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St. Paul, Minn., May, 1951

Berry Industry Mug Make a ComebackPeople ask what has happened

to the fresh raspberries that cameevery summer in hundreds of car-loads from the Pacic Northwestto cities all the way from Minne-apolis to New York. Since WorldWar II shipments have dwindledpractically to nothing.

Dr. C. D. Schwartze is the horti-culturist at the Western Washing-ton Experiment station, at Puyallup,

Growing Painsi “We have 120 acres of land1 seven miles north of Madras,

in central Oregon, on the newreclamation project,” JamesH. Hume said. “We have 85acres irrigated now, with 56

alfalfa and 15 acres in wheat,T as we are getting more leveled

acres of Ladino seed last fall.

combine and lots of otherequipment. He lives in a cin-der block garage and has agranary, chicken house andcellar. We are going to builda 16x28 house for my wife and

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I acres in Ladino clover 20 in It is fortunate for growers that the Western Washington Experiment station has equipment,! above, to test berry processing methods. Left to right, John Brekke and I-‘red Talburt, of the

U. S. laboratory, at Albany, Cal., and C. D. Schwartze, berry man on stall of the state.

and ready for water.1 where he developed the new rasp- rapidly, more of the berries were

“My boy is 19 and married | berry, called Washington, which needed close to home. While com-and he has been doing the lev- i was introduced some 12 years ago mercial canning of raspberrieseling and running the place. ' and which, since that time, has came almost to a standstill duringI have furnished the money. ; almost entirely replaced the old the war, much more tonnage thanWe made $3,200 on the rst 10 standard variety, which was called before went into frozen pack.

Cuthbert The Cuthbert, Schwartze re-W9 have two tractors and We asked Dr. Schwartze recent- called, was doomed when it became

ly, in his office at the experiment so unproductive that growers nostation, about Pacic Northwest longer could afford to raise it. Dis-raspberries. There aren’t enough ease and winter killing were backberries to go around any more, the of its downfall. This variety haddoctor said, and those that are pro- high quality for shipping fresh, forduced are taken b the market freezin and f ' T k"y g or canning. a ing

me as 50°“ as Posslble arld We near at hand. In the rst place, dur- the Cuthbert’s place, the Washing-have 3 blg machine Shed to ing the war, in the 1940’s, the berry ton berry soon received the ap-8915 “P thls Year, b9$1de5 3 ‘ acreage dropped to less than half proval of growers because it is aba1'_n- WP m°Ved_ West from its former total. Pickers went to high yielder (up to eight tons anOhlo, Wlth an mterval In 1

the defense plants and acres went acre in commercial plantings) of§°ut_he1‘n Idahff before 1°¢at- ‘ into more essential production. large, nicely colored fruit and themg 11'! Oregon. ‘ When the population of the West plant is disease resistant. The

_ ~ - <4 increased, as it has been doing, Washington is a good freezer and

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~ . .i —-“'*w-- ‘ a fancy pack can be achieved with

the Washington. We put up someP-1*"-'-'4 "'"""'v ‘>1 "'- Washingtons, in cans, using our

Department 0/ Agrirullurnl Davelopmenl and to ALbany alif. From t ere t ey were

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY sent ’to Peoria, Il1., and then theyJ. w. HAW ................... ..st. Paul, Minn. came back here, where we opened

Director them and found that, after all thatW. J. HUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..St. Paul, Minn. knocking argund the Qguntry, the

‘“$*“°“' ‘° the D"°°‘°’ processed berries still graded fancy.A. J. DEXTER................ ..s¢. Paul, Minn. Maybe it can be done on a c0mmeI._

Agricultural Development Agent . . ,,(On leave of absence) C181 b3SlS.

A. R. MIESEN ................ ..st. Paul, Minn. Dr. Schwartze and hls frlonds inAsooltoral Development Agent the roduction end of the cane fruit

. P . .1-1. w. BYERLY ............... ..sz. Paul, Minn. industry have been interested in

Immigration Asent seeing lately, even before the Ko-L. s. MacDONALD.......... ..Missoula, Mont. rean war, some increase in the de-

~‘\81'i°"""'-‘*1 D°"=1°Pm°"* A891" mand for red raspberries. Thew. P. STAPLE_TON ........... ..Seattle, Wash. acreage has come back some from

w°s‘°'“ Ag{},‘(’,‘;“§g,",!,hDF,.‘,’)'f,‘,‘;l,2m°“* Ale“ the low point reached in the 1940’s.KENNETH L. coox......... ..Seatt1e, Wash. A good early berry ls needed-

Agricultural Development Agent week 01' 10 days ahead of Wash‘1°°5 smith T°W°' 1ngton—to spread the harvest sea-

