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Newspaper Page Texti'Thf OREGON STATESMAN. Salore, Orogon, Thursday Morning. February 21. 1948 PAGE EIGHT Willamette Black Aphis Live Through DDT Dustings IlYrl Srril rop Surl My Dii-I. S:i timpiVll, ? lire Seem I'naf f'lil , Tte s.in ! "( .hi impoitant seed rii.p m -. nni of California and Oregon '' 'hf application of DDT iasVs i ol by S;im ('. Campbell, r,..ti.wr i,f the Wit ("oust licet St f i i wrTip.iitiy. Salem. Mr (-miHl 'oils th.it in ilust ing tt,f sut.iir in.t -i-ofl crop thore v . ;. ii-cli the per citit DDT with J I vr.)ll"iti. Hin-r pf r rent DDT j viih pn.j)hylli1' ail four per i nit DDT with Milphtir. N effort in crmnpar' th three . iltMs was tnjile .tiui it is Mr. Campbell's . pinion th.it theie was not much ' . f f t i et n v in the elfect. Thirty round Per Acre The Lvrus bugs were the hief ' - v . ... . . ..... A ...! . . 1 i . ti . .f th i-li iwt I fl I'jfi rim un'i' . . v. a by an plane and quantities , m wiled LetAitri 20 and 35 pmiiii' pr in-iv with an average f :;) pounds. The duM was dry i.t d in i!Mid conditioti v. hen up li'led and the oper.itions were per Ji . mid v ithout difficulty. ('. nipb' ll atd that indication f !- t'h.,t (fine is no particular dati i r m handling this material, if ) d.i .i: y pi cm; i' iii i. are taken. In IH; U-M mad'-, the pi. me operator Mb niked vi'h ,i i-pii;ilor but the handler d.d not (t)urins ea h load itg opeia; lOtK tin.-1 blow n by the pn.p lloi i omplelely aturate-d the elothin'E o! the plane operator and Kiaderv Alttr each application, v hi. h l.i red idjout three hours, the men immediately took baths. cbarKd cloth's, and no one Mil f. , i-.f ill !. ft.-. Krr No llyrt Wi'.run a few d;.ys the iflu-t had fchii'd the biiX population to al Mud no'luim v. here pi c ioiSily the "He 'population was- tip high - l',t 1)UKV I XT swoop of an' insect Ml. Lady h. in and syrplud flies vne among me nr-i inse.is in m- . . . . became Valley Farmer News and Views of Farm and Garden - ",ijr r madsen- ii -"'O '. P-" V :v:d . Nebranka, . 7 4 liimnrar. hoc i one of onlv lua such in America. The other croup U in Thoe pictured here, beini fed by JPJ. Inskeep, Clackiuna county atent. are not at Corvalli where the Orefon State rollere livestock dlvitdan i tetinf out their uiUbllity to Willamette Valley use. They are a rro between the famou Dan ih Iandrace and the Hampshire plr. Jersey iVIen from Valley Plan lo (o To Melolt Sale Jersey men are planning to at tend . the Melott Jersey auction very Boron Should Be Applied lo Walnuts Now Walnut trees in some western Oregon counties are showing ef feels of boron deficiency nays C. E. Schuster, horticulturist. Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. depart ment of agriculture, Corvallis. The- youag twigs or shoots fail to develop normally near the tips. In extreme cases thee twigs are almost bare of leaves except at the tip where the leaves are hays as high In protein content , ground peas in order to give thtir as possible. Some members are in- j cakes the required protein r cluding a small amount of coarse ! quirement. to be held at the Melott Jersey i farms at 4014 S. K. 136th M., Port-: land. Friday, February 22 at 1:30. Col. J. W. Hughes of Forest Grove will cry the auction and M. G. Gunderon, Silvcrtnn, i? males' manager. mall.: This bare condition of the twigs is sometimes referred to as" "snake heed." In mild cases there are occasional snake heads here and there throughout the trees. This trouble can be corrected by j the aditidon of boron, Schuster i For a number of years-. Melott says. 1 he amount varies rrom wo Jersey Farms have been breeding ' to six pounds depending on the Jerseys and selling Grade A Jer- ; age t the tree. Four pounds or sev milk on a rather small farm, i dinarily should be enough for ma- The home nlare contains otdv four i ture trees. If results are not ob- and a half ax-res. But during this time, the farms have been using tained from applying this quan tity a repeat application should Dust Poo! Formed By Polk Con nly Ranch Ramblings lly Rural Reporter . i ' . An experiment 'inducted on ' mat in' the bickson herd has been the lid sods experimental aita m : on ttft. There are now 40 cows Clackamas rouritv shows that ! the. hMd. which is a gold .star subterranean lover used with j herd with a four-yea?