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Hernner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Sept. 14, 1939
Trashy Tillage Saves Soil and Moisture
outside the United States, exclusive
of Russia and China, has increased
from less than two billion bushels
in 1914 to nearly ZVz billion bushels
in 1939.
These and many other facts will
be presented for farmers to use in
deciding whether they wish to take
a chance on wheat prices going high
er than the amounts now received
under the acreage allotment pro
gram, A total of 220,000 lives have been
saved in the United States since 1913,
National Safety Council statisticians
estimate. Had the death rate of 1913
continued through 1938, that many
more persons would have been killed
during that period, it is figured.
More and more Pacific Northwest grain farmers are using rough, trashy tillage to protect their cropland
against soil washing and blowing and hold more moisture for their crops. Here is a representative field
tilled so as to leave the stubble on the surface, and two popular implements for doing the job. One is the
nodifled, or "stubby" mold-board plow and the other a one-way disk. Both machines loosen the soil enough
or it to absorb moisture but keep the straw on top as a protective cover until the next crop is grown.
Soil Conservation Service photos
Burned Stubble
Now Frowned on;
New Tillage Used
Farmers who burn their stubble
or straw these days are fortunately
becoming much more rare than in
former years. This is partly the re
sult, no doubt, of the pressure of
neighborhood opinion which has
learned that burned stubble one year
may mean a serious "blow" the next,
which will not only hurt the offend
er but his neighbor as well.
Perhaps more important, however,
is the development of satisfactory
methods of handling heavy stubble
without burning, say the men of the
Soil Conservation service who, with
state extension and experiment sta
tion men, have been working on this
problem for years.
Where stubble is light a good plan
is to leave it standing until spring to
supply the needed ground cover.
With heavy stubble, on the other
hand, fall disking has proved the
best means of reducing the quantity
of stubble and straw to permit satis
factory tillage operations in the
spring.
For summer fallowing the one
way disk run at slow speeds and the
cut-down or stubby moldboard plow
are used most widely to stir the
ground but still leave most of the
straw and stubble near the surface.
Later cultivation is accomplished by
means of a rod weeder. The resulting
trashy surface resists both wind and
water erosion.
Some fields have been burned ac
cidentally this summer through no
fault of the owner. These present an
erosion hazard which can be con
trolled somewhat, according to the
experience of SCS cooperators.
Rough fall tillage on the contour
has proved to be the most effective
way to prevent erosion on burned
over fields the first season. The ef
fects of such fall tillage will not ex
tend beyond one year, however.
Where conditions permit the seed
ing of a crop next spring, it is possi
ble to re-establish protective crop
residues before much damage is
done. Where there is no way to elim
inate next year's summer fallowing,
about the only protection is to carry
on the summer fallowing in such a
way as to keep a cloddy surface and
then be sure that the grain is drilled
on the contour or across the slope
instead of up and down hill.
2 More Co-ed Co-ops
Opened by 0. S. C.
Oregon State College Two new
co-operative houses for women will
be operated this coming year in Cor
vallis to help provide for students
who will do part of their own work
and thus obtain board and room at
very low cost. This brings the total
number of cooperative houses to five
and increases the capacity from 80
to 135 girls.
Plans have been made for Corvallis
residents to care for the prospective
overflow of girls from halls, soror
ities and cooperative houses.
About 60 girls will live in Corvallis
hotels and others in private homes
for the first week or so while they
are becoming acquainted with sor
orities and are being chosen by pres
ent sorority members. Freshman
week starts September 25, with reg
ular class work beginning October 2.
By the first week in September
more than 500 girls had been accept
ed for registration the first time, an
increase of more than 4 per cent
above those accepted on the compar
able date a year before. Women stu
dents returning will bring the total
number of co-eds registered to an
estimated 1400 or more.
plies then and now do not bear out
such a belief, say AAA officials. For
example, at the outbreak of the war
in 1914 the world had a wheat sup
ply of 3.7 billion bushels. This year
the supply is 5.3 billion bushels, the
largest in all history.
Furthermore, in recent years the
European countries have become far
more self-sufficient in wheat pro
duction than at the opening of the
World war. World wheat production
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'ffKlg (BSaSXStDoooo Facts That Concern You
No. 11 of a series.
World-Wide Data
Gathered to Aid
"War Crop" Plans
Oergon farmers, particularly wheat
growers, are going to have to make
their own decisions on what changes,
if any, should be made in their
farming practices in view of the Eu
ropean war, but every effort is going
to be made to see that they have all
the facts .possible on which to base
such decisions.
Such, in brief, are the facts back
of the recent announcement that a
statewide meeting will be held in
Pendleton Wednesday, September 13,
to discuss the current situation.
AAA officials to be present at the
meeting will include N. E. Dodd,
western regional director and for
mer chairman of the Oregon state
committee, and Will Steen of Mil
ton, present state chairman. Extension
men from Oregon State college will
also be present to present facts and
figures on the wheat situation.
Starting September 18, similar
meetings will be held in each of 17
principal wheat-growing counties.
The schedule calls for meetings on
September 18 in Benton, Lane, Jef
ferson and Wasco counties; on Sep-
tembed 19 in Linn, Marion, Sherman
and Gilliam counties; on Septem
ber 20 in Polk, Yamhill, Morrow and
Umatilla counties; on September 21
in Washington, Clackamas, Wallowa
and Union counties; and on Sep
tember 22 in Baker county.
Many people are assuming that
what happened to wheat prices fol
lowing the outbreak of the World
war in 1914 will be repeated. The
figures on comparative wheat sup-
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