Date Report Submitted
May
, 1951
Project Title: ADAPTATION OF FORAGE SPECIES AND VARIETIES TO SOUTTECENTRAL OREGOI,
Sub-Project Titles:
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Alfalfa Breeding.
Alfalfa Variety Trials.
Grass and Legume Nurseries.
Pastures and Pasture Mixtures.
Departments and Cooperating Agencies:
Division of Forage Crops and Diseases, USDA
Farm Crops Department, Oregon 5t4te College
Personnel:
A. E. Gross, Project Leader
H. H. Rampton, USDA
J. Ritchie Cowan, karm Crops Dept., OSC
Nature and Extent of Work 1.)one This Year:
Creeping Alfalfa.
Through the efforts of J. hitchie Cowan, seed of a number of
known strains of creeping alfalfa were obtained and were
planted in the observational nursery on the main station.
Alfalfa Veriety Trials.
The alfalfa variety trials now under way were begun in the
fall of 1948, and are being continued at the present time.
Grass and Legume Nurseries.
The grass and legume nurseries that were seeded in 1949 were
observed during the 1950 season with no additions to those
two plantings, which were made both on the main station and
on the muck area at Lower Klamath Lake.
Pastures and Pasture Mixtures.
A pasture trial involving a number of simple and complex mixtures was planted on the main station during the 1950 season.
This planting was made on relatively strong alkali.
RESULTS OF THE PROJECT: (Confidehtial information should be so marked)
Major Accomplishments or Progress of Project since its Inception:
Allalfc variety trials hbvo teen E. .::7,,jor project it the
Klamath l'perinental Lroa since its beinnin 1.n
1Z70 On
the bRals
of the work that LEb 1 oen clone on alfalfa varletios, It L,:.t been possible to. standardlae the alfalfa verlet y recoLxilendaticns for tl
ls arca. on a. few varto.t4 e 8, pre.
•vloucl:y a iroat r.,:uner of alfalfa
veriottes were comin6 into
this area ala. .1,t 1 as beo sLown that a ni,Ler of these ware
inferior insofar. a
nevit and production are concerned.
Pt the prasent tir;c Ifn.a third alfalfa var 1 ot:i tral 1a under.
wfl tnd. a nuer of new•varIeties„ not previousl:.. tested,
tro inviuded iv t trial. The results to at tear out
•tome inforation obtained
in a previous trial, that i ,f,nL;or
alfalfa and Ladak alfalfa arc probably the two bsest sCa:2ted
alfalfat for. th.:!i.2 area*
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Major Results for the Year:
On the basis of the first crop seon on the last alfalfa
trial that we have underway , 'Talent alfalfa appenred to home
conaldor&bia to re ;or..,:aLI It in tbis area
'owover on the
bacie cf the past
•oason, 7A i_ :“.:on rather
Al20 whether
thl LriaLL; i&S any
.rent adaptatlon for these hither altitudes. Last sprin6, that iz'4 the sprinL .
of 1Z;50 0 Talent '..T2s
frozen bach rather severely tree different tires and It never
teemed to recover fron the set backs as the season pro6ressed„
. and the yielJ at the end of t•....e setson was t.o.ns: the lowest,
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On the uniforn 1,orno nurcry .) -11 1:, ::a y . lain station
t fm of the
eLuvezy, were tlia only thin&e that Lave any productlocl at all
I.st year. Y,',ost of the rlaSEOZA 61.6 not produce e.n
. L:...., ;2.rowth
tc even row thc. Apparently thiC '!it'.
due
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def!tonsy
in
nitrates in thia falrly a1kir
:111:le
arca.
Ths
lee,urts
that
looked
part lcul'arly p . 00d were two creepin alfalfat -
iota ricIt the
Thcal. atra ln, lotus cornculatvs, 71)oth
the
bror.d
lo.feJ.
vnriety
1:econtly nalled. •raner, an4 the •:cd.
ford strain, icee0 aood in
thls. particular. ara. ZefltlaL wilO it clover alo Droduced
luite well.
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WICK AFTU.
On the muck area the ret:clre sitution V,T.:: 41::,
the reln statIon. Vere tle [rasses wart the thinncoic.fnred with
tnt Eave
the :maxim= procIction, where y.ost of tlYo loz.tlea pro l'ie: .;. very
Itttle. The two exce;Itionc '`,:,, the lf.rht proctIon on the legufcs
wre. the creep!fl alfalfses Pero iThl ;:ora alfalfa 1.4i
nuo !_ outStandir comrm:, v;.1,th Vat loal.train.
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RESULTS OF TEE PROJECT: (Continued)
It was not possible to to cf all of the plots that
Mel been seeded In these triels becase of poor stands re5ultin3 frm. blowin at the tine
plantinc,.
°beervat:Ions init ed that the smooth orchard Erass„ the
tell fescues, r,re*dow
foxtail and Eentucky laueErnss 7.27 now
known es Merlon, were the outstarzdirk. sofar•as production of forte was concerned, in t ole trial. A :eod
nany oz the other t.yr, asses„ partiol.11arlzr bent oasses and. the
fine leafed fescues, are vi:
Inferior In forazre production,
were able to tet bettor tinter survival On our plentinze
of oraherd•tress on thia nuck area than we have ever 17:een able
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t they on the oand:! soils of the ntin stntion.
shio, the amount of forst;e prodwed by orchard f2J-uss was rather
unusual. A new variety, net yet released, that lc entered
under the Iyur:Uer 233, appenrej to be one of the outstandirv:
tresses- in the. whole trial- 11;on the srooth brone vg , rietlec
In this trial, Auebenbsch and nchar appeared to the two.
eutetandinj, ones slthouh the vvriety u.ipred .u.ed very well
in. the later if ,;rt
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of the seson. [chenbech had the character.
letic cf beln a little earlier stfirtin than the other strnins
of sooth broze. As O'veC.:, In this trIsl, there did not ap.
pear to Leanss notable t:::iffere - es tetween
teJ „la and Alta
The . ,, both prodCC d (tlulte el'. The
ar. tall fescue
Seted to do a little better'as the Season warred uP in relation to the other two varietiee. It dio net however, text as
terly In the sprinG.
