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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1914)
4 r4 VÎÙ*^«A '¿4V AfuiL A? : UVTiV î jSlA Home and Farm M agazine Section FR ID A Y , OCTOBER 9, 1914 4 / » 4 Intensive Cultivation in the Northwest 4 Land is valuable in the Northwest anil many successful ranchers grow wealthy through utilizing their ¡and to the greatest degree, from a steady rotation of crops to practicable intensive cultivation. In the above picture is shown an orchard of Gano apples with straw berries growing between the rows of trees. The photo graph was taken near Goldendale, Washington. While this is not intensive cultivation in a fine degree it is a method of utilizing most of the land It appears that the trees might have heen planted eloser together and still allow for four rows of strawberries between the lin e s . It „ possible this same land might be made to produce from a third to a fourth more There is such a thing, of course, as pushing intensive cultivation too far. robbing the laud of its fertility. In gen eral the foreigner that comes to this country knows more about intensive cultivation than the average Ameri- . iin who looks at the and in acres where the former figures in yards. Many a small plot of ground on Italian lulls has been made to produce more, particularly in the way of small vegetables, than the average Western ranch devoted to similar crops. A study of intensive cultivation may prove of value to any farm er for it is seldom the knowledge may not be put to practical use. 4
