Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-30
FINDS HAVEN AT LAST
POLK IDEAL PLACE FOR HOME
AND PROFIT.
Fruit and Dairy Farmer Is Euthus-
iastic Over Results of His
Labors Here.

CephaS Nelson, who has an extensive
fruit ranch three miles from Dallas
has commenced to harvest his crol
and to a representative of The Oh
server said on Saturday that while
the cherries had cracked TO some
extent, from his 400 trees he woulC
gather a goodly crop. Peaches, he
says, will be an unusually large crop
his $50 trees being heavy with the
fruit. Mr.. Nelson has twenty acres
Of Italian prunes and two of the sill.
yer variety. and while he does not ex
pect more than a third crop of the
former the latter will produce above
the average. In addition to these
fruits Mr.. Nelson has four acres OF
Mammoth ackberries and one acre
of loganberries, and from this tract
he is now gathering abundantly. The
Mammoths he sold on the market Sat
urday at $1.20 per crate, the boxes
being the larger size, which price is
about thirty cents below prices at
this time in previous years. Logan
berries, he said, are selling in his
neighborhood at little better than two
cents. Mr.. Nelson, who is an exper-
fenced fruit grower and Gamer, has
a cannery and dryer on his premises,
and will "put up" thousands of cans
Of choice fruit this season. The can
merry has capacity of 5000 cans
per day, but seldom is it that it is
operated fully. The fruit canned here
is placed on the market under the
Sunny Crest Fruit Farm label, and is
absolutely guaranteed. Last year Mr..
Nelson made a splendid exhibit at the
county fair. and carried off a number
of first prizes, and he will probably
be III competition again this fall. Mr..
French, who is gathering county
exhibit for the state fair, has Sc
cured some fine specimens from this
ranch, and later ON will get others.
AT present the proprietor of Sunny
Crest Fruit Farm is manufacturing
syrup for use at soda
fountains, it being something entirely
new to this section. Not only is he
using his own berries for this purpose,
but he is buying large quantities from
his neighbors. This, he says, is more
profitable than selling the green ber-
ry, or even drying them for shipment.
He has ordered a new and larger
press, which will arrive here tomor-
row, when he will engage in the syrup
making business on a still greater
scale.
But Mr.. Nelson does not confne his
anergies wholly to fruit growing, for
le has a herd of dairy cows that are
to him. At the present time
lie is milking fourteen, and is now in
he market for more. He sends his
ream to the Monmouth creamery in
preference to Dallas, giving as his
'eason that the road to that place is
n better condition for travel than
hat to this city. Having had con-
iderabe experience in dairying in the
Iiddle West and in Canada. where
lie was practically starved out after
en- years of faithful endeavor in an
fort to make good, he adheres to the
elief that raising feed for his cows
5 more profitable than running them
on pasture, and on this
heory he devOtes considerable land
o growing corn, beets and other ap-
roved kinds of feed. He has silo
nder construction, and will fill it this
all.
After having resided in the Middle
Vest and in Canada, as stated, the
reater part of his life, Mr.. Nelson
anne to Polk county seven years ago.
When asked how he liked this country
S compared with places where he had
eretofore resided, he replied enthus-
81 would live nowhere
lse. | am more than satisfied with
~ investments and also with the
esults of my efforts. There is, alb
llutely, no other place that | have
zen, and | have Travelled some, where
man can do as well financially and
the same time enjoy climate sec
nd to none as right here in Polk /;
,unty, provided of course that he is
nbitious. The idea that prevails in
)me sections of the east that man
IN make a living in Oregon without ,
uch effort is true, but the man who
desirous of aecumulating something {
II a rainy day must hustle here the {
me as elsewhere. Dairying is going '
be one of the big things of this I
ction in the not very distant fu- t
ne. Notwithstanding the fact that for !
lis industry we are directed to the t
ast country. | am firmly convinced
at properly conducted-raising c
,undant feed of the right kind in s
ldition to pasture-there is more i
'od money in dairying in this section a
an in anything else that a farmer L
n engage in" v
neleUatinn Uicitc Fair "