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HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1911
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR.
VOL. 28. NO. 4.
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MORROW WAREHOUSE
MILLING COMPANY
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HEPPNER. OREGON
Established in 1887
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Exchange on all important points of the world.
OFFICERS
M. S. Cokrigall, President
J. 15. Natter, Vice President
T. J. Mahoxey, Cashier
Clyde Brock, Asst. Cash.
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J. 13. Natter
T. J. Mahoxey
Frank Gilliam
A. L. A vers
STOCK FARMING FOR
MORROW COUNTY
Writer Urges Raising of More Sheep, Cattle
and Hogs on the Farm, and Marketing of
Grain Crops Through the Stock.
By J. Garfield Crawford, Ft. Wortfi, Texas
In the earlv history of Morrow
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county, its inhabitants devoted all
their time and attention to the
production of cattle, horses, atid
nhean. Todav the story is differ-
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eat. The waste lands so called,
lands that are too rocky and steep
for agriculture, are the only lands
given over to the stock industry.
Immense packing concerns are
building in Portland and are en
deavoring to supply the unceasing
cry of the hungry mouthB of the
world for meat. The body can
easily be slighted in clothing, but
it muBt be fed, and the American
people are a meat eating class.
Theie is not a packing house in
the United States that is running
to its fall capacity, and there is
not a packer but who has a greater
demand for his Droducta than he
can supply. The laboring man,
the merchant, the capital st, and
every soul living within the corp
orate limits of a city must depeud
apon the farm for his supply of
food and for more than twenty
years past the demand has been
increasing at a far more rapid
stride than the production.
But back to Morrow county.
The early settlers yw cattle
and 6heep raisers; then came the
farmer. The farmer broke tip all
the available land and proceeded
at once to crop hia entire farm with
wheat He may have bad a few
milk cows, and, of course, from six
to twenty head of bronco work
horses, but the thought never oc
curred to him that he could carry
as many head of good stock on that
land as had been carried before the
soil was turned under by the plow.
I have traveled all over the state
of Texas, parts of Louisiana, Ar-
kansas and Oklahoma, and have
been making a study of conditions
along this line that exist here in
the Southwest. I have found that
there are enough food stuffs go to
waste on the average farm to care
for and fatten more than enaugh
hogs, sheep and cattle to supply
the farmer and his family with
meat for the entire year. This
same condition exists in Morrow
county, or did exist there two years
aeo. and I presume that the farm-
ers have not completely changed
their mode of farming. The solu
tion is this:
Raise more stock, such as sheep,
hogs and cattle. ,
Kaise more feed staff and mar
ket your crops through the live
stock. This is being done in Iowa, Illi
nois, and nearly every state in the
Union. It is being done in Oregon.
The farmers of the Willamette
valley are marketing their crops
through the dairy cow. It is now
np to the farmer of Eastern Ore
gon to market his crops through
the beef steer, the packing house
hog and the mutton sheep.
Pasture is the secret of stock
production and the climate and
growing season of Morrow county
will permit pasturing Djne months
out of the year. The native bunch
grass is not sufficient, but along the
creek bottoms alfalfa grows abun
dantly and there never was a bet
ter hog ration discovered. The hill
farmer sows winter barley, which
will furnish pasture and the graz
ing of his money crops will give it
a distinct advantage over ungrazed
crops. The stock return to the
soil the fertility which the crop is
constantly absorbing. Then set
aside twenty to forty acres for the
keeping of your stock during the
maturing time of the wheat and
barley crops. Plant hia pasture
land to winter emmer, cow peas
and mtlo maize.
I am not sure that milo will grow
in all parts of Morrow county, but
feel confident that the farmers of
lower Eight Mile and of all that
section north of Heppner can grow
this drouth resistant crop to a great
success. All of these crops I have
mentioned are drouth resistant and
are the principal stock feed crops
of the Southwest, and if they can
resist the drouth of thia section of
the universe they certainly should
be able to get through the summers
of Eastern Oregon.
