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*4 THURSDAY. APRIL 29. 1954 THE EAGLE. AROUND THE FARM Does your garderi fail to grow tne way that you think it should' William F. Jones, Clatskanie, knew that most of his garden plants didn't do well and he knew why. Symphilids had moved in and were making gardening ef fort* futile. Symphilids, more properly call ed garden centipedes, are pearly white in color and ^re about % inch in length. As adults they have 12 pairs of legs and 15 body segments. They have chewing mouth parts but no eyes. They are principally vegetable feeders attacking and destroying germi nating seeds and seedlings, or feeding on the root hairs. Dis tribution is world wide but of economic importance only in cer tain areas, such as Western Ore gon. Symphilids feed on wide list of host plants and it is felt that there are probably few if any plants that are not attacked Sym- philids are not capable of mak ing their own burrows in the soil *o they depend on roots, insects, earthworms, etc., to do this for them. Control of these pests is diffi cult and none of the many meth od* that have been used by the experiment stations over the years have proved to be 100 pei .cent effective. Recently some *>f the newer soil insecticides have given good control, but for some reason occassionally they fail to do the job. But. until something better is developed, these ma- tenals are worth trying. Aldnn probably has been the most successful, but the other ■oil insecticides such as dieldrin and h^ptachlor are good and others are being tried, For any one who has problems with gym-» philids and would like to try these materials, we would sug gest trying them at the rate of 10 pounds of the actual material per acre App’yir* the materia] poses some problem. Spraying works fairly well, but most weed spraying nozzles are to small and will clog. Orchard sprayers can bi* adapted and for small area.' hand sprayers can be used. If tow percentage dusts are used or if the material is mixed with a carrier, broadcasting works out fairly well. Mixing the insecticide into the sod is a vitally important part of fix control program It should be done immediately after apply ing the material or much of the effectiveness of the material will bi* destroyed by sun and weather conditions within a matter of hours. Rotary tilling is an ex «■client means of mixing and thoroughly disking at least twice does fairly well. Some soil insecticides may pos sibly impart an undesirable fla- »or to certain crops so it has been impossible for the researchers to ■lake checks on all crops, but considerable progress has been made If large areas or cum BEN'S BARBER SHOP Expert Tonsorial Work Vernonia, Oregon Cleaning at Its Best . . . EVERY ARTICLE FINISHED BY UG IS GUARANTEED TO SATISFY. TRY OUR SER- ' VICE TODAY. ! I «•> 070479 good tor $5 clean I tl mg •rdar. < I i RADIANT CLEANERS VERNONIA. ORE. Extension Unit Studies Rug and Furniture Care BY DON COIN WALROD County Extension Ajent WEEKLY FOREST I MARKET REPORT The Timber Route extension unit met at the Vernonia Grange hall on April 13. Th? project leaders, Mrs. Richard Jensen and Mrs Bob McDonald gave a les- son on the care of rugs and up- holstered furniture Mrs. Ray Stanley and Mrs. Martin Peter sen were the hostesses and there The were 13 members present new officers elected for the com- ¡ng year were Mrs. Joe Johnson, chairman, Mrs. Oren Weed, vice- chairman; Mrs. Bob McDonald, secretary and Mrs. Antone Sme- jkal, treasurer. Mrs. Ray Stanley gave a short report on citizenship, and also re ported on the scrapbook on Mexi co. Mrs. Ed Crawford and Mrs. I Martin Petersen volunteered to help Mrs. Stanley with the scrap book. Mrs. Joe Baker gave a talk on legislation. Containers for testing water were distributed to the members. The next meeting will be May 11 at the Vernonia Grange hall. mercial crops are involved it may be desirable to check on flavor tests. Issued Weekly by Extension De- pertinent. OSC and USDA YESTERDAYS County Agent Advises Spraying I [ FIVE YEARS AGO From The Eagle. April 28. 1949 The American Legion and Aux- Early spraying of tansy rag » < wort gives the best and easiest iliary were host to nearly 254 kill and now is the time, advises delegates to the District No. 1 Earl Watson, Delena. chairman conference held here Saturday of the County Weed Control afternoon and evening. Vernonia high school Parent- Committee. County Weed Supervisor for Teachers association was formed this season will again be Robert .Monday evening with Mrs. Bruce Robinson, Delena, indicates Wat Bass as president; Mrs. J. A. Da son. Robinson will assist land vis as vice-president; Miss Velm_* owners in locating and identify Bennett, secretary and Mrs Lewis ing the weed and in making con. Morgan, treasurer. Vernonia Loggers took botti trol suggestions. Robinson's job calls for carrying out the provi games' (baseball) of a I double header from Seaside Monday sions of the stat? law, resident, within a weed control district Pitchers were Sylvester ■ Willia.r- are required to control certain and Deri Roberts. specified weeds and to see that TEN YEARS AGO From The Eagle, April 27. 