The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-08-27
ROBERT A. TURNER EDITOR.
Population of County, 1924
Population of City, 1000
Business men and
Firms in Ellensburg, 100
WHY THE FARMERS REJOICE.

The farmers of this beautiful Kittitas
valley with its wide and fertile prairies
and woodlands have much to be thank
full for. They have the very cream of
soils, none better, if equal in all the
great northwest. In the eastern and
more for fertilizers per acre every year
to enliven their worn out places than
land can be bought for in the west.
In the old world tillable land is be-
coming very scarce. BY orders from
the government in Saxony and other
German states, land owners are reQuir.
ed to abandon or narrow up paths and
roads and do away with fences SO as to
secure more surface for cultivation.
BY this action, the report says from 10
to - acres were gained to each section
of land. Around Paris the French
gardeners rent rough and stony places
and h.atasd1 m soil from distant river bot
TOMS with the understanding that they
can carry it away at the expiration of
their leases. In the islands of the
Mediterranean, much of the farming
land is made up by pulverizing the
stony earth and mixing with it every
thing in the nature of soil which the
peasant farmer can scrape together.
To reclaim and make available for cul-
tivaton a half or whole of an acre of
ground is proud event in the life of
carried from creek and river bottoms
to the top of shelving rocks on tho
mountain sides and little garden spots
created
This stern necessity has not befallen
to the lot of the farmers of America.
Farm life in this country, particularly
in the west, is a picnic compared with
agricultural life elsewhere in the world.
No life is freer or more independent
than that of the farm. If it is not so,
the fault is with the man and not with
the farm. Legislative enactments and
political clamor and allurements will
not increase the number of bushels of
grain or potatoes to the acre, cause the
hens to lay more eggs, nor make the
famous dairy COW give more milk, nor
add another ton of hay to the farm.
-ffhe man who mades the most of the
advantages of farm life in the west is
successful. And, he need not be a slave
to do it.
Western farmers on cheap lands COM
pete with eastern farmers on high
priced lands. Twenty dollar land in
the northwest will produce as much,
yes, even more than hundred dollar
land in the east. Land in the west can
not always remain cheap. Population
is rapidly increasing, without CORES
ponding increase in the area of land.
The rush made by men and women to
get hold of reserved lands opening up
and then by the government, shows
what a fierce question the possession OF
land will be in the United States
Even now, life and property rights are
disle garded under the prompting OF
this savage hunger for land. The man
who now secures farm in the great
west and improves it, has rich inner
ita9e for his posterity. In proof OF
this. we need only to point to the i'm
portance attached to the ownership of
land in the densely populated parts OF
the world, and the man who has Il good
farm in kittitas valley is the possessor
of untold wealth, whether he realizes
it or not. And, it is not all in biz
farms either. No farmer need turn up
his nose at a twenty or forty acre farm
in kittitas valley, indeed, the more OF
such farms we have, the better. 1t
means more producers and consumers
better prices, higher state of cultiva
ton and diversified farming, which is
Away profitable.
one great advantage that kittiias
possesses over many other places is its
nearness to the best markets in the
world, five hours time takes our pro-
ducts into the markets Of Seattle OF
Tacoma. Vegetables after being gath
cred are ready to be served ON the ia
bles in Seattle or Tacoma ten hours
later.
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