The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-03-20
PROSPECT OF CROPS
WHEAT FREEZES OUT ON
WASHINGTON FARMS.
Farmers West and North of Pendle
ton Report Growing Grain
Badly Damaged.

|T>A blanket of snow protected the
growing. wheat in this section during
the recent cold snap but in the wheat
growing districts west and north of
Pendleton, a raging blizzard swept
the ground clear of snow and the re-
suit is that much of the grain was
frozen out, and farpers will be COM
PEELED to reseed.
The Pendleton Tribune says the
section concerning which there is felt
the greatest fear is that part of the
county from ten to fifteen miles north
west of Pendleton. Some of the farm
ers from that region still maintain
that their grain is all right, while
others insist that it is all gone and
are making arrangements to secure
wheat and vitriol for reseeding.
Farmers from Helix, Adams and that
! end of the county, as we'll as those
from Pilot Rock, say that their grain
was sufficiently protected from the
cold by the few inches of snow which
fell before the coolest weather came.
On the other hand, the farmers who
insist that their grain has been frozen
out, say that the damage was done
by the blizzard of Sunday evening.
which killed the grain before the
snow came.
Several of the extensive wheat
growers from points on Eureka fiat
and along the Snake river above
Eureka Junction, believe that the fall
sown wheat and barley crop is prac-
tically ruined. Fred Hover, who is
an extensive grower on the high ridge
between Walla Walla and Columbia,
a short distance from Prescott, says
that the wheat in that locality is all
frozen out, and this is true on the
Snake river, west of Euyek Junction.
He says the damage was done before
the snow began to fall. The wind
commenced to blow gale from the
northeast last Saturday, and the
weather gradually got colder until
Sunday night, when it was sufficient
| ly cold to ruin the growing crop,
which, in some instances, was liter
/ ally blown out of the ground, where
the soil was light.
Charles Roedel, who lives on the
Snake, short distance above Eureka
!. Junction, reports great damage in
that section, and estimates that the
wheat on fully three fourths of the
land in that district is killed and
blown out of the ground.
There are other large farmers on the
fiat who are less pessimistic in their
views, and one of these is John Hoff-
man, with $3.50 acres of wheat, who
says it is all right. and he is not wor-
rying about having to reseed. f. w.
9. Hail, with about 1000 acres, all
seeded, says he believes the wheat in
his locality is all right. H. H. Vim
cent, with about 1900 acres seeded,
fears that it has been considerably
damaged.
Farmers around Walla Walla who
believe their wheat will have to be re-
sown are buying seed and getting
ready to commence work when the
snow disappears. The price Of wheat
for seed has increased to 75 cents and
some farmers who have been holding
for higher figure will get it now
from neighbors who sold early in the
season for the top price. Opinion is
still divided as to the extent of the
damage done by the recent cold
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