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. -i A sW-ycar-old ewe on the Wake
field Walker ranch out on Route
Salem, looked with consterna
tion at her offspring a couple of
days a?o. The lamb weighed 15
, pounds at birth and was fully
two inches taller than some of
Its cousins which were two day
old at the time. Parentage was
divided between the Columbia
tnd the Lincoln breeds.
. .
Everyone is a-dither today at
the Farmers Union meeting.
Charles F. Brannan, former sec
retary of agriculture, will peak
this morning at the opening ses
sion of the 44th meeting of the
Oregon State Farmers Union. His
address is slated for 11
a.m. He will talk again this eve
ning at the banquet Governor
p.ni Patterson, too. will be on
the afternoon program today,
1atl to anoear around 2:30. With
Dick Neuberger to gather them
around at 2:30 Friday afternoon.
-. . .
' An odd sidelight on the year's
agriculture index is being point
ed out Farm cash receipts from
crops were 106 per cent of 1952
through August, then dropped
1 after the wheat harvest (feed
grains and hay off 32 per cent
potatoes off 50 per cent). Live
stock income dropped from $180,
636,000 in 1952 to $166,861,000
in 1953. Many livestock men wel
comed the change and elimina
tion of marginal operators, others
prepared to "get" Agriculture
s Secretary Benson.
But then buying power of the
farmer inched up. Prices received-
by farmers continued the
climb started last November and
again increased during January.
1 This time the index rose 2 per
cent over the revised December
1953 leveL Costs edged mgner,
too, but again at a slower pace.
- The net result was another slight
recovery in purchasing power of
farm products. The parity ration
the relationship between prices
received and prices paid by farm
ers stood at 92 in mid-January.
That is back to the level of late
summer and early fall of last
year, but still 8 points below
fuir parity.
Substantially higher prices for
hogs, beef cattle, and commercial
vegetables, together with small
increases for lambs, chickens,
wheat and hay were mainly re
sponsible for the Higher farm
price index.
In chatting a bit with Johnny
In&keep over the line in Clack
amas counth he told us that pas
tures containing clover, particu
larly subterranean clover, should
have a good top dressing of phos
phate ' in one form or another
now. This is, he insisted, abso
lutely essential procedure on at
least 80 per cent of the vauey
: farms. .
Of course, he added, grasses
need nitrogen also. He suggested
to apply 400 pounds of 16-20
ammopbos and 100 pounds of
landplaster per acre to sub clover
fields during the winter months.
Then he added: "If you don't be
lieve me, just leave a little strip
unfertilized for comparison."
- ' Austin Warner, well known
dairy fanner over at Carlton, says
- that he 1s using superphosphate
in his dairy barn now. Austin
adds he likes it very much. He
used to use lime, he says, but
tried phosphate and has now
changed over entirely. In re
turns on soil tests that are made
' it was found that 50 per cent of
the soil is either low or medium
in phosphate content If phos
phate, is used in the dairy barns,
or poultry houses, it will save the
. nitrogen in the natural fertiliz
ers and make It avauanie to tne
- plants.' when put out upon the
land. Lime has a tendency to de-
v stroy the nitrogen that it comes
in contact with.
-
, You know we along with a lot
of others have been talking
trench silos for sometime. Arnold
Braat in Unionvale in Yamhill
county has such a one above
ground and he had very little
spoilage with his sweet corn and
20-Year
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Shows Value
Creep-
How important can creep-feeding
be to the cattleman's profit ac
count? I I M
Careful feeding records kept on
nearly 3.000 head of cattle, some
creep fed and others not, tell the
story convincingly. I f
The records and tests were con
ducted by cattlemen themselves on
their own ranches and farms with
the feed furnished by one of the
larger feed companies; which as
sisted in the tests. In each of these
many experiment, creep-fed calves
were compared directly with equal
non-creep fed calves handled un
der the same conditions. j
Creep-fed ! calves averaged 412
pounds, as compared to 373 pounds
for their non-creep fed mates. This
added weight and the resulting
upgrading meant an ; extra $8.91
per calf over feed costs.;
: Ten of the creep-fed calves to
taled 4,120-pounds .while their ten
non-creep fed mates weighed only
3,730 pounds. In this lot of ten,
creep-feeding gained the I equiva
lent of one extra calf Weighing 390
pounds, without the; expense of
breeding, feeding and caring for
another cow. f
The ability to upgrade by creep
feeding was an important factor
in the test. Twenty-two per cent
of the creep-fed calves graded
choice, as compared to . only six
per cent of the non-ct,eep fed.
