The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-07-28
HEPPNER FLAT AND
EMILE HARVEST ON
These Two Sections of Morrow County
VIII Turn Out BETTER Yields Of Grain
Than for Many Years.--Combines and
Stationary Rigs Running in Many
Fields.

This year. 1921, will record one Of the
most productive harvests in the his
tory Of grain growing in the Heppner
Flat and Eight Mile sections. This pre-
dlction is based upon the present in
dicatlons. and the harvest is Just under
way.
1t was our privilege to visit the
greater portion Of the Heppne+ Flat
and Eight Mile grain fields on last
Saturday, in company with Cashier w.
=, Mahoney. OF the First National bank,
who furnished transportation and nee
essary refreshments. and II. H. Caven,
Fred Tash and r. J. Frye, and what we
saw In the way OF ripened and ripening
grain was delight TO the eye. The
greater portion OF this country is in
fall sown grain and all OF this is now
ready for the harvester. Here and
there was noted field of spring grain,
and 1t was a surprise to know that the
greater portion of this Is coming along
well and will make good yields. Some
two weeks ago there was some pretty
hot days and the effect of this was
noted on field or 80 OF very rank
wheat but fields generally were too far
along for the hot wave to cause injury.
Combines and stationary machines
were running in many fields and the
ha. - l.. - -
section is very general now.
The first fields visited were those Of
Andy Rood on Heppner Flat. He has
been at work for about a week. Two
headers are running with nine boxes
and the big thresher, which is driven
by the Holt tractor In charge OF Jim
Clabaugh was filling the sacks at the
rate Of one minute with a very excel
lent quality OF turkey-red Mr.. Rood
Is now threshlng out that famous field
of volunteer which is running any
where from twenty to thirty bushels
to the acre He has a big crew and
now that they are getting under head
way with everything moving smoothly,
his fields covering 1900 acres will be
harvested inside OF about 35 days. A
field OF barley on this place will make
very heavy yield. The hot weather
cut II down some, but at that Mr.. Rood
looks forward to getting 90 bushels
per acre from this field His grain Is
coming TO the warehouse now at live
ly rate, being transported TO town by
truck
Jeff Jones and Sons were getting
ready to start up and began work on
their volunteer grain on Monday No
figures have been obtained from them
as to yield but their grain is all good
Mr. Jones' after working out his own
place, will tackle the grain for Ray
Young on the VIM. Hendrix place. II
has been many years since there were
such crops as on these places this sea-
son.
JAS Luper has his grain all in the
stack and ready for the thresher later,
Many other fields In this vicinity are
now ready for the harvester and we
shall be able after a week or 80 to give
some figures as to yield.
Bergstrom and Lutkin have In 900
acres on the Frank Anderson place at
the head of Jack Rabbit canyon The
combine drawn by the Holt tractor.
was at work in field of forty fold
and we are informed by Mr.. Bergstrom
that this grain produced yield OF 33
bushels per acre. and 1t Is not the best
grain on this farm, either.
Ed Buschke was just getting his COM
bIne moving In good shape and will be
al tn yfa1d hnt will
that Of his neighbors,
John Wlidenan and Theo. Anderson
were also getting under motion witt.
their machines and by this time are
able to give an idea OF what their fields
will produce. We were not able to call
in on them but were informed that they
expected to line up equal with the best.
Howard Anderson was running his
combine and getting good returns,
while Bob Allstott was Just playing
around in field Of barley to timber up
his machinery. He and Tindal Robson
will harvest together expecting to
have everything In readiness for active
operations by the end of this week.
Sylvia Huston was getting into the
harness also, and his fields will pro-
duce well. while Chas Beckett assisted
by his father ]. w. Beckett was run
ming his threshing machine and head
er on field that was turning out about
2s bushels per acre All around the
Liberty section could be seen harvest
ing activities and the grain here all
looks well; 1t matured fine and the
grain Is No, l quality. In fact this
section will stand far above In aver
age yield this season.
Frank Akers, who Is on the Dan Bar
low place, has fine crop. His new
thresher was busy and the yield was
estimated at 30 bushels in a field of
forty fold where they were heading
and threshing at the same time. And
across the line not far away the com
blne was taking in the grain on the
II. NJ Olden place.
Following the ridge down to the f.
NJ. Griffin place we noted many mach
ines at work and the grain was all
turning out well, so we were informed.
Striking the Gooseberry road near
the Chas. Anderson farm, II was noted
that they had not yet entered the fields
with their harvester but would soon be
ready. Richard Peterson was busy
with his big combine, drawn by team
of SO mules. His yield was twenty
eight bushels on a field of forty fold
He has field Of turkey that will yield
much better than this-should make 35
bushels at least The forty fold was
excellent quality grain.
so it was throughout the entire cir
Gle, and we shall await with interest
the figures that will come in a little
later, and hope to be able to make an
other visit to this section just as soon
as It is possible to gather up some ac-
curate figures on the yields from the