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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1925)
Important results obtained in 1925 .by Moro Ex periment Station DOCHERTY-POWERS FURNITURE CO. The Dalles, Oregon EVERYTHING YOU PURCHASE ON ONE DAY FREE NEVER BEFORE SUCH AN OFFER On one day during this month we are going to give an entire one day’s busi ness to our customers. There are no strings to this exceptional offer. Every one w ho makes a purchase at Docherty- Powers Furniture Company, The Dalles, during the month of September has an equal chance of getting their purchase free. The LUCKY DAY will be announced in this paper during the first week in October. Fortyfold X Hyb 128 White OMa» ........ Turkey 1571 ............. Kanred ......................... Turkey (UUCP)* .. Blackhull..................... Local Turkey............. P1G68 x Preston ... - Fortyfold ................... Kanred x Marquis . .. Sevier . .................... Tmkqyt JLlSorenee - Nebraska 6A ............. Crimean® 3055 A .... Turkey® 1671W . .. Newturk ...................... Radit® \ .................. Argentine* 1669-2 .. ... 28.6 .. 28.8 ... 28.3 . . <28.0 ..^.28,0 ... 28.0 ... 28.0 ... 27.7 SPECIAL SALE For the next 10 days only we offer to discriminating users of reliable automo bile merchandise a discount.on their win ter purchase of Goodyear Tires and Ti bes IQ Per Cent off 15 Per Cent off J on Goodyear Tires on Goodyear Tubej This offer includes any size Goodyear Tire or Tube. If size wanted is not in stock we will get it for you. Sale Closes September 15th. Foss & Co. Inc.. Moro, Ore foDowa; ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LUCKY DAY Buy the Furniture You Need During September From Docherty-Powers BE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES ! WE CHARGE NO INTEREST DOCHERTY POWERS Furniture Company » _ Third aad Waahiagto«. ...................... with those of the spring wheats will Federiti« be of special interest and significance this year, because in many sections Marquis of eastern Oregon the weather and Baari soil conditions were such that winter wheat could have been sown in Feb ruary. In fact several thousand acres WATCH FOR THE TU Dalle», Oregon Sherman* At the Oregon State Fair this year the Moro Experiment Station will have an interesting exhibit illustrat ing special features of the 1925 re sults obtained from the many differ 27.3 ent experiments in progress there. 27.0 Although the freezing December 27.0 weather killed all the winter wheats 27.0 on the station, including the exten 20.7 sive plant breeding nursery of more 26.0 than 4,000 varieties, strains and 26.0 selections, results were obtained this 26.9 I year with winter wheat, both in the 26.8 I varietal tests and in the tillage ex- 25.5 I périment*. During the first week 25.3 I in' February, all the winter wheat I varieties, the plots of the tillage ex On ground adjacent to taat occu- periments, and a large portion of the nursery were reseeded. mn rate and date trials of four This is the first time since the spr.ng wheats Federation, Hard I establishment of the station in 1910 FeCeraties^ Marq-is and Baart. The that any extensive winter killing of winter wheat has occurred and the first year that results have been I obtained from winter wheats sown 11 in February. The yields of winter wbsato wvrv *» FREE! USE YOUR CREDIT Alberta Bad ............. * ruary by fanners in northern Gil liam and Morrow counties, upon ad vice given by the Moro station. The results secured were generally satis factory. February 15th was set as the latest date that winter wheat could be safely sow^J This date proved to be about cot i ect, as the few fields sown later than that did not produce very satisfactory re sults, generally yielding quite a lit tle less than spring wheat sown in March. Every Sherman county farmer will be interested in the yields ob tained this year from the winter wheat varieties on the station. Thes< were as follows: Yield bu. per acre Variety 38.6 Triplet ........... .. .4-.... 38.8 Hybrid 123 .. ...... _______ 30.3 Federation . .. ................. 29.7.. ’ Hybrid 128 . . .................. 29.5 Argentine . . . . . _ _............ 29.8 _ Mo si da ........... ....................... 