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2 HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES, County Agent's Office Clearance Given On New Chemical For Wheat Fallow By NELS ANDERSON Word was received late last week that Atrazine is now clear ed for use in a winter fallow pro gram. The clearance rate is one half pound of Atrazine product (.4 active) per acre. The recom-. mendations are for one-half pound of Atrazine plus two pounds of Amitrol product (1 Jb. active) per acre. This clear ance has been limited to appli cations by January 1 and is ap plicable only on land to be fall planted (1903) to winter wheat. There is no clearance for land to be planted to barley and the reg istration excludes the use on sandy or Shallow type soils. While no definition was given of a shallow type sou, discus sions with weed men would seem to indicate that this would mean anything 15 inches or unuer. Some ranchers who have con tacted this office recently for a recommendalio n to control heavy growths of volunteer rye this fall will be happy to hear of this clearance for use on wheat land. This would also be excel lent, for those who have been having a problem of volunteer bulbous bluegrass. This applica tion should be effective in a con trol of volunteer grains and grass for five or six months Cleared also for use is 2 lbs. of Atrazine product plus 2 lbs. of Amitrol product for a two year tallow program. This recom mendation could work well for those planning double summer fallow for the wheat and barley diversion program or the estab lishment of alternate strips In a strip cropping program. Com plete control of vegetation would be given for the first year with the summerfallow operations needed to be carried out only through the spring and summer of the second year before seed ing that fall. It would be parti cularly helpful in kee ping ground cover for prevention of wind and water erosion. Food Costs Today Down to 20 of Income A leading cereal manufacturer is using a whole side of their corn flakes package to tell con sumers that "Food is a bargain." With illustrations and graphs In multi-color the package points out that each farm worker grows SO'Ii more food now than in r.M7-'l!, and that the American consumer now earns a month's supply of food with fewer hours of work it took 59 hours of work in 19I7-49; today It takes Just 3S hours. Whereas food took 2ii of the consumer's income in UM7-19 it takes only 20',! today. "You get more nutrition, conven ience, abundance and year around variety than ever," it tells lis customers, and reminds them that, "Your food today takes less of your pay!" New Barley Varieties Get Seeding Recommendation This office has received num erous culls (lining the past few days asking for recommenda tions on winter barley varieties to seed. This lias been a hard question to answer since we do not have a good winter-hardy, high yielding, winter bailey var iety to recommend. Each has had some experience with Win- ONE GOOD M07EL LEADS TO ANOTHER. Follow the Congress slgnl It take you from one good motel to another. Three hundred fine motor hotels and superb Congress Inns, throughout the United States, and In Canada end Mexicol At your very first Congress stop', your host will give you a free Travel Guide, help you plan your trip, and make free ad vance reservations for your next Congress Motor Hotel. All are Inspected and approved, and all will honor your Diner Club, Ameri can Express or Carte Blanche credit cards. CONGRESS MOTOR HOTELS 8170 Beverly Boulevard, los Angeles 48, Calif. OOINO TO MEXICO? Writ us for datalb on unlquo alUxpania two-way radio motor tour, Congrats "Car O Fun" caravans Includt room, mails, gat, gulda, Insurant, radio, ot. Thursday, November 8, 1962 ?MtM NEWS tor Club, Olympia and Alpine the varieties that have some winter hardiness. Alpine seems to have the most winter hardi ness, however, may have been disappointed with yeild and the unpleasant characteristic (itchi ness) associated with harvesting. Winter Club, also known as Utah Winter and White Winter, has not yielded well on all sites. Olympia has been a good yield er but is extremely susceptible to "head breaking" just as It ripens. Some have asked about Cascade. A limited amount of this variety has been grown in Morrow county with yields re ported to be quite low. It is a variety that has sufficient win ter hardiness for fall planting in the Willamette Valley and has been pretty much limited to that area. Hudson, a new variety in this area has done well in the cereal nursery at the Frank Anderson ranch during the past few years. Seed has been limited and high priced but there should be small quantities available for seeding in Morrow County next year. Frank Anderson and Lloyd Howton each received 500 lbs. of seed this fall for seed in crease and Kenneth Peck and Don McElligott have a sizeable acreage seeded this fall from seed increase from a year ago. Some ranchers continue to seed Trebi and Flynn 37, both spring varieties, In the fall. It seeded late and protected by deep fur row seedings they sometimes come through if the winter is not too severe. Generally the yield is better when fall seeded than spring if these varieties can be gotten through the winter witn- out freezing out. Many are sed- ing these