4 (Sec 2) Statesman, Salem, Orew Thtxrs. April 22, 1954
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260 -Acre Farm Planned
To Make Farming .'Easy'
By I.ILLIE L. MADSEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
WILSONVILLE If you are go
ing to farm the easy way, you
have to do some hard planning.
That's what C. E. Gordon told us
as" he explained that his "hard"
planning simply meant some very
'intensive" planning.
But, says Gordon, it has paid
off for him both in time saved,
in more profit, and in more pleas
ure. Gordo'n's 260-acre farm, near
the Willamette River, over the
line in Clackamas County, is ev
ery acre irrigated grass and clov
er. . The soil is excellent, and
eed crops, hops, berries, grain
or cannery crops would grow
equally will on the soil. These
crops, however, would be "work."
Nothing easy about them. The
cattle harvests his grass and
clover.
Cattle Markets Grass
That's number one step in his
easy-way farming. The farm is
full of additional "easier ways."
even to run a grass farm which
is supposed to be easy farming
in itself. I'm sorry there isn't
apace to go into all of these. I'll
just mention three of the to me
bigger "easier ways" equip
ment: The stockyard alley gates,
the train of portable feeders and
the collapsible silo.
To most farmers, the time the
silo collapses is a bad time. Gor
don's silo is built to do exactly
that ... He says his folding con
crete silo is easy to fill and even
verted into a self-feeder, and the
whole thing is built at a total cost
of $1.50 a ton capacity, which
figures about one-tenth the cost
of the conventional concrete silo.
This is the way he did it:
He poured a 30xlb0-foot ground
slab of concrete, six inch thick.
On this slap he used a simple
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frame to make 9xMoot rod-re-1
inforced concrete panels, pouring
them four at time.
The panels, six inches thick at
one end and tapering to four
inches at the top, form the sec
tional ends and sides of the silo.
A concrete curb six inches away
and around the outer boundary
of the ground slab, forms a alot
to hold the panels upright. Holes
in the top end make the panels
ejsy to lift into place with a
tractor hoist.
Walls Go Up With Silage
The wall goes up as the silo
fills. One end wall and a couple
of side panels are set up first.
Trucks drive across the open part
of the silo and ease their loads
onto a silage loader, which ele
vates grass and clover onto the
pile As the silo fills, more side
panels go up and the last grass
is spread over the top.
Gordon put 1,400 tons of grass
and clover silage into his section
al silo this past season. It tested
out at an average of 14 per cent
protein, with practically no spoil
age. To use the silage, the panels
are lowered one by one onto a
concrete curb seven feet away
around the perimeter. This makes
a convenient platform for either
loading or feeding.
His homemade feeders both
haul and feed the silage, and
can be spotted anywhere in the
pasture.
Builds Farm Shop
Gordon built the portable feed
ers in his farm shop, using half
sections of 38-inch corrugated me
tal cuvert 16 feet long. He bought
them flattened on the bottom. On
one end of each section he mount
ed old truck axles and wheels.
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picked up at a wrecking yard,
after cutting the rims off the
wheels. He linked five of the
sections together to make a
train, and put a hitch on the
front one to hook onto the trac
tor. The feeders are 18 inches high
low enough for a calf. The
16-foot sections cost $48 for ma
terials each will handle 20 head.
Gordon says that by pulling the
train of feeders from field-to-
field at two-hour intervals, he can
feed 200 cattle easily.
Moving Cattle Easy
Moving cattle from mid to
field isn't the difficult matter on
the Gordon farm that it is on the
average farm. His gates are all
arranged like a stockyard alley.
The end of each cross-fence is re
cessed about 10 feet from the line
fence, and the gates are set at
right angle. Across the lane op
posite each double set of field
gates is another gate, which
swiags out to join one of the field
fences and shuts off the lane.
Moving cattle from field to field,
or to the loading corral is an
easy matter with this gate ar
rangement. There is no place for
the cattle to go but where Gor
don wants them to go.
Gordon's cattle have been grad
ing "good" consistently. He mar
kets his grass through bis beef
cattle put on pasture in the
spring and marketed grass-fat in
the summer and falL
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WILSONVILLE Above is one
"car" from the feeder "train"
built from a 3S-iach metal corru
gated culvert pipe. There are
four other sack cars at the Gor
do "easy -way" farm. The
train Is polled by tractor daring
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place are not trampled dowa. Ia
center picture are showa stock
yard alley gates, hung so that
when open they make alleyways
to direct cattle from one field 'o
another, fencing off the fields
the cattle are not to enter. In
lower picture is the collapsible
silo. Foreground shows where
part of the concrete slabs, which
form the silo, have beea let
down, making loading by truck
easily accessible. Other slabs
are let down as needed. (Farm
photos for The Statesman).
