Sherman County Journal, Moro, Oregon. Friday, June 21, 1963 Page 3
County buyers, grain dealers.
League and Commission officer»-,
Oregon S tate U niversity E xten
sion i>ersonnel. and o th er in te r
ested wheat producers are in
b j S h rrm ar 4'«>. F \ ten si »n Avi*. time. It seems farm ers need ¿0 vited. The purjx >e c< the m eeting
« nduct their operations to allow is to discuss tlu* export m ark et
R ange F ield Da.»
as much flexibility as possible ing problems now evident for the
Tin? Squay Butte Range Fi«M Present indications would seem
immediate future in relation to
Day has be?n te t for June 25. The that grow ers would need to plan
supplying the domand for sjx*-
progintn will run from 9:00 a. pi. to stay w ithin th e ir wheat acre
cific wheat to the F Japanese dol
to 3:30 p.m.
age allotm ent for the 1964 crop lar market.
Inform ation on grass variety and fertilize accordingly.
If
The main problem s t e m s
trials, ebeep digestibility trials, clianges occur before seeding,
around the com plaint of the Ja p
brush control with 2.4-D, supple then adjustm ents can lie made
anese about lack of uniform ity of
m enting yearling ctutle on past
Indications are th a t wheat w heat cargoes and too high a
ure, and grass m anagem ent will grow ers may yet lie able to see J protein content. A ustralia is anx
be im ports it tour inspections.
wheat this year on their barley ious to Lake over m ore of this
The Squaw Butte Station is ; ereage for the 1964 crop. This m arket w ith low protein wheat.
forty-two miles west < f Burns >n decision is up to the secretary of League officials and experts are
V.S. Highway 20.
A griculture and his determ ination concerned w ith a possible su b
Farm I¿egisl.ition
;.s to what influente th is program stantial loss in dollar export m ar
Twenty-five fa n n bills dealing would have on wheat production ket. The m eeting will attem pt to
with w heat and fix 1 grains were i.nd feed grain. Undoubtedly this n v ie w the problem and solicit
introduced May 23 into the will be known before seeding the trade and producers in ful
House. Additional bills were in- time.
filling the export trade needs.
torduced into the Senate Action Decision by I ’.XAV. («rowerw
Any grow ers are welcome.
on any of these is uncertain. All
W heat grow ers anti others in Columbia Busin Footrot
have lieen referred to the House
V arious types of root anil foot
ami Senate agriculture com m it terested have Im portant decisions
to make as to w hat tyjie or if any tots have existed in Sherm an
tees.
Any change oth er than 50 i> legislation or adm inistrative ac wherat crops for many years. No
supports if you stay w ithin your tion should lie taken on w heat w inter w heat varieties are satis
allotm ent is uncertain at this and feel grains. O.S.U. economist factorily resistant to this fungus.
believes grow ers need to deckle T his year extensive footrot dam
and let their congressm en and age — mainly Columbia Basin
the D epartm ent of A griculture Footrot — have been noted for
know w hether they want:
some w eeks in early seeded w heat j
1. The privilege of substituting fields. E xtent of th e xiamage is
wheat on barley acreage for the not known to date, but presence
EVERY SATURDAY
1964 crop.
of the disease has lieen noted
l<ee P etty jo h n (second from left) |M>intN out
2. The D epartm ent of Agricul from the Columbia River to Grass
w as th e annual C onservation F ield Day, held
at
ra n ch in g d evelop m en t« th at won him tin* i « m >2
tu re to offer surplus grain at the Valley. A more extensive survey
th is w eek at the W eatherford - P ettyjoh n ranch
C on servation Man o f th e 4 car aw ard, «poiiMored
liX>4 wheat lean rate fo r feeding is underw ay at this time.
near A rlington.
hy the O regon W heat G row er» l«rague. Occasion
purposes in the northw est to en D isease S y m p to m s
courage and build th e livestock
The disease begins in ihe
I feeding industry.
w inlcr pruqiect to a currently
3. lk> you w ant the Department spring as eye-shajieil spot« on the
S tartin g at 12:30 p.m.
satisfactory
situation for most
o
u
ter
sheaths
at
the
ground
line.
1 » f A griculture to raise or lower
lands served from stored w ater
the loan rate for oom for 1961. The fungus invades directly into
supplies. However, thousands of
or do you want com parative pric the etein from these, covering <n-
acres of land deiiending on n a tu r
es for corn, mile, barley, wheat, iex-ted p a rts w ith a black, char
al flow of stream s will have Be-
red
grow
th.
The
stem
shrivels,
and
o
th
er
grains
on
a
feed
price
1st Saturday of Every
vere late season shortages unless
the tissues collapse, and the stem s
basis?
unex|KH‘tetl rains fall a t oppor-
finally fall over in irregular tan
lupanoe
Wheat
M
arketing
The 1963 w ater supply outlook
Month
Fhe flow of Hood River neat tune times.
gles In the infested p a rts <»f the
The Oregon W heat League and field. 'Phe heads of diseased for Hood Rivwr and Wasco Coun Hood River (prelim inary data! The next repoit on w ater sup-'
at Id a.m.
1 Commission liave called a meet- plants are reduced in size and in ties rem ains only fair, as it was from I’.S Geological Survey, ply conditions In this area w ’ll!
