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Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 18, 1954 From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson Spring applications of nitrogen, phosphorous and sulfur were ap plied to two of the wheat fertil izer - experiments in Morrow eounty, last week. Applications along with soil sampling for mois ture and nitrogen content was discontinued due to frozen ground and snow flurries. They will be finished as soon as the weather clears up. Applications of 20 and 40 pounds of nitrogen in combina tion with 50 pounds of phosphor ous and 50 pounds of sulfur are being applied to 1G plots in each of the nine experiments in Mor low county. The experimental plots are located this year at the Frank I'arker, Kenneth Batty. Frank Anderson, Nelson Bros., H. (i. Campbell, Raymond Lundell, I tee Cox, L. L, Ilowton, and Ralph Crum farms. Nitrogen and soil moisture tests are being taken to correlate the amount of nitro-l gen and moisture this spring with that of last fall at the time of set out. Recent word from the Agricul Interest has not been as high, tural Economics Department at this spring for windbreak plant-; Oregon State College, indicates ings as in the past. However, with' ihat the purchasing power of the few that will be added this farm products lost some more year to our ever growing list,' ground during the month ending many farms are becoming better February 15. Prices received by sheltered by plantings. farmers dropped, but prices paid I stayed the same. With these According to the last weekly , lower farm prices and no change ipplieation. Moisture and nitro-grajn market reviews, Oregon in farm costs, the parity ratio put large, has dropped to 91 on February 15, quantities of wheat under the a point below January 15 and 1053 'price support loan program.1 three points below a year ago. as well as that that was furnished ' a tolal of nearly 21,000.000 or 60 Prices paid bv farmers as meas- through commercial fertilizer to 0f tne 1953 wheat crop is under ured by this parity index are now: froedson, lone, 2000 gen will be taken at harvest timeiwheat farmers have to determine the amount of nitro gen that was taken from the soil, CONSERVATION REPORT SHOWS MUCH PROGRESS BEING MADE IN COUNTY A total of 787 acres of strip ; a major problem, cropping was established in the1 sheep numbers have gone Heppner Soil Conservation dis-jdown with only 30,000 head in the trict during February according1 county now compared to 129,000 to the progress report presented jn 1939 while cattle have in nt the monthly meeting of the creased from 12.000 bead in that district supervisors held Monday! ..par to 29.000 in 1953, Hood produce the various yields expec led Oscar Peterson and Henry Baker, South lone farmers, are two of the more recent farmers to add shelter and beauty to their, farmsteads by planting trees. Henry Baker has a two row wind break, using Austrian pine as the main planting, with Caragana as the ground windbreak. Oscar Pe terson has planted Austrian pines between each of his Chinese elm night at the county agent's office New farm plans were complet ed on the ranches of Don Peter son, lone, 1,120 acres; verner acres, C. A. Marquardt and son, Lexington, 6,701 acies and Barnet and Par ker, Lexington, 1,831 acres. Con servation surveys were completed on 4,022 acres in January and loan. This is 1097c larger tnan a higher than they were a year ago. year ago. In Washington, the in-( There are only five major corn crease is 122 over 1952. Nation- modifies that stayed above parity ally, the total holdings of wheat list. These were hogs at 122 of under the price support program parity ; apples for fresh use, 116; is at a record high, with 594,000,-! eggs 112; lemons 106 ; and soy 000 bushels under loan. ! beans 105. With these facts The U. .s. D. A. announced this staring our farmers in the face,jVPVS (0 079,036 acres in the dis week that farmers could re-sell it might be well to think of some trjct. farm stored grain and that theiof the pointers in making farm storage payment would be in line adjustments in 1951. that were with the 1954 uniform grain stor-' pointed out by Dr. Blanch of the age agreement rates. On the Agricultural Economics Depart other hand, exports of wheat from ment at Oregon State College, pointed out. A background of extension woik in the county since its es tablishment in 1918 and a report on soil and fertilization testing at the state college laboratory was presented by Hood. Bob Baurn, Salem, executive secretary of the state soil con servation districts, reported that 7.214 acres in February bringing' .,w...imr!, from thp west Uma- the total of conservation sur- ni,ii,, V.,!.