Statesman, Salem, Ore., Wed, Jan. 29, "58 (Sec. II)-l3
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Modern Machinery Reduces Labor, Time Needed
To Get Whole Winter's Supply of Silage Into Silo
By LIM.IE L. MADSF.N
Farm Fdllor, The S'alcunan
It tykes lets time to get a meal
for a herd of tattle these d;iyg
than it t'.ocK to took dinner for a
bunch o( iiVr.gry farm hands.
In Just about the name time it
tkti a h:usewile to prepare
thiT mcait, h farmer can now
s ure "nmirh livestock "nieuls" in
his hilo to last So animals all win
icr. This is possible because o im
lin.M'd incur. tff handling chopped
crops. The ideas be;jan with the
farmers themselves and have been
carried through by farm machinery
engineers.
This Is called production-line si
layo because it adds the time and I
labor-saving benefits of the assem
bly line to the capacity and ease
of modern farming machinery.
M at Boltlenrcked
Historically, bottlenecks have
plagued silage making every time
a harvester couldn't keep up with
a blower at the silo or vice versa.
Or hand labor at the silo couldn't
relay material fast enough from
wagon to blower.
Or the large labor force required
to handle the entire operation made
it unprofitable for a lot of farm
ers even to consider silage as a
low-cost feed.
Basically production-line silage
is the result of adapting indus
try's work swing ideas to a mod
ern farm equipment.
Crops move faster from field to
barn and feed lot, saving more
protein and digestible nutrient. In
just a little over two hours, the
farmer fills his 100-ton silo witi)
top quality feed. With a forage
harvester that chops up to 45 tons
an hour, the farmers clean up
v. in rowed crops or standing grass
or row crops in record time-
This isn't silage time? Why are
we talking about making silage in
January? Even such a nice Jan
uary as this has been?
The equipment dealers know.
This Is the time of the year that
Willamette Valley farmers have
time to do a lot of looking around
To a farmer, a visit to a farm
equipment dealer's place is as
thrilling and gives him just as
much of a lift as his wife's visit
to a hat department at the end of
a long, dreary wearing of a win
ter hat.
Opea House Today
"Open House" at the equipment
dealers in the Salem area takes
off today with the newly opened
up Salem Tractor and Equipment
Company on Front and Divison.
Starting at 10:30 this morning,
some 2500 farmers from the Mid
Willamette Valley are expected
to track through the plant admir
ing equipment, some with the idea
of buying later and some just with
a "wishing" visit . . . and the
free coffee and bit of lunch which
the company offers.
W. W. Mancke and R. A. Mad
aon, co-owners of the place, from
Atlanta, Ga., bought the old Hunt
Cannery in November and have
in the past two months converted
it into a modern farm equipment
establishment.
Today's event will coincide with
the annual national John Deere
Day and John Deere equipment
will be featured. .
Equipment dealers out on what
they themselves have dubbed
"Skid Road""or "Machinery Row"
depending upon which one of the
dealers you talk to but which to
the rest of us is merely Silverton
Road, there will be a general "open
day" some lime in late February
or early March.
Formerly most of these seven or
eight dealers have each held his
own "open house." This year plans
are under way to "do it all at
once," Cliff Beohmer of G-B Equip
ment Company, said Tuesday
Sponsors will be Willamette Val
ley Implement Dealers Association,
which has also been responsible for
some of the very fine farm ma
chincry shows at the. State Fair
grounds in vears Past.
But whenever the day or. who
ever the sponsor, farmers will be
there. Upward of 4,000 have some
times attended a single one of
these events.
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Ranch Ramblings
All the advantage of a long low feed table, leveler action,,
high capacity fan bladei together with the safety belt feed
action mark this new model forage blower. Feed table
length and height permit feeding from either aide. Heavy
duck belt cleaners keep ailage from getting under the belt.
An adjustable star leveler even blows the material through
a big 338 square Inch throat. Machine cut much of the
work and time from haying operation.
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With modern machines like this smooth-roll mower-crusher that mows and crushes hay in
one operation, farmers can clear their hayflelds in record time and get tip quality hay
that remains palatable until fed.