spring van e 1 1 e s through the winter again even though the past two years have been rough on spring varieties seeded in the fall as well as reg ular winter varieties. Sale Set at Grant Fa irgrounds A range-ready bull sale spon sored by the Grant County Stock growers Association has been announced for Wednesday, Nov ember 14, with the sale to start at 1:00 p. m, at the Grant County Fairgrounds at John Day. There will be 40 bulls offered for sale. Experimental Plot Made on Nitrogen As a result of interest for sev eral years and as a means oi answering some questions rela tive to fertilizer needs, uses and combinations for best as well as possible deficiencies of trace plant foods an annual cropping experiment was set up at the Frank Anderson ranch last Thursday. Fifteen acres of stub ble land was seeded to wheat; half of it disced before seeding; half of it seeded directly into stubble. Nil.'! was applied on one-third of the area with am monium sulphate providing both nitrogen and sulfur on the re maining two-thirds area with phosphorus on one-half of this. Trace elements will be applied on the foliage next spring and yields determined at harvest time, liy continuous cropping it is hoped that plant deficiencies can be more readily determined than through the regular sum mci fallow-grain rotation. This will supplement some work be ing done on the same ranch bv CONGRESS COAST-TO-COAST FREE WHt$ for poo ktt size Travel GuUlt. Giv dstolli and rata of S00 Congress Mo tor Hotels. Farmers Union Plan Two-State Meeting Nov. 8-10 Key speakers at the annual Oregon-Washington Farmers union Convention, which will be held at the PUD Auditorium in Vancouver November 8-10, will be Howard Bertsch of the Farm Home Administration and Irvin C. Feustal of the U. S. Peace Corps. Other speakers include Arnold Bodtker, director of Oregon's Agriculture Stabilizati on and Conservation Committee; Allan R. Johnson, director of Radio and Research, rep r e s e n t i n g the Washington State Grange; Joe Dwyer, director of the Washing ton Department of Agriculture, Leonard Kenfield, president of the Montana Farmers Union and a member of the National Farm ers Union board of directors; and William Jensen, who will repre sent Oregon's Civil Defense de partment. President, R. J. Elkins of Mo lalla, will give his message Thursday at 11 a. m. Reports of vice-president, Alan Ham, La Center, Wash.; Secretary, Mrs. Grace Whittington, Salem, and members of the board of direc tors will also be heard that day. Registration will begin at 8 a. m. A panel of FU Juniors will dis cuss "Working for Peace" at the PUD Auditorium at 11 a. m. Sat urday. The Junior Convention will be held at the Quay Rest aurant in Vancouver beginning with a banquet at 12 noon. Mrs. Donna Corwin, Pedee, the new Junior leader, will assist tne Juniors and Reserves with their business meeting at 1:30 p. m. and the recreation period to follow. the Sherman Branch Experiment Station to determine why wheat does not show a great respond to nitrogen. Howard Cushman, Ex tension Soil Conservat 1 o n i s t Specialist, assisted the agent and Frank in laying out this experi mental plot. Use of Bordeaux Spray Best for Fruit Trees Now is a good time to apply the Bordeaux spray to apple, peach and cherry pear, trees. Use an 8-8-100 Bordeaux except for cherries which requires a 12-12-100 Bordeaux. This fungus- cide takes care of bacterial can ker, leaf curl and vari o u s blights. Bordeaux 8-8-100 means 8 lbs. of copper sulphate plus 8 lbs. ot lime In 100 gallons ot water. In any Bordeaux formula the ingredients are always giv en in the same order with the pounds of copper sulphate first, then the pounds of lime and the gallons of water last. How do you persuade a reluctant youngster that music is not "for sissies"? H Classroom teachers of the West, Alaska and Hawaii do so with the help of our Standard School Broadcast, which, by dramatizing music from symphony to jazz, adds a colorful dimension to learn ing. Gary and 2Vi million other boys and girls hear this weekly radio program in their classrooms. H Has it inspired in Gary a zest for the violin? Honestly, no. But he now thinks the trombone is "swell," and plays it w" vigor. His parents credit this new interest to the jf-s j&k fh ifJtt &x xjr V f H.K ) . I LI I :;l k (J I THE HIGH HOPES 4-H CLUB of lone will be one of 42 4-H clubs in the county taking part in the annual 4-H Achievement Party at lone on Saturday, November 10. Achievement designates successful completion of a year's work. First National Banks of Oregon furnish completion pins and certificates. Members of this club are (back row) Bonnie Morgan, Linda Nichols, Bonnie Akers, Linda Williams; (front row) Teresa Stefani, Teresa Tucker, and Mrs. Howard Crowell, 4-H leader. 