willoughby,
Harrisburg, chairman of the Linn
County contest
Serving with Hubert on the
committee are Leonard Forster,
Tangent; R. H. Murphy, Albany;
Terry Elder, Lebanon; John Shep
herd, Scio and George L. Koos,
Tangent
Some 30 agricultural engineers
from 12 European countries are
going to tour Marion County next
week. Their interests are pri
marily in irrigation and Ben A.
Newell, Marion County agent, re
marked Wednesday that "we
hope to show them several farms
during their stay in our county.
Some of the irrigation projects
here should prove helpful to
them.
A dinner is also being arranged
for them during their stay, so
Schaefer's
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RHEUMATISM,
LUMBAGO,
SCIATICA,
and GOUT.
Relieving stiffness and swell
lag in the joints or muscles
when of rheumatic or gouty
origin. '
SCHAEFER'S
Drug Store
135 N. Commercial
Open Daily 7:30 AJtf. to S P.M.
Sunday' 9 AJtf. to 4 PJtf.
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that they can tell how far irri
gation has progressed . in their
own countries.
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For those interested in the new,
there is a wheat field over in
Yamhill County, near McMinn
ville. the seed for which was
brought in from Holland. W. W,
! Redmond is the grower and re-
ports that this strain of wheat is
apparently adaptable and resists
the cool weather conditions which
we have been experiencing this
year. Anyway this wheat field
looks better than any other we
have seen, this spring. It seems to
have a stiff straw. Louis H. Gross,
county agent there, says he fig
ures this strain is worth a try in
the future on two counts: First
because it does have this stiff
straw which is desirable in wheat
and second, because it came thru
this winter ' as well as having
stood the more severe winters of
the last three years. W. W. has
now worked up his supply to
about nine ton before this year's
harvest
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,
Jtimer r agn, candy, tells us
that for several yeans he has
made a practice of using cedar
tow for mulching tomato plants.
He finds this practice repels wire
worms and other insects which
frequently damage tomatoes. At
the same time the tow seems to
prevent the fruit from rotting by
coming in contact with the
ground.
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A letter from Thomas L. Jack
son, Oregon State College, ' soil
conservation specialist' indicates
that sulphur deficiency has been
found responsible for failure , or
partial failure in several barley
fields in the Willamette Valley
this spring.
"A few fields in both Polk and
Lane counties, fertilized with,
ammonium nitrate were reported
to be in unthrifty condition,"
Jackson reports. "On inspection
we found these fields yellow and
backward in spite of the nitrogen
used at planting.
"Applications of ' gypsum or
ammonium sulphate, which has
an appreciable sulphur content,
quickly remedied, this ! condition.
Additional ammonium nitrate
which contains little sulphur
failed to correct the condition.
Addition of gypsum, followed by
irrigation or light rainfall changes
light yellowish fields to deep
green in from 10 days to two
weeks."
Jackson did not say how much
gypsum to use, but the suggestion
of county agents is 50 to 75
pounds per acre.
THE GOING - GOING'S SOOi
Head The
To find out where public sales are held;
where horses, cattle, farm machinery and
crops are sold at auction, read the (400)
columns in The Oregon Statesman Classified
section.
It's a habit with experienced farmers to ad
vertise their sales in the Want Ads. And it's
also a habit for folks in the market to buy, to
look n that same column for notices of in
terest. For YOUR farm needs, then, see the Classi
fied ads NOW!
THE OXEGON STATESMAN
TO A TT
UiMJAUSeS
NopBig Stick
Enforcements
The department of agriculture
is not concerned with the penalty
meted out on violations of the
law. The department's work, in
so far as law enforcement is con
cerned, is to present evidence so
that the district attorney can
make a case when necessary.
That's what W. A. Upshaw of
the Portland office of the depart
ment, and E. L. Peterson, agri
cultural director for; the state,
said at a symposium on district
attorney relationships in carrying
out enforcement of department
laws. The symposiumm was held
the opening day of the thre-day
conference for the state depart
ment of agriculture's division of
food and dairies. The sessions
will close today.
Problems of law enforcement
is one of team work all down the
line, Peterson went on. Too fre
quently, the speakers explained,
the public's idea of what should
be done about a subject is more
of a moral or ethical question
than one of law enforcement
"The department of agriculture
is not an agency to enforce by big
stick methods,". Peterson said;
"We like to do it by education
of what the law requires."
Purpose Told
O. K. Beals, head of the divi
sion of foods and dairy, told the
40 members of that division pres
ent, that the primary purpose of
the three-day conference is to
give a thorough study to each
one's problems and to arrive at
as many conclusions of possibili
ties in correcting mistakes before
the necessity of going into court
arises.
"We are here to improve effi
ciency and methods of procedure
so that the department will ob
tain a maximum of work in re
lationship to time and money
expended,' Peterson explained.
Practically all division person
nel, both in Salem and in dis
trict posts throughout the state
have been in attendance. This in
cludes dairy specialists, feeds,
bakeries and egg inspectors, bac
teriologists, chemists and Weights
and measures inspectors. Even
the clerical help on dairy work
sat in on the Wednesday morn
ing session.
Three new division staff mem
bers were introduced at the con
ference: Robert W. Pentry, Port
land, who took over refrigerated
locker plant inspection,? June 29;
Max O. Burns, Salem, weight and
measurers inspector, and James
Launer, Portland, chemist j
To learn Where
Classified Ads
Vote on Wheat j
Expected in July
Ezra T. Benson; secretary i of
agriculture, has indicated that be
cause of the nation's large sup
ply of wheat now in sight he will .
very likelj issue a statement call -ing
for wheat! marketing quotas
on next year's Wheat crop. If the
proclamation comes, the existing
law requires that ft referendum
be conducted by July 24. t
Farmers would have two alter
natives:! They could accept pro
duction controls and a guaranteed p
price of 90 per cent of parity, or
they could ote for no controls!
and be guaranteed 50 percent i
of parity on their 1954 crop. The j;
law requires that growers musti-'.
approve quotas by at least a two-
thirds majority before they can ;
be put into effect '
Fire Weather ;
Reports Start
PORTLAND tf) The Weather
Bureau Wednesday began an annual
task twice-daily issuance of fire
weather : reports, plus a supple
mental state-wide week-end fore
cast each Friday." j
Tq one , industry logging t h e
reports may seem premature. Log
ging roads in some parts of the
state Still are so muddy that
operations have been seriously
curtailed.
Besides cork,cork oaks produce
acorns which are. good for fatten
ing pigs. .
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