Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-11
Jas. Gather and Dr., Curl were
over from the agency today.

over from the agency today.
Lee Jim, Toledo's washee man,
returned from Portland last evening,
where he has been for several days.
Digging "spuds" is the order of
the day now among our farmers.
The crop and quality are good as a
rule.
]. S. Copeland has sold his farm
up Depot slough to J. Skaggs for
$4,000. This is a fine farm and
worth the money. Mr.. Skaggs is
from Benton county.
There is considerable sickness
reported to be prevalent in New
port and vicinity. 1t seems to be
an epidemic Of a mild form OF
cholera. So far no deaths have
occurred.
Mrs. w. F.. Rich is visiting her
parents near Philomath, going out
there last week. William is doing
the bachelor act during her absence,
and lays claim to two distinct
mashes already.
The site for the city Jail has been
graded and Oliver Altree, the con-
tractor, started gang Of men to
work thereon this morning. Work
will be crowded and the structure
soon completed.
Sheriff Lands has been quite
sick this week, but is some better
today. He is afflicted with a kind
of cholera morbus. Miss Minnie
Smith has been gracefully presiding
over the Office during his indispo-
sitior.
Judge Burt has been able to at
tend the sessions of the equalization
board this week for the most part
of the time, but is still far from
being a we'll man, though we trust
that he will continue to recover.
There hasn't been a peddler in
the town for over two weeks. It
is getting about time for some
slick fakir to come along with a ten
cent ironing board or fake soap
receipt and work" the town by
selling them for a dollar to a dollar
and half a piece, provided, that
'you wont tell Mrs. what
you gave for it.
We wish when any ofour readers
have an extra yield or quality of
any grain, vegetable, fruit, etc.,
that they would bring or send a
to this office. We will
be glad to give it any notice it de-
serves and will keep TIE samples
OH exhibition in this office, both for
of our own people to
better efforts and to show strangers
who may come to our city what the
soil of Lincoln county will do. It
is not necessary for these samples
to be the best or largest in the
country, but samples of a good
product. Send them in.
Once in a while we hear man
complain because wheat cannot be
successfully raised i'll this country.
1t is true that this is net n wheat
but it has a resource thai
will bring more clear money into
the county, if properly followed,
than wheat raising at good prices
would. We refer to the dairying
industry. A very few figures vii.
prove this proposition. Forty acres
of wheat will yield in an average
year IS bushels per acre, or 1000
bushels of wheat. This will bring,
say so cents per bushel, or $500
gross for the crop. Now forty
acres of land equally titled and
sowed i'll clover and tame grass will
keep Ia head of good milk cows the
year around. These cows will
average three pounds Of butter a
week each, making a butter yield
of 1872 pounds ofbutter during the
year. This butter, if properly
made, will average 20 cents per
pound, or SS7S.4o for butter. To
this must be added IL calves worth,
say S. each or 500, making S434
from the butter and calves. The
skim milk is worth one-ffth of the
butter for hog feed, this makes S7S
more, or S5o7 in all. For all this
there has been no actual cash out
lay, and the labor has not been as
much as would have been per-
formed by the farmer on his wheat