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Demonstration Farms Solve Settlers’ ProblemsThe U.S. Bureau of Reclamation the Bureau is building, have been The Burke development farm,

has established four demonstration ready. Wells have been put down, located on the north slope of thefarms on the Columbia Basin proj- therefore, as sources of water to ir- Frenchman hills, is the newest one.ect, in Washington. The idea is to rigate the experimental elds. It was operated for the rst timestart them before settlers come in Washington State college experi- this year. Others, started previ-to develop new land being made ment station and the U.S. depart- ously, are at Pasco, Moses Lake andavailable on the project. Govern- ment of agriculture are cooperating Winchester.ment test farms have been started with the Bureau in the testing pro- The Soil on the Burke farm isbefore even irrigation canals, which gram. called the Burke type A problem

arises due to the fact that it is un-'"* rs" — E derlaid with hardpan, which is a

‘ Pr0¢e§§ing Ipnpgrtant in Sal‘; 0f Spud; | permanent barrier to water. ThereE - — — - -- - e e - are from two feet to six feet of soil.

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The roots of native vegetationnever have penetrated the hardpan.There is quite a lot of Burke soilin certain other parts of the project,too, although the shallowest areashave been taken out of the irrigablearea.

The problem at the Burke devel-opment farm is to determine thebest way to irrigate this kind ofland and to learn what crops canbe raised. Irrigating will have tobe done with enough care to pre-vent waterlogging the soil. Onlythe amount that the plants will usecan be applied.

It is thought that on the Burkesoils clover and other grasses forhay and pasture will do well andthat livestock production will bethe basic farm operation.

At the Moses Lake farm a differ-ent problem has been met. The soilthere consists of 18 inches of loamand then six to eight inches ofgravel and loam, mixed. Below thatthere is very porous gravel. Thus

It looks like a factory rather than what it is. a potato warehouse. It is located at Grand at MOSGS Lake it h3S been 3 U85-I-‘orks. N.D.. where the Dakota Chief. a new variety, IS graded, washed, tinted and waxed. - - -“hen ready for the market, this produce has unusual eye appeal which attracts shoppers. non of holding WHTEI‘, OI‘ getting

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55‘-\-.P ° .7 ' --1aaé§rl l . .re " % Land Going Up Again l 1” 5 ‘

M-I-'-I---1 Mom“! by we Indications are that farm real 0 CL0sE'UPS_ ,

Department of Agricultural Dvreloprncnl estate prices in many parts of 5""?! P'"¢l'lP'|l 459'“ -4lI"l‘ll|""'l' ill' Northern Pic r rrrilory

§%?;‘i€§o§.*ll§-sZdn§?§§§§f $3121. l ‘ ' eeee

- Farms that were on the marketJ. w. HAW ................... ..s:.1> i,1vi . .. . .Director au mn have been withdrawn or asking ch§fé‘sag;1é§:'g1t‘>"neg£ ggv i%§)"I‘1'15It3: gig

w. J’. HUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..st. Paul, Minn. pnces have been revlsed uPwa,rd- been completed by the U.S. ureau ofAssistant to the Director More potential buyers are looking Reclamation. It will provide for irriga-

f()1' farms, Land prigeg naturally tion of 3,400 acres and enough domesticA. J. DEXTER ................ ..St.P l,Mi . . . . .Agmulwral Developrnent M2; M reect this combination of an _1n- water 5°? 4,999 People-crease in the number of willing i-A. R. MIESEN ................ ..St.P l M . -GU , ln

Ag‘"i°“""'a1 D°"°1°P'“°m Age“ £25711? {iii}: 33013338 In the mun’ Twenty-four-year-old Charles Har-H. w. BYERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..s:. Paul Minn. . ' - ban’ P'e‘"°“S1Y 3 "“?°h reman» hasImmigration Agent ' The recent price upturn ls a re- bought 1,000 acres in Lake county,

versal of the situation of a year ago Western M°Y\'¢aa-. . ac . . . . . . . . . . . . lSSOu 3. on . '

Agricultural Development Agent when pnces of farm real estate -—-——-softened somewhat from the post- Maynard S Grunder agmnomist at

w'w1:'s¢§F:§I§§§iii1¢qo£oi'be§,e'1o5§i§iot1“§'g‘::§h' W?‘ advance which had °a“ied the Western'Washinst'<>n Experiment1005 Smith Tower prices for the country as a whole station near Puyallup, has reported a

