. Ill) C I ,'. t Jem, Ore., Thur., Apr. 3, '53
"::2LMiim valley farmer
end Viovvs of Farm and Garden --By LILUE L. MADSEN
aciiiim Cleaner' Reclaiming Losses
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In Hard-to-Harvest Grass Seed Crops
Br LILUE t, MADSEN
ram Editor. Tae Slalesaeaa
A Utile special tut and study
M the horn vacuum cleaner is
paying off, not only for two Ore
gon Mate college agricultural en
gineers, Jesse Harmond and Leo
nard Klein, but It looks as if il l
going to pay off for all Oregon
aeea groweri.
Average seed 1 runes from five
fnajor grass and legume crops in
Oregon ran better than M per cent
In two-year studies by the engl
Beers. Losses ran as high as 0
per cent la the hard-to-harvest
Subterranean clover which hugs
the ground.
Mora Seed Lest
Fully per cent of the crimson
clover is being lost, according to
the survey tests. Loss for alta fes
cue ran up to S3 per cent; hairy
vetch, 47 per cent; bentgrass, X
per cent. -
Harmond. reported t h 1 1 week
that the sud ion-type seed reclaim
er which the engineers, patterned
after the idea of a vacuum clean
er (in large form), salvaged 81
per cent of the subterranean clov
er seed left on the ground after a
conventional harvester had com
pleted its take. In another test,
the OSC engineers found that the
machine reduced crimson clover
aeed losses by one-third.
Ante Eagtae Vied
The new machine has its own
power unit-using a Chevrolet en
gine. The machine consists of the
power unit, a paddle wheel type
fan, a cotton gin type separator
box with the screened area for
removing the teed and residue
from the air stream and an air
lock rotary dropper; the auction
nozr.le: air ducts, seed agitators,
aeed hopper and a hydraulic cy
linder to control heights of the
auction nonle over the round.
Harmond points out that so far
the results are based on one sea
son's operation and should not be
considered as the final or correct 1
salvaie operation. But it does of
fer new hope to grass and legume
seed growers who have become
discouraged because of the heavy
harvest kxsea.
Irealag Oat Needed
Biggest problems to date are
that the machine chokes up whea
put the acid test of continuous
running on farm-scale operations
and also sucked up trash and dirt
along with the seed. The research
ers believe they can whip the
chokage problem with slight alter
nations to increase the machine
capacity.
j jam w correci tne train trou
ble are scheduled for next year
when the suction device will be
Installed on a convention seed
combine. Shattered seed would
then be vacuumed up behind the
cutter bar. dropped onto the dra
per and fed d i r e c 1 1 y into the
threshing cylinder along with the
rest of the crop.
If the experimental suction de
vice is successfully incorporated
into a combine, harvest losses
might be cut to a fraction of their
present staggering total, aay the
engineers. . ,
Trials this past season on Sub
terranean clover that had a poten
tial yield of 1.000 pounds per acre
at 59 cents a pound showed that
conventional windrowlng and com
bining returned only 110 pounds of
seed; but the auction reclaimer
harvested an additional 110 pounds,
leaving only to pounds of seed in
the Held.
Reduced Crepe Expected
From reports given at the re
cent Oregon Feed and Seed Deal
ers meeting at Portland indica
tions were that the Willamette
Valley farmers will have reduced
crops in many of the fall-planted
winter annual legume and grasa
seed in addition to the grains. For
Central Oregon areas, red clover
will be down, alsike about the
same as last year and ladino up
per cent. Annual ryegrass in
the Willamette Valley will be down
fully 22 per cent, the seed dealers
foresaw.
On the other hand the dealers
saw Increased crops of all peren
nial grasses excepting alta fescue.
Merion Blucgrass will show a huge
increase, not only In the valley but
in other areas of the state, the
dealers said. ,
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Bere la the aew sactioa-type seed reclaimer, still seme what la the experimental stages, by which WUlam-
ette Valley seed met see Hopes of harvesting a larg ,hare el their crop which Is aew lost. The revolving
roller )att ahead of aucUoa month la meaaled with chain link. This rotary-beater effect loosens crop
, residue for snore thorough vacuum action. A scratcher and brush method tried out first rolled over de
presslea. tailing U loeeea all crop residue. The rotary-heater chain, aew ased, whip Inte all depressions
and have proved moat satisfactory. Jim Welch, Cervallls, is shewn working the machine here. (Statesman
Farm Photo) a
Soil Testing Service Gives Soil Moisture
Want to know the wilting point rain or complete Irrigation, and
of your soil? The new soil testing the amount of water still in the!
service now ivauaDie u uregon soil when plants wilt from lack
of available moisture. : .
