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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 5, 1954 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 TO' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL IasTocFaucSn -r- Diss iuainniia Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Ofilce at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. There Must Be Some Reason While running through last week's exchange papers the other day we ran across a short editor ial item in Dale Amerman's Pilot Rock News that expressed our feelings to a tee, and we know there must be plenty of other people who think the same. Here's what Dale had to say about the coming political campaign: "In Oregon scads of dough will be raised and spent in the Neuberger-Cordon contest for the U. S. Senate seat. Also in the Ullman-Coon race for U. S. congressman, there will be fireworks and money thrown to the four winds. These two con tests will he featured on the political scene for the next few months. On the county level a few posi tions are lucrative enough that a gplurge will be made for victory, also. It's going to cost a lot more to get sorr.e of the candidates elected than they wiJJ get in salary through their terms. We don't get It. There must be some angles to this politick ing that we don't quite understand." While on the subject of politics, it looks to us as if maybe the American system has got itself turned around someplace back in our history. It used to be that people would flock for miles to hear a good hot political speech and then would flock to the polls, regardless of the distance or inconvenience to express their opinion. Nowadays, it's quite different. The politician has to beat his brain out (and his pocket book too as Dale notes) to get even a few voters to listen to him or read his message, then come election time, the voters go in flocks to a show or some other place of amusement and let a mere handful of people settle the questions. It doesn't make much sense, but that's the way it works just the same. From The County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson The Grant County Stock Grow ers Association are to be compli mented on their publication of a neat, handy booklet, giving list ing of cattle for sale in Grant county. This service has been carried on for the livestocknien by that association for several years in the county. A hundred and twenty-two ranchers have cattle listed for sale in the booklet. The booklet contains advertising of many of the breeders and busi ness places in the county. Morrow county livestockmen would do well to follow this practice as the means of getting the most per head for the livestock they have for sale. .Eight of the nine wheat fertil izer experiment plots put out in Morrow county have been har vested. Harvcsing is being done with the 11 inch self-propelled combine which was developed this past winter for plot harvest work. Two of hese harvesters are operating in the Columbia Basin where 52 such plots have been established his year. Grain when harvested is taken to the Pendleton Branch experiment sta tion where it is cleaned and the yields calculated. While eight of these plots have been harvested, let urns giving yields have been received from two. These are the II. G. Campbell plot and the Nel son brothers plot. Some interest ing comparisons were made at the (Hen Campbell ranch where fer tilizer was applied on late August Feeding of winter wheat. A dif ference of 0.8 bushels per acre was received in the plot where no fertilizer was applied compared to a plot after cost of nitrogen was deducted came to $13.92 per acre over the check plot. While high est yield was obtained from spring application of 80 pounds nitrogen, this application was not economical from the standpoint when compared with 40 pounds of nitrogen. Phosphorus and sul- uhur applied to the plots showed no significant at this experiment. At the Nelson Brothers farm on Baseline, application of fertilizer did not pay with only a four bushel Increase in the high yield ing plot compared to the check plot where nitrogen was applied Net profit run less than $1.00 per acre between check and high yield. Here again application of phosphorus and sulphur did not appear to be of benefit. Plots have also been harvested at the Ralph Crum, Lloyd Howton, Raymond Lundell. ranches of lone; the Frank Anderson, Frank Parker and Dee Cox ranches of Heppner. A plot near Hardman on the Ken neth Batty ranch is yet to be harvested. To our knowledge, Newt O'llar- ra of Lexington is the first person to utilize his barley-wheat mix ture, grown on diverted acres for livestock feed to be fed at home. Newt delivered all of his mixture of about 50-50 wheat and barley production to the Pendleton Grain Growers mill at Hermiston where this was made Into cube form for feeding livestock in the months to come. A twenty percent protein cube was made adding a twelve and a half percent pro tein supplement plus 150 pounds of molasses, to complete the cube. Mr. O'Harra will have about 50 tons of this feed and plans to be gin feeding at once to steers on irrigated pasture, later to dry feed the steers for about 60 days before marketing them. The cubes will oe useo uuring ine winter on other livestock to be marketed. It appears that utilizing feed grains of which there is a great amount of here this year might be smart, especially in line with the wheat program for 1955, where diverted acres can not be seeded to feed grains. They will no doubt be scarce next year. For thosP who might not wish to utilize their feed grains for livestock on their ranches, there are livestockmen looking for feed of all kinds. Most of the demand comes for feed grain that is not eligible for loan thereby may be purchased at distress prices. Sev eral western Oregon feeders have written this office for source of such grain. If anyone might have some to dispose of, I would be glad to refer them to these feed ers. Light weight wheat will be supported under the 1955 pro gram. For the first time, wheat down to a test weight of 40 pounds per bushel is eligible for support. The old minimum was 50 or 51 pounds depending on the class. Light weight wheat will be discounted 4c for each pound under the old minimum. