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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1953)
/M THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1953 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE. Club Organized, Holds Second Meeting Sunday WEEKLY FOREST MARKET REPORT . . . Tbe Maple M eadows Dairy c'u^ met Sunday evening at the h»me <1 Ronnie Anderegg for their •v-cond regular monthly 4-H meet ing. The record books and other material were ordered. The year’s program was also planned for visits to the Tillamook cheese fac tory and various fairs. Refresh ments were served by Mrs. An- Issued Weekly by Extension De partment. OSC and USDA ¡ AROUND THE FARM SAWLOGS: No. 2 second- growth Douglas fir sawlogs at Willamette Valley mills were firm at $30 to $38 a thousand, mostly $34 to $38. No. 3’s were $25 to $29. Long camp-run logs were generally $30 to $35 a thou sand. Eight-foot logs were stronger at $15 to $16.50 a cord, or $30 to $38 a thousand. POLES AND PILING: Forty and 45-foot barkie poles were in good demand at most Willamette Valley yards. Forty-five foot barkies ranged from 15 to 23 cents a lineal foot, depending on dia meter. A few yards bought long piling. CHRISTMAS TREES: Douglas fir Christmas tree stumpage sold over a wide range. Most sales were in the neighborhood of 20 to 25 cents a tree. A low of 12 cents a tree has been reported, while one sale of 2,000 plantation trees brought 40 cents. Cut trees at the roadside ranged from 40 to 75 cents a tree. Wholesale prices in Portland averaged about 30 cents a lineal foot. This report, based on informa tion supplied by the State Board of Forestry and other sources, was prepared by F. H. Dahl, Ex tension Agricultural Economist. •»eegg. At the first meeting which was held at the home of Jerol Moran ■fTicers were elected as follows: .resident, Janice Hoyt; vice- :>rtsid?nt, Jerol Moran; secretary, Margaret Buckley; treasurer. Al ien Smith and news reporter, Ron nie Anderegg. Margaret Buckley a leader and Mrs J. C. Moran, distant leader. IpHONE 853 — • NEHALEM VALLEY ; MOTOR FREIGHT 4 i ' For Grade A Son Confined by Pasteurized Chest Illness Dairy Products Call or Write PEBBLE CREEK DAIRY i Telephone 16212 Vernonia, Oregon Timber Rt., Box 56 ' I I RIVERVIEW — George De Ford, the 1‘i-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. DeFord, has been in the Doernbecker hospital with a chronic chest disease since Oc tober 14. Mrs. Ethel Sabine and Mrs. Robert Franklin and two sons of Raymond, Washington spent the week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen. Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Anderson returned Tuesday after spending five days visiting their daughters and families: Mr. and Mrs. Chet Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Andtrson at Tillamook. Mrs Alice Millis, who is visit ing her children in Portland, spent several days last week here looking after her house and visit- ing at the home of Mrs. D wey Hunt. I ZHXHXHXHXHXHXHXHXHXHXHIHfl Modern Wrought Iron z H Wall Shelves Z N< w Pictures. Wide Selection H Games — Toys — Dolls Lingerie. Baby Supplies Z H «GIFT JI D E A S z ASK ABOUT RCA TV—with exclusive Magic Monitor, tributed locally by L. E. Ellis. BY DON COIN WALROD i County Extension Agent Rr-ftm-i-n tind the *11 ct of v Between nnw now and 31st I it if necessary, clear it, fertilize December farmers of Columbia it, fence it, and seed it aU all under county will be signing up with the same practice. the PMA office for conservation practices they wish to carry out I Initial establishment of peren- during the 1954 year. To assist • nial grasses or legumes as part of the PMA committee (which we | a crop rotation is another practice understand is to have the new I listed as A-3 in the handbook, name of Agricultural Stabilization I This practice is not in general and Conservation committee) we use throughout the state of Ore- have agreed to do a series of gon. because in most counties it articles providing information cannot be said that legumes and about the 1954 agricultural con grasses are not gsnerally in use. servation program. In this series It is devised only for certain parts we will try to point out how each of the state where grasses and le of the practices can be used in gumes are not part of any well established crop rotation. Columbia county. An interesting feature is tha: One of the first practices listed cost sharing will be limited to in the handbook provides for the initial establishment of a perman cropland, the acreage of which, ent grass or legume cover on se including that already planted to verely eroded land or on land that grass and legumes, does not ex is subject to erosion and as a ceed 25 per cent of the cropland consequence has low productive on the farm. The vegetative co capacity and would b? best in a ver