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VOLUME IX
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922
NUMBER 9
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TRIP WELL WORTH WHILE IS
VERDICT
Much Valuable Information to Be
Gained By Visit to Dem
onstration Farm
Nearly 50 farmers of this county
took advantage of the opportunity
afforded last week of visiting the
Moro experiment station in Sherman
county and all agree that the trip
was one well worth while for every
man who is interested in wheat farm
ing. The party .which was arranged by
the directors of the farm bureau and
the county agricultural agent, left
Heppner last Friday morning going
via. Arlington, Rufus and Wasco
where they arrived in time for lunch.
The afternoon was spent in visiting
a number of large wheat farms in
Sherman, county and getting acquain
ted with the owners and their
methods of farming.
Gordon Ridge which is considered
about the best section of Sherman
county, has a fair crop but not quite
up to average on account of a poor
stand. At that they are expecting
around 30 bushels or better. In the
north part of the county many fields
are badly infested with weeds due to
the late spring, which will lessen the
yield in that section.
Friday morning was spent by the
visitors In going over the experimen
tal farm which is in charge of D. D.
Stephens. The farm contains 230
acres of which 200 acres are in cul
tivation. .The farm is divided into tracts
ranging from 20 acres down (o
single rows1 only a few feet in length
in the "nursery" department where
experiments in propogation of nw
varieties and hybrids are carried on.
The larger tracts are devoted to ex
perimental and demonstration work.
There, the visitor is given a chance to
see the results of deep and shallow
plowing, plowing at different seasons,
different methods of cultivation etc.
as well as1 different varieties of wheat
in tests as to their adaptability to the
soil and climate of eastern Oregon.
Accurate records are Ttept of all ex
periments so that after nearly ten
years Mr. Stephens is well prepared
to advise the farmers of his district
when, to plow their land, how best to
cultivate to kill weeds and conserve
moisture and which of the many
varieties of the cereal are best adap
ted to bringng him a profitable crop.
Records have also been kept for
several years by Mr. Stephens, work
ing in cooperation with Sherman
county farmers, nsidingr the actual
cost of pi educing a bushel of wheat
something that is of more than
ordinary Interest to every wheat far
mer. After spending the forenoon going
over the farm the party enjoyed a
banquet at the Moro hotel which had
been arranged by the Sherman county
farm bureau when R. V. Gunn, crop
expert from O. A. C, gave an inter
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Boxing
Parkers Mill July 5th
Jake
Dexter 170 Fitzmaurice
230 lbs. 3. 200 lbs.
10 - Rounds -10
Ringside $1.65
HAVE
W. H. Herrcn found several un
welcome visitors in his garden near
the May street bridge Monday morn
ing and captured a few specimens
and brought them to the Herald of
fice for identification. The h. m.
promptly classified the specimens as
the Colorado potato bug, having had
a very intimate acquaintance with the
breed in his boyhood days back on the
old Pennsylvania farm.
County Agent Calkins was notified
and the responsibility of getting rid
of the nuisance was turned over to
him. He has placed the specimens
on exhibition in a Main street window
and in another column tells what to
feed them on to keep them from get
ting too fat and numerous.
Mr. Calkins says there were a few
found at Irrigon last year but so far
as known these are the first discov
ered irv this part of thfj county. They
are bad actors and a great many of
them will eat up a whole patch at
onu meal.
LEE W. NOTSuX TO WED IOWA
GIRL
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Notson have
received invitations to the wedding of
their son, Lee W. Notson and Miss
Florence May Kirk which is to take
place at Dunlap, Iowa, tomorrow,
June 28th.
Mr. Notson has lived in Iowa for
several years but spent some time in
Heppner with his parents after re
turning from the world war. Hepp
ner friends will join in best wishes.
HEPPNER 100 SLOl
cave MnHiiMCHT mi
Gus Paine, Ed Rounds nivl Ed
Ganger, stockmen of the Monument
country, were in town during the
week on business. Mr. Paine, who
is in the sheep business, says the road
between here ad Monument is in
very bad condition duo to so many
sheep being driven over It filling the
grades with loose rock,
"Heppner has lost a lot of good
trade from our part f tho country,"
Mr. Paine said to a Herald reporter.
