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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1912)
THE MADRAS PIONEER Published every Thursday by PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Subscription Rates One year. $1.50 Six months 80 Three months 50 Entered as second class matter August 29, 1904, at the Postof fice at Madras, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Thursday, August 29th 1912. A Practical Plan. The plan of promoting agri cultural development adopted by the Central Oregon Develop ment League has the merit of being eminently practical. The best advertisement Oregon can have is a well-developed, pros- nerous state. The greatest factor in development and prosperity is agriculture. Then let us do our utmost, by the united action of Nation, State and country through the Agricultural Col ls je and all its agencies and through the schools, to bring every tillable acre, under cultiva tion, t6 malce it produce the largest crop of that product to which it is beet adapted and to preserve and increase its fertili mi i -v zy. mat done, uregon will need no advertising beyond the fac of its yield and of its people' prosperity. The greater part of the culti va.ea area ot Uregon is not pro ducing up to its capacity. A much larger area of tillable land is not producing at all. The farmers now here and those yet to come need to learn how. Up to-aace iarming, sucn as is taught at the Agricultural Col lege and at the demonstration farms can greatly increase, in many cases double, the produc tion of existing farms. Farmers' Institutes and lectures can teach much to those who have already begun to practice the right -methods, but the old-style farm er- is naturally conservative and must be shown in order to be convinced that scientific farm ing gives the best results. He can only be shown on a demon stration farm, which must be brought within his reach. Hence such farms should be sprinkled all over the State and should illustrate the cultivation of each kind of soil, in each variety of climate and with each particular crop. This display of scientific farms "in motion," as it were, is par ticularly needed by the new-i comers. They may have been successful in New England, Pennsylvania or the Middle West, out may iau in uregon. owing to novel conditions. They need to be shown how to adapt them selves to these conditions, in order to insure their success. Every citizen of Oregon has an interest in their "making good," for every new settler who suc ceeds becomes a booster, while every one who fails becomes a detractor The league's policy, thoroughly carried outi will raise a large crop of boosters, whose bank accounts will adver tise Oregon as can no other means. ly after, it was time to quit and rest up for another day. As time passed and Hanley grew able to own many watches there came no desire to own or carry one, and he says today that he never owned a watch, or never expects to own or carry one. "If I had one," he remarks occasionally when questioned, I never would have time to wind it; if it was a self winder I wouldn't have time to look at it". In his office on the Bell-A fall. Some farmers argue that stubble land should notbe.plowed or even disced in the fall, since the undisturbed stubbles may better hold the Bnow. but the nrenonderance of argument is A. A " easily in favor of autumn plow ing. The land that has been disced is easi v mowed and the, same power will plow.it more deeply than if it had not been disced. It is not so essential to plow disced land in the fall that isl to be planted with corn. If the stub ble land thus disced cannot all ranch, near Burns, there stands be plowed in the fall, the plowing nn tlm m.mtplniprn over l.ho on- of what is intended for corn can n hearth a heautiful clock, be deferred. Much has been whifih was niven him bv a friend written about packing fall plow several years ago. This clock ed land, but it is not very often fi.ist more than a dozen ordin- that the lands plowed 'in the ary watches. But it has never autumn require to be packed. been wound since it ran down the Stirring the soil in the early iirst time alter it was placed on snnnir with disc or harrow or the mantel. It stopped a quar- both as occasion may call. for. is ter to 5 irfthe morning and with but little practiced. It is, never the minute hand within a frac- theless, of great moment and tion of 5 it stood ever since and should be done as soon as the always will so stand unless some ground can be stirred thus with meddler starts it going. But out iniurv to its mechanical con- that would be no easy matter, dition. It sfcavR. at once the loss for the key was long ago thrown away by the owner. A quarter to 5 A. M. That is about the tinje of day in Harney County. The night of isolation has almost passed, dawn is ad vancing, the first rays of the sun are shooting above the east ern horizon, a day of great promise is at hand, and soon in a noonday of achievement and prosperity William Hanley and the other patient, tireless and hopeful citizens of Harney Coun ty will realize their long-deferred dreams of wonderland of wealth and contentment. Oregonian. CARRY OVER THIS YEAR'S MOISTURE Next Year May Be Dry, But You May Insuro a Fair Crop by Proper Action New. The crop of 19.12 is simply phe nomenal in the states of the northwest. In the aggregate it was doubtless never equaled. But the conclusion should not De reached that this, result is owing to the high class character of the farming. With the same rainfall as in 1910 the results would oe uttie u any improve ment on the crop of that vear. he bumper crop of the present ; owing almost entirely to the unuasual rainfall of the present season and to the timeliness with which it fell. This rainfall. unusual in length of its contin uance, has not only given the farmer the bumper crop referred of moisture from the soil, at least for a time. Even though crops are to be planted late, as in the case of alfalfa, this stir- ring of the soil is very important. Of course it can only be done on summer-fallowed land or corn or potato land of the previous year, or on land that had been autumn plowed. When grain has been sown on land thus prepared, the mois ture may be further held by harrowing the grain. The best stage for the first harrowing is when the grain is just begin ning to appear. The best .imple ment for harowing it, all .things considered, is a light adjustable s eel harrow. The teeth should be slanted backward with , some few exceptions. But a weeder may be more suitable for very soft soils. If a second harrow ing is given the grain should be, say 4 or 5 inches high at the time, so that none df it will be buried. Even flax and .alfalfa may be harrowed, but not when they are coming up. If they are harrowed it should be when they are several inches high. Harrowing grain is not profitable when many sods or much trash is on the land. If the farmers of the North west will but handle their land as thus they will be assured of at least fairly good crops next sea son, but if they give no atten tion to these methods of cultiva tion much moisture will be lost. If a very dry year follows the crop will then fail. It would be peculiarly unfortunate not to improve the opportunity to the utmost. Such seasons as the present are all too rare. Ujiless the farmers stack much of their grain they will not be able to to, but it will also give him at least a reasonable crop in 1913 if handle their land as outlined, for it is properly conserved, even the shocks will be in the way. though the season should be a Just Before the Dawn. When many years ago William Hanley left his native county, Jackson, in this state, a compar- atively poor boy and went over into Harney County, he took with him no watch or other timepiece. Why should he tie up a few dollars in a Watch, when the same amount invested in two or three yearling heifers would soon bring big returns? Watches in those days were, as he looked at it a luxury for the rich and he, being, poor, was passing up all luxuries. He argued that he didn't need a watch. At daylight it was time to go to work. Along about midday his stomach struck 12, and at dark or short-J should dry one. How shall this moisture be conserved? First by discing the land; second by plowing la ter in the season; third by stir ring the soil in the early spring with disc or harrow or both, and fourth by harrowing Ihe grain once or oftener after it has begun to grow. In an exceedingly dry year discing the stubbles after har vest may not accomplish much by way of conserving moisture, but it will open up the dry soil so that rain may penetrate it more easily should it fall. But in a year like the present there is much moisture even in stubble land. It is greatly important that it shall be conserved. As soon, therefore, as the crop is removed the stubble land should be well disced. If the harrow can follow the operation will be more complete, but this is not absolutely essential. The discing will exert a very potent influ ence on the retention of mois ture. 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