KENNETH L. COOK . . . . . . . . . . ..S ttl W h. (although not for Minnesota and .a new‘ straln ‘of prchard grass’ -calledAgricultural Deyelopmem 219$ as few othgr states) ‘above the prev1_ strain 8%, which is 10 days later in ma-uring t an common orchard grass and1°05 5'11"“ Tower o_us all-time peak in 1920. For some its plants ‘are more leafy and have

time prior to the Korean war farm greater uniformity. These characteris-Ttigis maIgg_zinte_ is sent tree for ve months operating and maintenance costs tics make the new strain more useful0 1 1 l . -

west jgseg, °s.d":xs:;;::.,:“j::b:i.:"§e§:i“i; had been lweasmg and farm em 2f.§“§‘“i§° 2§‘i??y°2$?;%lo°§§?a;?a§€?§§ma e o ain a r i d- ' ‘ ' ' 'ingy25 cents ll: pdgtageyglargpsfsiivsar ‘sag:/‘lligs lngs dechnlng’ wlth the resulting With alfalfa 35 hay 't00.stamps. coin or money order made out to squeeze Ofl farm lI‘lCOl'll€. ,Northern Pacic Railway. If you wish to . -irenew on_a complimentary basis for ye The recent advance in farm realpionths. may be done by making a writ- estate prices has been due to a A. C. Bayers, Twm Bridges, M0l'lt.,en reque combination of influences. The out- E°,l§e§ §§,§§f,‘f’{§,b§3§§§{,,§gj15° to Brush

_ break of war in Korea, the decisionto rearm on a large scale and the

DECEMBER’ 1950 continuing pressure of foreign coun- A. F. R_user, a real estate man in* tries for grants of various kinds Seattle, satldr “I rgceivtqd 20 1§t1er}s1_1]i:

response O an 3 V81‘ lS€n'l8l'\ , W 1Cenough on instead of ettin rid fliom dour government’ an have described 40 acres, in the September

. ’ g Paye 3 Part. issue of your magazine, The North-Of lt. Th9 MOSQS Lak€ unit has been An increasing number of farm we5t_”Operated for _'¢h1‘e? 59350115 and owner-operators who had delayed iW°n§1e1‘fu11Y hlgh Y1e1d5 have been buying land to increase the size of “I am living now on a ranch inObtained their home farms or to start their ngrthérn I€=1h0.”fW- Blramer report-It is expected that effective meth- sons in farming because they e ' ‘Q ha“ y°“ °' t e lterature y°“ods of irrigating can be worked out thought land prices would sag, and §§§§,aSf§“m°’ moved to Idaho fromfor the Burke soil, too. (Co,,,,,,,,ed on page 6) ' _._

Charles E. Blecker, who used to havean RFD address in New Jersey, hasmoved to Portland, Ore. “We are oper-ating our own grocery store in Port-1and,” he said.

Samples of seed representing severalvarieties have been sent to South Africafor trial planting from a large SoilConservation service grass nursery atPullman, Wash.

A sign on the highway just outsideof East Grand Forks, Minn., says: “En-tering East Grand Forks, one of thelargest potato shipping centers in theworld.”

Land that produced sugar beets in1949 on Leo Sinner’s farm, in Cass

i *1” unty North Dakota was planted toDickson Brothers, Gilby, N.D., use this portable lling station when the hav l rge ld co ’- -’Jobs-such as combining. The compressor, in front, pumps air into small gunk. QM: is used barley In 1950 and welded 60 bushelsto clean cha o or radiator of combines, where it reduces cooling elclency in the motors. P61‘ acre-

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These roducts are a means ofWasted Forest Products Useful bringing %awre's beauty inside atthe holiday period of the year.

Frank Lockwood Made a Business Out of Cones, Boughs some of them, if not gathered andand Small Trees processed, would be only waste

material. Wreaths fashioned out ofThe answer nally was found to been expensive. So, Lockwood had tlhted eehest heughs ehd ether rer-

the question: “Where is Mrs. Frank to dream up his own machines, such est Items are 11'! de1hahd- LeekvlfeedLockwood’s vacuum sweeper?” as the vacuum cleaner spray gun. Ohee made 10,000 er them at 3 Whe-

The Lockwood family looked Then there is a household washing A Chleage marl beught 3 Whole ear‘high and low but to no avail. That machine which he adapted to tint- lead Of e°he5- Ahether reek half eis all of the family did except Mr. ing a tubful of pine cones at a ear Of evergreen fehege LeekweedLockwood. He knew all the time time and a barrel made into a c0lor- makes '¢riP5 rhrellghel-It the Middle‘where it was. ing machine that operates some- West 110 take 01‘der$- Then, Wheh he

