Pullman herald. [volume], March 11, 1921, Page 8, Image 8

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Pag* Eight
EXTENSIVE PROGRAM
FOR BETTER FARMING
Demonstrations Will He Undertaken
by Agriculture Committers Co
operating Willi Farmers
An extensive program, designed to
result In ultimate benefit to the ag
riculture of the Pullman vicinity, wilt
be undertaken by the Pullman cham
ber of commerce, through its com
mittee on agriculture, as a result 01
a resolution presented by the agri
cultural committee and approved by
unanimous vote of Hie. chamber Tues
day. he plan outlined has lor its
object the agricultural development
of the farms of the Palouse country,
and was heartily endorsed by .. num
ber of prominent farmers who at
tended the chamber meeting, The;
entire plan is outlined in the follow
ing resolutions, which became opera
tive with their adoption by the chamb
er of commerce:
PLANS FOR AGRICUIi-
Tl MAI. DEVELOPMENT OF
FARMS IN THE PALOUSE;
(Adopted by the Pullman Cham-!
ber of Commerce.
Inasmuch as 1 he Pullman chamber
of commerce now has among Its
members many farmers and realizing j
that tin farming Interests :.round
Pullman are of direct civic and busi
ness interest to tie town, therefore,
bo it
Resolved by this chamber, That i
we authorize the agricultural com
mittee to proceed Willi ,1 definite
program to be worked out In co-
Operation with the farmers for the
purpose 01 trying 0 establish a bet
ter and more permanent system of
farming for the community than we
now have.
The Pullman chamber of common .
will name as permanent members of
Its agricultural committee, the direct
-01 of I he experiment station, the head
of he office of farm management of
the State College and a farmer near!
Pullman. It is suggested that these 1
be made permanent members in order.
that there may always be repre
sentation on the committee of men
who know he details of any perma
neat work for agricultural Improve
ment th it it may have started.
Object
The object of the active work to
bo-Started is to foster the agricultural
Interests of this vicinity, to promote
a better system of farm cropping, to ,
improve and maintain the fertility
and the physical condition of the soil.
to make the farms of the I'alouse
country more productive, to give the
farmer larger net returns and to as-1
sist him In establishing a definite
system of crop rotation and of keep
in;; account of the cost of production.
Organization
The agricultural committee of the
chamber of commerce shall find
farmers who are willing to CO operat
ic, this undertaking by cropping a
field or fields end handling the crops
as suggested by the committee. These
men shall bo known r.s co-opera |
farmers. Their fields shall be visit
ed from time to time by members I
of the committee and shall he used as
demonstration fields for visitation by
farmers and others, who are Interest
ed, and for demonstration tours con
ducted by this chamber in co-opera
tion with the experiment station and
the' extension service of the state Col
lege, whenever results would make!
such tours practicable. The commit
tee may also find other farmers who
already have made marked progress
in the practices to be proposed. In
such cases the farmers in charge may
he made co-operating farmers audi
their fields used for demonstration
purposes.
Expense and Maintenance
The cost of producing the crops
grown by those who co-operate in
this campaign shall be borne by the
farmer CO-operating and he shall be
entitled to all proceeds from the
crops raised.
i
Records
The co-operating farmer shall num
ber his fields used in this demonstra
tion and keep work sheets showing
the actual man hours and horse
bourse used in producing the crops.
He shall also keep a record of all
seeds used, all oth-i expenses, the
actual yield in bushels and tons and
the returns from the crops when
sold.
lecture*
The agricultural committee of the
chamber of commerce shall co-oper
ate with the farmers in getting a
series of good farm pictures of the
fields producing these crops together
with a brief synopsis showing where
the crops were raised, when raised.
the succession of crops, yields and
costs, to be used as a legend for the
picture. The pictures are to be dis
played In an appropriate manner In
the chamber of commerce rooms in
Pullman.
Statistics
A record of the crops produced on
these farms shall he accurately tabu-
I lated and shall be certified by the
! committee. This shall show the
| number and acreage of the field, the
j kind of crop, the cost of production
i and the selling price. Th> data
shall bo made a matter of record and
shall become the property of the
chamber of commerce Ln order that
it may use them for reliable figures
for advertising purposed The cam
paign is undertaken for a period of
!nt least five years. The committee
j feels that it will require that long to
! secure tangible results.
