HEPPNER GAZETTE
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County Agent's Office
Gaines Wheat Shows
Qualify on Inspections
By N. C. ANDERSON
Five of the 14 fields of
Gaines wheat for increase seed
production have been inspected
and passed certification. These
five fields passed the registered
standard, the highest possible
with this seed. Ted Miller, Fritz
Cutsforth, Bill Doherty, Dave
Baker and Gar swanson were
obviously happy as they had
spent many, many hours of
roguing out other grains and
"off-type" wheat heads. Jack
waud, Usu, certuication spec
ialist, praised the job these
growers had done in cleaning
up the fields. In all cases other
wheat found in tnese news were
only one-tenth or less of the
maximum tolerance for Regis
tered seed. This will provide
seed of top quality for those
growers who wlsn to maKe
plantings of this now variety.
Field inspections will bo made
this Thursday at the L. L. How
ton, Louis Carlson, Leonard Kill
Al Bunch, Kenneth Turner, Ken
neth Cutsforth, Kenneth Peck,
Gerald Swaggert and Raymond
French ranches.
Public hearings to consider
changes which the State De
partment of Agriculture proposes
in regulations relating to all
phases of meat inspection are
scheduled as follows:
July 24 Production Assoc
iation Office, Baker, 10:00 a.m.
July 27 State Department of
Agriculture headquarters, Salem,
10:00 a.m.
The proposed regul a t i o n s
would bring all requirements in
line with legislative changes
made in meat inspection, meat
dealer, sanitation and other
laws since adoption of the orig
inal rules.
As I have traveled the county
during the past week it is nice
to see tile "preparedness" of
ranchers for fire control. At the
Fritz Cutsforth ranch I noted
several five gallon pails of wot
sacks and a power sprayer full
of water ready to go. The county
fire truck stationed at the Walt
Jacobs ranch has been "stream
lined" this year ready to do a
belter iob of fire control if it
is called out. Walt and some
of his neighbors have installed
u high pressure pump and motor
and made other changes lo use
the oouinment more effectively
Harold Wright has recently
mounted a 1000 gallon watt
tank on n truck, "just in case
which will be ready lo provide
water for emergencies in that
community. Everyone, seems lo
be fire conscious, and rightly so
in a year like tins when hazards
are great with an abundant
growth of weeds and grass.
A new cooperative weather
station was established in Mor
row county this past week. The
station which will provide maxi
mum-minimum tempcrat u r e s
and rainfall data for the foot
hill area of South Morrow conn
tv Is located at the Bechdolt
Bros, home at Hardman. This
area has needed such a record
to provide more complete data
for the county and we are crate
ful to the Uechdolts for their
consent to "man" the station
More confining than a milk cow
it is not everyone who will take
the trouble to record this im
portant weather data day after
day for the U. S. Weather
Bureau.
An Interesting and worth
while day was spent last Tues
day in the Ukiah area inspec
ting new grass and alfalfa seed
ings on summer range at the
Ralph Beamer and W. K. Hughes
runches. Accompanying Ralph
Beamer to his ranch holdings
I saw seedings of Ledak alfalfa,
smooth brome and Meadow fox
tail that would make any
rancher's mouth water let alone
u cow. These seedings in their
third year were made on
summerfallow fields originally
used for grain and grain hay
production. The dryland seed
ings were "waist high" and thick
enough for some bumper hay
Seed Cleaning
and Treating
Bulk Price At Our Plant
20c Per Bushel, or 40c Sack
Bulk Price In The Country
Over 300 Bu.-20c Bushel, 40c Sack
Under 300 Bu.-25c Bushel, 50c Sack
HAROLD
- TIMES, Thursday, July 19, 1962
farm mm
crops but will be pastured off
through the summer. Seedings
at the Ebb Hughes ranch were
made after a forest fire in No
vember. lPfiO. Tall oaterass,
brome. intermediate wheat and
meadow foxtail stands are un
believable. Cattle on the Beamer
and Hughes ranches are
"slaughter fat" and have made
little impression on the excellent
stands of grass. Ebb has 80 acres
of summerfallow to go into grass
next snrins that will iurtner
provide an abundance of feed
on his range. These ranchers are
to be congratulated on the fine
range and pasture management
principles they are carrying out
and are good demonstrations
what can be done if there are
"doubting Thomases" that want
to see for themselves.