This magazine ls sent free for ve months SOI1 OVGI‘ 3 lOI1g8I‘ p8I‘l0d and t0to those indicatin t t Lu th N - -west states On egx§i]i'at1ilo$ir?f that e rioflm occupy the plcker crews longer-- e 0 itmay be obtained on a yearly basis by s ud-ing 50 cents for one year or $1 for three The Tahoma’ brought out bygags, in (postagedstampsi coin, currency _or Schwartze about the same time theR:u$r¥ty?rize§oT:iv{°sn°i'o rgngvsriiiiegn ¢§,§.°,§§f Washington was introduced, seemedmfélgag ggienéog gytgoggiegpis may be to be the answer at rst—goog both

' fresh and for processing— ut itdidn’t pan out entirely. The Willa-mette, a new one from Oregon, isbeing tried, too, but it may not be

its berries make good preserves. the entire answer.The Pacic Northwest has better

conditions than an other lace in _ L L T70 '3 ‘Wthe world for the piioductiog of red Ready fur Tripraspberries, Schwartze told us, and C

when reminded this seemed like abold statement, he replied withoutany hesitation that Washingtonand Oregon growers get excellentquality; they have a market; theycan produce a big volume; and thearea has a large processing indus-try (freezing and canning) fullydeveloped right in the producingsections.

“After the war,” Dr. Schwartzesaid, “the processors wanted to goback to canning red raspberries butthey found they were not gettingas good appearance in a canned F +~ \__berry with the Washington variety "— -as they had before the war withCuthbert.

‘l‘The Washington produces good hco or and avor in the can and here .

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W. E. Harrer, from Helena, sold anAngus bull at the Montana Winter fair,in Bozeman, for $7,500. Thirty-one bullsin the Angus sale averaged nearlytwice what was paid at the 1950 fair.Monforton Hereford ranch sold a Here-ford bull for $6,000 and Conn Warren’schampion Hereford female, from hisC-K ranch at Deer Lodge, brought$1,700.

At the North Dakota Winter show,in Valley City, sales of cattle, sheep andhogs brought a total of $120,000, whichwas $15,000 more than in 1950.

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Bids have been received for con-struction of a 17-mile unlined sectionof main canal on the east side of theColumbia Basin Irrigation project, inWashington, south of Wheeler. It willserve 14,000 irrigable acres, or 180farms. The low bid, which includedalso the half-mile Lind coulee waste-way, amounted to $3,490,304.38.

# I U IA Fargo, N. D., man, O. Gunvoldsen,

invented a device which shuts offpower and stops a tractor wheneverit is in danger of tipping over.

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For the rst time in several yearsthe number of sheep and lambs onfarms and ranches in Montana hasshown an increase over the previousyear. On Jan. 1, 1951, there were 1,720,-000 compared with 1,623,000 on thesame date in 1950.l U O U

A. H. Briggs, a 41-year-old appraiserfor the Federal Land bank in Nebraska,has moved to a 160-acre irrigated farmhe bought in the Lower Flathead val-ley of Montana.

i I I IA. J. Hills, from Iowa, bought an im-

proved quarter section in Clay county,Minnesota, in the Red River valley.

U O 1 lHops last year on irrigated land in

the Wapato-Satus area of the Yakimavalley, in Washington, were harvestedon 4,200.8 acres and their value was$1,014.52 an acre—a total of $4,261,775.

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Research men at the State Collegeof Washington said in a recent bulletin,No. 517, that an acre of sugar beetsproduces about 3,500 pounds of puregranulated sugar and, in addition, whenthe by-products (tops and pulp) arefed to livestock, 300 pounds of meat.

lem may be solved by modifying ,~- ' ' l 'the handling procedures at thecannery and after packing. We are ‘ ' _working on the problem in our Sacks of Willamette vetch seed in aPilot Plant, Whioh We use for @X- t’I’.°?3l$Z'i §’?»33“§..i’1'2’§€3'i§§‘.i3.'.?§‘t1Z§.“‘l.¥perimental purposes, and I think the South, ‘where it is used to produce a

- Inter 0 r on cultiv t d land.we are golng to demonstrate that ¥amm°i.Y°3n°;<?-i’ sell =»,m,o%»°,mm¢=.

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An inexpensive but effective way tocontrol wireworms has been found, ac-cording to entomologists at the NorthDakota Experiment station, whose ob-servations show that heavy infestationspractically may be wiped out by treat-ing seed before planting with a chemi-cal called lindane.

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Excellent Yields from Grass in 0reg¢mThe outstanding job of pasturing

dairy cattle in Oregon has been Idone by George Genteman, in Polk* “county, where he grazes 60 Jerseys "' “""'nine and a half months on 12 acres _n__ -5] —of alta fescue and Ladino clover.