- .-.. imwmim ill rl in Hmi.iP'l sLrJX5l T 1 "CITY OF PORTLAND" -8 THE ONLY COMPLETE STREAMLINER gjf B BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CHICAGO g H i A choice of sleeping car accommo- II d.,in, I Reserved coach seats with the II latest improved leg rests. Exceptionally fine dining car meals. ft&M DAILY SERVICE LOW FARES 7 Lv. Portland 5:30 p.m. E- t. tf ft CJ (j3 Ash about UNION PACIFIC'S lS 1 NEW FAMILY TRAVEL PLAN Vfr Vjfrr , . . extra travel advantages E?T?s- v J ' 3j there that are growing old and the Port of Portland so far this who spoke before the Boardman will need to be removed as thejseason have totalled nearly 11.3 Soil Conservation District Annual pines develop and take over for, million bushels. This is down meeting last month. He stressed the purpose for which they were 34 from the same period a year the need for more efficient farm ago. Exports trom tne I'acitic management if a high standard Coast ports so far this season of living and income were to be have totalled 32- of the national received by our farmers. Stressing exports. LOCAL AGENT UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD ROAD Of Uli VAliT UMAMUNIRS Morrow eounty ranchers who have been doing such a good job of cleaning up Brucillosis in their herds during the past few years are economically one step ahead of those that have been slow in accepting the practice throughout Oregon. This statement is made considering the fact that word has just been received that the current proposed budget of the federal government does not con lain any provisions for participa tion by the federal government in payment of indemnities to owners of animals infected with Brucillo sis and Tuberculosis. During the last fiscal year, July 1, 1952 thru June 30, 1053, approximately $33,-1 000 was expanded by the federal: government in Oregon in match ing sums provided by state law for the payment of indemnities. At the start of the present fiscal year, a reduction was made in the federal budget which reduced the payment of indemnities 57. This! cut was from $16 to $9 from the federal government for grade ani mals, and $18 in the case of pure breds. State and county have each provided $8 for grades and $12 in the case of purebreds. Several organizations of na tional scope, are protesting the deletion of these funds from the federal budget. Word from the Stale Department of Agriculture recently indicates that whether or not they are successful, state in demnities in the amount provided ! for by law will be continued to I be paid until the legislature should see fit to change the pro- I Tenures currently outlined in our I law. I Those who have cleaned up their herds of these diseases un j der the past indemnities appear ; to be one step ahead if this pro- posed budget is approved without providing continuing indemnities. ways to do this, increasing the price per unit on what the far mer had to sell, such things as taking advantage of seasonal i expenses pairs Wheat acreage in Morrow county has exactly doubled from 1939 to 1954, Gordon Hood, state extension agent, Corvallis, said in reviewing the livestock and crop trends in the county. Hood stated that 166.000 acres are now in wheat production in the county compared to 83,000 acres in 1939, showing that a lot of land that was considered unsuitable for farming is now being tilled and that soil conservation has become itilla, Gilliam, don and Heppner districts met in Heppner last Thursday to suggest ideas to be developed in a dis trict supervisors handbook. Ran-1 visited Mr, dall Grimes, Harrisburg, a mem- ratt. ber of the state committee, gave additional information on the meetings with supervisors which are being held throughout the state. Officers re elected to serve for the coming year include Charles Carlson, lone, chairman; John Wightman, Heppner, vice chair man; Raymond Lundell, lone treasurer and Anderson, secretary. Rudy Mayko, Pendleton, district conservationist, was present for the meeting. Additional conservation prac tices performed in the district last month include 31 acres of land levering, staking of 11,000 feet of irrigation ditches, 600 feet of stream channel alignment and 110 acres of grass legume seed- in8s- Mr. and Mrs. William Barratt were in Corvallis during the weekend to attend the NCAA bas ketball playoffs. 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