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Statesman, Salem. Oro- Thur. July 22, 1S54 Cc. 3 if if II vMliiri? Ml D D Kb 3 AS ;Si. Paul Berry Growers t ; : M b i County 5T. PAUL, Ore. Mr. and Bin. Arthur McKay of St Paul are among . the top strawberry growers ia Marion . County, although, because f am old field of Marshall on their farm, they did not rate the exclusive Five Ton Strawberry Club. However, their seven acrei of the Northwest variety made better than six tons per acre. ' (Statesman Farm Photo.) v . Names Wheat Voting places have been., an nounced for the - Marion County Wheat Quota vote Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. . ' ' The Gervais-MJ. Angel commun ity larmers will vote at tne uer vais High School with Roger Ad vese. Robert Pence and John Wavra in charge. 7 ' The howell-Prairie-Salem com munities will vote at Central How ell School, with Roy Rutchman, Fred Herscb, Edgar Nafziger and C. L. Simmons, Jr., xn charge. Jefferson-Turner area folk will vote at Cascade High, with Laura Thomas. Mrs. Fred Gilbert, Ro bert Harris and Lloyd Mason dir ecting. : '-; North and South Silverton, vote at the Silverton Armory with Al- vin Krug, Harlan Moe and W. J. Haberly directing. . SL Paul-Woodburn farmers vote at Broadacres School, with C. H. Coyle, Fred Kahle, Mrs. Lore Giesy and Fred GeshwilL supervis ing. , j .- -- Staytpn growers vote at the Stayton City Hall, where Maurice Heater, - Fred Hottinger, Douglas Heater: and Frank Etzel take. care of the voting procedure. ;By LILLIE L. MADSEN V . . Farm Editor, The Statesman OYSTER FARMING Growing oysters may not seem to be a farm ing venture, but a lot of . Willamette Valley farmers will tell you otherwise. These are the investors in the oyster farms -along. tne Oregon coasts. . One farmer, asking, me about the new seeding experiments artificially replied, when I suggested tnat oysters were not "exactly farming," that; "They aren't grown In apartment houses, business houses or even offices, are they? They are grows right in the ground. V , ' - . V ; ; ' - , . Well, he was sort of right, at that J ' , ' ' ; YAQUINA BAY But the new "seed, being tested out by Oregon State College, while not grown in "offices, business houses or apart ments, isn't either, being produced in open ground. However, pro wine seed oysters artificially may help revive Oregon's native farm-oyster industry, W. Pr Breese of the state college's Marine- research laboratory at Yaquina Bay, says. . - . Researchers report they have found they, can raise native oyster larvae ( a most unattractive name for little oysters) experimentally in 13-gallon crocks. Now they are testing out raising them in 250 gallon wood tanks, as more practical tor commercial. use. -r ' -Conditions are iust rieht for natural oyster seeding about one year in four in Yaquina Bay as well as in other sections of oyster beds along the Oregon line. This has reduced oyster numbers too low for yearly harvesting. v ,-i ; m . .1 M. I I- C.. ' .fin. tlunU i n larvae are almost micruscuuic iu mur. auvu uiu uisj ejected from their parent's protective shell they swim around, fin ally attaching, then growing on nara, clean sunaces sucn as oiu oyster shells. These 20 to 30 days are the most critical and that's whea death rate mounts, Breese reports. In Yaquina Bay, barnacles and otner organisms iom mucn oi me avauaoie biulcxuhk sumcc Tides, changing water temperatures, and salt content changes also take their tolL -,.-tz v- ':' . - ': ' Breese hopes the experiment will boost oyster production along, many of the Oregon bays. ITS THE BERRIES WelL that's the way Art McKay of St Paul feels about it He has seven acres of Northwest strawberries which yielded 85,641 pounds of berries and five acres of Marshalls which yielded 16 ton. But in order to get into the Five Ton Straw berry club, all of the berries grown on his farm, says Don Rasmussen, has to average five-ton per acrewhich leaves Art just a trifle short We had heard that Art and Charlotte had made the club, and they did so far as Northwests were concerned. They had understood that if one field of more than five acres made the average, they were in. That's what we heard too, but Don says iinu woeiu fields. ;. - - , - -V . ; -...