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.
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piano. Rental pur
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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.
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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
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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.
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2x4 Mesh Fencing
2 Point and 4 Point
Barbed Wire
DEERING STOCK GATES-BALING WIRE
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SPRINKLER IRRIGATION
Of all Oregon farms reporting
Irrigation 23.4 per cent are using
some sprinkler irrigation but only
7.6 per cent of the Irrigated land
Is sprinkler irrigated.
Oregon is second In the nation
In land sprinkler Irrigated. Califor
nia is first with 181.000 acres,
Oregon is second with 98.000 acres,
Washington is third with 67,000
acres. These three states in 1950
had more than hall the sprinkler
irrigated land in the United States.
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