The amount of water in the sou
between these two measurements
is the amount the soil can hold
available for plant use. And. since
farmers, will tell you.
This new service will measure
two physical qualities of soil: The
approximate amount oi water the
soil will hold one day after a heavy
Farm Calendar
April n-M-Salem Home and
Garden Show, State Fairgrounds.
Opens p.m. Friday.- Saturday
hours: 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday 1 to
10:30 p.m.
April 17 Rodent control demon
strations: 10 a.m. Robert Miller
farm, north of Woodburn High
School: 1:30 p.m. at Alvin Krug
farm in Brush Creek district, two
miles west of Silverton.
April 2 Rodent control demon
stration: 10:30 am. at Liberty
School, 4810 Liberty Road, Salem:
1 p.m. on State Fairgrounds, Sil
verton Road entrance.
April 2-May 1 California Ram
sale, Sacramento.
May 2-1 - City of Salem 4 H
Spring show.
Juae 71 Eastern Oregon Live
stock Show, Union.
Jane Marion County Fat
Lamb and Wool Show, Turner.
Juae 1Z-B 4-H Summer School,
Corvallis.
Jane I4-1S Poultry and Hatch
ery Association, Wythcombe Hall,
Corvallis.
Living Costs
Take Jump
WASHINGTON 1 - The govern
ment Wednesday reported living
M.v M - Oreaon Cattleman's r-w'-w w 1 "?
. i .1 n j iln we i rsi increase since rz-tu.-j:
Association. Bend. wmhr e he b e to send samples to the ne'-
May 7-li-&prmg uean-up Week. . ., , .' , v ..... ! soils physics laboratory. The cost , Two cases of mucosal disease, a
May l-U-Marion County 4-H I ',. " ?8nmT " T. ""'of the new service is S2, and i comparatively new livestock -dt
Spring show, Silvertnn Armory. ' ,J Y" al ,'"l,v,"5i county agents have soil sample ' sease in Ore?on. were reported in
May l-l - Alfalfa Field Dav.'V
am, ort first day at Red . ,u 7",,?. , 7 -7 "k " to take the samples, lity.
soils vary greatly in this usable
water holding capacity, these
measurements will , help soils spe
cialist and county - agents make
recommendations for more effi
cient irrigation water and com
mercial fertilizer applications. -For
instance, farmers in irri
gated areas, who install the neces
sary measuring equipment, wjjl be
able to use the results of the' new
test to determine much more ac
curately when to Irrigate and how
much water to apply.. This should
hero irrigators get the best possi
ble yields with the least possible
water and labor costs, the scien
tists believe.
Farmers in dry land areas will
be able to find out the wilting
point of their soils from the re
sults of the new tests. By installing
the correct equipment to measure
the amount of moisture in his
land, a dry-land farmer will be
able to determine how much mois
ture is available for the crop he
intends to plant. He can then
apply the amount of fertilizer
needed to make the most efficient
use of the available moisture.
Soil samples for the new tests
need to be collected a little dif
ferently than for the soil fertility
tests. Only Oregon .farmers are
By Rural Reporter
OLEANED-l'P That's what Is said about the new strawberry
"SileU," which has been developed by the Oregon State College ex
periment station. The berry a cross between commercial varieties
with a native beach strawberry of the Oregon Coast Is disease-resistant.
It should be grown by those who are plagued with mildew
and virus diseases. Ceorge F. Waldo, "parent" of the new straw
berry, says that no strawberry variety now grown in Oregon has
shown such bigh disease resistsnce as the Sileti. The plants are
stronger than the Marshall and Northwest varieties, which art now
the two principal strawberries grown in Oregon.
Some folk say that It's flavor Isn't so good as the other two va
rieties, but some folk say it is better. It didn't retain quite as much
of the native flavor as hoped for.
