The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-10-13

Extracts From the Wheat Growers
Bible.
The Ten Commandments.
Chapter Xxx
/. Thou shalt have no other purpose
than this: that thy land be plowed
early in the springtime
@ Thou shalt not make unto thee
any poor plowing or any likeness
of any.
3, Thou shalt not look about thee and
find weeds on the fallow or an in
iquitous result will follow thee un-
to the third generation.
T. Thou shalt not hearken after false
gods and make a dust mulch. ra-
ther, thou shalt keep thy fallow
cloddy on the surface thereof
s. Thou shalt not harrow thy land in
vain.
G. Remember thy fallow land to keep
it clean
l. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors
yields but buy certified seed and
achieve them thyself
s. Thou shalt not commit late seeding
g. Thou shalt treat thy seed properly
10 Thou shalt never stubble thy grain
into the soil. for no mercy will be
shown thee, and if slight gain re-
suit therefrom it is only the work
suffer and thy children and thy
chldrens children.
Then with those ten commandments
as a text he went on eXpounding for
twenty minutes in a way that even
made my old dad sit up and take notice.
He showed how beyond shadder of a
doubt man lost a bushel Of wheat for
every week he left his land unplowed
after April first, and l saw Ande Jones
color up when he was hittin TINS the
hardest and I remember that he usually
got about bushels per acre when dad
averaged 23 and that he usually finished
blowing just in time to hay.
As he bore down on the weedy sum
merfallow Sid Brown, standing in the
corner, kept fgitin' around like he was
saying it Just fer him. He didn't need
to tho fer we were all in his class
tho't
He went on to show how formalda-
hyde killed from to 20 percent of the
seed wheat as it is frequently used and
that the bluestone treatment still killed
more; I knew as that was why dad
failed to get stand on the last field
he sowed last year I amt tellin' but
he treated all his seed at once and let
all stand until he got ready for it. He
used formaldahyde and then Smith over
the fence used bluestone and only got q
fair stand. Abe Neil on the other side
Of US seeded about the same time ant
used formaldahyde but he treated one
| day what he needed the next and l SURF
know the reason for the difference ant
think it pays to treat right l was in
| terested in knowing that they coulC
keep bluestone from injurin' the seeC
| wheat by dipping the sack in lint
bath, made up of one pound Of quici
| lime to ten gallons Of water, after TAX
| ing it out of the bluestone solution
Jay Brown said after the meetin' tina
| he sure was going to use II hereatte'
and tho't it was mighty good insurance
When he got down to The tenth com
mandment the time was short but sa!
he didn't let up a bit When he go
through I knew why it was that dat
said that he would rather summerfal
low twice in succession than to stnbbl
piece in to even up the place. l know
that it did take us six years to get tn
Adams quarter that dad bought from
Fiddlin' Jim, as they called him, to ge
to producin' within five bushels OF GU
land adjoinin' Old Jim only had quar-
ter and he figgered that he would haV
to put it in every year to make a livir
and do you know the last year he had
in it didn't pay to cut 1t so Jim wa
closed out and went to work,
Well, we had an experience meetir
after it was all over and everybody con
fessed willingly that they had trans
gressed from four to ten of those ther
commandments every year and tha
they saw how they could increase thel
yields from to Is bushels by livin' u
to them.
Well, that religion took like a small