The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-12-05

crops, and choice live stock. The land
is excellent and can be purchased at
very reasonable rates.
Rogue River Valley is situated in the
south eastern part of Oregon and is as
! fertile as the far famed Willamette
valley and as capable of high produc-
tiveness. The valley is noted for it's
choice apples, pears, grapes, prunes and
watermelons. Land in this valley is
much lower in price than in either of
| the other valleys. There are a dozen
| other valleys in Oregon, all capable of
high culture. Small farms are for sale
at very reasonable figures, as it is now
the policy of those with large holdings
to cut them up into small farms which
high state of cultivation will make
very valuable in a short time
Farms of ten, twenty, and thirty
acres laid out in diversified tilage will
handsomely support families which
| heretofore it has taken hundreds of
acres to support. The day of the small
farms in Oregon is at hand. Stock
can forage all winter. The cost of
Wintering stock in the State of Maine
! is enormous, as it must be housed six
months in the year. In Oregon cattle
and sheep Craze the year around on the
foothills and in the valleys. There is
always plenty of pure spring water
running down from the green hills.
| Angora goats feed and thrive on the
| brush lands. Hogs thrive in every
county, and the pork is wholesome as
the hogs have only the best of feed
consisting mainly of wheat. The meat
IS far superior to corn fed pork. Hog
cholera is entirely unknown in Oregon.
The farmers and breeders do not neg
lect the horse, and mule breeding is
extensively carried on also. AS an illus
trative case of diversified farming on a
moderate scale let me cite that of S.
L. Hobart on lis acres near Silverton
IN Western Oregon. His yearly sales
of stock, etc, average as follows: veal
and COW products, $4,000; hogs, $780,
90; beef cattle, 100000; sheep and wool,
$500; horses, $4,000; poultry and
eggs, 100000. His twenty-five acres of
alfalfa produce six tons to the acre.
He pastures on grass, clover, and
wheat stuDble, and raises thirty to for
ty bushels of corn to the acre. He has
farmed there for fifty years, and is
In harvest time an Eastern Oregon
wheat field would be a revelation to the
! average easterner The big combina-
ton Harvester drawn by thirty-slx
horses, which heads, threshes, cleans
and sacks the grain, dropping the filed
sacks at intervals along the way, is a
curiosity indeed. Oregon wheat is uni
formly good, owing to the equable
climate. Today there are Oregon
farmers receiving from 500, 900 to SO.
900 for single farms annual yield. The
yield per acre is easily from 40 to sc
bushels. The total wheat yield from
the locality known as the Inland EN-
pire is annually about 100000 bush
els. Large quantities of oats, barley,
rye and flax are also produced There
is plenty of cheap land remaining today
that will produce these crops.
Potatoes in Oregon are paying crops
Many farmers raise 900 bushels to the
acre, and they bring at least 81 90 pei
hundred. Every county in Oregon is
an unfailing producer of the usefu
spud. Onions are also profitable crop
and the list of vegetables includes al
those raised anywhere in the temperate
zone, and they attain great size and ex
cellent flavor. Melons of all kinds
watermelons, cantaloupes, nutmegs
and casabas, thrive on any of the bot
tom lands, and will net the grower
500 per acre with little trouble.
Dairying is one of the most profitable
industries of the State, yet it is in its
infancy. The price of good creamery
butter in the Portland market is seldom
less than 80 cents pound, and rises as
high as 40 cents pound. The cause OF
InlS Is shortage IN The market. IL
seems shame to carry butter to the
Oregon market from the middle west
when there are thousands of acres OF
the best dairying land that the sun evel
shone on, going to waste. Instead OF
the present condition, Oregon cream
cries should be producing butter fol
expectation, as butter can be shipped
from Portland to Liverpool at trans
portation cost of two and half cents
per pound. With the mild winters
rich soil, and every condition most
favorable to the growth of grains and
grasses, dairying should be, and easily
is, one of the most remunerative in
dustries of the State. An intelligent