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- 4-Sec 2-Sfarasnian, Salem, Ortv Thursday, July ,7, 1953 - I Farm Groups Offering Alternative Proposals to Flexible, Rigid Price Supports By LILtlE L. MADSEN ' Frnt Editor, The Statesman A growing belief that neither flexible nor rigid price supports provide a satisfactory solution to the larm prooiem is reponea mis month by the editors of Better M arming, woo nave dccu making a survey, particularly among tne larcer fa on organizations of the , "modified" program with support country. 1 levels varying ynth the quality of -V" This feeling has evidently also; the commodity. High support, for example, lor lop-uamy mining wheat, but lower supports for less desirable grades. This latter pro gram, not only in wheat but in other products as well, is receiv ing particularly seriouj study from many organizations. Two -price program,' probably restricted to wheat and rice, with price support limited to that por- nurtured a growing list of alter native proposals offered by vari ous groups and individuals. Among these are: A "compromise" ..program, thereby farmers nould accept lower support levels in exchange for larger acreage allotments. A Burmese Accountant Visiting Farm Family -. ..." Th Vanriee Heaters fat the Union Hill area, north of Sublimity, are enjoying the stay of Manng Tleia Nyun, Bormese accountant, here on an agricultural exchange program. Nynn, in his care ful English, explained this week that he, too, was enjoying the stay, finding the people much more . warm than the climate. The two, young Heater sons enjoy listening to Nynn read and also report they find his clothing rather "funny' for farm work. Here are John Heater, 12, left, Jerry, 11 and ' Nynn. (Statesman Farm Photo.) (Story in Kanch Rambling.) Kanch IKamblings By KURAL1 REPORTER -THE EMPTY CHAIR As the time for rams sales draws near. sheepmen are talking about Dave Waddell, a long time consignor who will be missed this year. He died at his farm home near Amity this spring at the age of 74. I Dave, the sheepmen say, was one of the original and regular consignors of Suffolk rams tc both the Pendleton and Lakeview sales, and the first breeder in the Willamette Valley to shin rams to Eastern Oregon and Idaho, as well as one of the early consignors to the National Ram Sale at Salt Lake City. Both rams and ewes from the line of Suffolks which he devel oped throughout the years, by careful selection and by the use of outstanding imported rams and ewes, have helped improve the sheep industry throughout the. west He helped a good many breed ers get started with sheep, and was generous insetting others have the use of good rams. Dive Waddell was i sheepman by inheritance as well as by choice. His ancestry was Scotch. He himself was born on Broad mead Farm in Yamhill county, where his father was foreman after coming from Australia. His second love to sheep was football. He starred on the foot ban team at the University of Oregon in 1899 and later coached at IfcMinnvilie College, Pendleton Academy and Mount Angel. But he returned again to the soil and to sheep, where he found his greatest satisfaction, and he applied the knowledge he acquired in studying medicine at college to sheep 'and heep .diseases. The three big ram sales in Oregon have been arranged now with first of these to be held August 6 at the linn County Fair grounds at Albany; the second one at Pendleton pn August 15, and the Lakeview. sale on August 25. HONOR MAKERS Two registered Jersey cows in the herd owned by H. Mikkelson and Son, Westwood Jersey Farm, Woodburn, have received special recognition for their outstanding production records made on Herd Improvement Registry test Standard Fauvic Observer's Pansy produced 11,805 pounds of milk containing 597 pounds of butterfat at 10 years and 8 months of age, and Westwood Lad Dinah produced 11,382 pounds of milk containing 613 pounds of butterfat at the age of 5 years and 6 months. , ; WOOLENS TO WOOLLAKD Those Pendleton Jackets (made from Oregon wool) one sees on all sporting occasions up and down the Pacific Coast went to Europe this summer and are being sport ed in England (and we all know how English woolens are rated). in uenmarx, jvorway. ruuana, Sweden and France. Clarence M. Bishop, a native of Salem, and president of the Pendleton Woolen Mills, gave each member of the Portland Little Chamber Orchestra of Portland a Pendleton woolen jacket and skirt to wear on their European Goodwill