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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1937
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Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER 6AZETTE,
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 1912
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Official Paper for Morrow County
1937
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Pioneer New Practice
H If ORROW county may feel not a
1 VI little pride in leading eastern
Oregon counties in the practice of
trashy summerfallowing, which
promises to be the saviour of wheat
fields from wind and water erosion.
Joseph Belanger, local county
agent, was among the first in Oregon
to take an interest in this farming
practice as a means of preventing
the terrific erosion by wind that
struck Morrow county heavily the
last two years. Learning of the
trashy fallow practice up in Doug
las county, Washington, he was in
strumental in organizing junkets of
local farmers who visited the Wa
.terville section there fall before last
and again last fall, and it was large
ly through information received on
these trips that an increasingly large
acreage is being farmed by this
practice in Morrow county.
The first trashy fallow was made
in this county two years ago, a year
ahead of that elsewhere in eastern
Oregon, and now with two years' re
sults to go by, definite benefits of
the new practice (or should we say
revived practice, as Mr. Belanger
says that trashy fallow actually was
known in the United States in
George Washington's time Wash
ington himself having been an ad
vocate of the practice) may be seen.
Ordinarily the extension service is
reluctant to give definite figures on
new practices until a long enough
period has elapsed to prove almost
beyond shadow of a doubt that the
figures are conclusive. So uniform
ly revealing were the results of a
local research concluded by Mr.
Belanger and E. R. Jackman, exten
sion service specialist, this week,
however, that Mr. Belanger felt lit
tle hesitancy in declaring the defin.
iteness of the trend.
In an article in another column,
Mr. Belanger tells these trends, one
of which is that "trashy fallow,
properly made, will stop soil erosion
from blowing and washing." Defin
ite production figures, however, may
not be given until after next year's
harvest. If trashy fallow results in
larger yields, as many are encour
aged to believe it will, while making
the land secure against such dam
enable blows as have discouraged far
mers the last few years, it certainly
may be credited as being the saviour
of the wheat farmers of Morrow
county, especially those on the light
er soils in the north end.
The second attempt in a month
of Russian aviators to fly non-stop
from Moscow to San Francisco end
ed in a cow pasture Tuesday. It was
the intention to arrive at an army
air field for protection, report has it.
But one wag says the fliers probably
preferred to be guarded by the pas
ture bulls.
It may be just a coincidence, or,
it may be the consistency of some
people. Anyway there were 15 neg
ative votes against the bond prop
osition yesterday, exactly the same
number of nays registered at the
bond election last year. ,
Death struck twice in high places
Tuesday night. Taken were Senator
Joe Robinson, administration leader
in the upper house of congress, and
Julius L. Meier, ex-governor of Or
egon and Portland merchant prince.
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Merle Becket Named
Manager New Bank
Merle Becket, assistant manager
of the local branch, First National
Bank of Portland, since its inception,
received nptice the end of the week
of transfer to the managership of
the new Wallowa branch of the
Portland bank, left for that city Sun
day. The transfer came as a promo
tion to Mr. Becket in recognition of
his competent services with the lo
cal institution. He expected to return
the end of the week for Mrs. Becket
after making arrangements for living
quarters.
Russell McNeill was raised to
Becket's position of assistant man
ager in the bank here, with Howard
Bryant stepping into McNeill's for
mer position. Succeeding Bryant as
beginner will be Boyd Redding. Red
ding was expected to arrive tomor
row from Kinzua where he has been
working for some time. Orville K.
Spatz, who has been assisting at the
bank for two weeks, will leave Sat
urday for Portland to resume his
position as teller in the head bank.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Becket are na
tives of this city, having graduated
from high school here, and both were
prominently identified with commu
nity activities. Mrs. Becket was
clerk of the school board last year
and recently served as president of
the Heppner Public Library associa
tion. Mr. Becket is esteemed leading
knight of the Elks lodge. While ex
pressing regrets at their leaving,
their many friends are receiving
news of the promotion with pleasure
and wish the Beckets godspeed in
their new field of endeavor.
