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By LILLIE I MADSEN
; Farm Editor, The Statesman
Cherry orchards, if taken cure
of properly, will lire to .be nuite
an age, Fred Kirkwood, who has
grown cherries since 1928, will
tell yoo. . '
Proper care hat evidently been
taken of his trees for In wander
ins; through the 25-year-old or
chard Tuesday, I couldn't help
noting the very healthy condition
of the entire orchard as well as
the excellent crop; Like some folk
we know, the trees looked much
younger than they were.
These are good for at least
another 25 years," Mrs. T. G.
Doughtry (Olga Kirkwood) re
marked as we sat on a bit of
grass beneath the shade of one
of the trees whose branches hung
low with s ripening v fruit Mrs.
Doughtry is here to supervise the
harvest.
That's been my job from the
beginning. I always return for
cherry harvest Of course I come
back every few weeks, anyway, to
see how things are moving along,'
Mrs. Doughtry, who lives at Eu
gene, explained.
Fop is Experimenter
"Pop is quite an experimenter.'
Mrs. Doughtry went on with a lit
tle encouragement "He has tried
almost every kind of commercial
fertilizer. He cover-crops and he
dusts and sprays every time a bug
looks at the trees and no disease
has half a chance even of getting
a finger in.
Laughingly she told that once
her father, to whom she always
refers as "Pop", had taken five
rows and tried five different
kinds of fertilizers at the same
time.
"We couldn't see the difference
on any one fertilizer. The trees in
all of. the five rows grew beauti
fully, she said.
While Mr. Kirkwood lives in
Salem, he drives out to the or
chard which Is about two miles
south of Hopewell in the Polk
County hills, each day during har
vest, A grandson, Larry Imlah,
lives on the old Kirkwood home
here and looks after the orchard
under the direction of Mr. Kirk
wood. Owned Farm 5t Tears
"Pop has owned this farm for
more than 50 years and he wants
these trees taken care of just so.
In the orchard he tells Larry just
what to do," Mrs. Doughtry, who
is Larry's mother, told.
She went on to . say the old
Kirkwood land donation claim of
640 acres, taken . out by Joseph
Kirkwood, father of Fred, lies
over the ndge of the hill, practic
ally adjoining the present Kirk
wood farm. He bad grown up in
the neighborhood, and he and
Mom lived here after they were
married, too."
The cherries in the Kirkwood
orchards were almost perfect
Rains bad scarcely marred a one.
, Both Royal Annes and Hoskins
were being harvested. Harvest
started Friday and, Mrs. Dough
try hopes, would be completed
by the end of this week.
There are. 23 acres in the or
chard each spring, just before
blooms open, bees are brought in
for pollination. This year there
were 80 colonies and these stayed
in the orchards until petals began
to fall.
"We've done this for years. I
guess it helps. Anywav. we alwavs
have a very good crop. Last year
we had 130 tons off the 23 acres,"
Mrs. Doughtry, said as she added
that while the trees were not
quite so "loaded" this year, the
fruit was larger and "would aver
age up into a pretty good crop."
175 Pickers In Field
- There are 175 pickers with
their ladders harvesting the cron.
Most of these are "out of staters".
largely "professionals , the har
vest doss went on as she sang the
praises of the "professional
picker. -
"He's hereto make money, not
just to while away a few hours.
He wants to come again next year
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This is the fifth year they have
moot part Mrs. Hubbard pick
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and the year after that So he's
careful. He scarcely breaks off a
bud spur or any branches. He
picks" fast and clean," she said as
she told of the D. B. Hubbards
of PorterviUe, Calif., now here for
to watch , the pickers. Mrs. Hub-
the 5th year.
We went out into the orchard
bard had just completed making
ber $23 for the day. It was about
3 o clock and she had picked
since 6 in the morning. She wasat
tired, she said, and she enjoyed
picking very much. She and Mr.
Hubbard had their own picking
"bucke ts". metal containers
which were formed to fit across
the front of the body.
Use Olive Buckets
"Olive buckets", Hubbard said.
as he explained that during the
fan they returned to California
to harvest olives. There were also
almonda and oranges to be har
vested, as . well as strawberries
before the Willamette Valley
pickings seasons opened.
"Picking is our profession. We
are nealtby and we work together.
Also we get around, Mrs. Hub
bard explained proudly.
While the majority of orchard-
uts, I learned, are still paying
pickers by the pound, one after
another is paying by the box. It
saves a lot of weighing and book-l
keeping, Mrs. Doughtry explained,
as she said that the boxes when
filled weighed about . 29 pounds
and the pickers received 90 cents
apiece for these, with an addi
tional 15-cent bonus if they re
mained throughout the season.
"Picking is no small item," she
went on. "Last year our picking
bill was just at $11,000. It prob
ably wont be under- this year-."
Owl Bomb-Dives
Chicken House
BURLINGTON, Vt (JP) - And
the wise old owl ate chicken!