Grass Growers
To Hold All Day
Waldo Hills Meet
Harry Schoth, USDA Agronomist
from Oregon State College will be
one of the featured speakers at
the annual meeting of the High
land Bcntgrass Association. Louie
Hendricks. Sublimity, association
president, reports that the meeting
will he held at 10 a.m. Monday at
the Waldo Hills clubhouse.
Schoth will review the plant
characteristics of bcntgrass includ
ing other bents as well as High
land. Particular emphasis will be
placed on committee reports,
Hendricks points out. Committees
reporting include cost-, of produc
tion, voluntary promotion fund,
ASC assistance for weed control,
and possible farm marketing or
ders. Other speakers on the all-day
rrogram include Lud Hagen, chair
man. Oregon Chewlngs and Creep
ing Red Fescue Commission; Rex
Warren, farm crops specialist,
and Dr. Tom Jackson, soil conser
vation specialist, both from Ore
gon Slate College, and D. L. Ras
mussea, county extension agent,
Salem. s , '
Lunch .will be served at boon by
ladies of the Waldo Hills commu.
Bity club.
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Hog Market
Up as Gilt
Sale Nears
The 13th annual bred gilt sale
Saturday, sponsored by the Oregon
Swine Growers Association, prom
ises to be "very good." Ted Ho
bart. U.S. National Bank, Salem,
reports. The sale will start at 12:30
noon at the Oregon State Fairgrounds.
Fobart, who is secretary of the
Swine Growers pointed out that
farmers throughout the nation
have been holding beck more gilts
than usual for breeding in view of
the more favorable corn-hog feed
pries ratio.
Although midwest marketings
are approaching the level of a
year ago, farmers are not selling
as fast as they would if they did
r.ot have big stocks of wet corn,
Kobart said. 'The spread between
butchers and sows is narrower 1
than in soma time. Higher price
By SURAL REPORTER
WE'RE ALL PROUD OF EARL - It isn't very often that a
farmers' meeting turns into a pretty little coffee party but we
rambled into one that did the other day and it was a honey.
We were invited to a hush-hush affair over at the county
agents' conference room in the county courthouse. As we entered
we noted a beautifully laid coffee table, centered with yellow daf
fodils and pussy willows along with yellow tapers.
Ben A, Newell, county agent, presided at the coffee urn, and
Lou Brunner, fieldman for the Agricultural Stabilization and Con
servation committee; served the cookies (actually baked by Mrs.
Brunner).
It' turned out that the affair was to honor the Marion County
ASC office, headed by Earl Johnson, and its committee headed by
Bob Harper.
Earl introduced those present, knowing the committee was to
be honored as one of the top five in the state. But things had been
kept rather quiet and it wasn't until Arnold Bodtker of the head
office in Portland presented the plaque that anyone knew that
Marion was at the top of the toppers.
DO THEIR OW WORK One thing we particuladly noted in
the talk given by Bodtker was his remark on how completely the
Marion County office takes care of its own. Said Arnold: A lot of
appeals from farmers complaining about service or what they
consider lack of service, come to the state office. No one ever
seems to complain from Marion County. Evidently they are being
well-taken care of right at home."
Marion County has also been selected as a training center for
ASC office managers. Lee Allen of Creswell is now in the Marion
County office for a six-months' training period.
Earl introduced his office force without whom, he said, neither
the committee nor the office manager, could have accomplished
what they did. Taking bows were Mrs. Rose Keefer, Mrs. Grace
Mary, Mrs. Rosemary Mills, Mrs. Dorothy VanOsdol, Miss Lor
raine Tautfest. Mrs. Vivian Zielinski. Mrs. Gloria Williams, Mrs.
Ella May Whitney and Mrs. Charlotte Peterson.
THEY'RE ECONOMICAL, TOO We noted that Ben and Lou
were very economical in the arrangements for the ASC coffee
party. They didn't light the candles so we'll be expecting yellow
ones at the next party if we're invited there. Just as we
left. Ben looked at the table and remarked: "And the last thing
the women in our office told us to do was to be sure to light
those candles!"
DOUGLAS FIR LOOKS GOOD An optimistic long-range mar
ket outlook for tr regular Douzlas fir timber is being reported
by Gary Sander. Oregon State College forest products marketing
specialist. ,
Sander says demand for timber may increase by 15 to 40 per
cent by 1975. according to estimates by the USDA. Demand for
timber is expected to outrun supply within a few decades, particu
larly for preferred softwood species such as Douglas fir.
