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every possible combination, are found. The most frequent specialized 

 types of farming (where just one crop is produced) are: Wheat 

 farming, cattle ranging, sheep ranging, fruit growing and perhaps 

 dairying. The most frequent diversified types are: (1) Field crop 

 and livestock combinations; (2) Dairy farming combinations; (3) 

 Diversified field crop production. 



Of the types of farming named, those which offer the surest 

 returns and the widest opportunity for success to the average farmer 

 are well balanced combinations of the field crops together with a 

 certain amount of any of the classes of livestock or forms of dairy 

 production diversified farming, in short, on a moderately and in- 

 creasingly intensive basis. Examples of combinations for diversified 

 farming well adapted to securing the highest and most permanent 

 profits in the different natural divisions of the state are suggested 

 below. 



Coast Division. 



(1) Diversified Dairy Farming On the bottoms and tidelands or 

 the red hill lands, for the production of cheese and butter. This 

 is undoubtedly the most profitable type for this region, which is 

 richly endowed for this kind of production. 



(2) Diversified Livestock Farming Cattle and sheep grazing on the 

 hills with grain and hay in the valleys. The large areas of steep hill 

 land offer the best of grazing throughout the year because of the 

 summer rains and absence of winter snow, while the richness of 

 the many small valleys permits maximum grain and hay crops. 



(3) Truck or Small Fruit Farming Certain classes of truck on 

 the rich tidelands and of small fruit on selected hill lands are very 

 successfully produced. 



Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon Divisions. 



(1) Diversified Field Crop Farming Potatoes, grain and clover 

 seed, for example. A very profitable type where livestock is not 

 desired. 



(2) Diversified Crop and Livestock (a) Grain and hay, sheep or 

 cattle; (b) Grain and forage, hogs and sheep. Both of these types 

 are unusually profitable ones where properly carried out. 



(3) Diversified Dairy Farming (a) Butter, cream or milk pro- 

 duction in combination with hogs or chickens or both, with hay, 

 grain, soiling crops and pasture. This is one of the most common, 

 surest and most widely successful types for these divisions, (b) 

 Dairying and small fruits an especially profitable type for small 

 farms on high priced land, (c) Dairying in combination with hogs 

 and the growing of cash crops'such as potatoes or clover seed. Excel- 

 lent where so many cows are not desired. 



(4) Fruit Growing Diversified and Specialized In no part of the 

 state or Northwest are superior conditions found both as to climate 

 and soil for fruit growing than in the Willamette Valley or Southern 

 Oregon on selected areas. 



