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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 5, 1954
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
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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.
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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.
Special equipment is needed to
handle heavy stubble and nitro
gen applications are necessary to
boost yields to a profitable level.
These operations can be seen any
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