The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-09-28


lent prairie road, one fully as good as
though it were all gravel.
1t Is said correctly that eating
onions will promote sleep, but they do
not always work that way where there
are two persons in one bed.
There Is this to be said for the China
man: He never lets weeds grow in any
crop which he raises, even IL he has to
work Sundays to pull them.
Every farmer owning good fertile
acres Is the pOssessor of gold mine
which he can work without fear of
being assessed for operating expenses.
If the fine buildings on wornout
eastern farms could be exchanged for
their value in good western soil, both
the east and the west would be bene-
flied.
The moon Is to be credited with fur
nishing man with about 500 hours OF
moonlight each year. There Is good
deal Of sentiment and cussedness de-
yeloped during these 500 hours each
year.
We lately measured white ash tree
90 years planted which was IL inches
in diameter two feet from the ground.
and a balm of Gilcad tree 80 years
planted which was 81 inches In di-
ametcr.
No one thing Is palmer than this
men owning good farm lands had much
better hang on to them than let go OF
them. Such lands are the safest and
best investment for money there Is to
be found today.
The first of our northern birds to nest
in the spring, always excepting the
English sparrow, is the road lark. We
have found its nests, with young birds
in them, when the snoWdr2ts were still
piled up In the highways.
We are asked by young reader why
it is that the birds which migrate to
the south to spend the winter do not
breed there, where it is summer time
all winter long. No one can tell. They
might, but they don't. We are glad
that they don't.
The legislature OF the state of Mime
sofa is discussing the matter Of re-
strictive measures to prevent the
spread of the oXeye daisy in that state.
The west is greatly indebted to the east
for many good things. but the Canada
thistle and the daisy are not among
them.
The drst work on agriculture ever
written admonshes the farmer thus:
'ln the morning sow thy seed and at
evening withhold not thy hand"
Which, being given twentieth century
application. refers to the sowing Of clO-
yer with all small grain wherever clio
yer will grow.
A fiat brown bean is used extensively
in England as food for horses. 1t is
ground into meal and fed with oat
chaff and makes very nOurishing ra-
ton. This bean is an upright growing
variety and is easily cared for as a
field crop. We have never seen it tried
in this country.
An acre Of Jack oak can be cut over
about once every % years and 40 cords
of four foot wood obtained therefrom.
AS this wood would be worth not to ex-
seed 500 in the tree it is easy to sec
that it does not pay to grow this sort
of timber as an investment OH any
good arabic land.
Times are no better for the poor man
than they used to be. The Romans
used to lease land on a share rent. the
landlord being satisfied with one-tenth
Of the crop of all cereals and one-fifth
Of the product of the orchards and vine
yards. Now he demands and gets
from two-fifths to one-half.
Frosts. especially early spring frosts,
are great pulverizers of refractory
soils, beating any tool yet invented
for this purpose. Soil thus commin-
InOuSlnCS 81 farmers IN the miQGlt
west are up against the problem Of how
to use $40 land and make it profitable
Methods and practices permissible on
cheap land won't work with these high
err priced acres. a better knowledge Of
soils. crops, conservation of moisture
drainage, rotation Of crops, markets.
breeds Of stock and general improved
economic methods has now become alb
solutely Indispensable. The way grand
father did won't work, and intelligent
and enterprising business methods
must DC adopted.