Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-04
TO Make REPORT
/ ON PROGRESS IN
EASTERN OREGON
Farm Expert Of the Hill
System Looking Over the
Country Between Ontario
and Burns.
Capital News Special Service,

(Capital News Special serv1cs)
Ontario. Nov. 4.-Professor Thomas
Shaw, the farm expert for the Hill
railroad. spent several days In On
tario and vicinity during the past
week. Professor Shaw was sent hare
two years ago by Louis Hin to mako
a report on this country. On this last
trip he Is instructed to make . de-
tailed report of the agricultural pos
sibilities of both irrigated and dry
lands. He IL to cover the territory
between the Ontario and the Burns
district.
Professor Shaw was delighted with
the country and was greatly surprised
with the wonderful developments that
have transpired about Ontario since
he was here two years ago.
AS Professor Shaw looked over the
new land that Is coming under cul-
tivation and after making an esti-
mate Of the acreage OF orchard plant
ed which will come into bearing dur
ing the next few years. He became
impressed with the problem Of trans
portation. He said: How are We to
get freight cars to handle the apples
and other products?' 1t Is foregone
conclusion that Professor Shaw will
advise the Hill interests that this is
very attractive field for immediate
| railroad development.
Professor Shaw has been James ].
Hills agricultural adviser for great
| many years. He has the enviable rep
| utation OF never going wrong in Civ
| ing his opinion as to the agricultural
possibilities Of the many new and I'M
tried countries that the Hill railroad
system has built into.
Winter Wheat Growing.
Professor Shaw believes that 1t Is
possible to grow paying crops of win
ter wheat, winter oats and winter bar
LEY on the dry lands of Malheur coun-
ty, but to grow these crops he said.
1--WE must, of course. follow altogether
different methods of cultivation than
| those practiced in a country OF heavy
| rainfall, and where the land is irri-
4 gated" He now has over 20 expert
ment stations In operation in the aril
districts of the west that are support
ed in part by the Hill railroad inter
1 ests.
While here he made arrangements
i for an experiment station on the high
1 DenCn lana southwest VI oIltdIlO. his
first experiment will be with winter
wheat, winter emmer, winter barley.
winter oats kaffir corn and he Is also
going to try to get a stand Of alfalfa
without irrigation, to be grown for
seed This alfalfa is to be planted in
rows and cultivated to conserve the
moisture.
While in Ontario, Professor Shaw
visited several orchards. and found a
few trees that had not yet been
picked and he said. EN- all my travels
have never seen trees so heavily
loaded" He was also grN.tly inter-
} ested in our enormous yields of al
falfa
Professor Shaw has been a very
successful farmer for 40 years and
during the past 80 years he has been
identified with some of the largest
J experiment stations in the United
States and Canada.
He is considered one of the best
| judges OF soil and perhaps the most
| eminent expert in determining the
/ ability OF soil. climate and cultivation
to different crops that the country has
known and 1t is fortunate that east
ern Oregon Is to become the benefi-
/, ciary OF his good judgment and wide
experience