HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937.
PAGE FIVE
Practical Pointers
From Branch Farms
A stationary spray rig which has
been in operation for 10 years on the
Hood River branch experiment sta
tion has used for power throughout
the period an engine from an old
1915 automobile which cost only $25
originally and operates at a cost of
about $26 per year, less than a fourth
of the estimated power cost for
electricity. So many advantages have
been found for the stationary spray
outfit as compared with the portable
that 15 or 20 growers in the valley
are making such installations this
year.
..
Thirty-six miles of roads and 86
miles of fence have been built on
the new 16,000 acre Squaw Butte
range experiment station hi central
Oregon. These and other improve
ments have been made by a CCC
camp established there. Some of the
fences are coyote proof, while a few
around small test plots even exclude
rodents. All the fences are built with
large peeled juniper posts, which
last almost indefinitely in that cli
mate. Morning glories are being con
trolled by two methods on the Union
branch experiment station without
using chemicals. On one patch which.
had become badly infested, alfalfa
was seeded, and by the end of the
third year no morning glory can be
found. Farmers throughout many
parts of the state have successfully
controlled morning glory with alfalfa
on land where the latter will do well.
In a variation of the clean cultiva
tion method on the Union station a
potato digger was used on a small
patch to bring roots to the surface.
At the end of two seasons, with one
crop of fall wheat in between, the
morning glories had been cleaned up.
The rotation of peas and spring
wheat in the heavier land section of
Umatilla county has been found to
be the most profitable in experi
ments conducted on the Pendleton
branch station. Plenty of moisture
is usually available for maturing
these crops in alternate years with
out the use of summer fallow.
the problem has been started by the
Oregon State college experiment
station, using funds appropriated
for that purpose by the last legislature.
Hundreds of letters pour into the
experiment station offices annually
from persons who say they have
planted corn or some other crop sev
eral times and cannot get a stand,
or that the plants they set out do not
grow, regardless of ample water and
fertilizer. Almost invariably their
trouble is an infestation of sympha
lids, the station finds. The pest does
not confine itself to gardens, of
course, but feeds on the seeds and
fine white roots of many crops, even
including black locust and Russian
olive trees. In one case they were
found responsible for $6000 damage
to asters and aster seed.
No survey has yet been made of
the exact areas infested with sym
phalids or of the annual loss caused
by them, but for the mass of people
in Oregon who raise crops either
commercially or otherwise, they con
stitute probably the most serious
single problem from the standpoint
of financial loss and difficulty of
control, according to A. G. B. Bou
quet, vegetable crops specialist at
O. S. C. Bouquet is working with
the entomology department on the
problem. The pests are known to
exist in western Oregon counties
from the Jackson county line north,
and in Washington and British Co-
Control Work Started
On Garden Symphalids
Hope for the thousands of persons
all over the west coast whose farms
and gardens suffer annually from
the work of those small, threadlike
worms known as symphalids or gar
den centipedes is to be found in the
fact that a search for a solution to
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You ask of us now what is new;
Our master baker says to you:
Our fresh fruit pies can't be
beaten, . , , .
They're the best you've ever
eaten.
If yon want something really de
lcions take home one of our fresh
raspberry pies. Their tender, flaky
crust and tasty, appetizing: filling:
will have Mother wondering: if she
wasn't really just an amateur at pie
Heppner Bakery
MOVED
We invite you to visit our new store
in the former
FORD GARAGE BUILDING
New, attractive quarters, better
equipped to fill your needs for
SHELF HARDWARE
CARPENTER and GARDEN TOOLS
GUNS and AMMUNITION
FRIGIDAIRE Electric Refrigerators
MAYTAG Gas or Electric Washers
Our aim is satisfactory service
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lumbia. Few reports have yet come
from eastern Oregon, Bouquet says.
Professor Bouquet believes " sym
phalids are often unwittingly brot
in in the soil around plants purchas
ed at stores and elsewhere, and in
manure that has become infested
with the small pests.
The greatest difficulty in working
out a method of control for sym
phalids is that they are not affected
by anything that will not penertate
the soil, according to Bouquet. The
funds provided by the legislature for
an investigation of the problem came
a little late for a good start this year,
but studies are under way on the
station looking toward development
of control methods.
Dean of Men Assistant
Named at 0. S. C.
Corvallis Dan W. Poling, who has
been superintendent of schools at
Maupin and Myrtle Creek, has been
named assistant to the dean of men
at Oregon State college, subject to
final confirmation by the state board
of higher education. Poling is a
graduate of Oregon State college
school of commerce in 1928.
The new assistant succeeds Percy
Locey, who is now manager of both
intercollegiate athletics and the cam
pus non-athletic students activities.
In his new position Poling will give
special attention to living organiza
tions, dormitories, clubs and class
organizations, while Dr. U. G. Du
bach, dean of men for the past 12;
years, will handle the personal guid
ance work. The campus personnel
organization, which assists students
in every school, will be continued
under the coordinated plan adopted
a year ago.
Poling is the son of Dr. D. V. Pol
ing, present high school contacts man
for the state system of higher edu
cation, and a relative of Dr. Daniel
Poling, noted Philadelphia minister.
He will also teach some classes in
political science, a department of
which Dean Dubach is head.
Verner Troedson, in twon Satur
day from the north lone section, re
ported his harvesting operations un
der way. His crop of white federa
tion was turning out pretty fair, he
said.
Morrow County
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