must b? maintained for at least five years. permanent vegtative cover. Where this practice does apply, If a farmer has land of this the cost sharing of the govern sort, the payment can be rathei ment is more attractive than extensive and can go a long way und.r former programs because toward helping him retire from i the following things are covered: cultivation land that probably 1. $3.50 per acre for seeding. should not be cultivated, at least 2. One-half cent per pound of under present conditions. The available calcium carbornate payments include (1- $350 per equivaknt in lime applied. acre for seeding, (2) oni-half cent 3. Five cents per pound of per pound of available calcium available phosphorus os P2O5 ap- carbornate not to exceed 50 per plied where ne-d is indicated by cent of the cost of the liming, soil test. (3) 5 cents per pound for avail 4. Ten c;nts per pound for able phosphate where needed, available nitrogen applied as re- (4) 10 cents per pound of available quired. nitrogen used in getting the seed There is no limit in this prac started, (5) $10 per acre for land tice as to the use of the crop. It clearing where charing is neces- can be us d for pasture, hay, sary to do the seeding. silage, seed production, or it can The point is, though, that here just not be used at all. is probably the best chance that Note that in the title the first some farmers in the county have word is “initial” establishment. ever had to get some assistance in This means that although in 1954 putting eroding land into perman th government will share sub ent cover. The payment cove.s stantially in the cost, when the th initial establishment only. In seeding is broken out and then is other words, if a man retires land finally planted back to grass again to sod under this particular pay in the rotation, no payment is ment and should later decide to contemplated. The payment, in plow it up and then decide again other words, is for establishing to seed it to sod, he cannot be the rotation and is not for merely paid more than once for the same planting grass. practice on the same land. Some of the places in the coun ty where this practice can be used would be: 1. Eroding land along streams. 2. Cut-over or burn d-over land where all of the timber has been NATAL — Mr. and Mrs. Raj- removed. Taylor and family have returned 3. Cropland so steep that it here from Woodland, Washing .should not be in cultivation. ton where he has been employed. Ronda Edgerton called at the 4. Shallow soils where ev. n a little loss of soil would make Wayn° Pui>h home in Clatskanie evening. them too rocky or poor to fai m Saturday Mr. and Mrs. DeeVerg Hershey any longer. were in Portland ir ' mp v . 5. Bottom lands that are often Mr. and Mrs. Max Oblack and too wet to farm at the proper familv were Sunoav oirmuay uui- ner guests of the Reed Holdings. time. It was Allen Holding’s sixth This practice combines half a birthday. doz.n practices, puts them all luesuay evenin» callers at the into one neat package, and allows Ray Taylors were Mr. and Mrs. a man to prepare the land, grade Hank Wilson and family and Mr. and Mrs. Max Oblack and family. At the home of Sam Devines Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hirtzei and family of Portland Dr. William A. Pollock and Carl Danielson of Hillsboro. Optometrist Trip Completed From Nebraska TREHARNE — Ruth Pierce. Pauline Tisdale and Flora Whit mire mads a trip to Portland Fri day. . Mrs. Floy Odam entertained the Treharne birthday club at her home Thursday in honor of her birthday. The Christmas party will be December 17 at the horn? of Mrs. Dode Reynolds in Ver nonia. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nealeigh. Eunice and Ronnie, arrived in Portland Tuesday morning from Trenton, Nebraska to visit Mrs. Nealeigh's parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Kirkbride, for a wesk Mr. and Mrs. Orval Nealeigh and children of Portland brought them out to Vernonia from the train. They enjoy.d dinner with Mrs. Kirkbride before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Stevens and Sylvia, Mrs. Byron Kirk bride, Stephen, Ju Ann and Walter, Mrs. Rosa Weaver, Bill, Harry and Betty, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds and Ken neth visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Paul, Charlotte and Vernon Fri day evening. H ■MlZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZbT Dr. L. K. Pollock Dentist 1917 Pacific Ave. Over Bus Deput Forest Grove, Ore.—Phone 941 OAKES ! RADIO and TV CENTER | j Now showing and installing j | 1954 Models of Admiral TV j j sets. Also Radios and Record j [ Players. ADMIRAL SALES AND SERVICE PHONE 774 but many dollars, deposited regularly at this bank, can help you build security, and have the other good things ycu want. 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