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times , August 7, 1924 The summer vacation season for the boys and girls will soon be at an end, and then it will be back to the work in the school room, for everything will be in readiness for the opening of fleppner's schools on Monday, September 8. Cecil Lieuallen, state highway traffic officer covering Eastern Oregon territory by motorcycle, Is enjoying a two weeks vacation and was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lieuallen in Heppner over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Gemmell and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gemmell visited the Chester Gemmell fam ily at Helix Sunday. Mrs. Martha Wood of Berkeley, Calif., arrived in Heppner Tues day to make an extended visit at the home of her nephew R. W. Turner and her niece Mrs. W. G. McCarty. Hotel Heppner is serving a Merchant's Lunch from 12 to 2 for 50c. Cecil is the moet sandy place in Oregon. No need to go to Port land to see Sandy Boulevard. Come to Cecil and join the "broom and barrow brigade" and be con vinced that real sand storms are hitting our town. Frank Connor, who has been assisting the Krebs Bros, in Cecil during the busy season, left on Sunday for a short vacation. His bright smile is still haunting the young ladies. TO THE EDITOR FARMERS ram Fo ire INSURANCE RATES REDUCED To 30c Per $100 Insurance COVERS ALL GRAINS PLUS 15Dividend ON YOUR PREMIUM INSURE TODAY! TURNER, VAN MARTER AND BRYANT BONDS INSURANCE REAL ESTATE PHONE 6-9652 HEPPNER TV-. Tim T.n.MVMi. I J w i uc r.ui i uu: j Our valley .contemporary, The lOregonian, has been carrying an , lntrigueing series of accounts I these last few days. First there was the almost hys , terical account of the discovery of Noahs Ark , with statements i that this confounded scientists for all time. The second, an edi torial on the same theme, was more conservative but still men tioned scientists as being in op position, etc. The third account was from the explorer himself. "No, sorry," hp said, "I was mis quoted by Turkish newspapers saw a formation of ice and snow which COULD be the logical out line of a sailing vessel" . . . "from a distance." What a difference! However, here is my complaint. Scientists take the brunt of the criticism of fundamentalists, but can not be "confounded" by any one, for a scientist must rhnniTn' his opinion to fit any proven fact,! but will always test and prove! the fact before accepting it J Whereas, a fundamentalist will accept any statement as fact if it fits his opinion, as this shows, j and will reject anything that I does not fit his opinion. A scientist cannot be "confounded" by heresay. j k! E. Smith i This week will see all of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo premium lists in the mail for past exhibitors and those on our mail ing lists. We hope that when our people receive them, they will page through them and plan to make exhibits in many of the classes. A good fair with lots of competition makes for better agri culture in the county. We hope that everyone will help in this manner of strengthening the agriculture and the quality of products grown and raised. We especially urge wheat and hay men to get their samples now for exhibit. With the excellent wheat and barley crops, some very fine samples could be col lected from the combine these days. It only takes two pecks for an exhibit, however, you had better bring along a little extra a s superintendent Kenneth Smouse does a good job of clean ing up these samples for exhibit. Generally some cleans out. Some of the plumb barley weighing 48 and 49 pounds per bushel would make an excellent exhibit. You do not find much like the barley we are producing here this year Haymen too should select a cou pie of bales of hay, one to be jud god for quality, the other for co.i formation of bale. There are classes for both in grain, grass and legumes. Oh yes, we almost forgot to have you select your grain in sheaf exhibit. A sheaf, two inches in diameter, is all that is required for an exhibit. With wheat being our main source of agricultural income it would seem that we would have several dozen exhibits this year, instead of the 6 or 8 as in the past. It becomes increasingly import ant for ranchers to produce high quality cattle for breeding and gaining ability when cattle prices are low. When cattle are plenti ful and prices are low, buyers become more selective and lower quality animals are discounted severely. A good example of this was experienced at the Malheur Experiment Station last fall when choice steers were purchased at $18.00 a hundred and inferior grades for around $7.00. While last week was observed as National Farm Safety Week, it is only good sense to observe farm safety the year-round. Every week should be farm safety week. So many times when we are out in the country visiting farms, we notice that shields for safety pur poses have been discarded from machinery, some of them not even being installed on the new piece of machinery on which they came. The best shield that can be made is no protection if it is not used. Because of tragedies that have caused the loss of life in many cases, many manufac turers are now equiping power driven implements with non-removable power take-off shields, This helps protect operators against their own carelessness. For most equipment, however, we must still depend on removable shield protection. The National Safety Council records reveal hor rible tragedies from unguarded couplings. An operator can be mangled instantly. If you have a shield laying around the imple ment shed or in a fence corner, better put it where it was intend ed. For those farmers who had rye problems during the past few years, this item might not be very well received. However, as well as rye does in some of our feilds it may be that farmers would consider growing it in the place of other crops. If so you would be interested in a new variety of Rys, called Tetra Petkus. It was developed in Germany. This va riety has the ability to substan tially out 'produce ordinary rye strains. Fields vary from 30 to over 60 bushels an acre. Kernels are over twice the size of ordi nary rye. While T P grows from shorter, stiffer straw the leaves are broader, the heads are longer and the deep spreading root sys tem combined with early and ex tensive stooling helps to control weed growth, erosion and damage from adverse weather conditions. Millers report that this variety averages about 67c greater flour extraction, from the distillers the reports indicate, a 5 higher al cohol extraction. An independent cereal research institution stated that a loaf of bread made from Tetra Petkus flour is almost 16 larger than that made of ordinary rye flour. Maybe this is the ans wer to your rye infestations. Those ranchers who have been been asked to be put on the mailing list for the Oregon Agri cultural Progress periodically put out by the Oregon State College experiment station will be inter ested in the article concerning the Columbia Basin entitled "Stubble Mulch Halts Erosion". This is in the summer 1954 issue, which came out recently. A lot oNgood information is contained in this article along with pictures that substantuate the report. Sum ming it up, research at the Sher man and Pendleton Branch Ex periment stations have shown that stubble mulching wheat straw will stop wind and water erosion in the Columbia Basin. 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