, 1880-04-01
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
rnntinnnN nom first rnge.

The fact is. they are worth more than
aly other class of Lands we have, and if
every stump were taken ont would be
worth at least two hundred dollars per
acrr, within two or three miles of tide
wa'Cr.
Tn" soil have been experimenting with
is high and clay-loam, which but few
mouthS agU was covered with dense
mas ol very heavy timber and sal|Nl.
hsve taken eight platS OF land, each
plat twenty-five Icct square, thoroughly
worked deep. cultivated often. keeping the
81 face sniI well stirred and weeds not
permitted u show themselves.
PLAT l,-Snow Fake potatoes; drills
three feet apart; fair size potatoes GU: so
~ to lave two eyes to n piece aud pieces
dropped nine iuches apart in drill. Dug
niuv hu>hcls and twelve potm ds.
PLAT q Same treatment aS thc above
with the addition of six barrels of COM
post thoroughly incorporated in the soil,
Dug seventeen bushels and forty pounds.
PLAT 3.-Large White Belgian Carrots;
din fifteen inches apart; no tertlizing
material uSci. Harvested and weighed
December 18th, fifteen bushels and eight
cen pounds.
Plat --Stwlcnt parsnip; drills fifteen
inches apart; uo manure. Harvested Feb.
lst. seven Bushels and five pounds. This is
Il new variety OF delicious llvor, ennobled
iron the wi Il parSuip hr Prot. Buckman,
orth" Royal Agricultural College. Eng
hnd.
PLAT. 5.--Samo as above, with addition
OF one barrel deconposed hen manure.
Dug twelve bushels aud lliirty-eight
pohuis.
PLAT 6,--Yellow Dauvers onions;
Sowc'i March lst, Oregon seed in drills
fourteen inches apart; used one barrel hen
u'a'We ahd three one pound cans potash;
harvested alevvIt bushels.
PLAT 7.-Laucs Improved Imperial
>'ig beet; ground worked twenty inches
d.ep: used three blrrcls. of we'll decom-
pr+rl compost. Harvested 9lj pounds.
VhiSisa superb variety; seed from b. X.
u iSS s. Sons. New York
Pi.bT S,-Premium Fiat Dutch cab
h'gr; ased one barrel spoilt salt salmon as
fertilizer, and during the time they
Were lm'ling, sprtkled them Il few times
with strag salt water. Ground dug
twenty inches ,lvep; December l2th har-
vested ~v'nty-.onr head averaging eight
zen pounds per head. This variety. with
rhnrongh culture, 0a ih' soil. will head
- hril nnl fine ni;rty.lye ont Of a hun
anal Seed tom the Department OF Ag-
ritu'n
Tni.eS'libil | do not consider very re-
mnkatle asto quaatiry. Jnr as to quality
sHprrio. 10 iias produced on our low
and-
A to 'fruit culture. it-lHs been fully
demonstrated 81 Inherent points OIL Puget
Sound, Il az our high clay lands produce
the iinest qliality Of frli,, aad are much
bsttcr adapted to tie lie ,lthy growth OF
ogrhnrl trees tila our low, damp valleys,
anl art less liable 10 be injured by early
and late trost>.
Our new comcis. in selecting site for
II orctmrd, should choose our highlands
Ia prr'erup@tt0 "A valley, Warm. low in
III
trrral 'anl Is more subject to untmely
Iro'ts than the hcig,b,ring elevations.
~ ti'e might alr becomes chilled its dpnsi-
~ idcr,a-,,, aud it rolls down the hilsidrs
and settles "n the VatS where the prevail
Ing Stiffness favpls the process of freezing.
Duing the mild, sunny days OF winter.
fruit trees are more liable to be swelled
Plematwely on owbottouls. One who is
ia tile habit ot riding over broken piece
Of country in cold, still nights will not
need to be told that the lowest tempera-
ture exists III the lowest locations, =,
Why is it the highland orchardist of
California receives 25,per cent more for
his iinit in the San Francisco market than
the Sacramento valley fruit grower?
Simply because all highlands contain more
OF the siliclous. alkaline and mineral de-
posts, giving the fruit a finer color and
exquisite taste. A belt of over three
thousand acres of this high land, clay
loan soil lies short distance south of the
Tacomas. ready for the homesteader or
aro-emptor to locate upon, and in ten
years this quality of land will command
the highest price of any in the whole Pu.
get Sound basin.
Respectfully, FRANK S. ALLING.
New Taco M, Dec. l6,. 1879.