The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14
STATESMEN FARMERS
Senator Evarts' New Purchase
and His Big Log Cabin.
MoRToNs Guernsey CATTLE.
Fortunes in Florida Tomatoes - Stanford
Didn't Know His Own Wheat Senator
Hearst's Ignorance Of Horses.

WAsuINGToN, Sept. 10.-TSpecial cores
pondence of The HERALD. Senator
Kyarts has just bought 400 acres of land
near Fort Washington on the banks of the
Potomac. He paid an average of Sl1 an
acre for it and says he bought it because it
was so cheap ne couldn't help it. He has
built log cabin 25 feet wide and 65 feet
long upon it and he is inviting the Senators
to come down and lunch with him. He has
another farm in Vermont which he has
held for years, and which, l understand, is
stocked with Jersey cows. His butter
there costs him about two dollars pound,
and his vegetables are, l venture, dearer
than though he bought them in the market.
The same will probably be true of this
Potomac land 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 position
that all the Senators are trying to hold
just now.
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
has scared most of the public men They
all want TO be accounted a friend to the
farmer, and such as hold farms are pointing
to their horny hands and talking about
crops upon every available occasion Many
of them have been brought up on farms,
and some of the largest estates in the coun-
try are owned right here in the capitol
building. Senator Lyman R. Casey, though
he looks like a diplomat aud talks half a
dozen different Languages, has 5000 acres of
land under cultivation in Dakota, and he is
secretary of a land company which owns
over one thousand acres in the James River
valley and which works it with capital OF
5000. Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has a
number of farms around Sioux City, and
all of the new Senators own more or less
land. 1t takes something like seventy-five
miles of fence to go around the farm which
Senator Sawyer owns in Texas, and Wat
son c. Squire has perhaps the best paying
farm of its size OF any of his fellows.
This farm contains 400 acres, and it
brings in Squire 5000 per month. chatted
with him last night about it. Il cut it out
of the woods he said. land i like to show
it as an evidence of what farmer can do
in Oregon. have
A HUNDRED HoLsTEIN COWS
upon it and get reports from my farmer
every week as to their morning and even
ing milking. These cows produce 155 gal
Ions Of milk every day. l sell this and re-
ceive - cents and sometimes 20 cents gal
Ion, so that you see my profits from the
cows alone are something like $3.50 per
month. Oregon is one of the great hop
raising countries and am making mighty
good thing out Of hops. ] have hop farm
OF about ten acres and put all the manure
from these hundred cows OF this ten acres
J viii get 5000 pounds of hops to the acre
this year AID expect to get 1000 per acre
next year. These hops will bring 20 cents
nnrni and q he lQyx-aCf roOcci hlp oct no
l must clear $1,000 on this ten acres this
year Three Thousand dollars year means
$3.50 a mouth, and this added to the milk
gives me about nine hundred dollars a
month from my 400 acre farm. Even if /
pay $500 month to keep up the place, |
am bound TO make $500 month clear.
What is the lana worGh." said i.
1t is not for sale replied Senator
Squire, but | suppose it would bring 500
an acre at auction. II lies about twelve
miles from Seattle and is fine piece of
property"
Vice President Morton has
FARM AT RHlNECLIFF
on the Hudson, OF $50 acres and be watches
its profits and losses quite as closely as
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 be has perhaps as
"
in the country. A great many of his cows
were brought over from Europe and like
Senator Palmer, he prefers 10 send his
own farmer over TO pick them out 1t
makes MIN smile more TO have one of his
cows take q premium at county fair than
TO make good real estate speculation, and
lac has number which have taken prize
after prize. He gets weekly reports from
his farm and another of his fads is fine
wool sheep. He spends much of his sum-
Iner on the farm and he has magnificent
residence upon it. Speaking of Senator
Palmer, his fads are Percheron horses and
Jersey COWS. He imported some of the
best animals be has himself and he expects
eventually to make his farm profitable.
Justice Lamar is
WELL UP on JERSEY COWS,
and ne has a number of fine registered
animals 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 a
good round income.
met the Honorable Jerry Rusk, our sec
rotary 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 finest farms of Wiscon-
sin. 1t consists of four hundred acres and
have owned it for a long time. Part of the
time have been farmer and part of the
time ! nave been an agriculturistn
but, General Rusk, what is the differ
ence between farmer and an agricul-
turist!'
"A farmer replied Uncle Jerry. with
laughing eyes, sis man who runs his farm
for all the money there is in it, who does