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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1882)
4 THE WEST SHORE. A MODEL .FARM POSSIBLE WEST OF THE CASCADES. Bv Rev. G. H. Atkinson. CONDITIONS. . Our toil and climate assure success. The writer hns leen thirty-five harvests or cereals, vegetables and fruits in west em Oregon, No failure has occurred, due to soil or climute, but some local failures have resulted from want of care and proper cultivation.. Some years of great abundance, have beon followed by less abundant harvests. Some fields have been ploughed and sown and reaped over thirty years and have not been manured at all, or left fallow but very few years within that period. The rtraw has been burned and the ashes left on the threshing ground. The ploughs have turned thin furrows. This nro. ecu has exhausted a large per cent, of me ncn surface soil of these old field. But such methods reduce the value and power of land by larger and larger per cents, every year of their continuant It it impossible to have a purse full of money, n its owner takes out money very day nd puts none in. It is not Pidi to have rood soil and oma crops, ir the owner Bather Annual L vests therefrom and makes no return of lenuuers. The rule of solvent w. to secure deposits in kind equal to the PPK to the model ine 0,1 fmi of the Wil. wette v,ey can be to their virgin fertility hv ' . in, by rotation and increased variety 0f cron ami K ..... .. 'Kym eleven,." Virr n? ,ne fcrti"I ltU "vc ocen extracted. Unless the owners hem., .u:. teril- 7 "nnU"1Iy more mo're "XSTTIR ATlnvj .hetS-Prdbe seeJ. '.IT " sw'neforthe . nd restore! to the . paring lndfeedi "e; - J uddIv the , . nch ,,nd or Pply them.. , .V 'as n.bymov.blefence.fc htm snd fatten the :i . . ,ltten Clover cr r,nercroP give sure and marketable returns of va rious harvests for the investment. It is better to raise grasses, vegetables, fruits, grains, fowls, sheep, swine, cattle and horses and dairy products on the same farm, and have a continual income, than to raise wheat or sheep, and have only one source of revenue from the farm. The man who sells wheat or wool or butter only, and buys everything else is apt to exhaust his purse and his lands alike. Western Oregon and Washing' ton can be the paradise for such a stock farmer. He will not raise the largest number but he will raise the best quality or plants and animals. He will make one kind secure another, and thus keep up tne productiveness of every acre, the growth of every animal and the inflow ot cash from every source. This has been the Scotch and Enelish stvle of w good tenant farming for a hundred years. In substance it must be the stvle of good model farming in Oregon and w asmngton, it it is to last a centurv. nr even a nait century longer. Our climate west of the mountain u the analogue of that of the British Tl ami mus a sure one. It has nrnv.,1 , j vvvu iu oc oetier man that of EnrimA .i .... . 0""4U UU a iciiauie as mat ot France. TUB NEW HILL AND MOUNTAIN LANi Lane, Douglas, Yamhill. . W..I,; - , . MOllllll- tnn anit PI 1 . . o ..u oLKamas counties in n aAri..t.. .... . -guu, - v.owmz, Lewis and Cheha- lis counties in Washing t..:.... lor example, look rouoh an,1 rum-.! ' in their k,ll o - .w u.uumg ...... ...H yet tnejr SQil .g d and Strnnir It L ' . . r -..-..6. ( UCHre luxunant forests .s deep.d of like quality down to ' "e w twenty feet hel. t. come, mostly from decomposed basalt hih v rhori j . t oasait, o -..-.6 mm colored with oxid of iron. Wild clover :J; X,d - -""fra ma thrive wherever -vmi loon torsfnol, : - Sit'? No failure will attend thefaWlsT may judge from the past. ' The h',ndof the diligent will make rich. ' . DIFFICULTIES. The forests are dense., Trees d2 the axe and hardly , yield 'to fire evergreens hold these mighty ranges 0f hills and, mountains, and man's arin seems powerless. But this verv ten:.. of possession is a signal of permanent values. , ,Man can make one acre the harvests of four or six as now vated. Fifty or one hundred., acres under the plough are better than times the number away from timher .J springs. The various resources of tU.: rugged lands . promote ' varieil iindustry,: and .comfort and more .'wealth to' tlJ owner. They are not a bar to popula. tion. They, invite, the immizratioiW A gentleman from Dakota,! who jaw the abundant clover fields near Cottage Grove, and had the offer of 160 acrei 8o under fence and plough with house and barn for $1,200, said : "If I buv thi; farm, one hundred neighbors', from' Dakota, will follow me to this region i. soon'as they can sell their farms. I have not seen clover grow in Dakota, I have seen no fruit like this mowW there. I am pleased and satisfied." THE HONEY BEE IN OREGON. .' BY T. L. RIGGS. ' ' ' and da v ri l . Z .''uw an"als can live , grain . , turnip the Casc.de mountains. orroution of cropland will le on the r rK.. height and strenJu c attain " Feat power f , ' . " "uvc "ie 0 all the ; Z the cereal, v":.u CCno,cestfa'-ms for opened. L .' T- T and fruits n be llon is convent, Trnsporta Af-j timber i n,- - 6wa quality .nj . - " - -numned quantity, From the earliest ae-es the honev heir has been the comoanion of man. ifirl has justly received at his hands a well- merited attention. At no Deriod. how-' ever, in the world's historv has ! the cultivation of the honey bee and the1 production' of honey received such an ' impetus as in the! present generatiop.; ny means of improved methods ; the capacities of the honey bee has been increased three-fold, and what was on a pursuit of pleasure has now become one of profit, giving support to . thou sands in our own country; alone., The inquiry then: "Is the honev bee adapted to Oregon?" is but a natural one, and the answer cannot fail to be of interest to a ereat number of our citizens. For want of proper tests an answer to this question in all its bear- mgs is an impossibility. ' We can. hbw-f ever, give partial answers;-first, then, we Will state as A fart that rh honev bee thrives as well and winters very much, better than in anv northern. state east of the bees do not freeze to death, and unles .