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a good silo, (here can be no question of 

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Seven or eigiit acres of good vetch 

 and oals will make one liundred tons 

 of silage which is reasonably worth 

 .$5.00 per ton to any one who has stock 

 to feed. This, at a cost of perhaps 

 $(i5.00 in time and labor, leaves a sulTi- 

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 |)ay for the .silo. Add to this the profit 

 of the second filling the same year, with 

 corn, and add the value of manure as 

 a fertilizer, and it can readily be seen 

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The Growing of Small Fruits 



By C. J. Stuait, Monroe. Washington 



FOR the past twenty years the writer 

 has been closely identified with the 

 shipping and growing of berries in 

 Westein Washington. He has seen dur- 

 ing that period shipments of berries to 

 points east of the mountains grow from 

 a few hundred cases annually to aln-ost 

 an equal niunber of carloads. 



To begin with, any well-drained soil 

 in Western Washington, or Oregon as 

 well, that will raise a good crop of 

 l)i)tatoes successfully, will grow berries 

 with proper care and cultivation. A 

 well-])lanned berry farm, say of twenty 

 acres, should have all the desirable 

 varieties of berries common to Western 

 Washington, and .should plan to plant 

 those kinds that ripen at different times 

 covering a season extending from May 

 to October; such a plant would enable 

 the owner to distribute his labor over 

 a longer period, have a less number of 

 pickers, and a better class, by giving 

 them longer jobs, besides lengthening 

 his shipping season, and giving his 

 customers the different varieties. 



On this farm of twenty acres I would 

 plant one acre of Champion of Oregon 

 gooseberries, in rows and hills five feet 

 apart; this gooseberry is the only vari- 

 ety that is a reliable, regular, and full 

 bearing mildew [Moof berry that I have 

 ever found suilable for this climate. 

 Spray them annually in March with 

 lime-sulphur, and again when the blos- 

 soms are fading with arsenate of lead, 

 thereby insuring a worndess berry and 

 fiee of mildew. 



The next planting should be one acre 

 of Victorian cunants. Plant them the 

 same distance aiKirt.anil si)ray as goose- 

 berries; drive a slake about four feet 

 long and three inches square at each 

 hill and lie yoiu' plants thereto; this 

 will give them an upright growth, and 

 facilitate spraying and i)icking. The 

 Victorian is a late blossomer, and in 

 consetpience misses the late frosts, is a 

 heavy bearer as well as a sure one, and 

 the fruit will hang two or three weeks 

 on the bushes after ripening, and does 

 not shell when being picked as other 

 varieties do. 



Plant one acre of strawberries. I 

 plant the Marshall, but believe the Klon- 

 dike possibly better. It ripens better at 



■TOP DRESS all your 

 Crops with Nitrate 

 of Soda alone, no matter 

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 pounds to the acre for 

 seeded, and 200 pounds 

 to the acre for cultivated 

 crops w^ill do the w^ork. 

 The increase will yield 

 large profits over the cost. 



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