all -inter and they have perpetual pasture. Everyone peeps co-s 
and almost the entire output is made into cheese -hioh envoys a 
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natfeifiul reputation. )—mg)S to the prevailing fogs they raise very 
little hay and x:x rt »f it is raised in the eastern part of this 
r 1 -4? e arid shingten, some »f the farmers having hay farms there 
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and thehav is shipped in by rail. 'lusft-ly 
"he Pacific has lots of -ater m it and a -onderful 
shelving beach up “hioh the rollers slide unceasingly and at 1©- 
tide the beach is hard and white and cars can run at any speed for 
many miles, ^hey have a species of clam there celled the rasor. A 
long narro- -hell i«h “hioh lives m the sand at low -ater i ark, 
one or t**o in a place. You see a little hole m the sand and a 
turn or t-e of tbm spade brings him up* the most delicious shell¬ 
fish, barring the geolucK, perhaps!, I have ever eaten. 
"’he i oust climate --reduces the most luxuriant growth of 
undergrowth T have evrr seen and the s&llial grc“s ever six feet 
tall and is nearly impenetrable, "'he timber is all hemlock and 
spruce and they are giants. There is, also a great deal of alder 
which grows large and much of it is being cut, as it tabes a stain 
very readily and make r Very beautiful mahoganyviotrelas, etc. 
On the place at home -e have done a great deal of work, 
ye have a small stream running through the place and falling into 
the rr ualatin -ith quite a nde bottom, most f kfee year covered 
with -ater* Under this ^e have discovered a tract of -hat is call¬ 
ed .locallv, "beaverdam*• It is a peat formation and very productive, 
raising -underfill crops of celery, onions, etc., T he land has to 
be drained and tiled and -hen subdued brings in favorable locations 
ss high as *li )0 per acre. It is a black soil with no earth what¬ 
ever in it* It raises great crops, of corn which is becoming a o'reat 
crop in this state. 
I haj/e said -e hade had an ©pen winter thus far. The 
pussy -illo-s are blooming arid the buds on the dogwood are turning 