Forty-three per cent of those creep
fed graded good, compared to 25
per cent in the nonrcreep lots.
Extra condition put on by the
cows suckling creep-fed: calves av
eraged 44Va pounds per cow.
Sets March 1
Milk Hearing
DALLAS The line forms to the left when molasses is on the
menu, the sheep aren't too polite about waiting for the first to
get done before the second starts. One gallon feed 20 ewes at a
- little over a cent a head a day. (Statesman Farm Photo.)
Cereal Meetings
Slated for
Dr. Wilson Foote. professor of
farm crops, and Dr. Tom Jack
son, soil conservation specialist,
both Oregon State College, will
discuss cereal grain improve
ment and review results of cereal
fertility work carried on in 1953
as experiments, at the forthcoming
cereal meetings to be held in
various counties. (See Farm Cal
endar for dates.) '
Of interest too at these meetings
will be talks by Aren Kellet, who
will discuss quality malting bar
ley, and Rex. Warren who will
make suggestions' on : weed con
trol in grain crops.
At the Marion County meeting,
reports will be .made on the two
Marion County trials: Barley on
the Albert Schmidt li Sons farm
near Parkersville, arid spring oats
on the Ray Hagg farm near Vic
tor Point. M
silage. There was i some side-
spoilage, he said,' on the grass sil
age. i;
These trench siloSj the larmers
who have tried them: tell us, must
have a slope of at least one foot in
each 10. This allows for the sil
age to shrink into a smaller area
as it settles and causes it to be
come tighter, keeping air out of
the silage.
Louie H. Gross, McMinnviiie,
tells us that he has seen trench
silage where paper was laid on
top with very slight amount of
weicht. and that there was prac
tically no spoilage ;in tne suagc.
Then again he has seen silage
that has had as; much as a toot ot
spoilage on top, and he believes
this is all due to the packing. He
recommends packing again a few
days after filling: the silo. This,
he says, seems to- firm the silage
down, and keeps air from getting
into it Air (contributes to the
spoilage. He is very strong for
buying some paper and putting
on top of the trench silage rather
than letting I nature take its
course. This is particularly nec
essary, he adds, j in grass silage,
Corn silage will keep a bit better
than grass. f
By LILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
DALLAS Running the ranch
you grew up on and loved as a
youngster, is a pleasure all in it
self. Improving a standard pro
duction is another pleasure. And
topping the whole thing is doing
all of this with a grown son as a
partner.
Unless you have these privil
eges you just don't know how
very fine they are, Forrest Mar
tin told me as we stood atop his
ranch west of Dallas at the end
of. the Ellendale Road. Way out
in the sunshine to the east' we
could glimpse Salem and some of
the farm country which lay be
tween. At night, Martin said, one
can see the Pioneer on theCapi
tol from this spot
To the left of us lay the sheep
barn and a little below and to the
right, lay the house, which was
home to Mr. and Mrs. Martin and
their son, Kenneth, for a number
of years, and which is now home
to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Martin.
There were still banks of snow in
the shady spots on the ranch, al
though the snow had been gone
from Salem for several days. But
this day (Tuesday) the sun was
bright and warm on the hill and
the first few lambs were begin
ning 40 play.
The Forrest Martins now live
on a smaller place about a mile
below the ranch half-way be
tween the ranch and Dallas.
Here, I picked up Martin to go
to the sheep ranch. He was work
ing among s his shrubs, making
good use of the sun.
Botanist at Heart
"I always liked botany and
plants, he explained. We go
hunting a lot in the mountains
and I fear that while the others
look for game on foot or wing.
spend more time looking for my
kind pf game different plants,
shrubs, trees.
About five years ago Mr. ana
Mrs. Martin started making bus
iness of iheir hobby and, said Mr.
Martin, ?we are doing right well
on it! It works in fine with sheep
ranching." I have a date with
the Martins for blooming season
and I'll tell you about the 10,000
azaleas, camellias and rhododen
drons then.
