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THE OREGOU SUKDAY 'JOURNAL, POET LAND. SUNDAY MORNING., AUGUST 21. 1C21. 0 DEW RESULT III DEVELOPING OE WHEAT ACHIEVED Visit to Sherman County Branch j Experiment Station Is Made by , Superintendent Stephens. better; wheat and more of it is purpose For ona of his recent stories Zana Grey chose the ' seemingly ; paradoxical but striking; title. "The : JDeaert of Wheat" The getting for this story ap propriately, could, nv been anywhere in Sherman county, for this county now An veritably a desert of -wheat. After a trip by automobile ' up the beautiful Columbia highway, the arerare Willam ette valley inhabitant te Impressed with the dry; desert tika appearance of the rolling- hills of Eastern Oregon, at this time of year a jcray and sold checker board of ftummer fallow and wheat. A party comprised of Messrs. J. K Weatherford of Albany, C U ' Hatrtey and Jefferson Myers of Portland, in the official capacity of a committee of tha board of regents of the Oreson Agricul tural college, had the pleasure of mak ing this trip recently for the purpose of inspecting the Hood River and Sherman county branch experiment stations. After leaving; tins Incomparably beau tiful Hoed River valley and spending . the evening at Pat Foley's hostelry at The Dalles, the trip to Moro was made by automobile, in the early: morning. Upon . arrival at Moro the party was n Stephens, who explained the work of; the Sherman county branch txperU roent station and the results accom plished. -: M AIJT DBT 'jJUX CBOP f ' - Under arid and semi-arid conditions, wheat has always been a leading agri cultural crop. , In Eastern Oregon, where the annual precipitation varies from I to 20 Inches, wheat has been found to be the farmer's best paying; crop. In view of this, the station workers have devoted a. treat deal of time to finding out the best varieties of wheat to grow., to pro ' ducing high yielding and more disease Resisting varieties and to determining the best methods of sell cultivation to get maximum wheat yields.- t-.:.- Throurh tha office of cereal Investiga tion of the United States Department of -: Agriculture, which maintains tha Sher man county branch station cooperatively wiin tne uregon Agricultural experiment station, practically every known variety of wheat in the world has been obtained and tried out at Moro. This year in his TiiipaAw Mw. Af A-vn1mAnrol M.I. Sit. perintendent Stephens has more than 800 varieties r of wheat e-rowinr. Similar . work is also beinr dsns with harleva anil , oats but not on as extensive a scale as DISCOVERIES ABE MADE .In the varietal testing and -wheat im ' provement work, several Important dis coveries have been made - which have proved of great value to dry farmers of Eastern Oregon. Superior strains of Turkey, wheat.- notably ' Kharkov and Turkey No. 1671," have . been found . to yield from three to four bushels mere than commonly grown winter wheat Va rieties for an average of nine years. - These varieties have been distributed to farmers by the station and a large part Of the immense aerear of Ta.kra wh.it i now grown In' Sherman county is from aed originally distributed f rem tha sta tion.. Normally Sherman county -produces from 2.000,006 'to S.OOaoOO bnshels r of wheat, more than 2,000,000 bushels of which is Turkey,. It Is safe to state that the yield of Turkey wheat in Sherman county has been increased at least 10 per cent by the introduction of superior strains by the station. This means to the farmers air annual net gain of $280,- -A .L . . 1 M . . for winter wheat ; -. Eastern Oregon produces a great deal more winter wheat than Spring ' wheat Tha, production of spring wheat, how ever. Is quite important because spring . wheat, though not as profitable as win- ter wheat, must occasionally be grown . beckuse of adverse, autumn conditions which prevent . the planting of , winter Wheat In the spring wheat varietal trials at Moro, some new wheats im - ported from Australia have proved to be exceptionally high ylelders. HUNDREDS OF HTBRIDS " In the wheat breading nursery at the Moro station there are hundreds of new hybrids and selections under test which promise to be even better than the best varieties now on trial. It takes from six to seven years of careful work to Pro- puce a new wheat by hybridisation and then six years mora to test it for yield before its real value can be accurately determined. This makes necessary a great amount of careful, painstaking work, but that such work really pays the farmer has been amply demonstrated by mis branen station, , Plants, like animals, are subject to die. ease. The most serious wheat disease m the i Western states is bunt, or stinking smut This disease is so prevalent that every farmer must take tha precaution to Ca refill ly treat or disinfect his seed be fore planting ;. with some spore-killing fungicide like copper sulphate or formal- tfehyde. . EXPERIMENTS IX The practice of summer fallowing in growing wheat has been followed by farmers, in Eastern Oregon for about SO , years. : There is yet, however, no agree ment among farmers as to the best meth ods of cultivation, to conserve moisture and make available the right amounts of plant food to produce maximum yields of wheat (Whether It pays to disk the stub ble ground in the fall or in the spring or not disk it at all; whether it pays- to plow deep, medium deep or shallow whether it pays to frequently cultivate the summer fallowed ground after plow- 111 -t l i. I, i -s.