The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-08-31
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August 10, 1889.
| EDITOR TINES -MoUNTAISErR:
Please allow me space in your valuable
paper to state few facts as regards the
yield of wheat and borley in this part Of
Sherman county. 1 noticed an item in the
Obserrer of the 10th stating that the wheat
harvest still continues and large quantities
are being delivered TO the warehouse, also
says the market has an upward tendency
and little wheat is being sold, and also says
oats and. barley is yielding well, but rather
| light in weight, and he further states in a
recent issue that Sherman county is able to
take care of itself. There is no use for a
man to publish such stuff when figures show
that the average yield will only be about %
bushels of wheat per acre and barley only
about sack per acre, and wheat and barty y
is very light and is not fit for market and
hardly for seed.
There is about I of the acrage of this
county that will not be threshed at all.
Some of the farmers are cutting the little
short stuff for COW feed; some of them get
one ton of that stuff to every four acres. The
farmers are trying to get something to keep
their stock from starving this winter. They
look for hard, cold winter on stock and
are trying to prepare for it. think if the
editor would go out In the county anG try
to collect few bills he would never attempt
to write another piece as he did ON his issue
of Aug. 9th.
1 will give you the names of some of
our best farmers who live in the best part
of Sherman county and who sowed their
grain last fall and ON the very best ground
in the best condition (summer fallow
grounds:
Thomas Farra, 90 acres wheat, threshed
200 sacks; George Meader, 40 acres wheat,
threshed IS sacks; II. S. Mcdaniel, 80 acres
wheat, threshed lJ0 sacks; Captain Moore,
80 acres wheat, threshed l70 sacks; II. S.
Mcdaniel, 20 acres barley, threshed 25
sacks; John Moury, 25 acres barley,
threshed 40 sacks; John Moores' wheat will
average about 615 or bushels per acre.
The above farmers have as good wheat as !
there is in Sherman county. There is two |
threshing machines in this part OF the coun-
ty and they only ian about or days.
w uOn Wrlte tnlS TO cast reflection on |
Sherman county or the Observer; all we
want is to get the truth before the people
who are making inquiries about this county
and thinking of coming here. There is a
number of our farmers who sowed great
deal of spring grain and none of it will be
cut as it is just burned down to the ground.
Some of the farmers will be able to pull
through but great many will have to seek
elsewhere. Old settlers say it
IS the first failure since the settlement Of
the county, and we hope it will be the last
one. There is not man in the southern
part of this county who will cut or thresh
one bushel. 1 don't know what great
many of them will do for seed They haye
sot nothing to buy with-some of them have
some stock but there is nothing to buy it
with. Wheat being their only crop that
hey depend upon. think the situation is
worse than Johnstown, because those that
lid survive the flood could get work and
hose that live here haye to leave their fam
lies and seek employment elsewhere. This |
allure is not only in Sherman county but
III over Eastern Oregon. Some thought they
would get a pretty fair yield, but when
hey came to thresh it showed shortage
VI about / to ] of their calculations. This
s true and II any one doubts it come and
AXE look, and talk with some of our best
nen. S. B. w.