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many farms produce from forty to sixty bushels, and seventy-two bushels have been raised per acre. Oats go from seventy to ninety and one hundred bushels, barley from forty to eighty, and corn from twenty-five to forty bushels to the acre. This is not a corn-growing country, as Illinois is, because the nights are too cool, but farmers usually raise a few acres of it. Alfalfa, clover, and timothy yield heavy crops.—the first named yielding from two to four crops a }'ears.

Mr. Philip Kitz, formerly of Walla Walla, was the first to experiment with fruit-growing in this valley. When his orchard was three years old from the graft he reported as follows:

YIELD OF EACH TREE,

, VINE,

PLANT,

AND SHRUB.

1st year.

2d year.

3d year.

4th year.

Apples.

20 lbs.

50 lbs.

125 lbs.

250 lbs.

Peaches.

15 "

35 "

100 "

200 "

Pears. • ■ . ..

20 "

50 "

125 "

250 "

Plums.

20 "

50 "

125 "

250 "

Cherries.

5 "

15 "

50 "

100 "

From Offshoot.

1st year,

. 2d year.

3d year.

4th year.

Blackberries.

. 3 lbs.

8 lbs.

15 lbs.

35 lbs.

Raspberries.

. 3 "

10 "

20 "

40 "

Strawberries.

H "

2 "

2 "

Grapes (at 2 years) ....

. 3 "

10 "

25 "

75 "

Gooseberries (at 2 years).

. 2 "

5 "

10 "

20 "

Currants (at 2 years). ..

. 2 "

5 "

10 "

20 "

Pie-plants (at 2 years). .

. 8 "

20 "

20 "

10 "

When the trees were seven yield, per acre, of his orchard:

Pounds.

years old he gave

the average

Pounds.

Apples.

40,000

Grapes.

. 40,000

Peaches.

30,000

Blackberries. ..

. 15,000

Pears.

40,000

Raspberries ....

. 15,000

Plums.

50,000

Gooseberries. ..

. 5,000

Cherries.

20,000

Currants.

. 10,000

The money results of fruit-raising may be learned from the books of a Walla Walla gardener, last year's crop from four acres being a