-? .;:,-:'--;vi-"--:'iv.Wv-.. -s v . - f i ; v z if in) 1 Us. AooYe, Moro branch Ration. Below, members of board ; aeento and otberti at Moro station. , v ", - of ' rcgenta of, Oregon AtTlcultural oollctre, county plowed, April 1, ing ; whether ft pays to use subsurface or surface packers, are only a few of the disputed questions among farmers in this section.- Ths Shermani county c branch station now haa J available accurate data Of yields of winter wheat obtained after many different methods Of soil cultiva tion, including different dates and depths of ; plowing and different - methods of handling summer-' -fallow. -Some really striking and important discoveries have been made in this connection' which re now being rapidly adopted by farmers of this section. As a concrete example, be fore the station, demonstrated that it did not pay, nearly all farmers of Eastern Oregon harrowed winter wheat in the spring. In Sherman county alone there are usually about 120,000 acres' of win ter wheat which tha farmers used to bar row at a cost of about IS cent an acre and at a reduction in yield of about two bushels of wheat ' .. perhaps one of the most valuable dis coveries mads by the station in connec tion with correct tillage methods for growing wheat is the fact that higher yields of winter wheat are nearly always obtained after early spring-plowed sum mer fallow. ' The following figures give the average yields of Winter wheat ob tained during the past nine years in the date of plowing experiments on the sta tion. AYEHAGE TIE LPS After summer fallow SO bushels per acre; after summer fal- Dew plowed. May 1, 284 bushels per acre ; after summer tallow piowea, June l, x.f bushel per acre : after I summer fallow plowed early n tne ran wnen uie son is dry. 27.fi bushels per acre : after summer fallow, plowed late in the fall when the soil is wet 3i.l bushels per acre. - r ft In addition to finding out yields from different methods ei cultivation, accu rate'' daWt r "being compiled upon ths moisture content of the soli for depth of six feet as Influenced by different cul tural treatments. In this connection also it has been found that tha plant foods of the soil, especially nitrate-nitrogen, vary greatly with tha different cultural treat ments and are anquesuonamy -a tig zae tor in influencing wheat! yields. During the past two yeanf a trained chemist has been employed to maka nitrate deter mtnations- and It is expected some valu able Information will soon be available on how different - metnods of nanaiins; the sol) will influence the accumulation of nitrate-nitrogen In the soil and how this In turn will influence the yields and quality of winter wheat j ' Sleepy Juror O.Ks v Verdict to Hang Poplar Bluff, Mo Augl 20.L N. S.) jtaop Aslop was on trial for ..alleged theft Of hogs. The Jury had sweltered through-, out the day as testimony was' presented. One member was so- drowsy when the talesmen retired to deliberate that he fell aslespvTha 11 other Jurors decided the fate of Aslop, "John. - said the foreman of tha jury, awakening tha slumbering talesman, we have decided to bans Aslop, What do you ' think about itr "Suits meV. drawled John, yawning "but let the execution be delayed until Aslop finishes his crop.! - Aslop was ac quitted. ;j-Vs-b ;-v - Fair Weatlier Is Promised for. Coast L iU. P. ' ! to 27 Incl Albany; Collector Wins Fame "n, . . ', st h h :n : st h ' ' H Finds Rare Fossil Remains OKI Fill SEES VAST CHAIJGES Hi HIS HAM NORWAY P. A. Finseth Returns From Trip ' to Old Country; Depression In Business Follows War Activity. Many changes toward progress and modernisation were dpservsd by P. A. Flaseth. prominent Dallas merchant on his first visit to his native Norway since he landed la Oregon tt years eg. Fin seth returned Thursday night after an absence of four months. Ha found many relatives at his home town -. of Trondhienv but spent much time at Christian la, capital of the Scandinavian Kingdom "Prohibition has had a peculiar affect on Norway's fishing industry,' Flnaeth said. -Although 'prohibition' .Is by no means so drastic as It Is in America, it Is Illegal to buy or sell spirituous bev erages, light wines' and bears being al lowed, Spain formerly supplied most of tha strong drink consumed by the Norwegians and also bought Norwegian fislt Now that Importations of liquor are under tha ban. Spain has practically boycotted Norwajrs flsh. "I found the people of Norway living just about