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è ' PAGE FOURTEEN Malheur Sail ConrervaJion Annual Meeting Slated at Vale sn Feb. 23 of resource conservation to the agricultural economy of Malheur county It emphasizes the ability of the Malheur Soil Conservation district to speed up the applica tion of conservation measures on the farms and ranches in Malheur county, urging everyone, especi ally farmers and ranchers, to at tend this meeting. Mr. Duncan will serve as chair man for the meeting and advises that a complete program has been arranged, including entertain ment, provided by Clinton Bel lows, vocalist, Ontario, and the Vale high school band under the direction of Chester Potuzak Guest Speaker Guest speaker will be E R Jackman, Oregon State college. William Schroeder, Vale, mem ber of the board of supervisors, will report on district accomplish ments during the year. Printed district reports will be distributed at the meeting Mr. Townley, chairman of the districts school conservation con tests, will announce the winners A supply of broadleaf tree seed of the conservation essay and jin lings, suitable for planting in the gle contest. Winners will read eastern part of the state, is now their successful entries. available at the Oregon forest One district supervisor will be nurse ry near Corvallis, according elected at the meeting represent to Assistant State Forester Vance ing the Harper area. The term of L. Morrison. The species include office for Lib Chastain expires black locust, caragana, Chinese Feb. 23. elm, Russian olive and Russian Finals of the district’s conserva mulberry, Morrison stated. tion speech contest will be con “Orders must reach the state ducted at the meeting. Earl Jones forester before the end of March,” is chairman of the contest and the forester stated, "since it will will judge the entries. be necessary to dig all trees by In addition to the cash prizes that time in order to prepare the which will be awarded first three winners in the contest, a plaque ground for the next crop. The orders for the various spe will be awarded to the school of cies of conifers has far exceeded the winner at an assembly pro that of any previous year, with j gram later in the year. The the result that the supply wasj plaque, completely engraved, will exhausted several months ago.! become the permanent posession of the three time school winner. Morrison stated Ontario high school won the CLASSIFIED FOR RESULTS plaque last year. A larftL' turnout of Nyssa area farmers is expected to attend the fourth annual meeting at Vale of the District Cooperators of the Malheur Soil Conservation dis trict. Last minute plans for the meet ing in Vale Elementary school are nearly complete, according to Ray Duncan, chairman of the board of supervisors Everyone interested is invited to attend. The meeting will begin at 11:30 a m. with a free lunch girovided by Vale chamber of commerce, Lions club and Vale Junior chamber of commerce •rives The home economics class of Vale high school will serve the lunch. Important to County The Malheur county court in Its proclamation designating Feb. 23 as Malheur Consrvation Day calls attention to the importance Tree Seedlings Made Available ONION SEED? FIESTA HYBRID? WE HAVE IT!! Stocks of Fiesta Are Limited . . PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW! We Also Have — YELLOW SWEET SPANISH—UTAH YELLOW SWEET SPANISH PETER HENDERSON STRAIN WHITE SWEET SPANISH SOUTHPORT WHITE GLOBE—RE-SELECTED DESSERT SEED CO., Inc. Phone 3115 Nyssa. Oregon TUE N Y fSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1957 YOUR \ Gale City Journal’s Farm and Bam News and Views Range Bulls Bring New Sugar Beel Student Discusses $384 Average Vocational At Ontario Sale Seed Plant Agriculture Work Set for Salem Tingley said the new plant will have annual capacity for 2,250,000 pounds of seed, enough to plant 130,000 acres and to produce some 700 million pounds of pure beet sugar for domestic consumption West Coast was organized in 1940 to assure a home-grown sup ply of sugar beet seeds adapted to growing conditions in the Unit ed States. Until the early 1930's all beet seed used in this country was imported from Europe. West Coast seed is grown un der contract with local fanners in the Willamette valley near Medford and at Hemet and Teha- chapi, Calif. Other beet seed pro duction is at Phoenix, Ariz.. through the Western Seed Pro duction Corporation and at St George, Utah Not only is commercial seed produced through the Salem plant, but plant-breeders’ stock-« of experimental varieties are in creased there. Small quantities of newly-developed seed types are sent to Salem where they are planted in special plots and yield on the average about 3,000 pounds of seed for every 15 pounds plant ed. V By Lfertoy Pulliam 1 Seventy-two range bulls aver This week is National FFA aged $394.58 at the eighth annual week. The following article aboi't By Wayne Gifford Oregon Cattlemen’s Association Construction of a major new FFA, written by E. P. Hilson, Di I am in my second year of vo Range Bull sale held at the Fair sugar beet seed processing plant rector of Agriculture Education in cational agriculture. My project Grounds in Ontario Feb. 15 and 18 at Salem, Ore., to supply seed to Kentucky, may be of interest: is breeding swine. When I was according to Tom McElroy, growers in Nyssa and other beet The Future Farmers of Amer a freshman in vocational agricul sale committee chan man. bull growing areas was announced ica organization is in its early ture, I had no project to start The champion bull, consigned this week by West Coast Beet maturity. It has grown and de with, so I applied for a “chapter by Charles Chandler of Baker, Seed Co. of Salem. veloped more rapidly than most chain’’ swine. I had my swine on Ore purchased by John Col Amalgamated Sugar Co., Nyssa, of us ever dreamed possible. It our acreage one mile north of lins , of was Mitchell, Ore. for $875. The with seven other sugar-producing town. Then I got a job at Adr has glamourized vocational agri firms is a part owner of the beet reserve champion, consigned by seed culture. Some people have been and I took my hog with me. She Herb Chandler of Baker, company. went to concerned with its popularity. A turned