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AROUND THE FARM
Oregon's agricultural progress
through research reflects in high
degree acceptance of the idea that
farming is more than a way of
life, but a way of business.
Today’s farmer must be a bus
inessman,
chemist, machinist,
economist and husbandman along
with other skills needed for most
efficient production and marketing
of crops and animals. He is gener
ally eager for research findings
that can improve his position in a
highly competitive business.
Adoption of Oregon State Uni
versity agricultural experiment
station research findings has had
tremendous impact upon the
state’s economy. Oregon’s agricul
tural production has increased in
dollar value greatly in the past
20 years even though the number
of acres in farms is about the same.
The experiment station is the re
search unit of OSU in the areas of
agriculture, forestry, fisheries,
wildlife, home economics and re
lated sciences. Research problems
are as many and as varied as in
any state in the nation. Well over
100 major crops are produced com
mercially in Oregon.
Much of the agricultural pro
gress of Oregon is the direct re
sult of improved crop varieties,
higher yields through use of ferti
lizers, animals that make more ef
ficient use of better feeds, and
other research findings.
Th? foundation of Oregon’s agri
cultural research program was laid
on July 2, 1888, with the appoint
ment of Edgar E. Grimm as agri
culturist and first station director.
In August of that year, E. R. Lake
was named hoticulturist and bot
anist and Dr. P. H. Irish was
hired as chemist.
Congress had launched the na
tion upon a program of agricultur
al research on March 2, 1887, by
passage of the Hatch Act approp
riating $15,000 a pear to each of
the state land-grant colleges, in
this case Oregon State. The Hatch
Act was passed to "aid in acquir
ing and diffusing among the peo
ple of the United States useful
and practical information on sub-
jets connected with agriculture.”
During this 74-year period, the
staff has grown from two part-
time scientists to over 200 agri
cultural scientists now serving un
der F. E. Price, dean and director
of agriculture.
Grimm organized the station's
activties under three departments:
agriculture, chemistry and horti
culture and botany. Director
Price’s organization lists 18 re
search departments at the central
station at Corvallis and 13 branch
experiment
stations scattered
throughout the state.
The dividends from the invest
ment taxpayers have made in this
research program have shown cor
responding growth. So spectacular
have been the returns from the
investments made in agricultural
research that the job of the agri
cultural scientists has been de
scribed as that of "planting tax
dollars and making them grow,"
points out R. W. Henderson, as
sistant station director.
The site of the first field experi
ment station was the lower cam
pus area of Corvallis. Over the
years, additional experimental
farms containing several thousand
acres have been added. Research
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THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1962
By DON COIN WALROD
County Extension Agent
laboratories are scattered across
the campus.
The objective^ of the agricultur
al experiment station, once simply
stated as “to secure facts which
will be effective in answering
questions or solving problems con
fronting agriculture,” have be
coming more complex. Now re
search is aimed at the following
objectives:
Conservation and efficient use of
the state’s natural resources in
cluding forests, soil, water, fish
and wildlife.
Increasing efficiency of produc
tion of agricultural commodities
and forest products.
Improving the processing, distri
bution and marketing of agricul
tural and forest products.
Testing and developing new
crops and new uses for old crops
as a means of reducing crop sur
pluses.
Collecting and analyzing basic
information needed in develop
ment of comprehensive agricultur
al programs and policies.
To assist the homemakers of the
state through research pertaining
to the physical and mental well
being of the family.
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IT 'S A P R IV IL E G E
B y K en n eth L. H olm es, w r ile r h istorian
During a baseball game be
tween the Vancouver Mounties
and the Portland Beavers on May
29th at Vancouver, B.C., the game
was disrupted by the sudden ap-
earance of a giant fireball soaring
through the sky from north to
south. The spectacle was so fright
ening that baseball players, um
pires and sports writers went scur
rying for the dugouts. After the
startling interlude the game was
resumed. The brilliant greenish
fireball with “a white tail” was
seen in British Columbia, Wash
ington and Idaho. If any of you
readers observed it, you might
drop us a line describing the sight
as it appeared to you and also the
direction of its movement. Also
tell if there was a trailing streamer
of smoke. Or you might like to
send the information right to Phil
F. Brogan. Northwest Director,
American Meteor Society. Phil
Brogan is the editor of the Bend
Bulletin, Bend, Oregon. The
American Meteor Society keeps
track of all phenomena having to
do with meteors. If the flying ob
ject hit the ground anywhere, the
observations of those who saw it
are often of value in finding the
meteorite. The meteor is called a
meteorite once it hits the ground
The pioneer explorers and set
tlers sometimes saw and recorded
the observation of such a fireball
We have found two very distinct
such cases in our studies:
One of these was seen on May
31, 1841, by the crew of one of the
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ships of the famous Wilkes expi-
dition just after they sailed out of
Puget Sound heading south along
the Washington shoreline. One of
the men aboard, Joseph G. Clark,
described the sighting of the fire
ball in a book of reminiscences:
"Lights and Shadows of Sailor
Life,” published in Boston in 1848.
