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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1954)
Page 4 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, July 8y 1954 From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson SAM'S A SHEEPHERDER There is still low percentage calf crops in Morrow County even with the good cattle Improvement projects that have been carried on during the past few years. Oc cassionally we run across a rancher who is getting 10 less calves than is economical or than need he. While it is getting late to do anything about it for this year, there are a few tips that contribute towards a higher per centage calf crop and shorter calving period. They are: 1. ro-, tate bulls every week or ten uajs if pasture breeding, 2. see that bulls are distributed on the range and keep them scattered, 3. re place bulls that show evidence of unsoundness or are lame or sick, 4. use enough bulls.. Under range conditions one to every 25 cows, on pasture a sound bull in good condition will settled thirty to fifty cows. Now that fly control time is here, livestock ojjerators should be thinking of this important fly control operation. It is estimated that control of horn flies in creased production of meat and milk forty-five million dollars worth. In one recent year in Kansas, cattlemen figured the use of 5c worth of DDT indirectly increased the value of a steer by $10.00. Oregon State College's new circular "Livestock Test Con trol" gives recommendations for fly control. A copy is available at this office. As harvest time grows near, it appears that another bumper crop is in prospect, mis means mm much grain will be stored on the farm, some of it finding its way into storage facilities that are not best suited for long grain storage. It is even more import ant this year, that farmers clean out and spray bins before storage. Now is the time to do it if weevils and other farm storage insects are going to be destroyed and bins dried out from the spray tnat is applied. There is nothing particularly new this year in regards to ma terials for spraying grain storage bins. Several insecticides are ef fective D. D. T. and Methoxyehlor are perhaps the two most com mon that will be used. They should be prepared at the rate of 42 pounds of 50 wettable DDT or Methoxyehlor to 100 gallons of water; when spraying particular attention should be paid to get ting in to all cracks where the in sects may be harboring. Of equal importance is the need for sweep ing down the grain bins with a stiff broom before spraying with insecticides. Insecticide appli cation will be relatively ineffec tive if applied on a dusty or dirty surface. For special conditions or further information we have seve ral good circulars In the office dealing with the subject of pro tecting grain from insects. I V. VI I V k ,11 vY -4-, h I ;, !mM xmm, 'ihiilJ HIHMIHI 1" "" . ... ii i Anu -nk usin? Youth Exchange students 'P'"; 1" chemicals and live on the larm wun ira siuuuua rpnrding families during the time they are Thermometers ; w h craps wcic w-o"-u - plots to get the effect of tempera tures on weed control. It was in teresting to note that wherever low temperatures were mcoui..- atsiened. Anyone who is inter e?ted in the Droeram, may get 1 further information from this of fice. Plans have now been complet ed for the educational meetings ed, weed control was poor and damage to the wheat was eviue.u of the 1355 wheat marketing quo-j We will have harvest yields later tas. Morrow County's meeting, to compare wun vu rr will be held at the Lexington j tions. Grange hall on Thursday evening! July 15th. The time of meeting! Some time ago the Morrow will be 8:00 p. m. The extension County Livestock Growers Asso cervice, Oregon Wheat Growers1 ciation Marketing Committee de League and the ASC committee! cided that they would have a list will participate in this meeting; ing of livestock for sale in Mor ;to bring wheat farmers up to row County as is done in many date on farm Program legislation, the wheat acreage allotment pro gram for 1955, particulars con cerning the wheat marketing quota referendum which will be held on Julv 23. and a discussion of what to do with diverted acres. A large attendance is anticipated. counties throughout uregon. Cards were mailed to all Morrow County livestock growers lor mem W ikt livestock that they would various to lt Ji"?" the summer, nave io ly fall and winter mon hs. The :tepiy vg nnceCdnSseuch a listing ..very JSWdTSt thJy wil tire state. Letters were mailed all members of the Oregon Cat tlmPn's Association asking tnev list cattle for sale. In the juTv issue of the Oregon Cattle man we find a good many coun ts with livestock listed however, none from Morrow County. From this, it appears that Morrow County livestock men are satis fied with the prices they receive for their livestock. Congrtliman Sam Coon, Republican, of Oregon'! Second Diilrlct, 1$ now an honorary iheepherder. Rep. Coon ii ihown receiving hii ihepherd'l crook from W H Sleiwer, of Fosiil, Oregon, former President of the Oregon Woolgrowen Aiioclation, and Immediate past Pre.idenl of the National Woolgrower. A.iocia tion. Coon wa awarded the title lait week by the National Association for nil services to the ranchers of the Northwest. The lastern Oregon Congressman, who was raised on a sheep ranch In the Snake'River Basin, declared, "I might havo been called an "ornery sheepherder' a time or two, but this ii the first time I was ever called an 'honorary' one." In a new bulletin from Oregon State College, entitled "Reducing Savings Deposit mad at First National on or befor