Tbe sojla around Waurika, Oklahoma,
are practically the same aa the sil of
the township section of Morrow county
mentioned. Here, when the wheat crop
is a failure the farmers have their acre
age ot milo and are able to carry llieii
stock through in splendid shape. The
soils of Western Texas are very similar
to the toils of Eight Mile and Upper
Sand Hollow. These countries are
wheat producing eectrons, they are milo
and kaffirsections, and cow peas, emmer,
goobers and alfalfa are found on every
well regulated farm in abundance.
Mil) is the surest yielding grain crop
that is grown in Eastern Colorado,
Western Kansas and Oklahoma, the
Panhandle of Texas and Eastern New
Mexico. The U. 8. Department of Ag
ricul ure reports the average yield for
five ye-s at Anwilto. Texas, (and it
gels a cold in Amanita kg ar,y plate
south of tha Canadian line,) and other
dry experiment stations at forty bushels
of grain per acre a year. Farmers in
the same sections report yields from
thirty to eighty bu hels per sere.
A bushel of milo will produce from
ten to eleven pounds of pork. This
makes the average annual pork produt
tion troru the dry lands of tbe southwest
equal to 400 and upwards pounds of
pnrk pr acre where milo is grown and
ted. Ten pounds of milo have tbe same
feeding value for horses, beef and dairy
cattle, hogs and sheep as nine pounds
of corn.
Gove: nment experts recommend that
milo should be grown in nil countries
where tbe annual rainfall is below
twenty five inches. Farmers of tha
Panhandle of Texas say that it never
fails to vield a crop of grain, and that it
will yield twenty bushel? an acre in
years bo dry that wheat is an absolute
failuie. Milo should have the same
place in dry land farming and stock
production that corn has in Iowa and
Illinois, or wheat in the Dakotas and
Washington. Milo should nit be plant
ed at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet,
although it sometimes ripeos at 7,000
feet. .
Flant milo in rows three and a half
feet apart, diopping single seeds three
inches apart in the row. It may be
either listed in shallow fnrrows, or
drilled on the surface in well prepared
ground. It should not be planted before
the middle ot May, at anv ate, not un
til tbe farmer feels that bis crop will be
safe from frosts.
A few head of sheep on the summer
fallow will keep the land clear of weeds
and with a few acres sowed to pastnre
there is not a farmer in Morrow county
w ho will not be able to turn off at least
one carload of good fat bogs, two or
three steers and few head of mutton
sheep.
The farmers of the South are begin
ning to nnu una oni an me uiuo m um
a short way off when the meat line of
this country will come siuth of the old
Mason and Dixon line.
Do the farmers of the Tuciftc coast
want their money to be sent to Texas
and Nebraska to pay for the meats they
eat? I think not, but they must begin
to give some of their attention to this
branch of the farm or the big packing
institutions at Portland will be forced to
turn over their money to the Nebraskan
andtbeSontherner.
Easter Services.
Easter Sunday was properly ob
served by the various churches of
Heppner. Bishop Paddock preached
both morning and evening at the
Episcopal church, and some beauti
ful Easter music was rendered by the
choir.
At the Christian church, the morn
ing service was a cantata beautifully
rendered bv iiieiiilers of the Bible
school, and there were very appro
priate and Impressive services, and
iKNiutiful floral decorations, at both
Methodist churches.
The cantata, "Easter Angels." oc
cupied the evening hour at the Meth
odist church, it being rendered by the
choirs of the M. E. and Christian
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Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price per pound,
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churches, under direction of O. G.
Crawford, with Mrs. Winnnrd at the
piano. This Is a beautiful musical
arrangement, and the combined choir
of about -5 voices gave a creditable
rendition of it. much to the pleasure
and profit of the lare audience pres
ent. Such meetings as these should
be more frequent and the singers of
the town should be encouraged to
present these beautiful cantatas and
oratorios often. ISring the talent
together and educate the inusier.1
taste of our people, bringing it up to
a higher plane. It can be done to
the profit and enjoyment of all.
Dates of Wool Sales.
Secretary Dan P. Smythe, of
the State Woolgrowers' association
has been inutructed to announce
dates for wool sales as follows :
Pendleton May 23 Juue 9.
Tilot Rock May 2G-Juue 10.
Echo May 24.
Heppner June I-Jane 22.
Vale June 13.
Ontario- Jane 14.
Shaniko Jane 6 June 27.
