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2 HEPPNER GAZETTE FABM NEWS County Agent's Office Spore Traps Used In Rust Research By N. C ANDERSON While infections of leaf stripe rust are mild in Morrow county wheat fields at this time, there is still Infection enough to pro vide the spores needed to set off a general stripe rust epidem ic if the proper moisture-temper' ature conditions prevail. These were the decisions made by Dr. Bob Powelson, Plant Pathologist, Oregon State University, and I late last week when an inspec tion tour of wheat fields was made. Some fields are highly in fected and in others one must search for Quite a while to find any rust spores. It is hopeful that this year's infection will be slight, but nevertheless, ObU is active in a rust research project this year as a result of a grant made to them by the u. fc. Army. The entire project is being fin anced by the U. S. Army with not a single state dollar being expended. Research is being aimed at ep idemiology which studies the why's and wherefores of the rust spores, where they come from and where they go to, their mode of over-wintering and over-summering, what causes "hot spots" in a field and how much is rust actually reducing wheat yields. To find these answers, 40 of Dr. Powelsons time will be spent on this research project, 12 of Dr. Rohde, Pendleton Branch Experiment Station, and 12 of Warren Kronstad, an OSU agron omy staff member. The army's interest is from a biological war fare angle. As part of the procedure for determining the answers, spore traps are being put out in stra tegic locations throughout the Columbia Basin. These will be serviced by the county agent with the spore trap put out for 48-hour Intervals each week. These traps will be located at the same location for readings during the entire spring, sum mer and fall. The traps were designed by OSU staff members and consist of a steel rod with strips of CLIPPING And SHEARING BLADES SHARPENED FREE As A Service To Our Many Friends and Customers Compliments of HUMPHREYS REXALL DRUGS AND CLEANING ERWIN'S SEED SPRING SALE OF USED EQUIPMENT 5 Reconditioned Ford Tractors $695 to $1095 1-1953 John Deere A Tractor $850 Excellent rubber, reconditioned, painted 1952 John Deere IS Tractor Excellent rubber, reconditioned, painted 3 Owatonna Model 81-10 ft. Swathers .... Large engines, dual wheels, completely reconditioned, new guarantees, your choice. 1 Case SC Wide Front End Tractor Excellent condition, good rubber 1 Allis-Chalmers Model WD Tractor $100 21962 Ford Dexta Diesel Tractors, ea. $2500 Like new. LARGE SELECTION HAY RAKES, MOWERS, MISCELLANEOUS HAY TOOLS Financing Available Trades Accepted Free Delivery Umatilla Ford Tractor Co. I 146 N. HERMISTON, Ph. 567 After 6 P.M. - TIMES. Thursday. April 16. 1964 Scotch tape placed on them to pick up spores which are then removed for laboratory analysis. A part of the project also in volved placing spore traps in the high Cascades to determine if spores are moving in from the Willamette Valley or from other distant areas. Each time the spore trap is removed and mail ed in a special mailing tube to the Plant Pathology Department, a field inspection will be made by the county agent providing such information as stage of growth of wheat, amount and severity of infection. Spore traps were located last Thursday and Friday at Eight- mile, Gooseberry and north Lex ington points and collected for the first time on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This research should provide many of the an swers that have been needed in dealing with leaf stripe rust in fections. I will appreciate any in formation which might provide important information wh i c h can be applied to the research. Place Trout Orders Now This is the last call for pool ing orders on trout for stocking farm ponds. Arrangements are being made for several thous and Eastern Brook trout to be brought in from a trout farm at Elgin for annual restocking. Call this office If you have not yet placed your order. Lambs Show Good Gain The lone 4-H Livestock club members had the opportunity to fit and show swine and sheep at their last meeting at the Ken neth Smouse ranch. Late De cember and early January lambs which the club members worked with at this meeting were weigh ed and found to weigh as much as 107 pounds. This is a tremen dous rate of gain for 100-day-old lambs. Three quarters pound gain per day is considered good, but this would amount to a 1 pound daily gain. Lambs receiv ed no creep, only milk from the ewes who are milking real good as a result of having the run of the ranch and a lot of good green wheat pasture. Nightcrawlers Control Given It's a horrible thought, but there are many irrate home own ers at this time of the year that contact our office for information on the control of nitecrawlers. These delectable of all fish baits, can be a real problem in lawns if families are not ardent fisher men. To control them, 10 pounds of 5 chlordane dust per thousand square feet applied and then sprinkled irrigated in, or lVt pound of 40 wettable powder chlordane per thousand square foot applied as a spray or with a sprinkler can will give good results. Families To Host Visiting Youth Everything seems in order for an interesting and educational week-end for 35 Portland 8th graders as reported in the Hepp ner Gazette-Times last week. These boys and girls will stay on 19 different farms in the Heppner-Ione and Lexington area durig their visit here. They are only one group of four of a like number that will be staying . $695 $2500 . $550 First OREGON - 6529 Ph. 567-5268 in Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco and Morrow counties. Some farm families will have their hands full with three of these guest 8th graders while others will have one and two, according to their wishes. It's interesting to see the wide range of occupations that these boys and girls' parents are en gaged in which ranges from psychologist to fireman, struc tural iron worker, Corp of En gineers, airline pilot to book salesman. Those families who have open ed their doors to the boys and girls are the Ted Palmateers, Bryce Keenes, Walter Jacobs, Don and Dick McElligotts, Don Petersons, Ernest Christopher sons, Norman Nelsons, and Bob Lovgrens from the lone school; Bob Kilkenneys, Roice Fulletons, Howard Pettyjoh ns, W 1 1 1 