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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 5, 1953
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW
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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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter.
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Kids, Take a Bow!
Recently, while checking over the returns from
the current March of Dimes drive, it came to our
attention how big a part the children of the county
played in that campaign. Without their help the
drive would have fallen short by one third of its
quota.
In checking we found that 11 different groups
had a big hand in putting the Morrow county
drive over the top, for among them they raised
$900.94 of the slightly more than $3,000 collected.
By way of giving them credit for their efforts we're
going to list the various groups and the amounts
of their contributions.
Heppner school, $256.79; Heppner Campfire
Girls, $94.11; Heppner Blue Birds, $15.08; Heppner
Boy Scouts (Mother's March), $120.00; lone grade
school basketball game, $10.35; Boardman schools,
$62.27; Lexington school, $26.35 and a Lexington
school basketball game $-12.09; Lexington Camp-
fire Girls food sale, $5.70; Lexington Campfire
Girls (Mother's March), $33.29. The county 4-H
clubs added $265 to the fund when Malcolm Mc-
Kinney donated a pig at the fat stock auction held
during last falls fair and rodeo to be auctioned
for the March of Dimes.
There may be others too who have helped put
the drive over, but even this list should show most
Mothers and Dads that not all of the dimes and
quarters they get "bummed" for are spent fool
ishly. It is a credit to the kids that they realize
the importance of such drives and take an active
part in them. They deserve congratulations.
M ii M It It H II W lliiiH W M Ml"tt
From The
County Agent's Office
By N. C. Anderson
In recent tests conducted at the
Eastern Oregon Branch Live
stock Experiment, Union, it was
demonstrated that satisfactory
results may be obtained with
feeder lambs by substituting
Austrian peas to the extent of 13
of the grain ration. In this experl
ment, conducted by II. G. Avery,
Station Superintendent, and Cecil
Pierce, one ration consisting of
chopped alfalfa, silage, 23
wheat, and 13 Austrian peas was
compared with another ration
composed of chopped alfalfa, sil
age, and wheat, alone, the am
ount of wheat fed being equiva
lent to the amount of wheat and
peas together in the other ration.
The average weights of the two
lots of lambs were nearly iden
tical at the beginning and also at
the end of the 59 day feeding
period, with the average daily
being approximately .4 pound for
both groups of lambs.
Another study initiated at
Union this fall was one to test
the effects of shearing on lamb
performance in the feed lot. The
experiment was designed to com
pare gains of shorn lambs with
those of wooled lambs, both In
open lots and under shed con
ditions. Individual weights were
taken on 100 shorn and 100
wooled lambs. These were divid
ed into two lots of 50 shorn and
50 wooled each. One lot of 100
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lambs were fed under cover,
while the lot of 50 shorn and 50
wooled lambs was fed in the
open. Individual weights were
taken midway through the test
and again at the finish. Indi
vidual gains were recorded along
with average hay and grain con
sumption. In both instances the
shorn lambs out-gained the
wooled lambs.
Complete results of these two
experiments are to be published
in the near future.
An interesting letter was re
ceived last week from Bert
Mason, former Morrow County
rancher, now of Portland. The
letter was prompted after an item
in this column concerning wind
breaks being planted in various
communities.
While Mr. Mason's letter was
interesting from the standpoint
of history of Morrow County, one
sentence had a great significance
to establishing a windbreak here.
It was "Sad to relate, the trees
were planted too close together
and after a few dry years the
trees died off." This is one of the
biggest reasons that windbreaks
hae been slow in taking hold in
Morrow County.
Mr. Mason recalls the many
timber culture homestead claims
where ten acres of trees were
planted to "prove up" for a deed.
He recalls a ten acre planting,
made by J. M. Hamblet, on the
farm Lee Beckner has farmed
along the Gooseberry road south
of lone. A grove of Lombardy
Poplars, planted by Joe Haney,
one half mile west of where Den
ward Bergevin lives, reached a
height of more than 30 feet. Rid
ing for stock on Jordan Butte, Mr.
Mason recalls the sight of ten
acre groves in every direction. A
few locust trees growing along
the road on Rhea Creek, where
LETTERS TO EDITOR
To The Editor
One wonders if the trigger-
happy pagan is happy, for the
kingfisher which give the school
going boys and girls so much
pleasure, is dead. One questions
mentions Ralph Benge and Erik
Bergstrom as men living here
now who saw the groves of trees
growing over Morrow County
hills.
Tree seedlings can be ordered
from the State Forestry Nursery
until March 15. Order blanks
price and additional information
on these trees can be obtained at
this office.
Agricultural chairmen of sub
ordinate and Pomona Granges,
meeting at the county agent's of
fice last week, drafted a pro
gram that they could concentrate
on in 1953. Such meetings are
held annually with follow up
meetings held during the year
with the county agent to gather
up-to-date progress in agricul
ture. Information gathered is
used as a basis for agricultural
committee reports at Grange
meetings.
Projects to be stressed in 1953
through our Granges are: Weed
Control, Grub Control Districts,
and continued Bangs and T. B.
testing.
