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Heppner
Gazette Times
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
, Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
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Official Paper for Morrow Cqpnty
t0 DECEMBER 140
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"An Ounce of
Prevention"
PREVENTION of an influenza ep
idemic such as occurred in 1917
is most certainly to be desired.
There is flu and talk of flu in the
air all the way from Mexico to
Canada. Schools have closed pre
maturely before the holidays in
many cities. The lone schools were
closed the first of the week, and
the Heppner schools joined the
ranks yesterday.
Outside reoprts indicate that the
flu making the rounds at this time
is less severe than the so-called
Spanish influenza of 1917. Locally,
majority of illness seems to be in
the nature of severe sore throats or
bad colds, with occasional cases of
flu, mostly in light form. A good
many school absences in the last few
days are known to be accounted for
by cautious parents keeping chil
dren out to prevent exposure.
Precautionary measures by par
ents and school authorities are to
be commended in face of the situa
tion, though it is unwise for any
one to become panicky. No ear
marks of such an epidemic as pre
vailed in 1917 are now present, and
there appears no necessity for sur
cease of ordinary business and so
cial functions solong as prudence
dictates the action of individuals.
Doctors at all times advise against
undue exposure of others by people
having colds, if it be no more than
a common head cold. Coughing,
sneezing or expectorating in public
places should be absolutely avoid
ed; and, wisdom dictates that with
the first sign of chill or fever the
person affected should go to bed
immediately. Well persons, on the
other hand, are advised to avoid
congested places where they may
become unduly exposed, and also to
avoid subjecting themselves to ab
normal changes in body tempera
ture, drafts and other conditions that
help to induce respiratory disorders.
Hackneyed, mayhap, is the adage,
"An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure," but it bears repe
tition frequently. Everyone should
be on guard against prolonging a
disagreeable and costly epidemic,
and exercise of judgment by every
one would seem to obviate necessity
for those in authority to take more
stringent measures.
Merchants and townsfolk, as well
as countryfolk, generally, had a lot
of fun out of the guessing games
conducted in connection with Hepp-
neis Christmas opening. Plans are
to enlarge upon the idea another
year, giving the stores more time to
use their ingenuity. . . . The smartest
fellow this year was the one who
made it most difficult on the public
while making it easiest on himself.
He left but one number in a six
hundred number punchboard for the
public to guess. All he had to do
was punch out the remaining num
ber and look at it Others were
busy after the contest digging seeds
AAA Performance
For 1940 in County
Related to Lions
783 Farms, 288,655
Acres Included; Pay
ments $124,000
Morrow county farms totalling 783
were listed on work sheets of the
local AAA office in 1940, covering
30,138.8 acres of cropland, and 288,
655 acres were covered by signed
requests for participation in the
1940 program, Merle Cummings,
secretary, told the Monday Lions
luncheon. Estimated totals were
largely given as offical figures had
not been compiled.
Wheat acreage allotments of 104,
261 acres were distributed for the
year, and 101,029 acres were found
to be in compliance. Total parity
payment of $124,080.98 was received.
The most popular soil building
practices as indicated by compli
ance check to date, all figures es
timated, showed: Protected fallow
96,000 acres, contour seeding 7,000
acres, sub-soiling 6,000 acres, seed
ing crested wheat grass 3,000 acres,
renovation of grasses and legumes
5,000 acres, re-seeding depleted pas
tures 10,000 pounds of seed, seeding
annual and biennial legumes and
perennial grasses other than crested
wheat 800 acres, seeding alfalfa 600
acres, green manure crops 150 acres,
weed control 250 acres, check dams
and drops 1000 cubic feet. Practic
ally all remaining practices in the
1940 handbook were used to some
extent.
Morrow county was first in the
state in 1940 in the percentage of
wheat acreage allotments covered
by crop insurance, with 313 policies
covering 68, 968 acres. There were
51 losses in the county and 26,395
bushels of indemnities paid. The
late fall drought and extreme hot
winds in June were the main con
tributing factors to the loss.
Morrow county is in second place
for the state in number of acres
insured for 1941 with 52,101 acres.
To date a total of 309 commodity
loans have been made covering 680,
138 bushels of wheat and 7,609 bush
els of barley. Of these amounts 118,
915 bushels of wheat and 5,997 bu
shels of barley are in farm storage.
In the 1941 range conservation
program 65 range operators of an
estimated total of 75 signed up for
participation is the program. Those
signed control 531,222 acres of range
land. Natural re-seeding by defer
red grazing was practiced on 77,230
acres. Most of the allowances earn
ed by this practice will be used in
the construction of range fences.
These allowances will build approx
imately 70 miles of new three-wire
fence. In addition to natural re
seeding it is estimated that about
1500 acres will be artificially re
seeded. Ten operators requested
range wells and six have been re
ported completed at this time. Re
quests for 36 spring developments
have been made, and it is estimated
that 30 will be completed. It was
necessary to make new surveys for
89,579 acres of range this year. The
average carrying capacity of these
surveys was 44.1 acres per animal
unit.
Interest shown in the 1940 range
program indicates that it is becom
ing a very important part of the
AAA program, Cummings said.
