Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Saving Crops in Oregon. [ARTICLE]

Saving Crops in Oregon.

farming is business and the crops must be saved in the far West. A visitor at the Polk Butler settlement on Des Chutes Ridge, Ore., a few days ago, noticing that the schoolhouse was still closed and the fall term, long overdue, has nob yet begun, asked when school would commence. “Not till the wheat gets dry,” was the reply. “Why, what’s the school to do with the wheat?” was the natural query. “We’re drying it in the schoolhouse,” was the explanation. Wet wheat was spread all over the schoolhouse floor, from three to five feet deep.