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4 THURSDAY. JAN 31, 1952 ——— » ... I I ■■■'■ THE Leaders to Get Training Work EAGI.E. VERNONIA. ORE ' — ■ ■ MOUND THE FARM=XW— This $50 to $60 hay price really during the rainy season because lake» a lot out of the milk check of losses from leaching. How much to apply? Here is lor the farmer who is buying hM hay now. With dairy ration one case when a little is good, «rt $90 to $95 a ton there is no more is better. At least 150 relief in feeding extra grain to pounds ammonium sulfate per cut down on hay. acre should be used. Three hun The dairyman who does not dred pounds per acre would be have enough hay or grass silage a much better amount to use. on hand to feed his herd will be looking forward anxiously to the R. Bernet & Son, Scappoose, time when cows can again go out used up to 400 pounds ammonium on pasture. sulfate per acre on their pasture One way to hurry this day last spring. They felt that ’he along and step it UP from two to last pound paid as well as the rix weeks is to make a heavy application of nitrogen fertilizer first. Farmers who have used nitro to a good pasture sod. This fer gen fertilizer on their pastures tilizer should be applied as soon the past few years report that as possible. this is one place where a $1 Alta fescue and orchard grass investment can easily return $4 to will make the best response to $5 in extra feed produced heavy nitrogen fertilization. Rye Nitrogen fertilizers ar-’ liable to Crass will respond fairly well be short in supply this year and but bent grass pastures will not the amounts needed should be make enough extra growth to arranged for immediately. Fer ,ustify fertilizer application. tilizer dealers report that many Ammonium sulfate is the best dairymen who have tried nitro fertilizer to apply this time of gm fertilizer in the past have year. The nitrogen in ammonium already picked up their fertilizer i.ulfate will tie up with the soil for this spring. and not leach out with heavy Mineral soils, particularly hill tain that may come in February soils, will show th" best res and March. Ammonium nitrate ponse to nitrogen. Peat soils in B- the next best fertilizer at this the Clatskanie and Rainier area time of year. Fertilizers contain will probably not give enough ing only nitrate nitrogen such response to justify its use. On as sodium nitrate and calcium the diked lands the clay soils nitrate are not advisable for use will show the b°st results. Training for Covers Given Home extension unit members received preliminary training for the slip cover workshop at the K. P. Hall in Rainier on Jam 21 and 22, according to Frances Gallatin, home extension agent. Viola Hansen, home furnishings *p.*icahst from Oregon State col lege showed the importance ot choosing a material which will <dd to the attractiveness of the home, wear and launder well and I m - easy to work with in making the slip cover. Miss Hansen also demonstrated how to measur" a chair to d termine the amount of material, according to width and design, required for a slip cover. It is good economy to purchase just the amount needed of good quality, color fast and firmly woven material. On January 22. Miss Hansen and Miss Gallatin trained project 1 aders to repair innersprings. During the day, each two leaders completely renovated a worn in- nerspring cushion. The leaders trained at these me'tings for their unit members who will make slip covers in March Chairs must be repaired .<nd cleaned before slip covers are made. Four project leaders ram lach unit taking part will nake a slip cover from one chair at the workshop on March 4, 5 and 6. At a later date, these eaders will conduct local work shops for unit memberrs who will make slip covers for their chain under th direction of the trained leaders. A leader training meeting for 4-H cooking club leaders will be held in the Rairuer city hall on Tuesday, February 5, from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m., according to Frances Gallatin and Harold Black, coun ty extension agents. Parents of 4-H cooking club members and others interested in Mist Unit Plans for Study of Furniture I New control methods have been develop, d for a strawberry pest. Excellent control of spittle bug has been obtain'd by the use of 50 pounds per acre of 5% meth oxychlor dust. Rotenone dust with chemi cal rotenone has been used in the past and it is a good control. However, it is effective for only 3 to 10 days depending on the weather. In severe infestations two applications were necessary. Methoxychlor remains effective for 3 to 4 weeks unless removed by si vere rain storms. One pre caution for methoxychlor how ever, is that it should not be used within 2 weeks of the first berry harvest because of residue on the fruit. "Furniture As You Like It" is to be the subject for discussion and Francis L. Gallatin, home extension agent will give th? demonstration. The February 8 moeting of the Mist-N^halem extension unit will be held at th? home of Jean ette Sundland and will start at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend and are a iked to bring a paper sack lunch, Coffee will be fur- nished by the hostess. Please provide a sack lunch for your children if you take them to Mrs. Knowle’s home for the day. » a 4-H cooking club are also in vited to attend this meeting. Miss Gallatin will discuss the importance of teaching cooking club members not only how to cook, but also to know and prac tice good nutrition. She will demonstrate points of judging baked goods and setting up an exhibit. Miss Gallatin will also discuss the importance of dem onstrations in the cooking club and things to remember in look ing forward to the 1952 Colum bia County fair. The film, "Cake Baking Con test,” will be shown. This film shows the actual baking of a cake by a state contest winner, The bread baking, salad making and dollar dinner contests as well as the cake baking contest will be explained. The right thinker works; he gives little time to society man ners or matters, and benefits society by his example and use fulness.