OREGON' 



STUDY THIS BOOK AJLITTLE AT A TIME. 



( LOWING reports telling of the wondrous success 

 achieved by some one specialist in a new country, 

 are of little value to the homeseeker of modest means. 



What you and I and nearly all of us want to know 

 the questions we want answered are: 



What has the average, serious, earnest, hard-working 

 man accomplished? What kind of a home has he built 

 for his family? How much money has he saved? What 

 are his living conditions? What is his average income, 

 year in and year out? What his expenses? 



These are the common sense inquiries all of us make 

 about the farmer in a new country. The traveler or 

 tourist who is visiting Oregon, can get these answers 

 for himself by stopping at each farm house and asking 

 the questions. The homeseeker, however, often cannot 

 afford to spend a lot of time and money making a per- 

 sonal investigation. The State of Oregon feels a respon- 

 sibility to the bona-fide homeseeker. The responsibility 

 of placing the facts before him just as clearly and plainly 

 as they can be presented on paper in an official report. 



This book has the facts in it, the averages as to what 

 the average industrious man has accomplished here in 

 the State of Oregon. 



A corps of trained workers, investigators, was sent out 

 by the State, into every County to interview farmers 

 in every district. A list of questions was asked; these 

 questions including nearly everything that a homeseeker 

 would ask or would like to know as to what the average 

 farmer had actually done since establishing himself in 

 the State of Oregon. These answers were all tabulated 

 and classified by expert statisticians, and have been 

 analyzed by the practical men at the heads of the differ- 

 ent bureaus or departments of our State Agricultural 

 College. Every investigator and every department chief 



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