-''.v Anyway Art and Charlotte have a beautiful stand of berries h irarchaiis am hpinff nlouehed out The Northwest weren t fertilized. It wasnt necessary. Art says, as the plants were put it - w had rmwn ladinn driver for seven years previously. This was the second year for this patch and the McKays plan to crop it another three at least Now that the strawberries -are all picked lor tnis year, me xieias win oe uiuieu, v-e, will be cut of Land a rotary hoe treatment given. As an experiment the McKays plan to try out . few Shasta ber ' lies this coming year. This new variety is popular in California now. While at the McKays, we enjoyed looking over the excellent "crop"-of summer chrysanthemums, and wondered, idly, now on .v. m..inff. onnif tat ar rt hfr verv nrettv lawn and garden. in addition to the amount of work she did with the berries as wen and then to top it oil, standing on ner juwneu uxc, was making out checks for the pickers the day ; we called were the most luscious glasses of strawberry preserves. We .know they were good she gave us a jar to taste. EXPERIMENTER That's what Ambrie W. Bagley is at heart. In actuality he's a grower of the beautiful hothouse tomatoes and rticnmhera iust as bis grandfather, Dexter Field, was back in " the nineteenth century.. - ' . ."'r- ' . t act n r tinnrA 'hv the Rariev-Field treenhouse-farm at 3765 Center St, to see what was going on. We discovered Ambrie deep in a straw experiment in his 58,000 square-feet farm under glass. He placed bales of straw alongside of the plants by means oi l i a iii nf tho K1 shnut six inches wide, was placed down from 14 to 16 inches deep, reaching to the surface of the soiL Each slice was placed like a wall, about six inches from v. niamt wore tpt nrinr to nlacinz the plants. Steaming the soil released a lot of nitrogen which takes care of decomposing tne straw doui wnen is useu and in the tomato nouses or m me case i mcsc u t rtiimed this week to find out what the result was. f While he wasnt quite satisfied that the experiment was a big mAn.tr.mmit it had several advantages, he said, for his purposes: The straw subsoils ground after steaming -which liberates any excess nitrogen. The straw takes away the excessive nitrogen and prevents blossom rot which too much nitrogen may bring about It cools the ground so that planting can be done more quickly after steaming ; . . The steaming is done as a sterilization PTf?- vM v- 4,v. " WINTER CROP PAYS HELP Ambrie said that while he takes . :i l ...w ninmsr rrnn nf tomatoes Oil blS SOU tne just completed the summer crop this week), the wmter crop oesnj pay too weU for itself, but it does enable him to keep good helo as it pays the freight" on labor wages for the green house, v EkSr5&5e woulM always be able to pick the help we needed just when we needed if he explaind. ?. ' v m. . . c- mirino hnthouse tomatoes are concerned, Ambrie said that -conditions were changing and outdoor competition .was be Zist more keen. Shipping is -keeping us on the run, he.said. Cucumber harvest is now underway at the "nwmses. v . . T1 j. .mit nt cultivation ready, then new tomato rnih i late -October to January. After Card WiU Improve Next Year s Strawberry Harvest Good, after-harvest care given strawberry plantings, greatly influ ences next year's production, Bud formation . for the next .years's crop takes place inflate summer and fall in standard strawberry varieties.. :': j', v j -'. i, ';.- By after-harvest care is meant such practices as cultivation, fer tilization application, disease and insect control, runner removal and adequate irrigation wherever pos sible.-- '. j-: j ' Topping of strawberry fields is also good practice, especially if the. grower has been bothered by the : strawberry crown .moth in previous years. Topping the plants back, removes ' the eggs-laying places for this insect! which de posits its eggs usually on the strawberry leaves, and cuts down on possible infestation in the field. Several years ago when this in sect was severe, strawberry fields were topped as a common practice and control of the insect was very good. However, in the past few years, it has been neglected some what and crown moth infestations have built up. Topping should be done immediately after berry har vest as ; late topping usually re sults in decreased yields the fol lowing year.. . . ' 1 Cultivation of fields following harvest