Poultry Problems
Topic of Research
Numerous research " projects in
poultry management have been
started or continued by the Oregon
State college experiment station as
a result of the new appropriation
passed by the recent legislature
which was specifically ear-marked
for use in investigation of poultry
disease and management problems.
A number of the projects are di
rectly or indirectly connected with
the current interest in production of
eggs in laying batteries. In order to
find what the possibilities are in this
field under Oregon conditions, stud
ies are being carried on with these
laying batteries and on the related
problem of rearing pullets to matur
ity in confinement.
The study of the control of wet lit
ter and floor heating is being con
tinued, as is the study of the effects
of floor heating on the laying stock.
In the nutritional field studies are
being made on the possibility of us
ing cornless rations for chicks and
laying hens and on the effects of
dried yeast added to the feed of the
laying flock.
The relative advantage or disad
vantage of fall hatched Leghorn
chicks as compared with spring
hatched chicks for laying purposes
is another project being investigat
ed, as is the possible cause of crook
ed "keels" which develop sometime
between the time the pullets are
placed in the laying houses in the
fall and when the flock is culled the
following year.
Problems of turkey hatching and
brooding are also being investigated,
including turkey egg incubation
studies and problems of starting
poults in battery brooders.
As all of these investigations are
in their early stages, no information
is yet available as to findings.
OPEN HIGHWAY THREAT
Rural motor vehicle accident fatal
ities have climbed 157 per cent in the
past decade while fatal city traffic
mishaps have increased but 27 per
cent, marking a striking change in
the traffic accident problem, the Or
egon State Motor association comments.
Definite Trends
Of Trashy Fallow
Shown in Research
Blowing, Washing
Stopped by Method,
Survey Reveals
Some conclusions can be drawn
already from the trashy fallow sur
vey conducted in this and other Co
lumbia Basin counties, according to
Joe Belanger, county agent, who
has been working on that project
the past two weeks with E. R. Jack
man of the state college.
In the first place, the new system
positively will control erosion, both
blowing and washing, if it is done
correctly. Numerous fields can be
seen in eastern Oregon which wash
ed very badly during the general
rains. In every case, if there were
trashy fallow fields nearby and with
the same slope, the trashy fallow
fields did not wash. There has not
been a case of blowing either this
year or last on fields which had
properly made trashy fallow.
On farms where the yield the pre
ceding year was less than twenty
bushels per acre, the modified mold
board plows have uniformly result'
ed in more trash on the surface than
the one-way disk plows. The disk
plows seem better adapted to the
higher yielding areas where the
straw and stubble might interfere
with the use of a moldboard plow,
with the moldboards off.
The duckfoot, used either in the
form of duckfoot shares on mold
board plows or in the form of the
regular duckfoot implement, are also
better adapted to land yielding less
than twenty bushels than are the
one-way disk plows.
Since the measure of the effect
iveness of any particular practice
in achieving trashy summer fallow
is the amount of trash actually left
on the surface, it is of interest to
note the varying amounts of trash
found on fields handled in various
ways. At first thought, it would
seem that the amount of trash would
vary directly as the yield. With two
fields handled in the same way, this
has proven to be true. For example,
two fields each of which yielded 14
bushels last year and handled in the
same way this spring will have ap
proximately equal amounts of trash.
It is interesting to note, however,
that fields with 14 bushels last year
have more than double the trash
found on fields with a yield of 7
bushels last year but handled in
identical manner this spring. Stated
in other words, if you double the
yield you more than double the
available trash. Survey figures on
Morrow county fields just completed
show that on land averaging 11.5
bushels of wheat last year and plow
ed this spring with moldboard plows,
with moldboards removed, there is
an average of 662 pounds of trash
per acre. Fields averaging 11.3 bush
els per acre and plowed this spring
with a one-way disk plow averaged
549 pounds of trash per acre. One of
the striking facts brought out by the
survey was the marked reduction in
the amount of trash on the surface
this year on fields where fall oper
ations were conducted. Several men
used a modified chisel last fall and
on these fields with a last summer's
production of 13.2 bushels of wheat,
some 215 pounds of straw per acre
was all that could be recovered this
spring.
