The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-08-08
CROP CONDITIONS.
Reports From All Parts of the State In
dicate q Light Yield.

> Reports From All Parts of the State In
dictate Light Yield.
The following extracts concerning
The condition of crops throughout
OREGON are taken from the weekly
.roD bulletin issued by B. S. Pague
from Portland on August 4:
Harvesting is we'll under way in the
Columbia river valley. The spring
sown grain will not be ready to cut for
, several weeks yet. South Of the Blue
| mountains the harvest is always two
weeks later. In the Grand Ronde val
ley the grain is reported to be in line
condition and beyond the period where
it can ba injured by the weather.
The same condition exists in the wheat
district of Baker county. In the in.
terror counties, and especially in the
irrigated districts, the grain crop is ex-
eellent. The fruit is maturing; melons
are ripe and are being shipped from
Wasco county. The peach trees are
bearing very we'll. In sections along
the Snake river the peach crop will be
less than usual Apples are somewhat
deficient in quantity but pears will be a
good ayerag ge crop. Grapes are doing
| we'll.
In the Willamette valley thi, year
| much seeding was done after May l5.
and after that date there was little
rain. and from June 10 to August l
there was no rain at all; in addition
very warm weather prevailed from
Jone l5 to July 20, so that all late-sOwn
spring grain is poor this year, many
correspondents report that it is not fit
10 cut for even hay, while some others
expect that it will make possibly 10
bushels of wheat, Is bushels of oats,
rye or barley to the acre. Fall.sown
grain in favorable years makes 90 !
bushels of wheat and so bushels of oats |
to the acre, with good yields of 10 |
bushels of each more per acre. This |
year fall sown wheat is threshing out |
about 25 bushels per acre, and oats 81
bushels per acre. The grain sown up
to March l may be call fall-sown; the
dry weather during the time the grain
was in milk and dough prevented the
grain filling as it other wise would
have done, so that 1t will weigh lighter
than usual.
The fruit, for the first time in the
history OF the country is short crop.
The Italian prunes have been the most
injured, and there are orchards that
will not have enough Italian prunes to
warrant the running of the dryer.
There will be poor crop of Silver and
Hungarian prunes and a fair crop o
Petites. Many orchards have not
enough prunes In them to nay for the
picking. Pears, especially Bartlett
are very fair crop. The pears will
come nearer being a full crop than any
other kind of fruit. The peach and
egg-plum will be very fair crop. The
cherry crop WAS poor, the berry crop
fair. ,
In Douglas, Jackson and Josephine
the grain crop is short, and
the fruit crop ia almost failure.
Peaches that in former years were
shipped by the carload will be shipped
by the crate. The early Crawfords ,
had fair crop. while late peaches are
a practical failure; correspondent re- ,
ports: "My orchard Of 450 prune trees
5 years old. should give 10000 pounds ,
Of fruit, and l will not have 2000."
There Is fair crop of Petite3e Ind Sill.
YER prunes, and none of other varieties.
The Bartlett pears are poor crop, !
and other varieties have none on the 7
trees. Apples are short crop.
In the counties east OF the Cascade
the prospect Is more fiatter- G
ing, but the crop is not up to the aver r
ige. Throughout Sherman county the /
outlook is rather encouraging. 1t Is I
,rue The hot winds and the continued 2
not weather following injured the a
grain by shrinking it. but after all /
,hat the yield will asfonish the most p
,keptical, and it is almost safe to say i
hat more grain will be harvested this q
season than there was last year; this F
8 owing wholly to the increased acre u
lge. The yield will in all probability t
lverage over. twelve bushels to the t
lcic over the eutiry county.
Wasco county grain averages, south
If Eight Mile will compare favorably
With Sherman county, and the grade T
viii vary from No. down to No. 2. n
rhe spring sown and barley will be a
,ery close, nearly all the spring wheat n
las been cut for hay. The barley p"
harvest will be very short yield and p
berry shrunken. q
The same conditions apply quite D
thoroughly to Gillian and Morrow II
q
In Umatilla county fall sown wheat T.
3 thrashing out from twenty.four to q
bushels to the acre, though N
he quality is inferior. The spring c.
Vheat sown generally in FEBRUARY, d
hough much sown in April and May u
will be cut almost exclusively for hay. n
orune and plum trees are barren OF
ruit. Pears and peaches make but
title better showing. Apples are
carce, even in favored localities. -
Grapes, watermollons and berries are y
,rolific, y