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it r- 11- t: Tl I A.. -..4. C 1QC Paa2 neppner uazeue iimes, i nursauy, rvuyusi iu, . : : HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOHROW COUNTT'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Timeg established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912 WSWSPAPSt. pysiitNiti ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDI TO S f A I 1 w Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 Cents. Local Politics on a National Scale Oregon's senator Wayne Morse should have felt right at home Tuesday evening when he spoke before the Democratic national convention. By the time he finished his speech the great con vention hall was almost as empty as has been the senate chamber on many occasions when he has expounded. Television certainly does have some genuine value to the voters of Oregon they were able to see first hand the blank seats that Morse has had to face for the last several years. It seems to us that the Democrats were a little too obvious in their inclusion of Morse on their speaker's program. During the Hell's Canyon de bate in the senate, top Demos made the statement that the party faithful had to do something for Morse if they were to get him back for another term (such as pass his pet Hell's Canyon dam bill). That didn't work, so they gave him a spot on the national convention program where, we be lieve, he gave one of the poorest speeches of his career. ' If Wayne can't even keep the Democrats inter ested, we don't see how he can hold much hope for a victory in November. Not Much of a Record The last issue of the Oregon Voter carried a compilation of the vote in Oregon at the primary election. It showed that Morrow county came very close to setting a record in the state for the percentage of voters who got around to cast their ballots. The record is nothing to be proud of. In May a total of only 1,104 votes out of a total registration of 2,170 bothered to cast their ballots. That is a percentage of only 50.8. That figure means that Morrow county was the fourth lowest in the entire state in the per centage of voters who voted. Only Wheeler county with 41.4 percent; Crook with 45.3 and Columbia with 49.3 percent of their voters voting were worse than we were. Top county in the state was Hood River where 68.7 percent voted. The state average In the pri maries was 62 percent From The County Agent's Office By John Mcusle While Morrow county has beensmut treatments, HCB and PCNB, fortunate over the years to be relatively free of wheat smut, there has been years when rather heavy infestations of smut have occured. A number of farmers have complained this year of more smut than usual. This might be the result of several things, Including a gradual build-up of smut spores In the seed wheat and the soil, a particularly good year for smut and the occurance of newer smuts which attack wheat varieties resistant to older type smut strains. Whatever the reason might be, there are seve ral things that farmers can do to Insure themselves against a re occurance of this smut in 1957. Perhaps the first and most Im portant is that of a good Job of seed treatment. With the new smut spores have a hard time living and reproducing. These new materials which are sold under a variety of names, among such as Smutgo, Smut-no-More, Smut-Away are effective on soil borne and seed borne smut spores. In the past seed treat ments have been effective only against seed borne spores of com mon smut. There are also some other advantages of this new material which includes much safer and more agreeable for the operator to use; seed can be planted immediately following treatment or held over long per iods without loosing effectiveness of smut control or harming ger mination of seed. Beside treat ing, it is also a good idea to use seed wheat which is known to be free of smut spores. Where smut has been a problem in a particu lar variety, it is often times de sirable to change varieties on this particularly smutty field. The last of the wheat fertilizer trial experiments were harvested on Tuesday of this week. The five plots were located on the Harold Beach, John Eubanks, Kenneth Peck, Lawrence Becket and Har old Evans farms this year. All but the Harold Evans's plot was harvested last month, Results will not be available until weighing and cleaning of samples for yield data. Something new in wheat fer tilizer plot experiments was tried this year when a number of the 1953-54 plots were harvested to determine if there was any carry over to this year's crop. Plots at the Frank Anderson, Frank Parker and Raymond Lun dell farms were located in the field and harvested this year. While we do not have the com plete results from all of these S&tm ll If BEFORE FIRE STRUCK, this was a green and growing forest. It was a place for pleasure where people pic nicked, hiked and hunted. It was also a place for work where men made their livings harvesting and growing trees for lumber, plywood and paper. Each year forest fires, most of them man-caused, destroy enough wood to build 86 thousand homes. You can help halt that loss by always being careful with fire in the woods. THIRTY YEARS AGO From Files of the Gazette Times August 19, 1926 The water situation at Hepp ner is greatly Improved as a re sult of the copious rain of the week. ' That there will be good music as a leading feature of Heppner"s Rodeo this fall is guaranteed by the fact that the association has secured the services of Percy A. Campbell's American band of Portland. Miss Ruth Tash of Arlington and Miss Willetta Barratt of Port land are guests at the home of the Misses Devin In Heppner this week. Harry Turner and family con template leaving the first of the week for a trip to Idaho. Miss Lillian McMurdo of the University of Virginia, has been visiting with her uncle, Dr. A. D. McMurdo and family