The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-18
ADVANTAGES FIX VALUES
froductiveness Is Not More Important
Than Healthfulness and
Environment.

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| MADISON. Wis, Aug 1.-THE
question of cheap land is one depend
ent upon several elements. They may
be outlined as follows:
1. Productiveness and markets. in
Guiding transportation.
2. Environments. including schools,
churches, etc
3. Healthfulness.
one may be inclined to change the
order, placing healthfulness first.
Productiveness doesn't necessarily
means merely bushels or tons-it
means much more. 1t means value in
the market and facility for getting
| therein other words. net value in the
market. To illustrate: on the same
day wheat was worth so cents in CAL
gary and $1.14 in Minneapolis; barley
| 80 cents in Calgary, 80 cents in Minne-
apolis; oats % cents in Calgary. Sc
cents in Minneapolis; fax 81 in CAL
gary, $1.1S in Minneapolis. A bushel
of each was worth $2.35 in Calgary,
$3.50 in Minneapolis; bushel of each
was worth over 90 per cent more in
Minneapolis than in Calgary.
| A bushel of vegetables or fruit may
lose half it's value because of distance
from market-worse still, if perish
able its whole value may vanish, leav-
| ing a freight bill as the only evidence
| of the transaction.
| PrOductiycncss Plays Big Part.
| Productiveness, when reduced to it's
final analysis goes still farther than
net value in the market. 1t involves
the exchange value in supplies. and in
this feature distance from central
markets has an almost universally di-
! rect bearing in that, as crops bring
! less. supplies cost more.
Productiveness has another ele-
ment. that of certainty of maturity
and of demand in the market-in 9TH
er words, the speculative feature. An
| illustration: A crop of sugar beets
ranging from $50 to $50 per acre
raised on a previously made contract
may be preferable to a tobacco crop
| that ranges generally from 500 to
$500 per acre, the market for which is
| unsteady.
A clover seed crop following an
ample harvest of hay is a pickup"
that, if good, means $25 or upward
and. if not good means practically no
lures of the situation in Wisconsin's
| unoccuped areas.
Nor does average productiveness in
bushels or tons of all crops necessarily
settle the question of productiveness.
No prospective dairyman or stock
raiser would compare clover with
timothy ton for ton. clover being
worth twice as much as timothy as
l Il
clover for instance. may, and prob
ably does, contain more nutrient con-
tent when grown in its natural home
than where it is produced with diff
Guilty.
Silo Changes Corn Situation.
Corn is another crop wherein BUSH
els of grain necessarily measure the
value. The silo has materially changed
: the situation and 1t is now an open
question whether the smaller corn
farther north may not have a food
value equal to that grown anywhere.
| Productiveness is also modified by
the effect cropping has upon the
, land. Those crops sold in the market
+ usually consume more fertility than
those that are fed to stock-a double
reason in favor of dairying and stock
raising The westward movement of
exclusive grain farming is too con-
spicuous to leave necessity for a tech
nical discussion.
Inversely conspicuous is the fact
] that dairying and stock raising con-
serve and build up productivity and
maintain a continued increasing value
in land The maintenance of fertility
is as essential an element in produce
ton as the growth of crops. The cost
of fertilizer in many sections is heavy
not so to the daryman and stock
raiser.
Glover Helps Build Up Soil
Clover is a wonderful upbuilder of
tt fertility in soil. 1t adds nitrogen,
. and ployed under adds humus for
| crops to follow in proper rotation.
With this help the dairyman can use
a portion of his barnyard fertilizer for
| special crops that require large
large amounts of fertilizer.
Environments are looked upon now
as a material element. We are no
longer content to be pioneers in the
old sense. Nearby towns with good
! schools and churches are looked upon
as necessities. To say nothing of con-
venience and Contentment for our
| selves, we want our children to have
advantages which may not have been
| ours in youth. This practically unani-
| nous desire for better environment
will materially influence the value of
/ land in all future times. Those sec
tons that have many cities and viii
/ lagos will be attractive and land val
ues will be higher in consequence.
| Healthfulness is perhaps the most
| important of all. 1t is feature that is
| receiving accelerated attention and de-
serves it. Reasonable elevation dry
air and pure water, together with good
drainage cover the requirements.