HEPPNER GAZETTE-TIMES. Thursday. June 6, 1963
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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,
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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."
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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. Watch
for official announcement and
the agenda of the tour.
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