MUM NEWS
County Agent's Office
Grain Nursery to Test
Spring Seed Planting
By N. C. ANDERSON
A spring grain nursery was
established at the Frank Ander
son ranch last Monday in coop
eration with the Sherman Branch
Experiment station. This spring
grain nursery replaced the fall
nurserv that has been seeded at
this location for the past 15
years. Because of a dry fall, it
became too late to establish the
regular nursery equipment used
lor such purposes. The spring
nursery should be of interest to
the adapted area, especially if
mere continues to be as much
spring seeding as we have had
the past two years. Several oat
barley and wneat varieties were
seeded to determine yields and
growing characteristics. This
the first opportunity we have
had to observe oats in this lo
canty and will be especially in
leresune to compare the var
ieties that are available, There
are some promising sprine bar
leys that should interest many
aiso. une or the spring wheat
varieties seeded was the new
Idaed-59, which some no doubt
have read of as released this
spring. Idaed-59 is expected to
replace the old Idaed variety.
Certified seed should be avail-
Able for commercial plantings
next spring. While Idaed has not
been used a great deal in Mor
row County those who have
seeded it have generally been
well pleased with its perfor
mance. It is best suited to the
heavier soil, higher rainfall
areas. The new white spring
wheat strain equals the high
quality and yield ot the old
Idaed and in addition to having
stem rust resistance it is also
resistant to mildew and stripe
rust. It has a stiff straw and is
early maturing, It has performed
well in northwest milling tests
and is considered a special
wheat for certain millers due to
its good properties for cake
flours.
For those who might be in
terested In a good family milk
cow or several head as dairy re
placements, the dispersal sale
of the Stearncs Polled Milking
Shorthorn herd will be of inter
eM. This is one of the good estab
lished milking shorthorn herds
in the Pacific Northwest. The
sale, which includes 70 head,
will be held at the steamed
ranch near Lebanon, beginning
at 11:00 A. M. Saturday, May
5.
The first step, in an intensive
screening test of chemicals for
the control of branching Knap
weed, was established on Wed
nesday of last week. Arnold.
We Will
Deliver Your
Processed Meat
Free
Of Charge
To
Heppner,
lone,
Lexington
WHOLESALE MEATS
CUSTOM SLAUGHTERING
SCHEDULE:
Hogs Tuesday
Cattle Wed., Tnurs,
Sheep Any Day
Follett Meat Co.
Hermistoa, Oregon
Ph. JO 7-6651
On Hermiston-McNary
Highway
Appleby, weed research man
Pendleton Branch experiment
station, and this agent laid out
plots and put out the first chem
ical application at a site on the
Wilkinson Ranch on Skinner
Lreek about three-quarters of a
mile from the Willow Creek
Junction. There will be approxi
mately 250 plots measuring eight
by thirty feet. There will be five
dates of application of 2.4-D
using five different rates. First
application was made in the
very small to well established
rosette stage on Wednesday
using one half, one and one
half, three, six and twelve
pounds of 2,4-D per acre. Fifty
five plots which allows for a
check and a replicate of each
will use 55 plots for 2,4-D ex
periments. The approximate 200
other plots will be used to test
new and existing chemicals at
different rates on different dates
through the spring and summer
months. Adjacent infested range
land will be used to compare
helicopter, airplane and ground
equipment on acreages up to
100 using various rates of 2.4-D
wm be established In the bud
stage if plans of the Morrow
County Weed Control Commit
tee materializes. The entire pro
ject is one which was approved
at the annual Morrow county
weed meeting held in early Feb
ruary. Plans were worked out
by the weed pommittee, the
agent and Rex Warren Farm
Crops Specialist, Oregon State
University. Interest is high in
controlling branching knapweed
that is rapidly spreading over
range and waste land through
out much of Morrow county.
Sometime ago we indicated
plans for hearings to determine
wnetner the change ot owner
snip brand inspection program
inaugurated March 15 should be
revised, discontinued or con
tinued temporarily. Dates for the
hearings have now been set, two
ot them to be held in eastern
Oregon, one in the courthouse at
Condon at 1:00 p, m.. May 3
and the other in the Grange
hall at Vale at 1:00 p. m., May
Hopper Infestation
Threatens in Harney
A heavy infestation of grass
hopper eggs in Harney county,
south of Burns in the Malheur
lake area threatens to triple last
year's losses by grasshoppers of
close to Jjitiu.uoo.
An adult count last August
snowed iuu hoppers per square
yard ot egg bed area. Each fe
male hopper is capable of laying
rouphly bu to SO eggs, entomol
ogists say, so a hatch of 7,200
hoppers per square foot in the
extensive egg bed areas is not
out of the question.