“Genteman is coming closer thananyone I’ve seen in this country toduplicating the New Zealand na-tional practice of rotating dairypastures,” said W. E. Petersen,widely known authority from theMinnesota University dairy hus-bandry section, after he visitedGenteman’s farm. “The New Zea-landers, with ordinary cows making

1300 to 350 pounds of butterfat year-ly, I found when I was Qver there, George Genteman keeps 60 head on this 12-acre pasture nine and one-halt months of theget 69 pounds of butterfat Per cow ¥F.i‘v'erY’“<;'.1§rJi‘1‘;’§.‘1l’2rg§1’Z‘§ r$3E,“§"w3i°§J’€1'ytX’3a§§f‘ifirZ‘§°p=.‘{§i1‘l??,l“£r§§§°.§§§’J§,"{'w.';‘i$;‘§per year more when they ro-tate pastures than when they growth was so thick the mower be- a ll quickly It is important toopractice continuous grazing” Pe- ’ ' ’ ’. ,, ’ . lieve it or not, hardly would go he said, that the rotation of eachterse“ “Flamed, although tn through it. patch be adjusted to the size of thepounds of dry matter the two 53'5" “The average last year was 525 herd so it is cropped o in a shorttems Produce actually about the pounds per cow for my whole herd time and fairly evenly. Thus, theSame volume ot teed‘ in the local testing association and grass is used at its maximum inGenteman Sld In 3 reeent Inter" to me that speaks volumes in favor palatability and when it has itsView that the key to his Pregrem of this system of pasturing. I am maximum nutritive value. And theis frequent retetieh-_Hi5 12_ eeres °f feeding some grain the year around new grass has time to grow beforegrass ere drvlded lrlte SIX Smell but the tester and I have conclud- it is pastured again. It is, he said,Petehes» Wh1eh_ ere Sepereted by ed, conservatively, that the va1~ however, almost as unwise to un-one-Wlre eleetrle feI1ee$- The 40 ue of feed replaced by the grass dergraze as it is to overgraze.milk e°W$_, and 20 head Of Ye]-1118 is $9 per cow per month. For “I think,” Genteman said, “theSteek (helfers) Part Of the tlmer 40 cows, that’s $360. To be on best height for grazing alta fescuegraze eeeh Peteh tW° days 5° that the conservative side again, we’ll and Ladino is seven to eight inches.eeeh Pleee 15 Pestured ehly two forget about two and a half Iunderstand, in New Zealand, theydays eut Qt every 12- Frem June 1 months of the pasture season and prefer six and a half to seven inch-to Sept» 15, he irrigetes from 3 Well, count seven months. That makes es for rye grass and white clover.“flth Sprlhklers, every 19 days, $2,520 worth of feed I didn’t have Alfalfa and brome probably wouldrlght after eeeh tW°'eere Pleee has to buy. Remember, too, that I make be about right at eight inches.”been grazed d°Wh- a prot on the grass over and above Genteman puts on 500 pounds“Last year I used the grass un- its value as a replacement for grain. per acre of 16-20-0 fertilizer year-til Jan. 3,” Genteman said, “then You can make your own estimate 1y—200 pounds in the spring, 200I let it rest until March 15. In June, of the prot, but I gure my 12 in the summer and 100 in the fall.the cattle weren’t keeping up with acres of pasture are worth $5,000 The soil denitely is on the lightthe feed, so temporarily I altered a year, all told.” side. The pasture was establishedthe sequence of the rotation sched- Genteman emphasized that he in the rst place by putting in 15ule and cut 90 tons of grass silage believes it is essential to have suf- pounds per acre of alta fescue seedfrom some of the patches. The cient growth so that the cattle get (continued on Pagg 3)

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lrrigating pastures frequently with sprinklers has greatly in- fescue and Ladino late in October. The grass on some farms oncreased the feed and lowered the cost of the ration for dairy cows which there are dairy herds replaces per acre $200 worth oi grain.in Oregon. The herd above was photographed grazing on alta Much of the farm prot is credited to pasture and grass silage.3

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What It Takes to Make u Stock Ranch SucceedA Western Authority Summarized the Situation in Montana

The earning capacity of a west- 100 head of stock cattle. Ranches ranches average from three to veern stock ranch rests on four much below this size do not pro- months, varying with localities.points: the livestock unit produc- vide an operator with a full-time During an average season, ativity of the ranch; the size of the job, or yield earnings above family Montana plains cattle ranch willranch, in terms of the number of living requirements sufcient to furnish from 250 to 300 pounds, livelivestock that it will maintain pro- pay a return on capital values. weight, of beef for market for eachductively; prices received for the The plains sheep ranch of Mon- head of stock cattle maintained onmarketings; and ranch operating tana needs from 5 to 12 acres of the ranch. For the western Mon-costs. range land per ewe and feed crop tana cattle ranches, this gure will

