Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, December 10, 1953, Page 4, Image 4

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THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1953 THE EAGLE,
VERNONIA,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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County Extension Agent
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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.
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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.
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Improvement Noted;
Operation Awaited
RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Glen
Hawkins, son Billy, and Mrs.
Frank Serafin
and daughter,
Vicky, -oent Wedn ?sday in Port­
land They visited Bert Hawkins
at the V .•teran’s hospital and
found h.m much improved and
waiting to undergo a s.cond op­
eration.
The Long-Bell
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People Return
To Home Here
Dis-
Albert Reynolds received a tele­
phone call Friday evening that
his father had been taken to the
hospital again. The elder Mi.
Reynolds is suffering from leu
kerma so it is just a matter of
time.
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