Forty thousand acres has been
preliminarily selected as a con
trol area, 6,000 of which is fed
eral game reserve. A committee
has been formed and a report
sent to the state's emergency
board to see if state funds can
be made available for that area.
Costs of grasshopper control pro
grams on range lands are split
three ways, The ranchers pay
one-third, county or state funds
meet another third of the cost.
and the federal government uavs
one-third.
A nymph survey, after the
hatch, will determine whether
control measures will be nec
essary. Cold, wet weather at tiie
time of emergence could kill all
the hoppers. State Department
of Agriculture entomologists will
assist other state and federal
entomologists in making this
survey sometime in May.
There has been a considerable
amount of interest in chemical
summorfallqw this winter and
spring, with some of the planned
use a bit ditterent trom the orig
inal intent of the program. Frank
Anderson, one of the ranchers to
try a new inovation, began
spraying Saturday afternoon at
his newly acquired "Anderson
Camp" property. Two pounds
Amitrol and 2 pounds of 2,4-D
were used to control a heavy
stand of eheargrass on steep
ground where it has been diffi
cult to turn over cheat com
pletely while throwing furrows
uphill. By spraying ahead of
plowing Frank hope sto elim
inate this cheatgrass problem.
He will also spray out some
draws in areas where a com
plete turnover of the grass
might he difficult.
verner Troeason, in a much
different type of country, spray
ed an acreage in a field newly
wind strip-cropped, the strips to
be double summerfallowed. By
spraying cheat, volunteer and
broadleaves Verner hopes to get
by with less tillage thereby
keeping straw on the surface to
protect the soil from blowing.
Bernard Doherty, Blackh o r s e
Canyon rancher, used chemical
fallow on some light soil areas
as a meana of keeping more
cover on the ground yet prevent
grass from going to seed. As we
observe these special uses this
year recommendations should
be forthcoming for others who
have special uses for this new
method of farming. Of interest
to some who have observed the
chemical summerfallow plots at
the Harry Proudfoot ranch
should be a recent report from
Power Company Gives
Tips to Kite Fliers
With the coming of kite flvine
weather, junior guided missile
pilots whq will be putting their
kites "into orbit" are warned by
Pacific Power and Light Com
pany about the hazards of flying
their kites near electric power
lines and poles.
F. L. Gimbel, PP&&Ls local
representative, urged parents to
caution their children to follow
safe kite flying rules that are
listed on posters distributed by
the company throughout its
system.
These safety precautions in
clude: 1. Always fly your kite In an
open field or playground, away
irom power lines or poles.
2. Do not buy a kite which
has metal or wire in the frame
or tail.
3. Use only dry string for kite
lines, and do not try to launch
a kite with wire or with string
containing a metallic substance
such as tinsel.
4. Never use a wet string,
metal thread or fine copper wire
for a kite line, These materials
are conductors of electricity and
bring about serious shock from
accidental contact with overhead
wires.
5. If your kite lodges in
power line, or in a tree near
power wires, leave it there. Do
not try to get it down- Power
company linemen never take
chances with live wires and
neither should you.
Mr. Proudfoot. He reported that
he could definitely pick out
right to the line, where chemical
experiments of the previous year
nao enaea. He says -:tnere was
volunteer and some weed growth
in the 20 acres that had had
chemical on it but none of the
growth was large or abundant
except In drainage areas where
it had had an extra large supply
or moisture." On the regular
summerfallow the volunteer was
large and "clumpy."
Ranchers will want to set
aside May 2A tor the xtate con
servation Man of the Year field
day which will be held at the
Paulen Kaseberg ranch west of
Wasco in Sherman county. The
program will start at 10:30 a. m
and be completed aboitt 3;30
p. m.
Long Distance Nation-Wide
Moving Service
Mayflower Agents
Padded Vans
PENLAND BROS.
TRANSFER CO.
Pendleton, Oregon
Phone CR 6-3111
4U
WEED
M
FERTILIZING
SPRAY BY GAR
GAR AVIATION
SAME PLACE
SAME BUSINESS
NEW OWNERS
aw
SEEDING
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
Armin Wifilon i Mel Boyer
LEXINGTON AIRPORT
LEXINGTON, ORE. PHONE 3-8422
Farmers Plead t
For lax Relief
At State Hearing
Oregon's tax needs, solely for
the support oi local government
and local services, will soar to
$230,000,000 for 1963. This repre
seiiis approximately 125 in
crease in the amount of taxes
collected over the past 12 years.
