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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1907)
The Madras Pioneer ' Published every Thursday by -THIS PIONEER PUnMSIIINtt CO.- SUBSORIPTION RATE8 ! Ono year , ,.....$1.60 Six months 85 Three months . 60 ADVKIITISIKO ItATKS OX AVILICATION' Entered as second- class matter August 2. 1WH. nt t ho Postof co nt .Mnitrns. Urn under tiio Act of Congress of Mnrch 8, 187U. THURSDAY April 4, 1907 . The Pnneviilo Review points to the troubles between the Col umbia Southern Irrigation Coin pany and the State Ittuid Board, and shouts "We told you so". With a sweeping flourish it condemns all of the Carey Act irrigation enterprises because one small company is having trouble with its settlers and oven there, there is no reason to believe that the best interests of the settlers will not be safe guarded by the state land boa id, acting under such an thorit' ;is they have over thesn Carey Act segregations. The Review pretends to see in this trouble over the O S segrega tion of 27,000 acres, evidence of the far-sightedness of William son and the Prineville delega tion which opposed the private irrigation enterprises in tins county, and asks, "Can the Pioneer man see no" connection "between this occurrance and the actions of Prineville citizens in Portland four years ago". To he frank, brother, we can't. If we could lose our memory of events and occurrences for the past four or five 3' ears, since the time that irrigation was first proposed in this county, we might be led to believe that Jour 3'ears ago Williamson and a large delegation of Prineville citizens went to Portland and labored mightilj' against the private irrigation enterprises along the Deschutes River in in thisuounty for thepurel3' ttii sellish reason that the3' believ ed at some time in the dim and distant future some of the set tlers upon those irrigated tracts might have trouble over the'u water rights. It would be . a pleasure to believe it now, but the Review shouldn't ask it. It is too absiirb for even the Re view to believe. If the Review desires to be honest in this discussion, why does it attempt to discredit all of the i ligation -enterprises under the Care' Act in this county, because of troubles be tween the Columbia southern Company and the settlers upon its lauds? The Review knows that the Columbia Southern Company only includes 27,000 acres in its segregation, and that it was refused patent to all except 12,000 acres of that he cause of the failure to supply enough water to inigate the entire tract. This paper does not uphold the action of the Columbia southern Company in disposing of 18,000 acrea of it& lands before it had patent to it, and failing to supply suflioientj water to reclaim the lands anclj entitle it to patent, but we do believe that such action on the pan of the management of an irrigation company is not auliieient grounds for a sweep ing condemnation of the Carey Act and all companies operat ing under it. Why doeen't the Review point to the i)eKchutes Irrigation & Power Company, operating on the East side of the Deschutes and very much more under the observation of the very observant editor of the Review? This company is re-j claiming more than 250,000 acres of land under the Carey Act, nearly ten times as much land aB there is in the entire Columbia Southern segregation, niid the Company is proceeding with its reclamation work and the patenting and settling up, of this large tract, without one single particle of trouble be tween the settlers and the com pany over water or any other question, and without the 00 curienco of 11113' of the dreadful things which Williamson and the Prineville delegation fore saw. The reclamation work is progressing rapidly, and the settler is securing his land at a cost under the private enter prise very much less than has ever been the history in the government projects. Such indiscriminate condem nation as that indulged in by the Review is just the kind of "knocking" of Western Crook which we oh urged against a cer tain element of Prineville's citizenship at the beginning ot this controversy. Never seeing anything good in Western Ciook or in the development under way there, but always ooking for some trouble about which it can get in an "I told you so , I lie ivwiew is typical of that element at Prineville. to which we refer. 