It was the busy season for Lock- what on the principle of a cement 8et$_ heme, he and hls famlly (andwood’s little company, which was mixer. Also a couple of cutters at tlrhes as many 35 10 erhP1°yee$)organized a couple of years ago at were made, which are powered by 8° to Work to ll the °rde_r5-Missoula, in western Montana. He foot motion, to snip tree cones into Cones are Fleeereted lh rhehyhad “borrowed” his wife’s vacuum pieces, required for some of the Ways, Seme he1h8_t1PPed Wlth eelercleaner just for two or three weeks nished products. by h_ahd- The Plgmehts used ferand had converted it into a paint The Lockwood company, which eelerlhg ere hlehded bi’ Leekweedispray gun, with which he decorated is called Forests West, processes hlm_$e1f, lh the factory he has Setthousands of pieces of Christmas and sells not only Christmas trees, UP 1h 3 rented Wareheuse eh thenovelty goods. but r, white pine and ponderosa greuhds er the eld army fort at

Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood, in fact, pine cones, pinon cones (after the M155°l11?-struck out into an uncharted eld nuts are out), wreaths, cedar H_ere1_$ ah ‘~1h}15ua1er1terPr15e- Itwhen they launched their little boughs, r boughs and evergreen utlhzes lhtereshhgly and Preteblymanufacturing enterprise. No ma- roping. Giant rye grass, tinted Several Product? Of elel ahd_ forestchinery had been developed to do buttonwood and the pods of the Whleh People Wlth less hheglhetlehthe jobs required in making their wild skunk cabbage (they are at- then the Leekweeds have Would" tspecialties. Even if it had been tractive despite their origin) are rhlhk °f~ ____i_available, no doubt it would have used, too.

How He Got Hls Start. W Nels Bach has been raising sugar

beets in the Lower Yellowstonevalley, near Sidney, Mont., morethan 30 years but he rst realizedin 1921 that beet tops fed to sheepare real money-makers.

“Times were hard then,” Bachsaid. “I went to Denmark in thewinter on a visit and came backand built a house on my farm, afterputting in a crop. By fall I was outof money. I tried to borrow somelocally, but I couldn’t. I bought 400ewes for $1,300, which I borrowedin Denmark. The ewes were fedalmost entirely on beet tops andthen I sold them for $7,000.

“Ever since that time I’ve beena sheep feeder. I get 10 to 12pounds per head gain on lambs ineight to 10 weeks with beet topsalone. I’ve made money, raisingbeets and feeding lambs.”

Largest Yield of OatsOats on one small plot at the

United States department of agri-culture experiment station, near

— — — —* 1 - Huntley, Mont., yielded 142.25M=¢’l>'£f;JJ"§';‘p.L3§'§i'Z3?t‘l;r§i‘ ¢‘Z'i'ei3”°-§.‘Zl."=‘.°,'é’-§t‘°1°‘I,§=“5§ 3.‘l"l‘§‘€$"in§2§§i’Ji" ' ¢Z‘;‘ZY"‘.5Ji' 13; bushels Per a?‘"e this Ye?“ TheForests We'st to make specialty protfucts. Many ltcrns from the forest are u'sed by'the rm. land W35 fertihled and irrlgaied.

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comprise a prosperous poultry farmock area.

Noel L. Bennion, of the poultryhusbandry department at OregonState college, said that there isroom for gradual expansion of eggproduction in Oregon.

“We should be in a position tocompete for our own market,” Ben-nion said, meaning no doubt that ifoutsiders can produce good eggsand ship them to the Pacic North-west protably, the poultrymen onthe coast should be able to do evenbetter, since they should have lessexpense getting their product tothe consumer.

“lt is said by some,” Bennioncommented, “that we are at a ter-ric disadvantage because we haveto ship in corn for feed. I do notlook at it that way. We can getalong well without corn. It hasbeen demonstrated time after timethat both wheat and barley can beused in our laying rations in placeof corn, and we have plenty of thosetwo grains—-which,_ are raised ineastern Oregon and eastern Wash-ington.

“I am advising farmers who want—Photo Washington Cooperative Farmers‘ Association

A ult i W hin ton ill t ting. n I th heavy breeds New H mpshlre to expand their egg business topo ry scene n as g , us ra 0 e 0 e , a s,which have come into popularity because of the great increase in the demand for broilers. keel) at least 500 g00d Pl111et$- oneA hundred carloads of eggs selected for hatching are shipped from Oregon to other states. person can care for them nearly as

These Facts Spell llpportunityPacic Northwest Using More Eggs and

Poultry Than Its Farmers Produce

easily as he can 150. Five hundredare only a farm ock—a sideline.It takes at least 2,000 birds for whatwe call a commercial ock. No oneshould keep the same birds a sec-ond year. It costs too much to carrythem through the molt.

