Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-07-04

- "AN hCFeF gets less
'nah ~ bushels of wheat to the acre
ana ind out how they do it, Nv
ron spent three months ridin,,
around in a buggy hunting for mon
VINO never got less than 40 busba,s
10 the acre. He found six of tbaso
men in five different counties Find
ing such man he just sat down and
talked him dry.
NOW the curious thing about this
question was that no one of tbeee
Sly men knew why they were eating
TINS 90 or so bushels to the aero
regularly, but before he got througb
with mis- study Byron Hunter had in
terFleWed thousands of these farm
ers and knew exactly why thew wara
getting the results they did.
He would go to man and say for
/ example, Mr.. Jones, tell me WHY
you are getting such big crops" Mr..
Jones would say, 1T is very simnle "
Behind the barn Mr.. Jones showed
Hunter a corrugated roller. Said he,
/ am the only farmer in the neigh
borhood who has one. That is the
secret of my success"
The corrugated roller did not have
a darned thing to do with the whole
business He YVES the only one of
the six men who was using a CORFU
gated roller.
Another mar who was getting big
crops showed Hunter a Clark's right
lap He said, Il am the only man
i'll this part of the country that uses
right-lap. That is the secret of
my success"
But he was the only man of the
six who were getting these big crops.
who was making use of the right
lap, so the right-lap did not have
anything to do with it.
Hunter got the testimony of hun
dreds of men, in addition to these
six men who We're getting more than
30 bushels to the acre every year.
He found that these six men were
handling their summer fallow in the
following way:
They disked their summer falIow
in the fall of the year in order to mix
the stubble with the dirt. Incident
ally, they killed some weeds which
had sprouted. The next spring be-
fore they started to pillow they disked
again. This was done mainly to
make a dust mulch and keep the soil
loose and mellow until they finished
their plowing-incidentall killing
more weeds by the process of disk
ing.
These six fellows were disking in
the fall and disking in the spring.
They finished blowing their summer
fallow in June and at that time it
was mellow and moist as it was in
March or April They got 49, 80 so
bushrels to the acre. That is what
we pumped out of you wheat farm
ers in the Palouse country-out of
six of you, | should say.
Every one of these six men said:
You must keep down the weeds in
your summer fallow, disk in the fall,
disk in the spring, keep the weeds off
your summer fallow That was the
secret.
| had a Jolly time with you folks
for seven and one half years. 1t
makes me feel good to see you old
Palousers come into my office in
Washington, d. c. 1t is a breath
from the west There is no air in
existence which to me is as sweet as
the air in the Palouse country.
DO you know how much food we
shall send to Europe this year? 20
100000 tons. This year we shall
send 2O.0O0,000 tons of food to
Europe and in ordinary years We
would not send more than five and
one-half millions of tons. This year,
| say which has the greatest short
age of labor in the history OF Amer
lea. American farmers are preparing
to send 100000 tons of food to
Europe
The wonderful response which the
American farmer made to the world
call for more food meant work Tor
the farmer. | know OF an Indiana
farmer. 90 years old, who had been
retired for 10 years. To help pro"
duce this food he went to work III
the field, drove an eight horse team
hitcbed to disk and led behind
this disk six horse team hitched TO
a drag harrow. He worked a head
of horses. He was producing Whea'
IN feed the allies in Europe II was