THE MADRAS PIONEER
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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. It also allows moisture
that may fall subsequently to
the discing to penetrate more
deeply than it otherwise would.
The land that is thus disced
be plowed later in the
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