Concert Tour ... , nuniniLn r tv the ladies Alfred Jensen, one of the really good farmers over in the Brush Creek district near Silverton, stopped to chat across the fence early this week: "You know I went down to look at my oats such a good stand and they were just covered with aphids! I went back tip to the house feeling so sad," said Alfred. "I was sort of making up my mind what to do and the next morn ing went down to look at them again. Do you know what? A whole erew of lady bugs had moved in and was working on the aphids tike mad. I think I should build a monument to those little girls," Alfred concluded. . WE'LL TELL EM That's What Maung Thein Nyun says about American Agriculture. Nyun is one of four Burmese men who are ?iere on an agricultural study assignment in mid-Willamette Valley. He is the guest of the Maurice Heaters at Victor Point The others are Maun Thein Lwin with the Jake r.ilmour In - the Sidney community at Jefferson; Maung Nyi Nyi with the Tom ueArmonas ai tiuDDara, ana Ko Tun OO with the Clarence Gavettes i& the North Santiam community near Turner . The Rural Reporter visited a little with Nyun this week. In his home town he is an accountant and a voluntary Bov Scout leader. The Boy Scout movement there, under the British rule, is compar- tiu.l. MAM. V.., m J 1 - ' The visitor is particularly interested in the farm machinery ,ere and during his stay with the Maurice Heaters (since June 20) ie nas learned to run a milking machine and a tractor. Modern ma- . aunery is ine principal difference between the farming in the two jountries. Nyun tells. . He said he liked this country thought it was very pretty "but x!d. Your rain does not bother. We have as much more at home. 3etween 80 and 100 inches is normal rainfall there annually, but .i u a wim i tin. gn u coia a rain, ne saia. lie naa been pick ing strawberries in the Heater field, and had come into the house o warm up and look over, the paper. It was not difficult for him n reaa me cngusa., ue spoxe it ratner fluently, albeit with an He left his native country on May 2. cominr no this wiv from southern California. The four will leave here July 17 for Minnesota V There they will observe farming for a time too. Nyun is married ;na naa tour cnuaren ranging from lour months to 8 years. Prune Borer Spray Time Near at Hand tion of the crop needed for do-; mestic use, and none for the bal ance, is a third idea offered. A fourth alternative is tne 'family farm program," with support levels varying in accord ance with volume and gross value production. Support at 80 per cent for example, on tne iirst $25,000 of production; 75 per cent on the next $25,000 and no sup port thereafter. Grange Offers program As another proposea cure tor farm' ills, Herschel D. Newsom, master of the National Grange, comes out with a five-point pro gram to strengthen the "family" farm. Declaring the safeguarding the family farm is of "urgent nation al concern, Newsom suggests: Point 1, strengthening the farm er's bargainin power in his mar kets; 2, substantial revision of tne farm price-support program; ' 3, raDid completion of land-capabil ity surveys and strengthening of the soil and water-conservation program; 4, a credit program de signed to meet tne neeas oi iam ily farm operators, and, point 5, expanded research and education programs for increased iann eui ciency and better rural living. Rocky Road Ahead But the most rocky road seems to lie ahead for the administra tion's proposed program to aid the nation's 1,500,000 farmers with annual incomes under fl.000. Congressional critics, while agreeing that low-income farm ers need help, are differing sharp ly with Secretary Benson on the way to give it. Some say that Benson is put ting too much emphasis on re search and education, and not en ough on building farm markets. Other critics want more atten tion to land use and to financial rid in enlarging farm units to ec onomic sixe. Meanwhile, a special agricul ture department committee hopes to launch the program in a series of "pilot counties this fall. The hitch is that it needs added funds from Congress as well as new spending authority for Extension and Farmers Home Administra tion. Getting this spending auth ority isn't going to be easy. Peterson Makes Plea And Oregon's own Assistant Secretary E. L. Peterson, former director of agriculture in Oregon, recently made a strong plea for a national policy for the conserva tion of land, water, forest and re lated