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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1908)
THE 3H0RXIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28. I90S. 11 GRUSAOE AGA1T4ST MM I Railroad Will Try-to Reform Present Methods of Hand ling Farm Lands. PLAN OF THE 0. R. & N. CO. Will Run Agricultural Demonstra tion Trains Through Wheat growing Districts of East- ern Washington. Otis 0f the most important movements ever undertaken by any American rail road has been inaugurated by R. B. Miller, general freight agent for the O. R. & N. Company. This is a campaign against the practice of Summer -fallow ing now general throughout the Inland Empire. Under this system half of the wheat fields of the interior lie Idle each year. It is planned to correct this prac tice and, make every acre work every year by diversifying crops. Intent on accomplishing this purpose, the traffic department of the O. R, & N. Company will run a special demonstra tion train over its lines in Washington. The Washington Agricultural College at Pullman is co-operating fully in the movement and a number of agricultural experts will make the trip and lecture to farmers on doing away with Summer fallowing. The train will start from Pullman, Wash., March 6. This train Is the first of its kind to be run in the history of the Paciflo Northwest and the results of its trip may be of the most far-reaching char acter. The subject to be taken up Is all Important. Perhaps there is none, say those in close touch with the matter, which promises to accomplish more for the good of the Pacific Northwest. The benefits from the Introduction of new methods of agriculture can hardly be overestimated. General Freight Agent Miller has made a study of Summer fallowing In the Inland Empire and is thoroughly in formed on the subject. He regards It as a wasteful system of agriculture that it Is wholly unnecessary, for he believes other crops can be grown o" wheat lands between wheat crops that will enrich the soil far more than allowing it to He idle. His most conservative estimate is that J20,000,000 in new wealth will be created in the Inland Empire each year by raising crops each year. Would Mean Small Farms. The benefits to the whole Pacific North west can hardly be overstated, says Mr. Miller. This system of cultivation would mean smaller farms, denser population, heavier railroad traffic, lower rates. In creased land values and Innumerable other advantages. ' The special demonstration train will consist of a special engine, the necessary cars for the carrying of various agricul tural products and a passenger coach capable of accommodating from GO to 60 people. Pullman College experts will be in charge and will make practical dem onstrations and give lectures on subjects, which will serve as an .education to ail persons interested. Talking of his plan, Mr. Miller said yesterday: Evils Are Well Known. Tha nraetice of Summer fallow is gen erally followed in the territory traversed fiy the O. R. K. Co.' lines East of the C ascade Mountains. As is generally known, wheat Is the principal cereal ralaed. but only one crop is produced every other yrnr: that Is to say. one-half of the land remains idle each year. Wheat cannot be raised successfully from year to year on the same land without Impoverishing the soli, and reducing the yield, but it is l-elleved that other crops can be raised on the land now allowed to remain idle, which will not only result In a continuous oceu 1 atlnn of the soil, thereby adding to the production and enhancing Its value, but will assist In Increasing the yield per acre of wheat when alternated with other crops. It is for the purpose of demonstrating that crops can be successfully grown in the rlsce of Summer fallow, and not only to encouraee the farmers In undertaking it. but to bring about an Increased yield per acre of wheat and other cereals through, improved and modern methods of farming, that the trsln is run. I'nder continuous occupation of the toiL land cannot be farmed to advantage In as larea tracts as is the cast where wheat represents the entire crop, and the diver sification of crops will therefore mean that the large holding, which in many cases ronslst of from 160 to -000 acres of land, will be cut up into smaller tracts, each containing a family. Thus will Immigra tion he stimulated and the Doeulatlon In creased, a condition In which every busi ness man. land owner and farmer, as well as Ihe transportation company. Is interested. Vnrier present conditions the failure or partial failure of the wheat croo means much, not only to Oregon and Washington, but to the entire Paciflo Coast, because there is nothing else to fall back upon in the sections now devoted to wheat exclu sively. This can only bs avoided through the diversification of crops. If the estimated yield per acre of wheat should be placed at 20 bushels. It would require 4.000.000 acres to produce 40.000.000 bushels, due to the tact that only one-half of tbe land is In crop' each year. If, through the con tinuous occupation of the soil, tho land which now remains idle under the practice of Summer fallow could be made to yield a return of say only $10 per acre, it would add S20.OO0.00O annually to the wealth of the country, not taking Into consideration the Increased value of the land Itself, which would follow as a natural result. The continued taking of wheat from land without rotation of crops is shown to be a great evil, it Is said; by the ex perience of wheat-farmers In the Red River Valley, Minnesota, once a famous wheat-growing section, where the land has been so drawn upon that from eight to ten bushels an acre is all that is re alized at present. The situation in the Inland Empire, while not exactly similar. Is not alto gether reassuring. In rase of a single year of crop failure, wheat being about the only crop, the Pacific Northwest would suffer severely as the result. Traffic is light for the railroads, wheat being practically the only thing produced. The large wheat farms are constantly being enlarged, the big farmers buying out the smaller