East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-25

The Oregon Daily Journal says of
the vigorous campaign for better
farming methods and increased pro-
duction started by the o. R. & n. COM
pany in eastern Oregon:
a 1O-year campaign has been enter
ed upon by the o. R. & \. company
by which it is declared that the pro-
ductiveness of eastern Oregon and the
inland empire can be trebled and live
stock grazing converted into a fat
stock industry on an enormous scale.
1t is declared that oregon can be add
ed to the corn belt and will success
fully produce the cereal that is the
staple stock fattener of the middle
west.
The complete success of the o. r. &
y. company's preliminary campaign
for diversified farming in the terri
tory tributary to its lines has decided
the company to continue the work.
Other demonstration trains will be
run in the future. and the most ad-
vanced and scientific ideas will be ap-
piled to the movement.
Develop Livestock Industry.
1--WE believe that as to agricultural
products the map of eastern Oregon
and Washington will be made over
during the next few years, as a result
of the work that we have undertaken"
said R. B. Miller, general freight
agent.
1T is possible to put eastern Oregon
that Orego nwill produce corn and va
that Oregon will lproduce corn and va
rious other crops in great abundance,
and that the livestock proportions, by
following out the lines of diversified
farming advocated by the Oregon Ag-
ricultural experiment station.
Where vast wheat farms now oc-
cupy the territory, and one-half of
these lands are idle every alternate
year, general farm products can be
raised and the lands used every year
with actual benefit to every acre so
used. The result will be that while
wheat raising will continue to be
enormously successful, other crops
will come in for their share Of atten-
tion. as in the states Of the middle
west, and there will be plenty of all
kinds of feed for livestock.
Another thing-it will be found
that wheat fed to pigs will be highly
profitable, and will produce the finest
favored pork in the world. There
can be vast crops Of field peas and |
clover produced every other year on
the wheat lands, and with corn as an
important crop the eastern part of
Oregon can be converted successfully |
to the livestock business on a large
scale"
Shipping Hogs From the East.
It is said the packing houses at
present in the Pacific northwest are
importing a large majority Of their |
hogs from the middle west, and that |
these hogs can be with profit produc-
ed in Oregon. The packing house
at Walla Walla, for example, secures |
only Is per cent Of its hogs from the
eastern Washington region, and ships
most Of its raw material from the |
east. The big packers are building |
the Pacific coasts greatest packing
center at Portland, and will require a
vast number Of hogs, cattle and sheep.
The regions east Of the Cascades must
turn to the livestock business II these
packing houses are to be supplied
with sufficient livestock to keep them
going.
The declaration by so eminent
traffic authority as r. B. Miller that
eastern Oregon can be made a part of
the American corn belt will occasion
considerable surprise among old
fashioned farmers. Mr.. Miller is in
deadly earnest in his statement, and
means to demonstrate its practlcability
during the next few years. The o. r.
& N. company Is already planning a