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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1906)
4 -,..,...-r-V J!.i ... The Madras Plb'Rfeer Published every Thursday by TI1E PIONEER ItIDLl8iliNQ CO.- Ono ycar. ..ii ......$l.op Six months.....!. ADVKnTISlJfU JtATKS OX ArrMOATlON . Entcrtvina second class -matter iicust 211. 1901. ft: the I'ostomce ni itiaunis. y., under llio Act ot Congress of March 3, 1879. hUrSBaY September 27, 1906 The attention of our joadera who are interested in farming in this district; is, again called to the article on Dry Farming; which we( are reprinting, and the last, installment of which appears in tills issue. This in stallment deals, principally with the results of the applies tiod rjf scientific oil culture; and it 13 especially interesting. This aGtein of cultivation, sometimes called the "Campbell system", was applied in semi 'arid regions such as this is, and upon land no better if as good as that which we have here and these efforts have invariably succeeded, even beyond expec tations, fn semi-arid, regions such as tills js, he moisture must be saved with care, and made to go as far as it can. Scientific soil cultnre, or "dry farming", is a system of culti vation which stores the moist lire where it is needed, and saves it by preventing evapora tion. That is why it invariably succeeds. Dry Farming-The Hope of the West A Method of Producing Bountiful Crops, Without Irrigation, In Semi-arid Regions; .M-nfl..s"?'--'"f - j ..r.ua H lln) The following Article, by Joint Ll Cowan, was published In He ; "T, ' '! "Century", and Is ropUbllshoi hero Vlth tho cuiiHoiii of thu publUlivrtf, 1 lie 11 nm) Company. It contains much ntercstlng and ilufiU hlforuiatlou about tho Lnmnutit methods of dry farming, most entertainingly told. (Copyright 1P00, by Tho Century Company. All rlphlk resbrved.) iuh cane yif Tjie fact that our cpttnty court is advertising for bids for U. new court house . building in spite of the vigorous protests of a large majority of the taxpay ers of the county, but empha sizes the oft-sfated fact that the court doesn't care what the rest of the taxpayers of the county want or don't want, so long as it is clear that Prineville wants his new court house. That at titude on the part of the county oourt for the past few years was what gave it the nick name of "City Council of Prineville". During the past Spring the county court attempted to rail road through a contract for a hew court house, but this plan was nipped in the bud by its discovery, and an injunction puit brought by interested tax payers of the county to prevent the deal from going through. Thu injunction was, at a hear ing before Judge Bradshaw, made permanent, perpetually enjoining the county court from entering into any contract for ' the construction of a court jiouse or any portion of it, wherebv an indebtedness of to exceed &5000 would be incurred. Those who are familiar with the present status of the county's Jinances know that no contract for a new court house or any Wrtofit can be entered into jbis year without a violation of the injunction. Their only al - ternative is to keep up the pres ent high rate of taxation, with a tax-roll about double lliat of )ast year, in order to raise mon .ey to carry out their scheme foi n new court house next year. t remains to be seen whether jthe taxpayers of the county will jtaniely submit to this plan, or (Whether the county court will fie permitted to avoid by indi rection, the very evident .Intent ,of the restraining order of the circuit court. taut nr. iluntlredS of striking iustanoss of Buccewful .rarmiug by the Campbell syetero of coll culture tiilght bo cited; but a very few examples BhovVlni the KroWth of tho idea will sufllce. f '.twenty years ago, Mr. J. P. l'ondn roy, now of Colorado Springs, accjulred 30,000 acres of laud In Grahani county, western Kausas, aud hiUuded Iiill City almost In the center of the t.rat. For fourteen years portions or this land were cultivated by the old fash ioned methods. In all that time only ouo good crop was harvested, that be ing in a season when the rainfall was abnormally large. He had hoard of Mr. Campbell and his system of dry farmlug, uud sent for him, telling him to go ahead and show just what he could do on laud ou which profitable farmlug by ordinary methods had been proved to be impossible. Mr. Camp