Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1860-12-15
l. A II NJ II RS COLU Nj n.
Shall We Abandon the Cultivation of Wheat?

"A correspondent IN our last paper
suggests that as wheat at present prices
will not pay the cost of raising, where
helps employed, the cultivation should
be abandoned. We suppose Oh the
same principle, if it is found the pres
ent season. that an orchard does not
pay for the attention givento the trees,
it shouldbc cut down :--and if fattcning
hogs pays not. the business of raising
and t;lttening hogs should be given up.
We do not think so. There are
times, in every department of human
industry, when business does not pay q
profit, but is carried on 81 loss. 1t is
so with the shipping interest. so with
the manufacturer, So with the merchant
and so it is with the mechanic. We
should sec II strange state OF things il
every man engaged in business of DIFF
fercnt kinds, when it ceased TO pay for
a single season. should break it up, and
try to engage in some now business. of
which he Knows but little, and which
would be likely to end in ruin. Dr.
Franklin's plan was RIGHT BE not
discouraged in your business which
may be affected by sulroun d,r2
circumstances: but press on until you
meet with success. or until YOU are GER
tain that your efforts will end in TAIL
ure." Wheat i, low tinr present sea-
SON. We have never had wheat enough
from year to year 10 make it an object
to open markets forii. We shall never
have markets for our s,irpj,, wheat UNI
til we have regular surplus. When
we have such regular surplus, we shall
have regular markets. Wheat is one
Of the most important crops in the
world; all The wheat raised in the
world is wanted, and will lie called for
when regular and large surplus can
be depended on. There Is demand
for wheat in San Francisco to some OK
tent, although At low prizes. Let us
have constant and large supplies for
sale, and we shall have as certain and
as good a market for wheat as the far
mers of California.
The writer of whom we speak rec
ommends farmers to rai.c pork and
fruit. Is it not within the knowledge
of every one that fruit sometimes has
not paid, and that hogs have paid so
poorly that farmers would give away
their young hogs?
We confess that We often set out OF
paticncc-may be wrongly so-"hcn
we hear farmers recommending I'll"
abandonment OF the cultivation Of
wheat absolutely one Of the best and
most useful staple crops produced. and
one for which our soils and climate are
so emincntly calculated to crow i'll per-
fiction. The God OF nature has made
this for grain country.-lt7a. Farmer.
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Construction OF CIDER FILTERS
Take square or round wooden box
made of onc-inch pine plank, we'll
braced, three feet III diameter and one
foot four inches in diameter and one
foot four inches deep. Make it with q
bottom perforated with numerous one
quarter inch augur holes, over which
should be LAID coarse hemp bagging.
Now fill in the box iorelght inches with
pieces of charcoal (animal charcoal is
the best, but it is eXpcnsive,) about nut
size, and upon the top of this place q
fourteen-inch layer of clcan-washed
sand, and cover all with a coarse hemp
bagging, and You have cheap and
good filter. Any quantity of these fill
tiers may be used, according to the
quantity of cider to be operated upon,
and the top-cloth can be frequently
washed, without disturbing the sand
and charcoal. Before running any elder
through, pass any stream Of clear wa
ter into the filter for fifteen minutes, so
as to remove any fine loose particles of
the charcoal that otherwise would be
mixed with the cidcr.-Sc;eat.ic Amer.
TIGHT BARNS FOR HAy.-No prac-
teal and observing farmer will say that
his hay Is kept better or swecter in
tight barn. than in one which admits
some air between the boards. Hay
will grow musty in very tight barns,
unless it has been so much dried
as to iniurc it. In common barns,
hay that has had two days drying will
keep we'll, though put in a large NOW,
provided that the air may come in at
the sides. They arc not experienced
farmers who doublc-board their barns,
or put on clap-boards to make them
alr-tight.
THE HEAvEs IN HoRsEs.-Takc two
pounds of nitro of saltpetre, and a quar-
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