1 a Campbell Talks On Farming 1 Says the Right Method Has Been Discovered for Successful h Farming, But That It Must Be Thoroughly Understood gs i It is estimated that the pros ecution of the land frauds of the TOiifi flrtnof otttliri tll jj-xr UUUV UUiUTL OIlUUO 111 tUOl the United States government 700,000 in money, beside the disgrace which is being brought upon the nation 1)3' reason of the frauds. The money cost is the least item item in the ex pense bill. The government, or even the western states, could afford to pay that sum. if it would restore the ruined repu tations, wipe out the memory of the unfortunate proceedings and reinstate the disgraced public Glacials ana pnvate citizens who sacrificed their honor to iheir consuming greed for gold. The lesson is one which will remain forever fresh in the minds of the rising citizenship of the Pacific Coast, and great as tne cost may be, it is not in vain that the West, has paid it. East Oieoniau. WILL INOCULATE GROUND SQUIRRELS Pullman, Wash., March 2S Stanley Piper, of the Biological Survey, United Slates Depart ment of Agriculture, has ar rived in Pullman to take up the work of destroying the ground squirrel, which has assumed considerable importance as a destroyer of wheat. Mr. Piper will work in co-operation with the experiment station at the state college. The method to be pursued will be to inoculate the squirrels with the virus which proved so deadly 'several ynars ago. This vims is now under propagation at the col lege, and enough will be pro duced this year to spread the disease over a large tirea. C;aiii growers in sections where Ihe squin el has become trouble- some are aslced to send live animals to the station for iuoc illation, the more that are sent the quicker will the disease be spread. MORE BLUE BLOOD FOR B. S. & L. CO. Mr. and Mis. J. G. Edwards tveie expected home at Hay cieek 3'csterda3 from, an ex tended visit in France and England, where they spent the Winter mouths. While in Europe, it is reported that 'Air. Edwards bought some very line stock for the B. S. & L. Com- piny, including a number of running and driving horses, which will lorm the nucleus of a baud of blooded horses at I he Iia3 cieek ranch. The Baldwin company is turning its atten tion to the production of blood ed horses ns well as ihoiougli- bred sheep, and laat year a notable importation of Shire horses for diaft purposes was made, to which this year'a im portation will add runners and trotters. PART TWO. (Continued from Inst week.) I am exceedingly prejudiced In favor or (he closed heel hIiou drill, assuming Hint we Imvo prepared our ground Just exactly as I will now endeavor to out line. Tho rensiui I inn ho favorably impressed with this particular drill In that it has Invariably canned our grain to come up so quickly and to show ."tooling in so short a space of time. Investigations In washing out the soil show that there Is a complete tiolwork of little feeders in there, whllu we hnve only ono little stem sticking up. Up In Chase county, Nebraska, I had chugo for two seasons of some work on the lvllpatrick Urothers" ranch. A piece of ground was lltted according to tho phui 1 will explain later on, and summer-tilled ami thesced Whs put. In. 1 una a hull miles In.m theie Is n little tiiwu. Tills land stood on a little slope. On the morning of the fifth day, practically four days, the shape of that Meld could be seen from the town from Its green color, and that wheal had come up through from two and n half to three inches of soli. Now, it in absolutely necessary If you are going to get quick get initiation or a complete system of roots or a complete development of stools, to haw the soil firm and line tight up around the grain, uud the closed heel shoe drill Is Ihe only tool with which you cun do it. liiedisu loosens It up; the hoe leu Ves a loose condition. The double disc Is worse yet, although they claim for it that it spreads the seed, lint that is not necessary. If you can get the. seed down Into that little trough shaped crevice, and when the ground