The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-02-14
FARM, FIELDAND GARDEN
Local Agricultural Notes. Judge Nor
iOrd'S Income from Butter Sales.
RAISING HOGS ON A FRUIT RANCH
How 10 Construct Hot Beds and
Valuable Information Regarding
Planting and TranspIanting for
the Market Gardener.

Arson s. White is perfecting a hop
press OF his own invention which he
thinks will eclipse all others now on the
market. 1t can be operated by either
hand or horse power.
Robert Dunn and B. +. Ward have
been offered 10 cents per pound for their
crops OF 1895 hops. This news is trife
encouraging, hut so much confidence
have these gentlemen in an improvement
Of prices that it is understood they both
refused.to contract.
The Yakima Hop company held its an
nual meeting on Monday night and de-
cided to lease its Mckee ranch for the
season of '95. B. +. Young, of Sumner,
secured the land upon terms advantage
sous to all parties. o. A. Fechter was
reelected president Of the company.
The Northern Pacific has reduced the
minimum weights of car loads of hay
from Eastern Washington to sound
points, from 24,000 lbs to 10000 lbs.
Baled hay on board the cars at Yakima
is now worth from IS TO s. per ton accord
ing to grade and quality.
DIR. N. q. Blslock, chairman Of the
Washington irrigation commission, esti-
mates that there are $4,000, 900 acres Of
land susceptible of irrigation in eastern
Washington. OF this amount about one
million and quarter acres are in the
Yakima valley. On the basis OF twenty
acre farms, Yakima could therefore sup
port 60, 900 people on irrigated land
That the creamery and dairy business
pays in Yakima county 10 evidenced by
the experience of Judge Morfor1, OF Old
Town. During the month OF January he
sold to the Greene Mercantile company
(his exclusive sgents) 422 rolls. and dis
posed of so rolls to a few OF his private
customers. The months sales returned
to him just $3.50. OF course the Judge
makes the very best quality of butter !;
but his example is worthy OF imitation.
During these hard times $3.50 per month
is no small remuneration for labor.
Many farmers of Yakima are realizing
the profit of raising hogs, and some Of
them are going into the business quite
extensively. p. J. Flint has about 200
head of graded hogs on his Parker Bot
tom ranch and intends increasing his
stock hogs until he can turn off about
400 head annually. He fattens them on
alfalfa, small potatoes and damaged
fruit, and hardens them on grain. Mr..
Flint has go acres in alfalfa and So acres
in peaches. He expects to market this
coming season upward of $4,000 boxes Of
peaches, mainly Crawfords.
r. S. Morgan states that over half the
potato crop yet remains unsold, possibly
because of tho inability to secure more
than 81 per ton net to the grower. He
states that he recently tried the Califor-
MIA market, but found that he could not
lay down . car of spuds at sufficiently
low cost to return q net So per ton to his
customers. Mr.. Morgan thinks We will
have to adopt a plan of having some
man at st. Paul upon whom growers can
depend who will take charge of the
shipped product to sell upon the highest
markets On instructions from local con-
signors.
Moses Folsom, general immigration
agent OF the Great Northern railway, said
in an interview recently: Washington
fruit is nearer to the mouths of 20, 000, 900
of people than is that OF California, and it
is better fruit for it has the great advan-
tage of frosts, which seem to be so neces-
sary to the perfect 6avoring and aroma
of deciduous fruits. The prevailing hard
times throughout the country have, Of
course affected very seriously the immi-
grafton business, but with the easing up
OF money matters, which will certainly
come some time, but how soon we can't
tell, we expect to have all we can do in
handling settlers for the west, and par
ticularly for Washington.