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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1882)
THE WEST SHORE. March, 188a ington, also. 1 lis farm must be large and the largest natural growth of vege- in order to return all its product back enough, with good care and cultiva- tation. They are almost untouched, to the soil. It was then ploughed deen tion, to support his household and hut thev await the woodman and the and well turned anA t-.c..,i..i . ... iwttucu WItfl mprove their condition. It must be plough. Their native fertility is more prospect of a very large crop. Anoth mall enough to make convenient neigh, than twenty-five bushels of wheat per er field of forty acres was nlniik.j 44 7 n - vua.-M. vuvmv i a"smo i uu6 " ii caning it up, ana turning motive of internal commerce and ex- even to the hill tons, have had eaual ud old straw anA t,,hki n,. u.j e cnangc. It n.u.t be tuu.il enough to power for thirty years, when properly beded down ior years, and then nlowpi ........ ... , uac ior neia, or- cultivated, meson increases annual- a third time to the beam, turninir ud chard and garden, pasture and wood- ly from decomposing rocks. Their rich black loam. This was reduced to land. Waste, unused land in a COUntrv loxirliintr nnrl Hi'cintfxrrarinn ara cn n fin. t-UtU :.L i . . ' - - iuui, wiui narrows and then, ncn in resources is an anoma v. in th ...... " .v-...... ..m inU cuia. . ncn suwn, one Dusnet per acre. The fieM wh,ch future popu.ationw.il correct, ploughed and reploughed very deep, i, ow covered with WW nati'rai. PKRTir.iTV. and turned un well to the aim and nir I fkiVI,!., ij :..! ?' .. .. . . .. . ' .. r...vn.v owuicu, giving a prosDect Of a "sni" "" con,l(,cr th"' to "e the mey pulverize more rapidly and repay harvest of thirty to forty bushel. rag ofcrop-power and of product the labor. No soil rewards good tillage acre. No failure of crops has oclrZ V T? ab"ndan tha" these lands -st here in thirty-four year's! Everv o oiuncvam, . u., waus- or tne cascades. They contain good who has tilled a harder, m- .m-nWl nakum Farm. South Farming nm I nrnnnrtinni n tVi. nil. :n l.i ... . TIClQ M-,y: ' of totih and Sod "" P '7 reived a farge .ward I FERTILIZING. Ta i t I w, WIlLlllUCU. J "Natural Frrtil i . v uciine It. IS the most llntuirn.it .tt.;i..... . f.Vn,,.,,ingO;rc turc to the farm products. It consists . P l' "nd to a,d decomposi- THE FUTURE MODEL FARM OF EAST in the addition to the soil fmm h tion of the coarser mineral elemonfc ERN OREGON ANn pabtb-dx, .' Vl i r WUUB- ii consists , "vww,,roi in the addition to the soil from the at- t,on of the coarser mineral elements. fnoftnnrr (mm .inn:j.l . I iiTk . , ..... - .. .. i " Hiiaium iiiiiiimi mn if. a iic naiurai rernnrvni a t cm, and from oxi.lationsor rli.lnf.,,. k.f..,.. r' .. . ' ' of the materials, which enter tnto by a fal bw IZTn form in which thev are v.ilil.i. y 0 ' 1he best ''lustration we the form in which they are available J best lllustrat'on we for plant growth. Where the natural aVe' to find the natur"I fertility of a of!S " in.f fl,)U,ul,,n, the cost fic,d. 0"""ed in the experiments of 01 seed and the exoense in l.ihnr MeRr T o. . ' . . . ERN OREGON AND EASTERN WASHINGTON. Bv Rev. G. H. Atkinson. STOCK RANGES. The country east of the i 'a lirr Broadbnlk field, as below " bee -'ock range for "Lul J. " ' .or . "? ,h" words, n,,lf :'De'ow years. The native bnnoh ... .rL .t,,.rc io oe deducted from the 5 u,,,,m"urJ continuously, 12 enrin . . 7 ou. cnilJr rro proceeds of a crop in order to as! ycars ,85-63, '5 bushels. . ,2 years P and,SUmmer been luxuriant, S3 imw,Ulhw-if the '75."n(ibushels,or24years,X: T6"" Plains Va and hills, and 2 ! 5. S Ilr" UC Jn bcfHU!,icicnt avera '4 bushels. ' S2 ften the mountains up to the ULl. of who ",Jr acre ha i.'TnS "IMot '""red continuously 24 hne- II Seeded and cu"d early, mount of nl.nr r "1 7.(ihat u f e years, m k...u,. nimuo,,sy 24 forming vast fields of mOSf n.,f,::.i Tit "'"efcrop) and 1851-75, busheU Mann nr hair manure, 24 vears Loff, 6 ' J' wn,cn norses 4 years, cattle, and even sheep, fed in winter and I Irenf f .V LI,,,,',. CZf. . 'I ,"Th"h,e.bol .4 bushel, h, T n,",! loo deep. th " tn excess of r "u,",c'8iw the production from .J;.." ' tul ana stacked large quan- Itona nrgimlLj 1 1 lilies everv u... ... j j-' oiock iarmers from en bushels of wheat the fi .."lc cxccs of M " me prodm f,e70nd fi.eM- "The formnr tonsofannlied m plo Profit to iK ' .tur?;.Jm' fertility comes mi ..4. been mieratmp- for f.... . fwi uve soils from .u . , " -iy cars 10 common manuring. ....., inese w'de pasture lands Pact ls. nch native soils of WC8tcrn Oregon and T' Wh''ch CXtend from Nevada V ashmgton would ,6 ,u into British ColmK:. .. -constant , , "trough This i., he comparison.,, o. atural lC' VJfre nCWfr,' on ,he A,.in,:'l n,LMsw,1S on the .v UBM. UUf rork ;frn-i e,.S " uomngton wou d revl .i7. . ,,llo untish Co nmKi, . .asiiy great- r . "'"i " 000 mi es rfl nC WC" ti,,ed of ten m;" t0 8Uth' and fr0I sum cres without manure i ... m,t of the Casca,U pe, ,c,e. eluding . ,arge ,,, of md A Ull..... tana. Rlfrrn.J ;ww gkousd pastuhe. if 65 . raountains and forests 1 W. D. Hare said , few & "rve and yet i ate summer and !" Hint lie sowt day$ atumn, thev rm;.k .u. ... . . M . ; "wxn acres of fal. a . l"c uesi grazing wheaf r:U"d W"S,n county a"d hcrds' wheat, and when it came up he used it TK T"KIR SUCCESS- . Pasture, .d turned in cows hi 7 Careful "ock men have sun- P-t Sheading out, J tL- . . v uesi peei and mut ago