Attending the meetings were:
Oscar Peterson, chairman, State
Grange Agricultural Committee,
lone; Clifford Smith, State Ex
tension Agent, Oregon State Col
lege; Adrian Bechdolt and Elmer
Palmer, Rhea Creek Grange; Wm
T. Forthman, Huch Brown and
Ralph Skoubo, Greenfield Grange
Norman Nelson, Lexington
Orange; Algott Lundell and Don
aid Heliker, Willows Grange; and
Fred Pettyjohn now lives, were . Ray Drake, Pomona Grange. Thev
'started by Mr. Mason in 1887. He! will meet again on March 28.
Representations made by the
Oregon Wheat Growers League
last year bore fruit In the form
of an extension of the old parity
formula on basic crops for two
more years, and appropriation of
$10,900 by Congress for wheat
smut research.
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if the children who tore down the
nests of the beautiful cliff swal
lows last summer, are aware that
they are contributing to their
children's children seeing these
lovely creatures only in mus
eums, still and lifeless? Can
these parents be proud of their
son's marksmanship in his brag
ging that he killed two hundred
legally protected songsters, or are
their hearts touched with fear
that a mind must be dark to
enjoy the agony of fledglings
whose death he so ingeniously
devised?
Heppner is fortunate in being
a transition zone from mountains
to the sands, and her birds are
many and varied. The schools
are teaching their economic
worth in insects, weed, and es
pecially rodent control by hawks
and owls, but would it be amiss
for a sporting club, or a law en
forcement agency of this town to
acquaint the young people with
bird conservation and protection.
Certainly it is the obligation of a
father, who gives a new rifle and
the privilege of shooting, into the
hands of his son, to acquaint the
responsibility of how and what
to shoot that goes with this
privilege!
It would seem that a BB ob
stacle course should be laid out
by one of the above, so that
everything that moves, and some
window panes that do not, would
avoid being in danger of their
lives. An orchid to the Heppner
father who goes with his son to
shoot, and to the boy's 'mother
who encourages him to construct
bird feeders. Shame! on those
parents who nag about clean
ears, but never encourage them
to listen to the beauty of the
robin's rain song. The old tim
ers have seen prairie chicken
here by the thousands. Have you?
Will your grandchildren be
amongst those to see the fuffed
grouse In the Blue mountains, or
the beneficial desert hawk in the
sands? Not unless you care
enough to teach conservation,
and practice it.
There are children, who would
give much to hear the twinkling
chorus of the song sparrow, the
whistle of the varied thrush, the
hymn of praise of the meadow
lark, or the comical course gargle
of the kingfisher but they can
not, for they are deaf. There be
children who pray to see the
incredible color of the bluebird,
.Value of Windbreaks
On Farms Outlined
In New Bulletin
The farmstead is the family's
small world. A windbreak can
improve the climate over all of
it, states a bulletin recently re
leased by Oregon State college.
The publication, prepared joint
ly by the Oregon State college
extension service, the State Col
lege of Washington, and the
University of Idaho, is called
"Trees Against the Wind."
Windbreaks should never be
set closer than 60 feet to the
home, other buildings, driveways,
or feedlots, advises the bulletin.
If snowdrifting is serious, CO feet
may be too close. The recom
mended minimus distance from
the home is 100 feet or more.
Three rows are recommended
for the farmstead windbreak a
bushy broadleaf row, a tall tree
row, and an evergreen row. How
ever, it may be necessary in dry
land plantings to use from three
up to seven rows of trees.
The bulletin stresses the need
for proper cultivation of the
windbreak, especially when start
ing the windbreak. Livestock and
poultry must be kept out and
room allowed for cultivation be
tween the fence and the trees if
possible.
Field windbreaks are explain
ed in the publication as tools to
help do the following jobs: save
topsoil from blowing; protect
crops from wind damage; reduce
evaporation of irrigation water;
protect cattle in the field; and aid
polination of orchards and spec
cial crops.
Steep, eroded slopes and areas
of shallow soil that must be
taken out of cultivation can be
retired to tree crops, according
to the bulletin. Planting of
trees is recommended as a means
of controlling gully and stream-
eluded in the publication. Copies
nnf are avauauie iium i-uuiuy aums
bank erosion.
.Numerous luuMiauu,. ,,. K.n,p
charts which help answer farm,"' w -
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Glasses Fitted
the bright puff of the goldfinch,
or the darting flight of the swal
low or nighthawk, as they catch
millions of insects on the wing
but they cannot for they be
blind. You would do much to
help them hut!
Is your child to be blind and
deaf, psychologically, to the
beauty and friendship of the
birds?
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Merwin and Lawrence, Dayton, Wash.,
farmers, rotated wheat and green peas
without a weed control or fertilizer pro
gram. (Morning glory had long infested
their ranch.)
"This year, by fertilizing and weed spray
ing under guidance of Warren Marshall,
now head agronomist for Knettle Farm
Management Service we obtained the
highest wheat yield J can remember. His
advice as to kind and amount of fertilizer,
time of application and amount of herbi
cide to use, the reclaiming of areas im
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