Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-30

ESTERN WASHINGTON and oregon nave
NAIl yet many hundred thousand acres OF the
l Wv very best of agricultural lands un"
touched by the hand of man, except that
ESHYENSI the merchantable timber has been cut
SSnz4A and removed, leaving them in the con-
dition known as logged-on These
lands in the unceared state in price from IS to
$50 per acre, according to proximity to market and
averaging rather higher in Washington than in the
Beaver state, These lands when under cultivation
sell readily at from $3.50 to $3.50 per and when
planted to orchard make the stories Of California
look like a back number In horticulture
There is no snow to shovel on the northwest Pa
cifc coast moreover off the average en-acre tract
q man with his own hands obtain enough good,
clean fuel TO last him years and, when that is
Cgone, obtain for little money either wood coal,
there being in this region immense fields of the lat
, ter commodity yet untouched To the average
farmer the story of the yield of of land
the coast sounds much like the tale of AL
ladin's lamp If the tiller OF the soil in the mid
west will take the trouble to visit the Omaha Land
Show next October he will potatoes large that
he will be willing to wager they are hollow in the
center; yet every will be found to be perfectly
sound mealy and delicious when properly cooked and
as good in every respect as they look. He will be
truthfuly informed that potato bugs never poster
the plants in this region that they grow as readily
as weeds; and-wonder of wonders-that the yield
OF frst-class merchantable "spuds," the natives
call them is 400 TO 500 bushels to the You
can dig them they wanted for use, or sale, as
generally speaking the ground does freeze deep
enough to hurt them, will they decay but If al
lowed to remain in the garden will when spring comes
again, sprout and bring forth volunteer crop of
goodly proportions
Good Grain is Also Grown
What is true of vegetables is also true Of grain,
One hundred bushels OF oats weight forty pounds to
the measured bushel, is very common yield, the
quality being the finest. Other small grain, hay and
hops, yield equally well and can always be de-
pended upon to bring a good figure For these
reasons the assertion is frequently made, and with
good that agricuurist can obtain better
income off ten of land in the Pacific northwest
than can be made of forty of average land
IN the middle west Added to the advantages OF
higher prices and greater yield, is the by means
unimportant that transportation charges do not
eat up all the profits.
First, in fruit, note the lowly but luscious
strawberry, two crops a year being not uncommon
with quantity unsurpassed and quality unexceed
Nowhere on the universe has this berry finer flavor
v or a more beautiful appearance other small fruits
Backberries raspherries logan berries currants
gooseberries thrive uxuriany and yield in prolific
measure Next have plums, prunes, pears, peaches
which when produced in this region, are destined &c
take prizes at all principal places where prizes
presented. Cherries, too, that had George Washing
ton told how large and juicy they hi
father would have looked him very closely before
he swallowed the story.
Apples the Prize Product.
- Last but not least TO apples. Abou
these beauties with the red cheeks, volume upoI
volume has been written and chapter after chapte
will yet be typed before the person who has not
the product itself can realize perfection the