4-H Achievements Jo Be Recognized Saturday Night Over 300 4-H members, their parents and friends are expected to gather at the lone school cafe torium on Saturday evening, November 10, beginning at 7:00 p. m. for the annual 4-H Achievement night when pins, certificates, and awards for the year are given out. According to agents Esther Kirmis and Joe Hay this has been the first time the party has been held In lone for quite a few years. The lone Jazz Band will fur nish entertainment for the group along with an lone girls trio and Jeanne Stockard, piano solo ist from Heppner. Thirty clubs from the Hep pner, lone, Lexington, Pine City and Rhea Creek area will take part. Eleven clubs from North Morrow had their Achievement Party on Nov. 3. The county s totai reads 22 home economics clubs; 8 agricultural clubs; 3 saddle horse; 5 wildlife; 1 wood working; 1 rockhounding; 1 elec tricity; and 1 tlower club. "4-H helps parents to guide the development of their sons and daughters," comment the agents. "They get a helping hand in the county from 60 will ing 4-H leaders who have a genuine interest and desire to work with young people." Planning the party is Mrs. Roger Campbell. Lexington; Mrs Jim Bloodsworth, Heppner; Mrs. Hershal Townsend, lone; and Mrs. Harry Proudfoot, Echo. 4 " r County 4-H Livestock Judging Day Planned A county-wide 4-H Livestock Judging Day will be held Satur day afternoon, November 17, starting at 1:30 p. m. at the Frank Anderson tarm. The Anderson farm is located about one mile west of Ruggs on the Ileppner-Condon Highway. Four-H livestock club members will be given the opportunity to judge beef, sheep, hogs and pos sibly some dairy animals. This is the first of three 4-H livestock judging events this year in which scores will be kept to de termine which 4-H livestock members are eligible to partici pate in State Fair and P. I. 4-H livestock judging contests ac cording to Joe Hay, county agent. Other similar contests will be held in April and at the county fair in August. "Livestock members shou 1 d study their 4-H livestock and dairy judging bulletins before coming to the judging day on Saturday," Hay said. He also in dicated that some 4-H members will be asked to give oral rea sons and everyone will be asked to write written reasons on one or more classes that will be judged. Parents and 4-H leaders are also encouraged to attend the judging day. Chairmen of other committees are Mrs. L. A. McCabe, lone, program; Mrs. William Rawlins, lone, decorating; Mrs. Harry Proudfoot, Echo, hostesses; Mrs. Willard French, Echo, refresh ments, and John Proudfoot, lone, setting up and clean-up committee. Gary used to fiddle awful sour Planning ahead to serve you better Chats With Your Home Agent Unit Survey Underway To Check On Shortcourse By Esther Kirmis "Money matters for Marrieds" is a new discussion group series our extension office would like to offer after Christmas if there is sufficient interest in the county. We are surveying the county to find out about holding this series in both south and north Morrow county. The shortcourse would involve four evening meetings spaced a week apart. Instructors would be the County Extension Agents (trained by Mrs. Dorothy Miller, OSU Family Finance Specialist) and any additional business or professional men the gr o u p would desire. A steering commit tee, chosen from this survey, would decide on the program and the physical arrangements. Here are some reasons we feel a "Money For Marrieds" short course would be of value to peo ple of Morrow county: (1) Everyone is talking about money. You can't pick up a Sun day paper or a magazine without finding an article about this fas c i n a t i n g subject. Money Management ran second high in a survey of shortcourse topics we made two years ago. Last year we conducted the first choice, "Understanding Boys and Girls." (2) Few young couples realize when they start out in marriage that the financial part of their Is Your Money Doing What You Want It To? ? Would you like it to do better? ? ? Morrow County Extension service is making a survey of interest in conducting a "MONEY MANAGEMENT FOR MARRIEDS" after Christmas. (Four evening meetings). If interested fill in the blank. NAME ADDRESS (Check the four subjects that Money Isn't Everything Wise Use of Credit Social Security classroom music. H Who knows how many children have discovered an exciting new world through this public service program? It has just started its 35th consecutive year, so we have served quite a few school generations. U Tune in some Thursday. Adults enjoy the program, too. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF affairs will be in 'the "Big Busi ness" category. A breadwinner earning $4000 a year over a per iod of 45 years will have earned $180,000; $5000 a year would be $225,000; $25,000 a year would mean over a million. (3) Leading doctors tell us "over one-half of the sickness in this country rises from economic insecurity and money worries." (4) Studies show that married couples have taken longer to work out problems centering around spending the family in come than any other area, ex cept sex relations. (5) Studies show that families recognize the importance of planning the use of money not only to take care of current needs, but to accomplish long range objectives. (6) It is important that fami lies should acquaint themselves with common facts on such sub jects as credit, social security, life insurance, saving and in vestments. If you are interested in having a "Money For Marrieds" shortcourse this winter would you fill out the ad below indicat ing your choices and return it to the County Agent's office by November 21? Need scratch pads? Get them at the Gazette-Times. you would like to discuss) Designing a Family Plan Savings and Investments CALIFORNIA