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


last year careful estimates placing
the crop at 2, 500 carloads. This will
bring in revenue into this section
this season of approximately 50, 600, =
600, allowing an average of 81 per
box.
The peach crop is estimated at 600
carloads, which will bring an average
price of 65 cents per box, or $500, 600
for the entire crop. Pears will bring
this season, on the average, 81. 10 per
box, with the crop estimated at 100
car loads, and will bring in a total
revenue of $40, 900.
HANFO RID.
Wheat growers in the hills opposite
Hanford are harvesting the largest
crop in the history of the country.
ELLENSBURG. ~
A. F. Hit, travelling crop inspector
of the United States department of
agriculture, says the cropi the Kit
titas valley is up to standard, while
that in the other sections of the
country is off fully 20 per cent.
TOLEDO.
This district will harvest one of
the best potato crops in it's history.
ALI other crops except fruits, ranges
from normal to 10 per cent or 10 per
cent better. The fruit acreage in
bearing is the same as last year.
Fifty per cent of the crop is indicat-
ed per acre. The effect of the late
hot weather has not been bad.
CHEHALIS.
The Lewis county fruit crop will
be about Is per cent of normal
yield, as nearly as can be estimated.
The quality this year will be better
than ever before, especially of the
larger varieties from trees.
General farm crops, such as hay,
oats, rye, barley, vetch, kale, ETC.,
bid fair to yield a crop above the
average. This is due to the eXcep-
tionally favorable spring season which
enabled farmers to plant in time to
get the benefit of the rains later.
There has been general increase in
the acreage under the pillow in this
section of Lewis county, as more land
is being cleared than ever before.
GARFIELD.
The farmers of the Garfield district
are now preparing to harvest one OF
the largest and best crops of grain
ever cared for in the Palouse country.
In the vicinity of Garfield, Farming
ton, Oakesdale, Pullman and Palouse,
there are many fields of winter wheat
that will easily make fifty bushels an
acre and oat fields that will make
from fifty to seventy five bushels an
acre.
The acreage of winter wheat is
about % per cent greater than last
year. The acreage of spring wheat
is small, but that of oats is 20 per
cent greater than last season. Ii con-
ditions are favorable for three weeks
more there will be one of the largest
oat crops harvested in the history OF
the country. Spring wheat will aver
age thirty bushels an acre and about
the usual acreage was planted last
spring, but the principal crop here is
winter wheat and oats.
The winter apple crop will be about
one third of crop here this season,
but the quality will be of the best.
Last year about 125 cars of choice
winter apples was shipped out of
Garfield. This year shippers and
fruit growers do not expect to ship
more than forty carloads. The hot
weather has had no ill effect on the
fruit crop in this locality.
PORT TOWNSEND.
During the past year the fruit rails
ing industry has made rapid strides
as a result of the establishing of two
fruit canneries in Jefferson county
and a large acreage has been planted
in fruit trees as we'll as in the smaller
varieties, such as raspberries, cur
rants, logan berries, strawberries, etc.