Is in good condition, that scud will he covered with two or two and a half inches of mutch on top. The kind of plow to use cuts very little tlgu re. It is the way you sow It and the condition your ground Is in when you sow It Unit brings you the result. Tho Campbell Plan With reference to our plan of fitting the ground, we will be as brief as we cun. e start in we will suppose, in the tpriiiff, on a piece of old ground. We double dho it just as quick as the conditions will let us jnto it, that is, i ft er it hus thawed out and the wuter 1ms gone down euouh so t hut it will irot stick to Ihe disc. Our object is three-foi l. It is to stop the evapora tion, to admit of Ihe air to help In developing (ho nitrates ami bacteria, and to put that surface in condition to take the next ruin when it comes. Now, a little bit on that point. Many of 3011 have Wbteied tomato and cab-! nuge plants. When you set them out the surface will be dry. When you put the water on it seems to lay there. It doesn't percolate. There is a re sistance in those dry particles under neath. After awhile it works Its way down and then you come around and give It u second application and the water is immediately gone. Now, v. hen you have your soil m.ilst below the mulch and when your rain comes and it goes through the coarser soil on top, as soon u it comes in contact with tho moist soil below it goes right down just the same as your second up plication of water to the moist foll, ! wheie it will force its way by giaviiy j on down, particle after particle, until His distributed just the samu us your first appl. cation to the tomato plant. 1 have watched this over and over und over again. I have gono down into the soil after heavy rums 10 tl mi that the bottom of the moisture in the soil would be from one to six or seven three or four times as much, Then If you get a rain, just an ordinary shower that partly wets (hat miiMi, tho common harrow, being larger, answers the purpose Just in well. Yon simply break up the top. Jf It is just a little spiliiltiu on top and does not scum to settle thu mtiloh, don't hoiher, If you have a long dry spell and no rain, walch tho solid soil right under tho mulch and whenever you see the top of It begins (n get 11 little dry, cultivate, because It Is time. I have seen several Instances whcio wu have cultivated tho ground under those con ditions after a long dry spell and ymi could go there In the ii.oinlng and the ground cultivated w mid tie perfectly moist clear to the top, while Ho gr ititid not gone over would still he ory. The (Linger Is In forming a crust iimlermmth w hloh prevents I In en-illation of iIh nir and checks mi development. Nw, this is vital. Keep that surface loose until seed time. If you have summer tilled jour ground thoroughly do not put In Turkey red winter wheat which I think Is ut.questiouably tho boat ofyieldurs we havo to exceed twenty pounds of sued. If you do It will be too thick. Do Not Harrow In Tho Foil Now, wo aro coming to a point where we havo done considerable ex perimenting, and we have come to the cniic.lii.ilon thatji is not advisable to harrow our grain in the fall unless we havo an exceptionally heavy rain after the wheat has begliu to stool. Then it Is adv isable to harrow It, hut we do not like to harrow It in tho fall Oeeauso we have found tlist where we do harrow it In (he fall, in the spring tho ground Is liable U got crusted HerlniHly so ttiat It Is ulmof-t Impossi ble 10 loosen it up. When spring comes, JiM as soon as (ho pioper con dition Is reached, that Is, when the soil is moist, not when It Is dry, go on w-i h the harrow now, murk yuti, If you havo followed this plan right along you have got n liberal stooling, your stools arc thoroughly fixed wllh roots and you can tip your plants over nidewiso and pretty nearly tear them out and yet they will go on and grow. Tlie important feature now, in the spring, is to loosen up dial ciust which has been formed, in older to admit air. Preparing Now Ground Now, wo u.uy speak of going on to new ground. .My Idea Is to break as early as possible. When I left Dakota my Idea was not to break ground except when tlto grats was growing. We thought that was (he best lime. Now