a r d Frenchs, Ellis Pettyjohns, Doug Drakes, Bernard Dohertys, Gene Hall, Ora Evans, and the N. C. Andersons, Heppner school. Wheatgrowers Set Meeting In a planned system of ro tating meetings from one wheat community to another, the Ore gon Wheatgrowers League will hold its next executive commit tee meeting at the Fair Annex building in Heppner. This meet ing will be held on April 27, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Exec utive committee members of the Morrow County Wheatgrowers Assoc. are especially urged to at tend and all wheat growers are Invited. Included on the agenda for the day are a number of reports of projects which the league is carrying out as well as regular business. They have arranged to have noon luncheon with the Morrow County-Heppner Cham ber of Commerce when Loren Smith, president of the Oregon Agricultural Tax Assoc., will dis cuss the proposed sales tax amendment, petitions which are now being circulated. Passage of Wheat Bill Brings Changes in Program Regardless of how individual farmers feel about the passage of the Wheat-Cotton bill, it does provide a new program for the 1964 and 1965 crop years. The Wheat program authorized by this bill is an up-dated version of the Wheat Certificate plan introduced by Congre s s m a n Stockman of Oregon as well as others many years ago. The major differences between the wheat program provided for in this legislation and the pro gram voted on in the referen dum are free choices of partici pation and lower diversion pay ments and certificate values. Under this new law, a farmer who wants to stay out of the program in 1965 can plant all the wheat he wants to without penalty. He will not lose his his tory, he has no marketing quotas, and no restrictions on marketing. Of course he cannot overseed his allotment and get the benefits of the program. The cooperator in the program will take his wheat to the ele vator to get a $1.30 loan or sell his wheat at the market price. If he is a cooperator he will be eligible for certificates two kinds, one worth 70c and the other worth 25c. The elevator man can buy your wheat at $1.30 or he can buy wheat and certifi cates at $2.00 or you can take your certificates to ASC and they will purchase them from you for resale to the millers or exporters. The non-cooperators sells on the open market without support or certification. Full details of the new program will be made available to all wheat farmers in the very near future. Busy Needles Meet The Busy Needles 4-H knitting club met at the home of Mrs. Spohn on April 8. We worked on our caps and half of us are finished. One has started his slipper already. All but one was present. At HERE'S why Bi-County Chemical can solve your fertilization problems before harvest. So you'll still have plenty of time for seeding and other fall work before winter sets in: COMPLETELY overhauled applicators and clean nurse tanks are ready to go to work now. Pumps and meters have also been checked and cleaned for accurate application. And 8,000-gallon port able tanks can be spotted on your ranch for prompt, time-saving delivery. IX ADDITION to this excellent equipment, we'll supply safe, easy-to-handle Brea Aqua Amonia the prime nitrogen source for pre planting. Aqua "plus" sulfur is also available. These solutions can be mixed in any combination for your special fields. REMEMBER that by fertilizing before harvest you don't disturb the soil just prior to seeding. This way, you help conserve moisture. 0 ITS EASY to see why so many smart growers fertilize before harvest with equipment, fertilizer, and know how from Bi-County Chemical Co. Japanese Agency Announces Plan To Buy Wheat By JOHN WELBES Executive Vice President Oregon Wheat Growers League Six Japanese bakers were In our wheat area the past week. Accompanying the group was Toschio Hannya, Wheat Assoc iates, Tokyo, who served as in terpreter. Each baker represent ed a different area of Japan. They were impressed by the size of our country. One of them re marked through the interpreter, "Due to our small fields and harvesting methods we should let the United States grow all our wheat." At the same time, the Japanese Food Agency announced their purchase plans for the coming Telephone your Chevrolet dealer about any type of truck Fullefon Chevrolet Company ounty Chemical Top-Performing Application Equipment For Complete or Partial Pre-Harvest Fertilizatiton year. Their year begins on April 1 and closes March 31. The Food Agency has an nounced plans to purchase 3,200, 000 metric tons of foreign wheat during the next fiscal year. The breakdown 6hows 2.4' million tons for food and 800,000 tons for "feed bran" usage. FA plan ners expect U. S. imports will be between 1.4 and 1.5 million tons with the following break down: 600,000 tons of Western White; 300,000 tons of Hard Win ter, 13 protein; 350,000 tons of HW, 11.5; and 200,000 tons of HW, ordinary. Canadian imports should total 1.3 to 1.4 million tons and Australia 400,000 tons. Recent estimates show the 1964 domestic wheat production to be approximately 1.4 to 1.8 million tons with the Food Agency plan ning to purchase 900,000 tons of the total supply. The actual out come of domestic production will influence foreign imports, particularly Western White, and present crop prospects look fav orable. One of the bright spots, as far makes all types vjm CHEVROLET Heppner, The Sign of Superior Service Means as our Tokyo office is concerned, is the Japanese Government's promotional efforts to increase consumption of wheat foods to help alleviate the short rice sup ply situation. With their help and that which we always re ceive from the Agricultural At tache's office, WA Tokyo hopes to retain the U. S. as the largest wheat supplier to this important cash market. NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Come In And Get Acquainted GRAY'S SADDLERY We Invite Your it Saddles Custom (CLOSED ON Heppner Hotel Bldg. PH. of quality trucks Oregon NO GUESSING All Products Metered With Ticket Stamped For Farmer On Each Load. CALL US TODAY 422-7531 lone, Ore 384-3551 Condon, Ore. 989-8422 Lexington, Ore. Busy Buddies Meet Bee's Busy Buddies had their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Ewing Hynd. The final plans were completed for the Achievmeent Night dinner. 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