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Conservation Families at H ome r. rv J "7: tw 1 5 iHfllllllPl ... X 1 1 -Hi? FAHRf NEWS County Agent's Office and L.i'l'," 5 JIM- ,A'(JSt.Ii.wl!-aij I- a. S ftiiA-oi, .. . 2. S aj tr I'Ukil ROGER PALMER, the vounoer Dart of the father anil son rnmhi nation that won Conservation Man of the Year honors this vear and his wife, Shirley, have four children in their happy family. mi aaown nere in me vara at tneir nome. included are Sandra, f 9. tan, 4, unny, z, and Larry, 6 months. (G-T Photo) rr 1 f 'A- ' ,r V V J :: v --'L h V W DREAM COME TRUE for Muriel Palmer is the kitchen of her new home. She is shown here beside the new built-in range and , oven. Woods of the kitchen cabinets have been carefully grain matched. (G-T Photo) - -I: :j xX i JV-V v 1 i j v .If v.o J 4' -f( if f f . i t n 4 ! 1 i " I ft 1I J 4 ' fc J ..- A. JL. ... V jiri Jail Ii,,.. Gaines Growers Hear Specialists Talk Contracts in LONG-AWAITED moving day comes for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Palmer who have just completed their new home on their ranch at Eightmile. Elmer, Conservation Man of the Year, in deference to his new title, leaves mud on his shoes outside while handing a chair to wife Muriel in the moving process. (G-T Photo) You May be the Other Fellow This y ear f Are you content in the belief that it always hails on the other fellow's farm? Suppose you are the other fellow this year! Hail will not skip your farm forever. Re. cords show that no farm or section is immune. Sooner or later you will be the other fellow! This year, protect your high production costs and expected income with a Hail Insurance pollcyt You have more at stake than ever before. Five minutes of hail can destroy your year's work and Income. Play safe! Buy Hail Insurance. We will gladly give you complete details. No obligation. S or call us.' Act today to save tomorrow! Turner, Van Marter By N. C. ANDERSON Thirteen of the fifteen Gaines wheat growers attended a meet ing this past week when dis cussion was held on various re quirements they will have their contracts. Dr. Norman Goetze, extension farm crops specialist, OSU, and the agent visited with the growers on standards that need to be carried out in order to raise registered or certified class seed from the increase fields seeded through out the county. They found that tolerances for other varieties of wheat were only ten hundredths of one per cent; no morning glory, quacK grass or rye. The field inspection fee on Gaines like other small grains is 60c per acre. Growers discussed the Possi bilities of hiring a combine to cut all of the fields rather than for each grower to spend the many hours necessary to clean out combine and trucks for har vest to prevent mixture with other grains. The majority present ten mat they could at ford to pay a premium to have these fields custom harvested be cause of the importance of keep ing the seed clean. Plans were also made for having the lots treated by a commercial seed treater who would keep one seed cleaner and treater free from use on other varieties until these lots were cleaned up. The fifteen growers have a total of 280 acres, With crop conditions looking promising at this time it is hoped that there will be over 10,000 bushels of seed harvested. Contracts with the Oregon tSate Agricultural Experiment stations require that at least 60 of the increase be made available to other growers. Some present in dicated that they have had re quests far beyond the number of bushels which they expected to harvest while other growers have had little or no request. Some concern was shown for equal distribution so that as many ranchers as possible could get a start with the new variety. Growers indicated general sat isfaction with the growth charac teristics, all commenting very favorably on the tremendous stooling ' that this variety had made under various conditions. Seedings were made from Sep tember 6 until February. Condit ions under which the new variety is being grown vary from ex treme northern conditions as ex treme north Morrow county at the Bill Doherty and David Baker ranches to the foothill areas of the Gerald Swaggert and Raymond French ranches. Growers were limited to 10 bushels each, some have seeded lesser amounts. Distribution was made in this manner in order that it might be grown under as many different conditions as possible and that in case of a disaster such as freezing out or hail that a large acreage would not be lost. Growers present were David Baker, Lewis Carlson, Gar Swanson, Llovd Howton, lone; William J. Doherty, Kenneth Peck and Tad Miller, Lexington; Fritz Cutsforth, Kenneth Turner, Raymond French, Alvin Bunch, Gerald Swaggert and Melvin Moyer, Heppner. These growers with Leonard Rill and Kenneth Cutsforth, should be contacted by those seed. desiring Gaines for Junior Livestock Show to Exhibit Wheat-Fed Stock Wheat-fed cattle, nop s sheep again will be exhibited at the annual Junior Livestock Show of the Oregon Wheat ers League at the Seufert budd ings June 3-6 in The Dalles. General Manager Elmer l.ior. man said a Wheat Lea pup m. quirement for the 16th annual show calls for feeding of a grain ration not less than 30 wheat by weight. When the show was first held OWGL rules called for 50 nr cent wheat, but a few years ago this was modified to showing of animals fed on any grain ration, Lierman said. A new feature of this vpars show will be the showing of four commerciallv-fed steers 1 into the Morrow county weather Monday livestock judging con observer's program. For the past lest- Arrangements have been maae