The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-08-15

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crop will be the largest ever grown.
Farm crops, as wheat, oats and hay.
will be the largest ever harvested.
Some loss by rains to first cut alfalfa
the last of June, aside from these the
weather has caused no damage. The
acreage of all crops is larger than
ever before, the spring being especial
ly favorable for farmers doing all
they cared to.
HUSUM.
In the fruit district comprising
this section of the White Salmon
valley the acreage of bearing trees is
fully as much as last year. The yield
will come up to last years crop,
about 80, 900 boxes, the Spitzenberg
and Yellow Newton apples predominant
ing. Nearly 5000 acres are being set
out this year to young fruit trees,
which will bring the acreage up to
10000.
In the upper valley, where dairying
and hay are the principal industries,
the yield of timothy and clover is
fully as large as last year, when 3, 600
tons were marketed. The yield is
about the same in the Camas Prairie
country, fifteen miles northeast of
here. AS irrigation is carried out in
these sections, the late hot weather
had no effect on growing crops.
HIGHLAND.
There has been full crop of straw
berries, dewberries, gooseberries,
blackberries, raspberries and logan
berries in the Richland valley this
year. While the acreage in this fruit
did not exceed twenty five, neverthe-
less hundreds of dollars was realized
from it's sale in Seattle and Spokane
markets.
Root crops Of all kinds have come
up to the standard, and the two cut
tings of the l, 678 acres of alfalfa have
exceeded to a small extent the tonnage
of last year 1t is estimated there
will be 5000 to 1000 tons raised
here this season, about 1000 tons OF
which will be sold in outside markets.
Owing to the frosts which prevailed
in early spring, there will be no pears
or peaches to amount to anything for
market; neither will there be much
of an apple crop, as most OF the or
chards are as yet too young to bear.
The total numbr of trees, however, on
the different tracts in this irrigation
belt is 10, 009. Corn, of which there
is large quantity planted, will make
a good crop, and Of melons, canta-
loupes and onions there will be large
quantity.
DAYTON.
Estimates regarding coming crops
are being figured on in Columbia
county with some little hesitation.
Two characteristics in regard to this
years production are clearly marked,
and can be stated without fear Of
question, namely, that the wheat
harvest will be larger than usual, and
on the other hand, the apple crop
will be considerably smaller than
that of last year.
RITZVILLE.
Adams county is strictly a small
grain district, mostly wheat. While
little fruit is grown it is not enough
to supply the local demand.
Spring wheat is the principal crop,
although winter wheat is grown in
the southwest part of the county.
Hay is better than the average.
The apple crop will be about 80 per
cent and the pear crop about 80 per
cent. There will be no peaches and
the prune crop will be light. The
hot weather has been very beneficial
in general
DAVENPORT
Crop conditions throughout the Big
Bend generally are much better than
last wear. Spring wheat the staple
crop, is far ahead of anything for the
last three years, although the recent
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