- average Xi-us? more than doubles the yield production of 513 pound fat. of forage. In fact the-plots with- ', r ' 1 m-m r "1 out clover had to he plowed up i t.u i I .iv l.:!iel Money Ix'Cs did not seem to le MiHui-ly affected. In one in f ice. ..ppioNimately 50 hives of Lets weie 1' tt within 100 yards1 t a ti;W which was du.-lcd. The .. ner reported that he found no j rooie de:ii be than usual in front 1 i ( the. hives. While the lady b el 1 w.i killed, the larvae which fi.tt. fi4-. I oat following the dusting '. 'petal .on 'Wi e pot aflccted. This said Mr Campbell, was very bene fictal to the suar beet seed in , cHjstry j the larvae mtt'puvd to v.otk on bl.uk iiphis v.hith were I i in 'iime fields. The black lytis were not aneciea oy me in-'. . ' ' Alfalfa Hay Arrrajse DjTrrao in C nnity Mjy nop acreage of alfalfa in T.lcii ion county has decr-east d ! from 4t0o acres in "1 140 to 2800, cns m mi. The big problem i in. alfalfa is harvest of the fn-l ci op. 1'nk-up balers will not 'lve H - piobltm iitt!ly The use ..f I . ( halci - and the small vvind li.w v. dh their limited ca- pa t.v n-ipiii t s tl.iit there be a Jif ficieut number of balers to ' ,(,t op t'.e hay p;ep..ied for, t lie I a k-up baler as -oon ;.s it is P'Mly for balniK. This witl a oid it'ici lain Oam;i:;e or over dry-' . 1 1 if m the In Id. The Marion conn- : 1y (tops loinmitt'ie lecommends j t( ,.t !( Kurne Ml.ive could be used j lo kt the t i .-t ci op of alfalfa ofi' j tally .r.ft in.d.c it po ible to ob- t s, in f iM tcond cuttings tif al falfa lNilk (iotinty Not to liirr"ar Iloj AT"ajje j Iri view of t he apparent over- ! .: (xioction of hops at this time Polk county farm planning i . oi:!jt-r me h.op eommitlee defi-' yitfly i commends against an , further plantings. Because see-! t ons in Wa'-hinton find Califoi : :;i are producing much higher Villi than certain seclion in ; i co!i. t'.i committee fui lhci iccfimmoiiK that as hops develop to to a Mirplus commodity that toe acreage of hops be confined to those area able, to compete .. ,th these other districts by pro ducing higher yields. The aycr- vield in Polk county is 1000 pund per acre, which is higher than the Oregon average but a hu h is considerably below the" t eii.ae of approximately 1700 pi '.rids produced in Washington. the gi'ii'.-cs weie gen. iWfi ed df nitro- C;iayds Sather. daughter of Ole Sather, Canity lancher, has bought Sonny Boy, pun bred Ameiican S.idfller stallion. Sonny Joy i1- the only Ameiican .Saddler pinto in the northwest. The stal- . . . j t!. . 11... pons hit nas piacen nrsi in me 1l!ion division at the state fair for a number of seasons Parly for Trades People, Feb. 26 A new grain wart house cxpe rative hi s b en organized at Pra turn and the Ixisiness name is Pratum Cooperative Warehouse. The gioup has bought the grain warehouse at Pratum from Fnil Hrrsch. ;ind a bulk grain ware house will be built, with labol aviiig equipment. Membership will he open to all interested fatmei.