bell laid oUt a model farm on the very land tat had been tried ofteu with discouraging resujls. Last season the sixth successive crop, wan harvested. T .1-' r . -1. I.. ...I.lnl. nl.t I fashioned methods were followed, thirteen failures were scored. In the six years in which the Campbell uys tern had been ontJtrial on the same lauds, a prop, failure bus been uu kuown. The smallest yield ot wheat per aqre in that time has been thirty flve bushels, while farmers close by baVe never .obtained more than thir teen bushels per acre, and very rarely T5Veu.tb.at. The yield of corn, oats, po tatoes, alfalfa, berries, small fruits and vegetables is equal to that obtalued jfrom the best of the irrigated farms around Oreely, Fort Olllos, Graud Junction, aud other parts of Colorado' "under the dilch". A six-year-old orchard is in prime condition, the trees . . . -1.1 - 1 Deing as large as eiBi-.er-0.u w B, rtw, ftt H,n City it waH in me lamous irungrowiog ui.ir.ui u. fur Uwt Mr Palisades. A more complete vindica tion of all the claims made by advo cates of the practicaMIity of farming on the plains without irrigation could hot Well be imagiued. About a year ago the members of the Young Meu'a CIuh of Cheyenne, Wyoming, listened to the reading of a paper on the subject of dry farming by State Engineer Clarence J. Johnston. A project wan at once set ou foot for the opening of a demonstration farm on waste lands near the city, supposed to be entirely worthless without irri gation. This farm was put lu churge of Mr. F. C. Ilerrman of the Irrigation and Uraiuage Bureau of the U, 8. Department of Agriculture. Lust rea son record-breaking crops of corn, po tatoes, peas, oats, aud garden vegeta bles were grown ou thtse lauds, winter wueai, re, auuiiu) and barley were also sown. Within ten days the grain was ten Inches hlgji, covering with a perfect carpet of green the laud that had. been con feldered incapable of raising uuything. At this writing all these crops promlxe a more abundant yield than will be lfliurynii nultt 1111111111. abuudautly, and alfalfa U considered one or the most piotllalilo 01 an cni-. Durum wheat is there shown to yield three times as tnueh per acre an the common varieties. An attempt is unw helug made to develop u winter variety of durum If thU I accom plished, Western wlieat grower will have nothing to fear from the compe tition of Canadian or Argentine har vest fields At the Fort liaya experiment sdb Htatlou or the Ivansus Slate Agricul tural College, four cuttings of alfalfa were obtained without litigation ( last year: and, although cornels regarded as particularly unsuited to that local ity) yet lat.t yeai's ciup averaged forty-five busduls to the acre. At this otatlon it liaa also been deirionstrated that 8iiur beets can be grown as sue cessrdlly and a ptofltably in arid as hi Irngalbd landK. The yield in tons Is smaller, but thia Is fully compensated for by the greater sugar contents. Apples peaches, pairs, plums, cherrUs, and a great variety of forest trees thrive Upon the simplest application of Uiy farlning principles ou theso plain lands, which are naturally tree less aud devoid ot other vegetallou than buuehgraes and sagebrush. The most surprising thing connected with the hubjeet of dryarnilns Is the uuwIlliugiieH of tho average Western larmer to give It a fair trial. It would uaturally he supposed that men whoso utmost labors. barely sullice to wrest a livllbbod frolii the paicued, and un willing acres they own would be eager to adopt auy method that gave prom ise of better rediltfor at least to 1ml tate tiie methods of their neighbors, who, with no better laud, yet obtaiu results many times gteatar. Before rhe Pomeroy model farm wa advertised Campbell , .... .,. i.t t Mi. and even UP to SIO J.0 III! nvi " " - . Httd $12; and the president 01 mo Col orado Btato Cotulherclal AMOohtlnn N on record With tile prollotldM that hort t tile no lauu in in a Colorado) wlihln a reasomlblb ilUUnot of rnllroild tratii.t)rtatlou, can bo bonfiht for les than $i an alire. Till rov.Villtlon In liihil values i duo man iy tgjho .itcUflty.pt nimi who Ihvq been tvalohltiK tha remltn of expert mentn In dry famlliiK. 