—Mary Baker Eddy. When it starts to get dark, it’s time to drive and walk as if your life depended upon it, con cludes the secretary of state’s traffic saety division after a look at Oregon traffic accidents cords covering the first months of last year. The division said accidents fatalities climbed sharply at 4 p.m. when daylight begins to fade and traffic movement ap proaches the day’s peak. Accidents resulted in property damage only fell off after 5 p.m. and declined steadily until the day between 6 and 7 p.m. and remained high until after 2 in the morning. Exactly 50 per e nt ol’all fatal accidents during the six-month period took place at night, the division pointed out, although there were not more than b^lf as many cars on the^oad as in the daytilie. A basic driver-er ror in most cases was an over- estimation of th? visibility head- officials stressed. Thirty-seven pedestrians were struck and killed from January through June well over half of them at night while wearing dark clothing. A pedestrian vio lation or unsafe action was noted in 65 per cent of the fatal pedes trian mishaps. SCHOOL in th« OFEN Drop to floor Bi'v tace m arms. To the Person Who Never Heard of You YOD DO NOT EXIST •* RIGHT NOW As you read this, you may be sitting next to other people. If these people don't know who you are, you mean no more to them than a shadow .• 4 t K THE PEOPLE SPEAK . . . Vernonia, Oregon January 26, 1952 To Th Editor: I noticed by my January elec tric bill that we are no longer charged *4 of city occupational 2% tax. I picked up a street corner remark on Friday of last week that the passing on < « such i tax by the Wi st Oregon Elec tric Co-op was not legal It seems the auditors recently so informed th? West Oregon Electric Co-op of this fact. But legal or not, each one of us paid it for a good many months. How such a thing could go on for such a period of tim • effecting so many people -hall no doubt remain a mystery; the fact that it did go on in these tax conscious times is strange to say he least. The legality of this tax has been subj"ct to much discussion between the said co-op directors and the city council since our Where available water is scant. present electric company has b?en in business. L"gal or not «1 will go further if applied the Co-op pays the tax every through a sprinkler irrigation system authors of a new north month. These fine points of tax west cooperative extension pub laws are ably debated and even lication. ‘‘Sprinkler Irrigation," tually decid'd by people with more education than the writer. points out. The publication. Pacific North However, the question now arises, west Bulletin number 3, is a joint since the West Oregon Electric effort of the extension servic"s in Co-op has collect 'd the money for several months from the citi Gregon. Washington and Idaho Copit's arc available from county zens of the city, what will be extension offices in any of the done with the total’ If a busi ness operating in the city is able there states. The bulletin discusses pros and to pass on the city occupaional <>n.s of sprinkler irrigation, point tax direct to the customers, all ing out some of its advantages the other businesses in the city could no doubt do so. is well as the shortcomings A co-op, of course, is exempt Sprinklers, couplings. laterals, from many taxes. Private busi I wcreening and desilting. and pumping plants are discussed in ness has always fought against any exemptions for similar or Mime detail. Among advantages pointed out ganizations. Of course if these for sprinkling are: land leveling past collections of taxes by the s not necessary; available water Co-op were legal, why did they ts put to better use; drainage stop at this pres nt time’ Then it follows if not legal, the board problems are reduced, erosion is sept to a minimum; and ditches of directors or their attorn y md ditch cleaning are elimi should have known such a thing before now nated I am no more concerned with I On the other hond, the publica- these things than any other el c- ’ kmi says sprinklers are high- priced in terms of the initial in tric consumer, but neverth -less I am curious as to what will vestment; power costs arc con- become of the jackpot’ In other •lnucnis. moving laterals is a dis words, brother, with me it is not .igrreahle and time consuming mb; and wind effects water dis the principal but the money' Harvey C. R idling tribution. lights can give, safety Accidents Up During Darkness ■ Our friends are simply those whose features we recognize, and whose characteristics we know. This rule of acquaintance applies to goods as well as people. We buy the article or the package or the brand we are familiar with because we know it—just as we nod to the men and women we know, and ignore I 0 strangers o o THEREFORE o o If you don’t advertise and bring vour firm to the fore, you are just one of the thousands of firms in your type of business. An advertisement is primarily an introduc tion, and secondarily a salesman. It makes people know your firm and regard you in a friendly light. Bulletin Tells Sprinkler Use To stop advertising is to stop greeting old friends and to stop making new ones. ADVERTISING IS ESSENTIAL EVERY BUSINESS ▼ The Vernonia Eagle Phone 191 y-.’ - a '-.»-. I
