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THURSDAY OCTOBER 26, 1905.
EASTERN OREGON WHEAT LANDS
Dr. James Withycoiribe, extensive
farmer and director of the agricultural
experiment station at the Oregon
Agricultural college, makes the some
what startling statement that if eastern
Oregon wheat raisers persist in their
present course of procedure raising
a crop of wheat on the same piece of
land every other year and letting it lie
fallow the intermediate years all that
region will relapse into a desert waste.
He declares that letting the land rest
every other year not only does not
benefit it, but on the contrary exhausts
it more than raising several crops of
wheat does.
Dr. Withycombe ranks as an auth
ority on this subject. He says that to
conserve the fertility cf the soil the
. wheat farmers, instead of letting half
their land lie Idle alternate years,
must raise other crops upon it, prefer
ably alfalfa or vetches. This, the
theory probably is, will really "rest"
the land so far as its wheat raising
energies are concerned, and will pre
vent the wasteful evaporation or ex
haustion of its chemical properties
that are requisite in the production of
wheat.
Something analagous to this is true
of any individual. A change from one
form of work to another is a rdeif and
equivalent to a rest, while continued
or frequent spells of idleness leads to
incapacity for work.
There appears as yet, we thihk, no
plain signs to indicate to the average
observer the catastrophe Dr. Withy
combe predicts, for land on which
wheat has been raised for a quarter of
a century or more still produces as
well as ever; yet he may, as he should
be able to, look farther below the sur
face of the agricultural industry than
most other men; and his advice as to
raising alfalfa and vetches,' is certainly
good;: '
It has been demonstrated that these
crops can be produced on dry uplands
and that being the case there is prote-
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bty. as fwchv profit in these Jodder
crops as in wheat! On some farms a
round Walla Walla four cuttings of al
falfa were made this season, aggregat
ing perhaps 9 or 10 tons an acre, be
sides several weeks pasturage early in
the spring and again in the fall. Sure
ly this is better than the best wheat
crop.
At any rate, Dr. Withycombe's
declaration and suggestion will arouse
much interest and wide attention in
the wheat belt. ' ,
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