I havo come to the conclusion ami this Is assuming that a man wants to got something out of Iii money that It is host to break Just as early as pOKsilile, uud I would break In the fall 1f possible, turning the ground over two and a half to three Inches deep and rolling it flat. If a man lias fort acres of ground to break it will p.iy him to buy an old-fashioned roller to woik that lhit, then follow with the Acme harrow so as to loosen up Ihe top and fill the crevics lo form u perfectly smooth surface, if you haven't 11 smooth roller and cminot get one and the sub-surface packer Is avuilabl.i, go ovr it twice with that. In fact, we do Unit (in tin. HuhJrodgo farm. Hy following that plan wo havo found thut when u reach along about July, when we want to turn the ground a second (line to prepare it for seed (ho sod Is rotted and the subsoil beneath thu sod is rotted uny whore from tliron to flvo Indies. Mc I Abb ART & n HARDWARE IMPLEMENTS GROCERIES AGENTS FOR MADRAS, OREGON Ti ' lu0&in,A Clay pool Brothers GliNERAL ERCHANDISE Clothing;, Boots Shoes, Ktc Prompt Attention to Mail Orders PRINEVILLE, OREGON M A. E. CROSBY r It O 1' It I KTO It miiimiii. , urauiinia in unarini. naim iiuiii-arr utuirsiiieen. niDfunt tut my I'uclnlt)-. HiryeJnilno nml I 'ml l)utrojrtjr. TixnU ami llior:ii'i Absiic)- for Kttitmoxt Kodak, limit 'Phone. WllOM-SAl.K ANl nmil. THE DALLES, i.. ....... ..II.... ... i1.. 1 1 t r itiuucn. UUUKIIJIIIU l II'D I I U , Jl- i V..... 1 . r 1 .. . 1 . Now, wu go in w th a st rrliiL' nlow ter a few days lhat hasgoue on down . , ,, ' P'ow, 11 . . .. 1 .! having lirst used the break nir nlow uij'ililis all nraut caIv the same. ! "hl"1' Plow, When a heavy rain comes, that die solves uud settles this mulch that you Dave loosened up on tup. You loosen It up again with the harrow. If It ia too heavy ami becomes loo compact, use the disc again. lie sure to .keep ii loose. Follow (his up to about the last of June, and then plow It. Why do ue Insist upon this up to that date? lircause of thu weed question. You will find that about the last of June (he weeds will get very persistent, und it is dflllcult to keep tliem down with any tool we can iiuo on ttie surface in that way. Then wo plow und work late enough so that the second crop of ;tdB, unless we have a very favor- uhle season, so fur us rainfall uud heat uro concerned, will not come on in time to hother at all, As soon as you aio ready to do III u plowing oui giouud Is molHt and in perfeui condi tion and It lumhhs over and goes all to pieces, und you follow with u pack er thut makes thu bottom firm uud then the Acmo harrow md I nay Acme harrow because, us (ho gentle- mac preceding me said, It will do verv much more than tho commou burrow, ami (urn it irom two uud 11 li ilf to three inches more, following this time wlili a Mili-surface paenar, and that with an acme harrow or tho Green harrow the Acme harrow will do u Utile boiler work for u llttlo loss ex peno. In cute of lining fr fu w1Hlt loilow llio plan wo havo suggosfed, out 11 a man wauls to break In the spring and raise a crop, hrouk It a llttlo deeper. (Jo down from three and l liull 1 1 r"...iM I....I - ...... ..,111 iimiiun. I'OIIOW IIH closely as you can with tho roller, vhllo it Is moist, because If you lot It dry you cant got it down, Got It down and thou diso and harrow until ynu get tho surface thoroughly worked up, (HlH'i'oifB NoTjTornoxt week wo will publish In this column Prof. Campbell's (iiiestlon box, In which ho unswersa largo number of Important questions a-hiid by diUeroiit delegates at ihe Dry Farming Congress, cover ingH.,1110 very esxeuttal points piuo tlcod In sclentlllo farming,) fTiuJale Flvo hundred bushels hurley at my plHce uour Methodist 1IIII, Joo M ur uuoh, u4 13 I VERY The best in Shaniko dood Stock. Careful Drivers Best of tiny and Grain Fed At Very Reasonable Prices I D. A. Howell, Shaniko, Or. o ! AS to (ft o to Shaniko Warehouse Company OENERAL STORAQE AND FORWARDING Bpecial attention to Wool P'iding und Uflllng ,or1t'M,t'i!i!l merits, fiealers In IllncHinlth Coa, Lime and Hulldcri of til kIndB. Sulphur, Wool and Grain SacU and Twine, iour and Feed. 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