OREGON FARMER 



INTRODUCTION 



OBJECT AND SCOPE OP THE SURVEY 



BY A. B. CORDLEY 

 Dean of School of Agriculture 



agricultural survey, of which this bulletin is a summary, 

 was undertaken primarily for the purpose, not of adding to a 

 knowledge of rural economics or sociology, but to obtain defi- 

 nite information of agricultural conditions in Oregon for the benefit 

 of prospective settlers. 



Oregon, with an area greater than that of Illinois and Indiana 

 or of New York and Pennsylvania and with a population scarcely 

 equal to that of Boston or St. Louis, has less than one-fifth of its 

 tillable land under cultivation. Development of the latent wealth 

 of the remainder, with its resultant effect upon the entire State, 

 thus waits on immigration. Knowledge of the opportunities thus 

 afforded, together with definite and accurate information of 

 what Oregon farmers are now doing on these lands, should serve 

 to attract the attention both of investors and settlers. The object 

 of the survey was to obtain such information; the purpose of this 

 bulletin is to present the information thus obtained in a plain state- 

 ment of facts without the glittering generalities of the average 

 advertising pamphlet. 



Provision for this work was made by the Twenty-Sixth Legislative 

 Assembly by an appropriation of $5,000 for statistical research by 

 the Bureau of Statistics in connection with the publicity work of 

 the State Immigration Commission. 



The Bureau of Statistics was organized by the appointment of 

 Dean Bexell of the School of Commerce as Director, E. B. Lemon 

 as Assistant Statistician, Neil B. Baldwin as Office Assistant, and 

 the following advisory committee: 



J. A. Bexell, Dean School of Commerce (Ex-Officio). 



James Withy combe, Director of the Oregon Experiment Station. 



A. B. Cordley, Dean of Agriculture. 



G. A. Covell, Dean of Engineering. 



Henrietta W. Calvin, Dean of Domestic Science and Art. 



C. I. Lewis, Professor of Horticulture. 



H. D. Scudder, Professor of Agronomy. 



F. L. Kent, Professor of Dairy Husbandry. 

 E. L. Potter, Professor of Animal Husbandry. 

 James Dryden, Professor of Poultry Husbandry. 

 H. M. Parks, Professor of Mining Engineering. 



G. W. Peavy, Professor of Forestry. 



Hector Macpherson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy. 



This committee met with the State Immigration Agent, C. C- 

 Chapman, May 18, 1912, and perfected tentative plans for the work' 

 and again on October 28, 1912, when it was decided to co-operate 



