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Spring Wheat in Eastern Oregon
Spring wheat is the second cereal
in importance in the counties o f Ore*
According
Entered •» «econd cl««« matter at the gon east o f the Cascades.
poet office at M o ro , O regon, July 2&, 1891 to the figures given in Oregon station
b ulletin No. 204, the average acreage
O fficial Newspaper far S keraaa C o u ty
in spring wheat in the 18 counties of
eastern Oregon for the past five years
C. L. I reland
was nearly 200,000, or about one-third
E ditor and Publisher
of the total number o f acres in w in
August 1, 1924 ter wheat. A lthough out ranked in
F riday .
total acreage and production by w in
ter wheat in eastern Oregon, more
The dry season has made no ma spring wheat than w inter w heat was
terial impression in the fall wheat grown during the past five years, in
crop of most of the farmers In the ( the fo llo w in g c o u n tie s: Baker, Crook,
vicinity of Halsey, according to re-j Deschutes,
Grant,
Harney,
Hood
ports. Most of the fall , wheat has River, , Jefferson. K lam ath, Lake,
been threshed and has proved a su r-»Malheur, Union and W allow a.
The
prise to the farmers, yielding from 1' big w inter wheat producing counties
to 30 bushels to the acre, w ith'a'higli- ar j U m atilla,
Sherman, Morrow,
er mark reached on the better land Wasco and G illiam .
When water from the McKay dam
In some counlies, lik e U nion, the
reservoir now under construc.im by number of acres devoted to grow ing
the government, is available, a new j spring wheat and w inter w heat is
plot of land east of Hermiston, n oi at about equally d iv id ed ., This natural
present under Irrigation, will be util ly raises the question as to just
ized by the state and federal govern ..here and under what conditions
m eni for a new experim ent station. should spring wheat be grown in
The
A quarter section of government-own preference to w in t.r wheat?
results
o
f
the
experim
ents
on
the
ed land has been set aside for this
branch stations and the experience o f
purpose.
farmers show that w inter wheat is a
In attem pting to open a headgate
more productive dry-land crop to
of the Pine lake reservoir. M. A
grow after a season of fa llo w . When
Christenson blew out the whole gate
grown on irrigated land spring wheat
and let tha water escape. The lake
in eastern Oregon generally out
is about 18 m iles from Halfway, but
f i e l d s w inter w heat.
When grown
the water is used on land around the
after another crop without an inter
town and is counted on for second vening fallow period sprirg w h eel is
crop water by several hay farmers.
also as productive on the average
The loss of water Is more serious than
as w inter w heat.
the injury to the headgate.
There were three fatalities due to
industrial accidents in Oregon dur
The historic Scott trail, which cross
ing the week ending July 24, accord ed the Cascades about three m iles
lng tp a report prepared by the state south of the present McKenxie pass,
industrial accident commission. The is new being reopened by a force of
victim s were:
John T. O'Hara, forest trail builders.
Knappa, timekeeper; George W. Hut
L. Eachua of Adratn reports to L.
chinson. Klamath Falls, carpenter, R. Breitbaupt, Malheur county agent,
and A. Deboie. Elgin, carpenter. A that some of his Federation wheat
total of 595 accidents was reported went 97.5 bushels to’ the a t ^ - This
during the week.
18’regarded as a phenomenal yield.
The Monmouth commercial club lias
Because of the extrem ely hazardous
issued a call for a celebration by all fire conditions prevailing through
the Lowns of Polk county at Helmick out the state, Frank E. E lliott, state,
park on the Luckiamute river, five forester, sent telegram s to all district
m iles south of Monmouth, on com fire wardens to cancel existing burn
pletion of the west side Pacific high
ing permits.
way. The surfacing of the last con
Although The D alles has an ample
necting link has progressed to within
water supply, restrictions on Its use
1% m iles of Monmouth and It is ex
have been ordered by the city com-
pected the highway will be open for
j m issioners, that farmers along Mill
traffic about September 10.
creek valley may save their crops,
Federal agents, deputy sheriffs and drying up for lack of water.
members of the Point Adams coast
The Oregon Poultrym ea’s associa-
guard crew raided seagoing fishing
* don will send a delegate to the na
craft, seining about 176 cases of lm
' tional poultry counoil at Chicago
ported liquors and arresting five men.
August 10 to sit in conference with
Two motor boats and a truck into
representative poultrymen from all
which the liquor was being unleaded
I other states on m eans of promoting
are being held for confiscation. The
raid took place on the Skipanon river, j ; the poultry Industry.