This owl had a wing spread of
four feet, two inches and he
crash-dived through a window in
the Fanny Allen Hospital chicken
bouse and killed 286 six-week-old
chicks.
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Mrs. Doughtry, known to many at Salem as Olga Kirwood, daugh
ter of Fred Kirkwood, is shown here admiring the heavy crop of
cherries weighting the branches
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specialist at the hospital farm,
opened the door the owl picked
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July No host dinner. Sen
ator hotel. 6:30 p.m. European
Engineers. ; i
July 1J m. Linn County
wheat cost
-ogram meeting.
Lina Coun
Ttbouse, Albany.
Jaly lS-li AO-Breeds Dog
Show and Obedience Trial, Jan-
tzen Beach.
Jely 24 Roy Hobson and L. L.
Lombard Guernsey I Sale;, 10:30
pjn. state fairgrounds.
July 28-Aug. 1 Santiam Bean
Festival, Stayton. I
Aot 1 WilUmette Valley
Ram Sale, Albany, j
Aag. Oregon Jersey Cattle
Club state picnic, Yaquina state
park, Newport j
Aeg. 1 Oregon State Farmers
Union Picnic, Champoeg
Aag. 17 -Oregon Ram Sale.
Pendleton. j j
Aag. 17-23 Multnomah County
Fair and Flower Show.
Aug. 2-3t Washington Coun
ty Fair, Hillsboro. I
Aug. 21. Sent 7 Pacific Na
tional Exhibition, Vancouver, B.
Aug. 2S-29 Clackamas County
Fair, Canby. .
Aag. 214 1 polk County Fair.
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Aag. 31 Southern Oregon
Ram Sale, Lakeview.
Sent 3-13 California State
Fair, Sacramento.
Sept 5-12 Oregon State Fair.
Salem.
Sept 11 Oregon Turkey Im
provement Association annual
meeting, Withycomhe halL
Sept 21 Your Opportunity
Jersev SaJe. Salem,
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I Churches. Corvallia.
Oct 30 Nov. t Grand Na
tional Livestock Exposition, San
Francisco.
Nov. S-ll Agricultural Co-od-
erauve council or Oregon, 32nd
annual meeting, Multnomah Ho
tel, Portland. i
Nov. 12-14 Oregon Wool
Growers Association, Imperial
Hotel, Portland.
Nov. 17-21 Ore con State
Farmers Bureau Federation an
nual meeting, Salem.
Nov Z7-ZZ Oregon State Corn
show, Hermiston,
Dec. 3-4 Annual meeting of
Oregon State Horticultural So
ciety, CorvaHis. f
Dec. 7-9 Orecon Seed Lea me
annual meeting, Multnomah Ho
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Dee. lt-11 Nut! Growers So
ciety of Oregon and Washington,
annual meeting, Salem.
WHEAT MEETING SET
A county-wide meeting for
Polk county wheat growers will
do neia Wednesday, July 15. at 8
p.m. in the Dallas Citv HalL ac-
i cording to Claude Hoisington. of
fice manager Polk county PMA,
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By KU1AL REPORTER
Members of the Men's Gardem
Club of ; Salem pay almost as
much attention to their vegetable
and fruit gardening as they do to
their flower; gardening which is
as it should be. P. J. McKenna
tells us that all through July, let
tuce, carrots, beets and cabbage
can be sown. The cabbage should
be the early heading kind like
Early Jersey Wakefield or Gold
en Acre. :!. I -
As soon as the June crop of
strawberries is completely . fin
ished you should cultivate and
clean the old bed, put on a dress
ing of manure, compost or com
mercial humus mixed with dried
cattle fertilizer. ' When runners
form, space these six or more in
ches apart When the area is fill
ed remove all other runners that
appear.
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- Frank Loagharv, who Is e
colonel fat the Air Force, ex
pects to be out of the army this
, fall and says be will retain to
farming-probably the old
home place la Polk County ia
the Perrydale area. The Lou
gharys for quit a spell back
have been Jersey breeders of
note ... Whether or not
CoL Frank win return to this
type of farming has not 'yet
been decided . i . it Just de
pends, he says.
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Ross Wurm, former Oregonian,
now editor of the Western Dairy
Journal with headquarters in Los
Angeles, says that he has just re
turned from the East and Mid
west and that milking machine
company folk he visited in the
Chicago areaj, says that more and
more milking parlors will be in
stalled in Western dairies as the
years go by. These folk point to
the fact that it is easier to re
model or construct, anew here on
the Pacific Slope than it is in the
Midwest and east where century
old barns with heavy masonry
and timbers are- to be found on
practically all of the older farms.
Says Ross:. "In addition to be
ing hard to rebuild, these barns
have a sentimental hold on their
owners. The third or fourth gen
eration landowner would just as
soon use Grandma's .tombstone
for paving blocks as to tear down
the old family barn to install
modern milking parlor."
