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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE SEVEN Farmer Of The Week New Columbia Type Winter Wheat Variety Announced and la easier to harvest duo to t, slight height advantage in extreme-' ly dry areaa. . Release of a new hard red win ter wheat variety Columbia lor seed Increase in Oregon and Wash ington promises to help low rain fall areas swing back into produc tion of high protein bread type wheat. P. E. Price, director of the Ore gon State College experiment sta mon and dwarf smut. The new va riety has typically fine Turkey straw but is resistant to lodging, and has shown greater resistance to "blasting", than has Rio. The Oregon Seed Allocation Committee channeled the limited seed supply to selected growers for rapid seed Increase to meet demands for commercial seed sup plies next year. Committee chair man D. D. Hill. OSC farm crops department head, said most of the 195a crop will be produced under irrigation In western Umatilla and wheats and brought local short ages of hard wheats for both do mestic needs and export markets. Regional millers now Import most of their bread-type wheat or flour from the Midwest. Columbia yields 10 to IS per cent higher than Rio and other hard Hammond Offal northern Monow counties. Next year's production the goal is 3.000 to 4,000 bushels in Ore gonwill be allocated primarily to low rainfall areas "where it ie desirable to swing from soft wheat production back to bread-type wheats," Hill stated. Lama nlantinss In ront vm Chord Otioa Largest itock lead Inl make pianos in this part of the west Rent a Sptnat piano. Rental pur chaaa plan. tion, announced this week that Co winter varieties that have been edged aside through Inability to lumbia has passed final muling and baking trials ahd that regis meet yie.'ds of the sott wheats. The new variety is more winter- LOUIS R. MANN PIANO CO. tered seed will be released jouitly of high-yielding soft white wheats imvc puea up a surplus 01 sott hardy thin the leading soft wheats 120 No. 7tk by experiment stations of the two states. Actual distribution in Ore. gsn will be handled by the Ore. gon wheat Growers league at Pen dleton. THUD ANNUAL Columbia is a Rex-Rio by Ne- bred cross developed at the OSC Sherman branch experiment sta tion at Mora. It has a bearded, common type head with brown chaff and is resistant to both com- ratw'f-t't ft r I, Vv i, ' 1 J fri i . r A V::: I ;' '-v 4 lLi THIS METHOD of handling silage has been copied by . several dairymen in the Klamath Basin, according to the farm advisers office. Set up by Farmer of the Week Lawrence Geraghty, the manger is at on end of a 102 by 52 foot bun ker which has a capacity of 2,500 tons of silage. As the cattle eat, the manger is moved back. Storage of silage this way eliminates any hand ling of the material to feed the cattle. In the lower picture, Geraghty is checking the seal on his bulk milk truck, the only one he knows of which is owned by farmers in this area. He hauls his own milk and milk of a neighbor to the creamery, and says that the milk arrives in better shape than when hauled in cans. ' - Merrill Dairyman Develops New Silage Handling Method (Editor's N,)le This Is the first in a weekly series of articles about farmers, ranchers and agri cultural leaders in the Klamath and Tulelake basins.) ' . A Klamath Basin dairyman who has developed several innovations which are being copied by other operators in the area is Lawrence Geraghty of- Merrill, president of the Klamath Grade A Dairy Pro ducers Association. Perhaps one of the chief in novations on the Geraghty opera tion, located almost astride the Merrill city limits, is the method he uses to handle his silage.' He stores his silage in a 102 by 52 foot bunker, one end of which is set up as a moveable manger. As the cows eat, the manger Is moved back, a process which takes about two hours a week. This, Geraghty says, Is a lot quicker Irrigation Well Warning Given All Irrigation wells In use In western Oregon prior to August 3, 1955 must be registered with the state engineer before August 3. 1958. Failure to register such a well will result in loss of water right priority. The well will be con sidered abandoned. See your coun ty agent or write to the state en gineer for details. Whenever the owner of a perfect ed water right fails to use the wa ter appropriated for a period of five successive years, the right to use ceases to exist and failure to use shall be presumed to be an abandonment of water right. Development of ground waters by construction of open pits or sumps is regulated by the Ground Water Act of 1955; permits for such developments are required ,b e f o r e construotion is started. They can be obtained from the State Engineer, Salem, Oregon. Farm Assets Rise Over '54 Farm assets In the United States were valued at 163.1 billion dollars on January 1. 