Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-07-06

the streams are thousands of acres of logged.
off lands that can be bought cheap and con.
verted into profitable FARMS
Nowhere is the value of intense farming
so well known as on the European conti-
nent, but it is becoming better known each
year in Western Washington, and in Chehalis
county in particular. A few acres of land,
if farmed in hops, fruit, vegetables, etc..
can be made to earn an immense return.
All kinds of soil will be found in Che.
halls county, but there is very little rocky
land. The river and creek bottom lands
are more Of the nature of clay. Soils are
variable and within a short distance land
is often good, bad or Indifferent. Generally
speaking the bottom lands are more desir-
able than the uplands but there are some
fine farms on the upland and they are usually
considered best for fruit Glover thrives on
the hills, in fact, clover seems native to
the soil and grows all over Western Wash
ington.
When the land is cleared enough for culti-
vaton there is made available the most
productive soil in the world; so productive
that it is hard for those who have had no
experience with it to realize or believe what
OF the yields are, and of what the soil will
do, some of them are here given. They are
ordinary average Yields and not exception
ally large ones picked out for the purpose Of
making good showing Here are some of
them, per acre:
Hay 31a tons; wheat, 35 bushels; oats, 60
bushels; barley, IS bushels; peas, 4S bushels;
rye, 40 bushels; potatoes, 300 to 500 bushels;
carrots, 600 to 800 bushels; parsnips, 400 to
600 bushels; beets, 1000 bushels: rutabagas,
1900 bushels; turnips. 1000 bushels. These
yields are the average as taken from the
reports of practical farmers of the county
may be relied upon as being correct
AS dairy country Chehals county cannot
be excelled. The climate is somewhat sim.
liar to the British Isles, and the expense
of keeping stock is very light, as there is
but short time in the year when they re.
quire feeding. In fact, many farmers, espe-
cially in the Grays Harbor section, never
feed their young stock, only keeping up their
milch cows, and even them but for a short
time in the spring. Pasture is good milk.
producing food for nine months out Of the
year. The butter produced is Of the very
finest quality equalling the best made any,
where in flavor, and the percentage of butter
to milk is very large, owing to the richness
the pastures. Two creameres are in op.
e, 'tion in the county, one at Montesano, and
the other at Elma, yet nine-tenths of the
butter used on Grays Harbor is shipped in
from outside the state.
Fruits and berries Of nearly every variety
grow here in abundance. Prunes, plums.
pears, apples and cherries thrive, while the
trees bear at a very early age. Strawberries.
blackberries, raspberries, currants and al.
most every species of berry are in their
element, the only trouble being that not
enough is grown to supply the local demand.
and tons Of fruit are unloaded at the docks
on Grays Harbor from the California steam
ers every month. The same may be said of
chickens A better place for the growing
of poultry cannot we'll be imagined, vet
eggs in the same proportion as butter and
fruits is imported.
Every farmer recognizes the benefit of