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T ISN'T GOOD la tact. Mllferd J. Vaeiat, a cattleman la
the Owyhee Ceealy ever la Idaho, aaya H's "real trouble" that
the eatUemea are la. Be talked at the Farm Fensra la Spokane
rereally.
lie started eot by saying that he Is "an average livestock op
erator." He applied aU the rules he knew to produce more pounds
el beef at lower rests. Research, said he. is all aimed at pro
dicing mere beef at lower costs. This represents progress.
But, he went ea: "I had aa opportunity to make a tear of a
big parking company. Wo started la Chicago, went to the yards
with the buyers. ... We visited supermarkets aad visited with
housewives baying meat. ... The meet lateresUag thlag that I
observed ea the eallre big trip was that the price of retail meal
la most places was oaly few rests less thaa tt was la 1SS1. . .
la 1S51, I sold my feeder steers for M eeats a poand . . . seme
big steer calves at 31 eeats. Jatt before I made that trip this pa
fall, I pet the same type of tattle onto the market at 114 eeats
a poand.'
Vaaght also said that while the eaiilemea are eatlag them
selves eat of some of the treaale, be dlda't believe that "we caa
eat oar way completely oat of this bole.' Coasamptioa of beef has
Increased from some M poaads per capita aaaaally to seme N
pounds through meat promotion programs. Still further Increase
was expected . . . "but not anile eaoagh."
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ONE WAY OCT Vaught, among other suggestions, made a new
one: He suggested a processing tax on each cow that goes to slaugh
ter. The figure he suggested was $2 a head. This would bring in ap
proximately t80.000.000 and the oroducer would pay this.
"This will be matched." he said, " by an equal sum from the
government. Now this isn't going to be subsidy ... It is going to
come out of the tariffs paid on the imports of meat and hides.
He explained why he doesn't think this is a subsidy: The woolmen
get paid this way. They believe, said Vaught, that the money derived
from the tariff on wool which they receive. Is money which right
fully belongs to them. The money that's used to support the price
of wool is collected from the imports of wool.
IT'S IN THE CARDS Eitessiea Service News flgares farm
sales are la keeping with the rate of taraever needed to permit
farmers to adjust la line with earreat treads. As farm mechaal
xatloe caatiaaes, Ike size of the farm mast laerease to provide
full employment for the farm family. Farther, If preductioa con
tinues to Increase faster thaa the aatloa's aeeds, the number of
families la farming will continue to drop. Those who resist the
current trend have little prospect for galas, the economists say.
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WARNING TO MOLES At first, only two rodent control demon
strations were being planned by Marion County extension agents for
this week-end. This number has been doubled: Demonstrations are
to be held Friday at 10 a. m. at the Robert Miller farm just north
of the Woodburn High School on Boone's Ferry Road, and at 1:30
at the Alvin and Dale Krug farm on the Silverton-Salem Highway Just
two miles west of Silverton in the Brush Creek area.
On Saturday, the two additional demonstrations will be held, one
at 10:30 a. m. at Liberty School. 4810 Liberty Road. Salem, and the
final one at 1 p. m., on the State Fairground at the Silverton Road
entrance.
Phillips Tops"
County Herds
In Production
Fifty-two dairy cows out of the
3474 cows in Marlon County Dairy
Herd Improvement Association,
produced 73 pounds of butterfat
piece this past month. Two of
these were over 100 pounds.
Number 24, a Holstein, at the
Pen Annex Farm, gave 2,030
Pounds of milk and 115.1 oounda
of fat, and St. Benedicts Abbey
owns Number W. a Holstein that
gve 2.330 pounds of milk and
117.1 pounds of butterfat. In a
month's time, these two cows
have produced enough milk to sup
ply a family with three quarts
day for the year. ,
Herd production averages were
"P. too, according to County Ex
tension Agent Ben A. Newell
James Phillips, Silverton, was top
among the 53 herds on the stand-1
rd test. Thirty-seven Jerseys av-
raged 47 pounds of fat, and 793
Pounds of milk. William Vogt,
Salem, was next with 24 Jerseys
t 45.71 pounds of fat each, and
M pounds of milk. Carol Elli
son, Mt Angel, was third with his
21 cows making 43.1 pounds of
fat and 883 of milk.
Buford and Orville Brown. Wood
burn, came in fourth. Their 14
Guernseys averaged 42 pounds of
fat and S4S of milk. Orval Rawie,
Jefferson, came in fifth with his
29 averaging 40.4 pounds of fat
and ,194 of milk.