Fifteen years ago carloads of were 3,000,000 laying hens on Jan. “Qur average production in Qre-table eggs were being shipped from 1, 1930. Last year it was somewhat gon is 132 eggs per hen annuallythe Pacic Northwest to large less than 3,000,000 but in 1950 it Ten years ago it was only 16()_ So,eastern markets, like New York has been a little above that number. we have improved but it should beand Philadelphia. One year 1,600 Pacic Northwest people are con - 200.cars, or 125 a month, went out of suming 25 per cent more eggs than “A poultrymen can have a lot ofWashington alone. Oregon people poultrymen are producing locally. money tied up in buildings andalso were shipping at the same time There is also a decit of 30 per cent equipment for 2,000 layers but, ifseveral hundred carloads yearly. in the home-raised supply of chick- he can't swing it nancially, theThese were surplus eggs, above the en meat, chiey broilers. only thing to do is start in a smallquantity needed at home. The federal government has not way and build up)‘

Today that situation no longer bought eggs in the Pacic North- Another change that has oe-exists. Egg shipments (from Min- west, a fact which is due to the ex- curred in Washington and Qregonnesota and Iowa) are going into the cess of local demand over the im- poultry eireles is the trend awayPacic Northwest. The large traic mediate supplies. from a one-breed industry. A feweastward has dried 11P- These facts spell opportunity. years ago the breed preference was

E885 are bringing more in the J. S. Carver, chairman of the poul- almost entirely for White Leghorns.West at the rnornent than they are try husbandry department at the Now there is a large demand forin the Middlewest 01‘ in the Ea5t- State College of Washington, said New Hampshires, for the broiler

The reason is that the population recently: “There is an excellent op- trade, because they are a meat-typeof both Washington and Oregon portunity for increasing production bird. They grow rapidly and featherhas increased tremendously but the of market eggs in Washington.” out early. Rhode Island Reds arenumber of laying hens has re- Prof. Carver added the sugges- being used, too.mained the same as it was before. tion that new irrigated farms in the Oregon farmers at present have

In Oregon, as an example, there Columbia basin in the future should 40 per cent White Leghorns, 40 per

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;nt Rhode Island Reds, which re - u s. One erson, owever, e tut"1

ieetsents quite a shift away from tlee fattm econoneist said, can take care spec leerpurely egg breed (Leghorns) in the of 1,500 layers—-and by extra good New Washington Strawberrylast ten years. arrangement of chores—up to 2,500 Great Yielder

In addition to su l in the loeal enS' - - v--————~— *- * idemand for broizestl the heavy Most Poultry hooks nowadays,breeds are furnishing, in Oregon Cagle sold, are all Pl111ets_—I'st- Northwest is the new high-alone, 100 carloads yearly of hatch- yeel‘ layers The oeks studled av" yielding strawberry which C. D.ing eggs, which go to heteheries in ereged 573 pellets per eck end 153 Schwartze and his associates at theSeveral Western States, Where they hehs kept for the seeehd Ye.“ state experiment station in westernare used to produce chicks for peo- The Pllhetsi he sold, dld Very Washington developed to take theple who are specializing in broilers. Well» averaglng 215! eggs for the place of the old standby, Marshall,This is something new in the Pacic year as eomPa1'ed Wlth 149 eggs for wherever Mai-shall has succumbedNorthwest, too- the hens‘ . to the very damaging virus disease

Washington Producers are shat" Death rate tor the phhets th 1949 of strawberries, known as yellows.ing in this hatching egg business was htgher thehter the hens’ er 12 Northwest has strong resistance tofor the broiler industry per cent mortality as compared to yellows

In Washington quite a number of to per eeht for the hens‘ . Released to growers on a trialfarmers keeP cost and iheome Tee‘ The amount of egg preduetteh basis for the rst time in 1950,0I‘dS Whieh Show how then‘ Poultry dhnhg the fah and wmter months Northwest has been almost spec-hooks PeYfo1'm- These eehh°t be when egg P1T1°°~?' are htghest’ the tacular in its performance. Yieldssaid to be average hooks Also they eeehehhst Sate’ ts very Important‘ have been from two to three timesare not all the hest- It Probably is Behltrymeh th Weshthgteh are get" as high as on the best plantings ofoorreot to say that they represent tthg ‘V1591’ to the ways et. gethhg Marshall berries. Isolated reports8 e1'oss"seotion of Pool‘, good and this htgh ten egg thy‘ her lhstehee’ showed production of the North-eXoel1ent- they purchase ehteks lh February west at the rate of 10 tons an acreLast year hens in these ocks, for °r.Mareh' The puhet teh egg lay Six-ton and seven-ton yields werewhich records were kept paid a thls Pest year was 63 Per eeht and re orted b several growersgross return of $11 as each '0: that f°1" the hens it was 36 Po" °e“t- ‘ii y " t h ti ' 1

