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.Time Is Ripe
To Knock Out
:Wheat Smut
The situation this fall is ripe
. Sor a knockout blow against smut
"In wheat,' Washington State Qri-
lege experts declared Friday.
While smut is not so bad in the
Willamette Valley wheat fields as
In the fields of Eastern Oregon
and Washington, the situation
' has been growing worse in the
valley. However, the smut infes
tation in the 1953 crop of wheat
is reported as the lightest in
" ears. Oregon State College plant
pathologists have credited this to
dry weather last falL
V The weather may help Pacific
"Northwest wheat growers lick the
smut problem this year, the ex-i-perts
said Friday. But the grower
;-has to help.
Z There wasn't enough moisture
I to germinate the wheat until late
-sin. the winter last year, but smut
.-spores germinated and perished
?for lack of anything to feed upon.
This brings the matter up to
Sjflate, Dr. MR. Harris, WSC plant
-.pathologist says. He suggests that
farmers can all but wipe out the
Common smut threat this, year if
Mhey wait for a goocLsoaking rain
.before planting.
: The rain will germinate the
?mut spores. With nothing to feed
.cn, they will die in a week or
T;two, leaving the soil free of in
Mection for the wheat planting.
.! Dr. Harris said farmers should
' iollow through by treating the
'seed wheat with approved chemi-
- mmlm in miVi aur ffiav Ann't TUlt
.the infection back into the soil
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. WILLAMINA Mrs. Thelma
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War Mothers at the convention
held in Albany. She, with Mrs.
Josephine Rumrill and Mrs. Effie
Morrison, were delegates to the
. convention from the Willamina
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Jersey Sets Good
Production Mark
SILVERTON A production
of 6,669 quarts of milk in 305
days on official Herd Improve
ment Registry test is the recent
accomplishment of a registered
Jersey cow owned by James G.
Phillips, Silverton route 2.
The cow, Standard Pioneer
Bonny, produced 14,339 pounds
of milk containing 809 pounds of
butterfat at the age of 5 years
and 6 months.
Phillips who was in partner
ship with his father-in-law, Silas
Torvend, until recently, now
owns the herd of registered
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Garden
BY LILLIE L. MADSEN
Garden Editor, The Statesman
With bloom slackening a little,
it is an easy time in the fall to
forget all the chores that should
be done now to make for a better
spring garden.
Included in the chores should
be, first of all, the clean-up. All
dead foliage such as that of roses,
hollyhocks, peonies, should be
gathered up and burned. There
is too much disease in some of
these to throw them on the com
post .heap for wintering over. Foli
age of your shade trees and even
your weeds which have sprung up
so nicely since the rain, make
good composting. But plants that
carry disease spores either rust,
mildew, blackspot, or anything of
this nature, should be destroyed.
Then comes a clean-up. Some
of this should be done now,
some not until later. However,
roses should receive a couple of
good sprayings or dustings yet
this fall. The peach trees, both
ornamental and fruiting, should
be sprayed before the end of
September, while the foliage is
still on. Too many orchards and
home peach trees have' serious
damage to the fruit from spring
and summer infections of fung
us. As soon as the fruiting
peach trees have been harv
ested, they should be sprayed.
If possible, do this before any
more fall rains arrive. Use a
Bordeaux mixture of S-ft-100.
You can get this at your favor
ite garden store. While some of
the other sprays seem satisfac
tory, Don Rasmussen, Marion
County agent, specializing in
horticulture, advises that be
cause infections have been se
vere this year, Bordeaux mix
ture is the best material. Spray
ing should be doae thoroughly.
The peach leaf curl spray dur
ing January will maintain the pro
tection started now.
It is also well to prune out all
dead wood and branches from
your trees, lawn or orchard, and
paint over any wounds.
Around your rhododendrons
and azaleas use one more soaking
of a soil spray to get any late
root weevils feeding before they
lay-low for the winter.
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third chore to consider at
this time of year is the fill feed
ing. So many of yon hear and
see it written that "it is now
too late to feed" and you just
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stop without reading further
that while it is too late for cer
tain kinds of feeding, there are
other kinds that give far better
results if done in the falL
It is too late, yes, for feeding
for bloom this falL But it is just
time to feed for next season's
growth and bloom.
Feed your lilacs now with bone-
meaL This is much better than
giving them too much feed in the
spring, which frequently causes
a blight.
Your maples and your birches,
too, benefit from a dose of bone-
meal at this time of the year.
After you have weeded and
cleaned up the rhubarb and the
asparagus beds, they too benefit
from a feeding in the falL Get
all the weeds out of these two
beds at once. 'Late August rains
should have sprouted most of the
weeds which will grow. This ap
plies too. to the family strawber
ry bed. If well taken care of, such
a bed can last for a number of
years, continuing to give good
xrult in good quantity.
The feeding of the rhubarb
and asparagus is best done
through well decayed manure
or humus material mixed with
some phosphate. This should be
left on top of the ground and
not worked into the soil in the
falL Don't work the beds down
too smoothly and don't pack
them. Leave them rough
enough to permit moisture to
penetrate.
