Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1914-07-03
WALLACE LIKED
STATE COLLEGE
Veteran Agricultural Editor Eulo'
gizes Work of the W. ). q, and
Record of President 3ryan


editor of Wallaces' Farmer, enjoyed
his recent visit to Pullman and was
very favorably impressed by the
country and the work of the w. S. c.,
is evidenced by the following letter
published in the last issue of his
paper:
That whole Inland Empire, as
Eastern Washington and part Of
Idaho is called, the country between
the two great mountain ranges, ex-
poets to be very greatly benefited by
the opening of the Panama canal,
enabling them to ship a large part
of their fruit to Pacific ports and
market it direct to Australia, to the
British Empire, and to the continent.
There are two great farming sec
tons in that Inland Empire, one
called the Palouse and the other the
Big Bend | visited the Palouse
country perhaps 10 years ago. 1t
was given over to the production of
small grain, mostly spring wheat,
oats and barley. | visited farmer,
Il distant relative of Mrs. Wallace,
who had retired but had large farm
in the valley. | asked him what he
grew on 1t, and he told me wheat. |
said Have you any grass He re-
piled. Grass will not grow in this
country" asked him to excuse me
for little while and / brought him
white clover, orchard grass and al
falfa, gathered on the common, and
said to him: You are evidently mis-
taken, for | find grass growing on its
own hook and without any help from
you" He replied: Il have been in
this country 40 years, and you have
been here two hours. Do you mean
to tell me that you know more about
this country than | do?" | said
Certainly propose to cut a day
off my visit with you and go down
to the college at Pullman, and see if
they are not doing what | told you
can be done in this section" did
so, and that was my first visit to
Pullman.
My mission to Pullman this time
was to take part in the exercises con-
nected with the laying of the corner
stone of the James Wilson Agricul-
tural hall, a splendid new building
dedicated to our friend James Will
son, in memory of the great work he
has done in the Departm ent of Agri-
culture. Secretary Wilson is still liv-
ing, and we hope he will live a long
time; but it is fine idea to dedicate
this great building to his name while
he Is still living, and his memory
after he is taken away from us.
The college at Pullman is doing
magnificent work for this Inland EN-
pire. 1t is demonstrating to the
farmer there what can be done in
the way of progressive farming. 1t
does not use the bare fallow. that is,
letting the land lie idle every other
year and blowing it for the purpose
OF getting rid of weeds, especially
wild oats. 1t grows a large acreage
OF corn on its splendid farm of sew
eral hundred acres, and is endeavor-
ing to develop, and no doubt will in
tlme' type of corn adapted to that
section. They tell me that corn
grows very slowly in this altitude.
from $500 to 5000 feet above sea
level, where the nights are always
cool, until along in August, when it
grows more rapidly, but fails to ma
ture and must be used for silage. We
do not see why farmers in that sec
ton could not grow corn-which
Few OF them do, however, instead of
bare fallowing-and feed it off with
sheep or put it in the silo, and then
drill in their winter wheat. Winter
eao ehliiO6I every where
else, is taking the place of spring
wheat.
No one understands that country
better than President e. A. BRYAN.
who has filled out his twenty-first
year there, and is the oldest agricul-
tural college president in the United
States. There are about 100 pro-
lessons and teachers in the college.
1t has a splendid appearing lot of
young people of both sexes. The col
lege has fine equipment in the way
of land and buildings, and will have
very much to do in shaping the des-
TIMES of this inland empire.
The Big Bend is a different kind
OF country. 1t has been a wonderful
wheat country, and such great faith
have the spectators had in wheat,
that they have pushed its cultivation
from the section of about Is or 90
inches OF rainfall to the section of
seven or eight inches, and with dis
l.