Work started Monday on a >500,000
near Warrenton, where the boats
structure to replace the burned build
were discharging their cargo.
The cherry growers of Eugene and ing of the P acific International L ive
stock exposition at Portland. It Is ex
vicinity who pooled their Bings w ith'
pected that it will be com pleted by
the Eugene Fruit Growers’ associa
tion, a county-wide cooperative farm November 1, In tim e for the holding
ers’ organlxatlon, received 8\4 cents of the annual exposition.
Charges against Pendleton meat
per pound for them, according to an
m
arkets
that they sold sausages and
nouncement by J. O. Holt, manager of
the association. More than 180 tons hamburger In which sulphates were
used as preservatives were filed In
of this variety of cherries were dis
posed of at this price, It was stated. the local Justice of the peace court,
Thia is a new high record for the Four of them appeared and Daid fin«»
of >25 and costs in each case
postwar period.
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R epairing Trucks, Tractors, Automobiles,
C aterpillars, and Combine Motors, C ylinder
Grin Ung, Oyx-acetylene and Electric W elding
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> Dstribatna and Acre Value of
I ALONG LIFE’S Î: Oregon Cereals - 5-year Average
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MAKING THE BEST OF
BARGAIN
thoroughly bad bargain
MJ
I wi ith Grover when I was nineteen. I
wanted very much to get Into his busi
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Meetigg of Board of EqudbotioB
N o tice : There w ill he a m eetin g
o f the County Board o ^ .E q u a liza tio n
for Sherman County,. Oregon, at the
court house on the second Monday in
Septem ber, a t Moro, Oregon, that
being the 8th day o f Septem ber, 1924,
to p ub licly exam ine the Assessm ent
R o lls, correct all errors in valuation,
description of lands, or other proper
ty assessed by me, and it sh all be
the duty o f persons interested to ap
pear at the tim e and place appointed.
A ll p etitions must be made in
w ritin g and verified by oath o f the
applicant and filed w ith the Board
w ithin fifteen days from the tim e it is
by law required to m eet.
OTTO PEETZ County A ssessor.
In b ulletin 204 are given the aver
age 5-year y ield s in Oregon by
c o u r j e s o f w inter wheat, spring
wheat, barley, and oats together w ith
ccm j irative yield s of these crops and
acre values based on pre-war prices
1905 1914,
These prices w ere as
fò li ■vs :
wheat 80 cents, oats 44
cent« and barley 58 cents per Dushel.
Several item s of interest and o f
im portance to Oregon farm ers are
brought out in the figures show ing
average yields and values of these
leading crops. The two outstanding
features are the apparent superiority
o f w inter wheat and barley in h e r e !
y ie ld ) and acre values over spring
▲ Lane county bridge erew started
wher-t and oats. For the state as a
Monday repairing all
the
whole barley exceeded the average work
yield s in pounds per acre o f w inter bridges on the W illam ette highway
R eserve
and
Oakridge
w h e it, spring wheat or oats, altho between
w inter w heat, because of the slig h tly T ravelers over the highway may ex
higi er average per pound, ranked first p ect to experience delays.
in \a lu e . .T he average yields, values
The D otólas cohnty dburt signed an
and the average acreage devoted to agreem ent with the bureau of public
these crops for the past five years roads for construction of a forest road
were as fo llo w s; ’
per acre per acre which <will become a part of the Ump
Acres
Podnds V alue qua highway. Under the term s of
Win er w heat. 834,406
1362 $18 16 this agreem ent the county appro
Barley
......... 74,311
1435
17.34 priates >10,000 to meet >60,000 to be
O a t s .................. 283,913
1037
14 26 expended by the governm ent.
Spring w heat. 263,171
912
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Jealousy and business reverses are
Tne a bo we figures strongly su ggest believed by authorities to have caus
the ue^irability o f a considerable re ed J. A. Mor ok, ex-automobHe stage
adjustm ent in our farm crops pro line proprietos, whose licen se last
gram . Why do Oregon farmers plant week was revoked by the public serv
so much spring wheat and oats when ice com m ission, to shoot hi* w ife three
both J h e se crops are less productive times, tw ice in the body and once in
and bring lees returns in dollars and the head, la a room In the Sommer
cents than w inter wheat and barley? hotel In La Grande, killing her a l
In acreage w inter wheat ranks first, 1 m ost instantly. The shots were fined
as it should, but barley ranks last, j in the presence of their 10-year-old
though in yield per acre it exceed- | daughter, Lucile. Horck then dropped
w inter wheat and ranks next to win- J from a window 20 feet to the ground,
ter wheat in value per acre.
