Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-11-01
Big Yield OF Farm and Orchard.

will br from 60.00 to 5000 tons.
and will amount to over million dol
lars in value.
The Wallace orchard, in Polk coun-
ty, Oregon, this year yielded 200
tons of pears, and brought It's lucky
owner 81, 200.
At Waverly. last week. good work
horses sold at from 5000 to 5000 per
span, for use in logging at Spirit
Lake. near Spokane.
Fifty carloads of apples were wait
ing shipment at North Yakima last
week. The railroads could not han
die them for want of cars.
a Palouse farmer has produced a
crop of potatoes this year, of which
twenty spuds weighed 80 pounds.
One of the largest weighed 1 pounds.
The Seattle Grain company has had
to pile Is, 900 sacks of wheat on the
ground at MOhlrr. from inability to
obtain storage while waiting ship
mcnt.
At kenncwick. this State, the
fourth harvest of alfalfa is being har-
vested, and has averaged Il tons to
the acre. the local price being $l4
per ton.
The little station of Pennington.
in Whitman county, this season, has
SO far shipped 40, 900 boxes of apples.
Apples will average an income of 1919
per acre.
Several farmers and their wives iii
Eastern Washington are planning to
take European trips, the prosperity
that abounds making them feel and
act like millionaircS.
a farm near Cheney sold last week
for $40, 800. 1t consisted of 4S0 acres,
125 of which was choice timothy land.
A farm at ShoshOne Qdaho) sold for
$35. 900. 1t was not large, but well
improved.
The farm of J. c. Cole, near Mon
dow, in Lincoln county, produced
612 sacks of barley off of Is acres,
yielding $500, or $3l. % per acre. He
cut 10, l55 bushels of wheat from 2S9
acres and his oats yielded 81 bushels
to the acre.
The warehouses at Davenport have
been receiving about 20, 600 bushels
of wheat per day. There were $50. :
900 bushels in those rcceptaclcs last
week. At other points, controlled
by Davenport people there is about
as much more.
The warehouses in Walla Walla are
Overlooking with wheat, for want of
cars, and many thousand bushels are
stored in the fields with only a COW
ering of straw for protection. If a
heavy or prolonged rainfall comes, it
will undoubtedly be damaged, if not
ruined.
Coffin Brothers, of North Yakima,
lately made a sale of 5000 head of
sheep at $3.50 and $4.75 a head.
They were bought by Portland peo-
pie, and consisted of yearlings, two
year olds and dry ewes. The sheep
are now being driven from the hills,
and will feed on the reservation dur
ing remainder of the fall. 1t is esti-
mated there are %, 900 of them.
Samuel b. Grove, a Port Townsend
photographer, has gained distinction
as a horticulturist with the presen-
tation of splendid October crop of
Strawberries. the fruit was grown
on his residence lot, in the city
limits, and is especially fine favored
and large. The crop is the second
this year on the Grove vines. 1t is
expected that several quarts will be
picked from q garden covering but a
few square feet.
The Ellensburg Fruit company,
which was organized last spring by
a number of local men of that city, is
storing the season S crop of potatoes.
1t is expected at the least to be 25O
tons, from 60 acres of land, never cul-
tivated before. Under these condi-
tions the yield is considered remark
able. The company is holding the
potatoes for higher prices. The same
company planted 80 acres in fruit.
trees last spring as an investment.
Clarke county seems qualified tC
keep its wonderful reputation rs q
prune district. The greater part is
now in the packing houses, and Ia
bOrers are working night and day
and are hardly able to keep the floors
clear for the incoming prunes. Not
a prune has been sold in that county
for less than 81 cents and a great
many have sold for 6 cents and up
ward. 1t is now estimated that the
entire crop will sell for more than
$3.50, 600.
| A Wenatchee dispatch of the 20tf
ult. gives a fair index of the splendid
fruit-yield all over Eastern Washing
ton, this season. One of the finest
crops of Winesap apples raised in that
section was grown by L. A. Taylor
who leased the Garrett place three
years ago for a period of six years
This year he leased also the ]. j. Albir
place for one year. Fruit growing
looks good to him, he says. There
are IL acres of bearing orchard or
the two places. The trees will be