tha same as wa do in Amer ica, They wear good clothes, eat good food, live la good houses and enjoy the rood entertainments that Americana do. They think about tha same things and have the same hopes. Norway prospered through the war period and high wages the rula. What happened hero ben tha period of readjustment came about is happening there trade is only fair. Tha workmen spent most of the summer on a general strike 'which started with the shipping Industry be cause of threatened wage reductions and spread, through sympathy, to almost all tha trades and craits. Although people aro spending .freely. they are not entering into new obliga tions until they find out when and how the business depression Is going to be relieved, Hates of exchange make im ports from America difficult and alow and there Is little foreign buying. ' ' "Norway depends mostly upon its fish ing and Ha lumber industries for pros perity. Both' these are down now but tha Impression is that times ara getting better. , HOrSIKG COKDITI05S POOB .- "Just as la America, housing condi tions hi the cities are unfavorable, tha cost of building being so high that tha people . cannot afford to build new homes. - . "Norway Is now trying to capitalise another industry the tourist industry. It Is only recently that It was discov ered, or appreciated, rather, what won derful attractions tha mountains . and forests and fjords hold out to the tourist Some of the most . magnificent scenery In Bur pa is to bo' found there, second only to tha Alpine scenery of Swttser land. New Norway Is advertising these wonder sights at! over Europe and tour ists aro eoming there by thousands. . Flnseth visited In Sweden. Denmark and England during his' European, trip and returned to Oregon through Canada, topping first at New Tork to ate what tho merchandise markets were offering. Parts of Illinois ; And Wisconsin Get Heal Hard Ducking -Chicago, Aug, IN. 8. North ern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin are "drying out today- after one of the most severs rainstorms la recent years, light nlng accompanied the rata and caused further damage by striking down and causing numerous fires. No toes tt life hAs been reported. - In parts of Wisconsin tha storm bor dered oa a tornado. A building at tha golf clnb In Madison collapsed and in jured several caddies. The towns of Waterford. Burlington. Brewaslake and Elkhom were darkened, when tho storm crippled tha lighting service. In Chicago hundreds of basements were flooded and viaducts were man dated. Basement cells in the Kngiewood police station were flooded and prisoners had to bo removed. Electric light and telephone service ware demoralised in many sections of ' the city. A scort of fires ara attributed to bolts of lightning BAV. RACKS SEKYICEflASraorSCXD Vancouver, Wash Aug. JO. Chaplain Bertoti T. Bronsoa will hold Sunday morning ssoicta at tho barracks at 10 o'clock in Service Club No. U KU as moo topic la, "Camping on Dangerous Orounda." According to tha latest Infor mation, tho Chaplains 8ervico school, which Chaplain Bronson will attend this fall, will open September 20 at Camp Knox. Ky.. continuing for 12 weeka. : Broken Heart Said v To Be Young King's " Most Serious HI . . ... By 5ewtea C Parts Parts, Aug. L N- .5-) Romance injected today into the mystery that veils- tho illaesa of young King Alexander.- - . A report gained circulation that Alex ander's Illness is due to his being jilted by Princess Sophia, eldest daughter oi tha Duke of Vendor, member of the Or- " leans family. This story came on tha pee la of an official denial by the Serbian legation of reports that Alexander was engaged to marry Sophie, Acting Minister Tankovttcb oeciaroa that tho king never aaw Princess Sophie. Ha refused to add anything to this state ment, although it to well known to newe paperaea in ParU that Alexander did meet her at Dtvonno-les-Balnea and was. sees with her frequently. , - ' v. When tt was first reported that they were engaged, no contradiction was made in official Serbian circles. Later It was rumored that tha princess had broken off the engagement and that Alexander was "broken-hearted." The princess could not bo Iocs led to day. Alexander's physdana denied all stories that he Is suffering from any poi son. They added to the mystery, how ever, by denying tha report of the lega tion that ha waa operated an yesterday. Again, the legation mystified inquirers with a statement that tha kiag'a kidney trouble has been complicated by ether, ailments, "without, however, revealing what these ailments ara. Tho king's doctors declared he had passed a good night. J. G. Crawford, at Age of 71, Has Time and Energy to Make Im portant Scientific Discoveries. Washington, Aug. 20. ly forecast August 22 Pacific states Generally and normal temperature. Week inclusive fair weather Turtle Packs Name On Back 42 Years Sclo, Ohio, Aug. 20, (U. P.) W. E. Cunningham, local merchant, cut his name on a turtle in 187i. The turtle has been