I "by being too slow r.bout improving
the Monument road. While the dif
tance to Condon is about double the
distance to Heppner the John Day
highway has diverted most of the
trade to the former town. Nearly all
of our wool which formerly came to
Heppner went to Condon this year
and unless Heppner shows some In
terest in Improving the road it will
continue to go there. We like to
come to Heppner and do our business
here and with road conditions some
where near equal tha matter of dis
tance would give Heppner the best or
It but roads count these days more
than they used to."
FOR SALE
My Shetland pony "Teddy" is for
sale. He is a fine pony and I will sell
him cheap. Call at Guy Boyer ranch
Hinton creek, or address Phil Boyer
Heppner, Oregon. It.
Contest!
Charlie
General $1.10
COLORADO POTATO BUGS
ARRIVED
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The Ranch of Two Thousand
Separate Varieties of Wheat
D. E. Stephens Slaking Study
Of Wheat Growing
"In Indianapolis there lives a
former newspaper man, now famous
as a novelist and essayedt, who
wote "The House of a Thousand
Candles." At the Moro exper
iment station in Sherman coui t,
there is another man equally
famous in his line of endeavor, who
is in direct charge of "The Ranch of
2000 Varieties of of Wheat." Mere
dith Nicholson is the novelist and
,D. E. Stephens is the scientific
farmer, and one reason I mention
them both in the same sentence is
that they have at least one striking
physical retfemblr.nce in common
and they are both affable gentlemen,
There is still another reason says
Joe Harvey in the East Oregonian
"The physical resemblance is
found in their eyes-. The upper lids
are triangular in effect which
means that the angle at the top is
sharp, and the same is true of the
angle formed at the outer corners
of the eyes. And where the lids
join at the corners to enclose the
eye one doesn't have to look closely
to find the makings of smiles but
the sunny, crinkly kind that never
fail to strike a responce in the mind
of the beholder.
"And the other reason I thot of
Nicholson when I saw Stephens?
Well, they are both writers. One
writes novels, essays, short stories.
The station director is also a writer
and this is true in two ways. He
describes with words in a very clear
interesting way the work he has
been doing 'for more than a decade
at Moro. - but he is writing a full
er story at Moro in his work, itself.
It can be seen to splendid advan
tage by any man or woman boy or
girl, who wishes to go and study the
experiments that are literally serm
ons in themselves, His writing
With Words tells lh a less graphic
Way the story which growing wheat
has already made plain to his train
ed mind as he watches it from year
to year in all stages of its life. The
various plots tell Interesting stories
even to the casual observer.
"The station at Moro, which is
conducted under cooperative state
and federal direction, is devoted to
the culture of dry farming wheat,
and Mr, Stephens has direct charge
of this work as superintendent. The
farm cosists of 233 acres but the
cultivated area is 200 acres. On thlB
in plots ranging in sizefrom 15acres
down to single rows only inches
in length there are a total of ap
proximately 2000 varieties, if the
hybrids are included. There are
about 1000 of these. they are not
varieties yet, but some of them prob
ly will become varieties in several
years. Others will be diKcnrdeH if
they fc.il to establish the right to be
considered worth while for culture un
der dry land methods of farming.
"Why 2000 varieties of wheat on a
!
CLOSED
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Accessory Stores WILL NOT BE
OPEN.
Tuesday, July 4
Get your Gasoline, Tires and Sup
plies on Monday, July 3
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COHN AUTO CO.
BROWNING & JOHNS
I ranch, one is pardoned for asking.
i The answer is simple enough. Agri- '
' culture is not static. It is alive, ex- ;
pansive, growing, changng, constant- i
ly. The Moro station is one of a se-1
ries of such farms maintained in Ore- j
gon for the purpose of determining at i
small expense under scientific obser-'
vation what varieties of wheat and
'what methods of culture are best ad- j
apted to be grown with minimum risk '
and maximum chances of profit for
the farmer. The experiment station j
occupies the same relative! positioj in
the field of agriculture that the big
and commercial organizations bear to
ward different business with this
possible difference agricultnre prob
ably has relatively less spent on it in
research than any other business of
similar importance,
i "Government figures show that in
191!) in the 18 counties in Oregon east
of the Cascades 1,250,000 acres were
devoted to the production of wheat as
a cereal crop . One need go no fur
ther to understand the importance to
Eastern Oregon of the success which j
farmers attain, or fail to attain in the j
production of this crop. Farmers are i
like individuals in other lines' of en
deavor in that they constantly feel
the need of some changes. Many of
the questions in production matters
which they wonder about can. be
handled with a great saving and with
results of unquestionably greater ex
actitude by an experiment station. To
check on his present methods of cul
ture and on his varieties of wheat and
to improve on the varieties for future
use is the big job and the responsibil
ity the experiment stations have.
