The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-09-04
r. c. BEACH, President

COW there is very little barley in the state.
Oats also show very light acreage, the
amount grown III the state being Just
about sufficient for home consumption.
In Latah county there is growing in
terest in grasses, and near Moscow some
large tracts are this year in English blue
grass, meadow oats grass, red clover and
bronze grass. Some of the bluegrass has
threshed out 800 pounds of seed to the
acre. and left for feed purposes over two
tons OF straw, which is superior article
OF feed for stock. Yields of this kind are
even more profitable than fax at 81 20
per bushel.
While bluestem, Sonora and Walla
Walla are the leading varieties of wheat
grown in this state, there is considerable
red wheat, and within the pas two years
increasing amount of Canadian hybrid
wheat. The advantage of the latter is
said to lie in the fact that the straw is
quite valuable for stock feed. In ap-
pearance the wheat resembles Walia
Walla, and sells for about the same price
Some yields of 80 bushels to the acre are
reported this year from fields which were
damaged by the wind in July, and under
favorable circumstances it is said to yield
nearly as we'll as Walla Walla. Very
little reseeding was necessary in Idaho
this year, as The frost failed to damage
the crop as much as it did in other sec.
tons A few localities in the Clearwater
are hard hit where the exposure was
great, but in the state as whole the
damage from this source was slight.
Graingrowing in Idaho as we'll as in
Oregon and Washington leads all other
industries, but here as elsewhere diversi.
fed farming is coming into favor There
is considerable stock turned off every
year, and the business of raising hogs is
increasing remarkably. Fruit and vege.
tables OF the finest quality to be found
anywhere are grown in enormous quanti-
ties. The soil along Snake river seems
to possess qualities seculiarly adapted for
imparting to fruit delicate flavor, which
is frequently missing in the product grown
elsewhere. Vineland, WASH, just across
the river from Lewiston, is o Of the
post remarkable examples of the fine re-
suits which can be achieved with good
land properly handled, financially and
otherwise. A few years ago this land
was producing nothing but sage brush
and was purchased by the original pro-
motors, of Vineland for very low figure.
In fact, entire quarter sections were OBJ
tainable for the prices now asked for
single acre.
Vineland is exclusively an irrigation
project, but it has been SO skillfully hand
led that the output Of fruit from a single
acre has been 50 great as to seemingly
warrant the prices now being paid for the
land. A gentleman from Iowa came in
last week after straight shoot across
the country, and without looking either
to the right or the lett he paid SIS 900 for
80 acres in one of the cheapest portions
of the Vineland tract. A .Bostonian vino
arrived day or two previously preferred
something choice, so he paid 81 600 for
10 acres. Like the Iowan, he had come
straight through and kept his eye on
Vineland, to the exclusion of everything
else that might be obtainahle for any
where from a tenth to fortieth Of the
price at which this skillfully MANAGED
land is sold. These facts are mentioned,
not for the purpose of exploiting highly
profitable land speculation, but simply to
show the enormous productive ness OIL
Snake River lands, which turn off crops
which warrant the payment Of such elab
crate price. Over 1000 people are nov
getting living out of the land JUS
across the river from Lewiston, and som.
of them besides the land sellers are grow
ing rich. E. w. w.