national resources which are renewable. This plea aeems to have better reception than many ether plans, although it has noth ing in it that is aimed directly at helping the "small farmer." Some farm organizations are strongly of the opinion that the small farmer should help him self for "get out" In the Willam ette Valley, most of the so-called "f mall ' farmers' are part-time farmers who in some cases rely on other jobs to support their farms, and, in others, where the is a growing dissatisfaction with support programs as they have been in the past. The farmer feels, and certainly rightly so, that he deserves the same govern ment support ana proiecuon as part-timer" is either a better, corporations, industries and la- Dorers nave. Because ot tne vari ance in his product his program is more difficult to plan fairly. In the meantime, while the govern ment economic and other experts manager, better farmer, or more lucky, the small farm augments the outside income. ' The whole thing sums up, as cur typewriter .sees it, that there are figuring out the"answers to a program, farmers themselves ia the Willamette Valley are putting forth a surprisingly successful ef fort to keep operating costs low and production per unit high. The former has not been quite sa successful, with continuous rising prices, as the latter. Increased production per unit dairy cow, grain crop acre, berryfield has been amazing in recent years. Polk County Dairy Cattle Farm Calendar Turkeymen.to Meet at Canny The time to make the first DDT spray application for. the control of - peach and prune borer is al most at hand, county agents are warning. July 15 is the date set for the application. This serious pest of peach and prune orchards can be controlled with relative ease and low costs by the use of DDT sprays at this time of year when the adult moths are emerging. From re search work carried out it has been suggested that July 15 is about (he time for the first appli cation this year. A second appli cation should follow in about 30 days. - The larvae or borers of this in sect are responsible for injury to peach and prune trees, especially damaging to young trees. Trees one to two inches in diameter can be completely girdled by the bor ers. Older trees are often serious ly devitalized. The appearance of cap and gum exuding from the burrows of the borers around the base of the tree is evidence that they are present Also, the pupa cases may be found protruding from the burrows after the moths have emerged from the trees. The old method of using para- dichloro benzine lias been aban doned as a control in preference to vur sprays. Tne sprays are applied as the adults are emerg ing from the trunk of the tree and also against the larvae that will hatch from eggs. DDT SDravs.are used at the rate of eight pounds 50 per cent wet- table DDT powder to 100 gallons of water. The spray should be ap plied at low pressure of about 60 to 80 pounds to the lower scaf fold limbs and trunks. Also, it should be allowed to puddle around the base of the tree. Trees that are about five inches in di ameter will require around 1 to 2 pints of solution per tree. The same spray and amounts should be used for the mid-August treat ment Output Rises Milton Corum, Dairy Herd Im provement , Association supervisor in Polk County, reports that pro duction of dairy cattle in his coun ty has increased during the spring pasture season. An average of 789 pounds of milk containing 36.1 pounds of butterfat, was the report from the 18 herds, containing 699 cows, on the standard testing program in Polk County during the past month, An additional 17 herds on the own er-sampler program, with 363 cows, produced an average of 796 pounds of milk containing 37.4 pounds of butterfat. New members of the testing as sociation during the past month are Chester E. Pope of Dallas and Paul Cook of Independence. Dairy herds in the county, pro ducing 40 pounds or more of but terfat during the month include: George Knaupp of Monmouth, 51 pounds per cow; Walter Lierman, Independence, 50.7 pounds; Frank Kraugtr, Independence, 52.9 pounds; Chester Jenkins, Independ ence, 41.6 pounds; and Ed and Rossie Pyritz, 40.5 pounds. Individual cows completing 305 days in milk on the honor roll dur ing the past month are Sally, a six year-old registered Jersey owned by Lierman, producing 12,608 pounds of milk containing 807 pounds of butterfat; a two-year-old Holstein, owned by Georg Knaupp, Monmouth, producing 8,496 