OREGON FARMER 



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SOILS AND FARM CROPS IN OREGON. 



By H. D. SCUDDER, 

 Professor of Agronomy. 



CONTENTS. 



Types of Farming in Oregon Pages 33-35 



Selecting a Farm in Oregon Pages 35-46 



The Soils of Oregon Pages 46-52 



The Farm Crops of Oregon Pages 52-63 



TYPES OF FARMING IN OREGON. 



agricultural wealth of Oregon is derived very largely from its 

 fields of grain and hay and from its livestock and dairy farms. 

 The greater share, perhaps 90 per cent, of the tillable acreage 

 of the state is better adapted to the growing of the common field crops 

 than for any other use. Selected areas in many parts of the state have 

 great advantages in soil and climatic conditions for the production 

 of the various fruit and truck crops. Oregon has become so widely 

 known, and properly so, as a grower of high grade fruits that it is 

 only recently that the newcomer to the state has learned of equally 

 advantageous conditions for the production of other crops. 



A glance at the agricultural production of Oregon for 1912 will 

 show that the great majority of the farming population of the state 

 is employed in the growing of the staples of agriculture field crops 

 and livestock. 



AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS IN OREGON IN 1912. 



Because of the diversity in climate, soil, topography, transporta- 

 tion facilities, market conditions, and in the price of land, in the 

 different portions of the state, nearly every type of farming common 

 to the United states is successfully carried on in Oregon. Grain, 

 hay, dairying, all classes of livestock (both under range and farm 

 conditions), poultry, fruits, truck all of these types, singly, or in 