28.7 Oregon No. 19 Älöto Confectionery HE BARBER SAYS W. A. Ruggles. Prop. lea Cream is- and -food that all kiddies may be allowed to indulge ia Mwdy. Ite nourishing properties mean better health for them. THE BEST STOP-WATCH EVER MADE IS NO USE TO A GOLFER IN TIMING HIS SWING We sal] ice cream in many food tain« ways. By the dish, with drinks, in eones, or by the pint and quart In sanitary containers that permit its taking home. I BE SURE TO SEE THE Economy Harrow Attachment Drills and Harrows at the One Operation DEMONSTRATING AT September 10-11-12, 1925 One set of the Economy Harrow Attachment is guaranteed to save the cost of one man and harrow team. You can easily save $100 cash and also pay for the attachment in one season. MADE TO WORK ON ANY GRAIN DRILL For private demonstration and further information write or phone E. B. Dodd, Ellsworth Hotel, Moro, Oregon. to Pupils Next Monday Farmers Elevator & Supply Co A. M. Zevwly. county school super ; Office al Farmers State Bank J. C. McKean, Manager, Moro, Oregon t*u Ura on M.nday. September 14. I FoUwwiac » the Itat of the aehoob I bushels per acre, or the same as vws ■own on February 1st, and nighur than all winter wheat* except two. employed and their address: District 1, Biglow school. Jean nette B. Yocum, Wasco. District 3, Rufus school. L. W. wheat outyteided the late sown spring Rake», principal; Ruth Jackson, Mrs, wheat. GRAIN BUYERS DEALERS IN Olympic and Drifted Snow Flour and all Olympic Cereals ' Olympic Poultry and Dairy Feed. Grain Bags and Twine Copper Carbonate. Gasco Briquets, Fuel. Grain and Feed. Cement and Building Material. Agents for J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. SAMPLES FROM GRAIN NUSER — IES WILL BE EXHIBITED Emigrant Springs “ District school. Beulah Reb man, teacher, Moro. In ths exhibit is an unusally inter District 5, Locust Grove school. esting and instructive display of the Una V. Davies, teacher, Wasco. same wheat varieties grown in nine District 7, Wasco school. J. B. Oregon localities—Moro, Dufur,Ken Dodson, principal; Paul X. Knoll, Condon, Priceville, Eightmile, Lex Igna Winter, Lets Shewey, Miss Bar- ington, Pendleton, and Corvallis juist, Maggie Triplett, Lucile Kirk Each variety was grown from wood, Marie Andrews, Mrs. Ethel same seed furnished by the ,Moro Van Gilder, teachers. station. There are striking differ District 9, Kent schooL Homer. ences in quality of the same wheat Sibley, principal; Joseph McLaugh variety grown in the different local lin, A. H. Pratt, Modred Ross, Kath ities, some samples being of good erine c: Rice, teachers. quality and texture and other» District 11, Gorman school. Madge starchy and full of ycllowberries. Groves, teacher, Moro. District 13, DeMoss school. Lena SMUT RESISTANT GÉAIN VARIE Howard, teacher, Moro. TIES WILL BE SHOWN District 15, Gordon Ridge school. Helene Fromong, teacher, Wasco. gon farmers have been Eastern District 16, Erskine school. Mn. k keen interest the watching ^w“ _ progress and »mut behaviour of the Ada Grimes, teacher, Moro. District 17, Moro school. W. E new smut-rsjiatant winter wheats de veloped at the Moro station and the Buell, principal; Margaret Chapman, Washington station at Pullman Helen Idleman, Lucile Baker, Pearl Samples Of these new wheats Pehersson, Dorothy Perkins, Frances ■heaves and grate, are on exhibit, Heritage, teachers. and also tamptes of •mut-proof * District 19, Monkland school. Flor oat, Markton, developed by the Mor ence Winterstein, teacher, Moro. District 20, Harmony school. Per station. Three year average yield. In plat trials at Moro are now avail He E. Hedges, teacher, Moro. able for a number of thew »mut-r^ • District 21, Fairview school. Le ona Elliott, teacher, Moro. ■istant winter wheats. All of District 22, Boardman school. are also included in the grain nurs, eries in the different counties of Mildred Ginn, teacher, Moro. District 23, Grass Valley school. eastern Oregon. The average at Moro for »hrs» the most promia Wiley Knighten, principal; Harry Tets, Mrs. Marl Woods, Florence ing smut-resistant comparison with loeal Turkey for £ Snodgrass, Mr. Marl Woods, Mrs. year» 1923, 1924, and 1925, are Florin Coon, Mrs. Lusy guggles, teachers. given teeUw District 24, Rutledge school. Mild Turkey 1671C purpi® 28,6 bu.pr acre red West, teacher, Grass Valley. . 27.6 btt.pr acre White Odessa District 2&, Michigan school. Isa- 26.4 bu.pr acn Local Turkt^ Radit ....................... ; .‘i«b»>raœ >elle Duncan, teacher, Grass Valley. District 26, Liberty school. Kath- Of th» vmietks» listed above all .