-. Serving on the board of directors are Arno Spranger . Fi ed Hi nch. Albei t Mader, John Roth .nd Clarence Simmons, jr. Following a custom established several years ago, a meeting for both merchant and farmers is to be held in the Dallas chamber of commerce on Tuesday, Febiu- , , ... ary 26, 7 p. m. This year the farm- i ers are nosis lo mtr iiieiciiamn and those attending will be com- ing from all parts of the county. i This idea was originally started to bring fat mers "and merchants more 'Closely together and; to tin- jdtrstand better each other's prob- i lems. ' j The seating capacity Of the cham I ber of commerce is limited so that (only 140 can attend. Tickets have : been div ided for various sections of the! county, therefore farmers who yish to obtain tickets and ! invite a merchant friend should contact the chairman of the AAA ; rommi)nity committee for their re spective districts. Those who have tickets, are Wiley Gardner, Robert Mitchell. A. A. Withers, Justin I Rowland, Virgil Tleider, John Dickenson and Frank Neufeld. "fl additional land close by. Owing ; be made next year, ine maienai to the growth of Portland in the should be broadcast on the Powell boulevard area. , the fai m j grounds beneath the spread of the land has to be eiven ud and the i brandies in reuruary herd has to be reduced. At pres ent there are 88 head o.f Jerseys, and of these 30 will be sold at the Friday sale. Melott Jersey farms hits fol lowed the program sponsored by V(( Seed iNIeil tnc rvinri ican u -1 s -j .ai.uc nun i i and is now in its sixth year in j f Polk county vetch growers both tejaing and classifying. Thejpyreed at a me-eling held Satur- last classification gave a score oi r);,y to form a pool for the pur 86.15 on the, entire herd, and pro duction records show a herd aver age of well over 400 pounds a year. O GOIEGCBe ? ti U if; v- ti4 '"-i ai.ri i i -i m n.fc4 pose of dusting with DDT, em ploying airplanes, mainly for the control of hairy vetch weevil. Growers who have crops other I than hairy vetch to dust may also j join the pool, says W. C. Leth, Polk county agent. The commit i tee selected to I ist ' acreages and contract with chemical companies! I for the dust and with airplane I companies to apply it, consists of Meadow foxtail has been found 1 Charles Evans, Charles Bowman, to be a grass of special value for i Clarence Primus, all of Independ- forage production, especially pas- ence; Justin Rowland, Forrest ture, on lands considered too wet j Pence and Leo Buyseries. all of for most of the more Pommon Rickreall: Harold F.Ik ins of Mon mouth. Robert Farmer of Dallas Olelliinc Grass Fills New Need Serving on the Canby fair board now arc Harvey Eveihart: of Canby. Herman Chindgren of j Meadow brook and John Telford ' of Oregon City. Chindgren is the i chairman. The board held ds f first full scale fair in 1941. This Improve Soil llaUier yeai-s fair is expected to be un- T, ncrcaMe Acre I iiMi.rily fine, board members j state. The dates have already been j Soli Improvement practices ran set for August 19 to September 1. assist greatly in production and , improving the quality in most hor The Linn-Benton Dairy Breed- . ticultural commodities. Farmers in ers' s-Kiation now numbers 115 Polk county make the following cattlemen and moie than 10,000 ' definite recommendations: (I) covv Ralph E. Moreau, Corval-j heavier rates of seeding cover lis. has been chosen as the in- j crops; (2) cover crops should be seminator. Ernest -Cercovski of sown earlier and as much winter Hariisburg is the president of the growth ejbtained as possible; (3) association. soil, specially in erosion areas. should not be loosened in the Tall without again reparking and sow ing to cover crop; (4) proper types of fertilizer should be added to cover crops at the time of seed ing as a means of obtaining more efficiency. from such fertilizer. Ad ditional nitrogen types should be (added in spring where useful. More fruit growers should be us ing commercial fertilizers where found efficient. Above is shown the cherry fruit fly which is nearly ruining the Willamette valley cherry crop. For the first time in Orernn this will be controlled this com ing season by legislation. In the newly organized control areas spraying or dusting will be com pulsory, Overv 200 growers turned out at the recent meet ing at Salem where this fly and its damage were discussed. Farm Calendar February 22 At Silverto.i Chamber of Commerce rooms, 1:30 p m , hairy vetch weevil con ! trol meeting; at Liberty 8 p m. February 22 Melott's Jersey farms' auction sale, 1 p.m., Port land. February 28 legume silage meeting. Woocibnrn, 1:30 p.m.; Central Howell, 8 p.m. March - Agricultural com mittees from chambers of com merce of Salem, Portland and other western Oregon cities gath er at Salem Chamber of Com merce for conference with D. L WOMEN ELECTED 1 Two Oregon, county Faimers Vninns have electe.