The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1892-08-12
FARM NOTES.
The Yield Is Better Than Anticipated
Weston the Banner Precinct.

The Portland Oregonian OF Thursday
reported the first shipment of new wheat
from Eastern Oregon this season. This
wheat was grown on the e. A. Hartman
farm, juss north of Weston, and was
shipped by Hamilton & Rourke to test
the grade. One car was fair sample
OF the best wheat grown this season and
was graded in Portland as "good mer-
chautabe." The other car was good
sample of fall grain which was badly
injured by heat and was passed to the
lowest grade in Portland.
While there IS an unusual amount of
this poorer class of wheat this season,
especially in the vicinity of Downing
station, still the reporter has noticed
samples of good wheat on Agent J. d.
I-rael's desk equal to any wheat grown
last season.
The variety known as the English
| Mole has been affected but very little
by heat. Mr.. DeGraw exhibits a very
fine sample of it and states that it
threshed out 35 bushels per acre.
T. j. Price has about 40 acres of this
variety which averaged 80 bushels per
acre, good quality.
This wheat was introduced into this
county four years ago by Robert Jam e.
son and Mr.. Price and is growing in
favor in the Eastern End.
Among the farmers in Weston pre-
cinct who have grown It this season we
note: Messrs. Baddely & Hartman, yield
80 bushels per acre; q. DeGraw, 81
bushels per acre; Arthur Lansdale
40 bushels per acre; w. A. Whitman
35 bushels per acre.
The market for new wheat has opened
with a wide range in price. Buyer:
offering from 40 to 55 cents per bushel
the latter price for the very best mllin.
quality.
Farmers are busy harvesting and lit
tie wheat moving. No sales reported.
Thos. Nicely, OF Juniper, states tha
, lS bushels per acre is the highest aver
. age in that district.
/ Mrs. Rogers large farm one mile ives
, of Weston is yielding so bushels L
9 average good wheat per acre.
| S. w. Crows harvesters have been a
work with a horsepower machine o.
t the reservation between Penileton an
Adams in the fields of j. II. Robbins
) James Stipp and Judge Fee. The gen
!. eral average of the locality will be- abou
25 bushels of fair grain for this season
There is an enormous quantity Of stra'
Y and only about 1000 bushels day Ca
- be threshed.
O B. Kennedy has finished thrcshir
f quarter section at his place near W a
.. rem Station, and secured an averas
yield Of 1S1a bushels. The grain is
fair quality for this season, and weigl
Y 55R pounds to the bushel. Harvesle
Il are NOW at work on another 1UU ac
/, field from which Mr.. Kennedy expects
is yield OF ilom 22 TO 25 bushels. T
n thinks the average yield of all his graf
y 450 acres, will be about 20 bushels. !
IL says the L. o.
The largest yield so far reported fro
# the UmatiIIa reservation is that OF Nj
j. Hungat", who reports 36 bushels to Il
IT. acre, or a total Of 81, 900 bu .he!s.
'r J. A. Booth, wEo is in the city, h
= finished threshlng about $1,000 sacks
ID his reservation ranch near Cayuse. T.
grain is yielding about :5 bushels to Il
,s acre, and most of it is Of No. qualt
o. His neighbors, Alex and Dan Kirk, a
getting some 30 bushels to the acre
good grain. One patch OF eleven acrt
q california Gollen" variety, averag
45 bushels, remarkably heavy yield
this season.-[ E. O.