LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
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LEXINGTON, OREGON
3. A. THOMAS,
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3, 1879.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1906.
DRY FARMING
(Continued from page one.)
twelve inches Is sufficient to bring to
maturity any ordinary farm crop, there
are many special crops that can be
grown with a good margin of profit
with an average rainfall of less than
ten inches. Experiments are now in
progress for the development of vari
eties of wheat, alfalfa, and corn pos
sessing greater drouth-resistent quali
ties than any now known. Enough
progress has been made along this
line to prove the entire practicability
of developing such varieties, and there
are those who do not hesitate to say
that the time is not far in the future
when it will be possible to grow crops
cf economic importance wherever
natural vegetation of any kind flourish
es. Of course to produce, or create,
' varieties of ordinary crop plants that
will flourish under arid conditions will
require years of careful cultivation and
selection with regard to drouth-resisting
qualities. That such experiments
will ultimately be crowned with perfect
success is surely no unreasonable ex
pectation, in view of the miracles that
have been performed by Luther Bur
bank and others with plant life in oth
er fields of investigation. .
While the methods used in dry
farming were evolved frc m the expe
rience of private persons, without aid
or encouragement from official sourc
es, yet within the last few years the
Department of Agriculture has made
a contribution of inestimable import
ance to the dry-farming movement
by making a systemetic and success
ful search for crop plants particularly
adapted to cultivation ' in arid and
semj-arid regions. In this work and
in Die general Investigation of improv
ed methods of fawning In arid Ameri
ca, it has been, and Is now being, ably
seconded by the various State agricul
tural schools throughout the West.
While practical dry farmers have
proved by their own experience on
hundreds of different farms that all
the ordinary cereals, forage plants,
fruits, berries, and vegetables will
flourish and richly reward the agricul
turist in the arid belt, if given suffi
cient care and attention, the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the various
State agi Cultural schools have shown
that certain valuable crops can be
raised with much less labor than oth
ers, and that some will flourish better
without irrigation in some parts of arid
America than they will flourish In any
part of humid America.
Hundreds of striking Instances of
successful arming by the methods of
the Campbell system of soil culture
might be cited; but a very few exam
ples showing tine growth of the idea
suffice. '
Twenty years ago, Mr. J. P. Pom
eroy, now of Colorado Springs, acquir
ed 30,000 acres of land in Graham
county, western Kansas, and founded
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tract. For fourteen years portions of
this land were .cultivated by the old
fashioned methods. In all that time
only one good crop was harvested, that
being in a season when the rainfall
was abnormally large. He had heard
of Mr. Campbell and his system of dry
farming, and sent for him, telling him
to go ahead and show just what he
cqild do on land on which profitable
farming by ordinary methods had prov
ed to be Impossible. Mr. Campbell
laid out a model farm on the very land
that had been tried often wit'i discour
aging results. Last seasoh the sixth
successive crop vas harvested. . In
the fourteen years in which old-fashioned
methods were followed, thirteen
failures were scored. In the six years
in which the Campbell system has
been on trial on the same lands, a
crop failure has been unknown. The
smallest yield of wheat per acre In
that time has been thirty five bushels,
while farmers close by have never ob
tained more than thirteen bushels per
acre, and very rarely even that. The
yield of corn, oats, potatoes, alfalfa,
berries, small fruits, and vegetables is
equal to that obtained from the best
(Continued next week.)
SCHOOL NEWS ,
School opened on Monday with a
fair attendance
All those expecting to take work in
the high school must enter immediate
ly if they expect to accomplish any de
finite results,
We would like to call attention to
the fact that children who have never
attended school before and expect to
attend this year must enter at once
for it will be impossible to make new
classes for them later on.
We wish to call attention to the
fact that any one desiring a business
course can secure it In Lexington. A
modern business i College method of
book-keeping is taught in the school
and lessons in type writing, and short
hand are given on very reasonable
terms. , , . ,; , , . ,, .
We ask the parents to help us as
much as possible and if our ways are
not exactly your ways don't spoil the
little good we may do by discouraging
the child and disparaging our efforts.
We are sorry to say that but few pa
rents are in a position to tell very
much about the school but we hope
that condition may be changed.
Parents should take an interest In the
school, and we would consider it a
great favor to have them visit us. We
expect to give this year the best, school
results you have eVer received. YoU
have given US nine months in which to
do our work, This gives us a- fair
show with other1 Schools'. Now if you
will throw in 'your infftteftce and thus
aid us in the work we are frying to do
we are sure much better result will
follow than ever before.
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flammation, Mr. Strauss came to Mr.
James N. Nichols, a local merchant,
for something to stop' (he pain. Mr.
Nichols says: "I advised him to use
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first application drew out the inflam
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have used this liniment myself and re
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left, also white and colored lawns,
which we continue to reduce.
Our stock of wash goods, while
not extensive at this time of year,
holds some good bargains for you.
We want to clear away these for
fall goods which will soon arrive.
BARMEN
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When at leisure drop in and pass away the time.
Fruits, Confections and soft drinks always in
stock, just the place to buy your best girl a chew
of gum or a fine lot of candy.
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