Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
FARMER STATESMEN.
Some of Them Coin Money, but Most
of Them Are AgriculturiSts
and Don't Make Cent.
SOUIER'S H0LSTEINS AND HOPS,
How Colonel McClure's Eephews Cleared
Thirty Thousand Dollars on
Florida Tomato Crop.
ORANGE TREES EAT A HOG A IEAR.
SQUIER'S HOLsTEINS AND HOPS.
ORANGE TREES EAT A HOG A IEAR.
Senator stanfords Fruit Farms and the Boys BE Gets
to Do the Picking.
rcoRHEsroxpENcz OF THE prsrArcH,

rcoRREsPoNDENcE OF THE DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, September Ex-senator
Evarts has just bought 400 acres of land
near Fort Washington, on the banks of the
Potomac. He paid an average of S11 an
acre for it, and he says he bought it because
it was SO cheap he couldn't help it. He has
built a log cabin 25 feet wide and Is feet
long upon it. and he is inviting the Sena-
tors to come down and lunch with him. He
has another farm in Vermont which he has
held for wears, and which, understand, is
stocked with Jersey cows. His butter there
costs him about 81 pound, and his veg
etables are, venture, dearer than though
he bought them in the market. The same
will probably be true of this Potomac land, 7,
unless it is much better than the average
soil about Washington.
1t will add, however, to Senator Evarts
as a farmers candidate, and that is the po-
sition that all of the Senators are trying to
hold Just now. The Farmers Alliance has
scared most of the public men. They all
want to be accounted friend of the farmer.
and such as hold farms are pointing to their
horny hands and talking about crops upon
every public occasion. Many of them have
been brought up on farms, and some of the
largest estates in the country are owned
right here in the Capitol building.
BIG LAND OWNERS.
Senator Lyman r. Casey, though he
looks like a diplomat and talks half dozen
different languages has 5000 acres of farm
land under cultivation in Dakota, and he is
secretary OF a land company which owns
over 900 acres in the James River Valley,
and which works it with capital of S., 900.
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has number
OF farms around Sioux City, and all of the
new Senators own more or less land. 1t
takes something like IS miles of fence to 60
around the farm which Senator SAWYER
owns in Texas. and Watson c. Squier has
perhaps the best-paying farm for its size of
any of his fellows
This farm contains 400 acres and it brings
in Squier 5000 per month. chatted with
him last night about it. 81 cut it out of the
woods, said he, land like to show it as an
evidence of what a farmer can do in Oregon.
L have 100 Holstein COWS upon it, and get
reports from nv farmer every week as to
their morning and evening milking. These
cows produce 155 gallons of milk every dav.
1 sell this and L receive Is cents, and some
times 20 cents, gallon, SO that you see nv
profits from the cows alone are something
like $3.50 per month.
MONEY IN HOPS.
Oregon is one of the great hop-raising
countries, and l am making a mighty good
thing out of hops 1 have a hop farm of
about ten acres aud 1 put all the manure
from these 100 COWS on this ten acres, L
will get 5000 pounds of hops to the acre
this year, and 1 expect to get 4, 900 per acre
next year These hons will bring 20 cents
pound, and at the lowest possible estimate [
must clear s.. 600 off of this ten acres this
year. Three thousand dollars year means
$3.50 a month, and this added to the milk
gives me about $500 a month from my 400
acre farm. Even if 1 paw $500 a month to
keep up the place, am bound to make 5000
q month clear"
"What is the land worth?" said 1.
''It is not for SALE" replied Senator
Squier, "but l suppose it would bring 5000
an acre at auction. 1t lies about II miles
from Seattle, and is fine piece of prop-
erty."
MoRToN'S GUERNSEYs.
Vice President Morton has a farm at
Rhineclif, on the Hudson, of $50 acres. and
he watches its profits and losses quite as
closely as does Senator Squier. He knows
ali about stock, and can tell Won 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 fine 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 10 have one of his cows take a |
premium at a county fair than to make a
good real estate speculation, and he has a |
number which have taken prize after prize
Another of bis fads is fne-wool sheen He
spends much OF his summer on his farm.
and he has a magnificent residence upon il,
Speaking of Senator Palmer, his fads are
Percheron horses and Jersey COWS. He inn
ported ONE OF the best animals be has him.
felt, and he expects eventually to make his
farm profitable. Justice Lamar is we'll up
on Jersey cows, and he has a number of fine
registered animals on his farm in MissIs-
sippi. He is tired of farming, however. and |
in the troubles that surround the South he |
wishes that the farm was sold and the |
money invested SO as to bring good round |
income.
SECRETARY RUSK'S EXPERIENCE.
met the Hon. Jerry Rusk, our Secretary |
OF Agriculture, the other night, and asked |
him point blank whether be made any
money in farming. He replied: 81 have
one OF the finest farms in Wisconsin. II
consists of 400 acres, and L have owned il for
a long time. Part of the time have been a
farmer, and part of the time L have been
an agriculturist'
but, General RuSk, what is the differ
ence between farmer and an agriculture
ist?"
A farmer, replied Uncle jerry, with
eyes, 'is man who runs his farm
tor 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 wear with
a good profit. An agriculturist is a theoret-
lcal larmer, man who puts more money
into the LAND than he ever gets out of it, and
one who is always trying some experiment
to make fortune and seldom makes cent.
Well, have been both, and while 1 was a
iarmer | made money. 1 believe there is
money IN farming to-day If the proper bust
ness brains are used in running farm, and
| doubt not that matters will finally regu-
late themselves, and the farmers will again
become prosperous"
MONEY IN FLORIDA.
w here has the most money been made
IN farming during the past year?" asked.
can answer that, " was the reply, but
great deal of money has been made in
Florida. You remember the Disston pur-
'hase, by which Hamilton Disston, of Penn
ylyanla, got possession of hundreds fthou-
iands OF acres Of the swamp lands of Flor.
da. lie drained great part of these and
hey are the most fertile lands in the world. |
We'll, A. 5. Mcclure, of the PHILADELPHIA
Tunes, had an interest in some of these
ands, and two OF his nephews who had not
very well in the West, asked him
o give them something to do. He let them
ave some of these lands and they cleared
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