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HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. June 6, 1963 -3 TV, ! I (ir " - -N..w , f - . i -', ',i,ji, V i ttk I Sights Please Farm Tourists On County Trip DALE VAN BLOKLAND of Ruggs is pictured with his 9C3 lfc. Hereford steer that he is showing this week at the Junior Livestock show. The Dalles. He will use the steer in showmanship com petition, after which it will be sold Saturday afternoon at the sale. Local buvers are encouraged to take part to support 4-H members. (G-T Photo) Top 4-H Stock From Morrow Entered in Show Excellent quality 4-H live stock is being exhibited at the Junior Livestock Show in The Dalles this week. The show is sponsored by the Oregon Wheat Growers League and runs June 5-8, according to Joe Hay, Mor row county extension agent. Club members of Morrow county are exhibiting 11 lambs, FFA Boys Toke Part In The Dalles Show Ten members of the Hepp ner High chapter, Future Farmers of America, are par ticipating in the Junior Live stock show at The Dalles this week, Gerald Jonasson, voca tional agriculture teacher said. They are as follows: Sen iors Bill Struthers, Bob Ha ger, Larry Monagle. Junior Kenny Wright. Sophomores John Wagenblast, Tony Do herty, Larry Heath, Dennis Warren. Gres? Pierce. Fresh man Dick Flaiz. The group left Wednesday and will return Saturday. six hogs and eight steers. Those exhibiting lambs are Bobbie Harris, David Hall, David and Douglas Anderson, Stephen Lindstrom, Tony, Maureen, , v..r t , i .... fit- "V. V H .-; J BOB HARRIS of Upper Rhea Creek holds the well-blocked Suffolk market lamb that he is showing this week at the Junior Live stock Show at The Dalles. Harris will enter the lamb in show manship competition after which the 95-lb. animal will be sold Saturday afternoon. (G-T Photo) Nancy and Becky Doherty. Hog exhibitors are Mitchell Ashbeck, David and Douglas Anderson. Those exhibiting steers are Rol and Ekstrom, Terryl and Sue Greenup. Maureen Doherty, Dale Van Blockland and Mitchell Ashbeck. These club members are com peting for prizes in the live stock judging contest, showman ship contest, herdsmanship con test and for prizes on their ani mals. For their efforts at the show, exhibitors will be honored with a banquet and entertain ment Friday evening, June 7. A special carcass show dem onstration and evaluation will be conducted Saturday morning, June 8, from 10:00 to noon. This year's carcass show includes a class of beef and sheep. The public is invited to view the ' By N. C. ANDERSON A small, but interested, group attended the annual Conserva tion and Better Farming Prac tices tour held last Friday. The group, traveling by bus, was able to visit as it toured the Hinton Creek, Sand Hollow, Jun iper Canyon, South lone, and Eightmile areas. All enjoyed seeing some of the excellent growths of wheat and were happy in general with crop pros pects, seeing only localized rust infections. They were interested in rye control on the roadsides in the Sand Hollow area and heard Kenneth Turner explain that four miles of roadside had been sprayed at a cost of only $22 for chemicals. This work, done by Doug Drake, is looking ex cellent even though it was put on at a later stage of growth than recommended. One of the few well developed irrigation systems in the county was seen at the Fritz Cutsforth ranch in Sand Hollow. Fritz has a newly leveled field set up by by border system, using con crete headgates for flooding as well as a sprinkler system for those areas that are not quite so easily flooded. Several stops were made to see grass and alfalfa seedings and all were especially impressed with the growth and stands. A 10-year-old seeding of grazing alfalfas at the Lindsay ranch in lower Sand Hollow, where normal rain fall is considered too little for alfalfa production, astonished all. A new seeding, primarily Whitmar Beardless Wheatgrass with Nomad Alfalfa, at the Bill Doherty ranch is well establish ed and doing well. An older seeding of Whitmar along the roadside was admired by those on the tour. Beardless Wheat grass is native to Morrow coun ty and this improved species is doing excellent wherever it has been seeded. An unscheduled stop, enjoyed by all, was a trip to Carl froed son's Sunset Ranch. The trip was made to see the excellent cheat grass control along wheat field borders done by Fred Martin, lone, who farms the Troedson land. At the farmstead, Carl couldn't resist showing us his landscaping and flower gardens, carcasses and hear the evalua tion. The grand champion show manship contest will follow the carcass show at 12:00 noon. This should be an interesting contest to watch, and is one of the highlights of the show, Hay said. All livestock exhibited at the show will be sold at auction Saturday afternoon and evening. Sheep and hogs will be sold at 2:00 o'clock and the beef sale starts at 7:00 P. M. "Morrow county resid e n t s, businessmen and organizations are encouraged to help support the auction sale," Hay said. "Some top quality locker meat will be on sale." t III T- 1 Iff , ..At J 'I v-i'l Mi liMiliiif iiill iiiWtiWririi iliiVriiiiln iiiii)ir I, i iiiimJ V. ill VW MP. t 2-wissi ty"- - 7s Monza Spyder Convertible Monza Spyder Club Coupe Come hill... or high water Vacations go smoother in a Chevrolet Corvair Bring on those mountains! They're not mighty when you've got Corvair's gutty engine traction working on them. You scurry up the meanest grades. You move with sure-footed agility on wet pavement, muddy lanes, gravel and other would-be