found by a resident! near tha spot where the knife was used on Its back. servie Those who smeh our discover that we are competent to arrange A details. W discharge tthe responsibility . in a highly satisfactory manner I MILLER & TRACY Main 2691 Independent Funeral Directors. Aul 57&5 VYer-hlngta at t2 Zu Cot. Tw,Ueth anj Twenty-Hrit St.. Vt I4e Harrisburg, Or., " Aug. 20. Known to the faculty at the Smithsonian institute and to half a dosen other famous insti tutions as an enthusiastic, collector of fossil remains, 3. O. Crawford la Still intent on his life's hobby. He was born in Hancock county, Illi nois, in. 1850, 'and . came to Oregon In 1152, settling In Albany, where ha has lived ever since. Ife is a photographer by profession, but, his heart . is 'in his research work. Among his more Important discoveries may bo mentioned ths perfect ekutl of the Mesopledon Blpends .beaked whale. of which rare mammal there is only one other fragment in tha United States, and that 4a not very perfect. For the whale's skull. Crawford was highly commended by many eminent soplogists all over the country. His . researches near Albany have led htm to uncover the mysterious mounds found in that vicinity with the consequence that he established the fact that the early inhabitants of this coun try were pnaiiic worenippers ana can nibals. ' Also he found a atone mortar peculiarly flattened, of which it is said tnat mere ui omy one outer apecunen in this hemisphere. The mortar is of an old Brastltan pattern. Perhaps Crawford a most amazing dis covery is a human skull, of which only three fragments, are preserved and which, according to the measurement of local savants, is lower in" type than tha famous - Pithecanthropus Erectus. Should . this be definitely proved the consequences will be far reaching, as every student may guess. The matter is in the hands of the Smithsonian inetl tute, to whom the skull has been sent Crawford may later publish a book on his discoveries. ,- , ., ..,. , . ; . Briand's Intention To Attend Conference Is Cause of Protest By Had tea tfawley United News Staft Corapoodoat. - i Paris, Aug. 20. Premier Brland-s re ported decision to attend the 4 Washing ton armament conference has brought out vigorous protests from his friends and enemies who declare that there are "serious reasons" from the French view. point why tho premier should not leave the country. - - George Lelchartier, for years the Petit Parisian's correspondent at tha American capital, and now editor of the Journal des Debate, is one of those who reiter ates a strong warning against the trip. After declaring that the foreign office refuses' to confirm or deny Brland's Intention to attend, he gees on to say : "A denial was to have been' wished for. We have already shown many of the reasons which, from French viewpoint, out to dissuade him- from going. Tho United States desires above all to avoid at the coming conference everything that would recall the errors of the . Paris conference. And - the greatest ' error of that meeting was the gathering of the heads of etatos to solve directlA without consulting thslr own. governments of public opinion at home, these questions, of national and world wide Interest. There is, besides.' the natural handicap of tho premier' ignorance of the English language, and the setting of the confer ence In tho midst of Anglo-Saxon ' sur roundings where the principal interested parties will be English." , ;., v Barnum . Was Eight; ; One Every Mmuto " i w - ;-,....'.,- i ' Springfield. Mass., Aug. 24 Bamuin't contention that there Is one born every minute" .was 'given some confirmation here recently. John H.BakeUi of this city was induced by- two atrangers to deposit 2500 in a. "money making mar chine." - equipped with numerous . cogs, wheels and crank a-- The machine was also fed some "blank pPr. Sakelll wag told that in an hour the machine would turn out 11000 in bona fide legal tender. The strangers had departed ttt the end of the hour ao had John's 2506. J. G. CRAWFORD Golfers, Attention! Here Is New Excuse ' Kansas City, Aug. 20. Out of a crowd of 1S2 motorists, alleged traffic, violat ors, only 1 offered "an original excuse in Judge Edward Fleming's court here F. C. Mueller, a municipal park golfer, offered the original alibi which "scored" with the court. "I had one light on my car," Mueller told the court, "because some punk golfer hit my, headlight with a misdirected shot" "That's . good enough to win your -discharge." Judge Fleming announced. English Language - favored by Bavaria Iondon, Aug. 20. l n. S.) At a re cent sitting of the Bavarian lantag the education minister stated that English would be the favored language ia Ger many. Further action waa taken against the French . language - by recommending that in-the southern district of Germany Spanish or Italian should be tho second language, French being excluded x alto gether from tha school currleulum. 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