-d women to head their organizations. In Linn county, with the meeting held recently fat Of.kville. Mrs. Laura .eal of Jordan was elected presi dent to succeed A. C. Heyman. In Columbia county Mrs. John Kiivane-k was re-elected prosi- - nt. She is the, fiit woman chosen for county ' chairmanship, Arthur II. Done, state editor, le- ports. MORE TBI NES NEEDED Mote prunes can be planted in Poik county repeat the county i"iisory ornmittee. The. commit tee added, however, that no new plantings should be made except v. here soils are of sufficient depth, drainage and fertility. The county vn us an increased acreage of atrawebrries and more growers could well consider strawberry pJant priKlucfion, W. C. Leth, coun- ' afient reports. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lindow, In-elepe-ndence. have sold the bull calf June Volunteer Renown, to Charles F. Catcs and Sons, Me bane. N. C. Renown is a" five star son ol June Volunteer Buddy and Sybil Quern Rinda Beauty. "They probably won't be just up to par yet for showing but if I have them I'll show them," said Rex Ross as he was preparing to leave Mt. Angel and Silverton ' this week for the Isle of Jersey. He planned to pick up seme 35 or 40 head of purebreds to bring ; back with him to this country, j He has been in touch with owners of the Isle. In reference to show I ing his cattle he was talking about f the Marion county spring show, i I Mrs. Fred Davis of Woodburn was as good as her word Sunday. She had turkey with southern j cornbread dressing for members of the Marion County Jersey Cat- James, manager of agricultural department of U. S. Chamber of the climate is moist grasses. This grass, which has had its greatest development and use in recent years in Oregon, has no resemblance or relationship to the weedy foxtail grasses that farm ers seek to avoid. On the con trary, meadow foxtail, the botan ical name of which is alopecurus pratensis, has a seed head more nearly resembling timothy that any other common grass. j Grown Since 1870 This is not a new grass to agri culture as it is native to temper ate parts of Europe and Asia where it has been cultivated since 1750. Its use in America has been limited, however, despite its high quality, partly because of diffi culty in see-d production. Oregon has been and is yet al most the sole domestic source of this se-ed, though limited amounts have been imported. Since 1940 seed production has increased sharply, largely through the har vesting of lare meadow areas of the grass in southeastern Oregon where the seed ripens more even ly than in western Oregon, mak ing large scale combine harvest ing practical. Growa In Overflows Meadow foxtail is a highly pal atable grass that does best where and cool, and Vngii Heider of sneriaan. n The total cost of dust and the application of it will run between $4 and $4.35 an acre. However, if sufficient acreage is signed tip a teeluction in the cost of dust, as well as applying it by planes, can be had, it is believed. The committee will offer every farmer in the county a chance to join the pool. March 1 has been set as a Drobable deadline for listing acreages to be signed up. I,e!4 Trees, More Fruit I New Orchard Plan Orchards that have become crowded due to the trees' growth should be thinned by pulling out l a