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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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of Korea are thrown open to Japan
cultivation.
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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.