Vernonia eagle., March 31, 1949, Page 4, Image 4

4 THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949 THE
EAGLE.
VERNONIA,
lower trunk to the top with its
dense limbs, each branching from
a “knot” in the trunk.
Other questlions follow: how
many of the larger trees can be
taken from the woodland to yield
the high grade of two by fours
that brings the best price; how
many of the poor trees in the
woodland can be cleared out to
yield the lower grades, at prices
above what such items as fuelwood
and fenceposts will bring; and
how much of all may be taken
without injury to the remaining
crop?
The wise forest owner of course
looks even further, thinking of
taking from the woodland in ways
to give it more growing space for
the crowded trees.
A trip through the lumber yard,
and all other markets for wood
in town will provide a new view,
and an important one, of trees as
a money crop.
Car Stakes Are Trees
Another view of the k'nd may
be had along any ra lroad in the
nation. Watch the freights roll
by. More open cars of lumber
are to be seen than ever before.
Modern lumber handling machines
will load a flat car in less than
30 minutes, and at many yards
similar machines will unload the
car in jigtime.
Lumber loaded by hand in box­
cars is held in by the car’s sides.
Open cars of lumber need car
stakes, and car stakes grow in
trees. They can be made on the
farm to better all round advantage
than they can be sawed at high
cost in the sawmill.
See the car stakes as trees on
the farm, and see the trees in the
woodland as traveling trees, each
a flatcar stake.
Thus, money
grows in trees.
The more money that is seen
in trees the more they will be
valued.
ORE.
the most dollars per year with
the least loss to the farm wood­
land unit?
This is the key question, the
heart of the forest problem of the
whole country, the question on the
big industrial forest unit as on
the farm woodland unit. To put it
another way: how can we give
and take at the same time in the
timber?
Timber Crop in Town
One way is to take a trip to
town and go through the yard of
a retail lumber dealer. Stop by the
bins or stacks of two by fours.
See them as the young trees, the
new crop on a forty that was
first logged sixty years ago.
One bin of two by fours will be
smooth and bright and show a
few knots.
Another will have
two by fours that are rough and
tough, knotty and pitchy, bark of­
ten showing, white pocket, and
otherwise hard on the eyes. All
these blemishes are not to be found
on every two by four in the bin,
of course. But each has something
that rates it as “low grade".
Between the two bins are other
grades of two by fours. See them
as the trees back on the farm and
one item of relationship after an­
other will come to mind.
The first bin represents the best
wood of the tallest, biggest and
strongest trees in the woodland.
Each of the ether grades can be
seen in the shapes of the differ­
ence in a stand of trees and in
the differences of the wood in any
single tree as they go from clean
Trees Are Two by Fours
The easiest way to see the
market for tree crops is to take
a long look at the two by four
(2x4") and think what it means
to you, your neighbor, everybody.
This is true if you are think­
ing of the tree crop of a great
national forest, or of the trees
on a large industrial tree farm,
or of the wood that's growing on
"the back forty.”
There’s an old saying "One can­
not see the forest because of the
trees." There are 462 million com-
mereiai forest acres in the United
States, and about 139 million of
them are the tree crops on millions
of farms.
Study that for a minute, and you
will agree that often one cannot
see the forests because of the
figures, either.
Even that wooded back forty on
the farm is only a scene of dark
rtems and green tops from a dis­
tance. Inside it the trees become
individuals.
Usually they are
young, a growing crop. How is
(he crop to be managed to bring
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1435 POUNDS COLLECTED
TILLAMOOK — The city-wide
clothing drive of March 6th for
overseas relief sponsored by the
Tillamook Ministerial Assoc ation
in cooperation with Church World
Service resulted in the collection of
1435 pounds of clothing.
LABOR PICTURE BETTER
MCMINNVILLE — Total em­
ployment in Yamhill county regis­
tered a five per cent increase
during February, according to fi­
gures released by the McMinnville
office of the Oregon State Empoy-
ment service. This gain was
registered in the face of additional
shutdowns recorded for the Yam­
hill county and Grand Ronde area
early in the month.
Major factor affecting the in­
crease was a return to more favor­
able weather following a winter
of unprecedented freeze, snow and
thaw.
