Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-07-22

the cropping season. The people of
the far northeast and of the middle
west may not know that the warm
southwest breezes from the Pacific
and Japan Current temper the north
west coast of America, just as the
warm southwest breeZes of the At
lantic. and the Gulf Stream, temper
the northwest coast of Europe. Hard
ly one-fifth of this great and wonder
full valley Is under cultivation and
in the uncultivated four-fifths lies
the opportunity of the homeseeker.
Why live in cramped position all
your life? Why burden yourself
with unnecessary cares? Why not be
fair to yourself and give your being
a chance to grasp an opportunity?
Every man, as the saying goes, has
his opportunity, and this may be
yours? Come! This country is
starving for more inhabitants.
The Willamette valley has earned
the title of "The Land of Plenty" be-
cause of it's bounteous and superb
yields of all kinds of crops. At the
Lewis & Clark Fair, held at Portland
in 1905, one county situated in the
heart of the valley received gold and
silver medals on fruits, nuts and as
paragus, China pheasants, wood and
mohair, oats, millet, wheat collection
of grasses third crop alfalfa, vetch
hops and vines, white clover, barley,
alsike, sweet corn, manufactured pa
per, turned wood, blankets, fax and
tow. S6 varieties of leather, -four,
Bartlett Pears and vegetables oats,
orchard grass, timothy, red clover
leaf tobacco elk and deer heads raw
materials used in making paper,
dress goods, (from Brownsville
Woolen Mills. Does this look good
to you, Messrs. Fastener and Home
seeker? How does ~ bushels of
clover seed an acre selling at &c per
pound look, 150 to 800 bushels of no.
tatoes per acre, 40 to 70 bushels of
corn, 80 to 1870 bushels of sweet no.
tatoes Ia to 80 bushels of wheat 3O
to l2O bushels of oats, hay bringing
from Sl2 to SIG per ton. common
, lumber at S12 per NJ, alfalfa cutting
2 to 2la tons per crop per acre
three crops to the acre where hogs
horses, sheep, goats and cattle are
raised successfully and bring fancy
prices in eastern markets, where ir-
, Ilsauon is absolutely unnecessary
40 inches Of rainfall has been the an
nual average for the last five wears
@ @.ue yearly average rainy days for
lnls period was 1856 days, and the
yearly average clear days was 196
Where green feed is found the Yea,
round where there is no snow ~
speak OF, where the stock Is kent in
open pasture the entire winter and n
Is rare occasion that any feed y,
a'lehtlon is given them througbont
o"e tntlre season, Every farmer Is
prince In his domain in the vii.
annette valley and every phase ot
NE Is worth the time spent in li,,;ne
through It. This is exactly the cIi
mate to heal sickness and Thousand.
VI lhVallds and sick people come n
t1hs valley TO bask In the temneref
sun or go to the mountain rssort
s Suere 70 lie at Natures feet anf
urlhK IN the cool healthful minera,
waters OF Oregon's mountains. which
laS an enect as was expectad ~
Fonce de Icons" ever delpsiy,
fountain OF youth and hope. Yor
hasterners who are snowbound tight
IN winter and who are early meltef
"a summer by the intense heat had
uSC'er ,,s, come to this country and enjoy
me ana have touch of what iifs
really Is in the beautiful Willamette
valley, Oregon.