East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-07-27
NEWS OF FARM AND RANGE
CLAIM OVER MILLION
BUSHELS WHEAT SOLD
FOR INACTIVE MARKET LOCAL
WHEAT PIT HAS BEEN
BUSY, PRICE 30 CTS.

Between a million and a million
and a half bushels of Umatilla coun-
ty's wheat crop has already been
sold. The price has generally been
70 cents but in some instances as
high as II 1-2 has been paid while
on the other hand some wheat has
been purchased at figures under the
10 cent mark.
Since the early contracting OF
wheat several weeks ago the local
market as well as the entire north
west wheat market has been outward
ly quiet and inactive. AS a matter of
fact there has been gradual selling
during much of the time recently and
very considerable amount of wheat
has been purchased, II the statements
Of local buyers may be relied upon.
There was no excitement in the
market Saturday, yet according to
one local buyer not less than 10000
bushels were sold on 20 cent basis
a trifle more being paid on some
lots. It is said that out of 100000
sacks of wheat stored at Mission S0,-
900 sacks are sold.
!
Has Grasshopper .KiIler.-C. H.
! Bartholomew harvested a pretty fair
crop OF grasshoppers o. his Butter
creek farm during the past week
when they were trying to eat up ev-
erything on the place. He invented
a machine for catching them that
proved quite successful, and he be-
| lieves that had his neighbors made
and used the same implement their
section would have been well rid OF
the hoppers before much damage
was done. A drag, made of l6-foot
boards and about four feet wide was
used. a horse being hitched on the
corner at each end TO propel it. On
the back of this "sled" was placed a
row of 5-gallon cans containing
crude oil, and extending back of these
cans in a slightly slanting position
was a wall of tin. As the drag moved
along the hoppers raised up and
striking this tin slid down into the
! cans of oil. A pile Of hoppers on one
OF the places is 10 feet long and two
feet high-Heppner Gazette.
Fair to NIiddIin'" Crop - No
enough wheat has as ye1 been har
vested around Weston to get lin'
on the probable yield. The barle.
!. crop is known to be good but tn
general opinion is that the wheat av
erage will be considerably less thar
that of last year. 1t Is Sonsidere'
: quite likely that good many NOR
e crops will 60 under than over 4
bushels. which is about the Reighbor
hood standard for fall-sown wheat
The only sample brought to town thi
week showed an unusually small ber
, ~. although plump enough and con
tained some smut. 1t tested s
pounds. The harvest run is likely {
{ be short and successful as weathe
3 conditions are nearly ideal and ma
I chimes are plentiful On the whole
4 "fair to middlin'" will just about de
scribe the local crop situation.-Wes
ton Leader.
The prune situation is looking NOR
, favorable than for several years con
tracts have been made by the LAM
Fruit Co. for the disposal of the prun
- crop of the valley at prices which ar
: most gratifying and which will b
= most satisfactory TO the growers
\ Thirty-five cars have already beel
sold to Chicago firm and s2500 ha
been placed in the bank to bind tn
contract This contract will net tn
/, growers from sS2 to s25 per ton 1
the number of crates to the ton pacl
out as we'll as they did last year.
n Farmers and others who are travel
d ing the roads of this end of the coun
s ty. particularly those roads in the hi
: sections, believe that a good coatin
of straw over the dust would do muc