Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-11-19

groceries potatoes are selling at from
go cents and upwards, and many are
small
The buckwheat crop, though short in
stalk, is quite well filed. 1t is mostly
cut. The youngsters are anticipating
ouckwheat cakes this winter with
sorghum molasses on both sides. for
nearly every farm has good-sized
patch OF cane. It is being made at 20
cents gallon, or on the halves.
The high price of wheat has caused
quite stir On the farms and large
breadth is sown to that grain. 1t was
cultivated in and narrowed couple Of
times. Spring wheat does not meet
with much favor with US. Chinch bugs
are hard on spring wheat.
There are large droves Of cattle be-
ing fed. Two men, whose lands join
mine, one nearly so, are each feeding
100 head and upwards, and there are
numbers Of others feeding less. A great
many yearlings and two-year-olds are
shipped into these parts from the
north and are known as northern cat
tie. So far as I can see they COM
pare well with those which we our
selves raise.
The Angora goat is also making a
slow Roadway with US. Men buy them
who have hazel land. It is claimed for
them that they will quickly kill that
underbrush. However, it takes eight
wires to confine them to the pasture.
Jar fo1 of -hn
have come into these parts. 1t is a
cheering fact that so many are turn
ing, in measure, away from corn and
hogs alone to other departments of
farm work. Hereafter it will not be
hogs and corn, and corn and hogs, as
it hitherto has been.
The creameries, too, are aiding.
Within five miles of my table are three
creameries, and others come into that
radius for milk. The industry is large
ly becoming cooperative. The stock
holders are enthusiastic over it. The
secretary Of one told me that theirs
paid 13 per cent annual dividends; in
addition to the milk returned. Per-
haps this business is the first link in
the chain which will bind farmers TO-
gether in a community of action.
1t is a waste of the public funds to
buy two-inch pine planks for culverts
and bridges. AS a rule, the lumber
itself is from old, dead trees and is
knotty and brittle. I never take a trip
nowadays but what I have to drive
around some uncrossable affair over a
gully or dry creek channel. The floor,
if it be two-inch, should be half-soled, /
or else of three-inch plank. One three
inch plank will outlast three two-inch
floors. To put two-inch plank on a
bridge is saving at the spigot and vast
ing at the bunghole. Farmers should
see to it that their taxes are econom- |
ically expended.
Good roads are blessings in various /
leave their old homes for town could /
they always have good roads on which |
to travel when they visit, or go to the /
postofice. or to church, or other gath 4
ering. II is a positive pleasure to bug /
gy ride over good roads behind first
class span of roadsters.
In most cases the country roads have /
too wide grades. Narrow grades are /
the things. The bitches, too, on either
side should be deep enough to keep the
grades well drained. 1 suppose that /
am an average taxpayer in this town
ship, and have reached the conclusion
that the county should do all the road
work. This county is doing quite
good deal, and the roads thus worked
are by odds the best.
Edward B. Heaton.