Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-02
A MODEL LITTLE FARM.
What One Man Raises Who Is Not
Alwavs Complaining.

The Rosedale farm of Mr.. Jullus
Ruef Is situated ON the north side Of the
Garden road just east Of the Southern
Pacific railroad. He Is one Of the farm
ers who Is not always complaining
about the weather, the crops, the roads,
the prices, and makes a living too.
Cheap as cherries were this year,
with no cannery running, he sold as
high as $l2 from a single tree at cents
q pound. Since coming to Oregon Il n
years ago he has two SONS comfortably
located on hop, grain and fruit farms
in Polk county, his son-in-law, Henry
Schultz, is foreman on the big asy Yum
farm near this city, and he has two
sons and daughter who are receiving
good liberal education.
In telling how an Oregonian lives
and prospers it will not do to leave out
Mrs. Ruef, who is about Is good mar
ket garden manager as her husband,
and there is hardly day in the year
that something is not turned off the
place that brings in some money. They
do not believe in relying upon any one
thing, always sell the best kind of an
article whether it be a dozen heads of
cabbage, box of apples or a good
family horse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ruef are members Of
Salem grange, read German and Eng
lish newspapers, have always taken
The ONE CENT DAILY, the Farmers
Review and other agricultural papers.
They. believe in intelligent farming
and in relying upon their own txer-
lions and enterprise for success. If
they cannot get big price for every
thing they sell for less. Their motto is
to always haye something to turn off
aud not depend upon any one thing
for crop. This twenty acre place is a
wonderful example Of what Oregon
soil Will produce.
Four tons of clover to the acre made
fine hay that sold readily at So ton.
Timothy yields two tons TO the acre.
Roasting ears always yield $50 to $50
from about two acres and the nubbins
and green stalks make fine eowfeed.
Potatoes and cabbage yield good market
crops The fact that three-fourths of
the cabbsge sold in the stores is shipped
| from California, shows that cabbage is
good article to raise at so cents a
d., n. Mr.. Ruef raises the Early Ohio,
n,arhnnH I,4nal nd 81 (floiro- IN fryp
latter the newest discoveries in the
potato line.
Straw berries, early cherries, red rasp-
berries, currants and gooseberries come
In June. In July there are still late
strawberries, endless cherries, red end
black raspberries. The Soughegan al d
Gregg are both still to be had N plenty.
The early blackberry is now in it's
glOry-the Kittanniny. They are fully
an inch long when fully ripe and are
sweet and rich. The fret large fruit to
ripen is the Peach plum, now coloring on
the tree. He has also the Egg plum. .Silv-
er, Hungarian, Golden drop, Italian and
French prune; there are grapes, pears,
ounces, apples, nectarine and prunes.
This gives faint idea of the variety
of products on a Willamette valley
farm and that, too, without irrigation.
Mr.. Ruef came from Iowa and the peO-
pie there who have been suffering 30
terribly from months drouth should
come out and see the crops and the
variety of grasses, fruits, grains, vege-
tables, land no end to the most beauti-
full flowers in the garden), poultry and
stock that can be turned eff In soil
that in ordinary seasons does not see a
drop of rain for three months in sum-
mer.
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