East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-06-09
With Improved Methods of Ir-
rigation West End Region
Becomes Wonderfully Pro-
ductiye; Alfalfa Stable Crop.
(East .oregonlan speelal.l

| NI-aSt toTtSollstu optCitist
HERMISToN. Or. June s.--owins
Ito the enthusiasm shown b y the wide-
awake people of Boardman I'm the big
Iceiebration held there recently. and
the interest aroused by them over
their wonderful reclaimed lands. the
people of the East End OF the umatilla
project are beginning to sit up and
take notice that very little has been
known and much misunderstanding
lfelc concerning this beautiful and
prosperous section, made so by ehe
help and encouragement OF our good
Uncle Sam and the energy and thrift
mess of the settlers. However. as little
lseemingly has been known In the past.
the knowledge of the project and the
wonders being accomplished leak out
| little by little and people from neigh
boring states and even more easterly
Zones. as well as many of cur own state,
are coming into this section.
New Families Arrive.
Moving carloads OF farm machinery
cattle, horses and household goods,
building temporary buildings evident
ly living in the ordinary farm way,
within short distance of neighbors
unaware of their existence until occa-
sison comes to them to pass their way.
The question is asked very often:
who is that living near your home?
1 see a building going up there or
Whose mail box is that new one on
the corner?" or '0vho was that with |
the load of household furniture pass
ing?"
The answer to all is: Some farm I
er and his family have come to the
project and secured a new home
A Prosperous Era. T
The country is going through a very
era, the hardest stage be-
ing passed when many came taking
up homesteads and experimenting with
the new methods to be used In re-
lands from the arid to the
fertile state.
The process of just how the work
should be done was a matter of i'm
portance but the early settler not
knowing the hard work entailed in
civilizing sage brush and jack rab-
bit land to fertility, took the matter
lightly and found that instead of rails
ng alfalfa easily they were making
errible disturbance with Old Mother
ineasiness.
Station Work Helped.
But good old Uncle Sam got busy by I
means of his experiment stations.
up the proper way by rais-
ng crops and after instructions were
siven and pages of typewriter matter
distributed to those who had already
settled upon the land, and others de-
string TO make settlement. more en-
was felt by the farmers
md extra trials made until the Land
vas placed in a good state of cultiva-
ion, and with plenty of water avail
,ble, the desert Is. as was promised in
he Scriptures. blooming as the rose.
There need be no doubt now as was
'elt in early days that irrigated lands
cannot be made the most productive of
any in the country. even the most
sandy sections have turned out won
lerful crops. being handled carefully,
and well watered. A parties
liar thing to be noticed in the raising
Of alfalfa Is that it never fails, the
shortage in the crop, il any, being due ,
o lack of irrigation at the proper
lime. This cannot be said of other
,rops. however. as climatic conditions
Effect those here as in other places.
sfarHiers are turning ,
.hefr attention to alfalfa raising prin-
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