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PAGE TWELVE Tlx OREGON STATESMAN, Saltm, Oregon, THurtday Morning, February U, 1346 Bees Most Apt To Starve in Late Spring While It has boon a good ypar for wintering bew, there is some .lemand for additional sugar for them. says A. Burr Black, apiary itipervisor for the itate depart ment of agriculture. While all request for sugnr for U-is have to no before ration boards, the department gets some of thcue inasmuch 01 some ration boards require proof. of registra tion of bees or inspection before the grant requests for extra sugar for supplementary feeding. All the department can do is to certify to the number of colonies of bees inspected and the num ber the particular beekeeper has registered with the department If beekeepers have kept their in vpoction certificate and their reg istration receipt, these should be presented to the ration board and it will not be necessary to make m special trip or wsite a letter 10 the department, ttome Sugar Needed Sugar for supplementary feed ing of bees is necessary, of course, nly when the beekeeper neglect ed last year to leave enough honey In the hive for bees during the winter and early spring. Ordi- -rarily, a rolony of bees will re quire from 40 to 50 pounds of honey to winter through. The starvation period for bees Is March and April, or the period when they start railing brood. Feeding is heavier, of course, at this time than at any time during the winter. a ? m a in some sections 01 iw siaie the wintering conditions have been so favorable that the bees are already starting to raise brood, hs early as it is. Only a small amount of pollen from filbert orchard, mustard and dandelions is now available. Estimate on the number of col onies of bees in Oregon now vary from 54,000 to 68,000. About 80 per cent of the colonies in the state are in the hands of com mercial beekeepers. The remain der is accounted for by small, tatU'ie.d lots. Mark Lewis of Turner as her greetlat 2Mt paeeearers arriring Tuesday afternoon by alrpUssa to Me Nary field from Newton, KtnsM. Tho HpuMnf ert" ro 41-boor old Aostrg Whltet, a bow breed of dual purpose chicken. Assisting la cheeking them oat ro Mildred f achy, center and Erdlno iwenaon, special attendant at th airport. (Stateaasaa photo) Marion Dairy Cows Head Production Wide Interest is awakening In riaiTy heid improvement in re cent months. The association was irvived in October after not functioning since before Pearl Haibor. Ray Kern, who was with the University of Arizona, ha come to Uke over the testing. lU-ports how that Mainrti county was top in production for the sthte during IXccmbcr. A total of 895 cows were on tet with an average of t'36 pounds of milk and 29.7 pounds of butterfat per cow. Of the number, 199 cows gave 40 pounds or more milk and eight rows were culled for low pro' durtion and udder troubles. While the comparison of pro duction records have not yet been i-omptled, Marion county Is show ing up very good for January. During the mortth 936 cowi were i n tot with 805 pounds of milk. 29xi pounds of butterfat. Giving 40'jiounds or more were 243 cows Twenty-three were culled for low production. Thiity-six herds are on test, requiring 27 days a month for the tenter. An additional tester will go on by the middle of the month to help cure for the IZ herds on the waiting list. Thomas Added to Reclamation Office Economic ' effects of Irrigation and dainago upon agriculture arc being given Increased attention by the bureau of reclamation's project planning office at Salem of which Engineer C. C. fisher la in charge. M. D. Thomas was recently added to tho local staff of en gineer! and aoil specialists to con duct tho economic investigations of suggested project! in north western Oregon. Thomas transferred to Salem from Corvallis where ho served for eight years with tho Oregon State college extension service and the federal crop reporting service. During this time ho com piled production, price and In come data showing trends in Ore gon's numeroua farm enterprise!. Thomas has a local Willamette valley background and practical farm experience. He was born near Scotts Mills, tho son of a well known pioneer family, and was raised on a farm In that region. He was graduated from the Scotts Mills high school and later from Oregon State college where ho majored In farm man agement and agricultural eco nomics. More Hairy Vetch Needed for Poorly Drained Valley Soil Should tho DDT in tho control of tho hairy vetch weevil prove as practical as now Indicated there will bo a place for many crea of hairy vetch on Marion county hill land and porno poorly drained land, reports tho Marion county farm cropi