A cattle ranch in the plains sec- land that will grow the average run from 300 to 350 pounds.tion, in eastern Montana, needs annual winter feeding require- Sheep Ranches Of The Montanafrom 20 to 50 acres of range land ments of 200 pounds of hay per plains eountry will market annual-per cow, depending on the kind of ewe. Any ranch where the sheep ly from 30 to 35 pounds of lamb forthe range and its quality. Such a are herded in a range band needs each head of stoek sheep main-ranch needs feed crop land that to operate a minimum enterprise tained in the range bands, andwill produce, as an annual average, of 1,000 ewes, for an economic unit. about nine and a half pounds ofhalf a ton of hay, or its equivalent, Where the ewes are operated under < wool, For the western Montanafor each cow or each head of stock fence without the services of a sheep ranches, these gures willcattle maintained on the ranch. herder the minimum size for the run from 40 to 50 pounds of lamb

A cattle rand, in the western enterprise can be as low as 500 or and nine pounds of wool, One-fthMontana foothill and mountain 600 eWe$- Of the St0Ck Sheep 011 the rarlehvalley country needs from 10 to 25 Western Montana mountain val- are yearling ewes retained for re-acres of range land, depending on ley sheep ranches need from three plaeemerltthe kind and the quality of the to six acres of range land per ewe, As of the year 1939, before werange, and the hay lands that will depending on the quality of the felt the effects of the approachinggrow a ton to a ton and a half of range and on the use of national war, western Montana cattle ranch-hay, or its equivalent in other win- forest summer range permits. es operated at a cost of $15 to $20ter feed, for each head of stock cat- These ranches need the hay lands per head of stock cattle maintain-tle maintained through the winter. to produce from 300 to 500 pounds ed on the ranches. Now this gureHay requirements for these ranch- of hay per ewe, depending on the stands at $40 to $50. For the Mon-es will run about 500 pounds per length of the winter feeding period. tana plains cattle ranches, thishead of stock cattle for each month Hay feeding requirements run comparison is $12 to $15, and $30of full winter feeding. about 100 pounds per ewe for each to $40. Sheep ranches of the Mon-

A cattle ranch, in order to have full month of hay feeding. Winter tana plains operated at an averageadequate earning capacity, should feeding periods for the western annual cost per ewe of $3 to $4 inhave as a minimum a capacity for Montana mountain valley sheep 1939. Now the gure stands at $8

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A bee! cattle ranch in eastern Montana requires from 20 to the range land requirement is from 10 to 25 acres per head but50 acres of range land per cow and enough meadow to furnish a ton and a half of hay are needed for whiter feed. A hundredhalt a ton of hay per animal in the winter. In western Montana head of stock cattle are a minimum to make an economic unit.

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to $10. The early lambing sheep ° "7ranches of the western Montana Chose aymountain valleys had a per ewe El - d N0 ri Eg e who as ~—Operating. cost of .$5 to $6 H.‘ 1939' Eggeiligroatrlliers, riinsa 640-acre farmNow the“ operatmg cost W111 run in the fertile Red River valley in$13 to $15 per ewe" Cass county, North Dakota, soiith

I-97$ Pm through 3 Set Qt ea_1e11' of Fargo, tell you that they havelations in estimating the earnings “kept a hand in the dairy business"ealmelty °f a I'aheh- F01‘ 001' 11' for two reasons: 1, it pays goodlustration, we’ll use a western money; 2, grain farming may notMontana cattle ranch that operates always be as protable as it has200 head et eatt1e- We gure the been the last nine years and then,average ahhhal marketihgs Qt the if that happens, it certainly will beranch t° he 325 Peuhds °t beet Per nice to have a pay check every twohead of stock cattle, and we guess Weeks from oows_that the price to be received for “Look at those cans of milk inthe current year at $28 per hun- the 001 77 E1 - -ddredweight This means a gross in- c- er’ vm Sal one snowy"head of stock ttl morning recently when we stopped

P ca e at the Egge farm. “Ten of them!amountmg to $91 and a grqss of Eighty gallons of milk from 13$18200 for the ranch opeljatlon cows, or about 50 pounds apiece.

we estlmate the eperatlhg eest That's part of our reason for likingof the ranch for the current year dairyihg Qur oows produce wenat $45 Per head Of Stoek ¢€_ltt1<-‘, 01‘ and they are protable. We sell$9,000 for the r==m$=h <>i>erat19n- We whole milk in bulk and get, rightare, then, estlmatlhg 3 het lheeme now, $1.10 per pound of butterfat, ;

Of $9,200 for the 1'aheh- It We were which is the same as $3.85 a hun- ;attempting estimates bey0nd the dred pounds for milk containing Iellrreht Year, We likely Would be 3.5 er cent of fat and more when- - ' - p ’ Elvin Egge above and his brother Nor-uslhg dlftereht Pnee and eheretlhg we beat that average percentage. ris run 3. dairy mm in the Red RiverCOSt estimates, but W6 WOU d apply our milk is bottled when it gets valley. He is demonstrating how theythem. t0 l_Zh8 same pI'OdUCtlV8 to town and it is used for house to chop round bales of hay to reduce labor.eapaelty estlmates fer the rehch-— house distribution in Fargo and.l[0nt H. Saundcrson, agricultural Moorheady ax and cut it through the middle.vconomist and author, in a paper given Th E h b th h Then it comes apart readily and1;;;f;;’a;:("zC(g;¢1r'}?1l;ll,l(:f coii_fvrr¢~m<c of Ihr families aggeoe Scépargte Ouggsti can be fed to better advantage.

