The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-23
THE HARVEST FIELD
Athena Wheat Tests No. 1, and Yields
Will Be Moderately Fair Con-
sidering Season.

Every sample of the new wheat crop
that has been brought to Athena
buyers, easily tests No. in quality.
The average test this year clings
around so pounds, the required test
for No |. wheat being 58 pounds to
the bushel. Harvest will not be in
full blast until next week. therefore
exact lines on what the yield will be
cannot at this time be fully determin-
ed, but enough grain has been run in
to the sack to show that moderately
fair crop, season considered, will
| result.
Estimates given the Press show that
the yield in this vicinity will range
from 35 to so bushels per acre.
The price at which the hulk of the
new crop will be Jared loose, is now
the principal topic for discussion.
Bluestem advanced two cents in the
last week. indicating that the millers
will still depend on domestic trade for
their output, and that the high price
will continue to smother Oriental
traffic in flour.
XThe local market quotation is S5
CENTS for No. grain. Dollar wheat
is heard talked Of on all sides and in
dications lead to the belief that if the
raiser is in position to hold, be will
get that figure.
Harvest Notes.
Casper Woodward has a field Of
Hybrid wheat, No. 1873, the seed of
which was developed at Washington
State College. which tests GA pounds,
and is yielding between 80 and 35
bushels.
M. L. Watts big field of bluestem
is free from smut, is yielding 35
bushels per acre and tests so pounds.
The Gerking boys are harvesting
80 busnel crop. Reporting good
quality Of grain, but some smut.
James Bryan's crop on the light
soil, over in "the basin" averaged 20
bushels per acre of plump Dale and
bluestem. His barley of good quality,
averaged 30 bushels per acre.
Forty-seyen bushels per acre is the
average in the Kirk field east Of town.
This is the yield go far as threshing
has progressed.
The first car of new hay has been
shipped from Union by s. E. Miller
and was consigned to the United
States reclamation service at Hermis-
ton. The hay was No. timothy and
brought $15 per ton on the car at
Union. The hay crop was never bet
ter in the Grande Ronde valley and
cutting is in full swing.
According to the reports brought to
Walla Walla by four tillers of the
Eureka Flat soil, the wheat yield |
on the fat will be phenomenal this
year. Almost every field will run not |
lower than 30 bushels per acre, while
many will average as high as 40 and
45 bushels per acre. The farmers in
that section are also counting on dis
posing of their crop at 81 to 81. 10 per
hushel.
Barley raised on the W. e. Singer
ranch, mile west of Waitsburg was
reported Saturday to local grain deal
ers to te yielding 100 bushels to the
acre. This eolipses the record yield
heretofore reported by nine bushels an
acre and is one Of the largest yields
ever made in the Touchet valley.
Numerous eighty bushel yields have
been reported within the last few
days.
In the lower Touohet valley in the
vicinity of Waitsburg aud Prescott
harvest is we'll under way. partio ular-
ly in barley. Near Dayton harvest
will commence pretty generally this
week. That the valley will produce
the largest crop in Is years is the es-
innate Of the grain dealers.
Wheat on the Dell place is averag-
ing 45 bushels per acre.
Chas. Carpenter harvested over go
bushels of wheat per acre from field |
southeast Of town.
VIM. Pinkerton's barley is reported