The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1913-06-12
FoREsEE BIG CROP INCREASE


} Seattle. Wash. Reports from near
: ly 500 bankers in Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho ard Montana insure an err,
Of great prosperity for the Pacifi
Northwest, according to information
in the Trade and Crop Bulletin of tn,
Seattle National Bank.
The bank has issued review Of thil
kind every summer for some years
and the publications have been accept
ed universally as standard and author
/ itative.
] The most important reports con.
tanned in the review, as affecting con.
ditions in Washington, are summar.
lied as follows:
Forward again Is the ringing note
in the reports just gathered from the
Pacific Northwest. We have received
from nearly 500 banks reports cover
ing every county in the states Of Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
territory running over 1000 miles
east and west, and 700 miles north
and south. The products of this great
domain cover almost everything which
- grown in the temperate zone, and
with few exceptions, the reports indi-
cate great increase In productiveness
throughout.
I'm the analysis Of replies lumber
leads with regard TO the proportion of
increase. as compared with decreases
Indicated. There are rs predictions
for increase to every prediction for de-
crease. In logs there are 20 predic-
lions Of increase to one of decrease.
In hay, 10 to l livestock, 10 to 1:
dairying, 6 to / oats, to /; wheat.
3 to l small fruit and vegetables. 8
to l, and fruit IA to /. In the case of
wool, the percentage of increase pre-
dicted Is slightly in excess of the per
centage of decreases predicted.
From Northwestern Washington
logs and lumber production are pre-
dicted to be 20 per cent higher; from
Skagit county, 20 per cent; from
Lewis county, 90 per cent; from King
county, predictions ranging from 20
per cent to so per cent; from Stevens
county, rs per cent on lumber.
Hay production Is predicted TO be
In Okanogan county 25 per cent great
err; King county, rs per cent; Benton
county, 25 per cent; Cowlitz county.
70 per cent; Lewis county, 20 per
cent; Yakima county, 10 per cent:
county. 10 per cent.
"As to livestock, Cowlitz county
predicts 20 per cent increase; Yakima
county, 10 per cent; Lincoln county,
l0 per cent; one section of Benton
county, 100 per cent; Stevens county.
30 per cent; Spokane county. 10 per
cent.
I'VE have abundant evidence of the
fact that the raising of livestock is on
The increase, this being part of the
to diversity farm products.
From Lincoln county: The pros
oects for a large crop of wheat and
'ther small grains in the Big Bend
country to this date, May 20, are the
most promising they have been for the
asst ten years; the average of winter
Wheat is fully so per cent greater than
vas ever sown before in this section
4 the country
From report from highly val
ed source, which has covered the en-
Ire Palouse country, we have the fol-
owing:
The condition of winter wheat in
ne Palouse country, district com
rising the greater part of Whitman
'unty, Washington, and Latah coun-
:, Idaho, as whole is reported as
verage, ranging from 5 per cent
Dove in western part to per cent
Glow in the eastern. The acreage is
lightly increased
Spring wheat on about 75 per cent
the usual acreage is nicely up and
healthy growth, except in the east
n part OF the Palouse, where seeding
I'd growth have been retarded by late !,
'ins. There is a material increase in |
lie barley acreage.
Oats occupy about half the acre
&c OF former years. Timothy, alfal- |
and clover show rank growth on an
creased acreage.
Oregon reports by counties indi-
tie u big increase in dairying. in hog |
nd cattle raising. In the wheat-rais-
x counties of that state the gain in |
rain yield this year is estimated in
'me quarters as high as 30 per cent.
Idaho reports Indicate prosperity
both wheat and fruit raising. The
make river country seems to be espe-
ally prosperous. due to big yields of
DOL, grain, hay and fruits"