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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1904)
\ s M O N D A Y ’S From Q until 12 o’clock I will Exam ine and Extract ......... tbbth .......... D on’t Dread the Dental Chair but Come in W e Make no Charges W hatever for Exam inations L . D IM M IC K Up stairs over Russel’s Store Main Street, Forest Grove, Oregon • grasses crowd it out in time, and that too much standing water must be tiled Washington County 1 ! away. Land naturally well drained or W ashington C ounty, one of the richest and most prosperous counties in Oregon, is located a few m iles southwest of Portland. Its soil is ! land fairly well tiled is the best for m arvelous in its richness, producing any thing this crop. The better the degree of grown upon the coast north of San Francisco. f Some of the finest stock, dairy, grass, hay and f fertilization and cultivation the better hop farm s in the west are located in W ashing ton county, while the fru it grown upon our up After lands has won medals at International Expo l for the reception of the seed. sitions. Large lum bering concerns are slowly m anu ! the spring plowing let it lie a few days facturing our immense forests into lumber. f for weeds to germinate and then hai£ I Fine ranches yeaety replace the lumber camps. W e have the best schools and in our midst is f row thoroughly to destroy them. I located Pacific U niversity and T ualatin Acad- amy. Two of the largest m ilk condensers on About fifteen pounds of clean seed * the coast are located in our county. We have f 'S ' the various conveniences shared by counties of m uch older states, such as telephone sys I per acre should be sown and well cov tems, free rural mail delivery, rai road facil For best results a ities. and the best of business accomodations I ered by harrowing. i furnished by the flourishing cities of Forest Grove and Hillsboro.* A fine water power elec £ land plaster covering should be applied. tric plant furnishes unlim ited electricity for all On land that has not grown alfalfa, unicipal and m anufacturing purposes. i ! » S ' m Real estate is yet low compared with the won inoculation of the soil with root nodules derful fert.llty of the soil and the undeveloped i 1 possib litles of our county in m any ways. W hile we are growing rapidly yet there are I taken from a field that has produced untold num bering of openings aiong agri- f an alfalfa is advisable. To do this soil is ultural, m anufacturing and business lines all over our county. I secured from an old alfalfa field and about 100 pounds of soil to the acre is sown upon the new ground before Alfalfa in Washington County seeding so that the subsequent harrow One of the most important undevel ing will carefully incorporate the nod oped industries in Washington County ules. The first year no care is needed is the growing of alfalfa. It has been except to mow the ground once in grown in but a few places but with the a while to keep down the weeds. If greatest of success. Its value lays in they are very thick it would be well to its beneficial effect upon the soil both remove them but if not they make a chemically and physically, and also in good mulch. Stock should not be put on the its value in furnishing protein com pounds. Its advantage over the clover crop the first season. If after a few and vetches in Western Oregon is years weeds and grasses should gain a chiefly in the greater permanency of foothold a vigorous disking of the land the crop. Its roots go unusually deep in the fall while plants are dormant into the soil and sometimes as high as would be beneficial. When the stand four crops are taken from one field in becomes thin reseeding may be a single season. The unfavorable ten practiced in the spring or fall. Rarely dencies lie in the fact that weeds and the leaves of the alfalfa become yellow $ A ! f f i ! I and unthrifty and should be cut at once to invigorate the plant. We be lieve that Washington County farmers could do no better than to plant a few acres of alfalfa and see for themselves of what value it is for a dairying country. The data and credit for all the facts in this short article are due to James Withycombe, of the Oregon Agricultural College, a man well and favorably known to Washington County and who also owns a fine farm near Farmingcon. Remember the Saturday evening. band dance next For Sale— Scotch Collie pups eligi ble for registry. Thos. Carmichael, Gaston, Oregon. Loney Saney, who has been resid ing south of Dilley, is preparing to oc cupy the Biggs ranch, and is moving his farming machinery there this week. Dr. Pollock was presented with a 20 penny spike while at Hillsboro Saturday night and was told to drive it. twenty miles. He make the drive Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Baker of Red wood Falls, Minnesota, were here the past week, visiting their nephew Dick Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have been travelling over the west this winter seeking a location and this part of Oregon suits them better than any thing they have seen. They will re turn here in the near future to remain. Redding Standard Bicycle, the only wheel that goes SO miles an hour at S. G. Hughes’. C ut glass and sterling silver, just the thing for wedding presents, at Ab bott & Son’s. Spring is here—and you should see the elegant art squares for the floor at Roe & Buxton’s. Newton Miller and family, who moved from Dilley to Aberdeen, Wash ington, have returned and are again located. Mrs. Minnie Wilder and daughter Jennie of Shelton, Washington, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Byroads. Do you believe in advertising? Look over the columns of this paper and see who are the progressive mer chants and professional men. Mr. Carstens of Hillsboro, father of Mrs. Hugh Smith of this place, was taken seriously ill at his son’s farm home near Banks, last week. Last re ports were favorable for his recovery. Grandma Warner, of Orleans, Neb raska, while on her way from her home to visit her daughter at Salem, Oregon, last week, became insane upon the cars before reaching Portland. The husband of the daughter at Salem, is one of the officials at the state peniten tiary at that place. It is hoped that it is only temporary and that the rest from the trip will restore her mind.