holdings of their neigh bors and adding them to their own tracts. The population Is steadily growing smaller in the country districts. This is said to be true of every wheat-growing country in the Inland Empire. Towns are growing but the country is being depopulated. General Freight Agent Miller believes the campaign Just begun, which will be vigorously followed up b later special farming trains and other eiforta along the same line, will correct all these evils. Professors from tbe Washington . Agri cultural College, who will ficcompany the farming demonstration speVial, are Pro fessor HI El Elliott, agriculturist; Pro fessor George Severance, i professor of agronomy; R. W. Thatcher,, C. W. Law rence, R. C. McCroskey anHO. E. Young. Representatives of the O. l!. & N. Com pany, who will be aboard, i are A. Mac (,'orquodale. district freight agent, Spo kane; l' V. Wamsley, travfling freight axent, Spokane; K. Burns, district freight agent. Walla Walla: C. F. Vandewater, traveling freight agent. Walla Walla. Schedule of Train. The schedule of the special farming train rs as follows: Leave Pullman March 6, 8 A. M., en time of No. 81-7. Arrive Colfax 0:25 A. M. and remain one hour. Leave Colfax 10:36 A. M.. arriving at El burton 10:65 A. M. Remain one hour. Leave Elburton 12 o'clock. Arrive Gar field 12:15 P. M. Remain one hour. Leave Garfield 1:15 P. M. Arrive Far mington 1:35 P. M. Remain 40 minutes. Leave Farmlngton 2:16 P. M. Arrive Bal tics 2:30 P. M. Remain 15 minutes. Leave Seltlce 2:45 P. M. Arrive Tekoa 8 P. M. Remain 1 hour. - Leave Tekoa at 4 P. M . changing to Pleasant Valley branch. Arrive at Oakes dale 4:45 P. M. Remain 1 hour. Leave Oakesdale 6:55 P. M. Arrive Thornton 6:10 P. M. Remain 20 minutes. Leave Thornton 6:80 P. M. Arrive Sun set 6:45 P. M. Remain 15 minutes. Leave Sunset 7 P. M. Arrive St. John 7:20 P. M. Remain 1 hour. Leave Bt. John 8:20 P. M. Run to Wi nona for over night. - Leave Winona 8:30 A. M. March 6. Ar rive La Crosse 9:15 A. M. Remain 45 min utes. Leave LaCroase 10 A. M. Arrive Pampa 10:20 A. M. Remain 40 minutes. ., Leave Pampa 11 A. M. Arrive Hooper 11:45 A. M. Remain 45 minutes. Leave Hooper 12:80. Return to La Crosse, arriving 1:50 P. M. Back track to Wi nn n rrlvlnflr 2:35 P. M, Leave Winona 2:S5 P. f . Arrive Endi cott 2:50 P. M. Remain 56 minutes. Leave Endlcott 3:45 P. M. Arrive Dia mond 4:15 P. M. Remain 1 hour. Return to Pullman. DE LOWE MAY COME FAMOUS PAINTER OF FLOWERS HEARS OF ROSE FESTIVAL). Will Attend If H Can Complete En gagements in Time Roses to Be Planted Today. Paul de Longpre. of Pasadena, Cal., on of the greatest painters of flow ers, and particularly roses, in the world, is considering whether or not he shall open a studio in Portland for the week of the Rose Festival next June. The matter was laid before him some time ago. and he promised to come if able to complete before that time some of the many engagements he already had on hand. If he comes he will be one of the leading figures In the main floral parade of the week, and he will have on exhibition here a collection of his masterpieces, the works that have given him lnternatlonaj fame. The principals of the public schools will meet at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn ing at the Ladd school, for the pur pose of deciding whether or not the school children shall be allowed to ap pear in the parade set aside for them in the official programme of the week. There is a well-defined disposition on the part of some of the school officials to oppose such a plan on the ground that it is too much of a hardship on the little boys and girls to ask them to march through the streets over such a route as they did last year, but the Board of Education has been assured that the children's parade this year will be a short one and will be carried out more carefully than was the case in last year's carnival. So it is hoped that the principals will give their consent at this meeting, which is to be held at the Ladd school. The ac tion of this meeting will be consid ered at the next regular meeting of the Board of Education, at which time the matter will be finally settled. Work of planting the remainder of the 5000 rose bushes which were do nated by public-spirited citizens last Saturday, will be resumed on the three park blocks today. Delay has been occasioned by the contractor who had agreed to have the fertiliser on hand for the planting day, and this material will not be delivered until some time today. Park Superintend ent Monteith will have a large force of men at work Just as soon as this preliminary has been . taken care of, and three or four expert gardeners will "boss the Job" of planting to see that it is done according to the plan of the Park Board. The block between Salmon and Main will first be taken care of, then the block between Montgomery and Har rison will be set out, and, lastly, the Burnslde and Couch-street blocks will be converted Into a solid mass of rose bushes. It is expected that all the shrubs will be set out within a week. Gold Float From Baker. BAKER CITY, Or., Feb. 27. If the present plana of the booster organizations in this city are carried to completion. Baker City will have one of the finest floats to be seen in the parade at the Portland Rose Carnival, for It is the present intention to send a monster gold float to Portland to represent this city and the mines surrounding it. No other design could be more appropriate, for the lnes of this section are steady pro ducers and the prospects for the coming year are very roseate. The size of the float and its exact design have not yet bed decided. Howard Arrested at Little Rock. T. S. Howard, former manager of the Willamette Cream Company, who disap peared simultaneously with several thou sand dollars of the firm's money last September, is under arrest at Little Rock, Ark. The arrest was made on descrip tive circulars sent out by the local au thorities. Howard's disappearance was preceded by several months of riotous living, during which he spent more money than he could afford. 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