1944 they do not go to seed. American Legion poppy poster County Extension Agent Don Coin Walrod says that th? recom contest winners were Phyllis mended control for tansy rag Slap?, Albert Woolsey and Dicku- wort is early spring spraying Elliot. An OPA restaurant survey to with 2,4-D. For solid spraying three pounds of parent acid of determine compliance with price, 2,4-D per acre is advised. For and filing of same was made lo spot spraying, the amount to use cally by two volunteers, Mrs. A is three pounds of the parent L. Kullander and Mrs Cecil John acid of 2,4-D to 100 gallons of son. water and spraying the plants Lt and Mrs. Lowell Heiber ar until they are wet. Either the I rived home Wednesday from ester or amine forms of 2,4-D Camp Ellis. Illinois where Mrs can be used for early spraying. Heiber had visited her husbanl As plants approach the seed-stalk the past month. stage, the ester form of 2,4-D is FIFTEEN YEARS AGO more effective. Covering the From The Eagle. April 28, 1939 ground and finding the weeds John Grady was elected com can cost more than the chemical mander of the Smith Christensen. and good wetting of the foliage Post, VFW, with Frank Lange, assures a good kill, stresses Wal- senior vice-command?r; Harry rod. Kerns, junior vice-commander; At a recent meeting of the Lee Schwab, adjutant quarter County Weed Committee, Robin master; Alb -rt Schmidlin, advo son reported that relatively good cate and Frank Taylor, Chaplain results were obtained in last Ira E. Baucom of Centralia. y< ars weed control efforts. Ro Washington arrived Wednesday binson also expressed his appre to assum? duties as gardener and ciation for the cooperation that landscape artist at the Vernon: s Columbia county folks have giv Memorial Cecetery. en him in keeping the weed Harry Culbertson, cooperative under control. weather observer reputed that precipitation for April had bee i Three out of four traffic acci very light with only .58 of an dents involve passenger cars. inch to date. Log supplies increased in west ern Oregon last week. Prices were unchanged Local egg producers have been The cottonwood, or •’balm", somewhat concerned over the Fact market for excelsior opened at that some retailers are using eggs Springfield, and a market for brought into Oregon from some of the mid-western states. There hemlock and white fir pulpwood is nothing legally wrong in doing beginning May 3 at Oregon City this and it is necessary to a cer was announced. tain extent in that Oregon is a SAWLOGS: No. 2 second-growth deficit area as far as eggs are sawlogs at Willamette Valley concerned. Approximately 25 pei cent of the eggs consumed in mills ranged from $30 to $45 a Oregon are brought in from the thousand, mostly $36 to $40 No. mid-west. 3's were $25 to $30. Long camp Consumers can get quality eggs run logs were mostly $30 to $33 if they demand them and Ore Logs less than 24 feet long gon’s egg law is explicit on the brought $2 to $5 a thousand less subject of egg quality, In most Eight-foot logs down to six-1 'th cases only local eggs can qualify tops were $ 14 to $16.50 a co.a, for the “Grade AA" or “Grade or $30 to $38 a thousand. A”. At any rate, law requires that POLES AND PILING: Forty to all egg cartons be labeled with 50-foot barkie poles were in good the grade of the eggs, the size demand at Roseburg and at some and the name and address of per Willamette Valley pole yards, son or firm for whom or by whom Forty-five-foot barkies ranged the eggs were packed.. The law from 14 to 21 cents a lineal foot, prohibits the use of the terms depending on diameters. Seventy-' "fresh,” “strictly fresh,” or “new five to 120-foot peeled piling laid" as applied to eggs offered ranged up to 42 cents a foot. for sale unless they grade AA or PULPWOOD: Hemlock, spruce A. and true firs were $15 a cord at St. Helens and Coos Bay. Th? “What can I use to control tent same species were $26.50 to $28 "Sombrero Days" will be the by the thousand at Coos Bay. caterpillars.” or “What are the I little worms in my trees” are theme for the Columbia County Prices of $17 a cord, unpeeled, for questions that have been coming Homemakers Festival which will hemlock and white fir at Oregon in to us one after another during be held W-dnesday, May 5, at City effective May 3, were an the Rainier high school, accord the past week nounced last week. OTHER FOREST PRODUCTS: Following a moderately severe ing to Mrs. Lester Petersen, coun Cottonwood, or "balm”, in 54- infestation of tent caterpillars last ty committee member. The days activities will start inch bolts, split and peeled, summer and an abundance of the ten caterpillar moth it is only with registration at 9:45 am. brought $14 a cord for excelsior at Swordfern was 16 logic*! that we were apt to have which will be followed a 10:15 by I Springfield a severe problem again this year, the regular program of the day. I cents a bunch. Dry cascara bark The guest speaker, Mrs. Carl was 15 cents a pound. Salal was Overwintering egg masses have Brandenfels of St. Helens, will I 22 cents a pound on the Oregon been checked recently over many speak and show slides on Mexico. coast, and huckleberry brush was parts of the county, and appar ently most have survived th'? She received her lawyer's degree 25 cents a pound. This report, based on informa winter and will hatch normally, from the University of Nebra-sxa and is a member