Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-02

gave $26 per month 5000 per year; 81. 25
| per day.
What is the average price paid per day
Tor haying and harvesting hands?
Answers ranged from $3.50 to $3.50:
general average being $l.75.
PRICE OF GRAIN, HAY AND STOCK.
| What is the average price received per
bushel for grain? Wheat 90 cts, oats so,
barley 70, peas $l.O5. Highest average
given for wheat $l.2O, lowest rs cts; oats
IS and 40 cts: barley 80 and so cts !;
peas, lowest 81 90.
What is the average per bushel re-
ceived for roots? Potatoes IS cts, car
rots 80, parships 50, rutabagas %, tur-
nips Is, onions $1.2O.
What is the average price per ton re-
ceived for hay?
Fifteen dollars.
Quoted as low as $40 and as high as
$lS; answers being governed by the
facilities for the transportation Of the
hay, and also depending on whether
there are any logging camps in the i'm
mediate neighhorhood. As high as 1924
has been received for baled hav shipped
to Puget Sound cities via railroad and
steamer.
What is the average price per pound
received for beef cattle, hogs, sheep?
Beef cattle, 31a cents on foot; hogs, 5
cents gross, cents net weight; sheep
(! AZ cents gross, z cents net.
| 1t is well perhaps just here to state
that the beef and pork raised here are
first class, prime articles, while the
mutton is the best raised anywhere in the
known world.
CATTLE, POULTRY AND THEIR PRODUCTS
| The question s'Do mich COWS do
well?" is best answered in the way
others have been, by quoting from those
received and therefore some are given
which are fair averages Of the expressions
on the subject. Here they are: "Quite
well-no better in any country" eyes,
they will produce from one to one and
half pounds Of butter per day." Ex-
cellently; milk two three-year old
heifers and made enough butter for my
family and sold 1876 pounds besides in
flour in famiIy)." Better than any
where know of in the United States.'
What is the average price paid per
pound received for butter?
Average 80 cents. The highest aver
age given was 85 cents, lowest 20 cents.
One from section Of the country where
there was an extra good local market,
the other where it was poor.
Does poultry do well?.
Yes.
What is the average price received for
eggs?
Thirty cents.
Spring chickens sell for from thirty to
fifty cents each, on an average.
FRUIT.
In your opinion is this good country
for the larger fruits, such as apples,
pears, plums, etc?
The following are some of the an
swers none being to the contrary; every
good, I" "Excelent;;" '.Yes, if well cared
for !" Gin some localities all fruits do
WE'LL"
| What is the average price per bushel
received for larger fruits?
Apples, rs cents; pears, $1.0O; plums,
81. Is; prunes, $l.10
Do the small fruits do we'll in this
county?
| A few of the answers taken at random
| from the lists, are as follows:
There is no country in the world
better adapted Strawberries, cur
rants, blackberries, raspberries and
gooseberries do WE'LL" eyes, this is
a great country for all kinds Of berries"
"Can not be excelled any where" eek
ceedingly well, raspberries especially"
eyes, extra we'll" Not reply in the
whole list but in the affirmative.
What is the average price per pound,
or quart, for small fruits?
Averages in cents per pound: Straw
berries IL, currants 10, gooseberries 10,
raspberries IL, blackberries 10.
HOPS.
What is the average yield of hops per
acre?
Average 1900 pounds.
What is the average price received, per
pound?
Answer-Twenty cents.
What is the average cost OF producing
hops?
About ~ cents per pound.
Hop yields OF three ton to the acre are
quoted to show what is produced on ex-
ceptionallv good land and in season
especially favorable to their growth.