East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-09-30
D. c. BRONNELL TALKS ON IRRIGATION

unoffending neighbour the recipient
of his unwelcome surplusage. These
aerial disturbances and surface ero-
Sions are destructive to property,
and may result in the utter ruin of
the farmer II permitted to take their
natural course after such neglectful
treatment. But they are not diff
cult TO overcome when the farmers
experience and education has been
such as to enable him to cope with
them.
Protect Farmer Against Self.
The most serious problem to over
come in combating the difficulty. Is
to protect the farmer against him
self-against his own neglect and
stubborn wilfulness. The present
method of wheat farming as evolved
by practice and experience has reduc-
ed that class OF agriculture to a sys-
tenn in Umailla county. The process
is very simple, and the unlnitiated
soon get onto the methods OF IT, and
by industry and fair business man.
agement soon become successful far
mers. Not so. however, with inten-
sive farming by irrigation. Greater
skill must be applied to this method
of agriculture If success shall be at
tanned and remunerative profits real
lied. The field of research and pro-
gress is unlimited in its practice.
If these statements are true. then
the person practicing intensive farm
ing under present day irrigation meth
ods must come TO his calling with a
greater preparation in the future than
he has had in the past, and 4 If he
would succeed, this preparation must
be necessity to his success. and IL
he does not come to it with this
knowledge, then he must obtain il
after he has entered into the prac-
tice Of his new calling.
Need of Preparation.
As we look back through the short
period of time that irrigation has
been practiced in America, we see the
farmer plOdding. and darkly cropping
his way in individual effort, and by |
persistent industry and superior in
telligence he has by the scientific and |
practical education accorded him in
recent years qualified himself to cope
with the difficulties common TO his
calling, so that which in former years
appeared to be unsurmomtabe OBJ
stacles 10 a successful carrying on of
his business, is now brushed aside as
a mere incident in his lucrative voca-
tion.
The people that are, in the future
10 occupy and till the lands of Una
lila and Morrow counties here under
consideration from an irrigation
wEl be largely from the
EAST where irrigation has not been ,
,racticed, and hence those people .
will have no special knowledge of that
lass gf agriculture, and they will
ONE to their new field in nine cases
'ut OF 30, totally knprepared. IN
er presest conditions many of them
'ill become discouraged before start /,
lg in, even after hayiag invested in
'rigated lands and they will leave to :.
eek new fields, and to speak disc0ur- !,
ging words IN disparagement Of a =,
rOfitable business which they were =,
ot prepared to take advantage OF
nd many of those remaining in the >
ED being so unprepared. will have ~
! uphill fight against what may ap- =,
.ar to them to be unconquerable
fficulties. OF course these trials o,
III be principally in the early de- .
lopment of these light soils, but
thout some recognized system of
ucation along the lines of practice II
cessary to bring success to the far 90
er, the reverses and adversities 90
Il continue long into the evening of ~
e with many Of these eastern far VI
srs transplanted on western soil he
der these new methods ov
How Problems Are Solved. an
These problems have in a way been tu
rked out in a plodding ,disutory ju!
ihion, but while a few have sue lcr
sded, hundreds have failed. There pa
a remedy a very simple, practical Ba
nedy, one that will put every man
on an equal footing with the other. MI
It is, as near equal as the differ
,es in mems intelligence will per-
t. The remedy is an experimen,
tion in the reclaimed district, to be M,
iD'isi'eu' equipped ana operated by thi
federal government and the state wb
ltly. The board Of regents Of the his
5oh Asr'cul'urat college, headed fur
President w. J. Kerr Of that lnstl- !
on, now have the project well un- will
way. aia by the assistance Of the TIL
people of eastern Ore no
. it is to be hoped that one Of the sell
t equipped and best operated ex- in
iment stations in the United States
soon be established and put in FIV
ration,
PRESIDENT Kerr comes to this work
ipped with the superior advantage y
a llfe's training along the line Of lau
X necessary to successful op- int
ton Of the station. siol
\ Community School. and
he station will be a model farm In
is equipment and management. 1t 7
be operated by scientific and skill
ctical men thoroughly skilled in All
r work, and the knowledge which
Y have, by education and practice.
have acquired by experiment on I
station, will be given free to the ma
ner, and thoroughly competent den
and
the
? Isthe joy ofthe household, for sn sn0
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