Thursday, April 8, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Many Cash Crops
Found in Forests
Farm Woodlot Will Produce
Many Trees, Bushes,
Berries of Value.
By Robert B. Parmenter, Extension For-
ester. Massachusetts State College.
WNU Service.
"God in the hills,” a favorite line
in by-gone melodramas, might well
apply to today’s farm woodlot. Be
sides saw timber and cordwood, the
farm woodlot offers many other
cash crops to the enterprising own
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Many farmers are getting annual
incomes from Christmas trees.
They also sell "press brush,” or tip
ends of spruce and balsam which
are clipped off and baled for manu
facturers of Christmas greens and
decorations. Some men have sold
fern-picking rights on their land,
the buyers using them as decora-
tions.
There is always a market for tree
seeds. Acorns, walnuts, butternuts,
black walnuts, and cones from
spruce, pine, or balsam may be
gathered and sold in the fall. Bean
poles and pea brush are always in
demand, and poles and stakes for
proping up heavy branches of ap
ple trees often find a sale. Much
of this material can be gathered
while making thinnings in the wood
lot.
Fence posts and rails are always
useful on the farm, and taking them
from the woodlot means quite a
saving over a period of time.
Novelties made from gray o r
white birch, twig baskets filled with
white pine sprays and cones, red
berries, and dried grasses also add
to the income. Decorative buttons
made from walnuts or butternuts
can generally be sold to novelty
shops.
Maple syrup and sap need only
be mentioned. Everyone knows the
value of a good sugar bush. Cattle
bedding made from trash wood by
cones treated chemically to produce
colored flames in the fireplace, and
white birch for fancy fireplace wood
are some of the other forest by-
products.
A little scouting around for a
market will often lead to new uses
for old forest products, and every
new outlet means more money from
the farm woodlot.
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(Copyright, 1936, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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Spruce and Fir Among
Best Windbreak Trees
Norway spruce and Douglas fir
are the most satisfactory trees to use
as windbreak plantings, according
to J. E. Davis, extension forester.
College of Agriculture, University
of Illinois.
A good windbreak is easy to have,
its success depending upon location,
soil preparation, choice of trees,
spacing, protection and care.
A windbreak will be effective on
the leeward for a distance eight
times its height. Since the trees
average 40 feet in height, it is
best not to have the buildings near
er than 50 feet nor farther than
320 feet from the trees. If closer
than 50 feet, snow drifts may form
on buildings, and dead-air pockets
may cause excessive heat in sum
mer.
The windbreak affords best pro
tection if built in the form of an
inverted “L” on the west and north
of the farmstead. Plowed prefer
ably in the fall, the land may be fit
ted in the spring. At least 4-year
old transplanted trees are recom
mended and even larger trees will
assure more success.
Silage for Young Cattle
Silage in large amounts can be
used to feed thin common-to-medi-
urn yearlings or older cattle which
are to be marketed this spring, ac
cording to E. T. Robbins, live stock
extension specialist, College of Ag
riculture, University of Illinois. Sil
age with or without dry roughage
is combined with three or four
pounds of cottonseed meal or soy
bean oil meal for each head each
day by some experienced finishers
of butcher cattle. Corn is added
during about the last two months,
and the cattle are sold when about
two-thirds fat.
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Agricultural Notes
Records show that the corn borer
is moving farther southward.
• • •
California's 1936 potato crop ex
ceeded last year's by 500,000 bushels.
• • •
Once a part of a huge swamp |
region, Putnam county, Ohio, is now I
an important agricultural area.
Oversight
The Curse of Progress
“That letter I gave you thir morn
ing—did you post it?" asked the
wife.
“Well, no, deai,” said her hus
band.
“Of course you didn’t. And 1 told
you it was important that it should
go today ”
“Yes, dear.”
“And you forgot to post it. If that’s
not just like a mani”
“But, dear—”
“Don’t ‘but’ me. I'm angry.”
“But, dear, look at the letter. You
forgot to address iti ”
More than 900 varieties of cab
bage are now grown in the United
States.
The proportion of grain-fed cattle
in the 1937 slaughter supply prob
ably will be smaller than for 1936.
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One broken tile may make a whole
line of drainage worthless.
• • •
Former 4-H club members com
prise 34 per cent of home eco
nomics students and 39 per cent
of all agricultural students in
courses at Ohio State university.
* * *
Too many high producing cows
have “off years”; it pays in added
amounts of milk and fat produced
during a lifetime if special effort
is made to have such cows dry at
least eight weeks before calving.
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“What for?"
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terpretive music an' if dere is any
way of makin' sound take de place
of reality I want de benefit. Lemme
stop an' listen to de pigs grunt an’ de
hens cackle, 'cause sumpin’ tells me
dat's as near as I’m goin' to git to
real ham an' eggs.”
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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