In another half century youngsters are going to love their
grandparents who are now planting trees, just like the grand
parents who came out to get donation land claims long before
they were grandparents are being worshipped by grandchildren
and great grandchildren today.
1. NO PLUSH NEEDED Fanners In the mid-Willamette Val
ley are being assured that up-style motor courts arc not going to
be demanded for migratory labor yet this coming season.
A group of four Farm Bureau-sponsored grower meetings are
being held in the mid-Wallametie Valley to discuss housing for mi
gratory workers. For sometime now there have been rumblings
about "how terrible" migratory laborers had to live. Growers
have been expressing fears that a whole new set of financial
burdens, in the form of legislation for radically improved housing
and sanitary facilities might be forced npoa them.
Farmers were willing, they said, to improve conditions as
much as they are financially able
LEGISLATOR TALKS But ha also talked as a farmer, this
Eddie Ahrens of Turner. He told the growers at the Stayton meet
ing, that legislation relative to migrant labor camps has so far
been forestalled. Organized labor, however, is working toward
something, and the next session may see a bill introduced calling
for minimum standards of bousing and sanitation.
'Bad Rewrite Job' Started
Presidential Disability Row
By ARTHUR EDSON - month Harrison became the first
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 tB-No- president to die in office,
body knows what's to be done I Manv bad supposed Tyler would
when a president is unable to do i become acting president, and
his chores. The reason we don't I that's how Daniel Webster : re
is because of John Tyler and ftrrni to him when he sent the
bad rewrite job on the Constitu- notice that Harrison was dead.
tion. I But Tyler was afraid that Har-
The problem Is simple. A presi- rison's Whig Cabinet would want
dent falls desperately ill. Who's '0 run things, so be hurried in
to mind the store until he recov-1 'rom his Virginia home, and took.
Top Animal Nutritionists
To Attend Oregon Meet
More than a dozen of the coun
try's top animal nutritionists and
chemists will report latest re
search findings to help farmers in
crease livestock feed efficiency.
trends were reported at midwest 1 iee' . '
markets this past week. ' . . . n',
Fmirtppn Hiffprwit hrt.r nr. I 1M S fxu
A tightly formed bale of hay drops from the bale chamber of twine-tie baler. WUh tills
equipment, the farmer can bale an average of seven tons of nay an hour.
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Ewe Care at Lambing Time Shows Profit
With 80 per cent of the returns
from sheep In lamb or mutton,
and only 20 per cent in wool,
lambing is one of the most impor
tant times of the year if sheep are
part of the farm operation, says
Ben A. Newell; Marion County ex
tension agent.
A lamb saved and rslsed hes
an important place in profit or
loss. Lamb prices lock good for
1958.
Growers with a ewe flock lamb
ing or ready soon can well spend
a few winter nours taccine tne
ewes. That means to trim tlte wool-'
from the belly and udder area and
around the tail. Trim the ewes'
fert to avoid lameness and pos
sible infections, Newell also adds.
Provide a creep or small pen
accessible to the litmus alone, as
soon as the little fellows will eat
either hay or grain.
Fertilize pastures early and get
the ewes out with the lambs. -Mcst
growers continue to feed hay and
Apple Pruning Shows
Scheduled for Feb. 7
An apple tree pruning demon
stration has been scheduled by
County Extension Agent D. L. Ras
mussen on Friday, Feb. 7, at the
Henry Schmidt farm, Route J, Box
9, Salem. Schmidt's place Is ltt
miles west and north of the Keizer
school.
The county agent will discuss
scaffold branch selection and other
reasons for pruning the' 17-year-old
Gravenstein apple trees in the or
chard. Pollenizing the Gravenstein
variety, will alio be reviewed.
some grain until an excess of pas
ture is available.
Pulpy kidney vaccination of
lambr will usually pay its way.
Many growers have vaccinated
ewes this year for pulpy kidney
and in turn the lamb Is protected
until weaning, according to Newell.
FALSE TEETH
That Loosen .
Need Not Embarrass
Mnf mm or felM teeth tmv
iiRrd rl tmlMiruMtient brcu
4 heir plat diupped, sllpeil or wnb
led t lurt the wrung time Do nut
llvt In frnr ot tills hppnlnKU? oti.
