The Pacific Homestead 1909 Oregon - Agriculture - Farming - Livestock - Oregon Agricultural College - Corvallis - Cows - Cattle - Poultry

Title: The Pacific Homestead (December 23, 1909 - Vol. 20, No. 18 )

Author: R. J. Hendricks (manager)

Description: Oversize periodical. Covers have some edge chipping. Small mailing label on front cover. Minor wear on a few pages. 84 pp. 14.25 x 10.5 inches.

The Pacific Homestead was a leading Pacific Northwest weekly that focused on homesteading, farming, agriculture, and livestock. It was published in Salem, Oregon between March 1900 and August 1930. Features quite a bit of local advertising.

Includes articles on the Good Roads Movement and transportation to farms, plants and flowers in the farm house, breeding horses for heavy work, the mule on the farm, Lambert cherries, poultry business, beekeeping, dairying of Jerseys, the milk and butter industry, durum wheat, oat growing in the Willamette Valley, alfalfa, chestnuts, the value of wild birds about the farm, potato culture, apples, the experiences of a dairy inspector, the use of automobiles on the farm, personal accounts from various homesteaders across Oregon, and more.

Includes articles by J. B. Horner (historian and professor at Oregon Agricultural College/OAC), Louisa Nash (who with husband Willis helped establish OAC), William Finley (Oregon ornithologist), J. A. Gilkey (the gardener of OAC and father of the nationally known mycologist Helen Gilkey), Colin D. Nairn (of Amity, animal breeder), E. A. Rhoten (later an editor of the PH), William J. Spillman, James Withycombe (future Oregon governor), and many others. The historian, Fred Lockley, though not credited here, was the General Manager of the Pacific Homestead between 1905 and 1910.

The original owner/subscriber was Peter Chavner of Gold Hill, Oregon.

Binding: Oversize/Wraps
Condition: Good

Publisher: The Homestead Co.
Place: Salem, Oregon
Year: 1909

Keywords: Oregon, farming, agriculture, Oregon Agricultural College, Pacific Northwest, homesteading, livestock, dairy,