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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1887)
A OEM OF THE WILLAMETTE. fifty thousand bushels of wheat, and half by spring freshets seems but to enrich a million bushels of oats. Tlio crop of the noil ami increase tho yield. There l&SG most bo resorted to for figure of aro hundreds of acres of land adapted to average yield. AfieldonCoLNcsmith's hops, which aro not now in cultivation, farm, at Dixie, yielded fifty bushels to A low estimate of the averago yield of the acre, and I saw there, a few days hops is fifteen hundred jiouuds to tho ago, a field of about fifty acres yet un. acre, though aomo fields have produced cut, which presented tho apioaranco of twice that amount Taken for n series containing an equal amount per acre, of years, tho average price, of hojm is Numerous largo fields, both on tho high twenty cents per jwund, though in tho and lowlands, yielded forty bushels of past few year it ha rben as high a winter wheat to the aero, and tho gen. ono dollar, and fallen as low as sore n eral average for tho county can bo safe- cents. Tho ct of raising hops is almut ly placed at thirty bushels. On tho eight cents per )und. A yield of fif. farm of D. M. Guthrie, a field of eight teen hundred ouuda er acre, at twenty acres of New Zealand oata yielded sovon cents per pound, gives a total of WUX) hundred and fifty-eight bushels, after per aero. This is a good profit at tho having been damaged more than fifty averago price, and in tho seasons of high bushels by animals. Earley and rye prices, sorao growers hare Iwutno com. yield in tho same prolific manner. Corn parativcly rich on ono crop cf hop. Tho does not make a good crop, and is but prolific yield, tho freedom from Umci little cultivated. The hay crop waa fif. iet of all kinds, and tho exemption teen thousand tons, chiefly timothy, from drouth, render hop culture ou the Huogtfian grass and red clover. There river bottoms of this region a jn culiarly is but little wild hay put up in tho coun. safe and agreeablo buniwtt. Tho com. ty, uinco swamps and overflowed lands ing crop in Polk county is estimated at do not exist, save the few bottoms oc not leas than six hundred thousand casionally overflowed along tho river, pounds. About six thousand acres aro cultivated Stock raising and dairying, carried on in hay. Hay brings from ten to twenty in connection with farming, can ! con. dollars per ton. Tho potato crop reach- ducted profitably, c'cially among tho ca ono hundred thousand bushels, and is foothill of tho Coast rang The gra n paying crop, sinco potatoes aro in do- grows jxrennUlly, remaining green tho mand for export to California. Occa- entiro wison along tho t?m. Tho sionally, as in tho export prico copious rains of winter kwp it freehand is as high as ono dollar per bushel, al- swnt, anl only in tho lato ittiato-r though in other seasons it may fall to months do it ho it freahin-M, only one-fourth that price. Taken for a so- to U revived by tho find rains of att. ries of years, however, tho jwtato crop tumn. Tho ran and filing of Wk is a highly profitable one. during tho winter months is but slight Thero is another profitable crop, to Shelter from tho rain, where catti way which more attention is bring paid year- havo a dry 11, and a lilt: M during ly No less than four hundred rcres of tho few days when snow covers tho hops aro now growing within tho limits ground, as it ocfaaionaHjr ilw for a Uy of Polk county. Thedeep, rich, alluvial to a wek at a time, will keep ttna in bottom lands along tho Willaraetto and good condition. During tho ei.tir . is tributaries are splendidly idapfod to ton they graxo upon tho gmn KrtM, hop culture. Their occasional overflow -nd yield tho rich milk that Wk ia
