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TRK GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPXER, CUE.. THVRSDAY, AlO. 3,
Rem Bureau News
(From the Morrow County Farm Bureau News.)
SUCCESSFUL SHEW
FARMERS GIVE ADVICE
Victor Smith of Wasco : "Cull your
seed wheat until you discount at
least 20 per cent ot the light (wheat
berries. This will insure strong, vig
orous plants.
"To kill the lire weed sow early,
and harrow the ground after seeding
and the weeds have started but be
fore the grain comes up. Don't har
row the grain in the spring.
' Saw Tukey Ked but sow it in the
dusk, but if you sow in the dusk
don't sow any deeper than one and
one-half inches under any circum
stances. "Plow early and harrow down soon
after using the rod weeder frequent
ly during the summer.
"Cultivate the summer fallow from
five to six times during the summer
season allowing no weeds to grow
either before or after plowing."
Supt. D. E. Stephens of the Moro
Experiment Station: "No packer has
ever proven of real value on this
station.
"Harrowing weeds gives an aver
age decrease in yields of two bushels
per acre covering a period of about
seven years.
"June plowing gives seven bushels
less per acre than April plowing. At
two dollars and a half a bushel the
farmer who plows in June Instead of
April penalizes himself by so doing,
seventeen dollars and fifty cents per
acre.
"June plowing does not improve.
wiih good cultivation. April plowing
with good tillage improves five bush
els per acre, on an average.
"Every week you delay plowing
until April first costs one bushel per
acre If you till your summerfallow.
"Yellow-berry Turkey is grown on
ground deficient in nitrogen. This
condition of the ground is caused by
dry pltfwlng, allowing the weeds to
grow before plowing, or poor, sum
merfallow tillage, or by all of these,
and they all tend to decrease the val
ue of your wheat.
"In order to create & greater am
ount of nitrate for the plant it is
necessary to increase the holding ca
pacity of the land for moisture and
keep down the weeds."
COST OF ALFALFA HAY
Figures Show $16.50 Per Ton.
In Morrow county there are a
number of acres of highly product
ive alfalfa land, and we hear every
price from (5.00 to $25.00 as the cost
of hay production, however, we have
very few figures upon this matter.
Due to the fact that "we have not
really the consent ot the farmers in
terested for the publication of these
figures, the counties from which these
figures are taken will not be given.
However, the figures were taken by
a representative of the Agricultural
department and were of sufficient ac
curacy and completeness to receive
the credence of the State Public Ser
vice commission and so may be ac
cepted as authentic. More than a
hundred farmers in the county are
keeping careful records this year with
the idea of checking 1920 against
1919. In this particular county
which is one ot the most productive
alfalfa counties in the state of Ore
gon, a survey was made of sixty-two
farms. The average number of acres
under cultivation on these farms was
sixty. The average price per acre
for the land was (230. Average
yield a little less than 4 tons an acre.
The average price received on the
farm for the hay, which hay was also
fed on the farm to the cattle belong
ing to the buyer, Iwas $15 per ton.
On these farms 75 per cent of the in
come from the farms was received
from the sales of alfalfa hay. The
average water rental each year was
$6.75 per acre. The average value
of machinery and equipment was
$780.00. The average value of live
stock maintained on the farm $ S 50.
With this as premises the following
is the cash expense Incurred:
Farm labor $790.00
Water 600.00
Interest and taxes actually paid
150.00
Depreciation in machinery and hor
ses 125.00
Miscellaneous expense 275.00
After carefully figuring out what
each farmer actually paid tor the pro
duction of each ton ot hay after de
ducting from this the incidental in
comes from a number ot matters it
gave a total real cash outlay ot $5.60
per ton. The average interest at
7 per cent on the valuation ot the
farm Iwas $10SO.OO. The average
amount of time each owner applied
personally towards the crops at or
dinary wages without allowing spe
cial rate tor supervision was $884.00.
The average number of tons ot hay
raised on these farms Iwas 184 tons.
The extra cost due to owners labor
and Interest on investment amounted
to $10.70 per ton. This added to the
$5.60 per ton cash outlay made a to
tal cost per ton actually proven by
figures ot $16.30. We would like
to have every alfalfa owner carefully
compare these figures with what his
own bill of expense shows. These are
figures that are worth real consider
ation. However, in order to be ot
real value every farmer Interested
must aso keep a set of figures that
will enable him to know exactly what
his hay does cost him. Unless you
can prove just exactly twhat your hay
cost you will have no complaint at
the price that you receive. Whether
hay can be sold this year on a basis
of these figures plus a reasonable pro
fit remains to be seen. Many herds
have been reduced because of the
weakness of the beef and mutton
market and also because ot the tact
that breeders feel at the present
prices for livestock they are unable to
feed the hay of this price. However,
the dairy market really pictures to a
very large degree the price of hay.
No man can read the future.
Howell Visits Morrow County.
Henry Howell, that well known
tractor farmer who has made such a
tremendous success ot improved farm
methods around Wasco, last year
raised 1600 acres that averaged 40
bushels per acre. This year he
plowed 1100 acres 11 inches deep.