If disk plows are used, they should
be run no faster than 2 miles per
hour and should not be put down
too deeply. Some people using them
have tried to approximate the same
kind of plowing that they are accus
tomed to with a moldboard plow,
with the result that very little trash
is left on the surface. This defeats
the entire plan. Land plowed in that
manner will probably blow or wash
quicker than if a moldboard plow is
used. The only object in using any
of these implaments is to get a layer
of stubble, straw, and weeds, if any,
on the surface where it hinders the
movement of soil in case of blowing
or of water, in case of washing.
A few are making trashy fallow
with a double disk. Here again, this
implement breaks up the straw too
much for use on land yielding less
than twenty bushels.
In regard to fall tillage, it is still
too early to see what the net results
of such operations will be. So far, the
tendency has been to mix the stub
ble and straw with the dirt, with the
result that the trash is brittle and
badly broken following spring oper
ations. This results in materially less
trash on the surface. Apparently,
however, the fall work has resulted
in a greater penetration of moisture
which may be reflected in 1938 in a
heavier wheat crop. It is too early,
as yet, to say whether this land will
go over the winter of 1938 in as good
condition as that on which more of
the trash still remains on the sur
face. We know that the ground with
the most trash has the least wash
ing, other things being equal. Wheth
er the fall operation has enough
value to offset a decreased amount
of trash present during the winter
following seeding, we can not as yet
say. The answer to this question will
be written in bushels of wheat next
summer. . '
STILES GETS DEGREE
Hal L. Stiles, assistant cashier of
United States National bank of Port
land, this week received the degree
awarded by the graduate course in
banking at Rutgers university, New
Brunswick, N. J., as one of the mem
bers of the first graduating class in
a special course sponsored by Amer
ican Institute of Banking and the
American Bankers association. Mr,
Stiles has been east for, several
weeks, taking his third year's work
in the course, while Mrs. Stiles has
been visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Josie Jones, in Hepp
ner. He has been prominent in na
tional banking organization work for
several years, having attained to the
vice presidency of American Insti
tute of Banking. Mrs. Stiles returned
home Monday. , ,
CHILD DEATH SPIRALS
Reversing the trend of the last 12
years, child motor vehicle death
rates mounted to seven per cent in
1936, finds the Oregon State Motor
association, and current indications
point that this year will hold the in
crease. , 1 "
UNION MEET SET
The Union Missionary society will
meet Friday, July 23, at 2:30 p. m.,
at the Methodist church.
BARGAINS!
Right at the peak of the summer motoring
season we have slashed prices on these re
conditioned, guaranteed used cars. This is a
stock-moving sale that assures you value
and service. .
SPECIAL !
One 1937 FORD COUPE
1 '34 Chevrolet Sport Sedan
1 '35 Chevrolet L. W. Base Truck
1 '35 Chevrolet Pick-up
1 '34 Ford Coach
1 '29 Ford Truck
ALL RECONDITIONED
WITH OK GUARANTEE
Ferguson Motor Co.
Pharmacist Demand
Exceeds Supply
Corvallis. Over three-fourths of ,
the graduates of the Oregon State
college school of pharmacy have re
mained with work directly or close
ly associated with their training, the ,
OSC pharmacy directory just issued
by Dean Adolph Ziefle shows.
Since the school of pharmacy was
established 39 years ago, 711 stu
dents have been graduated. Hun
dreds of others were prepared for
pharmacy practice at the college be- ,
fore 1925 when graduation was not
required by the state board of phar
macy. Of the total number of grad- .
uates, 592 are men and 118 women.
Demands for pharmacy graduates
the past three years has been great
er than the supply, Dean Ziefle says,
and every one of this years grad
uating class was offered a perma- ,
nent position. A dozen requests for
graduate pharmacists have been re
ceived that the school has been un
able to fill. -.
Registered pharmacists and man
agers of drug stores lead the list of
vocations shown in the 1937 direct
ory with approximately 32 per cent.
Drug store proprietors follow with
27 per cent; miscellaneous includ
ing chemists, medical students, and .
general merchants, 11 per cent;
housewives, 8 per cent; practicing
physicians, 7 per cent; traveling rep
resentatives for drug firms, 6 per
cent; and college instructors, 3 per
cent. About 6 per cent are deceased.
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