We were happy to have
letter last week from E. R. Jack
man, retired i arm Crops spec
ialist who has a lot of friends
in this area. "Jack" has bee
asked by the college to make
a survey on possible opportun
ities in line with the govern
mental policy, as Jack says, "to
spur recreational uses of land
into high gear for present and
future pleasure seekers. The fig
ures most often given is 50,000,
000 acres of privately owned land
plus, of course, virtually all
the publicly owned land. Prob
ably we will have governmental
aid in diverting the private land
with a program somewhat like
Ihe ASC cost-sharing practices.
In addition, we are likely
have low-interest, long-term aiti
in financing conversion to use
for recreation.
The uses of this kind that
seem to otter tne most are
akes for fishing, bathing, boat
ing and migratory wildtowl
shooting; game preserves, es
pecially deer and plieasa.il
parks and picnic spots for public
use for a fee; privately owned
golt courses; leasing private
land to the State Game Com
mission for winter feeding areas
for deer and elk; summer camps
for boys and girls on a fee basi
privately owned semi-w.lder
ness areas; wildflowor nurseries
pastures for riding horses; fossil
hunting grounds on a fee basis
dude ranching; summer cottages
on small acreages, perhaps with
pasture for a riding horse or
I wo."
4 County Youth
Chosen To Attend
Range Youth Camp
Roland Ekstrom, lone; Chris
Brown, Jleppnor; Dick Struck
meier, lleppner; and John
Wugonblast, were selected by
Ihe Range oulh Camp commit
tee as delegates to attend the
!M)2 Range Camp at Lake Creek
Guard Station from August (i ll
l'he boys were selected from
a group ot l .j on tneir past
accomplishments in citizenship,
leadership, scholarship and an
ticlpated interest, age and rep
resentation of both 4-11 and Ft-A
The sponsors for 19G2 have
provided a $.'!(). scholarship for
each of the four youth. Spon
sors are as follows: Roland Ek
strom, Morrow County Livestock
Growers association; Chris
Brown, Morrow County Farm
Bureau; John Wage n blast,
lleppner Soil Conservation Dls
diet; Dick Strucknieier. lleppner
Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce. Each of the organ!
zations extends an invitation
to each boy for a complete re
port at one of their first meet
ings following camp.
Chairman Emory Clapp win
meet with the delegates later
this month to acquaint eacli in
dividual with the intent and
goals of the Range Youth camp.
l'h is orientation program will
provide a background for the
youth in order that they may
gain more from their attendance
at camp.
ERWIN
Chats With Your Home Agent
Home Agent Has Busy
Schedule in Pre-Fair Days
By ESTHER KIRMIS
Teachers, to be worth their
salt, must always be studying
and keeping up with the times.
Extension agents are no differ
ent. Shortcourses, agent train
ing, and refreshers are always
recommended to keep an agent
on their toes.
N. C. Anderson, County Exten
sion Agent, has just returned
from a three-week shortcourse
in extension methods at Ft. Col
lins, Colo. This week Joe Hay
and I are at the University of
Oregon, Eugene, taking part in
a communication seminar for ex
tension personnel.
The communications process
and its use as a leadership tool
will be the basic concept of the
seminar. Dr. Exra Saul, director
of the institute of phychological
research, Tufts University, Med-
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Professor." Despite his imposing
title and a national reputation,
Exra Saul is a folksy, practical
social scientist with a gift for
talking shop in layman's lang
uage. Those from Oregon who
have taken part in his previous
trainings have found him inter
esting, stimulating, and a ready
source of practical information.
Gordon Hood, Burton Berger,
and Dwight Fairbanks, OSU ex
tension staff members, will work
with Dr. Saul in developing the
seminar.
Joe and I should be in for a
treat!
The week of July 23 to 29
I plan to be in North Dakota
visiting my family. This is also
a "revitalizing" type of therapy.
The week of July 30 to August
3 will be spent in Corvallis in
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Mr. and Mrs. Ned Sweek and
boys returned home Sunday af
ter a 10-day vacation to-Yellow-
stone Park and into Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. David Eckman
and sons journeyed to ..Sand
point, Idaho, to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Eckman.
Two children, Linda and David
returned home with them after
visiting their grandparents for
two weeks.
Week-end visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beckett
were their granddaughter and
her family, Mr. and Mrs. James
Hunt and daughter Marty, Du
fur. Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Drake and
family, Tillamook, visited friends
and relatives last week, return
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agent training for projects to be
used in our 1962-63 extension
unit program. Home Economics
specialists at OSU work with us
to give the best program possible
to the women, boys and grils.
I will be out of the county for
a little while, but before you
know it I'll be back and raring
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