should be shallow, and on ly enough to control weeds. Deep cultivation in the summer destroys valuable feeder roots without which the plants do not. have the vitality to beafwelL , The use of . fertilizer on straw berry fields is becoming more and more a common practice with the better growers. However, use of fertilizer does not always show the same results in all fields. The ap plication of a complete fertilizer, such as 6-10-10, or a similar one in late summer or early fall, aids in bud development and increased crop next year. , An average application of this fertilizer is usually 2CW to 300 pounds per acre. Then additional fertilizer applications of 16-20 or a nitrogen fertilizer in the - spring give the plant vigor and growth. They'll lie Ready in 2020 New Variety Oat Expected Out in 1955 A new oat variety, adapted as a companion for legumes, has been released by the Oregon State College agricultural experi ment station and the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. Founda tion seed will be available next spring. The new oat is named Winema and has been tested since 1944. Winema has a stiff, short straw and lodges only under high fer tility conditions. Since the va riety is sparse-leafed, it shades the. ground less than other va rieties, making it adaptable as a companion oat for legumes. - The spring oat is rust resistant and stands the irrigation neces sary for clover and alfalfa. Wi nema also matures earlier than CodyV or - Markton. Seven-year tests show it heads about 53 days after' planting, ' almost a week earlier than other varieties. 1 The new variety also yields about : 20 per cent higher than Kanota, one of the oats now planted as a legume companion. The tests show that Winema pro duced 101 bushels per acre, com pared to 79 for Kanota. However, the X7SDA lists some disadvantages for Winema: Its performance is not good on alkaline or muck soils. It tends to' shatter when . threshed. With sparse foliage it does not yield a large hay crop. The ker nel test weight may be low. Original cross of the new va riety was made by the USDA plant breeders in 1930. The strain was selected and entered in test ing trials in 1944. i - . -s. Jersey Gows Earn Honor Rolls in PoUc June dairy month showed an in creased dairy : production in the Polk County Dairy Herd Improve ment Association, Milton Corum, supervisor of association, said Wednesday.-. : ; T-1 c Corum said the records just com- puea snowea tnat 763 cows on standard test produced an average of 709 pounds of milk, which, in cluded an average butterfat con tent of 33.9 pounds for the month, while the 206 cows on owner-sam pler test averaged 712 pounds of milk and 35.S pounds of butterfat New member during the month just passed is Grove Peterson, In dependence. . ; . Polk County cows that " have completed the 305-3ay milk produc tion on the honor roll include three-year-old Jersey owned by Walter Lierman, with a milk pro duction of 10,728 pounds of milk, and a 624.6 pounds of butterfat; a nine year old Jersey owned by Lloyd Spires, Dallas, witha pro duction of 9.443 pounds of rmlk and 566 pounds of butterfat; a three-year-old grade Jersey owned by Walter and Elmer Werth, Willa mina, producing 9.746 pounds of milk, containing 459.2 pounds - of butterfat? and two Jerseys owned by M..B. Findley, Rickreall, pro ducing 8,567 pounds of milk with 446.8 pounds of butterfat, and' 10, 397 pounds of milk containing 428 J pounds of butterfat j ' - "..' Farm Calendar' PROLIFIC COW - ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) A cow on the Charles Brown farm has had six calves in two years: Twins, a single calf, then trip lets this year.. V Futs ESTL'.IATES On Floor Coverings NORRIS-WALKER PAINT C05XPANY -1719 Front Phona 4-2279 DO IT YOURSELF ' AND SAVE! RENT A PAINT-SPRAYER Rates from $330 day . SPECIAL RATES , With Purchase of PAINT Outside White $330 jraL tip Shingle Stain ...