The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-05-28
BEAUTIES or FARMING.
mo WAiia Waala journal" Man Knows
Nothing About 1t.
Salt Lake Tribune

Tho Walia waala journal" Man Knows
Nothing About 1t.
Salt Lake Tribune
The editor of the waiIa Walia Journal
has been trying farming, and 1t must be
that be did not succeed. judging by the
following. Hear him.
Ine hasess fraud on earth is agriculture. The
deadsiest fgais Jatsus that ever glitrered 10 be-
quite and dazz.e TO eetray is agriculture. We
speak with feeling On this subject and we've
been giitfersd and tcguilsd and dszz.ed and de-
ceived by the same arch deceiyer She has
promised rs bees and they few away after put
ting head on us; promised ia cary potatoes.
and the drouth has wifhered them She has
promised cherries. the curculio has stung them;
they contain living things uncomely 10 the eye
anu nnssvory TO the taste. She hss promised US
strawberries, and the ysang chickens have de-
vonred them We were in the sheep business.
and hard winter closed down on US. aud the
lambs died In the she'll No wonder that Cain
killed his brother. He was . tiller of the
ground. The wonder is he did not kill his
father and then weep because he did not have
grandfather to kill.
He is an amateur farmer only. He
knows nothing about the real beauties of
running farm. He is in q country where
1t i only necessary TO pillow the ground and
plant the grain to obtain forty to seventy
bushels of wheat, to the acre. Let him
clear of a sagebrush farm once. Let him
so OH seventeen miles to the river
and bring in ditch Let him
pay ten cents pound for grain
TO plant. then At the critical time have his
ditch break and wash away. At the right
time when he expects to harvest a crop of
grain. let him harvest q crop of grass
hoppers. Ii the first year does not exhaust
all his money. let him try il again and
the second year raise crop of wire
worms. Let him see his neighbor
sell salt grass hay in the barn for
500 ton. and then after he tries farming a
year let him fail to get SIC ton for timo-
thy after he has hauled it to town. Let
him double the proposition OF the old
philosopher who said: HE who maketh
two blades of grass grow where only one
grew before, Is greater than he who ac-
quireth = city," and raise ten blades Of
grass where but one sagebrush fourished.
and II he has spent ali his money let him
receive the consolation OF all the people in
that community as they pass by one by
one, each remarking that he was fool 70
begin the business, and By that time he
will be able to discuss farming from prac-
tical standpoint. He is but child in the
business, and he makes old veterans
laugh.
A CIergyman's Visit tn Puget Sound.
Rev. w. r. Warren In Humboldt Timea
After few hours at Pert Townsend, we
passed on to Seattle. the Queen City,"
which presents q strangely notified appear
ance. THE burnt district" shows not q
little of the debris of the IRE still remain
ing. and likewise multitudes Of shanties
and tents. right among which loom up the
new, huge brick and wooden blocks and
individual homes that are the harbingers
of the new Seattle that is rapidly coming
into being. Cable and electric motor street
cars abound and seem to be A No. l in all
their features. Incidentally learned yes.
terday that the Cable Car company of
Seattle sent their representatives 10 San
Francisco to secure a manager for their
roads, found their man. offered him twice
the salary he was getting in San Francisco.
and now be is thorough Seattle man and
their cable road is equal to anything in
California. Tacoma, thirty or forty miles
farther south and self-styIed the ''City of
Destiny" is beautiful and wonderfully
vigorous town, and has claimed q popula-
ton about equal to Seattle, but alas, for
figures that won't lie," made up by the
census taker. They give Tacoma proper
Is, s95. and with subarbs 3.sii, while they
give Seattle s3,i76. and with Its suburbs
81 SO.