miseries. And with most of Corvair's weight on the rear wheels, you have easy steer ing, too. Fact is, the handling's so light and responsive we don't even offer power steering for the car. And there's more to feel good about. No problems with your radiator boiling so high and six and rear- over or going dry, because there's no radiator. Corvair's engine is air cooled. No concern about brake adjust ments, either, because the brakes adjust themselves. Nothing much to think about at all except the good time you're having. Like to do that in a sporty bucket seated Monza Club Coupe or Convert ible? Like to spring into summer with a 4-speed stick shift and Spyder pack age with its 150-hp Turbocharged engine? Your dealer's got just the AT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER'S Corvair and the Trade 'N' Travel deal on it to put you in a holiday mood. 'Optional at extra coal CHECK HIS TNT DEALS ON CHEVROLET, CHEVY E, CORVAIR AND CORVETTE Fulleton Chevrolet Company Keppner, Oregon and a profusion of blooms of 39 varieties of Iris caught every one's eye. Conservation Family Hosts Group The lunch stop at the Gar Swanson ranch was of course an enjoyable part of the tour. While everyone took a sack lunch they could have made out well with the table set by Irene Swanson and daughter, Jean Ann Turner. The Swansons did a good job of hosting the group as we paid respects to them as 1963 Conservation Family of the Year. Gar did a nice job in pointing out the reasons for con structing the six erosion clams, windstrip cropping and stubble mulch practices which earned him this title. Approximately 500 hours had gone into construc ting the erosion dams to prevent loss of silt and in stabilizing a canyon that carries a tre mendous amount of water dur ing cloudbursts and season of heavy rainfall. The strips will break up long drainage areas preventing this loss of silt in the future. A lot of interest was shown in the visit to a chemical fallow plot on the Swanson ranch to compare various chemicals used at different dates and rates for the control of cheatgrass in stubble. Of special interest were plots where applications of .4 pounds of Atrazine was used alone and .4 pounds Atrazine plus pounds of Amitrol dur ing the fall and winter months. Excellent control was shown in plots applied on October 18 and February 21. The group was especially interested in the lower costs of these applications compared to original recommen dations for chemical fallow. These low rates of chemicals, recommended as an aid tq til lage rather than complete con trol, cost $1.50 and $3.67 for ma terials. Both are recommended to be used before January 1. Another unscheduled stop was a visit at the Henry Peterson and Sons feedlot in the South lone area. This efficient little feedlot has been an excellent outlet for the Petersons to market their barley during the past three years it has been in operation. They have their own feed grinder and batch mixer, using their home grown grains. Yearlings had been on feed for 150 days, the steers making better than a 3 lb. daily gain, the heifers close to 4 lbs. Most would make choice grade and were ready to go on the Port land market. Bob Peterson told the group that gains were being put on for ISc a lb., feed cost. An excellent seeding of alfalfa and Nordan crested wheatgrass was seen at this stop also. Newly established strip crop ping on the Marion Palmer ranch; completion of several erosion control dams and di versions at the Elmer Palmer ranch; and excellent crested wheat and Larak alfalfa on soil bank seeding at the Alfred An derson ranch were observed as the group proceeded to a stop at a wheat nursery at the Frank Anderson ranch. Everyone was interested in comparing rust re sistance of the 11 varieties on the plot. Golden showed very little rust infection with Itana, Omar, Gaines and two wheat crosses showing very heavy in fection. The group also compared eight varieties of barley in the plot ps well as a seeding of Olym pia and Hudson in a field ad jacent to the nursery, Little dif ference was noted in the barley varieties, with the exception that Alpine was considerably less advanced than the others and might as a result, be hurt by hot dry weather. Everyone was impressed with the excel lent barley crop in prospect for the county. Also pointed out and discussed was a fertilizer plot on the Anderson ranch where 64 plots comparing phosphorus, sulphur and nitrogen alone, and nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur in various combinations. Pasture Tour is Planned Last week we commented on a grazing alfalfa and range im provement tour that range man agement specialist, D i 1 1 a r d Gates and I had taken the week prior to that. On this tour we had the opportunity of seeing some excellent spring develop ments made by Eb Hughes. Any one interested in developing springs should see Ebs' plan. He uses a concrete reservoir with tile and pipe to collect the water from the "springy" area where it is then piped to his tanks. We will have an opportunity to see his developments at the Range and Pasture Tour being scheduled to be held in the Ukiah area on Sunday, June 30. Sponsored by the Range and Pasture Improvement Commit tee of the Morrow County Live stock Growers Association it will be cooperative with Umatilla County Livestock Growers also. The tour will assemble at Ukiah at 10:00 a.m. that morning for a tour of the area with a picnic lunch at noon at the Eb Hughes Ukiah ranch headquarters. 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