Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-09-17
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER r. $780,

toes and the time is rapidly coming
when cheese, by reason of its facility
OF transportation, its freedom from
the hurtful effects of climatic chang
es, will be as universally used as th,
time honored "staff of life." II
has of late been ably recommended
to our Government for adoption as
an army ration, aud will no doubt
be 50 adopted, not only by our owl
but by all nations. I think it is now
SO used by some of the European
nations. Lewis county now supports
one cheese factory that is credit to
her and the Territory. She will vet
count a score of them within her
borders. The introduction of dairies.
besides opening one of the best and
most permanent industries is OF
vast benefit because of its influence
upon stock raising. It tends direct
ly to the improvement of the stock
of the country. No man will milk
COWS extensively without wanting to
improve the breed of his milch COWS.
This is inevitable, because necesi-
ty. The difference between poor
cow and a good one is so marked
and is OF such vital Importance in a
large dairy, that the proprietor will
never be able to get along with AN
inferior animal. No man who has
fine milch COWS, will long tolerate
poor beef cattle. Thus faniliarized
with good stock, he will carry the
improvement to all classes of his
stock, and will have only the best of
cattle. horses, hogs and sheep.
Stock-growing is found to be pro
fitable industry almost everywhere
and certainly can not fail to be safe
one here, and the experience of the
world is that it pays to have good
stock. 1t costs about the same to
raise good horse or steer as poor
one. 1t makes q great difference in
the farmers cash account though,
ewhether his stock be inferior or not.
I have wondered why horses and
mules are not more generally raised
in Lewis county. The market is
simply unlimited for this class of
stock and rates are remunerative.
A better country and climate could
hardly be found for the purpose,
than we have right here. In the
more Eastern States the mule was
considered great aid in subduipg
lands grown foul with brush and
thistles and would be very valuable
| here in that capacitR. A goodly
5s.sSsaber of-.thaSa,-animals- ziSss,iI.
might be sold by farmers every year.
They generally bring cash and Us
the raising costs but little, they are
profitable sales. Our proximity to
mountainous and mining regions, it
seems to me, ought to make the mule
profitable and safe investment.
This leads me to mention another
matter of great import ,nce viz: the
propriety, and necessity of q
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
The man who places his sole de-
pendance in wheat or in any other
single crop: is like man who pa
tron:zes the lottery. He is substitut-
ing chance for intelligent labor. In
the great wheat-growing State of
Minnesota, from 1867 to 1872, thou
sands of farmers were brought to
bankruptcy by wheat growing.
When wheat failed to bring fair
price they failed. But the man who
always has something to sell of all
kinds of grain, roots, stock, dairy
produce, chickens, in fact something
of everything that naturally belongs
to farm, is never at the mercy of
weather or market, and he generally
falls heir to some of fortunes favors
in the way Of high prices. A few
thousands of bushels of potatoes or
hundreds of bushels of onions were
worth pretty fair fortune last year.
But if we have not the onions or po-
tatoes at the right time, we may be
just as badly Oft as was the man who
was unable to drive a very advantag-
eous trade for the city of Chicago in
an early day. 1t only required u
pair of old boots, but the man,
couldn't command the means of the
barter, so lost fortune.
| DO NOT TRY TO DO TOO MUCH.
Farmers often fail to get the true
market value Of their products, or
what amounts to about the same
thing, they are too often compelled
to sell on a low market. One main
reason of this is, I think, that farm
ers like many other persons try to
"get along" too fast. They attempt
too much. They are not patient
enough to reap their true rewards.
They borrow too much money and
generally pay higher rates than le-
gitimate business will justify. This
borrowing necessitates payments at
certain times. These times are
when they can market the crops.
Indeed, the crop is too often mort
gagged in advance. If the crop fails,
the farmer fails, his farm is endan-
gered and often goes under the ham
mer If the crop is good, the price