' ing to consider the problem con num ber in com parison to those of on May 1st, according to a report Portland, Oregon) was only 68
Res. CY 6-5288
fronting P.N.W. w heat grow ers In healthy ones. These diseased released today by T. P. Helse’h, percent of average last month and lx> issued at the close o i the ir-l
loss of dollar m arket in Japan. plants a re reduced in size and in S tate Conserx ationlst of the Soil 7 79 percent for the Octolier • May I rigation sc;Lion in early October
Office Ph. CY 6 4672
The session has been called far num ber in com parison to those Conservation Service (USDA) co period,
3:3d
p.m., Tuesday, June 18, Gun of healthy ones. These diseased operating with Oregon State Uni-
W A LL TO M AI L
BEN SMITH
Strea inflow forecasts rem ain
th er’s restaurant, Pendleton, Ore plants are ¡>ale green, alm ost yel \c rsiiy , Oregon State Engineer unchanged from May 1. The
HUGH
Owner-Manager
and others. The "short" snow \\ hite River is exjiectod to flow
gon.
lowish, in appearance.
pack has been reduced even fur 115,000 a.f. or 66 iierw nt of the
County elevator o p e r ators,
C lim atic Conditions
ther b\ 1 crio Is of warm w eatner April - Septem lier iierlod.
W eather conditions have a pro during May, but streamflow is
Hood River, W est Fork near
found effect on the development t i l l expected to exceed the low
and severity of the disease. Moist xears of B ill and 1911. Severe Dee, is expected to flow 111,0)0
grow ing w eather during the win late season shortages are ex|H,n- a.f. o r 64 percent of the same
te r and early spring favors the ted for lands served by sm aller period ami the Main Hood River
near Hood River, 160.000 a.f or
developm ent and spread of »ho stream s with no stored water.
60 percent of the May - Septcm-
fungus in the soil and also favors
Snow ooVer is almost gone be lier period.
infection, w hile subsequent pro low the 5000 foot level. Periods
Severe w ater shortages a re ex-
tracted d ry periods In May or of warm tenqxuatures melted the
sometimes Ju n e injure the foot- snow high on the w atershed an I ixxted on sm aller stream s w ith
rotted plants m ore than healthy reduced Phlox Point measure- out storage, unless alxive normal
ones.
merot, at 56(H) feet elevation, iro n I »rec1 pit at ton occurs «luring the
T h i s past grow lng season 85 im lies of depth and 35.9 inches
seems to have lieen one nearly oi w ater content on the 26th of late sum m er months.
Statewide, Oregon’s 1963 w a e r
ideal for footrot developm ent an I April to 1!) inches of depth ami
supply outlook has changed great
damage. Roderick Sprague, Ex 10.3 inches of w ater on May 29.
ly this year from a gloomy mld-
tension Pathologist in 1948 des-
W atershed soils continued to
crtlied the best conditions for
soak up w ater from the snowmelt
footrot. Quoted from the publica
tion: “T h e severity of footrot and rainfall and are much w etter
varies from year to year and this in most areas than for several
years.
variation Is attrib u ted to season
Clear Irake now has 5,600 acre
al w eather conditions. The con
feet in siorge compared to 7,«00 j
GI 2-5262
ditions
that
tend
to
favor
its
de
Good Condition
velopm ent are: (1) sufficient soil acre feet a year ago.
m oisture to insure immediate
germ ination of w heat in th e fdl;
(2) long grow ing season in the
Excellent Condition
fall, accompanied by abundant
rain, resulting in excessive fa.l
grow th; (3) warm, w et w eather in
F ebruary and March and cold,
w et w eather in April, which re
ta rd s grain grow th; and (4) an-
tinuation of w et w eather in May,
GRASS VALLEY
followed abruptly by a dry per
iod.
I-ater reports on extent, nature
and lx»st managem ent inform i-
tion will l>e presented in l a t e r
County Ramblings anil Circular
I ¿et ters.
County Ramblin's
AUCTION SALE
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AUCTION YARDS
WaterOulookinA rea
Reported Only ‘Fair
Miscellaneous Sale
Dies In California
E verett Pharls .Vunn. 79 y m i
i t age, of 4201 old Sonoma Rd..
Napa, Calif, ¡4 v4 away Mon-
cay, June 3 nfu an extended ill-
neus. He was a native of St.
( laire County, M issm ri. and a
resident . f California for 30 y e a n .
He had l»eea a resident of Napa
for the past 9 years, prior to that
he had made his home in Vallejo
w here he w as an employee of the
Vallejo Housing Authority.
Mr. Nunn is survived by hla
wife, Mrs. Edith Nunn; two
daughters; Mrs. Barbara Will
iams and Mrs. Bertha Barnes,
1 -th of Nano Eight sons: Harold
E , Howard R , and Charles W .
all of Vallejo. Kenneth R. Beni
cia; Ernest R , Lakehead; C alif,
Jam es R of Richmond; Ieucius
R. of Mobile, Ala ; and Leslie R.
Nunn of Ix>s Angeles. One Step
Daughter: Mrs Elsie Thompson
of Benicia; Two stejFsons: Robert
A. Engesser of lx>ng Beach, and
Allen W. E ngesser of Vallejo. One
brother: Horace Nunn of Inde
p e n d e n t, Missouri; Two sisters:
Mrs. Florence Ottosen of Stock-
t< n, Illinois, and Mrs. Margaret
Duncan of Indxqiendence, Miss.
One Half-Brother: Leelle L. Nunn
M D . of Tigard, Oregon.
Fueral service« were held at
Vallejo, Calif, Ju n e 7,1963.
Rev. Stanley Cornlls of the
First Baptist ('hurch officiating.
Interm ent was in Sunrise Memor-
iol Cemetery.
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