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GREEN'S FEED STORE
Removal of Light Lands from Wheat
Production Recommended by League
Thursday, December 19 1940
Calf Vaccination
Aid to Bangs Control
(This is the report in full of the
committee on land use, adopted at
the recent conference of the Eastern
Oregon Wheat league, meeting at(
Pendleton.)
Recognizing that two areas of dis
tinctly different rainfall and soil
types exist within the wheat-growing
territory, recommendations of
this committee have been made with
these differences in mind.
This committee recommends that
land in the lighter soil and rainfall
areas which include most of the area
in the Columbia basin counties and
land in the lighter yielding portions
of the Blue mountain area, which
will not produce more than 8 to 10
bushels of wheat per acre, should be
taken out of wheat production, and
planted to perennial grass.
In addition to the land that has
been diverted from wheat produc
tion in the Columbia basin and
Blue mountain counties, the com
mittee recommends that fifty-two
thousand acres (52,000) of such low
yielding land be taken out of wheat
production and seeded to perennial
grasses. (Morrow counties portion
was estimated at 5000 acres.)
In the heavier soil and rainfall
areas where the erosion problem is
not a prime factor, the committee
recommends that land which will not
produce more than 24 bushels of
winter wheat or more than 15 bush
els of spring wheat per acre be di
verted to perennial grasses, grass
seeds, or other economic crops.
According to surveys made by the
Soil Conservation Service, approx
imately 50 percent of the land in the
wheat growing area of Eastern Ore
gon has had 25 to 75 percent of its
top soil removed or relocated by
wind or water erosion, and
Whereas the committee feels that
present methods of erosion control
are known which can be economic
ally employed to control most of this
erosion, it recommends that trashy
fallow and contour cultivating and
seeding, be employed on all wheat
land in the area, except where there
is extremely heavy stubble for
which no satisfactory method of
handling has been developed. Ex
amples of these heavy stubble areas
are found in portions of Union and
Wallowa counties.
The committee further recognizes
that in certain areas trashy fallow
and contour cultivating and seeding
may not be sufficient to control the
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erosion where cropping is continued
and recognizes that practices such as
strip cropping and basin listering
may have to be employed.
Even after employing all known
methods of erosion control the com
mittee feels that there will remain
small areas where erosion cannot be
controlled if the land is cropped to
wheat. The committee however, with
the present information available,
cannot determine the extent or ex
act location of such areas.
Recognizing that the soil is the
vital public resource of the nation
held in trust by the farmers for all
the people, and
Realizing the need for conserving
this resource, and
Knowing that many farmers are
not financially able to put into prac
tice needed conservation practices,
Your committee recommends that
agricultural ' conservation practice
payments be continued for assisting
the farmers in carrying out the pro
gram that this committee recom
mends. This committee recommends that
tax assessments remain the same as
they now are on land diverted to
grass as long as a diversion payment
is made on such land, and
Further recommends that the
Eastern Oregon Wheat League ask
the state tax commission to make
a study of the problem of tax as
sessments on low-yielding wheat
land permanently diverted to grass.
Recognizing the condition of an
ever increasing amount of federal
owned land which is taken from the
county tax rolls, and
Recognizing the load this condition
places on the remaining taxable
property in the county,
The committee recommends that
the Eastern Oregon Wheat League
join with the Association of Oregon
Counties in studying this problem
and working out some solution
whereby income-producing public
owned land will return an annual
equitable revenue to the county in
lieu of taxes.
Recognizing that our forest re
sources are an integral part of our
agricultural economy, and recogniz
ing the importance of private own- I
ership of forest lands as it affects
tax returns to counties, your com-
Calfhood vaccination as a control
of Bang's disease will be used in all
probability in most states in at least
some areas next year as result of the
federal bureau of animal industry's
report at the United States Livestock
Sanitary association meeting in Chi
cago, reports Dr. W. H. Lytle, chief
of the state department of agricul
ture division of animal industry who
returned a few days ago from the
convention.
Dr. Lytle said that if calfhood vac
cination, as opposed to the present
method of test and slaughter is used
in Oregon, it likely will be in east
ern Oregon counties. Here it is pos
sible that a vaccine basis may be
introduced, or both the old and the
new with some herds using vaccine
and some the test and slaughter.
Before there are any regulations
permitting vaccination in this state,
the proposal will be laid before the
state board of agriculture, which
meets in Salem December 21.
A recent conference of veterinar
ians and dairymen was of the opin
ion that western Oregon, where a
number of counties are practically
free of Bang's disease through the
test and slaughter control method,
should not adopt calfhood vaccina
tion. The federal bureau's experiment
conducted over a five-year period
shows that, rightly used and safely
handled, the vaccine is good; but it
is not a panacea and herd owners
should not get the idea that it is,
said Dr. Lytle.
He pointed out that the govern
ment will make and supply the
vaccine; that at present the recom
mendation is for its use only in ex
ceptional cases under satisfactory
conditions; and. that the government
will match indemnity payments un
der calfhood vaccination the same
as it does at the present time for
indemnity under the test and slau
ghter method.
mittee recommends conservation of
all our forest resources, and fur
ther recommends that a complete
study be made and a program work
ed out for maintaining the produc
tion of our forest at the highest de
gree and for keeping it in private
ownership.
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