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Title page 301
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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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. 279.967 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 and small grains characterize this area. Field crops are reported as the major source of farm income on nearly 13 percent of all farms. Stock farms, for which an average size of about 300 acres is considered desirable, are found in the southern Willamette Valley. Sales of livestock constitute the major farm income for 6 percent of the total number of farms. Part-time farming on small units has been developing rapidly and has now reached very large proportions, particularly in areas adjacent...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1599

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