On the way to the ranch, some
questioning brought out that
Martin's grandfather, Luther
Martin.icame to the area in 1870
as a lumber man. In fact, he fur
nished lumber for many of the
early homes in Dallas. Forrest
himself was born in the Pioneer
district a little to the north of
their present home. Around 1896,
before I Forrest could walk, the
family I bought the ranch at the
end of Ellendale Road. With the
exception of a stretch in the first
World? War, a little time out for
schooling, and a few years living
in town, the Martins have spent
their years along Elendale Creek.
DALLAS Forrest Martin is shown here with his registered Shrop
shire ram of English blood. The ranFwas brought to the Dallas
' band of sheep to help the improvement program toward open-
faced sheep. (Statesman Farm Photo.)
40-Year Trees Bear
Prunes and apples were plant
ed on the ranch in 1912. Some of
the old prune trees are slipping,
but the orchard as a whole still
is bearing welL Having gone
through all the phases of market
ing prunes drying, fresh and
canning the Martins have set
tled for canning as the most
profitable.
However, the object of my
Tuesday visit was sheep ... and
we found the 100 registered
Shropshire ewes grazing over the
hillsides. The Martins, I had been
told, now own one of the largest
bands of registered Shrops in the
valley.
f "We've nearly always had some
sheep," Martin said. "We've tried
different breeds and crossbreeds,
but in 1946 we settled on the
Shrops because they! rustle for
themselves on the hillsides bet
ter than some of the other
breeds. They are large and pro
duce a good wool crop along with
early-marketable lambs. The
lambs grow and fatten at the
same time, a very nice feature."
Kenneth and his; father are
breeding toward open faces (the
Shrops have been frowned upon
a little in recent years because
of their wool-blindness). Martin
explained that "the English have
for many years bred toward
open-faced Shrops but sometimes
we think, they have forgotten
some of the other fine qualities
of this breed. We are trying to
help bring back the best in the
Shrop as we see it."
Bought Loar's Sheep
The Shrop project started when
the Martins bought the register
ed band of 66 head from Dr. P. A.
Lbar at Silverton.! To this was
added one of the fine open-faced
rams from the Angus Lefler
ranch. Wool has been averaging
eight pounds per head but even
this is to be improved, and is gra
dually gaining, I was told, as we
stood admiring the well-formed
stocky sheep, including the ram
which came from the Shultz farm
in Ohio. Another one will arrive
before the 1954 breeding season
from McKerrow's! in Illinois.
We entered the sheep barn,
where bay was stored in the cen
ter, permitting the sheep to feed
all around it
! In the east end of the barn
were a number of lambing pens,
four by four feet, Here the lambs
are placed when born and here
they remain for three or four
days, depending upon weather
and strength of lamb. Than they
are turned into a larger pen
where six to eight ewes and their
offspring are together. This, Mr.
Martin explained, gives them a
little practice in finding their
own mothers before time to turn
them out on the range with the
whole band, about 10 days later.
When ! the ewes lamb feeding
of rolled or ground oats is be
gun. Sometimes this starts in De
cember,! but this year the ewes
were "plenty fat" without this
auxiliary feed, I was told. Each
ewe gets about a pound of the
grain a day. Molasses is before
them at all times in the barn.
Around; a gallon per 20 ewes is
consumed a day. No cheaper
food, Martin said. Costs, he add
ed, about 12 cents a day for the
20 ewes. Creep-feeders are pro
vided for the lambs, too.
Likes Chopped Hay
While baled hay was being fed
this year, Martin said, he much
preferred the chopped hay. The
latter was more economical and
more palatable to the sheep.
"For our sheep we have found
no better hay than chopped fes
cue arid subnclover, with a little
rye grass thrown in," he remark
ed as; he said this mixture was
also used for pasture seeding.
"The extra cost of choDDine the
hay pays for itself two and three
times, a season in saving from
waste. Oat and vetch hay is ex
cellent too, and in a pinch we
feed alfalfa. Other than the alfal
fa, we grow our own hay," he ex
plained. Just as I was leaving. Martin
said that "if I were young man
just starting, I'd go into dairying.
I know a little about it, so I'm
not just day-dreaming. We ran a
string of 40 Guernseys up to 1942
when we sold them because it be
came impossible to get hired
help. It's confining; it's work,
and ! profits aren't too high, but
there's a living in it: it's eood
for the land, and there's some
thing very satisfying about it,
too he said.
