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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-