Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-06-13

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per acre IN tract Of fftv acres
Then there - this, also to be taken
Into consideration when secured
against overfiows, the owner has the
satisfaction of knowing that be has
a farm on which there are no stones,
stumrs or roots TO break up harrows
aud plows, and has not one stalk of
fern or one spear of sorreI to inter.
fere with his crops, and erery part Of
his farm IS as rich as a garden.
These lands are not uniformly COW
cred with grass, but large bodies
bear heavy growths of tule flax;
when the land is dyked these burn
readily and leave the ground bare
and damp, and tame grasses when
sown take Immediately, and the tulo
dies out. 1 think the grass lands
will have to DO plowed in order to
secure immediate crops of tame
grass, but l am inclined to the opin-
ion that the native grass will, in a
few years after dyking, yield as
much hay per acre and as nutritious
as tame hay. The indigenous grass.
es are clover, red-top, and blue top
or blue grass. Pea vines in places
covered the land and bear abund-
antly. Groves of timber are scat
tered over it, consisting of spruce,
red cedar, hcmlock, crab.arp!e and
Oregon grape; the grape, which is
only a shrub on other land, here
grows to the height of twenty-five
and thirty feet. Tho shrubbery is
goosc.bcrry, rose, blackberry, etc.
There are two kinds of tide land
salt marsh and brackish or semi-saIt
marsh. The scmi-salt marsh is found
at tho mouths of streams, and the salt
marsh around bays, inlets, etc. The
former contains more sand aud clay
than the latter, caused by overffows
of streams, and is in fact largely
made up of the cream of the upper
bottom lands wash down. l have
no doubt that salt marshes proper
would make excellent grass lands,
but think it would require Il longer
time for them to anciorate than the
others, owing to the superabundance
of salt in the soil and the presence
Of more vegetable fibre, which would
have to be decomposed before being
available for crops. Both are rich
in saline material deposited by the
tides, which flow them twice month
in winter aud once in summer. Ac-
cording to an analysis of the soil
taken from scmi-salt marsh after the
water had been kept off one year, /
obtained, utter repeated trials, the
following results:
Organic matter nsoluble in water and carbo-
nate Of Soda. Observation-Disclosures. 0.+O
Organic matter insolublc in water, but soluble
in carbonate Of aoda.. ................. 7.3
Organic matter soluble in water. l6.72
Inorganic matter soluble in water. ........... 6.O0
Inorganic matter insoluble in water, but solu.
S,e in carbonate Of soda. 40
Inorganic matter insolube in water . nd ear
bonatc Of soda. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lS.oS
Water NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S.92
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