Baker City June 16.
Enterprise and Wallowa County
.Tnnn SO Jnlv 11.
These dates may be changed in
some particulars later on, as h
may be decided to add a date for
Madras.
School Notes.
By 8. E. NOTION, Co. Siipt.
Hrof. Sanders, of tbe Alpine schoo',
sent in several samp'ns of work in water
colore done by his pupils The work is
very creditable and the pupils are re
ceiving a valuable training.
March 1'7, I visited the school in Dis
trict No. where I fonnd Miss Mee
Wattenburger and eight pupil doing
good work. The work of the school has
been interrupted bv a forced vacation
on acenunt of measles, but the pupils
were getting their work under way again.
On the ll'th inst., I visited the Social
Ridee school. Here Miss May Sever
ance ani her pupils were pint doping up
a successful term's work. I noted that
new window boards hud been provided
for ah the windows since my former
visit, a 6ne flag had been purchased,
and an excellent map of Oregon and
Washington had been added to the
equipment. The pupils have been
keeping samples of their writing from
time to tiniH to note their proves, and
the eflect has been good. I noted some
good work in the sewing card line, which
had been done by the primary pupils.
The schoolbouse is to be painted again
during the vacation.
On the same day, I visited the school
in District No. oS, where Miss Mable
Cameron is teacher. This school was
reduced in numbers by changes in the
district during the wi ter, but lately
the tendency has been reversed, and
now the school is almost up to former
numbers. A new book-case lis been
recently placed in the school. The
work is progressing nicely.
From ihe present outlook, there will
be a large number of pupils ho will
take the eighth grade examination May
11-12. Several schools have fxtended
their terms to seven months in order to
meet the requirement of the new rule
that rnpils must have seven months'
work in the eenenth and eighth grains,
each, before taking tbe eighth grade examination.
3wnsa
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At the Churches.
M. E. I'll urc li, mouth.
The Sunday School meets at 10 A. M.
The Epworth League at 7:30 p. id.
Baptismal service and reception ol
members at 11, a. m. Freaching at 8,
p in., subject, "God and the Small."
E. P. Wairen.Pestor.
' -frlwlu Cl'urrh
"Why Hva We Failed?" will be tha
pastor's theme next Lord's day morning.
His evening subject will be, "Thia
Wonderful Salvation Made Plain."
Other services as usual.
Boosters Meet.
On Friday evening the Boost
Club held its regular meeting at
the council chambers aod discuss
ed matters of interest. The
material for the comruiitjity book
let was passed upon and approved,
and the secretary reported that the
O.-W. It. & N. Co. had been set
tled with in full on the advertising
contract. home discussion was
had touching the census count of
Heppner, and it was at once de
cided that a new count be made,
and to this end a number of mem
bers of the club were appointed to
do the enumerating, the city dis
tricted, and the committee agreed
to get to work immediately, make
the count and report at next meet
ing. The street sprinkling propo
sition was talked up ngain, buti
nothirjg done to put the matter iu
shape to get water on tbestieets.
Mr. Frank Kitchen, who is here
looking up real estate propositions
and representing a number of
Dakota farmers, v as present at tbe
meeting and made mi interesting
talk. Mr. Kitchen had spent sev
etal weeks in the Central Oregon
country before coming to Moirovw
county, and he limikly bUteu that
he is much better impressed with
this section. He also yav, somei
good ideas as to proper advertising
of oar section and getting it before
tbe cluss cf people iu the Etrd that
we wish to attract. His talk waa
to the point and mutli appreciated.
A communication from the Port
land Chamber of Commerci' an
nounced that their lublicity man,
Jss. J. Sayer, would be in Hepp
ner on Friday (he 21st, and it wa
arranged to hold the meeting of
the boosters at tha dioing room of
the Palace hotel, Mr. WilkiDS
kiudlv extending them an invita
tion to do so. Thia will be an im
portant meeting and should ba
hugely attended by car citizen?.
Mr. Saver is well informed in hi
line Bnd is doin$ missionary work
among the varions boost chibs,
development leagues and commer
cial bodies of the state. Do not
fail to attend the booster meeting
ion to-morrow eyeniug at the PaW
' ace dining room.