Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-10-12
SIXTY CENTS FOR WHEAT.
Farmers Haze Realized Double
The Market Price By Feed
ing Their Grain to
GrOsCing Hogs.
Spokane Chronicle.

within the last two years. 1t has
not only been talked about and
agitated but has been put in actual
practice by the farmers, and where
ever it has been given a fair trial
it has been demonstrated that not
only can the farmer make hand
some living by increasing as much
as possible the number of crops he
raises yearly, but can earn a COM
potency and establish a good sized
bank account. There is no better
country in the world for diversified
farming than the agricultural lands
of Washington and Idaho, but it
is comparatively little understood
or practiced, for the reason that it
has never until now been found |
necessary.
Different people have different |
ideas of what diversified farming is.
One man will consider himself an
tall round'' farmer ii he has a field
of wheat, patch of potatoes or
turnips and a mich COW or two.
Another man will consider it in a
larger and more profitable way.
His ranch or farm will be divided
into fields and each used according
to it's adaptability to certain pro-
duets, or for the purpose of chang
ing from one product to the other,
which always gives the land a
rest.
He will raise wheat, oats, pota-
toes, cabbage, turnips and vege-
tables of all kinds and as soon as
he has had time he will have an
orchard in bearing and all kinds of
fruits both for market and home
consumption. He will not confine
himself to the products of the soil
alone but will accept the word di-
versifed in its largest sense and
will procure some hogs of good
breed, and as many mich cows as
he can conveniently take care of
and it goes without saying that he
will raise goodly quantity of do
nestle ducks, chickens and tur-
keys.
When the farmer once gets his
ranch in good condition, raises
everything in suitable quantities
that the soil will produce, gets it
stocked with plenty of hogs, cattle
and fowls, then he is ready to make
money for he can make each pro-
duct help the others. His wheat,
of which the market price is twenty
seven cents, the fruits and vegeta-
bles that he is unable to dispose OF
and the offal that comes from the
kitchen and from a small dairy
which would become necessary to
make the cows profitable, will fat
ten a large herd of hogs. These at
the ordinary market price, when
fed on wheat alone, will bring ar
average price for the wheat Of
about sixty cents bushel. But
in the meantime the man who has
practiced this kind of farming has
been selling fruits from the orchard
vegetables from his garden, butter
and milk from his dairy and enough
eggs from his domestic fowls tt
supply the family with the needed
groceries.
Too much cannot be said in favor
of hog raising. 1t has been demon
strated that the climate is a health
! full one for swine, very few case
of cholera or other malignant dis
eases having yet been known il
this section of the country. 1t ha
E also been demonstrated that whea
I has even greater fattening qualitie
, than Indian corn.
/ The St. Paul Pioneer Press ha
+ recently completed an investigation
of the result of feeding wheat t.
hogs for fattening purposes. |
was found that hogs SO fed com
|, mand higher price in the eastern
markets than those fed upon corr
and the hogs raised in this wa,
graded higher than the corn fe,
hogs of Illinois and Iowa. Sine
wheat has reached the low fgur
at which it is now selling, tn
wheat raisers of Minnesota and tn
Dakotas have been getting dol
lar bushel for it by feeding it t
hogs, besides escaping the freigh
charges for the shipment of thei
grain. Corn is getting dearer an
wheat cheaper. Wheat contain
about twenty-five per cent. NOR
of nutritive elements than corr
1t can, therefore, be very readil
seen why the farmer should rails
hogs on his surplus wheat.
BY actual experiment, an Illino
farmer realized ninety cents
bushel by feeding his wheat to hog
Twelve bushels added 1SS pound
TO the weight of four hogs whic
he marketed for 81 cents poun'
The day of the western rano
has passed, and the demand no
is for farmers in the true sense
the word. No merchant or bus
ness man can make IA living |
handling single line of goods in
small place. 1t is equally as diffcu
for farmer to make money
these times when he is contel
with crop of wheat, oats and ry
He ShOuld bring into practice II