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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1936)
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER IT, 1936 FIELD STATION WIDELY USED THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON. Westland Home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bean. MUCH RESEARCH WORK Hundreds of Plant Varieties Tested for Use In Northwest. Experiment farm work began on the Hermiston project as early as 1909. Its importance in a new coun ty was immediately recognized by both the reclamation bureau and the first leaders in the settlement and development of the lands. This scene is of the fine set of farm buildings on the Hawley J Bean The Oregon legislature passed an The act in January. 1909. in accordance ranch on the Umatilla Meadows, under the Westland district canal ranch consists of 250 acres under irrigation, and 400 acres above the with a federal act. providing for canal. Mr. and Mrs. Bean are both graduates of the University of Oregon joint operation of state and federal and Mr. Bean is a son of H. J. Bean of the Supreme Court of Oregon government in the maintenance of demonstration farms, on a fifty-fif of $35.000 was provided for build | and 83 are in 200 foot nursery ty basis. ings. Because the importance of the rows. The old 40 acre farm, two miles station to other states, the govern For pasture experiments, the stan west of Hermiston was set out from ment assumed the greater part of dard is sweet clover, in five differ government holdings and the recla the cost of maintenance and last ent varieties. Sixteen half acre matici service from its revolving year provided $8150 of the total tracts are seeded to mixed grasses fund, erected the buildings and sum of $10,350 used. Oregon provid und clover, Three plats are being cleared and fenced the land. R. W. ed $2250. used for alfalfa tests in pasturing, Allen was chosen superintendent and and a study of bloat, The Hermiston station is the only $6000 provided for work, directed one in the west which is making a The effect of curly top on sugar by the Oregon State college, and De- close study of agriculture on irriga beets, beans, tomatoes and other partnment of Agriculture. Allen served as superintendent until 1918 ted sandy lands and is supported plants, is being given scientific -.t- when H- K. Dean was appointed and not for local or Oregon benefits alone tention. The farm has tested in ex but for the benefit of Washington. cess of over 5000 varieties brought has since filled the position. Idaho. Utah and California. from all over the world in an effort Many important experiments It is now making a study of to secure blight restant varieties, were carried on in growing plants and irrigation methods. Some of the fruits, berries, alfalfa, corn, grain Fourteen hundred varieties of toma most important discoveries were the sorghums, broom corn, grasses for toes have been tested but with very seed and forage. It also carries on little success, in arriving at a reme border method of irrigating sandy demonstrations in dairying and tur dy for the virus. This public enemy soils. The check system, then in vo key raising, and is giving special at gue, and likewise the furrow sys tention to the curly top or blight is so small that it evades the micro scope. tem under constant flow of water, evil. The one successful method was were found to require too great a Seventy-five varieties of fruits are tried this year. Thin muslin was supply of water. The border system now being tested for hardiness, spread over several rows of tomato with large head, quick irrigating quality and marketing value, and 30 plants, which were seved from in under rotation because the approved or more are being added each year. festation of blight. 100 percent. Al- method. This system developed here has These are secured from all over the -ong side the same plants in open spread through all sandy areas in United States, mainly through other exposed to the sun, were lost 100 the west covering nearly 1,000,000 experiment stations. Mr. Dean now percent. The cloth reduced the ef has 80 varieties of first class straw fet of sun rays one third. Further acres. berries from which varieties will be study will follow along the line of The old forty acre farm was found selected as best adapted to condi this discovery. insufficient in size and quality of soil, and topography, and the new tions here and the territory served. In dairy tests, two herds are used. farm of 180 acres was chosen for Alfalfa experiments cover appli- One is fed alfalfa hay only. The future work. cation of water, fertilizers both other, hay and a medium ration of Title to this land was secured from commercial and manure, and selec- grain. The test is in the third year. the government and through a spe ’ion of varieties. Fifteen varieties The turkey feeding experiments cial act of congress in 1931. the sum are growing in one-holf acre tracts wrre begun six years ago. Then only t AGE FIVE 15 per cent of protein was used in ' mashes, but this has been increased to 21 percent with very beneficial I results, showing a test of 26 per | cent. The farm has had a demand for circulars on turkey tests of over 4000 copies. This is the only turkey experiment being conducted in Ore gon or Washington. Land has been prepared for a ser ies of crop rotation tests, and 126 quarter acre tracts have been level ed and seeded to sweet clover as pre liminary work. No such experiment is being tried anywhere else in the United States. The vast importance of the work now being done on the Hermiston experimtnt farm is designed by the federal Department of Agriculture to apply to all irrigated sandy soils in the west, which in all of the 48 government projects, amount to around one million acres. Circulars of information are distributed to all county agencies and state depart ments of agriculture and on request from any source. The new farm is getting well un der way and great results are be ing seen in a wide variety of experi ments. that are too numerous to mention here. __ Mrs. DeMoss, who had taught school for 13 years in this locality, decid ed to devote her time to the turkey business. Additional brooding ca pacity was provided by building a 16’ by 60’ five section, wire-floored brooder. This was made portable that it might serve as a range house . as well as brooder. About 2200 tur keys were marketed last year and 300 breeding hens were kept. From these hens over 4000 eggs were sold besides the eggs which were set to supply poults for the DeMoss flock. This year brooding capacity was enlarged by ordering March poults from California for one brooder which was used a sec ond time with May poults from the home flock. Although snow covered the ground for a few days and the weather was colder than usual, the early poults were thrifty and slight loss was experienced. The DeMoss flock at present consists of over 3500 birds. f ii— DeMoss Family Developes I Turkey Industry Over 12 Year Period. | Twelve years ago last May the J. H. DeMoss family began raising turkeys. This came about largely in an effort to accommodate a woman who was leaving the project and wished to sell all her poultry, an old chicken hen and five turkey poults. Harvey, the oldest son, was the proud owner of the original flock. Only two of the turks sur vived experimental feeding and the demand for a bird to grace the Thanksgiving feast; yet from that pair of turkeys was developed a flock that paid no small part of its owner’s expeness at normal school. In 1932, Donald DeMoss took over the management of the flock, and artificial brooding was practiced for the first time. The brooder was a small chicken house. About 400 tur keys were marketed that year. The following year a 24’ by 56’ furnace- heated brooder was built and incu bators were bought. About 900 tur keys were marketed. The next year I . ---- a Early Telephone Service. The only telephone service was at Echo in 1906. The eastern Oregon telephone company was a local con cern of which A. B. Thomas was manager. This company had extend- ed a line up Butter Creek, and was induced to open a central exchange here. The two story building now on Main street was built to secure a franchise. 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