He wrote of it thus:
"At ten minutes past 8 o’clock,
on the 31st, a meteor of immense
magnitude and brilliancy shot
across the heavens in a north
west direction, illuminating the
heavens to such an extent that
there was a resemblance to a shout
of fire till it nearly reached the
horizon, when it exploded, sending
off myriads of corruscations in
every direction. When it first com
menced its flight, it was exceed
ingly slow, but as it increased its
distance towards the horizon, it
increased its velocity considerably,
until it burst. Many old seaman on
board never witnessed a meteor
half so large, nor one whose light
remained so long visible. From the
time it was first seen until it dis
appeared, was one hour and twen
ty-five minutes.”
Another dramatic sighting of a
fireball was made by the members
of the so-called "Great Migration
of 1843,” the huge wagon train
that brought so many of the well-
kuown pioneers to the Pacific
Northwest. The man who founded
my own home town of McMinn
ville, William T. Newby, noted the
event with ingenious spelling in
his diary for August 4. 1834. The
diary was published in the Oregon
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A N D A P L E A S U R E TO L IV E
L illie P eo p le A tten d
T h e L ittle W orld's Fair
BIRKENFELD — Shirley Berg
went in to Portland Saturday. She
attended a meeting of the little
people Sunday. Later the group
went to the Little World’s Fair at
Damascus.
Mrs. Lawrence Johnston and
children visited with Mrs. Fred
Larson Friday afternoon.
The Gene Larsons have moved
over to Birkenfeld for a couple of
months. They are living in a
trailer house.
Several people gathered at the
Francis Nordstrom home last
Thursday evening to help Mrs.
Nordstrom celebrate her birthday.
Those there were Mr. and Mrs.
Darrell Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Art
Bellingham, Mr. and Mrs. George
Richardson and Elsa Richardson.
IN
V E R N O N IA
M rs. G arlock and G u ests
A tten d F air A t S e a ttle
MIST — Mr. and Mrs. R. Saxton
of San Diego, Calif, visited the
Ray Garlocks from Tuesday until
Sunday. Wednesday and Thurs
day Mr. and Mrs. Saxton and Mrs.
Garlock were at Seattle and en
joyed the fair.
Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Garlock called on his folks
and all enjoyed musical numbers
by Mr. Saxton and he also showed
some pictures that were interest
ing.
Eight of the Bible school help
ers took about 56 children to the
zoo a week ago Saturday. All en
joyed the trip and Packy w’as the
main attraction.
The helpers at the Bible school
all went on a clam digging expe
dition Saturday.
F a m ily F rom G resh am
M oves To T en th S tr ee t
RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Stockam and two girls
have moved from Gresham to the
Robert Bates place on 10th street.
Janet, the year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Marlyn Eide, under
went surgery Tuesday at the Tu-
ality hospital.
Michael and Margaret McDon
ald of Portland are vacationing at
the home of their grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. West.
Other recent visitors at the
Wests are Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Di
amond, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Din-
nerbeck and Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
Combs of Portland and Mr. and
Mrs. T. F. Hillyer of Brightwood.
Historical Quarterly in September,
1939: “Thare was a very curious
explosion at noon: first thare was
some thing past over us in the ele
ment like a bawl of fier, then fol
lowed it a Ion gstreak of blew
smoke in a zig zag form about 2
hundred yards long. Then followed
it a very tremendious report as if
it had been large guns firing.”
Another member of the wagon
train, James W. Nesmith, also
noted in his diary for that day,
“About 2:00 o’clock in the after
noon we heard a loud, sharp re
port of a piece of heavy artillery
After the first report, there was a
loud rumbling sound overhead."
In later years Newby told a
newspaper reporter that what they
S u p port Y ou r V ern on ia
saw and heard "was probably a
meteor.”
1 F rien d sh ip Jam boree!
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