tommittee. This would, tho committee adds, require many more dusters than are now available. A ahift of dusters from areas that once grew Austrian field pe to hairy vetch sections is suggested Tho use of airplane dusting of hairy vetch should bo given immediate trial, tho committee recommends. There is a largo demand for hairy vetch seed in tho south and production possibilities aro un limited if government purchase programs continued at a fair price to hold over seed and AAA benefit! continue in tho south. APPOINTED ADJUSTER Gary I Gilson of Amity, has been appointed Polk county loss adjuster for tho federal crop In surance corporation, Robert Mitch ell, chairman of tho county AAA committee, has announced. JO Grangers Grow Social Crop that benefit Oregonians Farm Machinery Han Trouble (latching Up Department of agriculture of ficii! estimate it will take about two yedrsfor the supply of farm machinery to catch up with nor mal or a buyer's market. Plana were to boot .machinery produc tion ahead during the first, six months of 1946 to the point where totril production for. . the 1945-43 year woufd tun considerably ahead of a year ago. Whether, the companies --will be able to maintain thin schedule will depend on tw thing, the Mjppl.v of labor and! the supply lit m;tTiI. Iabor njply will de pend on how long the fftim m.i (hinery wotker are out on strike, and how i.u the Kteel htrike is over. lf.th-e strike; are settled soon, and there aie no further ones M.iMed, officials in Wash ington think th;it tot.. I fi-m ma chinery output for the current , sean v. ill run ahead of a year ago. Hut there wilt still be a shortage. Little or rio machinery will be iiaihible for farm ut-v un til summer and fall harvest seasons. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause' it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel i germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in fumed bronchial mucous mem branea. Tell your druggist to tell you a bottle of Creotnulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it Quickly allays the cough or you aro to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coushs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis 4 SMOOTH OPEN ROADS from farm to market had their beginning in Grange-sponsored legislation.' Today countless farm trucks speed their produce over hard-surfaced or well-gravelled Oregon roads. The movement for better rural roads as a part of the Grange program is as old as the organization. It will continue to be a basic Grange policy as long as the need exists in any part of the State. Projects of this nature are as vital a part of Grange activities as better agriculture itself. That is why 28,000 progressive farmers belong to the Oregon State Grange why membership continues to grow -why the Grange is a dominant force for social progress. Information about tbe purpose and accomplUhairats of th Ore gon Slats Grange is contained la booklet "Let's Look st the Record". Cobisci yonf lOcsl Cringe for copy, or write direct. OREGON STATE GRANGE 1111 S. L taaoM St, Portiosd 14, tVogoa 72 OF SERVICE AaV TO OREGON FARMER Feed Situation Not Improving Loo Hannlfy, United Press radio editor In the nation's capltol, and who covers tho department of agriculture, has this to say about tho American livestock Industry: It faces dislocations as far- reaching as any of those which occurred during tho war- Feed grain Is to bo diverted from beef cattle, hogs, and poultry, into bread for starving people In Eu rope and Asia. The wheat pro gram outlined by President Tru man may oven cut Into milk pro ductlon by whittling down tho amount of grain available to dairy cows. Noel Bennlon, noultry specialist for the agricultural extension serv Jce, OSC, said fully two weeks ago that feed would bo tho limit lting factor In poultry and turkey production in 1846 and that pro ducers would do well to make sure of supply of feed before making plans for tho coming season. Ranch Ramblings By Rural Reporter The rural reporter 'drifted into two most interesting events in the Salem -Area this past .week. The one wad the gathering of 250 cher ry growers from Marion and Polk countiei Both Walter Lcth, Polk county agent and Ben Newell, as sistant agent in Marion county, who arranged the meeting, ex pressed, pleased surprise at the interest shown. By questions a.