I’ -Y 330"" 0" 0" 0!/*1" srde by srde have 20 cows In mrlk Incidentally, their alfalfa comesF "0 ""1-I ("'40- part of the ’time_ They feed grain out of the bales with a nice greenL? the year around From 30 aeres color and with lots of ne stems

l . h d tSwckmw Work T»g<==h~=r taxis; ::;".i.*;.:"i:.;°.i§%‘ iiiles T e °°‘“ “'"“‘* °The cattle grub or heel y con- in Silage on 3 12-mgnth basis, Egge cattle have bluegrass pas-stitutes one of the most important Th th - 1f If h h~ h ture in the summer but not tooinsect problems confronting cattle they ergiseethelriselsesaaha:1y'p‘gt lp much dependence is put on it. Inowners. The Kittitas County Cat- in round ha1es_ They like hales of dry years, or in August when blue-t1em@n’S association. in Washing this kind which, they say, are light grass is resting, silage and grainton, under the leadership of Law- and easily hahd1ed_ However, a1, keep the milk supply coming.rence Men§r$aardi chalnhan of the falfa in round bales sticks together. The farm produces more grainas$°c1at1°n_S Insect and dlsease 90'?‘ The bales don’t come apart quick- than can be used at home and thetrot commltteei 15 attackmg thls ly, Egge Brothers say. So, they give surplus is sold.protzlein through . a cg't“;fy'vvt13e each bale 8 few 1iCk$ With 3 Sharp When we left Elvin and Norriscon ro ro i

- -havg Siglggg un 1‘6'0 1° ca te Egge that morning, after friendlyg P pt.’ cen goodbys, a winding lane to theThe U. S. Bureau of Animal In- began Feb. 8, 1951, on the 30,000 highway lead between high hanks

?i$§"5l~;;r§‘.1§’P§£““;';g .i.":.:§.,:;'::.i 222%°:0:;%Lzd‘i.§ir;:ismt: 0; sgw on giggd ",3 bybasis to measure results on cattle Cattle were treated three times at smeonlg (s;?(n).1Veg.(Eg¥oIi§ for egguaiggrub control on area-wide basis. 30-day intervals. The association use in WinterThe Bureau furnished the rote— charged each owner 30 cents per 'none, which is a spray used in grub head. Some of the small beef and Z,_i—‘_control, and other help is being dairy owners did their own work Minnesotas timber harvest ingiven, 1100. by hand under the supervisign Qf 1949 fUI‘I11Sl‘1€d 850,000 COI‘dS Of

The spraying was done by two the cattlemen’s association. Kittitas pu1pW00d, H1011? than 200,000,000commercial sprayers under con- county stockmen are ghting this board feet of lumber and largetract to the association. The job insect through cooperation.—K.L.C. quantities of poles, posts and ties.

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Ralph Beier, who started hiscareer as a stenographer and laterbecame clerk and stenographer forthe Northern Pacic district agentat Fargo, has made good both as a

businessman and as a rancher.Leaving the railroad in 1939,

Beier went to Sidney, Mont., wherehe started a business, selling tiresand machinery. In 1948 he disposedof his company and the followingfall he bought a ranch on the east-ern slope of the Rocky mountainsin Montana, where he lives now.

Here’s what Beier said recentlyabout his ranch experience: “Iraise wheat, hay and livestock. Ihave Angus cows. There are 2,100acres in the ranch and half can beirrigated with water coming frommountain streams. Last year my550 acres of grain were irrigatedonce and 300 acres of hay—a mix-ture of alfalfa, brome and timothy—were watered twice.

