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! SUPPLEMENT TO ESTACADA PROGRESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1915 Published weekly by the extension division of the Oregon A gricultural College. K. D. Hetzel, director. Exchange copies and com m unica tions should be addressed to E ditor of Press bulletins, 116 A gricultural Hall, O. A. C., Corvallis, Ore. The Pres§ B ulletin aim s to keep the state press inform ed in all m at ters of interest and value related to the work of the Oregon A gricul tural College. E ditors are respect fully requested to publish for the benefit of their readers such item s as they think seasonable and suited to local use. EN TO M O LO G Y CONTROLLINO H ESSIAN i i.Y IN W HEAT AND BARLEY Oregon A gricultural College, Cor vallis, A ugust 23.— “ There is a very general and severe infestation of the llessian fly in the W illam ette Valley this season,” says Professor A. L. Lovett, of the Oregon A gricultural College. "B oth w heat and barley are attacked. Many grow ers notice the coarse bleached out stalks of grain w ith the small discolored head tilled with shriveled grain, but do not recog nize the injury as th a t of the llessian fly. If one will a t this tim e remove the sheath from the stalk about the upper joints near the head, small shiny brown flattened objects are dis closed pressed close ag ainst the joint. T hese are the pupa cuses or the ‘flax seed' stage of the Hessian fly. L ater the adult flies will em erge to infest fall sown grain. “C ontrol m easures consist in changed cultural practices. Crop rotation is of value, tiy changing the location of the grain field these frag ile flies will have difficulty in reaching it as they are weak fliers. "B urning stubble where practical is a very effective m eans of control. Mow the stubble, allow to dry thoroughly and burn. Of course this practice cannot be followed where clover or other crops are grown in the stubble. “ V olunteer w heat affords an ideal place for the breeding and increase of the Hessian fly. Disc or plow or in some way keep down the volunteer w heat so fa r as is a t all practical. “The tim e of planting is considered one of the most im portant factors in the control of this pest in the great w heat belt of the middle west. Un doubtedly it Is of im portance here. By delaying the tim e of sowing fall grain until afte r the m ain brood of flies em erge the infestation is negli- gable. U nfortunately we do no have the data necessary on the emergence of this brood of flies. “A well prepared seed bed and good seed are also of value.” EXTENSIO N OREGON EX TEN SIO N WORK MAKES FAVORABLE SHOW ING Oregon A gricultural College, Cor vallis, Ore., Aug. 23.—D irector R. D. Hetzel of the Oregon A gricultural Col lege Extension Service has returned from Berkeley. C alifornia, where he attended the convention of the E x tension Section of the American A s sociation of A gricultural Colleges. The convention w as attended by m em bers of the new S tates Relations Service Commission and by adm inis trativ e heads of extension, represen t ing all the A gricultural Colleges of the United S tates. Being chairm an of the convention. Director Hetzel was in close touch with the proceedings, and reports th at the work of the Oregon A gricultural College in the extension field com pares very favorably w ith th at being done in other states. “The attention of the m eetings," said D irector Hetzel, “was lurgely vatiou, and a crop rotation s^Sici.i given to a discussion of the methods m at will keep the soil feru le ana m proposed for the developm ent of the goou physical cumulimi. W here en n e ag ricu ltu ral and home economics ex iftnigs are not properly consumi eU tension service throughout the United sug ar beee grow ing in Oregon ... be S tates. R eports of the m arked e f coming more and m ore unpopular, ... - ficiency of the work came from all coruing to the reports of m e A gricul over the country, particularly from tural college E xperim ents stations, it the states em ploying a general ex is also essential m at tue sugar beets tension stair with headquarters a t the have u hign saccharine content an i state agricultural college, us we do in be large enough to piouuce a eo.m^gj Oregon, to supplem ent the work of to the grow er. A heavy the county men and to serve the coun proliiable variety witn high sugar con ties which have not been so fortunate yielunig tent is tile quality sougnl by tile sta as to provide for the support of a tion specialists. resident ag ricu ltu rist.” M ILITARY OREGON GETS SPEC IA L IST IN FARM M ANAGEM ENT U. S. SECRETARY OF WAR N O IE S CADET iM l’UOV EM EN 1 Oregon A gricultural College, Cor vallis, A ug. 23.