The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-19
TWO WAYS TO FARM
PalOuser Speaks of Methods In
the East.
Rather of An Opinion That Pa
lousers Might Profit BY
Example.

M. S. Hammond, Four Mile farmer
near PalOuse, recently returned from
Toronto, Canada, and vicinity, where he
was called by the fatal illness of his
mother. Mr.. Hammond is one of those
PalOuse pioneers who came to the cOun-
try as a young man in the earlier days,
and through industry and good man
agement has become more than ordin-
arlly prosperous as farmer-at least
independent. He told the Palouse Re-
public upon his return that he made a
particular point OF notice of the condi-
lions and methods OF farming in the east
and Canada, with view of learning the
best methods and carrying them out in
this country with satisfactory results
He said:
'Prosperity is shown by almost every
thing and everybody in the section l
visited. Money is not being made in
large quantities., but nearly all have
some money, and good homes. The
farmers have nice buggies and horses;
have everything around their premises
neat and we'll kept, and their families
are contented and happy. They do not
have the rich soil that we have here, but
by giving it the proper treatment their
soil is improving instead of going back.
Stock is bringing good prices. Hogs
are worth seven cents on foot and cattle
five cents. Practically no hay or grain
goes off the farm. All is fed to stock
and the manure goes back to enrich the
soil. But very little wheat is raised
The principal grains are oats and barley
and they are chopped up for feed. They
know little about the price of wheat and
care less
"As regards summer following they
sometimes plant 20 or 25 acres in roots
and thus summer fallow and get good
feed for their stock at the same time
Peas are sOwn for feed for their hogs,
and the straw makes excellent sheep
feed. | believe peas would grow just as
well in the Palouse country as there,
"But very little spring blowing is done
IN the country where | visited. They
pillow principally in the fall and top work
the next spring. | believe the PalOuse
farmer would find it more profitable to
top work more. Much beardless barley
is grown for hay, and this is an excellent
thing to keep the land clean. | have
now quite lot sOwn on my own farm
to see it's effect on this land.
The secret, | think, of the eastern
farmers success and happiness is that he
does everything Systematically and
thoroughly. Everything is permanent
His house is built with a good founda-
ton and we'll finished and will make him
home all his life. His fences are we'll
built, at the cost of time and labor, but
they stand for years. Everything about
the premises is kept clean and we'll cared
for He works Soma avarv dow hu+ oo
rule does not work with a rush. Most
OF them are church going people, and
contentment and happiness prevails. l
believe we western farmers can better
our condition by following in the foot
steps of the eastern farmer in building
substantial and comforte BILE homes, and
doing everything in a substantial way.
There is nothing i'll the east that COM
pares with the Palouse country in rich
ness of soil or in opportunities, but to
attain the prosperity of which this
country is capable we must farm more
conservatively and more thoroughly"