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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1907)
SUPPLEMENT TO THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT rains in the early spring the past few years, it is with regret that we i.ote our people have not given the atten tion to bee culture that they have in the past. Yet nearly every farmer has several stands, from which, if properly cared for and the season is favorable, lie niav realize from 50 to 150 pounds of the beet honey, which, if placed on tl e market, would yield a handsome return to each stand. The bee business of this section is not overdone, as the outlying range offers ample opportunity for the little woikers to sap the succulent weed of its sweetness, as they will travel for miles, and return heavily laden ; and, if necessary, stop to rest while carry ing their burden. \CRANBERRIES GROW IN TILLAMOOK. 1,000 Bushels of Berries to the Acre-Profita b!e Industry I dl«*^t ~ ,tn» » th* red ’ ktt But few counties in Oregon can claim to raiding cranberries, hut of few, Tillamook rtHiids pre-eminently the leading county of Oregon fitted monopolize that industry, and as oik which affords ample opportunities fol those who desire to enter upon the profi table occupation of raising cranberries. Conditions in Tillamook Countv are such that the cranberry industry is bound to grow to large proportions, and become a gleat factor in the development and industrial prosperity of the countv, whether it is developed by local enter, prise or by those seeking homes in the Northwest, where they can make com lortable and independent livelihoods. A few years ago cranberry raising in Tillamook County was only in its exper imental stage. Today it is a demon strated fact that those who first experi mented in cranberry raising are now possessors of valuable cranberry bogs It has surpassed all their expectations To give a correct and concise idea of this industry in Tillamook County, we may state that it is only in its infancy. What Mr. VV C. King lias accomplish ed in this respect, every industrious per- son can do Like every other industry, it requires labor and a certain amount of capital to develop, and with these combined, success awaits those who turn their Attention and energy to cran berry culture in Tillamook County. Mr. King says : “I commenced tlie culture of cranber ries in the spring of 1893. I find that the vines are well adapted to thisclimate. They grow' vigorously, and where the bogs are properly prepared, they are enormously pioductive. While picking my crop one year 1 measured off some ground and picked them carefully, and found that tliev produced at the rate of one thousand bushels to the acre. Allow ing |1 per bushel as a net profit, 1 do not know of an agricultural product tlmt will compare with it, and placing figures at a minimum. “It cost from two to four hundred dollars to prepare the ground and plant the vines, including the cost of plants The land which has timber standing on it is the most expensive to prepare, although none the less adapted to the raising of cranberries, so long as the land is made up of vegetable muck )>eiit. “The bog must be so situated that can be drained off by incans of ditches the debth of at least 15 inches, and one must also have control of plenty ol water fur irrigation and flooding pur poses. Although I have seen some marshes that were a success without any water supply, I do not consider it sale, in view of a large outlay. “A bog once set in the proper shape will last indefinitely. The first cost, although quite large, cuts little figure in the long run. “I find that the cranberries grown here are of a darker color than those grown in the East ; those here are much super ior in flavor, and also weigh more to the bushel. The size of the berry is about the same. “According to my experience, the Mc- Pa.land cranberry is the best variety lor the Pacific Coast. Il m the largest ami most prolific, h splendid keeper, and by all odd» the best seller. In the East this soi l is considered a poor keeper, but it appears to lie better adapted to this cli mate, and growa to perfection here. • I have had good success with the Cherry and Bell variety. They yield well and sell well and ate of good color, *1 lien flavor is excelled by none, and they arc of good size, though not as large as the Mi Harland berry. “The picking season is usually one of pleasure, for several reasons, to both picket and proprietor. The weather is genet ally fine September and October — when men, women and children come for an outing in the clanberry fields. They come with a camping outfit, pre pared to enjoy the pleasure of out ol- door life, the health-giving ocean breezes, and m rest from the city and home toils, “In picking, lines are stretched across a plot ol ground three leet apart, and each picker works lielwcen the lines, the vines making a carpet upon which to work. They bang on uprights about six Incites high, and arc truly beautiful to look upon. The berries, a blight red color, aih I, in many cases three and lour deep and touching each other, com pletely hide the vines and ground be neath. ••The pickers are giving n nix quart me .