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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1904)
6 Japanese F a rm ers . appearance. In Minnesota its foim The “Yankees of the orient” seem to would bar it from becoming a leg?l have made progress quite as rapidly iQ newspaper, but in Oregon they are on industrial ns in a military way. Ia J. F \ W O O D S , E d i t o r . not sticklers for form. After all it is agriculture there have been severe contents that count— quality, not handicaps to overcome, for the reason A £razy Comment. Published Every Thursday by the W ashing quantity or shape, and we feel sure that less than one-sixth of the land is The Democratic text-book has this that Woods will attend to the quality arable. This lenves e a ^ fanner only ton County Publishing Co. Incorporated about two acres. Consul General Bel extraordinary comment: feature all right when he gets his lows of Yokohama makes a very inter at Forest Grove, Oregon ,!The Republicans have spent $600,- tripod comfortably warmed.— Amoka, esting report on the subject. 000,000 on the Phillipine Islands Minn., Free Press. An American farmer will naturally » CIRCULATION 1500. wonder how the Japanese farmer can and are plunging forward with their support hjs family from the produce of dream of military empire at extravagant It is said in New York that if Judge $1.00 a Year in Advance. so small a farm and how he employs cost. Think what $600,000,000 Herrick is elected governor this fall his time on it. The Japanese standard Entered at the post-office at Forest would have done for arid America! there will be nothing voluntary about of living is far below the American, The work of reclamation, now actually the retirement of David B. Hill from and the income of the Japanese farmer Grove, Oregon, as second class mail matter. begun in some localities, might have active participation in state politics on is usually increased by his engaging in been inaugurated in every state and January 1, 1905. There is no room some subsidiary industry, such as rear Address all communications to Wash ing silkworms, reeling silk or spinning territory west of the one hundredth on the ^ame mountain top at the same and by working for wages in the inter- ington County Pub. Co., meridian. Other countries find useful time for two such organizers as Her- vals of farm work. In his work on the Forest Grove, Ore. ways of expending their stfrplus capital rick and Hill farm he seldom uses a horse or other draft animal, and his tools are of a If the N ews fails to reach its subscrib for the benefit of their own people. The Democratic managers have very primitive character. lie fertilizes ers or is late, we request that immedi For instance, New Zealand advances and cultivates very thoroughly and is ate attention may be called to the same. money to worthy settlers at a very rea compiled a list of shutdowns of mills thus enabled to secure a more abundant sonable interest charge, so that they during the Roosevelt administration. harvest, besides often raising two or THURSDAY, OCT. 20, ’04 may go forward with the improvement A glance at the list shows that nine- more crops a year on the same field. of their land and the building of their T ^ th s of the mills and factories closed In the warmer latitudes of Japan bar were temporarily shut down for repairs. ley, Indigo, beans and rape are grown homes without embarrassment.” successively on one plat of ground And these crazy Democrats quote The list is a “ fake.” within the space of a year. New Zealand, as a specimen of what For the purpose of promoting agri BANKS Great Britain is doing, while in another cultural interests the government Schools are all running at full maintains a state experimental farm part of their same foolish book they and nine branch farms. The work at are protesting against our improvement blast all around our village. these farms is largely theoretical and of the-Phillipines. What is going on Our townsman and former creamery- Is divided into eight departments—viz, in New Zealand we will make in the man, J. J. Hartley, has bought an seed, saplings, agricultural chemistry, Phillipines. We have taken up the interest in the Carsten Bros.’ sawmill, entomology, vegetable physiology, to R O O S EV E LT A N D FA IR B A N K S . burden of the white man and of Chris and they are preparing for a large bacco, horticulture and general affairs. The ' results of the investigations are Tryiug to do business without adver tianity, and it is being taken up by the winter run. submitted to thirty-eight experimental tising is like trying to run a boat with Republican party. That is all there is Farmers are busy plowing and farms, created and carried on by the to it. seeding and are getting in a fair crop provinces with the help of a subsidy out oars. Why are the leaders of the Demo of fall grain and if the weather continues from the |B?nernl government, and Thirty-five thousand majority for cratic party so foolish as to whimper there will be more than an average theories are here subjected to the test of practical application before general Roosevelt and