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"THANKS A MILLION, FRIENDS’
Our Grand Opening last week was a huge success • you made it a suc
cess when you dropped into our store to visit and shop. Because of
the large crowd we couldn't give you the kind of attention you'll get
Don Coin Walrod
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the next time you drop in - but for stopping in during our Grand Open-
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ina. we ore saying again: “ Thanks a M illion, Friends.”
Columbia county folks are promi
nent in state activities in many
ways, but being modest folks not a
great deal is said about it. No doubt
there are many that we don’t know
about, and knowing full well that
there will be amissions, we would
like to call attention to the activities
of some of these folks.
Harold Davis, Clatskanie, is cur
rently president o fthe Oregon State
Fur Breeders association while Cecil
Huff, Vernonia, heads up the Oregon
Broiler Growers association and Mrs.
Huff is a member of the Oregon Fry
er Commission.
Carl Brandenfels, St. Helens, is
president of the Oregon Holly Grow
ers association, and Elmer Peterson
of the Columbia county side of Sau-
vies Island is president of the Ore
gon Association of Soil and Water
Conservation Districts.
Last month Peterson was appoint
ed to a four-year term on the State
Soil and Water Conservation com
mittee by Governor Hatfield.
Mrs. Kent Magruder, Clatskanie,
is currently a member of the Ore
gon 4-H Foundation. A few years ago
Kent Magruder was president of the
Oregon Cattlemens association, and
several years ago John W. Whipple
was president of the Oregon Essen
tial Oil Growers League.
Perhaps the matter of shade for
livestock isn’t as important for West
ern Oregon folks as it is in Eastern
Oregon and other parts of the na
tion. However, there are times when
dairy, beef, and hog producers would
be justified in making some provis
ions for the comfort of their animals.
Actually more than just animal
comfort is involved. Research work
indicates that steers on feed in dry-
lot will gain from a quarter to a third
pound more per day if shade is pro
vided during the summer months.
Such shade devices for cattle need
to be at least eight feet off the
ground for air circulation. Because
of its reflective qualities, aluminum
is one of the best type of shade
roofing materials.
In much of Western Oregon good
advantage can be made of natural
cover provided by a small grove of
trees for cattle and livestock on pas
ture. To be convinced of the need
for shade for livestock, one need only
observe them closely on a hot sum
mer day.
Dry plowing following the harvest
of an early maturing crop is an ef
fective way of controlling persistent
creeping grasses such as quackgrass
and bluegrasses. This is only one of
several methods of control, but till
age is one of the more practical me
thods when these creeping grasses
infest large areas.
The most common procedure is to
dry plow with a moldboard plow,
exposing the root systems of the
plant to the drying actions of the
wind and sun. After regrowth of
the grassy plants starts, the area
should be cross-harrowed with a
springtooth type implement. Such
cultivations should be repeated for
the remainder of the summer as of
ten as the green growth occurs.
The tilled area can be early fall
planted to cereals, silage crops, or
crimson clover for seed in the adapt
ed areas. Following harvest the sec
ond year, the field should be replow
ed and cultivation continued if need
ed.
Rototilling can be substituted for
moldboard plowing. However, more
summer tillage is needed when roto-
tiller type machines are used.
Chemical herbicide treatments are
effective for grassy plant control, but
their use is usually limited to small
acreages since they are apt to be
more expensive than tillage. In same
cases there may be some merit to
using a combination chemical and
tillage control program for the re
duction of grassy weeds.
Columbia county’s Astoria bent-
grass seed fields were inspected for
certification late last week. Appar
ently the acreage to be harvested
is down slightly this year, but for
the most part the fields show pro
mise of an excellent crop.
Fields were pollenating when cer
tification inspectors were making
their rounds last Thursday. With the
season somewhat late at this point,
it is expected that harvest will begin
sometime after August 1.
Passing field inspection is only
the first step in the qualifications
of certified seed. After harvest a
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representative sample of the seed
from each lot must meet rigid stand
ards for purity and germination as
well as be free from certain noxious
weeds. All of these steps are aimed
at giving the ultimate consumer a
high grade seed of known quality.
After all, what home-owner can look
at seed than contains 5 to 8 million
seeds per pound and know what he
is getting from his money?
S o m e o n e remembered recently
that savings bonds used to pay less
interest than they do today. So the
question came up as to whether it
wouldn’t be smart to cash in the old
ones and buy the 3% percent bonds
now on sales. So that led to a little
investigation.
The truth of the matter is that no
series E bond still being held is pay
ing less than 3% when held to ma
turity — and most of the old ones
are paying more. As we understand
it, here is the way it works.
The interest is based on a sliding,
upward scale. Also, old bonds were
increased at the same time that the
new rate went into effect in 1959. So
—any E bond you might own will
draw at least 3% percent to its next
maturity. Many will earn a rate of
four percent or higher.
If you’d like to check this your
self, ask your banker to let you see
his copy of the “Table of Investment
Yields’’. The rate of any E bond is
shown on this one-page table.