In ran down an alley and shot him self,
Oregon there are four tim es as many ' fam ily ¿hroqgh
fa/aad.
acres in oats as in barley, although i
the 5-year average yield of barley
exceeds that of oats nearly 400 pounds I
per acre and was worth >3 08 m o re!
per acre, as actu ally determined by >
the y ield s obtained by Oregon farm ers'
MORO, ORE.
during the past five years and based ;
'Auto Truck and Team
on pre-war prices
If tne average
farm price for the past five years or
Drayage of all kinds
for the past ten years were used as a
Special delivery rate» made on
b a ils of comparison instead of the
wood, coal; etc. to country place«
ten year average pre-war priced bar
Long and s lo r t hauling promptly
ley would exceed oats more than >5 00
done on short notice.
per acre in value.
Headquarters at Hotel Moro.
ness and learn the details of it, and I
presume 1 showed my eagerness, and
he took advantage of me cruelly. I
w ss to stay with him for a year for a
tritling remuneration, and during that
Lime he was to teach me as much of
his trade as 1 could master.
Precious lUtle he taught me, but I
teally learned tm>re that year than
during any similar time before or
since. I had never before been subject
to anyone; I'd never had a boss except
ing my own will and pleasure, but I
was to learn what It meant to work
under orders, to' do unpleasant and
difficult things and never to receive a
word of praise for the doing.
I was ordered about by everyone 1 q
the office. AU the drudgery and the
dirty work was shunted upon me, and
there were tusks that had to be done
no matter how much overtime It took.
1 was everybody’s slave and roust
about.
1 picked up a good deal of Informa
tion about the business, but w h it I got
came from^Riy own initiative. I could,
of course, have throws up my Job, but
I was too proud, and this would have
seemed to me to show a yellow 8treak.\
I had gone Into It of my own choosing
and with my eyes open, and I was de
termined to see the thing through.
All the time, however, 1 w«s learn
ing to control m yself under, the most
irritating conditions; I was learning
to obey orders, to take sarcastic criti
cism and ragging without a comeback,
even when I knew 1 was rigid. I was
working daily to the point of exhaus
tion. I was getting searcely enough pay
to buy the fiH»«l that I ate, and I was
learning what it means to be a sub
ordinate
The year came to an end finally, anU
I have ulways been glad that I kept
my bargain, for I learned lessons that
have been invaluable to me during gll
the years which have Intervened. 1
know what it means to make a haul
bargain and keep It, to carry through
something that Is difficult and unpleas
ant when I have once begun It.TffSTicl<
even when n change might bring me
more money and an easier time and it
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pleasanter environment, to pay with
out whimpering the penalty of bad
All aprinkllng will be prohibited In
Judgment and hasty decision, and I Portland unless water users lmme- OOOOOOOOCOCx X,'e.<XX'XX>000000
know 1 am stronger for the lesson.
diately stop the waste of water.
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what your mercliundice need.- l i m y
be, we are qualified to fill thfcm
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Spring Cioj 8 f »r eastern Oregon i.<
the title of h recently published ex
periment station ’b u lletin by D. E
Steph ns,
Robert W ith' rom te an i
Obil Srattuck, s u p r ii te .der t.< re
sp ectively
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brat ch ex|er:m erit
stations at Morn in SI erman cou ty,
Union in Union Count’,, ard B u n s
in Harney ci u ty The bulletin gives
ti e la te st inf. in lio n on the farm
crops» wheat, h izley, ost i ye, fiel:i
p tas, fiax, an 1 pvlatois, fiom both
d istribution . a d production stand
points.
It di-tc: it es and ruci.mmend»
the va rities f.»u d b e jt adapted to
eastern Oregon f r spring p la n tirg
as determined by experim ents nt
these branch stations and by the
experience of far ners. In a previous
b u lletin , No. 190; by I). E. Stephens
and G. R. Hyslop, the growing of
w inter wheat a fter fallow is ’d is
cussed in d etail, w ith descriptions of
best methods of handling summer
fallow and recommendations on most,
profitable varities to grow. Either
or both these b u lletin s may be ob
tained free by w ritin g the Oregon
E x p er m e n t Station, C orvallis, or
either of the branch stations at Moro,
Union or Burns.
