The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-02-16

been removed in setting, and grow into
hedges. saw woman gathering brush
which had evidently been hewn from
them, literally cutting down the fence for
firewood aud yet leaving the fence.
Even the aRimals feel it. Such kline
az aroused themselves lazily at our call
nj the farm yards where we stopped ;
and such turkeys, two years old, and
weighing forty pounds; one for Thanks
giving this year, which weighed forty-two
and half pounds when killed.
Said stranger, leaning over his fence
"You like my hogs? Well, they are big
fellows. and amt they clean and neat :
/ tell you, it's not true about hog being
dirty animal. Give your swine plenty
of room and chance and they will keep
their skin delicate as their white flesh is.
This is great country for hogs; pas.
ture my whole drove OF stock hogs on
two acres OF alfalfa. My brood sows will
feed right off the stack just as the cows
do. Alfalfa will keep them in good con-
dition, and when / want to fatten them
for market / just feed them corn for q
month, and get I've cents pound right
along for my fresh pork. And corn,
iorty-tive bushels TO the acre aud a sure
thing, just as much as l want to raise !
l tell You corn and hogs is as good &
thing as want. They can't raise 'em
anywhere else ia this country"
Surely, the Indian corn in these locali-
ties does appear at it's best. But there
can be little necessity OF choice and no
monotony in farming like this. In one
place the settler bad taken out rather
liberal supply OF water. and, in addition
to his prune orchard and poultry, had a
noisy duck form
'rifse miles Of broad, sunny hillside
ndurishe'i by these tiny streams, with ten
months OF summer aud frostless winters,
| should think would form good home
for the grape"
The Swiss to whom / addressed this.
answered with gravity:
II am from the Rhine, and this home
have here reminds me all the time of
it. The air, the river, and the exposures
are much the same. The Black Ham
burg and the Catawba grow as il born
here. The Whitewater and Concord
yield as they do not in their native homes.
I am an old man, but shall grow grapes
ard manufacture Rhine wine, right here,
certain!" Mr.. Paul Schulze has sent to
Germany for large shipment of varieties
for planting. This remarkable man,
whom every one knows, because he has
no interests separate from the develop.
ment of the country, it should be said in
passing, is the founder and has been the
promoter of this canal under a series of
discouragements that would have stopped
one less determined. To have recognized
that this deeomposed lava possessed all
the elements that appear in vegetable
growth, and is. naturally, one of the
strongest soils, and to have created in the
center of this great arid region OF the
state crops of this high order and quality
from land made too valuable for cereals
is his service.
The cheapness Of tillage is q feature
The land is sold at s55 per acre with per-
petual water right. The cost OF clearing
the same is about So and of ploughing
about So per acre. The first year, any of
the small fruits, sweet potatoes, green
corn, and all garden growths can be
raised. The second year, grapes, april
cots, and peaches are in bearing. Fuel
and lumber are at hand from the vast
forests OF the Cascades, three hours dis
tant by rail-
And not only wine, but good BEER
continued my phlegmatic Swiss, remoy-
ing his omnipresent pipe a moment for
freer speech; we're all surrounded with
hop poles here, now. The growers of the
vine are moving here fast from the val
leys OF the Sound. Here they have no
aphis; the vermin appear in the spring
just as they do there. But our hot sun
sust cooks them; they dry up and disap-
pear. A big crop the second year lie GER
tain; and the Yakima hops are the best
and get the biggest prices"
Another friend gave me his experience
as follows:
Il determined to see what I could do
the first year. had paid $3.50 per acre
for my land, and hated to wait three or
four years for fruit trees; so l put few
acres into hops; | raised the first year
the first, mark you-l20O Eounds to the
acre and sold them for twenty-five cents.
NY cost for seed, planting. and raising,
all carefully computed, was eight cents
per pound-fonrteen cents profit. Every
acre | had planted to hops paid me back
my purchase money, and nearly $40 be-
sides | wish ] had planted the v hole
tract"
One curious little place attracted me.
II was house with neither orchard.
hay field, nor berry garden--a few flower
beds and the home, that was all, and
some bee hives. The owners words were
interesting:
1T was in "a or 's5 that a swarm of
wild bees came to US. We hived them,
and Tor the next two or three years we
had several kinds of hives; finally We
concluded to have some standard or pat
ent hives. We sent for the Wisconsin
hive, which is similar to the Lang
straugh,' and some Italian queens. and