Juit prlnkl t Utile FAETEKTH, '
the alknllne (non-erld) powder, on
your pletw. Hold film teeth mere
firmly, a they feel more comfort
able. Doe not lour. ChrcKi "plete
odor breath", Oct PASTUCTH t
drug counters everywhere.
offering S3 bred gilts reorescnting
six different breeds in Saturday's
auction. Earl GiUaspie, Salem, will
cry the event of which Brentford
Miller, Jr., Woodburn, is chair
man. Assisting Miller are Earl Sim
antal, Cornelius; DaLane Fry,
Hillsboro aad Elton Watts, Silver
ton. Watts also served a chair
man of the sifting committee as
sisted by F. S. Reed, Clackamas,
and W. Dean Frischknecht of Cor
vallis. The latter group is check
ing all animals for soundness be
fore sale time.
Breeds offered are Yorkshire,
Berkshire, Duroc, Spotted Poland
China, Hampshire and Chester
Whites. Largest number in any
ore breed is offered in Durocs
with 14 bred gilts consigned. There
are nine Yorkshies and eight
Berkshires, with smaller numbers
In the other breeds.
Many of the gilts offered were
prize winners at the 1SS7 Oregon
State Fair.
Newell Announces
Shearing Schools
Sheep shearing schools are
scheduled in Corvallis this year on
March 10 and 11 and again on
March 12 and 13.
Dean Frischknecht, extension
livestock specialist at Oregon State
College is making arrangements
for the schools and will accept ap
plicants until Feb. 20. "
Requirements, according to
Countv Atjent Ben A. Newell, are
that the folks applying be at least
16 years old and heavy enough to
handle the full grown ewes.
Application blanks are available
at the county agent's office, Room
75, Courthouse, jSalcm.
ers association and OSC will co
sponsor the 16th annual Animal
Industry conference. J. E. Old
field. OSC animal husbandman, is
program chairman.
Visiting Speakers Listed
Opening day speakers include
F. H. Kratzer, poultry nutritionist.
University of California, discussing
protein for poultry; V. H. Chclde
lin. director. Science Research In
stitute, OSC, speaking on the con
tributions of basic research in ani
mal .nutrition; and A. O. Shaw,
bead of dairy husbandry. Washing
ton State College, reporting dairy
cattle feeding research at WSC.
Hormones and other feed addi
tives in beef cattle nutrition win
be discussed by Wise Burroughs,
national prominent animal hus
bandman of Iowa State College.
The place of agricultural chemis
try research in animal nutrition
will be reviewed by J. R. Haag,
OSC agricultural chemist.
Feeds Discussed
Other first day speakers are
Laurent Michaud, scientist for the
Merck, Sharp and Dohme research
laboratories, Rahway, N.J., report
ing medicated feeds for turkeys:
and George Arscott, OSC poultry
researcher, who will review latest
findings in poultry nutrition re
search at the college.
Tranquillzmg drugs In livestock
feeding, a highlight of the second
day program, will be reported by
D. C. Church. OSC animal hus
bandman. Other topics include
roughage utilization by cattle by
Burroughs and a talk on Pakis
tan's people and livestock by
Shaw, who returned recently from
world tour.
Greater feed efficiency through
supplementing Oregon's low-cost
roughages with concentrates will
be discussed by David C. England,
OSC animal husbandman. Kratzer
will report research findings on
feeding turkey breeder hens.
All this comes up now because
Dwight D. Eisenhower, who has
had three serious illnesses, has
said ' something ., should be done,
and promptly.
Congress is mulling over sev
eral ideas, including one from
Harry Truman, who had first
hand experience with the problem
as vice president and as presi
dent. His suggestion: Let a commit
tee of seven, composed of men
from the three branches of gov
ernment executive (the vice
president), judicial (the chief jus
tice) and legislative (congres
sional leaders decide whether
the president is fit to serve.
Aaswer Feaad
But the interesting thing is how
we got into this condition. Sen.
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-Wvo)
has looked into the problem, and
trunks be has the answer.
In the first draft of the Constitu
tion, these words were used: "In
the case of (the president's) re
moval as aforesaid, death, ab
sence, resignation, or inability to
discharge the powers or duties of
his office, the vice president shall
exercise those powers and duties
until L. -U '
or until the inability of the presi
dent be removed."