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W _ ‘u e u qul e we ’ Dale Scrivens, 14-year-old 4-ll boy from Stutsman county, paid the Patterson Land com-averaging 8 little 3bOV8 45 bLlSh8lS pany $500 for this heifer when she was only two months old. Recently she won the Herefordan acre’ although the harvest took female championship for him at the North Dakota Winter Show, where he refused $1,000.

all fall because there was so much Grass Makes Meat it makes possible a little longer

rem' Value of crested wheatgrass pas- grazmg season“One drawback ‘S that we cant ture for beef production has been

raise e°m- Thatls what everyone demonstrated in trials at the U. S. Bli ht'R€5i$l31lt P0t8l0says anyway and I imagine it is G t P1 ' E ' t It t‘ g

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ngh’ Slmie the mghte} are cool ens etSMandia£’7N' D'1 statcesaaee irtzzfslid a new 3:81-we ave ate spring ros s as we ince ,year ing steers grazedas early ones in the fall. Quite a on crested wheat at the rate of one ety’ called Cherokee’ develeped bylih U. S. Cl ll t f ll,few here had frosted wheat in 1950 a¢I'9 P91‘ head for the_I10l‘I1'131 Crest‘ anel introfgfgdmi? I?)wa3_gr;$1t:1

but I was fortunate in not having ed wheatgrass grazlng $935011 Of dianaany. My grain was far enough ab?“ one month each Spring’ have Cherokee is a high yielder thatalong and I had it windrowed be- gamed 104 Peunes Per, acre; At is resistant to both late blight and

‘S“This is a wonderful country for It 1- ' Tubers of the new Variety areyear ing steers are grazed rst egg_S}-taped and white_ In three

shmg and h‘~1T1l1ng- In fad, that for about one month on crested years as an average they yieldedis wlhyfl was }altt1}'1acted to it. Jack wheatgrass (to about July_I) three 556 Qushels of N0_ ’1 potatoes incree‘, 'I‘OIT_1 w ic we take part of and one-half acres of native grass Iowa trial p1antingS_ The maturityour irrigation water, runs through per head are needed the rest of the of the variety is midseason’ orour yard and I have caught several yea1‘~ on this basis the crested about 10 days later than Irish cob-messes of pan-size trout out of it. wheatgrass increased b°th the bler.The Madison river and a number carrying capacity of the pasture —-——iof near-by lakes are the laces for afld the Pounds of beef P*‘°d“°°‘E1 Eth b. lb P , since without the wheatgrass it ggs Worth Minions

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got around to trying them. The takes ve and a half acres of native The pqultry mdustry m the state

- . _ grass. of Washington last year producedW11‘? geese were feedmg m the The experiment station grazing $50,548,000 worth of products. Thegram Stubble last fall I gm 3 (19913 trials indicate it pays to seed brome gross income from eggs was $32,-

We See Several e_Ve1‘Y day from P111‘ or alfalfa along with crested wheat. 340,000; from chickens and broil-h0l1$9- Elk are In the m0uI1'¢a1I1S, The mixture results in more ers, $12,236,000; and from turkeys,only two miles away.” pounds of gain on the steers and $5,972,000.

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May, 1951 THE NORTHWEST

Farm and Home OpportunitiesYou may select from this listing of typical farms or ask us forother propositions suited to your needs. Additional information,including addresses of owners or agents, furnished on request.

MINNESOTA phone installed. Detailed description machinery. Ample water from deepd l . P ' , , . ll, ' h ' t 'M-68-80 acres, east of Twin Val- an p at on request nee $5 950 §”Zte,,,w‘tTh‘,§,"t§’§Z1‘{,°,,°l°-° rm pressureley. plenty of good pasture, no rocks Non-rn DAKOTA tlliree-bledroom home. griese §1e“§8<>.°"‘in elds, sturdily built _house, close to ’ ’good hunting and shing. On gravel N_45_354 aeres, rien blaek learn Soil’ W-84—10 acres, choice farm_ land,road, mail, creamery, school bus routes; rated seeend_nigliest in eennty fer Battle Ground district, all cultivated.one-half mile to good shing river and gt-ain_ Geed buildings_ Entire farm is Good three-bedroom home, nearly newVlllage, nine miles t0 high 5010091 and fenced. Good roads. REA. Close to ellleken llellsei 20340.5 sllei grade Adepot tow_n. 40 acres can be cultivated, School Lisbon area_ Price’ $lg,000_ milk house and milking parlor, largewire fencing level black loam soil 30 b th I h, , _ _ arn wi oafing s ed, two good wellsacres wooded; fair three-room white N‘46_640 acres’ Slx mlles West °f and small stream. Price, $10,500.frame house, basement, gas available, M°llll- 300 aeles “llaer elllllvatlellv re‘ _90_feet drilled well; fair frarne barn’ mainder good hay land. There is an W-t_35—162.5-acre dairy farm. Grade30x32, eernent foundation, loft, hay REA line along the south side of the A milk setup for 33 head. Olympiafork; good poultry house, 14x20; fair, section, also a well o_n the land. Price, area. Hot water heater in milk house.rather old’ granary_ Retired owner will $10,000. Terms, if desired. All_ fencgg. Two wills, tadcigek andive e sea i ni - . springs. acres cu iva e . ix-room5,1, §,,§,,,,_$° "30 days P"°°'$5’°°°' MONTANA house, wired 110-220. Price, $15,500.. $1,750 will handle, balance $60 perM-69—Three tracts, total 720 acres; S'6l_80'ael'e.l'allell' ll‘ llle Flallleael month.160 acres seven miles from Northome Valley» near Melesei g°°‘l llllable land’on State highway NO_ 1 some cleared’ irrigated. Small h_ouse with _lights and W-86-30.61 acres, 25 tillable. Spring-30 aeres fenced’ pulbwood’ house: water. Usable buildings. Price, $6,500. watered pasture. All_ fenced. Eightstable, hen house, dee drilled well, S-62—l60 acres in Bitter Root valley. mlles west °l Cllellalls °ll graveledelectricity, school bus daily mail. tele- 100 acres tillable and irrigable. New l‘°a‘l- sel'l°°l bus’ mllk and mall reales-phone line cream roiite. Price $1500" ve-room house with electricity' bath Berrles f°l' family use Tlll'ee‘bea'terms l l l l xtures in place Milking barn’ Con- l'°°m medem heme ve Years °ld~ Al‘l venient to highway‘ school bus and taelled garage FlYe'5lanelll°ll hem,160 acres, unimproved, pulpwood, daily rnail_ plenty oftirnber in pasture 24x26. Poultry housing for 300. Price,some saw timber, cedar posts, on state for all purpesea priee $10 50Q_ $7,400; $817115-highway No. 1, same location. Price, ’ '

