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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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affairs will be in 'the "Big Busi
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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
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