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About Sherman County journal. (Moro, Or.) 1931-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1955)
PAGE 4 SHERMAN COUNTY HH ItSA l,, MORO. OREGON EM BA Y , AVGUST 2«, IMS Something in the O ld Sock Just in Cose weekly market reviews are avail able upon request from any Ore gon farmers or firms. Several new livestock plans are available at the county extension office. A good many different types of plans are available and farmers are invited to look thru the plan book when thinking of construction around the farm stead. New {dans available in clude: a calf creep feeder, two dif ferent types of movable calf creep feeders, f o u r different corral plans, two different cattle squeeze plans, a chute and head- gate plan, and a loading chute plan. Folks finding desirable plans may order copies from the plan service at OSC. The Farm Home and Rural Life committee and representa tives of the 4-H leaders in the county are being asked to meet the afternoon of September 2nd. Mrs. Ina Hanson, new county ex tension agent for Sherman county will be present The purpose of the meeting will be to make plans for the year’s activities in the 4-H and Home Economic fields. The meeting will give an opportunity to determine actually what the new home ecomoics agent will con centrate on tfie first year. Wheat yield reports throughout the county vary from 15 to 50 bu shels, and barley from 1-2 ton to one and 1-2 ton. Average yields this year will be good considering weather conditions during the winter and spring months. now for County Ramblin’s By “ T om m y’’ T hom pson Announcement last week of dis count under the Commodity Credit Loan program for Rex wheat has long been anticipated. Full infor mation about the discount pro gram on poor quality varieties has not been received to date. TYiere are some named varieties heie in Oregon that have been increased by farmers that were at one time tested by the Oregon experiment station, but not named and re leased because of poor milling qualities. It is possible that these unnamed varieties will likewise be discounted in the future. Farm ers that have such varieties should prepare to disjxise of the sect! this coming year. The proposed discount on Rex wheat will have only a slight in the Wheat Commission booth dur ing the Oregon State Fair. They are In need of some assistance by wheat men or women to handle the wheat booth assignment, any one planning to spend some time at the Oregon State Fair might write the Oregon Wheat Growers league office at Pendleton telling their Interest to assist In this pro gram. Over 5000 firms and Individuals are receiving the weekly market Information reviews as prepared by the agriculture extension econ omist at OSC. Twenty-one differ ent Sherman county persons are receiving various weekly market reviews this year. The weekly market reviews in clude: seed crops, farm forest pro ducts, fruit and nut crops, pota toes and truck crops, production prices and cost, meat animals and wool, grain and hay, eggs and poultry, and dairy products. These fluence on Sherman county var ieties. Hex production in 1954 in Sherman county amounted to 33,000 busliels or 1 and l-10th per cent of the total production. Mor row and Gilliam counties will have considerable more difficulty with this reduction due to the much higher percentage of Rex. Gilliam county in 1954 produced 912,000 bushels, or 31 per cent Rex, while Morrow county produced 1, 113,- 000 bushels or 10 per cent of Its total production. Hardship will l>e encountered by farmers In these two counties before varieties are available to replace Rex en tirely. Mrs. Glayds Raymond, chair man of the Domestic Wheat Utili zation committee for the Oregon Wheat Growers League has in formed us that the Oregon Wheat Commission and the Fisher Flour ing Mills plan to distribute about 14,000 free samples of “Ala” from One can learn a lot at a fair. C ountry |M*ople not aO much an city people to w hom the niunifea- tation s of nature ace m atters of theory or hearsay. T he w ell know n farm fact that m l cow s have m l c a h c s la Just un acceptable bn that the nun contra up in the east— alw ays <loe». Not that a black cow does not aom rtim ra have a red calf »* vice- vem a but the rule Is pretty w ell follow ed by nature. Ho the city kid lina to go to college to learn all about Mendel and other researcher», to study Inheritance w hile the country kid kn ow s about It from hanging around the barnyard. Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 OlylUJ iftl Relax for a moment with a pleasant companion and enjoy the distinctive taste of this western refreshm ent favorite. KPM A utom otive G re a se replaces four special greases . . . lubricates wheel bearings, chassis bearings, universal joints, and water pumps. It makes lube jobs faster and easier—no need to stop and change either grease or gun. -J i't t h e W a t t r ' For information on ony Standard Oil Company of California product, call CATHERINE ANDERSEN th ® W a t e r 't h a t •\<S . h r h h h h h h id i We read a story the other day or week about a man who had to I live the better part of his life to {find that he was like his parents 'and there was nothing he could Ido about it. Some city feller must have written it. Any country boy ! knows that Shires never Ix'get Palominos and that you’re going to lx? a lot like your folks in basic matters or have a terribly frus trating time trying to be some thing else. Every year there are parties of people who drop in to the Sher man County Fair by accident or almost so. Some are driving thru and stop to see a country fair, some come with friends. They are usually the most excited about it of any. In the first place natives don’t get excited about the fair at all. Seeing a fine calf in the arena they may grunt a satisfied “good calf” but except for a few they don’t go into ecstacies about it. But these visitors dp. Enough pictures of good cattle have been printed so that nearly every one knows a good one from a had one and they make happy sounds at seeing these Sherman county calves with their attentive at tendants out in the arena. Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 That doesn't mean that because Dad w as handy w ith tools you have to be a ditch digger. Yon m ight rcpnlr w atch es or becom e an en gin eer or an artist or a scien tist. Sherman County Fair Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 September 8-9-10-11 . Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 Phone: Gris» Valley, 232 KEITH McDONALD Phone Wasco 532 k e a th e q lf.'ereno“> OlYMPiA BREWING COMPANY, Olympl». Waih. U. C .A ?® September 8-9-10-11 r-. Save tim e, w o rk and m oney with multi-purpose RPM Automotive Grease on your car, truck, and farm machinery. Available in popular size packages as well as special new 12-oz. cartridges tliat just fît your grease gun and help keep grease clean. w Sherman County Fair City children learn that cows have calves like women have children; country children learn that woman have children like cows have calves. There’s quite a difference. To one the facts of nature come naturally* to the oth er with an air of mystery. Folks finishing harvest and approved conservation practices. bringing cattle back into stubble Another »»pedal event is an ed More Money Going land are asked to make arrange ucational livestock marketing pro ments for Bangs testing work at gram at the Portland union stock- Into Predatory their convenience. All folks* mat yards, September 7. Club exhibit have not tested their cattle since ors who sell market stock through Animal Eradication the Bangs district was formed are the yards will see their animals About $16,000 more than last asked to get this Job done prior sold, learn how the stockyards op to the* winter months. Arrange erate, and will tour a packing year will be thrown into the war ments for Bangs testing can be plant and retail meat market. against predatory animals in Ore made through the county exten Club members have the option to gon during this fiscal year. This is sion agent’s office. sell animals privately or to take revealed in the yearly allocation of pre atory animal funds recent New 4-H club events scheduled them home. ly made by the state department for State Fair this year promise of agriculture to 32 of the 36 Also for the first time, 4-H’ers to add even more color and edu counties. The counties, with add cation to the week-packed pro enrolled in any project can parti ed funds from livestock associa cipate in individual as well as gram for boys and girls chosen tions, have put up $120,440, the to represent all counties and the team demonstrations. During the largest budget ever provided for public demonstrations, contest cities of Portland and Salem, re this work. This is increased to al ports Cal G. Monroe, state 4-H ants explain how to make or do most $150,000 by the department something related to their project agent at Oregon State college. such as baking, sewing, electricity allocation. A tractor operator’s contest, or safety. Douglas county will spend more open to one club member from than any other county to combat each county, will test both driv Monroe says growing interest in predatory animals. All work will ing and mechanical »kills. It in the 4-H flower arrangement con l>e carried on by the hunters em cludes a series of obstacle courses test now makes it possible to di ployed under the state and federal in hitching to farm Implements, vide the event into two classes for program. backing, turning and general club members over and under 14 Sherman county budgeted $3200 handling of the tractor and equip years of age. and the state wdll provide $785< ment with skill, speed and safety. Contestants also will inspect an old tractor for mechanical and safety defects and will take a writ ten examination on tractor opera tion. Also added to this year’s compe tition is an exhibit In conservation of Oregon’s natural resources. Ex hibits will feature conservation of soil, water, forests, range or wildlife. They will l>e judged on w’orkminshlp, attractiveness, and educational value and teaching of À-17 T here’s alw a y s som eth in g dew at a fair, sonic new kind of variety o f an im al, m aybe a Brahm a or a Santa G ertrudls, a new kind of squash or a b etter straw berry. Or som e cow poke figu res out a b et ter w ay to tic a calf or train a horse to hold on a rope. And som e w om an may have on a new kind hat. T h at’s educational, too. T h is old frined has been d oin g som e th in g. H u n tin g for uranium , tea- ev lin g to A lask a, ru n n in g for o f fice, h avin g arth ritis— so m e sort W hether one is adjusted to learning about agricu ltu re at a of exp erien ce about w hich he can fair it is a lw ays possib le to learn talk and talk u n til you know som e about people and th ey are ju st th in g you ’ve n ever heard b efore. as in terestin g as the oth er an i Ilow inform ation does get around. mals, m aybe more so. Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 Sherman County Fair Sherman County Fair Sherman County Fair September 8-9-10-11 September 8-9-10-11 Fairs were started to he edu cational. Agricultural experts figured that if everyone could see some of the best they would try to emulate it and thus produce better stuff. It has worked, too, except that in addition to showing better stuff, the experts now go to the extent of telling how to produce it. Sometimes that does not work because every year Is different and what does well this year may be a failure the next But that doesn’t stop the experts. They work on averages. September 8-9-10-11 r They are happy when they win, Certainly the ability to learn includes the ability to learn from others and use their experience to broaden one’s own. If we had to learn all we know from experience we wouldn’t live long. If we had to drown to learn enough to keep out of swift water, burn oud fin gers to find out that fire is hot, get In wrecks to learn that steel Is harder than flesh, the human race wouldn’t even exist today. sad when they lose; expressive when excited; stolid when depres sed; their faces light up like a television set when you tell them something they like to hear and the shadows of defensiveness come over them at something they don’t like. They like to meet old friends and a fair is a fine place for that because there’s apt to be a lot of So w e’ve learned to learn from them around. We see folks at the w hat w e hear, w hat w e read, w hat fair we seldom see any other time. w e see and old friem ls g iv e u s a So do you. p leasan t w ay of so doing.
