Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-05-22

Detnering Tor ~ years nus put w
~ new baildings the past two years
Phil Tucker sold potatoes from
three acres for $500.
W. II. Bair has been handling hay
at Candy for 10 years. Says cheat
Yields three tons 10 acre; sells baled
at S12 per ton on average. Glover
about same yield and price. He han
dies hundreds OF cars OF hay, pota-
toes and other produce such as grain,
hops, onions, green and dried fruits
Chris. Kraft, off 10 acres "a light
orop) took 2300 bushels potatoes.
Contracted at sS2b; 90 acres alto
gether brought him net SlObO.
Geo. Brown got AZ bushels wheat
average per acre on about so acres
In 1908. His oats went 75 bushels
TO the acre. His red clover seed went
six bushels 20 the acre. Sold over
$1,000 worth at 10 cents a pound.
Mrs. II. N. Brown, Candy agent OF
the Southern Pacific. entimates that
the daily shipments OF cream TO Port
land $50 gallons.
J. ]. Sandsness recently sold 124
acres one and a half miles from Can
by for $4,000. Mr.. Sandsness raised
crop OF oats and peas together. He
threshed out OF products on five acres
2b 10 bushels, leaving about one-fourth
on the ground. Sold at from tl.bO
TO SO per bushel. Two years ago
he raised 16.400 pounds hops on ~
acres.
w. II. Lueoke, commission mer-
chant of Candy, has lived In Candy
since n boy and knows the value OF
products In ClackaInas county. Po-
tatoes. wheat and oats as follows:
Potatoes, 100 bushels 10 the acre;
wheat. 80; oats. go. Glover, for both
hay and seed. aud alfalfa, he thinks
IL the most profitable product the far
mer can produce-350 per acre for
hay alone including the three crops.
Properly handled Il could be made
10 produce great deal more,
Ed Summerfiold lives In edge OF
Candy; has 30 acres; raised potatoes,
wheat and oats raised last year S4
bushels wheat on four acres, about
100 bushels OF potatoes to the acre.
Threshed iO4 bushels off three acres
OF oats.
W. IL. Cochran lives seven miles
from Candy and two miles east OF
Needy; has 123 acres; does general
farming, raised last year 500 bushels
OF potatoes on four acres, with close
estimate OF $3.50; sold SlsO worth
OF Iat hogs fed by raised products;
S2bO worth OF fruit; 2S head OF sheep
sold IN sheep and wool last year $40;
from five acres OF wheat threshed iib
bushels; oats on six and half acres,
$50 bushels. From four cows last
year realized $50 apiece, From 80
hens sold last year slb0 worth OF
eggs and chickens, besides supplying
a good-sized family, Miscellaneous
things sold from farm, besides, about
si00. This Is certainly a great show
Ing with only 90 acres In cultivation.
Raised 1900 pounds clover seed
worth at least 5000.
Ole Bergs rom, two and half
miles west OF Molalla. Fifty acres
OF land raised last year on seven
acres 357 bushels OF oats. seven acres
wheat 21i bushels. over 1900 lbs.
hops on five acres. Sold 80 fat
hogs last year. 400 bushels apples,
40 tons of hay,
NJ. Meyer lives one mile east OF
Needy, Raised last year 900 bushels
OF potatoes 90 the acre. go bushels
of wheat To the acres oats, so bush
els TO the acre; five tons clover hay
To acre. lie has 40 acres of land and
only 30 acres in cultivation,
John Erickson has a farm about
two miles northwest OF Canby. on the
Willamette river; SO acres, 2b in
cultivation, Raised last year 500
sucks OF potatoes ON three acres
S65 bushels oats on eight acres; l6
tons clover hay; sold from farm
about s70O.
j, ], Mallatt lives six miles east of
Cany on the Molalla road; 80 acres
lana, 30 acres In cultivation, rest In
pasture; ~ cows that average SEQ
a year, My experience Is that this
rs acres, 1900 bushels oats on SA
country. ! raise oats, Kale and red
clover. which Is excellent feed for
COWS"
j. w. Smith lives near Macksburg
and about four and half miles from
Candy, Has ii6 acres land, about
95 acres In cultivation, General far
ming. Raised 500 bushels wheat on
Saeres; 1900 bushels oats on Sf
acres; baied "a tons hay and sold
and used besides. about SO tons;
clover aud clover and timothy; 50
head Scotch wool and full-bred LIN
coin sheep average about tS apiece
In wool