$2.85 gaL PHONE 3-3644 t HOVVSER BROS. ' FOR RESERVATIONS 1185 S. 12th St, Salem, Ore. Green Stamps Cobbler Will Be Featured AtFarmeroo Final phases of preparations for the Berrian Farmeroo at Newberg have been announced by Dr. John McKinney, . general chairman of Newberg's . biggest annual . com munity event -.Dates this year for the Berftan Farmeroo are Aug. 12- 14. . . Beginning with a tea Wednesday night, Aug. 11, at the home of Chief Blackcap and Mrs. Ernest Smith, honoring Queen Elva Jean Wilson and members of the Royal Court, a full schedule of events will be held. The Western Jamboree, square dance festival will be Friday night, Aug. 13, at the high school. The big parade will be Saturday morn ing, Aug. 14 at 11 o dock. Immediately, following the pa rade, the' berry cobbler will be served in Central Park. Saturday s afternoon program includes many events on the high school football field. Culminating the Farmeroo acti vities will be the Queen's Ball Sat urday night, Aug. 14. A flower show is being held in conjunction with the Farmeroo as is also the annual Junior Livestock Show, v CORVALLIS Here are a few of the 9,000,009 Douglas Fir trees prodneed annually from seed at the Oregon Forest Nursery, oper ated by the Oregon State Forestry Department This picture shows a dozen year-old seedlings growing to the foot They are schedul ed to be harvested in the Tillamook Burn in the year 2020. WbodburnGow -.-. Tops Marion County Herds C J.-Duda of Mt Angel and Roy McNulty 'of Woodburn- are new members of the Marion County Dairy Herd Improvement Association, making a total of 73 herds, now on production testing, according to Ben A. NewelL in whose v extension offices 'in the Marion County Court House, the recards are filed. i Reed "Vincent Woodburn, su pervises the testing of 946 cows in the north end of the county. William Kelson, Salem, -has 949 cows in his area through the cen tral area and Joe Buye,: records the - 473 cows in the southern area. . ' L' F. Buyserie it Son, Wood burn, owns the cow with the top butterfat record in the' past 30 days. A registered Jersey, "Ann,? produced 104 pounds ot butter fat and 1,280 pounds of milk dur ing that time. A close second was the Holstein, Inka, in the Marcus Wampack herd at Mt AngeL She was top milk: producer with2,367 pounds, but fell into second on fat with 101.8 pounds, j y . .. James Phillips Jersey, 'Min nie, at Silverton, gave 97 pounds of fat and 1,515 pounds of milk. Another Jersey, "Ruby," at the Felix MuHer ranch at Jefferson gave 94 pounds of fat' and 1,290 pounds of milk in the 30 days. Andrew Kehrli'A- Son, Wood burn was also in the top group, with a Jersey "F-Wi that pro- - m . a m III m ducea 1,670 pounas oi milk and 93.5 pounds of fat Buyserie had three more Jerseys in the top group with one giving 93 pounds of fat in 1,430 'pounds of milk, another 89.1 and the third 88.8 pounds of fat . " H , A Guernsey, "Lilly" in August Minke's herd, Mt AngeL gave linn Grassman To Be Announced At Albany Sale Linn County's Grassman of the Year will be honored at the an nual Willamette Valley Rame Sale in Albany on Aug. 7, reports Hu bert Willougtby, Harrisburg, win ner, of the 1931 title and ehnirman of the 1954 selection committee Other mertbers" of "the commit tee are Georje Koos. Taneent: R. fi. Murphy, Albany; Leonard For- ster, Tangent; Terry Elder, Le banon and C.-E. MikeselL-Albany. The group meets July 26 to nick the winner from three farmers who have reached the, finals. The 1952 Linn County winner was Merle Manning, Brownsville, while last year's winner was Frank Cochran, Brownsville. Salem Cucumber Groivers Vegetable Field Day Set Aug. 3 ; Increased commercial vegetable yields through fertilization, irriga tion, improved varieties and weed control will highlight the Oregon State College fourth annual vege table crops field day near Corval lis on August 3. jFrom 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. growers, fieldmen, seed dealers and other interested persons are in vited to view experimental plants that will be staffed by research workers. The experimental farm is one-half mile east of the Cor vaUis Willamette River Bridge, then , north about one-half mile. 110 pounds of milk with 91.7 pounds of fat St Benedict Ab bey, Mt AngeL placed with a Holstein giving 85.5 pounds of fat in 1,820 pounds of milk. Tied for 10th place was the Barnes Bros., Silverton, Guernsey, Ted dy, .with l,64r pounds of milk and 85.5 pounds of fat . . ' July 23 Wheat Allotment Vote. July 25 Oregon State Jersey Cattle Club picnic, Tillamook. Jolr 25 Marion County Live stock Association picnic, Coolidge & McClaine Park, Silverton 1 p.m. July 27-31 Santiam Bean Fest ival, Stayton. ! July 29 Annual Lebanon Gar den Club