in Heppner for the past few days. Leonard Carlson, Wheat raiser, was ness here Saturday. Gooseberry, doing busi- plots, the Raymond Lundell plot was so evident as to nitrogen carry-over that the curiosity was so great to see what the results would be after a year of summer fallow that a quick calculation was made. It was found that 20 pounds of nitrogen applied in the fall of 1953 had carried over and gave an increase of 4.1 bushels per acre compared with the check. Forty pounds of nitrogen gave exactly twice that increase, or 8.2 bushels; 60 pounds of nitrogen gave a 5.3, bushel increase; while 80 pounds gave 4.4. The plots where nitrogen was applied in the spring gave even greater re sults with the 20 pound plot giv ing a 4 bushel increase; the 40 pound an 11.5 bushel; the 60 pound a 14.8; and the 80 pound a 14.6 bushel Increase. Evidently the spring applied nitrogen was not made available to the grow ing crop that year, therefore, a greater carry-over for this year's crop. The results of this plot in dicate that farmers might be thinking of carry-over and plan their yearly applications of nitro gen accordingly. With this year's nitrogen plots out of the way it is time now to locate farms for next year's plots. We would appreciate having vol unteers. We would like to have plots put out on as many differ ent farms throughout the county as possible to determine nitrogen Influences so do not want to go back to the same farm cooper ators unless it is absolutely ne cessary. Plots need to be located on un- Evaporation Pans May Help Predict Irrigation Needs Pans of water set in strategic spots around the countryside may be able to tell farmers when and how much to irrigate If research at Oregon State college continues to pay off. Paul Riley, OSC agricultural engineer, and Dan Evans, soil scientist, report that the amount of water evaporating from pans during a three-day period gives a good indication of the amount fertilized summer fallow, prefer ably close to the road for ease of the various operations that need to be carried out on land that is quite level. The fields where these plots are located are worked and seeded as in ordinary operations. The only difference in operation would be at harvest time when forty-inch swaths are taken from each of the plots. The plot is ap proximately one-half acre in size. William J. Doherty, Sand Hol low farmer, was in the office one day last week to inquire of recom mended tillage practices and dry land grass for -seeding at his farm. He is making plans now for seeding 150 acres of Crested wheat and Nomad alfalfa. This will provide additional feed for his herd of cattle which he runs in conjunction with his wheat operations. While visiting with Mr. Doherty we found that he was very well pleased with Flynn 37 barley grown on his farm this year. His entire acre age of barley yielded over 1900 pounds per acre. One field yielded 2056 pounds. Barley yields are apparently at least double last year's yield with, Flynn 37 mak ing some excellent yields from some farmer reports. t ,atnr a rrOD Uses. Ana ims information, together with know ing a soil's moisture-holding ca pacity and a knowledge of a particular crop's water needs, could give farmers a simple and accurate method for figuring when and how much irrigation water to apply. In their research, the scientists fuund that while evaporate pans set as far as mree rau apart varied considerably from day to day, the average evapora tion loss was fairly uniform when measured every three days. Size or shape of the pans didnt seem to matter. Big obstacle to use of the met hod is a lack of information on the rate plants draw water from the soil during different stages of maturity. For example, scien tists know that corn needs more water at tasseling time than at any other growth period. But the rate of water use at different stages of maturity hasn't been established for most irrigated crops. , , t When this relationship between water needs and evaporation losses to a plant's stage of growth is known for all the various ir rigated crops, deciding when and how much to irrigate may be come a simple arithmetic prob lem. Weather stations could re nr,rt pvanoration losses from strategically located pans of water. Then, knowing the water holding capacity of his soil and the maturity stage oi nuy o ianner wuuiu juai ueeu to QO a little adding to figure the water losses from the field he's irri gating. o Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Miller of Portland were guests at the Jack Bedford home Wednesday and Thursday of last week enroute to Mt. Baker. STAR THEATER HEPPNER Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.. Aug. 16-17-18 GLORY Margaret O'Brien Plus Dig That Urcnium Bowery Boys Sunday-Monday. Aug. 19-20 Birds and Bees George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor Lots of Fun! Sunday at 4, 6:20. 8:40 Tues..-Wed., Hilda Guy Madison, Aug. 21-22 Crane Jean Simmons Burton Peck called at the of fice last week with a sample of Japanese Millet which he grew on his farm this year. The par ticular plants he brought in showed a tremendous growth and would compete well with that type of millet grown in the mid west where that crop is a popu lar one. While at the office, Mr. Peck told us that he had read the card mailed recently from this office pleading for grain, grass and hay exhibits at the Morrow county fair. He will have a, number of them for exhibit and said that all it took was just a little time and effort on the part of the farmer to make a good exhibit at our Fair. We rope that there are others follow ing his footsteps. , Don't forget that Fair time is growing closer every day. It takes your exhibits and the cooperation of everyone to make good fair better. Why don't you get into the spirit of things this year and bring in an exhibit. 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