Plan of Demonstrations
These demonstrations should in
j volve the building up of the soil, the
'■ recognition of wheal as the major
crop for the Palouse country, the In
| troduction of live stock to the extent
I of utilizing the soil Improvement and
supplementary (tops that may be
grown. Wo would propose to estab
| lish the following three demonstra
| tions, the desires of the individual
co-operator determining which dem
| trat lon .-shall be established on his
| place.
1. Alfalfa for three or more years
I or clover for two years followed by
' such an arrangement of crops as will
! produce a maximum of wheat and
| fit In best with the farmer's general
! plans.
2, Rotation:
Peas 1921
W. Wheat 1922
Peas 1923
W. Wheal 1924
Etc.
3. Rotation:
Peas 1921
W. Wheat 1922
S. Grain 1923
Peas 192 t
W. Wheat 1925
S. drain 1926
The agricultural committee in
cludes I lean E. C. Johnson, 11. II
; Curtis. J. S. Klemgard. Professor
George Severance and Professor E.
G Schat'i
WHEAT COSTS MM. II
IN PALOUSE COUNTRY
(Continued from first page)
| cents a bushel to .* 1 per bushel. In
I the spring wheat. from farms oper
ated by owners, 86 per cent of he
total was produced at a cost of $2.20
per bushel or less.
Winter wheat produced after sum
mer fallow averaged 32 bushels per
•acre, at. an average cost, of $1.75 per
! bushel, while the same wheal pro
duced following peas averaged 35.6
bushels per acre at a cost of only
$1.1 S per bushel.
On 97 farms producing spring
wheat, the value of approximately
13 bushels of wheal at $2 per bushel
was required to pay the operating
expenses, and of five bushels to pay
the Interest charge, making a total
iof 18 bushels necessary to break
even at the rate of $2 per bushel.
Figures collected from 188 owner
j farms showed thai eight per cent of
I the harvested ' acreage produced
wheat at 90c per bushel; 36.8 per
i cent at $1.50 or less; 71.4 per cent at
! $1.80 or less; 84.7 per cent at $2 or
i less; and 91 percent at $2.20 or less.
I One farm produced wheat at a cost
of $4 per bushel, and two at a cost
of :<0 cents.
HART APPOINTS STIMSON
TO BOARD OF REGENTS
Fred S. Stimson of Seattle was ap
' pointed on the board of regents of
! the Washington state College tor a
| six-year term to succeed William
| Pease by Governor Hart late Satur
day^ Mr. Stimson is proprietor of
; the .Meadow Brook stock farm in
| King county. This appointment with
that of R. C. McCroskey to succeed
himself as regent was confirmed by
; the state senate
SMITH TO KANSAS CITY
Mr. R. T. Smith of Nnches, a 1919
i gradual of the college of agricul
| ture, was in Pullman a few days last
j week. He Is going to Kansas City,
I Mo., to accept a position with a Herc
| ford herd near that city. Sine •
| graduation Mr. Smith In? en with
, the Methow Valley Live Stock com
j pany of Winthrop, Wash., which was
j quite successful on the fall show cir
| cuit of stock shows las' tall. Mr.
I Smith has aided materially in devel
oping a good Hereford herd in the
, Okanogan country.
ORCHESTRA AT VESPERS
The college orchestra, under the
i direction of Professor Herbst. pre
! tented its last vesper program last
j Sunday, March 6.
The program portrayed "French
! Day" and was enthusiastically re
jceived. The "Fantasie for Violin,"
j by Vieuxtemps. was artistically and
i skilfully interpreted by Professor
i Herbst, who was called back four
j times, and then delighted the audi
ence with Schumann's "Fremden
| Menschen und Landem." from Chil
dren Scenes. Miss Irmingard King
i accompanied Professor Herbst at the
I piano.
PECULIAR FREAK OF NATURE
Section of Land in California Has
Trees Unknown Anywhere Else,
Save in One Small Spot.
Down In San Diego county Is a
grove of Torrey pines loss thnn two
miles broad and eight miles lons,
thinly scattered, that occur nowhere
else In the world except about 100
trees on the eastern olid of Santa
Rosa Inland, many miles to the north
nnd out In the ocean. All who have
read of coaching or motoring In
southern California know of the fa- j
mous cypress drive near Monterey.