The Oregon Stale Board of Ag
riculture has set March 1 as the
date for another hearing on the
touchy problem of,, milk prices.
The hearing will cover Zone 2,
of which Salem is member.
The board also has ordered price
hearings to cover all milk markets
in the state in the final two weeks
of March, with the dates to be set
by Administrator William S
Weidel.
The plants to be studied which
have been prepared by the milk
administration staff, include: (1)
a -cent boost in retail prices and
no change in producer prices; (2)
leaving retail and producer prices
unchanged by reducing the but
terfat content of 3.8 per cent stand
ard milk down to 3.5 per cent;
(3) reducing the producer price
31 cents a hundredweight
In November, after a series of
hearings, the board ordered a 1-
cent increase in milk prices, half
of which, was to go to the dis
tributor, the rest to the store
keeper and producer. This stirred
up a controversy, and the board
first postponed and later rescind
ed its action.
At this week's meeting, board
members were given tables show
ing Oregon producer prices were
considerably higher than in major
California and Washington mar
kets.
A letter from Governor Paul L.
Patterson, referring to protests
from a number of producers ob
jecting to being put in the Port
land milk marketing pool, was
read at the meeting.
"Again let me emphasize," the
Governor wrote Weidel, "that I
am not attempting to administer
the milk marketing act I am pass
ing on to you that which comes to
me for such assistance as it may
be to the board and yourself, and
in order that I might be kept
some- aat abreast of what Is go
ing on through your replies."
The board, acting on advice of
the state attorney general, and
its own attorney, decided it would
Cherry Growers '.K
To Meet Friday :
In Dairy Co-op
'-;: ... -
Robert Shinn. manager of the
Willamette! Cherry Growers Co-op
erative. and one of the state's most
widely known cherry men, will dis-:
cuss the future of the sweet cherry
industry at the Marion-Polk Cher
ry Growers meeting Friday at 1:30
p.m. at the Dairy Co-op building,
Salem. j
Also included on the program for,
the day are two Polk County cher
ry growers Fred Gibson and Jim
Smart,' together! with a group of
Oregon State College men. Gibson
and Smart will relate some of their
experiences in I establishing-jiew
sweet cherry plantings during re
cent years: i
not object to a proposed adver
tising scheme Fred Meyer, Inc.,
has for the promotion of milk, in
cluding a children's coloring con
test iec: jse it did not appear to
be any price reduction program,
the chief concern of the board. &
Milk price hearings will be held
twice a year for all Oregon mar
kets, whether producers want
them or not, the board decided. .
A producer request for a milk
price increase; in central Oregon
was denied, j -
Weidel told the board that State
Finance Director Harry Dorman's
office will support the milk id
ministratkm's request for a $12,
000 budget increase before the
state emergency board Thursday.
The emergency board at its last
meeting referred the request to
Dor man for investigation. : i
The board voted to give quota
in the zone 2 market zone to Stan
ley Malott, McMinnviiie, who was
in the process of qualifying as a
grade A shipper for his local mar
ket when the new zone-wide pool'
ing order went into effect Nov. 1.
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Told to Plant
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Farm
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Coyly cut through
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set if now!
Some increases will be profit
able in planting of strawberries,
red raspbe-ries, boysenberries,
and sweet cherries, the- Linn
Count i Agricultural Planning
Council reported this week.!
The committee emphasized that
all new plantings should be made
on deep, mellow sous that are
high in na'ural fertility. Only
the very best planting stock
should be used if the plantings
are to be profitable, according to
recommendations. One of the
biggest mistakes made by grow
ers, said Clifton Plagmann, vice
chairman of the group, was to
plant poor - stock horticultural
crops on wornout land.
If a mature filbert orchard
doesn't consistently produce near
ly 1,000 pounds of nuts per acre,
the committee believed that it
should come out of production.
The use of cover crops and rather
heavy applications of nitrogen
fertilizers are ways of increasing
production. I
Members of the committee in
addition to Plagmann, are Roy
Fitzwater, Lebanon; Ray Cun
ningham, Brownsville: Glenn Mc
Kibben,Harrisburg; William Com-
mings, Lacomb, Robert Groshong,
Albany; and L. T. Carnck, Cor
vallis, who was recently elected
chairman.