-ked the official speakers and by side line talk overheard by the re porter, interest was indicated as keen in the new cherry fly control law. Last year's infestation, the worst since 1929, made cherry growers realize that if Oregon's crop is to be saved something drastic has to be done. The other event was the Swine Growers bred gilt sale, the first of its kind held by this associa tion. D. M, Goin has a 214 acre cher ry orchard, known as the Willanv otto Orchards at Macleay. The orchard Is 23 years old, although the Coins have been farming it for only 15 years, 'or the past two years, Goin says he has been dusting Instead of spraying. It has to be done oftener, he admit ted, but it can be done so much more quickly. Ho can, ho said, put on four dusts while he puts on one spray. It is Just as effec Uvo as spraying, Goin added, if tho right kind of dust is used and the right time chosen to put It on. He follows the advice of the Wil lamette Valley Cherry growers of which he is a member. Last year he harvested 250 tons of Huskins and Lamberts, but this, he said, was a small year. In 1937 he took 600 ton from his trees. To control the cherry fruit fly, an Inspector is to be appointed by the county court for each coun ty in the control area. He will put In full time from May 1 to August; 15. In the meantime the state college and department of agriculture are joining in the car rying out of an educational pro It u.cd to be that spraytime was when cherries begun to show red. But, says Dr. S. C. Jones of the state college, the flies got wise to this and are now laying their eggs beneath the skin of the cher ries before any color shows at all. The time to spray is when the fly emerges from the ground. It takes just eight days from that time until the damage is done and when once done it is irreparable. Radios, newspapers, letters from the county agents' offices all work to get the information broadcast for the proper spraying dates. One rancher, whose name was not obtained, reported that he had put 15 pounds of boron around each of his walnut trees a year ago and last autumn got 100 pounds of good nuts where he had only had a handful before. The boron was placed eight fret froth the trunks of the trees which were fairly good sized. . Dr. S. M. Zeller of Oregon State college, said at the cherry meet ing that the Willamette valley had more virus diseases on cherries than In any other part of the United States. He added that you can't spray for these. You have to have clean stock In the beginning and then not contaminate it by the u.se of impure bud and graft ing stock. Mrs. Frank Brubitz who is; car rying on the 50-acre farm Which she and her husband had farmed for 48 years before he died several months ago, said that she Is giving up her hundreds of private cus tomers for prunes and pears and berries. However she maintains the fruit farm, which has five acres of Royal Ann cherries. Her one worry, she said, is to get any- Briefs From County Men Inspection of Willamette vetch has begun in the various coun ties and county agents are re porting that applications for in spection are coming in slowly. The agents are reminding grovi era that application must be in by February 20 or it Is too late: Jerry Nibler estimated that there were 10,000 acres of Willamette vetch in Marion county alone. He also reported Wednesday th;t vetch is looking good, although there is a little mildew in sume fields. Den Newell, assistant county agent in Marion county, said that "we would like to recommend putting on nitrogen now, but when there Isn't any we suggest spreading manure on the pas tures." Need More Signatures Newell also reported thai Mar lon county has 300 signers in the county breeders association but 700 more are needed to get into action. Marion county has a total of 20.000 cows to draw from. He hoped more dairymen would nigu u r) .'it the roiintv mftinir 'hit- uled for Mt. Angel on February 18. Iyouis. Brandt, now with the centiiil oitt-riing association, will be present to discuss problem. Anvonr- can contnrt Hmud Kru.', Art Shwab, both of Mt. Angel. trix li.ij.sing of Hubbard, or Elton Watts and Dr. A. W. Simmons, Silverton. Go:ng to Coquille for the live stock meeting this week are Re sell Diiiilton, assistant county agent in Polk county, Lewis Hen nits of Turner, Ben Newall and Claude Steusloff of Salem, Elmer Loieiire. t'Kear Low, Alvin Hart ley and H. A. Barnes of Silver ton, Henry Davenport of Mt. An gel, John Mannian of Brooks and Charles Evans of Independence. ore to spray the trees as thorough ly as did her husband. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Llndow of Independence is not regretting the purchase of Volunteer Shining Pearl, a daughter of Nelly Stand ard Volunteer bought at the Hul bert dispersal sale. Pearl produced 1 1 1 pounds butterfat in November, records show. Spray Peach Trees DO IT NOW WNb MAJSONS) "1" MASS FIACH UAF CURL INLAY A Ccmpnt Draaf Spnr fer eteoMiH Trttt s4 Sbrabe Masafsctsne' bf MASSY M. UCKIMtr CO. 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