Only eight states are listed as
having a higher per capita local
government cost than Oregon. In
cluded are Alaska, Hawaii, Ne
vada, California, and New York.
These were facts brought out
In a hearing held at Medford,
March 30, by a subcommittee of
the legislative interim committee
on agriculture. Attendance was
reported as being weak; less
than 50 persons were counted;
however, opinions were strong.
There was general agreement ex
pressed that reliance for funds to
carry local government func
tions, particularly the sky-rocket
ing cost ot education, was to
have to be shifted. Where? No
one seemed to know exactly.
in ine aiiemoon sessions Wil
liam Marshall and Lloyd Nichol
son of Klamath county, repre
senting the Oregon Cattlemen's
association, advocated a modi
fied form of sales tax. This tax
they emphasized, was to be a
substitute for the heavy burdens
now being borne bv land taxes. A
State Tax Commission economist
attending the neanng testified
that such a tax might raise un to
$70,000,000. Marshall said that
today 44 of a rancher's net in
come goes to pay his land taxes
ior local government support.
Nicholson said, 'The cash re.
appraisal value system is work
ing unfairly for bona fide farm
ers because there is so much
umntormed money' coming from
California, "these buyers seeking
income tax reiuge or making re
creational purchases are paying
inflationary prices for land. This
makes unrealistic comparisons in
lanu values."
Orville Cutsforth, M o r r o w
County rancher and legislative
committee member for the Farm
Bureau, said that "true cash
value on farm property just isn't
true." He declared. "In mv coun
ty farmers totalled only 8 of
tne population but they are pay
ing more than 70 of the taxes."
He said, "Farmers are being
forced to mortgage their farms in
order to meet their tax demands
and this situation simply can
not continue."
Lester Adam, representing the
Oregon Milk Producers, testified,
"The present tax levy is out of
balance; therefore, there should
be an alternate plan in lieu of
land taxes to take over some of
the costs of services at the county
level."
The testimony of Lloyd Nichol
son on inflationary land prices
was corroborated by Earl Soren
sen, Oregn State Tax Commis
sion appraiser, who said, "Farm
sales have been recorded in the
Bond area as being 71 above
appraisal values of the land for
farms."
The morning part of the ses
sion was devoted to a review of
Oregon farmers' income costs
ratio during the past ten years as
compared to California, Wash
ington, and Idaho. This study
was conducted by Dr. Grant
Blanch of Oregon State Univer
sity. Dr. Blanch said, "In compar
ing tne incomes and property
taxes paid in Oregon by farmers
with those of Idaho, Washington,
and California, and the United
States as a whole, the Oregon
farmers pay substantially more
taxes per hundred dollars for full
valuation of property. Similarly
the Oregon farmers paid more
taxes on every hundred dollars of
net income than farmers of the
HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, Thursday. April 2G. 1962
sales tax to be committed as a
real property tax offset and allo
cated to education, thereby re
other states. These high tax pay
ments place the Oregon farmer's
operation at a distinct disadvant
age in competing in the inter
state markets.
illlllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllll
BATTERY TROUBLE?
SEE
FORD TIRE
SERVICE
FOR ALL TOUR
Farm and Commercial
BATTERY NEEDS
We Have The All New
HEAVY DUTY ARMOR PLATE
Truck and Tractor
Commercial Battery
GROUP 1-H.D.A.P. (145 amp)
AS LOW
AS
$16.75
CORE
EXCHANGE
Most All Sizes In Stock
Fl FORD'S
(general
hJmJ TIRE SERVICE
N, Main
PH. 6-9481
Heppner
'"! 1 1 '''liiMiMiimi mi iiiM
JifiEL trait
COW CUTTING
8&29
SPRING MEET
aturday Sunday, April 2
(Saturday At 1 :30 Sunday At 10:00 A. M. And 1 :30 P. M.)
NATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION
APPROVED PACIFIC CUTTING HORSE
ASSOCIATION APPROVED
ROCKY GOODHUE
Emmett, Idaho, Judge
OBRA
BARREL RACING
CALF ROPING
To Be Given AwaT PUBLIC DANCE
Permanent-Registered Yearling cij A.nnur j
Saturday At 9 P. M., Fairgrounds
QUARTERHORSE
MUSIC BY ROY QUACKENBUSH
COLT
y ia,i t l- t ru r a SUPPER AND CAKE
Your $1 Admission Ticket To The Grounds
Makes You Eligible To Win AUCTION
Concessions Sandwiches, Coffee, Ice Cream, Pop on the Grounds
MORROW COUNTY FAIRGR0U
Heppner, Oregon