-yn Smith, teacher, Grass Valley. except Iwl Turk^ ar® resistant e District 29, Wilcox s<^ol. Mrs. nough to emi t I’*» tM never need Essie Wilson, teacher, Kent. be treated. UecftUW of U1« Wjfter District 30, Klondike school. Jessie killing last wintar of the increase McNiven, te^ar, Kifi}di^. fields of the new smut-resist*nt District Riggs schawl, M^cy wheats, no seed is available this fall McGowan, teacher, Riggs, for distribution to farmers. A lim District 32, Rosebush school. Eth ited amount will be . available for el Samuel, teacher, Grass Valley. farm Mala after the 192« harvest District 33, Buckley school. Mar Some new prnmwteg hybrids and garet Beckman, teacher, Grass Val selections, whjch a»6 gRUt-immune, ley. are being 'increased ln guraery, A District 44,Early school. Claudina number of them seem to posess, on Brock, Reacher, Rufus. the whole, mote demysable qualities, including higher yielding ability, than the three varieties listed above, Many Ypang People which up to date, hlVS given best re Will go Away to S sults. • ■ ‘l- The exhibit win include features Twenty-seven young people will of special interest which lack of leave Moro next week to either re space prevents printing in this art sume their studies at university or icle. The striking difference in qual college, to register for thei$ first ity of Turkey wheat from late and term at higher educational centers early spring plowing and the average or to engage in teaching school. yields from lb» tiDMT® experiments, Those who will leave for this pur including doep ya, fhgjjpiy plowing, pose next week and their destina variations in time of plowing and tions are as follows: cultivation of the sommer fallow, etc. State nennei MhPil at Monmouth: will likely be closely studied by all Ruth Bryant, Georgia McKean, Wil farmers from eastern Oregon. ma Boardman. Albany college: Wallace Cochran Supt. D. E. Stephens had planned and Ray Messinger. . same exhibit at the to make the Oregon Agricultural college: Mar Sherman county fair as will be placed by him a< the rtste at Sal®m» guerite Foss, Hollis Bull, Owen but there was t$o mash a»)! space Searcy, Harold Bryant, Byron Peetz, in the exhibit pavillion at the local Mark JJenkle, Orval Thompson, Opal county fair and to be seen at its best Powell, Ndmuad gt^phens. University of Oregon:* Ueerge so much space must necessarily be used that it was thought best not to Belknap, Roscoe Moore, Leo Moore, mak# ths exhibit at Moro at this Linnie Belshe, Gwendolyn Foss, time. Another year it is hoped that Chester Peetz. High schools at Portland: Jessie the oxhjMt spsss pt the Sharman Conlèe, Cecil Cothran, Lillian Thomp-' counYy fair caa be ®ac11 son, Clark Henkle. fair in the last few years hay R®*®1 Thaae wjlj engage in teaching had space sufficient to accommodate are Richard Gian, WtUen OtPK» ths exhibits offered. Washington; Mildred Ginn, Board man district; Alida Douma, Bake Notice To piano Owner» Oven, Oregon; Evelyn Ragsdale. Prineville, Oregon; Hasle Henkle, M. M. Saunders, ths piano tuner Errol Heights school, Portland. will be In Moro about October 1st Orders for tuning may be left at It pays to advertise. Hotel Moro. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE The Prize Winner Milk is From Moro Dairy For steadiness of quality and clean liness Moro Dairy has at all times maintained the highest standard pos sible. Every cow in Moro Dairy h°rd has been tested by a state veter.nary and the dairy itself has been inspect ed by the state health office. No other milk supply in this : vicinity can claim as much. Delivered when you want it. Î Moro Dairy Milk 10c Quart Moro Dairy Cream 30c Pint Proprietor, Mora wmm:mmitn»»»»«»MKnninnH:H»»u»»niH»nmintm»»mnnnimun> r Moro Oarage Blacksmith Plow and Machine Share Shop Grinding Acetylene Welding Wood Working in Connection Let us give you prices oh our, Pennsylvania Vacuum. Cup Tires We Have a Complete New Stock Moro Garage, m r . scudewit», rn,. ummmtmmrammmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmnmmm» Rotary Rod Weeders Manufactured in Cheney, Washington STRONG COMPACT DURABLE Our Rotary Rod Weeders are hungry for weeds. They make a perfect seed bed and leave the )jes| jdnd of a lump mulch on top. For Sale By Moro, Oregon — .. —............................. - J. ........ » The reader of advertisement» know» that'he ha» the mo»t reliable guide to market» that exist» in the' world today. —^r—
