Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-08-13
PAYS TO DO
GOOD FARMING
The Dry Season Has Been
Good Test.

| Durlng the past Twelve mOntH!
the precipitation of moisture has
been the smallest known for many
years. In fact there are old resi-
dents who claim that the pas
season has been one of the dryes,
ever known. Harvest is now here
and the yield of wheat has proven
that Morrow county is great
wheat country by a most rigid
test.
While the crop is undoubtedly
short caused by dry weather, still
we will grow in this county close
to a million bushels Of wheat Oh
an acreage 25 per cent. short of
last years crop.
The dry season has proven some
thing else that should be val.
liable object lesson to all. 1t has
proven that it pays to do good
farming.
Ia different localities many
fields have turned out good yield !,
while in the same localities there
were fields that were hardly worth
cutting. On the same kind of soil
and practically the same condi-
tions surrounding, one farmer
grows good crop while his neigh
bor grows poor crop. To the
close observer this is not matter
of chanc :, for in every instance the
man who raised the good crop used
different methods in farming from
the man who produced the poor
crop. In nearly every instance
the man who cultivated the soil
prone,ly, even this off year got a
fairly good yield.
Prof Fl. W. Campbell of Lin
coin, Nebraska, is doing much for
the farmers in the arid and semi
arid districts. Prof. Campbell has
made a special study of the SO
called dry farming for number of
years aud his experiments from a
scientific standpoint have produc-
ed good results that cannot be
doubted.
After Is years of practical
demonstration, Prof. Campbell is
now thoroughly convinced that the
common methods of soil treatment
practiced under all conditions and
In all sectors Of the country are
producing only about half What
could be produced if proper
methods were used.
Prof. Campbell's experiments
have been conducted in different
sections of North Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Colorado. The
reached were that the
crop growth and grain yield Was
largely by the physical
condition of the soil.
While the conservation Of the
moisture is an important factor, il
is by no means all says the pro-
fessor.
The farmer like every 9th er line
of business or profession, in order
to reach the highest degree of
success must be a specialist.
The Campbell system contains
no rigid rules or difficult courses
of study to master.
Improvement of methods should
be at least worth trying.
In speaking of the time to begin,
Campbell's Scientific Farmer says:
begin when you are ready.
Begin as soon as possible. Begin
lust as soon as you understand
what you are going to do and Why.
Begin when the soil needs atten-
ton, and that is about all the time"
Now that the harvest time IS
here, the paper gives the following
pointers:
Begin your soil culture the day
YOU put the harvester into the
field. Do not begin the next day.
"When the harvester starts a.
cross the field, put right behind it
the disk and have the disk follow
the harvester all the time.
Have the disk do as much pull
verizing of the soil surface as
possible.
IF you cut off the grain and
leave the soil exposed to the hot
sun of July or August it will only
be a few days until all the mois-
ture is taken away from the upper
layer. In very many instances
delay of a single day is serious.
"In fact it is the time immediate
ly following the cutting of the
ripened grain that is most wasteful