The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-03-08

'bundsnt crops and from 20 acres Of di.
versified farming you may at least calcu-
late on greater net profit than from q
hundred and fifty thousand acres OF dried.
mp grain lands in Kansas; or, allowing an
average crop once in four Or Ave years at
forty or fifty cents or even FIVE dollars per
bushel, with your expenses out, your net
profit figures q.
Owing TO lack Of experience, energy or
disposition an occasional farmer wa
moses the ranch" and throws cold water
on the entire country whereas, If he had
used more water, perhaps, upon his own
few acres, he would not have required any
ding at the country. Such would-be
farmers had better go to "swappin'
horses" pediling eye-salve. corn medi-
line, toothache remedy, insect powder,
fortune-telling--anything but farming. 1t
is this good-for nothing-else kind OF farm
er that has done more TO retard progress
in the new northwest and to hinder the
influx OF those calculated to contribute to
the rapid development of our resources
than has the cyclones and billiards the
east, or yellow fever or smallpox the
south. II would be quite in order to
establish in every county in the west an
agricultural college in which to train our
young men more in the art OF husbandry
than tossing thet lasso or sticking to the
hurricane deck Of bucking broncho.
You say You suppose man can get
nothing to do out here until he could
raise something to live on. Well, that Is
the hardest lick yet What kind Of ideas
have You people in Kansas Of our coun.
try anyway? You must have got hold
Of some of Gov. Pennoyers "bugbears"
to the President and located Yakima
down somewhere among the frog swamps
OF Oregon. Why, sir, what can you do I?
Can you navigate" team, a pillow, q
mower, hsyrake, or stack hay? Can you
use an az, q buck-saw. hand saw or cross.
cut, q grub hoe, garden hoe, rake or
spade? Can you build house or fence,
sink well, or dig ditch, plant potatoes
or corn, weed the gardens. milk the COW,
feed stock, herd sheep, gather or pack
fruit, plant, prune, pole, cultivate, train.
sucker, Irvine, pick or bale hops? II so,
II you are proficient in any one Of these
branches Of farming industry, you are
all right for grub" in Yakima.
As to the profits Of the poultry or dairy
business, l will say that have had no
particular experience in either, but see
no reason why we cannot compete sue
cessfully in these industries with any
part OF the United States. We have O
steady market at our door, the cities OF
the Sound, which import largely OF those
products from the east. We have few
diaries, however, in operation at the pres
ent and the business doubtless will soon
become one Of our leading industries.
Fresh butter brings from forty to sixty
cents per roll, aud eggs from twenty to
thirty cents the year around. Oats and
wheat are very little raised. Other crops
pay better. Oats yield from forty to sew
enty five bushels, wheat thirty to fifty to
the acre. Alfalfa seed brings from ten to
fifteen cents per pound. owing to the
supply and demand. Teams can be had
from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty dollars. II you can sell your team
for cash, better not bring it. 1t would
be better to charter a car and bring every
thing you could get in from your farm
than to sell on time at low prices on I'M
certain security.
Our country school districts pay fifty
dollars per month for teachers and have
enough school funds to support six
months school generally. II your daugh.
ter holds good certificate she will have
but little trouble Ia securing school.
A majority OF our schools are supplied
with young lady teachers.
In conclusion, dear sir, have endeav-
ored to reply to your various interroga-
tions truthfully and impartially. having
no motive in view but to do as one would
wish to be done by. As You solicited my
candid opinion Of the country, l have
freely given it, Withholding, however, it's
alleged drawbacks, common to new coun-
tries; they are Of so little significance as
not to entitle them to time or space.
have found the country to be all
represent, and have an unwavering faith
in it's future growth and greatness and in
possibilities not yet conceived Of. am
well satisfied with all my surroundings
health, climate, society and advanta ges.
Having formerly lived in other sections
where all was not sugar in a gourd."
and having taken particular pains to in
form myself in relation TO the advantages
of the various "Edens" which have been
discovered in the last few years, feel
that ! am fully qualified to distinguish
between this and all other "Edens" and
to appreciate fully its many blessings.
We have few 'soreheads" or ''cranks"
as elsewhere. who "crank" only because
"built that way" Some people, you
know, like wagons, are built on the mar
row gauge plan, and when they get upon
a track too broad for their capacity, they
twist and wriggle and move at great dis
advantage.
We have discarded the narrow gauge
system OF doing things generally. We
want people here who are built altogether
upon the broad gauge. The steady
stream Of emigration which confines I'M
abated from every quarter Of the globe is
not the result Of any undue excitement.
nor is 1t the rush Of "boom." but the
consequent outgrowth Of country whose
reliability has been established.