East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-09-13
UMATILLA PROJECT
YIELDS HEAVILY
PRODUCTS TOWER OVER
AVERAGE FOR STATE
Reduced to Actual Figures, Compare
son Shows Western Part of This
County TO be Garden Spot of Ore
gon I'M Most Productive.
(speclal Correspondence.l

Hermiston, Ore, Sept. 13.-Few
people take time to investigate off
cial crop records of Oregon, and the
Northwest, and especially to compare
them with what is being done in this
section of the country and on the
Umatilla project. A few interesting
items from the 1910 crop report fol-
low:
Average wheat yield for the state
, 1873 hushelT. Average price 81 cents
! u returhs Of $15.5S per acre.
Average timothy yields 1913 tons
az $10.76 per ton, $16 per acre,
average alfalfa yied 3.117 tons, at
IS 10 per ton, or s27.21 per acre.
Average yield of potatoes 100
bushels at 40 cents or $4S.S7 per
acre.
Comparing the above with what is
being done on the Umatilla project is
interesting. Wheat is only raised for
a cover crop, and no tests have been
made by threshing. Farmers have
only experimental with timothy.
Alfalfa Is grown here in large guam
!, titles, and Of extra good quality, near
L. every farmer having a small acre
age. while some have devoted their
} entire acreage to its culture. The
4 average yield in the state is 3.117
I tons. Here the yield averaged I tons
J and at the price given the average
profit per acre is $61.11, or a little
more than double the average for the
state.
\ IN potatoes the comparison is ever
I greater. The average for the state l.
$46.S7. Here on the project figure.
obtained from farmers place the re,
turns at an average of $40 per acre
This shows profits three times great
er than the state average.
, One might go right down the lis
= and take everything grown on the pro
3 ject and compare it with the averag,
yield OF the state, and in every in
Z stance a good substantial increas
y could pc shown over the figures iron
official crop records. And this woul
not only apply to the state of Oregon
= alone, but to the entire United States
D DR.. c. w. Crop is here fron
Walla Walla spending several day
2 visiting at the home of his daughte
D Mrs. c. II. Upthegrovc and family
d DR.. Group has Just returned from
! three months trip in northern Idah
b where he is interested in a gold min,
. from here he goes to Castle Roc
= where he has a 200 acre alfalfa rancl
D Henry Sommerer and r. R. Lew.
N are in Pendleton this week lookin
"a after the Hermiston collection of e2
hibits for the county fair. Mr.. Son
. merer has charge of the booth for til
Farmers Union and nv tba InOkS
= tho specimens he shipped they wi
~ have a fine showing from the Umi
~ tilla project.
re In saturdays issue of the Hermisto
III Herald appeared the aunounceme
cd Of the opening of the Project Dru
is company's new store. The store is Il
Gated in the same building with tn
Jensen jewelry store. The room
have been remodeied and everythir
: will be installed for the opening Sa
urday, Septembre 10th.
DR.. NJ. V. Turley reports sewers
4! new settlers over Sunday. To Al
and Mrs. Chas. Needing a ten poun
IL boy and to Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Brow
d a boy.
Rev. I. S. Leonard of .Harringto'
al Washington has been placed in chare
p OF the Baptist pulpit here. Rev. LIE,
nard's family has not arrived yet, bl
will be here during the next wee
They win occupy the Yates cottage c
IF Gladys avenue.
The Newport Land and Construt
nv ton company has a force of men bus
ITS loading camping outfits for use