Has any Morrow county farmer any
thing to say about this, and that on
soil very comparable with that near
lone.
He says, "disk your land sometimes
before pldwing, either fall or spring."
To show his faith in deep plowing,
this year he plowed eleven hundred
acres, eleven inches deep. This was
done with Best tractors.
In his opinion a two ton truck is
the heaviest practical truck for dirt
road and is strong tor pneumatic
tires. To show his faith in tractor
farming he has experimented with a
number of tractora and now has five
) Best Sixty's on his land in Sherman
county. He says that a Best Sixty
will pull a Holt twenty-foot combine
with ease over any ordinary ground.
One big advantage that the Sixty has
over some of the others is that it is
not necessary to have a regular plow
man with the Sixty caterpillar. He
makes a practice of allowing the en
gine man to handle the plow as well,
this saves one man. The Hariss com
bine Is preferable in his opinion to
the Holt as it saves the grain a little
better. When asked by Morrow
county farmers bow much wheat tc
sow, he says that he sowed all the
wheat that his drill would let him,
(but he thought that for shallow
ground It is possible to sow too much.
Turkey Red wheat adjusts itself to
the amount ot seed sowed per acre
(with greater adaptability than any
other known variety. If you have no
I rains before October 15th sow your
I grain in the dust. When this Is the
lease sow as shallow as possible if
it is covered only half of an inch deep
(flan ennA ileal better than when
covered an men ana a iiau, uecause
Turkey wheat springs up Just a slen
der, splndilng stem until it reaches
the surface of the ground. Harrow
after you have seeded In the fall as
soon as the weed sprouts are an Inch
long.
Willard Service Station
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Many Acres of Seed Wheat in
Morrow County
The Farm Bureau was fortunate
in getting the assistance of Trofes
sor George R. Hyslop to select seed
j wheat fields in Morroiw county Sher
man county began this work three1
years ago and some ot this wheat.
! certified the first of the year is now
locally known as the Doak strain of
improved Karkoff Turkey. Some of
this same (w heat was this year exam
ined and found to contain only .13
of 1 per cent mixture. This is splen
did. It proves that a good start of
clean seed is worth getting for it
can be kept clean.
Not a field of good forty-fold seed
could we find in the county but If in
terested send us your order for what
you want as we can get a car-load
of splendid forty-told from Condon
at five cents above the market price
in Condon.
The following haw seed wheat cer
tified for purity as listed:
Tom Boylen, Echo Hybrid 128
E. M. Hulden, Heppner.-Hybrid 128
C. E. Melville, Echo Coppiri
E. H. Miller, Lexington Bluestem
Harry Duvall, Lexington
Turkey Red
R. W. Snider, Heppner-.Turkey Red
E. M. Hulden, Heppner.-Turkey Red
Hugh Berry, Lexington-Turkey Red
Earl Warner, Lexington-Turkey Red
A. W. Nelson, Lexington-Turkey Red
Amos Straight, lone Turkey Red
Jeff Jones, Heppner Turkey Red
Rood Bros., Heppner Turkey Red
Ed Reitmann, lone Early Baart
Will Stickler, Heppner Blue Barley
Dwlght Misner, lone
Six rows White Spring Barley
Roy Campbell, Lexington
Turkey Red
Roy Tyler, Lexington Turkey Red
Chas. Cox, Heppner Turkey Red
Wightman Bros., Heppner
Turkey Red
Chris Brown, Heppner Bluestem
John Padberg, Lexington
Turkey Red
A. W. Lundell, lone Early Baart
Len Ashbaugh, Hardman
Spring Barley
Plan to get some good seed this
fall. Last year several crops were
held over because of mixture and fi
nally sold this season tor less than
$2.00 per bushel.
GOOD SEED yields more bushels
and gets a better price than poor.
It pays to have the best.
Full certificates will be published
In next month's NeJws. Watch for
it.
We tried to get a good field in
every neighborhood. Sometimes it did
not exist and the limited time that
we could keep the professor prevent
ed a more complete canvass and we
are reasonably sure that several
fields would have certified If we could
have gotten to them but this is all
that we could find in a four and one
half day hunt over the county.
Taylor, and his accomplices, Jim! Hart, Owens aud Rathie, heavily 11'
Owens and Jack Ratliie, the ring chained, were stationed in a passage- j
leaders in the Jail break of over ajway between cells, where they could j
week ago. be viewed front the jail entrance, I
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A question that has been on the mind of more than one
farmer the past few weeks. Scarcity of transportation
facilities makes the problem a difficult one except that
farmer can buy a good truck and save enough on the sea
son's hauling to pay for that truck.
When we say "a good truck" we mean the U. S., one of
the five standard trucks on the market today.
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Hundreds Passed Through
Jail to View Slayer of Taylor
The doors of the Umatilla county
jail were thrown open by Sheriff
"Jinks" Taylor the first of the week
and for several hours throngs of peo
ple passed through the office and took
a look at Neil Hart, the jail breaker
who has admitted that he shot Til
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