Potato Seed
Treatment
Reduces Rot
Potato seed rotting can be re
duced to almost nothing by treat
ing potato seed pieces with sem
esan bel or phygon.
Fungi commonly reduces stands
14 to 25 per cent in all areas and
in many cases have caused losses
so severe that replanting has been
necessary. Also, fungi-decayed tis
sues provide an open wound for
other potato diseases, such as
black leg. These diseases not only
cut production, but also cause
knobby, low-grade tubers.
After testing compounds and
treating methods for two years,
researchers recommend: !
1. Soak all seed potatoes 1 to 2
hours in mercuric chloride-four j
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at least two to four weeks before
cutting and planting. This is a
"clean-up" treatment that kills
funjri and bacteria living on tuber
surfaces.
2. Dip all seed pieces in phy
gon 1 pound in 10 pounds of
water immediately after cutting
if using a picker-type planter.
Phygon-treated seed can be plant
ed immediately or held in storage
for later planting. But plant im
mediately if seed has ben dipped
in semesan bel one poynd in 10
gallons of water. Seed Ijieces will
not form the needed protective,
corky layer after treatment with
semesan bel.
3. If using a rubber-unit plant
er, fill the fungicide tank with
semesan bel or Phygon, using
above mixtures. Both chemicals
provide excellent protection
against decay fungi and no injury
has resulted from semesan bel
treated seed pieces that were
planted immediately after treating.
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Polk County
4,H Tour Set
For Saturday
nrrt Jnhn Crimps Polk Hnunt
4"" extension agent who is chart
j ing the course.
Farm visits will include: 10 a.m.
Burton Bell, dairy; 11 a. m. Don
Bisbee Independence, swine; noon
sack lunch at county fairgrounds;
1:30 p. m. Don Rowland, Rickreall,
beef; 2:30 p. m. Ronald Hogg,
Salem, sheep.
Bell will show the 4-H club mem
bers his milking barns, loafing
sheds, calf management, and pas
ture rotation.
Swine production at Bisbee's will
including observation of Tamworth
and Tarn worth -crossbred hogs,
metal home-made self feeders ; Jar
rowing equipment, feed grinding
and mixing equipment. Bisbee is
feeding milk substitute to three
weeks old weaned pigs.
Rowland has been barn feeding
a large number of beef cattle all
winter. Grain rations and silage
will be discussed at this farm.
Ronald Hogg, nationally known
sheep judge, will show his Hamp
shire sheep, which he raises on the
Polk County side of Salem. Hogg,
too. has some of the top sheep dogs
in the state and may demonstrate
how these work.
A class of stock will be available
at each farm for the 4-Hers to
judpe, and Don Anderson, dairy
specialist at Oregon State College
will assist Bell with the dairy
phase, while John Landers, live
stock specialist at Oregon State
College, will judge the 4-H judges
on their pjacings in swine, beef and
sheep.
Ted Jenny, manager of the May
flower Milk distributors, reports
that the 4-H club members will be
furnished with chololate milk and
dixie cups provided by the Salem
Mayflower plant. John Hansen,
County Extension agent, will talk
on the Polk County Fat Lamb show
scheduled for May 29 at Rickreall.
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Plans NoW Reatlv
A new selection of grain stor
age plans is available now at the
Marion county agent's office in
Salem. Plans for grain bins of
capacity of from 200 to 10,000
bushels are ready for inspection,
Ben A. Newell reports.
Many grain storage plans show
buildings which could be convert
ed later to garage, poultry house,
machine shed, or other utility uses
after the grain storage pressure is
relieved.
Government loans and support
prices may require good, solid
rodent proof bins that are also
dry, Newell added.
SCIO MAN NAMED
Jim Ruby, Scio, has been nam
ed president of the Linn County
Dairy Herd Improvement associ
ation. Warren Cooley, Albany, is
the new vice president,' and Har
old Glenn will continue to sprve
as secretary-treasurer.
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Farm
Calendar
April 22 Silver Creek Soil
Conservation hearing Middle
Grove school, 8 p.m.
April 22 Marion County Rob
erts extension unit, Mrs. A. D.
Graham home.
April 22-Marion County Sil
verton extension unit. First Chris
tian church. '
April 23 South Salem Addi
tion to Santiam Soil conservation
district, Sunnyside.
April 26 Third annual Oregon
Aberdeen Angus association, Sa
lem, state fairgrounds.
May 2-8 National Home Dem
onstration Week.
May 2-4 California Wool Show
and Ram Sale, Sacramento.
May 3-7 Marion County Spring
4-H Show, Silverton.
May 3 Marion County Farm
Bureau annual business meeting
and election.
