The Baltimore County union, the Towson news., 1909-09-04
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To hear one talk of the wonderful resources
of the West and great Northwest, of the almost
inexhaustble supply of minerals, the growing
crops and the bountiful harvets which are
promised sounds like fairy tale. Mr.. Edward
e. Dickerson, native of Baltimore, who has
not much more than attained his majority,
gave descriptive account of the big crops and
the methods employed in producing them at
his far North western home to Union-N News
man q few daysago. Mr.. DickersOn was called
to Towson few weeks ago on account of the
death of his father, the late Samuel J. Dick
erson, who, about year ago, purchased the
Independent Ice Company plant.
In the "golden Northwest" p" where the arid
valley of the Okansgan stretches out its i'm
mense farms, and wheat makes the whole face
of the country green in the summertime and
yellow as gold in harvest; where the orchards
of apple. prune and pear are clothed with q
pink k-andwhite sheen of fragrance in their
season and are weighted with a plente-
GUS fruitage, is the home Of Mr.. Dicker-
son. at Klowna, in the Province of British Co.
lumbia, Canada, who was six and a-half days
in making the trip to Towson. He had been
engaged in ranching in the West, which he
gave up for the more peaceful and quiet life of
farmer and fruit grower. He is . grower Of
apples and prunes. The prunes find ready
market in the northwest at profitable figures.
while he exports his apple crop to Liverpool
and London. All fruit is shipped in boxes,
and 60-pound box, he says, readily brings
$3.50 in the foreign markets. Klowna is the
great apple-growing center, and last year won
the first prize of 81 500 for the three best boxes
of apples exhibited at the Spokane (Washing-
ton) International Apple Show.
The more northern Canadian provinces, Mr.
Dickerson says, furnish q ready market for
almost all the fruit which can be shipped. On
account of the severe frosts and cold weather
the fruit in that section scarcely natures larger
than berries
Irrigation is used on almost all the farms
and fruit-growing places. Water is furnished
by companies, which sell the right to use it for
$3 an acre. The soil is loamy. Some of it can
be purchased for $500 an acre and is fairly fer
tile, while other improved tracts will bring as
much as 81 900 to 50 800 an acre. This, of
course, includes full-bearing orchard and i'm
provenents.
Mr.. Dickerson says that his July crop of
potatoes dug three months after planting,
averaged him 1873 bushels to the acre. He ex-
poets to gather from 500 to 600 bushels to the
acre from his fall crop of tubers. He has 10
acres in potatoes, which he has planted be-
tween the rows Of prune trees in his orchard.
One acre last year produced % tons to the acre.
Fruit and vegetables are measured by weight
instead of by the bushel.
'All kind OF crops in the West" said Mr..
Dickerson, ''are booming. 1t is claimed by
one of the official compilers of the State of
Washington that the largest county in the
State, in the vicinity of Spokane, will alone
produce this year 10, 600, 900 bushels of wheat,
while other cereals will yield equally as well" /"
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