The work of the station has been
done along lour general lines': (1)
varietal testing experiments, (2) im
provement oi field crops, (3) experi
ments to determine the most prolil
ab'e crop rotation systems for the dry
uplands of Eastern Oregon; and (4)
tillage experiments to find out the
best methods of soil cultivation for
production of wheat under the summer-fallow
syb'tem,
"One of the most important ambi
tions scientists have in the realm of
plant breeding is to discover and pro
pagate a variety of wheat which will
resist smut and thus save the expense
of treating seed to prevent the dis
ease and eliminate the heavy dis
count which to Oregon farmers alone
annually amounts to several hundred
thousand dollars, probably millions.
"This Is one of the chief problems
being studied in the varietal tests
and while nothing has been officially
put out that I know of about the
ultimate Success of the effort, Mr.
Stephens told the county agents of
Eastern Oregon that the chances look
good for finding a real smut resistant
wheat.
"He has 15 varieties in his plots
where one-twentieth of an acre of
of each variety is grown which have
resisted smut over a period of several
i years. Two-thirds of these smut re-
Bistants are Turkey whaets. Some of
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MARTIN RE1D
HEFPNLR GARAGE
C. V. HOPPER
DESTROYS
PKOrEKTY
.MOM'.
A destructive tire originating from
a defective flue in the old Murphy
building, visited Monument yesterday
afternoon destroying most of the
business section of the. town and In
volving a loss estimated at from $30
000 to $50,000.
Nine buildings were destroyed in
cluding tin Simas and Hamilton
stores both carrying heavy stocks of
merchandise. Roy V. Whiteis, of
this city, who handles most of the
fire insurance in Monument reports
that he has $17,850 on the property
reported destroyed.
The postoffice, hotel a::d livery
stable are the only business buildings
left.
Practically all the food supplies
outside of private home.; are go:ie.
O:ly one fnmily was left, destitute
and advices from there this morning
were that supplies' of food and cloth
ing for that family will be apprecia
ted from the outside.
VISIT O. A. C. AETEK LAPSE
OF 50 Y i: liS
W. T. Cochran, of thin city, ad
Ceorge Sperry, of Heppner, step
brothers, returned yesterday after
noon from O. A. C, where they atten
ded school 50 years' r.go. Mr. Sperry
who has been visitinfr withMr. Coch
ran for a few days, on his return
from attending the I. O. O. F. con
vention, had not vis'.tcd the school
for many years, and was amazed at
the wonderful development there.
They visited a niece, Mrs. J. W.
Burkhnrt, in Lebanon, yesterday. Mr.
Sperry left this afternoon for Port
land, enroute for his home. Albanv
I Democrat.
CHAUTAUQUA iiERS
DRAW LARGE . CROWDS
IMKXJEA.MS THIS SEASON' ).'
IIKJII AIEI11T
Morris Imbues Pastor With Tongue
of Fire. Private Poet's Peace
Talk Makes Hit
The Ellison-While Cli-.utr.uqua
which opened here S.-.tvrday Is giving
general satisfaction to good audiences
at every session. Misg Cowl'i, tho at
tractive and competent superinten
dent, ha a way of her o"-n for meet
ing people whether Individuals or
audiences and the impression she
leaves is that she Is lero to do every
thing in her power to make the ses
sions' successful.
At the opening sostsicn the Marri-ner-Steclman-Taylor
trio made a hit
with tho audience In an artistic re
cital and In the evening A. Mather
Hilburn pleased a crnv.-'.od tent with
his lmpe;ronatlo:is making up for the
different characters in plain view of
the audience.