May 15-15 Linn County Spring
4-H Fair, Albany Union high
school.
May 15 Marion County Jersey
Cattle Club Spring Show, state
fairgrounds.
May 17-19 Oregon Cattleman
association, Baker.
May 20-22 City of Salem 4-H
Spring Show, State School for the
Blind.
May 22 Oregon Wool Growers
association executive committee
meeting, Salem.
May 22 Fat Lamb Show, Mu
nicipal Park, Junction City.
May 23 Rural Life Sunday.
May 29-June 1 Lions Club
Home and Garden Show, state
fairgrounds.
May 29 Polk County Fat
Lambs Show, Rickreall fair
grounds. May 29 Linn County Lamb
and Wool Show, Scio.
June 2 Annual meeting of the
American Jersey Cattle club,
Springfield, Mass.
June 4-5 Tri-county Fat Stock
show and sale, Bend.
June 7-11 Oregon State Grange
annual convention, Albany.
June 7-8 All Breed Dairy
Show, Albany.
June 11-12 Willamette Valley
Guernsey Spring Show, state fair
grounds, Salem.
June 15-25 4-H club summer
school.
June 17 Oregon Poultry
Hatchery association annual
meeting, Withycomb Hall, QSC,
10 a.m.
June 11 Oregon Poultry Im
provement association annual
meeting, Withycomb HalL 10
a.m.
Jerseys Make Big
Butterfat Average
The registered Jersey herd of
Herbert S .Coleman, VYoodburn,
has been added to the dairy honor
roll in recent days.
The herd of 51 Jerseys complet
ed a 12-month test period on Herd
Improvement, for an average pro
duction of 8.798 pounds of milk
containing 948 pounds of butterfat.
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Eased by Use
Of Harnesses
Take a tip from transient fruit
pickers, says Frank Purdum. Sa
lem fruit grower. Use picking
harnesses for tree fruits picked
into buckets. Picking harnesses
ease harvesting of cherries,
peaches and other stone fruits.
Purdum is enthusiastic about
harnesses for his cherry pickers.
He says only one bucket of cher
ries not dropped by a picker will
pay for a harness.
A harness carries the weight of
the fruit on the picker's shoulders.
Both hands are free for picking.
Two snap-hooks secure the bucket
to the harness but still keep the
pail out of the way. Fruit bruis
ing is reduced because the bucket
is always within fingertip distance.
A picker can leave his bucket
hooked to the harness while he
moved his ladder. With a picking
harness, the bucket is always in
position to receive fruit. To empty
it. the picker can either kneel by
the box or first unhook the bucket
from the harness.
Shoulder straps are adjustable
so that children and adults can
use the same harness. Growers
like Pudrum usually assign a har
ness to a picker who doesn't own
one The picker turns in the har
ness wlin the season is over. After
a picker has used one. a picking
harness becomes as important as
a bucket in harvesting stone fruits.
Farmers Ask
Inclusion in
Soil District
Two soil conservation districts
in Marion county probably will be
enlarged if favorable action is
taken at both hearings and com
mittee discussions this week. A
referendum will be scheduled for
later this spring upon favorable
action.
Landowners in the Howell
Prairie. Hazel Green and Quinaby
addition to the Silver Creek Soil
Conservation District will hold a
legal hearing Thursday night at 8
at Middle Grove school.
Communities included, in this
proposed addition include Howell
Prairie, Brush Creek, Pratum,
Middle Grove, Haxel Green, Che
mawa. Clear Lake, Mission Bot
tom, and Quinaby.
Landowners in the Sunnyside
Liberty areas will vote Friday on
South Salem addition to the San
tiam district. Polls will be open
at Sunnyside school from 1 to 8
p.m.
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organized south of here. Voters
approved formation of the new dis
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Turning under orchard and cane
berry field cover crop now win
conserve moisture during the
spring and summer months says
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extension horticulturist
Even though cover crops may
not have made much growth, they
should be knocked down as soon
as possible. Failure to kill cover
crops will result in the loss of
several acre-inches t of soil mois
ture through cover crop and weed
growth during the next few weeks.
Soil moisture is the limiting fac
tor for tree fruits and nuts grow
ing in non-irrigated orchards in
western Oregon, Rasmussen says.
Only during fall, winter apd early
spring months is there enough
soil, moisture to support both the
trees and cover crops.
Cover crops should be knocked
down by shallow cultivation. This
lessens damage to feeder roots of
trees and berry plants. In killing
cover crops, it is not necessary
to completely cover the crop refuse
with soil. If the cover crop is
killed and knocked down, it event
ually will decompose in the soil.
Additional cultivations will be
necessary during the summer to
kill weeds and volunteer cover
crops, Rasmussen adds.
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