Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-09-15
MONEY FOR FARMERS.
The Great american Hog is the
Can,as Prairie Farmers
Best and Most Profit
able Friend.

The impression generally pre-
walls in the best informed and most
conservative circles here and else
where that we are strictly in it'
for long-continued spell of hard
times, scarce money and low prices.
If this impression proves correct,
then some of us up here on Camas
Prairie will have to mend our ways.
We cannot at this distance from a
railroad and with the cost of living
in this country, go ON raising wheat
ind cattle for export at prevailing
prices. Nor can we much longer
continue to live on the hope of a
reservation, or railroad, or
mining boom III Elk City or else
where. II is TOO much like waiting
for men to die in order to succeed
to their shoes We must turn our
attention to some other industry
which will prove profitable to those
who engage in it, and thus enable
this isolated community to live.
. The longer we live here the more
we become convinced that the one
industry for which Camas Prairie
is more particularly adapted, and
which promises the most profit to
the people who engage in it, is the
industry of raising hogs. Whether
raised for export alive or dead, or
for home consumption, the great
American hog will be found the
best friend the Camas Prairie far
mer can adopt. In good times,
dull times and bad times there is
always a good demand for good
hogs and for good hog meat. Even
now. when beef cattle are selling
away below par, and when a tho
roughbred horse will hardly sell for
his weight in old hay, there is a
sure and steady market for every
hog on Camas Prairie at 81 cents
per pound on the hoof, with the
strong probability of an advance to
AZ cents before the winters block
ade sets in and bottles us up.
There has never been a time in
our residence here when there was
a surplus of hogs or of hog meat on
Camas Prairie. On the contrary,
our storekeepers import from Cali
fornia, Oregon and the east, tons
and tons of hog meat and lard
every year to supply the demands
of the home market. Let our far
mers look around them and note
that their neighbors who have
prospered and made the most mo-
ney on Camas Prairie are not the
cattle barons, nor the owners OF
big bands of horses, nor the wheat
farmers, but the men who make q
business of raising, buying, feeding
and killing, shipping and selling
hogs and hog meat.
There is no better country fol
raising hogs than Camas Prairie
The climate is all that can be de
sired; the soil is full of camas ant
other nutritious roots. Plenty o
grain and plenty of water in th'
fall is all the feeding and attention
they require. After harvest the.
can be turned loose in the stubbl
fields, and if given plenty of waite
they will gain astonishingly il
weight and fat. In short, there i
more money for the Camas Prairi
farmer in hauling one load of ho
meat to the Palouse country thai
in hauling 100 loads of wheat t
Lewiston, even at so cents pc
bushel. Let our farmers raise hogs
and in a short time Camas Prairi
will have the reputation of bein
the great hog market of the Facifi
;oast, and buyers from all tn
ta.iuess and packing centers wi
c,lAe here and bi1 up against tae
other for our hoga, and prosperit