The Gazette-Times.
HEPPNER, OPEC OX
Home and Farm Magazine Section
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1914.
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Harvesting Outfit In Eastern Oregon. Photo by Morehouse, Pendleton, Ore. ,
Nine hundred million bushels is the estimated yield of wheat for the Fall of 1914. The harvest
ing of a crop like that means nation-wide prosperity, that neither tariff nor Congress can halt. In
the Northwest, particularly in the drier sections in the Eastern parts of Oregon and Washington
or the Inland Empire, wheat raising is one of thb leading occupations. Soon there will be the call
for harvest hands. Then the great harvesting outfits with their dozen, two dozen, three dozen horses
straining at the harness will start the flow of golden grain that supplies the world with its flour.
In no part of the country can there be seen finer examples of harvesting and threshing outfits than
in the eastern section of the Northwest. It is a work of art to drive those propelled by horses, al
though in some sections the gasoline-drawn "combination" is supplanting the horse-drawn outfit.
The harder the work, the greater the yield, the better pleased the fanner.