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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mctfferrf, Or. Sunday, July 26, 1959 Experiment Farm Station to Be Presented to State Tuesday Br JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Staff Member Tuesday, County Judge Earl Miller will present the new physical plant of the South era Oregon Branch Experi ment station to the state board of higher education. This will be part of an open house, field day at the new Hanley research farm of. the Southern Oregon Branch Ex periment station. The board of higher education will have the farm for its use as long as it is used for agricultural re search to assist the local econ omy. Tuesday's public ceremonies will mark another plateau reached by the experiment station staff. Use of 85 acres of the Hanley ranch near Jacksonville for strengthening the agricultural future of the Rogue River valley, state, and nation seems fitting, for the Hanley ranch, one of the state's Century farms, has played a strong role in the past agricultural history of Jackson county and the val ley. - Varieties of Grains The varieties of grains, grasses, fruits and vegetables which the new experiment sta tion develops or tests will be used by future farmers of the county, state, and nation. .6 vA,,yCV:j wmmm mmmmmmmm c '(,., .' ' Vs'. COMBINING GRAIN - This combine crew at the new Hanley experimental farm near Jacksonville - is harvesting part of a test plot of wheat. The 'experiment 'station is continually testing new varieties of all grains before making recommendations to farmers. A dwarf variety of wheat is also being raised at the experiment station for test purposes. 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SP 2-2456 ed and are growing well. Oth er plantings include a block for stony-pit investigations. and albino cherry resistance studies. - Under way is transfer of the so-called Museum orchard located in the past at the old experiment station site on Highway 99 near Talent. That block will. contain 20 named varieties, types and species of pears. This is one of the larg est collections of its" kind in the United State .and is, used by pear-breeders throughout the United States and Europe as a source of pear-breeding material. Collection from China Much of the collection came from China. Today it is the only source of such breeding material available to breeders in the free world. Other plantings planned for the immediate future . include areas for entomological and pathological studies of prob lems pertinent to the local horticultural industry. As soon as transfer of the Muse um orchard can be completed, the old site on Highway 99 will be released to the county for sale. When that is done, the horticultural research pro gram will be conducted in two areas, the Medford site on Kings highway and at the Hanley research farm. The agronomic research program at the new Hanley research farm includes work in seven general areas, (1) feed grain improvement, (2) corn for grain and silage, (3) forage improvement, (4) seed crops. (5) weed control, (6) truck crops improvement, and (7) investigations on miscel laneous new crops to deter mine their possible adapta bility to the southern Oregon area. Develop Physical Plant Much of the research'staff's time for the past year has been used for development of the physical plant and long range planning. However, ac tual research underway m the fields this yearwincludes fertilization studies on sweet corn and tomatoes, varietal tests on sweet corn, field corn, tomatoes, alfalfa, grasses, feed grains, millet, sorghum, soybeans, and a number of minor crops. Other work includes chem ical weed control on corn and an irrigation versus rate of nitrogen fertilization on field corn. Results of these experi ments and tests will be avail able to growers during the fall and winter through coun ty extension agents and local grower meetings. Several ad ditional studies and tests will be started this fall and next spring. Walking by the experiment al plots, the visitor can see a planting of 20 U.S. varieties of alfalfa and 27 introductions from foreign countries. The latter varieties have been brought from the near-east and middle east countries by teams of agricultural scien tists sent by the U. S- depart ment of agriculture. Used in Area Talent alfalfa, now exten sively used in this area, re sulted from just this type of work. It is hoped that even better varieties or strains may be introduced or developed. Some 36 varieties of field corn are under test for grain and silage production for the expanding livestock industry in the southern Oregon area. Harold White, experiment station, superintendent, noted that 10 years ago 40 bushels of corn per acre or 10 tons of corn silage per acre was the average in Jackson and Jo However, today better adapted varieties, better fer tilization knowledge, better irrigation practices and better weed control have given area growers more than double those yields. To remain in the station's testing program any field corn variety must be cap able of producing at