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Title page 56
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 328.872 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Over half (4,500,000 acres) of the harvested crop land is used for small grain production, virtually all of it by dry-farming methods. An acreage of dry-farm land of comparable area (4,500,000 acres) lies fallow. Hay occupies nearly one-third (2,700,000 acres). The balance is in various specialty and fodder crops. The irrigated lands, much the most productive part of the farmed area, total only 3,700,000 acres. They are equal to 16.5 percent of the total area cropped and pastured in the...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1515

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