certain proportion of the trees in the orchards. Data on orchards . . . v. 4U:nn;f I. -i a knjkn itnnfl in. Wlieit: IMIIllllli oar I...., x. i dicates that in a relatively short time orchards responded to thin ning to the extent that with half the number of trees the produc tion in the orchard was actually increased. However, thinning should be done only after grow ers obtain the best possible ad vice, either from expenenced or chard men er through the county agents' offices. Commerce. OFFICERS ELECTED Charles Evans, Independence, has been elected president of the Polk County Livestock associa tion. Other officers are vice-president, Wiley M. Gardner, Dallas; secretary-treasurer, Russell T. Daulton, Dallas; board of direc tors. Glen R. Martin, McCoy; El don Ridell, Independence, and Joe Harland, Rickreall. though it will stand summer tem peratures to 100 degrees and win ter levels below zero. This grass withstands more overflow" by brakish water than most other grasses, hence is now used extensively in sections of the Pacific northwest. In soil sections where consider able soil alkali is present meadow foxtail has proved to have con siderable tolerance and grows I well on fringes of alkali spots. BABY BEEVES MAKE GAIN Twenty-three baby beeves be ing fed by 18 Polk county 4-H club members gained an average of 2 44 pounds per day for the lost 34-day period, reports Russell 1. Daulton, assistant county agent in Polk county. These gains were put , on at an average cost of 16 cents per pound. Many of the young . 1 . n trn'vti nrAtotn Clirl . . . . , M 1 I plement shortage, isone 01 me ireu dealers were able to supply or ders for supplement this month. Club members plan to feed legume Burn Before Danger Tinie, Says Forester Burning fern Und in late Feb ruary or Man h is only justified where subsequent seeding of grass is planned, as burning without such seeding results in a heavier crop of fern than before, points out D. D. Robinson, extension for ester.1 I Clear or relative! clear land, badly fern infested, can best be handled if plowed tr cultivated several times during the year be fore grass is seeded on the area. tie club who had their February J Evert mowing two or three times meeting at the Davis home. About jn the summer will help. If burj 50 were in attendance. The March jng js delayed too long, it may be- meeting will be held at the Bill SwarU home near Silverton on March 17. Gamboge Ash burn Baronet 3G9170, owned by J. M. Dickson & Son, Shedd, has been named a senior superior sire. This is a new honor that goes to bulls which have 20 or more daughters main taining the production require ments of a senior Mre and whose classification average is raised to 83 per cent or more on 20 daugh ters. Baronet's 20 daughters test ed for production average 9946 pounds milk, 5.74 per cent, 571 pounds of butterfat, and his 20 classified daughters averaged 83 per cent. For 11 years every ani- comc. to tinder dry as to be dan gerous. The safest practice in burning ferns, says Robinson, is to avoid starting the fire In the bottom of a canyon or draw where it nor mally is not dry enough to burn until after fern on the higher ground is so dry as to be hazard ous. Burn down hill until a strip of 150 feet has been burned. BABY'S fi LPS Relieve misery direct -without -doting." ie il ie c tt na n c I M(MT(MR BEPamED - ranK All Makes and Sizes Prompt and Efficient Service WsEflttdDnn LBn(0wim IEDecitD'Da C. 23S Stale Street ' Phone 7822 15.00 WARDS CHICKS BETTER BECAUSE THEY'RE BRED-UP! 2-Slar New Hamps In poultry raiting breeding counts. Words Star Quality Chicks come from bred-up stock. Every chick produced in o U. S. Ap proved Hatchery, end from a U. S. Approved Flock. All chicks warranted true to name and breed and backed by 90 k'v obility warranty! Superior in livobility and production! 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