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J. Harding Grass Field
J. Harding Grass Field of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 41 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- Narrator
- John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
- Recorded
- September 30, 1990 · Automobile tour of the Coffin Butte area, Benton County, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Bob Zybach
- Printed pages
- p. 41
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: want to.
J. Harding Grass Field
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: North/south boundary between the Writsman place and Stambaugh.
Bob Zybach: This field here?
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: This field. Yeah.
Bob Zybach: Where that vegetation line is there?
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: The vegetation line is more or less the boundary. Well, where the trees are, and a little of that vegetation there was on Stambaugh's side. Where those further trees are. And that's where he raised his harding grass and he liked this very much because it was protected by trees. Pretty well all the way around. There used to be quite a few trees over in here. And it liked the stuff when it got ripe to whip those heads around because the seed would fall out.
Bob Zybach: So the harding grass was in this area here?
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: All this cultivated ground here was in harding grass.
Bob Zybach: How many acres is that about?
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: I think possibly he had 60, maybe 80 acres. I doubt it was 80, but it's somewhere along in there. That's what we used to bind at night. Now down, I was going to show you that, now there is some harding grass, some taller stuff down in there. That's where we got that bouquet that she's got in on the dining room table.
Bob Zybach: When did Stambaugh start raising harding grass here?
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Well, ever since I can remember. Yeah, just about ever since I can remember. He started on smaller scale and then about 1920, '29 and '30. He did raise some flax for linen for the State Penitentiary. Well, we did, too.
Bob Zybach: I wanted to ask you quite a bit about the harding grass because eveiybody mentions it. Is this a good place or should we maybe wait till a little bit later and then go into it in detail like the other night.
John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: Well, we can wait till a little later. We should be home. I think we probably should be home.
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
- This page
- Rohner 1993. J. Harding Grass Field, p. 41. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/j-harding-grass-field/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Rohner 1993, p. 41 — Monograph #05:41
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