The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-06-29

be carried out completely and the effects
of climate and soil conditions accurate
ly noted.
Experiments are being made mostly
on one-twentieth acre plots. Mr.. Ste
phens believes this to be the best meth
cd, because in the larger tracts there is
apt to be difference in the type of
soil that hinders best results.
The first section visited was the
spring wheats. Sherman, as well as
Morrow county, not being very much
adapted to the growing of spring wheat,
did not lay great stress upon these
wheats, however, there were great
many varieties represented at the sta
tion. Foremost among these are the
Hard Federation and Federation. Both
of these varieties are early maturing,
have beardless brown chaff with short,
white, hard kernels; the principal diff
ference between the two being that the
Hard Federation kernel is much harder,
yields heavier and is more drouth re-
sistant.
One very outstanding fact at the sta
tion was that the growing of Pacific
Bluestem, our highest priced wheat, has
been almost discontinued as a spring
or winter wheat, even in the trial plots.
At the barley plots a number Of var
ieties we're represented, with the marriott
(bearded) and moloy Common beard
less) leading. A noticeable feature in
the barley section was the fact that no
winter barley was grown. 1t had been
tried but was found to winter kill about
one year in four, hence it was discon-
tinued. There are two winter bareys
that may be Of value later, o A. C. No.
81 and Tennessee winter, but neither of
these are as yet ready for distribution.
To all the Morrow farmers the most
interesting section visited at the sta
tion was the winter wheat Numerous
varieties are represented in this class,
and few Of the more interesting may
be mentioned here. Karkov, the best
improved strain of Turkey red, possess
es the best milling qualities and has a
lead Of eight per cent over other var
ieties in yield. This variety also pre-
dominates very largely all over Sher-
man county--in fact we saw very few
fields of anything else. One other win
ter wheat-and it is truly winter
wheat, because 1t will not mature II
spring sown-hybrid No. 1928, cross
between Jones fife and little club, easily
holds second place at the Moro station.
In Umatilla county more than 60 per
cent Of the winter acreage is sown to
hybrid 1913.
One very important feature of the
winter wheats was the strains of abso-
lutely smut resistant varieties. Chief
among these we're Odessa and Turkey
red No. 4430. These wheats are immune
to smut. As yet none Of these smut
resistant strains have been found to be
very high yielding varieties, but it is
believed that some of them can be hy-
bridized with our high yielding Turkey
red mad other hybrids and thus do away
with the smut treating business alto
the price of the trip to have seen Bill
Padberg's eyes brighten up at the men
tion Of smut resistant wheat.
After passing on from the principal
wheat variety plots a greater number of
less important newer varieties were
seen in the nursery rows, and the in
tricate methods of propagation were ex-
planned to very much interested listen
ers.
Another very lively session was held
over the tillage plots. Here winter
wheat and spring wheat were grown un-
der all methods of tillage and culture.
All manner of tillage practices were
INDUCED in from that of the poorest far
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