Over the years many alfalfa varie
ties, as well as other forage species,
have been tested for adaptability
here in Columbia county. Because
plant breeders are actively develop
ing improved varieties to meet con
ditions of some particular area, we
need to constantly watch for varie
ties that will better meet our own
conditions.
A variety test planting was made
this spring at the Ron Hein farm,
Scappoose, using 29 different varie
ties of alfalfa. DuPuits is still the
best of the alfalfas for this area
and consequently we will be compar
ing all others with it.
Many things besides yield need to
be considered. Although DuPuits
works out well under our conditions,
we would like to see something with
better longevity and disease resis
tance. No one would object to still
greater yields, we’re sure.
In a recent visit Ron Hein noted
that a newly planted field of alfalfa
showed response from manure ap
plied in one small portion of the
field. Ron was interested in this
since the field had been limed and
fertilized prior to planting, and or
dinarily alfalfa is not expected to
respond to manuring.
The manure Ron applied may have
made a more favorable climate for
the rhizobia, the nitrogen fixing bac
teria that lives in a symbiotic rela
tionship with the alfalfa supplying
the nitrogen for its needs. Or it may
be that the manure supplied minor
elements in a greater amount than
the young plants could obtain from
the newly limed and fertilized field.
Research contiues to improve on
the herbicides available to do specif
ic jobs, Tordon. one of the latest de
velopments, is not currently on the
market but is expected to be availa
ble in the next few weeks.
All of the uses of this material are
not known at this time, but there is
no doubt that Canada thistle will be
one of the more important weeds it
will control. Last year plots were
put on late in the season and still
gave very good control. Both one and
two pounds per acre gave complete
kill with no regrowth on a plot near
the Borlin dairy farm near Deer Is
land.
On the farm of the late Nick
Thomas. Goble, excellent control of
wild morning glory was achieved
with a September spraying. Without
question, better control would result
from an earlier application.
To find out more information about
the use of such materials, consid
erable work needs to be done. Trial
plots have already been located
along highway 30 near Warren and
the road to the Longview bridge.
The current hunter's catch report
of the Fish and Wildlife Service
shows that County Trapper Bob
Walker caught 30 opossum for the
month ending the last of April. We've
felt for some time that there would
come a day when we started getting
complaints about damage done by
this intruder into the northwest. The
time has arrived.
This spring we’ve had several re-
Signed,
DAVE & BERT BRUNSMAN
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ports of losses of young chicks, as are Mrs. Edna Johnson. Kent Ma
well as apparent raids into yards gruder and Jim Luxford. Aerial
that are being blamed on the opos spraying is generally less costly
sum. Time will tell how serious this than ground applications. In addition,
is to become.
the rapidity of the operation takes
Reports of nutria predations into advantage of the best weather con
gardens are starting to come in also. ditions for such work.
From our understanding of this ani
Herbicides of the 2, 4-D type are
mal this sort of problem could real the basis for control.
ly become serious. How much so will
Fly control programs need to start
depend somewhat upon how well suit
ed our climate is to the needs of this early, and the first step is to clean
South American emigrant.
up all manure and remove debris
that might serve as breeding sites.
Fly sprays are usually quite ef
A number of county kmdowners in
the Clatskanie area are making use fective when used in conjunction with
of ASCS cost-sharing provisions to a sanitation program Spraying of
institute control measures against both livestock and premises is neces
tussock rush and tansy ragwort Both sary for the most effective control.
Caution must be used in selecting
offer heavy competitiwi to pasture
species and the latter is poisonous the right spray material to avoid
contamination, says Walrod. Specific
to cattle and horses.
Undertaking to do this spray work recommendations for individual sit-
FINE FURNITURE
uations can be secured from exten
sion agents.
An unusual number of requests for
information about the consequences
of grazing pastures that have been
sprayed with 2, 4-D have come into
the office in the past few weeks.
Over the years a great deal of in
formation about 2, 4-D and 2,4,5-T
has been collected, and while these
materials have been cleared for
weed control uses in pastures, it is
generally advisable to allow a lit
tle time interval between the appli
cation of sprays and the actual graz
ing.
While these hormone sprays cer
tainly are not poisonous in them
selves. they cause internal changes
in the plant. It is possible that same
of these chemical alterations in the
plant could be harmful to the animal.
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In other instances, spraying with
herbicides may make certain plants
palatable whereas they would not or
dinarily be eaten.
Generally we have no problem with
regard to 2,4-D srays, but it always
pays to exercise caution.
For the past year or so. thibenzole
has been doing a most satisfactory
job of controlling internal parasites
in sheep and goats. During this per
iod. stockmen owners have been im
patient to use the material with cat
tle but such use was not approved.
The food and drug administration
and the USDA have now cleared thi
benzole for oral use with cattle for
the control of roundworms.
' Any boy who brings home a bad
report card will tell you a little
learning is a dangerous thing.’’