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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 21, 1952
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORBOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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By N. C Anderson
Dates To Remember:
February 16-23 National FFA
Week; February 24-25, Oregon
Polled Hereford Association show
and sale, Stat Fairgrounds, Sal
cm, March 1-9, National 4-H Club
Week; March 27-29, State Agricul
tural Conference, Oregon State
College.
So many requests for informa
tion on grass and grass-lagume
mixtures for hay and pasture
have been received lately that
this weeks column will be de
voted entirely to that subject.
Improved pasture and hay
seedings have progressed rapidly
here most progress shown during
the past four years. This is due
to several reasons. First, there
is a state and nationwide shift to
more permanent agriculture, such
is afforded through grass and
grass-lagume seedings and rota
tions. Second, new grasses and
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It has been a pleasure for ub to be able to serve the
people of Heppner and Morrow county during our own
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We urge you to stop in and make the acquaintance
of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bailey, the new owners. We know
you will continue to get the kind of fine food and ser
vice you desire.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Moyer
Easter's Grill
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improved legumes are providing
such enormous productions of
forage that many farms find it
more economical to switch to this
type of agriculture. Thirdly,
through established seedings,
carrying capacities and advant
ages of these high producing
pastures and hay seeding have
been demonstrated to local far
mers and ranchers.
Availability of technical help
and adapted seeding equipment
such as provided through the
Heppner and Boardman Soil Con
servation Districts, practice pay
ments provided through the P. M.
A. program, needed due to higher
costs and newer seeds used in
mixtures; and continued educa
tion on higher feed value, higher
returns per acre and newer prac
tices through the Extension Ser
vice and various agricultural or
ganisations have done much to
encourage ranchers to demon
strate the value of these practi
ces to themselves and their neigh
bors. First in establishing a new
grass or legume seeding, whether
for hay or pasture, proper seed
beds must be prepard. Grasses
and lagumes. like all farm crops,
get off to a better start when soil
moisture conditions are good,
competition from weeds kept at a
minimum and soil structure firm
for beat growing conditions. Far
mers would not think of seeding
their wheat without a well pre
pared seed bed, and few are seed
ing anything but summerfallow
to provide moisture and eliminate
weed competition for the crop.
Grasses and Legumes being
smaller seeded have much less
chance for survival, when compe
tition is great, than does a big
seed like wheat.
Many various grasses and le
gumes, alone or in mixtures are
used. While it is impossible to
give recommendations here, to
meet every need and condition,
some of the more commonly used
ones are given.
The most commonly usel pas
ture mixtures for irrigated creek
bottoms in Morrow County is:
Mancher Smoth Brome or Inter
mediate Wheatgrass, 6 pounds;
Orchard grass 4 pounds or alta
fescue 8 pounds; alfalfa 5 pounds
per acre. Ladak alfalfa is most
commonly used where irrigation
waters are limited. Orestan and
Ranger are other varieties recom
mended. Where irrigation waters
are not limited and irrigations
can be made every 10 days or two
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IRRIGON 4-H CLUBS
Irrigon 4-H Clubs hold monthly
meetings at Irrigon school. Mr.
Earl D. Goldan, Superintendent
of Irritfon school has given one
afternoon each month for 4-H
club meetings.
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weeks, Ladino Clover, 2 pounds
per acre can be substituted for
alfalfa in the mixture. The above
mixture provides a sod grass,
bunch grass,, and legume for
higher protein. By uwng a sod
and bunchgrass the grazing per
iod is extended over a longer
period of time the sod filling in as
the legume goes out, due to go
pher damage, etc.
At times, ranchers and farmers
wish to seed a mixture that they
can use for hay and pasture, cut
ting a crop of hay then pasturing
during the summer and fall. This
practice calls for a little differ
ent mixture. Mainly, it means
taking out the bunchgrass to get
away from mature- grass in the
first hay crop. A good mixture
is Intermediate wheatgrass 10
pounds per acre; Ladak alfalfa,
5 pounds per acre.
Under dry-land conditions (8-15
inch rainfall areas) several grass
es or grass and legume mixtures
are recommended. For pastures,
the most common mixtures, giv
ing better soil cover and erosion
control than straight seedings of
single species are: Crested wheat
grass 5 pounds: sheeps fescue 4
pounds and Ladak alfalfa, 1
pound per acre. Bulbous blue
grass, 2 pounds per acre, may be
substituted for sheep- fescue.
Whitmar beardless wheatgrass a
new grass that many have been
hearing of is adapted to the same
conditions as crested wheatgrass.
It can be seeded in a separate
pasture from crested wheatgrass
and used to good advantage. Cres.
ted wheatgrass reaches grazing
readiness about three weeks earl
ier than Whitmar beardless
wheatgrass. The beardless wheat
grass is palatable at the end of
the season, when the beardless
wheatgrass is used it should be
seeded at the rate of 8 pounds
per acre with 4 pounds sheep fes
cue and 1 pound Ladka alfalfa.