1955. com pared with 160.9 billion dollars a year earlier and the high of 170 0 billion dollars on January 1, 1952. The largest dollar increase In farm assets from January 1, 1954 about 2.2 billion dollars occurred in farm, real estate. "Ihe value of crop inventories In creased about 0.4 billion dollars In 1954 because of increased quan tities in storage. Decreases in 1954 were record ed in the value of livestock and of machinery and motor vehicles on (arms. Farm debt, including price-sup-Dort loans, totaled 18.0 billion dol lars at the beginning of 1955. near, ly 6 per cent more than a year earlier. Farm-morUase debt Increased in 1954 for the ninth successive year. and easier than the old method of hand forking all silage fed to about 300 cows. Although he re fused to be pinned down he said it would Be ' braRBing he es timated that he saved several hundred man hours per month witn his system... w The bunker is filled from the back end by specially built wag. ons, and the material is .lamped by tractors to eliminate air spaces Capacity of the bunker is about 3,500 tons. Ray Petersen of the farm ad visers office, has said that this method of handling silage has been copied by several dairymen in the basin. ' Another Innovation by Geraghty Is the loot, gallon Insulated tank truck he uses to haul his milk to the dairy creamery. He says that this saves both Vr.ti and money over the old metnod of hauling the milk in cans, and gets the milk to the creamery in better shape than the old meth od. Geraghty says that his is the only such truck he knows of m this area, 'although the creamery firms use these trucks for haul ing bulk milk in other areas. Geraghty is running . about 300 cattle and milking approximately 135. He has two full time men working for him, and is operating four tractors of various types. When he Is making silage when something else makes the work load heavy, extra men are hired Total acreage of his property which extends north from Merrill is 420, Including 300 which he has purchased recently. He plans to convert the new land Into hay, in order to grow some of his own, and was fertilizing It when Inter viewed last week by Herald and News reporter. He said that the capital cost of improvements and the low price of milk has caught him and other dairymen In the area in a squeeze, but the dairymen are con- fident of a price Increase in the near future. A dairyman for 14 years. Geraghty has been producing grade A milk for 10 years. Farm Population Shows Decrease The population living on farms in the United States numbered about 22,158,000 in April 1955, slight drop from a year earlier and about 3 million down from 1950. The drop In farm population be tween . 1950 and 1955 represents a continuation of the long-time down ward trend, which has reduced the number of farm residents to 13.5 per cent of the total population in compared with 16.6 per cent in 1950. Farm Youths Offered Trips Oregon farm youths still have time to apply for six-month, ex pense-paid trips abroad under the International Farm Youth Ex change program. Winnilrcd Gillen, state 4-H extension agent at Ore gon State College, announced that applications would be accepted un til October 20 from young people wanting to visit other countries. Three or four Oregontans will be selected to go abroad in 1956. Exchangees need only furnish personal Items and camera sup plies. The IFYE project Is a two way exchange. Farm delegates from the United States go to one of 45 participating countries for four to six months and exchangees from abroad come to this coun try on a similar setup. In order to be eligible for a trip, applicants must be between the ages of 20 and 30. have a farm background, be a high school grad uate, and a resident of Oregon. Application ' forms and details on countries to be visited may be secured by writing to the state -H ottice, osc. Roger Detering, Harrlsburg, and Donna Mae Lingle, Boring, are two Oregon delegates now overseas. Detering Is in Turkey and Miss Lingle in Greece. Gayle Gilmour, Jefferson, leaves October 4 for Brazil. Three IFYE exchangees from Turkey, England and Swltzer land are now living on Oregon farms. Funds for IFYE delegates come from private donors. For several years, the Oregon Bankers Assoc iation has sponsored . two dele gates. Four-H Clubs throughout ihe state have boosted the pro gram in their county srouns and church and civic organizations also have contributed. Before an IFYE leaves the Unit ed States, he Is given orientation on geography and agriculture In in country to be visited. "A speaking ability of the native lan guage is not necessary, although ;v neips, - said miss Gillen. 1955 Feed Crop Estimate Given Overall prospects for 1955 feed crops were generally good on Sep tember 1, though the corn and sorghum grain crops were reduced sharply by drought In late July and August in tile Midwest. The total supply of feed grains and other concentrates is estimat ed In September at 195 million tons, 9 per cent larger than the rec ord suoply last year and 13 per cent above the 1949-53 average. The prospective supply per ani mal unit is also a record and 8 per cent above the 5-year average, after allowing for some further increase in grain-consuming live stock. The hay supply for 1955-56 is 3 per cent larger than in 1954-55. and is generally ample for the livestock on farms. Milk, Butterfat Norm Recorded Prices to farmers for milk and butterfat have been a little above a year f.arller since April 1955 and for a year as a whole are likely to average slightly above 1954 though somewhat below 1953. Consumption of fluid milk and most other dairy products has been above a year earlier. For 1955 as a whole, the per capita rate for all dairy products may be a little above the 1954 rate of 699 pounds and well above the record low of 688 pounds in 1953. PATCH TESTS GIVEN ALTURAS Tuberculin patch tests were given Thursday at the Lake City School starting at 9:30 a.m. and at the Mt. Bldwell School starting at 11 a.m. The inocula tion of nre-scliool children is part of the Modoc County public health prcgigm. WIRE ond WIRE FENCING AZ O STEEL U POSTS O STEEL T POSTS 2x4 Mesh Fencing 2 Point and 4 Point Barbed Wire DEERING STOCK GATES-BALING WIRE HEAT0N STEEL . 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