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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
Labor, Sept 30 00 " winter 114 50 " spring )', Ort M harvest 0.-, 00 Crop in garden ' i 80 SMALL FARMING IN OREGON. 17 east," lie promised that, when he got rosTUA. home, lie would write out his experience. I put it into the following shape: " Had cash in hand, SG52.75; bought thirty-five acres of land, three miles from railway, for $11 an acre; $200 cash, balance on time; two years, at ten per cent inter- ' except six acres, timber and brush. I . ' V J u -ii i T , M1. , t Oats, from eight acres. 00 00 built a fair box house for $215; team and Wh7 t 11 harness cost $200; paid $150 down, and balance on time. Bought one cow and $.J19 ,to calf and two pigs, at a cost of $50. Af- In accL paid debts 335 00 ter buying a little food, seed grain, gar- den seeds, etc, my money was almost Balance in hand $84 30 gone. In the month of September, I During this year, I planted alwut worked thirteen days for a neighbor, for one and a half acres of orchard, mixed which he paid me $30, half the amount fruits; I have small berries growing in in such things as I needed for my fami- every nook and corner, and I have in ly table, a few chickens, fruit trees and creased such of my oultry ami stock as a sheep. Balance of month, worked my my wife and boy can take care of dur own place, garden and fields, getting ing my absence from home." ready for the season of 1880. During In a close enterprise like this, earn the winter season, and up to April 1st, must, of course, be taken of trifles; ev I worked eighty-six days, for which I erything being mado to count This received $114.50. The balance of the case illustrates what caii lie dono by an time I was workbg about home. I then industrious, thrifty, small farmer. It planted my crop, only reserving a six- can be done in a thousand place in acre pasture lot for my team and cow southern, western and eastern Oregon, and sheep. After my own crop was in, It is not a matter of geography. It is a took my team and worked for my neigh- matter of pluck, of grit, of self-denial on bors, for which I received in all about commencing. If a man lacks that and $25. After my own harvest, I worked so many new-comers do it means their away from home, and saved up about drawing back and going away from just $05 during the balance of the first year, such good results as we have presented. Here is a recapitulation of that year: At the end of three or four years, when $052 75 lU man B orchard has commenced to PaynienVoniAnd'. 200 00 h k Lm i" his jjouge 215 00 Pa'tr"y y""1 UP. w the rato of Team " 150 00 y'e ' increased under tho in- (W, Shi Pli!."!!!!.'.' 50 00 f h Uuxls of farming, he will, without any outside labor, daring debts. $021 00 the last year of the four, from settle- On Land $135 00 men uave knnnA income of about fehm 110 00 everything all paid op, and his Interest 40 00 boue outbuildings greatly enlarged. Paying cash for what ho buys at tho $335 00 store; giving of his suUtauce toward the