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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.
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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. This variety with a shorter,
stiffer stalk is being examined to see if it
will better resist strong winds among other
things.
Twenty-five acres of the 85
is devoted to horticultural re
search. Already some 3,000
hybrid pears have been plant-
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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
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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.
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