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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1956)
Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March 29, 1956 From The County Agent's Office t By N. C. Anderson During the past week wheels j began to move in most of the county with the exception of the scuth end. ' A lot of "picking" of wheat, spring seeding, a little spraying, some plowing and grass seeding has been done. A few farmers found that even though their fall barley looked green without going into the field, it was definitely winter killed or weakened to the point where a few warm days would dry it up. Damage seems to be confined to the underground stem and root system with damage so revere that there is no cambium layer to carry moisture and plant food from the roots to the plant. The situation is quite comparable to weeds that have been sprayed and continue green until some hot weather comes with roots not able to keep the plants alive. Several hundred acres of Trebi barley have been torn up and re-seeded. Olympia and Utah winter survived the wintew with the exception of some damage to knolls or areas where there was no snow cover. A lot of spring wheat is going in where farmers did not complete seed ing when cold weathor prevented them from getting fall grain seeded. A few farmers are still waiting the outcome of farm legislation before making definite plans for the:r spring operations. Most in terest is in the soil bank plan and whether provisions will be financially inducive to seeding grass. However, a lot of far m?rs are going ahead with nor mal operations and taking ad-' ventage of the good moisture! condition to get stands of dry land grasses established. A few! of those that I have worked with i in obtaining seed, making recom-1 mendations and so forth, are, Oscar Peterson, lone, who is seeding a hundred acr.es of Crested wheat and Nomad al falfa; Alvin VVagenblast, Lexing ton who will have seeded 85 acres of grass and aJfalfa this spring when he completes seeding to ward the end of this week. He is using grass and Nobad alfal fa on dry land seedings and Ver nal alfalfa where fields can ba irrigated. Delbert Emert, lone, has seeded a number of acres of dry land grass and alfalfa. Paul Brown has decided to seed twice the acreage he had originally planned after seeing the good moisture conditions. A few farmers have called for additional information on fertil izing existing wheatgrass plant ings as a possible seed source afier reading this column a week ago. Seeding of the 130 acre Nomad alfalfa-gress demonstra tional planting, sponsored by the range and pasture improvement committee of the Morrow County Livestock Growers Association, got under way this week at the Ralph Beamer ranch. In coopera tion with Burlingham Seed Com pany, originators of Nomad al falfa, the seeding is being made to demonstrate methods of seed ing and the qualities of Nomad alfalfa. This seeding is being made with an "LZ" drill. The deep furrow openers are spaced fourteen inches and the seeding is being made directly into stub ble land. By using the deep fur row openers competition with grass will be slight. An applica tion of thirty pounds of nitrogen applied in the form of anhydrous amonia on part of the land will be compared for stand with an area where no nitrogen is used. This seeding will not be com pleted until the early part of next week as it now appears. Those who might be interested in seeding grass directly into stubble might be interested in visiting this seeding to observe the operation. The field is lo cated approximately four miles south of Heppner on the county road which leaves the Heppner Condon highway at the corner where the gun club is located. This is the road that drops over into Sanford Canyon. The field is located about 200 yards east of the third cattleguard on the road. PONY KICKS By Mary Stewart The Softball tournament has become one great big tie. The three teams, Green's Yanks, How ell's Bums, and Penland's Slug gers, have each won and lost a game apiece. The junior high girls P. E. class REMEMBER Band Parentis CARNIVAL SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Heppner Fair Pavilion FUN FOR EVERYONE - " ill f "uft' y C i tu. 50f ? .-. .vrta.v,:-.X SPORTS OF ALL KINDS are enjoyed at Camp Eastar Seal, Oregon's only summer camp exclusively lor crippled children. The pit cher's fast ball might not be a3 swift as soma might throw, but there's no question that his determination matches that of any major league star. Camp Easter Ssal is located on North lake of Ten-Mile lake in Coos county and is financed through the sale of Easter Seals. ' has started its softball intramu rals. Three teams have been chosen, one from each room in Ui2 seventh and eighth- grades. The captain of the eighth grade is Cara Lee Corbin. The team will go by the nome of Snyder's Girls and will bo managed by Flor ence Morris. Room 7A will be called the Sluggers, with Jeanne Schmidt as captain and Mary Evelyn Tucker as manager. Eoulden's Bulldogs is the title of the room TB team. Dorris Mor ris is captain and Shirley Van Winkle, manager. The chess champion of the grade school is Tom Driscoll. The tournament was finally complet ed and Tony Upton and Stewart Gribble came in second and third. The first baseball game has been scheduled. It will be in lone, April 4th. A return match will be held May 2nd, here. o 0 KI ZU CAMP FIRE GIRLS Our new officers are president, PiO.se Marie Nash; vice president, Sandra Campbell; secretary, Libby Van Schoiack; treasurer, Geraldine Swaggart; reporter, Jeanne Schmidt and hospitality chairman, Judy Schmidt. Most of the girls ere fire makers, since they have just passed rank, so they talked about the Fire Makers rank. Jeanne Schmidt, reporter. THE CHAT CHAT CLUB The Chat Chat 4-H club met at Martha Peterson's horns on Sat urday, March 24. The meeting was called to or der by our president, Jacquelyn . Brindle. We sang the Star Span gled Banner and recitod the 4-H pledge. j Miss Beverly Bradshaw, the i home demonstration agent, visi ted our club. She gave all our members 4-H pins to wear. We collected 40c for the flag set. We made wrist pin cushions the rest of the afternoon. The members present were Jac quelyn Brindle, Jennifer Brindle, Ann Jones, Martha Peterson, Mary Ann Johnson and Mrs. Brindle, our leader. Ann Jones, reporter 4-H COOKERETTES The Cookerettes 4-H club met at the home of Geraldine Morgan, March 10, at 1:30. The girls in Meal Time Fun made tuna and egg sandwiches. Geraldine de monstrated how to make muffins, to the girls in Easy Meals. After the meeting, Mrs. Morgan served punch with the sandwiches and muffins which the girls made. The Cookerettes 4-H club met at the home of Sherry Corley on March 22, at 1:30. The girls in Meal Time Fun made a relish dish, and the girls in Easy Meals made potato soup. Mrs. Corley served chocolate cake after the meeting. Dianna Pettyjohn,
