i'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-
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Nebranka,
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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.
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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.
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