. . , e new varie y as a ypica$3.37 was clear, for the poultrymen. some et the heh heeks wete teree strawberry avor, without sournessmolted in J l h thArthur Cagle, extension econo- I . 1 hhy W eh e eggs were or bitterness. The avor is not themist for the state college, said that ff atlve y e ea? lh order to get same as that of Marshall but it isthe $3.37 per layer is the labor in- tgher predhetteh lh the teh and as good. The fruit is large and thecome, or the amount left for the wthteh color is attractive. It freezes well,farmer and his family after all ex- ii either whole or sliced, and it ratespenses except labor have been Built 997 Silos high as a canning variety. Thededucted. Farmers of 12 counties in South- plants are vigorous and have beenUpkeep costs for the average hen, westem North Dakota have 150,000 maintained protably in some in-Cagle_said, include $7.96 for feed, more tons of eoi-n Silage this year stances for three consecutive crops.fuel, li_tte_r, equipment, use of poul- than they had last year, eounty They bear in the spring, startingtry buildings and raising chicks for agents in the at-ea have detei-inined_ about a week later than Marshall.replacements. Nine hundred and ninety-seven Northwest was created by cross-To the average poultryman in the new silos were built during the ing the Brightmore strawberry andgroup, the extension economist said, Stnninei-_ They include treneh silos, a hybrid which was derived fromthe income from his ock added up permanent uprights and temporary Narcissa, Ettersburg and Wilsonto something like $1.35 per hour for ones made of snow fence or baled varieties. The new seedlings werehis labor. On an average for the 5ti~aw_ fruited the rst time in 1943.past 10 years, Washington poultry- Northwest went through, with-men are said to have made about Went T0 Sl0Ck Show out serious injury, one of the hard-$1 Per hour for their W01‘k- One hundred and fty farm and est winters during 1949 and 1950The 1949 poultry prot, the ex- ranch people from ve states went ever experienced in Washington.tension economist said, was the to the recent International Live- Mlargest in 24 years. Last ear’s stock exposition, in Chicago, on a .$3.37 prot per bird comparesywith tour planned by representatives of Western Market Growlng$2.58 in 1948, $2.62 in 1946, and $2.42 the Northern Pacic and the Montana farmers and ranchersin 1945. Lowest prot on record Western Livestock Reporter, a are being told by state college peo-was 29 cents er bird ' 1932. Th k ' ' ' '

p in e wee ly newspaper published at ple to keep in mind the Pacicaverage labor income per bird for Billings, Mont. In addition to see- coast markets. California, Wash-the past 10 years is $2.40. ing the exposition, the tour people ington and Oregon have 4,610,495The average size ock in the rec- visited many other interesting more residents now than in 1940.ords studied was 766 layers. Cagle points in Chicago, such as the Mel- Only 12 per cent of Montana-pro-pointed out that most poultry ocks rose Park factory of the Inter- duced beef went to those states inin Washington are lust one of sev- national Harvester company, to 1940, but now more than 50 pereral enterprises and that few farm- name just one. cent goes there.5

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_vearly, needs irrigation, neverthe-less. That is because the precipi-tation in June July, August andSeptember ordinarily is light. Thus,‘J supplemental water, applied byirrigating, is useful at that time forpastures, hay, vegetables and smallfruits. From the Willamette basinflood control reservoirs, when allof them are nished, it will be pos-sible to water 261,000 acres. Aux-iliary dams, not under the presentbasin program, at a few places willmake it possible to impound enoughwater for 153,000 more acres. Atpresent 100,000 acres are irrigatedin the valley.

Great benet through ood con-trol is expected to accrue to theWillamette valley as a result of thenew dams. Twenty-one towns andlarge areas of agricultural land arein the flood plain of the river. Ore-gon has had an annual ood damageestimated at an average of $8,500,-

Above you see a Willamette basln structure, in Oregon, the Cottage Grove dam and reser- - ' ' -

voir. The dam, 100 feet high and 1,150 leet long, impounds 33.000 acre feet of water. 'l‘h_ls is a 000 much of ll Originating on thepart of a broad water program planned and undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Wlllamette Q1‘ 1t5 t['1but3r1e5_ Hold-

Spend Millions on the WillametteU.S. Corps of Engineers Building Dams in

River Basin

ing back spring runoff should re-duce this damage.

