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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1920)
THK CU.KTTK.TIMKS. 11HTXK.K, t'KK., TUlliSDW, SKI'T. ;t(, tl.-i. - r Eton Bureau News (From the Morrow County Farm Bureau News.) Yes, We Had John Day Irrigation District. The John Pay Irrigation District was one of the first major projects started in Morrow county through the efforts of the farmers working with the man who was then County Agent, Mr. F. R. Brown. Mr. Brown has been barren desert where nothing but thel ' . V Y . , , -;u kl!, ... i .ever since it started and we are glad The weather man has been mos.,oda,. ound , ' to announce at the present time that OA summerfallow wn ,lo. maKing splend,4 progresss. Th u. 'u ?u"r.s air mm ut'lllK UOtie, Uie , than Turkey Red found. Under present conditions the farmer comes a little more nearly retting uht h,. Qrvt--i T?oi- i,"eat is orth ,han he did five or vJVJl 11C YCUIl,torl ,ars vow in place of the tluetiton. ar.d will as i"!;e farmers now realize they will he iturcised. the county will unquestionably st.itui sec ond in the state in wheat production. Good tillage makes good yields. ioa 10 .narrow county tnis r ail so j of good summerfallow, far as the supply of moisture is con- with the weeds carefully kept down cerned. This is not an unmixed ' and side by side of these, fields of blefisine. A m.lTIV f5rm.src !r. ! W ;1 VT i' i-r:lin It ic fol.K- ,...1... going to suiter at least" a small loss stood bv these men on the land that 1 JT fni 'l'" I,rospeot now of because of damage to grain. We hope 'this land cannot be expected to pre! "? D' vomptetion than ever before. fore Congress and the prospects of definite release of reclamation, there the will soon be a reality instead of a dream. There are very few men in Morrow county who have dreamed of the John Day project for more than five or six years, and these men we be lieve will live to see the realization of their dreams of waving alfalfa fields instead of sage-brush. re-classification of the land is prac tically completed and there is a far that the weather will clear up soon 'dure maximum crops for several so that this will not be too bad. How-j years as it must be built up. The ever, thpre arp A lilt of nitvanlnc 1 lilnri hou-avar la varv 4a.,n that are-coming with this storm: it j eral 'running from ten to thirty feet j!Rr" "I5 n.vp'nnxT the weeds on the summerfallow, ana j rainfall approximately ten inches, making it possible with prrer meth-! not dissimilar to that in Sherman ods this fall to insure not only clean county. It is a question of but a grain another year but also an even! few years until this will be covered stand of w heat. A few general cor rolaries for wheat farming this fall may not be amiss: Be sure to treat your seed. Don't treat it too strong. Ton't sow too deep by prosperous farmers. The advent of the farm tractor has gone a long ways toward making this practical. The land lays very level and is most admirably adapted " to mechanical farming. When this land comes ln- Turkey Wheat. Don't sow your summerfallow to its own, when the other lands in Several farmers iu the county this :';eir yields ,.f Turkey wheat. We, might say that they are not tlte only i farmers who are disappointed as this! year has not been a turkey year in any county. A lew cops have done exceptionally well, liecause Turkey! has not done as well as you antici-i pated this year we would advise thatj you restraiu your inclinations and do not desert it at once.. Uemeinber that; Turkey wheat should be sown early in the fall. That the ground should I he plowed early and that the wheat should be up iu the fall If possible. Last year was a very poor fall for seeding grain but the turkey that was sown early did make good crops this year. It is practically only the late seeding which has given disappoint ment. It Is our firm belief that Tur key is probably the best wheat for all the land from Ileppner north, while there may be room for some argu ment in the upper country. Turkey lted wheat is the wheat which has niajle Kansas famous. It solved the problems for the farmers of Kansas between an account on the wrong side and the right side of the ledger. It '.as done well in Illinois. It has made Sherman county. It does well in the northern part of Gilliam coun id we believe that It Is one of the ood wheats for Morrow county. Forty-Fold Seed Wheat. The shipment of Forty-Fold seed wheat In the county has finally ar rived but has been brought with dif ficulties and point to dissatisfaction. The shippers at Condon with whom we kept in touch from day to day per mitted us to act to our original order and assured us that they would ship us up to 1100 sacks. This was add ed on a few sacks at a time and we had every reason to believe tliej would fulfil their agreement. How ever, when the time came to ship they claimed their inability to ship more than 647 siKks. We had taken the money tor this in good faith from many of the farmers of the county ar.d they would have very inm h preferred to have received their wheat instead of the money. How ever, we bought all the Forty-Fold wheat that was available In Condon and were assured that there was none available iu Sherman county, there was no certified wheat in I'uion county and we feel that there is nothing to do but to sow w hat we can get and wait until next year to get the rest of our good seed. In addi tion to the above troubles the bank for some reason misplaced the bill of billing and sight draft so that if we were miahto to get it unloaded in what would appear to be an unrea sonable lime. These are a few dis appointments we hope will not occur every time we want to get good seed. I,. Sweok, well known Monument sheepman, is over from Grant county on a visit to his sou, C. L. Sweek, lo cal attorney. Don't sow mixed wheat if vou can possibly secure cleau seed or tne va riety you prefer. Don't delay to get the grain in as soon as possible. The sooner In the sooner up. A considerable amount of grain this year was sowed in Sep tember and is now up so that the rows may be seen in the field. This offers an exceptional promise for an other year. There should be no ser ious crusting in 1921. Many farmers are predicting the greatest crop in history for next harvest, but it is yet a long way off. Morrow county have increased in pro- year are somewhat disappointed at New Methods Put New Land In ! Cultivation In Morrow i County. ! During the last three years more that fifty thousand acres of good till-i able land which a few years ago had been condemned as worthless is be- j lng put to the growing of good wheat j crops. In the early pioneer days or I the days of homesteading in. Morrow) county this land was taken up and deeded to private panics, and be cause of the low price of wheat (at that time wheat sold as low as IS cents a bushel in Lexington and lone) these farmers were compelled to ob solutely leave their ranches, most of them being taken over by what is known as the Oregon Dakota Land Company. This company loaned a lot of money on the lands in the northern part of Morrow county, be ginning at what is called the base line, which for a great many years was called the dead line. Anyone who had land north of this line was supposed to be in that land where only failure could be the reward of hard toil. With wheat selling at anything like those prices it is easy to understand how these men could not make expenses; could not even continue to live. The land was de serted, the fences were torn down, the bunch grass and weeds and sage brush began to come back over this land. During the last three years, due to new methods of farming as developed in Sherman county, these lands are gradually going back into crops. This is particularly due to the Increased price of wheat, but more largely to better methods of cultiva tion and proper variety. i In this territory, due to lightness of soil and light rainfall, Bluestem wheat can seldom be grown and now rarely, if ever, Is any other variety CHEVROLET We can now make immediate delivery on "Baby Grand" Models This is unquestionably the best car on the mar ket today selling under $1600.00. 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