July 10th earn interest from July Istl Savings grow, too! Save regularly ... put a part of each paycheck in your First National Bank savings account. These savings, plus First National interest pay ments, will make your account man-size! HEPPNER MANCH FI II5T NATIONAL DANK. S OB POMUMB urs ku MKtoN roetmur Tom Kinoshita IS NOW AT O'Donnell's Cafe SERVING CHINESE FOOD FROM 6 P. M. TO 2 A. M. Now Offering A Large Variety of Delicious Chinese Dishes in Ad dition To Our Regular Menu. Dairy Cost" the present dairy situ ation is analyzed and discussed Pointing out that milk prices are down, sales are lagging, there was more milk in Oregon than in the nation in many years and competition is great from other foods and farm products However, the circular points out that dairy ing will still pay for Oregon far mers that can meet lower prices with lower costs. This can be done through such things as get ting more production per cow, the use of more and better roughage, feeding grain according to pro duction, saving labor, keeping re cords and using them Under the Visiting the Hermiston, Pendle ton and Moro branch experiment stations last week, the agent had the opportunity to go over the various research projects that are being carried on in all types of farming carried out in Morrow Countv. Fertilizer work, tillage practices, weed control work, for age crops, new and old; pasture improvement work; miscellane ous crops for diverted acres; and cereal trials and crop breeding program were observed and dis cussed. Much information was gathered in all of these projects. Perhaps the most interesting was the weed control work that is be inn rinnp hv Davp Raver, research have not yet had foreign youth man assigned to the Columbia delegates exchanges living on Basin. Mr. Bayer was put on na rf nni farmc fnr an pntirp ner- nr,t..ni ,1,1. in tUa Ptum. Ulli- yJl uul ' 1 X VYCCU VVUIft Hi i iod. Two exchanged delegates bia Basin area through efforts of I 1 (-11 11n.n,t, CmirttTr .. . last ran visueu iviunuw vuumj jne vvneat u rowers league ap for a short period. I nrnvimatelv a vear am. His ex There are two delegates in Ore-, perimental work will contribute gon now. A young lady from much 1 am sure t0 the contro1 of ., , , , , , tweeds in this area. Most exten- Northern Ireland and a young . . . . . 0 nn t. man from Portugal. Calheris Mar- ' ntrol of annuai weeds in wheat this spring. Various amounts of various selective chemicals were applied on many acres at the Hill and Crow Pilot Farms near Wes ton and Helix. One of the most interesting weed experimental tins from Portugal is sepkinf' in formation on wheat raising, cattle breedng, corn production, irriga tion and general farming meth ods. He is visiting now in Ore gon at Klamath Falls. He would like to live in an area of wheat! plots was that of applying these uavin.7 lahnr heading, a stndv of raising and cattle breeding dur- chemicals at weekly intervals 15 dairy farms from Oregon State ing the remainder of his stayj starting in February and continu Collcge, showed an average of 145 here. These International Farml ing through May. Plots were re hours labor per cow per year.j Some showed over 300 hours andi some less than 100. Time saved becomes available for other jobs. Grain harvest is under way in Morrow County, The first to har vest that we know of was Glen Campbell near Buttercreek. Glen completed a harvest of G00 acres of winter club barley on July 5th. It produced just slightly under 1 ton per acre of high quality bar ley. It appeared to be number 1 with slightly over 6 percent mois ture content. It is stored at the Pendleton Grain Growers ware houses in Echo and will be eli gible for barley loan. Snyder Saddle Shop OWNED AND OPERATED NOW BY Ken & Verle Green AND ARE NOW IN NEW LOCATION Former Telephone Bldg. W. Willow St. We invite you to stop in and get acquainted and look over samples of our work. We know you will be pleased with our work on either new merchandise or on leather repairing. SADDLES MADE TO ORDER REPAIR! NG-Saddles & Leather Goods SHELL CASES GENERAL LEATHER WORK Fords the car that gives you Wheat harvest got under way at several ranches in North Mor row County on July 5th. Reported harvesting were Lucillians, Ash becks, Tuckers and Van Buskirk. Visiting at the Glen Campbell ranch Tuesday afternoon we found about 21 hundred bushels of Turkey wheat harvested yield ing around 20 bushels per acre of number 1 wheat. N BCTYEMS FEATURES 1 1 MM ORDERS TO TAKE OUT O'Donnell's Cafe For those who did not find anv Meloy Barlow seed last fall, Oscar Peterson, lone rancher, has a seeding of it that is grown from Certified seed from the Pendleton Branch Experiment Station. While it is elligible for seed cer tification, Mr. Peterson will not have it certified. It is however,! a good source of seed stock and farmers who are interested should contact Mr. Peterson. Meloy is a high yielding hay type barley. It has been one of the good bar ley's at the Sherman Branch Ex periment Station at Moro espec ially as a high variety. A note from the St;ite 4 II Club office this week congratulates Morrow County for its good con lllB.tiotv ,t.0fgas. CO the ostP0 "ord m ;i "on -r'-io - Up., 4 est orri total to the tribution towards the Internation al Farm Youth Exchange pro gram. The 4-H Club council has sponsored a square dance each year with the proceeds to go to this program. The International Farm Youth Exchange program is one whereby American and For eign young men and women are exchanged in order that they can live on farms and see the way that other countries live. 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