Afid the Famous Palouse Country ig 



The Palouse soil requires no fertilizer, wheat averaging 25 

 to 50 bushels, oats 40 to 100 bushels, and barley 30 to 60 

 bushels per acre without it. 



The Palouse valley is a prairie country, but there is an 

 abundance of timber to the east, the timber line being twelve 

 miles from Pullman. The price of four-foot w^ood in the 

 timber is $1.50 per cord. 



The various grasses and leguminous plants flourish, and 

 dair3dng is making rapid strides, promising to become one 

 of the leading industries of this section. In our short open 

 winters stock requires but little feeding. 



From a patch of ground 50x120 feet, within the cit}' of 

 Pullman, S. Shearer during the past season sold 656 full 

 quarts of luscious berries, realizing therefrom $65.65. This 

 was in addition to the berries used by the famil}^, and 16 

 gallons of preserves made. 



It would appear from what we already have, that Nature 

 has given us more than our share, but from present indica- 

 tions another great source of revenue is to be opened up. 

 According to expert report large bodies of gas and oil under- 

 lie the Palouse country. Machines are being brought in to 

 prospect this section, and the coming season will find man}^ 

 wells driven. 



The poultry industry offers great inducements. Egg§ find 

 read sale the year round, the prices ranging from 15 cts. in 

 summer to 40 cts. in winter, the average being about 25 cts. 

 per dozen. At the last show of the Whitman county poultry 

 association, held in Pullman during the last winter, upwards 

 of 1000 birds were exhibited, the number including some 

 blue-blooded and high scoring fowls. 



