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OREGON FARMER 



Is there Room for Tou in Oregon ? 



The extremely small number of farms and the large size of the 

 same shows very distinctly the accommodations the state has to 

 offer for a great increase in its farming population. Tillable land 

 nearly 24,000,000 acres and number of farms only 45,000 are two 

 figures that explain a great deal as to the opportunity for further 

 agricultural development and the reason for 80% of the tillable land 

 being uncultivated. 



Comparing the number of farms in the Willamette valley with the 

 number in other regions of equal or greater tillable areas, Central 

 Oregon for instance, shows at once where the land has been most 

 fully settled and where the greatest development is yet to take place. 

 It should be remembered, too, that the sizes of farms as shown are 

 in most cases in all regions, twice as large as is desirable for the 

 most profitable forms and methods of production. This and the 

 large proportion of tillable land still uncultivated accounts for the 

 extremely low prices of land in all regions of the state, notwith- 

 standing the increase in value shown for the past decade. 



With the facts shown in this table and elsewhere and a full know- 

 ledge of the possibilities for agricultural production in all parts of 

 the state it is not too much for anyone to say that there is ample 

 opportunity in Oregon for five or even ten times its present farming 

 population and with even greater prosperity for all than her present 

 peoples enjoy. With the continuing westward trend of the farming 

 population of the United States, with the added influx through the 

 Canal, and with Oregon on the very shores of the Pacific it is not 

 too much to believe that the state will double the number of its 

 farmers within the next five years. 



MISCELLANEOUS DATA. 



From Agricultural Survey of Representative Oregon Farms. 

 (Note: The columns headed "No. Rep." indicate the number of farms 

 Table 2. reporting on each subject tabulated.) 



