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(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
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