—Oregon farm ers are to have the services of a farm m an Oregon A gricultural College, Cor agem ent specialist in determ ining the vallis, Aug. 23.— U. S. A rray omciais factors of success and those of failure are taking note ol m e progress being in farm ing operations in the various mafic by the M ilitary departm ent oi agricultural districts of the state. A the Oregon A gricultural College. A cooperative agreem ent has been en letter has been received from B riga tered into between D irector R. D. H et dier General Tasker H. Bliss, Chief of zel, of the A gricultural College E x Stall' of the United S tales W ar De tension division, ano W. 11. Goddard, partm ent a t W ashington, saying tau t of the U. S. D epartm ent of A gricul the attention of S ecrteary ol W ar, ture, for adding a farm m anagem ent Lindley G arrison, has been culled tu dem onstration bureau to the exten the steady progress of the Oregon ca sion service of the College. II. F. dets and th at the secietary is g ra ti Keyes, an experienced specialist in fied by it. General Bliss w rites as farm m anagem ent, who has been follows: tran sferred from Connecticut to O re g rea t pleasure m inform ing gon, to carry on this work under the you ” 1 th take at the S ecretary ol' W ar is gin- direction of the College extension ser tified by the steady progress and im vice. ent ol the M ilitary D epartm ent Mr. Keyes will m ake a thorough provem your institution as shown by a re survey of groups of farm s in different of rendered by the com m ittee of the purls of the state to determ ine the port staff which is in charge of tile factors th a t contribute to the success general inspection of the M ilitary D epart of farm operations. The inform ation m ents of educational institutions." secured in this way will be forw arded The inspection on which the reports to the College w here it will be form u noted are bused uie conducted an n u al lated into w orking plans and offered ly by special appointed for tile to the farm ers of the districts con purpose. This officers is one of the big days sidered. in his woi'K here Mr. Keyes of the College year Oregon Col will be assisted by county agricultural lege, inasmuch as a it t the the uccasion agents in the eleven counties main- on which the training, is equipm and tain in c them , whose assistance will general m ilitary proficiency ent of the m aterially advance the investigations. Oregon boys are judged anu recorded for comparison elsew nere in the Uni ted S tates. The rank of the Oregon EXPERIM ENT has been very near the first STA TIO N cadets for two years and it has been the aira of College authorities to bring tne GRAIN NOT BALANCED RATION regim ent up to the highest. Hogs given a ration of barley and ATH LETICS alfalfa hay a t the E astern Oregon E x perim ent Station consumed more grain than those fed barley alone, but the COLLEGE A THLETES MAKE feed required for 100 pounds of gain GOOD CLASS STANDINGS w as much in favor of the mixed ra tion. When hogs are eight cents a Oregon A gricultural College, Cor pound the barley consumed in a vallis, 23.— M embers of the O re straig h t grain ration w as worth $1.37 gon A Aug. gricultural College athletic per hundred in term s of pork, but team s make good grades in their sub when fed in the mixed ration it was jects and seldom fail in exam inations. w orth $2.14. “ This is quite a saving R eports of the men the football, to the farm er,” says Superintendent w restling, basketball, of baseball W ithycom be, “since it m eans the sav track squads, have been collected and by ing of a dollars w orth of fe e j on every R eg istrar T ennant with tne following hog so fattened. ' results: The tw enty-four men appearing for IRRIGATING POTATOES PAYS football made an average grade in all scholastic subjects of 82.il per cent. T hat it pays to irrig ate potatoes There was nut one failure and this when sum m er rainfall is scans is was due largely to a three-day delay shown by experim ents conducted by on returning from a meet, due to the F. C. Reim er, superintendent of the C alifornia hood. The highest grade Southern Oregon Experim ent Station was 