of the Oregon tion supplied by the state board The tent caterpillars have Association. Most of her of forestry and other sources, started to hatch in most parts of Bar time is spent assisting her hus- was prepared by F. H Dahl, Ex the county and will continue to band in his work. She and her tension Agricultural Economist. hatch for th:- next week or two husband have done much travel The caterpillars will feed on the ing by plane; they have mad? foliage of fruit trees such as pear, tours with the Oregon Flying Hospital Visit Shsws apple, peaches, prunes and cherry. Businessmen to various countrii . Daughter Much Improved They also work on alder and Mrs. Myrtle Carter, OSC Ex sum' of the ornamentals. Occa TREHARNE — Mr and Mrs. tension Home Furnishings Spe- sionally after defoliating tiecs c.alist, will bring gre tings from Byron Kirkbnde and Walter mo the caterpillar will migrate into tored to Portland Sunday to visit the college. During 1953, Mrs nearby strawberry or caneberry Carter planned and executed the Jo Ann at the Shriner'.- h .spital, fields where they cause great ap furnishings for the new Azalea Jo Ann is improving every day prehension but very little actual and is anxious to be non..' Miss House at Oregon State College damage. Pickers generally do r.ot Edwina Siedelman of Portland Members of Oregon’s home exten like picking in heavily infested sion units financed the construc visited her Sunday, April 18. berry fields. John Normand visited Mr. and tion of the cooperative dormitory In commercial orchards the for girls at Oregon State College. Mrs. Byron Kirkbnde and family usual spray or dust applications Azalea House opened to its first Sunday morning The Moitr.ands applied for the control of other 60 residents last fall. Color slides live m the Linwood Reynolds orchard pests hold the tent cater of the Azalea House int rior are home. Mrs. Lulu Chambers and Freda pillars in check. If control mea also a feature of the program sures are necessary to prevent and will bs presented by Mrs. of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. James Stout and Mr. Roy Chamber? of damage to crop trees or orna Carter. mentals, DDT, methoxychlor or The ladies who made garments Brentwood. California visited re lead arsenate may be used DDT in the Better Dress Workshop latives and friends at Mrs. Exie is used at the rate of two pounds will model their dresses in a style Weaver's home Tuesday. Mrs of the fifty per cent wettage revue. Bob Reynolds of Vernonia powder to 100 gallons of water, There will also be exhibits oy Mrs Rosa Weaver .Harry and lead arsenate at the rate of the various units which will dis Betty were visitors of Mrs. Exie three pounds to 100 gallons of play the skills and methods Weaver Tuesday» also. water For small areas this would lea rned through the home exten i be one ounce of the 50 per cent sion program during the past wettable DDT to three gallons of year. water of one ounce of lead ar- In their study of Mexico, Co senate to two gallons of vyater. lumbia county homemakers have When tent caterpillars are learned much about our southern abundant in trees adjacent to neighbor. The Mexican exhibit berry fields, growers should be will add an international note to on the lookout for possible migra th? days program. tions. Parathion has been found Luncheon will be served by the to be effective and rapid in its Fern Rebecca Lodge of Raimer. action against the migrating ca A limited number of tickets will terpillars. Parathion is used for be on sale between 9 and 10 a m. this purpose at the rate of one the day of the festival, Wh-n (XX, ¿(AX j Q, pound of 25 per cent wettable these are gone, no more will be powder to 100 gallons of water available. A one per cent parathion dust is A plant exchange will also be also effective. It is impoi tant a part of the Homemakers Festi that growers be especially care val. ful to follow th? manufacturers’ Columbia county homemakers precautions on the label when cordially invite the public to at using parathion.* tend the festival. Sombrero Days Festival Theme &ZMZHZHZHZKZMZM£KZHZHZHZ!¡; Opening < EN TE It Saturday, May 1 FEATURING SPRING FASHIONS H M H H H ËHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZH^ On a forestry fi'ld day hela at the Ron McDonald farm, Ver- noma, last week some of the folks present were admiring the close ly cut stumps that were in Mc Donald's stand of selectively tog gl'd Douglas fir. Mention was made by someone that they were cut as low as any stumps that have been seen. Ron replied, I d like to hand the fellow doing the falling a shovel if I could get away with it.” Ail this only points out what experience has proved to Me Donald that cutting stumps as low as possible is a worthwhile practice The close cutting re turns a greater volum * nt wood per acre, and at the same tme makes the second selective cut ting operation easier as eq„,p ment can generally pass right over the old stumps The Long-Bell LUMBER COMPANY Vernonia Division r I I • i i i > > PHONE 853 I I NEHALEM VALLEY MOTOR FREIGHT H ermhage KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Oregon's largest - selling straight bourbon! f’RMITV ■’ FULLY ACEI) ihis whiskey IS 4 YEARS OLD « Í6 MOQf • THE OLD HERMITAGE COMPANY, FRAVrORT. KENTUCKY