The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-07-03
COUNTY STARTS FINE
CROP HARVESTING
Tour BY Heppner Business Men We'd
nesday, In Company With County =
Agent Hunt, Reveals Field
After Field of Excellent
Wheat.

AhS uPoh thC hul fSoI VI iOi Siam
crop, and in many sections headers
are now busy, and some combines
are at work. However, there will be
no general attack made on the grain
fields before the beginning of the
coming week, when crews will be
getting busy in earnest, and the har-
vesting of one of the best crops OF
grain in the history of the county will
have begun.
We are making this statement
without reservation, having on We'd
nesday Joined bunch of Heppner
business men and farmers and ae-
companied Agent Hunt and Farmer
Frank Anderson on tour of inspec-
tion.
The season has been unusually dry
and throughout the wheat belt there
has been an entire lack of rain
through May and June, thus causing
lot of apprehension as to what the
outcome would be. The conditions
early in the Spring were splendid,
and grain started we'll in all parts
Of the county, with the exception,
perhaps, Of the foothill country,
where the colder weather kept them
back, but by the middle of May or the
first of June the predictions were
coming to our ears thick and fas.
that the county would fall far short
in production unless rains would
come, and the rains having failed US,
we were prepared to accept the worst.
1t was therefore very pleasant sur
prise to visit portion OF the county
and learn that, through the better
methods being used by the majority
of our wheatraisers the droughIy
conditions were overcome and there
is to be an average yieid of line qual-
ity grain over the greater portion OF
the county.
This is especially true of the crops
on the lighter lands. In the section
both north and south OF lone aau
north of Lexington, where the crop is
now matured, this is true and it was
discovered that many feeds which a.
first glance had the appearance OF
being cut very short and damaged
baby by the dry weather, were COM
ing out fine, the grain having ma
tured well and in every case was
plump and fully developed.
1t was an exceedingly interesting
development in making a study OF
soil, cultivation and planting condi-
tions to find that in every case where
the better methods had been used the
reward will be forthcoming in an
abundant yield. Where the grouno
was properly handled and in the righ,
season it is revealed this year thai
the best results are obtained.
The first stop was made at the farm
of Frank Anderson at the head o.
Jack Rabbit canyon. Mr.. Anderson
has proved to be one of the best far
mers of that section. He has large
tract of land and uses a big cater
pillar engine in preparing his ground
and running his combine. He is wei.
satisfied with this method and is get
ting good results. Mr.. Anderson is
close student Of farming and quick tc
adopt any methods that will make
for better production. Owing to con,
ditions for the past three years, lack
of moisture and the scarcity of help,
1t has not been possible to follow ou,
the program that Mr.. Anderson
knows is the very best for his sec
tion, yet the good methods used just
as far as it was possible, have
brought about excellent results. This
year Mr.. Anderson is trying the ex
pertinent with the hybrid wheat--a
cross of Turkey Red and No. So. The
grain is now about fully developed
and will be ready to cut in couple
of weeks. It has developed we'll and
will make an average yield between
fifteen and twenty bushels. This
grain has been very successfully
raised for the past three years in the
section just north of lone and is wei
liked. Mr.. Anderson feels that he is
not getting a standard crop this sea
son, but he will have lot of grain
His summerfallow is in fine shape
contains abundant moisture and Il
now ready for thorough going owe,
with the harrows and weeders, which
process will be commenced shortly
using the "cat" as motive power
Ed Buschke has a field of zoe
acres of bluestem on the jenkins
place that is slated to yield 20 bush
els at least. 1t turned too dry foi
Mr.. Buschke to give this field the
cultivation that it should have had
yet 1t is turning out we'll. Mr.. Buschke
is good farmer and understands wei
the handling of his lands to overcome
the drought.
Albert Bowker has good field of
grain on the Nal Humphreys place