Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-22
FROM CHICAGO.
s. L. Kline Writes From Palmer
House.

We are in receipt of a note
from S. L. Kline, who, in COM
pany with his wife, was register
ed at the Palmer House in Chi
cago. Very soon they are to be
in San Francisco, from which
place they expect to come home
about October IS. After send
ing regards to friends in Cor
Wallis, Mr.. Kline drew
attention to an article on wheat
which appeared in the S. F.
Chronicle not long ago and sug-
| gested the wisdom of a reprint of /
such portions as would be of in
terest to our wheat raisers. Be-
lieving the article to be of un-
usual interest, we take pleasure
in reprinting it entire, as follows:
The steady decline in the
volume and gluten content of the
California wheat crop is a very
serious matter to those who have
capital invested either in ranches,
which, without irrigation, can
only be devoted to grain; ware
houses for storing the crops,
steamers land barges for trans
porting it, and mills for grinding
it, and during the last year all
these interests have united, in as
sisting to defray the expense of a
thorough Investigation of the
causes of the decrease in yield per,
acre and in the quality of the
product. Professor G. w. Shaw
of the State University has been
in charge of one part Of the in
vestigation, but the matter has
engaged the attention of several
of the departments of the agri-
cultural college, of the grain ex-
perts of the United States depart
ment of Agriculture and of many
of our farmers and millers.
That the falling off in our wheat
, product is to great extent due
, to the deterioration of soil re.
sulting from long continued one
! crop farming, was, of course, re.
cognized, as was also the fac
: that Our climate TENDS to the
production of starchy, rather
, than glutenous wheat.
: For increasing the yield var
ious plans are under consider
t alton, notably irrigation, il
5 which some experiments have
= been made. Our grain growers
:. however, are not irrigators ano
our expert irrigators mostly live
: where water is too costly to be
t applied to grain crops. The op.
i. posite method of intensive dry
/, cultivation by what is poEularly
e known as the Campbell meth
e cd" has also been talked about
e but without trial, ia this State
e so far as we are aware. Improve
e ment in these directions will re
quire time. But there is ons
t way by which both yield anc
0 quality can be improved at once
e and that is by procuring nev
l. seed Of g1utenous varieties success
fully grown elsewhere, and ioun'
4 by trial to do well in this state
: A good many vaii ties have bee
Y tested during the past season an
e several have been found whic
e are quite satisfactory. The va,
II iety, however, which yields bes
y in this state, carries large gilt
d ten content, and of which see
= can be obtained in commerce.
n quantities, is the Turkish rec
$ which is extensively grown i
le Nebraska and Kansas, with blue
r stem, from Eastern Washington
le as second choice. The coz
)" sensus of opinion seems to fave
n- Turkish red, and a good deal {
seed is being imported by miller
and dealers. 1t has not rusted t
any considerable extent, does nc
p she'll or break off, yields wei
~ and is satisfactory to millers. A
= grain suitable for seed and fre
- from noxious weed seed require
II time and care for selection an
N importation, it is considered i'm
To portant that all grain grove
~ place their orders early in ordt
ID to assure the importation of
a. sufficient quantity of the prop'
ry quality.
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