Strange Indeed Is this great head of
land jutting out into the ocean be
tween Carmel bay and Monterey ha*
bor, for It forms an Isolated arboreal
Island, the Monterey cypress being
but one of its peculiarities. The Mon
terey pine grows there, and Is not j
found again except sixty miles to the
north and seventy miles to the south.
The Bishop's pine occurs (or recurs)
only eighty-five miles to the north and
eighty miles to the south. The Gowen
cypress recurs on the coast 218 miles
northward.
Curious place for trees, this Mon
terey headland! We have so many
tales to tell of curious native trees,
however, thai one inure must suffice.
Down at Harden Grove and Snnln
Ana, both in Orange county, stand
five trees that are natural hybrids
between the native live oak and the
native black walnut, and man had
nothing to do with this jugglery.—
I.os Angeles Times.
GREAT SOLDIER'S KINDLY ACT |
.
Duke of Wellington Not Above Tak- !
ing Care of Toad Which Was
Small Boy's Pet.
The duke of Wellington, while
Strolling about his estate one day.
came upon a small boy, the son of a '
gardener, down on bis knees before j
a hole, and with tears running down
his face. The boy explained that his
pet toad lived in the bole, and that he
fed him every day, the toad knowing ;
him and following him about the gar
den. School was to open the next day j
in a distant town, and the lad was I
afraid his toad would starve to death. '
"Not at all, not at all," assured the
great leader. "I'll look after your
toad myself." The boy got tip at
once, an the two gravely shook hands
The duke was as good as bis word,
and went several rimes a week to the
hole with a handful of crumbs, and I
the toad soon transferred his affection
1,1 bis grace. Tins so tickled the sol- '
dier thai he wrote the boy a letter '
telling him of the pet's actions, but I
expressing the belief that when the j
boy returned the toad would go back*
to his first affection. I
Ripening Fruit.
High temperatures seem, very curi
ously, to retard the ripening of pears,
while hastening that of apples. In ex
periments described by Overholser
and Taylor in the Botanical Gazette,
the ripening of green first-crop Bart
lett pears raised from 70 degrees F.
or room temperature, to 85 degrees
was not affected, but nt 87.7 degrees
it was delayed five days, and at 94 de
grees and 104 degrees the delay was I
13 days. Second-crop Bartlett pears,
in a temperature of 101 degrees', and
surrounded by a relative humidity of '
below 50 per cent, remained unripe |
four weeks after similar pears at
room temperature and humidity had !
become fully ripened. The flavor of
pears kept above 85 degrees was af
fected, sweetness and juiciness being j
diminished. The ripening of Yellow
Newton apples on the other hand, was
hastened at every appreciable rise in
temporal from 50 degrees up to
the point of destruction by burning.
It is concluded that the picking of
pears may he delayed in very hot
weather, but that the picking of ap
ples and storage In a cool place must
be hastened.
Barnstable's Old Bell.
In the courthouse at Barnstable, ;
Mass., is an old bell, cracked and ',
silent, which may be, and probably is,
the oldest bell In the United States. :
So thinks Mr. Alfred Crocker, clerk of ;
courts of Barnstable county. The date
1G75 is still plainly visible In the pho- !
tograph recently printed in the Bos
ton Evening Transcript.
By this date, however, the old bell
had seen nearly a quarter of a cen
tury of life in England before it came I
to America and began calling wor- j
shipers together in the church at
Sandwich town. Gratitude bought the
bell in England, for it came as a gift
from Mrs. peter Adolph, whose hus
band, Captain Adolph, was lost In the
wreck of his vessel on the Massachu- i
setts coast In 1697 despite the efforts
of the people of Sandwich.
A Fair Week.
A man lately kept a meterological
diary of his wife's temper, It ran
somewhat as follows:
"Monday -Bather cloudy; in the af
ternoon, rainy.
"Tuesday — Vaporish ; brightened
up a little towards evening.
"Wednesday -- Changeable, gloomy,
Inclined to rain.
"Thursday— High wind, and some
peals of thunder.
"Friday—Fair In the morning; vari
able till the afternoon; cloudy at
night.
"SaturdayA gentle breeze, hazy;
afternoon, a thick fog, and m few flash
es of lightning.
"Sunday—Tempestuous and rainy:
toward evening rather calmer."—Lou
don Answers. j '
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