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OREGON FARMER 

 VEGETABLES STATE AVERAGE 1910-11. 



Note: Some of the yields are a little high owing to the fact that many patches were small and 

 given extra good care. 



In some cases prices are above the average owing to the fact that the produce was disposed of 

 locally to good advantage. 



Truck gardening has not been developed to the same extent as 

 has fruit growing. In the production of onions, however, the state 

 surpasses, and most years this industry is found to be very profitable. 

 Most of the onions are produced on what is known as the beaverdam 

 lands, which abound in Western Oregon. Broccoli, or winter cauli- 

 flower, grows exceedingly well and it is only a question of a short time 

 before the state should ship out a large amount of this vegetable. 

 The opening of the Panama Canal should make it possible to place 

 vegetables in eastern cities in good condition at low costs. While 

 the markets are fairly well supplied with rather low grade vegetables, 

 there is a splendid opportunity in the state for the production of 

 high class vegetabes. 



There are at the present time relatively few truck gardeners 

 who have made this subject a specialty. Only occasionally does one 

 meet the intensive growers found in the environments of large eastern 

 cities. 



The greenhouse business has grown very rapidly the last few 

 years and offers a most attractive field of investment for people who 

 have been trained in this line of work. All over Western and Southern 

 Oregon, especially where the centers of population are increasing 

 rapidly, there is a brisk demand for greenhouse products. The 

 business is twofold, flowers such as the carnation and chrysanthemum 

 on the one hand, and vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers 

 on the other hand. For the latter there is a very strong demand, 

 owing to the fact that the climatic conditions are such in many 

 portions of the state that there is a good profit in growing tomatoes 

 under glass, much more so than when grown outside. In most 

 parts of the state the climatic conditions are so mild that greenhouse 

 production is cheaper than in most eastern states. There are a 

 number of cases in the state where men with a capital of $600 to 



