Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-12
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DAI9YMAN.

| The. letter following Vas written t.
Mr.. K s. Rosinson Of Chimacun, w II.
and has been sent to this paper by tha,
gentleman:
| MusCATrSK, Iowa. Dec. 10th. 1883
Having seen your name and address in
the Posi- take the lib
| erty of addressing you, and / hope YOU
Will pardon me for the same. 1 am a
brother daIryman, and sell milk. Ihaye
quite large family. Just big enough To
milk COWS. and they do it with pleasure.
We are at the ropes end here. and can
not increase our business. lhave there
fore concluded to go out 10 Washington
Territory. and have picked on Seattle
Tor my future field of operations. Nov,
l would ask your kind advice and in
formation az to my further action.
Please answer the following questions:
Gan cows pick living within three or
four miles of Seattle? Can the land be
made 10 produce grass, and what is the
price OF land not fit for anything else
but Tor COWS to browse over2 Il may be
rough and broken, bat fit for pasture.
what are No. / milk COWS worth out
there, and what stock is the most profit
able, combining milk and beef quail
ties! am using the Jerseys here. they
DO not give a very large quantity of
milk, but IL is very rich, more adapted
for butter than for selling as milk.
although their milk gives the best of
s1elsfactiOn, but dives not bring any
more money than pOoger quality of
milk; and when the COW has to be sold
Tor beef there il not 30 much as of
some other breeds. Would it be ad-
visable for me to bring carload with
meF Give me the price of horses, and
any other inf ,rmatiOn will tse gratefully
received. l hope TO be able to some day
meet you and personally express my
thanks. CHAs. LEIENDECKER.
Cows can pick u living here all the
year ronnd, and many of them do; but
IL Is good deal better to supplement
the animals efforts with a little hay,
chop feed and roots. The most extreme
cold at this point since the LIST of Janu-
ary, 1882, has been 70 degrees above
zero, or II below freezing, which ia
quite different from the ~ below zero
of our Iowa friends. The grass is as
green and luxuriant today as in any
the harder vegetables which have been
allowed to remain outdoors have as vet
been untouched by the GOLD.
The land in the vicinity produces
grass finely. On the favored meadow
land -four and five tons are got in a
single year. aud sometimes more. Ne
equal area anywhere will produce more
hay than the hay lands of King county,
of which Seattle is the seat.
The price of land varies according to
its location as much rs according to its
quality. This is an ambitious CITY, and
expects within ten years to cover with
houses aud town improvements every-
thing but the water within four miles of
the building where the Posi- -INrELLI-
0ENCER is printed This, of course,
gives lands fit fer farm purposes
value they would not otherwise possess,
and has ru1 their selling price to $50,
500 and 500 an acre. Eight or ten
miles from town land can bs bought at
FROM - to $50 an acre, the price de-
pending upon the improvements, acoes-
sibility to roads, etc. Beyond ten miles
there is railroad and government land,
which can be obtained for less.
MllCh COWS here are worth $40, $50,
$50 and $50 head. A few Jerseys are
here, and high prices have been paid for
them.
The best stock is the most profitable
here, the same AZ in any other COED
and 10 one bringing a superior
class Of animals here il likely to have
cause to regret it.
Horses are worth $75 head and up
wards.
This country is more adapted to dairy
purposes than, perhaps, to any other
branch of farming. The climate il
mild, the pasturage rich aud never fail
ing. the hay yield enormous, the ex-
pSnses for care Of animals the lowest
and the market the best. The ruling
price for milk has been 40 cents gallon
for year past, while the best butter
has been up to 6O and 75 cents, with au
average of A. cents the year around. We
never have any compuncti0ns of con-
science in advising dairymen to come to
Puget Sound, AZ = reward here awaits
them of the largest and safest kind.