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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1879)
November, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 35 FITNESS OF OUR CLIMATE A VII SOU. FOR THE SUGAR BEET. We have Irom the Atlantic to the- Pacific the same temper ate one, which proves to he the natural home of the beet plant, here as well as in Europe. The tests of beet sugar pro duct have proved successful in Maine, Massachusetts, the Mid dle States, the Western States and in California. Remarkable growths of all kinds of beets have occurred west and east of the Cascade mountains in Oregon and Washington. A special litucss of these soils is in their alkuline elements. Meets require for good growth, potash 53.1 per cent; soda, 1 4.8; magnesia, 5.1 ; lime, 4.6; oxide of iron, o.S; phosphoric acid, 9.6; sulphuric at id, 3.3; silicic acid, 3.3; chlorine, 6.6. Our volcanic soils are hiirhlv chained . o - . . I. with tliesc elements as arc the volcanic "I Ih-cI sugar prtNiuccrs in r.urope. 11 soils of France and Germany. As a ;i an open field for u. antl a .oil full ol confirming test the chemical analysis of ! riches. The climate is like that of the ashes of beet molasses gives of po- j Western and Middle Europe. It brtnic. turn, 51.72; soda, 8.00 ; lime, 54; MT" V"tXMt nesin,o.i8j peroxide of iron, 0.30; alum- Mo HoeiioB. ()wr m,rWel ina, a 17; carbonic acid, 28.90; chlorinc,Wuct rapidly increeaee, . Our need of 6.03; sulphuric acid, 1.33; phosphoric varied and profitable crop... man.le.t acid, 0.57; silica, 0.02. Our fine wheat I avery y.ar. The imnugration Iron, products on both side, of the mountains be sugar regions of Iramc and require and find the same elements in Germany, doubtless, will WWW the S()il. borers of experience ami skill in the 'avfcHPfVvM I Fl US 1' STKKKT, ALBANY. OUR AKVANI AOKH ANIl M l lis. The day of costly ceiinicnts has passed ami we can profit by the su. 1 fss KUMiiess. II m the cold, and MMMwhnt sterile districts of Maine this industry proves a Mit t es, nint h more may it do no mi ibis Ntnthvtest coast. OIR Wilt AT l Kill'. We believe the two largest farmers in Oregon 01 at least the two who nave the large! acreage of ground under cultivation- are Dr. Hlalock ami (t. T. Hcirv.hoth of whose farms .if in I 'majilla county, the for mer having two thousand acres ami the latlei twelve bundled, and the present season has brought them a yield of an av etage of llliit) bushels to the .it if. In fact the whole agii 1 iiiiui.il district in Kin cowt) has averaged tpiite as well, and in some instance the nv c rage has been from 40 to s bushels, A gentleman wlm tuns a thteshing mat bine in the north aril pint o( 1 1 it- county informed us last Watt that be bad then threshed seventy thousand bushels of wheal, which came nil' land that averaged over thirty bush els per acre, ami we doubt if auv coun try can be found that will heat this, Mid though we at present claim t'ma tlMa to be the banner mity fot uualliv of frain, the time is not lar distant when we will take the lead in quantity j also. Bill OrtgtmUm. A profane tisiart--The man who sits down on a bent pin. The love of a fly for a lialdhcadc.1 man passeth understanding. t; i 1 r. 1 1 . ItMOaOllal IswwiSsu I lltiH'ineil nil M sOMOU MTLU AXO WARKIIOt'sr, At. It an v. OftWJN.