For dry-land hay, while little
acreage is seeded to grasses for
this purpose, Sherman big blue
grass, 4 pounds per acre or crested
wheatgrass, 5 pounds per acre or
Whitmar beardless wheatgrass
8 pounds per acre; with Ladak
alfalfa, 2 pounds per acre pro
duces well. While Intermediate
wheat grass has been recom
mended for irrigated pastures and
dry-land of over 15 inches rain
fall, experience has shown that
it can be successfully grown here
under dryer conditions. It could
be planted in a dryland hay or
pasture mixture, on deeper sous
in the 12 inch rainfall area. When
seeded under these conditions 6
lbs. per acre should be seeded in
alternate rows with Ladak al
falfa 4 pounds per acre.
As mentioned at the fore part of
this article different conditions
prevail. These are many and
varied. In next weeks column
some of thse special mixes for
various conditions as well as re
commended sod waterway prac
tices will be discussed.
The monthly meeting for 4-H
Club was held Friday 15, from 2
p. m. to 4 p. m.
Eighty-three 4-H members took
part in club activities. The clubs
are: Camp Cookery, Cookery I,
Room Improvement III. Clothing
II & III, Sew It's Fun Club, and
Charmingly Yours Clothing Club,
and two agriculture, The Electric
Club.
Leaders are Mrs. Harriet Cal
if, Mrs. Vera Cooley, Mrs. Hugh
Grim, Jr., G. M. Gurley, Mrs. Ida
Slaughter, and Mrs. Virginia
Allen.
4-H CLUB NEWS
For many years 4-H pig pro
jects were very unpopular in Mor
row County. In fact, the first pro
ject of this kind came with the
transfer of Michael Stalcup, for
mer Union County 4-H member
to Morrow County. This was only
four years ago, but through Mich,
aels enthusiasm for pigs and
through the advent of the first
4-H pig scramble at the MOrrow
County Fair three years ago, pro
jects grew to twenty members
with 72 animals In 1951. Enroll
ment is down to thirteen this
year.
Here is a pig story which should
make many boys and girls en
vious of the 4-H member with a
good pig project. The story is
about George Smith, age 14, of
St. Paul, Oregon. George was the
1951 winner of the George Eyre
Trophy for the best Marion Coun
ty swine project.
George starts his 4-H story in
his record book 1 started the
year with one Yorkshire bred gilt.
She had twelve pigs six male,
six female What happened to
the pigs? George's record book
shows a profit of almost 4 hun
dred 45 dollars. This sum was
helped along in September when
Snowdrop, the original gilt, far
rowed twelve more pigs.
During the year, George spent
two hundred seventy four dollars
for equipment, steel posts, a pofet
pounder and 33 panels gave him
a portable fence. A self feeder,
water system, two A-type shelters
and tattoo set completed his
equipment.
Getting back to the pigs. Five
went to market. The first Juni
per by name was grand cham
pion market hog at the Marion
County fall 4-H show. The other
four, Salomey, Jasper, Oscar and
Sleepy went to state fair as a
pen of four. They were cham
pions in the Valley Packing Com
pany's 4-H pig feeding contest.
This is a story that any good
4-H member should try to equal.
available at the County Agents
office.
The "Lexington Cookers" held
their 4-H meeting last Wednes
day, February 13, at the home of
Margaret, and Janet Kendall.
There were 4 members present
and the leader Mrs. Breeding. The
vice president Miss Anna Marie
Winters took the place of the
president Miss Dora Sue David
son. Margaret and Janet Ken
dall are going to give the demon
stration on salads at the next
meeting. The program for the
coming year was made out.
Janet Kendall, Reporter.
One of the recent clubs to be
organized is the "Chick and Bun
ny" Club of lone. This Poultry
and Rabbit club Is being led by
C. D. McCabe with Mrs. C. D. Mc
Cabe as assistant leader. Presi
dent of the club is Alvin McCabe;
vice-president, Wayne Ball; and
secretary Ronald McCabe. The
news reporter is Ellis Ball with
song leader, Richard Morgan.
Wayne Ball is carrying chickena
as his project; with Ellis Ball,
Alvin McCabe, Ronald McCabe
and Richard Morgan carrying
rabbits as their project:
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The County Agents office has
just recently completed the mim
eographing of copies of the report
prepared by Ronald Baker of his
trip to the National Club Camp
last summer. The reports were
made available at the recent
Eastern Oregon 4-H Leaders Con
ference held at LaGrande. After
a brief report by Ronald, at this
conference, everyone wanted a
copy. The 100 copies originally
run off were soon gone and re
quests made for 150 more. The
State 4-H Office has asked for 65
copies to supplement the 10 they
received from the first run.
In a letter from L. J. "Doc" Al
len, State 4-H Club Leader, he
stated that "he doubted that if
ever before there has been as
thorough and capably done re
port equal to this." Copies are
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