A History of Agriculture in the Yakima Valley Washington from 1880 to 1900 (part 6).
Date
1940
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Abstract
"As early as 1889 C. M. Barton had written that small farms were a feature of the valley and that a ten-acre tract would give a good living to the farmer who attended it. The idea of the intensive cultivation of the soil had remained predominant and was promoted by irrigation companies and by the state when the latter became interested in developing the arid lands which it had received from the federal government. In 1900 the Washington Irrigation Company reported that land was 'being sold in tracts of 20 acres or more, the company encouraging small holdings.' Census reports show that 45.6% of the whole number of farms in Yakima County were less than one hundred acres in size. (in 1934, 87.8% came under the same classification, and more than 70% were less than fifty acres in extent.)"
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12 sheets 8.5 x 11 inch. Typed.