Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1911-04-20
STOCK FARMINGFOR
MORROW COUNTY
Writer Urges Raising Of More Sheep, Cattle
and Hogs on the Farm, and Marketing Of
Grain Crops Through the Stock.
By J. Garfield Crawford, Ft. Worth, Texas

SOlI Uuc cItllly Wn1Cu tAC CIOP &c
constantly absorbing. Then sci
aside twenty to forty acres for the
keeping of your stock during the
maturing time of the wheat and
barley crops. Plant this pasture
land to winter emmer, cow peas
and milo maize.
| am not sure that milo will grow
in all parts of Morrow county, but
feel confident that the farmers of
lower Eight Mile and of all that
section north of Heppner can grow
this drouth resistant crop to great
success. All of these crops [ have
mentioned are drouth resistant and
are the principal stock feed crops
of the Southwest, and if they can
resist the drouth of this section of
the universe they certainly should
be able to get through the summers
of Eastern Oregon.
The soils around Waurika, Oklahoma.
are practically the same as the s)il of
! the township section of Morrow county
mentioned Here, when the wheat crop
is failure the farmers have their acre
age OF milo and are able to carry theil
stock through in splendid shape. The
soils of Western Texas are very similar
to the soils OF Eight Mile and Upper
Sand Hollow. These countries are
wheat producing sections, they are milo
and kaffir sections, and cow peas, emmer,
COOLERS and alfalfa are found on every
well regulated farm in abundance.
Milo is the surest yielding grain crop
that is grown in Eastern. Colorado.
Western Kansas and Oklahoms, the
Panhandle of Texas and Eastern New
Mexico. The U. S. Department of Ag-
| ricul ure reports the average yield for
| five yeara aE Amarillo. Texas, land It
gets a6 cold in Amarillo as any place
south of the Canadian line,) and other
| dry experiment stations at forty bushels
of grain per acre year. Farmers iD
the same sections report yields from
thirty to eighty bu hels per acre.
A bushel of milo will produce from
ten to eleven pounds of pork. This
makes the average annual pork produt-
tion from the dry lands of the southwest
equal to 400 and upwards pounds Of
pork per acre where milo is grown and
ted. Ten pounds of milo have the same
feeding value for horses, beef and dairy
cattle, hogs and sheep as nine pounds
of corn.
Government experts recommend that
milo should be grown in all countries
where the annual rainfall is below
twenty Ave inches. Farmers of the
Panhandle of Texas say that it never
fails to weld crop of grain, and that it
will yield twenty bushels an acre in
wears SO dry that wheat is an absolute
failure. Milo should haye the same
place in dry land farming aud stock
production that corn has in Iowa and
Illinois, or wheat IN the Dakotas and
Washington. Milo should not be plant
ed at an altitude of more than 5000 feet,
although it sometimes ripens at 1000
feet
Plant milo in rows three and halt
feet apart. dlopping single seeds three
inches apart in the row. 1t may be
either listed in shallow furrows, or
drilled on the surface in we'll prepared
ground 1t should not be planted before
the middle OF May, at anv rate, not un-
til the farmer feels that his crop will be
safe from frosts.
A few head of sheep on the summer
fallow will keep the land clear of weeds
and with few acres sowed to pasture
there is not a farmer in Morrow county
who will not be able to turn off at least
one carload of good fat hogs, two or
three steers and few head Of mutton
sheep.
The farmers of the South are begin
ming to find this out an the time is but
A short way off when the meat line OF
this country will come s1uth of the old
Mason and Dixon line.
Do the farmers of the Pacific coast
want their money to he sent to Texas
and Nebraska to pay for the meats they
eat? think not, but they must begin
to give some of their attention to this
branch of the farm or the big packing
institutions at Portland will be forced tc
turn over their money to the Nebraskan
and the Southerner.