The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1913-06-27
FARMERS KEEP
ADVISOR BUSY
County Agriculturist is Covering the
Field by Districts and Lean
ing Clients Troubles

ing Clients Troubles
Lee NJ. Lampson, county agricul-
,nral advisor, has put in five busy
v eeks since he opened his Office in
the Bank of Kennewick building.
Az rapidly as possible he is visiting
each district in the county, becom-
ing acquainted with the farmers and
familiarizing himself with the farm
ing possibilities of each section. He
spent nearly all of last week in Pros
ger and vicinity, winding up his
visit there with a lecture before the
North Prosser grange Friday night.
This week he was at Hanford and
will return to Prosser tomorrow to
give a lecture before the East Pros.
ser grange tomorrow evening. He
has now visited nearly all sections
Of the county except the south eastern
part and hopes to be able to reach
Finley and Hover before the end of
the month.
The object Of this preliminary
survey of his field is, in addition to
the advantage of becoming person.
ally acquainted with the farmers, to
gather accurate data as to the needs
of each district III order that sys-
tematic campaign may be planned
for next seasons work. Mr.. Lamp
son was placed in the field at too
late a date for his work to have any
very direct bearing on the growth
or harvesting of this seasons crop,
so that his efforts now must of fneces-
sity be along the lines OF finding the
things that are causing trouble,
studying out the necessary corrective
measures and getting this informa-
ton before the farmers in order that
the results will show in next years
work.
Instancing a few of the things that
have already come under his OBJ
servation, Mr.. Lampson says that
in nearly every district he has found
that cheet is becoming a very dan
gerous weed pest. He has there
fore used a system of drilling in
certain grains with the cheet-infected
alfalfa which he believes will in a
season or two kill out the weed. He
intends to have the scheme tried
out by one or two farmers in each
district who will devote from two
to five acres to the e experiment. and
make their reports to the county
advisor. If the plan works out al
expected, the information will be
given to all farmers through the
medium Of the local press and prob.
ably also in the publication of a
government bulletin.
Mr.. Lampson has also written ar
article dealing with grain and al.
falfa balanced ration for hogs which
ne expects to have printed at ar
early date.
A rancher near Benton City be-
lieves he has discovered the secre'
OF successfully raising tomatoes
free from blight. He has beer
asked to keep careful record at tn,
results obtained by his method anc
II 1t proves of real value it will b.
made public.
One farmer in the Horse HEAVIER
country has had splendid success.
with corn. The advisor believes
tnat this crop can be made a val
oaole one on the hill lands anC
IN conjunction with the silo viii
give a great impetus to the stocE
raising industry throughout th'
country. Another Horse Heaver
larmer raises a lot of carrots every
year for stock feed-a crop of which
MS neighbors seem not to hav'
realized the value, or else have made
a failure of raising. This man.
methods will be studied and demon
s-rated to his less successful neigh
bors.
And 80 it goes. Hardly a da!