Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-18
RARa PRoHm.
From the Willamette Farmey.l

Ne noor te asserted that thn farm In n
poor piece Of property that cannot Be-
depended ON to earn over four Dor cent.
on it, capital. II that 10 true, + is time
the farmer went to work to study i'm
proved agriculture and keep IN with
the ago be lives in. II it isn't true, the
farmer ought not to permit himself 20
oe mlrepeesented. We beliove il and
don't believe it. Il depends on -
farm and tho farmer. Some farms and
some farmers can b depended on 20 40
very little, but we don't care 20 .eoent
them e types Of . class thst deserve
Ina series Of articles ~ published
last summer We attempted to show thrt
Rrass paid moro profit than wheat. Our
assertion was that an acre Of pasture.
well prepared, sown with q variety Of
Rrasses, will support Eve sheep tie ysar
round, with some feed in winter months,
Five owes can be depended on to bring
four lambs worth 81 each-&8, fort ,
pounds of wool at Is cents ia SO; total
earnings per acre, SIS. Against this
the cost Of land is $50; cost Of seed, 6;
OF plowing and seeding, $2.5OeSl2.5O.
which makee total of $50 per acre for
the whole plant. The figures arc all
nigh, = - 70 be above QuagEioo. So
then, after the sheep have paid interest
on the capital investsd-$5 and after
allowing another e5 per acre for the
care of them, which 10 81 each, No still
have $S left. An acre of land viii earn
$l8, of which $40 ID for the profit over
and above all reasonable interest and
cost of winter feed. Otherwise: A man
with ono hundred acres, really good
pasture, stocked with sheep, after buy
ng 60 cents worth of winter feed for
each, and paying ten Per cent. interest
On the cash outlay, will have $1,000 left
for his own time and labor during the
year.
A man can rent 100 acres to be put in
summer fallow, 10 acres q year, hs to
have one third tho crop for the rent of
the land. A fair yield will be 25 BUSH
els TO the acre, though geod cultivation
should bring IS. He gets one-third of
1000 bushsls-667 bushels-and il he
sells at 20 cents he has $533 a. his an
nual income. That is ten per can't. in
terest on land worth $331 an acre,
which is fair valuation for good wheat
land. Bot We only give these figures to
show the absurdity of such statements
- that land only pays four per cent.
interest. We told, some time ago, Of
the success OF Mr.. Joseph Thompson,
who rented land in the Red Hills, and
received. two years ago, from his share
of the crop, n per cent. interest on the
value of the farm.
Good farming, close management and
economy in buying and taking care of
farm machinery, and farm stock of all
kinds, will pay well. We have in mind
. farmer who this year sells of of $40
acres, wheat worth 81, 800; pork worth
500; besides which he had 500 worth
Of wool and 800 increase in sheep; ewo
fine colts worth $200, several grades Of
Jersey calves and an orchard that will
pay we'll. Besides these items he has
all his supplies of the farm. He keeps
. hired man fo1r months at . cest 500,
and has fully $1,000 Of cash income TO
go on with. That Ii what any man can
do that has good half section Of land
in this valley or east Of the mountains,
If it 10 we'll improved. OF course. . new
settler, with farm not fully opened
and wild lands to subdue, has not the
chance he will have in time.
There is no use in maRnifyinR and ex-
aRRerating the advantages Of any ooun-
try, nor il thers any sense in putting too
AOW 00 ODbAu6UO Ou 8REBoU1bU8Os GO
through Oregon and Washington and
you will find many successful msn who
owe their fortunes to good farming.
You find moro Who do not succeed, be-
cause they do not deserve SUCCESS.
"Main strength and aWkwardneos" are
the capital stock Of too many Who are
willing enough to labor, but do not work
with Judgment. To study nature and
work tho soil undsrstandine1y 10 . beau
tiful occupation. To merely plow and
SOW and reap, or plant and dig, il
drudgery altogether, ,aunless tho work
man intelligently works according to
natural Law. So with every branch of
husbandfy, il is possible to win success
many times whore now efforts fail. The
farmer should b. student himself and
become teacher a. aoon a. he has q
e0n who 10 capable Of understanding.
Tho farmer who early commsnces 20
teach his boy the secrets of cultivation,
the Why and wherefore Of the modes Of
farming. is preparing his son to like the
farm and b farmer. These are tho
causes of too many failures that occur
in farm life.