The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-02-23
Unsurpassed as a
Fruit Growing County.

- RIl growing In Casop county IL W infancy but is pow
III bties almost startling results Everything in fruits and
berries raed in northern semtropea climate may be
abundance which promises 10 make rich all who give their atcnoa
to raising the produce IN Cnsop few small hillside
in valley will produce results That will make the poor indepen
ent and put him on the road to riches
Where trees erect their towering trunks Of fir spruce and her
lock there will be peaceful gardens bright with blossoms rich wit
large and juicy fruits Spreading fruit trees in rows will ga
the landscape and provide living for the settler four years after the
planted Agricultural products Of all kinds will be MI
and valleys which present covered with young and rank
growth Of ferns.
Nowhere earth the opportunity to make Of truck
gardening more apparent than Ca,snp county The land cheap
and the market unlimited II has been proven that the soil will produce
qualities Of fruit unusual in size and flavor The market is IN ASTORIA
along the and winter the west shore Of The
county and BY rail Portland BY boa, any place the Pacific
Ocean,
Prices higher for the product than any Of the United
and the few fruit growers who have recently commenced opera
tons are desirous engaging in the business t
they recognition from The transportation companies for their
benefit This IL feature Of settling Casop county which
is unusual in frngrowng sections where the wish to
have the "wlole show" to themselves
In regard the growing possibilities Of the land local fruit groves
declare is mmaca whether high land valleys usc
for fruits They grow just well either hillside where the
shines strongly, in the valleys where there moisture The
cool dewy nights and pleasantly days exactly the thing fer
production Of fruits regardless Of the location OF orchards and
gardens
Highland Farm" owned by b. Worsley nine miles east Of
Astoria and two e from the Columbia the wonder Of all who have
seen Pacific country Fery cleared from the tall
timber has been made the finest producing fruit farm in
Oregon because Of the richness Of the soil Raspbcrries Strawberries
roots and reached perfect of development
this property.
the pioneer fruit farm the county, because while there
number of farms planted with fruit trees which have sue
the Highland Farm the first into fruit and berry raising
its foundation That fruit berry raising in Clatsop county
paying proposition history Of this farm will easily prove,
The oganbey creation Of Judge ogan consisting Of
between Dewbey and the Antwerp raspberry has gained fame
throughout the states Of the finest berry productions
of the world The bushes grow immense size and the frn
marketable from the end Of the first week in July and for the foown
five weeks II large dark purple berry inch and one hr
inches length and nearly inch thickness II ESQ plants
the acre planted eight feet apart low estimate its production
the Highland Farm this year is $50 crates to the
Burbanks Phenomenal, created from hybrid and Cuhbcr
raspberry much superior the Ioganbery and grows profuey
this Ctsop farm much larger aud de color than the logar
berry better market 1t planted about eight feet
and about $50 plants the The fruit and hal
inches three inches long and from inch inch and half
thickness II simply immense and the Highland Farm reached tn
height Of its perfection the lowest estimate the seasons crop ben
400 to the
The Mammoth blackberry created from hybrid and two vae
of wild California backberries also very prolific this soil
grows from and half inches in length II aans hp
number of the and Of much because
its flavor 1t is similar species OF blackberry which Wi
all county which such growth fro
its rapidly spreading proclyies, that has attained universe
growth all over the northwestern part Of the state.