Virgil Delhi. Mt. Angel, had one
of the top cows, a J23 Jersey, that j
niaue i.5w pounas oi mux ana
96.7 pounds of fat. Robert Tur
hune of Jefferson owned the high
Guernsev for milk this month:
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-"""F s"v i,nv ywiwm ut mil
and IS pounds of fat. Ida, a milk
ing Shorthorn, Jefferson, in the
C. J. Jorgenson herd, gave 1.350
pounds of milk and 67.3 pounds of
fat. Elizabeth Hcmshorn's Ayr
shire No. 19 at Mt. Angel was high
for that breed with 1460 pounds
of milk and 54 pounds of fat.
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Animals Die
From Disease
Entero toxemia, commonly know
as pulpy kidney disease, killed
more Oregon livestock during Feb
ruary. than any omer disease. Dr.
K. J. Peterson, state veterinarian
for the department of agriculture,
made this report recently in
summarizing details of the most
recent livestock disease record.
Entero toxemia was reported
only in Clackamas County where
17 animals died from it. Fifteen
of these fatalities were from 300
cases in five sheep herds and two
cattle in ope herd.
Hemorrhagica septicemia. I
pneumonic infection commonly
called shipping fever, was the sec
ond deadliest livestock disease in
the state during February. It
claimed a total of 12 cattle in
Union, Morrow. Klamath and Har
ney counties. Morrow was affected
most, with six fatalities in three
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WASHINGTON The nuse
Rules Committee Tuesday cleared
the highway bill for House action
Thursday and Friday.
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Nitrogen Ups
Production in
Spring Grain
Nitrogen fertilizers do not com
plete a spring grain fertility pro
gram, but they are a paying pro
position, says Marion County ex
tension agent. Mollis Ottaway.
Spring barley yields have been
raised an average of 524 pounds
per acre, with a 30 pound applicat
ion of available nitrogen, and
spring oats sa pounds.
These figures were obtained
from yield plots located In eigh
teen different Willamette Valley
barley fields and five oat fields
during the last two years. Tom
Jackson, Soil Conservation Special
ist, Oregon State College, ia in
charge ol the field plot work.
In a few Instances, the above
increase can be attributed part
ially to sulfur, but for all pract
ical purpose the quarter-ton in
crease has coma from nitrogen.
The thirty pound application cost
ing from 13.50 to 14 per acre has
resulted in So to $1100 Increase
per acre for the fanner.
Phosphate fertilizers have given
significant yield increase in some
cases, Ottaway points out, but
. tbe big Increase comes from
nitrogen. '
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NEW YORK ( - An 3-year-old
druggist, victim of 26 holdups
since 1A says thugs should come
np with some fresh techniques.
Harris Bloome complained about
the monotony and said it's always
the same. "They come in, an
nounce a holdup, pocket the mon
ey and take oU:1
and sale, Portland, Multnomah
Hotel, headquarters.
May 11 Polk County Homemak
ers Festival.
May lS-Willamette Valley Sheep
field day, Marion, Yamhill and
Polk Counties.
May 119 s m.-Weed Field day,
Farm Crops Bldg., Corvallis.
May 11 Clackamas County Jer
sey Show, Canny.
May IS -4-H fitting and show
preparedness day, State Fair
grounds. May ttMarion County Spring
Jersey Show, State Fairgrounds,
1:30 a.m.
May Zt-Polk County Fat Lamb
Show, Rickreall.
May tt First Lane County
Lamb Show. Scio.
Jaae I Clackamas County Lamb
Show. Canby.
Jaae z-Wiliametle Valley
Guernsey Show, State Fairgrounds,
Salem.
can be expected beginning in April
and continuing through most of
the summer. He said it probably
will mean some rise in the living
cost index.
Illegal Fishing
Mighty Good, Rut
Boys Get Caught
ALAMOSA. Colo. UP -Fishine
was good if highly illegal for
three boys at Trinchera Ranch 30
miles east of here.
A game warden found the boys,
It. 13 and U, had caught 81 trout
Tuesday. This was 66 over the lim
it they would have been entitled to
if the season were open. It won't
be until May 19.
The boys said they caught the
fish in Rio Sako Creek. They were
released to their parents.
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