15-65 CENT BOOST STARTS
GRESHAM — Increases rang­
ing from 15 to 65 cents on water
rates will become effective to city
users as of April 1.
The council voted to increase
the minimum rates to $1.50 for
consumers within the city limits
and $2.50 for outside consumers.
Present minimum rates are $1.35
(inside) and $1.85 for up to 400
cubic feet of water.
POLICE WRITE 338 W ARNINGS
FOREST GROVE — Police de­
partment activities for the month
of February included 338 warn­
ings issued, 89 arrests made and
$361 collected in fines.
Violations of driving laws ac­
counted for 129 warnings, 88 ar­
rested and $279 in fines. Park­
ing violations brought 209 warn­
ings and $67 in fines. Intoxica­
tion was 1‘sted for one arrest
with $15 in fines.
MARCH AHEAD $412.19
CORNELIUS — The Cornelius
1 ons club reports a total of
J 142.19 collected in the March of
Dimes.
Mail contributions were $157.-
60, Cornelius grade school $49.74,
containers brought in $194.06 and
$40.79 was realized from the dance.
From where I sit, it's easy to
criticize the other person when we
don't take a good long look at our­
selves. Sure, there’ll always be
some differences. I’m fond of a
temperate glass of beer and maybe
you would prefer ginger ale—but
let’s just live and let live. Because
when we go out of our way to find
things to find fault with in others,
chances are they can find a few in
us, too.
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Pasture Program
Plans Needed
MIST — Percy Baillett has
employment with the state high­
way maintenance crew.
Leonard Egerton took his wife
to Portland last Thursday to the
Providence hospital where she
was operated on Friday morning.
She is doing well at last repprts.
Mrs. M. G. Wilson has been
sick for some time. She’s been
at Pendleton, but has been brought
home where she is much better
and on the road to recovery. She
is Roy Wilson’s mother.
Thursday dinner guests at the
Chas. Hansen home were Mr.
and Mrs. T. Kulju from Portland
and George Kulju from Alaska.
Wm. Hill left for California
last week after a few days vis't
here with his father and two
sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. K. Justus from
Springfield remained over night
Saturday with the Chas. Hansen
family.
Roy Hughes has been quite sick
the past week and a call for the
doctor was sent. However, he’s
somewhat better at this time.
Mesdames Ray and Westley Gar-
lock and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Saxton went to Portland last
Thursday taking several members
of the Clatskanie Dorcas Society
there to a meeting.
It is time for all farmers to be
thinking and planning their pas­
ture program for the year, an­
nounces Wm. Armstrong, chairman
of the Columbia County Agricul­
tural Conservation committee.
The program is set up this year
to pay 50 per cent of the cost
of the seed, but not to exceed $6.00
an acre, or 50 per cent the cost
of the seed plus $2.00 an acre
for the application of not less
than 30 pounds of actual nitro­
gen per acre.
Payment cannot
exceed $8.00 per acre under th s
practice.
Lotus and the other improved
grasses such as Alta Fescue, Tall
Meadow Oat Grass, Orchard Grass
etc., can be planted now, but Sub­
terranean Clover should not be
planted until June, says Arm­
strong.
As grassland farming is one of
the best and cheapest ways of
building up a depleted cropland
and in controlling brush and fern­
lands, the planting of pastures
should be first consideration of
all Columbia county farmers. Be-
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means of soil and water conserva­
tion, it is one' ¿t the cheapest
means of supplying) excellent for­
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A farmer who is planning on
planting a spring or fall pasture,
should be sure to contact his
county or community committee-
man or the county office and sign
up for this practice.
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Mr. and Mis. Loren Dodge and
Sneed Lusby drove to Ilood River
Sunday.
Robert Whitmire, LeRoy Whit-
m're, Loren Dodge, Roy Thomas
and Sneed Lusby went smelt fish­
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this past week.
Mrs. Walter Cox and children
and Clyde Thomas went smelt
dipping Tuesday.
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We Talked?
It went like this at the Hooper's
lha other night. Map's eighteen-
year-old daughter is talking about
"a real gone guy—solid—out of this
world, but def."
“Now what kind of language is
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“I’ll translate it for you,” Ma
Hooper says, “in the language of
the twenties, when you were about
twenty years old. She simply means
thia fellow is the 'cat's whiskers.’
Remember how ice used to talk
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