Big Beef Cattle Salej Set Feb, 12
outomqtic clothes dryers
for only
Iff50
if
! Feb. 11 Oregon State Farmers
Union Convention opens at 9 a.m.
at VFW Hall.
Feb. 11 Yamhill Dairy Dayi
Fair building, McMinnviiie, 10
am.
i f eb. 11 Farmers meeting Sil
verton Armory. Dr. G. Burton
Wood, Corvallis, speaker, 8 p.m.
Feb. 12-13 Range bull sale, On
tario, sponsored by Oregon Cattle
man's Association.
Feb. 12 Polk-Marion Cherry
Growers meeting, Dairy Co-op
building. Salem, 1:30 p.m.
Feb. 13 Pedee Farmers Union,
Pedeev school.
fFeb 15 Linn County Seed
tirowers meeting, Fairgrounds, Al
bany, 10 a.m.
I Feb. 15 Polk County Farm
Bureau, Rickreall Grange hall, 8
p.m.
S Feb. 16 Linn County agricul
tural outlook conference, city hall,
Lebanon, 10 a.m. . ' j
Feb. 16-18 Oregon Dairy in
dustries 43rd annual convention,
OSC.
I Feb. 16 Yamhill Cereal Grow
ers mtormation meeting, rair
building, McMinnviiie, 10 a.m.
: Feb. 17 Polk County Cereal
Producers meeting, Dallas City
hall, 10 a.m.
Feb. 18 Willamette "Valley
Some of the ,Northwest's most
outstanding purebred Hereford
and Shorthorn- cattle breeders
will make their first 1954 sale
offerings at Ontario on Feb. 12
and 13. The Double M. Hereford
Ranch, Chandler Herefords and
many other equally famous names
from Oregon,:' Washington and
Idaho have consigned to the Ore
gon Cattlemen's Association fifth
annual spring range bull sale.
The show and sale will be held
at the fairgrounds in the eastern
Oregon city and will feature 92
Herefords, five Polled Herefords
and 13 Shorthorns.
A social hour and entertain
ment have been- scheduled for
visitors on the evening of Feb.
12,
A number of Willairette Valley
folk plan to attend the sale and
show.
Turkey Growers round-up. Fair
Building, McMinnviiie, 10 a.m.
Feb. 18 Marion County Cer
eal meeting, Keizer Grange hall,
10 a.m.
Feb. 18 Blue Lake Packers
business meeting, 10 a.m.
Feb. 18 i Polk County Live
stock Association meeting, city
hall, Dallas, 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 Re-opening Deetz
milk hearing,! Portland, 9 a.m.
Feb. 20-27 National FFA Week.
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The Linn County Land Use
Committee is making prepara-J
Hons to present facts concerning
the county's water resources at a
public hearing to be held in Al
bany, March 17. On the commit-f
tee are George Koss, Ben Chris
tensen, Raymond Meyer, Terry
Elder and O. E. MikeselL i ;
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Blueberry Plants
Climbing Roses
Varieties $1.25
Flowering
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Apricots
Peaches
Cherries
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Dogwoods -i
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A complete line of shrubs vines trait and shade trees
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Flowering Shrubs $1.25
Tamarix-mock-orange
forysthia - butterfly bash
and many others
Mazsard Cherry Trees
up wounds.
? Or fractures of the head.
And there endure the agonies
I That many people do.
They'd never need preach safety i
I Anymore to me or you.
i
If every one could stand beside
1 The bed of some close friend
And hear the Doctor say
No Hope"
Before that fatal end, .
And see him there unconscious
Never knowing what took
place,
The laws and rules of traffic
I am sure we'd soon embrace.
If every one could meet
The wife and children left
behind
And step into the darkened home
Where once the sunlight
shined:
And look upon "the Vacant
Chair,"
Where Daddy used to sit,
I am sure each reckless driver
i -i i .w:Mt. Kit
t noma or lurieu tu uuu vu.
If every one who takes the wheel
Would say a little prayer,
And keep in mind those in
the ear
Denendine on bis care.
And make a vow and pledge him-f
self - : -
To never take a chance,
The Great Crusade for Safety
Would suddenly advance.
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