C1*ACKAM A8
4
COUNTV
N E W S.
(By John J. Inskeep, County
Extension Agent)
The first quarterly meeting
of Clackamas County’s
new
Forestry association
was a
bang up affair with seventy
persons attending and a fine
agenda arranged. President Er­
nest Zahara. Molalla, conduct­
ed the meeting held in South
Molalla, Farmers’ Union hall.
Willard Deardorf, Liberal ar­
ranged the excellent program
and a committee of the women
folks served doughnuts
and
coffee,
Hope we dont leave
out anyone w noted in
the
kitchen-
Mrs. Walter Hardy,
M ORE
Zahar, all of Molalla or near­ practices.
by.
“ Trees are not just trees,”
Clackamas
County Project said Tony Gruba, Publishers
Forester A1 Parker
reported Paper Company
Forester.
results from a thinning exper- There have been many plant­
ment conducted at Wind River, ing failures because the stock
Washington in
Site 4
land. planted was unadopted to the
Thinning of fir trees began at area.”
He pointed out that
23 years of age. Area A had a seedlings should come
from
relatively thick stand. Area B seed gathered in a like altitude
had a relatively thin
stand. and without great variation of
Twenty years after
thinning Jatitiude. Gruba predicted that
Area A contained 200 percent the time will come when all
more board feet
of
timber planting stock will b certified
than the unthinned portion. In as to origin.
Foresters is En­
Area B the thinned
portion gland and
Denmark obtain
contained 127 percent more Dougla fir seed from the Unit­
board feet per acre.
ed States.They insist on know­
Don Baisinger, Research For­ ing the exact
location from
ester. Crown Zellerbach Cor­ which seed was taken-
even
poration, Portland, told of fir th exact section of land.
timber management
practi­
What Gruba said
elicited
ces on site 3 lands in England greater intrest in the possibil­
and Denmark. Douglas fir is ity of growing planting stock
an introduced tree
to these on the farm from seed select­
countries . Management starts ed from the right kind of trees
from the time of planting for right at home.
We hope to
timber products are extremely develop some exact informa­
valuable in Europe. To mak a tion on this subject during the
long story
short, extensive next few months.
thinning is practiced
before
Williard Deardorf provided
the stands reach 20 years
of an interesting exhibition dur­
age.
ing the meeting. It consisted of
Spacing is uniform because two six foot fir trees denuded
of artificial planting. Only the by moutnain beavers or boom­
best trees are saved.
At 80 ers. And of a slightly defunct
years of age
the
European but well preserved mountain
plantings contain
twice as , boomer specimen guilty of the
many board feet per acre
as damage.
our natural unthinned stands
Willard’s
fortitude
was
on similar production
sites. greatly appreciated
by the
Don Baisinger said we would men of the audience. It seems
have to be thnking of the time he collected the specimen con­
when we could adopt similar siderably in advance of
the
Molalla gathering.. It was pre-
j served, so the tale goes, in the
family food locker and
not
with the approval of the other
half o f the family.
Some of
; these days he is likely to find
1 out who is who in the Dear-
j dorf family.
E F F IC IE N T
TH A N E V E R !
NEW
Last week we left Louie,
■ nur hunting and fishing part-
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' ner from out Molalla way. in
the midst of a conversation on
mountain beavers or boomers.
This week Louie continues his
narration.
"These critters” Louie told
us, “ Are short legged rodents
12 to 13 inches long.They look
somewhat like a muskrat with­
out a tail. Many folks do not
realize they are about because
Now you can step up feeding efficiency . . . cut feed costs . . .
they ar nocturnal and seldom
seen i the daylight. It is easy
hold production at a profitable level longer . . . with Swift’s new
enough to witness their depre­
Dairy Feeds. Swift’s Dairy Feeds contain all the ingredients
dations on larger trees, 5 to 20
needed to speed digestion . . . let you use more low-cost rough-
years old.
But their greatest
age. See us for complete details.
damage consists of destruction
of small seedlings which they
"Cud B u g s ’ ’ (Natural liva Kumen O rj ’nt mr) A J l l s d
cut o ff at the ground
level.
lOCAl DEAteR!
Such damage remains unseen
except on close examinations.
And now Louie
continues
Estacada, Oregon
with his story take from Ex­
tension Bulletin 629 ‘Controll­
ing Rodents&Other Small Ani­
mal Pests in Oregon. That is,
he continued after lecturing us
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giving the
matter closer study.
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“ The mountaipn beaver
is
one of the most
curious ro­
dents found in the Northwest.
While much like
a tailless
muskrat in
appearance, it
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lacks the soft underfur
that
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makes the skin of the muskrat
so valuable.
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"It digs long, winding tun­
Roll ends and drops, Inlaid Linoleum
nels with several
entrances,
$1.95 Sq. Yd.
Values to $3.00
usually on hillsides.
It is on­
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ly within the past few years,as
man began to clear more and
more of the hillside lands, that
the mountain beaver has
ap­
peared in the role
of crop
Retailers - Contractors
pest. The animals seem to eat
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along any garden
and field
crop. Trey usually cut the tops
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F R ID A Y ,
n
Announcing
w
“ Never again!
level gazes o f those men in there a minute longer l”
weath­
off various plants
and
pile Unfavorable building
bundles of
them
like hay er in most parts of the country
home
shocks at the entrance of their has kept demand for
burrows; after these are dried construction lumber down. In
they are carried into their un- the Pine region species most of
dergound
storeooms.
The the slump in the Index is attri­
young are born in Apiil. The butable to the D select grade.