Fairbanks, November 8, and cry so ovei what is a manifest duty crop of fall grain sown. publication. just%) show them that we have it of a part of the Anglo-Saxon race? The principal agricultural products, Corn is all in the silos in good shape The American nation has made its way out here in Oregon. and more ^silag e than has ever been nan,ed iu tlie order of tlielr nm!age’ to Asia and is going to do what good are rice, rye, barley, wheat, beans, put in before, for there have been five ' mulberries, sweet potatoes, millet, The Oregonian’s poll of Washington it can there. This is part of the blunt new silos built this summer and H. V. buckwheat, rape, red beans, Italian discloses some very interesting data program of the Republican party. It Whitney filled his this year which he millet, tea, indigo leaves, potatoes, sor which put that state safely republican. will rest upon the issue. ghum, tobacco leaves, cotton and hemp. never did before. Mead will carry the state by 5,000. The area devoted to rice cultivation Editorial Page-Washington Co. News. % Forest Grove as a Residence Town The democratic campaign fund has gone dry already. A large number of the clerks have been discharged and affairs about headquarters are rather gloomy. That’s right boys, save your money. Edward M. Shepard in 1897 de nounced Tammany as “ a foul blot on civilization,” and in 1904 Tammany tore a hole in the Shepard boom so ragged that the secpial favor of Judge Parker and Chairman Sheehan could not inflate it sufficiently to justify nominating speech. The republican campaign in this state is practically opened today. The large list of speakers will, from now until the polls close, hold meeting in almost every town in the state. The only greivance The News has is the fact that as yet there is no meeting scheduled for this place. No matter whether we need it or not Forest Grove should not be over looked. To the homeseeker there is no other town in the valley that appeals to him as Forest Grove does. This fact is much evidenced in the way of the many good substantial homes that have been and are at the present time being built in every section of this enterpris ing and beautiful city among the oaks. Few towns if any, offer the same inducements. Take the Pacific Uni versity, the public schools and the churches which contribute abundantly to those seeking education, and it is an ideal community for the rearage of their children. The agricultural sur roundings are suberb and the fruit is the finest that grows. In fact we are surrounded by every good thing pos sible for nature to bestow upon any community. The Free Press is in receipt of a copy of the Washington County (Oreg) News— the first under the management of J. F. Woods, formerly of this city. It is a 4-column, 12-page publication and presents a neat and attractive constitutes a little more than two- , fifths of the total area of arable land. / The greater part of the rice fields are in low lying land, which can be easily flooded’ bl,t somc uPland rice is ralsed' Mulberry trees and tea plants are usually planted on land not suitable for more important crops, such as the slopes of hills, sandy dunes and sim ilar places. In the warmer parts of the empire barley and rape are often raised ns a second crop after rice has been harvested, but farther north the ex cess of moisture required for rice The Oregon woman who asked for a leaves the land too cold for another divorce on the ground that her hus band lias been drunk for twenty-five crop the same year. Stock raising is still In its infnney in years gave her case away, as courts Japan and is not likely to become an scarcely ever grant a decree for mere important industry ow in^to the high ly a single case of intoxication on the price of land and the coarseness of th man’s part. native grasses, most of which are no fit for food for cattle or horses. The statement that five American au- ¡ The most noteworthy and encourag totnobiles are sold abrond for every j one imported into this country shows ing fact to be noted is that the .Tapa that when it comes to speedy proposi- nese government *8 making persisten tions your Uncle Samuel is about the nnd Intell,eent efforts to advance fan fastest thing on the pike. ing ,n every possible way. Irrigado ------------— plants have been established, fru It is evident at last that Russia will i?rowlns encouraged and subsidies o keep her promise about evacuating fered- This plan, if followed lo Manchuria—that is, it is evident to the enough, cannot but have important rest of the world, whether it is to Rus- sn,t8> especially If the fertile vnlle Bia or not. _____ of Korea are thrown open to Japan cultivation. *____________ The Jay bird that coughed its head and Its tail both off 1ms had a parallel in a Cleveland man who sneezed both of his eyes out. The news dispatch says nothing about him sneezing them in again, like the man who jumped into a bramble bush. As the Cleve land man Is named Jacob Gils Giir, perhaps he only sneezed the i’s out of his name. At any rate, it shows that one may become too enthusiastic, even in the matter of hay fever.