While many folk believe in set
ting out new rhubarb every three
or four years, old beds will also
do well if taken care of. If you
do plan to replant your rhubarb,
prepare the bed now. giving it a
good feeding of manure. Then
leave it until spring and plant
your divisions in the new bed
while you are still using some of
the old plants. However, the new
divisions will give you some stalks
the year they are planted.
It is time, too, to be preparing
to take care of your fuchsias
and begonias. Longtime weath
er forecasts promise as some
heavy frosts before the middle
of October. While these long
term 'forecasts are sometimes
wrong, they are correct a sur
prising number of times, and it
would be much better, in. the.
case of fuchsias, to be safe than
sorry. The plants, most of them
that is, stand a little frost with-
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Questions -
Question Have a number of
Croft Easter, Lillie. Some have
bloomed, 'some were too smalL
Should bulbs be left in ground or
removed for winter? CWS.
Answer Leave the bulbs in
the ground. Maintain a two-inch
mulch of peat moss or , sawdust
over the lily bulbs.
Question Win the bougainvil
leas do in this location? It a Da
tura Fastussa perennial? How . to
make bottle garden? V.T.
Answer No, I'm sorry the Bou
gainvilleaa will not do in our cli
mate. They won't even thrive in,
Northern California. So many
folk who go south return to ask
if this vine will do here. It is at
it best arounl Santa Barbara and
from there on south. It is one of
the most showy vines of the south.
I do not know this particular
member of the Datura group, nor
do I find it listed in my books.
However, most of the Daturas are
treated as tender annuals.
Making a bottle garden requires
much deftness in planting. Usu
ally long, thin nippers of some
sort are needed. Moss is placed
down in the container, coming
up a little on the sides. With the
nippers, , carefully place very
small woodland plants and fill
in around their roots with rich
loam and more bits of moss. Col
orful effects are obtained by us
ing bits of .tree-growing fungi,
twigs and so on. Watering these
out permanent injury, but too
much will do away with them
completely. Usually a little wa
ter is withheld, so that growth
is not quite so lush, before the
plants are put away in your
sawdust or peatmoss storage for
winter.
The plants should not be com
pletely dry when put away, but
neither should they be too wet.
Nipping of a little frost will not
hurt the fuchsias. In fact many
growers never put them away un
til the first frost has dropped
their foliage.
After the first frost has killed
the foliage on the begonias, they
should be prepared for winter
storage. Frequent frosts will al
so kill the bulb.
It seems too bad to be talking
about frosts and putting away the
flowers for winter when they are
still blooming so nicely Those
who have a little home green
house are very fortunate. As win
ter approaches they can just hang
their plants in and continue to
enjoy them for a spell yet.
However, even these benefit by
a little rest. They may be kept
blooming up until late December,
and then permitted to decline,
without ever drying out, for a
couple of months, being started
up in mid-March for spring bloom
again.
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in 365 days on two-times daily milking. Her record last year was
17,585 and 921, made in 305 days.
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- - Answers
terraniuma or bottle gardens must
be done in moderation one in
10 days or so. If the lids fit tight
ly, and the terrarium is given
enough water, it may.be safely
left for month or more without
attention. As the moisture con
denses on the cool glass it drips
back into the garden. But .water
must not be left standing around
the roots, ; or the soil becomes
sour and soggy.,
. Questions-Have been told that
gat will kill African Violets. Have
gas for Cooking and just was given
a new, African, Violet. Have nev
er had any success with these be
fore. Wonder if gas could be the
cause? SJL
Answer Yes, gas in the home
sems to be poisonous to African
Violet as well as some other
house plants.
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Question When should I take
up my tulip bulbs? Want them to
winter over? A.W.
Answer Anytime, now. Lift
and shake off the dirt and old
husks. Store in a dry place, until
early October' when you should
replant them. You do not store
them Indoors as you do gladioli
corms. . .
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Question Have been told that
moles eat only bugs and worms,'
yet my parsley is all wjlted and
when I started -to pull it up, I
found the roots all eat off and
a runway beneath it' How do you
explain this? S.L.
Answer Mice eat the roots,
and mice run1 in the runways of
moles. Poison grain or a carrot
dipped in paris green will con
trol the mice. However, great
care should be taken to get the
poison into the hole so that no
birds, pets or children get a bold
of it.
Question Have a small green
house and want to start some del
phinium seed for next season's
bloom. When should I do this?
Can winter it over in the green
house. Would it be best to wait
until Jimiirv? N C
Answer; Start the seed now
but keep it growing on the cool
side until spring. Frequently
small plants of delphiniums are
wintered over in cold frames.
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Question Have had trouble
with bud rot on my peonies. What
to do to control this so I have
some good bloom next spring?
A.I.
Answer Pick all leaves, stems
and buds 'off and burn. Do not
place any manure or other mulch
over the plants. It might be well
to remove the top soil from
around the infested plants, or
transplant them into a different
location in your garden. In spring
when growth begins, spray soil
around crowns with bordeaux
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