First in SunflowersNorth Dakota farmers raised 3,-

The Willamette river and its Other reservoirs in the program gg0’297%0pg$1e(isigflggggyegvgggztributaries drain 10 Oregon c0un- for the basin, all to be started later, of géo pounds per aclfe comparedties situated between the Cascade are: Lewisville, Tumtum, Fern with 7 500 000 pounds’ on 10 000range and the Coast mountains. Ridge, Big Cliff, White Branch, acres d{1rin’gthe previous year,Practically two-thirds of the state’s Green Peter, Cascadia, Wiley Production centered mainl), on1.500,000 people live in this basin. creek, Holley creek, Gate creek, dwa,.f_type varieties with the seedThe main river, near the point at Blue river, Conger. Fall creek,Dex- being used for on More sunowerswhich it joins the Columbia, ows ter, Hills creek. were raised in North Dakota thanthrough Portland, which is Ore- While power production is not in any other State California waggon’s largest city. the major purpose of the Willa- in second 1 ce_ ' ‘

To reduce the early summer ow, mette pI‘O]8Ct, l’TlOd8St amounts Wlll p aso that ood damage will be be created at eight of the dams.lessened, and t0 store water for The power facilities all combined Land G0iIlg Up Againirrigation, and for navigation and will furnish 381,900 kilowatts of (Continued from page 2-

power generation, 19 dams and res- electricity. More than half of the tenants who had postponed buyingervoirs, to cost $366,000,000, have total will originate at Detroit and farms for the same reason, appar-been planned by the U.S. army Meridian, 100.000 1<i10WettS at One ently became convinced after thecorps of engineers. Three of the 8nd115,000 at the Other- outbreak in Korea that farm earn-dams, Cottage Grove, Fern Ridge Detroit dam, which will be 450 ings would remain at present levelsand I)0rena,a11ihthe southern end feet high, is to measure 1,580 feet or perhaps even increase. Butof the basin, have been nished, at 1°n8- its reservoir» covering 3,530 Owner-0perat0rS and tenants area total cost of $20,195,072. Meridian aeres, will reach eight and a half not the only potential buyers ofdam and reservoir, on the Middle rniies UP the riVeI‘- Meridian iS t0 farm land. Probably a relativelyFork of the Willamette, to cost $67,- he 270 feet high and 3,105 feet long. small but nevertheless an increas-000,000, are under cQnStructiQn_ Its pool, covering 4,360 acres, will ing number of business and pro-They will be nished in 1954. De- be 14-2 Iniies long- fessional men have become inter-troit dam and reservoir, on the Compared with these, the three ested in buying farms during theNorth Santiam river, also have completed dams are small. Cottage last few months. Interest on thebeen started. This is another large Grove is 100 feet high; Fern Ridge part of these men stems partly, ifundertaking and will represent an is only 48 feet; and Dorena is 46. not largely, from the fear of con-investment of $62,432,000 when it is The Willamette valley, which has tinued and perhaps acceleratednished in 1953. from 38 to 40 inches of rainfall ination.—-A. A. Dowell.

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December, 1950 THE NORTHWEST

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MINNESOTA cently but are occupied by tenant. es, shade and fruit. Spring water, elec-M-53—Approximately 200 acres on They_are located in the timhered part tricity. Large barn, room for herd andState_aid read, with 3()_ae;-e private on high land away from river ood lots of hay_. Large garage, chickenlake, one mile from Haekehsaek 70 trouble, with_ gravel road through house. Fencing. School and mail bus.aet-es under cultivation, 29 act-es 10w, yard._ Not wired for electricity but Owner retiring. Price, $11,000. $5,0001-emaihde;-in pasta;-e_ Somewhat weed- electric line now being built_ at north cash, balance long terms. Possessioned. dLake clpntagns panl sh;fat p5€S(i:t ég1eing°fin1i;1'il-sigV3te1‘_t§11:P11{?d Twin 50°11-use as ree ing pace or uc . 1‘ s e_s.W1 ml?e5\{PDY _ _ 5 e i -Eight-room house. 261126. exterior eon- °f g°°d water avallable a“d» ‘f d°S"°d- ro<I)rl3i6 pllaiitefgtl llOl:lge,cllll;llvall§S9I1'li8‘l‘let.efete blocks. illlefiel‘ plastered. full a Wen can be PP“ d°wn- The. water On mail and school bus route. Onbasement, furnace, electricity, and gas. sl1PDly Can be P1Ped from springs to main highway N0 water hat threeFive upstairs bedrooms. Garage, 10x24. Dfevlfie Pllmllllg Wetel‘ lhfellgll the eiste,-he oh p1aee_ pt-gee $3’ 900_Barn, 30x30, will hold so head of stock, bulldmss A eonvenleatly located uynt ’ 'grain bin, electricity, 90-ton silo. One for small gram ooeratlons or a dairyelectric pump. Plat and more details and P01-lltry feI‘II}- _G00d shelter end WASHINGTONon request price, $6,5()0_ shade for the_buildings and for 11ve- W-63-130 acres near Tacoma, 30sto_ck, conveniently close to market. acres under plow, 25 acres partly' "acre wersle arm» Cass Irflgeted gardens eellld _be developed cleared. Two-bedroom house nearlye011HlY- Q11 b_leekt0I-Z eel-mty feed; elese River makes suitable shing place right new; also new barn; small chickento town» “ch 5°11» .e1e°l"°'11ghted 0" the f31‘m- Farm is sllbieet to Oil house. Located in well settled com-h°me' School bus» mall: muk» cre?m' and gas lease to Union Oil e0mD8!lY~ munity; school bus for grade schoolQTY r°"¢e$- 5° "Yes $"bJ°°" "° °"1l1"a' Price. $9.000—$1800 down, long terms. and high school students Suitable for