out to be a barron gilt. Stewart and Morrissey of Keat R J. Tingley, president of few have intimated that the FFA So I sold the gilt a« a fat hog. and ing, Ore., for $570. All Hereford West Coast, said the $150,000 program should be curbed. Ra the Nyssa FFA chapter gave me bulls in the sale averaged $402 42 olant is scheduled for comple ther than be c urbed, the FFA pro another chapter chain gilt She is to $303 33 for the Short tion early in July, in time to han gram needs to be developed, nur a Montana No. 1 hog She was compared dle this year’s beet seed crop horns. tured and protected. It needs to bred the day before I got her. grown in Oregon. The seed is Largest Hereford buyer at the be used as an effective teaching She is about eleven months old sale was Theron Adcock of Ore- distributed to growers for seven device. Because of its popularity, ar.d has 12 pigs, 9 of which are ana. Ida., who bought six. C. L. American beet sugar processing attempts may be made to exploit gilt-, and 3 are boars. I took her Anawalt of Jordan Valley pur companies including to the Malheur county fair this chased most of the Shorthorns, ted Sugar Company Amalgama it. in Oregon year. In her class she won a 1st taking three of the six consigned and a Michigan organization The FFA is an integral part of com vocational agriculture. No depart place ribbon. When I took her posed of farmers and processors. ment of vocational agriculture is back to the ring to try for cham Seed goes to farmers in about complete without a functioning pion of her breed, she brought BREEDING STUDIED FFA chapter. It motiv ates and vi me back the champion ribbon The USD A scientists are opti 14 states from Ohio to California. talizes teaching and makes a sig Then we went back to try for mistic about the possibility of im nificant contribution toward the grand champion over all breeds proving meat tenderness through aims and objectives of vocational We got second place which gave selective livestock breeding, ac agriculture. us the reserve grand champion cording to research and experi ments they have conducted. In All this is done through chap ribbon. ter activities selected, planned their advancement in farming studies with rabbits and a lesser extent with beef cattle, they and carried out by the members found that rabbits had a herita- of the chapter under the direc and farm leadership. Loca’ed 2 1 2 miles south of the Parma-Nyssa junction tion and supervision of the teach Roy Chapin, Perrydale. presi bility factor of about 53 percent or 3 1 2 m iles north of Parma or 4*/2 m iles southeast of and beef cattle about 41 percent. er of vocational agriculture. The dent of Oregon FFA, got his start Nyssa, beginning at 12:00 o'clock, on— building of a chapter program of farming with a *£-acre garden activities should be an annual af and two hives of bees on the fam URBANITES LIKE MILK fair. Many activities may be con ily P-j-acre lot. As a freshman Michigan State University con tinued from year to year; some a survey and found that won the chapter “speak-off’ ducted will be dropped after careful he the majority of city people drink and came second in the sectional evaluation and others added “speak-off.” milk because they like it. Other 52 — HEAD HIGH QUALITY Then he came back when need arises. The number in succeeding years to win fifth, reasons were its high food value,1 HOLSTEIN CATTLE — 52 and type of activities to be car second and then first in the state importance in restoring health, ried out by a chapter should be public speaking contest. and the fact that there were chil This herd has been built up over a period of 32 years, determined by the need for ac “I think it was the public. dren.in the home. having originated in M innesota using Carnation breed- tivities to help in the teaching of speaking which made me realize in, for the past 5 years using Bluffview Artificial Insem agriculture, including training in that with a little hard work and OREGON TRAIL CLUB ination. A very well-bred herd with the best blood lines leadership, cooperation and citi determination the opportunities j MEETS WEDNESDAY Tractor — Machinery — M iscellaneous zenship The program should be in FFA work were really unlim- j A meeting of the Oregon Trail broad enough to offer every ited. So I decided to better my sewing club was held last Wed member of the chapter an oppor- farming program,” says Roy. nesday with Carolyn Nakashima tunity to participate. The follow First he bought three weaned leading the flag ceremony. ing questions should be consider pigs. They were ready for mark Nancy Hill gave a demonstra Auctioneers—Col. Ellis White, Ontario 687. ed in selecting an FFA activity et at 5 months, so he took them tion of different types of hems Col- Fred HowelL Nyssa 5093. A. Will the activity be an aid to the county fair. One hog took and Daren Smith demonstrated Clerk—L. F. Mesler, Nampa 6-4955. in teaching? a purple ribbon and went on to thimbles. B. Will it take more time than become grand champion barrow i can be justified? in the FFA division at Oregon 10 REYN O LDS ALUMINUM* C. Will enough members be in state fair. This just whetted Roy’s j volved to justify the activity? interest in farming more, so he : PREFA B H O USES . . . D. Will the activity, as carried boosted his hog project to three out, appeal to the boys? registered Berkshire sows. As a The teacher of vocational agri junior he rented 30 acres of land culture has the responsibility for to raise grain for his hogs and the FFA. It is a part of his pro rented additional barn space for gram. He should use the FFA to the enlarged hog project. secure good farming programs His record has earned him the and to advance boys in farming state farmer degree and the presi Certainly the teacher is respon dency of the Oregon FFA. He’s sible for helping the boys select one of the six top FFA public activities that will lead toward speakers in the United States. HOLSTEIN DAIRY and MACHINERY SALE Friday, February 22, 1957 ANGELO MAROSTICA, Owner •©« MYSTERY FARM CONTEST WIN THIS 1000-HEN CAGE HOUSE in P u r i n a s S u p e r S t a rt e n a S w e e p s t a k e s Store, or hand it to our Checkerboard Service Man. Limit, one entry per adult over 21. 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