Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-05-18
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they should? These men have worke,
hard and many Of them have given theit
lives 10 trying to pile up an inheritance
Ior their children. There is a wa,
around such condition. Let Us figure
First: Let US farm just enough land
that we can comfortably handle, say 200
acres.
Second: Procure FIVE head of brood
sows OF one of the improved breeds.
Build each small house and lot.
Third: Plat your land and then
fence it SO you will not have to be wor-
rled over Your stock.
Fourth: Rotate your crops.
On most OF the farms of Morrow coun.
ty of 200 acres, one can count on an
acres waste land or bunch grass, then
~ acres for the truck patch, house and
barn, which leaves $50 acres for The
farm. Divide the farm up as follows:
Put under hog fence 10 acres and SOW
to rye; 10 acres to COW peas; 10 acres to
kaffir corn or milo maize; so acres to
summerfallow and so acres in wheat.
In the early spring allow your sows
to run on the wheat, for your wheat
should be sown in the fall, and after it
is up to good height. take them off
and put them onto the rye. Rye should
be planted in the spring. Ten acres Of
rye will pasture the sows and their IN
crease through the summer and experi-
ment have proven that the hogs Will be
almost in prime condition.
One acre OF cowpeas will pasture II
head of hogs for an average of 35 davs.
Cowpeas are very valuable as pasturage
in tie fal as they carry a great deal OF
protein and fattening hog at this time
needs large amount of protein in its
ration. Cowpeas are becoming recog-
nized as food of great feeding and fer
tilizing value. The plant will make q
good growth on rather poor soil, and
furnish feed in late summer and early
fal when other green crops may be
short.
Then there is the 10 acres Of kafir
or milo which will furnish the fatt4ning
ration and plenty of fodder for YOUR
milk cows. You will have 80 head Of
good 200 pound pigs tor the market
which will give you a profit OF $500.
Sixty acres OF wheat will clear you $3.50.
Sixty acres of summerfaIlow will carry
10 head of ewes and their lambs; and
he 40 acres of bunchgraes Will furnish
pasture for milch cows and 6 head ot
brood mares. Your ewes will clear YOU
54O per year and the cows will bring in
90 and the mares will return divi-
lend Of 500. These are conservative
gures-most conservative. | can sight
armers in Oklahoma and Texas who
re doing better than the above on land
hat they haye to keep a wagon sheet
yer to hold it down.
The farmers who have alfalfa can
aise hogs so easy that it is hardly
orth ones while to tell about IT, but
le dry land farmer is the man who
ust utilize every inch of his land.
On the Dalhart, Texas, experiment
rm, milo and kaffir planted as late as
Inc 10 haYe matured and made spen-
d crops. The soil on this Dalhart
rm resembles the lands ofthe WooIerv
tate in townships one and two North.
le sun never beat down any hotter ON
at country, winds were never more
ying, and the winters not half so ir-
gular and blasty as they are in tue
llhart country, so, If these crops wilt
AXE good on the plains of Oklahoms
d Texas, why should they not be
'alth producers in Morrow county? /
ink thew will
The big packing houses want yous
'ck just as bad as the miller wants
1r wheat. The sandwich needs a
er 1ust as bad as it needs crust.
'rrow county can supply both.