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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.
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companion and enjoy the distinctive
taste of this western
refreshm ent favorite.
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universal joints, and water pumps. It makes lube jobs
faster and easier—no need to stop and change either
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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.
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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.
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Phone: Gris» Valley, 232
KEITH McDONALD
Phone Wasco 532
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September 8-9-10-11
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.