Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-18

nights, but not so in Nevada. They
admit the night is not cool. Herein
lies the kernel of what am trying to
get at The air is so pure that one
doesn't mind the heat he drinks it in
in the morning as a tonic. 1t seems
to me to be the ideal climate for peo
pie suffering from pulmonary troubles
have made up my mind that there
is nothing like it. If that climate
won't heal sore lungs, then there is
none on earth that will. The chilly
night following the heat weakening
day is death to the consumptive, and
slowly, but very slowly, the people are
finding this out. California, southern
California for man with weak lungs
is just about the biggest hllmbug on
the face OF the earth, and Colorado
Springs, with les climatic changes of
40 degrees in twenty-four hours, is
another. Nothing but judicial adver-
Using made health resorts out of these
localities. / don't see how a man can
suffer from asthma in the Nevada
climate, and l am told--and l believe
it-that asthma there is absolutely
unknown. From anology, my conclu-
sion is: that a man with weak lungs,
or one threatened with such trouble,
should seek Nevada.
On these irrigated lands from four
to six hundred bushels of potatoes to
the acre is not phenomenal. With good
farming such q field is sure. Wheat
yields from thirty-t five to fifty BUSH
els and oats from sixty to eighty. Oats
too never weigh less than 40 to
AZ pounds to the bushel, and straw
looks fit to eat. Alfalfa is, of
course, the great crop and it is GER
tainly one of the most wonderful
plants that grows. 1t is not only a
vigorous grower, but it fulfills so
many purposes. It. is all that grow
ing horse needs. He would not only
make a good growth on an alfalfa RAJ
ton, but he will get fat. With horse
at work, a very small oats or barley
ration with his alfalfa is sufficient
The Utah Construction Company
had about 500 horses at use in the
canals Are they fine horses? Well I
guess. They weigh from 140o to 1900.
Every horse in the pink Of condition
fat, sleek, we'll groomed. Some Of
those magnificent six. eight and ten
horse teams were good for sore eyes.
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not fat hog, but nice bacon hog.
When I tell you that hogs will eat
hay and thrive on it, you will be in
credulous nevertheless it is true. The
hay in stack is brown, and looks just
like stack of Iowa timothy, or clover.
Open it and it is bright emerald
green, altho dry and matured. It looks
as if it has been subjected to artifi-
cial coloring. Alfalfa is great and
persistent forage plant, and on the
hay alone cattle can be fitted for mar
ket So, you see, that in addition to
producing the muscle for the draft
animal, 1t makes your beef, your pork,
your mutton-for there is no finer food
on earth for Sheppard your milk and
butter and cheese. Go step further,
and credit your fried chicken and
eggs to it, for chickens will grow like
weeds If permitted to scratch around
a stack of alfalfa. They feed on both
the seed and the leaves Alfalfa ma
lures very rapidly. On good land,
properly watered, the first crop OF
two and one-half tons to the acre can
be harvested in June, the second Of
two tons in August, and the third OF
one or one and half tons in October.
For the past two seasons the third
crop in this valley has been insignifi-
cant, owing to the shortage Of water.
Water, always scarce under the old
system. has been made still scarcer by
the destruction of the old bitches. I
saw a few cutting the third crop in
the latter part of October, but more
often the cattle and horses were turn
ed in. And what field of winter
forage this third crop makes! With
out snow certain number Of horses
and cattle may be cared for all win
ter leaving the hay for sale. The
price usually ranges for alfalfa hay
from SIS to 81. At present, owing to
the great consumption by the large
number of teams used on the canals,
baled alfalfa is worth SIS at Hazen,
and 81 not baled, at the camps.
Hauling by team in that country
costs money. The teamster gets IS
a ton for freight from Hazen to Fallon,
a distance of twenty miles. Lumber
IS a thousand, same distance. Some
teams haul 5000 feet
Barley is also a great crop, and on
ions. too. On land similar to this In
the Wintrose valley in Colorado,
saw a pile of the big Burmu6la onions,
containing 5000 bushels the product OF
twelve acres, and in the same locality
potatoes sacked up on the ground, $50
sacks to the acre, and each sack con-
tanning 100 pounds.