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Spring Wheat Varieties Tested as
One Fanner Wk Wants to Stay
ALONG LIFE’S
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r Hundreds of varieties of spring
have been tried on the eastern
Oregon branch station» in an attempt
to find a more productive and better
quality variety for this section.
During the early years baart proved to
be the leading wheat in the trials at
Moro and at Burns. Baart still con
tinues to lead as a dry land wheat at
Burns but at Moro, hard federation
and federation, two new Australian |
wheats, have out yielded all other!
varieties. Under irrigatipn at Burns
and also under sub-irrigated condi-
tions at Union the federation has
proved the highest yielding spring
variety.
In Oregon station bulletin No. 204
is ^iven a description of the federa
tion wheats, and a summary of the
truly remarkable results with them st
the branch stations and by farmers in
eastern Oregon. These varieties are
spring wheats and are not recom
mended for fall planting. Milling
and baking results show that these
two new wheats are superior to baart
or bluestem for bread making. They
are rapidly replacing all other sprihg
varieties in most counties of eastern
Oregon, because they have proved
superior in actual farm tests as well
as in extensive experiment station
trials.
The introduction of these
two wheats will increase sere yields
of spring wheat at least four bushels
an acre in eastern Oregon. As soon
as all inferior varieiea have been
supplanted by the federation wheats,
this will mean at least an extra
700,000 bushels of wheat annually for
the farmers of eastern Oregon with
practically no added coH of pro-
duction.
Enterad m second class matter at the
«t office at Moro, Oregon, July 2S, 1891 grains
C. L. I reland
Editor and Publisher
August 8, 1924
F riday
Mr. Richard Hughes has written a
play especially fur the radio. Faced
With the apparently Insuperable dif
ficulty of necessary Invisibility of his
actors, this Ingenious dramatist hit
upon the notion of placing his scene
in the pitch blackness of a caved-ln
coal mine, Llstenenkln received in
structlon to turb out the lights la
their rooms. In order to create the
atmosphere of a coal mine—one would
think a little more might be required
-^and were further warned Hutt if
they thought the tragedy would be
too dreadful for them, they had bet
ter not listen In. The whole of the
mining a cd Sent was sent through the
air, with crashing Sbd cursing—alas,
there was no praying—the rush of icy
waters, and the final sound of the
picks as the rescue party approached.
The whole cast consisted of one re
sourceful Individual plus the book of
(he play and a choice assortment of
nolse-msklng Implements, says the
Living Age. As an English paper ob
serves : “It seems as though a new
member bad been found for the club
of queer trades, namely, the play
wright whose chief characters are
•noises of.’ “
The Importance of radio In the pro
duction and marketing of agrlculfdral
products Is brought oat In a special
survey of about 1,200 representative
farmers, just completed by the United
State Department of Agriculture.
More than 50 ;>er cent of the 1.200
fanners replying reported that the\
owned tulie sets employing three or
more tubes, while approximately 50
per cent of the farmers reported hav
ing homemade sets ranging from sliu
pie crystal detectors to tube sets.
Officers of the French colonial serv-
ice have discovered a tribe in the Sa
hara desert in which the women hftve
completely subjugated their husbands
and strut around the camps wlAi
clubs In their hands. The Amazons are
known as Kenouri and are a husky
breed, who wear great baggy trousers.
According to the amazed Frenchmen,
their olubs very
the women
i^nds showed the
freely when
slightest hesitation of carrying out
their orders. The ladies from time
to time stage free-for-all fights and
refuse to eat with thoir husbands. T^e
great question is now: Are the Ke-
nouri tribes leading the way in the
development of the family and must
we ultimately face a similar situation
In other lands? Bere Is a mighty
weapon for the opponents of woman
suffrage
Farm products are often shipped
great distances when they might be
sold with greater profit close st hand,
says the United Sts tee Department of
Agriculture. Surveys are now being
made by the department In varioas
parts of the country to determine the
extent of thia wasteful practice and to
help farmers make readjustments In
their farming and marketing to enable
them to meet local market demands.
The noiseless airplane has become
a reality, but the noiseless piano re
mains a dream, and eke the noiseless
automobile—and saxophone.
BILL-BARBERI
SAYS
MONLY HAS
wINGS BUI
IT IS NOT
A HOMING
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By THOMAS A. CLARK
(W IMS. Western Newspaper Unton.)