tam-grass pasture, woven and barb wire N‘36_354‘a°re gram and .5t°°k W-64—65 aeres Of new _R0Ze Irriga-fencmg’ garden patch; seven_m°m ranch, 236 acres black land, remainder tiph pt-eject 1ahd_ Lies meelyy has 19white frame house, lap siding, well, 118-8°" Pasture and Y"d- 0'18 and aeres of six-year-old Winesa apples.front porch, ’phone installed, full base- P"°'h?1f.m11°S f"?m g°"°"""e"t elm‘ 15 acres of alfalfa. remainrler plowment; barn, 30x50, 32 stanchions; poul- mg d1St“°t3 19 mlles fr°m.°°‘“?tY Seat land. Has one-bedroom modern home.try house, 12x16; $5,000 insurance car- tQw“» (me mlle fmm mam h1ghWaY- no other buildings. Price, $12,500, withried. Disabled owner can not handle. S1x'r°°m h°u5e= two St°°k bamsvgram $5,500 down; terms on balance.Price $7’500' Half down lliIo¥;vii}iwgw}el)lls1seO:ngialifnrolilgelsell Ttwp W 65-120 acres near Salkum aboutM-55-120 acres, Carlton county, all lights gand graveled road. Twg eS(lll(‘)lS(l 22 aeres eleared. and stump pasturepurpose farm with ve-room electri- Price, $16,000. Owner wants $8,000 and seme small limbel Five-P0011’!cally lighted home, within ve miles of cash, balance on contract at ve per house and bath; barn. 491150. smalltown and lake. On graveled county cent. chicken house; electricity in house;road, school bus, mail, milk routes, spring gravity water, all-year creek;phfinezgnd eléecéric lilnes. 80 acres till- MONTANA county road. Price, $5,000; $2,400 cash,a e, woo e , we in naive grass . balance time,and clover pasture, barb wire fencin ; s'51_.160'a°r° “mchn about 40 "Pugs -fair painted frame barn‘ 30x36‘ higp from Missoula, 150 cultivated, 131 irri- W-66—50_ eeres, 20 tillable. One and. - . gated, water cost moderate, taxes low one-half miles fI'0m W1l00l<- M0CleI'I1roof, fair poultry house, 16x40 brooder . . . -house; granary; wen h0use_ $8,000 in_ six-room house with lights and bath, house. _f0u;' rooms (and hath. _€ePla_ee-surance carried Immediate possession good barns, cree_k running through Barn in 311" con it1on,ham1_y sizePrice, $3’50o_ place. Small fruit. Near _town and poultry house, an older ous_e, pumpschool, and on good road. Price, $17,000. house, with new Myer s electric pump,Terms. garage. Siome pulp timber. Apiproxi-

- mate y a _ozen r_uit trees, mixe vari-N‘35_267 acres’ Barnes °°untYi °" vafle lilgsuziillgr iiizlggtioiglgfilnaiggg eties; berries‘ Pnce’ $7’000‘Sheyenne river one and one-half miles is dry land pasture; farm now in al

Solithefast of Kalh1'YYl- market WW"? 19 falfa, grain and pasture. Two-bedroom OREGONmi es rom Valley City, on gravel-sur-.