least 100 bushels of shelled corn per acre and 35 tons of silage per acre. Varieties of Sweet Corn The visitor will also see 29 varieties and 12 different fer tilizer treatments on sweet corn, and 28 varieties and 12 different fertilizer treatments on tomatoes. Many varieties of wheat, oats and barley, both for fall and spring planting, are being tested to find higher yielding, more disease resistant and stronger stand ing strain for use in this area. For the past 10 days the long wooden, steam-wheeler type blades of the combine chopped through wheat, oats and barley varieties. These varieties are studied for thick ness of stand or how thickly they grow once planted, strength of stock and how well they stand up for har vesting. Once harvested the kernels are taken to the lab oratory and studied for full ness of kernel and weight. A bushel of wheat, oats and barley must weigh at least a certain amount. Any weight over that brings the farmer extra money since the heavier kernels are fuller and contain more food materials. Growing Business Export of alfalfa seed, Tal ent and Lahontan varieties, promises to be a steadily growing business in the val ley. Experimentation with pas ture grasses, Sudan and sor ghum grasses, is important to the dairy and livestock farm ers. Sudan grass can be plant ed in late spring or hay sub stitute if the future hay crop doesn't look good to the farm er. The latter grass varieties, like field corn, can also serve as silage. Since the new experiment station is located on a Century farm a farm which has been m one family for 100 years or more it seems only appro priate that a man who was raised on a Century farm should be superintendent. The farm on which White was raised in the Illinois Val ley is still in the family after 103 years. The present farm of 91Vi acres is occupied by Mrs. Raymond White. It is located a short distance south of the Caves highway and several miles east of Cave Junction. It is part of Dona tion Land Claim No. 37 which contained 245.86 acres. The farm was established in 1855 by Samuel Wilson White and his wife, Cynthia McVey White. Harold White is one HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 of Samuel Wilson White's grandsons. Alexander White, Harold White's father, traveled to Oregon by ox team from Cold Water, Mich., on March 16, 1852. with his family. In the 1860s he drove stagecoach from Waldo to Jacksonville An irrigation ditch construct ed by Samuel White and Dr. W. H." Watkins, who owned and operated an adjoining do nation land claim, is still used, It brings water from Sucker creek to the farms' now lo cated within the original do nation land claim boundaries. Prior to Samuel White's death the land claim was di vided between his two sons, Alexander White and James Richard White. When Alexan der White died, . his portion went to his three sons, Ralph A. White, Raymond E. White and Harold H. Wite. Last winter, the experiment station superintendent was honored by the American Farm . Bureau Federation for 30 years' . service to Oregon agriculture. When presenting the award the Oregon Farm Bureau president gave the following review of White's record: OSC Graduate White graduated from Ore gon State college with a bach elor of science degree in agri culture in 1920 and a master's degree in 1938. He taught vo cational agriculture in high Nissen Named fo Coos Bay Off ice ' Wesley E. Nissen of 329 Lrater. Lake ave., Medford, has been promoted to assist ant manager of the Coos Bav branch of the First National Bank of Oregon, it was an nounced Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Nissen and their three children, who have lived in Medford for more than five years, will move to Coos Bay on Aug. 1. Nissen has been the loan officer of the Medford branch of the bank. schools at Lebanon, McMinn- ville and Corvallis. Later as an OSC staff mem ber he helped train vo-ag teachers. Following that he was an OSC agricultural econ omist, then was granted a years leave to assist the USDA bureau of agricultural economics in Columbia Basin joint investigations. It was in 1947 whpn White was transferred to the Oregon Agricultural Experiment sta tion and assigned 4o the Southern Oregon branch at Medford to establish and con duct general agronomic re search for the southern Ore gon area. In June. 1953. he was assigned the superintend ency of the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment station. The position he still.holds. TALL CORN John Yungen, agronomist This particular plot was a test of irrigation with the Southern Oregon Branch Experi- methods. These and other plots will be ment station, stands in the center of a plot examined by the public during the open of tall field corn at the new Hanley Experi- N house Tuesday at the new experiment farm, ment farm on Hanley rd. near Jacksonville. took! Buy 2 and Otsv up 1 hA,JaA Jr AN' v rr.rr y V Y T 7 E1 W M 'Am yJ0 r vvv-. V. v VX V. !1 to 3S esftd more! CUL3L3 U UUUGC '-BiOUSES for 47 Reg. $7 each " Stripes, prints, solid col . ors, whites ingroup. 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