D.y Larry Kaseberg of near Wasco, chairman of the League's iouth Activities Committee, to acquire the steers for showing ciw laier siaugnier in Portland with the carcasses to be returned nere Wednesday by refrigerated truck for display at the show grounas. An early day 4-H exhibitor at fhrt oU ir i. . "c ouuvv, rwaseoerg later was graduated from Oregon State university and Is now operating a Sherman County wheat ranch Another feature of this year's . .T, t- 4 UV U1C lYVU'UUV VISIT flV a delegation of 22 4-H bers from Clatskanie to take part in livestock iudelns vionaay and then observe nmra. t'on of the show on Tuesday. This year's show will be con cluded Wednesdav With R uot inn sales during the afternoon and nignt. All snow events will bo on standard timo. Walter Jacobs, lone rancher, was interested enough a week ago last Sunday during open house at the Condon Radar Base to spend some time looking for the person in charge of radar filming of rain clouds, as tied several weeks approximately 40 Morrow county ranchers have been making special storm ob' servations as rains change in in. tensity during a particular storm After running down a number of off cers he found the one resnon sible, Lt. Hill. I was happy to get the first-hand dope, too. It is interesting what can be done with radar, and weather is not an exception. HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. Mery Jl. 1962 Cake Contest Rules Released Chairman of the Oregon Wheat Growers league wheat utili zation committee. Mrs. L. F. Kaseberg. Waseo. has rpioneoH rules and SCOrinP nrnrwlurpc fnr me annual Cake Baking contest. entrants in the contest this year must oake an applesauce cake. Residents of wheat grow ing counties are eligible to par ticipate. They must be more than 21 years of age or married to be eligible. Fruits and nuts are not to be used and cakes may not be frosted. Cakes may be baked in loaf or tube pan, not large layer I or sheet cake pans. Contestants are reminded a recipe card must be attached and cakes must be exhibited and judged at a county fair In any of Oregon's nine wheat grow ing counties. Winners in county fair competition will be paid premiums from the Oregon Wheat Growers Leaeue offiM. County tremluma are: 1st 3R M- 2nd-$3.00 and 3rd $2.00. First place count v winners will be eligible to enter the state bakeoff, scheduled at the annual convention of the OWGL, sched uled November 26, 27 and 28, in romuiiu. Mate top award winner will receive $100.00. Glen Ward, local field agent, Oregon State Game commission called at the office last week to offer 500 locust trees that he had left over from game plant ings. They are "heeled in" at his home in Heppner. Anyone that is interested should call Glen. While Glen was in the office he told us that the game commission would like to get out quite a few more bird 'guzzlers" In Morrow county. Bird "guzzlers" are for water storage self -watering devices built in the dryland country for upland game birds. They consist of a concrete cistern with sloping concrete ramp so that birds can walk down into the water level as the water receded as dry weather comes. They are covered with aluminum which serves two purposes. First, it gathers water during rainstorms and second the aluminum helps to prevent rapid evaporation. Anyone in terested in having the game com mission build one or more on their ranch should contact Glen Ward or leave word at this office. We have received frequent in- auiries in the last two or three weeks on the control of sage and rabbit brush. Each require a dif ferent type of application, and ranchers planning to control either one should be sure which one they are treating. From the rabbitbrush I nave seen, now would be .the time for good con trol. Three pounds of actual 2,4-D in five to ten gallons of water should be applied to the foliage when new twig growth exceeds three inches, but before all soil moisture is depleted, lt should be growing rapidly now after the recent good rains. In tne case of aeebrush two pounds ot 1A-U is used in the same amount of water applied during the active growth period which is now. Bank Debits Up For April, '62 Bank debits for the Pendleton area Including Morrow and Uma tilla counties, increased in April, 1962, compared to April, 1961. Debits for April, 1962 totaled $30,878,181. For March, 1962, the total was $34,206,928, and for April 1961, the total was $28,869, 430. Oregon with 239 banks report ing, had an increase in bank debits in April, 1962, of 6.7 per cent compared with March, 1962, and an increase of 9.7 per cent compared to April, 1961. Total debits for Oregon in April, 1962, came to $2,163,995,209. For March, 1962, the total was $2,026,624,167 and for April, 1901 the total was $1,971,825,358. Once Again You Are Invited to: ATTEND... Oregon Wheat Growers League Junior Livestock Show Sunday Through Wednesday June 3-6 Seufert Show Barns at Wasco County Park The Dalles and BUY . . . Wheat-fattened Steers, Hogs, Lambs For Your Home Locker Auction Sales Wednesday, June 6 Lambs and Hogs, 2 p. m. (PST) Steers 7 p. m. (PST) NEW SHOW FEATURE . . . Ca rcass Showing in Refrigerated Truck from 11 to l noon Wednesday of grain-fed steers exhibited at Show grounds Monday and then slaughtered in Portland Don't Miss This 16th Annual 4-H and FFA Show With Full Program Beginning at 8 a. m. Monday. U1TLEAK... MSSmSXMS- t -rwwJ Now. . . tost drlv the nl7'JIEP'T0niIAD0-Q!!8EIS You'll be amazed at its performance! Presenting the Tomado-OHC, America' first overhead camshaft engine designed specially for commercial vehicles. 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