Electric Appliances
Kalsomine
Paints and Oils
Builders’ Hardware
E v e ry th in g for ih e H om e is h e re
a t p rices th a t in v ile a v isit to th is sto re
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Q. G. Thorp, proprietor
OREGON
I he o n ly d a iry herd in the v ic in ity of M o ro
that 16 ce rtifie d disease-free.
M ilk, 12c q u art
C ream , 35c pint
D eliveries daily, m orning and evening
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Special Prices on Harvest Groceries
Come in and. See
Our Special Prices on the Following Items
Preferred Stock Coffee in
Bulk Coffee
5,
2 1-2,
Fruits in gallon tins
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Mexican Beans
Very Close Price«
On Large Grocery
Corn
W hite Navy Beans
Soap, R & G naptha
Pickels in kegs
1 pound tins
Syrup in jackets
»-/Moro Trading Co.
Matches
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Phone 21F1
MORO
Dr W . ' N . Morse í ? i
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- Furniture
Fishing Tackle
Ington destroyed three frame build-
lng» and a barn, causing damage e s ti
P h y sician and Surgeun
mated at >5600.
C. E. Smith, R. J. Smith and F. R.
Morrison were fined >10 eaoh at Salem
for refusing to a ssist a federal officer
M ain 182
in fighting a forest fire.
Reports from W allowa county,
WASCO - OREGON
where farmers are engaged in hay
ing, are that the crop this year will
be about one-half normal.
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The first shipm ents of The Dalles
watermelons and cantaloupes were
sent to the Portland market last week.
Good prices were reported.
The annual m eeting of the Eastern
Oregon District Medical society was
held Monday and Tuesday at Bingham
Springs, east of Pendleton.
Bobbie Burns and Dale Arthur, who
escaped from the sta te penitentiary
brickyard at SaJem July 3, have been
appoehended at Salt Lake City.
A fire in the holdings of th e Mo
hawk Lumber company at Donna, in
the Mohawk valley destroyed two
trestles on the company's logging rail
way.
The 17th annual convention of the
Oregon Editorial association was held
in Tillamook last w eek with 156 per
sons present, representing 70 publica
tions.
H alf a million trout fry w ill be re
leased ia the stream s of Coos county
G ira ffe « Post Guard«. --
Giraffes are not easily taken by sur within the next 30 days. The fish
prise. as two or three of their number were hatched on Coos river and near
always stand sentinel while the others
Bandon.
feed.
Frank A. Pirn, illum inating engineer
and representative of the Traffic Of
ficers’ association, w ith headquarters
at Washington, D. C„ was In Salem
last week conferring with Sam A.
Kozer, secretary of stats, with ref
erence to starting a campaign in
Oregon for standardisation of auto
mobile lighting equipment.
The annual southern W asco coun
ty fair will be held Septem ber 16, 17
and 18. This will be the only fair
in W asco county this year, the regular
fair have been discontinued and
money appropriated for this purpose
devoted to preparing a county exhibit
for fhe state fair and th e holding the
southern Wasco county fair.
- Three members of the Astoria po
lice force were discharged by City
Manager Kratz on charges of deliver
ing liquor for bootleggers, accepting
presents from, bootlegger«, drinking
with bootleggers, disobeying orders
and conduot unbecoming officers.
Travel Into Crater Lake National
park continues to shatter all reherds.
Up to July 22 a total of 7683 auto
mobiles, bearing » ,0 3 4 visitors, had
entered the park, as compared with
4001
automobiles,
bearing . 11,624
visitors, on the tarns date last year.
Over 20,000,000 pounds of prunes
ara already signed up in the new co
operative prune exchange, according
to announcement given out by C. E.
Spence, state m arket agent.
Mr.
Spence sa id ' that the new orgsnixa-
tion would com m ence operations In
Oregon and southern W ashington with
W o I’« Market Price
ten local organizations. Other units
For Farm Produce
it is declared will be organised and
it is expected that a large majority
of the orchards of the two states will
soon be signed up.
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Room Size and Smaller
Lineoleum Rugs and Congoleum Rugs
F. D. FLATT
New Oregon Station wheat Bulletin
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F o rd
S a le s a n d
M oro, Ore.
S e r v ic e
Peas
One Ford Truck
Type, with
One Ford Roadster Starter
Bosch Ignition,
Two i .Po‘o Cars
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One Flupmobile Touring
One 1919 Haynes Touring
Cord 'fires.
a real good buy
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