MOTES ÔY CLACKAM AS COUNTY NEW S L. J. ANDERSON Editor and Publish 4 Published weekly on Fridays at Estacarla, Clackamas Countv Oregon. Entered in ihe pos toil ice at Estacnda, Oregon, as h x ond class matter. Subscription rates in Clackama* Count j ,. year $3.00; outside the County nid in the State of Oregon nw year $4.00; outside the State of Oregon, one year $4 50. Sub­ scriptions payable in advance. .tk WAYSIDt By John Inskeep, County Agent Planting forestry or Christmas trees this coming season? If so, may we suggest late fall or early winter planting where possible. "Early plantings usually re- Here's what makes the 5 9 FORDS The new Ford Sunliner and sister ship, the 4-passenger Ford Thunderbird. Ford's new Fairlane 500 Club Victoria P suit in better survivals,” so says them also. Just i word or so of precau­ Project Forester Alvin Parker. To illustrate the point, during a tion here. Don’t set out forestry recent tocr of the Clackamas Ri­ trees in heavy sod and expect ver Basin, the group saw a 1948- tern *o survive. Always firm the 49 Douglas fir planting. On one soil well around the roots.Care- side of the road the trees were less planting can only result in Air poc­ transplanted in the fall- on the unsatisfactory stands. other side spring planting occui- kets around the roots of trans­ planted seedlings can result in red. On which side did we find the trouble, plenty of it. When planting early the earth better stand? You guessed it. On the fall planted side. Fall plant­ ! settles around the roots and the ing resulted in nigh perfect sur­ trees are set, the better to with- Soddy vival. On the spring planted stnad dry weather. side, survival is only 50 percent. ground should be summer fall­ “This is a common experience,” owed prior to setting out seed­ Parker reports. ‘‘But in some lings. Want to obtain a good natural winters ws expect quite a bit of heaving. You just have to guess stand of Douglas fir? Williard whether more trees will die from Deardorff, Liberal and Walter found heaving or late planting. Quite Hardy, Kusselville have generally the early plantings are that £ fair scraping of the sur­ face by a bulldozer blade results better.’' We are happy to report a much in a good natural stand, that is if larger supply of seedling trees a fair cone supply is found in the available this fall from both pri­ vicinity. The general idea is to vate and public sources. The scrape and pile the old debris of public agency is the State Board braken or other material which of Forestry’. Salem. Order prevents seeds from reaching the blanks may be obtained direct or mineral soil. Of course, it is not always feas­ from the County Extension C*- fice, Oregon City. Names of ible to bulldoze the ground as many cases private sources may be had for described. But in the asking. Certain of the latter this method of obtaining a stand will furnish the trees and plant is less expensive and more satis­ factory than planting seedlings. Pag« 3 'I HE CLACKAMAS COUNTY NEWS Estacada, Oregon, Friday, O ct 24,1958 Patronize your local 'News' job printer I The problem of life consists have been somewhat easier to mostly of subtracting what a man buy ar.d prices have dipped owns from what he owes. slightly, Crow’s said. No. 2 and 3 common Pine boards are also The man w it money to bum is : n the weak side but prices have usually the kind who keeps up the not changed during the week. payments on his fire insurance. While unsanded Fir plywood ¡sheating! has reflected some­ Ted Kiggins and Marshall what of a hesitant trend, prices at the moment are much the Laughlin are ill and are occupy­ same as last week. Sanded ply­ ing the same room in the Holla- wood has remained firm in price. ; f the country even as far nor'h ?s northern California. This is the way the eradica­ tion plan works- The female screwworm fly mates but once. Millions of screwworms are rais ed in the laboratory. At the right stage of development the maggot pupae are bombarded with cobalt 60 gamma rays which destroy the ability to reproduce. Just before the pupae hatch they are scattered far and wide by i plane. Soon after hatching both j males and females mate with ' wild flies but the resulting eggs j do not hatch. In control areas complete eradication has resulted 11 FIR MARKET FIGHTS FOR PRICE STABILITY The green Fir lumber market i has been encountering serious ob-1 staeles in its fight to achieve price stability, according to the Crow Lumber Market News Ser- vie. Lumbermen are finding it one of the most difficult and con­ fused situations in several years. At the moment, prices on Stan­ dard and Better grade random length green Fir dimension are about last week's level, or only slightly lower, but how long this level can be maintianed is a ques­ tion. Crow’s said. Mills the past week have resist­ ed lower priced offers as strong­ ly as possible, and orders are not too easy to place for prompt shipment in some cases, especial­ ly if anything unusual is involv­ ed. Nevertheless, the price trend has been downward for specified length dimension. Util- itey and Economy grades have seffered seevrely too. Kiln-dried dimension has reflected the down­ trend also. While lumber for water ship- i ment has lost less ground than rail, there has been some sinking in prices. Dry White Fir dimension ki moving to lower levels, keeping pace with the general trend. 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