The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-14

Squire. but suppose it would bring $500
at auction It lies about twelve miles
rom Seattle and is . fine piece of prop
erty."
Vice President Morton has a farm at
hnineclif. on the Hudson, of $50 acres and
ne watches its profits and losses quite as
closely Is does Senator Squire. He knows
All about stock and can tell you the names
OF the best milking cows of the country.
he runs to Guernsey cattle, and he has,
perhaps, as many registered cows as any
nne breeder in the country. A
great many of his cows were brought over
from Europe, and. like Senator Palmer, he
prefers to send his own farmer over to pick
them out 1t makes him smile more to
have one of his cows take a premium at
county fair than to make good real estate
speculation. and he has a number which
have taken prize after prize. He gets
weekly reports from his farm. and ano Their
OF his fads is fine wool sheep. He spends
much of his summer on the farm, and he
has magnificent residence upon it. Speak
ing of Senator Palmer. his fads are Perch.
eron horses and Jersey cows. He i'm
ported some OF the best animals he has
his farm profitable.
Justice Lamar is well up on Jersey cows,
and he has a number of fine registered AMI.
mails on his farm in Mississippi. He is
tired OF farming, however, and in the
troubles that seem to surround the South
he wishes that the farm was sold and that
his money was invested so as to bring
good round income
/ met the Hon. Jerry Rusk, our secre-
tary of agriculture, the other night and
asked him point-blank as to whether he
made any money in farming. He replied:
81 have one OF the fine farms of Wiscon-
sin. 1t consists of 400 acres, and have
owned it for q long time. Part OF the time
have been farmer and part of the time
have been an agriculturist."
But, General Rusk. what is the differ
ence between q farmer and an agricul-
turist7'
"a farmer" replied Uncle Jerry, with
laughing eyes, lis a man who runs his
farm for all there is in it, who does not
waste on fool experiments, and who as a
general thing comes out at the end OF the
year with good profit. An agricuiturist
is a theoretical farmer, q man who pues
more money into the land than he ever gets
out of it, and one who Is always try ing
some experiment to make fortune and
seldom makes cent. Well, have been
both, and while l was farmer made
money. l believe there is money in farm
ing today if the proper business brains are
used in running farm. and doubt not
that matters will finally regulate them
selves. and the farmers will again become
prosperous"
"Where has the most money been made
in farming during the past year." asked.
II can't answer that" was the reply,
"but great deal of money has been made
in Florida. You remember the Disston
purchase, by which Hamilton Disston, OF
Pennsylvania, got possession of hundreds
of thousands OF acres of the swamp lands
of Florida. He has drained a great part
of these and they are the most fertile lands
in the world. Well, A. X. Mcclure, of the
Philadelphia Times, had an interest in
some of these lands, and two of his
nephews. who had not succeeded very well
in the West, asked him to give them some.
thing to do. He let them have some of
these lands and they cleared this
year $4,000 on their tomato crop.
That is, think, pretty good for tomatoes.
This land. however. is the richest in
Florida. 1t consists of six or eight feet of
muck, and it will grow vegetables to per-
lection. Other parts of Florida are not as
rich as is generally supposed and you
would be surprised to know that oranges
need a great deal of fertilization. visited
once one of the hest orange groves in