The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-15

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- Of crops. the deSlrability OF irri-
! \, lds for homes. IN short the gen
gag 1ntageS and disadvantages Of an
: country or district for homes.
= US consider some OF the adverse
= Of irrigation Perhaps the most
!, pectfor Is that irrigation IS
Ia leyised by man." that If God had
,(5 crops 20 be grown in any certain
would have furnished the rain
= AZ Irrigation being IN contraven-
81 natures laws is something 10 be
- While such an objection is
- 90 ridiculous 10 need a serious
- IS frequently advanced by people
TO have some common sense:
- rs the kind Of argument often
So TO convince ones own self. And
!. on a plane with many OF the
.e- ped objections which are based
- - premises and maintained large
-, IN prejudice.
: ct common objection is the one
= = often that il makes US tired. for
- what IS coming even before the
- sas said three words. and yet he
- -liy elaborate upon il "a though
uNing you something that the
, al not known before. and
.,h, g which ne had acquired through
: e ntific research and a wide field
49, alton He viii tell you that irri-
= ID are wateTy. and IN the same
- al compare California peaches
- S-which by the way are gener-
- irrigated at all-with the apples
- ass OF New York and Delaware.
III tel you that irrigated potatoes
10 y and Will explain in detail why
- o. telling you that so much water
- =, put into the ground that the po-
- - mot be dry and mealy.
= ne facts ara these: That with
ali amount OF common sense and
rien e. potatoes can be grown and
snov 4 or better quality on irrigated
: ~ a on any other lands. Why? Be-
: "a farmer can have the soil Just as,
r az Just as dry as he pleases, and he
~. depend on the uncertainty OF too
n - too little rainfall Ii is true he
r,,i1 the quality of a potato crop by
49, water, but IL is not true that ir-
'Ion farmers do this. except IN rare
- from lack OF experience
: ir gated potatoes from Greedy, Col,
apk ny others that are put upon the
- 4 Chicago, St Louis and the other
: cita 5. Greedy" potatoes in Chicago
IL Yakima potatoes in Seattle and
mo They rank first and are the
5aYI3 ar 10 excellence and price. Ask
oor lission man in Seattle or Tacoma
! ars the best quality potatoes on the
- 80 Val tttA you instantly
-im Three years ago when the
- ted potatoes were selling in
~ xets at sl4 to $40 a ton Yakima
- we're bringing $50 TO So ton
that akima potatoes were any bet
ran NY other irrigated potatoes but
80 its large acreage tx rather pre-
"a ais market. The average yield
: an AZ 80 bushels five tons) per acre
sve ge cost of production delivered
h fasar- kasre -
tba abroad freight $3.50, every farm
,ono-i his potato patch a gold mine
- -. RS ago many car loads were sent
+ ii III, and last spring over 30 car
; al Yakima Burhanks went TO ST.
! 80 St Louis al very profitable prices
~ y over. They are now being used
- merchants with which TO open 4
: - entral America. As soon as some
rrris ng man or company gets around
- : starch factory IN this state
a.iII Ind that il will be located where
L,,n lnce Of dry, mealy, staTchy irri-
4 ~ atoes can be easily obtained, aud
% ~ re VIII be 10 danger Of too little
rsu spoil a crcp, or too much rainfall
Ill e quality.
~ 10 fruit. The criticiser of irri-
!, - IS far away from the truth as be-
- or the same reasons. An orchard
- 49, gated too much or too little. and
! ~ ack Of care in pruning or culti-
-, At Ii is only justice to our farm
= - that as rule they use az much
- ense IN this matter, as the farmer
roE irrigated country uses n the
49, # his crops and orchards. The
- Spokane know what kind Of
- hey get from the irrigated or
a. ng the Snake river and the CO.
- q the people OF Tacoma and Se-
Ah.a he -
- -enatchee. The earliest orchards
o.. these valleys were mostly seed
Of course are poor in any coun-
= %. e orchards that have come into
- thin the last three or four years
- - very best varieties, and the big
= lChes you get from them are rot
-, - aute 10 be compared TO the Cali
- h. which whether Ii be good or
g. ne is certainly very ins.p.d when
a. - here.
pples nobody thinks Of c0mpar-
ms th our southern neighbors. and
~ californ.ans themselves do not
- raise good apples.
~ alton shaving the superiority ot
-. -unes is furnished BY [. p VII
nth Yakima, who is one Of the
- rites in the state on prune dry
~ rench prunes after evaporation
80 0 As per cent of the green trait
=, IS Is per cent IL 1895. Italians
) ., p cent. each year. Silver about
= The usual percentage III nom
- STREETS is. French prunes 3 per
per cent. and p per cent. 70 30
or the Italians. Thus the irri-
les contain about per cent.
= - ance than the prunes raised
cation in humid atmosphere.
y Of fruit is always affected ~
-. q and soil. But whether the
N4ttAAaA "a frrtfr ina q
Z IN open trenches along The
~, a gravity flow from rivers or
a. els. or whether IL Is pumped
< and sprayed on the trees as
:" bliged TO do down in Florida,
a. market gardens OF the Eastern
1O' neither IL comes in the form IL
tiers llttle; except that the rain
- ~ so insufficient that the fruit
i dries up. dropping from the
e maturity. or II It has life 10
II harvest Is, under such cir
s, a sorry specimen.
- OnneCtion i wish TO mention a
80 seen in Niagara county, New
e. eptember. 1888, a county with an
:, "a al reputation for its fruit I
ugh dozens OF the best orchards
part OF that county (aloug the
RI Yer and below lewiston. and IN
With as good an authority on
fa"S ere was in New York state a
ddle age who had been buying
ug fruit IN large quantities for
80 - years. and who was living on
~ a MS grandfather had taken up
- ie claimed 10 know every cr-
hat county that had shipped a
Z 81 apples In twenty years and he
re me 10 "A score OF the large ap-
'11e' $ ia that section. The story OF
; ona "a, -. r. - +11fr,e- . 80,
sxper - sc -. o--,s-f t., -
] do a. .-.,, q, - NJ. -
'"s s that had been set cut twenty
p ia ri Mt In all hat TN. hnrra