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ing such a farm, yet me income irom nrge estates oiler these navnniagcs 10
r well-tilled acres, and well-protected a larger number lhnn have yet come
' j r....i. MiuarH Ihn nwnir w" '""ki . . .
Coheir nutrient elements have been j every grain of moisture increases the i farmers are Immigrating from the older
thdrawn. The Btocic larmer in me cooling sunace ior limner deposits. I states of tho Mississippi valley and tha
r 1 1 C AncfArn Crft(X nr I I A-ief anA fmrn Pttnlnnf CJitM;l
Washington must keep his lands up. This idea for a stock farm, is strangu France, and Germany and other Euro-
" e must he a diligent cultivator. He to a stock rancher. The cost seems a pean countries.. They come wuh the in-
mst be like the Belgians, whose land bar to the plan. But io.ooo acres, di- ,cnse dcS're anJ propose to own their
i worth $i,6oo, per acre, gather up vided into fifty stock farms of 200 acres furms- Thcy have the habit of indus-
whatever will enrich from yards and each, will pay better every way in the trv ancl economy. Thcy come with
arns and roadways, and transfer it to number and value of the animals fur- clenr idcns how to make tlie most from
isJands. A plan to do this, with a njsned for market, and in the cereals, an acre. They quickly turn a bit of marsh
loughtful economy of time and means, vegetables, fruits, fowls, dairy products, int0 a Kari,,:n or n roUh hillsil,c int0
rill make his acres pay large annual wools, flax annually harvested for man's clcnn RM of thriving vegetables or
irofits. The question with him will be use and comfort and exchange, than any waving grain or grass. Their few cow.
,ot "how many, but how well." The man can gain from a single tarm of ten become a herd, feeding on rich
;ain of stock, fed on rich home pasture thousand acres. The one farm may sup- clover pastures. Their small band of
nd stall, fed in the winter and spring, port and enrich a household of twenty sheep quickly multiply into n flock fit
. , . , . r . , 11 for the shears, or t he market, tame, in
,nd made ready for the market on call, persons. The fifty farms will 8ve ,hejr runs wilh'in call wln
vill be realized in high prices and competence to two hundred and fifty anj fcj rrom Well-lilled cellars and
jrompt payments, as well as in larger persons. The gain in products, powers solid stacks. Their stables nre neat,
;rowths. The saving in time and toil and values will be from ten to many airy and every nniinal u kept in health
.11 .i.i .. r . . r .1 .. hv care and use.
win surpass me incomes irom roving hundred percent. 111 tavor 01 me niijr v - ; ,
erds over vast plains. A stock farm smallcr well fenced and well-tilled inc5C rnig.. w -
n any of the upper countries, con- farms, and these margins will pay for p ,
Hucted on this plan, is more sure and all the extra fencing and improvements nnuaj accumulations.
Jmore reasonable than the wide ranges made and needed. Grant all the diffi- opportunities.
Jeaten off, have proved to be. culty and cost of fencing and improv- jhe untouch,.(l nHl aml undivided
objections. ing such a farm, yet the income from nrge estates offer these advantages to
Scarcity of water is feared and felt. Ir
p, and streams run out. Yet the ,nms anu ,u,"ls nodd f.um. The interior 01 uoinnnm
upper Columbia basin is enclosed in a every month of the year. The so. and , ite etlIer, to Ihjh of future
r;. e wi . . . . , sunlight and a r vapor are his capital to pleasant and comfortable homes, to be
nm of high mountains and h,ghlands sun J . , d out of lhe pruiriCSl ttd hill, and
which abound in springs and streams. work on 11 ! . , ... . . frest-covcrid va leys and mountuins
The wide pastures have not failed for ski11 U an ,te? nMh Zt the?r own .trongrm,.
lack of water, or their herds died of nt on his W,U and e"C,gyITfln ! ' t
thirst. Arid regions are changed by rewarded in like measure. How vastly Cascadb D.vis.oM.-We learn tha
the plough Green wheat Hudi i famil',CS bT J- T. Kingsbury, formerly chief
midsLmer on high 'plain , are IZ of ten thousand acres t an of ensinccrs ot N. P. R. R. constiuc
thirds water, showing a supply from one man can do or be on the whole 1 don in the western d.v,,on, js nho to
the air by condensation. Wells are the plan. locate a line of road through h
Jg in dry gulches which give living The stock farm, not the wheat farm, Cade mountain., from Jc Jca w ter.
water all the year. Others are sunk is the model farm in the upper Co urn- of the Yakima to the he. w cr
into the crumbled basalts Co to 7o feet bia basin, because it. plan include. Green river rough P- -deep
which furnish abundant supplies, wheat among other products It pla after tb e .1 topU. Tl J J
With increase of farms, the watJ flow require, a process to ennch .Ue f It w"""
increases or become, more manifest, demands the most varied and h
The wide plain, of Wa.co, Umatilla, cultivation Its crop. mu.t be : rot, commcnCfd
Walla Walla, Columbia, Whitman, tion in order to give to rcLade divUiun of the N. P. R.
Spokane, Klickitat and Yakima coun- I of stock may be , tto Urg on theCnscad
ties, once supposed to be dry and useless trior sought, hut to reach th s r ul R T hy wo uJ, to pulh'
for farms, are proving to become the the dairy, the fruit orchard, the garden bu very
best grain, and vegetable, and timber and field will contnbu.e spe . 1 ncome. the
culture claims. Sections on which no monthly to .well the annua i re p thu, making the company .e-
tree, ever grew are now dotted with Such a plan employ, every a.,o e eve j Qf -ny fof.
orchards, gardens, fields, pastures and day and month wisely, and fimls no uie w ,jnve
dump, of trees, thrifty and promising hours, or wasted energies, aucn w confl(lcnce now that the wo.k will be
in even the driest seasons. These crs are in sight of steady gains w.m a hcJ forWarj t0 the Sound quickly,
prove that immense bodies of invisible their work, and the nnproxem tn i h of courv !n
ypor are present in the heated air, sub- stead of the exhausHon of their lanas. Walhington will have mar-
lectto deposit by every well ploughed WH0?t ' iy
ndeveWofvegeUUon, while It i. . p!e-nt frc that model xk W.
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