«sure, and are required to pick the Iteiries clean as they go. When the measure is full it is emptied into a bushel box, and when the box is lull thev are given a check which is good for 75 cents. Yard men are in attendance to overate the pickers and eperry away the boxes. My best pwlet* picked a bunt three bush els p - r day. ! Tillamook Jottings. FISHING SCENE THE TRASK RIVER. ! in former years were Messrs. A. Comp “In the East the vines aie often in projection, is deep, and consequently | ton, Jasper Smith, Krebs Bros., A. C. fisted with insect pests, and if the clear of obstruction near the wall pf. Gist, ai d otliers who owned a dozen or growers have not control of the water rock, furnishing a safe and quiet; mole stands. About 12 years ago Kiel» the whole crop is in danger. 1 under shelter from north and northwest winds. j Bros, erected a bee hive factory near The scenery, viewed from the north I stand that the pests have been imported ( Three rivers, where they manufactured here at different times in shipping plants, and northwest of the bay, is splendid, : the well known Simplicity bee hive, as but they soon disappear as they cannot taking in the mouth of Sand Lake, j well as sections, frames, etc., for the Cape Kiwanda. Sand Cape, Nestucca live in this climate. ' same. They also had a machine for “There are many acres of cranberry Bay and shores, Salmon Cape and Cape rolling the wax into foundation, or land in this county situated at different Foul weather. more commonly called " starter." Their The country surrounding it is the places. The land in its wild state is business grew for a number of years, worthless, but properly treated, and developed—and far greater undevel I until the people, engaging in other and planted to the standard varieties of the oped—portions of Sand l>ake cran That busy little worker, the honey I more lucrative pursuits, became neglect tame cranberry, it can be transformed to berry district, with its thousands of cedar timber» and telegraph pules, sur. bee, finds in the Nestucca valleys and ful of their bees. the most paying basis. When facilities for the lees placing hillsides endless quantities of luscious “According to the best authority, the rounded by stalely fir piling. Its already established cattle ranches, homy drew, so palatable to the taste of the honey in sections, and new hivts, chief requisites for a successful cranberry could be had, the honey could be put bog are, a good peat bed, entirely free with dairies and creameries springing mankind. When our oldest settlers took up upon the market in merchantable con from clay or loam ; good drainage, to a lip in all parts of the country adjacent debth of at least 15 inches ; plenty of I to it, furnishing to the outside world their abode in this land of evergreen dition. When tills was done, a demand water supply ; and a coating of three the finest pioductions of their kind, * vegetation and pure mountain water, was immediately created in the cities to six inches of clean beach sand over the demand a landing or shipping point of | w here the hillsides were covered with for Nestucca honey, and it gained a their own. A town of six acres has flowers of many species, and the fra reputation which standschauipion today entire surface. “There is money in the cranberry bust* been laid out and recorded and a few grant vine maple blossoms were to be over ail its competitors. Extracted ness and the many bogs of Tillamook lots f-old to adjoining the bay at the bare j seen in innumerable quantities in early honey, with the Nestucca insignia at npimg, vum their iimmivti instinct taught knu^n» w*«-«»» them that vum tached, will sell where other brands will County are waiting lor men of means «if the cape. From the town to w'itbin . spring, 100 feet of a place for a trapeze landing, ! this was the natural home of the honey not, as in this form it may be of a uianu. and energy to develop them,’’ NESTUCCA HONEY A PRIZE WINNER. Cannot be Surpassed for Flavor, Color, Sweetness. SCENE AT HUNTER’S CABIN IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY. CAPE LOOKOUT COUNTRY along the shores, a good road has been ber, and at the fir.st oppoitunity, each built. But realizing that they were in settler purchased a few stands of bees Plenty of Fertile Lands and advance of a demand for its comple and platted a lot, thus establishing a tion. the parlies await the coming de miniature apiary, Title, for the time Abundance of Timber. mand. tieing, was a great help to the settler Otic-quarter of a mile south, over who vv as struggling to secure a livelihood. The most inaccessible, and often the moat Important localities in a new open land from the town site, is a As lime passed the apiary was enlarged, [ large at ream called Crogslad creek. until finally a surplus of honey yielded country are the last to be developed. Cape Lookout, although extending furnishing an admirable mill site, ad- a nice profit. two and a half miles into the ocean, jacent io which is a body of thousands of The honey industry pays exceeding is joined by the fertile Ian Is of one acres of Tillamook County limber, on well. The Nestucca valleys cannot be of the moat productive counties of the land well calculated for legging. and excelled in the advantages offered for Northwest, but has, by reason of its free from rocks to render it untillable the producing of honey—California aird inarcvsaibilily. except as a refuge for or unfit for grazing land. the Southern states not excepted White The grades to the tmy «re laid on clover is claimed by the moat scientific storm tossed mariners, been left for grade of less than 10 per cent, even over future development. It is 800 feel the Cape. A county road from the apiariesU to produce the lieat honey, high, f »rms a solid, perpendicular ba Iteavli at the mill site, connecting with aud this seems to lie'a natural production saltic rock. and has a government res the state r«>ad fiom Woods to Tilla of the Neatucca