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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTEPPM8E, APRIL 7. 1949 A op«d through engineering research by the famous Doane Agricultural Ser- vice can be framed from your own home-grown poles. Unskilled -hands can do the framing. The poles must be treated, of course, to resist decay in the ground. The Thomas bam holds 90 tons of the same bam by regular methods hay, 100 calves. was $3500, and he also made a de The Balance Wheel. monstration. There is much more of interest to The demonstration was so valua be told about this bam plan from ble that a national plan service that the building standpoint. But its pur distributes farm and home building i pose here is to illustrate the piac- plans through the country's retail i tical point of view on study and plan lun;ber dealers proceeded to put the ning of the farm woodland lot. Thomas barn plan and specifications The balance wheel of farm forestry into circulation. has five point» of weight in its circle. What is the secret of the cost cut? They are: marketing, uses on the Simply that the plan is for a bam of farm, harvesting saleable and home POLE FRAME construction. use material, growing a new tree The words are particularly worth crop on the “tree stubble,” protect the capitals in this region. Our tim ing and improving the trees in ber is the best going for polç-type growth. farm buildings, as very old struc Can’tyou see how it turns in bal tures reveal in ’all Western Oregon ance? This column has already and Washington counties. On most shown that the 2x4s, in the bins of farms the poles for the job are stand the retail lumber dealers a e trees ing in trees right now. worked up to suit market demand. A modern bam on designs devel When there are trees on a farm that make 2x4s this means that th«y be harvested for the sawlog mar- If the trees are but pile sise are very thick in the stand some AT YOUR FINGERTIPS should be taken out in the way of “stand improvement by thinning.” But there may be no pole market available. What of uses at home for the poles ? Can they be made into fence posts? Fuelwood? Or—in pole fiame construction? The point is that with markets or h<"’e uses in sight, then, and then only, harvesting logically begins Few farmers can afford to start the prac tices of good farm forestry until they Once in Love With Amy Fieddie Martin see what may pay for it. Market« Perry Como and uses flo and should come first Pussy Cat Sammy Kaye in the study of farm forestry as in Lavender Blue Perry Como * ■ its practice. Missouri Waltz Forestry Clearinghouse. Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny A movement for county organiza Spike Jon«8 tion of farm forestry interests has Melancholy Minstrel Vaughn Monroe You, You, You Are th«> One Three Suns The Whole Town is Clancy Lowered the Boom Talking About Dennis Day Cruising Down the River Frankie Carle OUTOFTHE NEW BARN AT HALF COST. What one farmer can do another can do. Charles A. Thomas of Mis- suri built a 50’ x 56’ bam at a cost of $1380.20 when the estimated cost on Mill City Plumbing Bill Dots m LICENSED PLUMBER Phone 2182 e hours 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. a PAFOOJf? IF YOU MIS9E0 ' cm , You CAN STILL IT AU NÉVT TIMÉ YOl/tt IH SA l GM... O IT'S AU AT SALES 3007 POilTLAMO «OAO C m 5 MAYFLOWER PORTER & LAU G 2? the Extra Rich Premium Gates Mrs. Steve Champ is visiting in Seattle at the home of her brother, Judge Doy de Grief, and in Tacoma with her »sister, Mrs. Harley Champ. She was accompanied to Washington by her •nieces, Misses Joyce and Frances Loiselle of Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jensen of Sa- Jem were week end guests at the ¿some of her mother, Mrs. Hollis Tur- nidge. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mills and son Billy and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Loo mis, al of Newport, visited I) Thursday to Sunday at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kelle. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kella at the Salem Mem- i orial Hospital Thursday, March 31. | weight € lbs., 14 oz. 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Washer Refrigerator and Electrical Appliance Mill City 1884 Stayton 215 «■aassamBMSMMmvsBMMaMiaMM Don’t Borrow, Subscribe! K*-0*1* rapidly since the war, in Ore I now of Sutherlin, were former res l gon and Washington. In many coun idents of Gates. Grandparents are ties the farm forestry committee is i Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kelle and Mrs. an organized force. A county 4-H Hollis Turnidge. The baby has a bro leader «an roly on such a committee. | ther, Louis, aged two. Teachers in the lecal schools at So can th« high school teachers of vocational agriculture, the FFA-lead tended the Oregon Education Assn, ers. Keep Washington Green and conference in Portland. Schoo was Keep Oregon Green county commit dismissed Thursday and Friday. tees are to be counted on in the coun Jon an George Burton, sons of Mr. ty forestry picture. There are other and Mrs. T. R. Burton, spent the local groups in the woods, especially week end with their grandpa: ents in in th« soil conservation districts. All McMinnville, while their father was are deeply interested in the student in Portland. who is eager for knowledge of for Mrs. Jerry Lyons, son Larry and estry theory and to learn forestry Barbara Haun were among the Gates “by ding.” people shopping in Salem Friday. A group that has been neglected Mrs. Norman Garrison attended a by the foresters but ha« a rightful shower in Scio, given for her niece, claim to a top place in the county Mias June Zeller, a prospective bride. forestry clearinghouse We re tail lumber dealers. In farming areas they know farm building needs. If he does not have Plan FJ-502 for a pole-type barn in stock, for ex ample, he can get it for you in jig time. This plan represents farm for estry in action. N H. x 20 20 h X 24 — 20 ft« 36 ** 20 ft ■ 48 Ft............ $495 ft........... $545 ft .... i . $695 ft______ $845 -¿J