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