river bottom soil. White ervation for a I ghlhouse. According mook City, is graded west of the Sand i clover, however, is not (he only source to t'apt. Cleveland Rin k well's coast Lake district. from which honey ia produced, but The climate and range are such that there are endless varieties of wild plants survey, it is midway between Yauuina for 12 y»*ais there has I »ecu no time sum. lighthouse and the lighthouse on Tilla mer or w inter, when we had any difficul which bloom in succession until late in 11look Rock. 1» stands for future use ty in finding good mutton and beef in the fall and improvement. ■ our flocks and herds, and we have never Among those who were the moat The bay formed on the toulh by its fed or cared for them by sheltering. extensively engaged in the bee industry •>« oflk t* O« *'r »*♦' g Pas* » '• TILLAMOOK bouses . of m« I pine there. rr. |n 1M& factored article. Nestucca honey, in pound section, sells at 15 cents per section, while extracted honey, because the question arises, w hy bee men go to the expense of purchasing an extractor and labor to take the honey from the comb and Bell it for 10 cents per pound, when the unextracted sells at 15 cents per pound. This leaves the impression in the minds of many that the extracted honey is adulterated, but such is not the case. The reason is, that about two- thirds of the time of the honey-making is taken up in making the comb, and when extracted, the pure honey is taken and the blank Cells are replaced in the hive and refilled, thus giving the bees a chance to gather much more honey in a season. Nestucca honey has been on exhi. bition at several state fairs, and at the Mechanics Fair at Portland, and has taken the prize each time for sweetness and flavor. Owing to a succession of very late Tillamook is a stock raising countv. Tillamook hay sells from $6 00 to $15 00 a ton. Tillamook County is a land of milk and honey. Tillamook County has no disastrous floods. Tillamook County is a world beater for grasses. Tillamook County grows immenre crops of potatoes. Tillamook County had only 24 deaths during 1906. Tillamook cows keep in fine condition the year round. Tillamook dairymen are happy, indus- trious and thrifty. Tillamook County is not pestered with tramps and hobos. Tillamook rivers and streams have plenty of trout and salmon. Tillamook County for profitable and successful dairying. Tillamook dairy farms are not covered with mortgage plasters. Tillamook County dairymen have bank accounts and loan money. Tillamook County is being cleared up fast lor dairying purposes. Tillamook County contains soil that is especially adapted to onions. Tillamook County is not troubled with cheap Chinese or Japanese labor. Tillamook County grows garden truck which no other section can surpass. Tillamook County has some magnificent landscape and rugged coast scenery. Tillamook honey issupurb, and for flavor and clearness nothing can surpass it. Tillamook County has large bands of Angora goats and is a profitable busi ness. Tillamook County affords splendid en- joyruent to campers and summer out- ings. Tillamook County is free from insect pests, for the salt sea breezes soon kill them. Tillamook dairymen are paid once and sometimes twice a month for their milk. Tillamook County is an inviting field for all classes who are possessed of some means. Tillamook County has a reputation for pure, cold spring water,which is found everywhere. Tillamook County will become the great manufacturing center for lumber in the near future. Tillamook County produces splendid strawberries, Logan berries and other small fruits. Tillamook County had 108 inches of rain fall in 1906, which kept the grass green the year round. ^Tillamook dairymen are making money and enjoying life, being an independent class of fai mers. Tillamook County has been settled for 50 years and no one in all that time has lost a single crop. Tillamook meadows are green and afford abundance of green pasture during the hottest summer months. Tillamook County is the most healthy part of Oregon, with a mean tempera ture of 51 degs. last year. Tillamook County is the sportsman’s paradise, with deer and bear bunting, combined with splendid fishing. Tillamook County has no saloons, the people having voted on tweboecasiuns that they were opposed to them Tillamook County will soon have two railroads and one or more electric road which will all be completed next year. Tillamook County never had a crop fail ure and the various kinds of hay, oats, barley and edible roots yield in profu sion. Tillamook farmers are wide awake, well informed, hard workers, industrious and adapting themselvoto all the new devices. Tillamook County is a place where peo ple can make an easy living if they have enough means to enable them to own a small farm. Tillnmook County raiaea oat», the yield being as high ■■ 100 bushels per acre en the prairie lands and even better on the lich bottom lands. Tillnmook County produces many wild berries during tl>e summer end autumn, such as salmon berries, thimble berries two kiaos buckle berries and sallai berries are most common. Tillamook County contains w hole forests pt big trees, many of them i cing POft in circumference: and over 300 ft in height. Moat: of the forest trees men- suie from 15lt.to JOft.in girth and are often freefrrim hmbs for the first 150ft. Tillamook Countv has numerous cheese a1»V “ •*"* ** wh«‘ ,h«y IbiM u’5;=T^,rtor’r during <*«««. received for , Tf 20,nd R«»»»66 78 per Cow for 681 cows. I» ab hnot r *d an<l biased of the 1 itmyse sheer s in 8« BB ii i G. P fltteûn