faced mad, three miles from state vgltgs:de§tr1el13tg';nbath3:gg O-46-120-acre stock farm, 25 acreshighway No_ 46, one and one_ha1f miles _ - - - under cultivation, located riear_ Leba-to high school_ Land lies partly in Prlee. $19.500- non, year-around water. On milléandSheyenne valley, undulating surface mall route? Tw°'bedr°°m me“11m'with rich valley bottom black soil. 118 IDAHO aged heme, barn, 40x50, small pou trlyiacres in crop; remainder lies on slope I-35—200 aefes. about nine miles hous-e‘ Price’ $121000‘ Terms’ or v-:1of the river valley and is mostly tim_ east of Coeur d.Alene’ few rods consider trade, with cash, for a trai erbered with native trees-oak, bass- from highway No. 10, one-half mile h°“S°'wood, ash, elm and other varieties, or so to Lake Coeur d’Alene. Fish and O-47-140 acres, sheep ranch; fourThis portion all is in asture, Build- game nearby. All-year creek ows miles from Dallas, county seat of Polkings consist of one ancfone-half story through place near buildings. About county. Chocolate loam, rolling andhouse with ve rooms and enclosed 22 acres productive bottom creek val- with plenty of natural grass, some tim-porch, basement; barn, 60x64, hay bay ley soil cleared, used as hay. Espe- ber, spring water to buildings. Smallin center, with lean on each side and cially adapted for small dairy herd or four-room house, barn and poultry14x32 concrete stave silo and a g_ran- dude ranch. Much of place is moun- house. No modern conveniences as yet.ary_, 9_x36-7; also some small buildings. tain land, timbered, not tillable. Seven- Price, $6,300. $500 down, balance onBuildings have not been repaired re- room substantial modern house, porch- easy contract terms.

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THE NORTHWEST December, 1950

GRASS PAID $125PER ACRE

Since usually it takes 20 acres ofnative grass in western North Da-kota to support one animal, pastur-ing 20 head of yearling steers nearMandan for nearly four months ononly 7.6 acres sounds farfetched,doesn’t it?

That’s what was done, though, onthe U.S. Bureau of Reclamationdevelopment farm last summer.

The steers gained 170.2 poundseach. Every acre, therefore, pro-duced 447.7 pounds of beef. A pack-er buyer appraised the animals at28 cents a hundred pounds. i

There you have it—$125.36 worthof gain manufactured with grass on ‘

each acre (28 cents x 447.7).The average gain per steer per

day amounted to 1.54 pounds. NoSl l men al fee w ' hile{pp e t d as glven W G. A. Freeman, of the operations and development division of the U.S. Bureau of Re-tle Steers were on grass. clamation. and Daniel J. McLellan, Jr., of the state agricultural college extension service.

The pasture was seeded on pi-aC_ studied experimental results at Mandan on one oi’ two North Dakota development farms.

tically level land just west ofMandan a year ago last sprmg into two equal parts. One was North Dakota Agricultural col-Twenty'tw° pounds Per ilcre of grazed while the other was wa- lege. the U.S. departmentofagricul-grass seed were put Int wlth oats {eyed and rested at 1()-day intelu ture and the NOI"tl'l Dakota Trainingas a nurse crop" Here.are the grasS' vals. Border strips and dikes were Sehoel fol‘ BOYS am ¢°°Pe1'3uh8is andfthe P!‘°l:1°1‘t1°h$¢ lliilgadow used to Como; the waten with the Bureau at the Mandanescue, our poun s, smoot rome, D l t f V t f

eight Pounds; Russian wild Tye» Easly In August this year’ the era; ggildligrtiliztsirpappliagalidgs agefour pounds; and two pounds oaol-i Russian wild rye was not very thick being tested in number of plotsof alsike, red clover and alfalfa. but the other two grasses and three Quito a lot of work was done with

Last year =1 ton and a half Per legumes were d°i"8 weu and Sun potatoes in 1950. Yields under irri-aere Of Oat hay Were Cut Oh the heW $h°Win8 uP in the mixture when gation where sweet clover hadseeding. This year pasturing was pasturing began, in fact, 15 steers been plowed down and where cOm_begun on June 1. but next season were put on but there was so much meicial fertilizer also had beencattle will be turned on earlier. feed that ve more were added 17 applied, were from 3225 bushels

The pasture in 1950 was divided days later. per acre of No_ 1 tubers to 6()()_6

bushels per acre of N0. 1’s. The highyielders were Pontiacs and theyran 96.3 per cent No. 1’s, with only3.7 per cent culls.

4.‘A sheep named Geronimo made

three parachute jumps from anairplane in 58 minutes at the cen-tral Washington fair, at Yakima.

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These are the steers and that is the pasture near Mandan which people have been talking 115 Northern Paclc Rallwayabout all over North Dakota. The grass, irrigated every 10 days, made $125.36 worth of beef St P 1 1 M-per acre between June l and about the middle of September. Six kinds of grass were used. ' an v |nn'

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