$1380; terms IDAHO OREGON400 acres, unimproved, one-half mile I 45_240 H L k O 56 255 L b Ofrom state highway No_ 1, Same ioca_ - acres_near auser a_ e, - —_ acres, near e an n o_ntion_ County mad on two Sides, about beaiitifulf vallely grtiew, excellent! native pal/eéi tl‘|l1gl1Wa§;;i1?0 tgtufig zlilcerels h(g.:1l;é-20 acres cleared; puipwood_ Price’ pas ure, ence , acres ceare _, more ya e , .a ance pa ._ ,$2 500. terms T00 much for 74_year_ can be cleared, productive soil and Just nished, large farm buildings,_twoOla Otlmer t0'handie 8bUl"id3I1tdSpI‘1I‘l}% water sugplfy. Fclur- good wells (and thiielaebgood sprintgi

' room mo ern ouse, wire or e ec- wner orce o se ecause oM_70_205_aere dairy or sheep farm tric range._ Two good barns, chicken age._Pri_ce, $13,000; one-half cash. Pos-betweendBacklis and Hackensack. 60 l:l}(1lillrf:!lye‘lill1lcll{1dlgdnellféigaeggl'5(a6l‘lEl£:§ sesslell lll 30 dayS'acres un er cu tivation, 20 acres in red - 1 » - -clover, balance mostly wooded with lel'm5- t g'?Z;i72b:g§% tlrggseticultéyielgdsggtthpine, birch, and oak; saw timber, pos- I-46-125 acres, approximately 25 i’ e '-1 ole ‘zed eagi gstrawberrsibly as much as 40,000 feet. About cleared and in mixed hay. Some timbor. ioptl ea§i.g' a ' h y eiectri ity3,000 feet of shore on Pickerel lake. Four-room house, not nished, small s(I’1§:li°li)'amregggolgooguiirings focal;Maintained road to farm, about one~ basement; barn and chicken house. - ' , 'and-one-half miles from highway No. Spring water piped to house. Eleven road" Place’ $4'000' terms’371. Two-story frame house, 20x28, head of stock, all young. All farm ma-good condition, concrete foundation, chinery goes—i=iot good, but usable. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITYfully insulated, 14x20 living room, com- Price, $8,000, cash. . h Id hbination kitchen and dining room, B‘li3_New.%wmlll'.dll°l'lblemt. a) oil4x20, adequate lniilt_in cupboards, WASHINGTON comp ete, wit consi era e _im er.

Pump at Sine nished bas‘='“°“*~ 14X2°- W-83-235-we stock or dairy farm S§§’€§3“’$2%°s%%9 §§fJih§iE°§a§§."t‘§iai'Z§TWO large bedrooms 11DSti1‘S- Barn, of good upland soil, about 25 miles ms’ ’16x60. _$1X Years Old, _¢9I\¢I‘ele fl°°1‘,_ 15 from Tacoma. 70 acres now under plow, easy ter$t3n¢l’1l0T1$, 16x20 Qddltlo 011 One Slde; remainder in second growth r timber, B-14—Grocery s t ore, Whitehall,garage, 20x20; hlclien house. l6X30. some of which is marketable now. Mont., exclusive on Monarch line ofdouble wall insulation, two years old; Large dairy barn, with 40 stanchions; foods, doing good business. Owner re-woodshed, 12x12. All buildings in good grade A milk house. Loafing sheds and tiring account of health. Requirecondition, equipped with REA. Te1e- tool shed. Tractor and all necessary around $7,500.