92, the lowest 63.5. a t Talent. E ight leading varieties The eleven basketball men aver w ere grown in as m any rows and aged 80 per cent, w ith no failures. one half of each row w as irrigated, H ighest grade 87, lowest 73.5. the other half not, but cultivated and The eight w restlers passed w ith an sprayed in otherw ise precisely the average grade of 81, w ith no failures. sam e way. When the potatoes were The highest grade was 01, lowest 74. harvested and weighed it was found Eighteen men appeared for baseball th at the yield of the irrigated half positions, m aking an average grade of w as three tim es th at of the u n irri 80 per cent, w ith three failures. H igh gated. The duality was equally good. est grade 95, lowest 60. The track squad numbered 22 and every man of them made his grade for SUCCESS IN SUGAR BEETS passing. There were two 95’s and the Three things are essential to the lowest grade w as 75.5. “The students of the entire in sti success of the sugar beet industry—a variety well adapted to the soil and tution m aking grades higher than clim ate of the locality, clean culti- some of these athletes probably could be counted on the fingers of one hand,” say the College officers, “and some of the highest grades were made by lead - oing athletes th at have broken rec ords.’ ’ MAKING THE MOST OF HOME GARDEN College Student Grows Only the Best and Utilizes Ali that is Grown GOOD SEED AND GOOD C l L U RE M ethods of Canning Described as Practiced Successfully by U. A. C. G raduate Who Heads A griculture in N orm al School. To grow only the very best of ev erything th at is grown at all anti then utilize every portion of the crops eith er for home use, m arketing fresh or canning, w as the aim of Miss Ruth Jackson, a U niversity of M issouri g rad u ate of l^oth a rt and science, who has been doing g raduate work in a g riculture a t the Oregon A gricultural College and will receve u m aster’s de gree from this institution upon com pletion of her work upon which the degree is based. This work consists of practical gardening, in which her g raduate work was done, and the com pletion of a text on A gricultural Edu cation. The gardening has been car ried to the point where it is seen th at it will be successfully completed, and the educational text is likewise n ear ing completion. When these two pro jects are finished Miss Jackson will go to Albion, Idaho, w here she has been elected head of the departm ent of agriculture in the Southern Idaho S tate Norm al. All the work of the garden project w as perform ed by Miss Jackson afte r the ground wras plowed. She did the work ox fertilizing and preparing the seed beds in accordance w ith scien tific principles. Selection of seeds for producing kinds, varieties and types of crops best suited to the con ditions w ere also in harm ony w ith the College practices. Use w as m ade of the College greenhouse beds in grow ing early plants for field setting, but the entire work of grow ing and tra n s planting them w as done by Miss Jack- son. Subsequent cultivation, irrig a tion, train in g and harvesting the crops she also perform ed, and the lesults w ere m arvels of high class products and abundant yield. The portion th at m atured earliest of most of the crops w as used or sold fresh. The early m arketed stuff in eluded radishes and lettuce, young onions, beets, turnips and carrots, fol lowed shortly afterw ard by cabbage, cauliflower, celery, peas, beans, corn and tom atoes. Most of these were sold to local consum ers a t prices con siderably in advance of the rulin*r m arket because of their excellent quality. All surplus of beans, peas, beets and carrots were canned by Miss Jackson and later disposed of, chiefly to the Waldo Hall m anagem ent for w inter use. Miss Jackson’s train in g in the canning of fru its and vegetables was secured under the direction of United S tates Governm ent experts. Shi* learned the principles and practices of scientific canning under Dr. Brezoale, the author of the leading government bulletin on canning, and was later a s sociated w ith O. M. Benson, whose dem onstration canning in connection with boys’ and girls' club work was a feature of club activities last year in Oregon. She also worked with Miss Agnew, state agent of club work in V irginia and with Miss Cresswell, who has charge of the U. S. home canning dem onstration work for the Southern S tates. She thus describes her m eth-