SELF-ENTERTAINMENT
RANK MARSHAL Ilves in the vil
lage near which I was born. He
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was a farmer until he was forty-five—
a prosperous farmer whose land had
been left him by his father, He had
never really worked hard. He had
gone to the district school until he
was fourteen mid his father had even
sent him to a boys’ academy for a
time and had offered to put him
through college, but he was not fond
of study, he saw nothing very prac
tical in books or in education, and he
came back home at* the end of his first
year at the academy and announced
that he was through. He went to work
on the farm, an4 a few years later,
his father having died, he inherited
It and took charge of it.
He developed uo interest outside of
the routine work in which he was en
gaged. He had no avocations, no hob
bies, no recreations, He never read a
book so far as I know; he had no In
terest in newspapers excepting in the
one or two technical agricultural pa
pers which his father had subscribed
for sad which he paid for each year
in an uninterested way. He had no
interest in music; he could not play a
game; the details of travel confused
him and got on his nerves. He was
totally without resources for self-en
tertainment. It had never occurred to
him when he was young that old age
would one day catch Up with him and
separate him from hi*.old occupation,
and If he were then to be happy there
must be something within him to form
a baste of that happiness.
He moved to town when he was
forty-five and gave up work. He alts
by the radiator in winter and on the
porch in summer, restless and discon
tented. His chief interest Is tending
the furnace in winter and mowing the
lawn in summer. He has four times
hs much money as he can spend, but
he’s wretchedly unhappy because he
has never learned to enjoy himself.
One of the happiest persons I ever
knew was an oid lady, blind and bed
ridden. She had read widely and this
reading had taken her into fields of
poetry and romance, and into every
foreign country on the globe. As she
lay Jh bed her mind was filled with
beautiful memories; her imagination
carried her fur away from the scene
of her misfortune. She repeated td
herself the beautiful things she had
committed to .memory; she sat with
the people she had met in history and
biography and fiction. _No one who
visited her was ever Impressed with
the fact that she was helpless and
blind, for her mind was Afll of things
for her own entertainment.
Moro Picture Show Business and
Equipment Changes Ownership
In the future, If one’s photograph Is
transmitted by this telephony device
The movie ’picture machine and
and comes out looking like s cartoon,
equipment, including chairs, etc., of
is one entitled to blame It on static?
the Moro opera house has been sold
As soon as scientists learn to har- to Harry Beasley of Grass Valley
nem ths atom «very man should be who has taken a lease of the building
and in futufe will have entire control
able To drive his own.
of all features of entertainment given
Mr. Beasley has
The cost ef living Isn’t quite so in the building.
high ss formerly, but when it falls, It been employed by the Standard" Oil
company at Grass Valley. He has
la dwaji “to rise again.’’
had control of the theatres at Wasco
and Grass Valley for several weeks
and, with this desl, he now has
entire control of the picture business
for the three towns in this county.
Mr. Beasley will assume charge of
the theatre business at this place be
ginning on Saturday, August 16th.
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A proposed change in the schedule
of the O.-W. R. AN.1 company,
Shaniko branch, which would elimi
nate a daily service to Shaniko and
way points and institute a schedule
of three times weekly, was not mads,
it was learned, after Congressman
N. J. Sinnott had telegraphed a pro
test to the postal department at
Washington. Before the answer to
the protest had been received, the
railroad company decided to not
change the schedule, which would
put trains over the Shaniko branch,
between Grass Valley and Shaniko,
on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
discontinuing the daily service Con
gressman Sinnott was waited upon
by a delegation of citizens from
Antelope, who framed the protest,
saying that 1,500 persons would be
without train service four days a
week.
Mr. Sinnott was asked to
place the problem before the postal
authorities, as this train carries mail
to Shaniko, Antelope, Kent and other
towns along the line.
A Wheeler county fanner, who says
he is a democrat, has written to La-
Fol letla headquarters at Portland
pledging bis support in the campaign.
The Wheeler county man says he does
not know of one voter in his section
that will support Davis, the demo
cratic nominee, and that the condition
of farmers generally will, in his
opinion, not be conducive to support
of his former party 's candidates. He
says the farmers in his county are
“so poor they have to lean against
sage brush for support. ’’ How any
voter, interested in farmer finances,'
can support LaFollette is past com-
prebenoion.
