UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
In Cooperation with the 
Agriculture Experiment Station, State College of Washington 
DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1236 
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Washington, D. C. 
July 23, 1924 
FARMING THE LOGGED-OFF UPLANDS IN WESTERN WASHINGTON 
By E. R. Johnson, Assistant Agricultural Economist, andE. D. Stkait, formerly 
Assistant Agricultural Economist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Summary of results 
Area studied 
History of agricultural development 
Clearing the land 
Organization and management of farms in the 
area 
Prices received for farm products 
Changes between 1915 and 1921 on 47 farms. 
The financial progress of settlers 
Social and economic influences which have 
affected the success of settlers 
Accumulation of wealth by settlers 
Methods by which profits may be increased. 
Dairy farming 
Poultry raising 
Small-fruit growing 
Mixed farming 
Problems invol ved in choosing and develop 
ing a farm 
Financing operations 
Opening and developing the farm 
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This study was planned to obtain information which would be 
helpful to farmers and prospective settlers on the logged-off uplands 
of western Washington on the following points: 
1. Clearing of land; the clearing methods used, and the cost and 
advisability of clearing by different methods. 
2. Organization and management of farms in this region, and the 
returns from the different types of farming. 
3. Methods of increasing profits on farms already established. 
4. Progress made by the settlers who have developed farms from 
logged-oft lands. 
5. Fundamental principles which prospective settlers should know 
before settling these lands and the practices which settlers should 
follow to develop a farm from logged-off land in the most economical 
and quickest manner. 
A detailed studv of farms established on logged-off land in King 
and Pierce Counties, Wash., was made in 1915 and again in 1921. 
Trained enumerators visited about 300 farmers in 1915 and about 
400 in 1921 and obtained from each a record of Ins year's business, 
the financial progress he had made since settling on the farm, and 
other allied information. Practically every farmer visited in 1915 
N 0TE ._The department of farm management of the Washington State College of Agriculture assisted 
in planning the investigation and in collecting the data. 
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