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Thls whole n o r-' survived nearly two to throe weola o subdurint
inter of 1 2:0) and 'CO. .
wac the result
of so Le purip troule tnd we were 'net stle to„ThIE
tot it pmved off
ts re!.dly as we
liked to 'neve.
In the pasture: trial szo
n IbC on relatively alkaline.soil on tht, n,qin station onl relr:t:!_rely few of all the thltve
planted tooac ecttalshed. 6f these, fate ?eseue the outstandint: varlet:6 swooth blone and Tualatin ont runninr,
close second. The L.eadow fomtail, Lentucky blue c:resL end orcher6 rasses did not becol::a estnblIshed to nerly the are extent,
fn those tr!_sis there these other vtrietles were 1,n the lixtures
rsthel' 4pnrse ::tend of f:Ite
erooth brore
obtained. ,;.ie wore not suCceseflaIn obtninin:rmd
stvr,f2.n of p_ny of
the :]_,1,/uo.
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Durla::: the fall vie attted to r1174ko co.Trativo plentin7s
Lmpire rr
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ots, end we 4nd local alsat. 7 cover,
we were unable t,o et 5:1n 6s o
etles d.ue, I Lileve lo
to too eF,!:p
OUTLOOK:
,.in the 'basis of the obServational retells' that we heve been
able tQ r,Q.1.11ie LC date, it appeers that we are -tting in
a rr,ther cesTrable position so far ,s being at)lo to ostahllah Sox e proCuetive postures 4iile ooncerneO, -o-ause of
Ile d. fun& Ii4-ich would. be Available for th:a type of viork
we will be eonf1neo. lerely to clipplr: trials on an of theSe
pasture st )(dIes tit we nay c,nC,orteke. P
owever„ it iabeliOved
thet th ese results w111 be qufte applloable
to siva:tar areas
thet will to past ore with live stook.. . .
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PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF RESULTS OR PUBLIC BENEFITS;
There has been a vor heavy inerense in the n::4; lber of farer%
vIsitin:T the station d.2.rth the past two ser„aonz who ere particularly interested in observin our forF.e trials, and 1
knovi tat
.roat T."any of thur have undertaken to d.uplieatet
sore .1 tn.e plentinE,s that we havec:,.en
rakin here on the
:Staton. T fee1 that whIle or wolI ¶ rather
prellrinary
to drJte, it does show the way trd ettin6 1:proved pasturo8 undnr a lot of the rethe:v f.dverse oireutunces that
previl over e great teal of thlsarea. A.s additional .nfox
is oLtalned Ql.'1 Wrf.Otiti
rIxtures under those
olip,2inL eond. !tIons is available,pasture
I fiel qto conrident that
the fnrnere in the Eree will bo ::' EI(, to have tht inromtion.,
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FROGRAY FOR THE COMING YEAR:
In addition . to cc}ntinuin the forte plentim:S that 17v0 been
• re on the two areas ul ler or co
3, we. plall aolv.0 adttionel triaia thia
particularly a elippinL„ pasture a ,ixtI7re trial on the lower laLe area. ?hie will be based chiefly
on observation ulado in the forage nursery durinz t past two
esons. The varietio:2 to be included in this trini ftre
1: hizoma alfalfa, :' 7rtinF;cr lotus, It escue„ ihenbol 1 strain
of mooth
mendew foxtnil, orchard Lress No. P33, end,.
'as a basis of coLperlson, hentuchy Lluo grazs with iralizont
F nd Granzer alfalfa. will 1
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a being added
for the reason that I'Lentucky ]:al.eLim&a fa the ohlef pasture
grass being utilized in the nree at the present tiro. These
pi n ntinsii o roplionted four times nnd will be clil Tod
fror i our to five tires durin the zeason„ depending upon the
t;ount of r•rowth that occurs. e1
will be welhed
in an atterpt to zet reittive cc
of the forejo pro.
'Lloed on e
of these rIxture$. A total of 64 plote are in..
, volved in thiz
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r.-; 1 ,1Jc1:1 as paature becotla a very !npurtant part of: the
rucL ereas 'Lhst fcro bein developed aIon ::he norch. onC, of tho
'per LlaLath Lho it
d1a-nod to put in nursor.
les of the vrrious L.razsea on zor:e oV thla no develcqwent.
Theso plantInz will be uubjeoteO
wiater floociln to see how well they i I . aurive under suc 12 1;o
conitions, for it i
11aed.
that if any pazturez ere established erly there, they =:zt be
B ubjected to wild flood'-n until C as 7roater developinent can be utnned. In view Cl the survival we obtained.
on our nursery on. the lower hlath Lrbo &ro, bolievo W:Lat
chanoes of survival under the wld. ficedin conditions used
On these a.Pre
tracts
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Plans developed at tbo annual - dv.isory
tin Itnt
year to hire rosearc tse
a.nt for the atotion nny
tLiz year. :t is piched to put th l.s rozenrc': . naLhtant
ohlefly on the forLe phase, of th.o werl;, se thnt it can have
mere adeounte attention and it expected tlflat re2u1ts obtain00 fmn 6his: increased, attention will well
justlf-; the eforte
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