LaFollette stands for
increased wages and better conditions
for the highly unionized labor of the1
United States, as a class, and for
government ownership of railroads. 1
Both these conditions will only be
arrived at by an added burden for the
farmer to carry through increased
railroad freight rates and lower
prices for what the fanner, as a
class, has to sell.
Sherman Second Oregon County
in Production of Cereal Crops
According to Oregon experiment
station bulletin No. 204, entitled
Spring Crops for Eastern Oregon, the
average acre value based on pre-war
prices — 1906-1914— and the average
acre yields of the grain crops in
Sherman county for the years 1919 to
1923, inclusive, were as follows:
Winter wheat...
Spring wheat. ..
Oats......................
Barley.................
Acreage
116,247
9,465
1,192
3,156
The entire closing to campers,
visitors and tourists of the national 1
forest reserve in and around Badger I
lake and creek has been annoucned by
the national forest service.
This
region, as well as others in the state,
has been designated as areas of ex
treme fire hazard and has been made
necessary by the fact that much of
the worst part of the forest fire sea
son is yet to come.
Production in
bushels
2,680,475
142,372
26,070
74,734
r—Acre yields—.
bushels pounds
23 2
1392
15.2
912
21.6
691
23.6
1133
Acre
value
118.56
12.16
9.60
13.69
Based on 5-year average yields.
Sherman county
the second
highest wheat producing county in
Oregon, the aversge production of
MORO, ORE.
both spring and winter wheat being
2,822,847 bushels.
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In yield per acre Sherman county
Drayage of all kinds
ranked twelfth for all counties of the
Special delivery rates made on
state, being exceeded in. average
wood, coal, etc. to country places
yield by the eastern Oregon counties
Long and short hauling promptly
of Umatilla, Malheur and Wasco, and
done on short notice.
by several Willamette valley counties.
Headquarters st Hotel Moro.
Sherman county ranked eleventh in
the production of t barley with an
average 5-year production of 74,734
bushels. Most other esstem counties
outranked Sherman in total barley
production and many ’ of them in
average acre yirld.
Like most eastern Oregon counties,
Physician and Surgeon
Sherman county raises very little
osts. The aversge 5-year production
for the county was only 26,070 bushels
and the average acre yield 21 6
Main 182
bushels.
In value per acre, winter wheat
WASCO - OREGON
ranked first, being 14.87 more than
barley, which was the second highest
cereal in acre value.
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Information about varieties of
spring crops including wheat, barley,
oats, corn, potatoes and flax and
cultural methods for sastern Oregon
conditions, is given in station bulletin
No. 204, copies <of which can be
obtained free by writing to either of
the branch experiment stations at
Moro, Union, or Burns or to the main
station at Corvallis.
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Funeral services under direction of
Zell Funeral Home, was held from
the Presbyterian church in this city
last Sunday afternoon in memory of
Charles H. Belshee who died at his
home in Hermiston the previous Wed
nesday from a shotgun wound near
the heart received while hunting rats
in his yard. , We are informed that,
at the time of his accident, he was
holding his gun in his left hand and
trying to raise a board from off the
walk around his house under which a
rat he had wounted had ran.
In
lifting the board, bis left hand dis
charged the gun, causing his death
about two hours later. The funeral
service was conducted by Rev. Henry
G. Hanson, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, who made a special trip from
Portlsnd to be present. Interment
was in the I. 0. O. F. cemetery^
Chas. H. Belshe_ was born March
26th, 1850, at Warsaw, Illinois. He
was married to Mary D. Sink on
March 17th, 1870.
To thia union
was born nine children. They moved
to Sherman county, settling in Grass
Valley canyon north of this place, in
>4883. They moved to California in
1900 where they remained until 1917
at which time they moved to Her
miston. He united with th* Presby
terian church at Monkland, this
county, in 1893.
Mr. Belshee died on Wednesday,
July 30, 1924. He is survived by hi*
widow, six daughters, one son, eight
een grand children, eight great grand
children, and on* brother:
Mrs.
Warren Myers, Oakland, California;
Mrs. Maud Collins, Chico, California;
Mrs. W. H. Rsgsdale, Moro, Oregon;
Mrs. G. S. Vaughn, Berkeley, Cali
fornia; Mrs. C. J. Thorp, Saera-
mento, California; Mai. J. L, Smi*h,
Lemon Cove, California;
G. B.
Belshee, Loe Angelee, California;
Frsnk J. ^Ishee, Moro, Oregon.
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