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Jim Phillips of Sllverton, ra
ted recognition by the Ameri
can Jersey Cattle Club this
week when Us registered cow,
Standard Pioneer Dawn, com
pleted a 305-day milking and
produced 7,894 pounds of milk
with 40 pounds of bntterfat
Dawn was two years and three
months when the completed
ber record. Jim figured oat
that the milk made 3,872
quarts not bad for a two-year-old.
Jim i has taken over the
dairy which ha and his father
point!
Phone 4-2279
in-lawi Silas Tervend, formerly
owned jointly.
.Visiting a bit with Hollis Ot
taway, .Marion County agent, the
rural , reporter learned1 that dis
ease and adverse weather i have
both resulted in yellow dwarfed
local wheat fields. The total af
fected acreage, while not large,
Is rather general, Hollis says.
Two j diseases, root rot" and
takes All," may both result in
yellow fields. 1 Lengthy spring
rsirn and cool weather have pro
duced an unusual amount of root
rot ' this year. I This disease is
characterized by a lack of feeder
roots, leaving the olant practic
ally sitting on top of the ground.
Takes All" may be distin
guished by the black slimy stems
just above the ground line. This
will kiU an entire field, but lit
tle of it has so far been observed
in i Marlon county.
Too,! lack ot nitrogen, as a re
sult of cool, wet .weather, may
also be responsible. Normal soil
nitrification has been slowed up.
especially in areas where ; there
is poorly drained soil
: Warm weather will help this
trouble and may assist many
plants sin overcoming root rot.
If the problem is "Takes All,"
no control has yet been found to
take care of it
1 Fifty swine growers were en
thusiastic about pork outlook
Sunday when they held .their
anneal picnic in Corrallis.
President Earl Drnry of Fall
Greek and ether breeders at
tending; all reported a scarcity
of breeding stock.
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.Wherever there's a plant grow
ing, there a danger of an insect
or worm there to eat up the
plant (Now, says O. E. Mikesell
of Albany, flea beetles are not at
work in mint fields. If many of
these are noted, control measures
are s a vise a, ana Mike recom
mends: dusts to include 90 per
cent or cryolite, or 5 per cent
DpT dust applied at the rate of
23 to 30 pounds per acre.
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i' Joseph Spiruta, who has
been teaching ag in the Can-
by High School since his gradu
ation! in 1852 from Oregon
State j College, has gone ever to
the Oregon Wheat Commission
League where he will serve as
market analyst He replaces
pick jBaasa, who is now secretary-treasurer
for the league.
The offices of both are in Pen
dleton. : Joe; who is new 2S, lived at
Albany np to aboet the time he
went off to school.
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Marlin . Fox, who is widely
known as a Jersey breeder and
general dairy leader, and who
has been at the Silverton Hospit
al for; quite a spell following a
series of heart attacks, was re
ported Wednesday as gettingagain.
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Cherry fruit fly emergence un
der. two cages in the Cherry HiH
ore ha -d . has steadily increased
during the recent warm weather,
according to D. . L Rasmussen,
Marion County! extension agent
Peak emergence, is expected to
be reached thia week.
To (protect their orchards from
cherry fruit flies, sweet and sour
cherry growers must maintain a
protective cover of. lead arsenate,
methoxychlor, , or other recom
mended materials on their trees.
Pollenizers. : other types of fruit
and nut trees, and other vegeta
tion near the cherry trees most
also be sprayed or dusted. Inter
vals between sorsvs or dust
should not exceed 10 days.
Cherry fruit flies emerge from
the 'soil for at least four to six
weekp every year. The first fly
was trapped on June 8 in the
Corvillis area.- Past experience
has proven that cherry fruit fly
emergence will nrobabfr continu
through mid-July this year.
A cherry fruit fly spray or dust
will pot last indefinitely. It must
be repeated at regular intervals
so that any cherry fruit flies pres
ent will always be exposed to the
poison. .j j:
There Is no substitute for TP TO,
lar applications of a thoroughly
applied dust or spray. A ore-
tective, poison i eover will kill
cherry; flies before they reach the .
egg laying stage. ,
Fiyfe Ton Berry
Club Eligibles
Miikt Kefiri8ter
: Strawberry growers eligible for
membership In the Five Ton
Strawberry Club should fill out
application blanks as soon at nos-
sible, remind County Extension
Agent D. L. Rasmussen. .
Application blanks mav be ob
tained; through the office of
county extension stents in straw-
berry producing counties in Ore
gon land souUm';;. Washington.
Marion County; growers can also
obtain blanks i from ; processor
fleldmen. !
The Oregon-Washington Straw
berry Council is sponsoring the
Five Ton Strawberry Club. One
of the main objectives is to helo
increase the! average yield of
strawberries per acre. Cultural
practices used by members of the
club; will be publicized for com
parison and used by other grow
ers, if"
along quite well He came out
from under oxygen this week.
which is always a good sign. But
so far he still may have no vis
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had n lot of calla concerning Mar-
family. The
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lin, however,
asking how ha is
getting along1.
and expressing
hopes hell soon be up and about
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