Plain enough. But the words
were sent to a committee on style,
where as often happens in re
writing they became pretty but
vague.
The Constitution now says: "In
case of the removal of the presi
dent from office, or of his death,
resignation or inability to dis
charge the powers and duties of
the said office, the same shall de
volve on the vice president."
Meaalag of Words
What do the words "the same"
mean? Tne powers and duties? or
the said office?
O'Mahoney is sure it means the
powers and duties. But Tyler in
terpreted it the other way.
Tyler, a Democrat, was the run
ning mate for William Henry Har
rison, the Whig presidential can
didate. The idea had been that
Tyler would pick up Democratic
votes, but the strategy backfired
lor the Whigs when within a
the oath as president.
Education
Bill May
Hit Snag
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 til
President Eisenhower's billion dol
lar aid-to-education program raa
into trouble in Congress today.
House Speaker Raybura (D-Tex)
predicted any such measure,
aimed mainly at helping financw
education of scientists and engl .
neers, would prove highly contro
versial. ,
Rayburn gave his opinion at a
news conference as Sen. H. Alex
ander Smith (R-NJ) was introduc
ing on the other side of the Capi
tol a bill to carry out Eisenhow
er's four-year plan of federal aid.
The, measure would have to
clear the House before the Senate
could act on it, since all money
bills must originate in the House, .
and Raybura saw7 difficulties
ahead.
Eisenhower's program would
provide, among other things,' 40
000 federally financed scholar
ships and 4.500 graduate fellow
ships. Other phases, such aa a
program of providing more guid
ance and counseling to school pu
pils, would require the states te
provide matching funds before
federal . money would become
available.
Farm
Calendar
Jaa. W-Jaa. Jl Hop Growers of
America annual meeting, Marion
Uoiel, Salem.
Jaa. H Yamhill Seed Growers
meeting, Yamhill Fair building,
McMinnville, L J0 p.m.
Jaa. So Marion County Fat
Lamb Shop Corporation annual
meeting, Cloverdale School, 3
miles S.W. Turner. S p.m.
Feb. 1 Bred Gilt sale. Fair
grounds, 12 noon.
Feb. 1 Mt. Angel Creamery
meeting, 10 a.m. St. Mary's hall,
Mt. Angel.
Feb. J Berry Growers meeting,
new armory, Woodburn, 10:30 a.m.
Feb. t-S Nurserymen's Short
Course, OSC.
Feb. 4 East Linn Soil Conser
vation district meeting, Scio grade
school, 7 p.m. dinner.
Feb. S-S Annual Oregon State
Farmers Union VFW hall. Salem.
Feb. -7 Oregon Feed and Seed
dealers association, annual animal
nutrition conference, Withycombe
hall, OSC.
Eugene Man, 41,
Arraigned on
Homicide Count
EUGENE. Jut. a m Lloyd
Maurice McDowell, 41, of Eugene,
was arraigned in circuit court
here today on a charge of negli
gent homicide.
The indictment stems from the
Dec. traffic deaths of Arnold
Lee Hamilton. Fres ham, Ore., and
Charles M. Zweifel. 19, Port An
geles. Wash.
McDowell is accused of "care
lessly and heedlessly" driving an
auto which collided with the pick
up truck in which the two mea
were riding.
Reuther Asks
Price Ageftcy
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 I I
Walter Reuther today called for
government intervention to re
strain prices.
He proposed that Congress make 1
all big corporations justify their :
price increases in advance before
a special government agency. 2
The proposal by Reuther, presi-"
dent of the United Auto Worken "
Union, would affect scores el cor
po rations in many industries. 1
However, he was particularly crit-
Heal of the Big Three auto mak-'
ers in his testimony before the
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly "'u
subcommittee. -. r -.. ?
Reuther said the big auto mak-'
ers are socially irresponsible".
in the way they establish car
prices. He said that U all manu
facturers followed the pricing pol
icies of General Motors, Ford and
Chrysler, the nation would be in
a major depression.
Rock Fall Kills 4
ROUNDUP. Mont.. Jan. tr "
Four miners were killed this af
ternoon in a rock fall at the Mon
tana Queen Mine of tha Mountain .
States Mining Co.
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