8011U havb hotiitht for hpeottlatloli; some for oat tie and sheep riuiulleA htit mom thai! all f r a'ollvi farmlnB, . One tmmpany ban houulit aO(i,W)ll aqrea iif(arl(t.lHnd, In tin Panhandle of 'tVxMS. anil 80.1HK) acres more III eastern Unlttratlo, to be sub divided Into small farina and sold to Hum willing In cultivate by llie Campbell Hymen! . would explain his methods of soil cul ture at a free public meeting in the court house. The hull was crowded with farmers, some of whom traveled for many miles in order to attend. Of the whole assemblage, only two adopted the lecturci's recommenda tions. The-ie have been fully as suc cessful as he has been, raising good crops every year. Tile others listened, shook their heads, and went their wa uncoLvinced. They still cllug to old fasnitiued methods, snub as have wricked tens of thousands of farmers in eveiy locality bel we'eii'central Kan eus and California, uud nave never yet given satisfactory results west of the Missouri river. As a class farmers are the mo-t con servative men in the world. Most of "waste" 1 tli(me WUo ic.ft Eastern farms to build new homes in the Western laud of promise argue that the methods their fathers and grandfathers employed must necessarily be the best methods, tegardless of conditions that differ as widely as the antipodes. Full of big otry and prejudices they set their faces like flint uguiust what they term "new obtained from the irrigated lauds of',auBied notions". A good many of For Sale. 1. One family hack, heavy; 2jf Stude ,baker,wagon; 3 Studebaker wagon; 16 inch sulky plow; 14 inch walking plow; .wheel harrowj steel' lever harrow; also household furniture, etc . . 82ooi8 Baiud, Madras, r--r2:-... - Hogs for Sale, Seven head of 8 month-oJd shotes, will .weigh from 100 to 140 each? the lot for ,$35.00. A,, V, yarren, A'A- miles east Of Haycreck) Oregon. 5273 j the same neighborhood; and, unless hail or some unforeseen cause works havoc, a great impetus will be given to the cause of dry farming throughout Wyoming and adjacent states. . . . . Bo promising has the experi ment so far proved that one hundred farmers of tho neighborhood are now rying dry farming methods under tho direction of the superintendent of the (lemonstiatlou farm. .Near Julesberg, Sedgwick county, in northeastern Colorado, dry farming is practiced more generally than in iny othe- portion of the West, with highly gratifying results The aver age crops reporttd last year by tho l aimers of that legion without irriga t on were: Wheat, 35 bushels to the uvttf, corn 50 bushels; potatoes, 200 L unbelt; rye, 30 bushels; oats. G5 bush tls; millet, two tons; and cane for f . rage, five tons. Asa icsult of this showing many of (he farmeru of the 1 eighborhood who have been Irrigat i-jg their lauds have sold or given up tlielr water rights and abandoned the use of the ditch entirely. A similar n.ovemei.i, hus begun at Fort Collins, me of the farmers who tried both n:ei hods last iscason finding that dry farming yielded larger returns than they were able to obtaiu in adjoining Hi Ids by the use of irrigation, How ever, action of this kind is at present ill judged and premature, und is di-cuuraged rather than countenanced them, it is to be feared, shrink from the unceasing toll aud unremitting watchfulness -demanded by the new system. In any event, it ha been ob served that those who have oecn in the West for many years can only rarely bo peisuaded to give dry farm lug a trial. Thuy .will not even read dry farming literature, or visit a model farm or au agricultural experiment statiou to inspect the results attained by rational methods. Newcomers in the West, however, are 'nearly always willing to learn aud profit by the experience of others aud the younger element among the farmers hall dry farming as the dawn ing of a new era, It is the young men that have given td scientific soil cul ture the Impetus it has received at Cheyenne, Julesberg, Llmou and other places. It Is the young men also that are responsible for the ag gressive campaign being conducted by the Campbell Dry-Farming Associa lion, organized last October, wltu headquaitert in Denver. Its oi-Ject Is fo spread the dry-farming propaganda until every acreof arable laud through out the great West is tilled to tiie ut most limit of its productiveness; nod its membership includes hundreds of successful dry farmers in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona uud other states. The cynical havo often remarked by the true friends of dry farmlug. 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