The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-06-29
EXPERIMENT STATION
VISITED BY FARMERS.
A Representative Bunch Of Wheatrais-
ers and Others Drive to Sherman
County, Take in Experiment Station
And See a Lot Of Fine Wheat Farms;
ALI Well Paid for Time and Trouble.

Better than 40 farmers of Morrow
county, representing nearly every quar-
ter, made up party that left Friday
morning for Sherman county, their OBJ
jective being the dry land experiment
station at Moro. The trip had been ar
ranged by the farm bureau management
and County Agent Calkins, and the very
liberal response to their invitation was
gratifying.
A number of cars left Heppner at s
o'clock Friday morning and these were
Joined by others at Lexington and lone
and strung out in number to IL, with
L. M. Hulden in the lead and in his car
Agent Calkins, Robert Perlig and Vaw-
ter Crawford, who were delegated to
pilot the boats" over the hills in the
right direction leading to Arlington,
which point they should reach by din
ner time. The letter S and figure 8
were cut several times in the route fol-
lowed by the pilots, and it looked like
the company would never be able to get
to Dad Maddock's Grande hotel in Ar
lington before they had expired by the
slow process of starvation. The bunch
were good sports, however, followed the
leader without a grumble, said they en-
joyed seeing the good wheat fields
through which they were led in the
west section of Morrow county and east
side Of Gillian, and all did justice to
the dinner man when they finally got
their feet under the table at Arlington.
It was not long after this, going down
the Columbia highway, that Rufus was
reached and then on south to Wasco
and Moro, Friday afternoon and all day
Saturday being spent in absorbing
knowledge from the experiment station
and from the successful farmers in the
famous Sherman county wheat belt.
The entire company were well pleased
with the trip and were loud in praise
of the work being done at the Moro sta
tion. Their treatment at the hands Of
Mr.. Stephens and other members of the
staff there is greatly appreciated. All
were able to see at first hand what a
wonderful work is being carried on in
behalf Of the dry land farmers Of East
ern Oregon at this station and they
earnestly hope and desire that every
farmer Of this county will avail himself
of the opportunity of going to Moro
whenever it is offered and see and un-
derstsnd for himself just how extensive
ani practical work is being carried on
there.
The party journeyed home leisurely
on Sunday some Of them stopping by
the way to take a swim in the John Day
river and In Rock creek at 0lex. and
becoming boys again 1t goes without
saying that Hulden and Calkins were
not entrusted with the job of plotting
the caravan home, and every car was
left to its own pleasure in this respect.
Those in the party were c. c. Calkins,
E. NJ. Hulden, Robert E. Perlck, Chas.
Heinrich, Harry Turner, V, Crawford,
Frank Gillian Walter Beckett, Theo. An
derson, jeff Jones, Harry Rood, 0. NJ.
Scott, W. T. Scott, W. R. Scott, ]. C.
Doherty, J. 0. Turner, Guy Huston, Mrs.
Guy Huston and children, d. NJ. Ward
of Heppner; Chas. Bartholomew, 0. F.
Bartholomew, r. W. Allen, John Denny
Of Pine City; Oscar Keithley, Eight
Mile; W. J. Blake, j. C. Devin, E. H.
Turner, Fred Raymond, Arthur Erwin,
Chas. Erwin. A. A. McCabe, H. NJ. 0lden,
C. M. Schriver, ]. O, Kincaid, R. W.
Brown. R. W. Lieualen, Mr.. Fletcher,
Mr.. Fanchier, Hazel Dean, lone; VIM. II.
Padberg, Lexington; Geo. Miller, Elvin
Miller, Cecil; Ben Morgan, Mrs. Ben
Morgan, Morgan.
At the Station.
Saturday morning, with Mr.. Stephens
in charge, the gang" visited the East
ern Oregon dry land experiment station,
located about one quarter of a mile
northeast of Moro. The lands embraced
in the station comprise about 200 acres,
situated on the top of low hill, giving
the advantage of all four slopes, which,
as every farmer knows, is necessary for
obtaining the most accurate results in
experimentation. Rotations are follow
ed in such manner that the same crop
is placed on the different slopes in sue
ceeding years that the experiment may
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