Sunday afternoo.i Margaret fisirrl
son, a talented reader entertained
and In the evening Glenn L. Morris
gave his wonderful electrical enter
tainment. Morris Is a wizard for fair
and Is a favorite here. He went so
far with his experiments Sunday eve
ning a? to Imbue Rev. L'vlngxlone
with a real "tongue of fire" while
the reverend gentleman was assist
ing the wizard on the stage. We
have all heard of a certain bibulous
gentleman in antl-Volstead day
who could almost light a candle from
the tip of his very red nose but in
this case Mr. Morris actually nurceod-
I ed In lighting aa ordinary tallow
j candle from the tip of Itov. Llvlng
; stone's tongue. This is, In truth, a
marvelous age. A radio concert was
1 also attempted but wag not much of a
; success because of too much "static."
The amplllh r needed a strainer.
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iti;e lii-.XD
MEXT
200 Cockerels Wanted
We want to huy at once 200 hc.-uy strain
Cockrcls ("spring fryers) for caponixin;; pur
poses, weighing1 from I 1-2 to 2 pounds. Will
pay 50 cents each for such fowls delivered at
our yards in Heppner.
We are also in the mail. el fur hms and
other poultry at highest markM m Lvs.
CORNETT&MEklUTT,
Heppner, Oregon.
HEPPNER WINS FROM
ARLINGTON 2-12 SCORE
HOT (i."E AT ;.LI.IAM CITY"
LAST Sl'XDAY
2-2 In Eighth Hulling When, Zowie,
Heppner Tears Loose Ton
Tallies
On the hottest day o the summer,
Heppner ball team got into the hot
test game of the season at Arlington
last Sunday when the local boys
brought home the bacon to the tune,
of 12 to 2.
The gamo started off with ono
score to Arlington's credit at the end
of the first. This tally stood tho
test until the end of the 4th which in
dicates that both teams were playing
some ball. Heppner then evened the.
score in the 5th and at the end of tho
7th the score card showed 2-2. Then
Zowie! When Heppner came to bat
in tho eighth things begin to happen.
The spectacle was something like the
big meteor that passed over the oilier
night -big, bright, and glorious.
Aiken singled, Van Marter doubled,
Sperry doubled and Blake doubled as
quick as you could count 'em and
when the dust cleared away Heppner
had added 10 fine big tallies to her
score.
Heppner made two double plays
during; the game and I!rou;;hton, for
Heppner si ruck out 16 men. Mon
tague, for Arlington struck out 10.
The weather wns hot enough for
anybody to play ball and Van Marter
says no bad the best little, old, all
around team together Sunday dial;
I hern is in eastern Oregon.
Tbe team will go to I'Uiah Satur
day where they wil , lay a three
game series on July 2nd, 3rd and -I ( It
and everybody is confident they will
bring back a good account of them
selves. MOWE-VAV AMI!! I.(J !( I S
comes iv (iii.iMt i;ntii!i:tv
When Howe's Groat London Circus
with Van A ni burg's trained wild ani
mals' enmes to Heppner on Saturday,
July 1, there will be wen the same
largo three ring show that delighted
Portland last week and exactly tho
same as will be presented at Tacoma
and Seattle, Nothing will bo omit
ted and it can safely be said that this
is the largest and without doubt the
best, wild animal circus ever seen
here. There will be two performan
ces, 2:00 and 8:00 p. in. Grand
street parade will be on the streets at
11 a. m.
UNIVERSITY OK OUKOON, Eu
gene, June 24 Sixty principals anil
superintendent!! of Oregon schools re
organized the old Principals' club at
a meeting held on the university cant
pus Friday evening and elected offi
cers for tho summer session, in which
most of them are enrolled as Btudents,
Officers were elected as follows:!
President, E. H. Hedrlck, superlnton.
dent of the Heppner schools; vlct
president, M. S. Hanuri, tiiperlnen
dent at Roseburg; secretary, George
Turnbull, University of Oreyon,
school of Journalism.
EACH MAN'S KK.HTS IJMITKI1
KvPry man must work out his own
salvation, but In doing so must recog
nize that millions of other men am
doing the same thing and havo
rights as good n he. Therefore,
what ho does must not unnecessarily
Interfere with, what they are doing.