pounds of milk containin, 448.4 pounds of butterfat July 10 Silverton Hills Straw berry Festival, starting 12 p. m., Silverton Hills Community Hall. July 10 Polk County Farmers UnionJPicnic, Dallas park. Ralph president July 23-24 Dayton Buckeroo. July 26-30 Santiam Bean Fes tival, Stayton. . July 31 Oregon Jersey Cattle Club picnic, Lorenzen Farm. Day ton. , ' Aug. 6 8th annual Western Horse Show, Silverton. Aug. 6 15th annual Willam ette Valley Ram Sale, Albany Fairgrounds. , Aug. 11 3rd annual Livestock Production Sale, Oregon State Coilege livestock Judging pavil ion, Corvallis, 1 p.' m. j Aug. 15 Pendleton Ram Sale, 10 a. m. ! " . , Aug. 17-20 Clackamas County Fair. ' Aug. 21-r-Oregon State Farmers Union annual picnic, Champoeg park, program 1:30 p. m. Aug. 24-27 Washington Coun ty Fair, Hillsboro. Aug. 25 Southern Oregon Ram Sale, Lakeview. Aug. 25-27 Yamhill County Fair, McMinnville. Aug. 26-28 Polk County Fair, Rickreall. Sept 3-10 Oregon State Fair, Salem. Sept 8-26 Levant Fair, Bari, Italy. ; ! Sept 14-30 Annual Country Fair, Marseilles, France. Sept 15-17 Pendleton Round up. Sent 15-17 I n t e r n a t i final i Sheep Dog Trials, Edinburgh, Scotland. Sept 16 Annual meeting Ore gon Turkey Improvement Associ ation, Withycombe Hall, Corval lis. Sept 22 24 North Marion County Fair, Woodburn.' Sept 24 O r e g o n Shorthorn Breeders heifer and bull sale, Sa lcm. Oct 15-22 Pacific Internation al Livestock Exhibition, North Portland. . Oct 15-22 Oregon Wool Show, PILE. Oct 22 Nov. 6 Fair, Basel, Switzerland. Oct 24-27 Oregon Town and Country Church Conference, OSC. -Oct 27-Nov. 5 Livestock Show, San Francisco. On Floor Coverings REE ESTIMATES NORRIS-WALKER PAINT COMPANY 1711 Front ; Phone 4-2271 This is thee0fficial Penslar Remedy Store For Marion County. You will find these preparations of highest quality and guaran teed to bo exactly for what they aro sold and represent ed to bo. Schaefer's Drug Store 135 N. Commercial Open Daily 7:30 LM.-8 PJA. Sunday f AM.. A TM. Kehrli Herd Gets Recognition Four : registered Jersew cows .owned by Andrew Kehrli and Son. Woodburn, have completed 305-day records on Herd Improvement Reg istry test which entitles them to special recognition from The Am erican Jersey Cattle Club. . ' . The highest producing animal in the group from the standpoint of age, was. Rinda Thelma with an actual record of 12,709 pounds milk containing 769 pounds butterfat The actual records of the other cows exceeded 12,500 pounds of milk and 650 pounds" of butterfat Kehrli is one of the larger Jer sey milk producers in the state, having a herd of more than 100 cows. The 425,000-mile network of nat ural gas transport lines are com posed of underground pipes criss crossing the United States. 2k A SUBSCRIPTION REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL will be in SALEM : July 6, 7, and 8th Phono Salem 3-9133 or Marion Hotel mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtm .11 .smMMitf wkwwm,., J8S-hpBui ck Special 6-Passengtr, 4-Door RiViEtA, Model 43 Turkey men will be interested in a turkey growers' meeting held in te Farm Bureau office in Canby Monday night starting at t o'clock. Noel Bennion, poultry specialist ill report en the Juno meeting ef ;te executive commitiee of the National Turkey Federation in Salt Lake City. Bennion will also show slides and discuss range man agement Dr. W. E. Babcock. poul try pathologist at Oregon State College, will discuss diseases of turkeys. : ; . I Hay Better Silage Tlian Peas, Barley Good quality hay rated higher than either pea or barley silage on a hay-silage combination as roughage in lamb fattening rations during a year-trial, reported by Oregon State College agricultural experiment station. Both shorn and "wooled lambs fed outside for 90 days last fall at the college experiment station branches, gained about 20 per cent faster on hay than on sUage. About one-third of the total ration in all cases consisted of wheat and cull peas. It was also noted that it was about 10 per cent cheaper to put on a pound of gain with hay. Lamb gains were about the same from hay or the 50-50 hay-silage combination, but more feed was re quired to put on a pound of gain with the combination roughage. Again, the straight hay ration was about 10 per cent cheaper per pound of gain. Poorer gains from silage was at tributed to its high water content about 70 per cent which -re stricts intake of crude protein. 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