Crow’s cross country tele­
litters are small compared to
reveals
that
most of our rodent pests., two phone survey
have re­
or three being the usual num­ many wholesalers
strained optimism about future
ber.
“ The animals are captured demand as soon as weather has
easily, blundering into
steel improved enough to encourage
traps set in
their
runways building, although no one ex­
without any attempt at
con­ pects a spurt as has often been
cealment.
Over small areas seen in years past.
trapping can be employed. On
large areas poisoning can be YOU GOTTA KNOW’ THE
LAW— OR ELSE
done and followed with trap­
It pays to know the law be­
pings. The best poison
ball
known at this time is
apple fore attempting to get a driv­
Oregon just
cut into about four slices,
or er's license in
in
quartered and
dusted with as it pays to obey the law
powdered strychnine in
the order to keep the license, the
proportion of 1 ounce of stry­ Oregon Traffic Safety Com­
mission commented today.
chnine to 16 quarts of bait.
As a matter of fact, failure
“ Before exposing the pois­
road
oned bait it is
advisable to to pass the rules of the
place clean piece of apples in test, the written portion of the
a license,
active runways and holes and Oregon exam for
leave for two or three
days, j flunked almost as many first­
as
Then replace these with
the time applicants last year
wheel
poisoned baits.
There may rhe actual behind the
be a few that will not take the i driving test, according to De­
Vehicles
bait; so where it is observed i partment of Motor
there is fresh activity follow- j figures.
The department reported that
ing the poisoning, use traps.
“ Reinfestation of
deserted 10,843 of the 60,895 first-time
the
runway systems has been ob ­ applicants failed to pass
served to take place quickly, rules of the road test in 1956
try.
Another
which in(ducates distant migra­ in their first
tion; entire colonies
should 14,485 flunked the behind the
therefore be treated
at
as wheel exam. Most were suc­
nearly th same time as possi­ cessful on subsequent attempts
the department said.
ble.
The high number of failures,
"The recommended winter
a
passing
bait for moutain beaver
con­ especially when
re­
sists of sword fern frond bro­ grade of 75 is all that is
ken into pieces about 10
in. quired for the rules
of the
that
long and dusted with
stry- road test clearly shows
chine alkaloid) at the rate of too many people fail to study
1 ounce of stryclmine(akaloid) the drivers
manual before
to 10 pounds of fern fronds.
they make the test, the Com­
About three of these pieces ission said.
should be placed back in the
This is especially
true of
active burrows where they will people who may have held li­
retain their lethal qualities for censes in other states and thus
as long as 5 months. The ac­ assume they can pass the Ore­
tive portion of the
burrows gon test without study.
are indicated by food
piles.
Ignorance of the law is
no
These food piles should be re­ exruse for a violation, espec­
moved when the bait is placed. ially in view of the fact that
failure to obey laws is noted
HIGHER PRICE PUSH
in about 90 percent of all Or­
FIZZLES OUT SAYS CROW egon accidents.
the
safety
The recent
push
to warn group concluded.
higher prices has fizzled out;
and Crow’s Lumber Price In­
dex for
April 18 showed a
By C. T. E.
drop of 13 cents in the Indust­
ry average. The dry Douglas
Fir component of the
Index
Put two figures of the same 1
moved up 8 cents,
however, sort together and make eleven.
mainly due to a good demand Its not my brother. Its not my
for Utility dimension. Green sister, yet its the child of my
Fir registered the biggest de­ mother and my father.
Ans­
cline in :he Index - 28
cents. wers below.
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sight.
Birds soon learn if they are
wanted and appreciated. They
will come back each year to
places where nest boxes, baths
and feeding stations are kept
for them.
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looking nests in trees but will
build In nest boxes if they are
large, and believe me, it is bet­
ter for the appearance of your
grounds to have them out of
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WINGS OVER ESTACADA
(By Kathryn Mock)
Now is the time to
put up
those nesting boxes for
the
birds you’ve planned to put up.
flf you like concerts put up
a small house with a hole one
inch in diameter and you will
probably get a
wren for
a
neighbor. They like to be close
to the house so we put ours on
the porch where we can
see
the whole process.
Blue birds like nest boxes
too. but if you have
English
sparrows they will take over
I the box unless you keep con­
stant guard.
Violt- green swallows
and
j barn swallows will build
in
anything, but they like apart-
I ment houses, the more units
the better. Then they gang up
I on the English sparrows.
Robins usually build sloppy
I just couldn’ t stand the clean-eyed,
h T s Jzzv d a , located at the
on Third Street .
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THESE W O M E N !
FARM & HOME PAGE
NOTES BY
THE WAYSIDE
E ST A C A D A ,
ESTACADA FEED
£ SEED
Estucada. Oregon
Here is the pledge taken by
the girls who belong to the 4-H i
Clubs. How much better this
old world would be if every­
body made this
pledge and
stuck to it. Here it is official- |
ly:
“ I pledge my head to
clearer thinking, my heart to
greater loyalty,
my hands to
greater service and my health
to better living for my
com­
munity .my state and my coun­
try.” There is quite a number
of Estacada girls
who take
much interest in the 4-H,
its
work and what it
does ana
what it stands for. Among the
young women who devote con-
' siderable time to the 4-H are
two of its leaders and admirers
Mrs. Cynthia Broadhurst and
Mrs. Betty Cody. They are do
j ing much in
making
this
| world better.
Its generally cosceded that
i somebody once said
that a
I fool and his money are
soon
I parted but what
would be
more interesting to learn is
| how they got together in the
, first place.
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2 — Me.
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