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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1950)
4 THURSDAY, MAR. 9, 1950 THE EAGLE, AROUND THE FARM Farm activity has increased with improving weather condi tions and here are some of the things farmers are doing and inquiring about. Many livestock men who ran short of hay this past winter and were short of pasture last summer are interested in a pro gram of fertilizing pasture fields to get more home grown feed. Hay and grain prices are so high they feel that the use of fertiliz er will pay. We have had many inquiries as to the amount and kind of fertilizer to apply and when to apply it. Results obtained by farmers who use fertilizer indi cate that nitrogen is the material to use now. From 200 to 300 pounds per acre of ammonium sulfate is a good application and it should be applied immediately. Ammonium nitrate at 200 pounds pounds per acre of 16-20 am moniated phosphate at 300 pounds per acre are also good materials to use. It is important this fertilizer be applied immediately if it is to give the best results. VERNONIA. Forestry Club Plants Trees ORE. The Mist 4-H Forestry club members were out in force Mon day afternoon, March 6 on a tree planting expedition. Marlene and Darlene Pugh, Jeanette and Archie Dass, Virginia Johnson, Marlene Gray, Keith Cochran, Harold Ashley, Junior Wilson, Robert Kyser and Jack Wilson were present and with a few instructions from their leader they planted trees like old hands. Arbor Day in Western Oregon Count, Eitnntnon Agon, water is to be ready when it is needed the purchase of an irri gation system should be planned. Folks are also inquiring about water rights and making their applications now so they will be ready to go when the pastures need irrigation. If we are to have an irrigated pasture now is the time to plan on making that seeding of ladino clover. Seeded about this time of year with irrigation beginning in May or June many ladino clover pastures have been ready for pasturing in July or August. - Sunny Brook W ■ MILL MARKET AND LOCKERS V ? CAeerfo/ as National Week Being Observed by Clubs; 4 H's Being Stressed Head, heart, hands, and health properly developed are the four essentials for a good citizen. These H’s are the qualities stressed by 4-H club work. This week 4-H clubs throughout the United States are observing Na tional 4-H club week. Seven hundred and eighty boys and girls in Columbia county belong to this large youth organ ization which originated for rural youth, Many boys and girls living in cities now belong to 4-H clubs. The following number of clubs are now active in Columbia county: 23 clothing clubs, 19 cooking, 2 homemaking. 6 knitt ing, 15 health, 7 forestry, 17 live stock, and 1 rabbit. Garden and canning clubs will soon be organ ized. 4-H club work has as its aim to teach, through doing, better prac tices in agriculture, home econ omics, and related arts. In club work boys and girls also learn how to meet together, work to gether, play together, and achieve. The 4-H program is a junior extension activity of Oregon The Happy Homemakers’ 4-H cooking club met March 5 at the home of their leader, Mrs. B. A. Kirkbride at Treharne. Seven members and one visitor were present. Leona Hoehner planned a pic- nit! meal which the members and their leader enjoyed inside as the weather didn’t permit an outdoor picnic. The girls discussed the impor tance of regular attendance of each member as the requirement is attending 10 regular meetings during the project year. Illness is the only excuse excepted with a notification of such before a meeting. The next meeting is March 19 at the leaders home. State college. It is a publicly supported and directed educa tional enterprise of the United States department of agriculture, Oregon State college, and the state department of education, cooperating. its A/ame / $¿■>0 pu 4/5 uu KENTUCKY WHISKEY-A BLEND 36 PROOF • 65% CHAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS • NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION, N. Ï. MOVING? CASON TRANSFER Call 581 for Free Estimate Wilbur (Shorty) Davis, Prop. Office at Sundland Electric Study Group Meeting Rescheduled March 13 The Grade School P.-TTA. study group, which was to meet March 6 at the home of Mrs. B. A. Kirkbride, was postponed un til Monday, March 13. Also Thursday March 16 is the regular executive meeting. SHOP AT FOR YOUR HEALTH Make it a habit to drink at KING'S least a quart of milk a day. Milk is delicious as a beverage —but you can use it as a cooking MODERN GROCERY ingredient without lessening its food value. Try milk toda- for HEALTH. In Riverview • You will find quality foods for all your needs 09IRV PRODUITS (0. • Plenty of parking space’ Grade A Pasteurized Milk & Cream • Courteous Treatment PHONE 471 I ® Free Delivery MUTT AND JEFF We Will Be Happy To Serve You KING’S Grocery - Market “Where Your Money Buy* More" I NEHAL • Offers you a pleasant place to shop Phone 91 BRANO the whiskey that's Regular Attendance at Meetings Discussed - Remember— DELIVERIES TWICE DAILY: 10 a.m - 3 p.m. PHONE 1391 /'/il 0,d For the Best in— Shop or Phone Your Order Today The roar of a Brazilian howl ing monkey can be heard for miles. Plan for hospitality We hear a lot about the im portance of inoculating legumes. H. W. Shadley, Warren, had an experience' inoculating alfalfa that teaches a lesson. Several years ago Shadley seeded a small patch of alfalfa with a hand drill. This was slow work so it took three days to complete. The first day seed was inocu lated with part of a bottle of live culture obtained from OSC. The second and third days this same bottle which had been opened the first day was again We are having lots of rain but use to inoculate the seed. many farmers are starting to The following year the first talk about irrigation now. If the days seeding grew very well, the second days seeding only moder ately well, and the third ' days seeding did poorly. Shadley dug up alfalfa plants in all three areas and found ade quate nodules only on the plants in the first days seeding. Evidently, opening that bottle of inoculation caused much of the inoculation to die and by the second and third day there was not much life in it. The welcome mat is al Shadley’s experience shows ways laid out to our I that inoculated seed should be customers. For the very planted immediately and that inoculation of legumes such as best in food, the Mill alfalfa, lotus major and lotus Market is the store to cornicuatus is absolutely neces sary for satisfactory stands and trade with. growth. The Mill Market is un excelled and also is the second Friday in February but due to the severe winter this year we were to have observed the occasion on March 4. Heavy rains spoiled the plans a second time, More trees will be planted here at some of the club mem ber’s homes in the near future. Ey Bud Fisher ì ! • I I I t I I • : I I I I • At the Mile Bride» Riverview i
