The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-15
THE PASSING THRONG.

]. J. Foster, OF Cathlamet, Wahkiakum
county, Is stopping at the Arlington He 10 q
successful farmer and his experiesce shows
what can be done on Washington land. ave
don't farm as finely out here as they do back
East" said he, shut / am sure we cas- do better
than they. OF course fortunes arr nowhere
made in farming. The spectators ara the ones
who get rich quickly. But think AN indus
trious man, who has no exceptionally bad luck,
can in few years acquire a modest com petence
on Washington ranch. ! am runnisg dairy.
live stock and hav ranch. have section OF
land from fifty acres OF which NOW about 200
tons OF clover and timothy, whics nets me
81 900 year. Hay is cheap at $40 ten, and it
costs about IS ton to cut, cure ARD bale 1t.
Then have two or three acres Of
fruit, but ! don't pay any atteI.tion to 1t
although raise great deal more than I need,
and give the balance away. However, II were
to look after the matter closely l could net
few hundred dollars every year in 4ruit The
rest OF my land is about hait cleared pasturage,
aud half partially cleared timber lanS, but good
for pasturage. On this land l graza $50 hogs,
seventy sheep. sixty steers and tw4nty mich
COWS, from which / clear about $500 n pigs, $500
in steers and 1900 in butter. ] ha-gen't done
much with sheep YET, tecause they get too fat
For the amount of land required for oasturage a
maa can do better making butter thsl anything
else. My cows will average pound OF butter
apiece for about 23o days in the year, and by
making good article can get WITHIN 10 cents
OF the retail market price. But for tie labor in.
volved hogs pay Better than snythi1g else.
don't fatten my pigs, but sell them when they
are 6 to II months old, when they WILL average
100 pounds each, for cents q pound. The av-
erags annual increase OF pigs il about
l,500 per cent. don't feed
them at all, except giviag them
butterrniik. blu. they grow and thriv:o on clover,
and just turn them into field, snd when I
want to sell some just go out and catch them.
About ten can live on an acre OF pa9urage, and
thus estimate l can netabout So an acre in
hogs. My land. however. Is rich cotton land
and tie pasturage is very fine. UEla and mead
ows would not yield more than tgso-thirds as
much hay, and they would often: require re-
seeding ami blowing / think trous this IL can
be seen that Intelligent ranching gan be made
to pay in this country, even without severe
labor or the close farming SO necessary in the
East"
zone of the funniest things Ieves saw" said
Chief Clerk J. NJ. Browuell, OF tIIe Rainier.
twas one time while I was teaard OF the
steamer City OF Seattle. We usei 20 touch at
Whatcom, sehome and Fairhaven o- the way 20
Victoria, aud one morning just - tie boat was
swinging out on her stern line from 5the Sebome
wharf, we were all astouished 10 SEE a dignifed
man rush frsntically forw ard. grab a couple of
yalises and throw them one after tas other on
10 me wharL Just then IL occurrst to him to
inquire where the boat was, and heSexclaimed
This Is Fairhaven. isn't itf When he learned
sha, he had LETT his baggage al the urong place
twas just too funny to see the iooisE look which
oversiread his lace Is the crowd gsye him the
laugh"
Many OF the senatorial workers have trans
ferred the scene of their labors x this city.
Among the SPOKANE delegation who came over
from the capital yesterday are r Ii. Graves
Judge Turner's law partner, H. V. Augustine
ana Charles VI. Lynch, who are sta.pirs at tie
Occidental; Fred Z. Baldwin. z. f. s9vine, C. "
ide, W. ". WlIherspoon, II. G. St.@imel aud J.
:. Patterson, who are registered at :he Grand
Those who have visitei the hose OF repre-.
sen;atives since its organization on Iue.dav
speak very highly OF tue efficiency 81 Mr. Harry
Carroll, the reading CLERK. lie has IN excellen.
voice and reads inte!ligeutly, q rarz virtue In "a
reader. HIS experience IN the California legis-
iature as a member also stands sim In good
stead. The clerical force OF the house. with T.
q. Ntckin at its head cannot be exs,eled.
V. Courtenay Lewis, n well knowga newspaper
man of Portland. Is in the city accE m panied by
his wife. Nj Lewis has eft daily journalism
ior time Ia take position with zhe National
Magazine Of History, and the object :of his pres
eat visit Is 20 write a twenty-five Iage sketch of
This city io- that publication.
Joe Livingstone, the Democratic 3ooss o. the
Frat ward, leit last night for Chicago, and goes
from there TO Washington City 81 see Clevs-
lands Inauguration. Nj Lvlngstlsne claims 20
be q close friend and old sch6olrzste Of THE
Only FRANK LAwls1.' sai0o0ksepss and sx-eon.