Property Described on This Page Is Subject to Sale Without Notice7

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THE NORTHWEST May, 19514 ,¢\ ii 1 ---A 1 -_—

THIS TREFIIIL IS F” - "IBuilding More Farms an the Sagebrush 1

A new birdsfoot trefoil, an up-right-growing strain of the broad- aleaf type developed at the Oregon A L --~ -

station. and recently named Grang-er, may greatly increase the popu-larity of this legume because ofits seedling vigor and rapid growthduring the seedling stage.

The common complaint abouttrefoil heretofore has been that ithas taken so long for a stand toget well established. Observationfor 15 years at the Oregon stationindicates that Granger does nothave that fault.

H. A. Schoth, senior agronomistOf the U. S. d€p3.I‘l2IT18I1l£ Of agricul- This coming fall and next spring the scene above, clearing S3.§Ebtl;l§h frglm landdsouinmm

' hii d, illb td h id n n87,000are t nor erneno etUI‘€?. dlViS10I‘1 Of C!‘0pS and d1$€3s9$, chiulihgiiiuiiaslh pro§e::,e?r?cV;ashvivn;tI<l>n?get °r'§a§§su'>’ receive wgtesr lor the rst time for crops.who assisted Oregon agronomistsin testing this strain, said: “Grang-er has a very rapid takeoff after Sheep Men Eat Buffalo Sheep Ranch Sold .

seeding and oh through the seed- Members of the Columbia Sheep The Mt. Haggin Land 8: Live-lmg stage»Wh1_¢h ls Very dlstihetly Breeders’ Association of America stock company, Anaconda, Mont.,1r1 Its fevoh It ls the only strain We will hold their annual meeting on one of the world’s largest sheephave th'i1t_ has this Pertieoler June 16, 17 and 18. enterprises, has been sold by H. C.charactenstm” The three-day program will open Gardiner, the owner for men)’

Granger is long-lived and it on the Sixteenth at the raheh of years, to LeRoy Getting, lambseems to be free from disease and Ted Marquise, south of Gillette, feeder at Sanborn, Ia. Getting’sinsect troubles. It is an excellent Wye” a breeder of Columbia sheep son, Daryle, arrived at Anacondaproducer of forage and seed and it who also raises 190 head of hutfaia on March 1 to assume the manage-shows a rapid comeback after har- A buffalo bar-heeue will feature ment of the property. The namevesting. It has been tried success- the stop at the Marquiss raheh_ Ah has been changed to Mt. Hagginfully on several soil types. ihfei-mai business meeting is to be Livestock company.

Already there is a very great held there, too- Mifhterest _1°&a11Y amoggt _0reg<m $0me0ne, Ob‘/iouyd i°s$1Vi}111g the Excellent Yields fromarmers in ranger an 1 is going ghee breeders, as e , “ y no .

to be necessary for most People havepbarbecued lamb; does it cost Grass In Oregonwho want seed to wait for it. The more than buffalo?" (Continued from Page 3)

Qregoh statioh has enough to Put On Sunday, June 17, members with three pounds of Ladino seedin 70 acres this year but it will be will go on a Sightseeing tour, to in the Spring without 3 nurse crop,late 1952 or early 1953' If .eVery' Yellowstone National park and by This mixture of lust one grass andthlhg goes Well» hetore slreable Monday neon June 13 thesl will be a clover has done better for Gente-amounts of ‘seed Wlll be available. in Bozeman ’M0nt_ orth of the man than 3 mixture of severalIf Granger is as good as promised, park wheI.e’the forinai meeting of grasses. So, he says, why _use anythe Walt Should be worthwhile‘ th association will convene at 1'30 others? The pasture is m Its SlxthThe strain was developed from e '- e .seed which originated in England p'm' In the Baxter hotel‘ y ar now ____i_____but pra.cticaHy no Seed is being pro’ Since 1939 the Northern Pacicduced in that country. - - -Great Mining Area has put in service 211 Diesel loco-mm-— motive units.

More successful mining compan-Tax Forms for Ranchers ies are located within an area ofThe State Publishing Company 300 square miles in Shoshone coun- Travgl By Rail

of Helena, Montana, has published ty, northern Idaho, than in any t d t . feasy-working forms for ranchers other section of comparable size. Let "5 quo 9Y0“ 1'0“: ript aresand farmers to keep tax records, It’s called the Coeur d’Alenes, trom YOQT Statlon all :‘sS1,s yo‘;payroll, social security deductions whose 30 miles east and west and m Planmng your tnp ° mspecand other accounting information. 10 miles north and south eventually Western land-The forms were designed by Henry may be extended protably. In the J. W.S. Hibbard, rancher and ranch con- past this area has produced $1,300,- 115 Northern Pacic Railwaysultant at Helena. 000,000 in lead, silver and zinc. St. Paul 1, M11111-

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