The Topeka state journal., 1907-12-24
A FAVORED LAND
Oregon, the Garden Spot, Says
a Former Kansan.
Matthew Thompson Writes of
the Great Climate.
ROSES NOW IN BLOOM.
Tells of a 3O-pound Turnip and
Bigger Cabbage.
Apples and Cherries Did Splen-
didly This Year.
ROSES NOW IN BLOOM.

! Beloit, Kan, Dec. 24.-Matthew
| Thompson, once a resident of this
home in Oregon. In letter from
Corvallis. written December Il, ne
| says in part:
| Oregon has several kinds of climate.
| The rainfall here is about 3S inches.
/ the greater part of which falls be-
| tween October and April Since last
April till November 20, we have had
| a succession of delightful days and
cool, pleasant nights. The heat sell
dom gets up to 100, and the nights
are always cool. There are no cy-
clones, billiards., hailstorms or hot
| winds here; in fact. no weather worry
of any kind. l have seen more 1ght-
ming and heard more thunder in KAN
sas in ten minutes than L have heard
here in three years. There is really
no winter here. Roses bloom nearly
bright with roses, chrysanthemums
and geraniums. Wheat averages 30
bushels. When Leroy Wallis was out
here two years ago, we went TO the
experimental station, where we saw a
field of wheat six feet tall; it yielded
571 u bushels per acre. while adjoining
fields yielded 80. John Lennox raised
116 bushels of wheat (machine meas.
ure) from 2 II acres, which Welghed
out so bushels to the acre. Glover
does well; besides a crop of hay, 1t
yields from to 10 bushels OF SEED per
acre A Wisconsin firm has bought
5
ley this fall. One carload from Al
bany to Montana brought S12,OOO
Root crops of all kinds and vegetables
grow to immense size. The record
here this fall is a 80 pound turnip,
SO pound cabbage. an onion II lnches
around and a potato 6 II pounds IN
weight Two years ago Clyde Beach
bought a farm of $50 acres 1or
gathered 1000 bushels of potatoes
twelve of the tubers weighing 60
pounds, one specimen pounos-
believe this is the best dairy state In
America. Last year the average price
for butter fat was AZ cents. Cows
WELD from $50 to 500 a head per
year. Farmers are turning their
wheat fields into clover fields. Hogs
Cholera here. Eggs are now 40 cents
a dozen. and they seldom go below 20
cents.
= This is the banner hop state. Last
wear the hops sold for $500, 600. The
prune crop this year is $25,OOO,O 600, or
625 carloads. The prices are high this
wear, from 5 to cents per pound
Berries of all kinds grow as freely mere
from $3.50 to $500 per acre. Cherries
grow very large. 1 have seen nine
cover a i2-inch space. The yield Is
six to seven tons per acre, ana they
nerv. Thcmas Prince of Dundee |
raised 121k tons of walnuts which he |
sold in New York for 19 cents per
pound. Medford is about the size or
Beloit, and last year its shipment of
green fruit was 100000 pounds,
While this year up to November 1 IL
was 65O3,7s1. A. D. Helms of Med
ford owns an S-acre apple orchard OF
Newton pippins. His crop this fan
was over 5000 boxes. They sold from
s2.45 to $2.75 per box for the London
market, 1000 gross per acre. A box
holds a bushel He refused an offer of
IS, 900 per acre for his orchard. His
profit in seven years from it has been
s791 per acre. Hood River has snip
bed over 45O cars of apples. There
ire a great many Kansans out here,
md they are all doing well. Bob
Bettner owns a hack line at Baker
city. George Cone has a sawmill at
Falls City w. H. H. Dodge has foui
acres 2 miles east of Salem. He sells
$4,000 worth of celery each year. VIII
MetcaIf told me that he had sold
s21Oo worth of celery from his farm
his year.