Herb Tea. ! Anf. 3 Puyallup, Wash., West ern Washington Experiment Sta tion field day, 10 a.m. f Aag, 44 Silverton centennial Celebration. ' ; ! Anc. 6 Annual Strawberry In dustry Banquet, Multnomah Hotel, Portland. " 4 ' Ang. 7 Willamette Valley Ram Sal. Albany. . j amc 12-14 Annual jsernan Farmeroo. Newberg. I ' -r Aug. 23-25 Linn County ran Fair, Albany. , v ! Ang. 25-28 Clackamas county Fair, Canby. ' t ; .Aug. 27-29 Polk county t air. RjckrealL I Sept. 4-11 Oregon State Fair, Salem. '.. . V, ." . ; Sept 16-18 Pendleton Round Uo. . "..: , - i Sept 17 Oregon Turkey im provement Association I Annual meeting, WithycomD nau, uav,, 9:30 a.m. '"; . ' Sept 23-25 North Marion Coun ty Fair. Woodburn. ' . . , Sent "23 Oregon Shorthorn Breeders Association, State Fair srounds. Salem." Oct 9-16 National DairyShow, cmcago. v ' , Oct 9 -Second annual Willam ette Valley . Hereford Sak, SUte Fairffrounds. Salem. Oct 12-13 Natiraal Jersey Show. Chicago.'' i Oct 18-21 Town and Country Church Conference, OSC. j Oct 20-22 Pacific Internation al Livestock' Exposition, North Portland. - Not. 4-6 Western Oregon Live stock Association, annual meet ing, Gold Beach. :j Seven Election Places Are Set For Polk County Seven polling places hive been named for the Wheat Marketing Quota election in Polk County for Friday, with polling places open in each from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Polling places include ! District I,' Buell Grange: District u, church basement at Perry dale; District HI, Lincoln School; Dis trict IV, Rickreall Farm Supply Store; District V, Farmers Union Hall, Bridgeport: District VL Mon mouth City Hall; and District VII County Agricultural Soil Conserva tion office, 625 Court Street, Dal las. " i Dp Your Shades Let You Sec Spots Before Your Eyes? YYe do recovering, rehemming and revers ing of shades, featuring DuPont Tontine end Illinois Oil Base shqde cloth. Call us todayl : Capital Shndo (L Drappry SlCD . rUnufacfuren of Salem Yeneiiaa llini 560 $. 21st Phena 4-1156 , Mr. and Mrs. Ambrie Bagley are completing their under-glass toma to crops for the summer season and busy with their encumbers now. Above, the two are assorting cukes, a very "darefuT job, which Mrs. Bagley, supervises. Each coke has to be the exact size and smoothness to meet the different erade recrairements.she explains. Bagley has farmed under glass since 1916.; (Statesman Farm Photo.) . v " ,- , . , .. . , v , State Fair Calf Selections Must Be in by Aug. 16 Holstein Calf Selection Day will be a feature of the, Oregon State Fair on September 8, according to announcement made Wednesday. The Oregon State Holstein Asso ciation is offering registered calves to 4-n and Future Fanner mem bers or veterans of World War IL Applications for taking Dart in the selection day are due Aug. 16, according to Joe Rogers, Indep endence, chairman of the calf se lection committee. Prices, ranging from $75 to $200, will be set by Ben Simonson of the Oregon Dairy Breeders. To be eligible, 4-H club members are required to have their appli cations signed by a county 4-H ex tension agent. Future Farmer ap plications are to be signed by in structors. Veterans applications need the -signature-of a veteran's administration representative. Students Like listening Better Than Dancing NEW -3TORK" (UP) Benny Good man, back on Broadway with a new jazz sextet said here modern college students seem to prefer listening to dancing. boodman said ms : daugnter, a student at Stanford University, told him that she and her friends would "rather sit and listen." . It may be, he said, , that modern jazz isn t conducive to dancing." The former "King of Swing' now appearing at the Basin Street, a New York jazz spot, plans to leave for California in August to play .with a symphony orchestra in the Hollywood BowL Woroi Tycoon; started Small.. WILLOW SPRINGS. Mo. fAP) M. A Dickman started . grow, ing earthworms as a hobby. Now it's getting into the big business class, in one year ne raised and shipped more than a - million worms to all parts of the nation and "several foreign countries. ' He sells them to farmers, fish ermen, bait dealers and other worm growers. chain L " -I saw! T ; 1 i it wI fcla yew km Aon m auavt to 4tO a thtMa hdb wiA k gota. . fcu powwi M. 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