Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-05-01
Spring Time and Harcest.

however, here on Camas Prai-
RE, a backward spring is the
harbinger Of a fruitful sum
mer. The ground is thoroly
saturated with moisture and
the late frosts are over when
the blowing and planting is
done. The present season pro-
misses the most bountiful yield
per acre we have had for sew
eral years, and it seems that
the farming community would
gladly avail themselves of the
opportunity to fill their barns
and granerles with the products
of the fruitful earth, and al
the same time make showing
of the productive capacity Of
Camas Prairie which would &c
far to hasten railroad building
into this country. We have
everything to gain and nothing
to lose by a proper display OF
our industrial energy as a COM
munity, and by a practical ex-
hibit of the productive capaci-
ty of our soil.
But although the season
promises to be exceptionally
favorable for farming opera
tons, we still hear from the
less enterprising among us the
usual murmurings in the way
of excuses for not doing much
sowing or planting; we shall
hear the usual complaint con-
corning the absence of a mar
ket, and this will be the more
inconsistent, as that class of
our population are generally
improyident and not blessed
with an over abundance OF
foresight or forethought, and
if the market were the best in
the world it would do them
no good because they never
have anything to sell.
AS o community this Camas
Prairie of ours is noted for ig-
noring its agricultural inter
ests, and for raising every year
proportionately less grain and
other products than are need
ed by the necessities of the
local market. This policy has
led many worthy people into
debt and embarrassment in
many ways. AS an agricultu-
raj community we have excel
lent and unexcelled facilities
which are scarcely utilised at
all, much less cultivated up to
their full productive capacity.
We can raise excellent wheat
in prodigious quantity to the
acre, and superior oats, barley
and hay, with all kinds of
roots and products for the
sustenance of man and beast.
Apples, plums, pears and all
manner of small fruits do well.
The latter are not excelled any,
where. Berries are very prolific.
In fact, the blessings of the
Lord are everywhere abundant,
but many are slow to appreci-
ate them and we fear are UNI
thankful. With all our oppor-
tunities and with all our favor
able seasons we somehow seem
to lack the enterprise which is
necessary to accumulate the
necessaries and comforts of
life, and the result is that some
of our people have been redu-
ced to the necessity of mort
gaging their property and i'm
periling the homes of them
selves, their wives and child
rem. "Imperiling' is perhaps
not the proper word in this
connection, as mortgaging to
any amount means for the ag-
riculturist almost invariably a
forfeiture Of home and the
means of sustenance. Such a
course as many pursue here
would be fatal to their tempo
raj interests anywhere. In no
country can prosperity be. ex-
pected unless the people are
industrious, persevering and
wise in their labors.
We have plenty of good
land and moisture and favora-
BILE seasons, and yet we are
all the time importing articles
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